Cybersecurity Jobs with Work from Home Options

Cybersecurity
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Cybersecurity skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 53 78
Rank change year-on-year +10 +25 +30
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,878 2,230 3,213
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 5.55% 5.52% 4.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.08% 5.75% 4.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,259 1,585 1,699
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,294 £39,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Cybersecurity is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,883 38,813 68,245
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.21% 96.05% 97.04%
Number of salaries quoted 23,380 26,991 41,246
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Cybersecurity
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cybersecurity trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cybersecurity.

Cybersecurity salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Cybersecurity salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 75 (3.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 57 (3.04%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.44%) IIS
4 25 (1.33%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.27%) Apache
6 4 (0.21%) Confluence
7 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.16%) Luigi
8 2 (0.11%) CMS
8 2 (0.11%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.11%) nginx
8 2 (0.11%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.053%) WordPress
Applications
1 56 (2.98%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.32%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.32%) Trello
5 4 (0.21%) Windchill
6 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.053%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 3 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.11%) Primavera
2 2 (0.11%) SAP FI-GL
Cloud Services
1 634 (33.76%) Azure
2 313 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 303 (16.13%) Entra ID
4 182 (9.69%) AWS
5 141 (7.51%) SaaS
6 94 (5.01%) GCP
7 50 (2.66%) Amazon S3
7 50 (2.66%) PaaS
8 48 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
9 45 (2.40%) Cloud Computing
10 40 (2.13%) IaaS
11 34 (1.81%) GitHub
12 31 (1.65%) Azure Sentinel
13 30 (1.60%) Serverless
14 24 (1.28%) Amazon SQS
14 24 (1.28%) Slack
15 23 (1.22%) Google Docs
15 23 (1.22%) Lucidchart
15 23 (1.22%) Miro
16 21 (1.12%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 278 (14.80%) Firewall
2 224 (11.93%) Broadband
3 219 (11.66%) 5G
4 125 (6.66%) WAN
5 116 (6.18%) Network Security
6 75 (3.99%) SD-WAN
7 67 (3.57%) DNS
8 66 (3.51%) LAN
9 65 (3.46%) TCP/IP
10 59 (3.14%) Wi-Fi
11 54 (2.88%) Intrusion Detection
12 48 (2.56%) Wireless
13 38 (2.02%) Unified Communications
14 37 (1.97%) DHCP
14 37 (1.97%) Internet
15 33 (1.76%) VPN
16 28 (1.49%) Cisco Firepower
17 27 (1.44%) Wireshark
18 26 (1.38%) MPLS
19 17 (0.91%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (2.45%) SQL Server
2 37 (1.97%) Big Data
3 36 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
4 34 (1.81%) Hadoop
5 27 (1.44%) Redis
6 24 (1.28%) MongoDB
7 23 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
7 23 (1.22%) Oracle Database
7 23 (1.22%) Scylla
8 19 (1.01%) MySQL
9 17 (0.91%) Power BI
10 15 (0.80%) NoSQL
11 14 (0.75%) Relational Database
12 12 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
14 9 (0.48%) Data Lake
15 7 (0.37%) Tableau
16 5 (0.27%) BigQuery
17 4 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 3 (0.16%) Bigtable
Development Applications
1 44 (2.34%) Jenkins
2 32 (1.70%) JIRA
3 23 (1.22%) Git
