Threat Detection Jobs with Work from Home Options

Threat Detection
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Threat Detection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Threat Detection over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 564 578 761
Rank change year-on-year +14 +183 -182
Permanent jobs citing Threat Detection 38 55 140
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.15% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.15% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 30 45 106
10th Percentile £51,250 £40,350 £46,813
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,675 £68,823 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.48% -1.68% +40.00%
75th Percentile £76,596 £72,647 £100,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £76,500 -
UK median annual salary £55,000 £68,823 £60,000
% change year-on-year -20.08% +14.71% +6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Threat Detection falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,847 35,988 73,511
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 89.59% 96.02% 97.15%
Number of salaries quoted 23,766 25,695 42,040
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% +5.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

Threat Detection
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Threat Detection trend for jobs with a WFH option

Threat Detection
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Threat Detection salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Threat Detection
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Threat Detection over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Threat Detection salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Threat Detection
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 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.63%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 14 (36.84%) Azure
2 7 (18.42%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (18.42%) Azure Event Grid
2 7 (18.42%) Azure Logic Apps
2 7 (18.42%) Azure Storage
2 7 (18.42%) Entra ID
3 5 (13.16%) AWS
3 5 (13.16%) IaaS
4 4 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (10.53%) PaaS
4 4 (10.53%) SaaS
5 3 (7.89%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 3 (7.89%) AWS CloudTrail
5 3 (7.89%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.63%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 13 (34.21%) Firewall
2 7 (18.42%) Network Security
3 6 (15.79%) TCP/IP
4 4 (10.53%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (5.26%) DHCP
5 2 (5.26%) DNS
5 2 (5.26%) SSL
6 1 (2.63%) HTTPS
6 1 (2.63%) IMAP
6 1 (2.63%) Internet
6 1 (2.63%) LAN
6 1 (2.63%) NAS
6 1 (2.63%) SAN
6 1 (2.63%) SMTP
6 1 (2.63%) SSH
6 1 (2.63%) VLAN
6 1 (2.63%) VoIP
6 1 (2.63%) VPN
6 1 (2.63%) WAN
6 1 (2.63%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.89%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (18.42%) Git
General
1 14 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 13 (34.21%) Finance
3 10 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (13.16%) Legal
5 4 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 9 (23.68%) Analyst
2 8 (21.05%) SOC Analyst
3 7 (18.42%) Automation Engineer
4 5 (13.16%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (13.16%) Operations Engineer
4 5 (13.16%) Security Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Specialist
5 4 (10.53%) Cyber Threat Specialist
5 4 (10.53%) SOC Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
6 3 (7.89%) Cloud Automation Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Consultant
7 2 (5.26%) Cybersecurity Consultant
7 2 (5.26%) IT Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Security Consultant
7 2 (5.26%) Senior
7 2 (5.26%) Support Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (21.05%) ARM Templates
2 7 (18.42%) YAML
3 3 (7.89%) OAuth
3 3 (7.89%) OpenID
3 3 (7.89%) SAML
4 1 (2.63%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.68%) Cyber Threat
2 6 (15.79%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (15.79%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 6 (15.79%) Management Information System
3 5 (13.16%) Security Operations Centre
3 5 (13.16%) Security Posture
4 3 (7.89%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (5.26%) Cyberattack
6 1 (2.63%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (2.63%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.53%) Windows
2 1 (2.63%) Mac OS
2 1 (2.63%) VMS
2 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (71.05%) Incident Response
2 25 (65.79%) SIEM
3 23 (60.53%) Cybersecurity
3 23 (60.53%) Security Operations
4 15 (39.47%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 15 (39.47%) Threat Intelligence
5 13 (34.21%) CI/CD
6 10 (26.32%) ITIL
7 9 (23.68%) DevOps
7 9 (23.68%) Security Monitoring
8 8 (21.05%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 8 (21.05%) Task Automation
9 7 (18.42%) Cyber Intelligence
9 7 (18.42%) Information Security
9 7 (18.42%) Security Management
10 6 (15.79%) Change Management
10 6 (15.79%) Identity Management
10 6 (15.79%) Incident Management
10 6 (15.79%) Risk Management
10 6 (15.79%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 11 (28.95%) PowerShell
2 7 (18.42%) Bicep
2 7 (18.42%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (2.63%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (21.05%) CISSP
2 5 (13.16%) Security Cleared
3 4 (10.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 4 (10.53%) CCSP
3 4 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (10.53%) CRISC
3 4 (10.53%) Degree
3 4 (10.53%) GIAC
4 3 (7.89%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (7.89%) CISM
4 3 (7.89%) Network+ Certification
5 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (42.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (31.58%) NIST
3 9 (23.68%) PCI DSS
4 3 (7.89%) SOC 2
5 2 (5.26%) NIST 800
6 1 (2.63%) GDPR
6 1 (2.63%) GxP
6 1 (2.63%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 9 (23.68%) Active Directory
2 7 (18.42%) Virtual Desktop
2 7 (18.42%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (7.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.63%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.63%) NFS
Systems Management
1 7 (18.42%) Terraform
2 6 (15.79%) QRadar
3 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (2.63%) Ansible
4 1 (2.63%) DatAdvantage
4 1 (2.63%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.63%) SCCM
4 1 (2.63%) Stealthwatch
4 1 (2.63%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
4 1 (2.63%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.63%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (23.68%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.16%) IBM
2 5 (13.16%) Splunk
3 4 (10.53%) LogRhythm
4 3 (7.89%) McAfee
4 3 (7.89%) VMware
5 2 (5.26%) Qualys
5 2 (5.26%) ServiceNow
5 2 (5.26%) Varonis
6 1 (2.63%) Cisco
6 1 (2.63%) Darktrace
6 1 (2.63%) Forcepoint
6 1 (2.63%) Symantec
6 1 (2.63%) Tripwire