Social Engineering Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Social Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Social Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Social Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 439 561 645
Rank change year-on-year +122 +84 +166
Permanent jobs citing Social Engineering 6 28 16
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.036% 0.083% 0.039%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.038% 0.091% 0.040%
Number of salaries quoted 5 28 12
10th Percentile - £45,000 £41,310
25th Percentile £59,043 £50,686 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £70,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% +34.62% +29.63%
75th Percentile £95,000 £72,500 £65,313
90th Percentile - £75,000 £83,125
UK median annual salary £82,500 £70,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +17.86% +47.37% -22.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Social Engineering 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 15,587 30,857 39,858
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.80% 91.38% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 9,824 23,439 27,686
10th Percentile £29,750 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £44,000 £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 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

Social Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Social Engineering trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Social Engineering
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Social Engineering salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Social Engineering
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Social Engineering over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Social Engineering salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Social Engineering
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 2 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Metasploit
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Data Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Data Science Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Penetration Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Blue Team
2 3 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (50.00%) Offensive Security
2 3 (50.00%) Red Team
3 2 (33.33%) Data Science
3 2 (33.33%) Fintech
3 2 (33.33%) Fraud Detection
3 2 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 2 (33.33%) Open Source
3 2 (33.33%) Statistical Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) OSCP
2 3 (50.00%) CCSAS
2 3 (50.00%) CREST Certified
3 1 (16.67%) CEH
3 1 (16.67%) OSCE
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory