Security Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Security Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Security Engineer salary in Work from Home is £59,526 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 May 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 365 338 382
Rank change year-on-year -27 +44 -45
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 250 378 622
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.74% 0.93% 0.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 0.97% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 240 311 402
10th Percentile £32,750 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,526 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.42% -7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £74,063 £81,928 £85,000
90th Percentile £84,125 £100,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £68,981 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.02% +6.12% +8.33%

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 32,454 38,972 68,188
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.05% 95.91% 97.36%
Number of salaries quoted 24,851 27,677 41,848
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +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%

Security Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Security Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Security 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 Security Engineer.

Security Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Security Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Security Engineer over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Security Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, Security 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 Security Engineer in the job title.

1 136 (54.40%) Cybersecurity
2 132 (52.80%) Azure
3 83 (33.20%) Microsoft
4 72 (28.80%) Security Operations
5 70 (28.00%) Cloud Security
6 66 (26.40%) Finance
7 65 (26.00%) Microsoft 365
7 65 (26.00%) DevOps
8 60 (24.00%) SIEM
9 54 (21.60%) NIST
10 53 (21.20%) AWS
10 53 (21.20%) Firewall
11 52 (20.80%) Information Security
12 51 (20.40%) Incident Response
13 49 (19.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 48 (19.20%) Windows
14 48 (19.20%) Python
15 45 (18.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 45 (18.00%) Terraform
16 44 (17.60%) Network Security
17 39 (15.60%) Vulnerability Management
18 37 (14.80%) Public Cloud
19 36 (14.40%) PowerShell
19 36 (14.40%) CISSP
19 36 (14.40%) Agile
20 35 (14.00%) Infrastructure as Code
21 34 (13.60%) Mentoring
21 34 (13.60%) Coaching
22 32 (12.80%) Social Skills
22 32 (12.80%) Active Directory

