Blue Team Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Blue Teaming
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Blue Team skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Blue Team over the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 464 - 608
Rank change year-on-year - - +276
Permanent jobs citing Blue Team 10 0 13
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.050% - 0.036%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.054% - 0.037%
Number of salaries quoted 10 0 12
10th Percentile £46,899 - £62,650
25th Percentile £48,165 - £64,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,529 - £68,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +88.89%
75th Percentile £95,000 - £72,000
90th Percentile £140,000 - £101,700
UK median annual salary £62,000 £50,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +24.00% -35.48% +55.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Blue Team 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 18,607 31,156 34,974
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.64% 89.31% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,783 23,200 25,135
10th Percentile £25,313 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,840 £75,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year - -9.54% +1.33%

Blue Team
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Blue Team as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Blue Team trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Blue Team
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Blue Team.

Blue Team salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Blue Team
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Blue Team over the 6 months to 26 June 2025.

Blue Team salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Blue Team
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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 6 (60.00%) AWS
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (20.00%) GCP
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Metasploit
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Operations Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) Security Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Digital Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Forensic Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Incident Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 4 (40.00%) Security Posture
2 3 (30.00%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (10.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Linux
1 6 (60.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 5 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (40.00%) DevSecOps
2 4 (40.00%) Forensic Analysis
2 4 (40.00%) Information Security
2 4 (40.00%) Microservices
2 4 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
3 3 (30.00%) Offensive Security
3 3 (30.00%) Penetration Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Red Team
3 3 (30.00%) Social Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Data Security
4 2 (20.00%) Digital Forensics
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (10.00%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 5 (50.00%) Degree
2 4 (40.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 4 (40.00%) AWS Certification
2 4 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (40.00%) CISM
2 4 (40.00%) CISSP
2 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (30.00%) CCSAS
3 3 (30.00%) CREST Certified
3 3 (30.00%) OSCP
4 1 (10.00%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
2 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Sun
2 1 (10.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk
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