Security Engineer Job Trends in London

Security Engineer
England > London

The median Security Engineer salary in London is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 August 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 256 242
Rank change year-on-year +47 -14 +10
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 254 131 254
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.08% 1.07% 1.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 1.17% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 198 94 201
10th Percentile £40,000 £47,150 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,954 £56,563 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,750 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.54% -5.76% +3.13%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £91,991
90th Percentile £96,625 £103,500 £100,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £59,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year +5.93% -7.09% -9.29%

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 21,903 11,208 18,696
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.92% 91.67% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 15,001 7,273 13,023
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,250
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 £118,750
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 6 August 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 August 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 +14 38 £72,500 -12.12% 33
West London - 17 £35,000 - 8
South London +9 11 £45,000 -10.00% 12
East London -1 9 £82,500 +30.95% 8
Security Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 August 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.

1 113 (44.49%) Cloud Security
2 92 (36.22%) Cybersecurity
3 90 (35.43%) Azure
4 86 (33.86%) AWS
5 59 (23.23%) Microsoft
6 58 (22.83%) CI/CD
6 58 (22.83%) Python
7 57 (22.44%) Incident Response
7 57 (22.44%) Security Architecture
8 56 (22.05%) Terraform
9 51 (20.08%) Information Security
10 50 (19.69%) Infrastructure as Code
11 48 (18.90%) Network Security
12 46 (18.11%) Security Operations
13 41 (16.14%) Software Engineering
14 40 (15.75%) Firewall
14 40 (15.75%) SIEM
15 39 (15.35%) AI
16 37 (14.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
17 36 (14.17%) Microsoft 365
18 35 (13.78%) CISSP
18 35 (13.78%) Degree
18 35 (13.78%) Problem-Solving
19 34 (13.39%) PowerShell
20 33 (12.99%) DevOps
20 33 (12.99%) Zero Trust
21 32 (12.60%) DevSecOps
22 29 (11.42%) Palo Alto
22 29 (11.42%) Vulnerability Management
23 28 (11.02%) NIST

