Blue Team Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Blue Teaming
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Blue Team skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Blue Team over the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 423 581 641
Rank change year-on-year +158 +60 +193
Permanent jobs citing Blue Team 9 2 21
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.055% 0.006% 0.050%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.059% 0.006% 0.052%
Number of salaries quoted 9 2 16
10th Percentile £45,632 £58,500 £61,250
25th Percentile £48,165 £60,000 £64,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £65,000 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% -4.41% +77.93%
75th Percentile £95,000 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £140,000 £71,500 £100,625
UK median annual salary £77,500 £61,250 £76,250
% change year-on-year +26.53% -19.67% +64.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Blue Team falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,361 31,014 40,730
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.62% 91.60% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 9,801 23,557 28,305
10th Percentile £29,913 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Blue Team
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Blue Team as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Blue Team trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Blue Team
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Blue Team.

Blue Team salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Blue Team
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Blue Team over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Blue Team salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Blue Team
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 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (22.22%) GCP
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Metasploit
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Retail
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Operations Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Digital Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Forensic Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Incident Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (22.22%) Security Posture
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (11.11%) IoT
3 1 (11.11%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Incident Response
2 4 (44.44%) Penetration Testing
2 4 (44.44%) Red Team
3 3 (33.33%) Offensive Security
3 3 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 3 (33.33%) Social Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security
4 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (22.22%) Data Security
4 2 (22.22%) DevSecOps
4 2 (22.22%) Digital Forensics
4 2 (22.22%) Forensic Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Information Security
4 2 (22.22%) Microservices
4 2 (22.22%) Threat Modelling
5 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (11.11%) SIEM
5 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) CCSAS
1 3 (33.33%) CompTIA Security+
1 3 (33.33%) CREST Certified
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
1 3 (33.33%) OSCP
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Certification
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (22.22%) CISM
2 2 (22.22%) CISSP
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Sun
2 1 (11.11%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Splunk