Head of Information Security Jobs with Work from Home Options

Head of Information Security
UK > Work from Home

The median Head of Information Security salary in Work from Home is £95,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 575 642 844
Rank change year-on-year +67 +202 -274
Permanent jobs requiring a Head of Information Security 10 10 25
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.029% 0.025% 0.034%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.026% 0.035%
Number of salaries quoted 8 9 12
10th Percentile £85,000 £70,368 £75,000
25th Percentile £90,625 £85,000 £81,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £105,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +13.51% +2.78%
75th Percentile £112,829 £131,250 £106,875
90th Percentile £113,480 £145,000 £120,375
UK median annual salary £95,000 £102,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year -7.32% +13.89% +9.09%

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 33,036 38,142 71,353
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.16% 95.90% 97.35%
Number of salaries quoted 25,238 27,095 42,472
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%

Head of Information Security
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Head of Information Security trend for jobs with a WFH option

Head of Information 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 Head of Information Security.

Head of Information Security salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Head of Information Security
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Head of Information Security over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Head of Information Security salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, Head of Information Security 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 Head of Information Security in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Information Security
2 7 (70.00%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (50.00%) Risk Management
4 4 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (40.00%) Incident Response
5 3 (30.00%) GRC
5 3 (30.00%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (30.00%) Finance
5 3 (30.00%) Agile
6 2 (20.00%) Legal
6 2 (20.00%) Degree
6 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (20.00%) ISMS
6 2 (20.00%) ITIL
6 2 (20.00%) PRINCE2
6 2 (20.00%) CISSP
6 2 (20.00%) PMP
6 2 (20.00%) PMI Certification
6 2 (20.00%) Project Management
6 2 (20.00%) CISM
6 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (20.00%) NIST
6 2 (20.00%) GDPR
6 2 (20.00%) Cyber Resilience
6 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
6 2 (20.00%) Due Diligence
6 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
6 2 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (20.00%) Cyber Security Posture

Head of Information Security 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) LAN
1 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (10.00%) WAN
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Legal
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cyber Security Posture
1 2 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (10.00%) e-Learning
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Information Security
2 7 (70.00%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (50.00%) Risk Management
4 4 (40.00%) Incident Response
5 3 (30.00%) Agile
5 3 (30.00%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (20.00%) Cyber Resilience
6 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
6 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (20.00%) Due Diligence
6 2 (20.00%) ISMS
6 2 (20.00%) ITIL
6 2 (20.00%) PRINCE2
6 2 (20.00%) Project Management
6 2 (20.00%) Security Operations
6 2 (20.00%) SIEM
6 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
7 1 (10.00%) Innovative Thinking
7 1 (10.00%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) CISM
1 2 (20.00%) CISSP
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
1 2 (20.00%) PMI Certification
1 2 (20.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (30.00%) GRC
3 2 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (20.00%) GDPR
3 2 (20.00%) NIST
4 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (10.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (10.00%) Nessus
1 1 (10.00%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco
1 1 (10.00%) Citrix
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (10.00%) Splunk
1 1 (10.00%) VMware