Security Engineer Job Trends in London

Security Engineer
England > London

The median Security Engineer salary in London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 25 April 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 265 263
Rank change year-on-year +75 -2 +36
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 243 132 255
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.24% 1.03% 1.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.35% 1.14% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 194 105 229
10th Percentile £40,000 £47,200 £41,600
25th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £93,688 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £101,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +9.09% -7.60% -8.42%

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.

Permanent vacancies in London with a recognized job title 18,053 11,611 21,935
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.89% 90.22% 94.11%
Number of salaries quoted 12,143 7,564 16,693
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.84%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 +41 60 £77,500 -7.46% 24
West London - 12 £37,500 - 5
East London - 4 £40,000 - 8
Security Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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.

1 109 (44.86%) Cloud Security
2 103 (42.39%) Azure
3 96 (39.51%) Cybersecurity
4 82 (33.74%) AWS
5 72 (29.63%) Information Security
6 62 (25.51%) Python
7 61 (25.10%) Incident Response
8 60 (24.69%) Security Architecture
9 59 (24.28%) Microsoft
10 52 (21.40%) CISSP
11 49 (20.16%) Infrastructure as Code
12 48 (19.75%) Terraform
13 47 (19.34%) Degree
14 46 (18.93%) Microsoft 365
15 41 (16.87%) AI
15 41 (16.87%) CI/CD
16 40 (16.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
16 40 (16.46%) NIST
17 36 (14.81%) PowerShell
17 36 (14.81%) SIEM
18 35 (14.40%) GCP
19 34 (13.99%) Computer Science
19 34 (13.99%) Zero Trust
20 32 (13.17%) DevOps
20 32 (13.17%) DevSecOps
21 30 (12.35%) Vulnerability Scanning
22 29 (11.93%) Network Security
23 28 (11.52%) Firewall
24 26 (10.70%) Data Loss Prevention
24 26 (10.70%) Security Operations

