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 14 August 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 263 248
Rank change year-on-year +60 -15 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 258 133 245
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.08% 1.10% 1.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.17% 1.20% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 206 98 193
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,000 £56,563 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +3.13%
75th Percentile £88,438 £90,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £98,250 £100,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -10.71%

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 22,103 11,121 18,593
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.84% 91.64% 95.10%
Number of salaries quoted 15,100 7,223 12,816
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,824 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,528
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +2.80% -3.39%
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 14 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 14 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 +20 37 £72,500 -10.77% 29
West London - 18 £35,000 - 10
South London +10 12 £52,500 +5.00% 9
East London -2 9 £82,500 +30.95% 7
Security Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 (41.86%) Cloud Security
2 92 (35.66%) Cybersecurity
3 87 (33.72%) Azure
4 82 (31.78%) AWS
5 59 (22.87%) Microsoft
6 54 (20.93%) CI/CD
6 54 (20.93%) Security Architecture
7 53 (20.54%) Incident Response
7 53 (20.54%) Python
8 52 (20.16%) Terraform
9 50 (19.38%) Infrastructure as Code
10 48 (18.60%) Security Operations
11 46 (17.83%) Information Security
12 44 (17.05%) Network Security
13 41 (15.89%) SIEM
14 40 (15.50%) Firewall
15 38 (14.73%) AI
16 37 (14.34%) Software Engineering
17 35 (13.57%) Degree
17 35 (13.57%) Microsoft 365
18 34 (13.18%) CISSP
18 34 (13.18%) Problem-Solving
19 33 (12.79%) DevSecOps
19 33 (12.79%) PowerShell
20 32 (12.40%) DevOps
21 31 (12.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
21 31 (12.02%) Palo Alto
22 29 (11.24%) Vulnerability Management
22 29 (11.24%) Zero Trust
23 27 (10.47%) 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 (1.16%) Apache
1 3 (1.16%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.16%) Jupyter
1 3 (1.16%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) C-CURE
Cloud Services
1 87 (33.72%) Azure
2 82 (31.78%) AWS
3 35 (13.57%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (8.91%) Entra ID
5 20 (7.75%) GCP
5 20 (7.75%) GitHub
6 14 (5.43%) Azure Sentinel
6 14 (5.43%) Microsoft Purview
7 13 (5.04%) Amazon S3
7 13 (5.04%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (4.26%) Mimecast
9 10 (3.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 10 (3.88%) OCI
10 9 (3.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 8 (3.10%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (3.10%) Amazon ELB
11 8 (3.10%) AWS CloudTrail
11 8 (3.10%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (2.71%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (2.71%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (17.05%) Network Security
2 40 (15.50%) Firewall
3 21 (8.14%) VPN
4 9 (3.49%) BGP
5 7 (2.71%) Cisco ISE
6 6 (2.33%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (2.33%) DNS
6 6 (2.33%) OSPF
6 6 (2.33%) VLAN
7 3 (1.16%) BIG-IP
7 3 (1.16%) Cisco Firepower
7 3 (1.16%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (1.16%) EIGRP
7 3 (1.16%) HTTP
7 3 (1.16%) Internet
7 3 (1.16%) IPv4
7 3 (1.16%) MPLS
7 3 (1.16%) Multicast
7 3 (1.16%) NX-OS
7 3 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.10%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (1.16%) Airbyte
2 3 (1.16%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (5.43%) GitLab
2 9 (3.49%) TeamCity
3 5 (1.94%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.55%) Burp Suite
5 3 (1.16%) Git
5 3 (1.16%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.39%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.39%) IDA Disassembler
6 1 (0.39%) Selenium
General
1 42 (16.28%) Social Skills
2 38 (14.73%) Finance
3 22 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (7.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 17 (6.59%) Banking
6 13 (5.04%) Law
6 13 (5.04%) Retail
7 10 (3.88%) Legal
8 7 (2.71%) Cyber-Physical System
9 6 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.33%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.16%) Digital Health
