Senior Security Engineer Jobs

Senior Security Engineer
UK

The median Senior Security Engineer salary in the UK is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 July 2025.

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

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 655 719 803
Rank change year-on-year +64 +84 +209
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Security Engineer 66 190 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.18% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.19% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 51 169 108
10th Percentile £45,000 £56,000 £46,298
25th Percentile - £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £75,000 £79,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% -5.66% +13.57%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £101,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £62,783 £68,515
% change year-on-year -12.40% -8.37% +5.41%

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 52,512 102,387 81,388
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.85% 94.81% 91.21%
Number of salaries quoted 28,421 72,229 54,035
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £38,750 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year - -5.66% +4.95%

Senior Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Security Engineer in the UK

Senior Security Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Security Engineer in the UK

Senior Security Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Security Engineer over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Security Engineer in the UK

Senior Security Engineer
Top 9 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 2 July 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 +56 66 £55,000 -27.87% 255
UK excluding London +161 44 £55,000 -12.40% 89
North of England +50 24 £55,000 -12.40% 21
North West +34 24 £55,000 -12.40% 18
London +20 21 £83,750 -1.47% 184
South East +94 15 £52,500 -12.50% 26
Work from Home +46 9 £90,000 +38.46% 126
East of England +36 4 £42,085 - 12
South West +113 1 £77,500 -3.13% 11

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

For the 6 months to 2 July 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 featuring Senior Security Engineer in the job title.

1 34 (51.52%) Degree
2 20 (30.30%) Mathematics
2 20 (30.30%) Physics
2 20 (30.30%) Cybersecurity
2 20 (30.30%) Stakeholder Management
2 20 (30.30%) Systems Engineering
2 20 (30.30%) Product Strategy
2 20 (30.30%) BPSS Clearance
3 19 (28.79%) Cloud Security
4 14 (21.21%) Azure
4 14 (21.21%) AWS
5 12 (18.18%) Finance
5 12 (18.18%) Firewall
5 12 (18.18%) Incident Response
6 11 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 11 (16.67%) CISSP
6 11 (16.67%) Microsoft
7 10 (15.15%) Java
7 10 (15.15%) Information Security
7 10 (15.15%) Application Security
8 9 (13.64%) Social Skills
8 9 (13.64%) Risk Management
8 9 (13.64%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (13.64%) Security Architecture
9 8 (12.12%) SIEM
9 8 (12.12%) Cisco
9 8 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (12.12%) Security Posture
10 7 (10.61%) Roadmaps
10 7 (10.61%) Key Management

Senior 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.55%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (21.21%) AWS
1 14 (21.21%) Azure
2 7 (10.61%) GCP
3 4 (6.06%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (3.03%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (3.03%) Amazon S3
4 2 (3.03%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (3.03%) Azure AKS
4 2 (3.03%) Serverless
4 2 (3.03%) Snowflake
4 2 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.52%) Amazon Macie
5 1 (1.52%) AWS KMS
5 1 (1.52%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (18.18%) Firewall
2 7 (10.61%) Network Security
3 4 (6.06%) HTTP
3 4 (6.06%) HTTPS
3 4 (6.06%) TCP/IP
4 3 (4.55%) BGP
4 3 (4.55%) MPLS
4 3 (4.55%) SD-WAN
4 3 (4.55%) WAN
5 1 (1.52%) DKIM
5 1 (1.52%) DMARC
5 1 (1.52%) Intelligent Network
5 1 (1.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Bitbucket
1 3 (4.55%) JIRA
2 1 (1.52%) GitLab
General
1 12 (18.18%) Finance
2 9 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.58%) Law
4 4 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.06%) Local Government
5 3 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (4.55%) Legal
5 3 (4.55%) Marketing
6 2 (3.03%) Banking
6 2 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.03%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (3.03%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.52%) Games
7 1 (1.52%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.06%) AngularJS
1 4 (6.06%) React
2 3 (4.55%) SailPoint
3 2 (3.03%) .NET
3 2 (3.03%) OAuth
3 2 (3.03%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.52%) REST
4 1 (1.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.12%) Security Posture
2 4 (6.06%) Mobile App
2 4 (6.06%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.55%) Cloud Security Posture
3 3 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.55%) PKI
3 3 (4.55%) PMI
3 3 (4.55%) Virtual Team
4 2 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.03%) CCTV
4 2 (3.03%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (3.03%) Cyberattack
4 2 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.03%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.52%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.52%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.06%) Android
1 4 (6.06%) Apple iOS
2 3 (4.55%) Linux
2 3 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (30.30%) Cybersecurity
1 20 (30.30%) Mathematics
1 20 (30.30%) Physics
1 20 (30.30%) Product Strategy
1 20 (30.30%) Stakeholder Management
1 20 (30.30%) Systems Engineering
2 19 (28.79%) Cloud Security
3 12 (18.18%) Incident Response
4 11 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 10 (15.15%) Application Security
5 10 (15.15%) Information Security
6 9 (13.64%) Risk Management
6 9 (13.64%) Security Architecture
7 8 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (12.12%) SIEM
8 7 (10.61%) ITIL
8 7 (10.61%) Key Management
8 7 (10.61%) Roadmaps
9 6 (9.09%) Agile
9 6 (9.09%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (15.15%) Java
2 6 (9.09%) Python
3 4 (6.06%) C
3 4 (6.06%) C++
3 4 (6.06%) Kotlin
3 4 (6.06%) Objective-C
3 4 (6.06%) TypeScript
4 2 (3.03%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.52%) Go
Qualifications
1 34 (51.52%) Degree
2 20 (30.30%) BPSS Clearance
3 11 (16.67%) CISSP
4 9 (13.64%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (7.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 5 (7.58%) CEH
5 5 (7.58%) CISM
6 4 (6.06%) CCNP
6 4 (6.06%) CCSK
6 4 (6.06%) CREST Certified
6 4 (6.06%) GIAC
6 4 (6.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 4 (6.06%) Master's Degree
7 3 (4.55%) AWS Certification
7 3 (4.55%) CCSP
7 3 (4.55%) PMI Certification
8 2 (3.03%) CCFP
8 2 (3.03%) DBS Check
8 2 (3.03%) EnCE
8 2 (3.03%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.09%) NIST
2 5 (7.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (6.06%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (6.06%) NCSC
3 4 (6.06%) PCI DSS
4 3 (4.55%) GDPR
5 2 (3.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (1.52%) JSP 440
6 1 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 7 (10.61%) FortiGate
2 4 (6.06%) Nessus
3 3 (4.55%) CASB
3 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (4.55%) Terraform
4 2 (3.03%) EnCase
4 2 (3.03%) FTK
4 2 (3.03%) RSA Security Analytics
5 1 (1.52%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.52%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.12%) Cisco
3 6 (9.09%) Juniper
4 5 (7.58%) Palo Alto
5 4 (6.06%) Fortinet
5 4 (6.06%) Qualys
5 4 (6.06%) Splunk
5 4 (6.06%) Tenable
6 3 (4.55%) Atlassian
6 3 (4.55%) CyberArk
6 3 (4.55%) Ping Identity
6 3 (4.55%) Symantec
6 3 (4.55%) Zscaler
7 2 (3.03%) FireEye
7 2 (3.03%) NetWitness
8 1 (1.52%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (1.52%) Google