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 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 38 47
Rank change year-on-year +11 +9 +9
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,074 1,006 1,577
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.41% 6.82% 5.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.50% 7.16% 5.84%
Number of salaries quoted 646 673 1,250
10th Percentile £33,000 £25,700 £35,920
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £88,750 £76,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,900 £91,934
UK median annual salary £50,200 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -19.68% +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 14,323 14,051 27,011
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.46% 95.24% 92.37%
Number of salaries quoted 9,353 8,959 22,405
10th Percentile £31,000 £35,000 £34,103
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £42,500
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 £81,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £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 7 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 (2.98%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.47%) Drupal
3 5 (0.47%) nginx
3 5 (0.47%) 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 (7.73%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (2.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (2.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (1.77%) 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 2 (0.19%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 326 (30.35%) Azure
2 167 (15.55%) Microsoft 365
3 159 (14.80%) Entra ID
4 157 (14.62%) AWS
5 59 (5.49%) Google Workspace
6 38 (3.54%) GCP
7 33 (3.07%) SaaS
8 29 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
8 29 (2.70%) Power Platform
9 22 (2.05%) Azure Sentinel
10 21 (1.96%) Azure Logic Apps
11 15 (1.40%) Nutanix
12 14 (1.30%) Mimecast
13 12 (1.12%) PaaS
14 9 (0.84%) Microsoft Purview
15 6 (0.56%) Azure Monitor
15 6 (0.56%) GitHub
16 5 (0.47%) Dynamics 365
16 5 (0.47%) OCI
17 4 (0.37%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 134 (12.48%) Firewall
2 73 (6.80%) Broadband
3 43 (4.00%) Network Security
4 42 (3.91%) VPN
5 29 (2.70%) DNS
6 22 (2.05%) Intrusion Detection
7 20 (1.86%) CHAP
7 20 (1.86%) VLAN
8 19 (1.77%) DHCP
9 14 (1.30%) TCP/IP
10 11 (1.02%) Unified Communications
11 10 (0.93%) WAN
12 9 (0.84%) DMZ
12 9 (0.84%) LAN
13 8 (0.74%) Cisco ASA
13 8 (0.74%) VoIP
14 7 (0.65%) Internet
14 7 (0.65%) IP Telephony
15 6 (0.56%) BGP
15 6 (0.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (0.93%) Power BI
2 5 (0.47%) MariaDB
2 5 (0.47%) Relational Database
3 4 (0.37%) Metadata
3 4 (0.37%) SQL Server
3 4 (0.37%) Tableau
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 12 (1.12%) 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
General
1 386 (35.94%) Social Skills
2 178 (16.57%) Finance
3 103 (9.59%) Public Sector
4 97 (9.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 90 (8.38%) Analytical Skills
5 90 (8.38%) Organisational Skills
6 72 (6.70%) Marketing
7 66 (6.15%) Back Office
8 62 (5.77%) Telecoms
9 59 (5.49%) Banking
10 58 (5.40%) Law
11 46 (4.28%) Legal
12 45 (4.19%) Games
13 35 (3.26%) Manufacturing
14 33 (3.07%) Retail
15 26 (2.42%) Electronics
16 23 (2.14%) Financial Institution
17 16 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
18 13 (1.21%) Local Government
19 12 (1.12%) German Language
Job Titles
1 209 (19.46%) Senior
2 103 (9.59%) Architect
3 102 (9.50%) Support Engineer
4 92 (8.57%) Analyst
5 91 (8.47%) Consultant
6 65 (6.05%) Security Manager
7 64 (5.96%) Security Architect
8 60 (5.59%) Desktop Engineer
8 60 (5.59%) Desktop Support
8 60 (5.59%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 57 (5.31%) Security Consultant
10 56 (5.21%) Site Engineer
11 54 (5.03%) Cybersecurity Architect
12 49 (4.56%) Hardware Engineer
12 49 (4.56%) Senior Hardware Engineer
13 48 (4.47%) IT Support
14 47 (4.38%) Developer
14 47 (4.38%) Senior Architect
15 46 (4.28%) IT Engineer
16 44 (4.10%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (5.87%) REST
2 62 (5.77%) OAuth
2 62 (5.77%) OpenID
2 62 (5.77%) SAML
3 61 (5.68%) SOAP
4 60 (5.59%) GraphQL
4 60 (5.59%) LDAP
5 24 (2.23%) SAP CAF
6 6 (0.56%) CSS
6 6 (0.56%) HTML
7 5 (0.47%) .NET
7 5 (0.47%) Kafka
8 4 (0.37%) Android NDK
8 4 (0.37%) AngularJS
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
9 3 (0.28%) React
Miscellaneous
1 106 (9.87%) Cyber Threat
2 78 (7.26%) Security Posture
