Security Engineer Job Trends in London

Security Engineer
England > London

The median Security Engineer salary in London is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 July 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 264 248
Rank change year-on-year +60 -16 +40
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 250 136 274
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.12% 1.09% 1.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.21% 1.19% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 195 103 220
10th Percentile £40,000 £47,100 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £61,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% - -
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,625 £91,250
90th Percentile £99,000 £100,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £59,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year +5.93% -6.02% -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 20,699 11,394 21,274
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 91.55% 94.40%
Number of salaries quoted 14,260 7,394 15,472
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £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 £94,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -10.00%

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 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 17 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 +19 44 £73,750 -13.24% 15
West London - 17 £35,000 - 7
East London +4 7 £82,500 +30.95% 5
South London +8 6 £52,500 +5.00% 10
Security Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 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.

1 122 (48.80%) Cloud Security
2 98 (39.20%) Azure
3 93 (37.20%) Cybersecurity
4 89 (35.60%) AWS
5 65 (26.00%) Python
6 62 (24.80%) Terraform
7 61 (24.40%) CI/CD
8 60 (24.00%) Microsoft
9 59 (23.60%) Incident Response
10 58 (23.20%) Security Architecture
11 56 (22.40%) Infrastructure as Code
12 55 (22.00%) Information Security
13 46 (18.40%) Network Security
13 46 (18.40%) Security Operations
14 42 (16.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
15 40 (16.00%) AI
15 40 (16.00%) Firewall
15 40 (16.00%) SIEM
16 39 (15.60%) Microsoft 365
17 38 (15.20%) Software Engineering
18 37 (14.80%) CISSP
18 37 (14.80%) DevOps
19 36 (14.40%) Degree
19 36 (14.40%) NIST
20 35 (14.00%) PowerShell
20 35 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
20 35 (14.00%) Zero Trust
21 34 (13.60%) DevSecOps
22 30 (12.00%) Vulnerability Management
23 27 (10.80%) 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 (1.20%) Apache
1 3 (1.20%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.20%) Jupyter
1 3 (1.20%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) C-CURE
Cloud Services
1 98 (39.20%) Azure
2 89 (35.60%) AWS
3 39 (15.60%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (10.80%) GCP
5 24 (9.60%) GitHub
6 22 (8.80%) Entra ID
7 20 (8.00%) Azure Sentinel
8 17 (6.80%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (5.20%) Microsoft Purview
10 12 (4.80%) Amazon S3
11 11 (4.40%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (4.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 9 (3.60%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 9 (3.60%) OCI
13 8 (3.20%) Azure Logic Apps
13 8 (3.20%) Mimecast
13 8 (3.20%) SaaS
14 7 (2.80%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (2.80%) Amazon ELB
14 7 (2.80%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 46 (18.40%) Network Security
2 40 (16.00%) Firewall
3 19 (7.60%) VPN
4 9 (3.60%) BGP
5 7 (2.80%) Cisco ISE
6 6 (2.40%) OSPF
6 6 (2.40%) VLAN
7 4 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (1.20%) BIG-IP
8 3 (1.20%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (1.20%) Cisco Firepower
8 3 (1.20%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (1.20%) EIGRP
8 3 (1.20%) IPv4
8 3 (1.20%) MPLS
8 3 (1.20%) Multicast
8 3 (1.20%) NX-OS
8 3 (1.20%) Wireless
8 3 (1.20%) Wireless Security
9 2 (0.80%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (1.20%) Airbyte
2 3 (1.20%) NoSQL
2 3 (1.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (7.20%) GitLab
2 13 (5.20%) TeamCity
3 4 (1.60%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.80%) 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 (17.20%) Social Skills
2 42 (16.80%) Finance
3 24 (9.60%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (7.60%) Banking
6 17 (6.80%) Retail
7 13 (5.20%) Law
8 11 (4.40%) Legal
9 7 (2.80%) Cyber-Physical System
