Security Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Security Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Security Engineer salary in Work from Home is £59,526 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 349 321 383
Rank change year-on-year -28 +62 -48
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 256 413 592
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.76% 0.97% 0.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.79% 1.01% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 245 328 408
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,885 £41,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £48,750 £48,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,526 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.42% -7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £73,750 £81,928 £85,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £100,000 £96,625
UK median annual salary £59,526 £67,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.14% +4.23% +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 32,433 40,693 66,264
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.99% 96.00% 97.39%
Number of salaries quoted 24,885 28,909 42,146
10th Percentile £33,000 £36,626 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,375 £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 £92,500 £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 5 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 5 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.

1 139 (54.30%) Cybersecurity
2 136 (53.13%) Azure
3 86 (33.59%) Microsoft
4 73 (28.52%) Security Operations
5 71 (27.73%) Cloud Security
6 67 (26.17%) Microsoft 365
6 67 (26.17%) Finance
7 64 (25.00%) DevOps
8 60 (23.44%) SIEM
9 56 (21.88%) Firewall
10 55 (21.48%) NIST
11 54 (21.09%) Information Security
12 53 (20.70%) AWS
13 51 (19.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 50 (19.53%) Windows
14 50 (19.53%) Incident Response
15 47 (18.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 47 (18.36%) Python
15 47 (18.36%) Network Security
16 46 (17.97%) Terraform
17 40 (15.63%) Vulnerability Management
18 39 (15.23%) PowerShell
19 38 (14.84%) CISSP
20 37 (14.45%) Public Cloud
21 36 (14.06%) Mentoring
21 36 (14.06%) Agile
22 34 (13.28%) Coaching
22 34 (13.28%) Infrastructure as Code
23 33 (12.89%) Social Skills
23 33 (12.89%) Active Directory

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 (0.39%) Apache
1 1 (0.39%) Gunicorn
1 1 (0.39%) nginx
1 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
1 1 (0.39%) uWSGI
Applications
1 5 (1.95%) Trello
2 4 (1.56%) AutoCAD
2 4 (1.56%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 136 (53.13%) Azure
2 67 (26.17%) Microsoft 365
3 53 (20.70%) AWS
4 30 (11.72%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (10.94%) GCP
6 24 (9.38%) PaaS
7 23 (8.98%) Entra ID
8 18 (7.03%) Microsoft Purview
9 17 (6.64%) Azure Sentinel
9 17 (6.64%) GitHub
10 16 (6.25%) SaaS
11 14 (5.47%) Cloud Computing
12 12 (4.69%) AWS KMS
12 12 (4.69%) Azure Key Vault
13 10 (3.91%) Azure AKS
14 9 (3.52%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (2.73%) IaaS
16 6 (2.34%) Amazon S3
17 5 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
17 5 (1.95%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 56 (21.88%) Firewall
2 47 (18.36%) Network Security
3 32 (12.50%) LAN
4 24 (9.38%) WAN
5 16 (6.25%) TCP/IP
6 14 (5.47%) DNS
7 13 (5.08%) Wireshark
8 12 (4.69%) Wireless
9 9 (3.52%) SD-WAN
10 8 (3.13%) Internet
11 6 (2.34%) BGP
11 6 (2.34%) OSPF
11 6 (2.34%) VPN
12 5 (1.95%) Cisco Wireless
12 5 (1.95%) EIGRP
12 5 (1.95%) NGFW
12 5 (1.95%) Software-Defined Networking
12 5 (1.95%) VLAN
12 5 (1.95%) VXLAN
12 5 (1.95%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.13%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.95%) BigQuery
2 5 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (1.95%) Hadoop
2 5 (1.95%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.56%) InfluxDB
3 4 (1.56%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 21 (8.20%) Jenkins
2 12 (4.69%) GitLab
3 5 (1.95%) JIRA
4 4 (1.56%) JMeter
4 4 (1.56%) Postman
4 4 (1.56%) SoapUI
5 2 (0.78%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.78%) Metasploit
5 2 (0.78%) sqlmap
General
1 67 (26.17%) Finance
2 33 (12.89%) Social Skills
3 30 (11.72%) Banking
4 16 (6.25%) Law
5 15 (5.86%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.91%) Health Technology
6 10 (3.91%) Retail
6 10 (3.91%) Tech for Good
7 9 (3.52%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.34%) Welsh Language
