Senior Security Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Senior Security Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Security Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 381 512 602
Rank change year-on-year +131 +90 +146
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Security Engineer 16 80 71
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.24% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.25% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 14 78 64
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,219 £54,125
25th Percentile £64,375 £56,539 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £63,141 £68,007
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -7.16% -9.32%
75th Percentile £89,063 £77,113 £98,125
90th Percentile £93,500 £88,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £72,500 £69,447
% change year-on-year -17.24% +4.40% -7.40%

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 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
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 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Senior Security Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Senior Security Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Senior Security Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Security Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Senior Security Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Security Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (81.25%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (68.75%) SIEM
3 9 (56.25%) Finance
4 8 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 8 (50.00%) Azure
4 8 (50.00%) Security Operations
5 7 (43.75%) Network Security
5 7 (43.75%) Firewall
6 6 (37.50%) Information Security
6 6 (37.50%) AWS
6 6 (37.50%) Splunk
6 6 (37.50%) Cyber Threat
6 6 (37.50%) Cloud Security
7 5 (31.25%) Application Security
7 5 (31.25%) Security Posture
7 5 (31.25%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
7 5 (31.25%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (25.00%) Management Information System
8 4 (25.00%) ITIL
8 4 (25.00%) TCP/IP
8 4 (25.00%) CCNP
8 4 (25.00%) CCNA
8 4 (25.00%) CISSP
8 4 (25.00%) GCIA
8 4 (25.00%) Retail
8 4 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
8 4 (25.00%) Computer Science
8 4 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
8 4 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Azure
2 6 (37.50%) AWS
3 2 (12.50%) Azure AKS
3 2 (12.50%) Snowflake
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (6.25%) Serverless
4 1 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (43.75%) Firewall
1 7 (43.75%) Network Security
2 4 (25.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 9 (56.25%) Finance
2 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 4 (25.00%) Retail
4 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Cyber Threat
2 5 (31.25%) Security Posture
3 4 (25.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
5 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (68.75%) SIEM
3 8 (50.00%) Security Operations
3 8 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 6 (37.50%) Cloud Security
4 6 (37.50%) Information Security
5 5 (31.25%) Application Security
5 5 (31.25%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 4 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (25.00%) Computer Science
6 4 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
6 4 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
6 4 (25.00%) Incident Response
6 4 (25.00%) ITIL
6 4 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
6 4 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (25.00%) Security Hardening
7 3 (18.75%) Data Protection
7 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (18.75%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) Java
2 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (25.00%) CCNA
2 4 (25.00%) CCNP
2 4 (25.00%) CISSP
2 4 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 4 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (25.00%) Degree
2 4 (25.00%) GCIA
2 4 (25.00%) SANS
3 1 (6.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.25%) JSP 440
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
1 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) SCCM
2 1 (6.25%) SCOM
2 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Splunk
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 2 (12.50%) Qualys
4 1 (6.25%) Citrix
4 1 (6.25%) VMware