Threat Detection Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH 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 15 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 439 570 577
Rank change year-on-year +131 +7 +173
Permanent jobs citing Threat Detection 24 38 54
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.11% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.12% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 20 30 44
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,375 £40,350
25th Percentile £47,999 £52,813 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,750 £64,925 £68,823
Median % change year-on-year -7.97% -5.66% -1.68%
75th Percentile £90,625 £79,375 £72,922
90th Percentile £120,000 £85,000 £76,750
UK median annual salary £68,500 £55,000 £68,823
% change year-on-year +24.55% -20.08% +14.71%

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 18,290 31,909 35,659
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.84% 89.46% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 9,569 23,765 25,498
10th Percentile £26,000 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £62,742
Median % change year-on-year - -8.35% +4.57%
75th Percentile £76,840 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,015 £55,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +0.03% -9.54% +1.33%

Threat Detection
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Threat Detection trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Threat Detection
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Threat Detection over the 6 months to 15 June 2025.

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 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (62.50%) AWS
2 5 (20.83%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (20.83%) Amazon S3
2 5 (20.83%) AWS CloudFormation
2 5 (20.83%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (20.83%) Azure
2 5 (20.83%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (20.83%) Serverless
2 5 (20.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
3 4 (16.67%) PaaS
4 3 (12.50%) Entra ID
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (8.33%) AWS Control Tower
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Stack
6 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (4.17%) Mimecast
6 1 (4.17%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 11 (45.83%) Firewall
2 9 (37.50%) VPN
3 8 (33.33%) DNS
4 5 (20.83%) DHCP
5 4 (16.67%) TCP/IP
5 4 (16.67%) VLAN
6 3 (12.50%) Network Security
7 1 (4.17%) ADSL
7 1 (4.17%) Ethernet
7 1 (4.17%) Fast Ethernet
7 1 (4.17%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (4.17%) iSCSI
7 1 (4.17%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (4.17%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (8.33%) DynamoDB
3 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Retail
3 2 (8.33%) Advertising
3 2 (8.33%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Law
4 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Security Engineer
2 8 (33.33%) Senior
3 5 (20.83%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Operations Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Head of Cybersecurity
5 2 (8.33%) Information Security Specialist
5 2 (8.33%) Information Specialist
5 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Security Specialist
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Information Security Specialist
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) AWS CDK
1 2 (8.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (41.67%) Security Posture
2 5 (20.83%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (16.67%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (12.50%) Virtual Team
5 2 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (4.17%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Windows
2 2 (8.33%) VMS
3 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Cloud Security
1 13 (54.17%) Identity Access Management
2 12 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (37.50%) Incident Response
4 8 (33.33%) Information Security
4 8 (33.33%) Security Operations
5 7 (29.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (29.17%) SIEM
5 7 (29.17%) Software Engineering
6 6 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
7 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Automation
7 5 (20.83%) Mentoring
7 5 (20.83%) Platform Engineering
7 5 (20.83%) Roadmaps
8 4 (16.67%) API Integration
8 4 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
8 4 (16.67%) Data Collection
8 4 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 4 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (45.83%) Python
2 7 (29.17%) PowerShell
3 5 (20.83%) Bash
4 4 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 2 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (29.17%) SC Cleared
1 7 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) CISM
2 1 (4.17%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (20.83%) NIST
3 4 (16.67%) GDPR
4 2 (8.33%) PCI DSS
5 1 (4.17%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (4.17%) GRC
5 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 4 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.17%) VMware Server
2 1 (4.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Ansible
2 3 (12.50%) Terraform
3 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.17%) Barracuda Networks
2 1 (4.17%) Cisco
2 1 (4.17%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (4.17%) Datto
2 1 (4.17%) Forcepoint
2 1 (4.17%) Juniper
2 1 (4.17%) VMware
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