Senior Security Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Security Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Security Engineer salary in England is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 577 713 764
Rank change year-on-year +136 +51 +150
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Security Engineer 115 130 150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.15% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.16% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 57 115 130
10th Percentile £51,250 £56,219 £52,000
25th Percentile - £57,597 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% +3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £106,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -24.14% +3.57% -6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 44,665 81,175 81,176
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 94.55% 91.50%
Number of salaries quoted 24,293 60,496 51,517
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,519 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Senior Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Senior Security Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Security Engineer in England

Senior Security Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Security Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Senior Security Engineer in England

Senior Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Security Engineer in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

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 16 May 2025. 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
Midlands +105 45 £50,000 -56.52% 4
West Midlands +84 29 £50,000 -56.52% 2
North of England +50 26 £55,000 -12.40% 4
North West +18 26 £55,000 -12.40% 2
London +46 25 £82,500 +3.13% 60
East Midlands +46 16 - - 2
South East +107 13 £61,250 +2.08% 23
East of England +46 4 £42,085 - 1
South West +106 1 £77,500 +30.20% 4
Senior Security Engineer
UK

Senior Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, Senior Security Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Senior Security Engineer in the job title.

1 79 (68.70%) Degree
2 70 (60.87%) Cybersecurity
3 64 (55.65%) BPSS Clearance
4 53 (46.09%) Risk Management
5 49 (42.61%) Computer Science
6 22 (19.13%) Cloud Security
7 21 (18.26%) Stakeholder Management
8 20 (17.39%) Mathematics
8 20 (17.39%) Physics
8 20 (17.39%) Systems Engineering
8 20 (17.39%) Product Strategy
9 18 (15.65%) Azure
10 17 (14.78%) AWS
11 15 (13.04%) Incident Response
12 14 (12.17%) Firewall
12 14 (12.17%) Finance
12 14 (12.17%) Information Security
13 11 (9.57%) Microsoft
13 11 (9.57%) CISSP
13 11 (9.57%) Network Security
13 11 (9.57%) Application Security
14 10 (8.70%) Social Skills
15 9 (7.83%) Security Architecture
15 9 (7.83%) SIEM
15 9 (7.83%) Agile
15 9 (7.83%) Software Engineering
15 9 (7.83%) Cisco Certification
16 8 (6.96%) ITIL
16 8 (6.96%) Security Posture
16 8 (6.96%) CI/CD

Senior Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.61%) Confluence
2 1 (0.87%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 18 (15.65%) Azure
2 17 (14.78%) AWS
3 7 (6.09%) Cloud Computing
3 7 (6.09%) GCP
4 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (1.74%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (1.74%) Amazon S3
5 2 (1.74%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (1.74%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (1.74%) Azure AKS
5 2 (1.74%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.74%) Serverless
5 2 (1.74%) Snowflake
5 2 (1.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (0.87%) Amazon Macie
6 1 (0.87%) AWS KMS
6 1 (0.87%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.87%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (12.17%) Firewall
2 11 (9.57%) Network Security
3 5 (4.35%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.48%) HTTP
4 4 (3.48%) HTTPS
5 3 (2.61%) BGP
5 3 (2.61%) MPLS
5 3 (2.61%) SD-WAN
5 3 (2.61%) WAN
6 1 (0.87%) DKIM
6 1 (0.87%) DMARC
6 1 (0.87%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.61%) GIS
1 3 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (2.61%) Bitbucket
1 3 (2.61%) JIRA
General
1 14 (12.17%) Finance
2 10 (8.70%) Social Skills
3 6 (5.22%) Law
4 5 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (4.35%) Telecoms
5 4 (3.48%) Local Government
6 3 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.61%) Legal
6 3 (2.61%) Marketing
7 2 (1.74%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.74%) Banking
7 2 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.87%) Games
8 1 (0.87%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.09%) AngularJS
1 7 (6.09%) React
2 5 (4.35%) SailPoint
3 4 (3.48%) REST
3 4 (3.48%) Web Services
4 2 (1.74%) .NET
4 2 (1.74%) OAuth
4 2 (1.74%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.96%) Security Posture
2 5 (4.35%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (3.48%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.48%) Mobile App
3 4 (3.48%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.48%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.61%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (2.61%) Cybercrime
4 3 (2.61%) PKI
4 3 (2.61%) PMI
4 3 (2.61%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.74%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.74%) Cyberattack
5 2 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.74%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.87%) CCTV
6 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.48%) Android
1 4 (3.48%) Apple iOS
2 3 (2.61%) Linux
2 3 (2.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.61%) Windows
3 1 (0.87%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (60.87%) Cybersecurity
2 53 (46.09%) Risk Management
3 49 (42.61%) Computer Science
4 22 (19.13%) Cloud Security
5 21 (18.26%) Stakeholder Management
6 20 (17.39%) Mathematics
6 20 (17.39%) Physics
6 20 (17.39%) Product Strategy
6 20 (17.39%) Systems Engineering
7 15 (13.04%) Incident Response
8 14 (12.17%) Information Security
9 11 (9.57%) Application Security
10 9 (7.83%) Agile
10 9 (7.83%) Security Architecture
10 9 (7.83%) SIEM
10 9 (7.83%) Software Engineering
11 8 (6.96%) CI/CD
11 8 (6.96%) ITIL
12 7 (6.09%) Key Management
12 7 (6.09%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 7 (6.09%) Java
1 7 (6.09%) Python
1 7 (6.09%) TypeScript
2 4 (3.48%) C
2 4 (3.48%) C++
2 4 (3.48%) Kotlin
2 4 (3.48%) Objective-C
3 1 (0.87%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.87%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 79 (68.70%) Degree
2 64 (55.65%) BPSS Clearance
3 11 (9.57%) CISSP
4 9 (7.83%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (4.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 5 (4.35%) CEH
5 5 (4.35%) CISM
6 4 (3.48%) CCNP
6 4 (3.48%) CCSK
6 4 (3.48%) CREST Certified
6 4 (3.48%) GIAC
6 4 (3.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 4 (3.48%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.61%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.61%) CCSP
7 3 (2.61%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.74%) CCFP
8 2 (1.74%) GCFA
8 2 (1.74%) GCFE
8 2 (1.74%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (5.22%) NIST
2 5 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (3.48%) NCSC
3 4 (3.48%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.61%) GDPR
5 2 (1.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.87%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (0.87%) Hyper-V
1 1 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (6.09%) FortiGate
2 4 (3.48%) Nessus
3 3 (2.61%) CASB
3 3 (2.61%) Computer Incident Response Team
3 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (2.61%) Terraform
4 2 (1.74%) EnCase
4 2 (1.74%) FTK
4 2 (1.74%) RSA Security Analytics
5 1 (0.87%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (9.57%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.09%) Cisco
3 6 (5.22%) Juniper
3 6 (5.22%) Ping Identity
4 5 (4.35%) CyberArk
5 4 (3.48%) Palo Alto
5 4 (3.48%) Qualys
5 4 (3.48%) Splunk
5 4 (3.48%) Tenable
6 3 (2.61%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.61%) Fortinet
6 3 (2.61%) Symantec
6 3 (2.61%) Zscaler
7 2 (1.74%) FireEye
7 2 (1.74%) NetWitness
8 1 (0.87%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.87%) Google
8 1 (0.87%) VMware