Security 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (2.00%) Trello
2 4 (1.60%) AutoCAD
2 4 (1.60%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 132 (52.80%) Azure
2 65 (26.00%) Microsoft 365
3 53 (21.20%) AWS
4 30 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (11.20%) GCP
6 22 (8.80%) PaaS
7 21 (8.40%) Entra ID
8 17 (6.80%) Azure Sentinel
8 17 (6.80%) GitHub
9 16 (6.40%) Microsoft Purview
10 14 (5.60%) Cloud Computing
10 14 (5.60%) SaaS
11 12 (4.80%) AWS KMS
11 12 (4.80%) Azure Key Vault
12 10 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (3.60%) Azure AKS
14 7 (2.80%) Amazon S3
15 6 (2.40%) AWS CloudFormation
16 5 (2.00%) AWS Direct Connect
16 5 (2.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (21.20%) Firewall
2 44 (17.60%) Network Security
3 32 (12.80%) LAN
4 23 (9.20%) WAN
5 16 (6.40%) TCP/IP
6 13 (5.20%) DNS
6 13 (5.20%) Wireshark
7 12 (4.80%) Wireless
8 8 (3.20%) SD-WAN
9 7 (2.80%) Internet
10 5 (2.00%) BGP
10 5 (2.00%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (2.00%) Cisco IPT
10 5 (2.00%) DMVPN
10 5 (2.00%) EIGRP
10 5 (2.00%) NGFW
10 5 (2.00%) OSPF
10 5 (2.00%) VLAN
10 5 (2.00%) VPN
10 5 (2.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.20%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.00%) BigQuery
2 5 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (2.00%) Hadoop
2 5 (2.00%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.60%) InfluxDB
3 4 (1.60%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 21 (8.40%) Jenkins
2 12 (4.80%) GitLab
3 5 (2.00%) JIRA
4 4 (1.60%) JMeter
4 4 (1.60%) Postman
4 4 (1.60%) SoapUI
5 3 (1.20%) Burp Suite
5 3 (1.20%) Metasploit
5 3 (1.20%) sqlmap
General
1 66 (26.40%) Finance
2 32 (12.80%) Social Skills
3 30 (12.00%) Banking
4 15 (6.00%) Law
4 15 (6.00%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.40%) Retail
6 9 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (3.60%) Health Technology
6 9 (3.60%) Tech for Good
7 6 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.40%) Welsh Language
8 4 (1.60%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.60%) Publishing
9 3 (1.20%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.80%) Electronics
10 2 (0.80%) French Language
10 2 (0.80%) German Language
10 2 (0.80%) Italian Language
10 2 (0.80%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.80%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.40%) OAuth
2 5 (2.00%) 802.1X
2 5 (2.00%) XMPP
3 4 (1.60%) Kafka
3 4 (1.60%) OAuth2
3 4 (1.60%) SOAP
3 4 (1.60%) XML
4 3 (1.20%) CSS
5 2 (0.80%) JWT
6 1 (0.40%) Django
6 1 (0.40%) Flask
6 1 (0.40%) HTML
6 1 (0.40%) Jinja
6 1 (0.40%) Pyramid
Miscellaneous
1 37 (14.80%) Public Cloud
2 29 (11.60%) Management Information System
3 25 (10.00%) Security Operations Centre
4 17 (6.80%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (6.80%) Product Ownership
5 15 (6.00%) PKI
6 13 (5.20%) Cyberattack
7 12 (4.80%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (4.80%) Private Cloud
8 11 (4.40%) Data Centre
9 10 (4.00%) Cyber Threat
10 9 (3.60%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (3.20%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 8 (3.20%) Operational Technology
12 6 (2.40%) Cybercrime
12 6 (2.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 5 (2.00%) Blog
14 4 (1.60%) Cloud Native
14 4 (1.60%) Cyber Security Posture
14 4 (1.60%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 48 (19.20%) Windows
2 15 (6.00%) Unix
2 15 (6.00%) Windows Server
3 13 (5.20%) Android
3 13 (5.20%) Apple iOS
4 11 (4.40%) Linux
5 9 (3.60%) Ubuntu
6 5 (2.00%) Debian
6 5 (2.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (1.60%) CentOS
7 4 (1.60%) Solaris
7 4 (1.60%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (54.40%) Cybersecurity
2 72 (28.80%) Security Operations
3 70 (28.00%) Cloud Security
4 65 (26.00%) DevOps
5 60 (24.00%) SIEM
6 52 (20.80%) Information Security
7 51 (20.40%) Incident Response
8 45 (18.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 39 (15.60%) Vulnerability Management
10 36 (14.40%) Agile
11 35 (14.00%) Infrastructure as Code
12 34 (13.60%) Coaching
12 34 (13.60%) Mentoring
13 30 (12.00%) Identity Access Management
13 30 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
13 30 (12.00%) Roadmaps
14 29 (11.60%) Key Management
15 28 (11.20%) Data Loss Prevention
16 27 (10.80%) Secrets Management
17 24 (9.60%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 48 (19.20%) Python
2 36 (14.40%) PowerShell
3 18 (7.20%) Kusto Query Language
4 9 (3.60%) Java
4 9 (3.60%) SQL
5 5 (2.00%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.20%) C#
6 3 (1.20%) Rust
7 2 (0.80%) C++
7 2 (0.80%) Go
7 2 (0.80%) Lua
7 2 (0.80%) Ruby
8 1 (0.40%) Bash
8 1 (0.40%) C
Qualifications
1 36 (14.40%) CISSP
2 29 (11.60%) Cisco Certification
3 23 (9.20%) Degree
4 21 (8.40%) CEH
5 15 (6.00%) CCNA
5 15 (6.00%) SANS
6 14 (5.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 14 (5.60%) CCSP
7 13 (5.20%) SSCP
8 12 (4.80%) CCNP
9 11 (4.40%) CISM
10 10 (4.00%) SC Cleared
10 10 (4.00%) Security Cleared
11 6 (2.40%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.60%) AWS Certification
12 4 (1.60%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.60%) GIAC
12 4 (1.60%) ISTQB
12 4 (1.60%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (21.60%) NIST
2 49 (19.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (7.20%) PCI DSS
4 12 (4.80%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 11 (4.40%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (2.80%) GDPR
7 6 (2.40%) QA
7 6 (2.40%) SOC 2
8 5 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (2.00%) Data Quality
9 4 (1.60%) Accessibility
10 3 (1.20%) COBIT
11 2 (0.80%) NCSC
System Software
1 32 (12.80%) Active Directory
2 17 (6.80%) Docker
3 13 (5.20%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 45 (18.00%) Terraform
2 26 (10.40%) Kubernetes
3 24 (9.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (6.00%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (5.20%) Nmap
6 12 (4.80%) CA Single Sign-On
7 7 (2.80%) CASB
8 5 (2.00%) logstash
9 4 (1.60%) Grafana
10 2 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.80%) CSIRT
10 2 (0.80%) QRadar
Vendors
1 83 (33.20%) Microsoft
2 27 (10.80%) Cisco
3 22 (8.80%) Google
4 21 (8.40%) Qualys
5 19 (7.60%) CyberArk
5 19 (7.60%) Splunk
6 17 (6.80%) Rapid7
7 14 (5.60%) Palo Alto
7 14 (5.60%) ServiceNow
8 13 (5.20%) Thycotic
9 12 (4.80%) CA
10 7 (2.80%) CheckPoint
10 7 (2.80%) CrowdStrike
11 6 (2.40%) Fortinet
11 6 (2.40%) VMware
12 5 (2.00%) Forcepoint
13 4 (1.60%) Oracle
14 3 (1.20%) Sophos
14 3 (1.20%) WatchGuard
15 2 (0.80%) SonicWALL