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 26 May 2026.

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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 255 262
Rank change year-on-year +72 +7 +46
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 242 129 277
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.16% 1.08% 1.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.26% 1.21% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 193 99 245
10th Percentile £40,000 £47,400 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,875 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,000 £101,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -14.29%

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 19,214 10,700 22,216
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.20% 89.95% 94.35%
Number of salaries quoted 13,172 6,811 16,718
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £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 £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,777
% change year-on-year -4.35% +8.95% -13.20%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 +26 50 £77,500 -6.06% 17
West London - 12 £35,000 - 7
East London -7 5 £40,000 -36.51% 2
Security Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 May 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.

1 117 (48.35%) Cloud Security
2 94 (38.84%) Azure
2 94 (38.84%) Cybersecurity
3 93 (38.43%) AWS
4 66 (27.27%) Python
5 59 (24.38%) Security Architecture
5 59 (24.38%) Terraform
6 58 (23.97%) Information Security
6 58 (23.97%) Infrastructure as Code
7 56 (23.14%) Incident Response
8 55 (22.73%) CI/CD
9 53 (21.90%) Microsoft
10 42 (17.36%) CISSP
11 40 (16.53%) Microsoft 365
12 38 (15.70%) Degree
13 36 (14.88%) AI
13 36 (14.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 36 (14.88%) Network Security
14 35 (14.46%) DevOps
14 35 (14.46%) NIST
14 35 (14.46%) Zero Trust
15 34 (14.05%) DevSecOps
16 33 (13.64%) Software Engineering
17 32 (13.22%) GCP
17 32 (13.22%) SIEM
18 31 (12.81%) Firewall
19 30 (12.40%) PowerShell
19 30 (12.40%) Vulnerability Scanning
20 29 (11.98%) Security Operations
21 27 (11.16%) Computer Science

