Senior Security Engineer Jobs in London

Senior Security Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Security Engineer salary in London is £83,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 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
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 374 417 524
Rank change year-on-year +43 +107 +235
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Security Engineer 29 84 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.22% 0.36% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.38% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 24 76 83
10th Percentile £70,000 £58,125 £60,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £68,688 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.69% -5.88% +9.68%
75th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £98,875 £115,000 £103,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -17.24% +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 11,677 22,261 33,396
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.14% 94.13% 95.03%
Number of salaries quoted 7,473 16,753 24,565
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,150 £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%

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 7 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 7 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 +35 5 £82,500 +13.06% 2
Senior Security Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 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 19 (65.52%) Cloud Security
1 19 (65.52%) Azure
2 18 (62.07%) Finance
3 13 (44.83%) AWS
3 13 (44.83%) Cybersecurity
4 11 (37.93%) Information Security
4 11 (37.93%) Security Posture
5 10 (34.48%) Incident Response
6 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
6 8 (27.59%) CI/CD
7 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (24.14%) Network Security
7 7 (24.14%) Data Protection
7 7 (24.14%) SIEM
7 7 (24.14%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (20.69%) GCP
8 6 (20.69%) Agile
8 6 (20.69%) Firewall
8 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
8 6 (20.69%) DevSecOps
8 6 (20.69%) Data Loss Prevention
9 5 (17.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (17.24%) Application Security
9 5 (17.24%) Python
9 5 (17.24%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (17.24%) Risk Management
9 5 (17.24%) CyberArk
9 5 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (17.24%) SailPoint
9 5 (17.24%) Vulnerability Management

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 19 (65.52%) Azure
2 13 (44.83%) AWS
3 6 (20.69%) GCP
4 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (6.90%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (6.90%) Amazon S3
5 2 (6.90%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.90%) Azure AKS
5 2 (6.90%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (6.90%) Serverless
5 2 (6.90%) Snowflake
5 2 (6.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon Macie
6 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.45%) AWS KMS
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (24.14%) Network Security
2 6 (20.69%) Firewall
3 1 (3.45%) DKIM
3 1 (3.45%) DMARC
3 1 (3.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) GIS
General
1 18 (62.07%) Finance
2 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (10.34%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Law
3 3 (10.34%) Legal
3 3 (10.34%) Marketing
3 3 (10.34%) Telecoms
4 2 (6.90%) Banking
5 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) SailPoint
2 2 (6.90%) AngularJS
2 2 (6.90%) React
3 1 (3.45%) .NET
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (3.45%) OAuth
3 1 (3.45%) OAuth2
3 1 (3.45%) REST
3 1 (3.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (37.93%) Security Posture
2 7 (24.14%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (10.34%) Cloud Native
3 3 (10.34%) Cloud Security Posture
3 3 (10.34%) Cybercrime
3 3 (10.34%) PKI
3 3 (10.34%) Virtual Team
4 2 (6.90%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (6.90%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (6.90%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.45%) Cyberattack
5 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (65.52%) Cloud Security
2 13 (44.83%) Cybersecurity
3 11 (37.93%) Information Security
4 10 (34.48%) Incident Response
5 8 (27.59%) CI/CD
6 7 (24.14%) Data Protection
6 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (24.14%) SIEM
7 6 (20.69%) Agile
7 6 (20.69%) Data Loss Prevention
7 6 (20.69%) DevSecOps
8 5 (17.24%) Application Security
8 5 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (17.24%) Risk Management
8 5 (17.24%) Vulnerability Management
9 4 (13.79%) Mentoring
9 4 (13.79%) Roadmaps
9 4 (13.79%) Security Architecture
9 4 (13.79%) Security Operations
10 3 (10.34%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.24%) Python
2 2 (6.90%) Java
2 2 (6.90%) PowerShell
2 2 (6.90%) TypeScript
3 1 (3.45%) Bash
3 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 5 (17.24%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (13.79%) CCSK
2 4 (13.79%) CISSP
2 4 (13.79%) Degree
3 3 (10.34%) AWS Certification
3 3 (10.34%) CCSP
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.45%) CEH
4 1 (3.45%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) PCI DSS
2 3 (10.34%) GDPR
2 3 (10.34%) NIST
3 2 (6.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (3.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Hyper-V
1 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) CASB
1 4 (13.79%) Terraform
2 3 (10.34%) Computer Incident Response Team
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.45%) SCCM
4 1 (3.45%) SCOM
4 1 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.24%) CyberArk
3 4 (13.79%) Splunk
4 3 (10.34%) Symantec
4 3 (10.34%) Zscaler
5 2 (6.90%) Google
5 2 (6.90%) Ping Identity
6 1 (3.45%) Cisco
6 1 (3.45%) Citrix
6 1 (3.45%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (3.45%) Palo Alto
6 1 (3.45%) Qualys
6 1 (3.45%) VMware