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 17 August 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 260 250
Rank change year-on-year +55 -10 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 263 132 246
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.10% 1.08% 1.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.18% 1.18% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 210 99 195
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,125 £56,875 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +0.70%
75th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £91,995
90th Percentile £96,250 £98,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 22,201 11,184 18,490
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.88% 91.66% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 15,199 7,280 12,691
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £71,183
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +1.85% -2.49%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £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 17 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 17 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 +21 37 £72,500 -10.77% 15
West London - 18 £35,000 - 6
South London +9 13 £60,000 +20.00% 8
East London +1 10 £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 17 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.

1 108 (41.06%) Cloud Security
2 94 (35.74%) Cybersecurity
3 88 (33.46%) Azure
4 82 (31.18%) AWS
5 62 (23.57%) Microsoft
6 54 (20.53%) CI/CD
7 53 (20.15%) Incident Response
7 53 (20.15%) Python
7 53 (20.15%) Security Architecture
8 52 (19.77%) Terraform
9 50 (19.01%) Infrastructure as Code
10 49 (18.63%) Security Operations
11 47 (17.87%) Information Security
12 44 (16.73%) Network Security
13 41 (15.59%) Firewall
13 41 (15.59%) SIEM
14 40 (15.21%) AI
15 38 (14.45%) Software Engineering
16 37 (14.07%) Microsoft 365
17 36 (13.69%) Degree
18 35 (13.31%) Problem-Solving
19 34 (12.93%) CISSP
19 34 (12.93%) DevSecOps
20 33 (12.55%) PowerShell
21 31 (11.79%) DevOps
21 31 (11.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
21 31 (11.79%) Palo Alto
22 29 (11.03%) Vulnerability Management
23 28 (10.65%) Zero Trust
24 26 (9.89%) CrowdStrike

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 (1.14%) Apache
1 3 (1.14%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.14%) Jupyter
1 3 (1.14%) SAS
2 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) C-CURE
Cloud Services
1 88 (33.46%) Azure
2 82 (31.18%) AWS
3 37 (14.07%) Microsoft 365
4 24 (9.13%) Entra ID
5 20 (7.60%) GCP
5 20 (7.60%) GitHub
6 14 (5.32%) Amazon S3
6 14 (5.32%) Azure Sentinel
6 14 (5.32%) Microsoft Purview
7 13 (4.94%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (4.18%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 11 (4.18%) Mimecast
8 11 (4.18%) OCI
9 10 (3.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 9 (3.42%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (3.42%) Amazon ELB
10 9 (3.42%) AWS CloudTrail
11 8 (3.04%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (2.66%) SaaS
13 6 (2.28%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 44 (16.73%) Network Security
2 41 (15.59%) Firewall
3 22 (8.37%) VPN
4 9 (3.42%) BGP
5 7 (2.66%) Cisco ISE
6 6 (2.28%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (2.28%) DNS
6 6 (2.28%) OSPF
6 6 (2.28%) VLAN
7 3 (1.14%) BIG-IP
7 3 (1.14%) Cisco Firepower
7 3 (1.14%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (1.14%) EIGRP
7 3 (1.14%) HTTP
7 3 (1.14%) Internet
7 3 (1.14%) IPv4
7 3 (1.14%) MPLS
7 3 (1.14%) Multicast
7 3 (1.14%) NX-OS
7 3 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.42%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (1.14%) Airbyte
2 3 (1.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (4.94%) GitLab
2 9 (3.42%) TeamCity
3 6 (2.28%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.52%) Burp Suite
4 4 (1.52%) Git
5 3 (1.14%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.38%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.38%) IDA Disassembler
6 1 (0.38%) Selenium
General
1 43 (16.35%) Social Skills
2 38 (14.45%) Finance
3 23 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (7.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (6.46%) Banking
6 14 (5.32%) Retail
7 13 (4.94%) Law
8 11 (4.18%) Legal
9 7 (2.66%) Cyber-Physical System
10 6 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.28%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.14%) Digital Health
11 3 (1.14%) Digital Healthcare
11 3 (1.14%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.76%) Advertising
