Network Security Jobs with Work from Home Options

Network Security
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 Network Security skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Network Security over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 271 231 355
Rank change year-on-year -40 +124 -55
Permanent jobs citing Network Security 401 607 697
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.19% 1.50% 0.99%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.73% 13.39% 8.97%
Number of salaries quoted 324 412 471
10th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £49,813 £43,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,526 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% -0.79% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,266 £77,500
90th Percentile £86,750 £87,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

Network Security is in the Communications and Computer Networking 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 communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,190 4,532 7,769
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.34% 11.21% 11.07%
Number of salaries quoted 3,333 3,373 4,987
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,514 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,316 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Network Security
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Network Security trend for jobs with a WFH option

Network 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 Network Security.

Network Security salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Network Security
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Network Security over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Network Security salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Network 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 14 (3.49%) Microsoft Exchange
1 14 (3.49%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.75%) Apache
3 4 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.50%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.50%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (0.50%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.25%) Confluence
5 1 (0.25%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (1.25%) FrameMaker
1 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (1.25%) RoboHelp
2 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.50%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 142 (35.41%) Azure
2 61 (15.21%) AWS
3 60 (14.96%) Microsoft 365
4 42 (10.47%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (6.23%) Power Platform
6 23 (5.74%) Cloud Computing
6 23 (5.74%) Entra ID
7 20 (4.99%) SaaS
8 17 (4.24%) Azure Sentinel
9 16 (3.99%) Microsoft Purview
10 13 (3.24%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (3.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 13 (3.24%) PaaS
11 12 (2.99%) Serverless
12 11 (2.74%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
13 10 (2.49%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (2.49%) Amazon S3
13 10 (2.49%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (2.00%) GCP
14 8 (2.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 178 (44.39%) Firewall
2 127 (31.67%) LAN
3 120 (29.93%) WAN
4 80 (19.95%) VPN
5 54 (13.47%) TCP/IP
6 53 (13.22%) DNS
7 51 (12.72%) SD-WAN
8 48 (11.97%) Wireless
9 47 (11.72%) Wi-Fi
10 28 (6.98%) WLAN
11 26 (6.48%) Intrusion Detection
12 22 (5.49%) BGP
13 21 (5.24%) Cisco Nexus
13 21 (5.24%) MPLS
14 20 (4.99%) SAN
15 19 (4.74%) OSPF
16 18 (4.49%) VLAN
17 17 (4.24%) DHCP
18 14 (3.49%) Wireshark
19 12 (2.99%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.99%) Power BI
2 17 (4.24%) SQL Server
3 14 (3.49%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (3.24%) Azure SQL Database
5 11 (2.74%) Data Lake
5 11 (2.74%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 10 (2.49%) NoSQL
7 7 (1.75%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (1.50%) Redis
9 5 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.25%) Flink
9 5 (1.25%) InfluxDB
10 4 (1.00%) Tableau
11 2 (0.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.50%) Big Data
11 2 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (2.74%) Git
1 11 (2.74%) JIRA
2 7 (1.75%) Jasmine
2 7 (1.75%) NUnit
2 7 (1.75%) Selenium
2 7 (1.75%) Team Foundation Server
2 7 (1.75%) TeamCity
2 7 (1.75%) Visual Studio
2 7 (1.75%) Visual Studio Code
3 5 (1.25%) Jenkins
General
1 69 (17.21%) Social Skills
2 55 (13.72%) Finance
3 50 (12.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 34 (8.48%) Public Sector
5 24 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (5.24%) Aerospace
7 12 (2.99%) Games
8 11 (2.74%) Telecoms
9 9 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (2.24%) Military
10 8 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.75%) Aviation
11 7 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (1.75%) Legal
12 6 (1.50%) Law
12 6 (1.50%) Marketing
12 6 (1.50%) Retail
13 5 (1.25%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.25%) Police
14 4 (1.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 92 (22.94%) Network Engineer
2 86 (21.45%) Senior
3 44 (10.97%) Security Engineer
4 38 (9.48%) Architect
5 29 (7.23%) Analyst
5 29 (7.23%) Lead
5 29 (7.23%) Software Engineer
6 27 (6.73%) IT Engineer
7 24 (5.99%) Senior Network Engineer
8 23 (5.74%) Consultant
9 22 (5.49%) DevOps Engineer
9 22 (5.49%) Network Manager
