Senior Security Engineer Jobs in London

Senior Security Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Security Engineer salary in London is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 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
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 376 421 539
Rank change year-on-year +45 +118 +215
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Security Engineer 25 84 93
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.19% 0.36% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.38% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 20 76 80
10th Percentile £69,875 £58,125 £60,000
25th Percentile £73,750 £68,688 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,625 £100,000
90th Percentile £96,625 £115,000 £103,875
England median annual salary £55,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -24.14% +3.57% -6.67%

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 11,643 22,208 32,345
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.22% 94.16% 95.13%
Number of salaries quoted 7,236 16,616 23,854
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £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 £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

Senior Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Security Engineer in London

Senior Security Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Senior Security Engineer in London

Senior Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Security Engineer in London over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Security Engineer in London

Senior 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 Senior Security Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 15 May 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 +26 5 £82,500 +13.06% 3
Senior Security Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Security Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (64.00%) Cloud Security
2 15 (60.00%) Azure
3 14 (56.00%) Finance
4 11 (44.00%) Information Security
5 10 (40.00%) AWS
5 10 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (36.00%) Incident Response
7 8 (32.00%) Security Posture
8 7 (28.00%) CI/CD
9 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
9 6 (24.00%) Data Protection
9 6 (24.00%) Agile
10 5 (20.00%) Network Security
10 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
10 5 (20.00%) Firewall
10 5 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (20.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (20.00%) DevSecOps
10 5 (20.00%) CyberArk
10 5 (20.00%) SIEM
10 5 (20.00%) SailPoint
10 5 (20.00%) GCP
10 5 (20.00%) Application Security
11 4 (16.00%) Roadmaps
11 4 (16.00%) CCSK
11 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 4 (16.00%) Data Loss Prevention

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 15 (60.00%) Azure
2 10 (40.00%) AWS
3 5 (20.00%) GCP
4 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon S3
5 2 (8.00%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (8.00%) Azure AKS
5 2 (8.00%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (8.00%) Serverless
5 2 (8.00%) Snowflake
5 2 (8.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon Macie
6 1 (4.00%) AWS KMS
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.00%) Firewall
1 5 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (4.00%) DKIM
2 1 (4.00%) DMARC
2 1 (4.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) GIS
General
1 14 (56.00%) Finance
2 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (12.00%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Law
3 3 (12.00%) Legal
3 3 (12.00%) Marketing
3 3 (12.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.00%) SailPoint
2 2 (8.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (8.00%) React
3 1 (4.00%) .NET
3 1 (4.00%) OAuth
3 1 (4.00%) OAuth2
3 1 (4.00%) REST
3 1 (4.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (32.00%) Security Posture
2 5 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (12.00%) Cloud Security Posture
3 3 (12.00%) Cybercrime
3 3 (12.00%) PKI
3 3 (12.00%) Virtual Team
4 2 (8.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (8.00%) Public Cloud
5 1 (4.00%) Cyberattack
5 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (64.00%) Cloud Security
2 11 (44.00%) Information Security
3 10 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (36.00%) Incident Response
5 7 (28.00%) CI/CD
6 6 (24.00%) Agile
6 6 (24.00%) Data Protection
7 5 (20.00%) Application Security
7 5 (20.00%) DevSecOps
7 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (20.00%) SIEM
8 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (16.00%) Data Loss Prevention
8 4 (16.00%) Risk Management
8 4 (16.00%) Roadmaps
9 3 (12.00%) Data Security
9 3 (12.00%) ITIL
9 3 (12.00%) ITSM
9 3 (12.00%) Security Architecture
9 3 (12.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.00%) Python
2 2 (8.00%) Java
2 2 (8.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 5 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (16.00%) CCSK
2 4 (16.00%) CISSP
2 4 (16.00%) Degree
3 3 (12.00%) AWS Certification
3 3 (12.00%) CCSP
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.00%) CEH
4 1 (4.00%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (8.00%) GDPR
2 2 (8.00%) NIST
3 1 (4.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) CASB
1 3 (12.00%) Computer Incident Response Team
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (12.00%) Terraform
2 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) CyberArk
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) Symantec
2 3 (12.00%) Zscaler
3 2 (8.00%) Ping Identity
3 2 (8.00%) Splunk
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco
4 1 (4.00%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (4.00%) Google
4 1 (4.00%) Palo Alto