Senior Security Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Security Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Security Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 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
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 486 708 701
Rank change year-on-year +222 -7 +34
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Security Engineer 89 50 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.071% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.074% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 37 44 53
10th Percentile £43,512 - £46,298
25th Percentile - £56,219 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,783 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.40% -3.41% -10.34%
75th Percentile - £67,968 £76,316
90th Percentile £63,750 £80,500 £97,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -17.24% +3.57% -6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,016 67,223 53,634
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.55% 94.80% 89.17%
Number of salaries quoted 18,742 47,591 30,483
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,906 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,225 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

Senior Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Security Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Senior Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Security Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Security Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Midlands +104 45 £50,000 -56.52% 6
West Midlands +86 29 £50,000 -56.52% 4
North of England +48 25 £55,000 -12.40% 4
North West +24 25 £55,000 -12.40% 2
East Midlands +59 16 - - 2
South East +102 14 £62,500 +4.17% 23
East of England +40 4 £42,085 - 1
South West +111 1 £77,500 +30.20% 3
Senior Security Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Security Engineer in the job title.

1 76 (85.39%) Degree
2 64 (71.91%) BPSS Clearance
3 59 (66.29%) Cybersecurity
4 50 (56.18%) Computer Science
5 49 (55.06%) Risk Management
6 20 (22.47%) Stakeholder Management
6 20 (22.47%) Mathematics
6 20 (22.47%) Physics
6 20 (22.47%) Product Strategy
6 20 (22.47%) Systems Engineering
7 10 (11.24%) Firewall
8 8 (8.99%) CISSP
9 7 (7.87%) Penetration Testing
9 7 (7.87%) FortiGate
9 7 (7.87%) Network Security
10 6 (6.74%) AWS
10 6 (6.74%) Vulnerability Management
10 6 (6.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 6 (6.74%) Juniper
10 6 (6.74%) ITIL
10 6 (6.74%) TCP/IP
10 6 (6.74%) Cisco
10 6 (6.74%) Microsoft
10 6 (6.74%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (6.74%) Application Security
10 6 (6.74%) Incident Response
11 5 (5.62%) CCNP
11 5 (5.62%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (5.62%) SIEM
11 5 (5.62%) Security Architecture

Senior Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.37%) Confluence
2 1 (1.12%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (6.74%) AWS
2 4 (4.49%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (3.37%) Azure
4 2 (2.25%) GCP
5 1 (1.12%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.12%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.24%) Firewall
2 7 (7.87%) Network Security
3 6 (6.74%) TCP/IP
4 4 (4.49%) HTTP
4 4 (4.49%) HTTPS
5 3 (3.37%) BGP
5 3 (3.37%) MPLS
5 3 (3.37%) SD-WAN
5 3 (3.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (3.37%) Bitbucket
1 3 (3.37%) JIRA
General
1 4 (4.49%) Local Government
1 4 (4.49%) Social Skills
2 3 (3.37%) Law
3 2 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (2.25%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (2.25%) Retail
3 2 (2.25%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.49%) AngularJS
1 4 (4.49%) React
2 2 (2.25%) REST
2 2 (2.25%) Web Services
3 1 (1.12%) OAuth
3 1 (1.12%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.49%) Management Information System
1 4 (4.49%) Mobile App
1 4 (4.49%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (3.37%) PMI
3 2 (2.25%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.12%) CCTV
4 1 (1.12%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.49%) Android
1 4 (4.49%) Apple iOS
2 3 (3.37%) Linux
2 3 (3.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (3.37%) Windows
3 1 (1.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (66.29%) Cybersecurity
2 50 (56.18%) Computer Science
3 49 (55.06%) Risk Management
4 20 (22.47%) Mathematics
4 20 (22.47%) Physics
4 20 (22.47%) Product Strategy
4 20 (22.47%) Stakeholder Management
4 20 (22.47%) Systems Engineering
5 7 (7.87%) Penetration Testing
6 6 (6.74%) Application Security
6 6 (6.74%) Incident Response
6 6 (6.74%) ITIL
6 6 (6.74%) Vulnerability Management
7 5 (5.62%) Security Architecture
7 5 (5.62%) SIEM
8 4 (4.49%) Cryptography
8 4 (4.49%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 4 (4.49%) Reverse Engineering
8 4 (4.49%) Software Engineering
8 4 (4.49%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.49%) C
1 4 (4.49%) C++
1 4 (4.49%) Java
1 4 (4.49%) Kotlin
1 4 (4.49%) Objective-C
1 4 (4.49%) TypeScript
2 3 (3.37%) Python
3 1 (1.12%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 76 (85.39%) Degree
2 64 (71.91%) BPSS Clearance
3 8 (8.99%) CISSP
4 5 (5.62%) CCNP
4 5 (5.62%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (4.49%) CEH
5 4 (4.49%) CISM
5 4 (4.49%) CREST Certified
5 4 (4.49%) GIAC
5 4 (4.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 4 (4.49%) Master's Degree
6 3 (3.37%) PMI Certification
7 2 (2.25%) CCFP
7 2 (2.25%) CCNA
7 2 (2.25%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (2.25%) EnCE
7 2 (2.25%) GCFA
7 2 (2.25%) GCIA
7 2 (2.25%) GREM
7 2 (2.25%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.74%) Cyber Essentials
1 6 (6.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.49%) NCSC
2 4 (4.49%) NIST
3 1 (1.12%) JSP 440
System Software
1 1 (1.12%) Hyper-V
1 1 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (7.87%) FortiGate
2 4 (4.49%) Nessus
3 2 (2.25%) EnCase
3 2 (2.25%) FTK
3 2 (2.25%) RSA Security Analytics
Vendors
1 6 (6.74%) Cisco
1 6 (6.74%) Juniper
1 6 (6.74%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.49%) Qualys
2 4 (4.49%) Tenable
3 3 (3.37%) Atlassian
3 3 (3.37%) Fortinet
3 3 (3.37%) Palo Alto
3 3 (3.37%) Ping Identity
4 2 (2.25%) FireEye
4 2 (2.25%) NetWitness
4 2 (2.25%) Splunk
5 1 (1.12%) VMware