Senior Security Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Security Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Security Engineer salary in England is £72,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 690 784 910
Rank change year-on-year +94 +126 -83
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Security Engineer 159 130 260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.15% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.17% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 142 115 112
10th Percentile £56,219 £48,579 £51,375
25th Percentile £57,597 £59,375 £62,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £81,563
90th Percentile £101,250 £102,250 £93,625
UK median annual salary £72,500 £79,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -8.81% +13.57% +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 86,435 76,952 135,807
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 91.31% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 63,785 50,234 75,047
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.32% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Security Engineer in England

Senior Security Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Security Engineer in England

Senior Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Security Engineer in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Security Engineer in England

Senior Security Engineer
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
London +122 93 £80,000 -5.88% 33
North of England +40 33 £62,783 -3.78% 6
North West -7 17 £62,783 +0.45% 4
Midlands -8 12 £60,000 +30.43% 7
Yorkshire +58 11 £60,000 -10.46% 1
South East -13 11 £60,000 -27.27% 1
West Midlands -13 6 £85,000 +84.78% 3
East Midlands - 6 £40,000 - 4
South West -25 5 £60,000 -4.00% 2
North East - 5 £62,783 - 1
East of England -5 1 - - 2
Senior Security Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, 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 England region featuring Senior Security Engineer in the job title.

1 79 (49.69%) Cybersecurity
2 77 (48.43%) Azure
3 49 (30.82%) Microsoft
4 43 (27.04%) Finance
4 43 (27.04%) Cloud Security
5 42 (26.42%) AWS
6 41 (25.79%) CISSP
7 40 (25.16%) Python
8 38 (23.90%) Network Security
9 37 (23.27%) DevOps
10 34 (21.38%) SIEM
11 32 (20.13%) Microsoft 365
12 31 (19.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 30 (18.87%) Information Security
14 29 (18.24%) Security Operations
15 28 (17.61%) Windows
16 27 (16.98%) Active Directory
16 27 (16.98%) CyberArk
16 27 (16.98%) PowerShell
16 27 (16.98%) Incident Response
17 26 (16.35%) Firewall
18 24 (15.09%) Public Cloud
18 24 (15.09%) CI/CD
19 23 (14.47%) PKI
20 21 (13.21%) CEH
20 21 (13.21%) Data Loss Prevention
21 20 (12.58%) GCP
21 20 (12.58%) SaaS
21 20 (12.58%) Vulnerability Management
22 19 (11.95%) PaaS

