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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 31 40
Rank change year-on-year +3 +9 +10
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,257 1,177 1,878
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.85% 8.10% 5.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.28% 8.52% 6.35%
Number of salaries quoted 790 701 1,277
10th Percentile £36,250 £25,000 £37,200
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,250 £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 15,186 13,820 29,562
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.80% 95.08% 91.06%
Number of salaries quoted 10,784 8,648 23,364
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +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% -9.84%

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 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 (2.63%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.56%) WordPress
4 4 (0.32%) 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 (0.080%) IIS
7 1 (0.080%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.080%) SAS
Applications
1 77 (6.13%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (2.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 23 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.16%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.080%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 24 (1.91%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.40%) SAP Business One
3 3 (0.24%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.16%) Shopify
5 1 (0.080%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 335 (26.65%) Azure
2 172 (13.68%) AWS
3 167 (13.29%) Microsoft 365
4 156 (12.41%) Entra ID
5 67 (5.33%) GCP
6 54 (4.30%) Google Workspace
7 48 (3.82%) SaaS
8 31 (2.47%) Azure Sentinel
8 31 (2.47%) Power Platform
9 27 (2.15%) Serverless
10 21 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (1.19%) Azure Logic Apps
12 14 (1.11%) Mimecast
13 12 (0.95%) Nutanix
14 10 (0.80%) PaaS
15 8 (0.64%) OneDrive
16 7 (0.56%) Microsoft Purview
17 6 (0.48%) Datadog
18 5 (0.40%) GitHub
18 5 (0.40%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 139 (11.06%) Firewall
2 90 (7.16%) Broadband
3 65 (5.17%) Network Security
4 35 (2.78%) DNS
5 34 (2.70%) VPN
6 24 (1.91%) VLAN
7 23 (1.83%) WAN
8 22 (1.75%) CHAP
8 22 (1.75%) Unified Communications
9 20 (1.59%) DHCP
10 19 (1.51%) LAN
11 17 (1.35%) Intrusion Detection
12 14 (1.11%) Cisco ASA
12 14 (1.11%) SSL
13 12 (0.95%) VoIP
14 11 (0.88%) TCP/IP
15 9 (0.72%) BGP
15 9 (0.72%) Cisco Firepower
15 9 (0.72%) DMZ
15 9 (0.72%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (0.88%) Power BI
2 6 (0.48%) SQL Server
3 5 (0.40%) Tableau
4 3 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.24%) MariaDB
4 3 (0.24%) MySQL
4 3 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.16%) Big Data
5 2 (0.16%) Metadata
5 2 (0.16%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.16%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.16%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.080%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.080%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.080%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.080%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.080%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 24 (1.91%) Snyk
2 7 (0.56%) GitLab
3 6 (0.48%) Git
4 5 (0.40%) Cucumber
4 5 (0.40%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.40%) JMeter
4 5 (0.40%) Locust
4 5 (0.40%) VersionOne
5 2 (0.16%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.16%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.080%) GDB
6 1 (0.080%) JIRA
6 1 (0.080%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.080%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.080%) WinDbg
General
1 362 (28.80%) Social Skills
2 168 (13.37%) Finance
3 136 (10.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 106 (8.43%) Public Sector
5 95 (7.56%) Analytical Skills
6 89 (7.08%) Marketing
7 75 (5.97%) Organisational Skills
8 69 (5.49%) Retail
9 63 (5.01%) Banking
10 54 (4.30%) Back Office
11 50 (3.98%) Games
12 49 (3.90%) Law
13 40 (3.18%) Telecoms
14 34 (2.70%) Legal
15 28 (2.23%) Aviation
16 23 (1.83%) Financial Institution
17 22 (1.75%) Manufacturing
18 20 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
19 13 (1.03%) Advertising
20 12 (0.95%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 262 (20.84%) Senior
2 160 (12.73%) Analyst
3 144 (11.46%) Architect
4 107 (8.51%) Security Architect
5 101 (8.04%) Security Manager
6 96 (7.64%) Consultant
7 88 (7.00%) Support Engineer
8 77 (6.13%) Security Analyst
9 76 (6.05%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 71 (5.65%) Senior Architect
11 68 (5.41%) Security Consultant
12 61 (4.85%) Cybersecurity Architect
13 56 (4.46%) Lead
14 53 (4.22%) Developer
15 52 (4.14%) Senior Security Architect
16 50 (3.98%) Desktop Engineer
16 50 (3.98%) Desktop Support
16 50 (3.98%) Desktop Support Engineer
17 49 (3.90%) IT Manager
18 48 (3.82%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (4.85%) LDAP
2 59 (4.69%) REST
2 59 (4.69%) SAML
3 58 (4.61%) OAuth
3 58 (4.61%) OpenID
4 54 (4.30%) SOAP
5 53 (4.22%) GraphQL
6 9 (0.72%) XMPP
7 8 (0.64%) SAP CAF
8 7 (0.56%) Kafka
8 7 (0.56%) RESTful
9 6 (0.48%) Regular Expression
10 5 (0.40%) Gherkin
10 5 (0.40%) Microsoft Graph
10 5 (0.40%) React
11 4 (0.32%) LangChain
11 4 (0.32%) SailPoint
12 3 (0.24%) Semantic Kernel
12 3 (0.24%) Spring Boot
12 3 (0.24%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 121 (9.63%) Cyber Threat
2 97 (7.72%) Security Posture
3 84 (6.68%) Cyberattack
4 78 (6.21%) Onboarding
5 77 (6.13%) Management Information System
6 50 (3.98%) Data Centre
7 45 (3.58%) Cyber Defence
8 36 (2.86%) Blog
9 34 (2.70%) Driving Licence
9 34 (2.70%) PKI
10 32 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
11 30 (2.39%) Cloud Native
11 30 (2.39%) Operational Technology
11 30 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
12 25 (1.99%) Cyber Security Posture
13 23 (1.83%) Public Cloud
14 22 (1.75%) Low-Code
15 16 (1.27%) Security Operations Centre
16 15 (1.19%) Cyber Kill Chain
17 14 (1.11%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 149 (11.85%) Windows
2 58 (4.61%) Windows 10
3 51 (4.06%) Windows Server
4 43 (3.42%) Linux
5 18 (1.43%) Android
6 15 (1.19%) Apple iOS
6 15 (1.19%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.080%) AIX
9 1 (0.080%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.080%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.080%) OpenBSD
9 1 (0.080%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (16.47%) Continuous Improvement
2 166 (13.21%) Mentoring
3 158 (12.57%) Risk Management
4 154 (12.25%) Incident Response
4 154 (12.25%) Information Security
5 146 (11.61%) Problem-Solving
6 140 (11.14%) AI
7 136 (10.82%) Roadmaps
8 131 (10.42%) Vulnerability Management
9 119 (9.47%) Cloud Security
10 114 (9.07%) ITIL
11 104 (8.27%) Agile
12 103 (8.19%) Analytics
13 95 (7.56%) Security Operations
14 93 (7.40%) Security Architecture
15 92 (7.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 91 (7.24%) Identity Access Management
17 90 (7.16%) Project Management
18 89 (7.08%) Threat Modelling
19 84 (6.68%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 112 (8.91%) PowerShell
2 96 (7.64%) Python
3 59 (4.69%) Bash
4 52 (4.14%) T-SQL
5 40 (3.18%) SQL
6 26 (2.07%) Java
7 22 (1.75%) JavaScript
8 20 (1.59%) C++
9 17 (1.35%) C#
10 13 (1.03%) C
11 9 (0.72%) Go
12 5 (0.40%) PHP
12 5 (0.40%) Rust
13 3 (0.24%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.24%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.080%) Bicep
14 1 (0.080%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.080%) Perl
14 1 (0.080%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 196 (15.59%) Security Cleared
2 162 (12.89%) SC Cleared
3 160 (12.73%) Degree
4 150 (11.93%) CISSP
5 116 (9.23%) CISM
6 56 (4.46%) AWS Certification
7 50 (3.98%) CTC Cleared
8 44 (3.50%) DV Cleared
9 42 (3.34%) CISA
10 34 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
11 30 (2.39%) SANS
12 29 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
13 26 (2.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 26 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
14 25 (1.99%) CEH
14 25 (1.99%) CREST Certified
15 23 (1.83%) FFIEC
16 22 (1.75%) Azure Certification
16 22 (1.75%) CGEIT
17 19 (1.51%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 233 (18.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 229 (18.22%) NIST
3 124 (9.86%) GDPR
4 94 (7.48%) GRC
5 84 (6.68%) NCSC
6 81 (6.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 63 (5.01%) SLA
8 60 (4.77%) PCI DSS
9 41 (3.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 29 (2.31%) COBIT
11 21 (1.67%) QA
12 19 (1.51%) Accessibility
13 16 (1.27%) SOC 2
14 15 (1.19%) JSP 440
15 14 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
16 12 (0.95%) ISO 22301
17 11 (0.88%) IEC 61508
17 11 (0.88%) MISRA
17 11 (0.88%) MISRA C
18 8 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 133 (10.58%) Active Directory
2 27 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (1.91%) Hyper-V
5 18 (1.43%) Docker
6 10 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
8 7 (0.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 6 (0.48%) Firmware
9 6 (0.48%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.48%) vSphere
10 1 (0.080%) KVM
10 1 (0.080%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 53 (4.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (2.31%) Kubernetes
3 26 (2.07%) Terraform
4 22 (1.75%) Ansible
5 20 (1.59%) Grafana
6 11 (0.88%) Functional Safety
7 10 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.72%) Cisco CUCM
9 6 (0.48%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.40%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 5 (0.40%) FTK
10 5 (0.40%) QRadar
10 5 (0.40%) SCCM
11 4 (0.32%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 4 (0.32%) CSIRT
11 4 (0.32%) Nessus
12 3 (0.24%) CASB
12 3 (0.24%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.24%) RSA Archer
13 2 (0.16%) Graylog
Vendors
1 302 (24.03%) Microsoft
2 83 (6.60%) Cisco
3 55 (4.38%) Apple
4 51 (4.06%) Adobe
5 48 (3.82%) VMware
6 44 (3.50%) Palo Alto
7 36 (2.86%) CrowdStrike
7 36 (2.86%) ServiceNow
8 35 (2.78%) Tenable
9 29 (2.31%) Google
10 27 (2.15%) Fortinet
11 21 (1.67%) Splunk
12 17 (1.35%) SAP
13 16 (1.27%) Salesforce
14 11 (0.88%) Commvault
15 10 (0.80%) CheckPoint
16 9 (0.72%) Sophos
17 8 (0.64%) Qualys
18 7 (0.56%) Oracle
19 6 (0.48%) NetApp