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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 28 39
Rank change year-on-year +1 +11 +11
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,272 1,205 1,880
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.90% 8.24% 5.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.34% 8.67% 6.34%
Number of salaries quoted 795 727 1,278
10th Percentile £36,250 £25,000 £37,275
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 £71,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,333 £93,250
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 15,256 13,894 29,639
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.75% 95.05% 91.08%
Number of salaries quoted 10,822 8,909 23,455
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,208 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.35% +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 11 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 33 (2.59%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.55%) WordPress
4 4 (0.31%) CMS
5 3 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.24%) Drupal
5 3 (0.24%) nginx
6 2 (0.16%) Apache
6 2 (0.16%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.079%) IIS
7 1 (0.079%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 78 (6.13%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (2.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 23 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.16%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 24 (1.89%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.39%) SAP Business One
3 3 (0.24%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.16%) Shopify
5 1 (0.079%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 339 (26.65%) Azure
2 172 (13.52%) AWS
3 168 (13.21%) Microsoft 365
4 157 (12.34%) Entra ID
5 66 (5.19%) GCP
6 54 (4.25%) Google Workspace
7 49 (3.85%) SaaS
8 31 (2.44%) Azure Sentinel
8 31 (2.44%) Power Platform
9 26 (2.04%) Serverless
10 20 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (1.18%) Azure Logic Apps
12 14 (1.10%) Mimecast
13 13 (1.02%) Nutanix
14 10 (0.79%) PaaS
15 8 (0.63%) OneDrive
16 7 (0.55%) Microsoft Purview
17 5 (0.39%) Datadog
17 5 (0.39%) dbt
17 5 (0.39%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 141 (11.08%) Firewall
2 90 (7.08%) Broadband
3 66 (5.19%) Network Security
4 36 (2.83%) DNS
5 34 (2.67%) VPN
6 26 (2.04%) CHAP
7 24 (1.89%) VLAN
8 22 (1.73%) Unified Communications
8 22 (1.73%) WAN
9 20 (1.57%) DHCP
10 18 (1.42%) LAN
11 17 (1.34%) Intrusion Detection
12 14 (1.10%) Cisco ASA
12 14 (1.10%) SSL
13 12 (0.94%) VoIP
14 11 (0.86%) TCP/IP
15 9 (0.71%) BGP
15 9 (0.71%) Cisco Firepower
15 9 (0.71%) DMZ
15 9 (0.71%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (0.86%) Power BI
2 6 (0.47%) SQL Server
3 5 (0.39%) Tableau
4 4 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.24%) MariaDB
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 23 (1.81%) 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
1 372 (29.25%) Social Skills
2 173 (13.60%) Finance
3 137 (10.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 108 (8.49%) Public Sector
5 94 (7.39%) Analytical Skills
6 88 (6.92%) Marketing
7 75 (5.90%) Organisational Skills
8 68 (5.35%) Retail
9 66 (5.19%) Banking
10 55 (4.32%) Back Office
11 49 (3.85%) Games
11 49 (3.85%) Law
12 41 (3.22%) Telecoms
13 33 (2.59%) Legal
14 28 (2.20%) Aviation
15 27 (2.12%) Financial Institution
16 23 (1.81%) Manufacturing
17 20 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
18 13 (1.02%) Advertising
19 12 (0.94%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 271 (21.31%) Senior
2 157 (12.34%) Analyst
3 143 (11.24%) Architect
4 106 (8.33%) Security Architect
5 103 (8.10%) Security Manager
6 96 (7.55%) Consultant
7 89 (7.00%) Support Engineer
8 77 (6.05%) Security Analyst
9 76 (5.97%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 70 (5.50%) Senior Architect
11 68 (5.35%) Security Consultant
12 61 (4.80%) Cybersecurity Architect
13 56 (4.40%) Lead
14 53 (4.17%) Developer
15 51 (4.01%) Desktop Engineer
15 51 (4.01%) Desktop Support
15 51 (4.01%) Desktop Support Engineer
15 51 (4.01%) IT Manager
15 51 (4.01%) Senior Security Architect
16 49 (3.85%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (4.72%) LDAP
2 59 (4.64%) REST
2 59 (4.64%) SAML
3 58 (4.56%) OAuth
3 58 (4.56%) OpenID
4 54 (4.25%) SOAP
5 53 (4.17%) GraphQL
6 9 (0.71%) SAP CAF
6 9 (0.71%) XMPP
7 7 (0.55%) Kafka
7 7 (0.55%) RESTful
8 6 (0.47%) React
8 6 (0.47%) Regular Expression
9 5 (0.39%) Gherkin
9 5 (0.39%) LangChain
9 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Graph
10 4 (0.31%) SailPoint
10 4 (0.31%) Spring
10 4 (0.31%) Spring Boot
