SOC Specialist Jobs with Work from Home Options

Security Operations Centre Specialist
UK > Work from Home

The median Security Operations Centre Specialist salary in Work from Home is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 583 - 860
Rank change year-on-year - - -288
Permanent jobs requiring a SOC Specialist 1 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.003% - 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.003% - 0.006%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £47,875
25th Percentile £51,250 - £48,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 - £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.04%
75th Percentile £53,750 - £53,438
90th Percentile - - £55,125
UK median annual salary £52,500 £92,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -43.24% +85.00% -14.89%

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 32,522 38,765 68,459
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.05% 95.93% 97.35%
Number of salaries quoted 24,888 27,595 41,875
10th Percentile £33,093 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,250 £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%

SOC Specialist
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

SOC Specialist trend for jobs with a WFH option

SOC Specialist
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SOC Specialist.

SOC Specialist salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

SOC Specialist Skill Set
Top 19 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, SOC Specialist 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 SOC Specialist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) Forcepoint
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Qualys
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) Varonis
1 1 (100.00%) LogRhythm
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation

SOC Specialist 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Forcepoint
1 1 (100.00%) LogRhythm
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Qualys
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) Varonis