Threat Detection Jobs with Work from Home Options

Threat Detection
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Threat Detection skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Threat Detection over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 557 582 731
Rank change year-on-year +25 +149 -170
Permanent jobs citing Threat Detection 32 64 143
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.093% 0.16% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.17% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 27 47 112
10th Percentile £51,250 £38,710 £48,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £51,406
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £68,823 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% -1.68% +27.27%
75th Percentile £73,155 £73,198 £100,000
90th Percentile £82,750 £77,500 -
UK median annual salary £55,000 £68,823 £57,500
% change year-on-year -20.08% +19.69% -4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Threat Detection is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,137 38,084 71,018
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.42% 96.09% 97.13%
Number of salaries quoted 23,468 26,396 41,605
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,871 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.54% +4.79% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

Threat Detection
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Threat Detection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Threat Detection trend for jobs with a WFH option

Threat Detection
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Threat Detection over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

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 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.13%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (34.38%) Azure
2 5 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (15.63%) Azure Event Grid
2 5 (15.63%) Azure Logic Apps
2 5 (15.63%) Azure Storage
2 5 (15.63%) Entra ID
3 4 (12.50%) AWS
3 4 (12.50%) IaaS
3 4 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (12.50%) PaaS
3 4 (12.50%) SaaS
4 2 (6.25%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 2 (6.25%) AWS CloudTrail
4 2 (6.25%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (3.13%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 13 (40.63%) Firewall
2 7 (21.88%) Network Security
3 6 (18.75%) TCP/IP
4 4 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (6.25%) DHCP
5 2 (6.25%) DNS
5 2 (6.25%) SSL
6 1 (3.13%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (3.13%) HTTPS
6 1 (3.13%) IMAP
6 1 (3.13%) Internet
6 1 (3.13%) LAN
6 1 (3.13%) NAS
6 1 (3.13%) SAN
6 1 (3.13%) SSH
6 1 (3.13%) VLAN
6 1 (3.13%) VoIP
6 1 (3.13%) VPN
6 1 (3.13%) WAN
6 1 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Git
General
1 14 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 11 (34.38%) Finance
3 10 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (15.63%) Legal
5 4 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Analyst
2 8 (25.00%) SOC Analyst
3 5 (15.63%) Automation Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) Operations Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) Security Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Specialist
4 4 (12.50%) Cyber Threat Specialist
4 4 (12.50%) SOC Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
5 3 (9.38%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Cloud Automation Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) IT Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior
6 2 (6.25%) Support Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) 3rd Line Support
7 1 (3.13%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Cybersecurity Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) ARM Templates
1 5 (15.63%) YAML
2 2 (6.25%) OAuth
2 2 (6.25%) OpenID
2 2 (6.25%) SAML
3 1 (3.13%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.88%) Cyber Threat
2 6 (18.75%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (18.75%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 6 (18.75%) Management Information System
3 4 (12.50%) Security Posture
4 3 (9.38%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (9.38%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (6.25%) Cyberattack
6 1 (3.13%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (3.13%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (3.13%) Mac OS
2 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (71.88%) Incident Response
2 22 (68.75%) SIEM
3 21 (65.63%) Cybersecurity
4 20 (62.50%) Security Operations
5 13 (40.63%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 13 (40.63%) Threat Intelligence
6 10 (31.25%) ITIL
7 9 (28.13%) CI/CD
7 9 (28.13%) Security Monitoring
8 8 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 7 (21.88%) Information Security
9 7 (21.88%) Security Management
10 6 (18.75%) Change Management
10 6 (18.75%) DevOps
10 6 (18.75%) Incident Management
10 6 (18.75%) Security Architecture
11 5 (15.63%) Anomaly Detection
11 5 (15.63%) Network Management
11 5 (15.63%) Risk Assessment
11 5 (15.63%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (15.63%) Bicep
2 5 (15.63%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (3.13%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (18.75%) CISSP
2 5 (15.63%) Security Cleared
3 4 (12.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 4 (12.50%) CCSP
3 4 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (12.50%) CRISC
3 4 (12.50%) GIAC
4 3 (9.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (9.38%) Degree
4 3 (9.38%) Network+ Certification
5 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
6 1 (3.13%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (40.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (31.25%) NIST
3 7 (21.88%) PCI DSS
4 2 (6.25%) SOC 2
5 1 (3.13%) GDPR
5 1 (3.13%) GxP
5 1 (3.13%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 7 (21.88%) Active Directory
2 5 (15.63%) Virtual Desktop
2 5 (15.63%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (9.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.13%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.13%) NFS
Systems Management
1 6 (18.75%) QRadar
2 5 (15.63%) Terraform
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (3.13%) DatAdvantage
4 1 (3.13%) SCCM
4 1 (3.13%) Stealthwatch
4 1 (3.13%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
4 1 (3.13%) vCenter Server
4 1 (3.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (15.63%) IBM
2 5 (15.63%) Splunk
3 4 (12.50%) LogRhythm
4 3 (9.38%) McAfee
4 3 (9.38%) VMware
5 2 (6.25%) Qualys
5 2 (6.25%) ServiceNow
5 2 (6.25%) Varonis
6 1 (3.13%) Cisco
6 1 (3.13%) Darktrace
6 1 (3.13%) Forcepoint
6 1 (3.13%) Symantec
6 1 (3.13%) Tripwire