Senior Security Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Security Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Security Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £62,783 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 705 675 742
Rank change year-on-year -30 +67 -77
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Security Engineer 75 53 132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.094% 0.096% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.099% 0.11% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 69 46 56
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £39,375
25th Percentile £56,219 £55,000 £56,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,783 £65,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.78% +0.38% +16.79%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,641 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £72,500 £77,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.15% +10.36% +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 75,991 49,070 72,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 88.81% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 53,059 29,227 42,783
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Security Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Security Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Senior Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Security Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Security Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Security Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Security Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
North of England +14 29 £62,783 -6.30% 3
North West -19 16 £62,783 -17.66% 3
Midlands -31 16 £60,000 +31.87% 8
South East -29 11 £60,000 -27.27% 2
Yorkshire +60 8 £62,783 -6.30%
West Midlands -12 8 £85,000 +86.81% 5
East Midlands - 8 £40,000 - 3
Wales - 6 £50,000 - 1
Northern Ireland - 5 £90,000 -
North East - 5 £62,783 -
South West -38 4 £70,000 +12.00% 4
Scotland -65 3 £60,000 -31.43%
East of England -10 1 - - 2
Senior Security Engineer
UK

Senior Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 12 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Security Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (30.67%) Azure
2 22 (29.33%) Cybersecurity
3 18 (24.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 18 (24.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 17 (22.67%) Cloud Security
5 16 (21.33%) AWS
5 16 (21.33%) Network Security
5 16 (21.33%) DevOps
5 16 (21.33%) Public Cloud
6 13 (17.33%) Microsoft
7 12 (16.00%) DNS
7 12 (16.00%) Active Directory
7 12 (16.00%) CA
7 12 (16.00%) CA Single Sign-On
7 12 (16.00%) Identity Management
7 12 (16.00%) PKI
7 12 (16.00%) Entra ID
7 12 (16.00%) Privileged Identity Management
7 12 (16.00%) Mentoring
7 12 (16.00%) Coaching
7 12 (16.00%) ServiceNow
7 12 (16.00%) CyberArk
7 12 (16.00%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (16.00%) Secrets Management
7 12 (16.00%) Key Management
7 12 (16.00%) Public Sector
7 12 (16.00%) AWS KMS
7 12 (16.00%) Azure Key Vault
7 12 (16.00%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (13.33%) Risk Management

Senior Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Cloud Services
1 23 (30.67%) Azure
2 16 (21.33%) AWS
3 12 (16.00%) AWS KMS
3 12 (16.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 12 (16.00%) Entra ID
4 10 (13.33%) SaaS
5 4 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.33%) GCP
5 4 (5.33%) GitHub
5 4 (5.33%) PaaS
6 1 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 16 (21.33%) Network Security
2 12 (16.00%) DNS
3 8 (10.67%) Firewall
4 4 (5.33%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.67%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (2.67%) Wireshark
6 1 (1.33%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.33%) WAN
6 1 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 7 (9.33%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (16.00%) Public Sector
2 7 (9.33%) Finance
3 4 (5.33%) Banking
4 3 (4.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (2.67%) Legal
5 2 (2.67%) Retail
6 1 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.33%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 18 (24.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 16 (21.33%) Public Cloud
3 12 (16.00%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (16.00%) PKI
4 6 (8.00%) CCTV
5 4 (5.33%) Cyberattack
5 4 (5.33%) Product Ownership
6 3 (4.00%) Cloud Native
6 3 (4.00%) Cyber Security Posture
6 3 (4.00%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.67%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (1.33%) Cybercrime
8 1 (1.33%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.33%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (1.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.00%) Unix
1 3 (4.00%) Windows
2 1 (1.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (29.33%) Cybersecurity
2 18 (24.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 17 (22.67%) Cloud Security
4 16 (21.33%) DevOps
5 12 (16.00%) Coaching
5 12 (16.00%) Identity Management
5 12 (16.00%) Key Management
5 12 (16.00%) Mentoring
5 12 (16.00%) Privileged Identity Management
5 12 (16.00%) Secrets Management
6 10 (13.33%) Risk Management
7 9 (12.00%) SIEM
8 8 (10.67%) Application Security
9 5 (6.67%) Information Security
9 5 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (6.67%) Penetration Testing
9 5 (6.67%) Roadmaps
10 4 (5.33%) Agile
10 4 (5.33%) ITIL
10 4 (5.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 10 (13.33%) Python
2 1 (1.33%) C
2 1 (1.33%) Embedded C
2 1 (1.33%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 4 (5.33%) CISSP
1 4 (5.33%) SANS
2 2 (2.67%) CCNA
2 2 (2.67%) CCNP
2 2 (2.67%) CEH
2 2 (2.67%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (2.67%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (2.67%) Degree
2 2 (2.67%) GCFA
2 2 (2.67%) GCFE
2 2 (2.67%) GCIA
2 2 (2.67%) GCIH
2 2 (2.67%) GREM
2 2 (2.67%) OSCP
3 1 (1.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.33%) COBIT
3 1 (1.33%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (16.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (16.00%) CA Single Sign-On
1 12 (16.00%) Single Sign-On
2 7 (9.33%) Terraform
3 4 (5.33%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.67%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 13 (17.33%) Microsoft
2 12 (16.00%) CA
2 12 (16.00%) CyberArk
2 12 (16.00%) ServiceNow
3 4 (5.33%) Google
4 1 (1.33%) Cisco
4 1 (1.33%) Fortinet