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 25 September 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
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 449 404 463
Rank change year-on-year -45 +59 -7
Permanent jobs citing Sophos 14 16 29
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.057% 0.097% 0.13%
As % of the Vendors category 0.18% 0.19% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 12 14 18
10th Percentile £41,875 - £29,500
25th Percentile £50,875 £29,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £36,000 £39,750
Median % change year-on-year +59.72% -9.43% -11.67%
75th Percentile £64,688 £37,000 £51,188
90th Percentile £86,250 £51,650 £52,500
UK median annual salary £41,000 £35,500 £34,000
% change year-on-year +15.49% +4.41% -15.53%

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 7,754 8,245 8,855
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.38% 50.01% 38.44%
Number of salaries quoted 5,477 3,793 4,915
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £32,600
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -6.30% -2.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £51,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.75% -7.27% -4.35%

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 25 September 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 11 (78.57%) Azure
2 7 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (35.71%) Entra ID
4 4 (28.57%) Mimecast
5 2 (14.29%) AWS
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (14.29%) Datadog
5 2 (14.29%) IaaS
5 2 (14.29%) PaaS
5 2 (14.29%) Power Automate
5 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (85.71%) Firewall
2 7 (50.00%) DNS
3 6 (42.86%) DHCP
3 6 (42.86%) VPN
4 5 (35.71%) VLAN
5 4 (28.57%) Network Security
5 4 (28.57%) TCP/IP
6 3 (21.43%) Wireless
7 2 (14.29%) NAS
7 2 (14.29%) SAN
7 2 (14.29%) SD-WAN
7 2 (14.29%) VoIP
7 2 (14.29%) WAN
7 2 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) IT Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) IT Support
2 5 (35.71%) IT Support Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Support Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) Senior
4 3 (21.43%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (21.43%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) Architect
4 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (14.29%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Network Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Senior IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Driving Licence
1 3 (21.43%) Web Conferencing
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 2 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (14.29%) Replication
2 2 (14.29%) Virtual Team
3 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Windows
2 6 (42.86%) Windows Server
3 2 (14.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (35.71%) Mentoring
4 4 (28.57%) Business Continuity
4 4 (28.57%) Cloud Security
4 4 (28.57%) Incident Response
4 4 (28.57%) ITIL
5 3 (21.43%) Customer Requirements
5 3 (21.43%) Customer Service
5 3 (21.43%) Presales
5 3 (21.43%) Project Delivery
5 3 (21.43%) Security Monitoring
5 3 (21.43%) Server Migrations
5 3 (21.43%) SIEM
5 3 (21.43%) Time Management
6 2 (14.29%) Critical Thinking
6 2 (14.29%) Kalman Filter
6 2 (14.29%) Network Monitoring
6 2 (14.29%) Threat Detection
6 2 (14.29%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) SLA
2 2 (14.29%) GDPR
2 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (14.29%) NIST
3 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 10 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (28.57%) Hyper-V
4 3 (21.43%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (14.29%) BitLocker
5 2 (14.29%) Terminal Services
5 2 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (14.29%) WhatsUp Gold
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (7.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (92.86%) Microsoft
2 10 (71.43%) VMware
3 8 (57.14%) Fortinet
4 6 (42.86%) Veeam
5 5 (35.71%) Barracuda Networks
5 5 (35.71%) Cisco
6 4 (28.57%) Palo Alto
6 4 (28.57%) WatchGuard
7 3 (21.43%) Acronis
7 3 (21.43%) Dell
7 3 (21.43%) Juniper
7 3 (21.43%) Meraki
7 3 (21.43%) N-able
7 3 (21.43%) Synology
8 2 (14.29%) Broadcom
8 2 (14.29%) EMC
8 2 (14.29%) Ubiquiti
9 1 (7.14%) Aruba
9 1 (7.14%) Mitel
9 1 (7.14%) SonicWALL