4 17 (0.91%) GitLab
4 17 (0.91%) Oracle APEX
5 14 (0.75%) SonarQube
6 8 (0.43%) Metasploit
7 7 (0.37%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
8 5 (0.27%) Burp Suite
9 4 (0.21%) IBM UrbanCode
9 4 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
9 4 (0.21%) Rational Team Concert
9 4 (0.21%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.16%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.16%) Subversion
10 3 (0.16%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.11%) Apache Continuum
11 2 (0.11%) JUnit
11 2 (0.11%) Selenium
General
1 507 (27.00%) Social Skills
2 365 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
3 342 (18.21%) Finance
4 290 (15.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 126 (6.71%) Legal
6 103 (5.48%) Law
7 90 (4.79%) Public Sector
8 70 (3.73%) Telecoms
9 65 (3.46%) Marketing
10 52 (2.77%) Military
11 48 (2.56%) Aerospace
12 43 (2.29%) Banking
12 43 (2.29%) Retail
13 37 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
14 31 (1.65%) Games
15 26 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
15 26 (1.38%) Manufacturing
16 24 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
17 20 (1.06%) Aviation
18 16 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 436 (23.22%) Senior
2 236 (12.57%) Analyst
3 212 (11.29%) Linux Specialist
4 210 (11.18%) Technical Specialist
5 136 (7.24%) Consultant
5 136 (7.24%) Security Engineer
6 130 (6.92%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 129 (6.87%) Senior Linux Specialist
8 127 (6.76%) Senior Technical Specialist
8 127 (6.76%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
9 126 (6.71%) Architect
10 124 (6.60%) Lead
11 114 (6.07%) Software Engineer
12 96 (5.11%) Security Analyst
13 83 (4.42%) IT Manager
13 83 (4.42%) Security Consultant
14 74 (3.94%) Security Manager
15 67 (3.57%) Security Architect
16 63 (3.35%) Cybersecurity Analyst
17 62 (3.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (2.02%) HTML
2 37 (1.97%) CSS
3 32 (1.70%) Kafka
4 30 (1.60%) JSON
5 28 (1.49%) REST
6 23 (1.22%) GraphQL
7 22 (1.17%) jQuery
8 17 (0.91%) Node.js
9 15 (0.80%) .NET
9 15 (0.80%) OAuth
10 14 (0.75%) Flask
11 12 (0.64%) Django
12 11 (0.59%) AngularJS
12 11 (0.59%) Microsoft Graph
12 11 (0.59%) OpenID
12 11 (0.59%) React
12 11 (0.59%) SAML
12 11 (0.59%) Web Services
13 10 (0.53%) Elastic Stack
13 10 (0.53%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 215 (11.45%) Social Media
2 187 (9.96%) Management Information System
3 164 (8.73%) Data Centre
4 92 (4.90%) Cyber Threat
5 73 (3.89%) Self-Motivation
6 72 (3.83%) Security Posture
7 64 (3.41%) Operational Technology
8 59 (3.14%) Public Cloud
9 54 (2.88%) IoT
10 53 (2.82%) Onboarding
11 48 (2.56%) Security Operations Centre
12 44 (2.34%) Cyberattack
13 40 (2.13%) Private Cloud
14 39 (2.08%) Product Ownership
15 34 (1.81%) Data Structures
16 29 (1.54%) Client/Server
17 27 (1.44%) Driving Licence
18 26 (1.38%) Virtual Team
19 24 (1.28%) Algorithms
20 20 (1.06%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 373 (19.86%) Linux
2 329 (17.52%) Windows
3 216 (11.50%) Ubuntu
4 122 (6.50%) Windows Server
5 78 (4.15%) Windows 10
6 52 (2.77%) Embedded Linux
7 48 (2.56%) Unix
8 40 (2.13%) Apple iOS
9 37 (1.97%) Android
10 28 (1.49%) Mac OS
11 24 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
12 20 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
13 18 (0.96%) Mac OS X
13 18 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
14 12 (0.64%) VMS
15 6 (0.32%) Debian
16 5 (0.27%) Kali Linux
17 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2003
18 2 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (16.61%) Information Security
2 300 (15.97%) Problem-Solving
3 250 (13.31%) Artificial Intelligence
