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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 34 35
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 +5
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,765 1,160 1,448
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.12% 7.02% 6.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.78% 7.52% 7.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,172 607 665
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,937 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -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 20,104 15,435 20,155
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.13% 93.44% 87.99%
Number of salaries quoted 14,351 8,541 12,114
10th Percentile £34,000 £30,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,460 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -0.90% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.11% -3.39%

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 26 September 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 92 (5.21%) SharePoint
2 77 (4.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (0.57%) IIS
4 9 (0.51%) SAS
5 7 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.28%) Apache
6 5 (0.28%) WordPress
7 2 (0.11%) Confluence
8 1 (0.057%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 50 (2.83%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.17%) Trello
7 2 (0.11%) Simulink
7 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (1.36%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.28%) SAP Business One
3 4 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.057%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 1 (0.057%) Magento
5 1 (0.057%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.057%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.057%) SAP CAR
5 1 (0.057%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.057%) SystmOne
5 1 (0.057%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 418 (23.68%) Azure
2 251 (14.22%) Microsoft 365
3 227 (12.86%) Entra ID
4 216 (12.24%) AWS
5 109 (6.18%) SaaS
6 83 (4.70%) GCP
7 41 (2.32%) Serverless
8 39 (2.21%) Power Platform
9 36 (2.04%) Azure Sentinel
10 31 (1.76%) OneDrive
11 24 (1.36%) Microsoft Purview
12 20 (1.13%) GitHub
13 19 (1.08%) Microsoft Copilot
14 14 (0.79%) Azure Logic Apps
14 14 (0.79%) Mimecast
15 12 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
15 12 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
15 12 (0.68%) dbt
16 10 (0.57%) Azure Monitor
16 10 (0.57%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 247 (13.99%) Firewall
2 158 (8.95%) Network Security
3 89 (5.04%) VLAN
4 83 (4.70%) DNS
5 70 (3.97%) DHCP
6 66 (3.74%) VPN
7 65 (3.68%) WAN
8 53 (3.00%) TCP/IP
9 50 (2.83%) LAN
10 44 (2.49%) Wi-Fi
11 32 (1.81%) Broadband
12 31 (1.76%) VoIP
13 26 (1.47%) BGP
14 22 (1.25%) SSL
15 20 (1.13%) HTTP
16 19 (1.08%) Cisco Nexus
17 18 (1.02%) MPLS
17 18 (1.02%) SD-WAN
18 17 (0.96%) Unified Communications
19 16 (0.91%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (1.19%) SQL Server
2 14 (0.79%) Power BI
3 10 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (0.34%) Tableau
6 5 (0.28%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (0.28%) Apache Iceberg
6 5 (0.28%) Big Data
6 5 (0.28%) Metadata
7 3 (0.17%) MySQL
7 3 (0.17%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.17%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.11%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.057%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.057%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.057%) Power Query
9 1 (0.057%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 27 (1.53%) Snyk
2 25 (1.42%) JIRA
3 10 (0.57%) Git
4 7 (0.40%) Burp Suite
4 7 (0.40%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.40%) Metasploit
5 5 (0.28%) GitLab
5 5 (0.28%) Poetry
5 5 (0.28%) VersionOne
6 4 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.17%) Maven
7 3 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.11%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.057%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.057%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.057%) JMeter
9 1 (0.057%) Locust
9 1 (0.057%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.057%) Visual Studio
General
1 620 (35.13%) Social Skills
2 197 (11.16%) Finance
3 176 (9.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 164 (9.29%) Public Sector
5 148 (8.39%) Analytical Skills
6 118 (6.69%) Marketing
7 114 (6.46%) Legal
8 101 (5.72%) Retail
9 81 (4.59%) Law
10 69 (3.91%) Telecoms
11 65 (3.68%) Organisational Skills
12 52 (2.95%) Banking
13 46 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
14 34 (1.93%) Police
15 32 (1.81%) Aerospace
16 28 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
17 27 (1.53%) Manufacturing
18 26 (1.47%) Games
19 23 (1.30%) Advertising
20 22 (1.25%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 364 (20.62%) Senior
2 212 (12.01%) Analyst
3 187 (10.59%) Consultant
4 173 (9.80%) Architect
5 131 (7.42%) Security Engineer
6 110 (6.23%) Security Manager
7 107 (6.06%) Security Architect
8 103 (5.84%) Security Consultant
9 100 (5.67%) Security Analyst
10 99 (5.61%) Lead
11 86 (4.87%) Cybersecurity Manager
11 86 (4.87%) Support Engineer
12 85 (4.82%) IT Support
13 77 (4.36%) Senior Manager
14 76 (4.31%) IT Manager
15 74 (4.19%) Senior Analyst
16 68 (3.85%) Business Manager
16 68 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Analyst
17 67 (3.80%) IT Engineer
18 62 (3.51%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (2.10%) Terraform
2 30 (1.70%) OAuth