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 (0.83%) Apache
1 2 (0.83%) Apache Spark
1 2 (0.83%) Jupyter
1 2 (0.83%) SAS
2 1 (0.41%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) C-CURE
Cloud Services
1 94 (38.84%) Azure
2 93 (38.43%) AWS
3 40 (16.53%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (13.22%) GCP
5 20 (8.26%) GitHub
6 17 (7.02%) AWS CloudFormation
6 17 (7.02%) Entra ID
7 16 (6.61%) SaaS
8 15 (6.20%) Azure Sentinel
9 13 (5.37%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (5.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 10 (4.13%) Microsoft Purview
11 9 (3.72%) IaaS
11 9 (3.72%) PaaS
12 8 (3.31%) Amazon S3
13 7 (2.89%) Mimecast
14 5 (2.07%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 5 (2.07%) OCI
15 4 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
15 4 (1.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 36 (14.88%) Network Security
2 31 (12.81%) Firewall
3 12 (4.96%) VPN
4 6 (2.48%) BGP
4 6 (2.48%) Cisco ISE
5 4 (1.65%) OSPF
5 4 (1.65%) VLAN
6 3 (1.24%) BIG-IP
6 3 (1.24%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (1.24%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (1.24%) EIGRP
6 3 (1.24%) IPv4
6 3 (1.24%) MPLS
6 3 (1.24%) Multicast
6 3 (1.24%) NX-OS
6 3 (1.24%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.24%) Wireless
6 3 (1.24%) Wireless Security
7 2 (0.83%) DNS
7 2 (0.83%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.31%) Tableau
2 4 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.83%) Airbyte
3 2 (0.83%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (8.68%) GitLab
2 12 (4.96%) TeamCity
3 2 (0.83%) Git
4 1 (0.41%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.41%) IDA Disassembler
4 1 (0.41%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.41%) Selenium
General
1 40 (16.53%) Finance
2 38 (15.70%) Social Skills
3 23 (9.50%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (6.20%) Retail
5 14 (5.79%) Banking
6 13 (5.37%) Legal
7 9 (3.72%) Law
8 7 (2.89%) Cyber-Physical System
8 7 (2.89%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.65%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.83%) Advertising
12 1 (0.41%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.41%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.41%) Games
12 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.31%) eBPF
1 8 (3.31%) Node.js
2 7 (2.89%) OAuth
3 5 (2.07%) REST
4 4 (1.65%) OpenID
4 4 (1.65%) RESTful
5 3 (1.24%) SAML
6 2 (0.83%) Android NDK
6 2 (0.83%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (0.83%) Middleware
6 2 (0.83%) NestJS
6 2 (0.83%) WebSockets
7 1 (0.41%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.41%) gRPC
7 1 (0.41%) JWT
7 1 (0.41%) Kafka
7 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (0.41%) Next.js
7 1 (0.41%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.41%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 43 (17.77%) Security Posture
2 35 (14.46%) Cloud Native
3 23 (9.50%) Management Information System
4 17 (7.02%) Hedge funds
5 16 (6.61%) CCTV
5 16 (6.61%) Cloud Security Posture
6 15 (6.20%) PKI
7 10 (4.13%) Operational Technology
8 7 (2.89%) AI Agents
8 7 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.48%) Blog
9 6 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.24%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (1.24%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 3 (1.24%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.24%) Security Operations Centre
12 2 (0.83%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.83%) Product Ownership
12 2 (0.83%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.26%) Windows
2 12 (4.96%) Linux
3 11 (4.55%) Mac OS
4 9 (3.72%) Unix
5 8 (3.31%) Android
6 2 (0.83%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (48.35%) Cloud Security
2 94 (38.84%) Cybersecurity
3 59 (24.38%) Security Architecture
4 58 (23.97%) Information Security
4 58 (23.97%) Infrastructure as Code
5 56 (23.14%) Incident Response
6 55 (22.73%) CI/CD
7 36 (14.88%) AI
8 35 (14.46%) DevOps
8 35 (14.46%) Zero Trust
9 34 (14.05%) DevSecOps
10 33 (13.64%) Software Engineering
11 32 (13.22%) SIEM
12 30 (12.40%) Vulnerability Scanning
13 29 (11.98%) Security Operations
14 27 (11.16%) Computer Science
15 24 (9.92%) Cryptography
15 24 (9.92%) Problem-Solving
16 23 (9.50%) Threat Modelling
17 22 (9.09%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 66 (27.27%) Python
2 30 (12.40%) PowerShell
3 24 (9.92%) Bash
4 14 (5.79%) Go
5 10 (4.13%) SQL
6 6 (2.48%) C++
7 5 (2.07%) Java
8 4 (1.65%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.83%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.83%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.83%) Scala
9 2 (0.83%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.41%) Bicep
10 1 (0.41%) C
10 1 (0.41%) C#
10 1 (0.41%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 42 (17.36%) CISSP
2 38 (15.70%) Degree
3 19 (7.85%) Security Cleared
4 16 (6.61%) AWS Certification
4 16 (6.61%) CEH
5 14 (5.79%) Master's Degree
6 13 (5.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (4.13%) DV Cleared
7 10 (4.13%) SC Cleared
8 9 (3.72%) CCSK
8 9 (3.72%) CISA
9 8 (3.31%) CompTIA CySA+
9 8 (3.31%) DBS Check
10 7 (2.89%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.24%) CCNA
11 3 (1.24%) CCNP
11 3 (1.24%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.83%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.83%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (14.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 35 (14.46%) NIST
3 14 (5.79%) GRC
4 12 (4.96%) SOC 2
5 9 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 8 (3.31%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (2.89%) Accessibility
7 7 (2.89%) PCI DSS
8 6 (2.48%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (1.24%) QA
10 2 (0.83%) COBIT
10 2 (0.83%) GDPR
10 2 (0.83%) NCSC
11 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 6 (2.48%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.83%) Docker
3 1 (0.41%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 59 (24.38%) Terraform
2 21 (8.68%) Kubernetes
3 12 (4.96%) Cilium
4 8 (3.31%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (3.31%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (2.48%) QRadar
6 4 (1.65%) Ansible
6 4 (1.65%) Grafana
6 4 (1.65%) HP Fortify
6 4 (1.65%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.83%) Kibana
8 1 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.41%) SCCM
Vendors
1 53 (21.90%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.09%) CrowdStrike
3 19 (7.85%) Palo Alto
4 17 (7.02%) Google
5 14 (5.79%) Cisco
5 14 (5.79%) iManage
6 13 (5.37%) CyberArk
6 13 (5.37%) Rapid7
7 9 (3.72%) Thales
8 7 (2.89%) Qualys
9 6 (2.48%) Meraki
10 5 (2.07%) Oracle
10 5 (2.07%) ServiceNow
10 5 (2.07%) Sophos
11 3 (1.24%) Apple
11 3 (1.24%) CheckPoint
11 3 (1.24%) F5
12 2 (0.83%) Darktrace
12 2 (0.83%) Intel
12 2 (0.83%) Netskope