Security Engineer Jobs 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 11 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 285 260 317
Rank change year-on-year -25 +57 +140
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 122 285 317
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.95% 1.16% 1.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.04% 1.23% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 93 245 263
10th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +3.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 11,676 23,256 29,807
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.70% 94.46% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 6,955 17,131 22,409
10th Percentile £40,200 £37,500 £41,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £54,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £98,750 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,300
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.94% +0.50%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Security Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in London

Security Engineer
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Engineer in London.

Salary trend for Security Engineer in London

Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in London over the 6 months to 11 June 2025.

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 11 June 2025. 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 +3 19 £85,000 +6.25% 29
South London +12 7 £50,000 +13.64% 4
East London - 1 £63,000 - 7
Security Engineer
England

Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 11 June 2025, Security Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 60 (49.18%) Cybersecurity
2 58 (47.54%) Azure
3 37 (30.33%) Cloud Security
4 36 (29.51%) Microsoft
5 34 (27.87%) Python
6 33 (27.05%) Information Security
7 32 (26.23%) PowerShell
8 30 (24.59%) AWS
8 30 (24.59%) Finance
9 29 (23.77%) Vulnerability Management
9 29 (23.77%) NIST
10 27 (22.13%) Social Skills
11 26 (21.31%) CI/CD
12 25 (20.49%) Incident Response
12 25 (20.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 24 (19.67%) Firewall
13 24 (19.67%) SIEM
13 24 (19.67%) DevSecOps
14 21 (17.21%) Degree
14 21 (17.21%) Law
15 20 (16.39%) Windows
15 20 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
16 19 (15.57%) Security Operations
16 19 (15.57%) Security Architecture
17 18 (14.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 18 (14.75%) Application Security
18 17 (13.93%) Data Protection
18 17 (13.93%) DevOps
18 17 (13.93%) Microsoft 365
18 17 (13.93%) Entra ID

