Security Jobs in United Kingdom
There are 3,589 open Security jobs in United Kingdom on freehire right now. 850 of them were posted recently. The skills employers ask for most often are cloud, ai and cybersecurity.
Salary
| Currency | Period | 25th | Median | 75th | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GBP | year | £54,000 | £75,000 | £95,000 | 143 |
| GBP | day | £575 | £650 | £750 | 21 |
From postings that disclose pay. Currencies are counted separately, never converted.
Most requested skills
- cloud 32%
- ai 20%
- cybersecurity 15%
- automation 14%
- aws 14%
- iso-27001 12%
- cloud-security 12%
- azure 12%
How the work is done
- Hybrid 700 · 20%
- Remote 252 · 7%
- Onsite 125 · 3%
Visa sponsorship offered in 39% of the 340 postings that state a position on it.
Seniority
- Senior 596
- Lead 300
- C-level 124
- Principal 110
- Intern 45
- Junior 39
Who is hiring
- 1000+ employees 506
- 501-1000 employees 183
- 51-200 employees 62
- 11-50 employees 19
- 201-500 employees 14
- 1-10 employees 1
Head of Information Security
Lead cybersecurity strategy and operations for a fast-growing AI healthcare startup, securing patient data, cloud infrastructure, and compliance across the US and UK while enabling global scale.

Senior Security Engineer, Platform
Own and mature platform security for AWS, Kubernetes, and GCP, building detection, response, and identity guardrails while partnering with SRE and engineering to scale secure practices.
Senior Manager, Information Security and Compliance
Senior manager builds and runs security controls, audits, and incident response for a biotech firm, ensuring compliance with SOX, GxP, HIPAA, and SOC2 while protecting clinical data and systems.
Software Engineer - Cloud & AI Security
Build backend services for real-time cloud and AI security detection and response using Kubernetes, Docker, Neo4j, ElasticSearch, Redis, TimescaleDB, and RabbitMQ.
Content Security Lead, EMEA, GME Security
Lead Amazon’s EMEA Content Security hub in London, protecting film/TV productions and IP by setting policies, auditing vendors, and managing secure screenings and incident response across MGM Studios, Prime Video, and Ads.