Senior Security Engineer Jobs

Senior Security Engineer
UK

The median Senior Security Engineer salary in the UK is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 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
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 723 807 969
Rank change year-on-year +84 +162 -89
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Security Engineer 189 128 297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.14% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.15% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 170 112 137
10th Percentile £55,597 £46,868 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £59,688 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +10.36% +12.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,375 £91,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,783 £65,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.78% +0.38% +16.79%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 103,724 84,717 165,173
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.76% 91.22% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 73,308 55,181 85,146
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,605 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%

Senior Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Security Engineer in the UK

Senior Security Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Security Engineer in the UK

Senior Security Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Security Engineer over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Security Engineer in the UK

Senior Security Engineer
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 11 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
England +84 162 £73,441 +1.30% 38
London +108 96 £82,500 -2.94% 25
Work from Home +78 88 £63,500 -18.06% 25
UK excluding London -33 75 £62,783 -3.78% 16
North of England +25 29 £62,783 -6.30% 3
North West -15 16 £62,783 -17.66% 3
Midlands -18 16 £60,000 +31.87% 6
South East -27 11 £60,000 -27.27% 2
Yorkshire +52 8 £62,783 -6.30%
West Midlands -15 8 £85,000 +86.81% 3
East Midlands - 8 £40,000 - 3
Wales - 6 £50,000 - 1
North East - 5 £62,783 -
Northern Ireland - 5 £90,000 -
South West -27 4 £70,000 +12.00% 2
Scotland -60 3 £60,000 -31.43%
East of England -7 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 11 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 featuring Senior Security Engineer in the job title.

1 87 (46.03%) Cybersecurity
2 83 (43.92%) Azure
3 52 (27.51%) AWS
4 50 (26.46%) Cloud Security
5 48 (25.40%) Network Security
5 48 (25.40%) Finance
5 48 (25.40%) Microsoft
6 43 (22.75%) CISSP
7 42 (22.22%) Python
8 39 (20.63%) SIEM
9 36 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 34 (17.99%) Microsoft 365
10 34 (17.99%) DevOps
11 32 (16.93%) Information Security
12 31 (16.40%) Firewall
13 30 (15.87%) Security Operations
14 29 (15.34%) SaaS
15 28 (14.81%) CyberArk
15 28 (14.81%) Windows
15 28 (14.81%) Incident Response
16 27 (14.29%) PowerShell
17 26 (13.76%) Active Directory
18 23 (12.17%) CEH
18 23 (12.17%) Problem-Solving
19 22 (11.64%) Vulnerability Management
20 21 (11.11%) Public Cloud
20 21 (11.11%) PKI
20 21 (11.11%) Data Loss Prevention
20 21 (11.11%) CI/CD
21 19 (10.05%) Secrets Management

