Security Operations Jobs with Work from Home Options

Security Operations (SecOps)
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 Security Operations skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Security Operations over the 6 months to 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 287 344 411
Rank change year-on-year +57 +67 -89
Permanent jobs citing Security Operations 363 346 590
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.06% 0.87% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 0.90% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 222 270 442
10th Percentile £41,875 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £49,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £94,625 £95,000 £96,125
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% -7.41% +8.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Security Operations 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 30,950 38,268 69,952
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.73% 96.05% 97.09%
Number of salaries quoted 23,425 26,570 41,531
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,000
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 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Security Operations
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Security Operations trend for jobs with a WFH option

Security Operations
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 Operations.

Security Operations salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Security Operations
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Security Operations over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

Security Operations salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Security Operations
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 22 (6.06%) SAS
2 6 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.55%) Confluence
3 2 (0.55%) IIS
Applications
1 10 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 110 (30.30%) Azure
2 74 (20.39%) Microsoft 365
3 61 (16.80%) Entra ID
4 30 (8.26%) SaaS
5 26 (7.16%) AWS
6 22 (6.06%) Azure Sentinel
7 16 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (3.86%) Microsoft Purview
9 13 (3.58%) Cloud Computing
10 12 (3.31%) GCP
11 11 (3.03%) Azure AKS
12 4 (1.10%) IaaS
12 4 (1.10%) PaaS
13 2 (0.55%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 2 (0.55%) AWS CloudTrail
13 2 (0.55%) AWS Control Tower
13 2 (0.55%) GitHub
13 2 (0.55%) OCI
13 2 (0.55%) Pendo
14 1 (0.28%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 74 (20.39%) Firewall
2 43 (11.85%) Network Security
3 27 (7.44%) TCP/IP
4 20 (5.51%) Wireshark
5 19 (5.23%) Intrusion Detection
6 15 (4.13%) LAN
6 15 (4.13%) WAN
7 8 (2.20%) DNS
8 7 (1.93%) Internet
9 4 (1.10%) DHCP
10 3 (0.83%) Broadband
11 2 (0.55%) HTTP
11 2 (0.55%) SMTP
11 2 (0.55%) VPN
12 1 (0.28%) NGN
12 1 (0.28%) OSPF
12 1 (0.28%) SSL
12 1 (0.28%) tcpdump
12 1 (0.28%) Wireless
12 1 (0.28%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.38%) BigQuery
1 5 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (1.38%) Hadoop
1 5 (1.38%) Relational Database
2 2 (0.55%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.28%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (0.83%) GitLab
2 2 (0.55%) Bitbucket
2 2 (0.55%) Git
2 2 (0.55%) JIRA
3 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 118 (32.51%) Finance
2 90 (24.79%) Social Skills
3 75 (20.66%) Legal
4 57 (15.70%) Banking
5 29 (7.99%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (6.61%) Law
7 20 (5.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (4.13%) Military
9 12 (3.31%) Retail
10 7 (1.93%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.38%) Health Technology
12 5 (1.38%) Public Sector
13 3 (0.83%) Turkish Language
14 2 (0.55%) Back Office
14 2 (0.55%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.55%) Marketing
14 2 (0.55%) Publishing
14 2 (0.55%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.28%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 154 (42.42%) Analyst
2 94 (25.90%) Senior
3 73 (20.11%) Senior Analyst
4 71 (19.56%) Security Engineer
5 54 (14.88%) Security Analyst
6 50 (13.77%) Governance Analyst
7 34 (9.37%) SOC Analyst
8 31 (8.54%) Lead
9 29 (7.99%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 28 (7.71%) Security Manager
11 26 (7.16%) Developer
12 25 (6.89%) Consultant
12 25 (6.89%) Senior Security Engineer
12 25 (6.89%) ServiceNow Developer
13 23 (6.34%) Security Consultant
14 21 (5.79%) Cybersecurity Consultant
14 21 (5.79%) Cybersecurity Engineer
15 20 (5.51%) IT Analyst
16 19 (5.23%) IT Engineer
16 19 (5.23%) IT Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (6.34%) AngularJS
2 22 (6.06%) CSS
2 22 (6.06%) HTML
2 22 (6.06%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 22 (6.06%) Web Services
