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 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 34 41
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 +7
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,313 1,165 1,901
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.79% 7.83% 5.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.28% 8.27% 6.28%
Number of salaries quoted 870 661 1,252
10th Percentile £36,250 £25,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,463 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.02% -4.35% -13.89%
75th Percentile £86,790 £72,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,333 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,670 £58,000
% change year-on-year +4.04% -0.57% -10.77%

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 15,867 14,093 30,256
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.01% 94.67% 89.67%
Number of salaries quoted 11,345 8,291 23,580
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 6 June 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 45 (3.43%) SharePoint
2 28 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.30%) WordPress
4 3 (0.23%) CMS
4 3 (0.23%) SAS
5 2 (0.15%) Apache
5 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.076%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.076%) IIS
6 1 (0.076%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 78 (5.94%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 21 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (1.83%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.38%) SAP Business One
3 3 (0.23%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.15%) Shopify
5 1 (0.076%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 344 (26.20%) Azure
2 186 (14.17%) Microsoft 365
3 173 (13.18%) AWS
4 164 (12.49%) Entra ID
5 73 (5.56%) GCP
6 61 (4.65%) SaaS
7 55 (4.19%) Google Workspace
8 32 (2.44%) Azure Sentinel
9 28 (2.13%) Power Platform
9 28 (2.13%) Serverless
10 16 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (1.14%) Azure Logic Apps
11 15 (1.14%) Mimecast
11 15 (1.14%) OneDrive
12 10 (0.76%) Nutanix
13 9 (0.69%) Microsoft Purview
13 9 (0.69%) PaaS
14 6 (0.46%) Datadog
14 6 (0.46%) GitHub
15 5 (0.38%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 151 (11.50%) Firewall
2 89 (6.78%) Broadband
3 82 (6.25%) Network Security
4 43 (3.27%) DNS
5 41 (3.12%) VPN
6 31 (2.36%) WAN
7 29 (2.21%) DHCP
7 29 (2.21%) VLAN
8 24 (1.83%) Unified Communications
9 22 (1.68%) LAN
10 20 (1.52%) CHAP
11 17 (1.29%) Intrusion Detection
11 17 (1.29%) SSL
11 17 (1.29%) VoIP
12 16 (1.22%) TCP/IP
13 14 (1.07%) BGP
13 14 (1.07%) Cisco ASA
14 13 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
15 10 (0.76%) Internet
15 10 (0.76%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (0.76%) Power BI
2 6 (0.46%) SQL Server
3 5 (0.38%) Tableau
4 3 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.23%) Big Data
4 3 (0.23%) MySQL
4 3 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.15%) Metadata
5 2 (0.15%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.15%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.15%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.076%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.076%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.076%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.076%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 25 (1.90%) Snyk
2 8 (0.61%) GitLab
3 6 (0.46%) Git
4 5 (0.38%) Cucumber
4 5 (0.38%) JIRA
4 5 (0.38%) JMeter
4 5 (0.38%) Locust
4 5 (0.38%) VersionOne
5 4 (0.30%) Burp Suite
5 4 (0.30%) Metasploit
6 3 (0.23%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.076%) GDB
7 1 (0.076%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.076%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.076%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.076%) WinDbg
General
1 371 (28.26%) Social Skills
2 158 (12.03%) Finance
3 128 (9.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 112 (8.53%) Public Sector
5 104 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
6 99 (7.54%) Marketing
7 80 (6.09%) Retail
8 76 (5.79%) Organisational Skills
9 56 (4.27%) Banking
10 53 (4.04%) Back Office
11 51 (3.88%) Games
12 46 (3.50%) Law
13 38 (2.89%) Legal
14 36 (2.74%) Telecoms
15 28 (2.13%) Aviation
16 21 (1.60%) Financial Institution
17 18 (1.37%) Advertising
17 18 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
18 16 (1.22%) Manufacturing
19 14 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 236 (17.97%) Senior
2 164 (12.49%) Analyst
3 157 (11.96%) Architect
4 120 (9.14%) Security Architect
5 107 (8.15%) Security Manager
6 102 (7.77%) Consultant
7 99 (7.54%) Support Engineer
8 87 (6.63%) Security Analyst
9 84 (6.40%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 76 (5.79%) Lead
11 75 (5.71%) Security Consultant
12 65 (4.95%) Cybersecurity Architect
13 64 (4.87%) Senior Architect
14 61 (4.65%) IT Support
15 55 (4.19%) Cybersecurity Analyst
16 54 (4.11%) IT Manager
17 52 (3.96%) Developer
18 48 (3.66%) Desktop Support
18 48 (3.66%) Desktop Support Engineer
18 48 (3.66%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (4.95%) SAML
2 64 (4.87%) OAuth
3 62 (4.72%) LDAP
4 59 (4.49%) OpenID
4 59 (4.49%) REST
5 53 (4.04%) SOAP
6 52 (3.96%) GraphQL
7 9 (0.69%) XMPP