Senior Security Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.59%) AutoCAD
2 3 (1.59%) Revit
3 2 (1.06%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.12%) Ripple
Cloud Services
1 83 (43.92%) Azure
2 52 (27.51%) AWS
3 34 (17.99%) Microsoft 365
4 29 (15.34%) SaaS
5 17 (8.99%) GCP
6 16 (8.47%) Cloud Computing
7 14 (7.41%) PaaS
8 13 (6.88%) Azure Key Vault
8 13 (6.88%) Entra ID
9 12 (6.35%) AWS KMS
9 12 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (3.70%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (3.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 6 (3.17%) IaaS
12 5 (2.65%) Azure Sentinel
12 5 (2.65%) GitHub
13 4 (2.12%) Power Platform
14 2 (1.06%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 48 (25.40%) Network Security
2 31 (16.40%) Firewall
3 16 (8.47%) DNS
4 14 (7.41%) WAN
5 12 (6.35%) LAN
6 11 (5.82%) BGP
6 11 (5.82%) Wireshark
7 9 (4.76%) TCP/IP
8 8 (4.23%) Cisco ISE
9 7 (3.70%) VPN
9 7 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (3.17%) Cisco Nexus
10 6 (3.17%) DMZ
10 6 (3.17%) MPLS
10 6 (3.17%) Unified Communications
10 6 (3.17%) VLAN
11 5 (2.65%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 5 (2.65%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 5 (2.65%) OSPF
12 4 (2.12%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.12%) Power BI
2 2 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (1.06%) DynamoDB
2 2 (1.06%) InfluxDB
2 2 (1.06%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 14 (7.41%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.12%) Artifactory
2 4 (2.12%) Git
3 2 (1.06%) JMeter
3 2 (1.06%) Postman
3 2 (1.06%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.53%) GitLab
General
1 48 (25.40%) Finance
2 16 (8.47%) Social Skills
3 14 (7.41%) Banking
3 14 (7.41%) Public Sector
4 13 (6.88%) Law
5 8 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.12%) Financial Institution
6 4 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.12%) Legal
7 3 (1.59%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.06%) Retail
8 2 (1.06%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.06%) Welsh Language
9 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.06%) 802.1X
1 2 (1.06%) OAuth
1 2 (1.06%) OAuth2
1 2 (1.06%) SOAP
1 2 (1.06%) XML
2 1 (0.53%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.11%) PKI
1 21 (11.11%) Public Cloud
2 18 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
3 17 (8.99%) Cyberattack
4 12 (6.35%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (5.29%) Security Operations Centre
6 9 (4.76%) Product Ownership
7 8 (4.23%) Management Information System
7 8 (4.23%) Onboarding
8 7 (3.70%) CCTV
8 7 (3.70%) Cloud Native
9 6 (3.17%) Cyber Threat
9 6 (3.17%) Cybercrime
9 6 (3.17%) Data Centre
10 5 (2.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (2.12%) Blockchain
11 4 (2.12%) Cyber Security Posture
11 4 (2.12%) Security Posture
12 3 (1.59%) Cloud Security Posture
12 3 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (14.81%) Windows
2 6 (3.17%) Unix
3 4 (2.12%) Android
3 4 (2.12%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.06%) Linux
5 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (46.03%) Cybersecurity
2 50 (26.46%) Cloud Security
3 39 (20.63%) SIEM
4 36 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 34 (17.99%) DevOps
6 32 (16.93%) Information Security
7 30 (15.87%) Security Operations
8 28 (14.81%) Incident Response
9 23 (12.17%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (11.64%) Vulnerability Management
11 21 (11.11%) CI/CD
11 21 (11.11%) Data Loss Prevention
12 19 (10.05%) Key Management
12 19 (10.05%) Secrets Management
13 18 (9.52%) Risk Management
14 17 (8.99%) Mentoring
14 17 (8.99%) Vulnerability Remediation
15 15 (7.94%) Agile
15 15 (7.94%) ITIL
16 14 (7.41%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 42 (22.22%) Python
2 27 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 6 (3.17%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (1.59%) SQL
5 2 (1.06%) C#
6 1 (0.53%) Bash
6 1 (0.53%) C
6 1 (0.53%) Embedded C
6 1 (0.53%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 43 (22.75%) CISSP
2 23 (12.17%) CEH
3 17 (8.99%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (6.35%) Degree
5 10 (5.29%) CCSP
6 8 (4.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 8 (4.23%) CRISC
6 8 (4.23%) SANS
7 7 (3.70%) CCNA
8 6 (3.17%) CCNP
8 6 (3.17%) GIAC
9 4 (2.12%) CISA
9 4 (2.12%) CISM
9 4 (2.12%) ISSMP
9 4 (2.12%) SSCP
10 3 (1.59%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.59%) CCSK
10 3 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.59%) GSEC
10 3 (1.59%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.82%) NIST
2 9 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 5 (2.65%) COBIT
4 4 (2.12%) NCSC
4 4 (2.12%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.06%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.53%) GDPR
System Software
1 26 (13.76%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.23%) Docker
3 4 (2.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 18 (9.52%) Terraform
2 16 (8.47%) Ansible
3 13 (6.88%) Single Sign-On
4 12 (6.35%) CA Single Sign-On
4 12 (6.35%) Kubernetes
5 6 (3.17%) CASB
6 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (2.12%) Nmap
7 2 (1.06%) CSIRT
7 2 (1.06%) Grafana
7 2 (1.06%) Nessus
8 1 (0.53%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.53%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.53%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 48 (25.40%) Microsoft
2 28 (14.81%) CyberArk
3 13 (6.88%) CA
4 12 (6.35%) Qualys
4 12 (6.35%) ServiceNow
5 11 (5.82%) Cisco
6 9 (4.76%) Google
7 8 (4.23%) ArcSight
7 8 (4.23%) Atlassian
7 8 (4.23%) Carbon Black
7 8 (4.23%) CheckPoint
7 8 (4.23%) McAfee
7 8 (4.23%) Palo Alto
8 7 (3.70%) Splunk
9 6 (3.17%) CrowdStrike
9 6 (3.17%) Fortinet
9 6 (3.17%) SolarWinds
10 5 (2.65%) Rapid7
11 4 (2.12%) Alibaba
11 4 (2.12%) Thycotic