10 3 (1.16%) Digital Healthcare
10 3 (1.16%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.78%) Advertising
11 2 (0.78%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.78%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.49%) eBPF
2 8 (3.10%) OAuth
3 7 (2.71%) Node.js
4 6 (2.33%) OpenID
5 5 (1.94%) SAML
6 3 (1.16%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (1.16%) JWT
6 3 (1.16%) Middleware
6 3 (1.16%) RESTful
7 2 (0.78%) JSON
7 2 (0.78%) OAuth2
7 2 (0.78%) REST
8 1 (0.39%) Django
8 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (0.39%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 36 (13.95%) Cloud Native
1 36 (13.95%) Security Posture
2 27 (10.47%) CCTV
3 16 (6.20%) PKI
4 13 (5.04%) Cloud Security Posture
4 13 (5.04%) Management Information System
5 11 (4.26%) Cyber Threat
6 10 (3.88%) Operational Technology
7 7 (2.71%) AI Agents
7 7 (2.71%) Blog
7 7 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.55%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.16%) Driving Licence
10 3 (1.16%) NHS
10 3 (1.16%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.16%) Security Operations Centre
10 3 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.43%) Windows
2 9 (3.49%) Linux
3 3 (1.16%) Kali Linux
4 2 (0.78%) Android
4 2 (0.78%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.39%) Unix
5 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (41.86%) Cloud Security
2 92 (35.66%) Cybersecurity
3 54 (20.93%) CI/CD
3 54 (20.93%) Security Architecture
4 53 (20.54%) Incident Response
5 50 (19.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 48 (18.60%) Security Operations
7 46 (17.83%) Information Security
8 41 (15.89%) SIEM
9 38 (14.73%) AI
10 37 (14.34%) Software Engineering
11 34 (13.18%) Problem-Solving
12 33 (12.79%) DevSecOps
13 32 (12.40%) DevOps
14 29 (11.24%) Vulnerability Management
14 29 (11.24%) Zero Trust
15 26 (10.08%) Data Loss Prevention
16 25 (9.69%) SDLC
16 25 (9.69%) Threat Modelling
17 22 (8.53%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 53 (20.54%) Python
2 33 (12.79%) PowerShell
3 21 (8.14%) Bash
4 16 (6.20%) Go
5 9 (3.49%) Kusto Query Language
6 6 (2.33%) Java
7 4 (1.55%) SQL
8 3 (1.16%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.16%) Scala
9 2 (0.78%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.78%) 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 (13.57%) Degree
2 34 (13.18%) CISSP
3 23 (8.91%) Security Cleared
4 17 (6.59%) AWS Certification
4 17 (6.59%) CEH
5 16 (6.20%) Master's Degree
6 14 (5.43%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (4.65%) DV Cleared
8 11 (4.26%) SC Cleared
9 8 (3.10%) DBS Check
9 8 (3.10%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (2.71%) CISM
11 6 (2.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (2.33%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (1.94%) CCNA
12 5 (1.94%) CCNP
12 5 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (1.55%) Azure Certification
13 4 (1.55%) CCSP
14 3 (1.16%) City & Guilds
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (12.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (10.47%) NIST
3 12 (4.65%) SOC 2
4 10 (3.88%) GRC
5 8 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 7 (2.71%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (2.33%) Accessibility
7 6 (2.33%) GDPR
7 6 (2.33%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (1.16%) QA
9 2 (0.78%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (2.71%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.78%) 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 52 (20.16%) Terraform
2 22 (8.53%) Kubernetes
3 18 (6.98%) Single Sign-On
4 14 (5.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (3.49%) Cilium
6 8 (3.10%) QRadar
7 6 (2.33%) Ansible
7 6 (2.33%) Grafana
7 6 (2.33%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.55%) SCCM
9 3 (1.16%) Kibana
9 3 (1.16%) Nessus
9 3 (1.16%) Nmap
10 1 (0.39%) Argo
10 1 (0.39%) CASB
10 1 (0.39%) Istio
10 1 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.39%) linkerd
Vendors
1 59 (22.87%) Microsoft
2 31 (12.02%) Palo Alto
3 26 (10.08%) CrowdStrike
4 22 (8.53%) Cisco
5 15 (5.81%) Rapid7
6 14 (5.43%) CyberArk
7 13 (5.04%) iManage
8 11 (4.26%) Qualys
9 10 (3.88%) Oracle
10 8 (3.10%) Thales
11 7 (2.71%) ServiceNow
11 7 (2.71%) Sophos
11 7 (2.71%) Splunk
11 7 (2.71%) Tenable
12 6 (2.33%) Arista
13 5 (1.94%) Meraki
14 4 (1.55%) Netskope
15 3 (1.16%) F5
15 3 (1.16%) Okta
15 3 (1.16%) Zscaler