11 3 (0.24%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 120 (9.43%) Cyber Threat
2 100 (7.86%) Security Posture
3 83 (6.53%) Cyberattack
4 82 (6.45%) Management Information System
5 76 (5.97%) Onboarding
6 49 (3.85%) Data Centre
7 45 (3.54%) Cyber Defence
8 36 (2.83%) Blog
9 35 (2.75%) Driving Licence
10 33 (2.59%) Hybrid Cloud
10 33 (2.59%) PKI
11 30 (2.36%) Cloud Native
11 30 (2.36%) Operational Technology
11 30 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
12 26 (2.04%) Cyber Security Posture
13 23 (1.81%) Public Cloud
14 22 (1.73%) Low-Code
15 17 (1.34%) Security Operations Centre
16 15 (1.18%) Cloud Security Posture
17 14 (1.10%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 151 (11.87%) Windows
2 59 (4.64%) Windows 10
3 52 (4.09%) Windows Server
4 43 (3.38%) Linux
5 17 (1.34%) Android
6 15 (1.18%) Mac OS
7 14 (1.10%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.079%) AIX
10 1 (0.079%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.079%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.079%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.079%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (16.51%) Continuous Improvement
2 165 (12.97%) Risk Management
3 164 (12.89%) Mentoring
4 160 (12.58%) Information Security
5 158 (12.42%) Incident Response
6 149 (11.71%) Problem-Solving
7 139 (10.93%) AI
8 138 (10.85%) Roadmaps
9 134 (10.53%) Vulnerability Management
10 118 (9.28%) Cloud Security
11 114 (8.96%) ITIL
12 108 (8.49%) Agile
13 107 (8.41%) Analytics
14 97 (7.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 95 (7.47%) Security Operations
16 94 (7.39%) Project Management
17 92 (7.23%) Identity Access Management
17 92 (7.23%) Security Architecture
18 87 (6.84%) Threat Modelling
19 83 (6.53%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 112 (8.81%) PowerShell
2 94 (7.39%) Python
3 59 (4.64%) Bash
4 52 (4.09%) T-SQL
5 40 (3.14%) SQL
6 26 (2.04%) Java
7 23 (1.81%) JavaScript
8 20 (1.57%) C++
9 18 (1.42%) C#
10 13 (1.02%) C
11 8 (0.63%) Go
12 5 (0.39%) PHP
12 5 (0.39%) Rust
13 4 (0.31%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.24%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.16%) Bicep
16 1 (0.079%) Perl
16 1 (0.079%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 200 (15.72%) Security Cleared
2 167 (13.13%) SC Cleared
3 159 (12.50%) CISSP
3 159 (12.50%) Degree
4 124 (9.75%) CISM
5 56 (4.40%) AWS Certification
6 51 (4.01%) CTC Cleared
7 46 (3.62%) CISA
8 44 (3.46%) DV Cleared
9 34 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
9 34 (2.67%) SANS
10 29 (2.28%) Cisco Certification
11 27 (2.12%) CEH
11 27 (2.12%) FFIEC
12 26 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 26 (2.04%) CGEIT
13 25 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
14 24 (1.89%) CREST Certified
15 21 (1.65%) Azure Certification
16 19 (1.49%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 238 (18.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 238 (18.71%) NIST
2 130 (10.22%) GDPR
3 97 (7.63%) GRC
4 85 (6.68%) NCSC
5 84 (6.60%) Cyber Essentials
6 63 (4.95%) SLA
7 59 (4.64%) PCI DSS
8 43 (3.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 33 (2.59%) COBIT
10 21 (1.65%) QA
11 20 (1.57%) Accessibility
12 17 (1.34%) SOC 2
13 15 (1.18%) JSP 440
14 14 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
15 13 (1.02%) ISO 22301
16 11 (0.86%) IEC 61508
16 11 (0.86%) MISRA
16 11 (0.86%) MISRA C
17 8 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 132 (10.38%) Active Directory
2 28 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (1.89%) Hyper-V
5 19 (1.49%) Docker
6 10 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
8 6 (0.47%) Firmware
8 6 (0.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.47%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.47%) vSphere
9 1 (0.079%) KVM
9 1 (0.079%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 52 (4.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (2.20%) Kubernetes
3 27 (2.12%) Terraform
4 22 (1.73%) Ansible
5 19 (1.49%) Grafana
6 11 (0.86%) Functional Safety
6 11 (0.86%) 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 (0.31%) Computer Incident Response Team
9 4 (0.31%) CSIRT
9 4 (0.31%) QRadar
10 3 (0.24%) CASB
10 3 (0.24%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.24%) RSA Archer
11 2 (0.16%) Graylog
Vendors
1 304 (23.90%) Microsoft
2 83 (6.53%) Cisco
3 55 (4.32%) Apple
4 51 (4.01%) Adobe
5 50 (3.93%) VMware
6 43 (3.38%) Palo Alto
7 36 (2.83%) CrowdStrike
7 36 (2.83%) ServiceNow
8 35 (2.75%) Tenable
9 29 (2.28%) Google
10 27 (2.12%) Fortinet
11 20 (1.57%) Splunk
12 18 (1.42%) SAP
13 16 (1.26%) Salesforce
14 12 (0.94%) 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