IT Security Engineer Jobs in London

IT Security Engineer
England > London

The median IT Security Engineer salary in London is £77,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 478 580 866
Rank change year-on-year +102 +286 -298
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Security Engineer 30 33 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.13% 0.096% 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.10% 0.032%
Number of salaries quoted 27 27 19
10th Percentile £26,250 £41,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £68,750 £49,250 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £100,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% +81.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 - £77,500
90th Percentile - £102,000 £91,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £57,483
% change year-on-year +11.54% +13.08% +9.49%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 22,209 32,673 64,762
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.13% 94.98% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,661 24,068 34,399
10th Percentile £38,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

IT Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Security Engineer in London

IT Security Engineer
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IT Security Engineer in London.

Salary trend for IT Security Engineer in London

IT Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing IT Security Engineer in London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for IT Security Engineer in London

IT Security Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Security Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
Central London +61 6 £27,500 -40.54%
IT Security Engineer
England

IT Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, IT 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 London region featuring IT Security Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (70.00%) Azure
2 17 (56.67%) Cybersecurity
3 16 (53.33%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (40.00%) Microsoft
5 11 (36.67%) CISSP
5 11 (36.67%) PowerShell
5 11 (36.67%) Security Operations
6 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
6 10 (33.33%) Active Directory
7 9 (30.00%) Windows
7 9 (30.00%) AWS
7 9 (30.00%) Incident Response
7 9 (30.00%) Cyberattack
7 9 (30.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 8 (26.67%) Information Security
8 8 (26.67%) Python
8 8 (26.67%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (23.33%) Finance
9 7 (23.33%) Banking
10 6 (20.00%) Offensive Security
10 6 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
10 6 (20.00%) Task Automation
10 6 (20.00%) Cloud Security
11 5 (16.67%) CEH
11 5 (16.67%) CCNP
11 5 (16.67%) Customer Service
12 4 (13.33%) CASB
12 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (13.33%) Security Architecture

IT Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 21 (70.00%) Azure
2 16 (53.33%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (30.00%) AWS
4 4 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (10.00%) GCP
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) Firewall
2 2 (6.67%) LAN
2 2 (6.67%) Network Security
2 2 (6.67%) WAN
3 1 (3.33%) Internet
3 1 (3.33%) SD-WAN
3 1 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
General
1 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Banking
2 7 (23.33%) Finance
3 3 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Law
5 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 9 (30.00%) Cyberattack
2 3 (10.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 3 (10.00%) PKI
2 3 (10.00%) Security Posture
2 3 (10.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (30.00%) Windows
2 3 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (56.67%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (36.67%) Security Operations
3 9 (30.00%) Incident Response
3 9 (30.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 8 (26.67%) Information Security
5 6 (20.00%) Cloud Security
5 6 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
5 6 (20.00%) Offensive Security
5 6 (20.00%) Task Automation
6 5 (16.67%) Customer Service
7 4 (13.33%) Security Architecture
8 3 (10.00%) Agile
8 3 (10.00%) CI/CD
8 3 (10.00%) Data Protection
8 3 (10.00%) DevSecOps
8 3 (10.00%) ITIL
8 3 (10.00%) Key Management
8 3 (10.00%) Mentoring
8 3 (10.00%) SABSA
8 3 (10.00%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (36.67%) PowerShell
2 8 (26.67%) Python
3 1 (3.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 11 (36.67%) CISSP
2 8 (26.67%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (16.67%) CCNP
3 5 (16.67%) CEH
4 4 (13.33%) Degree
4 4 (13.33%) GCIA
4 4 (13.33%) GCIH
4 4 (13.33%) GIAC
4 4 (13.33%) GSEC
5 3 (10.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (10.00%) CCSK
5 3 (10.00%) CCSP
6 2 (6.67%) CASP
6 2 (6.67%) CISA
6 2 (6.67%) CISM
6 2 (6.67%) CompTIA CySA+
6 2 (6.67%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
7 1 (3.33%) CCIE
7 1 (3.33%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) NIST
2 2 (6.67%) COBIT
2 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.33%) GDPR
3 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (3.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) CASB
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.33%) QRadar
Vendors
1 12 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (10.00%) Netskope
3 3 (10.00%) Symantec
3 3 (10.00%) Zscaler
4 2 (6.67%) Palo Alto
4 2 (6.67%) Rapid7
5 1 (3.33%) Cisco
5 1 (3.33%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.33%) IBM
5 1 (3.33%) iManage
5 1 (3.33%) Kenna
5 1 (3.33%) LogRhythm
5 1 (3.33%) Qualys
5 1 (3.33%) Splunk
5 1 (3.33%) Tripwire