Cyber Defence Jobs with Work from Home Options

Cyber Defence
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cyber Defence in permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cyber Defence over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 555 358 387
Rank change year-on-year -197 +29 +153
Permanent jobs citing Cyber Defence 20 352 564
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.059% 0.81% 0.85%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.17% 2.10% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 12 22 40
10th Percentile £33,522 £55,554 £30,000
25th Percentile £53,969 £55,728 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,200 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.46% +25.82% -15.38%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,550 £72,500
90th Percentile £76,875 £86,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £90,000 £75,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year +18.81% +31.74% -11.54%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Cyber Defence is in the General and Transferable Skills 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 generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,987 16,768 30,604
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.42% 38.60% 45.98%
Number of salaries quoted 9,222 12,005 16,618
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.23% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £78,067 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Cyber Defence
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Cyber Defence trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cyber Defence
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Cyber Defence salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cyber Defence
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cyber Defence over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Cyber Defence salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cyber Defence
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 4 (20.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) Azure
3 2 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.00%) CloudFront
4 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (30.00%) Firewall
2 3 (15.00%) Network Security
3 1 (5.00%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.00%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Git
1 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (5.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (5.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (5.00%) Jasmine
2 1 (5.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Mercurial
2 1 (5.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (5.00%) Subversion
2 1 (5.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (5.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (40.00%) Finance
2 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
3 5 (25.00%) Legal
4 3 (15.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (15.00%) Law
5 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Analyst
2 6 (30.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 6 (30.00%) Security Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Risk Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Java Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Lead
5 1 (5.00%) Operations Team Leader
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Java Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) .NET
1 1 (5.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (5.00%) JMS
1 1 (5.00%) Kafka
1 1 (5.00%) POSIX
1 1 (5.00%) Spring
1 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (5.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) Cyber Threat
1 8 (40.00%) Cyberattack
2 6 (30.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 5 (25.00%) Driving Licence
3 5 (25.00%) Operational Technology
4 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (5.00%) IoT
5 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
1 2 (10.00%) Unix
1 2 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) Android
2 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.00%) FreeBSD
2 1 (5.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (5.00%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (55.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 11 (55.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 9 (45.00%) Incident Response
4 8 (40.00%) Information Security
4 8 (40.00%) SIEM
5 7 (35.00%) Decision-Making
5 7 (35.00%) Risk Management
5 7 (35.00%) Security Operations
6 6 (30.00%) Attack Monitoring
6 6 (30.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 5 (25.00%) Cyber Intelligence
7 5 (25.00%) Information Assurance
7 5 (25.00%) Line Management
7 5 (25.00%) Mentoring
7 5 (25.00%) Self-Awareness
8 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
9 3 (15.00%) ITIL
9 3 (15.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) Python
2 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (15.00%) Java
4 2 (10.00%) Bash
4 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.00%) C#
5 1 (5.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (35.00%) Degree
3 6 (30.00%) SC Cleared
4 5 (25.00%) MBCS
5 3 (15.00%) CREST Certified
6 2 (10.00%) CISA
6 2 (10.00%) CISSP
6 2 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (10.00%) CRISC
6 2 (10.00%) FFIEC
6 2 (10.00%) Master's Degree
6 2 (10.00%) SANS
7 1 (5.00%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (55.00%) NCSC
2 10 (50.00%) NIST
3 4 (20.00%) PCI DSS
4 2 (10.00%) COBIT
4 2 (10.00%) GLBA
4 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (5.00%) Google
2 1 (5.00%) IBM
2 1 (5.00%) Perforce
2 1 (5.00%) Qualys