Security Engineer Job Trends in London

Security Engineer
England > London

The median Security Engineer salary in London is £76,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 25 July 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 264 237
Rank change year-on-year +56 -27 +31
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 252 133 268
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.11% 1.08% 1.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.19% 1.18% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 196 99 211
10th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £49,250 £57,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £91,620
90th Percentile £98,750 £105,750 £100,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.43% -10.31%

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 21,116 11,281 19,769
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.91% 91.78% 94.55%
Number of salaries quoted 14,515 7,345 14,117
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,084
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,649 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £117,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 25 July 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 25 July 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 +18 41 £75,000 -13.04% 17
West London - 17 £35,000 - 5
South London +10 8 £52,500 +5.00% 11
East London -4 7 £82,500 +30.95% 5
Security Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 July 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.

1 120 (47.62%) Cloud Security
2 96 (38.10%) Azure
3 93 (36.90%) Cybersecurity
4 91 (36.11%) AWS
5 63 (25.00%) Python
6 61 (24.21%) Terraform
7 60 (23.81%) CI/CD
8 59 (23.41%) Microsoft
8 59 (23.41%) Security Architecture
9 58 (23.02%) Incident Response
10 56 (22.22%) Information Security
11 55 (21.83%) Infrastructure as Code
12 47 (18.65%) Network Security
13 46 (18.25%) Security Operations
14 40 (15.87%) AI
14 40 (15.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 40 (15.87%) SIEM
15 39 (15.48%) Firewall
15 39 (15.48%) Software Engineering
16 38 (15.08%) CISSP
16 38 (15.08%) Microsoft 365
17 37 (14.68%) Degree
18 36 (14.29%) DevOps
18 36 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
19 35 (13.89%) Zero Trust
20 34 (13.49%) DevSecOps
20 34 (13.49%) NIST
20 34 (13.49%) PowerShell
21 29 (11.51%) Vulnerability Management
22 27 (10.71%) GCP

