Security Engineer Jobs in the Thames Valley

Security Engineer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Security Engineer salary in the Thames Valley is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 184 199
Rank change year-on-year +25 +15 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 11 60 66
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.36% 0.89% 1.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.94% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 10 23 27
10th Percentile - £36,000 £48,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,200 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £45,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -35.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £63,438 £60,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £93,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% -12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 the Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,511 6,377 5,503
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 81.90% 94.70% 89.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,272 4,541 3,210
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £36,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in the Thames Valley

Security Engineer
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Engineer in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Security Engineer in the Thames Valley

Security Engineer
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Engineer within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 3 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
Berkshire +30 8 £50,000 +11.11% 16
Buckinghamshire +8 3 £62,500 +38.89% 10
Security Engineer
South East

Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 3 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 Thames Valley region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (90.91%) Social Skills
2 9 (81.82%) Firewall
3 7 (63.64%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (54.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (54.55%) Azure
4 6 (54.55%) SIEM
4 6 (54.55%) VMware
4 6 (54.55%) Windows
4 6 (54.55%) Cisco
4 6 (54.55%) CISSP
4 6 (54.55%) Customer Service
5 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (45.45%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (45.45%) CCNP
5 5 (45.45%) ITIL
5 5 (45.45%) Retail
5 5 (45.45%) Security Operations
6 4 (36.36%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (36.36%) vCenter Server
6 4 (36.36%) Windows Server
6 4 (36.36%) Change Control
6 4 (36.36%) Degree
6 4 (36.36%) WSUS
6 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
6 4 (36.36%) DNS
6 4 (36.36%) LAN
6 4 (36.36%) WAN
6 4 (36.36%) DHCP
7 3 (27.27%) TCP/IP
7 3 (27.27%) CCNA

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (81.82%) Firewall
2 4 (36.36%) DHCP
2 4 (36.36%) DNS
2 4 (36.36%) LAN
2 4 (36.36%) WAN
3 3 (27.27%) Network Security
3 3 (27.27%) TCP/IP
4 2 (18.18%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (18.18%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (18.18%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (18.18%) VSAN
General
1 10 (90.91%) Social Skills
2 5 (45.45%) Retail
3 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Manufacturing
4 1 (9.09%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Management Information System
2 2 (18.18%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Windows
2 4 (36.36%) Windows Server
3 2 (18.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (54.55%) Customer Service
2 6 (54.55%) SIEM
3 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (45.45%) ITIL
3 5 (45.45%) Security Operations
4 4 (36.36%) Change Control
5 3 (27.27%) Application Security
5 3 (27.27%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
5 3 (27.27%) Incident Management
5 3 (27.27%) Information Security
5 3 (27.27%) Penetration Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Vulnerability Management
6 2 (18.18%) Load Balancing
6 2 (18.18%) Network Monitoring
6 2 (18.18%) Presales
6 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
7 1 (9.09%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) CISSP
2 5 (45.45%) CCNP
2 5 (45.45%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (36.36%) Degree
4 3 (27.27%) CCNA
4 3 (27.27%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (27.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (27.27%) GCIA
4 3 (27.27%) SANS
5 2 (18.18%) CCSE
5 2 (18.18%) CCSM
6 1 (9.09%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
6 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (27.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
2 4 (36.36%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (18.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) vCenter Server
1 4 (36.36%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Cisco
1 6 (54.55%) VMware
2 2 (18.18%) CheckPoint
2 2 (18.18%) Fortinet
2 2 (18.18%) Palo Alto
3 1 (9.09%) AlienVault
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Splunk