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (4.92%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (4.92%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.82%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.82%) C-CURE
Cloud Services
1 58 (47.54%) Azure
2 30 (24.59%) AWS
3 17 (13.93%) Entra ID
3 17 (13.93%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (9.84%) GCP
5 9 (7.38%) PaaS
6 7 (5.74%) Microsoft Purview
7 5 (4.10%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (4.10%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (4.10%) GitHub
8 4 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (3.28%) OneDrive
9 3 (2.46%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 3 (2.46%) AWS CloudTrail
9 3 (2.46%) IaaS
9 3 (2.46%) IBM Cloud
9 3 (2.46%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.46%) Serverless
10 2 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 24 (19.67%) Firewall
2 11 (9.02%) DNS
2 11 (9.02%) Network Security
3 9 (7.38%) TCP/IP
4 6 (4.92%) HTTP
4 6 (4.92%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (4.92%) SMTP
5 5 (4.10%) Wireless
6 4 (3.28%) DHCP
7 3 (2.46%) VPN
8 2 (1.64%) NAS
8 2 (1.64%) SAN
8 2 (1.64%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.64%) WAN
9 1 (0.82%) 4G
9 1 (0.82%) DKIM
9 1 (0.82%) DMARC
9 1 (0.82%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.82%) SSL
9 1 (0.82%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.64%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.82%) Big Data
2 1 (0.82%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (4.92%) Git
2 2 (1.64%) JIRA
3 1 (0.82%) GitLab
General
1 30 (24.59%) Finance
2 27 (22.13%) Social Skills
3 21 (17.21%) Law
4 16 (13.11%) Banking
5 10 (8.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (7.38%) Telecoms
7 7 (5.74%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (4.92%) Legal
8 6 (4.92%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (4.92%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (3.28%) Marketing
10 3 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.64%) Games
11 2 (1.64%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.82%) Electronics
12 1 (0.82%) Mandarin Language
12 1 (0.82%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.92%) YAML
2 5 (4.10%) GraphQL
2 5 (4.10%) REST
2 5 (4.10%) SLSA
3 4 (3.28%) SailPoint
4 3 (2.46%) Middleware
5 2 (1.64%) .NET
5 2 (1.64%) Kafka
6 1 (0.82%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.82%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.82%) JSON
6 1 (0.82%) LDAP
6 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.82%) OAuth
6 1 (0.82%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.82%) React
6 1 (0.82%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.30%) Security Posture
2 12 (9.84%) CCTV
2 12 (9.84%) Greenfield Project
2 12 (9.84%) Management Information System
3 11 (9.02%) Cyber Threat
4 8 (6.56%) Cloud Native
5 6 (4.92%) Public Cloud
6 5 (4.10%) Blog
6 5 (4.10%) PKI
7 4 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (3.28%) Mobile App
8 3 (2.46%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.46%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (2.46%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (2.46%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.46%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.64%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (1.64%) Cyberattack
9 2 (1.64%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 20 (16.39%) Windows
2 10 (8.20%) Windows Server
3 9 (7.38%) Linux
4 3 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.46%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.64%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.82%) VMS
6 1 (0.82%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.82%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (49.18%) Cybersecurity
2 37 (30.33%) Cloud Security
3 33 (27.05%) Information Security
4 29 (23.77%) Vulnerability Management
5 26 (21.31%) CI/CD
6 25 (20.49%) Incident Response
7 24 (19.67%) DevSecOps
7 24 (19.67%) SIEM
8 20 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (15.57%) Security Architecture
9 19 (15.57%) Security Operations
10 18 (14.75%) Application Security
10 18 (14.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 17 (13.93%) Data Protection
11 17 (13.93%) DevOps
12 16 (13.11%) Disaster Recovery
12 16 (13.11%) Task Automation
13 14 (11.48%) Penetration Testing
13 14 (11.48%) Threat Modelling
13 14 (11.48%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 34 (27.87%) Python
2 32 (26.23%) PowerShell
3 8 (6.56%) Java
3 8 (6.56%) Perl
4 7 (5.74%) Bash
4 7 (5.74%) Go
5 2 (1.64%) Bicep
6 1 (0.82%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.82%) SQL
6 1 (0.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (17.21%) Degree
2 8 (6.56%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (6.56%) CISSP
3 7 (5.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 6 (4.92%) CCSP
4 6 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.10%) AWS Certification
5 5 (4.10%) CCSK
5 5 (4.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.28%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.46%) CISM
7 3 (2.46%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.64%) CCNA
8 2 (1.64%) CEH
8 2 (1.64%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.64%) GSEC
8 2 (1.64%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.64%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.82%) GCED
9 1 (0.82%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (23.77%) NIST
2 25 (20.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (9.02%) GDPR
4 7 (5.74%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (5.74%) PCI DSS
5 6 (4.92%) Accessibility
6 4 (3.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (3.28%) NCSC
7 3 (2.46%) SOC 2
8 2 (1.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.82%) GRC
9 1 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (5.74%) VMware ESXi
2 6 (4.92%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.28%) Hyper-V
3 4 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.28%) vSphere
4 3 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.64%) Firmware
5 2 (1.64%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.82%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 16 (13.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (7.38%) Terraform
3 6 (4.92%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.92%) SCCM
4 5 (4.10%) Ansible
4 5 (4.10%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (3.28%) Nessus
6 3 (2.46%) CASB
7 2 (1.64%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (1.64%) Mesos
8 1 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.82%) Grafana
8 1 (0.82%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.82%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.82%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.82%) WMI
Vendors
1 36 (29.51%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.48%) VMware
3 9 (7.38%) Google
4 7 (5.74%) Cisco
5 6 (4.92%) CrowdStrike
5 6 (4.92%) Okta
5 6 (4.92%) ServiceNow
6 5 (4.10%) Splunk
7 4 (3.28%) CyberArk
7 4 (3.28%) Extreme Networks
8 3 (2.46%) Dell
8 3 (2.46%) IBM
8 3 (2.46%) Palo Alto
8 3 (2.46%) Symantec
8 3 (2.46%) Zscaler
9 2 (1.64%) Darktrace
9 2 (1.64%) EMC
9 2 (1.64%) Meraki
9 2 (1.64%) SonicWALL
9 2 (1.64%) Sophos