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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 50 79
Rank change year-on-year +7 +29 +30
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,907 2,217 3,380
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 5.48% 5.75% 4.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.08% 5.99% 4.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,258 1,566 1,729
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,294 £38,973
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% - -1.58%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £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 31,355 37,000 72,372
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.11% 96.01% 97.15%
Number of salaries quoted 23,586 26,257 41,808
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 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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 2 June 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 73 (3.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 60 (3.15%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.26%) IIS
4 16 (0.84%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.37%) Apache
6 5 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.26%) Luigi
7 4 (0.21%) Confluence
8 2 (0.10%) CMS
8 2 (0.10%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.10%) SharePoint 2013
8 2 (0.10%) WordPress
9 1 (0.052%) nginx
Applications
1 51 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (0.31%) Trello
5 5 (0.26%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.21%) Windchill
7 2 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 3 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.10%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 648 (33.98%) Azure
2 338 (17.72%) Entra ID
3 315 (16.52%) Microsoft 365
4 175 (9.18%) AWS
5 111 (5.82%) SaaS
6 74 (3.88%) GCP
7 47 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
8 45 (2.36%) PaaS
9 42 (2.20%) Cloud Computing
10 40 (2.10%) Amazon S3
10 40 (2.10%) IaaS
11 33 (1.73%) GitHub
12 32 (1.68%) Azure Sentinel
13 30 (1.57%) Serverless
14 21 (1.10%) Power Platform
15 18 (0.94%) Microsoft Purview
16 15 (0.79%) Amazon EC2
16 15 (0.79%) Amazon SQS
16 15 (0.79%) Google Workspace
16 15 (0.79%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 278 (14.58%) Firewall
2 224 (11.75%) Broadband
3 220 (11.54%) 5G
4 129 (6.76%) Network Security
4 129 (6.76%) WAN
5 79 (4.14%) SD-WAN
6 64 (3.36%) DNS
7 63 (3.30%) LAN
8 61 (3.20%) TCP/IP
9 58 (3.04%) Intrusion Detection
10 54 (2.83%) Wi-Fi
11 48 (2.52%) Wireless
12 38 (1.99%) Unified Communications
13 36 (1.89%) DHCP
14 35 (1.84%) Internet
15 32 (1.68%) Cisco Firepower
15 32 (1.68%) VPN
16 29 (1.52%) Wireshark
17 28 (1.47%) MPLS
18 17 (0.89%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (2.15%) SQL Server
2 34 (1.78%) Big Data
3 28 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
4 26 (1.36%) Hadoop
5 23 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (1.21%) MongoDB
6 20 (1.05%) Oracle Database
6 20 (1.05%) Redis
7 18 (0.94%) Relational Database
8 17 (0.89%) MySQL
8 17 (0.89%) Power BI
9 16 (0.84%) NoSQL
10 14 (0.73%) Scylla
11 12 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
11 12 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
12 9 (0.47%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.26%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.26%) Bigtable
13 5 (0.26%) CouchDB
13 5 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 34 (1.78%) Jenkins
2 33 (1.73%) JIRA
3 20 (1.05%) Git
4 17 (0.89%) GitLab
4 17 (0.89%) Oracle APEX
5 16 (0.84%) SonarQube
6 7 (0.37%) Metasploit
6 7 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
