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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 32 33
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 +9
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,726 1,174 1,488
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.16% 7.23% 6.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.79% 7.76% 7.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,158 630 688
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,000 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £97,500
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 19,632 15,135 20,484
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.43% 93.17% 87.77%
Number of salaries quoted 14,097 8,610 12,632
10th Percentile £34,000 £30,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 16 September 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 84 (4.87%) SharePoint
2 68 (3.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.52%) SAS
4 8 (0.46%) IIS
5 7 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.29%) Apache
6 5 (0.29%) WordPress
7 1 (0.058%) Confluence
7 1 (0.058%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 46 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.17%) Trello
7 2 (0.12%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 24 (1.39%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.29%) SAP Business One
3 3 (0.17%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
3 3 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.058%) Magento
4 1 (0.058%) Raiser’s Edge
4 1 (0.058%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.058%) SAP CAR
4 1 (0.058%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 400 (23.17%) Azure
2 238 (13.79%) Microsoft 365
3 210 (12.17%) Entra ID
4 203 (11.76%) AWS
5 105 (6.08%) SaaS
6 75 (4.35%) GCP
7 36 (2.09%) Serverless
8 35 (2.03%) Azure Sentinel
9 33 (1.91%) Power Platform
10 26 (1.51%) OneDrive
11 21 (1.22%) Microsoft Purview
12 19 (1.10%) Microsoft Copilot
13 15 (0.87%) Mimecast
14 13 (0.75%) Azure Logic Apps
14 13 (0.75%) GitHub
15 12 (0.70%) dbt
16 11 (0.64%) Cloud Computing
17 10 (0.58%) GitHub Actions
18 7 (0.41%) Power Automate
18 7 (0.41%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 249 (14.43%) Firewall
2 159 (9.21%) Network Security
3 90 (5.21%) VLAN
4 78 (4.52%) DNS
5 64 (3.71%) DHCP
5 64 (3.71%) WAN
6 63 (3.65%) VPN
7 52 (3.01%) TCP/IP
8 47 (2.72%) LAN
9 40 (2.32%) Wi-Fi
10 32 (1.85%) Broadband
11 31 (1.80%) VoIP
12 26 (1.51%) BGP
13 20 (1.16%) Cisco Nexus
14 19 (1.10%) HTTP
14 19 (1.10%) SSL
15 18 (1.04%) Intrusion Detection
15 18 (1.04%) MPLS
15 18 (1.04%) SD-WAN
16 17 (0.98%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (0.93%) SQL Server
2 12 (0.70%) Power BI
3 6 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (0.35%) Tableau
4 5 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (0.29%) Apache Iceberg
4 5 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (0.29%) Big Data
5 3 (0.17%) Metadata
5 3 (0.17%) MySQL
5 3 (0.17%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.058%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.058%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.058%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.058%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.058%) GIS
6 1 (0.058%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.058%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.058%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 27 (1.56%) Snyk
2 23 (1.33%) JIRA
3 9 (0.52%) Git
4 7 (0.41%) Burp Suite
4 7 (0.41%) Metasploit
5 6 (0.35%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.29%) GitLab
6 5 (0.29%) Poetry
6 5 (0.29%) VersionOne
7 4 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.12%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.12%) Maven
8 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.058%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.058%) GDB
9 1 (0.058%) JMeter
9 1 (0.058%) Locust
9 1 (0.058%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.058%) WinDbg
General
1 601 (34.82%) Social Skills
2 188 (10.89%) Finance
3 171 (9.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 147 (8.52%) Public Sector
5 146 (8.46%) Analytical Skills
6 116 (6.72%) Legal
6 116 (6.72%) Marketing
7 97 (5.62%) Retail
8 75 (4.35%) Law
9 63 (3.65%) Telecoms
10 61 (3.53%) Organisational Skills
11 48 (2.78%) Banking
12 45 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
13 32 (1.85%) Aerospace
14 29 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
15 26 (1.51%) Games
15 26 (1.51%) Manufacturing
16 24 (1.39%) Aviation
16 24 (1.39%) Police
17 23 (1.33%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 356 (20.63%) Senior
2 200 (11.59%) Analyst
3 186 (10.78%) Consultant
4 162 (9.39%) Architect
5 126 (7.30%) Security Engineer
6 114 (6.60%) Security Manager
7 109 (6.32%) Security Consultant
8 105 (6.08%) Security Architect
9 97 (5.62%) Security Analyst
10 93 (5.39%) Lead
11 90 (5.21%) Cybersecurity Manager
12 82 (4.75%) IT Manager
12 82 (4.75%) Support Engineer
13 80 (4.63%) IT Support
14 79 (4.58%) Senior Manager
15 74 (4.29%) Senior Analyst
16 64 (3.71%) Business Manager
16 64 (3.71%) IT Engineer
17 63 (3.65%) Cybersecurity Analyst
18 61 (3.53%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (1.62%) Terraform
2 27 (1.56%) OAuth
3 22 (1.27%) SAML
4 17 (0.98%) LDAP
5 15 (0.87%) .NET
5 15 (0.87%) REST
6 14 (0.81%) OpenID
7 8 (0.46%) Kafka
7 8 (0.46%) SailPoint
8 7 (0.41%) Microsoft Graph
8 7 (0.41%) ModSecurity
9 6 (0.35%) JSON
9 6 (0.35%) React
9 6 (0.35%) Regular Expression
9 6 (0.35%) RESTful
9 6 (0.35%) SOAP
9 6 (0.35%) XMPP
10 5 (0.29%) Node.js
10 5 (0.29%) PySpark
10 5 (0.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 134 (7.76%) Cyber Threat
2 131 (7.59%) Security Posture
3 99 (5.74%) Management Information System
4 93 (5.39%) Onboarding
5 65 (3.77%) Driving Licence
6 58 (3.36%) Self-Motivation
7 57 (3.30%) Data Centre
8 46 (2.67%) Operational Technology
9 43 (2.49%) Cyber Defence
10 42 (2.43%) Cloud Native
11 37 (2.14%) Security Operations Centre
12 32 (1.85%) PKI
13 29 (1.68%) Cyberattack
14 27 (1.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
15 25 (1.45%) Social Media
16 22 (1.27%) AI Agents
16 22 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
17 21 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
18 20 (1.16%) Cyber Security Posture
18 20 (1.16%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 177 (10.25%) Windows
2 81 (4.69%) Windows Server
3 54 (3.13%) Linux
4 21 (1.22%) Mac OS
5 8 (0.46%) Android
5 8 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (0.41%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.35%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.17%) Unix
9 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.058%) AIX
10 1 (0.058%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.058%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 339 (19.64%) Continuous Improvement
2 329 (19.06%) AI
3 316 (18.31%) Information Security
4 262 (15.18%) Problem-Solving
5 235 (13.62%) Decision-Making
6 228 (13.21%) Risk Management
7 219 (12.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 210 (12.17%) Mentoring
9 206 (11.94%) Incident Response
10 186 (10.78%) Cloud Security
11 185 (10.72%) Vulnerability Management
12 174 (10.08%) Security Operations
13 166 (9.62%) Stakeholder Management
14 163 (9.44%) SIEM
15 156 (9.04%) ITIL
16 148 (8.57%) Identity Access Management
16 148 (8.57%) Service Delivery
17 147 (8.52%) Business Continuity
18 140 (8.11%) Agile
19 127 (7.36%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 115 (6.66%) Python
2 75 (4.35%) PowerShell
3 36 (2.09%) SQL
4 21 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
5 19 (1.10%) C++
6 17 (0.98%) Java
7 13 (0.75%) Bash
8 12 (0.70%) C#
8 12 (0.70%) JavaScript
9 10 (0.58%) TypeScript
10 9 (0.52%) Go
10 9 (0.52%) Rust
11 7 (0.41%) C
12 5 (0.29%) VB.NET
13 3 (0.17%) Ada
13 3 (0.17%) Search Processing Language
14 2 (0.12%) Embedded C
14 2 (0.12%) Embedded C++
14 2 (0.12%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 289 (16.74%) Security Cleared
2 239 (13.85%) CISSP
3 216 (12.51%) SC Cleared
4 194 (11.24%) CISM
5 168 (9.73%) Degree
6 87 (5.04%) DV Cleared
7 60 (3.48%) A+ Certification
8 59 (3.42%) Network+ Certification
9 48 (2.78%) AWS Certification
10 45 (2.61%) Cisco Certification
10 45 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
11 44 (2.55%) CRISC
12 42 (2.43%) CISA
13 40 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
14 39 (2.26%) Azure Certification
15 38 (2.20%) CompTIA Security+
16 30 (1.74%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
17 28 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
18 27 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 25 (1.45%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 317 (18.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 232 (13.44%) NIST
3 157 (9.10%) GDPR
4 144 (8.34%) GRC
5 135 (7.82%) Cyber Essentials
6 79 (4.58%) PCI DSS
7 62 (3.59%) NCSC
8 48 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 32 (1.85%) SLA
10 31 (1.80%) Accessibility
11 27 (1.56%) SOC 2
12 25 (1.45%) QA
13 22 (1.27%) COBIT
14 20 (1.16%) NIST 800
15 19 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
16 17 (0.98%) JSP 440
17 15 (0.87%) ISO 22301
17 15 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 14 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 42001
19 11 (0.64%) PMO
System Software
1 190 (11.01%) Active Directory
2 54 (3.13%) Hyper-V
3 29 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (1.10%) Firmware
6 14 (0.81%) Docker
7 9 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
9 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 6 (0.35%) VMware NSX
10 5 (0.29%) ClearTrust
11 3 (0.17%) vSphere
12 2 (0.12%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.058%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 148 (8.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
3 25 (1.45%) Kubernetes
4 18 (1.04%) Ansible
5 15 (0.87%) CASB
6 13 (0.75%) FortiGate
7 8 (0.46%) Grafana
8 7 (0.41%) Nmap
8 7 (0.41%) QRadar
9 6 (0.35%) Cisco CUCM
9 6 (0.35%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.23%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 3 (0.17%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 3 (0.17%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 3 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
11 3 (0.17%) SCCM
12 2 (0.12%) Functional Safety
12 2 (0.12%) Graylog
13 1 (0.058%) OpenVAS
13 1 (0.058%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 533 (30.88%) Microsoft
2 82 (4.75%) Cisco
2 82 (4.75%) Palo Alto
3 67 (3.88%) CyberArk
4 47 (2.72%) VMware
5 44 (2.55%) CrowdStrike
6 38 (2.20%) Adobe
6 38 (2.20%) Apple
7 36 (2.09%) ServiceNow
8 33 (1.91%) Tenable
9 30 (1.74%) Splunk
10 29 (1.68%) Fortinet
11 28 (1.62%) Salesforce
12 27 (1.56%) Qualys
13 25 (1.45%) Google
14 18 (1.04%) Aruba
15 17 (0.98%) Veeam
16 15 (0.87%) OpenAI
17 12 (0.70%) SAP
18 9 (0.52%) Okta