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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 27 34
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 +12
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,638 1,239 1,449
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.12% 7.48% 5.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.64% 8.04% 6.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,106 708 794
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,313 £38,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,839 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -6.98%

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 18,961 15,409 21,603
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.39% 93.03% 87.49%
Number of salaries quoted 13,692 8,891 15,061
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 22 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 64 (3.91%) SharePoint
2 52 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.55%) SAS
4 7 (0.43%) IIS
5 5 (0.31%) WordPress
6 3 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.12%) CMS
8 1 (0.061%) Apache
8 1 (0.061%) Confluence
Applications
1 43 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.18%) Trello
7 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.061%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 24 (1.47%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.31%) SAP Business One
3 3 (0.18%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.12%) Shopify
5 1 (0.061%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.061%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.061%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 375 (22.89%) Azure
2 201 (12.27%) Microsoft 365
3 194 (11.84%) AWS
4 170 (10.38%) Entra ID
5 101 (6.17%) SaaS
6 72 (4.40%) GCP
7 33 (2.01%) Azure Sentinel
8 31 (1.89%) Serverless
9 22 (1.34%) Power Platform
10 19 (1.16%) OneDrive
11 16 (0.98%) dbt
12 13 (0.79%) Mimecast
13 12 (0.73%) Cloud Computing
13 12 (0.73%) Microsoft Purview
14 11 (0.67%) Azure Logic Apps
14 11 (0.67%) Microsoft Copilot
15 10 (0.61%) PaaS
16 8 (0.49%) GitHub
17 6 (0.37%) Datadog
18 5 (0.31%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 228 (13.92%) Firewall
2 164 (10.01%) Network Security
3 87 (5.31%) VLAN
4 65 (3.97%) DNS
5 58 (3.54%) WAN
6 53 (3.24%) VPN
7 51 (3.11%) DHCP
8 45 (2.75%) LAN
9 42 (2.56%) Broadband
9 42 (2.56%) TCP/IP
10 35 (2.14%) Wi-Fi
11 27 (1.65%) VoIP
12 24 (1.47%) BGP
13 20 (1.22%) Unified Communications
14 18 (1.10%) Cisco Nexus
14 18 (1.10%) HTTP
14 18 (1.10%) MPLS
14 18 (1.10%) SSL
15 16 (0.98%) SD-WAN
16 15 (0.92%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (0.67%) Power BI
1 11 (0.67%) SQL Server
2 6 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (0.37%) Tableau
3 4 (0.24%) Big Data
3 4 (0.24%) Metadata
4 3 (0.18%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (0.18%) MySQL
4 3 (0.18%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.12%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.061%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.061%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.061%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.061%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.061%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.061%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.061%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.061%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.061%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 27 (1.65%) Snyk
2 22 (1.34%) JIRA
3 6 (0.37%) Git
4 5 (0.31%) Burp Suite
4 5 (0.31%) Cucumber
4 5 (0.31%) GitLab
4 5 (0.31%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.31%) JMeter
4 5 (0.31%) Locust
4 5 (0.31%) Metasploit
4 5 (0.31%) VersionOne
5 2 (0.12%) Claude Code
5 2 (0.12%) Maven
5 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.061%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.061%) GDB
6 1 (0.061%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.061%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.061%) WinDbg
General
1 550 (33.58%) Social Skills
2 172 (10.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 169 (10.32%) Finance
4 140 (8.55%) Analytical Skills
5 133 (8.12%) Public Sector
6 118 (7.20%) Marketing
7 112 (6.84%) Legal
8 92 (5.62%) Retail
9 70 (4.27%) Law
10 55 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
11 48 (2.93%) Banking
11 48 (2.93%) Telecoms
12 43 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
13 31 (1.89%) Aerospace
14 30 (1.83%) Games
15 25 (1.53%) Manufacturing
16 24 (1.47%) Advertising
17 22 (1.34%) Aviation
17 22 (1.34%) Police
18 20 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 334 (20.39%) Senior
2 192 (11.72%) Analyst
3 171 (10.44%) Consultant
4 162 (9.89%) Architect
5 112 (6.84%) Security Engineer
5 112 (6.84%) Security Manager
6 111 (6.78%) Security Consultant
7 102 (6.23%) Security Analyst
7 102 (6.23%) Security Architect
8 96 (5.86%) Lead
9 91 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 87 (5.31%) IT Manager
11 78 (4.76%) Senior Manager
12 74 (4.52%) Senior Analyst
13 71 (4.33%) Support Engineer
14 63 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 63 (3.85%) IT Support
15 56 (3.42%) Senior Security Engineer
16 52 (3.17%) Cybersecurity Consultant
16 52 (3.17%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.59%) OAuth
2 24 (1.47%) Terraform
3 23 (1.40%) SAML
4 17 (1.04%) LDAP
5 15 (0.92%) OpenID
6 14 (0.85%) REST
7 10 (0.61%) .NET
8 9 (0.55%) XMPP