7 6 (0.31%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.21%) Burp Suite
8 4 (0.21%) Rational Team Concert
8 4 (0.21%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.16%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.10%) Apache Continuum
10 2 (0.10%) JUnit
10 2 (0.10%) Selenium
10 2 (0.10%) Subversion
10 2 (0.10%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.052%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.052%) IntelliJ
General
1 491 (25.75%) Social Skills
2 367 (19.24%) Finance
3 364 (19.09%) Analytical Skills
4 282 (14.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 161 (8.44%) Legal
6 98 (5.14%) Law
7 92 (4.82%) Public Sector
8 73 (3.83%) Banking
9 72 (3.78%) Telecoms
10 59 (3.09%) Marketing
11 48 (2.52%) Military
12 42 (2.20%) Aerospace
13 40 (2.10%) Retail
14 36 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
15 31 (1.63%) Games
16 26 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
17 24 (1.26%) Manufacturing
18 17 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
19 16 (0.84%) Aviation
19 16 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 493 (25.85%) Senior
2 252 (13.21%) Analyst
3 211 (11.06%) Linux Specialist
4 210 (11.01%) Technical Specialist
5 147 (7.71%) Security Engineer
6 141 (7.39%) Architect
7 136 (7.13%) Consultant
8 129 (6.76%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 128 (6.71%) Senior Linux Specialist
10 127 (6.66%) Lead
10 127 (6.66%) Senior Technical Specialist
10 127 (6.66%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
11 97 (5.09%) Software Engineer
12 89 (4.67%) Security Analyst
13 85 (4.46%) IT Manager
14 84 (4.40%) Security Consultant
15 77 (4.04%) Senior Analyst
16 74 (3.88%) Security Architect
17 73 (3.83%) Security Manager
18 66 (3.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (2.05%) CSS
1 39 (2.05%) HTML
2 30 (1.57%) REST
3 28 (1.47%) JSON
4 24 (1.26%) Kafka
5 23 (1.21%) jQuery
6 19 (1.00%) Node.js
7 16 (0.84%) .NET
8 14 (0.73%) GraphQL
9 13 (0.68%) AngularJS
9 13 (0.68%) Flask
10 11 (0.58%) Django
10 11 (0.58%) OAuth
10 11 (0.58%) React
11 10 (0.52%) ARM Templates
11 10 (0.52%) Azure Blueprints
11 10 (0.52%) Microsoft Graph
11 10 (0.52%) OpenID
11 10 (0.52%) SAML
11 10 (0.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 228 (11.96%) Management Information System
2 214 (11.22%) Social Media
3 171 (8.97%) Data Centre
4 88 (4.61%) Cyber Threat
5 74 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
6 68 (3.57%) Security Posture
7 65 (3.41%) Operational Technology
8 53 (2.78%) Public Cloud
9 52 (2.73%) Onboarding
10 50 (2.62%) IoT
11 47 (2.46%) Security Operations Centre
12 44 (2.31%) Cyberattack
13 40 (2.10%) Private Cloud
14 35 (1.84%) Product Ownership
15 30 (1.57%) Client/Server
16 27 (1.42%) Driving Licence
17 24 (1.26%) Data Structures
18 19 (1.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
18 19 (1.00%) Virtual Team
19 18 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 363 (19.04%) Linux
2 310 (16.26%) Windows
3 216 (11.33%) Ubuntu
4 117 (6.14%) Windows Server
5 76 (3.99%) Windows 10
6 52 (2.73%) Embedded Linux
7 47 (2.46%) Unix
8 38 (1.99%) Apple iOS
9 35 (1.84%) Android
10 22 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
11 19 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
12 16 (0.84%) Mac OS X
12 16 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
13 14 (0.73%) Mac OS
14 12 (0.63%) VMS
15 6 (0.31%) Debian
16 4 (0.21%) Kali Linux
17 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2003
18 2 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (18.35%) Information Security
2 296 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
3 255 (13.37%) Security Operations
4 253 (13.27%) Artificial Intelligence
5 234 (12.27%) IT Strategy