Senior Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (4.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.14%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.89%) AutoCAD
3 3 (1.89%) Revit
4 2 (1.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.26%) Ripple
Cloud Services
1 77 (48.43%) Azure
2 42 (26.42%) AWS
3 32 (20.13%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (12.58%) GCP
4 20 (12.58%) SaaS
5 19 (11.95%) PaaS
6 16 (10.06%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (8.81%) Cloud Computing
8 13 (8.18%) Azure Key Vault
8 13 (8.18%) Entra ID
9 12 (7.55%) AWS KMS
10 10 (6.29%) GitHub
11 7 (4.40%) Microsoft Purview
12 6 (3.77%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 6 (3.77%) IaaS
13 5 (3.14%) Azure Sentinel
14 4 (2.52%) Power Platform
15 2 (1.26%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 38 (23.90%) Network Security
2 26 (16.35%) Firewall
3 16 (10.06%) DNS
3 16 (10.06%) WAN
4 12 (7.55%) LAN
5 10 (6.29%) Cisco ISE
5 10 (6.29%) TCP/IP
6 9 (5.66%) BGP
6 9 (5.66%) VPN
6 9 (5.66%) Wireshark
7 7 (4.40%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (3.77%) Cisco Nexus
8 6 (3.77%) DMZ
8 6 (3.77%) MPLS
8 6 (3.77%) Unified Communications
8 6 (3.77%) VLAN
9 5 (3.14%) Cisco Firepower
10 4 (2.52%) Cisco Wireless
10 4 (2.52%) SD-WAN
10 4 (2.52%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.52%) Power BI
2 1 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.63%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 16 (10.06%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.26%) Artifactory
2 2 (1.26%) Git
3 1 (0.63%) GitLab
General
1 43 (27.04%) Finance
2 18 (11.32%) Banking
3 17 (10.69%) Social Skills
4 14 (8.81%) Public Sector
5 11 (6.92%) Law
6 8 (5.03%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.52%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.52%) Legal
8 3 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.26%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.26%) Retail
9 2 (1.26%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.89%) HTML
2 2 (1.26%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 24 (15.09%) Public Cloud
2 23 (14.47%) PKI
3 18 (11.32%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (7.55%) Cyberattack
4 12 (7.55%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (7.55%) Product Ownership
5 10 (6.29%) Security Operations Centre
6 8 (5.03%) Management Information System
7 7 (4.40%) Onboarding
8 6 (3.77%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (3.77%) Cybercrime
8 6 (3.77%) Data Centre
9 5 (3.14%) CCTV
10 4 (2.52%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.89%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.89%) Cloud Security Posture
11 3 (1.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 3 (1.89%) Hedge funds
11 3 (1.89%) Virtual Team
12 2 (1.26%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 28 (17.61%) Windows
2 4 (2.52%) Android
2 4 (2.52%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.26%) Linux
3 2 (1.26%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (49.69%) Cybersecurity
2 43 (27.04%) Cloud Security
3 37 (23.27%) DevOps
4 34 (21.38%) SIEM
5 31 (19.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 30 (18.87%) Information Security
7 29 (18.24%) Security Operations
8 27 (16.98%) Incident Response
9 24 (15.09%) CI/CD
10 21 (13.21%) Data Loss Prevention
11 20 (12.58%) Vulnerability Management
12 19 (11.95%) Key Management
12 19 (11.95%) Secrets Management
13 18 (11.32%) Agile
13 18 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (11.32%) Roadmaps
14 17 (10.69%) Use Case
15 16 (10.06%) Vulnerability Remediation
16 15 (9.43%) ITIL
16 15 (9.43%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 40 (25.16%) Python
2 27 (16.98%) PowerShell
3 6 (3.77%) Kusto Query Language
4 4 (2.52%) C#
5 3 (1.89%) SQL
6 1 (0.63%) Bash
6 1 (0.63%) C
6 1 (0.63%) Embedded C
6 1 (0.63%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 41 (25.79%) CISSP
2 21 (13.21%) CEH
3 16 (10.06%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (7.55%) Degree
5 10 (6.29%) CCSP
6 8 (5.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 8 (5.03%) SANS
7 6 (3.77%) CRISC
8 5 (3.14%) CCNA
9 4 (2.52%) CCNP
9 4 (2.52%) CISM
9 4 (2.52%) GIAC
9 4 (2.52%) ISSMP
9 4 (2.52%) SSCP
10 3 (1.89%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.89%) CCSK
10 3 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.89%) GSEC
10 3 (1.89%) RIBA
11 2 (1.26%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (5.66%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 9 (5.66%) NIST
2 5 (3.14%) COBIT
3 4 (2.52%) NCSC
3 4 (2.52%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.63%) GDPR
System Software
1 27 (16.98%) Active Directory
2 12 (7.55%) Docker
3 4 (2.52%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.63%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (11.32%) Terraform
2 15 (9.43%) Kubernetes
3 14 (8.81%) Ansible
4 13 (8.18%) Single Sign-On
5 12 (7.55%) CA Single Sign-On
6 5 (3.14%) CASB
7 4 (2.52%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (2.52%) Nmap
8 3 (1.89%) Cisco CUCM
8 3 (1.89%) Stealthwatch
9 2 (1.26%) CSIRT
9 2 (1.26%) Nessus
Vendors
1 49 (30.82%) Microsoft
2 27 (16.98%) CyberArk
3 14 (8.81%) Google
4 13 (8.18%) CA
4 13 (8.18%) Cisco
5 12 (7.55%) ServiceNow
6 11 (6.92%) Qualys
7 9 (5.66%) Splunk
8 8 (5.03%) CheckPoint
8 8 (5.03%) Palo Alto
9 7 (4.40%) ArcSight
9 7 (4.40%) Atlassian
9 7 (4.40%) Carbon Black
9 7 (4.40%) McAfee
10 6 (3.77%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (3.77%) SolarWinds
11 5 (3.14%) Rapid7
12 4 (2.52%) Alibaba
12 4 (2.52%) Netskope
12 4 (2.52%) Thycotic