Security Engineer Job Trends in London

Security Engineer
England > London

The median Security Engineer salary in London is £73,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 September 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 246 232
Rank change year-on-year +54 -14 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 289 129 242
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.18% 1.08% 1.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.27% 1.19% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 228 98 185
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,000 £55,000 £66,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £75,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -9.09% +3.13%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £96,625 £100,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.69% -1.67% -11.11%

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 22,747 10,881 18,263
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 91.26% 95.38%
Number of salaries quoted 15,701 7,078 11,941
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -
75th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £58,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.45% - -8.33%

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 6 September 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 6 September 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 36 £72,500 -9.38% 29
West London - 22 £35,000 - 15
South London +5 15 £60,000 +20.00% 7
East London +5 11 £82,500 +30.95% 6
North London - 1 £36,500 -
Security Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 September 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.

1 104 (35.99%) Cybersecurity
2 102 (35.29%) Cloud Security
3 79 (27.34%) AWS
3 79 (27.34%) Azure
4 71 (24.57%) Microsoft
5 61 (21.11%) Security Operations
6 59 (20.42%) Incident Response
7 53 (18.34%) CI/CD
8 51 (17.65%) Python
8 51 (17.65%) Terraform
9 50 (17.30%) Infrastructure as Code
10 47 (16.26%) Security Architecture
11 45 (15.57%) AI
12 44 (15.22%) Firewall
12 44 (15.22%) Network Security
13 43 (14.88%) Information Security
13 43 (14.88%) SIEM
14 42 (14.53%) Software Engineering
15 40 (13.84%) Degree
16 38 (13.15%) Problem-Solving
17 37 (12.80%) Entra ID
17 37 (12.80%) Microsoft 365
18 36 (12.46%) Vulnerability Management
19 34 (11.76%) CISSP
19 34 (11.76%) DevSecOps
19 34 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
19 34 (11.76%) PowerShell
20 32 (11.07%) Palo Alto
21 31 (10.73%) Zero Trust
22 30 (10.38%) DevOps

