Hybrid/Remote Sophos Job Trends

Sophos
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring knowledge or experience of Sophos products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Sophos over the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Sophos PLC.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 405 466 466
Rank change year-on-year +61 0 +279
Permanent jobs citing Sophos 16 29 56
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.098% 0.12% 0.23%
As % of the Vendors category 0.20% 0.32% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 14 18 55
10th Percentile - £29,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,500 £31,250 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -11.11% +13.80%
75th Percentile £37,000 £52,500 £53,875
90th Percentile £51,650 £52,650 £57,500
UK median annual salary £35,000 £34,000 £40,250
% change year-on-year +2.94% -15.53% +7.33%

All Vendors
Work from Home

Sophos falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,029 9,028 9,772
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 49.26% 38.52% 39.79%
Number of salaries quoted 3,844 5,102 8,005
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -2.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £91,934
UK median annual salary £51,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.27% -4.35% +4.55%

Sophos
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Sophos trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Sophos
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Sophos.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Sophos

Sophos
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Sophos over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Sophos salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Sophos
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 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.25%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (6.25%) Exchange Server 2013
2 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (68.75%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (56.25%) Azure
3 5 (31.25%) Mimecast
4 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
5 1 (6.25%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 9 (56.25%) Wireless
2 8 (50.00%) DNS
3 7 (43.75%) Firewall
3 7 (43.75%) LAN
3 7 (43.75%) WAN
4 6 (37.50%) DHCP
5 5 (31.25%) VoIP
5 5 (31.25%) VPN
6 2 (12.50%) Unified Communications
6 2 (12.50%) WLAN
7 1 (6.25%) Softphone
7 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
7 1 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 5 (31.25%) Junior
3 4 (25.00%) IT Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) IT Support
3 4 (25.00%) Technical Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
4 3 (18.75%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) 2nd/3rd Line Technical Support
4 3 (18.75%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) 3rd Line Technical Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) 3rd Line Technical Support
4 3 (18.75%) IT Manager
4 3 (18.75%) IT Support Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Support Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Technical Support
4 3 (18.75%) Technical Support Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (6.25%) 2nd Line Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (6.25%) CCTV
2 1 (6.25%) Device Driver
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (93.75%) Windows
2 8 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 5 (31.25%) Android
3 5 (31.25%) Apple iOS
3 5 (31.25%) Mac OS
4 1 (6.25%) Windows 10
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (31.25%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (31.25%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (25.00%) Data Privacy
4 2 (12.50%) Business Strategy
4 2 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (12.50%) Email Filtering
4 2 (12.50%) Incident Response
4 2 (12.50%) ITIL
4 2 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (12.50%) Storage Management
4 2 (12.50%) Web Filtering
5 1 (6.25%) Agile
5 1 (6.25%) Budget Management
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Maintenance
5 1 (6.25%) IT Strategy
5 1 (6.25%) Process Improvement
5 1 (6.25%) Security Operations
5 1 (6.25%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
1 2 (12.50%) MCSE
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (12.50%) NCSC
1 2 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (87.50%) Active Directory
2 6 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (31.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (6.25%) Norton AntiVirus
2 1 (6.25%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 15 (93.75%) Microsoft
2 9 (56.25%) Ubiquiti
3 6 (37.50%) HP
3 6 (37.50%) VMware
4 5 (31.25%) Barracuda Networks
4 5 (31.25%) Cisco
4 5 (31.25%) Dell
5 4 (25.00%) ConnectWise
5 4 (25.00%) Datto
5 4 (25.00%) ESET
5 4 (25.00%) Veeam
6 2 (12.50%) arcserve
6 2 (12.50%) Forcepoint
7 1 (6.25%) Aruba
7 1 (6.25%) Symantec
7 1 (6.25%) WatchGuard