Senior Security Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

Senior Security Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Senior Security Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 248 262
Rank change year-on-year +78 +14 +13
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Security Engineer 30 2 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.67% 0.028% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.75% 0.029% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 7
10th Percentile - - £42,150
25th Percentile £45,000 £107,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £115,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -56.52% +150.00% -38.67%
75th Percentile £55,000 £122,500 £55,000
90th Percentile - - £63,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -17.24% +3.57% -6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 3,992 6,812 5,981
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.37% 94.09% 89.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,797 5,151 3,348
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £38,966
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,000 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

Senior Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Security Engineer in the West Midlands

Senior Security Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Senior Security Engineer in the West Midlands

Senior Security Engineer
Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Warwickshire - 19 - - 1
Coventry - 5 - - 2
Birmingham +40 4 - - 2
Staffordshire - 2 £50,000 - 2
Senior Security Engineer
England

Senior Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 1 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 West Midlands region featuring Senior Security Engineer in the job title.

1 30 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 28 (93.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 28 (93.33%) Risk Management
2 28 (93.33%) Degree
2 28 (93.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.67%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.67%) Hyper-V
3 2 (6.67%) Azure
3 2 (6.67%) SaaS
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (6.67%) Data Analytics
3 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (6.67%) Analytics
3 2 (6.67%) Law
3 2 (6.67%) VMware
3 2 (6.67%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (6.67%) Windows
3 2 (6.67%) SharePoint
3 2 (6.67%) Firewall
3 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (6.67%) Vulnerability Scanning

Senior Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (6.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.67%) Azure
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) Firewall
General
1 2 (6.67%) Law
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Windows
1 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 28 (93.33%) Computer Science
2 28 (93.33%) Risk Management
3 2 (6.67%) Analytics
3 2 (6.67%) Data Analytics
3 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (6.67%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (6.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 28 (93.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 28 (93.33%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Hyper-V
1 2 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (6.67%) VMware