Threat Detection Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Threat Detection
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Threat Detection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Threat Detection over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 389 547 601
Rank change year-on-year +158 +54 +95
Permanent jobs citing Threat Detection 28 37 76
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.18% 0.11% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.12% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 25 23 56
10th Percentile £45,500 £51,250 £38,300
25th Percentile £48,165 £52,500 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £68,162
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -15.64% +4.86%
75th Percentile £86,250 £67,250 £73,550
90th Percentile £106,000 £76,485 £76,875
UK median annual salary £72,000 £55,000 £68,823
% change year-on-year +30.91% -20.08% +19.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Threat Detection 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 14,134 30,993 40,912
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.17% 91.62% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 9,780 23,560 28,419
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Threat Detection
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Threat Detection trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Threat Detection
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Threat Detection salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Threat Detection
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Threat Detection over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Threat Detection salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Threat Detection
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 (7.14%) Apache
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 15 (53.57%) AWS
2 9 (32.14%) Azure
3 7 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (10.71%) Azure AKS
5 3 (10.71%) GCP
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
6 2 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (7.14%) AWS Control Tower
6 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (7.14%) Entra ID
6 2 (7.14%) PaaS
6 2 (7.14%) Serverless
6 2 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (3.57%) Mimecast
7 1 (3.57%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.00%) DNS
2 6 (21.43%) Firewall
2 6 (21.43%) VPN
3 5 (17.86%) DHCP
4 4 (14.29%) Network Security
4 4 (14.29%) TCP/IP
4 4 (14.29%) VLAN
5 2 (7.14%) FTP
5 2 (7.14%) HTTP
5 2 (7.14%) HTTPS
5 2 (7.14%) SSH
5 2 (7.14%) SSL
6 1 (3.57%) ADSL
6 1 (3.57%) Ethernet
6 1 (3.57%) Fast Ethernet
6 1 (3.57%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (3.57%) iSCSI
6 1 (3.57%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (3.57%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (7.14%) DynamoDB
1 2 (7.14%) MySQL
1 2 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (17.86%) Finance
2 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Retail
2 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Advertising
3 2 (7.14%) Legal
3 2 (7.14%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.57%) Law
Job Titles
1 11 (39.29%) Security Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Security Manager
2 5 (17.86%) Senior
3 4 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Head of Cybersecurity
5 2 (7.14%) Information Specialist
5 2 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Information Security Specialist
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) Azure Blueprints
2 2 (7.14%) AWS CDK
2 2 (7.14%) EDI
2 2 (7.14%) LAMP
2 2 (7.14%) Loki
2 2 (7.14%) XML
2 2 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 7 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 5 (17.86%) Management Information System
4 4 (14.29%) Cloud Security Posture
4 4 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (7.14%) Life Science
5 2 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (7.14%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (7.14%) Replication
6 1 (3.57%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (3.57%) Cyberattack
6 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) VMS
2 2 (7.14%) AIX
2 2 (7.14%) CentOS
2 2 (7.14%) Linux
2 2 (7.14%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (7.14%) Unix
3 1 (3.57%) Windows
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (57.14%) Cloud Security
1 16 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (42.86%) Incident Response
3 11 (39.29%) Identity Access Management
3 11 (39.29%) Information Security
4 10 (35.71%) Security Operations
5 8 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (28.57%) SIEM
6 7 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
6 7 (25.00%) Roadmaps
7 6 (21.43%) Threat Intelligence
7 6 (21.43%) Vulnerability Management
8 5 (17.86%) DevOps
8 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (17.86%) Risk Management
9 4 (14.29%) API Integration
9 4 (14.29%) Data Collection
9 4 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
9 4 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 13 (46.43%) Python
2 5 (17.86%) Bash
2 5 (17.86%) PowerShell
3 4 (14.29%) TypeScript
4 2 (7.14%) AWK
4 2 (7.14%) C
4 2 (7.14%) C++
4 2 (7.14%) Korn
4 2 (7.14%) Perl
4 2 (7.14%) PHP
5 1 (3.57%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) CISSP
2 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 3 (10.71%) AWS Certification
3 3 (10.71%) CCSP
3 3 (10.71%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (7.14%) CISMP
4 2 (7.14%) Degree
5 1 (3.57%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (28.57%) GDPR
2 7 (25.00%) NIST
2 7 (25.00%) PCI DSS
3 6 (21.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (10.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (3.57%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) Docker
2 3 (10.71%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (7.14%) Active Directory
3 2 (7.14%) KVM
3 2 (7.14%) Postfix
3 2 (7.14%) Sendmail
4 1 (3.57%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.57%) VMware Server
4 1 (3.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.71%) CASB
2 3 (10.71%) Istio
2 3 (10.71%) linkerd
2 3 (10.71%) Terraform
3 2 (7.14%) Ansible
3 2 (7.14%) Grafana
3 2 (7.14%) Nagios
3 2 (7.14%) Nessus
4 1 (3.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) Google
3 2 (7.14%) IBM
3 2 (7.14%) Oracle
3 2 (7.14%) Red Hat
3 2 (7.14%) SAP
3 2 (7.14%) Tenable
4 1 (3.57%) Barracuda Networks
4 1 (3.57%) Cisco
4 1 (3.57%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (3.57%) Datto
4 1 (3.57%) Forcepoint
4 1 (3.57%) Juniper
4 1 (3.57%) Splunk
4 1 (3.57%) VMware