Security Engineer Jobs in South London

Security Engineer
London > South London

The median Security Engineer salary in South London is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 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
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 85 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 6 4 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 0.80% 0.46% -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% 0.48% -
Number of salaries quoted 6 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £44,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% - -
75th Percentile £70,313 £46,219 -
90th Percentile £78,125 £46,613 -
London median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £78,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +1.91% +8.28%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in South 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 South London with a recognized job title 593 838 684
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 79.28% 95.34% 94.74%
Number of salaries quoted 168 403 374
10th Percentile £27,338 £27,100 £31,475
25th Percentile £38,000 £38,000 £40,038
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £70,600
90th Percentile £86,250 £83,750 £87,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in South London

Security Engineer
Salary Trend in South London

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

Salary trend for Security Engineer in South London

Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in South London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in South London over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Engineer in South London

Security Engineer
Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 21 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
Merton - 4 £50,000 -
Croydon - 2 £73,750 - 3
Security Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 21 May 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 South London region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Validation
1 4 (66.67%) Time Management
1 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (66.67%) Organisational Skills
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
1 4 (66.67%) Customer Experience
1 4 (66.67%) Customer Service
1 4 (66.67%) CCTV
2 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (33.33%) SonicWALL
2 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 2 (33.33%) Log Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (33.33%) Zero Trust
2 2 (33.33%) SOAR
2 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 2 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (33.33%) NIST
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
2 2 (33.33%) SD-WAN
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity Planning
2 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 2 (33.33%) IaaS
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
1 2 (33.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) NAS
1 2 (33.33%) SAN
1 2 (33.33%) SD-WAN
1 2 (33.33%) VPN
1 2 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 4 (66.67%) Organisational Skills
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) CCTV
2 2 (33.33%) PKI
2 2 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (66.67%) Customer Experience
1 4 (66.67%) Customer Service
1 4 (66.67%) Time Management
1 4 (66.67%) Validation
2 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) BCP
2 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 2 (33.33%) Log Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 2 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) SIEM
2 2 (33.33%) SOAR
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
1 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
1 2 (33.33%) Dell
1 2 (33.33%) EMC
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) Palo Alto
1 2 (33.33%) SonicWALL
1 2 (33.33%) VMware