Security Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Security Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Security Engineer salary in Work from Home is £59,526 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 350 305 392
Rank change year-on-year -45 +87 -68
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 260 453 568
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.77% 1.05% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% 1.09% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 249 357 399
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,885 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,998 £48,750 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,526 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -10.71% +16.67%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,715 £85,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £97,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £59,526 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.42% - +8.33%

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 32,462 41,558 65,000
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.99% 96.10% 97.40%
Number of salaries quoted 24,940 29,452 41,851
10th Percentile £33,000 £36,503 £36,000
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 £79,600
90th Percentile £92,500 £99,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%

Security Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Security Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

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 Security Engineer.

Security Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Security Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Security Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, 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 Security Engineer in the job title.

1 142 (54.62%) Cybersecurity
2 138 (53.08%) Azure
3 89 (34.23%) Microsoft
4 74 (28.46%) Security Operations
5 71 (27.31%) Cloud Security
6 70 (26.92%) Microsoft 365
7 67 (25.77%) Finance
8 63 (24.23%) DevOps
9 60 (23.08%) SIEM
10 58 (22.31%) Firewall
11 57 (21.92%) Information Security
11 57 (21.92%) NIST
12 53 (20.38%) AWS
12 53 (20.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 50 (19.23%) Incident Response
14 49 (18.85%) Windows
15 48 (18.46%) Python
15 48 (18.46%) Network Security
16 47 (18.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 45 (17.31%) Terraform
18 41 (15.77%) Vulnerability Management
19 40 (15.38%) CISSP
20 39 (15.00%) PowerShell
21 37 (14.23%) Public Cloud
22 36 (13.85%) Mentoring
22 36 (13.85%) Agile
23 34 (13.08%) Coaching
24 33 (12.69%) Infrastructure as Code
24 33 (12.69%) Social Skills
25 32 (12.31%) Cisco Certification

