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 10 May 2026.

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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 276 264
Rank change year-on-year +89 -12 +25
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 248 132 263
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.22% 1.04% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.32% 1.15% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 201 105 235
10th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £40,800
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £57,388
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.96% -5.63% +3.23%
75th Percentile £93,500 £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% -13.60%

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 18,771 11,430 22,001
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.06% 90.28% 94.12%
Number of salaries quoted 12,759 7,434 16,662
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,000
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 £102,500 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,400 £53,818
% change year-on-year -7.41% +10.37% -11.48%

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 10 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 10 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 +35 57 £75,000 -9.09% 21
West London - 13 £35,000 - 6
East London - 6 £40,000 - 5
Security Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 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.

1 115 (46.37%) Cloud Security
2 100 (40.32%) Azure
3 98 (39.52%) Cybersecurity
4 87 (35.08%) AWS
5 69 (27.82%) Information Security
6 67 (27.02%) Python
7 59 (23.79%) Incident Response
8 58 (23.39%) Security Architecture
9 55 (22.18%) Microsoft
10 52 (20.97%) Infrastructure as Code
10 52 (20.97%) Terraform
11 50 (20.16%) CISSP
12 46 (18.55%) Microsoft 365
13 45 (18.15%) CI/CD
14 43 (17.34%) Degree
15 42 (16.94%) AI
16 37 (14.92%) SIEM
17 35 (14.11%) NIST
18 34 (13.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
18 34 (13.71%) PowerShell
19 33 (13.31%) DevOps
19 33 (13.31%) Network Security
20 32 (12.90%) Computer Science
20 32 (12.90%) DevSecOps
20 32 (12.90%) GCP
20 32 (12.90%) Zero Trust
21 31 (12.50%) Firewall
21 31 (12.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
22 29 (11.69%) Security Operations
23 26 (10.48%) Data Loss Prevention

