Information Security Jobs with Work from Home Options

Information Security (InfoSec)
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 Information Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Information Security over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 91 151
Rank change year-on-year -26 +60 -6
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 869 1,535 1,673
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.57% 3.52% 2.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.80% 3.66% 2.59%
Number of salaries quoted 720 1,117 1,333
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,459 £37,460
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Information Security 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 31,001 41,929 64,513
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.73% 96.07% 96.89%
Number of salaries quoted 23,603 28,952 41,201
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%

Information Security
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Information Security trend for jobs with a WFH option

Information Security
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Information Security.

Information Security salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Information Security
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Information Security over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Information Security salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Information Security
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 28 (3.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (2.88%) SharePoint
3 22 (2.53%) IIS
4 14 (1.61%) WordPress
5 8 (0.92%) nginx
6 6 (0.69%) SAS
7 4 (0.46%) CMS
8 3 (0.35%) Drupal
8 3 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.23%) Apache
10 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.12%) Confluence
10 1 (0.12%) IBM Domino
10 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 24 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.69%) SPSS
5 3 (0.35%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.35%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.23%) Notion
7 1 (0.12%) 1Password
Business Applications
1 4 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.35%) Relativity
2 3 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.23%) SAP GRC
3 2 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.12%) Endur
4 1 (0.12%) Ringtail
4 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.12%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 294 (33.83%) Azure
2 154 (17.72%) Microsoft 365
3 129 (14.84%) AWS
4 67 (7.71%) Entra ID
5 64 (7.36%) SaaS
6 46 (5.29%) GCP
7 39 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
7 39 (4.49%) Power Platform
8 33 (3.80%) IaaS
8 33 (3.80%) Serverless
9 32 (3.68%) PaaS
10 27 (3.11%) Cloud Computing
11 23 (2.65%) Snowflake
12 21 (2.42%) Microsoft Purview
13 20 (2.30%) Matillion
14 18 (2.07%) Azure Sentinel
15 13 (1.50%) GitHub
16 12 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
17 9 (1.04%) Amazon EKS
17 9 (1.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 136 (15.65%) Firewall
2 74 (8.52%) WAN
3 54 (6.21%) Network Security
4 45 (5.18%) Intrusion Detection
4 45 (5.18%) TCP/IP
5 42 (4.83%) DNS
6 39 (4.49%) LAN
7 37 (4.26%) SD-WAN
8 35 (4.03%) Internet
9 27 (3.11%) DKIM
9 27 (3.11%) DMARC
10 26 (2.99%) Wireless
11 15 (1.73%) VPN
12 14 (1.61%) Wireshark
13 11 (1.27%) Cisco IPT
13 11 (1.27%) OSPF
14 10 (1.15%) SAN
15 8 (0.92%) BGP
15 8 (0.92%) VoIP
16 6 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (4.37%) Power BI
2 32 (3.68%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (3.34%) SQL Server
4 24 (2.76%) Relational Database
5 22 (2.53%) Metadata
6 21 (2.42%) Data Lake
7 14 (1.61%) MySQL
8 11 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (1.15%) Big Data
10 8 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (0.92%) EDRMS
11 7 (0.81%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.58%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.58%) Hadoop
13 4 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 3 (0.35%) Amazon Athena
15 2 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
16 1 (0.12%) GIS
16 1 (0.12%) QlikView
16 1 (0.12%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (3.22%) JIRA
2 16 (1.84%) Git
3 14 (1.61%) Jenkins
4 12 (1.38%) GitLab
5 11 (1.27%) Burp Suite
5 11 (1.27%) Metasploit
6 9 (1.04%) CircleCI
6 9 (1.04%) git-flow
7 5 (0.58%) webpack
8 2 (0.23%) GDB
8 2 (0.23%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.12%) Selenium
9 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.12%) WebDriver
General
1 277 (31.88%) Social Skills
2 178 (20.48%) Finance
3 133 (15.30%) Legal
4 132 (15.19%) Analytical Skills
5 76 (8.75%) Law
6 51 (5.87%) Public Sector
7 44 (5.06%) Retail
8 37 (4.26%) Marketing
9 30 (3.45%) Military
10 23 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
12 19 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
13 18 (2.07%) Aerospace
14 14 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (1.38%) Banking
15 12 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
16 11 (1.27%) Advertising
16 11 (1.27%) Telecoms
17 10 (1.15%) Aviation
18 5 (0.58%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 165 (18.99%) Analyst
2 134 (15.42%) Lead
3 112 (12.89%) Security Analyst
4 104 (11.97%) Senior
5 94 (10.82%) Architect
6 83 (9.55%) Information Analyst
6 83 (9.55%) Information Security Analyst
7 65 (7.48%) Security Manager
8 62 (7.13%) Security Architect
9 56 (6.44%) Security Engineer
10 47 (5.41%) Consultant
11 42 (4.83%) IT Manager
12 37 (4.26%) Security Consultant
13 33 (3.80%) Information Manager
13 33 (3.80%) Information Security Manager
