Security Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Security Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Security Engineer salary in Work from Home is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 351 332 381
Rank change year-on-year -19 +49 -43
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 265 363 653
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.78% 0.91% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 0.95% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 253 300 413
10th Percentile £32,800 £38,688 £41,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,500 £69,200
Median % change year-on-year -8.40% -5.35% +15.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,928 £83,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £68,515 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.43% +5.41% +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 32,799 38,220 70,133
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.15% 95.93% 97.34%
Number of salaries quoted 25,104 27,164 42,160
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Security Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Security Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Security Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Security Engineer
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 Engineer.

Security Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Security Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Security Engineer over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

Security Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 25 May 2024, Security Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with remote work options featuring Security Engineer in the job title.

1 149 (56.23%) Cybersecurity
2 133 (50.19%) Azure
3 82 (30.94%) Microsoft
4 72 (27.17%) Cloud Security
5 71 (26.79%) Security Operations
6 68 (25.66%) Finance
7 67 (25.28%) DevOps
8 63 (23.77%) Microsoft 365
9 61 (23.02%) SIEM
10 60 (22.64%) Network Security
11 59 (22.26%) AWS
12 57 (21.51%) Firewall
13 55 (20.75%) NIST
14 52 (19.62%) Information Security
15 51 (19.25%) Python
16 50 (18.87%) Incident Response
17 49 (18.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
18 47 (17.74%) Windows
19 46 (17.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 46 (17.36%) Terraform
20 38 (14.34%) Agile
20 38 (14.34%) PowerShell
20 38 (14.34%) Vulnerability Management
21 37 (13.96%) CISSP
21 37 (13.96%) Public Cloud
22 35 (13.21%) Infrastructure as Code
23 34 (12.83%) Coaching
24 33 (12.45%) Mentoring
24 33 (12.45%) Problem-Solving
24 33 (12.45%) Social Skills

Security Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.89%) Trello
2 4 (1.51%) AutoCAD
2 4 (1.51%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 133 (50.19%) Azure
2 63 (23.77%) Microsoft 365
3 59 (22.26%) AWS
4 30 (11.32%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (10.57%) GCP
6 21 (7.92%) PaaS
7 20 (7.55%) Entra ID
8 17 (6.42%) Azure Sentinel
8 17 (6.42%) GitHub
9 15 (5.66%) Microsoft Purview
10 14 (5.28%) Cloud Computing
11 13 (4.91%) SaaS
12 12 (4.53%) AWS KMS
12 12 (4.53%) Azure Key Vault
13 10 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (3.77%) Azure AKS
14 7 (2.64%) Amazon S3
15 6 (2.26%) AWS CloudFormation
16 5 (1.89%) AWS Direct Connect
16 5 (1.89%) ClickUp
Communications & Networking
1 60 (22.64%) Network Security
2 57 (21.51%) Firewall
3 31 (11.70%) LAN
4 23 (8.68%) WAN
5 16 (6.04%) TCP/IP
6 15 (5.66%) Wireshark
7 13 (4.91%) DNS
8 12 (4.53%) Wireless
9 8 (3.02%) SD-WAN
10 7 (2.64%) BGP
10 7 (2.64%) OSPF
11 6 (2.26%) Internet
11 6 (2.26%) Intrusion Detection
12 5 (1.89%) Cisco ASA
12 5 (1.89%) Cisco IPT
12 5 (1.89%) Cisco Nexus
12 5 (1.89%) DMVPN
12 5 (1.89%) EIGRP
12 5 (1.89%) VLAN
12 5 (1.89%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.02%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.89%) BigQuery
2 5 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (1.89%) Hadoop
2 5 (1.89%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.51%) InfluxDB
3 4 (1.51%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 22 (8.30%) Jenkins
2 13 (4.91%) GitLab
3 5 (1.89%) JIRA
4 4 (1.51%) JMeter
4 4 (1.51%) Postman
4 4 (1.51%) SoapUI
5 3 (1.13%) Burp Suite
5 3 (1.13%) Metasploit
5 3 (1.13%) sqlmap
General
1 68 (25.66%) Finance
2 33 (12.45%) Social Skills
3 30 (11.32%) Banking
4 15 (5.66%) Law
4 15 (5.66%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.15%) Retail
6 10 (3.77%) Health Technology
6 10 (3.77%) Tech for Good
7 9 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.26%) Welsh Language
10 5 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
11 4 (1.51%) Publishing
12 3 (1.13%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.75%) Electronics
13 2 (0.75%) French Language
13 2 (0.75%) German Language
13 2 (0.75%) Italian Language
13 2 (0.75%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.75%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.26%) OAuth
2 5 (1.89%) 802.1X
2 5 (1.89%) XMPP
3 4 (1.51%) Kafka
3 4 (1.51%) OAuth2
3 4 (1.51%) SOAP
3 4 (1.51%) XML
4 3 (1.13%) CSS
5 2 (0.75%) JWT
6 1 (0.38%) Django
6 1 (0.38%) Flask
6 1 (0.38%) HTML
6 1 (0.38%) Jinja
6 1 (0.38%) Pyramid
Miscellaneous
1 37 (13.96%) Public Cloud
2 29 (10.94%) Management Information System
3 25 (9.43%) Security Operations Centre
4 17 (6.42%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (6.42%) Product Ownership
5 15 (5.66%) PKI
6 13 (4.91%) Cyberattack
7 12 (4.53%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (4.53%) Private Cloud
8 11 (4.15%) Data Centre
9 10 (3.77%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (3.40%) Cyber Threat
11 8 (3.02%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 8 (3.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 7 (2.64%) Operational Technology
13 6 (2.26%) Cybercrime
14 5 (1.89%) Blog
14 5 (1.89%) Security Posture
15 4 (1.51%) Cloud Native
15 4 (1.51%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 47 (17.74%) Windows
2 15 (5.66%) Unix
3 13 (4.91%) Android
3 13 (4.91%) Apple iOS
3 13 (4.91%) Windows Server
4 11 (4.15%) Linux
5 9 (3.40%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.89%) Debian
7 4 (1.51%) CentOS
7 4 (1.51%) Solaris
7 4 (1.51%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (1.51%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (56.23%) Cybersecurity
2 72 (27.17%) Cloud Security
3 71 (26.79%) Security Operations
4 67 (25.28%) DevOps
5 61 (23.02%) SIEM
6 52 (19.62%) Information Security
7 50 (18.87%) Incident Response
8 46 (17.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 38 (14.34%) Agile
9 38 (14.34%) Vulnerability Management
10 35 (13.21%) Infrastructure as Code
11 34 (12.83%) Coaching
12 33 (12.45%) Mentoring
12 33 (12.45%) Problem-Solving
13 30 (11.32%) Roadmaps
14 29 (10.94%) Identity Access Management
14 29 (10.94%) Key Management
15 27 (10.19%) Data Loss Prevention
15 27 (10.19%) Secrets Management
16 26 (9.81%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (19.25%) Python
2 38 (14.34%) PowerShell
3 19 (7.17%) Kusto Query Language
4 9 (3.40%) Java
4 9 (3.40%) SQL
5 5 (1.89%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.13%) C#
6 3 (1.13%) Rust
7 2 (0.75%) C++
7 2 (0.75%) Go
7 2 (0.75%) Lua
7 2 (0.75%) Ruby
8 1 (0.38%) Bash
8 1 (0.38%) C
Qualifications
1 37 (13.96%) CISSP
2 29 (10.94%) Cisco Certification
3 24 (9.06%) Degree
4 21 (7.92%) CEH
5 15 (5.66%) CCNA
5 15 (5.66%) SANS
6 14 (5.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 14 (5.28%) CCSP
7 13 (4.91%) SSCP
8 12 (4.53%) CCNP
8 12 (4.53%) CISM
9 10 (3.77%) SC Cleared
9 10 (3.77%) Security Cleared
10 6 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.89%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.51%) AWS Certification
12 4 (1.51%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (1.51%) GIAC
12 4 (1.51%) ISTQB
12 4 (1.51%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (20.75%) NIST
2 49 (18.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (6.79%) PCI DSS
4 12 (4.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 11 (4.15%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (2.26%) GDPR
6 6 (2.26%) QA
6 6 (2.26%) SOC 2
7 5 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (1.89%) Data Quality
8 4 (1.51%) Accessibility
9 3 (1.13%) COBIT
10 2 (0.75%) NCSC
System Software
1 31 (11.70%) Active Directory
2 17 (6.42%) Docker
3 13 (4.91%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 46 (17.36%) Terraform
2 27 (10.19%) Kubernetes
3 25 (9.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (5.66%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (4.91%) Nmap
6 12 (4.53%) CA Single Sign-On
7 7 (2.64%) CASB
8 5 (1.89%) logstash
9 4 (1.51%) Grafana
10 2 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.75%) CSIRT
10 2 (0.75%) QRadar
11 1 (0.38%) Ansible
Vendors
1 82 (30.94%) Microsoft
2 26 (9.81%) Cisco
3 22 (8.30%) Google
4 21 (7.92%) Splunk
5 20 (7.55%) Qualys
6 19 (7.17%) CyberArk
7 16 (6.04%) Rapid7
8 15 (5.66%) ServiceNow
9 13 (4.91%) Palo Alto
9 13 (4.91%) Thycotic
10 12 (4.53%) CA
11 7 (2.64%) CrowdStrike
11 7 (2.64%) Fortinet
12 6 (2.26%) CheckPoint
13 5 (1.89%) VMware
14 4 (1.51%) Forcepoint
14 4 (1.51%) Oracle
15 3 (1.13%) Sophos
15 3 (1.13%) WatchGuard
16 2 (0.75%) SonicWALL