Cybersecurity Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Cybersecurity Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Cybersecurity Engineer salary in Work from Home is £63,675 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 548 538 796
Rank change year-on-year -10 +258 -262
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 45 100 90
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.26% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.27% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 38 95 78
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £42,425
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £46,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,675 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.13% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,875 £85,000
90th Percentile £79,500 £97,500 -
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +13.04%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 33,422 36,879 72,309
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.21% 95.89% 97.34%
Number of salaries quoted 25,463 26,702 42,447
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.20% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Cybersecurity Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cybersecurity Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cybersecurity Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Cybersecurity Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cybersecurity Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cybersecurity Engineer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Cybersecurity Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Cybersecurity Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with remote work options featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 45 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 23 (51.11%) SIEM
3 21 (46.67%) Information Security
3 21 (46.67%) Security Operations
4 20 (44.44%) Azure
5 15 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
5 15 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (33.33%) Windows
5 15 (33.33%) Incident Response
6 14 (31.11%) Management Information System
7 13 (28.89%) Finance
7 13 (28.89%) NIST
8 12 (26.67%) Microsoft
9 11 (24.44%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (24.44%) Cloud Security
10 10 (22.22%) Application Security
10 10 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
10 10 (22.22%) Firewall
10 10 (22.22%) Analytics
11 9 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 8 (17.78%) Incident Management
12 8 (17.78%) Penetration Testing
12 8 (17.78%) Risk Management
12 8 (17.78%) Windows Server
13 7 (15.56%) Cyber Threat
13 7 (15.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 7 (15.56%) Retail
13 7 (15.56%) CISSP
13 7 (15.56%) Python
13 7 (15.56%) Java

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 20 (44.44%) Azure
2 15 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (11.11%) GCP
4 4 (8.89%) AWS
5 3 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (6.67%) SaaS
6 2 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.44%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (4.44%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (2.22%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 10 (22.22%) Firewall
2 6 (13.33%) LAN
2 6 (13.33%) Network Security
3 4 (8.89%) TCP/IP
3 4 (8.89%) WAN
4 2 (4.44%) Internet
4 2 (4.44%) SD-WAN
4 2 (4.44%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (4.44%) Wireshark
5 1 (2.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.11%) BigQuery
1 5 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (11.11%) Hadoop
1 5 (11.11%) Relational Database
2 4 (8.89%) SQL Server
General
1 13 (28.89%) Finance
2 7 (15.56%) Retail
3 6 (13.33%) Banking
4 5 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (11.11%) Law
5 2 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.44%) French Language
5 2 (4.44%) German Language
5 2 (4.44%) Italian Language
5 2 (4.44%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.44%) Social Skills
5 2 (4.44%) Spanish Language
6 1 (2.22%) Electronics
6 1 (2.22%) Legal
6 1 (2.22%) Marketing
6 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.67%) CSS
2 1 (2.22%) Django
2 1 (2.22%) Flask
2 1 (2.22%) HTML
2 1 (2.22%) Jinja
2 1 (2.22%) Pyramid
Miscellaneous
1 14 (31.11%) Management Information System
2 7 (15.56%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (11.11%) Blog
4 3 (6.67%) Cyberattack
4 3 (6.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (6.67%) Operational Technology
5 2 (4.44%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (4.44%) Mobile App
5 2 (4.44%) Public Cloud
5 2 (4.44%) SCADA
5 2 (4.44%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (2.22%) IoT
6 1 (2.22%) PKI
6 1 (2.22%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (33.33%) Windows
2 8 (17.78%) Windows Server
3 2 (4.44%) Android
3 2 (4.44%) Apple iOS
3 2 (4.44%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (2.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 23 (51.11%) SIEM
3 21 (46.67%) Information Security
3 21 (46.67%) Security Operations
4 15 (33.33%) Incident Response
4 15 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
5 11 (24.44%) Cloud Security
6 10 (22.22%) Analytics
6 10 (22.22%) Application Security
6 10 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
7 8 (17.78%) Incident Management
7 8 (17.78%) Penetration Testing
7 8 (17.78%) Risk Management
8 7 (15.56%) DevOps
8 7 (15.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (15.56%) Process Improvement
9 6 (13.33%) Fintech
10 5 (11.11%) Data Engineering
10 5 (11.11%) Data Science
10 5 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.56%) Java
1 7 (15.56%) Python
2 5 (11.11%) SQL
3 4 (8.89%) PowerShell
4 3 (6.67%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.22%) C++
Qualifications
1 7 (15.56%) CISSP
2 4 (8.89%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (8.89%) Degree
2 4 (8.89%) SANS
3 3 (6.67%) CISM
3 3 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.67%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (4.44%) CCNA
4 2 (4.44%) CCNP
4 2 (4.44%) CCSP
4 2 (4.44%) CEH
4 2 (4.44%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.44%) GCIA
4 2 (4.44%) SSCP
5 1 (2.22%) CISA
5 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (28.89%) NIST
2 11 (24.44%) Cyber Essentials
3 9 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 5 (11.11%) Data Quality
5 4 (8.89%) SOC 2
6 2 (4.44%) NCSC
6 2 (4.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.44%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (11.11%) logstash
2 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (4.44%) CASB
3 2 (4.44%) CSIRT
3 2 (4.44%) Nmap
3 2 (4.44%) Terraform
4 1 (2.22%) QRadar
4 1 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.11%) Google
3 4 (8.89%) Cisco
3 4 (8.89%) Fortinet
3 4 (8.89%) Rapid7
4 3 (6.67%) Splunk
5 2 (4.44%) Meraki
5 2 (4.44%) Qualys
5 2 (4.44%) Thycotic
6 1 (2.22%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (2.22%) Darktrace
6 1 (2.22%) IBM
6 1 (2.22%) SAP
6 1 (2.22%) Symantec