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 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 28 34
Rank change year-on-year -1 +6 +13
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,576 1,268 1,466
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.07% 7.64% 5.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.51% 8.21% 6.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,078 736 852
10th Percentile £36,250 £25,000 £38,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -5.98% -13.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £93,625
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,125
% change year-on-year +9.09% -6.98% -8.33%

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 18,510 15,440 22,079
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.99% 92.97% 87.75%
Number of salaries quoted 13,413 9,132 16,008
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,500 £41,000 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% -6.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 3 August 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 60 (3.81%) SharePoint
2 47 (2.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.57%) SAS
4 6 (0.38%) IIS
5 5 (0.32%) WordPress
6 2 (0.13%) Apache
6 2 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.13%) CMS
7 1 (0.063%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.063%) Confluence
7 1 (0.063%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 39 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.19%) Trello
7 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (1.52%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.32%) SAP Business One
3 3 (0.19%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.13%) Shopify
5 1 (0.063%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.063%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.063%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 393 (24.94%) Azure
2 199 (12.63%) AWS
3 196 (12.44%) Microsoft 365
4 173 (10.98%) Entra ID
5 94 (5.96%) SaaS
6 78 (4.95%) GCP
7 32 (2.03%) Azure Sentinel
8 29 (1.84%) Serverless
9 22 (1.40%) Power Platform
10 17 (1.08%) OneDrive
11 16 (1.02%) dbt
12 15 (0.95%) Google Workspace
13 14 (0.89%) Mimecast
14 12 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
15 11 (0.70%) PaaS
16 10 (0.63%) Azure Logic Apps
17 8 (0.51%) Microsoft Copilot
18 7 (0.44%) GitHub
18 7 (0.44%) Microsoft Purview
19 6 (0.38%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 214 (13.58%) Firewall
2 141 (8.95%) Network Security
3 70 (4.44%) VLAN
4 59 (3.74%) DNS
5 56 (3.55%) VPN
6 52 (3.30%) Broadband
7 50 (3.17%) WAN
8 45 (2.86%) DHCP
9 37 (2.35%) LAN
9 37 (2.35%) TCP/IP
10 34 (2.16%) Wi-Fi
11 27 (1.71%) VoIP
12 23 (1.46%) Unified Communications
13 19 (1.21%) BGP
13 19 (1.21%) SSL
14 18 (1.14%) Intrusion Detection
15 17 (1.08%) HTTP
16 16 (1.02%) Cisco Nexus
16 16 (1.02%) SD-WAN
17 15 (0.95%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (0.70%) Power BI
2 9 (0.57%) SQL Server
3 6 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (0.38%) Tableau
4 4 (0.25%) Big Data
4 4 (0.25%) MySQL
5 3 (0.19%) Metadata
5 3 (0.19%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.13%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.13%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.063%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.063%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.063%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.063%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.063%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.063%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.063%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.063%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.063%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 27 (1.71%) Snyk
2 20 (1.27%) JIRA
3 8 (0.51%) Git
3 8 (0.51%) GitLab
4 5 (0.32%) Burp Suite
4 5 (0.32%) Cucumber
4 5 (0.32%) JMeter
4 5 (0.32%) Locust
4 5 (0.32%) Metasploit
4 5 (0.32%) VersionOne
5 3 (0.19%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.13%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.063%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.063%) GDB
7 1 (0.063%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.063%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.063%) WinDbg
General
1 507 (32.17%) Social Skills
2 174 (11.04%) Finance
3 159 (10.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 133 (8.44%) Analytical Skills
5 125 (7.93%) Public Sector
6 111 (7.04%) Marketing
7 107 (6.79%) Legal
8 87 (5.52%) Retail
9 75 (4.76%) Law
10 53 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
11 47 (2.98%) Telecoms
12 42 (2.66%) Banking
13 41 (2.60%) Games
14 31 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
15 28 (1.78%) Advertising
16 23 (1.46%) Aerospace
16 23 (1.46%) Manufacturing
17 22 (1.40%) Aviation
18 21 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
19 15 (0.95%) Police
Job Titles
1 329 (20.88%) Senior
2 199 (12.63%) Analyst
3 162 (10.28%) Architect
4 148 (9.39%) Consultant
5 117 (7.42%) Security Manager
6 102 (6.47%) Security Analyst
6 102 (6.47%) Security Consultant
7 98 (6.22%) Security Architect
8 96 (6.09%) Senior Manager
9 94 (5.96%) Security Engineer
10 93 (5.90%) Lead
11 89 (5.65%) Cybersecurity Manager
12 83 (5.27%) IT Manager
13 73 (4.63%) Senior Analyst
14 71 (4.51%) IT Support
15 70 (4.44%) Support Engineer
16 65 (4.12%) Cybersecurity Analyst
17 53 (3.36%) IT Engineer
18 51 (3.24%) Cybersecurity Consultant
19 49 (3.11%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (2.22%) OAuth
2 33 (2.09%) SAML
3 26 (1.65%) LDAP
4 24 (1.52%) OpenID
5 23 (1.46%) REST
6 14 (0.89%) SOAP
7 13 (0.82%) GraphQL
