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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 31 42
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 +6
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,343 1,196 1,910
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.80% 7.85% 5.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.29% 8.29% 6.22%
Number of salaries quoted 897 667 1,242
10th Percentile £36,250 £25,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -4.35% -13.79%
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £58,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% -1.71% -10.00%

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 16,195 14,419 30,697
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.01% 94.61% 89.25%
Number of salaries quoted 11,649 8,373 23,770
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £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% -8.73%
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% -9.69%

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 13 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 42 (3.13%) SharePoint
2 29 (2.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.37%) WordPress
4 3 (0.22%) CMS
4 3 (0.22%) SAS
5 2 (0.15%) Apache
5 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.15%) IIS
6 1 (0.074%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.074%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 69 (5.14%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 18 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.37%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.074%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (1.79%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.37%) SAP Business One
3 3 (0.22%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.15%) Shopify
5 1 (0.074%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 345 (25.69%) Azure
2 182 (13.55%) Microsoft 365
3 173 (12.88%) AWS
4 164 (12.21%) Entra ID
5 74 (5.51%) GCP
6 70 (5.21%) SaaS
7 52 (3.87%) Google Workspace
8 32 (2.38%) Azure Sentinel
9 28 (2.08%) Serverless
10 25 (1.86%) Power Platform
11 16 (1.19%) Mimecast
12 14 (1.04%) Azure Logic Apps
13 13 (0.97%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (0.97%) OneDrive
14 9 (0.67%) Nutanix
14 9 (0.67%) PaaS
15 7 (0.52%) Microsoft Purview
16 6 (0.45%) Cloud Computing
16 6 (0.45%) Datadog
16 6 (0.45%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 160 (11.91%) Firewall
2 91 (6.78%) Broadband
3 87 (6.48%) Network Security
4 48 (3.57%) VPN
5 47 (3.50%) DNS
6 38 (2.83%) WAN
7 35 (2.61%) DHCP
8 33 (2.46%) VLAN
9 28 (2.08%) LAN
10 23 (1.71%) Unified Communications
11 20 (1.49%) TCP/IP
12 19 (1.41%) CHAP
13 18 (1.34%) SSL
13 18 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
14 17 (1.27%) BGP
14 17 (1.27%) Intrusion Detection
14 17 (1.27%) VoIP
15 14 (1.04%) Cisco ASA
16 13 (0.97%) Internet
17 12 (0.89%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (0.67%) Power BI
2 5 (0.37%) Tableau
3 4 (0.30%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.22%) Big Data
4 3 (0.22%) MySQL
4 3 (0.22%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.15%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.15%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.074%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.074%) Metadata
6 1 (0.074%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.074%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.074%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.074%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 25 (1.86%) Snyk
2 8 (0.60%) GitLab
3 7 (0.52%) Git
4 6 (0.45%) JIRA
5 5 (0.37%) Cucumber
5 5 (0.37%) JMeter
5 5 (0.37%) Locust
5 5 (0.37%) VersionOne
6 4 (0.30%) Burp Suite
6 4 (0.30%) Metasploit
7 2 (0.15%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.074%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.074%) GDB
8 1 (0.074%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.074%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.074%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.074%) WinDbg
General
1 380 (28.29%) Social Skills
2 164 (12.21%) Finance
3 123 (9.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 116 (8.64%) Public Sector
5 113 (8.41%) Analytical Skills
6 106 (7.89%) Marketing
7 82 (6.11%) Retail
8 73 (5.44%) Organisational Skills
9 57 (4.24%) Banking
10 54 (4.02%) Games
11 49 (3.65%) Law
12 45 (3.35%) Back Office
13 42 (3.13%) Legal
14 39 (2.90%) Telecoms
15 28 (2.08%) Aviation
16 20 (1.49%) Financial Institution
17 19 (1.41%) Advertising
18 18 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
18 18 (1.34%) Manufacturing
19 14 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 235 (17.50%) Senior
2 175 (13.03%) Analyst
3 156 (11.62%) Architect
4 120 (8.94%) Security Architect
5 107 (7.97%) Security Manager
6 106 (7.89%) Consultant
7 94 (7.00%) Security Analyst
8 93 (6.92%) Support Engineer
9 88 (6.55%) Lead
10 82 (6.11%) Cybersecurity Manager
11 78 (5.81%) Security Consultant
12 64 (4.77%) Cybersecurity Architect
13 63 (4.69%) IT Support
14 60 (4.47%) IT Manager
15 59 (4.39%) Cybersecurity Analyst
16 56 (4.17%) Senior Architect
17 54 (4.02%) Senior Analyst
18 51 (3.80%) Developer
19 49 (3.65%) Security Engineer
20 48 (3.57%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (4.77%) SAML
2 63 (4.69%) LDAP
2 63 (4.69%) OAuth
3 57 (4.24%) REST
4 56 (4.17%) OpenID
