Senior Security Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Security Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Security Engineer salary in England is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 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
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 553 702 775
Rank change year-on-year +149 +73 +112
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Security Engineer 119 129 158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.25% 0.15% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.16% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 62 114 134
10th Percentile £51,250 £56,219 £52,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,597 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +3.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £94,375
90th Percentile £92,500 £106,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -17.24% +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 43,417 81,048 82,564
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.53% 94.49% 91.47%
Number of salaries quoted 24,595 60,528 52,373
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -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 9 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 9 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 +104 45 £50,000 -56.52% 6
West Midlands +86 29 £50,000 -56.52% 4
London +57 29 £83,750 +4.69% 59
North of England +48 25 £55,000 -12.40% 4
North West +24 25 £55,000 -12.40% 2
East Midlands +59 16 - - 2
South East +102 14 £62,500 +4.17% 23
East of England +40 4 £42,085 - 1
South West +111 1 £77,500 +30.20% 3
Senior Security Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 80 (67.23%) Degree
2 73 (61.34%) Cybersecurity
3 64 (53.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 54 (45.38%) Risk Management
5 50 (42.02%) Computer Science
6 24 (20.17%) Cloud Security
7 22 (18.49%) Azure
8 21 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
9 20 (16.81%) Mathematics
9 20 (16.81%) Physics
9 20 (16.81%) Systems Engineering
9 20 (16.81%) Product Strategy
10 19 (15.97%) AWS
11 18 (15.13%) Finance
12 16 (13.45%) Firewall
12 16 (13.45%) Incident Response
13 15 (12.61%) Information Security
14 14 (11.76%) Network Security
15 12 (10.08%) Microsoft
15 12 (10.08%) CISSP
15 12 (10.08%) Social Skills
15 12 (10.08%) Application Security
15 12 (10.08%) SIEM
16 11 (9.24%) Vulnerability Management
16 11 (9.24%) Security Posture
17 10 (8.40%) Cisco Certification
17 10 (8.40%) Security Architecture
18 9 (7.56%) ITIL
18 9 (7.56%) CI/CD
19 8 (6.72%) GCP

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 (2.52%) Confluence
2 1 (0.84%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 22 (18.49%) Azure
2 19 (15.97%) AWS
3 8 (6.72%) GCP
4 6 (5.04%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (3.36%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.68%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.68%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (1.68%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.68%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.68%) Azure AKS
7 2 (1.68%) Serverless
7 2 (1.68%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.84%) Amazon Macie
8 1 (0.84%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.84%) AWS KMS
8 1 (0.84%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.84%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (13.45%) Firewall
2 14 (11.76%) Network Security
3 6 (5.04%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.36%) HTTP
4 4 (3.36%) HTTPS
5 3 (2.52%) BGP
5 3 (2.52%) MPLS
5 3 (2.52%) SD-WAN
5 3 (2.52%) WAN
6 1 (0.84%) DKIM
6 1 (0.84%) DMARC
6 1 (0.84%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.52%) GIS
1 3 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (2.52%) Bitbucket
1 3 (2.52%) JIRA
General
1 18 (15.13%) Finance
2 12 (10.08%) Social Skills
3 6 (5.04%) Law
4 5 (4.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (4.20%) Telecoms
5 4 (3.36%) Local Government
6 3 (2.52%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.52%) Legal
6 3 (2.52%) Marketing
7 2 (1.68%) Banking
7 2 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.68%) Retail
8 1 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.84%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.04%) AngularJS
1 6 (5.04%) React
2 5 (4.20%) SailPoint
3 3 (2.52%) REST
3 3 (2.52%) Web Services
4 2 (1.68%) .NET
4 2 (1.68%) OAuth
4 2 (1.68%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.84%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.24%) Security Posture
2 7 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (4.20%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.36%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.36%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.52%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.52%) Cloud Security Posture
5 3 (2.52%) Cybercrime
5 3 (2.52%) PKI
5 3 (2.52%) PMI
5 3 (2.52%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.52%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.68%) Cyberattack
6 2 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.68%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.84%) CCTV
7 1 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.36%) Android
1 4 (3.36%) Apple iOS
2 3 (2.52%) Linux
2 3 (2.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.52%) Windows
3 1 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (61.34%) Cybersecurity
2 54 (45.38%) Risk Management
3 50 (42.02%) Computer Science
4 24 (20.17%) Cloud Security
5 21 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
6 20 (16.81%) Mathematics
6 20 (16.81%) Physics
6 20 (16.81%) Product Strategy
6 20 (16.81%) Systems Engineering
7 16 (13.45%) Incident Response
8 15 (12.61%) Information Security
9 12 (10.08%) Application Security
9 12 (10.08%) SIEM
10 11 (9.24%) Vulnerability Management
11 10 (8.40%) Security Architecture
12 9 (7.56%) CI/CD
12 9 (7.56%) ITIL
13 8 (6.72%) Agile
13 8 (6.72%) Penetration Testing
13 8 (6.72%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (6.72%) Python
2 7 (5.88%) Java
3 6 (5.04%) TypeScript
4 4 (3.36%) C
4 4 (3.36%) C++
4 4 (3.36%) Kotlin
4 4 (3.36%) Objective-C
5 3 (2.52%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.84%) Bash
6 1 (0.84%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 80 (67.23%) Degree
2 64 (53.78%) BPSS Clearance
3 12 (10.08%) CISSP
4 10 (8.40%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (4.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 5 (4.20%) CCNP
5 5 (4.20%) CEH
5 5 (4.20%) CISM
6 4 (3.36%) CCSK
6 4 (3.36%) CREST Certified
6 4 (3.36%) GIAC
6 4 (3.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 4 (3.36%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.52%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.52%) CCSP
7 3 (2.52%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.68%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.68%) GREM
8 2 (1.68%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (5.88%) NIST
2 6 (5.04%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (4.20%) PCI DSS
4 4 (3.36%) GDPR
4 4 (3.36%) NCSC
5 2 (1.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.84%) JSP 440
System Software
1 2 (1.68%) Hyper-V
1 2 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (5.88%) FortiGate
2 4 (3.36%) CASB
2 4 (3.36%) Nessus
2 4 (3.36%) Terraform
3 3 (2.52%) Computer Incident Response Team
3 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.68%) EnCase
4 2 (1.68%) FTK
4 2 (1.68%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.68%) RSA Security Analytics
5 1 (0.84%) SCCM
5 1 (0.84%) SCOM
5 1 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (10.08%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.88%) Cisco
3 6 (5.04%) Juniper
3 6 (5.04%) Splunk
4 5 (4.20%) CyberArk
4 5 (4.20%) Ping Identity
4 5 (4.20%) Qualys
5 4 (3.36%) Palo Alto
5 4 (3.36%) Tenable
6 3 (2.52%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.52%) Fortinet
6 3 (2.52%) Symantec
6 3 (2.52%) Zscaler
7 2 (1.68%) FireEye
7 2 (1.68%) Google
7 2 (1.68%) NetWitness
7 2 (1.68%) VMware
8 1 (0.84%) Citrix
8 1 (0.84%) CrowdStrike