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 28 May 2026.

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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 247 252
Rank change year-on-year +55 +5 +53
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 243 129 279
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.16% 1.09% 1.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.26% 1.21% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 191 99 246
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 £100,000 £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 19,330 10,668 22,233
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.23% 89.99% 94.38%
Number of salaries quoted 13,252 6,815 16,734
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,143
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 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -13.65%

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 28 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 28 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 +20 48 £77,500 -6.06% 16
West London - 13 £35,000 - 9
East London -5 4 £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 28 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.

1 119 (48.97%) Cloud Security
2 97 (39.92%) Azure
3 95 (39.09%) AWS
3 95 (39.09%) Cybersecurity
4 70 (28.81%) Python
5 61 (25.10%) Terraform
6 60 (24.69%) Security Architecture
7 59 (24.28%) Information Security
8 58 (23.87%) Infrastructure as Code
9 57 (23.46%) Incident Response
10 56 (23.05%) CI/CD
11 53 (21.81%) Microsoft
12 43 (17.70%) CISSP
13 40 (16.46%) Degree
14 39 (16.05%) Microsoft 365
15 38 (15.64%) AI
16 37 (15.23%) DevOps
16 37 (15.23%) Network Security
16 37 (15.23%) NIST
17 35 (14.40%) DevSecOps
17 35 (14.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
17 35 (14.40%) Zero Trust
18 34 (13.99%) Software Engineering
19 33 (13.58%) GCP
20 32 (13.17%) Firewall
20 32 (13.17%) PowerShell
20 32 (13.17%) SIEM
21 31 (12.76%) Security Operations
22 30 (12.35%) Vulnerability Scanning
23 28 (11.52%) 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 3 (1.23%) Apache
1 3 (1.23%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.23%) Jupyter
1 3 (1.23%) 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 97 (39.92%) Azure
2 95 (39.09%) AWS
3 39 (16.05%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (13.58%) GCP
5 20 (8.23%) GitHub
6 17 (7.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (6.58%) Azure Sentinel
7 16 (6.58%) Entra ID
7 16 (6.58%) SaaS
8 13 (5.35%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (5.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 10 (4.12%) Microsoft Purview
10 9 (3.70%) IaaS
10 9 (3.70%) PaaS
11 8 (3.29%) Amazon S3
12 7 (2.88%) Mimecast
13 5 (2.06%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 5 (2.06%) OCI
14 4 (1.65%) AWS CloudTrail
14 4 (1.65%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 37 (15.23%) Network Security
2 32 (13.17%) Firewall
3 13 (5.35%) VPN
4 7 (2.88%) BGP
5 6 (2.47%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (2.06%) OSPF
6 5 (2.06%) VLAN
7 3 (1.23%) BIG-IP
7 3 (1.23%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (1.23%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (1.23%) EIGRP
7 3 (1.23%) IPv4
7 3 (1.23%) MPLS
7 3 (1.23%) Multicast
7 3 (1.23%) NX-OS
7 3 (1.23%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (1.23%) Wireless
7 3 (1.23%) Wireless Security
8 2 (0.82%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.29%) Tableau
2 4 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.23%) Airbyte
3 3 (1.23%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (8.64%) GitLab
2 12 (4.94%) TeamCity
3 2 (0.82%) 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 41 (16.87%) Finance
2 40 (16.46%) Social Skills
3 24 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (6.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (6.17%) Banking
5 15 (6.17%) Retail
6 13 (5.35%) Legal
7 9 (3.70%) Law
8 7 (2.88%) Cyber-Physical System
8 7 (2.88%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.65%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.82%) 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 (3.29%) eBPF
1 8 (3.29%) Node.js
2 7 (2.88%) OAuth
3 5 (2.06%) REST
3 5 (2.06%) RESTful
4 4 (1.65%) OpenID
5 3 (1.23%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (1.23%) SAML
6 2 (0.82%) Android NDK