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 5 (1.73%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.04%) Apache
2 3 (1.04%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.04%) Jupyter
2 3 (1.04%) SAS
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) C-CURE
1 1 (0.35%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 79 (27.34%) AWS
1 79 (27.34%) Azure
2 37 (12.80%) Entra ID
2 37 (12.80%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (7.27%) GCP
3 21 (7.27%) GitHub
4 17 (5.88%) Microsoft Purview
5 16 (5.54%) Azure Sentinel
6 15 (5.19%) Amazon S3
6 15 (5.19%) Mimecast
7 13 (4.50%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (4.15%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 12 (4.15%) OCI
9 10 (3.46%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (3.46%) Amazon ELB
9 10 (3.46%) AWS CloudTrail
9 10 (3.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 8 (2.77%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (2.08%) SaaS
12 5 (1.73%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 44 (15.22%) Firewall
1 44 (15.22%) Network Security
2 28 (9.69%) VPN
3 9 (3.11%) BGP
3 9 (3.11%) Cisco ISE
4 7 (2.42%) DNS
5 6 (2.08%) OSPF
6 5 (1.73%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (1.73%) VLAN
7 4 (1.38%) Cisco Firepower
8 3 (1.04%) EIGRP
8 3 (1.04%) HTTP
8 3 (1.04%) Internet
8 3 (1.04%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.69%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.69%) IPv4
9 2 (0.69%) MPLS
9 2 (0.69%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.46%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (1.04%) Airbyte
2 3 (1.04%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (3.81%) GitLab
2 9 (3.11%) TeamCity
3 8 (2.77%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.08%) Git
5 5 (1.73%) Burp Suite
6 3 (1.04%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.35%) IDA Disassembler
7 1 (0.35%) JIRA
7 1 (0.35%) Maven
7 1 (0.35%) Selenium
7 1 (0.35%) Snyk
General
1 46 (15.92%) Social Skills
2 38 (13.15%) Finance
3 23 (7.96%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (6.57%) Banking
5 19 (6.57%) Retail
6 15 (5.19%) Law
7 13 (4.50%) Legal
8 8 (2.77%) Public Sector
9 7 (2.42%) Cyber-Physical System
10 5 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.38%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.04%) Digital Health
12 3 (1.04%) Digital Healthcare
12 3 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.69%) Advertising
13 2 (0.69%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.69%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (17.65%) Terraform
2 9 (3.11%) eBPF
2 9 (3.11%) OAuth
3 7 (2.42%) Node.js
3 7 (2.42%) OpenID
4 5 (1.73%) SAML
5 4 (1.38%) Middleware
6 3 (1.04%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (1.04%) JWT
6 3 (1.04%) RESTful
7 2 (0.69%) JSON
7 2 (0.69%) OAuth2
7 2 (0.69%) REST
8 1 (0.35%) .NET
8 1 (0.35%) Django
8 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (0.35%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 40 (13.84%) Security Posture
2 39 (13.49%) Cloud Native
3 33 (11.42%) CCTV
4 18 (6.23%) PKI
5 14 (4.84%) Cyber Threat
6 13 (4.50%) Management Information System
7 11 (3.81%) Operational Technology
8 9 (3.11%) Cloud Security Posture
9 8 (2.77%) Blog
9 8 (2.77%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 8 (2.77%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (2.42%) AI Agents
10 7 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.38%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.38%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (1.04%) NHS
12 3 (1.04%) Private Cloud
12 3 (1.04%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.54%) Windows
2 12 (4.15%) Linux
3 3 (1.04%) Kali Linux
3 3 (1.04%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.69%) Android
4 2 (0.69%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.35%) Unix
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (35.99%) Cybersecurity
2 102 (35.29%) Cloud Security
3 61 (21.11%) Security Operations
4 59 (20.42%) Incident Response
5 53 (18.34%) CI/CD
6 50 (17.30%) Infrastructure as Code
7 47 (16.26%) Security Architecture
8 45 (15.57%) AI
9 43 (14.88%) Information Security
9 43 (14.88%) SIEM
10 42 (14.53%) Software Engineering
11 38 (13.15%) Problem-Solving
12 36 (12.46%) Vulnerability Management
13 34 (11.76%) DevSecOps
14 31 (10.73%) Zero Trust
15 30 (10.38%) DevOps
16 28 (9.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 27 (9.34%) SDLC
18 26 (9.00%) Threat Modelling
19 23 (7.96%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 51 (17.65%) Python
2 34 (11.76%) PowerShell
3 21 (7.27%) Go
4 19 (6.57%) Bash
5 10 (3.46%) Kusto Query Language
6 7 (2.42%) Java
6 7 (2.42%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.73%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.38%) SQL
9 3 (1.04%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.04%) Scala
10 2 (0.69%) C++
10 2 (0.69%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.35%) C
11 1 (0.35%) C#
11 1 (0.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 40 (13.84%) Degree
2 34 (11.76%) CISSP
3 24 (8.30%) Security Cleared
4 19 (6.57%) AWS Certification
5 18 (6.23%) Master's Degree
6 17 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
7 15 (5.19%) CEH
8 13 (4.50%) DV Cleared
9 11 (3.81%) SC Cleared
10 10 (3.46%) CISM
11 8 (2.77%) DBS Check
11 8 (2.77%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (2.42%) CCNA
12 7 (2.42%) CompTIA Security+
13 6 (2.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (2.08%) CCNP
14 5 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
15 4 (1.38%) Azure Certification
15 4 (1.38%) CCSP
16 3 (1.04%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (9.34%) NIST
3 14 (4.84%) PCI DSS
4 12 (4.15%) SOC 2
5 11 (3.81%) GRC
6 7 (2.42%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (2.08%) Accessibility
7 6 (2.08%) GDPR
8 5 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (1.04%) QA
10 2 (0.69%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (3.11%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.69%) Docker
2 2 (0.69%) ProxySG
3 1 (0.35%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (9.69%) Kubernetes
2 26 (9.00%) Single Sign-On
3 17 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (3.11%) Cilium
5 8 (2.77%) QRadar
6 7 (2.42%) Grafana
6 7 (2.42%) Prometheus
7 6 (2.08%) Ansible
8 4 (1.38%) SCCM
9 3 (1.04%) Kibana
9 3 (1.04%) Nessus
9 3 (1.04%) Nmap
10 2 (0.69%) Argo
10 2 (0.69%) Istio
10 2 (0.69%) linkerd
11 1 (0.35%) CASB
11 1 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 71 (24.57%) Microsoft
2 32 (11.07%) Palo Alto
3 26 (9.00%) CrowdStrike
4 25 (8.65%) Cisco
5 13 (4.50%) CyberArk
5 13 (4.50%) Oracle
5 13 (4.50%) Rapid7
6 11 (3.81%) Qualys
7 9 (3.11%) Meraki
8 8 (2.77%) iManage
8 8 (2.77%) Splunk
8 8 (2.77%) Tenable
9 7 (2.42%) ServiceNow
9 7 (2.42%) Sophos
10 6 (2.08%) Arista
10 6 (2.08%) Thales
11 4 (1.38%) Google
11 4 (1.38%) Netskope
12 3 (1.04%) F5
12 3 (1.04%) Zscaler