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 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 721 814 974
Rank change year-on-year +93 +160 -106
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Security Engineer 185 132 292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.14% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.15% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 168 117 134
10th Percentile £56,219 £49,719 £52,500
25th Percentile £57,597 £60,000 £58,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £79,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.81% +13.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,500 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,783 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.41% - +16.79%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 99,838 86,540 162,414
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.86% 91.29% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,991 55,953 84,888
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,676
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 £50,238
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.49% +5.76%

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 2 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 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
England +94 159 £72,500 -3.33% 48
London +122 93 £80,000 -5.88% 33
Work from Home +97 91 £62,783 -10.31% 37
UK excluding London -11 78 £62,783 -3.41% 18
North of England +40 33 £62,783 -3.78% 5
North West -7 17 £62,783 +0.45% 3
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
Wales - 7 £50,000 - 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
Northern Ireland - 5 £90,000 -
Scotland -64 4 £59,763 -31.70%
East of England -5 1 - - 2

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

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 featuring Senior Security Engineer in the job title.

1 92 (49.73%) Cybersecurity
2 87 (47.03%) Azure
3 55 (29.73%) Cloud Security
4 50 (27.03%) Microsoft
5 48 (25.95%) Finance
6 47 (25.41%) AWS
7 46 (24.86%) Python
8 44 (23.78%) Network Security
9 41 (22.16%) CISSP
10 39 (21.08%) DevOps
11 37 (20.00%) SIEM
12 33 (17.84%) Microsoft 365
13 31 (16.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 30 (16.22%) Security Operations
14 30 (16.22%) Information Security
15 29 (15.68%) Firewall
15 29 (15.68%) Windows
16 28 (15.14%) Active Directory
16 28 (15.14%) SaaS
16 28 (15.14%) Incident Response
17 27 (14.59%) PowerShell
17 27 (14.59%) CyberArk
18 26 (14.05%) Public Cloud
18 26 (14.05%) CI/CD
19 23 (12.43%) Terraform
19 23 (12.43%) PKI
20 22 (11.89%) GCP
20 22 (11.89%) Agile
21 21 (11.35%) CEH
21 21 (11.35%) Jenkins