10 21 (5.24%) Azure Engineer
10 21 (5.24%) Network Security Engineer
11 20 (4.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 19 (4.74%) Security Consultant
13 17 (4.24%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 17 (4.24%) Network Architect
14 16 (3.99%) Network Specialist
14 16 (3.99%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.24%) CSS
2 11 (2.74%) HTML
2 11 (2.74%) RESTful
3 9 (2.24%) .NET
3 9 (2.24%) ARM Templates
4 8 (2.00%) ASP.NET
4 8 (2.00%) LDAP
5 7 (1.75%) .NET Core
5 7 (1.75%) .NET Framework
5 7 (1.75%) Entity Framework
5 7 (1.75%) HTML5
5 7 (1.75%) OpenID
6 6 (1.50%) 802.1X
7 5 (1.25%) Kafka
7 5 (1.25%) Middleware
7 5 (1.25%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (1.25%) XMPP
8 4 (1.00%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.00%) Node.js
8 4 (1.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 62 (15.46%) Data Centre
2 34 (8.48%) Management Information System
3 22 (5.49%) Self-Motivation
4 20 (4.99%) Security Operations Centre
5 14 (3.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 13 (3.24%) Cyber Threat
6 13 (3.24%) Product Ownership
6 13 (3.24%) Security Posture
7 12 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (2.49%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (2.49%) Public Cloud
9 8 (2.00%) Driving Licence
10 6 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (1.50%) PKI
11 5 (1.25%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.25%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 4 (1.00%) PMI
13 3 (0.75%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 75 (18.70%) Windows
2 53 (13.22%) Linux
3 23 (5.74%) Windows Server
4 19 (4.74%) Apple iOS
5 18 (4.49%) Android
6 15 (3.74%) Unix
7 14 (3.49%) VMS
8 10 (2.49%) Windows Server 2012
9 9 (2.24%) Windows Server 2016
9 9 (2.24%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.50%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (28.68%) Cybersecurity
2 71 (17.71%) DevOps
3 66 (16.46%) Information Security
4 57 (14.21%) Agile
5 56 (13.97%) Problem-Solving
6 54 (13.47%) Cloud Security
7 52 (12.97%) SIEM
8 50 (12.47%) Roadmaps
9 48 (11.97%) Vulnerability Management
10 46 (11.47%) Computer Science
11 45 (11.22%) Security Operations
12 44 (10.97%) Zero Trust
13 42 (10.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 41 (10.22%) Software Engineering
15 40 (9.98%) ITIL
16 38 (9.48%) Project Management
17 35 (8.73%) Stakeholder Management
18 34 (8.48%) Analytics
19 32 (7.98%) Identity Access Management
20 30 (7.48%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 55 (13.72%) Python
2 36 (8.98%) PowerShell
3 35 (8.73%) SQL
4 18 (4.49%) Java
5 16 (3.99%) C#
5 16 (3.99%) JavaScript
6 14 (3.49%) C++
7 12 (2.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 11 (2.74%) C
8 11 (2.74%) U-SQL
9 9 (2.24%) Bicep
10 6 (1.50%) Bash
11 5 (1.25%) Go
11 5 (1.25%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.25%) T-SQL
11 5 (1.25%) VBA
12 2 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 89 (22.19%) Cisco Certification
2 60 (14.96%) CCNP
2 60 (14.96%) Security Cleared
3 58 (14.46%) Degree
4 55 (13.72%) CISSP
5 35 (8.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (8.73%) SC Cleared
6 34 (8.48%) CCNA
7 24 (5.99%) CCIE
7 24 (5.99%) CCSP
8 23 (5.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 20 (4.99%) Microsoft Certification
10 18 (4.49%) DV Cleared
11 15 (3.74%) CEH
11 15 (3.74%) SANS
12 13 (3.24%) SSCP
13 12 (2.99%) Azure Certification
14 9 (2.24%) GIAC
15 8 (2.00%) CompTIA Security+
16 7 (1.75%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (13.22%) NIST
2 36 (8.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (6.48%) PCI DSS
4 11 (2.74%) Cyber Essentials
5 10 (2.49%) NCSC
6 7 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 7 (1.75%) DO-254
7 6 (1.50%) GDPR
8 5 (1.25%) SLA
9 4 (1.00%) COBIT
9 4 (1.00%) GRC
10 3 (0.75%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.50%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.50%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.50%) PMO
11 2 (0.50%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.25%) GxP
12 1 (0.25%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 37 (9.23%) Active Directory
2 15 (3.74%) Virtual Desktop
3 14 (3.49%) Hyper-V
4 13 (3.24%) Docker
5 11 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.25%) Firmware
7 1 (0.25%) NFS
7 1 (0.25%) Snort
Systems Management
1 35 (8.73%) WSUS
2 28 (6.98%) Terraform
3 25 (6.23%) Kubernetes
3 25 (6.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (3.49%) SCCM
5 13 (3.24%) Nmap
6 12 (2.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 12 (2.99%) Ansible
7 10 (2.49%) Grafana
7 10 (2.49%) Prometheus
8 7 (1.75%) MIIS
9 5 (1.25%) Docker Swarm
9 5 (1.25%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.25%) SCOM
10 4 (1.00%) Cisco Prime
10 4 (1.00%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.75%) Nagios
11 3 (0.75%) OfficeScan
12 2 (0.50%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 2 (0.50%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 143 (35.66%) Cisco
2 107 (26.68%) Microsoft
3 60 (14.96%) Palo Alto
4 34 (8.48%) Fortinet
5 30 (7.48%) Meraki
6 29 (7.23%) CheckPoint
7 28 (6.98%) Juniper
8 25 (6.23%) Splunk
9 23 (5.74%) VMware
10 20 (4.99%) Qualys
11 18 (4.49%) Blue Coat
12 17 (4.24%) SolarWinds
13 16 (3.99%) Zscaler
14 13 (3.24%) Databricks
14 13 (3.24%) Rapid7
14 13 (3.24%) Thycotic
15 12 (2.99%) Apple
15 12 (2.99%) Aruba
15 12 (2.99%) Infoblox
15 12 (2.99%) Riverbed