Senior Security Engineer Job Trends in England

Senior Security Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Security Engineer salary in England is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 August 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 634 610 634
Rank change year-on-year -24 +24 +23
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Security Engineer 114 44 131
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.12% 0.10% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.11% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 74 33 109
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,024 £45,162
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £82,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.12% -2.94% +21.43%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £92,125 £97,500 £105,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £82,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -12.12% -2.94% +21.43%

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 89,557 39,579 68,958
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.02% 90.58% 95.01%
Number of salaries quoted 63,024 23,847 46,222
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -37 41 £85,000 - 11
South East -20 28 £65,000 +8.33% 3
South West - 22 £57,500 - 16
North of England -36 12 £87,500 +16.67% 4
Yorkshire - 10 £72,500 - 2
East of England -18 5 £80,000 +90.09%
Midlands - 4 £66,250 -
North West -23 2 £87,500 +16.67% 2
East Midlands - 2 - -
West Midlands - 2 £66,250 -
Senior Security Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 August 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 50 (43.86%) Cybersecurity
2 42 (36.84%) Firewall
3 36 (31.58%) Cloud Security
4 30 (26.32%) Security Operations
5 27 (23.68%) AWS
5 27 (23.68%) Azure
5 27 (23.68%) SIEM
6 25 (21.93%) Cisco
6 25 (21.93%) Penetration Testing
6 25 (21.93%) Terraform
6 25 (21.93%) Vulnerability Management
7 23 (20.18%) CI/CD
8 21 (18.42%) Infrastructure as Code
9 20 (17.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 19 (16.67%) Network Security
10 19 (16.67%) Palo Alto
11 18 (15.79%) Python
12 17 (14.91%) Software Engineering
13 16 (14.04%) AI
14 15 (13.16%) DevOps
14 15 (13.16%) Incident Response
14 15 (13.16%) Microsoft
14 15 (13.16%) VPN
14 15 (13.16%) Wi-Fi
15 14 (12.28%) Business Continuity
15 14 (12.28%) Continuous Improvement
15 14 (12.28%) Mentoring
16 13 (11.40%) Application Security
16 13 (11.40%) Bash
16 13 (11.40%) Internet

