Security Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Security Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Security Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 285 345 316
Rank change year-on-year +60 -29 +67
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 134 258 418
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.88% 0.76% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% 0.79% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 125 247 332
10th Percentile £42,500 £32,750 £37,885
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,000 £48,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,526 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% -8.42% -7.14%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.60% -11.81% +3.85%

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 13,761 32,474 40,893
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.71% 96.00% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 9,932 24,947 29,049
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,008 £36,711
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,447
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -

Security Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Security Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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 3 May 2025, 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 Security Engineer in the job title.

1 67 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 63 (47.01%) Security Posture
3 58 (43.28%) AWS
4 57 (42.54%) Cloud Security
5 53 (39.55%) Firewall
6 52 (38.81%) Azure
7 51 (38.06%) DevOps
8 43 (32.09%) Security Operations
8 43 (32.09%) Finance
9 39 (29.10%) Vulnerability Management
10 33 (24.63%) Vulnerability Remediation
10 33 (24.63%) Information Security
11 32 (23.88%) SIEM
12 29 (21.64%) Microsoft
12 29 (21.64%) Social Skills
12 29 (21.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 27 (20.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 26 (19.40%) PowerShell
14 26 (19.40%) Python
14 26 (19.40%) NIST
15 25 (18.66%) Infrastructure as Code
15 25 (18.66%) Roadmaps
16 24 (17.91%) CI/CD
16 24 (17.91%) CISSP
17 22 (16.42%) AWS Certification
17 22 (16.42%) Cloud Security Posture
18 21 (15.67%) Continuous Improvement
18 21 (15.67%) Problem-Solving
18 21 (15.67%) Linux
18 21 (15.67%) Management Information System

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 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 58 (43.28%) AWS
2 52 (38.81%) Azure
3 11 (8.21%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (6.72%) SaaS
5 8 (5.97%) Azure Sentinel
5 8 (5.97%) Entra ID
6 7 (5.22%) PaaS
7 5 (3.73%) Azure AKS
7 5 (3.73%) IaaS
7 5 (3.73%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.99%) GCP
9 3 (2.24%) GitHub
9 3 (2.24%) IBM Cloud
10 2 (1.49%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.49%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 2 (1.49%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (1.49%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.75%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.75%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 53 (39.55%) Firewall
2 15 (11.19%) Network Security
3 8 (5.97%) TCP/IP
4 7 (5.22%) DHCP
4 7 (5.22%) DNS
4 7 (5.22%) VPN
5 4 (2.99%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (2.99%) Cisco Firepower
5 4 (2.99%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (2.99%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (2.99%) VLAN
5 4 (2.99%) VSAN
6 2 (1.49%) NGFW
7 1 (0.75%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (0.75%) DMARC
7 1 (0.75%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.75%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.75%) TACACS
7 1 (0.75%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.49%) Big Data
2 1 (0.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (3.73%) Git
2 3 (2.24%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.75%) Burp Suite
General
1 43 (32.09%) Finance
2 29 (21.64%) Social Skills
3 19 (14.18%) Law
4 17 (12.69%) Banking
5 13 (9.70%) Retail
6 9 (6.72%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (6.72%) Legal
7 5 (3.73%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Advertising
9 1 (0.75%) Games
9 1 (0.75%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.22%) GraphQL
1 7 (5.22%) REST
2 5 (3.73%) Middleware
3 3 (2.24%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (0.75%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.75%) HTML
4 1 (0.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 63 (47.01%) Security Posture
2 22 (16.42%) Cloud Security Posture
3 21 (15.67%) Management Information System
4 15 (11.19%) Cyber Threat
5 14 (10.45%) Cloud Native
6 10 (7.46%) Public Cloud
7 9 (6.72%) Cyber Security Posture
7 9 (6.72%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (5.22%) Product Ownership
9 6 (4.48%) Security Operations Centre
10 5 (3.73%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (1.49%) Blockchain
13 2 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
14 1 (0.75%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 21 (15.67%) Linux
2 18 (13.43%) Windows
3 12 (8.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (4.48%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.24%) VMS
6 1 (0.75%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 57 (42.54%) Cloud Security
3 51 (38.06%) DevOps
4 43 (32.09%) Security Operations
5 39 (29.10%) Vulnerability Management
6 33 (24.63%) Information Security
6 33 (24.63%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 32 (23.88%) SIEM
8 29 (21.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 25 (18.66%) Infrastructure as Code
9 25 (18.66%) Roadmaps
10 24 (17.91%) CI/CD
11 21 (15.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (15.67%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (12.69%) DevSecOps
12 17 (12.69%) Identity Access Management
12 17 (12.69%) Security Monitoring
13 16 (11.94%) Data Loss Prevention
13 16 (11.94%) Incident Response
13 16 (11.94%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 26 (19.40%) PowerShell
1 26 (19.40%) Python
2 10 (7.46%) Bash
3 4 (2.99%) C
3 4 (2.99%) C++
3 4 (2.99%) Go
3 4 (2.99%) Perl
3 4 (2.99%) Rust
3 4 (2.99%) TypeScript
4 2 (1.49%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (1.49%) Solidity
5 1 (0.75%) Bicep
5 1 (0.75%) Java
5 1 (0.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (17.91%) CISSP
2 22 (16.42%) AWS Certification
3 16 (11.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 15 (11.19%) Cisco Certification
4 15 (11.19%) Degree
5 11 (8.21%) SC Cleared
5 11 (8.21%) Security Cleared
6 9 (6.72%) CISM
6 9 (6.72%) SANS
7 8 (5.97%) CCNP
8 7 (5.22%) CompTIA Security+
9 6 (4.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 6 (4.48%) CISA
9 6 (4.48%) GIAC
9 6 (4.48%) ISACA
10 5 (3.73%) Azure Certification
10 5 (3.73%) CEH
10 5 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (2.99%) CCSE
11 4 (2.99%) CCSM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (20.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (19.40%) NIST
3 19 (14.18%) GDPR
4 10 (7.46%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (5.22%) PCI DSS
6 6 (4.48%) NCSC
7 5 (3.73%) JSP 440
7 5 (3.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (2.99%) GRC
9 3 (2.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (2.24%) HIPAA
9 3 (2.24%) SOC 2
10 2 (1.49%) Accessibility
10 2 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 11 (8.21%) Virtual Machines
2 9 (6.72%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (5.22%) Active Directory
4 6 (4.48%) Docker
5 5 (3.73%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (1.49%) Firmware
6 2 (1.49%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 19 (14.18%) Terraform
2 10 (7.46%) Kubernetes
3 9 (6.72%) Ansible
4 6 (4.48%) Nessus
5 3 (2.24%) CASB
5 3 (2.24%) Istio
5 3 (2.24%) linkerd
6 2 (1.49%) Host Intrusion Detection System
6 2 (1.49%) SCCM
6 2 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.75%) SCOM
Vendors
1 29 (21.64%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.70%) VMware
3 8 (5.97%) Splunk
4 6 (4.48%) Cisco
5 5 (3.73%) Fortinet
5 5 (3.73%) Okta
5 5 (3.73%) Palo Alto
5 5 (3.73%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.99%) CheckPoint
6 4 (2.99%) Tenable
7 3 (2.24%) Google
7 3 (2.24%) IBM
8 2 (1.49%) Qualys
9 1 (0.75%) Citrix
9 1 (0.75%) Darktrace
9 1 (0.75%) Dell
9 1 (0.75%) EqualLogic
9 1 (0.75%) iManage
9 1 (0.75%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.75%) Ribbon