Security Operations Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Security Operations (SecOps)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Security Operations skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Operations over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 256 311 355
Rank change year-on-year +55 +44 +59
Permanent jobs citing Security Operations 149 317 360
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.00% 0.94% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 1.02% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 135 225 283
10th Percentile £41,750 £41,350 £41,500
25th Percentile £45,625 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,500 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,970 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.51% -6.20% -3.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Security Operations falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,930 31,014 41,082
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.15% 91.65% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,709 23,583 28,561
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,930 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Security Operations
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Security Operations as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

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

Security Operations
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Security Operations.

Security Operations salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Security Operations
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Security Operations over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Security Operations salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Security Operations
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 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.67%) Confluence
2 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 62 (41.61%) Azure
2 48 (32.21%) AWS
3 31 (20.81%) Azure Sentinel
4 27 (18.12%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (12.75%) Entra ID
6 11 (7.38%) Microsoft Purview
7 5 (3.36%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (2.68%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (2.68%) PaaS
8 4 (2.68%) Route 53
9 3 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.01%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.01%) SaaS
10 2 (1.34%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.34%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 2 (1.34%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.34%) IaaS
11 1 (0.67%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.67%) GCP
11 1 (0.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 51 (34.23%) Firewall
2 14 (9.40%) Intrusion Detection
2 14 (9.40%) Network Security
3 12 (8.05%) VPN
4 9 (6.04%) TCP/IP
5 6 (4.03%) DHCP
5 6 (4.03%) DNS
6 5 (3.36%) WAN
7 4 (2.68%) HTTPS
7 4 (2.68%) SD-WAN
7 4 (2.68%) VLAN
8 3 (2.01%) NGFW
9 2 (1.34%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (1.34%) Cisco Firepower
9 2 (1.34%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (1.34%) VSAN
10 1 (0.67%) 4G
10 1 (0.67%) LAN
10 1 (0.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.01%) Power BI
2 2 (1.34%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.67%) JIRA
General
1 41 (27.52%) Social Skills
2 34 (22.82%) Law
3 28 (18.79%) Finance
4 23 (15.44%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (12.75%) Retail
6 8 (5.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.68%) Legal
7 4 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.34%) Banking
8 2 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.34%) Dutch Language
8 2 (1.34%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.34%) Marketing
9 1 (0.67%) Back Office
9 1 (0.67%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 43 (28.86%) Analyst
1 43 (28.86%) Security Engineer
2 25 (16.78%) Cloud Engineer
2 25 (16.78%) Security Analyst
3 20 (13.42%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 18 (12.08%) AWS Engineer
4 18 (12.08%) Senior
5 15 (10.07%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 14 (9.40%) SOC Analyst
7 11 (7.38%) Security Manager
8 9 (6.04%) IT Analyst
9 8 (5.37%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 8 (5.37%) Senior Security Engineer
10 7 (4.70%) Consultant
10 7 (4.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (4.03%) Operations Engineer
11 6 (4.03%) ServiceNow Consultant
11 6 (4.03%) SOC Engineer
12 5 (3.36%) Azure Engineer
12 5 (3.36%) Information Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.01%) HTML
2 2 (1.34%) Ajax
2 2 (1.34%) AngularJS
2 2 (1.34%) CSS
2 2 (1.34%) JSON
2 2 (1.34%) LDAP
2 2 (1.34%) Web Services
3 1 (0.67%) AWS CDK
3 1 (0.67%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 41 (27.52%) Security Posture
2 25 (16.78%) Security Operations Centre
3 23 (15.44%) Management Information System
4 18 (12.08%) Cloud Security Posture
5 17 (11.41%) Cyber Threat
6 11 (7.38%) Virtual Team
7 10 (6.71%) CSOC
7 10 (6.71%) Onboarding
8 7 (4.70%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (3.36%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (2.68%) Cyber Security Posture
10 4 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.34%) CMDB
11 2 (1.34%) Cyber Defence
11 2 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.67%) Algorithms
12 1 (0.67%) Data Centre
12 1 (0.67%) Data Structures
12 1 (0.67%) Enterprise Cloud
12 1 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 27 (18.12%) Windows
2 8 (5.37%) Linux
3 5 (3.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (53.02%) Cybersecurity
2 62 (41.61%) SIEM
3 55 (36.91%) Incident Response
4 50 (33.56%) Information Security
5 44 (29.53%) Cloud Security
6 39 (26.17%) DevOps
7 38 (25.50%) Vulnerability Management
8 28 (18.79%) Security Monitoring
9 27 (18.12%) Continuous Improvement
9 27 (18.12%) Risk Management
10 23 (15.44%) Roadmaps
11 22 (14.77%) Incident Management
11 22 (14.77%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 20 (13.42%) Penetration Testing
13 18 (12.08%) Data Engineering
13 18 (12.08%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (11.41%) Technology Roadmap
15 16 (10.74%) Data Loss Prevention
15 16 (10.74%) Identity Access Management
15 16 (10.74%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 17 (11.41%) PowerShell
2 9 (6.04%) Python
3 6 (4.03%) Kusto Query Language
4 4 (2.68%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.67%) Bash
5 1 (0.67%) Go
5 1 (0.67%) Perl
5 1 (0.67%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 36 (24.16%) CISSP
2 28 (18.79%) Degree
3 25 (16.78%) Security Cleared
4 24 (16.11%) CISM
4 24 (16.11%) CompTIA Security+
5 23 (15.44%) AWS Certification
6 21 (14.09%) SC Cleared
7 16 (10.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 10 (6.71%) SANS
9 9 (6.04%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (6.04%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (5.37%) Azure Certification
11 6 (4.03%) CCNP
12 5 (3.36%) CCNA
12 5 (3.36%) CEH
12 5 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (3.36%) GIAC
13 4 (2.68%) CRISC
13 4 (2.68%) GCIA
13 4 (2.68%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (14.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (10.07%) NIST
3 13 (8.72%) GRC
4 10 (6.71%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (6.04%) GDPR
6 7 (4.70%) PCI DSS
7 3 (2.01%) Accessibility
7 3 (2.01%) COBIT
7 3 (2.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (1.34%) ISO 9001
8 2 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (1.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (1.34%) SLA
8 2 (1.34%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.67%) HIPAA
System Software
1 18 (12.08%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.68%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.34%) Docker
3 2 (1.34%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (11.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (6.71%) QRadar
3 9 (6.04%) Terraform
4 7 (4.70%) Kubernetes
5 3 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.34%) Host Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (0.67%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.67%) Nessus
7 1 (0.67%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 59 (39.60%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.40%) Tenable
3 13 (8.72%) VMware
4 11 (7.38%) ServiceNow
4 11 (7.38%) Splunk
5 4 (2.68%) Cisco
6 3 (2.01%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.34%) CheckPoint
7 2 (1.34%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (1.34%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.34%) Qualys
8 1 (0.67%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.67%) Darktrace
8 1 (0.67%) Google
8 1 (0.67%) Juniper
8 1 (0.67%) McAfee
8 1 (0.67%) SAP