Security Officer Jobs in London

Security Officer
England > London

The median Security Officer salary in London is £81,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 May 2025.

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

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 394 498 591
Rank change year-on-year +104 +93 +241
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Officer 2 10 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.016% 0.042% 0.064%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.045% 0.067%
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 19
10th Percentile £70,875 £40,700 £50,250
25th Percentile £74,063 £44,625 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £65,000 £83,484
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -22.14% +11.31%
75th Percentile £86,563 £88,750 £110,625
90th Percentile £88,625 £113,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £42,000 £50,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -16.00% -25.93% +12.50%

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 11,514 22,211 32,675
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.11% 94.13% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 7,380 16,662 24,070
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Security Officer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Officer in London

Security Officer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Security Officer in London

Security Officer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Officer in London over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Officer in London

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2025, Security Officer 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 Officer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Data Collection
2 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (50.00%) ISAE 3402
2 1 (50.00%) Internal Audit
2 1 (50.00%) Learning Management System
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Broadband
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (50.00%) French Language
2 1 (50.00%) German Language
2 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Law

Security Officer 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Broadband
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) French Language
1 1 (50.00%) German Language
1 1 (50.00%) Law
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (50.00%) Learning Management System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (50.00%) Data Collection
2 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Internal Audit
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) ISAE 3402
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001