Hybrid/Remote Cybersecurity Job Trends

Cybersecurity
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Cybersecurity skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 36 47
Rank change year-on-year +8 +11 +10
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,077 1,038 1,540
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.45% 7.15% 5.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.54% 7.50% 5.87%
Number of salaries quoted 648 642 1,220
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,920
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £62,500 £59,300
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +5.40% -8.77%
75th Percentile £88,750 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,000 £91,934
UK median annual salary £50,000 £64,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -22.18% +7.08% -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Cybersecurity 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 14,292 13,831 26,233
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.60% 95.29% 92.36%
Number of salaries quoted 9,323 8,657 21,745
10th Percentile £31,000 £35,000 £34,300
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £42,547
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,549 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cybersecurity and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Cybersecurity job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Cybersecurity
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Cybersecurity.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Cybersecurity over the 6 months to 5 March 2026.

Cybersecurity salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Cybersecurity
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 32 (2.97%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.46%) Drupal
3 5 (0.46%) nginx
3 5 (0.46%) WordPress
4 3 (0.28%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.28%) CMS
5 2 (0.19%) Apache
5 2 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.093%) Confluence
6 1 (0.093%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 83 (7.71%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (1.76%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.19%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.093%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.093%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.093%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.093%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 7 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.56%) Shopify
3 3 (0.28%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.093%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 328 (30.45%) Azure
2 167 (15.51%) Microsoft 365
3 160 (14.86%) Entra ID
4 158 (14.67%) AWS
5 59 (5.48%) Google Workspace
6 38 (3.53%) GCP
7 32 (2.97%) SaaS
8 30 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
8 30 (2.79%) Power Platform
9 22 (2.04%) Azure Sentinel
10 21 (1.95%) Azure Logic Apps
11 15 (1.39%) Nutanix
12 13 (1.21%) Mimecast
13 12 (1.11%) PaaS
14 9 (0.84%) Microsoft Purview
15 7 (0.65%) Azure Monitor
15 7 (0.65%) GitHub
16 5 (0.46%) Dynamics 365
16 5 (0.46%) OCI
17 4 (0.37%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 132 (12.26%) Firewall
2 73 (6.78%) Broadband
3 42 (3.90%) Network Security
3 42 (3.90%) VPN
4 29 (2.69%) DNS
5 21 (1.95%) Intrusion Detection
6 20 (1.86%) CHAP
7 19 (1.76%) DHCP
7 19 (1.76%) VLAN
8 14 (1.30%) TCP/IP
9 10 (0.93%) Unified Communications
10 9 (0.84%) DMZ
10 9 (0.84%) WAN
11 8 (0.74%) LAN
11 8 (0.74%) VoIP
12 7 (0.65%) Cisco ASA
12 7 (0.65%) IP Telephony
12 7 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (0.56%) Internet
13 6 (0.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.02%) Power BI
2 5 (0.46%) MariaDB
2 5 (0.46%) Relational Database
2 5 (0.46%) Tableau
3 4 (0.37%) Metadata
3 4 (0.37%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.28%) MongoDB
4 3 (0.28%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.093%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.093%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.093%) Big Data
5 1 (0.093%) MySQL
5 1 (0.093%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.093%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 13 (1.21%) Jenkins
2 8 (0.74%) GitLab
3 7 (0.65%) Git
4 3 (0.28%) Cucumber
4 3 (0.28%) JMeter
4 3 (0.28%) Locust
4 3 (0.28%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (0.19%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.19%) JIRA
5 2 (0.19%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.093%) Snyk
6 1 (0.093%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.093%) TeamCity
General
1 391 (36.30%) Social Skills
2 184 (17.08%) Finance
3 106 (9.84%) Public Sector
4 98 (9.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 92 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
6 90 (8.36%) Organisational Skills
7 73 (6.78%) Marketing
8 66 (6.13%) Back Office
9 63 (5.85%) Telecoms
10 59 (5.48%) Banking
11 58 (5.39%) Law
12 47 (4.36%) Legal
13 45 (4.18%) Games
14 37 (3.44%) Manufacturing
15 32 (2.97%) Retail
16 28 (2.60%) Electronics
17 23 (2.14%) Financial Institution
18 17 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
19 13 (1.21%) Local Government
20 12 (1.11%) German Language
Job Titles
1 211 (19.59%) Senior
2 104 (9.66%) Architect
3 102 (9.47%) Support Engineer
4 92 (8.54%) Analyst
4 92 (8.54%) Consultant
5 65 (6.04%) Security Architect
5 65 (6.04%) Security Manager
6 60 (5.57%) Desktop Engineer
6 60 (5.57%) Desktop Support
6 60 (5.57%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 57 (5.29%) Security Consultant