3 3 (0.83%) ADO
3 3 (0.83%) SAML
4 2 (0.55%) Kafka
4 2 (0.55%) Middleware
4 2 (0.55%) OAuth
4 2 (0.55%) OpenID
4 2 (0.55%) REST
4 2 (0.55%) SOAP
5 1 (0.28%) .NET
5 1 (0.28%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.28%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (0.28%) pytest
5 1 (0.28%) React
5 1 (0.28%) RESTful
5 1 (0.28%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 114 (31.40%) Management Information System
2 62 (17.08%) Security Operations Centre
3 45 (12.40%) Cyber Threat
4 31 (8.54%) Cyberattack
5 27 (7.44%) CMDB
6 26 (7.16%) Security Posture
7 22 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (3.58%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 12 (3.31%) Product Ownership
10 10 (2.75%) Analytical Mindset
11 9 (2.48%) Algorithms
11 9 (2.48%) Client/Server
11 9 (2.48%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.93%) Cyber Defence
13 6 (1.65%) Cybercrime
13 6 (1.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 6 (1.65%) IoT
14 5 (1.38%) Blog
14 5 (1.38%) Operational Technology
15 4 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 72 (19.83%) Windows
2 24 (6.61%) Linux
3 18 (4.96%) Unix
4 16 (4.41%) Mac OS X
5 13 (3.58%) Android
5 13 (3.58%) Apple iOS
6 7 (1.93%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.55%) AIX
7 2 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.28%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 257 (70.80%) Cybersecurity
2 148 (40.77%) Incident Response
3 146 (40.22%) Information Security
4 131 (36.09%) SIEM
5 86 (23.69%) Agile
6 85 (23.42%) Roadmaps
7 80 (22.04%) Incident Management
8 72 (19.83%) Identity Access Management
9 64 (17.63%) Privileged Access Management
10 59 (16.25%) Coaching
11 57 (15.70%) Vulnerability Management
12 56 (15.43%) Risk Management
13 51 (14.05%) Technical Leadership
14 50 (13.77%) DevOps
14 50 (13.77%) ITIL
14 50 (13.77%) RBAC
15 49 (13.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
15 49 (13.50%) Threat Intelligence
16 41 (11.29%) Actionable Insight
17 38 (10.47%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 90 (24.79%) PowerShell
2 57 (15.70%) SQL
3 24 (6.61%) Python
4 12 (3.31%) Kusto Query Language
5 6 (1.65%) Java
6 4 (1.10%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.83%) Go
8 2 (0.55%) Scala
9 1 (0.28%) C
9 1 (0.28%) C#
Qualifications
1 68 (18.73%) CISSP
2 53 (14.60%) Degree
3 31 (8.54%) CISM
4 25 (6.89%) Cisco Certification
5 22 (6.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 21 (5.79%) CCSP
7 20 (5.51%) CEH
8 19 (5.23%) Security Cleared
9 17 (4.68%) GCIA
10 16 (4.41%) CompTIA Security+
10 16 (4.41%) GCIH
10 16 (4.41%) SANS
11 15 (4.13%) SSCP
12 14 (3.86%) GREM
12 14 (3.86%) SC Cleared
13 13 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
13 13 (3.58%) GIAC
14 10 (2.75%) CISA
14 10 (2.75%) Numerate Degree
15 7 (1.93%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (21.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 53 (14.60%) NIST
3 36 (9.92%) PCI DSS
4 28 (7.71%) GRC
5 25 (6.89%) GDPR
6 23 (6.34%) Cyber Essentials
7 22 (6.06%) JSP 440
8 19 (5.23%) NCSC
9 10 (2.75%) SOC 2
10 7 (1.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (1.38%) Data Quality
11 5 (1.38%) QA
12 4 (1.10%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.83%) Accessibility
14 2 (0.55%) COBIT
14 2 (0.55%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.55%) ISO 9001
15 1 (0.28%) GxP
15 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 82 (22.59%) Active Directory
2 50 (13.77%) RACF
3 16 (4.41%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.83%) Docker
4 3 (0.83%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.28%) Snort
6 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.28%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 14 (3.86%) Kubernetes
1 14 (3.86%) QRadar
2 13 (3.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (3.58%) Nmap
2 13 (3.58%) Terraform
3 6 (1.65%) CSIRT
4 5 (1.38%) logstash
4 5 (1.38%) Nessus
5 4 (1.10%) CASB
6 3 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.83%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 3 (0.83%) SCCM
7 2 (0.55%) DatAdvantage
7 2 (0.55%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
8 1 (0.28%) Ansible
8 1 (0.28%) Grafana
8 1 (0.28%) Network Intrusion Detection System
8 1 (0.28%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.28%) Stealthwatch
8 1 (0.28%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 142 (39.12%) Microsoft
2 50 (13.77%) CyberArk
3 35 (9.64%) Qualys
4 33 (9.09%) Splunk
5 30 (8.26%) ServiceNow
6 19 (5.23%) CrowdStrike
7 14 (3.86%) Dell
7 14 (3.86%) Rapid7
8 13 (3.58%) IBM
8 13 (3.58%) Thycotic
9 9 (2.48%) Cisco
10 5 (1.38%) Google
10 5 (1.38%) LogRhythm
11 4 (1.10%) Darktrace
11 4 (1.10%) Sun
12 3 (0.83%) McAfee
12 3 (0.83%) Symantec
12 3 (0.83%) Tripwire
12 3 (0.83%) Varonis
12 3 (0.83%) VMware