13 33 (3.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 31 (3.57%) Lead Architect
15 30 (3.45%) Data Architect
16 27 (3.11%) Lead Security Architect
17 26 (2.99%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.30%) .NET
2 15 (1.73%) HTML
3 13 (1.50%) CSS
4 12 (1.38%) React
4 12 (1.38%) REST
5 11 (1.27%) ASP.NET
6 9 (1.04%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (0.92%) Web Services
8 7 (0.81%) ADO
8 7 (0.81%) HTML5
8 7 (0.81%) SailPoint
9 6 (0.69%) AngularJS
9 6 (0.69%) Laravel
9 6 (0.69%) SOAP
9 6 (0.69%) Symfony
10 5 (0.58%) jQuery
10 5 (0.58%) LAMP
10 5 (0.58%) LESS
10 5 (0.58%) Sass
10 5 (0.58%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 249 (28.65%) Management Information System
2 60 (6.90%) Data Centre
3 56 (6.44%) Security Posture
4 42 (4.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 33 (3.80%) Cyber Threat
6 30 (3.45%) Cyberattack
7 26 (2.99%) Onboarding
8 23 (2.65%) Security Operations Centre
9 20 (2.30%) Data Structures
10 19 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
11 18 (2.07%) Algorithms
11 18 (2.07%) Clustering
12 16 (1.84%) CESG
12 16 (1.84%) Mobile App
12 16 (1.84%) Product Ownership
13 15 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
13 15 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
13 15 (1.73%) Driving Licence
14 14 (1.61%) Virtual Team
15 12 (1.38%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 127 (14.61%) Windows
2 59 (6.79%) Linux
2 59 (6.79%) Windows Server
3 29 (3.34%) Apple iOS
4 25 (2.88%) Unix
5 22 (2.53%) Android
6 16 (1.84%) Mac OS X
7 10 (1.15%) zOS
8 8 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.58%) Kali Linux
9 5 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.23%) AIX
10 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.23%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (35.33%) Cybersecurity
2 168 (19.33%) Risk Management
3 154 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
4 118 (13.58%) Cloud Security
4 118 (13.58%) Data Protection
5 108 (12.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 106 (12.20%) SIEM
7 101 (11.62%) DevOps
8 96 (11.05%) Mentoring
9 94 (10.82%) Security Operations
10 92 (10.59%) Security Architecture
11 89 (10.24%) Agile
11 89 (10.24%) Incident Response
12 83 (9.55%) Analytics
12 83 (9.55%) Security Management
13 70 (8.06%) Application Security
14 69 (7.94%) ITIL
15 67 (7.71%) Project Management
16 66 (7.59%) Incident Management
16 66 (7.59%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 73 (8.40%) PowerShell
2 72 (8.29%) SQL
3 55 (6.33%) Python
4 32 (3.68%) T-SQL
5 16 (1.84%) PHP
6 15 (1.73%) Bash
7 11 (1.27%) Java
7 11 (1.27%) JavaScript
8 10 (1.15%) Shell Script
9 8 (0.92%) C#
10 6 (0.69%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.35%) Ruby
12 2 (0.23%) Go
12 2 (0.23%) Korn
13 1 (0.12%) Julia
13 1 (0.12%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.12%) Perl
Qualifications
1 222 (25.55%) CISSP
2 171 (19.68%) CISM
3 160 (18.41%) Degree
4 106 (12.20%) Security Cleared
5 79 (9.09%) SC Cleared
6 69 (7.94%) Cisco Certification
7 63 (7.25%) CISA
8 60 (6.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 57 (6.56%) CCSP
10 48 (5.52%) Azure Certification
11 46 (5.29%) AWS Certification
12 39 (4.49%) CCSK
13 38 (4.37%) CEH
14 35 (4.03%) Master's Degree
15 29 (3.34%) CRISC
16 26 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
16 26 (2.99%) GIAC
16 26 (2.99%) SSCP
17 25 (2.88%) OSCP
18 22 (2.53%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 294 (33.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 190 (21.86%) NIST
3 132 (15.19%) GDPR
4 100 (11.51%) Cyber Essentials
5 90 (10.36%) GRC
6 72 (8.29%) PCI DSS
7 41 (4.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 36 (4.14%) NCSC
9 23 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 23 (2.65%) NIST 800
9 23 (2.65%) QA
10 21 (2.42%) ISO 9001
11 20 (2.30%) COBIT
12 18 (2.07%) JSP 440
12 18 (2.07%) SOC 2
13 17 (1.96%) RMADS
14 15 (1.73%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 13 (1.50%) ISO 22301
16 12 (1.38%) Data Quality
16 12 (1.38%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 89 (10.24%) Active Directory
2 56 (6.44%) Docker
3 23 (2.65%) Virtual Desktop
4 20 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.84%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (1.15%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.69%) vSphere
8 4 (0.46%) Firmware
9 2 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.23%) Terminal Services
9 2 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.12%) Lustre
10 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.12%) Snort
10 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.12%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 60 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 53 (6.10%) Single Sign-On
3 51 (5.87%) Microsoft Intune
4 32 (3.68%) CASB
5 24 (2.76%) Nmap
6 22 (2.53%) Terraform
7 17 (1.96%) Ansible
8 16 (1.84%) Microsoft Clustering
8 16 (1.84%) vCenter Server
9 11 (1.27%) SCCM
10 9 (1.04%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 9 (1.04%) Nessus
10 9 (1.04%) WSUS
11 8 (0.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (0.58%) logstash
13 4 (0.46%) CSIRT
13 4 (0.46%) QRadar
14 3 (0.35%) EMC NetWorker
15 2 (0.23%) Failover Clustering
15 2 (0.23%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 198 (22.78%) Microsoft
2 48 (5.52%) VMware
3 29 (3.34%) Google
4 28 (3.22%) Cisco
5 25 (2.88%) ServiceNow
6 24 (2.76%) Databricks
7 21 (2.42%) Qualys
7 21 (2.42%) Splunk
8 19 (2.19%) Commvault
8 19 (2.19%) Oracle
8 19 (2.19%) Sun
9 18 (2.07%) Dell
10 17 (1.96%) Rapid7
11 16 (1.84%) IBM
12 13 (1.50%) Thycotic
13 11 (1.27%) McAfee
14 10 (1.15%) Salesforce
14 10 (1.15%) SAP
15 9 (1.04%) CyberArk
15 9 (1.04%) Palo Alto