8 10 (0.63%) XMPP
9 9 (0.57%) .NET
10 8 (0.51%) LangChain
11 7 (0.44%) Kafka
11 7 (0.44%) Microsoft Graph
11 7 (0.44%) SailPoint
12 6 (0.38%) Regular Expression
12 6 (0.38%) RESTful
13 5 (0.32%) Gherkin
13 5 (0.32%) LangGraph
13 5 (0.32%) ModSecurity
13 5 (0.32%) React
14 4 (0.25%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 134 (8.50%) Cyber Threat
2 117 (7.42%) Security Posture
3 96 (6.09%) Management Information System
4 79 (5.01%) Onboarding
5 58 (3.68%) Self-Motivation
6 55 (3.49%) Driving Licence
7 48 (3.05%) Data Centre
8 45 (2.86%) Cyberattack
9 43 (2.73%) Cyber Defence
10 42 (2.66%) Cloud Native
11 32 (2.03%) PKI
12 27 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
13 26 (1.65%) Blog
13 26 (1.65%) Security Operations Centre
14 25 (1.59%) Operational Technology
15 21 (1.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
15 21 (1.33%) Web Conferencing
16 18 (1.14%) AI Agents
17 17 (1.08%) Cyber Security Posture
17 17 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 161 (10.22%) Windows
2 66 (4.19%) Windows Server
3 54 (3.43%) Linux
4 24 (1.52%) Mac OS
5 10 (0.63%) Android
6 9 (0.57%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.51%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
7 8 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.063%) AIX
9 1 (0.063%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.063%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.063%) OpenBSD
9 1 (0.063%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (19.42%) Continuous Improvement
2 285 (18.08%) Information Security
3 265 (16.81%) AI
4 242 (15.36%) Problem-Solving
5 218 (13.83%) Mentoring
6 212 (13.45%) Risk Management
7 206 (13.07%) Incident Response
8 198 (12.56%) Decision-Making
9 194 (12.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 172 (10.91%) Vulnerability Management
11 167 (10.60%) Cloud Security
12 154 (9.77%) Agile
13 150 (9.52%) ITIL
14 144 (9.14%) Identity Access Management
15 142 (9.01%) SIEM
16 140 (8.88%) Security Operations
17 129 (8.19%) Stakeholder Management
18 127 (8.06%) Roadmaps
19 118 (7.49%) Business Continuity
19 118 (7.49%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 113 (7.17%) Python
2 78 (4.95%) PowerShell
3 29 (1.84%) SQL
4 23 (1.46%) Bash
4 23 (1.46%) Java
5 18 (1.14%) JavaScript
6 13 (0.82%) C++
7 12 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
8 11 (0.70%) Rust
8 11 (0.70%) T-SQL
9 9 (0.57%) C#
10 7 (0.44%) Go
10 7 (0.44%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.25%) C
11 4 (0.25%) PHP
12 3 (0.19%) Ada
12 3 (0.19%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.13%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.063%) Bicep
14 1 (0.063%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 256 (16.24%) Security Cleared
2 227 (14.40%) CISSP
3 197 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 182 (11.55%) CISM
5 155 (9.84%) Degree
6 72 (4.57%) DV Cleared
7 59 (3.74%) A+ Certification
8 57 (3.62%) Network+ Certification
9 43 (2.73%) AWS Certification
10 40 (2.54%) CISA
11 38 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
11 38 (2.41%) CRISC
12 36 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
13 34 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
14 32 (2.03%) Azure Certification
15 31 (1.97%) CompTIA Security+
16 26 (1.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 26 (1.65%) CREST Certified
16 26 (1.65%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
17 23 (1.46%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 305 (19.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 226 (14.34%) NIST
3 162 (10.28%) GDPR
4 123 (7.80%) GRC
5 108 (6.85%) Cyber Essentials
6 84 (5.33%) PCI DSS
7 66 (4.19%) NCSC
8 49 (3.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 28 (1.78%) SLA
10 26 (1.65%) QA
10 26 (1.65%) SOC 2
11 25 (1.59%) Accessibility
12 24 (1.52%) COBIT
13 21 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
14 16 (1.02%) JSP 440
15 15 (0.95%) ISO 22301
16 14 (0.89%) NIST 800
17 12 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 42001
18 11 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 9 (0.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 187 (11.87%) Active Directory
2 38 (2.41%) Hyper-V
3 29 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (1.02%) Docker
6 14 (0.89%) Firmware
7 11 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
8 10 (0.63%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 7 (0.44%) VMware NSX
9 7 (0.44%) vSphere
10 6 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.32%) ClearTrust
12 1 (0.063%) KVM
12 1 (0.063%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 129 (8.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (1.71%) Kubernetes
2 27 (1.71%) Terraform
3 20 (1.27%) Ansible
3 20 (1.27%) Grafana
4 16 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (0.89%) CASB
6 12 (0.76%) FortiGate
7 10 (0.63%) Cisco CUCM
8 7 (0.44%) QRadar
9 5 (0.32%) Nmap
9 5 (0.32%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.19%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 3 (0.19%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 3 (0.19%) CSIRT
10 3 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
10 3 (0.19%) SCCM
11 2 (0.13%) FTK
11 2 (0.13%) Graylog
11 2 (0.13%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 471 (29.89%) Microsoft
2 81 (5.14%) Palo Alto
3 74 (4.70%) Cisco
4 61 (3.87%) CyberArk
5 48 (3.05%) VMware
6 44 (2.79%) ServiceNow
7 37 (2.35%) CrowdStrike
8 35 (2.22%) Fortinet
9 33 (2.09%) Apple
9 33 (2.09%) Google
9 33 (2.09%) Tenable
10 32 (2.03%) Adobe
11 31 (1.97%) Splunk
12 24 (1.52%) Qualys
12 24 (1.52%) Salesforce
13 18 (1.14%) Aruba
14 15 (0.95%) OpenAI
15 13 (0.82%) SAP
16 10 (0.63%) Okta
16 10 (0.63%) Veeam