SOC Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Security Operations Centre Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Security Operations Centre Engineer salary in Work from Home is £56,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 584 662 809
Rank change year-on-year +78 +147 -271
Permanent jobs requiring a SOC Engineer 9 12 23
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.027% 0.027% 0.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% 0.029% 0.035%
Number of salaries quoted 8 12 18
10th Percentile £52,125 - -
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £57,500 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +19.79% -12.73%
75th Percentile £61,250 £64,063 -
90th Percentile £62,375 £80,000 £51,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £48,000
% change year-on-year - +19.79% -12.33%

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 32,432 41,925 64,882
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.99% 95.98% 97.40%
Number of salaries quoted 24,961 29,678 41,885
10th Percentile £32,750 £36,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £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 £98,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%

SOC Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured SOC Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SOC Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

SOC 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 SOC Engineer.

SOC Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

SOC Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SOC Engineer over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

SOC Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, SOC 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 SOC Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (66.67%) SIEM
2 5 (55.56%) Security Operations
2 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 5 (55.56%) Incident Response
3 4 (44.44%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (44.44%) Azure
3 4 (44.44%) Threat Detection
3 4 (44.44%) Threat Intelligence
3 4 (44.44%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 4 (44.44%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (33.33%) IaaS
4 3 (33.33%) Analytics
4 3 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (33.33%) Runbook
4 3 (33.33%) NIST
4 3 (33.33%) SaaS
4 3 (33.33%) PaaS
4 3 (33.33%) Splunk
4 3 (33.33%) Problem Management
4 3 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (33.33%) Network Security
4 3 (33.33%) PCI DSS
4 3 (33.33%) Management Information System
4 3 (33.33%) Change Management
4 3 (33.33%) Firewall
4 3 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 3 (33.33%) SOAR
4 3 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
5 2 (22.22%) Presentation Skills

SOC 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 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) IaaS
2 3 (33.33%) PaaS
2 3 (33.33%) SaaS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Firewall
1 3 (33.33%) Network Security
2 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
3 1 (11.11%) Internet
3 1 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 2 (22.22%) Marketing
1 2 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 4 (44.44%) Security Operations Centre
2 3 (33.33%) Management Information System
3 2 (22.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (22.22%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (11.11%) Cybercrime
4 1 (11.11%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) SIEM
2 5 (55.56%) Incident Response
2 5 (55.56%) Security Operations
3 4 (44.44%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 4 (44.44%) Threat Detection
3 4 (44.44%) Threat Intelligence
4 3 (33.33%) Analytics
4 3 (33.33%) Change Management
4 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
4 3 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 3 (33.33%) Problem Management
4 3 (33.33%) Runbook
4 3 (33.33%) SOAR
5 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
5 2 (22.22%) Data Security
5 2 (22.22%) Product Management
5 2 (22.22%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) CISA
1 2 (22.22%) CISSP
1 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
1 2 (22.22%) GIAC
1 2 (22.22%) JNCIA
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (33.33%) NIST
1 3 (33.33%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) Splunk
3 2 (22.22%) Juniper
4 1 (11.11%) Forcepoint
4 1 (11.11%) LogRhythm
4 1 (11.11%) Qualys
4 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 1 (11.11%) Varonis