Security Engineer Job Trends in London

Security Engineer
England > London

The median Security Engineer salary in London is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 October 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 254 226
Rank change year-on-year +66 -28 +25
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 307 133 230
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.17% 1.14% 1.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.26% 1.25% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 222 104 162
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £46,713
25th Percentile £46,939 £55,000 £69,826
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £96,125 £96,750 £100,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.69% -5.60% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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.

6 months to
17 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies in London with a recognized job title 24,273 10,653 16,848
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.40% 90.97% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 16,077 6,945 10,557
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £59,000 £54,793 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.68% -4.71% -4.17%

Security Engineer Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Security Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Security Engineer Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Security Engineer job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Security Engineer job vacancies in London

Security Engineer Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in London over the 6 months to 17 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Security Engineer in London

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 Security Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 17 October 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
Central London +16 28 £72,500 -3.33% 79
West London - 23 £35,000 - 7
South London +5 15 £60,000 +20.00% 12
East London 0 13 £55,000 -12.70% 4
North London - 1 £36,500 - 1
Security Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 October 2026, 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 London region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Cybersecurity37.8%116
2Cloud Security27.4%84
3Microsoft25.4%78
4AWS25.1%77
5Azure22.5%69
6Security Operations21.5%66
7Incident Response21.2%65
8Python19.5%60
9Vulnerability Management18.9%58
10AI17.9%55
10Network Security17.9%55
12Firewall17.6%54
12ISO/IEC 2700117.6%54
14CI/CD16.9%52
15Infrastructure as Code16.6%51
16Terraform16.3%50
17Entra ID16.0%49
18Problem-Solving15.3%47
19Software Engineering14.7%45
19VPN14.7%45
21CISSP14.3%44
22SIEM14.0%43
23NIST13.7%42
24Security Architecture13.0%40
25DevSecOps12.4%38
25Information Security12.4%38
25Threat Modelling12.4%38
28Infrastructure Engineering11.7%36
28Zero Trust11.7%36
30Application Security11.4%35

Security Engineer Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

RankJob TitleShareJob Ads
1Cybersecurity Engineer19.5%60
2Cloud Engineer17.9%55
3Senior Security Engineer16.3%50
4Systems Engineer14.7%45
5Cloud Security Engineer10.4%32
6Network Security Engineer6.8%21
7Network Engineer6.2%19
7Software Engineer6.2%19
9AWS Engineer5.9%18
9Infrastructure Security Engineer5.9%18
11Senior Cloud Engineer5.5%17
12GCP Engineer5.2%16
12Platform Engineer5.2%16
14Operations Engineer4.2%13
15Applications Engineer3.9%12
15Artificial Intelligence Engineer3.9%12
17IT Security Engineer3.6%11
18Automation Engineer2.9%9
18Research Engineer2.9%9
20JavaScript Engineer2.6%8
540 Security Engineer jobs in London