5 50 (3.72%) SOAP
6 49 (3.65%) GraphQL
7 9 (0.67%) XMPP
8 7 (0.52%) Kafka
8 7 (0.52%) LangChain
8 7 (0.52%) Microsoft Graph
9 6 (0.45%) .NET
9 6 (0.45%) Regular Expression
9 6 (0.45%) RESTful
10 5 (0.37%) Gherkin
10 5 (0.37%) React
11 4 (0.30%) ModSecurity
11 4 (0.30%) SailPoint
12 3 (0.22%) Spring
12 3 (0.22%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 127 (9.46%) Cyber Threat
2 114 (8.49%) Security Posture
3 86 (6.40%) Cyberattack
4 79 (5.88%) Management Information System
5 67 (4.99%) Onboarding
6 48 (3.57%) Data Centre
7 42 (3.13%) Cyber Defence
8 41 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
9 38 (2.83%) PKI
10 34 (2.53%) Driving Licence
11 32 (2.38%) Cloud Native
12 31 (2.31%) Blog
13 26 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
13 26 (1.94%) Operational Technology
14 25 (1.86%) Cyber Security Posture
15 20 (1.49%) Cyber Kill Chain
15 20 (1.49%) Security Operations Centre
16 18 (1.34%) Low-Code
17 17 (1.27%) Web Conferencing
18 15 (1.12%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 160 (11.91%) Windows
2 61 (4.54%) Windows Server
3 47 (3.50%) Windows 10
4 41 (3.05%) Linux
5 22 (1.64%) Mac OS
6 15 (1.12%) Android
7 14 (1.04%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.074%) AIX
10 1 (0.074%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.074%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.074%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.074%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (17.20%) Continuous Improvement
2 187 (13.92%) Information Security
3 183 (13.63%) Problem-Solving
4 181 (13.48%) Incident Response
5 177 (13.18%) Risk Management
6 164 (12.21%) Mentoring
7 153 (11.39%) Vulnerability Management
8 139 (10.35%) AI
9 136 (10.13%) Roadmaps
10 135 (10.05%) Cloud Security
11 117 (8.71%) Security Operations
12 116 (8.64%) Decision-Making
13 112 (8.34%) Agile
14 110 (8.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 107 (7.97%) SIEM
16 106 (7.89%) Analytics
16 106 (7.89%) Identity Access Management
17 105 (7.82%) ITIL
18 101 (7.52%) Threat Modelling
19 95 (7.07%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 113 (8.41%) PowerShell
2 100 (7.45%) Python
3 57 (4.24%) Bash
4 49 (3.65%) T-SQL
5 40 (2.98%) SQL
6 28 (2.08%) Java
7 19 (1.41%) JavaScript
8 13 (0.97%) C#
8 13 (0.97%) C++
9 10 (0.74%) C
10 9 (0.67%) Go
11 8 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (0.37%) PHP
12 5 (0.37%) Rust
13 4 (0.30%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.22%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.15%) Search Processing Language
16 1 (0.074%) Bicep
16 1 (0.074%) Perl
16 1 (0.074%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 210 (15.64%) Security Cleared
2 176 (13.10%) SC Cleared
3 167 (12.43%) CISSP
4 156 (11.62%) Degree
5 122 (9.08%) CISM
6 55 (4.10%) DV Cleared
7 46 (3.43%) AWS Certification
8 41 (3.05%) CISA
9 40 (2.98%) CTC Cleared
10 37 (2.76%) Cisco Certification
11 35 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
12 29 (2.16%) Azure Certification
12 29 (2.16%) CRISC
13 27 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
13 27 (2.01%) CREST Certified
14 25 (1.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 24 (1.79%) SANS
16 22 (1.64%) FFIEC
17 20 (1.49%) CEH
17 20 (1.49%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 273 (20.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 241 (17.94%) NIST
3 150 (11.17%) GDPR
4 103 (7.67%) GRC
5 95 (7.07%) NCSC
6 84 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
7 76 (5.66%) PCI DSS
8 61 (4.54%) SLA
9 39 (2.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 29 (2.16%) COBIT
11 22 (1.64%) Actionable Recommendations
12 21 (1.56%) QA
13 18 (1.34%) Accessibility
13 18 (1.34%) JSP 440
14 16 (1.19%) SOC 2
15 10 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 9 (0.67%) ISO 22301
16 9 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 8 (0.60%) IEC 61508
17 8 (0.60%) MISRA C
System Software
1 152 (11.32%) Active Directory
2 32 (2.38%) Hyper-V
2 32 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (1.27%) Docker
5 10 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
6 9 (0.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 7 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.52%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.45%) vSphere
9 4 (0.30%) ClearTrust
9 4 (0.30%) Firmware
10 1 (0.074%) KVM
10 1 (0.074%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 67 (4.99%) Microsoft Intune
2 32 (2.38%) Kubernetes
3 27 (2.01%) Terraform
4 20 (1.49%) Ansible
4 20 (1.49%) Grafana
5 16 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (0.74%) CASB
7 9 (0.67%) Cisco CUCM
8 8 (0.60%) FortiGate
8 8 (0.60%) Functional Safety
9 7 (0.52%) QRadar
10 6 (0.45%) Prometheus
11 5 (0.37%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 5 (0.37%) FTK
11 5 (0.37%) SCCM
12 4 (0.30%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 4 (0.30%) CSIRT
13 3 (0.22%) Nmap
13 3 (0.22%) RSA Archer
14 2 (0.15%) Graylog
Vendors
1 360 (26.81%) Microsoft
2 92 (6.85%) Cisco
3 61 (4.54%) Palo Alto
4 54 (4.02%) VMware
5 43 (3.20%) Apple
6 41 (3.05%) Adobe
7 39 (2.90%) CrowdStrike
8 36 (2.68%) ServiceNow
9 34 (2.53%) Tenable
10 31 (2.31%) Google
11 28 (2.08%) Fortinet
12 26 (1.94%) Splunk
13 21 (1.56%) Salesforce
14 15 (1.12%) SAP
15 14 (1.04%) Qualys
16 11 (0.82%) Aruba
16 11 (0.82%) CheckPoint
17 10 (0.74%) Oracle
18 9 (0.67%) Sophos
19 8 (0.60%) Commvault