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 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 28 39
Rank change year-on-year +1 +11 +10
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,267 1,190 1,882
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.94% 8.37% 5.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.38% 8.80% 6.36%
Number of salaries quoted 788 719 1,284
10th Percentile £36,250 £25,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £88,750 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -4.17% +0.80% -8.42%

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 15,111 13,517 29,606
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.80% 95.05% 91.16%
Number of salaries quoted 10,669 8,801 23,474
10th Percentile £33,000 £31,250 £33,756
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% +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 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%

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 8 May 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 (2.53%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (0.63%) WordPress
4 4 (0.32%) CMS
4 4 (0.32%) Drupal
4 4 (0.32%) nginx
5 3 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.16%) Apache
6 2 (0.16%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.079%) IIS
7 1 (0.079%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 85 (6.71%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (2.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 24 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.16%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 20 (1.58%) Cloudability
2 6 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.39%) SAP Business One
4 3 (0.24%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 2 (0.16%) Shopify
6 1 (0.079%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 338 (26.68%) Azure
2 172 (13.58%) Microsoft 365
3 170 (13.42%) AWS
4 156 (12.31%) Entra ID
5 63 (4.97%) GCP
6 54 (4.26%) Google Workspace
7 50 (3.95%) SaaS
8 31 (2.45%) Azure Sentinel
9 30 (2.37%) Power Platform
10 21 (1.66%) Serverless
11 20 (1.58%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (1.18%) Azure Logic Apps
13 14 (1.10%) Mimecast
14 13 (1.03%) Nutanix
15 10 (0.79%) PaaS
16 8 (0.63%) Microsoft Purview
16 8 (0.63%) OneDrive
17 5 (0.39%) Datadog
17 5 (0.39%) dbt
17 5 (0.39%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 140 (11.05%) Firewall
2 91 (7.18%) Broadband
3 63 (4.97%) Network Security
4 35 (2.76%) DNS
5 34 (2.68%) VPN
6 26 (2.05%) CHAP
7 25 (1.97%) VLAN
8 22 (1.74%) WAN
9 21 (1.66%) Unified Communications
10 19 (1.50%) DHCP
10 19 (1.50%) Intrusion Detection
11 18 (1.42%) LAN
12 14 (1.10%) Cisco ASA
12 14 (1.10%) SSL
13 13 (1.03%) VoIP
14 10 (0.79%) TCP/IP
15 9 (0.71%) BGP
15 9 (0.71%) Cisco Firepower
15 9 (0.71%) WebEx
16 8 (0.63%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (0.87%) Power BI
2 6 (0.47%) SQL Server
3 5 (0.39%) Tableau
4 4 (0.32%) MariaDB
4 4 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.24%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.24%) MySQL
5 3 (0.24%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.16%) Big Data
6 2 (0.16%) Metadata
6 2 (0.16%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.079%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.079%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.079%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.079%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.079%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (1.42%) Snyk
2 8 (0.63%) GitLab
3 7 (0.55%) Git
4 6 (0.47%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.39%) Cucumber
5 5 (0.39%) JMeter
5 5 (0.39%) Locust
5 5 (0.39%) VersionOne
6 2 (0.16%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.16%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.079%) GDB
7 1 (0.079%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.079%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.079%) WinDbg
General
1 383 (30.23%) Social Skills
2 175 (13.81%) Finance
3 132 (10.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 108 (8.52%) Public Sector
5 94 (7.42%) Analytical Skills
6 88 (6.95%) Marketing
7 76 (6.00%) Organisational Skills
8 68 (5.37%) Retail
9 67 (5.29%) Banking
10 63 (4.97%) Back Office
11 49 (3.87%) Games
11 49 (3.87%) Law
12 42 (3.31%) Telecoms
13 33 (2.60%) Legal
14 28 (2.21%) Aviation
15 27 (2.13%) Financial Institution
16 23 (1.82%) Manufacturing
17 20 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
18 13 (1.03%) Advertising
18 13 (1.03%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 262 (20.68%) Senior
2 154 (12.15%) Analyst
3 135 (10.66%) Architect
4 102 (8.05%) Security Manager
5 99 (7.81%) Security Architect
6 96 (7.58%) Consultant
7 95 (7.50%) Support Engineer
8 78 (6.16%) Security Analyst
9 76 (6.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 68 (5.37%) Security Consultant
11 64 (5.05%) Senior Architect
12 59 (4.66%) Cybersecurity Architect
12 59 (4.66%) Desktop Engineer
12 59 (4.66%) Desktop Support
12 59 (4.66%) Desktop Support Engineer
13 56 (4.42%) Site Engineer
14 54 (4.26%) Developer
15 52 (4.10%) Lead
16 49 (3.87%) IT Manager
17 48 (3.79%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (4.81%) LDAP
2 60 (4.74%) REST
2 60 (4.74%) SAML
