IT Security Engineer Job Trends in Kent

IT Security Engineer
South East > Kent

The median IT Security Engineer salary in Kent is £112,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 October 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 - 63
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Security Engineer 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Kent 0.13% - 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% - 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £106,250 - £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 - £32,500
75th Percentile £118,750 - £33,750
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £41,750 £40,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year +4.38% -33.88% -6.92%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Kent

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Kent. 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 Kent with a recognized job title 614 940 548
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 79.84% 96.91% 95.64%
Number of salaries quoted 391 473 394
10th Percentile £26,750 £28,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,750 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - +2.04%
75th Percentile £56,250 £65,000 £61,138
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
South East median annual salary £47,500 £54,125 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.24% -1.59% -

IT Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

IT Security Engineer job vacancy trend in Kent

IT Security Engineer
Salary Trend in Kent

Salary distribution trend for IT Security Engineer job vacancies in Kent.

Salary distribution trend for IT Security Engineer job vacancies in Kent

IT Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent

For the 6 months to 18 October 2025, IT 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 Kent region featuring IT Security Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AMQP
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure API Management
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) B2B
1 1 (100.00%) B2C
1 1 (100.00%) Checkmarx
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Qualys
1 1 (100.00%) Remediation Plan
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (100.00%) Snyk
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling

IT Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure API Management
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) AMQP
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Snyk
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) B2B
1 1 (100.00%) B2C
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Remediation Plan
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Checkmarx
1 1 (100.00%) Qualys
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce