Senior Information Security Engineer Jobs

Senior Information Security Engineer
UK

The median Senior Information Security Engineer salary in the UK is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 April 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 677 882 972
Rank change year-on-year +205 +90 +241
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Information Security Engineer 7 3 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.013% 0.003% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.003% 0.016%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £71,250 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +20.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile - £81,875 £65,000
90th Percentile - £86,750 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary - - £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 46,971 93,051 95,196
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.06% 94.62% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,308 66,827 59,871
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -12.08% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,344 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.69% -4.76% +5.00%

Senior Information Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Information Security Engineer in the UK

Senior Information Security Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Information Security Engineer.

Salary trend for Senior Information Security Engineer in the UK

Senior Information Security Engineer
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Information Security Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +193 7 £70,000 -3.45% 1
London +106 5 £70,000 -3.45% 1
Work from Home +181 2 - - 1
UK excluding London - 2 - -
South East - 2 - -

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 2025, Senior Information 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 featuring Senior Information Security Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Information Security
1 7 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (85.71%) Incident Response
3 5 (71.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (71.43%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (71.43%) Network Security
3 5 (71.43%) Computer Forensics
3 5 (71.43%) Telecoms
4 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
4 4 (57.14%) Splunk
5 3 (42.86%) Cybercrime
5 3 (42.86%) Service Management
5 3 (42.86%) GIS
5 3 (42.86%) ITSM
5 3 (42.86%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 3 (42.86%) Cyber Intelligence
5 3 (42.86%) Computer Incident Response Team
5 3 (42.86%) Threat Intelligence
6 2 (28.57%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (28.57%) Data Science
6 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (28.57%) Critical Thinking
6 2 (28.57%) Advanced Persistent Threat
6 2 (28.57%) RSA Security Analytics
6 2 (28.57%) NetWitness
6 2 (28.57%) GCFE
6 2 (28.57%) FTK
6 2 (28.57%) EnCase
6 2 (28.57%) Case Management
6 2 (28.57%) Security Analytics

Senior Information Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) GIS
General
1 5 (71.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 5 (71.43%) Telecoms
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Law
2 2 (28.57%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (42.86%) Cybercrime
3 2 (28.57%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 7 (100.00%) Information Security
2 6 (85.71%) Incident Response
3 5 (71.43%) Computer Forensics
4 3 (42.86%) Cyber Intelligence
4 3 (42.86%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 3 (42.86%) ITSM
4 3 (42.86%) Service Management
4 3 (42.86%) Threat Intelligence
5 2 (28.57%) Advanced Persistent Threat
5 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (28.57%) Case Management
5 2 (28.57%) Critical Thinking
5 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
5 2 (28.57%) Data Science
5 2 (28.57%) Digital Forensics
5 2 (28.57%) Performance Metrics
5 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (28.57%) Security Analytics
5 2 (28.57%) SOAR
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) CCFP
1 2 (28.57%) CISSP
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) EnCE
1 2 (28.57%) GCFA
1 2 (28.57%) GCFE
1 2 (28.57%) GREM
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Computer Incident Response Team
2 2 (28.57%) EnCase
2 2 (28.57%) FTK
2 2 (28.57%) RSA Security Analytics
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
1 4 (57.14%) Splunk
2 2 (28.57%) FireEye
2 2 (28.57%) NetWitness