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 4 May 2026.

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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 273 266
Rank change year-on-year +89 -7 +25
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 244 132 259
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.21% 1.04% 1.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.32% 1.15% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 196 105 232
10th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £40,200
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.89%
75th Percentile £93,563 £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% -12.43%

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 18,476 11,505 21,962
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.94% 90.27% 94.10%
Number of salaries quoted 12,487 7,468 16,670
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,084
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 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -11.18%

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 4 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 4 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 +37 58 £75,000 -9.09% 26
West London - 13 £35,000 - 5
East London - 4 £40,000 - 7
Security Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 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.

1 114 (46.72%) Cloud Security
2 99 (40.57%) Azure
3 96 (39.34%) Cybersecurity
4 85 (34.84%) AWS
5 70 (28.69%) Information Security
6 66 (27.05%) Python
7 58 (23.77%) Incident Response
7 58 (23.77%) Security Architecture
8 56 (22.95%) Microsoft
9 52 (21.31%) Infrastructure as Code
10 51 (20.90%) Terraform
11 50 (20.49%) CISSP
12 46 (18.85%) Microsoft 365
13 44 (18.03%) Degree
14 43 (17.62%) AI
14 43 (17.62%) CI/CD
15 37 (15.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
15 37 (15.16%) NIST
16 36 (14.75%) SIEM
17 35 (14.34%) PowerShell
18 33 (13.52%) DevSecOps
18 33 (13.52%) GCP
18 33 (13.52%) Zero Trust
19 32 (13.11%) Computer Science
19 32 (13.11%) DevOps
19 32 (13.11%) Network Security
20 31 (12.70%) Vulnerability Scanning
21 29 (11.89%) Firewall
22 26 (10.66%) Data Loss Prevention
22 26 (10.66%) Security Operations