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.38%) Apache
1 1 (0.38%) Gunicorn
1 1 (0.38%) nginx
1 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
1 1 (0.38%) uWSGI
Applications
1 5 (1.92%) Trello
2 3 (1.15%) AutoCAD
2 3 (1.15%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 138 (53.08%) Azure
2 70 (26.92%) Microsoft 365
3 53 (20.38%) AWS
4 30 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (10.77%) GCP
6 24 (9.23%) PaaS
7 23 (8.85%) Entra ID
8 19 (7.31%) Azure Sentinel
9 18 (6.92%) Microsoft Purview
10 17 (6.54%) GitHub
11 16 (6.15%) SaaS
12 14 (5.38%) Cloud Computing
13 12 (4.62%) AWS KMS
13 12 (4.62%) Azure Key Vault
14 10 (3.85%) Azure AKS
15 9 (3.46%) Amazon EC2
16 7 (2.69%) IaaS
17 6 (2.31%) Amazon S3
18 5 (1.92%) AWS Direct Connect
18 5 (1.92%) ClickUp
Communications & Networking
1 58 (22.31%) Firewall
2 48 (18.46%) Network Security
3 32 (12.31%) LAN
4 24 (9.23%) WAN
5 16 (6.15%) TCP/IP
6 14 (5.38%) DNS
7 13 (5.00%) Wireshark
8 12 (4.62%) Wireless
9 9 (3.46%) Internet
9 9 (3.46%) SD-WAN
10 6 (2.31%) BGP
10 6 (2.31%) OSPF
10 6 (2.31%) VPN
11 5 (1.92%) Cisco IPT
11 5 (1.92%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (1.92%) DMVPN
11 5 (1.92%) EIGRP
11 5 (1.92%) VLAN
11 5 (1.92%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (1.92%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.08%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.92%) BigQuery
2 5 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (1.92%) Hadoop
2 5 (1.92%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.54%) InfluxDB
3 4 (1.54%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 21 (8.08%) Jenkins
2 12 (4.62%) GitLab
3 5 (1.92%) JIRA
4 4 (1.54%) JMeter
4 4 (1.54%) Postman
4 4 (1.54%) SoapUI
5 2 (0.77%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.77%) Metasploit
5 2 (0.77%) sqlmap
General
1 67 (25.77%) Finance
2 33 (12.69%) Social Skills
3 30 (11.54%) Banking
4 16 (6.15%) Law
5 15 (5.77%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.85%) Health Technology
6 10 (3.85%) Retail
6 10 (3.85%) Tech for Good
7 9 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.69%) Welsh Language
9 6 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
11 4 (1.54%) Publishing
11 4 (1.54%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.15%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.77%) Electronics
13 2 (0.77%) French Language
13 2 (0.77%) German Language
13 2 (0.77%) Italian Language
13 2 (0.77%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.31%) OAuth
2 5 (1.92%) 802.1X
2 5 (1.92%) XMPP
3 4 (1.54%) CSS
3 4 (1.54%) Kafka
3 4 (1.54%) OAuth2
3 4 (1.54%) SOAP
3 4 (1.54%) XML
4 2 (0.77%) Django
4 2 (0.77%) Flask
4 2 (0.77%) HTML
4 2 (0.77%) JWT
5 1 (0.38%) Jinja
5 1 (0.38%) Pyramid
5 1 (0.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 37 (14.23%) Public Cloud
2 29 (11.15%) Management Information System
3 25 (9.62%) Security Operations Centre
4 17 (6.54%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (6.54%) Product Ownership
5 15 (5.77%) PKI
6 12 (4.62%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (4.62%) Private Cloud
7 11 (4.23%) Cyberattack
7 11 (4.23%) Data Centre
8 10 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
8 10 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (3.08%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 8 (3.08%) Operational Technology
10 6 (2.31%) Cybercrime
10 6 (2.31%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 5 (1.92%) Blog
12 4 (1.54%) Cloud Native
12 4 (1.54%) Cyber Security Posture
12 4 (1.54%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 49 (18.85%) Windows
2 17 (6.54%) Windows Server
3 15 (5.77%) Unix
4 13 (5.00%) Android
4 13 (5.00%) Apple iOS
4 13 (5.00%) Linux
5 10 (3.85%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.92%) Debian
6 5 (1.92%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (1.54%) CentOS
7 4 (1.54%) Solaris
7 4 (1.54%) zOS
8 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (54.62%) Cybersecurity
2 74 (28.46%) Security Operations
3 71 (27.31%) Cloud Security
4 63 (24.23%) DevOps
5 60 (23.08%) SIEM
6 57 (21.92%) Information Security
7 50 (19.23%) Incident Response
8 47 (18.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 41 (15.77%) Vulnerability Management
10 36 (13.85%) Agile
10 36 (13.85%) Mentoring
11 34 (13.08%) Coaching
12 33 (12.69%) Infrastructure as Code
13 30 (11.54%) Identity Access Management
13 30 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
13 30 (11.54%) Roadmaps
14 29 (11.15%) Key Management
15 28 (10.77%) Data Loss Prevention
16 27 (10.38%) Secrets Management
17 25 (9.62%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 48 (18.46%) Python
2 39 (15.00%) PowerShell
3 19 (7.31%) Kusto Query Language
4 9 (3.46%) Java
4 9 (3.46%) SQL
5 6 (2.31%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.15%) C++
6 3 (1.15%) Rust
7 2 (0.77%) C#
7 2 (0.77%) Go
7 2 (0.77%) Lua
7 2 (0.77%) Ruby
8 1 (0.38%) Bash
8 1 (0.38%) C
Qualifications
1 40 (15.38%) CISSP
2 32 (12.31%) Cisco Certification
3 25 (9.62%) Degree
4 21 (8.08%) CEH
5 16 (6.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 16 (6.15%) CCNA
5 16 (6.15%) CCSP
6 15 (5.77%) CISM
6 15 (5.77%) SANS
7 13 (5.00%) SC Cleared
7 13 (5.00%) Security Cleared
7 13 (5.00%) SSCP
8 12 (4.62%) CCNP
9 8 (3.08%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.54%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.54%) GIAC
10 4 (1.54%) ISTQB
10 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.15%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (21.92%) NIST
2 53 (20.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (6.92%) PCI DSS
4 12 (4.62%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 11 (4.23%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (4.23%) GDPR
6 6 (2.31%) QA
6 6 (2.31%) SOC 2
7 5 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (1.92%) Data Quality
8 4 (1.54%) Accessibility
9 3 (1.15%) COBIT
10 2 (0.77%) NCSC
11 1 (0.38%) GRC
11 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (12.31%) Active Directory
2 18 (6.92%) Docker
3 13 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 45 (17.31%) Terraform
2 27 (10.38%) Kubernetes
3 24 (9.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (5.77%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (5.00%) Nmap
6 12 (4.62%) CA Single Sign-On
7 7 (2.69%) CASB
8 5 (1.92%) logstash
9 4 (1.54%) Grafana
10 2 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.77%) CSIRT
10 2 (0.77%) QRadar
Vendors
1 89 (34.23%) Microsoft
2 30 (11.54%) Cisco
3 22 (8.46%) Google
4 21 (8.08%) Qualys
5 19 (7.31%) CyberArk
5 19 (7.31%) Splunk
6 17 (6.54%) Rapid7
7 16 (6.15%) ServiceNow
8 15 (5.77%) Palo Alto
9 13 (5.00%) Thycotic
10 12 (4.62%) CA
11 8 (3.08%) Fortinet
12 7 (2.69%) CheckPoint
12 7 (2.69%) CrowdStrike
12 7 (2.69%) VMware
13 5 (1.92%) Forcepoint
14 4 (1.54%) Oracle
15 3 (1.15%) Sophos
15 3 (1.15%) WatchGuard
16 2 (0.77%) SonicWALL