Senior Security Engineer Job Trends in England

Senior Security Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Security Engineer salary in England is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 July 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 611 615 679
Rank change year-on-year +4 +64 +45
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Security Engineer 96 48 161
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.11% 0.11% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.13% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 68 33 139
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,024 £57,500
25th Percentile £54,704 £51,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +3.23% -1.27%
75th Percentile £86,750 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £92,750 £97,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -5.66%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 80,925 38,071 87,152
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.22% 90.46% 94.63%
Number of salaries quoted 56,966 22,660 64,145
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,870 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,806 £38,591
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% +8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,250 £71,000
90th Percentile £97,375 £98,474 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.79% +6.67% -12.50%

Senior Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Security Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Senior Security Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Senior Security Engineer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Senior Security Engineer job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Security Engineer job vacancies in England

Senior Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Security Engineer in England over the 6 months to 4 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Security Engineer in England

Senior Security Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Security Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 4 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -11 37 £85,000 +1.49% 18
South East -26 19 £70,000 +33.33% 15
South West -51 17 £50,000 -35.48% 4
North of England -22 14 £45,000 -18.18% 8
Yorkshire - 9 - - 1
North West -13 5 £45,000 -18.18% 7
Midlands - 5 £66,250 - 3
West Midlands - 3 £66,250 - 3
East of England -20 2 £72,500 +72.27% 10
East Midlands - 2 - -
Senior Security Engineer
UK

Senior Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 4 July 2026, Senior Security Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Senior Security Engineer in the job title.

1 40 (41.67%) Cloud Security
2 31 (32.29%) AWS
2 31 (32.29%) Cybersecurity
3 26 (27.08%) Firewall
3 26 (27.08%) Terraform
4 24 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 24 (25.00%) Security Operations
5 23 (23.96%) Azure
5 23 (23.96%) Network Security
6 21 (21.88%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (20.83%) Python
8 19 (19.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 17 (17.71%) SIEM
10 16 (16.67%) GCP
10 16 (16.67%) Incident Response
10 16 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
11 15 (15.63%) DevOps
12 13 (13.54%) AI
12 13 (13.54%) Bash
12 13 (13.54%) Cisco
12 13 (13.54%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (13.54%) Security Architecture
12 13 (13.54%) Zero Trust
13 12 (12.50%) Agile
13 12 (12.50%) Information Security
13 12 (12.50%) Kubernetes
13 12 (12.50%) Mentoring
14 11 (11.46%) Ansible
14 11 (11.46%) Cisco Certification
14 11 (11.46%) Continuous Improvement

Senior Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 31 (32.29%) AWS
2 23 (23.96%) Azure
3 16 (16.67%) GCP
4 9 (9.38%) Amazon S3
4 9 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (9.38%) GitHub
4 9 (9.38%) Serverless
5 8 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (7.29%) Azure Sentinel
6 7 (7.29%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (7.29%) SaaS
7 5 (5.21%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (5.21%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.08%) Anthropic Claude
8 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (2.08%) Pulumi
9 1 (1.04%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (1.04%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.04%) AWS Control Tower
9 1 (1.04%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 26 (27.08%) Firewall
2 23 (23.96%) Network Security
3 9 (9.38%) Intrusion Detection
3 9 (9.38%) VPN
4 6 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (4.17%) BGP
5 4 (4.17%) Internet
6 3 (3.13%) Cisco Firepower
6 3 (3.13%) LAN
6 3 (3.13%) OSPF
6 3 (3.13%) TCP/IP
6 3 (3.13%) VLAN
6 3 (3.13%) WAN
7 2 (2.08%) DNS
7 2 (2.08%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (1.04%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.04%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 7 (7.29%) TeamCity
2 2 (2.08%) GitLab
3 1 (1.04%) Git
3 1 (1.04%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.04%) JIRA
General
1 12 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.46%) Retail
3 9 (9.38%) Banking
3 9 (9.38%) Documentation Skills
3 9 (9.38%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.25%) Finance
5 3 (3.13%) Digital Health
5 3 (3.13%) Digital Healthcare
6 2 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.08%) Automotive
6 2 (2.08%) Marketing
7 1 (1.04%) Advertising
7 1 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.38%) Node.js
2 5 (5.21%) eBPF
3 4 (4.17%) JSON
4 3 (3.13%) RESTful
5 2 (2.08%) JSON Schema
5 2 (2.08%) JWT
5 2 (2.08%) LDAP
5 2 (2.08%) OAuth
5 2 (2.08%) OAuth2
5 2 (2.08%) OpenID
5 2 (2.08%) Regular Expression
5 2 (2.08%) SAML
5 2 (2.08%) XML
5 2 (2.08%) XMPP
6 1 (1.04%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (23.96%) Cloud Native
2 16 (16.67%) CCTV
3 15 (15.63%) Driving Licence
4 12 (12.50%) PKI
5 9 (9.38%) Security Posture
6 5 (5.21%) Management Information System
7 4 (4.17%) Data Centre
8 3 (3.13%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (3.13%) NHS
8 3 (3.13%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.04%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (1.04%) Fibre Optics
9 1 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (1.04%) Product Ownership
9 1 (1.04%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.13%) Linux
2 2 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (2.08%) Windows
2 2 (2.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (41.67%) Cloud Security
2 31 (32.29%) Cybersecurity
3 24 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 24 (25.00%) Security Operations
4 21 (21.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (17.71%) SIEM
6 16 (16.67%) Incident Response
6 16 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
7 15 (15.63%) DevOps
8 13 (13.54%) AI
8 13 (13.54%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (13.54%) Security Architecture
8 13 (13.54%) Zero Trust
9 12 (12.50%) Agile
9 12 (12.50%) Information Security
9 12 (12.50%) Mentoring
10 11 (11.46%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (11.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 11 (11.46%) Platform Engineering
11 10 (10.42%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 20 (20.83%) Python
2 13 (13.54%) Bash
3 9 (9.38%) PowerShell
4 6 (6.25%) Go
5 2 (2.08%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.08%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (2.08%) Search Processing Language
5 2 (2.08%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.04%) C++
6 1 (1.04%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (11.46%) Cisco Certification
1 11 (11.46%) DV Cleared
1 11 (11.46%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.42%) CISSP
3 9 (9.38%) CCNA
4 8 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
5 7 (7.29%) AWS Certification
6 6 (6.25%) CCNP
6 6 (6.25%) Degree
7 5 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (3.13%) CCIE
8 3 (3.13%) GCIA
8 3 (3.13%) SANS
9 2 (2.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (2.08%) Azure Certification
9 2 (2.08%) CASP
9 2 (2.08%) CCSP
9 2 (2.08%) CISM
9 2 (2.08%) CompTIA CySA+
9 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (19.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (10.42%) SOC 2
3 7 (7.29%) GRC
3 7 (7.29%) NIST
4 6 (6.25%) GDPR
5 3 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (3.13%) QA
6 2 (2.08%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (3.13%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.08%) vSphere
3 1 (1.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (27.08%) Terraform
2 12 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 11 (11.46%) Ansible
4 9 (9.38%) Grafana
4 9 (9.38%) Prometheus
5 7 (7.29%) Cilium
6 6 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (3.13%) SCCM
8 2 (2.08%) HP Fortify
9 1 (1.04%) CASB
Vendors
1 13 (13.54%) Cisco
2 10 (10.42%) Microsoft
3 9 (9.38%) Palo Alto
4 5 (5.21%) Splunk
5 4 (4.17%) Arista
5 4 (4.17%) Qualys
6 3 (3.13%) Red Hat
6 3 (3.13%) Tenable
7 2 (2.08%) McAfee
7 2 (2.08%) OpenAI
7 2 (2.08%) VMware
8 1 (1.04%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.04%) Juniper
8 1 (1.04%) Sophos