Security Operations Jobs with Work from Home Options

Security Operations (SecOps)
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 Security Operations skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Security Operations over the 6 months to 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 290 342 425
Rank change year-on-year +52 +83 -108
Permanent jobs citing Security Operations 366 337 602
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.04% 0.89% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 0.92% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 221 263 444
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -7.41% +12.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -10.71% +12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Security Operations 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 31,643 36,464 73,536
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 89.74% 96.03% 97.13%
Number of salaries quoted 23,633 25,914 42,367
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
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 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

Security Operations
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Security Operations trend for jobs with a WFH option

Security Operations
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Security Operations salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Security Operations
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Security Operations over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Security Operations salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Security Operations
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 22 (6.01%) SAS
2 5 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.82%) Confluence
4 2 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 9 (2.46%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 111 (30.33%) Azure
2 73 (19.95%) Microsoft 365
3 61 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 26 (7.10%) SaaS
5 24 (6.56%) Azure Sentinel
6 22 (6.01%) AWS
7 16 (4.37%) Azure AKS
8 14 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (3.28%) GCP
9 12 (3.28%) Microsoft Purview
10 11 (3.01%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (1.09%) IaaS
11 4 (1.09%) PaaS
12 3 (0.82%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 3 (0.82%) AWS CloudTrail
12 3 (0.82%) AWS Control Tower
13 2 (0.55%) GitHub
13 2 (0.55%) OCI
13 2 (0.55%) Pendo
14 1 (0.27%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 64 (17.49%) Firewall
2 40 (10.93%) Network Security
3 23 (6.28%) TCP/IP
4 18 (4.92%) Intrusion Detection
5 17 (4.64%) Wireshark
6 14 (3.83%) LAN
7 13 (3.55%) WAN
8 8 (2.19%) DNS
9 6 (1.64%) Internet
10 5 (1.37%) DHCP
11 3 (0.82%) Broadband
12 2 (0.55%) HTTP
12 2 (0.55%) OSPF
12 2 (0.55%) SMTP
12 2 (0.55%) VPN
12 2 (0.55%) Wireless
12 2 (0.55%) WLAN
13 1 (0.27%) NGN
13 1 (0.27%) SSL
13 1 (0.27%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.37%) BigQuery
1 5 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (1.37%) Hadoop
1 5 (1.37%) Relational Database
2 3 (0.82%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (0.82%) GitLab
1 3 (0.82%) JIRA
2 2 (0.55%) Bitbucket
2 2 (0.55%) Git
3 1 (0.27%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 115 (31.42%) Finance
2 89 (24.32%) Social Skills
3 76 (20.77%) Legal
4 57 (15.57%) Banking
5 26 (7.10%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (5.74%) Law
7 20 (5.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (3.83%) Military
9 12 (3.28%) Retail
10 10 (2.73%) Health Technology
11 7 (1.91%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.37%) Public Sector
14 3 (0.82%) Turkish Language
15 2 (0.55%) Back Office
15 2 (0.55%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.55%) Publishing
15 2 (0.55%) Telecoms
16 1 (0.27%) Organisational Skills
16 1 (0.27%) Police
Job Titles
1 149 (40.71%) Analyst
2 92 (25.14%) Senior
3 72 (19.67%) Senior Analyst
4 71 (19.40%) Security Engineer
5 50 (13.66%) Governance Analyst
5 50 (13.66%) Security Analyst
6 35 (9.56%) SOC Analyst
7 29 (7.92%) Consultant
7 29 (7.92%) Lead
8 27 (7.38%) Security Consultant
9 26 (7.10%) Developer
10 25 (6.83%) Security Manager
10 25 (6.83%) Senior Security Engineer
10 25 (6.83%) ServiceNow Developer
11 23 (6.28%) Azure Engineer
11 23 (6.28%) Cybersecurity Analyst
12 22 (6.01%) Cybersecurity Consultant
13 20 (5.46%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 19 (5.19%) IT Engineer
14 19 (5.19%) IT Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (6.28%) AngularJS
2 22 (6.01%) CSS
2 22 (6.01%) HTML
2 22 (6.01%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 22 (6.01%) Web Services
3 4 (1.09%) SAML
4 3 (0.82%) ADO
4 3 (0.82%) OAuth
