Computer Security Jobs with Work from Home Options

Computer Security (COMPUSEC)
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 Computer Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Computer Security over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 558 672 733
Rank change year-on-year +114 +61 -185
Permanent jobs citing Computer Security 34 12 100
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.10% 0.028% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.029% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1 10 97
10th Percentile - - £67,500
25th Percentile - £51,500 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £53,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.64% -44.21% +90.00%
75th Percentile - £54,500 £100,000
90th Percentile - £57,550 -
UK median annual salary £42,500 £53,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -19.81% -44.21% +126.87%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Computer Security 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 30,928 41,467 64,681
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.65% 96.10% 96.88%
Number of salaries quoted 23,495 28,748 41,173
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,500
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 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%

Computer Security
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Computer Security trend for jobs with a WFH option

Computer 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 Computer Security.

Computer Security salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Computer 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 23 (67.65%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 31 (91.18%) SaaS
2 24 (70.59%) AWS
3 23 (67.65%) Amazon S3
3 23 (67.65%) Amazon SQS
3 23 (67.65%) GCP
3 23 (67.65%) Google Docs
3 23 (67.65%) Lucidchart
3 23 (67.65%) Miro
3 23 (67.65%) Slack
4 1 (2.94%) Azure
4 1 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) Firewall
1 1 (2.94%) Internet
1 1 (2.94%) Network Security
1 1 (2.94%) tcpdump
1 1 (2.94%) WAN
1 1 (2.94%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (67.65%) Big Data
1 23 (67.65%) Elasticsearch
1 23 (67.65%) Hadoop
1 23 (67.65%) Redis
1 23 (67.65%) Scylla
General
1 23 (67.65%) Social Skills
2 20 (58.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.94%) Law
Job Titles
1 32 (94.12%) Principal Engineer
1 32 (94.12%) Principal Software Engineer
1 32 (94.12%) Software Engineer
2 9 (26.47%) Senior
2 9 (26.47%) Senior Software Engineer
2 9 (26.47%) Senior Windows Engineer
2 9 (26.47%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (2.94%) Analyst
3 1 (2.94%) IT Manager
3 1 (2.94%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (67.65%) GraphQL
1 23 (67.65%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 23 (67.65%) Algorithms
1 23 (67.65%) Data Structures
2 9 (26.47%) Cloud Native
2 9 (26.47%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.94%) CSOC
3 1 (2.94%) Replication
3 1 (2.94%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (26.47%) Linux
1 9 (26.47%) Mac OS
1 9 (26.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (97.06%) Cybersecurity
2 32 (94.12%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 32 (94.12%) Data Science
2 32 (94.12%) Software Engineering
2 32 (94.12%) Threat Intelligence
3 24 (70.59%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (67.65%) High Availability
4 23 (67.65%) User Experience
4 23 (67.65%) UX Research
5 9 (26.47%) Agile
5 9 (26.47%) Analytics
5 9 (26.47%) Kalman Filter
5 9 (26.47%) Multithreading
5 9 (26.47%) Performance Optimisation
5 9 (26.47%) Reverse Engineering
5 9 (26.47%) Security Analytics
5 9 (26.47%) TDD
5 9 (26.47%) Test Automation
5 9 (26.47%) Threat Analysis
5 9 (26.47%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 23 (67.65%) Bash
1 23 (67.65%) Go
1 23 (67.65%) Java
1 23 (67.65%) Python
1 23 (67.65%) Scala
2 1 (2.94%) C#
2 1 (2.94%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 2 (5.88%) Degree
2 1 (2.94%) CEH
2 1 (2.94%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (2.94%) GCIA
2 1 (2.94%) GCIH
2 1 (2.94%) GSEC
2 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.94%) NIST
1 1 (2.94%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (2.94%) Snort
Systems Management
1 23 (67.65%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 32 (94.12%) Dell
2 23 (67.65%) Google
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft