IT Security Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

IT Security Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median IT Security Engineer salary in Work from Home is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 545 572 780
Rank change year-on-year +27 +208 -238
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Security Engineer 40 87 54
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.21% 0.079%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.21% 0.081%
Number of salaries quoted 40 81 53
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £29,450
25th Percentile £39,250 £31,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £75,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% +28.34%
75th Percentile £81,250 £77,542 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,625 £100,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,483
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.08% +9.49%

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 32,433 40,693 66,264
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.99% 96.00% 97.39%
Number of salaries quoted 24,885 28,909 42,146
10th Percentile £33,000 £36,626 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,375 £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%

IT Security Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

IT Security Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

IT Security 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 IT Security Engineer.

IT Security Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

IT Security Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing IT Security Engineer over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

IT Security Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, IT Security 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 IT Security Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (57.50%) Azure
2 21 (52.50%) Security Operations
3 20 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (42.50%) Microsoft
4 17 (42.50%) Incident Response
5 16 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
6 14 (35.00%) Windows
7 12 (30.00%) Active Directory
7 12 (30.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 11 (27.50%) AWS
9 10 (25.00%) Cyberattack
10 9 (22.50%) Social Skills
10 9 (22.50%) Vulnerability Management
10 9 (22.50%) PowerShell
10 9 (22.50%) SIEM
11 8 (20.00%) Information Security
12 7 (17.50%) Customer Service
12 7 (17.50%) NIST
12 7 (17.50%) Data Loss Prevention
12 7 (17.50%) Firewall
12 7 (17.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 7 (17.50%) Microsoft Intune
12 7 (17.50%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (15.00%) Task Automation
13 6 (15.00%) CrowdStrike
13 6 (15.00%) Offensive Security
14 5 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
14 5 (12.50%) Finance
14 5 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
14 5 (12.50%) Network Security

IT Security 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 23 (57.50%) Azure
2 20 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (27.50%) AWS
4 7 (17.50%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (5.00%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.50%) Firewall
2 5 (12.50%) Network Security
3 2 (5.00%) Internet
4 1 (2.50%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 9 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.50%) Finance
3 3 (7.50%) Banking
4 2 (5.00%) Law
4 2 (5.00%) Welsh Language
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.00%) Cyberattack
2 4 (10.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 4 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (7.50%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (2.50%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.50%) Cybercrime
4 1 (2.50%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 14 (35.00%) Windows
2 4 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (7.50%) Unix
4 2 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (52.50%) Security Operations
2 17 (42.50%) Incident Response
3 16 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
4 12 (30.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 9 (22.50%) SIEM
5 9 (22.50%) Vulnerability Management
6 8 (20.00%) Information Security
7 7 (17.50%) Customer Service
7 7 (17.50%) Data Loss Prevention
8 6 (15.00%) Offensive Security
8 6 (15.00%) Task Automation
9 5 (12.50%) Cloud Security
9 5 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
10 4 (10.00%) Risk Management
11 3 (7.50%) Analytics
11 3 (7.50%) Data Management
11 3 (7.50%) Data Protection
11 3 (7.50%) Data Security
11 3 (7.50%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 9 (22.50%) PowerShell
2 4 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (2.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (7.50%) Azure Certification
1 3 (7.50%) Degree
2 2 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (5.00%) CASP
2 2 (5.00%) CISA
2 2 (5.00%) CISM
2 2 (5.00%) CISSP
2 2 (5.00%) CompTIA CySA+
2 2 (5.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (17.50%) NIST
2 4 (10.00%) GDPR
3 3 (7.50%) SOC 2
4 2 (5.00%) COBIT
5 1 (2.50%) GRC
5 1 (2.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (30.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (17.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (5.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (2.50%) CASB
3 1 (2.50%) QRadar
Vendors
1 17 (42.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.00%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (7.50%) Qualys
4 2 (5.00%) Forcepoint
4 2 (5.00%) LogRhythm
4 2 (5.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (5.00%) Varonis
4 2 (5.00%) VMware
5 1 (2.50%) Cisco
5 1 (2.50%) IBM
5 1 (2.50%) Kenna
5 1 (2.50%) Rapid7
5 1 (2.50%) Splunk
5 1 (2.50%) Tripwire