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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 101 162
Rank change year-on-year -13 +61 -16
Permanent jobs citing Information Security 903 1,316 1,782
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.67% 3.26% 2.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.92% 3.39% 2.61%
Number of salaries quoted 736 988 1,371
10th Percentile £39,284 £36,775 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £49,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -1.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £91,875 £104,125 £95,000
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 30,883 38,813 68,245
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.21% 96.05% 97.04%
Number of salaries quoted 23,380 26,991 41,246
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
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 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 18 May 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 29 (3.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (2.99%) SharePoint
3 22 (2.44%) IIS
4 13 (1.44%) WordPress
5 8 (0.89%) nginx
6 6 (0.66%) SAS
7 3 (0.33%) CMS
7 3 (0.33%) Drupal
7 3 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2013
8 2 (0.22%) Apache
9 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.11%) Confluence
9 1 (0.11%) IBM Domino
9 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
Applications
1 27 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.66%) SPSS
5 5 (0.55%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.33%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.22%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.33%) Relativity
2 3 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.22%) SAP GRC
3 2 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.11%) Endur
4 1 (0.11%) Ringtail
4 1 (0.11%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 279 (30.90%) Azure
2 150 (16.61%) Microsoft 365
3 133 (14.73%) AWS
4 71 (7.86%) Entra ID
5 64 (7.09%) SaaS
6 43 (4.76%) GCP
7 38 (4.21%) Power Platform
8 34 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
9 29 (3.21%) IaaS
10 28 (3.10%) PaaS
11 27 (2.99%) Cloud Computing
12 26 (2.88%) Serverless
13 20 (2.21%) Microsoft Purview
13 20 (2.21%) Snowflake
14 17 (1.88%) Matillion
15 15 (1.66%) Azure Sentinel
16 11 (1.22%) WhatsApp
17 9 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
17 9 (1.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 9 (1.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 145 (16.06%) Firewall
2 76 (8.42%) WAN
3 67 (7.42%) Network Security
4 54 (5.98%) DNS
5 47 (5.20%) Intrusion Detection
5 47 (5.20%) TCP/IP
6 41 (4.54%) LAN
7 36 (3.99%) SD-WAN
8 33 (3.65%) Internet
9 27 (2.99%) DKIM
9 27 (2.99%) DMARC
10 24 (2.66%) Wireless
11 14 (1.55%) VPN
11 14 (1.55%) Wireshark
12 12 (1.33%) Cisco IPT
13 11 (1.22%) OSPF
14 10 (1.11%) SAN
15 9 (1.00%) VoIP
16 7 (0.78%) BGP
16 7 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (3.88%) Power BI
2 31 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (2.99%) SQL Server
4 24 (2.66%) Relational Database
5 18 (1.99%) Metadata
6 17 (1.88%) Data Lake
7 15 (1.66%) MySQL
8 11 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (1.00%) Big Data
9 9 (1.00%) NoSQL
10 8 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (0.89%) EDRMS
11 5 (0.55%) BigQuery
11 5 (0.55%) Hadoop
12 4 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.33%) Amazon Athena
14 2 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
15 1 (0.11%) GIS
15 1 (0.11%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 28 (3.10%) JIRA
2 13 (1.44%) Git
3 11 (1.22%) Burp Suite
3 11 (1.22%) Metasploit
4 9 (1.00%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.78%) GitLab
6 5 (0.55%) CircleCI
6 5 (0.55%) git-flow
6 5 (0.55%) webpack
7 2 (0.22%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.22%) GDB
7 2 (0.22%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.22%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.11%) Selenium
8 1 (0.11%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.11%) WebDriver
General
1 271 (30.01%) Social Skills
2 192 (21.26%) Finance
3 148 (16.39%) Legal
4 131 (14.51%) Analytical Skills
5 74 (8.19%) Law
6 48 (5.32%) Retail
7 42 (4.65%) Public Sector
8 38 (4.21%) Marketing
9 32 (3.54%) Military
10 27 (2.99%) Aerospace
10 27 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (2.44%) Banking
11 22 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
12 18 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
14 12 (1.33%) Advertising
14 12 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
14 12 (1.33%) Telecoms
15 10 (1.11%) Aviation
16 5 (0.55%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 174 (19.27%) Analyst
2 138 (15.28%) Lead
3 116 (12.85%) Security Analyst
4 112 (12.40%) Senior
5 88 (9.75%) Architect
6 86 (9.52%) Information Analyst
6 86 (9.52%) Information Security Analyst
7 70 (7.75%) Security Manager
8 60 (6.64%) Security Architect
9 52 (5.76%) Security Engineer
10 44 (4.87%) Consultant
11 42 (4.65%) IT Manager
12 36 (3.99%) Information Manager
12 36 (3.99%) Information Security Manager
13 34 (3.77%) Security Consultant
14 31 (3.43%) Developer
14 31 (3.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 31 (3.43%) Lead Architect
15 27 (2.99%) Lead Security Architect