10 6 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (2.00%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.20%) Digital Health
12 3 (1.20%) Digital Healthcare
13 2 (0.80%) Advertising
13 2 (0.80%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.40%) Games
14 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.60%) eBPF
2 7 (2.80%) Node.js
3 6 (2.40%) OAuth
4 4 (1.60%) OpenID
5 3 (1.20%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (1.20%) Middleware
5 3 (1.20%) RESTful
5 3 (1.20%) SAML
6 2 (0.80%) JSON
6 2 (0.80%) REST
7 1 (0.40%) Django
7 1 (0.40%) JWT
7 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (0.40%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 45 (18.00%) Security Posture
2 39 (15.60%) Cloud Native
3 20 (8.00%) PKI
4 18 (7.20%) Management Information System
5 17 (6.80%) Cloud Security Posture
6 14 (5.60%) CCTV
7 10 (4.00%) Operational Technology
8 8 (3.20%) Cyber Threat
9 7 (2.80%) AI Agents
9 7 (2.80%) Blog
9 7 (2.80%) Hedge funds
9 7 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.60%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (1.20%) NHS
12 3 (1.20%) Product Ownership
12 3 (1.20%) Security Operations Centre
13 2 (0.80%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.40%) Windows
2 8 (3.20%) Linux
3 4 (1.60%) Mac OS
3 4 (1.60%) Unix
4 2 (0.80%) Android
4 2 (0.80%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (48.80%) Cloud Security
2 93 (37.20%) Cybersecurity
3 61 (24.40%) CI/CD
4 59 (23.60%) Incident Response
5 58 (23.20%) Security Architecture
6 56 (22.40%) Infrastructure as Code
7 55 (22.00%) Information Security
8 46 (18.40%) Security Operations
9 40 (16.00%) AI
9 40 (16.00%) SIEM
10 38 (15.20%) Software Engineering
11 37 (14.80%) DevOps
12 35 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
12 35 (14.00%) Zero Trust
13 34 (13.60%) DevSecOps
14 30 (12.00%) Vulnerability Management
15 26 (10.40%) Vulnerability Scanning
16 25 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
16 25 (10.00%) Data Loss Prevention
16 25 (10.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 65 (26.00%) Python
2 35 (14.00%) PowerShell
3 23 (9.20%) Bash
4 15 (6.00%) Go
5 8 (3.20%) Kusto Query Language
6 6 (2.40%) Java
6 6 (2.40%) SQL
7 3 (1.20%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.20%) Scala
8 2 (0.80%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.80%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (0.40%) Bicep
9 1 (0.40%) C
9 1 (0.40%) C#
9 1 (0.40%) C++
9 1 (0.40%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 37 (14.80%) CISSP
2 36 (14.40%) Degree
3 21 (8.40%) Security Cleared
4 20 (8.00%) AWS Certification
5 16 (6.40%) CEH
6 15 (6.00%) Master's Degree
7 12 (4.80%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (4.40%) DV Cleared
9 10 (4.00%) SC Cleared
10 8 (3.20%) DBS Check
11 7 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (2.40%) CISM
13 5 (2.00%) CCNA
13 5 (2.00%) CCNP
13 5 (2.00%) CompTIA CySA+
13 5 (2.00%) CompTIA Security+
13 5 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (1.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 4 (1.60%) Azure Certification
14 4 (1.60%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (16.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 36 (14.40%) NIST
3 16 (6.40%) SOC 2
4 15 (6.00%) GRC
5 10 (4.00%) PCI DSS
6 8 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 7 (2.80%) Accessibility
8 6 (2.40%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (2.40%) GDPR
9 3 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (1.20%) QA
10 2 (0.80%) COBIT
10 2 (0.80%) NCSC
11 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 5 (2.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.40%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 62 (24.80%) Terraform
2 25 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 15 (6.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (5.60%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (5.20%) Cilium
6 8 (3.20%) QRadar
7 6 (2.40%) Ansible
8 5 (2.00%) Grafana
8 5 (2.00%) Prometheus
9 4 (1.60%) HP Fortify
9 4 (1.60%) SCCM
10 3 (1.20%) Kibana
11 1 (0.40%) CASB
11 1 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 60 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 26 (10.40%) Palo Alto
3 23 (9.20%) CrowdStrike
4 18 (7.20%) Cisco
5 14 (5.60%) CyberArk
6 13 (5.20%) iManage
7 12 (4.80%) Qualys
7 12 (4.80%) Rapid7
8 9 (3.60%) Oracle
9 8 (3.20%) Google
9 8 (3.20%) Thales
10 7 (2.80%) ServiceNow
10 7 (2.80%) Sophos
10 7 (2.80%) Splunk
11 6 (2.40%) Meraki
12 5 (2.00%) Tenable
13 4 (1.60%) Arista
14 3 (1.20%) CheckPoint
14 3 (1.20%) F5
15 2 (0.80%) Intel