9 5 (1.95%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (1.56%) Publishing
10 4 (1.56%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.78%) Electronics
11 2 (0.78%) French Language
11 2 (0.78%) German Language
11 2 (0.78%) Italian Language
11 2 (0.78%) Legal
11 2 (0.78%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.34%) OAuth
2 5 (1.95%) 802.1X
2 5 (1.95%) XMPP
3 4 (1.56%) Kafka
3 4 (1.56%) OAuth2
3 4 (1.56%) SOAP
3 4 (1.56%) XML
4 3 (1.17%) CSS
5 2 (0.78%) JWT
6 1 (0.39%) Django
6 1 (0.39%) Flask
6 1 (0.39%) HTML
6 1 (0.39%) Jinja
6 1 (0.39%) Pyramid
6 1 (0.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 37 (14.45%) Public Cloud
2 29 (11.33%) Management Information System
3 25 (9.77%) Security Operations Centre
4 17 (6.64%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (6.64%) Product Ownership
5 15 (5.86%) PKI
6 12 (4.69%) Cyberattack
6 12 (4.69%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (4.69%) Private Cloud
7 11 (4.30%) Data Centre
8 10 (3.91%) Cyber Threat
8 10 (3.91%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (3.13%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 8 (3.13%) Operational Technology
10 6 (2.34%) Cybercrime
10 6 (2.34%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 5 (1.95%) Blog
12 4 (1.56%) Cloud Native
12 4 (1.56%) Cyber Security Posture
12 4 (1.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 50 (19.53%) Windows
2 17 (6.64%) Windows Server
3 15 (5.86%) Unix
4 13 (5.08%) Android
4 13 (5.08%) Apple iOS
5 12 (4.69%) Linux
6 10 (3.91%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.95%) Debian
7 5 (1.95%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (1.56%) CentOS
8 4 (1.56%) Solaris
8 4 (1.56%) zOS
9 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (54.30%) Cybersecurity
2 73 (28.52%) Security Operations
3 71 (27.73%) Cloud Security
4 64 (25.00%) DevOps
5 60 (23.44%) SIEM
6 54 (21.09%) Information Security
7 50 (19.53%) Incident Response
8 47 (18.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 40 (15.63%) Vulnerability Management
10 36 (14.06%) Agile
10 36 (14.06%) Mentoring
11 34 (13.28%) Coaching
11 34 (13.28%) Infrastructure as Code
12 30 (11.72%) Identity Access Management
12 30 (11.72%) Problem-Solving
12 30 (11.72%) Roadmaps
13 29 (11.33%) Key Management
14 28 (10.94%) Data Loss Prevention
15 27 (10.55%) Secrets Management
16 25 (9.77%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 47 (18.36%) Python
2 39 (15.23%) PowerShell
3 19 (7.42%) Kusto Query Language
4 9 (3.52%) Java
4 9 (3.52%) SQL
5 5 (1.95%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.17%) C#
6 3 (1.17%) Rust
7 2 (0.78%) C++
7 2 (0.78%) Go
7 2 (0.78%) Lua
7 2 (0.78%) Ruby
8 1 (0.39%) Bash
8 1 (0.39%) C
Qualifications
1 38 (14.84%) CISSP
2 29 (11.33%) Cisco Certification
3 25 (9.77%) Degree
4 21 (8.20%) CEH
5 15 (5.86%) CCNA
5 15 (5.86%) SANS
6 14 (5.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 14 (5.47%) CCSP
7 13 (5.08%) CISM
7 13 (5.08%) SSCP
8 12 (4.69%) CCNP
8 12 (4.69%) SC Cleared
8 12 (4.69%) Security Cleared
9 8 (3.13%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.56%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.56%) GIAC
10 4 (1.56%) ISTQB
10 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.56%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (21.48%) NIST
2 51 (19.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (7.03%) PCI DSS
4 12 (4.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 11 (4.30%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (3.52%) GDPR
7 6 (2.34%) QA
7 6 (2.34%) SOC 2
8 5 (1.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (1.95%) Data Quality
9 4 (1.56%) Accessibility
10 3 (1.17%) COBIT
11 2 (0.78%) NCSC
12 1 (0.39%) GRC
System Software
1 33 (12.89%) Active Directory
2 17 (6.64%) Docker
3 13 (5.08%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 46 (17.97%) Terraform
2 27 (10.55%) Kubernetes
3 24 (9.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (5.86%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (5.08%) Nmap
6 12 (4.69%) CA Single Sign-On
7 7 (2.73%) CASB
8 5 (1.95%) logstash
9 4 (1.56%) Grafana
10 2 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.78%) CSIRT
10 2 (0.78%) QRadar
Vendors
1 86 (33.59%) Microsoft
2 29 (11.33%) Cisco
3 22 (8.59%) Google
4 21 (8.20%) Qualys
5 19 (7.42%) CyberArk
5 19 (7.42%) Splunk
6 17 (6.64%) Rapid7
7 15 (5.86%) Palo Alto
7 15 (5.86%) ServiceNow
8 13 (5.08%) Thycotic
9 12 (4.69%) CA
10 8 (3.13%) Fortinet
11 7 (2.73%) CheckPoint
11 7 (2.73%) CrowdStrike
11 7 (2.73%) VMware
12 5 (1.95%) Forcepoint
13 4 (1.56%) Oracle
14 3 (1.17%) Sophos
14 3 (1.17%) WatchGuard
15 2 (0.78%) SonicWALL