3 72 (6.70%) Cyberattack
4 61 (5.68%) Management Information System
5 54 (5.03%) Onboarding
6 37 (3.45%) Blog
7 33 (3.07%) Hybrid Cloud
8 32 (2.98%) Driving Licence
9 31 (2.89%) Cloud Native
9 31 (2.89%) Public Cloud
10 30 (2.79%) Data Centre
11 27 (2.51%) Operational Technology
11 27 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
12 24 (2.23%) PKI
13 21 (1.96%) Security Operations Centre
14 20 (1.86%) Cyber Security Posture
15 17 (1.58%) Cyber Defence
16 16 (1.49%) Cyber Kill Chain
17 15 (1.40%) Low-Code
17 15 (1.40%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 160 (14.90%) Windows
2 71 (6.61%) Windows 10
3 52 (4.84%) Windows Server
4 43 (4.00%) Linux
5 19 (1.77%) Android
6 15 (1.40%) Apple iOS
6 15 (1.40%) 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
1 190 (17.69%) Continuous Improvement
2 143 (13.31%) Roadmaps
3 142 (13.22%) Risk Management
4 137 (12.76%) ITIL
5 129 (12.01%) Information Security
5 129 (12.01%) Mentoring
6 128 (11.92%) Incident Response
7 126 (11.73%) Problem-Solving
8 119 (11.08%) Analytics
9 117 (10.89%) AI
10 89 (8.29%) Agile
11 84 (7.82%) Cloud Security
11 84 (7.82%) Customer Service
11 84 (7.82%) Identity Access Management
12 83 (7.73%) Project Management
13 81 (7.54%) Vulnerability Management
14 78 (7.26%) Stakeholder Management
15 75 (6.98%) Customer Experience
16 72 (6.70%) DevOps
17 70 (6.52%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 115 (10.71%) PowerShell
2 80 (7.45%) Python
3 70 (6.52%) Bash
4 58 (5.40%) T-SQL
5 51 (4.75%) SQL
6 24 (2.23%) C++
7 21 (1.96%) C#
7 21 (1.96%) Java
8 19 (1.77%) JavaScript
9 13 (1.21%) C
10 8 (0.74%) Go
11 5 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (0.47%) PHP
11 5 (0.47%) Rust
12 4 (0.37%) Bicep
12 4 (0.37%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.37%) R
13 2 (0.19%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.093%) Perl
14 1 (0.093%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 195 (18.16%) Degree
2 176 (16.39%) Security Cleared
3 159 (14.80%) CISSP
4 148 (13.78%) SC Cleared
5 115 (10.71%) CISM
6 60 (5.59%) CTC Cleared
7 42 (3.91%) AWS Certification
7 42 (3.91%) CISA
7 42 (3.91%) Cisco Certification
7 42 (3.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 35 (3.26%) CEH
9 30 (2.79%) DV Cleared
10 29 (2.70%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 29 (2.70%) SANS
11 28 (2.61%) PMP
12 26 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
13 24 (2.23%) Azure Certification
14 21 (1.96%) FFIEC
14 21 (1.96%) OSCP
15 20 (1.86%) CGEIT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 235 (21.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 227 (21.14%) NIST
3 96 (8.94%) GDPR
4 89 (8.29%) NCSC
5 72 (6.70%) Cyber Essentials
5 72 (6.70%) GRC
6 68 (6.33%) SLA
7 41 (3.82%) PCI DSS
8 35 (3.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 25 (2.33%) COBIT
10 16 (1.49%) JSP 440
11 15 (1.40%) ISO 22301
12 13 (1.21%) SOC 2
13 12 (1.12%) QA
14 11 (1.02%) Accessibility
14 11 (1.02%) IEC 61508
14 11 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 11 (1.02%) MISRA
14 11 (1.02%) MISRA C
15 8 (0.74%) NIST 800
System Software
1 131 (12.20%) Active Directory
2 24 (2.23%) Hyper-V
3 23 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.86%) Docker
5 12 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.56%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.37%) Firmware
8 4 (0.37%) vSphere
9 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.093%) iptables
10 1 (0.093%) KVM
10 1 (0.093%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 56 (5.21%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (2.70%) Terraform
3 24 (2.23%) Ansible
4 22 (2.05%) Kubernetes
5 11 (1.02%) Functional Safety
5 11 (1.02%) Grafana
5 11 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.84%) Nessus
7 5 (0.47%) FTK
7 5 (0.47%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.37%) Computer Incident Response Team
8 4 (0.37%) CSIRT
8 4 (0.37%) Proxmox
8 4 (0.37%) QRadar
8 4 (0.37%) RSA Archer
9 3 (0.28%) Cisco CUCM
9 3 (0.28%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.28%) Nagios
9 3 (0.28%) SCCM
Vendors
1 236 (21.97%) Microsoft
2 86 (8.01%) Cisco
3 54 (5.03%) VMware
4 29 (2.70%) Apple
5 28 (2.61%) SAP
6 24 (2.23%) Adobe
7 19 (1.77%) Google
7 19 (1.77%) PayPal
8 17 (1.58%) Fortinet
9 16 (1.49%) Splunk
10 15 (1.40%) Salesforce
10 15 (1.40%) Tenable
11 14 (1.30%) Commvault
11 14 (1.30%) CrowdStrike
11 14 (1.30%) Oracle
12 12 (1.12%) ServiceNow
13 11 (1.02%) CheckPoint
14 10 (0.93%) Draytek
14 10 (0.93%) Palo Alto
15 9 (0.84%) Qualys