16 26 (2.88%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.10%) .NET
2 14 (1.55%) HTML
2 14 (1.55%) REST
3 13 (1.44%) CSS
4 12 (1.33%) React
5 11 (1.22%) ASP.NET
6 9 (1.00%) Web Services
7 7 (0.78%) ADO
8 6 (0.66%) AngularJS
8 6 (0.66%) HTML5
8 6 (0.66%) Laravel
8 6 (0.66%) ModSecurity
8 6 (0.66%) SOAP
8 6 (0.66%) Symfony
9 5 (0.55%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (0.55%) jQuery
9 5 (0.55%) LEMP Stack
9 5 (0.55%) LESS
9 5 (0.55%) Sass
9 5 (0.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 255 (28.24%) Management Information System
2 64 (7.09%) Data Centre
3 62 (6.87%) Security Posture
4 41 (4.54%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 34 (3.77%) Cyber Threat
6 30 (3.32%) Cyberattack
7 24 (2.66%) Security Operations Centre
8 22 (2.44%) Onboarding
9 21 (2.33%) Data Structures
10 19 (2.10%) Algorithms
11 18 (1.99%) Clustering
11 18 (1.99%) Product Ownership
11 18 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
12 16 (1.77%) CESG
12 16 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
13 15 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
14 14 (1.55%) Driving Licence
14 14 (1.55%) Mobile App
14 14 (1.55%) Operational Technology
15 12 (1.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 118 (13.07%) Windows
2 58 (6.42%) Windows Server
3 55 (6.09%) Linux
4 31 (3.43%) Apple iOS
5 24 (2.66%) Android
6 23 (2.55%) Unix
7 16 (1.77%) Mac OS X
8 10 (1.11%) zOS
9 8 (0.89%) Windows Server 2012
10 7 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.33%) Kali Linux
13 2 (0.22%) AIX
14 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (34.55%) Cybersecurity
2 171 (18.94%) Risk Management
3 155 (17.17%) Problem-Solving
4 125 (13.84%) Data Protection
5 114 (12.62%) Cloud Security
6 106 (11.74%) Agile
6 106 (11.74%) Continuous Improvement
6 106 (11.74%) Security Operations
6 106 (11.74%) SIEM
7 104 (11.52%) DevOps
8 101 (11.18%) Mentoring
9 92 (10.19%) Security Architecture
10 86 (9.52%) Incident Response
10 86 (9.52%) Security Management
11 82 (9.08%) Analytics
11 82 (9.08%) Project Management
12 76 (8.42%) Coaching
13 71 (7.86%) Roadmaps
14 70 (7.75%) Application Security
15 69 (7.64%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 79 (8.75%) PowerShell
2 78 (8.64%) SQL
3 55 (6.09%) Python
4 29 (3.21%) T-SQL
5 16 (1.77%) PHP
6 13 (1.44%) JavaScript
7 12 (1.33%) Bash
7 12 (1.33%) Java
8 7 (0.78%) C#
9 6 (0.66%) Shell Script
9 6 (0.66%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.33%) Go
10 3 (0.33%) Ruby
11 2 (0.22%) Korn
11 2 (0.22%) Perl
12 1 (0.11%) Julia
12 1 (0.11%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 224 (24.81%) CISSP
2 176 (19.49%) CISM
3 162 (17.94%) Degree
4 107 (11.85%) Security Cleared
5 70 (7.75%) SC Cleared
6 69 (7.64%) Cisco Certification
7 68 (7.53%) CISA
8 58 (6.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 55 (6.09%) CCSP
10 46 (5.09%) AWS Certification
10 46 (5.09%) Azure Certification
11 39 (4.32%) CCSK
11 39 (4.32%) CEH
12 34 (3.77%) Master's Degree
13 31 (3.43%) CRISC
14 26 (2.88%) GIAC
14 26 (2.88%) SSCP
15 25 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
15 25 (2.77%) SANS
16 22 (2.44%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 293 (32.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 181 (20.04%) NIST
3 130 (14.40%) GDPR
4 105 (11.63%) Cyber Essentials
5 95 (10.52%) GRC
6 71 (7.86%) PCI DSS
7 40 (4.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 34 (3.77%) NCSC
9 29 (3.21%) QA
10 22 (2.44%) NIST 800
11 20 (2.21%) ISO 9001
11 20 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 20 (2.21%) SOC 2
12 19 (2.10%) COBIT
13 18 (1.99%) JSP 440
14 16 (1.77%) RMADS
15 15 (1.66%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 12 (1.33%) ISO 14001
16 12 (1.33%) ISO 22301
17 10 (1.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 89 (9.86%) Active Directory
2 49 (5.43%) Docker
3 23 (2.55%) Virtual Desktop
4 18 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.77%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (1.11%) Hyper-V
6 10 (1.11%) RACF
7 6 (0.66%) vSphere
8 4 (0.44%) Firmware
9 2 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.22%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.11%) Lustre
10 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.11%) Snort
10 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.11%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 60 (6.64%) Kubernetes
2 51 (5.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 51 (5.65%) Single Sign-On
3 27 (2.99%) CASB
4 24 (2.66%) Nmap
5 19 (2.10%) Terraform
6 17 (1.88%) vCenter Server
7 16 (1.77%) Microsoft Clustering
8 14 (1.55%) Ansible
9 13 (1.44%) SCCM
10 9 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 9 (1.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 9 (1.00%) WSUS
11 8 (0.89%) Nessus
12 6 (0.66%) QRadar
13 5 (0.55%) logstash
13 5 (0.55%) Puppet
14 3 (0.33%) EMC NetWorker
15 2 (0.22%) DatAdvantage
15 2 (0.22%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 198 (21.93%) Microsoft
2 45 (4.98%) VMware
3 34 (3.77%) Cisco
4 27 (2.99%) ServiceNow
5 25 (2.77%) Google
6 23 (2.55%) Qualys
7 21 (2.33%) Databricks
8 20 (2.21%) Splunk
9 19 (2.10%) Commvault
9 19 (2.10%) Oracle
10 18 (1.99%) Dell
10 18 (1.99%) Rapid7
10 18 (1.99%) Sun
11 17 (1.88%) CyberArk
11 17 (1.88%) Palo Alto
12 16 (1.77%) IBM
13 13 (1.44%) CheckPoint
13 13 (1.44%) Thycotic
14 12 (1.33%) Juniper
14 12 (1.33%) Riverbed