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 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 347 300 384
Rank change year-on-year -47 +84 -60
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 260 467 569
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.77% 1.07% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% 1.11% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 249 370 401
10th Percentile £32,700 £37,885 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,998 £47,500 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,526 £61,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.81% -12.50% +16.67%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,542 £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 32,441 41,897 64,856
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.99% 96.00% 97.40%
Number of salaries quoted 24,951 29,614 41,885
10th Percentile £33,000 £36,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £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 £78,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +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 24 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 24 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 73 (28.08%) Security Operations
5 71 (27.31%) Cloud Security
6 70 (26.92%) Microsoft 365
7 68 (26.15%) Finance
8 63 (24.23%) DevOps
9 59 (22.69%) SIEM
10 58 (22.31%) Firewall
11 57 (21.92%) NIST
12 56 (21.54%) Information Security
13 53 (20.38%) AWS
14 52 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
15 49 (18.85%) Python
15 49 (18.85%) Incident Response
16 48 (18.46%) Windows
17 47 (18.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 46 (17.69%) Network Security
19 45 (17.31%) Terraform
20 40 (15.38%) Vulnerability Management
21 39 (15.00%) PowerShell
21 39 (15.00%) CISSP
22 37 (14.23%) Agile
22 37 (14.23%) Public Cloud
23 36 (13.85%) Mentoring
24 34 (13.08%) Coaching
25 33 (12.69%) Infrastructure as Code
25 33 (12.69%) Social Skills
26 32 (12.31%) LAN

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
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) SAP GRC
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 46 (17.69%) Network Security
3 32 (12.31%) LAN
4 24 (9.23%) WAN
5 15 (5.77%) 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 ASA
11 5 (1.92%) Cisco IPT
11 5 (1.92%) EIGRP
11 5 (1.92%) NGFW
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
5 1 (0.38%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
5 1 (0.38%) SAP HANA
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 68 (26.15%) Finance
2 33 (12.69%) Social Skills
3 31 (11.92%) Banking
4 16 (6.15%) Law
5 14 (5.38%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.85%) Health Technology
6 10 (3.85%) Tech for Good
7 9 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.46%) Retail
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 28 (10.77%) 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%) Data Centre
8 10 (3.85%) Cyberattack
8 10 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (3.46%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (3.08%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 8 (3.08%) Operational Technology
11 6 (2.31%) Cybercrime
11 6 (2.31%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 5 (1.92%) Blog
13 4 (1.54%) Cloud Native
13 4 (1.54%) Cyber Security Posture
13 4 (1.54%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 48 (18.46%) 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 73 (28.08%) Security Operations
3 71 (27.31%) Cloud Security
4 63 (24.23%) DevOps
5 59 (22.69%) SIEM
6 56 (21.54%) Information Security
7 49 (18.85%) Incident Response
8 47 (18.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 40 (15.38%) Vulnerability Management
10 37 (14.23%) Agile
11 36 (13.85%) Mentoring
12 34 (13.08%) Coaching
13 33 (12.69%) Infrastructure as Code
14 30 (11.54%) Identity Access Management
14 30 (11.54%) Roadmaps
15 29 (11.15%) Key Management
15 29 (11.15%) Problem-Solving
16 28 (10.77%) Data Loss Prevention
17 27 (10.38%) Secrets Management
18 25 (9.62%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 49 (18.85%) 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%) Ruby
6 3 (1.15%) Rust
7 2 (0.77%) C#
7 2 (0.77%) Go
7 2 (0.77%) Lua
8 1 (0.38%) Bash
8 1 (0.38%) C
8 1 (0.38%) Perl
8 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 39 (15.00%) CISSP
2 31 (11.92%) Cisco Certification
3 23 (8.85%) Degree
4 21 (8.08%) CEH
5 16 (6.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 16 (6.15%) CCSP
6 15 (5.77%) CCNA
6 15 (5.77%) CISM
7 14 (5.38%) SANS
7 14 (5.38%) SC Cleared
7 14 (5.38%) Security Cleared
8 13 (5.00%) SSCP
9 11 (4.23%) CCNP
10 8 (3.08%) Azure Certification
11 4 (1.54%) GIAC
11 4 (1.54%) ISTQB
11 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.15%) AWS Certification
12 3 (1.15%) CCDP
12 3 (1.15%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (21.92%) NIST
2 52 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (6.92%) PCI DSS
4 12 (4.62%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 11 (4.23%) GDPR
6 10 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (2.31%) QA
7 6 (2.31%) SOC 2
8 5 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (1.92%) Data Quality
9 4 (1.54%) Accessibility
10 3 (1.15%) COBIT
11 2 (0.77%) NCSC
12 1 (0.38%) GRC
12 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (11.92%) 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
11 1 (0.38%) Core Impact
Vendors
1 89 (34.23%) Microsoft
2 29 (11.15%) 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
6 17 (6.54%) ServiceNow
7 15 (5.77%) Palo Alto
8 13 (5.00%) Thycotic
9 12 (4.62%) CA
10 8 (3.08%) Fortinet
11 7 (2.69%) CheckPoint
11 7 (2.69%) CrowdStrike
11 7 (2.69%) VMware
12 5 (1.92%) Forcepoint
13 4 (1.54%) Oracle
14 3 (1.15%) Sophos
14 3 (1.15%) WatchGuard
15 2 (0.77%) SonicWALL