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 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (3.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.62%) AutoCAD
3 3 (1.62%) Revit
4 2 (1.08%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Ripple
Cloud Services
1 87 (47.03%) Azure
2 47 (25.41%) AWS
3 33 (17.84%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (15.14%) SaaS
5 22 (11.89%) GCP
6 21 (11.35%) PaaS
7 18 (9.73%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (7.57%) Cloud Computing
9 13 (7.03%) Azure Key Vault
9 13 (7.03%) Entra ID
10 12 (6.49%) AWS KMS
10 12 (6.49%) GitHub
11 7 (3.78%) Microsoft Purview
12 6 (3.24%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 6 (3.24%) IaaS
13 5 (2.70%) Azure Sentinel
14 4 (2.16%) Power Platform
15 2 (1.08%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 44 (23.78%) Network Security
2 29 (15.68%) Firewall
3 16 (8.65%) DNS
3 16 (8.65%) WAN
4 12 (6.49%) LAN
5 10 (5.41%) Cisco ISE
5 10 (5.41%) TCP/IP
6 9 (4.86%) BGP
6 9 (4.86%) VPN
6 9 (4.86%) Wireshark
7 7 (3.78%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (3.24%) Cisco Nexus
8 6 (3.24%) DMZ
8 6 (3.24%) MPLS
8 6 (3.24%) Unified Communications
8 6 (3.24%) VLAN
9 5 (2.70%) Cisco Firepower
10 4 (2.16%) Cisco Wireless
10 4 (2.16%) SD-WAN
10 4 (2.16%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.16%) Power BI
2 2 (1.08%) InfluxDB
2 2 (1.08%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.54%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 21 (11.35%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.08%) Artifactory
2 2 (1.08%) Git
2 2 (1.08%) JMeter
2 2 (1.08%) Postman
2 2 (1.08%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.54%) GitLab
General
1 48 (25.95%) Finance
2 20 (10.81%) Banking
3 17 (9.19%) Social Skills
4 14 (7.57%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.95%) Law
6 8 (4.32%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.16%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.16%) Legal
8 3 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.08%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.08%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.08%) Retail
9 2 (1.08%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.08%) Welsh Language
10 1 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.16%) HTML
2 2 (1.08%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.08%) OAuth
2 2 (1.08%) OAuth2
2 2 (1.08%) SOAP
2 2 (1.08%) XML
3 1 (0.54%) CSS
3 1 (0.54%) Django
3 1 (0.54%) Flask
3 1 (0.54%) Jinja
3 1 (0.54%) Pyramid
Miscellaneous
1 26 (14.05%) Public Cloud
2 23 (12.43%) PKI
3 18 (9.73%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (9.19%) Cyberattack
5 14 (7.57%) Product Ownership
6 12 (6.49%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (5.41%) Security Operations Centre
8 8 (4.32%) Management Information System
9 7 (3.78%) Onboarding
10 6 (3.24%) Cloud Native
10 6 (3.24%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (3.24%) Cybercrime
10 6 (3.24%) Data Centre
11 5 (2.70%) CCTV
12 4 (2.16%) Cyber Security Posture
12 4 (2.16%) Security Posture
13 3 (1.62%) Cloud Security Posture
13 3 (1.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 3 (1.62%) Hedge funds
13 3 (1.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (15.68%) Windows
2 6 (3.24%) Unix
3 4 (2.16%) Android
3 4 (2.16%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.62%) Linux
5 2 (1.08%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (49.73%) Cybersecurity
2 55 (29.73%) Cloud Security
3 39 (21.08%) DevOps
4 37 (20.00%) SIEM
5 31 (16.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 30 (16.22%) Information Security
6 30 (16.22%) Security Operations
7 28 (15.14%) Incident Response
8 26 (14.05%) CI/CD
9 22 (11.89%) Agile
10 21 (11.35%) Data Loss Prevention
10 21 (11.35%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (10.81%) Roadmaps
11 20 (10.81%) Vulnerability Management
12 19 (10.27%) Key Management
12 19 (10.27%) Secrets Management
12 19 (10.27%) Use Case
13 17 (9.19%) Mentoring
13 17 (9.19%) Vulnerability Remediation
14 16 (8.65%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 46 (24.86%) Python
2 27 (14.59%) PowerShell
3 6 (3.24%) Kusto Query Language
4 5 (2.70%) SQL
5 4 (2.16%) C#
6 1 (0.54%) Bash
6 1 (0.54%) C
6 1 (0.54%) C++
6 1 (0.54%) Embedded C
6 1 (0.54%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.54%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 41 (22.16%) CISSP
2 21 (11.35%) CEH
3 16 (8.65%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (6.49%) Degree
5 10 (5.41%) CCSP
6 8 (4.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 8 (4.32%) SANS
7 6 (3.24%) CRISC
7 6 (3.24%) GIAC
8 5 (2.70%) CCNA
9 4 (2.16%) CCNP
9 4 (2.16%) CISM
9 4 (2.16%) ISSMP
9 4 (2.16%) SSCP
10 3 (1.62%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.62%) CCSK
10 3 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.62%) GSEC
10 3 (1.62%) RIBA
11 2 (1.08%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (4.86%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 9 (4.86%) NIST
2 5 (2.70%) COBIT
3 4 (2.16%) NCSC
3 4 (2.16%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.08%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.54%) GDPR
System Software
1 28 (15.14%) Active Directory
2 14 (7.57%) Docker
3 4 (2.16%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.54%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (12.43%) Terraform
2 17 (9.19%) Kubernetes
3 14 (7.57%) Ansible
4 13 (7.03%) Single Sign-On
5 12 (6.49%) CA Single Sign-On
6 5 (2.70%) CASB
7 4 (2.16%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (2.16%) Nmap
8 3 (1.62%) Cisco CUCM
8 3 (1.62%) Stealthwatch
9 2 (1.08%) CSIRT
9 2 (1.08%) Grafana
9 2 (1.08%) Nessus
Vendors
1 50 (27.03%) Microsoft
2 27 (14.59%) CyberArk
3 16 (8.65%) Google
4 13 (7.03%) CA
4 13 (7.03%) Cisco
5 12 (6.49%) ServiceNow
6 11 (5.95%) Qualys
7 9 (4.86%) Splunk
8 8 (4.32%) CheckPoint
8 8 (4.32%) Palo Alto
9 7 (3.78%) ArcSight
9 7 (3.78%) Atlassian
9 7 (3.78%) Carbon Black
9 7 (3.78%) McAfee
10 6 (3.24%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (3.24%) SolarWinds
11 5 (2.70%) Rapid7
12 4 (2.16%) Alibaba
12 4 (2.16%) Netskope
12 4 (2.16%) Thycotic