12 2 (0.76%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.76%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.42%) eBPF
2 8 (3.04%) OAuth
3 7 (2.66%) Node.js
4 6 (2.28%) OpenID
5 5 (1.90%) SAML
6 3 (1.14%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (1.14%) JWT
6 3 (1.14%) Middleware
6 3 (1.14%) RESTful
7 2 (0.76%) JSON
7 2 (0.76%) OAuth2
7 2 (0.76%) REST
8 1 (0.38%) Django
8 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (0.38%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 37 (14.07%) Cloud Native
2 36 (13.69%) Security Posture
3 29 (11.03%) CCTV
4 16 (6.08%) PKI
5 13 (4.94%) Management Information System
6 12 (4.56%) Cloud Security Posture
7 11 (4.18%) Cyber Threat
8 10 (3.80%) Operational Technology
9 7 (2.66%) AI Agents
9 7 (2.66%) Blog
9 7 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (2.28%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.52%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (1.14%) Driving Licence
12 3 (1.14%) NHS
12 3 (1.14%) Product Ownership
12 3 (1.14%) Security Operations Centre
12 3 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.32%) Windows
2 9 (3.42%) Linux
3 3 (1.14%) Kali Linux
4 2 (0.76%) Android
4 2 (0.76%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.38%) Unix
5 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (41.06%) Cloud Security
2 94 (35.74%) Cybersecurity
3 54 (20.53%) CI/CD
4 53 (20.15%) Incident Response
4 53 (20.15%) Security Architecture
5 50 (19.01%) Infrastructure as Code
6 49 (18.63%) Security Operations
7 47 (17.87%) Information Security
8 41 (15.59%) SIEM
9 40 (15.21%) AI
10 38 (14.45%) Software Engineering
11 35 (13.31%) Problem-Solving
12 34 (12.93%) DevSecOps
13 31 (11.79%) DevOps
14 29 (11.03%) Vulnerability Management
15 28 (10.65%) Zero Trust
16 26 (9.89%) Data Loss Prevention
16 26 (9.89%) SDLC
17 25 (9.51%) Threat Modelling
18 22 (8.37%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 53 (20.15%) Python
2 33 (12.55%) PowerShell
3 21 (7.98%) Bash
4 17 (6.46%) Go
5 9 (3.42%) Kusto Query Language
6 6 (2.28%) Java
7 4 (1.52%) SQL
8 3 (1.14%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.14%) Scala
9 2 (0.76%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.76%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.38%) C
10 1 (0.38%) C#
10 1 (0.38%) C++
10 1 (0.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 36 (13.69%) Degree
2 34 (12.93%) CISSP
3 23 (8.75%) Security Cleared
4 18 (6.84%) AWS Certification
5 17 (6.46%) CEH
5 17 (6.46%) Master's Degree
6 14 (5.32%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (4.56%) DV Cleared
8 11 (4.18%) SC Cleared
9 8 (3.04%) DBS Check
9 8 (3.04%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (2.66%) CISM
11 6 (2.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (2.28%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (1.90%) CCNA
12 5 (1.90%) CCNP
12 5 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (1.52%) Azure Certification
13 4 (1.52%) CCSP
14 3 (1.14%) City & Guilds
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (11.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (9.89%) NIST
3 12 (4.56%) SOC 2
4 10 (3.80%) GRC
5 8 (3.04%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 7 (2.66%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (2.66%) PCI DSS
7 6 (2.28%) Accessibility
7 6 (2.28%) GDPR
8 3 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (1.14%) QA
9 2 (0.76%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (2.66%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.76%) ProxySG
3 1 (0.38%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.38%) Docker
3 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 52 (19.77%) Terraform
2 23 (8.75%) Kubernetes
3 19 (7.22%) Single Sign-On
4 15 (5.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (3.42%) Cilium
6 8 (3.04%) QRadar
7 6 (2.28%) Ansible
7 6 (2.28%) Grafana
7 6 (2.28%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.52%) SCCM
9 3 (1.14%) Kibana
9 3 (1.14%) Nessus
9 3 (1.14%) Nmap
10 1 (0.38%) Argo
10 1 (0.38%) CASB
10 1 (0.38%) Istio
10 1 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.38%) linkerd
Vendors
1 62 (23.57%) Microsoft
2 31 (11.79%) Palo Alto
3 26 (9.89%) CrowdStrike
4 22 (8.37%) Cisco
5 15 (5.70%) Rapid7
6 14 (5.32%) CyberArk
7 13 (4.94%) iManage
8 11 (4.18%) Oracle
8 11 (4.18%) Qualys
9 8 (3.04%) Thales
10 7 (2.66%) ServiceNow
10 7 (2.66%) Sophos
10 7 (2.66%) Splunk
10 7 (2.66%) Tenable
11 6 (2.28%) Arista
11 6 (2.28%) Meraki
12 4 (1.52%) Netskope
13 3 (1.14%) Google
13 3 (1.14%) Okta
13 3 (1.14%) Zscaler