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Hire security engineers in the UK

What security engineers are paid, what to name in the advert, and who you are up against — from the adverts on Cyber Security Jobs, not a survey. Looking for the roles themselves? See Security Engineer jobs.

What you will pay

£36k to £90k, most around £61k

The range employers advertised for security engineers on Cyber Security Jobs over the last 12 months, base salary only, across 241 priced adverts. Adverts that state a salary get more applications than those that hide it, and a figure at or above the midpoint is the single cheapest thing you can do for the response.

Remote or anchored

A fully remote role draws the whole country and can pay a little under the London figure; an anchored one competes locally and cannot.
Greenfield or inherited

Building from nothing is worth more to the right person than running what exists, and they will ask which it is.
Someone senior to learn from

A strong lead in the team is worth thousands on the offer; without one, expect to pay for that experience directly.

Who you are competing with

Hiring security engineers on Cyber Security Jobs right now

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Three live adverts for the role, as candidates see them. How rivals pitch it is worth a look before you write yours.

Appcast Enterprise

Senior Cyber Security Engineer

Farnborough
Hybrid
Senior
Permanent

Lead protective and information security engineering on a critical MOD programme, shaping secure designs, assuring controls, and managing vulnerabilities across infrastructure, endpoints, identity and AWS cloud. Combines hands-on hardening, incident response leadership and ST&V with governance, reporting and mentoring, working largely autonomously on-site in Farnborough with some remote work.

AWS

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eFinancialCareers

AVP Security Engineer - SGI

London
Senior
Permanent

Hands-on security engineering role focused on building and running threat detection, monitoring and response capabilities. You will design SIEM and SOAR solutions, build automation and orchestration workflows, lead threat hunting, and integrate security tooling across infrastructure, cloud and applications. Distinct for its breadth across Microsoft Sentinel, EDR, PAM, KMS and multi-cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP) environments.

Microsoft Sentinel · PowerShell · Python +7

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TTP

Hardware Security Engineer - Consultant

Cambridge
On-site
Mid-level
Permanent

Consultants assess critical systems for cyber-physical vulnerabilities, using a physics-first approach to hardware and software security. Day to day involves deep technical research, reverse engineering, rapid prototyping and building proof-of-concept demonstrators, often interfacing with hardware via JTAG, UART or oscilloscopes. Work spans short projects to multi-year defence programmes in a flat, collaborative team.

JTAG · UART · Oscilloscopes

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