IT Security Specialist Jobs with Work from Home Options

IT Security Specialist
UK > Work from Home

The median IT Security Specialist salary in Work from Home is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 579 640 828
Rank change year-on-year +61 +188 -269
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Security Specialist 5 23 17
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.015% 0.054% 0.025%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.056% 0.026%
Number of salaries quoted 5 16 14
10th Percentile £46,000 - -
25th Percentile £51,250 £27,750 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £28,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +75.44% -45.71%
75th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £66,563
90th Percentile £71,000 - £76,250
UK median annual salary £47,500 £80,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -40.63% +39.13% -8.00%

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 32,422 40,723 66,198
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.99% 96.03% 97.39%
Number of salaries quoted 24,878 28,925 42,092
10th Percentile £33,000 £36,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,250 £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 Specialist
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

IT Security Specialist trend for jobs with a WFH option

IT Security Specialist
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 Specialist.

IT Security Specialist salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

IT Security Specialist
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing IT Security Specialist over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

IT Security Specialist salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, IT Security Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 3 (60.00%) Security Operations
1 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (60.00%) Operational Technology
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 2 (40.00%) Threat Detection
2 2 (40.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (40.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) Varonis
2 2 (40.00%) LogRhythm
2 2 (40.00%) Kalman Filter
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (40.00%) Qualys
2 2 (40.00%) SIEM
2 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (40.00%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (40.00%) Information Security
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Internet
2 2 (40.00%) Forcepoint
2 2 (40.00%) Data Security
2 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Law
3 1 (20.00%) Legal
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (20.00%) COBIT
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Analysis

IT Security Specialist 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Internet
General
1 1 (20.00%) Law
1 1 (20.00%) Legal
1 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Operational Technology
2 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (60.00%) Security Operations
1 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (40.00%) Data Security
2 2 (40.00%) Information Security
2 2 (40.00%) Kalman Filter
2 2 (40.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (40.00%) SIEM
2 2 (40.00%) Threat Detection
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Remediation Plan
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (20.00%) COBIT
2 1 (20.00%) GRC
2 1 (20.00%) ISO 31000
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (20.00%) NIST
2 1 (20.00%) NIST 800
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Forcepoint
1 2 (40.00%) LogRhythm
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Qualys
1 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
1 2 (40.00%) Varonis