6 231 (12.11%) Incident Response
7 227 (11.90%) CRM
8 226 (11.85%) Technology Strategy
9 210 (11.01%) SIEM
10 203 (10.64%) Agile
11 198 (10.38%) Mentoring
12 190 (9.96%) Presales
13 184 (9.65%) Risk Management
14 166 (8.70%) ITIL
15 149 (7.81%) DevOps
16 146 (7.66%) Software Licensing
17 140 (7.34%) Roadmaps
18 137 (7.18%) Penetration Testing
19 136 (7.13%) Software Engineering
20 132 (6.92%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 322 (16.89%) Bash
2 232 (12.17%) Python
3 155 (8.13%) SQL
4 138 (7.24%) PowerShell
5 62 (3.25%) C
6 55 (2.88%) Java
7 54 (2.83%) Rust
8 50 (2.62%) Embedded C
9 43 (2.25%) JavaScript
10 23 (1.21%) Go
11 21 (1.10%) C#
12 17 (0.89%) PL/SQL
13 14 (0.73%) C++
13 14 (0.73%) Perl
13 14 (0.73%) Scala
14 9 (0.47%) R
14 9 (0.47%) TypeScript
15 7 (0.37%) Ruby
16 5 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.26%) PHP
Qualifications
1 331 (17.36%) Degree
2 277 (14.53%) Security Cleared
3 182 (9.54%) CISSP
4 116 (6.08%) SC Cleared
5 113 (5.93%) CISM
6 105 (5.51%) Cisco Certification
7 78 (4.09%) CCNA
8 73 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
9 68 (3.57%) CCNP
10 60 (3.15%) Microsoft Certification
11 54 (2.83%) CEH
12 47 (2.46%) DV Cleared
13 45 (2.36%) GIAC
14 44 (2.31%) Azure Certification
15 37 (1.94%) CRISC
16 33 (1.73%) SSCP
17 32 (1.68%) CREST Certified
18 31 (1.63%) AWS Certification
19 30 (1.57%) CompTIA Security+
20 29 (1.52%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 237 (12.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 184 (9.65%) NIST
3 148 (7.76%) Cyber Essentials
4 91 (4.77%) NCSC
5 88 (4.61%) GDPR
6 72 (3.78%) PCI DSS
7 50 (2.62%) GRC
8 42 (2.20%) QA
8 42 (2.20%) SLA
9 40 (2.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 39 (2.05%) JSP 440
11 23 (1.21%) NIST 800
12 21 (1.10%) SOC 2
13 19 (1.00%) COBIT
13 19 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 15 (0.79%) Data Quality
15 12 (0.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 12 (0.63%) ISO 9001
15 12 (0.63%) RMADS
16 11 (0.58%) Accessibility
System Software
1 484 (25.38%) Active Directory
2 69 (3.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 57 (2.99%) Docker
4 50 (2.62%) Hyper-V
4 50 (2.62%) RACF
5 22 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
6 18 (0.94%) vSphere
7 13 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
8 11 (0.58%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 10 (0.52%) Firmware
10 9 (0.47%) Forefront TMG
10 9 (0.47%) VMware Workstation
11 8 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
12 5 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
12 5 (0.26%) XenApp
13 4 (0.21%) XenDesktop
14 2 (0.10%) Terminal Services
15 1 (0.052%) Snort
Systems Management
1 314 (16.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 210 (11.01%) Jamf Pro
3 71 (3.72%) Terraform
4 54 (2.83%) Kubernetes
5 47 (2.46%) Ansible
6 35 (1.84%) WSUS
7 30 (1.57%) Stealthwatch
8 23 (1.21%) Puppet
9 22 (1.15%) CASB
10 21 (1.10%) Nessus
10 21 (1.10%) vCenter Server
11 17 (0.89%) Nmap
11 17 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
12 15 (0.79%) QRadar
12 15 (0.79%) SCCM
13 9 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 9 (0.47%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 9 (0.47%) Grafana
13 9 (0.47%) SCOM
14 8 (0.42%) Graphite
Vendors
1 775 (40.64%) Microsoft
2 267 (14.00%) CyberArk
3 210 (11.01%) Tanium
4 169 (8.86%) Apple
5 147 (7.71%) Adobe
6 134 (7.03%) Cisco
7 100 (5.24%) VMware
8 76 (3.99%) Dell
9 73 (3.83%) Meraki
10 68 (3.57%) Google
11 48 (2.52%) HP
11 48 (2.52%) Splunk
12 40 (2.10%) Qualys
13 39 (2.05%) Fortinet
14 34 (1.78%) CrowdStrike
15 32 (1.68%) Oracle
15 32 (1.68%) Samsung
16 29 (1.52%) ServiceNow
17 25 (1.31%) Intel
18 21 (1.10%) Darktrace