Security Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Security Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Security Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 357 340 404
Rank change year-on-year -17 +64 -53
Permanent jobs requiring a Security Engineer 260 326 653
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.73% 0.87% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 0.91% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 246 288 395
10th Percentile £32,750 £38,563 £41,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £69,200
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -2.46% +10.72%
75th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £88,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £69,447 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.60% +6.84% +4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 34,224 35,954 73,616
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.28% 95.93% 97.29%
Number of salaries quoted 25,903 26,270 42,683
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +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 13 June 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 13 June 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.

1 139 (53.46%) Cybersecurity
2 119 (45.77%) Azure
3 73 (28.08%) Microsoft
4 68 (26.15%) AWS
4 68 (26.15%) Security Operations
5 66 (25.38%) Cloud Security
5 66 (25.38%) Network Security
6 61 (23.46%) Microsoft 365
6 61 (23.46%) Firewall
7 59 (22.69%) SIEM
8 55 (21.15%) Incident Response
9 54 (20.77%) DevOps
9 54 (20.77%) Finance
9 54 (20.77%) Information Security
10 53 (20.38%) NIST
11 48 (18.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 42 (16.15%) Windows
12 42 (16.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 38 (14.62%) Vulnerability Management
14 37 (14.23%) Python
15 36 (13.85%) CISSP
15 36 (13.85%) PowerShell
15 36 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
15 36 (13.85%) Social Skills
16 34 (13.08%) Coaching
16 34 (13.08%) Terraform
17 32 (12.31%) Mentoring
18 30 (11.54%) Active Directory
19 29 (11.15%) Risk Management
20 28 (10.77%) Management Information System

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 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.92%) Trello
2 4 (1.54%) AutoCAD
2 4 (1.54%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 119 (45.77%) Azure
2 68 (26.15%) AWS
3 61 (23.46%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (7.31%) Entra ID
5 17 (6.54%) Azure Sentinel
6 14 (5.38%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (5.38%) GCP
7 13 (5.00%) AWS KMS
7 13 (5.00%) SaaS
8 12 (4.62%) Azure Key Vault
9 10 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
9 10 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
10 8 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (3.08%) Azure AKS
10 8 (3.08%) PaaS
11 7 (2.69%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.92%) AWS Direct Connect
12 5 (1.92%) ClickUp
12 5 (1.92%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 66 (25.38%) Network Security
2 61 (23.46%) Firewall
3 26 (10.00%) LAN
4 19 (7.31%) WAN
5 14 (5.38%) Wireshark
6 13 (5.00%) DNS
7 12 (4.62%) TCP/IP
7 12 (4.62%) Wireless
8 10 (3.85%) BGP
8 10 (3.85%) OSPF
9 9 (3.46%) Intrusion Detection
10 8 (3.08%) SD-WAN
11 7 (2.69%) Internet
12 5 (1.92%) Cisco ASA
12 5 (1.92%) Cisco IPT
12 5 (1.92%) DMVPN
12 5 (1.92%) EIGRP
12 5 (1.92%) VLAN
12 5 (1.92%) VPN
12 5 (1.92%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.08%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.92%) BigQuery
2 5 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (1.92%) Hadoop
2 5 (1.92%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.54%) InfluxDB
3 4 (1.54%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 13 (5.00%) GitLab
2 10 (3.85%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.92%) JIRA
4 4 (1.54%) JMeter
4 4 (1.54%) Postman
4 4 (1.54%) SoapUI
5 3 (1.15%) Burp Suite
5 3 (1.15%) Metasploit
5 3 (1.15%) sqlmap
General
1 54 (20.77%) Finance
2 36 (13.85%) Social Skills
3 18 (6.92%) Banking
4 15 (5.77%) Law
4 15 (5.77%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (4.23%) Retail
6 10 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.08%) Health Technology
7 8 (3.08%) Tech for Good
8 7 (2.69%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (2.31%) Welsh Language
10 4 (1.54%) Publishing
11 3 (1.15%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.77%) Electronics
12 2 (0.77%) French Language
