Security Operations Jobs with Work from Home Options

Security Operations (SecOps)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Security Operations skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Security Operations over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 354 413
Rank change year-on-year +42 +59 -95
Permanent jobs citing Security Operations 315 366 533
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.93% 0.85% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 0.88% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 222 286 421
10th Percentile £38,585 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,813 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -6.92% -3.70% +8.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Security Operations is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,001 41,548 64,663
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.67% 96.08% 96.90%
Number of salaries quoted 23,574 28,801 41,173
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,491
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%

Security Operations
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Security Operations trend for jobs with a WFH option

Security Operations
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 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 a work from home option citing Security Operations over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

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 22 (6.98%) SAS
2 6 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.63%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (3.49%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 108 (34.29%) Azure
2 75 (23.81%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (9.21%) AWS
3 29 (9.21%) SaaS
4 23 (7.30%) Azure Sentinel
5 15 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (4.44%) Microsoft Purview
7 13 (4.13%) Cloud Computing
8 11 (3.49%) Entra ID
9 9 (2.86%) Azure AKS
10 8 (2.54%) GCP
11 4 (1.27%) IaaS
11 4 (1.27%) PaaS
12 2 (0.63%) OCI
12 2 (0.63%) Pendo
13 1 (0.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 1 (0.32%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 1 (0.32%) AWS CloudFormation
13 1 (0.32%) AWS CloudTrail
13 1 (0.32%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 81 (25.71%) Firewall
2 43 (13.65%) Network Security
3 28 (8.89%) TCP/IP
4 20 (6.35%) Wireshark
5 19 (6.03%) Intrusion Detection
6 15 (4.76%) WAN
7 14 (4.44%) LAN
8 7 (2.22%) DNS
8 7 (2.22%) Internet
9 3 (0.95%) Broadband
9 3 (0.95%) DHCP
10 2 (0.63%) HTTP
10 2 (0.63%) SMTP
10 2 (0.63%) VPN
11 1 (0.32%) Cisco ISE
11 1 (0.32%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.32%) SSL
11 1 (0.32%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.59%) BigQuery
1 5 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (1.59%) Hadoop
1 5 (1.59%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.32%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Git
2 1 (0.32%) GitLab
2 1 (0.32%) Jenkins
General
1 90 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 69 (21.90%) Finance
3 30 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (7.62%) Law
5 23 (7.30%) Legal
6 19 (6.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (4.76%) Military
8 11 (3.49%) Retail
9 10 (3.17%) Banking
10 7 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.90%) Public Sector
12 5 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.95%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.95%) Turkish Language
14 2 (0.63%) Back Office
14 2 (0.63%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.63%) Marketing
14 2 (0.63%) Publishing
14 2 (0.63%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.32%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 108 (34.29%) Analyst
2 74 (23.49%) Security Engineer
3 58 (18.41%) Security Analyst
4 43 (13.65%) Senior
5 34 (10.79%) SOC Analyst
6 31 (9.84%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 30 (9.52%) Lead
8 27 (8.57%) Consultant
9 26 (8.25%) Security Consultant
10 24 (7.62%) Security Manager
11 23 (7.30%) Cybersecurity Consultant
11 23 (7.30%) Developer
11 23 (7.30%) Senior Security Engineer
11 23 (7.30%) ServiceNow Developer
12 22 (6.98%) IT Analyst
12 22 (6.98%) Senior Analyst
13 21 (6.67%) IT Engineer
13 21 (6.67%) IT Security Analyst
13 21 (6.67%) IT Security Engineer
14 20 (6.35%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (6.98%) AngularJS
1 22 (6.98%) CSS
1 22 (6.98%) HTML
1 22 (6.98%) Twitter Bootstrap
1 22 (6.98%) Web Services
2 3 (0.95%) ADO
3 2 (0.63%) Kafka