3 23 (1.30%) SAML
4 20 (1.13%) REST
5 19 (1.08%) LDAP
6 18 (1.02%) .NET
7 16 (0.91%) OpenID
8 10 (0.57%) SailPoint
9 8 (0.45%) JSON
9 8 (0.45%) Kafka
10 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Graph
10 7 (0.40%) ModSecurity
10 7 (0.40%) Regular Expression
11 6 (0.34%) PySpark
11 6 (0.34%) React
11 6 (0.34%) RESTful
11 6 (0.34%) SOAP
11 6 (0.34%) XMPP
12 5 (0.28%) Node.js
12 5 (0.28%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 140 (7.93%) Cyber Threat
2 137 (7.76%) Security Posture
3 103 (5.84%) Management Information System
4 97 (5.50%) Onboarding
5 68 (3.85%) Driving Licence
6 61 (3.46%) Self-Motivation
7 58 (3.29%) Data Centre
8 47 (2.66%) Operational Technology
9 46 (2.61%) Cloud Native
10 40 (2.27%) Security Operations Centre
11 39 (2.21%) Cyber Defence
12 33 (1.87%) PKI
13 31 (1.76%) Cyberattack
14 28 (1.59%) Cyber Kill Chain
15 26 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
16 25 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
16 25 (1.42%) Social Media
17 22 (1.25%) AI Agents
17 22 (1.25%) Cyber Security Posture
18 19 (1.08%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 187 (10.59%) Windows
2 85 (4.82%) Windows Server
3 57 (3.23%) Linux
4 22 (1.25%) Mac OS
5 9 (0.51%) Android
6 8 (0.45%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.45%) Windows 10
6 8 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.17%) Unix
8 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.057%) AIX
9 1 (0.057%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.057%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 355 (20.11%) Continuous Improvement
2 337 (19.09%) AI
3 324 (18.36%) Information Security
4 280 (15.86%) Problem-Solving
5 239 (13.54%) Decision-Making
6 221 (12.52%) Risk Management
7 215 (12.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 214 (12.12%) Mentoring
9 211 (11.95%) Incident Response
10 195 (11.05%) Cloud Security
11 189 (10.71%) Vulnerability Management
12 184 (10.42%) Security Operations
13 179 (10.14%) Stakeholder Management
14 166 (9.41%) SIEM
15 164 (9.29%) ITIL
16 158 (8.95%) Identity Access Management
17 148 (8.39%) Service Delivery
18 143 (8.10%) Business Continuity
19 141 (7.99%) Agile
20 133 (7.54%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 124 (7.03%) Python
2 78 (4.42%) PowerShell
3 40 (2.27%) SQL
4 24 (1.36%) Kusto Query Language
5 22 (1.25%) C++
6 20 (1.13%) Java
7 15 (0.85%) Bash
8 14 (0.79%) C#
9 13 (0.74%) JavaScript
10 12 (0.68%) TypeScript
11 11 (0.62%) Go
11 11 (0.62%) Rust
12 8 (0.45%) C
13 7 (0.40%) Bicep
14 5 (0.28%) VB.NET
15 3 (0.17%) Ada
15 3 (0.17%) Search Processing Language
16 2 (0.11%) Embedded C
16 2 (0.11%) Embedded C++
16 2 (0.11%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 302 (17.11%) Security Cleared
2 237 (13.43%) CISSP
3 228 (12.92%) SC Cleared
4 190 (10.76%) CISM
5 180 (10.20%) Degree
6 86 (4.87%) DV Cleared
7 60 (3.40%) A+ Certification
8 59 (3.34%) Network+ Certification
9 51 (2.89%) AWS Certification
10 49 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
11 47 (2.66%) Azure Certification
12 46 (2.61%) Cisco Certification
13 45 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
14 44 (2.49%) CRISC
15 42 (2.38%) CISA
16 37 (2.10%) CompTIA Security+
17 31 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
18 29 (1.64%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
19 28 (1.59%) GIAC
20 27 (1.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 317 (17.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 225 (12.75%) NIST
3 155 (8.78%) GDPR
4 142 (8.05%) GRC
5 138 (7.82%) Cyber Essentials
6 81 (4.59%) PCI DSS
7 66 (3.74%) NCSC
8 52 (2.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 32 (1.81%) SLA
10 30 (1.70%) Accessibility
11 25 (1.42%) QA
11 25 (1.42%) SOC 2
12 21 (1.19%) COBIT
13 20 (1.13%) NIST 800
14 18 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
15 16 (0.91%) ISO 22301
15 16 (0.91%) JSP 440
16 15 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 12 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 11 (0.62%) PMO
System Software
1 196 (11.10%) Active Directory
2 56 (3.17%) Hyper-V
3 30 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.96%) Firmware
6 16 (0.91%) Docker
7 12 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
9 6 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 6 (0.34%) VMware NSX
10 5 (0.28%) ClearTrust
11 3 (0.17%) vSphere
12 2 (0.11%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.057%) NFS
13 1 (0.057%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 154 (8.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 31 (1.76%) Kubernetes
3 29 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
4 19 (1.08%) Ansible
5 15 (0.85%) CASB
5 15 (0.85%) Grafana
6 13 (0.74%) FortiGate
7 7 (0.40%) Nmap
7 7 (0.40%) Progress Chef
7 7 (0.40%) QRadar
8 6 (0.34%) Cisco CUCM
9 5 (0.28%) Functional Safety
10 4 (0.23%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 3 (0.17%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 3 (0.17%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 3 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
11 3 (0.17%) SCCM
12 2 (0.11%) Graylog
12 2 (0.11%) WMI
13 1 (0.057%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 561 (31.78%) Microsoft
2 81 (4.59%) Cisco
3 80 (4.53%) Palo Alto
4 70 (3.97%) CyberArk
5 48 (2.72%) VMware
6 45 (2.55%) CrowdStrike
7 39 (2.21%) Adobe
8 38 (2.15%) ServiceNow
9 36 (2.04%) Apple
10 34 (1.93%) Tenable
11 31 (1.76%) Salesforce
12 29 (1.64%) Splunk
13 28 (1.59%) Fortinet
13 28 (1.59%) Qualys
14 24 (1.36%) Google
15 19 (1.08%) Aruba
16 17 (0.96%) Veeam
17 15 (0.85%) OpenAI
18 12 (0.68%) SAP
19 10 (0.57%) Okta