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 (0.81%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) C-CURE
Cloud Services
1 100 (40.32%) Azure
2 87 (35.08%) AWS
3 46 (18.55%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (12.90%) GCP
5 18 (7.26%) AWS CloudFormation
5 18 (7.26%) SaaS
6 16 (6.45%) Entra ID
7 14 (5.65%) GitHub
7 14 (5.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 13 (5.24%) Azure Sentinel
9 11 (4.44%) IaaS
9 11 (4.44%) PaaS
10 9 (3.63%) Microsoft Purview
11 7 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (2.82%) Mimecast
12 5 (2.02%) Amazon S3
13 4 (1.61%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 4 (1.61%) OCI
14 3 (1.21%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (1.21%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 33 (13.31%) Network Security
2 31 (12.50%) Firewall
3 12 (4.84%) VPN
4 6 (2.42%) Cisco ISE
5 5 (2.02%) BGP
5 5 (2.02%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.21%) BIG-IP
6 3 (1.21%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (1.21%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (1.21%) EIGRP
6 3 (1.21%) IPv4
6 3 (1.21%) MPLS
6 3 (1.21%) Multicast
6 3 (1.21%) NX-OS
6 3 (1.21%) OSPF
6 3 (1.21%) VLAN
6 3 (1.21%) Wireless
6 3 (1.21%) Wireless Security
7 2 (0.81%) DNS
7 2 (0.81%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.63%) Tableau
2 3 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.40%) Power BI
3 1 (0.40%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (8.47%) GitLab
2 7 (2.82%) TeamCity
3 2 (0.81%) Git
4 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.40%) Selenium
General
1 46 (18.55%) Finance
2 34 (13.71%) Social Skills
3 23 (9.27%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (6.45%) Legal
5 13 (5.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (4.44%) Law
7 10 (4.03%) Telecoms
8 9 (3.63%) Banking
8 9 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (3.63%) Retail
9 7 (2.82%) Cyber-Physical System
10 2 (0.81%) Advertising
10 2 (0.81%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.40%) Games
11 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.23%) OAuth
2 7 (2.82%) Node.js
2 7 (2.82%) REST
2 7 (2.82%) RESTful
3 4 (1.61%) OpenID
4 3 (1.21%) Android NDK
4 3 (1.21%) eBPF
4 3 (1.21%) Kafka
4 3 (1.21%) NestJS
4 3 (1.21%) OAuth2
4 3 (1.21%) SAML
4 3 (1.21%) WebSockets
5 2 (0.81%) gRPC
5 2 (0.81%) JWT
6 1 (0.40%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.40%) Middleware
6 1 (0.40%) Next.js
6 1 (0.40%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (0.40%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 46 (18.55%) Security Posture
2 28 (11.29%) Cloud Native
3 26 (10.48%) Management Information System
4 21 (8.47%) CCTV
5 20 (8.06%) Hedge funds
6 15 (6.05%) Cloud Security Posture
7 10 (4.03%) Operational Technology
8 8 (3.23%) PKI
9 7 (2.82%) AI Agents
9 7 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (2.02%) Blog
12 3 (1.21%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 3 (1.21%) Mobile App
13 2 (0.81%) Cyber Threat
13 2 (0.81%) Data Structures
13 2 (0.81%) Onboarding
13 2 (0.81%) Replication
13 2 (0.81%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 23 (9.27%) Windows
2 14 (5.65%) Linux
3 12 (4.84%) Mac OS
4 11 (4.44%) Unix
5 7 (2.82%) Android
6 3 (1.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (46.37%) Cloud Security
2 98 (39.52%) Cybersecurity
3 69 (27.82%) Information Security
4 59 (23.79%) Incident Response
5 58 (23.39%) Security Architecture
6 52 (20.97%) Infrastructure as Code
7 45 (18.15%) CI/CD
8 42 (16.94%) AI
9 37 (14.92%) SIEM
10 33 (13.31%) DevOps
11 32 (12.90%) Computer Science
11 32 (12.90%) DevSecOps
11 32 (12.90%) Zero Trust
12 31 (12.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
13 29 (11.69%) Security Operations
14 26 (10.48%) Data Loss Prevention
15 24 (9.68%) Software Engineering
16 23 (9.27%) Threat Modelling
17 22 (8.87%) Continuous Improvement
17 22 (8.87%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 67 (27.02%) Python
2 34 (13.71%) PowerShell
3 25 (10.08%) Bash
4 10 (4.03%) Go
5 9 (3.63%) SQL
6 8 (3.23%) C++
7 3 (1.21%) Java
7 3 (1.21%) Kotlin
7 3 (1.21%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.81%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.40%) Bicep
9 1 (0.40%) C
9 1 (0.40%) C#
9 1 (0.40%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 50 (20.16%) CISSP
2 43 (17.34%) Degree
3 19 (7.66%) CEH
4 18 (7.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (6.45%) Security Cleared
6 14 (5.65%) Master's Degree
7 11 (4.44%) CCSK
7 11 (4.44%) CISA
8 10 (4.03%) AWS Certification
8 10 (4.03%) CompTIA CySA+
9 9 (3.63%) SC Cleared
10 8 (3.23%) DBS Check
10 8 (3.23%) DV Cleared
11 6 (2.42%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.21%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.21%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.81%) CCNA
13 2 (0.81%) CCNP
13 2 (0.81%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (14.11%) NIST
2 34 (13.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (5.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 9 (3.63%) Actionable Recommendations
4 9 (3.63%) GRC
5 7 (2.82%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.82%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.82%) SOC 2
6 6 (2.42%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (1.21%) GDPR
7 3 (1.21%) QA
8 2 (0.81%) COBIT
9 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.40%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (2.42%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 52 (20.97%) Terraform
2 16 (6.45%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (2.82%) Cilium
4 7 (2.82%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (2.42%) QRadar
6 4 (1.61%) HP Fortify
7 3 (1.21%) Grafana
7 3 (1.21%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.81%) Ansible
9 1 (0.40%) SCCM
Vendors
1 55 (22.18%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.27%) CrowdStrike
3 20 (8.06%) Google
3 20 (8.06%) Palo Alto
4 18 (7.26%) iManage
5 15 (6.05%) CyberArk
5 15 (6.05%) Rapid7
6 13 (5.24%) Cisco
7 10 (4.03%) Thales
8 8 (3.23%) Qualys
9 6 (2.42%) Meraki
10 5 (2.02%) ServiceNow
10 5 (2.02%) Sophos
11 4 (1.61%) Oracle
12 3 (1.21%) CheckPoint
12 3 (1.21%) F5
13 2 (0.81%) Ericsson
13 2 (0.81%) Intel
13 2 (0.81%) Mavenir
13 2 (0.81%) Nokia