Security Posture Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Security Posture
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Security Posture in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Security Posture over the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 463 477
Rank change year-on-year +107 +14 +160
Permanent jobs citing Security Posture 108 115 191
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.60% 0.34% 0.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.45% 0.95% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 92 90 90
10th Percentile £37,716 £37,375 £42,350
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,313 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £65,000 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year -17.31% -11.86% +10.34%
75th Percentile £77,500 £79,688 £100,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £86,375 £108,133
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £66,500
% change year-on-year - +9.02% -5.00%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Security Posture falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 7,424 12,074 15,947
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 41.24% 35.72% 38.54%
Number of salaries quoted 3,824 9,277 11,636
10th Percentile £33,250 £32,500 £39,188
25th Percentile £47,231 £42,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £59,526 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.20% -8.42% -
75th Percentile £85,313 £78,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £102,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Security Posture
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Security Posture
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Security Posture salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Security Posture
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Security Posture over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Security Posture salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Security Posture
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 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 37 (34.26%) Azure
2 34 (31.48%) AWS
3 14 (12.96%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 11 (10.19%) Azure Sentinel
6 7 (6.48%) SaaS
7 6 (5.56%) Azure AKS
8 4 (3.70%) GCP
8 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (2.78%) IaaS
10 2 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.85%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 2 (1.85%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.85%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.85%) PaaS
10 2 (1.85%) Serverless
10 2 (1.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.85%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 32 (29.63%) Firewall
2 11 (10.19%) Network Security
3 7 (6.48%) VPN
4 6 (5.56%) DHCP
4 6 (5.56%) DNS
4 6 (5.56%) VLAN
4 6 (5.56%) WAN
4 6 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (3.70%) SD-WAN
5 4 (3.70%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.85%) LAN
7 1 (0.93%) DMARC
7 1 (0.93%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.93%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.93%) Modbus
7 1 (0.93%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (0.93%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Burp Suite
1 1 (0.93%) Metasploit
General
1 24 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 20 (18.52%) Finance
3 13 (12.04%) Legal
4 12 (11.11%) Law
5 11 (10.19%) Retail
6 9 (8.33%) Banking
7 6 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.85%) Advertising
8 2 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.93%) Games
9 1 (0.93%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (48.15%) Security Engineer
2 20 (18.52%) Cloud Engineer
2 20 (18.52%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 18 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 17 (15.74%) Security Manager
5 16 (14.81%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 14 (12.96%) Analyst
6 14 (12.96%) Security Analyst
7 12 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
8 11 (10.19%) Information Manager
8 11 (10.19%) Information Security Manager
8 11 (10.19%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
9 7 (6.48%) Lead
10 6 (5.56%) Operations Engineer
11 4 (3.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 4 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (3.70%) Support Manager
12 3 (2.78%) IT Security Engineer
12 3 (2.78%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.78%) Azure Blueprints
2 2 (1.85%) JSON
3 1 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.93%) HTML
3 1 (0.93%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.59%) Cloud Security Posture
2 17 (15.74%) Management Information System
3 12 (11.11%) Cyber Security Posture
4 11 (10.19%) Security Operations Centre
5 9 (8.33%) Cloud Native
6 8 (7.41%) Public Cloud
7 7 (6.48%) Product Ownership
8 5 (4.63%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (3.70%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (1.85%) Biopharmaceutical
10 2 (1.85%) Taxonomies
11 1 (0.93%) Cyberattack
11 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (0.93%) Fibre Optics
11 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.93%) Operational Technology
11 1 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.93%) SCADA
11 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (18.52%) Linux
2 13 (12.04%) Windows
3 9 (8.33%) Windows Server
4 8 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (7.41%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (2.78%) VMS
6 2 (1.85%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (41.67%) Cloud Security
2 44 (40.74%) Cybersecurity
3 43 (39.81%) Information Security
4 33 (30.56%) DevOps
4 33 (30.56%) Vulnerability Management
5 31 (28.70%) Security Operations
6 28 (25.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 28 (25.93%) Risk Management
7 24 (22.22%) Incident Response
8 23 (21.30%) Roadmaps
9 21 (19.44%) Infrastructure as Code
10 20 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (15.74%) CI/CD
11 17 (15.74%) Incident Management
12 15 (13.89%) Mentoring
12 15 (13.89%) SIEM
12 15 (13.89%) Vulnerability Assessment
12 15 (13.89%) Vulnerability Remediation
13 14 (12.96%) Threat Detection
14 13 (12.04%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 15 (13.89%) PowerShell
2 12 (11.11%) Python
3 5 (4.63%) Bash
4 4 (3.70%) Kusto Query Language
4 4 (3.70%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.85%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.93%) SAPscript
Qualifications
1 18 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 15 (13.89%) CISSP
2 15 (13.89%) Degree
3 14 (12.96%) SC Cleared
3 14 (12.96%) Security Cleared
4 13 (12.04%) CISM
5 11 (10.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 6 (5.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 6 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
6 6 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.70%) Azure Certification
7 4 (3.70%) CEH
7 4 (3.70%) CISA
7 4 (3.70%) CRISC
8 3 (2.78%) CCSP
8 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.85%) GCIH
9 2 (1.85%) GIAC
9 2 (1.85%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (30.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (24.07%) NIST
3 17 (15.74%) GDPR
4 14 (12.96%) GRC
5 6 (5.56%) PCI DSS
6 5 (4.63%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (4.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 4 (3.70%) SOC 2
8 2 (1.85%) NIST 800
8 2 (1.85%) SOC 1
9 1 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 18 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 11 (10.19%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (5.56%) Docker
4 5 (4.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (3.70%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.93%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 14 (12.96%) Terraform
2 11 (10.19%) Kubernetes
3 6 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (3.70%) Ansible
4 4 (3.70%) ZENworks
5 3 (2.78%) CASB
5 3 (2.78%) Istio
5 3 (2.78%) linkerd
5 3 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.85%) Host Intrusion Detection System
6 2 (1.85%) Nessus
6 2 (1.85%) NetBackup
6 2 (1.85%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.93%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.93%) Nmap
Vendors
1 32 (29.63%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.48%) VMware
3 4 (3.70%) Meraki
4 3 (2.78%) Google
4 3 (2.78%) Tenable
5 2 (1.85%) EMC
5 2 (1.85%) NetApp
5 2 (1.85%) Splunk
6 1 (0.93%) Cisco
6 1 (0.93%) Citrix
6 1 (0.93%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.93%) Ivanti
6 1 (0.93%) Juniper
6 1 (0.93%) Okta
6 1 (0.93%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.93%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.93%) SAP
6 1 (0.93%) Zscaler