IT Security Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

IT Security Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median IT Security Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 402 549 582
Rank change year-on-year +147 +33 +207
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Security Engineer 11 40 89
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.073% 0.12% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.081% 0.12% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 11 40 83
10th Percentile £42,500 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £45,625 £39,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £54,375 £81,250 £77,542
90th Percentile £63,750 £82,625 £100,000
UK median annual salary £48,750 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -18.75% -7.69% +13.08%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 13,568 32,486 41,019
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.66% 95.98% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 9,888 24,950 29,138
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,116 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,451 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.29% -9.68% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.83% -

IT Security Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured IT Security Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

IT Security Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

IT Security Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing IT Security Engineer over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

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 2 May 2025, 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 hybrid or remote work options featuring IT Security Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (90.91%) Information Security
2 9 (81.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (72.73%) SIEM
4 6 (54.55%) NIST
5 5 (45.45%) Firewall
5 5 (45.45%) Management Information System
6 4 (36.36%) Risk Management
6 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
6 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
6 4 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (36.36%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (36.36%) Security Operations
7 3 (27.27%) Security Architecture
7 3 (27.27%) Patch Management
7 3 (27.27%) IT Strategy
7 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
7 3 (27.27%) Application Security
7 3 (27.27%) Vulnerability Management
7 3 (27.27%) Azure
7 3 (27.27%) Windows
7 3 (27.27%) Security Posture
8 2 (18.18%) DHCP
8 2 (18.18%) DNS
8 2 (18.18%) Finance
8 2 (18.18%) Risk Analysis
8 2 (18.18%) Use Case
8 2 (18.18%) Network Security
8 2 (18.18%) Cryptography
8 2 (18.18%) Network Design
8 2 (18.18%) AWS

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 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
2 2 (18.18%) IaaS
2 2 (18.18%) PaaS
2 2 (18.18%) SaaS
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) Firewall
2 2 (18.18%) DHCP
2 2 (18.18%) DNS
2 2 (18.18%) Network Security
3 1 (9.09%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Management Information System
2 3 (27.27%) Security Posture
3 2 (18.18%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (18.18%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Information Security
2 8 (72.73%) SIEM
3 4 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (36.36%) Risk Management
3 4 (36.36%) Security Operations
4 3 (27.27%) Application Security
4 3 (27.27%) IT Strategy
4 3 (27.27%) Patch Management
4 3 (27.27%) Security Architecture
4 3 (27.27%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (18.18%) Cryptography
5 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
5 2 (18.18%) Incident Response
5 2 (18.18%) Information Governance
5 2 (18.18%) Network Design
5 2 (18.18%) OWASP
5 2 (18.18%) Risk Analysis
5 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
5 2 (18.18%) SOAR
5 2 (18.18%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (81.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (54.55%) NIST
3 4 (36.36%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (18.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (18.18%) NCSC
4 2 (18.18%) SOC 2
5 1 (9.09%) GDPR
5 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Host Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft