Senior Security Engineer Job Trends in Portsmouth

Senior Security Engineer
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The median Senior Security Engineer salary in Portsmouth is £78,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 November 2025.

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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Security Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Portsmouth 0.26% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,500 - -
Hampshire median annual salary £78,500 £69,500 -
% change year-on-year +12.95% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Portsmouth

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Portsmouth. 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 Portsmouth with a recognized job title 356 464 187
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.93% 96.27% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 163 328 146
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,350 £29,875
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,545 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £60,000 £65,938
90th Percentile £82,000 £72,500 £78,125
Hampshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

Senior Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Security Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth.

Senior Security Engineer job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

Senior Security Engineer
Salary Trend in Portsmouth

Salary distribution trend for Senior Security Engineer job vacancies in Portsmouth.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Security Engineer job vacancies in Portsmouth

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

For the 6 months to 7 November 2025, Senior 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 Portsmouth region featuring Senior Security Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) Client Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection

Senior Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Cortex
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Client Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk