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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 39 46
Rank change year-on-year +12 +7 +9
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,073 954 1,616
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.36% 7.07% 5.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.49% 7.42% 5.84%
Number of salaries quoted 652 696 1,285
10th Percentile £33,500 £25,313 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £88,750 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,250 £91,934
UK median annual salary £51,524 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -16.22% +2.50% -7.69%

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 14,333 12,855 27,649
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.00% 95.28% 92.07%
Number of salaries quoted 9,435 8,787 22,895
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,949 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 18 March 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 31 (2.89%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.47%) Drupal
3 5 (0.47%) nginx
3 5 (0.47%) WordPress
4 4 (0.37%) CMS
5 2 (0.19%) Apache
5 2 (0.19%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.093%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.093%) Confluence
6 1 (0.093%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 82 (7.64%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (2.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (2.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (1.77%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.19%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.093%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.093%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.093%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 7 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (0.65%) Shopify
2 1 (0.093%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 326 (30.38%) Azure
2 166 (15.47%) Microsoft 365
3 158 (14.73%) Entra ID
4 156 (14.54%) AWS
5 58 (5.41%) Google Workspace
6 38 (3.54%) GCP
7 29 (2.70%) SaaS
8 27 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
8 27 (2.52%) Power Platform
9 23 (2.14%) Azure Sentinel
10 21 (1.96%) Azure Logic Apps
11 16 (1.49%) Nutanix
12 14 (1.30%) Mimecast
13 8 (0.75%) Microsoft Purview
14 6 (0.56%) GitHub
14 6 (0.56%) PaaS
15 5 (0.47%) Cloud Computing
16 4 (0.37%) Azure Monitor
16 4 (0.37%) Datadog
16 4 (0.37%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 130 (12.12%) Firewall
2 79 (7.36%) Broadband
3 50 (4.66%) Network Security
4 40 (3.73%) VPN
5 27 (2.52%) DNS
6 23 (2.14%) CHAP
6 23 (2.14%) Intrusion Detection
7 21 (1.96%) VLAN
8 16 (1.49%) DHCP
9 11 (1.03%) Unified Communications
10 10 (0.93%) TCP/IP
10 10 (0.93%) WAN
11 9 (0.84%) Cisco ASA
11 9 (0.84%) LAN
12 8 (0.75%) DMZ
13 7 (0.65%) IP Telephony
13 7 (0.65%) VoIP
14 6 (0.56%) BGP
14 6 (0.56%) SSL
15 5 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (0.84%) Power BI
2 5 (0.47%) MariaDB
2 5 (0.47%) Relational Database
3 4 (0.37%) Metadata
3 4 (0.37%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.28%) MongoDB
4 3 (0.28%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.28%) Tableau
5 1 (0.093%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.093%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.093%) Big Data
5 1 (0.093%) MySQL
5 1 (0.093%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.093%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 12 (1.12%) Jenkins
2 7 (0.65%) Git
2 7 (0.65%) GitLab
3 4 (0.37%) Cucumber
3 4 (0.37%) JMeter
3 4 (0.37%) Locust
4 2 (0.19%) Burp Suite
4 2 (0.19%) JIRA
4 2 (0.19%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.093%) GDB
5 1 (0.093%) Snyk
5 1 (0.093%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.093%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.093%) WinDbg
General
1 375 (34.95%) Social Skills
2 176 (16.40%) Finance
3 101 (9.41%) Public Sector
4 94 (8.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 88 (8.20%) Organisational Skills
6 83 (7.74%) Analytical Skills
7 76 (7.08%) Marketing
8 66 (6.15%) Back Office
9 62 (5.78%) Banking
10 59 (5.50%) Law
10 59 (5.50%) Telecoms
11 49 (4.57%) Legal
12 48 (4.47%) Games
13 37 (3.45%) Retail
14 32 (2.98%) Manufacturing
15 26 (2.42%) Financial Institution
16 23 (2.14%) Electronics
17 18 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
18 14 (1.30%) Local Government
19 10 (0.93%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 208 (19.38%) Senior
2 104 (9.69%) Support Engineer
3 101 (9.41%) Analyst
4 100 (9.32%) Architect
5 85 (7.92%) Consultant
6 65 (6.06%) Security Manager
7 64 (5.96%) Security Architect
8 60 (5.59%) Desktop Engineer
8 60 (5.59%) Desktop Support
8 60 (5.59%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 56 (5.22%) Site Engineer
10 55 (5.13%) Cybersecurity Architect
10 55 (5.13%) Security Consultant
11 54 (5.03%) Security Analyst
12 49 (4.57%) Hardware Engineer
12 49 (4.57%) IT Support
12 49 (4.57%) Senior Hardware Engineer
13 48 (4.47%) Developer
14 46 (4.29%) IT Engineer
15 43 (4.01%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (5.78%) REST
2 60 (5.59%) OAuth
2 60 (5.59%) OpenID
2 60 (5.59%) SAML
2 60 (5.59%) SOAP
3 59 (5.50%) GraphQL
3 59 (5.50%) LDAP
4 21 (1.96%) SAP CAF
5 6 (0.56%) CSS
5 6 (0.56%) HTML
6 5 (0.47%) .NET
6 5 (0.47%) Kafka
6 5 (0.47%) LangChain
6 5 (0.47%) SailPoint
7 4 (0.37%) Android NDK
7 4 (0.37%) Gherkin
7 4 (0.37%) RESTful
7 4 (0.37%) WebSockets
7 4 (0.37%) XMPP
8 3 (0.28%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 108 (10.07%) Cyber Threat
2 83 (7.74%) Security Posture
3 75 (6.99%) Cyberattack
4 66 (6.15%) Management Information System
5 51 (4.75%) Onboarding
6 43 (4.01%) Blog
7 33 (3.08%) Driving Licence
7 33 (3.08%) Hybrid Cloud
8 30 (2.80%) Public Cloud
9 29 (2.70%) Cloud Native
10 28 (2.61%) Data Centre
11 27 (2.52%) Operational Technology
12 24 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
13 21 (1.96%) Cyber Defence
14 20 (1.86%) PKI
15 19 (1.77%) Cyber Security Posture
16 18 (1.68%) Security Operations Centre
17 16 (1.49%) Product Ownership
18 15 (1.40%) Cyber Kill Chain
18 15 (1.40%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 163 (15.19%) Windows
2 71 (6.62%) Windows 10
3 51 (4.75%) Windows Server
4 50 (4.66%) Linux
5 19 (1.77%) Android
6 17 (1.58%) Mac OS
7 15 (1.40%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.28%) Unix
9 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.093%) Debian
10 1 (0.093%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.093%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.093%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.093%) OpenWrt
10 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (17.52%) Continuous Improvement
2 147 (13.70%) Risk Management
3 136 (12.67%) Mentoring
4 135 (12.58%) Roadmaps
5 133 (12.40%) ITIL
6 132 (12.30%) Incident Response
7 129 (12.02%) Problem-Solving
8 127 (11.84%) Information Security
9 116 (10.81%) Analytics
10 110 (10.25%) AI
11 91 (8.48%) Agile
12 89 (8.29%) Vulnerability Management
13 87 (8.11%) Customer Service
14 85 (7.92%) Cloud Security
15 84 (7.83%) Project Management
16 83 (7.74%) Identity Access Management
17 79 (7.36%) Customer Experience
18 78 (7.27%) Stakeholder Management
19 73 (6.80%) Programme Delivery
20 72 (6.71%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 114 (10.62%) PowerShell
2 77 (7.18%) Python
3 67 (6.24%) Bash
4 57 (5.31%) T-SQL
5 46 (4.29%) SQL
6 23 (2.14%) JavaScript
7 22 (2.05%) C++
7 22 (2.05%) Java
8 21 (1.96%) C#
9 13 (1.21%) C
10 7 (0.65%) Go
11 5 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (0.47%) PHP
11 5 (0.47%) Rust
12 4 (0.37%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.28%) Bicep
13 3 (0.28%) R
14 2 (0.19%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.093%) Perl
15 1 (0.093%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 177 (16.50%) Degree
2 166 (15.47%) Security Cleared
3 152 (14.17%) CISSP
4 138 (12.86%) SC Cleared
5 111 (10.34%) CISM
6 60 (5.59%) CTC Cleared
7 43 (4.01%) CISA
8 40 (3.73%) Microsoft Certification
9 39 (3.63%) AWS Certification
10 38 (3.54%) Cisco Certification
11 35 (3.26%) CEH
12 33 (3.08%) DV Cleared
13 30 (2.80%) SANS
14 25 (2.33%) PMP
15 24 (2.24%) CREST Certified
15 24 (2.24%) FFIEC
15 24 (2.24%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 23 (2.14%) CGEIT
17 22 (2.05%) Azure Certification
18 21 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 230 (21.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 228 (21.25%) NIST
3 101 (9.41%) GDPR
4 87 (8.11%) NCSC
5 74 (6.90%) Cyber Essentials
6 70 (6.52%) GRC
7 68 (6.34%) SLA
8 47 (4.38%) PCI DSS
9 36 (3.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 29 (2.70%) COBIT
11 16 (1.49%) ISO 22301
12 14 (1.30%) Accessibility
13 13 (1.21%) QA
13 13 (1.21%) SOC 2
14 12 (1.12%) JSP 440
15 11 (1.03%) IEC 61508
15 11 (1.03%) MISRA
15 11 (1.03%) MISRA C
16 10 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 9 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 131 (12.21%) Active Directory
2 25 (2.33%) Hyper-V
3 23 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.86%) Docker
5 10 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.56%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.47%) vSphere
8 4 (0.37%) Firmware
8 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.093%) iptables
10 1 (0.093%) KVM
10 1 (0.093%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 53 (4.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (2.61%) Terraform
3 24 (2.24%) Ansible
4 22 (2.05%) Kubernetes
5 13 (1.21%) Grafana
6 11 (1.03%) Functional Safety
7 9 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.75%) Nessus
9 5 (0.47%) FTK
9 5 (0.47%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.37%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (0.37%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 4 (0.37%) CSIRT
10 4 (0.37%) QRadar
10 4 (0.37%) RSA Archer
11 3 (0.28%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.28%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.28%) SCCM
12 2 (0.19%) WSUS
Vendors
1 233 (21.71%) Microsoft
2 86 (8.01%) Cisco
3 54 (5.03%) VMware
4 32 (2.98%) Apple
5 25 (2.33%) SAP
6 24 (2.24%) Adobe
7 23 (2.14%) Google
8 19 (1.77%) Fortinet
8 19 (1.77%) PayPal
9 18 (1.68%) Splunk
10 15 (1.40%) Commvault
10 15 (1.40%) Tenable
11 14 (1.30%) ServiceNow
12 13 (1.21%) CrowdStrike
12 13 (1.21%) Salesforce
13 11 (1.03%) CheckPoint
13 11 (1.03%) Palo Alto
14 10 (0.93%) Draytek
15 9 (0.84%) Oracle
15 9 (0.84%) Qualys