Head of Information Security Jobs with Work from Home Options

Head of Information Security
UK > Work from Home

The median Head of Information Security salary in Work from Home is £99,446 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 585 656 829
Rank change year-on-year +71 +173 -276
Permanent jobs requiring a Head of Information Security 8 7 23
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.024% 0.017% 0.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.018% 0.034%
Number of salaries quoted 6 6 10
10th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £73,375
25th Percentile £92,500 £85,938 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £99,446 £106,250 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +14.86% -2.63%
75th Percentile £112,829 £138,750 £105,000
90th Percentile £113,915 £145,000 £113,375
UK median annual salary £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year -2.56% +8.33% +5.88%

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 32,500 39,912 66,911
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.98% 96.00% 97.40%
Number of salaries quoted 24,881 28,336 41,924
10th Percentile £33,013 £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 £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Head of Information Security
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Head of Information Security trend for jobs with a WFH option

Head of Information Security
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Head of Information Security.

Head of Information Security salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Head of Information Security
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Head of Information Security over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Head of Information Security salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Head of Information Security Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Head of Information Security 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 Head of Information Security in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Information Security
2 5 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (50.00%) Incident Response
4 3 (37.50%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (37.50%) Agile
4 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
5 2 (25.00%) Finance
5 2 (25.00%) Legal
5 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (25.00%) GRC
5 2 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (25.00%) SIEM
5 2 (25.00%) Security Operations
6 1 (12.50%) Network Intrusion Detection System
6 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
6 1 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
6 1 (12.50%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (12.50%) GDPR
6 1 (12.50%) Security Monitoring
6 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
6 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
6 1 (12.50%) Firewall
6 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (12.50%) Splunk
6 1 (12.50%) DevOps
6 1 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
6 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat

Head of Information Security 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 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) LAN
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
1 1 (12.50%) WAN
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Legal
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Security Posture
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (12.50%) e-Learning
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Information Security
2 5 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (50.00%) Incident Response
4 3 (37.50%) Agile
4 3 (37.50%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
5 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (25.00%) Security Operations
5 2 (25.00%) SIEM
6 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (12.50%) Asset Management
6 1 (12.50%) DevOps
6 1 (12.50%) ISMS
6 1 (12.50%) ITIL
6 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2
6 1 (12.50%) Project Management
6 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CISM
1 1 (12.50%) CISSP
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) PMI Certification
1 1 (12.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (25.00%) GRC
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) NIST
2 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (12.50%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (12.50%) Nessus
1 1 (12.50%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) CheckPoint
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco
1 1 (12.50%) Citrix
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Splunk
1 1 (12.50%) VMware