Security Engineer Jobs 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 to 30 April 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 266 302 430
Rank change year-on-year +36 +128 -90
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 259 400 553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.10% 1.13% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.17% 1.18% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 232 307 344
10th Percentile £40,200 £47,500 £48,575
25th Percentile £56,250 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £105,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £59,925 £67,500 £66,250
% change year-on-year -11.22% +1.89% +10.42%

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 22,228 33,761 64,000
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 95.05% 96.35%
Number of salaries quoted 16,730 24,758 34,902
10th Percentile £38,454 £42,500 £41,500
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 £91,469
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,635 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.45% +0.95% +9.09%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in London

Security Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Security Engineer in London

Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in London over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

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 30 April 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 +39 36 £73,441 -8.20% 15
South London +1 4 £44,000 -26.67%
North London - 1 £45,000 -
Security Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 2024, 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 Security Engineer in the job title.

1 133 (51.35%) Cybersecurity
2 127 (49.03%) Azure
3 85 (32.82%) Microsoft
4 82 (31.66%) CISSP
5 81 (31.27%) Finance
6 76 (29.34%) AWS
7 70 (27.03%) Firewall
8 65 (25.10%) Cloud Security
9 64 (24.71%) Network Security
10 63 (24.32%) Information Security
11 62 (23.94%) Python
12 59 (22.78%) PowerShell
12 59 (22.78%) SIEM
12 59 (22.78%) Microsoft 365
13 50 (19.31%) Windows
14 49 (18.92%) Incident Response
15 46 (17.76%) Vulnerability Management
16 41 (15.83%) Security Operations
16 41 (15.83%) Social Skills
16 41 (15.83%) Cisco
17 39 (15.06%) CEH
18 38 (14.67%) Cisco Certification
19 37 (14.29%) WAN
20 36 (13.90%) LAN
21 35 (13.51%) Data Loss Prevention
22 34 (13.13%) CISM
22 34 (13.13%) Banking
22 34 (13.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
23 33 (12.74%) Degree
24 32 (12.36%) GCP