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

Application Platforms
1 2 (0.82%) Apache Pulsar
2 1 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) C-CURE
Cloud Services
1 103 (42.39%) Azure
2 82 (33.74%) AWS
3 46 (18.93%) Microsoft 365
4 35 (14.40%) GCP
5 19 (7.82%) SaaS
6 18 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (6.58%) Entra ID
8 14 (5.76%) PaaS
8 14 (5.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 13 (5.35%) GitHub
10 12 (4.94%) Azure Sentinel
11 11 (4.53%) IaaS
12 9 (3.70%) Microsoft Purview
13 8 (3.29%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (2.47%) Mimecast
15 5 (2.06%) Azure Service Bus
16 4 (1.65%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 3 (1.23%) Amazon ELB
17 3 (1.23%) AWS CloudTrail
17 3 (1.23%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 29 (11.93%) Network Security
2 28 (11.52%) Firewall
3 9 (3.70%) VPN
4 4 (1.65%) Cisco ISE
4 4 (1.65%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.23%) Wireless
5 3 (1.23%) Wireless Security
6 2 (0.82%) BGP
6 2 (0.82%) BIG-IP
6 2 (0.82%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (0.82%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (0.82%) EIGRP
6 2 (0.82%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (0.82%) IPv4
6 2 (0.82%) MPLS
6 2 (0.82%) Multicast
6 2 (0.82%) NX-OS
6 2 (0.82%) OSPF
6 2 (0.82%) VLAN
7 1 (0.41%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.12%) Tableau
2 3 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.23%) Redis
3 1 (0.41%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 19 (7.82%) GitLab
2 8 (3.29%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.41%) Git
3 1 (0.41%) Selenium
General
1 46 (18.93%) Finance
2 36 (14.81%) Social Skills
3 26 (10.70%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (8.23%) Legal
5 13 (5.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (5.35%) Telecoms
6 11 (4.53%) Banking
6 11 (4.53%) Law
6 11 (4.53%) Retail
7 9 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.06%) Cyber-Physical System
9 2 (0.82%) Advertising
9 2 (0.82%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.82%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.41%) Back Office
10 1 (0.41%) Games
10 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.12%) OAuth
2 8 (3.29%) RESTful
3 7 (2.88%) REST
4 5 (2.06%) Kafka
4 5 (2.06%) Node.js
4 5 (2.06%) OAuth2
5 4 (1.65%) Android NDK
5 4 (1.65%) OpenID
5 4 (1.65%) WebSockets
6 3 (1.23%) eBPF
6 3 (1.23%) JWT
6 3 (1.23%) NestJS
6 3 (1.23%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (1.23%) SAML
6 3 (1.23%) YAML
7 2 (0.82%) gRPC
8 1 (0.41%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.41%) Middleware
8 1 (0.41%) Next.js
8 1 (0.41%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 47 (19.34%) Security Posture
2 27 (11.11%) Management Information System
3 23 (9.47%) Cloud Native
4 21 (8.64%) CCTV
4 21 (8.64%) Hedge funds
5 14 (5.76%) Cloud Security Posture
6 8 (3.29%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.29%) Operational Technology
6 8 (3.29%) PKI
7 6 (2.47%) Blog
7 6 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.06%) AI Agents
8 5 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.65%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.82%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.82%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.82%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.82%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 21 (8.64%) Windows
2 14 (5.76%) Mac OS
3 11 (4.53%) Linux
3 11 (4.53%) Unix
4 8 (3.29%) Android
5 3 (1.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (44.86%) Cloud Security
2 96 (39.51%) Cybersecurity
3 72 (29.63%) Information Security
4 61 (25.10%) Incident Response
5 60 (24.69%) Security Architecture
6 49 (20.16%) Infrastructure as Code
7 41 (16.87%) AI
7 41 (16.87%) CI/CD
8 36 (14.81%) SIEM
9 34 (13.99%) Computer Science
9 34 (13.99%) Zero Trust
10 32 (13.17%) DevOps
10 32 (13.17%) DevSecOps
11 30 (12.35%) Vulnerability Scanning
12 26 (10.70%) Data Loss Prevention
12 26 (10.70%) Security Operations
13 24 (9.88%) RBAC
14 22 (9.05%) Continuous Improvement
14 22 (9.05%) Software Engineering
14 22 (9.05%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 62 (25.51%) Python
2 36 (14.81%) PowerShell
3 21 (8.64%) Bash
4 14 (5.76%) Go
5 10 (4.12%) SQL
6 9 (3.70%) C++
7 4 (1.65%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.23%) Java
8 3 (1.23%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.82%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.41%) Bicep
10 1 (0.41%) C#
10 1 (0.41%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 52 (21.40%) CISSP
2 47 (19.34%) Degree
3 24 (9.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (8.23%) CEH
5 16 (6.58%) Master's Degree
6 12 (4.94%) CISA
7 11 (4.53%) AWS Certification
7 11 (4.53%) CCSK
7 11 (4.53%) CompTIA CySA+
7 11 (4.53%) Security Cleared
8 7 (2.88%) SC Cleared
9 6 (2.47%) DBS Check
10 5 (2.06%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (2.06%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.82%) CCNP
14 1 (0.41%) CISM
14 1 (0.41%) ISEB
14 1 (0.41%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (16.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 40 (16.46%) NIST
2 13 (5.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 10 (4.12%) Actionable Recommendations
3 10 (4.12%) GRC
4 8 (3.29%) SOC 2
5 7 (2.88%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (2.88%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.06%) Accessibility
6 5 (2.06%) GDPR
7 4 (1.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (1.65%) NCSC
7 4 (1.65%) QA
8 2 (0.82%) COBIT
8 2 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.41%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.41%) JSP 440
System Software
1 7 (2.88%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 48 (19.75%) Terraform
2 17 (7.00%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.29%) Cilium
4 7 (2.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (2.47%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.65%) HP Fortify
6 4 (1.65%) QRadar
7 3 (1.23%) Grafana
7 3 (1.23%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.41%) SCCM
Vendors
1 59 (24.28%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.64%) CrowdStrike
2 21 (8.64%) Google
3 18 (7.41%) iManage
3 18 (7.41%) Palo Alto
4 15 (6.17%) CyberArk
4 15 (6.17%) Rapid7
5 11 (4.53%) Cisco
6 10 (4.12%) Thales
7 7 (2.88%) Qualys
8 5 (2.06%) Meraki
9 4 (1.65%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.65%) Sophos
10 3 (1.23%) Apple
10 3 (1.23%) Oracle
11 2 (0.82%) CheckPoint
11 2 (0.82%) Ericsson
11 2 (0.82%) F5
11 2 (0.82%) Intel
11 2 (0.82%) Nokia