4 240 (12.78%) IT Strategy
5 233 (12.41%) CRM
6 232 (12.35%) Incident Response
7 227 (12.09%) Technology Strategy
8 221 (11.77%) Security Operations
9 213 (11.34%) SIEM
10 200 (10.65%) Mentoring
11 185 (9.85%) Presales
12 169 (9.00%) Agile
12 169 (9.00%) Risk Management
13 163 (8.68%) ITIL
14 155 (8.25%) DevOps
15 153 (8.15%) Software Engineering
16 149 (7.93%) Software Licensing
17 148 (7.88%) Penetration Testing
18 137 (7.29%) Cloud Security
19 122 (6.50%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 337 (17.94%) Bash
2 245 (13.05%) Python
3 108 (5.75%) SQL
4 97 (5.17%) PowerShell
5 68 (3.62%) Java
6 64 (3.41%) C
7 57 (3.04%) Rust
8 50 (2.66%) Embedded C
9 45 (2.40%) JavaScript
10 33 (1.76%) Go
11 26 (1.38%) C#
12 23 (1.22%) Scala
13 17 (0.91%) C++
13 17 (0.91%) PL/SQL
14 16 (0.85%) Perl
15 10 (0.53%) Ruby
16 9 (0.48%) R
16 9 (0.48%) TypeScript
17 6 (0.32%) PHP
18 5 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 321 (17.09%) Degree
2 273 (14.54%) Security Cleared
3 189 (10.06%) CISSP
4 118 (6.28%) CISM
5 112 (5.96%) SC Cleared
6 104 (5.54%) Cisco Certification
7 73 (3.89%) CCNA
8 67 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
9 64 (3.41%) CCNP
10 58 (3.09%) Microsoft Certification
11 54 (2.88%) CEH
12 45 (2.40%) GIAC
13 44 (2.34%) DV Cleared
14 43 (2.29%) Azure Certification
15 40 (2.13%) CRISC
16 34 (1.81%) CompTIA Security+
17 33 (1.76%) SSCP
18 32 (1.70%) CREST Certified
19 31 (1.65%) AWS Certification
20 29 (1.54%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 245 (13.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 185 (9.85%) NIST
3 143 (7.61%) Cyber Essentials
4 87 (4.63%) GDPR
4 87 (4.63%) NCSC
5 73 (3.89%) PCI DSS
6 52 (2.77%) GRC
7 49 (2.61%) QA
8 42 (2.24%) SLA
9 39 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 39 (2.08%) JSP 440
10 23 (1.22%) NIST 800
11 22 (1.17%) SOC 2
12 19 (1.01%) COBIT
13 18 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 15 (0.80%) Data Quality
14 15 (0.80%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 13 (0.69%) ISO 9001
16 12 (0.64%) Accessibility
16 12 (0.64%) RMADS
System Software
1 446 (23.75%) Active Directory
2 71 (3.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 66 (3.51%) Docker
4 48 (2.56%) Hyper-V
5 22 (1.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 16 (0.85%) vSphere
7 14 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
8 12 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.59%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 10 (0.53%) Firmware
10 10 (0.53%) RACF
11 9 (0.48%) Forefront TMG
11 9 (0.48%) VMware Workstation
12 7 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
13 4 (0.21%) XenApp
14 2 (0.11%) Terminal Services
14 2 (0.11%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.053%) Snort
Systems Management
1 318 (16.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 210 (11.18%) Jamf Pro
3 76 (4.05%) Terraform
4 66 (3.51%) Kubernetes
5 46 (2.45%) Ansible
6 35 (1.86%) WSUS
7 24 (1.28%) Puppet
7 24 (1.28%) Stealthwatch
8 22 (1.17%) CASB
8 22 (1.17%) vCenter Server
9 21 (1.12%) Nessus
10 20 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
11 18 (0.96%) Nmap
12 15 (0.80%) QRadar
12 15 (0.80%) SCCM
13 10 (0.53%) Grafana
14 9 (0.48%) Graphite
14 9 (0.48%) HAProxy
14 9 (0.48%) Nagios
14 9 (0.48%) SCOM
Vendors
1 740 (39.40%) Microsoft
2 227 (12.09%) CyberArk
3 210 (11.18%) Tanium
4 172 (9.16%) Apple
5 150 (7.99%) Adobe
6 130 (6.92%) Cisco
7 102 (5.43%) VMware
8 93 (4.95%) Dell
9 85 (4.53%) Google
10 69 (3.67%) Meraki
11 48 (2.56%) HP
12 46 (2.45%) Splunk
13 42 (2.24%) Qualys
14 41 (2.18%) Oracle
15 37 (1.97%) Fortinet
16 34 (1.81%) CrowdStrike
17 32 (1.70%) Samsung
18 28 (1.49%) ServiceNow
19 25 (1.33%) Intel
20 20 (1.06%) IBM