Security Engineer Jobs in London

Security Engineer
England > London

The median Security Engineer salary in London is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 266 309 447
Rank change year-on-year +43 +138 -108
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 264 370 564
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.12% 1.10% 0.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.18% 1.16% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 236 297 340
10th Percentile £40,000 £50,000 £51,125
25th Percentile £57,444 £61,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% +6.90% +7.41%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £86,563
90th Percentile £101,250 £107,500 £100,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +3.70% +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 22,294 31,975 66,602
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.21% 95.13% 96.28%
Number of salaries quoted 16,646 23,616 34,555
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,444 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%

Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Engineer in London

Security Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Security Engineer in London

Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Engineer in London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Engineer in London

Security Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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
Central London +47 38 £73,441 -8.20% 14
South London - 4 £44,000 -
North London - 1 £45,000 - 1
Security Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, 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 London region featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 135 (51.14%) Cybersecurity
2 127 (48.11%) Azure
3 86 (32.58%) Finance
4 85 (32.20%) Microsoft
4 85 (32.20%) CISSP
5 71 (26.89%) AWS
6 70 (26.52%) Python
7 65 (24.62%) Firewall
7 65 (24.62%) Cloud Security
8 64 (24.24%) Network Security
9 63 (23.86%) Information Security
9 63 (23.86%) Microsoft 365
10 62 (23.48%) SIEM
10 62 (23.48%) PowerShell
11 50 (18.94%) Incident Response
12 49 (18.56%) Windows
13 46 (17.42%) Vulnerability Management
14 44 (16.67%) Social Skills
15 43 (16.29%) Security Operations
16 42 (15.91%) CEH
17 41 (15.53%) Cisco
18 40 (15.15%) Cisco Certification
19 39 (14.77%) Banking
20 36 (13.64%) Degree
21 34 (12.88%) LAN
21 34 (12.88%) Data Loss Prevention
22 33 (12.50%) WAN
22 33 (12.50%) CISM
22 33 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
23 32 (12.12%) Problem-Solving

Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 5 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.76%) Apache
2 2 (0.76%) Confluence
2 2 (0.76%) nginx
2 2 (0.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.79%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.52%) AutoCAD
3 4 (1.52%) Revit
4 2 (0.76%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.76%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 127 (48.11%) Azure
2 71 (26.89%) AWS
3 63 (23.86%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (12.12%) GCP
5 19 (7.20%) Cloud Computing
6 16 (6.06%) SaaS
7 15 (5.68%) Azure Sentinel
8 14 (5.30%) Microsoft Purview
8 14 (5.30%) PaaS
9 11 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (3.41%) Azure AKS
10 9 (3.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 8 (3.03%) AWS Direct Connect
11 8 (3.03%) IaaS
12 7 (2.65%) Power Platform
13 5 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (1.89%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.89%) Entra ID
14 4 (1.52%) Mimecast
15 3 (1.14%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 65 (24.62%) Firewall
2 64 (24.24%) Network Security
3 34 (12.88%) LAN
4 33 (12.50%) WAN
5 24 (9.09%) VPN
6 18 (6.82%) TCP/IP
7 16 (6.06%) SD-WAN
8 15 (5.68%) Wireless
9 13 (4.92%) Cisco Firepower
10 12 (4.55%) Cisco ISE
11 11 (4.17%) BGP
11 11 (4.17%) Cisco Nexus
11 11 (4.17%) VLAN
12 9 (3.41%) Cisco Wireless
12 9 (3.41%) Wi-Fi
13 8 (3.03%) DNS
13 8 (3.03%) Wireshark
14 6 (2.27%) DMZ
14 6 (2.27%) MPLS
14 6 (2.27%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.65%) Power BI
2 5 (1.89%) BigQuery
2 5 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (1.89%) Hadoop
2 5 (1.89%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.52%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 20 (7.58%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.52%) JIRA
3 2 (0.76%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.38%) Git
General
1 86 (32.58%) Finance
2 44 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 39 (14.77%) Banking
4 17 (6.44%) Law
5 11 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (3.41%) Health Technology
6 9 (3.41%) Tech for Good
7 6 (2.27%) Legal
8 5 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.89%) Marketing
8 5 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.89%) Retail
9 4 (1.52%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.52%) Publishing
10 3 (1.14%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.14%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.14%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.76%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.03%) 802.1X
2 7 (2.65%) web3js
3 6 (2.27%) HTML
4 5 (1.89%) Kafka
4 5 (1.89%) XMPP
5 4 (1.52%) OAuth
6 2 (0.76%) CSS
6 2 (0.76%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.76%) OpenID
7 1 (0.38%) .NET
7 1 (0.38%) JSON
7 1 (0.38%) JWT
7 1 (0.38%) RESTful
7 1 (0.38%) SAML
7 1 (0.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.85%) PKI
2 25 (9.47%) Management Information System
3 20 (7.58%) Data Centre
4 14 (5.30%) Security Posture
5 13 (4.92%) Security Operations Centre
6 12 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
6 12 (4.55%) Cyberattack
7 9 (3.41%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (3.03%) CCTV
8 8 (3.03%) Public Cloud
8 8 (3.03%) Web3
9 7 (2.65%) Blockchain
9 7 (2.65%) Blog
10 6 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.89%) Cloud Security Posture
11 5 (1.89%) Cybercrime
11 5 (1.89%) Hedge funds
11 5 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.89%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.89%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 49 (18.56%) Windows
2 16 (6.06%) Linux
3 12 (4.55%) Unix
4 10 (3.79%) Windows Server
5 9 (3.41%) Android
5 9 (3.41%) Apple iOS
6 6 (2.27%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.52%) CentOS
7 4 (1.52%) Solaris
7 4 (1.52%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (1.52%) zOS
8 2 (0.76%) Debian
9 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (51.14%) Cybersecurity
2 65 (24.62%) Cloud Security
3 63 (23.86%) Information Security
4 62 (23.48%) SIEM
5 50 (18.94%) Incident Response
6 46 (17.42%) Vulnerability Management
7 43 (16.29%) Security Operations
8 34 (12.88%) Data Loss Prevention
9 32 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (11.36%) Cryptography
11 28 (10.61%) Identity Access Management
12 27 (10.23%) DevOps
13 24 (9.09%) Agile
13 24 (9.09%) Application Security
13 24 (9.09%) CI/CD
13 24 (9.09%) ITIL
14 22 (8.33%) Computer Science
14 22 (8.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
15 21 (7.95%) DevSecOps
16 17 (6.44%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 70 (26.52%) Python
2 62 (23.48%) PowerShell
3 15 (5.68%) Kusto Query Language
4 14 (5.30%) Bash
5 10 (3.79%) SQL
6 9 (3.41%) Java
7 8 (3.03%) C#
8 7 (2.65%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.52%) C++
10 3 (1.14%) C
10 3 (1.14%) Go
11 1 (0.38%) Lua
11 1 (0.38%) Ruby
11 1 (0.38%) Rust
11 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 85 (32.20%) CISSP
2 42 (15.91%) CEH
3 40 (15.15%) Cisco Certification
4 36 (13.64%) Degree
5 33 (12.50%) CISM
6 18 (6.82%) GIAC
7 17 (6.44%) CCNP
7 17 (6.44%) CCSP
8 16 (6.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 13 (4.92%) CCNA
10 9 (3.41%) CISA
10 9 (3.41%) GSEC
10 9 (3.41%) SANS
11 8 (3.03%) CRISC
11 8 (3.03%) ISSMP
11 8 (3.03%) SSCP
12 7 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
13 6 (2.27%) Azure Certification
13 6 (2.27%) GCIH
13 6 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (10.61%) NIST
3 14 (5.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 13 (4.92%) PCI DSS
5 10 (3.79%) COBIT
6 7 (2.65%) GDPR
6 7 (2.65%) NCSC
7 5 (1.89%) Data Quality
8 4 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (1.52%) HIPAA
9 3 (1.14%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.76%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.76%) QA
System Software
1 24 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 10 (3.79%) Docker
3 8 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
3 8 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.52%) vSphere
6 3 (1.14%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 21 (7.95%) Ansible
2 18 (6.82%) Kubernetes
3 17 (6.44%) CASB
3 17 (6.44%) Terraform
4 15 (5.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (3.03%) Nmap
5 8 (3.03%) QRadar
5 8 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.89%) Cisco CUCM
6 5 (1.89%) logstash
6 5 (1.89%) Stealthwatch
7 4 (1.52%) DatAdvantage
7 4 (1.52%) vRealize
7 4 (1.52%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 2 (0.76%) Nessus
Vendors
1 85 (32.20%) Microsoft
2 41 (15.53%) Cisco
3 26 (9.85%) Splunk
4 22 (8.33%) Rapid7
5 21 (7.95%) CyberArk
6 20 (7.58%) Qualys
7 19 (7.20%) Palo Alto
8 17 (6.44%) CheckPoint
9 16 (6.06%) ArcSight
9 16 (6.06%) Carbon Black
9 16 (6.06%) Google
9 16 (6.06%) VMware
10 12 (4.55%) Atlassian
11 11 (4.17%) McAfee
12 8 (3.03%) Alibaba
12 8 (3.03%) CrowdStrike
12 8 (3.03%) Thycotic
13 7 (2.65%) Kenna
14 6 (2.27%) Fortinet
14 6 (2.27%) Juniper