Network Security Jobs with Work from Home Options

Network Security
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Network Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Network Security over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 225 212 350
Rank change year-on-year -13 +138 -16
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 391 518 781
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.40% 1.58% 0.99%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.33% 13.34% 8.30%
Number of salaries quoted 316 382 480
10th Percentile £41,875 £38,550 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £43,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,526 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% +3.52% -11.54%
75th Percentile £72,813 £76,299 £76,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £59,483
% change year-on-year +3.45% -2.49% -0.86%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

Network Security falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,190 3,882 9,409
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.00% 11.83% 11.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,346 3,097 5,593
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,569 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £56,456
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +1.85% +2.65%
75th Percentile £67,968 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £88,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £49,000 £51,573 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.99% -1.77% +5.00%

Network Security
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Network Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Network Security trend for jobs with a WFH option

Network 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 Network Security.

Network Security salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Network Security
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Network Security over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Network Security salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Network Security
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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (2.81%) SharePoint
2 10 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.51%) Apache
3 2 (0.51%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (0.51%) Confluence
4 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (1.02%) FrameMaker
1 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (1.02%) RoboHelp
2 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.02%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (1.02%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (1.02%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 2 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.51%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 121 (30.95%) Azure
2 73 (18.67%) AWS
3 47 (12.02%) Microsoft 365
4 24 (6.14%) SaaS
5 23 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (4.35%) Entra ID
7 16 (4.09%) Power Platform
8 15 (3.84%) PaaS
9 12 (3.07%) Cloud Computing
10 11 (2.81%) Azure Data Factory
10 11 (2.81%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
10 11 (2.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 11 (2.81%) IaaS
11 10 (2.56%) Serverless
12 9 (2.30%) GCP
13 7 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (1.79%) Amazon S3
13 7 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (1.79%) Pulumi
14 5 (1.28%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 182 (46.55%) Firewall
2 102 (26.09%) WAN
3 95 (24.30%) LAN
4 79 (20.20%) VPN
5 56 (14.32%) SD-WAN
6 49 (12.53%) Wi-Fi
7 45 (11.51%) DNS
8 38 (9.72%) Wireless
9 35 (8.95%) BGP
10 32 (8.18%) OSPF
11 30 (7.67%) TCP/IP
12 25 (6.39%) Intrusion Detection
13 20 (5.12%) DHCP
13 20 (5.12%) MPLS
13 20 (5.12%) VLAN
13 20 (5.12%) WLAN
14 16 (4.09%) Cisco Nexus
15 15 (3.84%) EIGRP
15 15 (3.84%) SAN
16 14 (3.58%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.58%) Data Warehouse
1 14 (3.58%) Power BI
2 13 (3.32%) Azure SQL Database
2 13 (3.32%) SQL Server
3 11 (2.81%) Data Lake
3 11 (2.81%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 9 (2.30%) NoSQL
5 8 (2.05%) Relational Database
6 7 (1.79%) Hadoop
7 6 (1.53%) Redis
8 5 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.28%) InfluxDB
9 4 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.51%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.51%) Flink
11 1 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (3.07%) JIRA
2 8 (2.05%) Git
3 7 (1.79%) Jasmine
3 7 (1.79%) NUnit
3 7 (1.79%) Selenium
3 7 (1.79%) Team Foundation Server
3 7 (1.79%) TeamCity
3 7 (1.79%) Visual Studio
3 7 (1.79%) Visual Studio Code
4 6 (1.53%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.26%) GitLab
General
1 67 (17.14%) Social Skills
2 57 (14.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 49 (12.53%) Finance
4 27 (6.91%) Public Sector
5 19 (4.86%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.07%) Aerospace
7 10 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (2.56%) Legal
8 8 (2.05%) Telecoms
9 7 (1.79%) Retail
10 6 (1.53%) Law
11 5 (1.28%) Police
12 4 (1.02%) Japanese Language
12 4 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.77%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.77%) Publishing
14 2 (0.51%) Military
14 2 (0.51%) Welsh Language
15 1 (0.26%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 113 (28.90%) Network Engineer
2 104 (26.60%) Senior
3 51 (13.04%) Senior Network Engineer
4 50 (12.79%) Software Engineer
5 47 (12.02%) Security Engineer
6 36 (9.21%) Network Security Engineer
7 33 (8.44%) Data Engineer
