Information Security Jobs with Work from Home Options

Information Security (InfoSec)
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 Information Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Information Security over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 98 157
Rank change year-on-year -23 +59 -13
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 881 1,389 1,743
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.61% 3.35% 2.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.86% 3.48% 2.63%
Number of salaries quoted 728 1,041 1,357
10th Percentile £39,629 £36,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £62,750
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +1.99% +6.36%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £102,500 £94,400
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Information 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 30,857 39,858 66,375
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.38% 96.10% 96.97%
Number of salaries quoted 23,439 27,686 41,025
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
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 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Information Security
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Information Security trend for jobs with a WFH option

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 Information Security.

Information Security salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Information Security
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Information Security over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Information Security salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Information 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 28 (3.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (3.06%) SharePoint
3 22 (2.50%) IIS
4 13 (1.48%) WordPress
5 8 (0.91%) nginx
6 6 (0.68%) SAS
7 3 (0.34%) CMS
7 3 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2013
8 2 (0.23%) Apache
8 2 (0.23%) Drupal
9 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.11%) Confluence
9 1 (0.11%) IBM Domino
9 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
Applications
1 27 (3.06%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.68%) SPSS
5 5 (0.57%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.34%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.23%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.34%) Relativity
2 3 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.23%) SAP GRC
3 2 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.11%) Endur
4 1 (0.11%) Ringtail
4 1 (0.11%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.11%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 285 (32.35%) Azure
2 153 (17.37%) Microsoft 365
3 132 (14.98%) AWS
4 63 (7.15%) Entra ID
4 63 (7.15%) SaaS
5 44 (4.99%) GCP
6 39 (4.43%) Power Platform
7 36 (4.09%) Azure DevOps
8 31 (3.52%) IaaS
9 30 (3.41%) PaaS
10 27 (3.06%) Cloud Computing
10 27 (3.06%) Serverless
11 21 (2.38%) Snowflake
12 20 (2.27%) Microsoft Purview
13 18 (2.04%) Matillion
14 15 (1.70%) Azure Sentinel
15 10 (1.14%) GitHub
15 10 (1.14%) WhatsApp
16 9 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
16 9 (1.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 143 (16.23%) Firewall
2 76 (8.63%) WAN
3 67 (7.60%) Network Security
4 54 (6.13%) DNS
5 47 (5.33%) Intrusion Detection
6 46 (5.22%) TCP/IP
7 41 (4.65%) LAN
8 36 (4.09%) SD-WAN
9 33 (3.75%) Internet
10 27 (3.06%) DKIM
10 27 (3.06%) DMARC
11 24 (2.72%) Wireless
12 15 (1.70%) VPN
13 14 (1.59%) Wireshark
14 12 (1.36%) Cisco IPT
15 11 (1.25%) OSPF
15 11 (1.25%) SAN
16 9 (1.02%) VoIP
17 7 (0.79%) BGP
18 6 (0.68%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (4.20%) Power BI
2 32 (3.63%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (3.29%) SQL Server
4 24 (2.72%) Relational Database
5 19 (2.16%) Data Lake
5 19 (2.16%) Metadata
6 14 (1.59%) MySQL
7 11 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (1.14%) Big Data
9 8 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (0.91%) EDRMS
10 7 (0.79%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.57%) BigQuery
11 5 (0.57%) Hadoop
12 4 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.34%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
14 2 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
15 1 (0.11%) GIS
15 1 (0.11%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 28 (3.18%) JIRA
2 13 (1.48%) Git
3 10 (1.14%) Burp Suite
3 10 (1.14%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.14%) Metasploit
4 8 (0.91%) GitLab
5 6 (0.68%) CircleCI
5 6 (0.68%) git-flow
6 5 (0.57%) webpack
7 2 (0.23%) GDB
7 2 (0.23%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.11%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.11%) Selenium
8 1 (0.11%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.11%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.11%) WebDriver
General
1 273 (30.99%) Social Skills
2 177 (20.09%) Finance
3 137 (15.55%) Legal
4 131 (14.87%) Analytical Skills
5 74 (8.40%) Law
6 46 (5.22%) Retail
7 44 (4.99%) Public Sector
8 38 (4.31%) Marketing
9 32 (3.63%) Military
10 27 (3.06%) Aerospace
11 26 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 22 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
13 18 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
14 15 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (1.36%) Banking
15 12 (1.36%) Telecoms
16 11 (1.25%) Advertising
16 11 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
17 10 (1.14%) Aviation
18 5 (0.57%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 161 (18.27%) Analyst
2 136 (15.44%) Lead
3 113 (12.83%) Security Analyst
4 102 (11.58%) Senior
5 90 (10.22%) Architect
6 84 (9.53%) Information Analyst
6 84 (9.53%) Information Security Analyst
7 67 (7.60%) Security Manager
8 61 (6.92%) Security Architect
9 53 (6.02%) Security Engineer
10 44 (4.99%) Consultant
11 43 (4.88%) IT Manager
12 34 (3.86%) Security Consultant
13 33 (3.75%) Information Manager
13 33 (3.75%) Information Security Manager
13 33 (3.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 31 (3.52%) Lead Architect
15 28 (3.18%) Developer
16 27 (3.06%) Data Architect
16 27 (3.06%) Lead Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.27%) .NET
2 15 (1.70%) HTML
3 13 (1.48%) CSS
3 13 (1.48%) REST
4 12 (1.36%) React
5 11 (1.25%) ASP.NET
6 8 (0.91%) Web Services
7 7 (0.79%) ADO
7 7 (0.79%) HTML5
8 6 (0.68%) AngularJS
8 6 (0.68%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (0.68%) Laravel
8 6 (0.68%) ModSecurity
8 6 (0.68%) SOAP
8 6 (0.68%) Symfony
9 5 (0.57%) jQuery
9 5 (0.57%) LAMP
9 5 (0.57%) LEMP Stack
9 5 (0.57%) Sass
9 5 (0.57%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 246 (27.92%) Management Information System
2 63 (7.15%) Data Centre
3 62 (7.04%) Security Posture
4 41 (4.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 33 (3.75%) Cyber Threat
6 30 (3.41%) Cyberattack
7 24 (2.72%) Security Operations Centre
8 23 (2.61%) Onboarding
9 20 (2.27%) Data Structures
10 18 (2.04%) Algorithms
10 18 (2.04%) Clustering
10 18 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
11 16 (1.82%) CESG
11 16 (1.82%) Product Ownership
12 15 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
12 15 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
13 14 (1.59%) Driving Licence
13 14 (1.59%) Mobile App
14 12 (1.36%) Cloud Native
14 12 (1.36%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 120 (13.62%) Windows
2 60 (6.81%) Windows Server
3 53 (6.02%) Linux
4 29 (3.29%) Apple iOS
5 23 (2.61%) Unix
6 22 (2.50%) Android
7 16 (1.82%) Mac OS X
8 10 (1.14%) zOS
9 8 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.34%) Kali Linux
