Network Security Jobs with Work from Home Options

Network Security
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 Network Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Network Security over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 242 222 349
Rank change year-on-year -20 +127 -43
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 450 583 752
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.28% 1.54% 1.00%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.59% 13.42% 8.64%
Number of salaries quoted 363 412 472
10th Percentile £41,800 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,400 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,526 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% +3.52% -4.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £76,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

Network Security is in the Communications and Computer Networking 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 communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,241 4,345 8,699
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.86% 11.51% 11.52%
Number of salaries quoted 3,312 3,271 5,173
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%

Network Security
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Network Security trend for jobs with a WFH option

Network Security
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Network Security salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Network Security
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Network Security over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Network Security salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Network Security
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 16 (3.56%) SharePoint
2 14 (3.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.56%) Apache
4 4 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.44%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.44%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.44%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.22%) Confluence
6 1 (0.22%) IIS
6 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (1.11%) FrameMaker
1 5 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (1.11%) RoboHelp
2 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (0.67%) Oracle ERP
1 3 (0.67%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 2 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 156 (34.67%) Azure
2 77 (17.11%) AWS
3 65 (14.44%) Microsoft 365
4 40 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (5.56%) Entra ID
6 24 (5.33%) Power Platform
7 23 (5.11%) SaaS
8 22 (4.89%) Cloud Computing
9 15 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
9 15 (3.33%) PaaS
10 14 (3.11%) Microsoft Purview
11 13 (2.89%) Azure Data Factory
11 13 (2.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 12 (2.67%) Serverless
13 11 (2.44%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
14 10 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (2.22%) Amazon S3
14 10 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
15 9 (2.00%) IaaS
16 8 (1.78%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 200 (44.44%) Firewall
2 129 (28.67%) LAN
3 123 (27.33%) WAN
4 86 (19.11%) VPN
5 57 (12.67%) SD-WAN
6 54 (12.00%) TCP/IP
7 53 (11.78%) DNS
8 50 (11.11%) Wireless
9 47 (10.44%) Wi-Fi
10 31 (6.89%) Intrusion Detection
10 31 (6.89%) WLAN
11 28 (6.22%) BGP
12 26 (5.78%) OSPF
13 24 (5.33%) VLAN
14 21 (4.67%) DHCP
14 21 (4.67%) MPLS
15 20 (4.44%) Cisco Nexus
15 20 (4.44%) SAN
16 17 (3.78%) Wireshark
17 16 (3.56%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (4.22%) Power BI
2 16 (3.56%) SQL Server
3 14 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (2.89%) Azure SQL Database
5 11 (2.44%) Data Lake
5 11 (2.44%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 10 (2.22%) NoSQL
7 7 (1.56%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.33%) Redis
8 6 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.11%) Flink
9 5 (1.11%) InfluxDB
10 4 (0.89%) Tableau
11 2 (0.44%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.44%) Big Data
11 2 (0.44%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (2.44%) Git
1 11 (2.44%) JIRA
2 7 (1.56%) Jasmine
2 7 (1.56%) NUnit
2 7 (1.56%) Selenium
2 7 (1.56%) Team Foundation Server
2 7 (1.56%) TeamCity
2 7 (1.56%) Visual Studio
2 7 (1.56%) Visual Studio Code
3 6 (1.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.22%) GitLab
General
1 76 (16.89%) Social Skills
2 63 (14.00%) Finance
3 60 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 33 (7.33%) Public Sector
5 19 (4.22%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (3.11%) Aerospace
7 12 (2.67%) Games
8 11 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (2.44%) Telecoms
9 10 (2.22%) Legal
10 7 (1.56%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.33%) Law
11 6 (1.33%) Retail
12 5 (1.11%) Marketing
12 5 (1.11%) Police
13 4 (0.89%) Electronics
13 4 (0.89%) Japanese Language
13 4 (0.89%) Publishing
14 3 (0.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 118 (26.22%) Network Engineer
2 114 (25.33%) Senior
3 67 (14.89%) Security Engineer
4 47 (10.44%) Senior Network Engineer
5 46 (10.22%) Software Engineer
6 42 (9.33%) Architect
7 41 (9.11%) Network Security Engineer
8 29 (6.44%) IT Engineer
8 29 (6.44%) Senior Security Engineer
9 28 (6.22%) Analyst
10 27 (6.00%) Consultant
10 27 (6.00%) Lead
11 25 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 24 (5.33%) Data Engineer
13 22 (4.89%) Azure Engineer
13 22 (4.89%) DevOps Engineer
13 22 (4.89%) Network Manager
13 22 (4.89%) Senior Network Security Engineer
14 19 (4.22%) Network Architect
14 19 (4.22%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.33%) CSS
2 13 (2.89%) HTML
3 11 (2.44%) RESTful
4 9 (2.00%) .NET
4 9 (2.00%) ARM Templates
5 8 (1.78%) ASP.NET
5 8 (1.78%) LDAP
6 7 (1.56%) .NET Core
6 7 (1.56%) .NET Framework
6 7 (1.56%) DPDK
6 7 (1.56%) Entity Framework
6 7 (1.56%) HTML5
6 7 (1.56%) OpenID
7 5 (1.11%) 802.1X
7 5 (1.11%) Kafka
7 5 (1.11%) Middleware
7 5 (1.11%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (1.11%) XMPP
8 4 (0.89%) AngularJS
8 4 (0.89%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 60 (13.33%) Data Centre
2 37 (8.22%) Management Information System
3 23 (5.11%) Self-Motivation
4 20 (4.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 17 (3.78%) Security Operations Centre
6 15 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (3.33%) Product Ownership
7 14 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (2.67%) Cyber Threat
8 12 (2.67%) Driving Licence
8 12 (2.67%) Security Posture
9 10 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (2.22%) Public Cloud
10 9 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (1.33%) PKI
12 5 (1.11%) Algorithms
12 5 (1.11%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.11%) IoT
13 4 (0.89%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 4 (0.89%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 78 (17.33%) Windows
2 64 (14.22%) Linux
3 26 (5.78%) Windows Server
4 17 (3.78%) Apple iOS
5 16 (3.56%) Android
6 14 (3.11%) Unix
6 14 (3.11%) VMS
7 10 (2.22%) Windows Server 2012
7 10 (2.22%) Windows Server 2016
7 10 (2.22%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.67%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.44%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.44%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (28.89%) Cybersecurity
2 70 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
3 69 (15.33%) Information Security
4 68 (15.11%) DevOps
5 64 (14.22%) Agile
6 58 (12.89%) Software Engineering
7 54 (12.00%) SIEM
8 53 (11.78%) Cloud Security
9 52 (11.56%) Computer Science
10 47 (10.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 46 (10.22%) ITIL
11 46 (10.22%) Roadmaps
12 45 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
13 40 (8.89%) Project Management
13 40 (8.89%) Security Operations
13 40 (8.89%) Zero Trust
14 39 (8.67%) Analytics
15 35 (7.78%) Mentoring
16 33 (7.33%) Network Monitoring
16 33 (7.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 61 (13.56%) Python
2 42 (9.33%) PowerShell
3 34 (7.56%) SQL
4 20 (4.44%) JavaScript
5 19 (4.22%) Java
6 18 (4.00%) C#
7 17 (3.78%) C++
8 15 (3.33%) C
9 12 (2.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 11 (2.44%) U-SQL
11 9 (2.00%) Bicep
12 6 (1.33%) Bash
13 5 (1.11%) Go
13 5 (1.11%) Shell Script
13 5 (1.11%) VBA
14 4 (0.89%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.22%) VB
Qualifications
1 95 (21.11%) Cisco Certification
2 71 (15.78%) Degree
3 70 (15.56%) CCNP
4 57 (12.67%) CISSP
4 57 (12.67%) Security Cleared
5 46 (10.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 34 (7.56%) CCNA
7 32 (7.11%) SC Cleared
8 24 (5.33%) CCIE
9 20 (4.44%) CCSP
9 20 (4.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 19 (4.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 18 (4.00%) DV Cleared
12 14 (3.11%) SANS
13 13 (2.89%) CEH
13 13 (2.89%) CISM
14 12 (2.67%) Azure Certification
15 11 (2.44%) SSCP
16 9 (2.00%) CompTIA Security+
16 9 (2.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (12.44%) NIST
2 34 (7.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (5.11%) PCI DSS
4 11 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials
5 10 (2.22%) NCSC
6 7 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 7 (1.56%) GDPR
7 6 (1.33%) SLA
8 4 (0.89%) COBIT
9 3 (0.67%) GRC
9 3 (0.67%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.44%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.44%) GxP
10 2 (0.44%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.44%) PMO
10 2 (0.44%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.22%) DO-254
11 1 (0.22%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 42 (9.33%) Active Directory
2 15 (3.33%) Hyper-V
3 14 (3.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (2.89%) Docker
4 13 (2.89%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.44%) Firmware
5 2 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.22%) NFS
6 1 (0.22%) Snort
6 1 (0.22%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (7.78%) WSUS
2 31 (6.89%) Terraform
3 26 (5.78%) Kubernetes
4 24 (5.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (3.11%) SCCM
6 13 (2.89%) Ansible
7 12 (2.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 11 (2.44%) Nmap
9 10 (2.22%) Grafana
9 10 (2.22%) Prometheus
10 7 (1.56%) FortiGate
10 7 (1.56%) MIIS
11 5 (1.11%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (1.11%) Progress Chef
11 5 (1.11%) SCOM
12 4 (0.89%) Cisco Prime
13 3 (0.67%) Nagios
13 3 (0.67%) OfficeScan
14 2 (0.44%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 2 (0.44%) QRadar
Vendors
1 155 (34.44%) Cisco
2 115 (25.56%) Microsoft
3 60 (13.33%) Palo Alto
4 40 (8.89%) Fortinet
5 33 (7.33%) Meraki
6 31 (6.89%) Juniper
7 30 (6.67%) CheckPoint
8 29 (6.44%) Splunk
9 27 (6.00%) VMware
10 19 (4.22%) SolarWinds
11 17 (3.78%) Qualys
12 16 (3.56%) Blue Coat
13 15 (3.33%) Aruba
13 15 (3.33%) ServiceNow
13 15 (3.33%) Zscaler
14 13 (2.89%) Databricks
15 12 (2.67%) Apple
15 12 (2.67%) Infoblox
15 12 (2.67%) Riverbed
16 11 (2.44%) Thycotic