Security Engineer Job Trends in West End of London

Security Engineer
Central London > West End of London

The median Security Engineer salary in West End of London is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in West End of London 2.27% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.33% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - -
75th Percentile £58,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +12.50% +6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West End of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in West End of 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 West End of London with a recognized job title 43 74 62
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.73% 89.16% 93.94%
Number of salaries quoted 38 44 59
10th Percentile £45,125 £32,750 £39,085
25th Percentile £49,200 £41,813 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,750 £58,750 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% -6.00% +1.63%
75th Percentile £76,875 £79,563 £82,500
90th Percentile £88,250 £89,725 £91,900
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% - -3.33%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West End of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Security Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West End of London.

Security Engineer job vacancy trend in West End of London

Security Engineer
Salary Trend in West End of London

Salary distribution trend for Security Engineer job vacancies in West End of London.

Salary distribution trend for Security Engineer job vacancies in West End of London

Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West End of London

For the 6 months to 9 November 2025, Security Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the West End of London region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West End of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (100.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (100.00%) VMware