4 3 (0.82%) OpenID
5 2 (0.55%) Kafka
5 2 (0.55%) Middleware
5 2 (0.55%) REST
5 2 (0.55%) SOAP
6 1 (0.27%) .NET
6 1 (0.27%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.27%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (0.27%) pytest
6 1 (0.27%) React
6 1 (0.27%) RESTful
6 1 (0.27%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 110 (30.05%) Management Information System
2 63 (17.21%) Security Operations Centre
3 43 (11.75%) Cyber Threat
4 30 (8.20%) Cyberattack
5 27 (7.38%) CMDB
5 27 (7.38%) Security Posture
6 22 (6.01%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (4.10%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 12 (3.28%) Product Ownership
9 9 (2.46%) Algorithms
9 9 (2.46%) Client/Server
9 9 (2.46%) Data Structures
10 8 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.91%) Cyber Defence
12 6 (1.64%) Cybercrime
12 6 (1.64%) IoT
13 5 (1.37%) Blog
13 5 (1.37%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 3 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
14 3 (0.82%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 70 (19.13%) Windows
2 27 (7.38%) Linux
3 15 (4.10%) Mac OS X
3 15 (4.10%) Unix
4 11 (3.01%) Android
4 11 (3.01%) Apple iOS
5 9 (2.46%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.55%) AIX
6 2 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.27%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (68.03%) Cybersecurity
2 151 (41.26%) Incident Response
3 143 (39.07%) Information Security
4 120 (32.79%) SIEM
5 85 (23.22%) Agile
6 84 (22.95%) Incident Management
7 81 (22.13%) Roadmaps
8 69 (18.85%) Identity Access Management
9 62 (16.94%) Privileged Access Management
10 58 (15.85%) Coaching
10 58 (15.85%) Vulnerability Management
11 55 (15.03%) Risk Management
12 54 (14.75%) RBAC
13 51 (13.93%) Technical Leadership
14 50 (13.66%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
14 50 (13.66%) Threat Intelligence
15 47 (12.84%) DevOps
16 46 (12.57%) ITIL
17 39 (10.66%) Actionable Insight
17 39 (10.66%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 86 (23.50%) PowerShell
2 57 (15.57%) SQL
3 20 (5.46%) Python
4 12 (3.28%) Kusto Query Language
5 6 (1.64%) Java
6 4 (1.09%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.82%) Go
8 2 (0.55%) Scala
9 1 (0.27%) C
9 1 (0.27%) C#
Qualifications
1 63 (17.21%) CISSP
2 50 (13.66%) Degree
3 30 (8.20%) CISM
4 21 (5.74%) Security Cleared
5 20 (5.46%) Cisco Certification
6 18 (4.92%) SC Cleared
7 17 (4.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 16 (4.37%) CCSP
8 16 (4.37%) CEH
8 16 (4.37%) GCIA
9 14 (3.83%) GCIH
10 13 (3.55%) CompTIA Security+
10 13 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (3.55%) GIAC
10 13 (3.55%) GREM
10 13 (3.55%) SANS
10 13 (3.55%) SSCP
11 10 (2.73%) CISA
11 10 (2.73%) Numerate Degree
12 7 (1.91%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (21.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 49 (13.39%) NIST
3 34 (9.29%) PCI DSS
4 27 (7.38%) GRC
5 25 (6.83%) GDPR
6 23 (6.28%) Cyber Essentials
7 22 (6.01%) JSP 440
8 18 (4.92%) NCSC
9 8 (2.19%) SOC 2
10 7 (1.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (1.37%) Data Quality
11 5 (1.37%) NIST 800
11 5 (1.37%) QA
12 3 (0.82%) Accessibility
13 2 (0.55%) COBIT
13 2 (0.55%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.55%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
14 1 (0.27%) GxP
14 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 86 (23.50%) Active Directory
2 50 (13.66%) RACF
3 14 (3.83%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.82%) Docker
4 3 (0.82%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.27%) Snort
6 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.27%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 19 (5.19%) Kubernetes
2 18 (4.92%) Terraform
3 14 (3.83%) QRadar
4 11 (3.01%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (3.01%) Nmap
5 5 (1.37%) CSIRT
5 5 (1.37%) logstash
5 5 (1.37%) Nessus
6 4 (1.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (1.09%) CASB
7 3 (0.82%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 3 (0.82%) SCCM
8 2 (0.55%) DatAdvantage
8 2 (0.55%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
9 1 (0.27%) Ansible
9 1 (0.27%) Grafana
9 1 (0.27%) Network Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.27%) Stealthwatch
9 1 (0.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 138 (37.70%) Microsoft
2 50 (13.66%) CyberArk
3 34 (9.29%) Qualys
4 31 (8.47%) ServiceNow
5 30 (8.20%) Splunk
6 19 (5.19%) CrowdStrike
7 15 (4.10%) IBM
8 13 (3.55%) Dell
9 12 (3.28%) Rapid7
10 11 (3.01%) Thycotic
11 9 (2.46%) Cisco
12 5 (1.37%) Google
12 5 (1.37%) LogRhythm
13 4 (1.09%) Darktrace
14 3 (0.82%) McAfee
14 3 (0.82%) Sun
14 3 (0.82%) Symantec
14 3 (0.82%) Tripwire
14 3 (0.82%) Varonis
14 3 (0.82%) VMware