12 2 (0.77%) German Language
12 2 (0.77%) Italian Language
12 2 (0.77%) Spanish Language
13 1 (0.38%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.92%) 802.1X
1 5 (1.92%) XMPP
2 4 (1.54%) Kafka
2 4 (1.54%) OAuth
2 4 (1.54%) OAuth2
2 4 (1.54%) SOAP
2 4 (1.54%) XML
3 2 (0.77%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.77%) Management Information System
2 25 (9.62%) Security Operations Centre
3 23 (8.85%) Public Cloud
4 17 (6.54%) Hybrid Cloud
5 14 (5.38%) Cyberattack
6 13 (5.00%) PKI
7 12 (4.62%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (4.62%) Private Cloud
8 11 (4.23%) Data Centre
9 10 (3.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 9 (3.46%) Cyber Threat
11 8 (3.08%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 8 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (2.69%) Operational Technology
13 6 (2.31%) Cybercrime
14 5 (1.92%) Blog
14 5 (1.92%) Product Ownership
15 4 (1.54%) Cloud Native
15 4 (1.54%) Cyber Security Posture
16 3 (1.15%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 42 (16.15%) Windows
2 15 (5.77%) Unix
3 12 (4.62%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.85%) Linux
5 9 (3.46%) Android
5 9 (3.46%) Apple iOS
5 9 (3.46%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.92%) Debian
7 4 (1.54%) CentOS
7 4 (1.54%) Solaris
7 4 (1.54%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (1.54%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (53.46%) Cybersecurity
2 68 (26.15%) Security Operations
3 66 (25.38%) Cloud Security
4 59 (22.69%) SIEM
5 55 (21.15%) Incident Response
6 54 (20.77%) DevOps
6 54 (20.77%) Information Security
7 48 (18.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 38 (14.62%) Vulnerability Management
9 36 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (13.08%) Coaching
11 32 (12.31%) Mentoring
12 29 (11.15%) Risk Management
13 25 (9.62%) Agile
13 25 (9.62%) Infrastructure as Code
13 25 (9.62%) Key Management
14 23 (8.85%) Data Loss Prevention
15 22 (8.46%) Identity Access Management
15 22 (8.46%) Security Architecture
16 21 (8.08%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (14.23%) Python
2 36 (13.85%) PowerShell
3 17 (6.54%) Kusto Query Language
4 9 (3.46%) SQL
5 7 (2.69%) Java
6 3 (1.15%) Bash
7 2 (0.77%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.38%) C
8 1 (0.38%) C#
8 1 (0.38%) C++
8 1 (0.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 36 (13.85%) CISSP
2 26 (10.00%) Degree
3 25 (9.62%) Cisco Certification
4 18 (6.92%) CEH
5 15 (5.77%) CCNA
6 14 (5.38%) CISM
7 12 (4.62%) CCNP
8 11 (4.23%) SANS
9 10 (3.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 10 (3.85%) CCSP
9 10 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (3.85%) SC Cleared
9 10 (3.85%) Security Cleared
10 9 (3.46%) SSCP
11 5 (1.92%) AWS Certification
12 4 (1.54%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.54%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (1.54%) GIAC
12 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.54%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (20.38%) NIST
2 42 (16.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (5.38%) PCI DSS
4 12 (4.62%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 10 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (2.31%) QA
7 5 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (1.92%) Data Quality
7 5 (1.92%) GDPR
7 5 (1.92%) SOC 2
8 4 (1.54%) Accessibility
9 3 (1.15%) COBIT
10 2 (0.77%) NCSC
System Software
1 30 (11.54%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.46%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (1.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (13.08%) Terraform
2 21 (8.08%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 13 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
4 12 (4.62%) CA Single Sign-On
5 9 (3.46%) Nmap
6 8 (3.08%) CASB
7 5 (1.92%) logstash
8 4 (1.54%) Grafana
9 2 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.77%) CSIRT
9 2 (0.77%) QRadar
10 1 (0.38%) Ansible
10 1 (0.38%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 73 (28.08%) Microsoft
2 26 (10.00%) Cisco
3 20 (7.69%) Splunk
4 19 (7.31%) CyberArk
5 18 (6.92%) ServiceNow
6 16 (6.15%) Qualys
7 12 (4.62%) CA
7 12 (4.62%) Palo Alto
7 12 (4.62%) Rapid7
8 10 (3.85%) Fortinet
8 10 (3.85%) Google
9 9 (3.46%) Thycotic
10 7 (2.69%) CrowdStrike
11 5 (1.92%) CheckPoint
12 4 (1.54%) Forcepoint
12 4 (1.54%) Oracle
12 4 (1.54%) VMware
13 3 (1.15%) Sophos
13 3 (1.15%) WatchGuard
14 2 (0.77%) SonicWALL