12 2 (0.23%) AIX
12 2 (0.23%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 301 (34.17%) Cybersecurity
2 168 (19.07%) Risk Management
3 154 (17.48%) Problem-Solving
4 120 (13.62%) Data Protection
5 117 (13.28%) Cloud Security
6 107 (12.15%) Continuous Improvement
7 105 (11.92%) SIEM
8 103 (11.69%) DevOps
9 99 (11.24%) Mentoring
10 95 (10.78%) Security Operations
11 94 (10.67%) Security Architecture
12 93 (10.56%) Agile
13 87 (9.88%) Incident Response
14 85 (9.65%) Security Management
15 82 (9.31%) Analytics
16 77 (8.74%) Project Management
17 71 (8.06%) Application Security
18 70 (7.95%) ITIL
19 66 (7.49%) Incident Management
19 66 (7.49%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 72 (8.17%) PowerShell
2 71 (8.06%) SQL
3 54 (6.13%) Python
4 30 (3.41%) T-SQL
5 15 (1.70%) PHP
6 12 (1.36%) Bash
6 12 (1.36%) JavaScript
7 11 (1.25%) Java
8 7 (0.79%) C#
8 7 (0.79%) Shell Script
9 6 (0.68%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.23%) Go
10 2 (0.23%) Korn
10 2 (0.23%) Ruby
11 1 (0.11%) Julia
11 1 (0.11%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 223 (25.31%) CISSP
2 174 (19.75%) CISM
3 159 (18.05%) Degree
4 108 (12.26%) Security Cleared
5 72 (8.17%) SC Cleared
6 68 (7.72%) Cisco Certification
7 65 (7.38%) CISA
8 58 (6.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 55 (6.24%) CCSP
10 47 (5.33%) Azure Certification
11 46 (5.22%) AWS Certification
12 39 (4.43%) CCSK
12 39 (4.43%) CEH
13 33 (3.75%) Master's Degree
14 31 (3.52%) CRISC
15 26 (2.95%) GIAC
15 26 (2.95%) SSCP
16 25 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
17 24 (2.72%) SANS
18 22 (2.50%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 287 (32.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 181 (20.54%) NIST
3 130 (14.76%) GDPR
4 103 (11.69%) Cyber Essentials
5 93 (10.56%) GRC
6 70 (7.95%) PCI DSS
7 40 (4.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 33 (3.75%) NCSC
9 26 (2.95%) QA
10 22 (2.50%) NIST 800
11 20 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 20 (2.27%) SOC 2
12 19 (2.16%) COBIT
12 19 (2.16%) ISO 9001
13 18 (2.04%) JSP 440
14 16 (1.82%) RMADS
15 15 (1.70%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 12 (1.36%) ISO 14001
16 12 (1.36%) ISO 22301
17 11 (1.25%) Data Quality
System Software
1 82 (9.31%) Active Directory
2 50 (5.68%) Docker
3 23 (2.61%) Virtual Desktop
4 20 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (1.14%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.68%) vSphere
8 4 (0.45%) Firmware
9 2 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.23%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.11%) Lustre
10 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.11%) Snort
10 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.11%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 58 (6.58%) Kubernetes
2 51 (5.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 51 (5.79%) Single Sign-On
3 27 (3.06%) CASB
4 23 (2.61%) Nmap
5 19 (2.16%) Terraform
6 17 (1.93%) vCenter Server
7 16 (1.82%) Microsoft Clustering
8 14 (1.59%) Ansible
9 13 (1.48%) SCCM
10 10 (1.14%) WSUS
11 9 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (1.02%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 8 (0.91%) Nessus
13 6 (0.68%) QRadar
14 5 (0.57%) logstash
15 4 (0.45%) Puppet
16 3 (0.34%) EMC NetWorker
17 2 (0.23%) DatAdvantage
17 2 (0.23%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 191 (21.68%) Microsoft
2 47 (5.33%) VMware
3 36 (4.09%) Cisco
4 27 (3.06%) ServiceNow
5 26 (2.95%) Google
6 23 (2.61%) Qualys
7 22 (2.50%) Databricks
8 20 (2.27%) Splunk
9 19 (2.16%) Commvault
9 19 (2.16%) Oracle
10 18 (2.04%) Dell
10 18 (2.04%) Rapid7
10 18 (2.04%) Sun
11 17 (1.93%) Palo Alto
12 16 (1.82%) IBM
13 14 (1.59%) CheckPoint
14 13 (1.48%) Thycotic
15 12 (1.36%) Infoblox
15 12 (1.36%) Juniper
15 12 (1.36%) Riverbed