8 31 (7.93%) Architect
9 27 (6.91%) Senior Security Engineer
10 25 (6.39%) Senior Network Security Engineer
11 24 (6.14%) IT Engineer
12 23 (5.88%) Consultant
12 23 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 21 (5.37%) Network Manager
14 19 (4.86%) Azure Engineer
15 18 (4.60%) Lead
16 17 (4.35%) Analyst
16 17 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
17 16 (4.09%) Project Engineer
17 16 (4.09%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.84%) CSS
1 15 (3.84%) HTML
2 9 (2.30%) .NET
3 8 (2.05%) RESTful
4 7 (1.79%) .NET Core
4 7 (1.79%) .NET Framework
4 7 (1.79%) ARM Templates
4 7 (1.79%) ASP.NET
4 7 (1.79%) DPDK
4 7 (1.79%) Entity Framework
4 7 (1.79%) HTML5
4 7 (1.79%) OpenID
5 5 (1.28%) Middleware
5 5 (1.28%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (1.02%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (0.77%) 802.1X
7 3 (0.77%) XMPP
8 2 (0.51%) Kafka
8 2 (0.51%) LDAP
8 2 (0.51%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 54 (13.81%) Data Centre
2 30 (7.67%) Management Information System
3 15 (3.84%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (3.84%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.32%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 12 (3.07%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.81%) Driving Licence
7 10 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
7 10 (2.56%) Public Cloud
7 10 (2.56%) Security Posture
8 9 (2.30%) Cyber Threat
9 8 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.53%) IoT
11 5 (1.28%) PKI
11 5 (1.28%) Security Operations Centre
12 4 (1.02%) Algorithms
12 4 (1.02%) Cloud Native
12 4 (1.02%) Data Structures
13 3 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 66 (16.88%) Linux
2 49 (12.53%) Windows
3 21 (5.37%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.53%) Windows Server 2012
4 6 (1.53%) Windows Server 2016
4 6 (1.53%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (1.28%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.02%) Android
6 4 (1.02%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (0.51%) Unix
7 2 (0.51%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (26.34%) Cybersecurity
2 67 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
3 61 (15.60%) Software Engineering
4 55 (14.07%) Information Security
5 47 (12.02%) Computer Science
6 45 (11.51%) Agile
6 45 (11.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 39 (9.97%) DevOps
8 38 (9.72%) Project Management
9 37 (9.46%) SIEM
10 36 (9.21%) ITIL
10 36 (9.21%) Visualisation
11 34 (8.70%) Analytics
11 34 (8.70%) Data Visualisation
12 33 (8.44%) Mentoring
12 33 (8.44%) Stakeholder Management
13 32 (8.18%) Cloud Security
14 26 (6.65%) Risk Management
14 26 (6.65%) Roadmaps
15 25 (6.39%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 48 (12.28%) Python
2 28 (7.16%) SQL
3 25 (6.39%) PowerShell
4 22 (5.63%) JavaScript
5 17 (4.35%) Java
6 16 (4.09%) C#
6 16 (4.09%) C++
7 14 (3.58%) C
8 12 (3.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 11 (2.81%) U-SQL
10 7 (1.79%) Bicep
11 6 (1.53%) Bash
12 5 (1.28%) Go
12 5 (1.28%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.51%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.51%) VBA
Qualifications
1 74 (18.93%) Cisco Certification
2 64 (16.37%) CCNP
3 63 (16.11%) Degree
4 50 (12.79%) Security Cleared
5 43 (11.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 41 (10.49%) CISSP
7 26 (6.65%) CCIE
8 25 (6.39%) DV Cleared
9 22 (5.63%) SC Cleared
10 21 (5.37%) CCNA
11 18 (4.60%) Microsoft Certification
12 13 (3.32%) CISM
13 11 (2.81%) Azure Certification
14 10 (2.56%) CompTIA Security+
15 6 (1.53%) Master's Degree
16 5 (1.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 5 (1.28%) CCSE
16 5 (1.28%) CCSP
16 5 (1.28%) TOGAF Certification
17 4 (1.02%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (10.23%) NIST
2 20 (5.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (2.81%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (2.30%) NCSC
4 9 (2.30%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 7 (1.79%) GDPR
6 6 (1.53%) SLA
7 4 (1.02%) COBIT
8 3 (0.77%) GRC
8 3 (0.77%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.51%) GxP
9 2 (0.51%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.51%) PMO
10 1 (0.26%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (8.95%) Active Directory
2 15 (3.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (3.32%) Docker
3 13 (3.32%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.51%) Firmware
4 2 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.51%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.26%) Snort
5 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (6.39%) Terraform
2 24 (6.14%) Kubernetes
3 20 (5.12%) WSUS
4 15 (3.84%) Ansible
5 10 (2.56%) Grafana
5 10 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (2.56%) Prometheus
6 9 (2.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 8 (2.05%) FortiGate
8 7 (1.79%) MIIS
9 5 (1.28%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (1.28%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.28%) SCOM
10 3 (0.77%) Cisco Prime
10 3 (0.77%) Nagios
10 3 (0.77%) OfficeScan
10 3 (0.77%) QRadar
11 2 (0.51%) Nessus
11 2 (0.51%) SCCM
11 2 (0.51%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 143 (36.57%) Cisco
2 91 (23.27%) Microsoft
3 51 (13.04%) Palo Alto
4 40 (10.23%) Fortinet
5 33 (8.44%) Juniper
6 29 (7.42%) CheckPoint
7 25 (6.39%) Meraki
8 24 (6.14%) VMware
9 22 (5.63%) Splunk
10 17 (4.35%) Infoblox
10 17 (4.35%) SolarWinds
11 15 (3.84%) Blue Coat
11 15 (3.84%) ServiceNow
12 12 (3.07%) Aruba
12 12 (3.07%) Riverbed
13 11 (2.81%) Databricks
14 10 (2.56%) Oracle
14 10 (2.56%) Zscaler
15 9 (2.30%) F5
16 7 (1.79%) HP