8 7 (0.53%) Kafka
8 7 (0.53%) Microsoft Graph
8 7 (0.53%) RESTful
9 6 (0.46%) Regular Expression
10 5 (0.38%) Gherkin
10 5 (0.38%) LangChain
10 5 (0.38%) React
11 4 (0.30%) SailPoint
12 3 (0.23%) .NET
12 3 (0.23%) ModSecurity
12 3 (0.23%) Spring
12 3 (0.23%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 121 (9.22%) Cyber Threat
2 108 (8.23%) Security Posture
3 83 (6.32%) Cyberattack
4 81 (6.17%) Management Information System
5 74 (5.64%) Onboarding
6 48 (3.66%) Data Centre
7 44 (3.35%) Cyber Defence
8 37 (2.82%) PKI
9 36 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
10 34 (2.59%) Driving Licence
11 33 (2.51%) Cloud Native
12 31 (2.36%) Blog
13 28 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
14 27 (2.06%) Operational Technology
15 25 (1.90%) Cyber Security Posture
16 19 (1.45%) Low-Code
17 18 (1.37%) Cyber Kill Chain
17 18 (1.37%) Public Cloud
17 18 (1.37%) Security Operations Centre
18 16 (1.22%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 165 (12.57%) Windows
2 61 (4.65%) Windows Server
3 55 (4.19%) Windows 10
4 43 (3.27%) Linux
5 20 (1.52%) Mac OS
6 16 (1.22%) Android
7 15 (1.14%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.076%) AIX
10 1 (0.076%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.076%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.076%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.076%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
2 174 (13.25%) Incident Response
3 169 (12.87%) Information Security
4 166 (12.64%) Mentoring
4 166 (12.64%) Problem-Solving
5 164 (12.49%) Risk Management
6 144 (10.97%) Vulnerability Management
7 133 (10.13%) AI
8 132 (10.05%) Cloud Security
9 131 (9.98%) Roadmaps
10 113 (8.61%) Security Operations
11 112 (8.53%) Analytics
11 112 (8.53%) ITIL
12 105 (8.00%) Agile
13 103 (7.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 99 (7.54%) Identity Access Management
15 98 (7.46%) SIEM
16 94 (7.16%) Decision-Making
17 93 (7.08%) Threat Modelling
18 90 (6.85%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 119 (9.06%) PowerShell
2 99 (7.54%) Python
3 60 (4.57%) Bash
4 52 (3.96%) T-SQL
5 41 (3.12%) SQL
6 28 (2.13%) Java
7 19 (1.45%) JavaScript
8 16 (1.22%) C++
9 14 (1.07%) C#
10 12 (0.91%) C
11 9 (0.69%) Go
12 8 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
13 5 (0.38%) PHP
13 5 (0.38%) Rust
14 3 (0.23%) TypeScript
15 2 (0.15%) Search Processing Language
16 1 (0.076%) Bicep
16 1 (0.076%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.076%) Perl
16 1 (0.076%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 210 (15.99%) Security Cleared
2 177 (13.48%) SC Cleared
3 161 (12.26%) CISSP
4 160 (12.19%) Degree
5 116 (8.83%) CISM
6 53 (4.04%) DV Cleared
7 52 (3.96%) AWS Certification
8 48 (3.66%) CTC Cleared
9 38 (2.89%) CISA
9 38 (2.89%) Microsoft Certification
10 34 (2.59%) Cisco Certification
11 30 (2.28%) Azure Certification
12 28 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
12 28 (2.13%) CREST Certified
13 27 (2.06%) SANS
14 26 (1.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 22 (1.68%) CEH
15 22 (1.68%) FFIEC
16 21 (1.60%) CRISC
17 20 (1.52%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 257 (19.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 238 (18.13%) NIST
3 131 (9.98%) GDPR
4 101 (7.69%) GRC
5 95 (7.24%) NCSC
6 86 (6.55%) Cyber Essentials
7 67 (5.10%) PCI DSS
7 67 (5.10%) SLA
8 39 (2.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 28 (2.13%) COBIT
10 21 (1.60%) Actionable Recommendations
10 21 (1.60%) QA
11 19 (1.45%) Accessibility
12 17 (1.29%) JSP 440
13 16 (1.22%) SOC 2
14 10 (0.76%) IEC 61508
14 10 (0.76%) ISO 22301
14 10 (0.76%) MISRA
14 10 (0.76%) MISRA C
15 8 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 150 (11.42%) Active Directory
2 30 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (2.13%) Hyper-V
4 26 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (1.29%) Docker
6 10 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
7 9 (0.69%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 9 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.46%) Firmware
8 6 (0.46%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.46%) vSphere
9 3 (0.23%) ClearTrust
10 1 (0.076%) KVM
10 1 (0.076%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 66 (5.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 32 (2.44%) Kubernetes
3 27 (2.06%) Terraform
4 20 (1.52%) Ansible
4 20 (1.52%) Grafana
5 15 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (0.76%) Functional Safety
7 9 (0.69%) Cisco CUCM
8 8 (0.61%) CASB
9 7 (0.53%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.46%) Prometheus
10 6 (0.46%) QRadar
11 5 (0.38%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 5 (0.38%) FTK
11 5 (0.38%) SCCM
12 4 (0.30%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 4 (0.30%) CSIRT
13 3 (0.23%) Nmap
13 3 (0.23%) RSA Archer
14 2 (0.15%) Nessus
Vendors
1 346 (26.35%) Microsoft
2 92 (7.01%) Cisco
3 51 (3.88%) Palo Alto
4 50 (3.81%) VMware
5 49 (3.73%) Apple
6 47 (3.58%) Adobe
7 38 (2.89%) CrowdStrike
8 36 (2.74%) ServiceNow
9 34 (2.59%) Tenable
10 30 (2.28%) Google
11 27 (2.06%) Fortinet
12 25 (1.90%) Splunk
13 21 (1.60%) Salesforce
14 15 (1.14%) SAP
15 11 (0.84%) Qualys
16 10 (0.76%) CheckPoint
16 10 (0.76%) Oracle
17 9 (0.69%) Commvault
17 9 (0.69%) Sophos
18 8 (0.61%) Veeam