3 59 (4.66%) OAuth
3 59 (4.66%) OpenID
4 55 (4.34%) SOAP
5 54 (4.26%) GraphQL
6 10 (0.79%) SAP CAF
7 9 (0.71%) XMPP
8 7 (0.55%) Kafka
8 7 (0.55%) RESTful
9 6 (0.47%) React
9 6 (0.47%) Regular Expression
10 5 (0.39%) Gherkin
10 5 (0.39%) LangChain
11 4 (0.32%) SailPoint
11 4 (0.32%) Spring
11 4 (0.32%) Spring Boot
12 3 (0.24%) CSS
12 3 (0.24%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 120 (9.47%) Cyber Threat
2 98 (7.73%) Security Posture
3 84 (6.63%) Cyberattack
3 84 (6.63%) Management Information System
4 75 (5.92%) Onboarding
5 45 (3.55%) Cyber Defence
5 45 (3.55%) Data Centre
6 38 (3.00%) Blog
7 35 (2.76%) Driving Licence
8 33 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
9 32 (2.53%) PKI
10 30 (2.37%) Operational Technology
10 30 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
11 29 (2.29%) Cloud Native
12 25 (1.97%) Cyber Security Posture
13 23 (1.82%) Public Cloud
14 22 (1.74%) Low-Code
15 17 (1.34%) Security Operations Centre
16 14 (1.10%) Cloud Security Posture
17 13 (1.03%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 158 (12.47%) Windows
2 68 (5.37%) Windows 10
3 51 (4.03%) Windows Server
4 45 (3.55%) Linux
5 17 (1.34%) Android
6 14 (1.10%) Apple iOS
6 14 (1.10%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.079%) AIX
9 1 (0.079%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.079%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.079%) OpenBSD
9 1 (0.079%) Solaris
9 1 (0.079%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (16.97%) Continuous Improvement
2 165 (13.02%) Risk Management
3 162 (12.79%) Information Security
3 162 (12.79%) Mentoring
4 158 (12.47%) Incident Response
5 150 (11.84%) Problem-Solving
6 139 (10.97%) Roadmaps
7 131 (10.34%) Vulnerability Management
8 130 (10.26%) AI
9 124 (9.79%) ITIL
10 114 (9.00%) Analytics
11 112 (8.84%) Cloud Security
12 109 (8.60%) Agile
13 98 (7.73%) Project Management
14 96 (7.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 94 (7.42%) Security Operations
16 92 (7.26%) Identity Access Management
17 87 (6.87%) Customer Service
17 87 (6.87%) Security Architecture
18 81 (6.39%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 110 (8.68%) PowerShell
2 94 (7.42%) Python
3 60 (4.74%) Bash
4 53 (4.18%) T-SQL
5 41 (3.24%) SQL
6 26 (2.05%) Java
7 23 (1.82%) JavaScript
8 20 (1.58%) C++
9 18 (1.42%) C#
10 13 (1.03%) C
11 8 (0.63%) Go
12 5 (0.39%) PHP
12 5 (0.39%) Rust
13 4 (0.32%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.24%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.16%) Bicep
16 1 (0.079%) Perl
16 1 (0.079%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 207 (16.34%) Security Cleared
2 174 (13.73%) SC Cleared
3 172 (13.58%) Degree
4 161 (12.71%) CISSP
5 124 (9.79%) CISM
6 59 (4.66%) CTC Cleared
7 53 (4.18%) AWS Certification
8 46 (3.63%) CISA
9 42 (3.31%) DV Cleared
10 35 (2.76%) Microsoft Certification
11 34 (2.68%) SANS
12 29 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
13 27 (2.13%) CEH
13 27 (2.13%) FFIEC
14 26 (2.05%) CGEIT
15 25 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
16 24 (1.89%) CREST Certified
17 22 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 20 (1.58%) Azure Certification
18 20 (1.58%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 236 (18.63%) NIST
2 235 (18.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 130 (10.26%) GDPR
4 91 (7.18%) GRC
5 84 (6.63%) NCSC
6 82 (6.47%) Cyber Essentials
7 72 (5.68%) SLA
8 57 (4.50%) PCI DSS
9 43 (3.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 33 (2.60%) COBIT
11 21 (1.66%) QA
12 20 (1.58%) Accessibility
13 17 (1.34%) SOC 2
14 14 (1.10%) JSP 440
15 13 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
15 13 (1.03%) ISO 22301
16 11 (0.87%) IEC 61508
16 11 (0.87%) MISRA
16 11 (0.87%) MISRA C
17 7 (0.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 130 (10.26%) Active Directory
2 27 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (1.89%) Hyper-V
4 20 (1.58%) Docker
4 20 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
7 6 (0.47%) Firmware
7 6 (0.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.47%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.47%) vSphere
8 1 (0.079%) KVM
8 1 (0.079%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 50 (3.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (2.21%) Kubernetes
3 27 (2.13%) Terraform
4 22 (1.74%) Ansible
5 19 (1.50%) Grafana
6 11 (0.87%) Functional Safety
6 11 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.71%) Cisco CUCM
8 5 (0.39%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 5 (0.39%) FTK
8 5 (0.39%) Nessus
8 5 (0.39%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.39%) SCCM
9 4 (0.32%) Computer Incident Response Team
9 4 (0.32%) CSIRT
9 4 (0.32%) QRadar
10 3 (0.24%) CASB
10 3 (0.24%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.24%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 293 (23.13%) Microsoft
2 92 (7.26%) Cisco
3 52 (4.10%) Apple
4 49 (3.87%) VMware
5 47 (3.71%) Adobe
6 38 (3.00%) Palo Alto
7 32 (2.53%) ServiceNow
8 30 (2.37%) CrowdStrike
8 30 (2.37%) Tenable
9 29 (2.29%) Google
10 27 (2.13%) Fortinet
11 20 (1.58%) Splunk
12 19 (1.50%) SAP
13 16 (1.26%) Salesforce
14 12 (0.95%) Commvault
15 10 (0.79%) CheckPoint
16 9 (0.71%) Qualys
16 9 (0.71%) Sophos
17 7 (0.55%) Oracle
18 6 (0.47%) NetApp