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 27 (23.68%) AWS
1 27 (23.68%) Azure
2 11 (9.65%) GCP
3 9 (7.89%) Amazon S3
3 9 (7.89%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (7.89%) Entra ID
3 9 (7.89%) Serverless
4 8 (7.02%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (6.14%) Azure Sentinel
5 7 (6.14%) GitHub
6 6 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (4.39%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (4.39%) Microsoft Purview
7 5 (4.39%) Mimecast
8 3 (2.63%) SaaS
9 2 (1.75%) Anthropic Claude
10 1 (0.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (0.88%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.88%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 42 (36.84%) Firewall
2 19 (16.67%) Network Security
3 15 (13.16%) VPN
3 15 (13.16%) Wi-Fi
4 13 (11.40%) Internet
5 12 (10.53%) LAN
5 12 (10.53%) WAN
6 10 (8.77%) Cisco Nexus
7 9 (7.89%) Intrusion Detection
8 6 (5.26%) DNS
9 4 (3.51%) BGP
10 3 (2.63%) Cisco ASA
10 3 (2.63%) Cisco Firepower
10 3 (2.63%) OSPF
10 3 (2.63%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (2.63%) TCP/IP
10 3 (2.63%) VLAN
11 2 (1.75%) Wireless
11 2 (1.75%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.88%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 5 (4.39%) TeamCity
2 3 (2.63%) Burp Suite
2 3 (2.63%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.63%) Metasploit
3 2 (1.75%) GitLab
3 2 (1.75%) Maven
3 2 (1.75%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.88%) Git
4 1 (0.88%) JIRA
General
1 18 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 9 (7.89%) Documentation Skills
2 9 (7.89%) Public Sector
2 9 (7.89%) Retail
3 8 (7.02%) Finance
4 7 (6.14%) Banking
5 3 (2.63%) Digital Health
5 3 (2.63%) Digital Healthcare
5 3 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.75%) Automotive
6 2 (1.75%) Marketing
7 1 (0.88%) Advertising
7 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (21.93%) Terraform
2 9 (7.89%) Node.js
3 5 (4.39%) eBPF
3 5 (4.39%) JSON
4 3 (2.63%) JSON Schema
4 3 (2.63%) LDAP
4 3 (2.63%) Regular Expression
4 3 (2.63%) RESTful
4 3 (2.63%) XML
4 3 (2.63%) XMPP
5 2 (1.75%) JWT
5 2 (1.75%) OAuth
5 2 (1.75%) OAuth2
5 2 (1.75%) OpenID
5 2 (1.75%) Pulumi
5 2 (1.75%) SAML
6 1 (0.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 26 (22.81%) Cloud Native
2 19 (16.67%) CCTV
3 17 (14.91%) Driving Licence
4 11 (9.65%) PKI
4 11 (9.65%) Security Posture
5 7 (6.14%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (4.39%) Management Information System
7 4 (3.51%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.63%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (2.63%) NHS
8 3 (2.63%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (1.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (1.75%) PMI
9 2 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.88%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.88%) Fibre Optics
10 1 (0.88%) SCADA
10 1 (0.88%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.14%) Linux
2 3 (2.63%) Kali Linux
2 3 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.63%) Windows
2 3 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (43.86%) Cybersecurity
2 36 (31.58%) Cloud Security
3 30 (26.32%) Security Operations
4 27 (23.68%) SIEM
5 25 (21.93%) Penetration Testing
5 25 (21.93%) Vulnerability Management
6 23 (20.18%) CI/CD
7 21 (18.42%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (14.91%) Software Engineering
9 16 (14.04%) AI
10 15 (13.16%) DevOps
10 15 (13.16%) Incident Response
11 14 (12.28%) Business Continuity
11 14 (12.28%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (12.28%) Mentoring
12 13 (11.40%) Application Security
12 13 (11.40%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (11.40%) Security Architecture
13 12 (10.53%) Decision-Making
13 12 (10.53%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (15.79%) Python
2 13 (11.40%) Bash
3 10 (8.77%) PowerShell
4 5 (4.39%) Go
5 4 (3.51%) C++
6 3 (2.63%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.75%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.75%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.75%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (0.88%) Java
8 1 (0.88%) Rust
8 1 (0.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
1 12 (10.53%) DV Cleared
1 12 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 11 (9.65%) CISSP
3 9 (7.89%) CCNA
4 8 (7.02%) CompTIA Security+
5 7 (6.14%) Degree
6 6 (5.26%) CCNP
7 5 (4.39%) AWS Certification
7 5 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (4.39%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (3.51%) CISM
9 3 (2.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (2.63%) CCIE
9 3 (2.63%) CCSP
9 3 (2.63%) GCIA
9 3 (2.63%) SANS
10 2 (1.75%) CASP
10 2 (1.75%) CompTIA CySA+
10 2 (1.75%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (17.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (7.02%) NIST
2 8 (7.02%) SOC 2
3 7 (6.14%) GDPR
4 5 (4.39%) GRC
5 3 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (2.63%) QA
System Software
1 8 (7.02%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (9.65%) Ansible
2 9 (7.89%) Grafana
2 9 (7.89%) Prometheus
3 8 (7.02%) Kubernetes
4 7 (6.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (4.39%) Cilium
6 3 (2.63%) Nessus
6 3 (2.63%) Nmap
6 3 (2.63%) SCCM
6 3 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.75%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.88%) CASB
Vendors
1 25 (21.93%) Cisco
2 19 (16.67%) Palo Alto
3 15 (13.16%) Microsoft
4 13 (11.40%) Qualys
5 9 (7.89%) Aruba
6 6 (5.26%) Tenable
7 5 (4.39%) Splunk
8 4 (3.51%) Arista
8 4 (3.51%) Red Hat
9 3 (2.63%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (2.63%) McAfee
9 3 (2.63%) Okta
9 3 (2.63%) Rapid7
9 3 (2.63%) VMware
10 2 (1.75%) Fortinet
10 2 (1.75%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.75%) Sophos
11 1 (0.88%) Juniper