3 2 (0.63%) Middleware
4 1 (0.32%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (0.32%) OAuth
4 1 (0.32%) OpenID
4 1 (0.32%) pytest
4 1 (0.32%) REST
4 1 (0.32%) SAML
4 1 (0.32%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 69 (21.90%) Management Information System
2 63 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 48 (15.24%) Cyber Threat
4 33 (10.48%) Cyberattack
5 26 (8.25%) CMDB
5 26 (8.25%) Security Posture
6 22 (6.98%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (3.81%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 10 (3.17%) Product Ownership
9 9 (2.86%) Algorithms
9 9 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (2.86%) Client/Server
9 9 (2.86%) Data Structures
10 7 (2.22%) Cyber Defence
10 7 (2.22%) Operational Technology
11 6 (1.90%) Cybercrime
11 6 (1.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 6 (1.90%) IoT
12 5 (1.59%) Blog
13 4 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 76 (24.13%) Windows
2 30 (9.52%) Linux
3 18 (5.71%) Unix
4 16 (5.08%) Mac OS X
5 13 (4.13%) Android
5 13 (4.13%) Apple iOS
6 7 (2.22%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.63%) AIX
7 2 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.32%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.32%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (69.84%) Cybersecurity
2 154 (48.89%) Incident Response
3 138 (43.81%) SIEM
4 99 (31.43%) Information Security
5 83 (26.35%) Incident Management
6 58 (18.41%) Risk Management
7 56 (17.78%) Vulnerability Management
8 54 (17.14%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 54 (17.14%) Threat Intelligence
9 46 (14.60%) DevOps
10 45 (14.29%) ITIL
11 43 (13.65%) Actionable Insight
12 39 (12.38%) Problem-Solving
13 35 (11.11%) Mentoring
13 35 (11.11%) Roadmaps
14 34 (10.79%) Continuous Improvement
15 33 (10.48%) Cloud Security
16 31 (9.84%) Problem Management
16 31 (9.84%) Security Management
17 29 (9.21%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 39 (12.38%) PowerShell
2 23 (7.30%) Python
3 12 (3.81%) Kusto Query Language
4 6 (1.90%) Java
4 6 (1.90%) SQL
5 2 (0.63%) Scala
6 1 (0.32%) Bash
6 1 (0.32%) C
6 1 (0.32%) Go
6 1 (0.32%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 73 (23.17%) CISSP
2 56 (17.78%) Degree
3 31 (9.84%) CISM
4 29 (9.21%) Cisco Certification
5 26 (8.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 25 (7.94%) CCSP
7 22 (6.98%) Security Cleared
8 21 (6.67%) CEH
8 21 (6.67%) CompTIA Security+
9 17 (5.40%) GCIA
10 16 (5.08%) GCIH
10 16 (5.08%) SANS
11 15 (4.76%) SC Cleared
11 15 (4.76%) SSCP
12 14 (4.44%) GREM
13 13 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
13 13 (4.13%) GIAC
14 10 (3.17%) CISA
14 10 (3.17%) Numerate Degree
15 8 (2.54%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (24.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 60 (19.05%) NIST
3 33 (10.48%) PCI DSS
4 29 (9.21%) GRC
5 25 (7.94%) GDPR
6 24 (7.62%) Cyber Essentials
7 22 (6.98%) JSP 440
8 18 (5.71%) NCSC
9 13 (4.13%) SOC 2
10 7 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (1.59%) Data Quality
11 5 (1.59%) QA
12 4 (1.27%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.95%) Accessibility
14 2 (0.63%) COBIT
14 2 (0.63%) HIPAA
15 1 (0.32%) GxP
15 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 33 (10.48%) Active Directory
2 16 (5.08%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.95%) Docker
3 3 (0.95%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (0.32%) Snort
5 1 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.32%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 13 (4.13%) Microsoft Intune
1 13 (4.13%) Nmap
2 12 (3.81%) QRadar
3 11 (3.49%) Kubernetes
4 10 (3.17%) Terraform
5 8 (2.54%) CASB
5 8 (2.54%) CSIRT
6 5 (1.59%) logstash
6 5 (1.59%) Nessus
7 3 (0.95%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 3 (0.95%) SCCM
8 2 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.63%) DatAdvantage
8 2 (0.63%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
9 1 (0.32%) Grafana
9 1 (0.32%) Network Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.32%) Stealthwatch
9 1 (0.32%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.32%) WSUS
Vendors
1 97 (30.79%) Microsoft
2 36 (11.43%) Qualys
3 34 (10.79%) Splunk
4 30 (9.52%) ServiceNow
5 20 (6.35%) CrowdStrike
6 14 (4.44%) Dell
6 14 (4.44%) Rapid7
7 13 (4.13%) Thycotic
8 11 (3.49%) IBM
9 9 (2.86%) Cisco
10 5 (1.59%) Google
10 5 (1.59%) LogRhythm
11 4 (1.27%) Darktrace
11 4 (1.27%) Sun
11 4 (1.27%) Varonis
12 3 (0.95%) Forcepoint
12 3 (0.95%) Symantec
12 3 (0.95%) Tripwire
12 3 (0.95%) VMware
13 2 (0.63%) McAfee