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 (0.82%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) C-CURE
Cloud Services
1 99 (40.57%) Azure
2 85 (34.84%) AWS
3 46 (18.85%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (13.52%) GCP
5 19 (7.79%) SaaS
6 18 (7.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (6.56%) Entra ID
8 14 (5.74%) GitHub
8 14 (5.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 13 (5.33%) Azure Sentinel
10 12 (4.92%) PaaS
11 11 (4.51%) IaaS
12 9 (3.69%) Microsoft Purview
13 8 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (2.87%) Mimecast
15 4 (1.64%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 4 (1.64%) Azure Service Bus
15 4 (1.64%) OCI
16 3 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
16 3 (1.23%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 32 (13.11%) Network Security
2 29 (11.89%) Firewall
3 10 (4.10%) VPN
4 5 (2.05%) Cisco ISE
4 5 (2.05%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.23%) Wireless
5 3 (1.23%) Wireless Security
6 2 (0.82%) BGP
6 2 (0.82%) BIG-IP
6 2 (0.82%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (0.82%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (0.82%) DNS
6 2 (0.82%) EIGRP
6 2 (0.82%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (0.82%) IPv4
6 2 (0.82%) MPLS
6 2 (0.82%) Multicast
6 2 (0.82%) NX-OS
6 2 (0.82%) OSPF
6 2 (0.82%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.10%) Tableau
2 3 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.82%) Redis
4 1 (0.41%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 21 (8.61%) GitLab
2 8 (3.28%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.41%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.41%) Git
3 1 (0.41%) Selenium
General
1 45 (18.44%) Finance
2 34 (13.93%) Social Skills
3 24 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (7.38%) Legal
5 14 (5.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (4.51%) Banking
6 11 (4.51%) Law
6 11 (4.51%) Retail
6 11 (4.51%) Telecoms
7 9 (3.69%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.87%) Cyber-Physical System
9 2 (0.82%) Advertising
9 2 (0.82%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.41%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.41%) Back Office
10 1 (0.41%) Games
10 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.41%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.69%) OAuth
2 7 (2.87%) REST
2 7 (2.87%) RESTful
3 5 (2.05%) Node.js
4 4 (1.64%) Kafka
4 4 (1.64%) OAuth2
4 4 (1.64%) OpenID
5 3 (1.23%) Android NDK
5 3 (1.23%) eBPF
5 3 (1.23%) JWT
5 3 (1.23%) NestJS
5 3 (1.23%) SAML
5 3 (1.23%) WebSockets
6 2 (0.82%) gRPC
6 2 (0.82%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (0.41%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.41%) Middleware
7 1 (0.41%) Next.js
7 1 (0.41%) Playwright
7 1 (0.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (18.85%) Security Posture
2 27 (11.07%) Management Information System
3 26 (10.66%) Cloud Native
4 21 (8.61%) CCTV
4 21 (8.61%) Hedge funds
5 15 (6.15%) Cloud Security Posture
6 10 (4.10%) Operational Technology
7 8 (3.28%) PKI
8 7 (2.87%) AI Agents
8 7 (2.87%) Blog
8 7 (2.87%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 3 (1.23%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.82%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.82%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.82%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.82%) Security Operations Centre
12 1 (0.41%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.20%) Windows
2 13 (5.33%) Mac OS
3 12 (4.92%) Linux
4 11 (4.51%) Unix
5 7 (2.87%) Android
6 3 (1.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (46.72%) Cloud Security
2 96 (39.34%) Cybersecurity
3 70 (28.69%) Information Security
4 58 (23.77%) Incident Response
4 58 (23.77%) Security Architecture
5 52 (21.31%) Infrastructure as Code
6 43 (17.62%) AI
6 43 (17.62%) CI/CD
7 36 (14.75%) SIEM
8 33 (13.52%) DevSecOps
8 33 (13.52%) Zero Trust
9 32 (13.11%) Computer Science
9 32 (13.11%) DevOps
10 31 (12.70%) Vulnerability Scanning
11 26 (10.66%) Data Loss Prevention
11 26 (10.66%) Security Operations
12 24 (9.84%) Software Engineering
13 22 (9.02%) Continuous Improvement
13 22 (9.02%) Cryptography
13 22 (9.02%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 66 (27.05%) Python
2 35 (14.34%) PowerShell
3 24 (9.84%) Bash
4 13 (5.33%) Go
5 10 (4.10%) SQL
6 7 (2.87%) C++
7 3 (1.23%) Java
7 3 (1.23%) Kotlin
7 3 (1.23%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.82%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.41%) Bicep
9 1 (0.41%) C#
9 1 (0.41%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 50 (20.49%) CISSP
2 44 (18.03%) Degree
3 20 (8.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (7.79%) CEH
5 15 (6.15%) Master's Degree
6 14 (5.74%) Security Cleared
7 12 (4.92%) CISA
8 11 (4.51%) AWS Certification
8 11 (4.51%) CCSK
8 11 (4.51%) CompTIA CySA+
9 9 (3.69%) SC Cleared
10 8 (3.28%) DBS Check
11 6 (2.46%) DV Cleared
12 4 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (1.23%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.82%) CCNP
15 1 (0.41%) ISEB
15 1 (0.41%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 1 (0.41%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (15.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 37 (15.16%) NIST
2 13 (5.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 10 (4.10%) Actionable Recommendations
3 10 (4.10%) GRC
4 8 (3.28%) PCI DSS
4 8 (3.28%) SOC 2
5 6 (2.46%) Accessibility
5 6 (2.46%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.64%) GDPR
7 3 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (1.23%) QA
8 2 (0.82%) COBIT
8 2 (0.82%) NCSC
9 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 6 (2.46%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 51 (20.90%) Terraform
2 18 (7.38%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.28%) Cilium
4 7 (2.87%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (2.87%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (2.05%) QRadar
6 4 (1.64%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.82%) Grafana
7 2 (0.82%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.41%) SCCM
Vendors
1 56 (22.95%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.43%) CrowdStrike
3 21 (8.61%) Google
4 19 (7.79%) Palo Alto
5 18 (7.38%) iManage
6 15 (6.15%) CyberArk
6 15 (6.15%) Rapid7
7 12 (4.92%) Cisco
8 10 (4.10%) Thales
9 7 (2.87%) Qualys
10 5 (2.05%) Meraki
11 4 (1.64%) Oracle
11 4 (1.64%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.64%) Sophos
12 2 (0.82%) Apple
12 2 (0.82%) CheckPoint
12 2 (0.82%) Ericsson
12 2 (0.82%) F5
12 2 (0.82%) Intel
12 2 (0.82%) Nokia