Cybersecurity Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Cybersecurity Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Cybersecurity Engineer salary in Work from Home is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 540 552 766
Rank change year-on-year +12 +214 -257
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 46 111 86
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.14% 0.27% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.28% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 39 102 77
10th Percentile £41,100 £41,250 £42,400
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -25.00% +28.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £97,375 -
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -20.00% +30.43%

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 32,295 39,912 66,911
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.99% 96.00% 97.40%
Number of salaries quoted 24,770 28,336 41,924
10th Percentile £33,000 £36,733 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £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 £93,025 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Cybersecurity Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Cybersecurity Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cybersecurity Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Cybersecurity Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cybersecurity Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cybersecurity Engineer over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Cybersecurity Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Cybersecurity Engineer 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 Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 46 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 22 (47.83%) SIEM
3 21 (45.65%) Information Security
3 21 (45.65%) Security Operations
4 20 (43.48%) Azure
5 15 (32.61%) Vulnerability Management
5 15 (32.61%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (32.61%) Incident Response
6 14 (30.43%) Management Information System
6 14 (30.43%) Windows
7 12 (26.09%) Finance
7 12 (26.09%) Cloud Security
7 12 (26.09%) NIST
8 11 (23.91%) Cyber Essentials
8 11 (23.91%) Microsoft
9 10 (21.74%) Firewall
9 10 (21.74%) Analytics
9 10 (21.74%) Identity Access Management
10 9 (19.57%) Windows Server
10 9 (19.57%) Application Security
11 8 (17.39%) Cyber Threat
11 8 (17.39%) Penetration Testing
11 8 (17.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 7 (15.22%) Retail
12 7 (15.22%) Process Improvement
12 7 (15.22%) Risk Management
12 7 (15.22%) CISSP
12 7 (15.22%) Python
12 7 (15.22%) LAN
12 7 (15.22%) Java

Cybersecurity Engineer 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:

Cloud Services
1 20 (43.48%) Azure
2 15 (32.61%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (10.87%) GCP
4 4 (8.70%) AWS
5 3 (6.52%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (6.52%) SaaS
6 2 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (4.35%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 10 (21.74%) Firewall
2 7 (15.22%) LAN
3 6 (13.04%) Network Security
4 4 (8.70%) TCP/IP
4 4 (8.70%) WAN
5 2 (4.35%) Internet
5 2 (4.35%) SD-WAN
5 2 (4.35%) VSAN
5 2 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (4.35%) Wireshark
6 1 (2.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.87%) BigQuery
1 5 (10.87%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (10.87%) Hadoop
1 5 (10.87%) Relational Database
2 4 (8.70%) SQL Server
General
1 12 (26.09%) Finance
2 7 (15.22%) Retail
3 6 (13.04%) Banking
4 5 (10.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (10.87%) Law
5 2 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.35%) French Language
5 2 (4.35%) German Language
5 2 (4.35%) Italian Language
5 2 (4.35%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.35%) Social Skills
5 2 (4.35%) Spanish Language
6 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Electronics
6 1 (2.17%) Legal
6 1 (2.17%) Marketing
6 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.52%) CSS
2 1 (2.17%) Django
2 1 (2.17%) Flask
2 1 (2.17%) HTML
2 1 (2.17%) Jinja
2 1 (2.17%) Pyramid
Miscellaneous
1 14 (30.43%) Management Information System
2 8 (17.39%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (10.87%) Blog
4 4 (8.70%) Operational Technology
5 2 (4.35%) Cyberattack
5 2 (4.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (4.35%) Mobile App
5 2 (4.35%) Public Cloud
5 2 (4.35%) SCADA
5 2 (4.35%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (2.17%) IoT
6 1 (2.17%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (30.43%) Windows
2 9 (19.57%) Windows Server
3 3 (6.52%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (4.35%) Android
4 2 (4.35%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 22 (47.83%) SIEM
3 21 (45.65%) Information Security
3 21 (45.65%) Security Operations
4 15 (32.61%) Incident Response
4 15 (32.61%) Vulnerability Management
5 12 (26.09%) Cloud Security
6 10 (21.74%) Analytics
6 10 (21.74%) Identity Access Management
7 9 (19.57%) Application Security
8 8 (17.39%) Penetration Testing
9 7 (15.22%) DevOps
9 7 (15.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (15.22%) Process Improvement
9 7 (15.22%) Risk Management
10 6 (13.04%) Incident Management
11 5 (10.87%) Data Integration
11 5 (10.87%) Data Modelling
11 5 (10.87%) Data Science
11 5 (10.87%) Disruptive Innovation
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.22%) Java
1 7 (15.22%) Python
2 5 (10.87%) SQL
3 4 (8.70%) PowerShell
4 3 (6.52%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.17%) C++
Qualifications
1 7 (15.22%) CISSP
2 4 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (8.70%) Degree
2 4 (8.70%) SANS
3 3 (6.52%) CISM
3 3 (6.52%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.52%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (4.35%) CCNA
4 2 (4.35%) CCNP
4 2 (4.35%) CCSP
4 2 (4.35%) CEH
4 2 (4.35%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.35%) GCIA
4 2 (4.35%) SSCP
5 1 (2.17%) CISA
5 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (26.09%) NIST
2 11 (23.91%) Cyber Essentials
3 8 (17.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (10.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 5 (10.87%) Data Quality
5 3 (6.52%) SOC 2
6 2 (4.35%) PCI DSS
7 1 (2.17%) GRC
7 1 (2.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (8.70%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (10.87%) logstash
2 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (4.35%) CASB
3 2 (4.35%) CSIRT
3 2 (4.35%) Nmap
3 2 (4.35%) Terraform
4 1 (2.17%) QRadar
4 1 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (23.91%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.87%) Cisco
2 5 (10.87%) Fortinet
2 5 (10.87%) Google
2 5 (10.87%) Rapid7
3 3 (6.52%) Splunk
4 2 (4.35%) CheckPoint
4 2 (4.35%) HP
4 2 (4.35%) Meraki
4 2 (4.35%) Palo Alto
4 2 (4.35%) Qualys
4 2 (4.35%) Thycotic
4 2 (4.35%) VMware
5 1 (2.17%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (2.17%) Darktrace
5 1 (2.17%) IBM
5 1 (2.17%) SAP
5 1 (2.17%) Symantec