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 (1.18%) Apache
1 3 (1.18%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.18%) Jupyter
1 3 (1.18%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) C-CURE
Cloud Services
1 90 (35.43%) Azure
2 86 (33.86%) AWS
3 36 (14.17%) Microsoft 365
4 24 (9.45%) GCP
4 24 (9.45%) GitHub
5 22 (8.66%) Entra ID
6 17 (6.69%) GitHub Actions
7 16 (6.30%) Azure Sentinel
8 13 (5.12%) Amazon S3
9 12 (4.72%) Microsoft Purview
10 10 (3.94%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 10 (3.94%) OCI
10 10 (3.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 9 (3.54%) Mimecast
12 8 (3.15%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (3.15%) Amazon ELB
12 8 (3.15%) AWS CloudTrail
12 8 (3.15%) Azure Logic Apps
12 8 (3.15%) SaaS
13 7 (2.76%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 48 (18.90%) Network Security
2 40 (15.75%) Firewall
3 20 (7.87%) VPN
4 9 (3.54%) BGP
5 7 (2.76%) Cisco ISE
6 6 (2.36%) OSPF
6 6 (2.36%) VLAN
7 5 (1.97%) DNS
8 4 (1.57%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (1.57%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (1.18%) BIG-IP
9 3 (1.18%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (1.18%) EIGRP
9 3 (1.18%) HTTP
9 3 (1.18%) Internet
9 3 (1.18%) IPv4
9 3 (1.18%) MPLS
9 3 (1.18%) Multicast
9 3 (1.18%) Wireless
9 3 (1.18%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.15%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (1.18%) Airbyte
2 3 (1.18%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (5.51%) GitLab
2 13 (5.12%) TeamCity
3 5 (1.97%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.18%) Git
5 2 (0.79%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.39%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.39%) IDA Disassembler
6 1 (0.39%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.39%) Selenium
General
1 42 (16.54%) Social Skills
2 40 (15.75%) Finance
3 23 (9.06%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (8.27%) Banking
5 20 (7.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (6.69%) Retail
7 13 (5.12%) Law
8 11 (4.33%) Legal
9 7 (2.76%) Cyber-Physical System
10 6 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.97%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.18%) Digital Health
12 3 (1.18%) Digital Healthcare
12 3 (1.18%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.79%) Advertising
13 2 (0.79%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.79%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.39%) Games
14 1 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.54%) eBPF
2 8 (3.15%) OAuth
3 7 (2.76%) Node.js
4 6 (2.36%) OpenID
5 5 (1.97%) SAML
6 3 (1.18%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (1.18%) JWT
6 3 (1.18%) Middleware
6 3 (1.18%) RESTful
7 2 (0.79%) JSON
7 2 (0.79%) OAuth2
7 2 (0.79%) REST
8 1 (0.39%) Django
8 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (0.39%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 39 (15.35%) Cloud Native
2 37 (14.57%) Security Posture
3 22 (8.66%) CCTV
4 20 (7.87%) PKI
5 14 (5.51%) Management Information System
6 13 (5.12%) Cloud Security Posture
7 10 (3.94%) Operational Technology
8 9 (3.54%) Cyber Threat
9 7 (2.76%) AI Agents
9 7 (2.76%) Blog
9 7 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.57%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (1.18%) Hedge funds
12 3 (1.18%) NHS
12 3 (1.18%) Product Ownership
12 3 (1.18%) Security Operations Centre
13 2 (0.79%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.91%) Windows
2 8 (3.15%) Linux
3 2 (0.79%) Android
3 2 (0.79%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.79%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.79%) Unix
4 1 (0.39%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (44.49%) Cloud Security
2 92 (36.22%) Cybersecurity
3 58 (22.83%) CI/CD
4 57 (22.44%) Incident Response
4 57 (22.44%) Security Architecture
5 51 (20.08%) Information Security
6 50 (19.69%) Infrastructure as Code
7 46 (18.11%) Security Operations
8 41 (16.14%) Software Engineering
9 40 (15.75%) SIEM
10 39 (15.35%) AI
11 35 (13.78%) Problem-Solving
12 33 (12.99%) DevOps
12 33 (12.99%) Zero Trust
13 32 (12.60%) DevSecOps
14 29 (11.42%) Vulnerability Management
15 25 (9.84%) Data Loss Prevention
15 25 (9.84%) SDLC
15 25 (9.84%) Threat Modelling
16 23 (9.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 58 (22.83%) Python
2 34 (13.39%) PowerShell
3 21 (8.27%) Bash
4 15 (5.91%) Go
5 9 (3.54%) Kusto Query Language
6 6 (2.36%) Java
7 5 (1.97%) SQL
8 3 (1.18%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.18%) Scala
9 2 (0.79%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.79%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.39%) C
10 1 (0.39%) C#
10 1 (0.39%) C++
10 1 (0.39%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 35 (13.78%) CISSP
1 35 (13.78%) Degree
2 22 (8.66%) Security Cleared
3 21 (8.27%) AWS Certification
4 17 (6.69%) CEH
5 16 (6.30%) Master's Degree
6 14 (5.51%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (4.33%) DV Cleared
7 11 (4.33%) SC Cleared
8 8 (3.15%) DBS Check
9 6 (2.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 6 (2.36%) CISM
9 6 (2.36%) CompTIA Security+
9 6 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.97%) CCNA
10 5 (1.97%) CCNP
10 5 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.57%) Azure Certification
11 4 (1.57%) CCSP
12 3 (1.18%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (14.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (11.02%) NIST
3 16 (6.30%) SOC 2
4 14 (5.51%) GRC
5 10 (3.94%) PCI DSS
6 8 (3.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 7 (2.76%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (2.36%) Accessibility
8 6 (2.36%) GDPR
9 3 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (1.18%) QA
10 2 (0.79%) NCSC
11 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 6 (2.36%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.79%) ProxySG
3 1 (0.39%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.39%) Docker
3 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 56 (22.05%) Terraform
2 25 (9.84%) Kubernetes
3 16 (6.30%) Single Sign-On
4 14 (5.51%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (5.12%) Cilium
6 8 (3.15%) QRadar
7 6 (2.36%) Ansible
8 5 (1.97%) Grafana
8 5 (1.97%) Prometheus
9 4 (1.57%) HP Fortify
9 4 (1.57%) SCCM
10 3 (1.18%) Kibana
11 1 (0.39%) CASB
11 1 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.39%) Nessus
11 1 (0.39%) Nmap
Vendors
1 59 (23.23%) Microsoft
2 29 (11.42%) Palo Alto
3 24 (9.45%) CrowdStrike
4 21 (8.27%) Cisco
5 14 (5.51%) CyberArk
6 13 (5.12%) iManage
6 13 (5.12%) Rapid7
7 11 (4.33%) Qualys
8 10 (3.94%) Oracle
9 8 (3.15%) Thales
10 7 (2.76%) ServiceNow
10 7 (2.76%) Sophos
10 7 (2.76%) Splunk
11 6 (2.36%) Arista
11 6 (2.36%) Meraki
12 5 (1.97%) Tenable
13 4 (1.57%) Google
13 4 (1.57%) Netskope
14 3 (1.18%) CheckPoint
14 3 (1.18%) F5