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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.16%) Apache
2 3 (1.16%) nginx
3 1 (0.39%) Confluence
3 1 (0.39%) Gunicorn
3 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.39%) uWSGI
Applications
1 14 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.86%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.16%) AutoCAD
3 3 (1.16%) Revit
4 2 (0.77%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.77%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 127 (49.03%) Azure
2 76 (29.34%) AWS
3 59 (22.78%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (12.36%) GCP
5 18 (6.95%) Cloud Computing
6 15 (5.79%) Azure Sentinel
6 15 (5.79%) SaaS
7 14 (5.41%) PaaS
8 13 (5.02%) Microsoft Purview
9 11 (4.25%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (3.86%) Azure AKS
11 9 (3.47%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 8 (3.09%) AWS Direct Connect
12 8 (3.09%) IaaS
13 7 (2.70%) Power Platform
14 5 (1.93%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (1.93%) Amazon S3
14 5 (1.93%) Entra ID
15 4 (1.54%) Mimecast
16 3 (1.16%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 70 (27.03%) Firewall
2 64 (24.71%) Network Security
3 37 (14.29%) WAN
4 36 (13.90%) LAN
5 27 (10.42%) VPN
6 20 (7.72%) SD-WAN
7 17 (6.56%) TCP/IP
8 15 (5.79%) Cisco Firepower
8 15 (5.79%) Wireless
9 14 (5.41%) Cisco ISE
10 12 (4.63%) BGP
11 11 (4.25%) Cisco Nexus
11 11 (4.25%) VLAN
12 9 (3.47%) Cisco Wireless
12 9 (3.47%) DNS
12 9 (3.47%) Wi-Fi
13 8 (3.09%) Cisco IOS
13 8 (3.09%) Wireshark
14 6 (2.32%) DMZ
14 6 (2.32%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.70%) Power BI
2 5 (1.93%) BigQuery
2 5 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (1.93%) Hadoop
2 5 (1.93%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.54%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 20 (7.72%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.16%) JIRA
3 2 (0.77%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.39%) Ant
4 1 (0.39%) Git
General
1 81 (31.27%) Finance
2 41 (15.83%) Social Skills
3 34 (13.13%) Banking
4 18 (6.95%) Law
5 11 (4.25%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.25%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (3.86%) Health Technology
6 10 (3.86%) Tech for Good
7 7 (2.70%) Legal
8 5 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.93%) Retail
9 4 (1.54%) Marketing
9 4 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.54%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.54%) Publishing
9 4 (1.54%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.16%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.16%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.77%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.09%) 802.1X
1 8 (3.09%) HTML
2 7 (2.70%) web3js
3 5 (1.93%) XMPP
4 4 (1.54%) Kafka
4 4 (1.54%) OAuth
5 2 (0.77%) CSS
5 2 (0.77%) OAuth2
5 2 (0.77%) OpenID
6 1 (0.39%) .NET
6 1 (0.39%) JSON
6 1 (0.39%) JWT
6 1 (0.39%) RESTful
6 1 (0.39%) SAML
6 1 (0.39%) Web Services
6 1 (0.39%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.81%) PKI
2 25 (9.65%) Management Information System
3 22 (8.49%) Data Centre
4 13 (5.02%) Security Operations Centre
5 12 (4.63%) Cyber Threat
5 12 (4.63%) Security Posture
6 10 (3.86%) Cyberattack
6 10 (3.86%) Greenfield Project
6 10 (3.86%) Public Cloud
7 7 (2.70%) Blockchain
7 7 (2.70%) Blog
7 7 (2.70%) CCTV
7 7 (2.70%) Hedge funds
7 7 (2.70%) Web3
8 5 (1.93%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (1.93%) Cybercrime
8 5 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.93%) Operational Technology
8 5 (1.93%) PDA
8 5 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 50 (19.31%) Windows
2 16 (6.18%) Linux
3 12 (4.63%) Unix
4 11 (4.25%) Windows Server
5 8 (3.09%) Android
5 8 (3.09%) Apple iOS
6 7 (2.70%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.54%) CentOS
7 4 (1.54%) Solaris
7 4 (1.54%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (1.54%) zOS
8 2 (0.77%) Debian
8 2 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (51.35%) Cybersecurity
2 65 (25.10%) Cloud Security
3 63 (24.32%) Information Security
4 59 (22.78%) SIEM
5 49 (18.92%) Incident Response
6 46 (17.76%) Vulnerability Management
7 41 (15.83%) Security Operations
8 35 (13.51%) Data Loss Prevention
9 30 (11.58%) Cryptography
9 30 (11.58%) DevOps
9 30 (11.58%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (10.81%) Identity Access Management
11 24 (9.27%) Agile
11 24 (9.27%) Application Security
11 24 (9.27%) ITIL
12 22 (8.49%) CI/CD
12 22 (8.49%) DevSecOps
13 20 (7.72%) Vulnerability Remediation
14 19 (7.34%) Computer Science
15 18 (6.95%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 62 (23.94%) Python
2 59 (22.78%) PowerShell
3 16 (6.18%) Kusto Query Language
4 13 (5.02%) Bash
5 12 (4.63%) SQL
6 10 (3.86%) C#
7 9 (3.47%) Java
8 7 (2.70%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.54%) C++
10 3 (1.16%) C
10 3 (1.16%) Go
11 1 (0.39%) Lua
11 1 (0.39%) Ruby
11 1 (0.39%) Rust
11 1 (0.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 82 (31.66%) CISSP
2 39 (15.06%) CEH
3 38 (14.67%) Cisco Certification
4 34 (13.13%) CISM
5 33 (12.74%) Degree
6 17 (6.56%) CCSP
7 16 (6.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 16 (6.18%) CCNP
8 14 (5.41%) GIAC
9 13 (5.02%) CCNA
10 9 (3.47%) CISA
10 9 (3.47%) SANS
11 8 (3.09%) CRISC
11 8 (3.09%) ISSMP
11 8 (3.09%) SSCP
12 6 (2.32%) Azure Certification
12 6 (2.32%) CCIE
12 6 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (2.32%) GSEC
12 6 (2.32%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (13.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 29 (11.20%) NIST
3 14 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 14 (5.41%) PCI DSS
4 10 (3.86%) COBIT
5 7 (2.70%) NCSC
6 6 (2.32%) GDPR
7 5 (1.93%) Data Quality
7 5 (1.93%) HIPAA
8 4 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.77%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.77%) QA
9 2 (0.77%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (9.27%) Active Directory
2 10 (3.86%) Docker
3 9 (3.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (3.09%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (2.32%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.54%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (7.34%) Ansible
1 19 (7.34%) Kubernetes
1 19 (7.34%) Terraform
2 15 (5.79%) CASB
3 14 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (3.09%) Nmap
4 8 (3.09%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (2.70%) Cisco CUCM
5 7 (2.70%) Stealthwatch
6 6 (2.32%) QRadar
7 5 (1.93%) logstash
8 4 (1.54%) DatAdvantage
8 4 (1.54%) vRealize
8 4 (1.54%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 2 (0.77%) Nessus
Vendors
1 85 (32.82%) Microsoft
2 41 (15.83%) Cisco
3 27 (10.42%) Splunk
4 22 (8.49%) Palo Alto
5 20 (7.72%) Rapid7
6 19 (7.34%) CyberArk
7 17 (6.56%) CheckPoint
7 17 (6.56%) Qualys
7 17 (6.56%) VMware
8 16 (6.18%) Google
9 13 (5.02%) ArcSight
9 13 (5.02%) Carbon Black
10 10 (3.86%) Atlassian
11 9 (3.47%) McAfee
12 8 (3.09%) Alibaba
12 8 (3.09%) Thycotic
13 7 (2.70%) CrowdStrike
14 6 (2.32%) Fortinet
14 6 (2.32%) Juniper
14 6 (2.32%) SolarWinds