8 56 (5.20%) Site Engineer
9 54 (5.01%) Cybersecurity Architect
10 49 (4.55%) Hardware Engineer
10 49 (4.55%) Senior Hardware Engineer
11 48 (4.46%) IT Support
12 47 (4.36%) Senior Architect
13 46 (4.27%) Developer
13 46 (4.27%) IT Engineer
14 44 (4.09%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (5.85%) REST
2 62 (5.76%) OAuth
2 62 (5.76%) OpenID
2 62 (5.76%) SAML
3 61 (5.66%) SOAP
4 60 (5.57%) GraphQL
4 60 (5.57%) LDAP
5 25 (2.32%) SAP CAF
6 6 (0.56%) CSS
6 6 (0.56%) HTML
7 5 (0.46%) .NET
7 5 (0.46%) Kafka
8 4 (0.37%) Android NDK
8 4 (0.37%) AngularJS
8 4 (0.37%) Node.js
8 4 (0.37%) PyTorch
8 4 (0.37%) RESTful
8 4 (0.37%) SailPoint
8 4 (0.37%) TensorFlow
8 4 (0.37%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 106 (9.84%) Cyber Threat
2 78 (7.24%) Security Posture
3 72 (6.69%) Cyberattack
4 62 (5.76%) Management Information System
5 54 (5.01%) Onboarding
6 37 (3.44%) Blog
7 33 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
8 32 (2.97%) Data Centre
8 32 (2.97%) Public Cloud
9 31 (2.88%) Cloud Native
9 31 (2.88%) Driving Licence
10 27 (2.51%) Operational Technology
10 27 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
11 23 (2.14%) PKI
12 21 (1.95%) Security Operations Centre
13 20 (1.86%) Cyber Security Posture
14 17 (1.58%) Cyber Defence
15 16 (1.49%) Cyber Kill Chain
15 16 (1.49%) Product Ownership
16 15 (1.39%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 159 (14.76%) Windows
2 71 (6.59%) Windows 10
3 51 (4.74%) Windows Server
4 42 (3.90%) Linux
5 19 (1.76%) Android
6 15 (1.39%) Apple iOS
6 15 (1.39%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.37%) Unix
8 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.093%) Debian
9 1 (0.093%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.093%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.093%) OpenBSD
9 1 (0.093%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (17.92%) Continuous Improvement
2 145 (13.46%) Risk Management
2 145 (13.46%) Roadmaps
3 138 (12.81%) ITIL
4 131 (12.16%) Information Security
5 130 (12.07%) Mentoring
6 128 (11.88%) Incident Response
6 128 (11.88%) Problem-Solving
7 121 (11.23%) Analytics
8 118 (10.96%) AI
9 90 (8.36%) Agile
10 85 (7.89%) Cloud Security
11 84 (7.80%) Customer Service
11 84 (7.80%) Identity Access Management
12 83 (7.71%) Project Management
13 81 (7.52%) Vulnerability Management
14 78 (7.24%) Stakeholder Management
15 75 (6.96%) Customer Experience
16 74 (6.87%) DevOps
17 70 (6.50%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 116 (10.77%) PowerShell
2 80 (7.43%) Python
3 71 (6.59%) Bash
4 58 (5.39%) T-SQL
5 51 (4.74%) SQL
6 24 (2.23%) C++
7 21 (1.95%) C#
7 21 (1.95%) Java
8 19 (1.76%) JavaScript
9 13 (1.21%) C
10 8 (0.74%) Go
11 5 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (0.46%) Rust
12 4 (0.37%) Bicep
12 4 (0.37%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.37%) PHP
12 4 (0.37%) R
13 2 (0.19%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.093%) Perl
14 1 (0.093%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 197 (18.29%) Degree
2 180 (16.71%) Security Cleared
3 163 (15.13%) CISSP
4 152 (14.11%) SC Cleared
5 119 (11.05%) CISM
6 60 (5.57%) CTC Cleared
7 43 (3.99%) CISA
7 43 (3.99%) Cisco Certification
8 42 (3.90%) AWS Certification
8 42 (3.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 35 (3.25%) CEH
10 32 (2.97%) DV Cleared
11 31 (2.88%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 29 (2.69%) SANS
13 28 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
13 28 (2.60%) PMP
14 25 (2.32%) Azure Certification
15 21 (1.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 21 (1.95%) FFIEC
15 21 (1.95%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 241 (22.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 232 (21.54%) NIST
3 97 (9.01%) GDPR
4 89 (8.26%) NCSC
5 75 (6.96%) GRC
6 73 (6.78%) Cyber Essentials
7 68 (6.31%) SLA
8 41 (3.81%) PCI DSS
9 35 (3.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 26 (2.41%) COBIT
11 16 (1.49%) JSP 440
12 15 (1.39%) ISO 22301
13 13 (1.21%) SOC 2
14 12 (1.11%) QA
15 11 (1.02%) Accessibility
15 11 (1.02%) IEC 61508
15 11 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 11 (1.02%) MISRA
15 11 (1.02%) MISRA C
16 8 (0.74%) NIST 800
System Software
1 131 (12.16%) Active Directory
2 24 (2.23%) Hyper-V
3 23 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.86%) Docker
5 13 (1.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.56%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.37%) Firmware
8 4 (0.37%) vSphere
9 3 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.093%) iptables
11 1 (0.093%) KVM
11 1 (0.093%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 57 (5.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (2.69%) Terraform
3 24 (2.23%) Ansible
4 22 (2.04%) Kubernetes
5 11 (1.02%) Functional Safety
5 11 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (0.93%) Grafana
7 9 (0.84%) Nessus
8 5 (0.46%) FTK
8 5 (0.46%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.37%) Computer Incident Response Team
9 4 (0.37%) CSIRT
9 4 (0.37%) Proxmox
9 4 (0.37%) QRadar
9 4 (0.37%) RSA Archer
10 3 (0.28%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.28%) Nagios
10 3 (0.28%) SCCM
11 2 (0.19%) WSUS
Vendors
1 236 (21.91%) Microsoft
2 85 (7.89%) Cisco
3 54 (5.01%) VMware
4 30 (2.79%) SAP
5 29 (2.69%) Apple
6 24 (2.23%) Adobe
7 19 (1.76%) Google
7 19 (1.76%) PayPal
8 17 (1.58%) Salesforce
9 16 (1.49%) Fortinet
10 15 (1.39%) Splunk
11 14 (1.30%) Commvault
11 14 (1.30%) CrowdStrike
11 14 (1.30%) Oracle
11 14 (1.30%) Tenable
12 13 (1.21%) ServiceNow
13 11 (1.02%) CheckPoint
14 10 (0.93%) Draytek
15 9 (0.84%) Palo Alto
16 8 (0.74%) Qualys