6 2 (0.82%) Middleware
6 2 (0.82%) NestJS
6 2 (0.82%) WebSockets
7 1 (0.41%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.41%) gRPC
7 1 (0.41%) JSON
7 1 (0.41%) JWT
7 1 (0.41%) Kafka
7 1 (0.41%) Next.js
7 1 (0.41%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.41%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 44 (18.11%) Security Posture
2 36 (14.81%) Cloud Native
3 24 (9.88%) Management Information System
4 17 (7.00%) Cloud Security Posture
4 17 (7.00%) Hedge funds
5 16 (6.58%) CCTV
6 15 (6.17%) PKI
7 10 (4.12%) Operational Technology
8 7 (2.88%) AI Agents
8 7 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.47%) Blog
9 6 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (1.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 3 (1.23%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.23%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.23%) Security Operations Centre
12 2 (0.82%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.82%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.23%) Windows
2 12 (4.94%) Linux
3 11 (4.53%) Mac OS
4 9 (3.70%) Unix
5 8 (3.29%) Android
6 2 (0.82%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (48.97%) Cloud Security
2 95 (39.09%) Cybersecurity
3 60 (24.69%) Security Architecture
4 59 (24.28%) Information Security
5 58 (23.87%) Infrastructure as Code
6 57 (23.46%) Incident Response
7 56 (23.05%) CI/CD
8 38 (15.64%) AI
9 37 (15.23%) DevOps
10 35 (14.40%) DevSecOps
10 35 (14.40%) Zero Trust
11 34 (13.99%) Software Engineering
12 32 (13.17%) SIEM
13 31 (12.76%) Security Operations
14 30 (12.35%) Vulnerability Scanning
15 28 (11.52%) Computer Science
16 26 (10.70%) Problem-Solving
17 24 (9.88%) Cryptography
18 23 (9.47%) Continuous Improvement
18 23 (9.47%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 70 (28.81%) Python
2 32 (13.17%) PowerShell
3 25 (10.29%) Bash
4 14 (5.76%) Go
5 11 (4.53%) SQL
6 6 (2.47%) C++
6 6 (2.47%) Java
7 5 (2.06%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (1.23%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.23%) Scala
9 2 (0.82%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.82%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.82%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.41%) Bicep
10 1 (0.41%) C
10 1 (0.41%) C#
10 1 (0.41%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 43 (17.70%) CISSP
2 40 (16.46%) Degree
3 19 (7.82%) Security Cleared
4 16 (6.58%) AWS Certification
4 16 (6.58%) CEH
5 14 (5.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (5.76%) Master's Degree
6 10 (4.12%) DV Cleared
6 10 (4.12%) SC Cleared
7 9 (3.70%) CCSK
7 9 (3.70%) CISA
7 9 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (3.70%) CompTIA CySA+
8 8 (3.29%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.65%) CCNA
9 4 (1.65%) CCNP
9 4 (1.65%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.23%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (15.23%) NIST
2 35 (14.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (5.76%) GRC
4 12 (4.94%) SOC 2
5 9 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 8 (3.29%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (2.88%) Accessibility
7 7 (2.88%) PCI DSS
8 5 (2.06%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.65%) QA
10 2 (0.82%) COBIT
10 2 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.82%) GDPR
10 2 (0.82%) NCSC
11 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 5 (2.06%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.82%) Docker
3 1 (0.41%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 61 (25.10%) Terraform
2 21 (8.64%) Kubernetes
3 12 (4.94%) Cilium
4 8 (3.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (3.29%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (2.47%) QRadar
6 4 (1.65%) Ansible
6 4 (1.65%) Grafana
6 4 (1.65%) HP Fortify
6 4 (1.65%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.23%) Kibana
8 1 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.41%) SCCM
Vendors
1 53 (21.81%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.47%) CrowdStrike
3 20 (8.23%) Palo Alto
4 17 (7.00%) Google
5 15 (6.17%) Cisco
6 14 (5.76%) iManage
7 13 (5.35%) CyberArk
7 13 (5.35%) Rapid7
8 9 (3.70%) Thales
9 7 (2.88%) Qualys
10 6 (2.47%) Meraki
11 5 (2.06%) Oracle
11 5 (2.06%) ServiceNow
11 5 (2.06%) Sophos
12 3 (1.23%) Apple
12 3 (1.23%) CheckPoint
12 3 (1.23%) F5
13 2 (0.82%) Arista
13 2 (0.82%) Intel
13 2 (0.82%) Splunk