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 (1.19%) Apache
1 3 (1.19%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.19%) Jupyter
1 3 (1.19%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) C-CURE
Cloud Services
1 96 (38.10%) Azure
2 91 (36.11%) AWS
3 38 (15.08%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (10.71%) GCP
5 24 (9.52%) GitHub
6 20 (7.94%) Entra ID
7 17 (6.75%) Azure Sentinel
7 17 (6.75%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (5.16%) Amazon S3
9 12 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
9 12 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 10 (3.97%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 10 (3.97%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (3.97%) OCI
11 9 (3.57%) SaaS
12 8 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (3.17%) Amazon ELB
12 8 (3.17%) AWS CloudTrail
12 8 (3.17%) Azure Logic Apps
12 8 (3.17%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 47 (18.65%) Network Security
2 39 (15.48%) Firewall
3 19 (7.54%) VPN
4 9 (3.57%) BGP
5 7 (2.78%) Cisco ISE
6 6 (2.38%) OSPF
6 6 (2.38%) VLAN
7 4 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (1.19%) BIG-IP
8 3 (1.19%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (1.19%) Cisco Firepower
8 3 (1.19%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (1.19%) DNS
8 3 (1.19%) EIGRP
8 3 (1.19%) IPv4
8 3 (1.19%) MPLS
8 3 (1.19%) Multicast
8 3 (1.19%) NX-OS
8 3 (1.19%) Wireless
8 3 (1.19%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (1.19%) Airbyte
2 3 (1.19%) NoSQL
2 3 (1.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (6.75%) GitLab
2 13 (5.16%) TeamCity
3 4 (1.59%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.79%) Git
5 1 (0.40%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.40%) IDA Disassembler
5 1 (0.40%) Selenium
General
1 43 (17.06%) Finance
1 43 (17.06%) Social Skills
2 25 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (7.94%) Banking
3 20 (7.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 17 (6.75%) Retail
5 13 (5.16%) Law
6 11 (4.37%) Legal
7 7 (2.78%) Cyber-Physical System
8 6 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.98%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.19%) Digital Health
10 3 (1.19%) Digital Healthcare
11 2 (0.79%) Advertising
11 2 (0.79%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.79%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.40%) Games
12 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.40%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.57%) eBPF
2 7 (2.78%) Node.js
2 7 (2.78%) OAuth
3 5 (1.98%) OpenID
4 4 (1.59%) SAML
5 3 (1.19%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (1.19%) Middleware
5 3 (1.19%) RESTful
6 2 (0.79%) JSON
6 2 (0.79%) JWT
6 2 (0.79%) REST
7 1 (0.40%) Django
7 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (0.40%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.40%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 43 (17.06%) Security Posture
2 39 (15.48%) Cloud Native
3 20 (7.94%) PKI
4 18 (7.14%) Management Information System
5 16 (6.35%) CCTV
5 16 (6.35%) Cloud Security Posture
6 10 (3.97%) Operational Technology
7 8 (3.17%) Cyber Threat
8 7 (2.78%) AI Agents
8 7 (2.78%) Blog
8 7 (2.78%) Hedge funds
8 7 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.59%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.59%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.19%) NHS
10 3 (1.19%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.19%) Security Operations Centre
11 2 (0.79%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.35%) Windows
2 8 (3.17%) Linux
3 4 (1.59%) Mac OS
3 4 (1.59%) Unix
4 2 (0.79%) Android
4 2 (0.79%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (47.62%) Cloud Security
2 93 (36.90%) Cybersecurity
3 60 (23.81%) CI/CD
4 59 (23.41%) Security Architecture
5 58 (23.02%) Incident Response
6 56 (22.22%) Information Security
7 55 (21.83%) Infrastructure as Code
8 46 (18.25%) Security Operations
9 40 (15.87%) AI
9 40 (15.87%) SIEM
10 39 (15.48%) Software Engineering
11 36 (14.29%) DevOps
11 36 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
12 35 (13.89%) Zero Trust
13 34 (13.49%) DevSecOps
14 29 (11.51%) Vulnerability Management
15 25 (9.92%) Data Loss Prevention
15 25 (9.92%) Threat Modelling
16 24 (9.52%) Computer Science
17 23 (9.13%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 63 (25.00%) Python
2 34 (13.49%) PowerShell
3 23 (9.13%) Bash
4 15 (5.95%) Go
5 8 (3.17%) Kusto Query Language
6 6 (2.38%) Java
6 6 (2.38%) SQL
7 3 (1.19%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.19%) Scala
8 2 (0.79%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.79%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (0.40%) C
9 1 (0.40%) C#
9 1 (0.40%) C++
9 1 (0.40%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 38 (15.08%) CISSP
2 37 (14.68%) Degree
3 22 (8.73%) Security Cleared
4 21 (8.33%) AWS Certification
5 16 (6.35%) CEH
5 16 (6.35%) Master's Degree
6 13 (5.16%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (4.37%) DV Cleared
7 11 (4.37%) SC Cleared
8 8 (3.17%) DBS Check
9 7 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (2.38%) CISM
11 5 (1.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (1.98%) CCNA
11 5 (1.98%) CCNP
11 5 (1.98%) CompTIA CySA+
11 5 (1.98%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.59%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.59%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (15.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 34 (13.49%) NIST
3 16 (6.35%) SOC 2
4 15 (5.95%) GRC
5 10 (3.97%) PCI DSS
6 8 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 6 (2.38%) Accessibility
7 6 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (2.38%) GDPR
8 3 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (1.19%) QA
9 2 (0.79%) NCSC
10 1 (0.40%) COBIT
10 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 4 (1.59%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.40%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.40%) Docker
2 1 (0.40%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 61 (24.21%) Terraform
2 25 (9.92%) Kubernetes
3 15 (5.95%) Single Sign-On
4 14 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (5.16%) Cilium
6 8 (3.17%) QRadar
7 6 (2.38%) Ansible
8 5 (1.98%) Grafana
8 5 (1.98%) Prometheus
9 4 (1.59%) HP Fortify
9 4 (1.59%) SCCM
10 3 (1.19%) Kibana
11 1 (0.40%) CASB
11 1 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 59 (23.41%) Microsoft
2 27 (10.71%) Palo Alto
3 23 (9.13%) CrowdStrike
4 19 (7.54%) Cisco
5 14 (5.56%) CyberArk
6 13 (5.16%) iManage
7 12 (4.76%) Rapid7
8 11 (4.37%) Qualys
9 10 (3.97%) Oracle
10 8 (3.17%) Google
10 8 (3.17%) Thales
11 7 (2.78%) ServiceNow
11 7 (2.78%) Sophos
11 7 (2.78%) Splunk
12 6 (2.38%) Meraki
13 5 (1.98%) Arista
14 4 (1.59%) Tenable
15 3 (1.19%) CheckPoint
15 3 (1.19%) F5
15 3 (1.19%) Netskope