9 8 (0.49%) LangChain
10 7 (0.43%) Microsoft Graph
10 7 (0.43%) SailPoint
11 6 (0.37%) ModSecurity
11 6 (0.37%) Regular Expression
11 6 (0.37%) RESTful
11 6 (0.37%) SOAP
12 5 (0.31%) Gherkin
12 5 (0.31%) JSON
12 5 (0.31%) Kafka
12 5 (0.31%) LangGraph
12 5 (0.31%) React
Miscellaneous
1 132 (8.06%) Cyber Threat
2 119 (7.26%) Security Posture
3 95 (5.80%) Management Information System
4 78 (4.76%) Onboarding
5 55 (3.36%) Self-Motivation
6 54 (3.30%) Data Centre
7 50 (3.05%) Driving Licence
8 45 (2.75%) Cyber Defence
9 44 (2.69%) Cloud Native
10 35 (2.14%) Cyberattack
10 35 (2.14%) Operational Technology
11 34 (2.08%) PKI
12 30 (1.83%) Security Operations Centre
13 26 (1.59%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 26 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
14 23 (1.40%) Social Media
15 21 (1.28%) AI Agents
15 21 (1.28%) Blog
16 20 (1.22%) Web Conferencing
17 19 (1.16%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 163 (9.95%) Windows
2 69 (4.21%) Windows Server
3 53 (3.24%) Linux
4 22 (1.34%) Mac OS
5 8 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (0.37%) Android
7 5 (0.31%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.061%) AIX
10 1 (0.061%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.061%) Solaris
10 1 (0.061%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 314 (19.17%) Continuous Improvement
2 301 (18.38%) Information Security
3 298 (18.19%) AI
4 245 (14.96%) Problem-Solving
5 219 (13.37%) Decision-Making
6 218 (13.31%) Risk Management
7 208 (12.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 206 (12.58%) Mentoring
9 203 (12.39%) Incident Response
10 181 (11.05%) Vulnerability Management
11 174 (10.62%) Cloud Security
12 153 (9.34%) Agile
12 153 (9.34%) ITIL
13 152 (9.28%) Security Operations
14 150 (9.16%) SIEM
15 146 (8.91%) Stakeholder Management
16 143 (8.73%) Identity Access Management
17 142 (8.67%) Business Continuity
18 134 (8.18%) Service Delivery
19 128 (7.81%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 115 (7.02%) Python
2 71 (4.33%) PowerShell
3 29 (1.77%) SQL
4 22 (1.34%) Java
5 17 (1.04%) JavaScript
6 15 (0.92%) C++
7 13 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
8 12 (0.73%) Bash
9 8 (0.49%) Rust
9 8 (0.49%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.43%) C#
10 7 (0.43%) Go
11 5 (0.31%) C
12 4 (0.24%) VB.NET
13 3 (0.18%) Ada
14 2 (0.12%) PHP
14 2 (0.12%) Search Processing Language
14 2 (0.12%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.061%) Bicep
15 1 (0.061%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 276 (16.85%) Security Cleared
2 229 (13.98%) CISSP
3 205 (12.52%) SC Cleared
4 185 (11.29%) CISM
5 153 (9.34%) Degree
6 85 (5.19%) DV Cleared
7 58 (3.54%) A+ Certification
8 57 (3.48%) Network+ Certification
9 47 (2.87%) AWS Certification
10 39 (2.38%) CISA
10 39 (2.38%) CRISC
11 38 (2.32%) Cisco Certification
11 38 (2.32%) CompTIA Security+
12 36 (2.20%) Azure Certification
13 35 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
14 31 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
15 29 (1.77%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 28 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
17 26 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 25 (1.53%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 309 (18.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 221 (13.49%) NIST
3 158 (9.65%) GDPR
4 138 (8.42%) GRC
5 120 (7.33%) Cyber Essentials
6 78 (4.76%) PCI DSS
7 56 (3.42%) NCSC
8 49 (2.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 30 (1.83%) SLA
10 28 (1.71%) Accessibility
10 28 (1.71%) QA
11 25 (1.53%) COBIT
12 24 (1.47%) SOC 2
13 21 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
14 16 (0.98%) ISO 22301
14 16 (0.98%) JSP 440
14 16 (0.98%) NIST 800
15 13 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 12 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 9 (0.55%) PMO
System Software
1 181 (11.05%) Active Directory
2 41 (2.50%) Hyper-V
3 30 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (1.16%) Firmware
6 15 (0.92%) Docker
7 10 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
8 9 (0.55%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 7 (0.43%) VMware NSX
10 6 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.37%) vSphere
11 5 (0.31%) ClearTrust
12 1 (0.061%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 125 (7.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (1.77%) Kubernetes
3 20 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
4 17 (1.04%) Ansible
5 16 (0.98%) Grafana
6 14 (0.85%) CASB
7 13 (0.79%) FortiGate
8 9 (0.55%) Cisco CUCM
9 7 (0.43%) QRadar
10 5 (0.31%) Nmap
11 4 (0.24%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 4 (0.24%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.18%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 3 (0.18%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 3 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
12 3 (0.18%) SCCM
13 2 (0.12%) Graylog
13 2 (0.12%) Prometheus
14 1 (0.061%) Functional Safety
14 1 (0.061%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 488 (29.79%) Microsoft
2 82 (5.01%) Palo Alto
3 78 (4.76%) Cisco
4 65 (3.97%) CyberArk
5 45 (2.75%) VMware
6 42 (2.56%) ServiceNow
7 38 (2.32%) Apple
7 38 (2.32%) CrowdStrike
8 37 (2.26%) Adobe
9 33 (2.01%) Splunk
9 33 (2.01%) Tenable
10 32 (1.95%) Fortinet
11 27 (1.65%) Google
12 26 (1.59%) Qualys
12 26 (1.59%) Salesforce
13 18 (1.10%) Aruba
14 15 (0.92%) OpenAI
15 13 (0.79%) SAP
15 13 (0.79%) Veeam
16 8 (0.49%) Juniper