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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 459 522 559
Rank change year-on-year +63 +37 +302
DemandTrendPermanent jobs citing Blue Team 13 3 2
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.064% 0.011% 0.007%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.068% 0.013% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 13 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £48,165 £62,500 £95,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £65,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% -35.00% +139.52%
75th Percentile £95,000 £67,500 £105,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £62,000 £50,000 £76,250
% change year-on-year +24.00% -34.43% +52.50%

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.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 18,999 23,400 27,681
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.25% 88.29% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 9,529 14,840 20,644
10th Percentile £25,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +2.35%
75th Percentile £76,250 £78,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

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 Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Blue Team.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Blue Team

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 28 August 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 9 (69.23%) Azure
2 8 (61.54%) AWS
3 5 (38.46%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (23.08%) Cloudflare
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) Wireshark
2 3 (23.08%) DNS
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Burp Suite
1 3 (23.08%) Metasploit
General
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Telecoms
3 2 (15.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Security Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Operations Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Forensic Manager
3 4 (30.77%) Incident Manager
4 3 (23.08%) Information Security Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) Principal Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) Principal Security Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) Cloud Security Posture
1 8 (61.54%) Security Posture
2 4 (30.77%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (7.69%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 12 (92.31%) Linux
1 12 (92.31%) Windows
2 4 (30.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Cloud Security
1 12 (92.31%) Threat Modelling
2 9 (69.23%) Forensic Analysis
3 8 (61.54%) Information Security
4 7 (53.85%) Data Loss Prevention
4 7 (53.85%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 7 (53.85%) Red Team
4 7 (53.85%) Vulnerability Management
5 6 (46.15%) Security Operations
6 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
6 5 (38.46%) Containerisation
6 5 (38.46%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (38.46%) DevSecOps
6 5 (38.46%) Microservices
6 5 (38.46%) SIEM
7 4 (30.77%) Incident Response
7 4 (30.77%) Security Monitoring
7 4 (30.77%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
7 4 (30.77%) Threat Intelligence
7 4 (30.77%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Bash
1 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
1 3 (23.08%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 8 (61.54%) Cisco Certification
1 8 (61.54%) CISSP
2 7 (53.85%) GCIH
3 6 (46.15%) CompTIA Security+
3 6 (46.15%) Degree
4 5 (38.46%) AWS Certification
4 5 (38.46%) CISM
4 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
4 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
5 4 (30.77%) GCFA
5 4 (30.77%) GCIA
6 3 (23.08%) CCSP
7 1 (7.69%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) NIST
2 3 (23.08%) GDPR
2 3 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Docker
2 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Kubernetes
2 3 (23.08%) Nmap
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) VMware
2 3 (23.08%) Rapid7
3 1 (7.69%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) Splunk