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 16 March 2026, 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
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 396 491
Rank change year-on-year +18 +95 +145
Permanent jobs citing Sophos 12 14 63
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.071% 0.10% 0.21%
As % of the Vendors category 0.20% 0.26% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 8 9 60
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,800 £31,250
25th Percentile £30,438 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,000 £32,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% -27.78% +5.88%
75th Percentile £55,250 £38,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £65,375 £53,750 £62,500
UK median annual salary £34,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year -9.33% - -14.29%

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 6,026 5,484 12,260
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.74% 40.18% 40.86%
Number of salaries quoted 3,357 3,697 10,035
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,101 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.06% +14.20% -13.04%

Sophos
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Sophos and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Sophos job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Sophos
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Sophos

Sophos
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Sophos over the 6 months to 16 March 2026.

Sophos salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Sophos
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (41.67%) Mimecast
4 3 (25.00%) AWS
4 3 (25.00%) Google Workspace
5 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 7 (58.33%) Firewall
2 6 (50.00%) VPN
3 5 (41.67%) Network Security
4 4 (33.33%) DNS
5 3 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (25.00%) DHCP
5 3 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (25.00%) VLAN
6 1 (8.33%) BGP
6 1 (8.33%) EIGRP
6 1 (8.33%) OSPF
6 1 (8.33%) SD-WAN
6 1 (8.33%) VXLAN
6 1 (8.33%) WAN
6 1 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) IT Engineer
1 3 (25.00%) IT Support
1 3 (25.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 3 (25.00%) Network Security Specialist
1 3 (25.00%) Network Specialist
1 3 (25.00%) Security Specialist
1 3 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Service Desk Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
3 1 (8.33%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Network Security Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Security Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Cyber Defence
1 3 (25.00%) Driving Licence
2 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (8.33%) Replication
3 1 (8.33%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) Windows 10
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Incident Response
2 4 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
2 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
2 4 (33.33%) SIEM
2 4 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
2 4 (33.33%) Zero Trust
3 3 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 3 (25.00%) Ethical Hacking
3 3 (25.00%) Security Architecture
3 3 (25.00%) Security Operations
3 3 (25.00%) Threat Detection
4 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 2 (16.67%) User Experience
4 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 1 (8.33%) Business Continuity
5 1 (8.33%) Migration
5 1 (8.33%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) CCNP
1 4 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (25.00%) CCNA
3 1 (8.33%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) GDPR
1 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (16.67%) NIST
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Jamf Pro
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (16.67%) PaperCut
1 2 (16.67%) SCCM
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (41.67%) Cisco
2 5 (41.67%) Fortinet
2 5 (41.67%) Zscaler
3 3 (25.00%) CheckPoint
3 3 (25.00%) Google
3 3 (25.00%) Okta
3 3 (25.00%) Splunk
4 2 (16.67%) Palo Alto
4 2 (16.67%) VMware
5 1 (8.33%) Barracuda Networks
5 1 (8.33%) N-able
5 1 (8.33%) Veeam