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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 28 34
Rank change year-on-year -1 +6 +13
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,616 1,247 1,450
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.12% 7.59% 5.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.62% 8.17% 6.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,085 716 818
10th Percentile £36,250 £25,313 £38,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,125 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,813 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -7.56% -8.46%

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 18,751 15,258 21,879
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.66% 92.88% 87.75%
Number of salaries quoted 13,547 8,951 15,627
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,875 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.84%

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 12 August 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 62 (3.84%) SharePoint
2 49 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.56%) SAS
4 7 (0.43%) IIS
5 5 (0.31%) WordPress
6 2 (0.12%) Apache
6 2 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.12%) CMS
7 1 (0.062%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.062%) Confluence
7 1 (0.062%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 41 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.19%) Trello
7 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.062%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 24 (1.49%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.31%) SAP Business One
3 3 (0.19%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.12%) Shopify
5 1 (0.062%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.062%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.062%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 389 (24.07%) Azure
2 206 (12.75%) AWS
3 199 (12.31%) Microsoft 365
4 166 (10.27%) Entra ID
5 97 (6.00%) SaaS
6 79 (4.89%) GCP
7 33 (2.04%) Azure Sentinel
8 29 (1.79%) Serverless
9 22 (1.36%) Power Platform
10 19 (1.18%) OneDrive
11 16 (0.99%) dbt
12 12 (0.74%) Azure Logic Apps
12 12 (0.74%) Cloud Computing
12 12 (0.74%) Mimecast
13 10 (0.62%) PaaS
14 9 (0.56%) Microsoft Copilot
14 9 (0.56%) Microsoft Purview
15 7 (0.43%) GitHub
16 6 (0.37%) Datadog
17 5 (0.31%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 229 (14.17%) Firewall
2 158 (9.78%) Network Security
3 84 (5.20%) VLAN
4 60 (3.71%) DNS
5 56 (3.47%) VPN
6 55 (3.40%) WAN
7 46 (2.85%) DHCP
8 42 (2.60%) LAN
9 41 (2.54%) Broadband
10 38 (2.35%) TCP/IP
11 35 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
12 26 (1.61%) VoIP
13 21 (1.30%) BGP
13 21 (1.30%) Unified Communications
14 19 (1.18%) Intrusion Detection
14 19 (1.18%) SSL
15 18 (1.11%) HTTP
16 16 (0.99%) Cisco Nexus
16 16 (0.99%) MPLS
16 16 (0.99%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (0.68%) Power BI
2 9 (0.56%) SQL Server
3 7 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (0.37%) Tableau
5 5 (0.31%) Big Data
6 4 (0.25%) Metadata
6 4 (0.25%) MySQL
6 4 (0.25%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.12%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.12%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.062%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.062%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.062%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.062%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.062%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.062%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.062%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.062%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.062%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 27 (1.67%) Snyk
2 21 (1.30%) JIRA
3 7 (0.43%) Git
4 6 (0.37%) GitLab
5 5 (0.31%) Burp Suite
5 5 (0.31%) Cucumber
5 5 (0.31%) JMeter
5 5 (0.31%) Locust
5 5 (0.31%) Metasploit
5 5 (0.31%) VersionOne
6 3 (0.19%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.12%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.062%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.062%) GDB
8 1 (0.062%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.062%) WinDbg
General
1 535 (33.11%) Social Skills
2 174 (10.77%) Finance
3 168 (10.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 137 (8.48%) Analytical Skills
5 131 (8.11%) Public Sector
6 115 (7.12%) Legal
7 111 (6.87%) Marketing
8 88 (5.45%) Retail
9 74 (4.58%) Law
10 51 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
11 47 (2.91%) Telecoms
12 43 (2.66%) Banking
13 37 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
14 32 (1.98%) Games
15 27 (1.67%) Advertising
15 27 (1.67%) Aerospace
16 22 (1.36%) Aviation
16 22 (1.36%) Manufacturing
17 20 (1.24%) Police
17 20 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 338 (20.92%) Senior
2 194 (12.00%) Analyst
3 164 (10.15%) Consultant
4 159 (9.84%) Architect
5 116 (7.18%) Security Manager
6 110 (6.81%) Security Engineer
7 107 (6.62%) Security Consultant
8 102 (6.31%) Security Analyst
9 98 (6.06%) Lead
9 98 (6.06%) Security Architect
10 92 (5.69%) Cybersecurity Manager
11 89 (5.51%) Senior Manager
12 87 (5.38%) IT Manager
13 74 (4.58%) Senior Analyst
14 70 (4.33%) Support Engineer
15 67 (4.15%) IT Support
16 63 (3.90%) Cybersecurity Analyst
17 54 (3.34%) Senior Security Engineer
18 52 (3.22%) Cybersecurity Consultant
19 51 (3.16%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.55%) OAuth
2 22 (1.36%) SAML
3 16 (0.99%) LDAP
4 14 (0.87%) OpenID
5 12 (0.74%) REST
6 10 (0.62%) .NET
6 10 (0.62%) XMPP
7 8 (0.50%) LangChain
8 7 (0.43%) Microsoft Graph
8 7 (0.43%) SailPoint
9 6 (0.37%) Kafka
9 6 (0.37%) Regular Expression
9 6 (0.37%) RESTful
10 5 (0.31%) Gherkin
10 5 (0.31%) JSON
10 5 (0.31%) LangGraph
10 5 (0.31%) ModSecurity
10 5 (0.31%) React
11 4 (0.25%) PyTorch
11 4 (0.25%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 126 (7.80%) Cyber Threat
2 121 (7.49%) Security Posture
3 99 (6.13%) Management Information System
4 79 (4.89%) Onboarding
5 57 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
6 52 (3.22%) Driving Licence
7 47 (2.91%) Data Centre
8 46 (2.85%) Cloud Native
9 45 (2.78%) Cyber Defence
10 35 (2.17%) Cyberattack
11 33 (2.04%) PKI
12 32 (1.98%) Operational Technology
13 28 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
14 25 (1.55%) Security Operations Centre
15 24 (1.49%) Blog
15 24 (1.49%) Cyber Kill Chain
16 20 (1.24%) AI Agents
16 20 (1.24%) Social Media
16 20 (1.24%) Web Conferencing
17 18 (1.11%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 164 (10.15%) Windows
2 66 (4.08%) Windows Server
3 57 (3.53%) Linux
4 24 (1.49%) Mac OS
5 8 (0.50%) Android
5 8 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (0.43%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.37%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.062%) AIX
9 1 (0.062%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.062%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.062%) OpenBSD
9 1 (0.062%) Solaris
9 1 (0.062%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (19.12%) Continuous Improvement
2 297 (18.38%) Information Security
3 283 (17.51%) AI
4 247 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
5 217 (13.43%) Decision-Making
5 217 (13.43%) Risk Management
6 209 (12.93%) Mentoring
7 205 (12.69%) Incident Response
8 201 (12.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 176 (10.89%) Vulnerability Management
10 171 (10.58%) Cloud Security
11 155 (9.59%) Agile
12 154 (9.53%) ITIL
13 149 (9.22%) SIEM
14 141 (8.73%) Security Operations
14 141 (8.73%) Stakeholder Management
15 140 (8.66%) Identity Access Management
16 137 (8.48%) Business Continuity
17 130 (8.04%) Project Delivery
18 126 (7.80%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 118 (7.30%) Python
2 70 (4.33%) PowerShell
3 27 (1.67%) SQL
4 23 (1.42%) Java
5 19 (1.18%) JavaScript
6 15 (0.93%) C++
7 13 (0.80%) Bash
7 13 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
8 9 (0.56%) C#
8 9 (0.56%) Rust
9 8 (0.50%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.43%) Go
11 5 (0.31%) C
12 4 (0.25%) VB.NET
13 3 (0.19%) Ada
13 3 (0.19%) PHP
14 2 (0.12%) Search Processing Language
15 1 (0.062%) Bicep
15 1 (0.062%) Embedded C
15 1 (0.062%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 274 (16.96%) Security Cleared
2 232 (14.36%) CISSP
3 207 (12.81%) SC Cleared
4 183 (11.32%) CISM
5 155 (9.59%) Degree
6 80 (4.95%) DV Cleared
7 58 (3.59%) A+ Certification
8 57 (3.53%) Network+ Certification
9 46 (2.85%) AWS Certification
10 40 (2.48%) CRISC
11 39 (2.41%) CISA
12 38 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
13 36 (2.23%) CompTIA Security+
14 35 (2.17%) Azure Certification
14 35 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
15 33 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
16 28 (1.73%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
17 27 (1.67%) CREST Certified
18 26 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 26 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 307 (19.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 217 (13.43%) NIST
3 162 (10.02%) GDPR
4 133 (8.23%) GRC
5 115 (7.12%) Cyber Essentials
6 83 (5.14%) PCI DSS
7 56 (3.47%) NCSC
8 49 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 30 (1.86%) SLA
10 27 (1.67%) Accessibility
10 27 (1.67%) QA
11 25 (1.55%) COBIT
11 25 (1.55%) SOC 2
12 21 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
13 17 (1.05%) JSP 440
14 15 (0.93%) ISO 22301
14 15 (0.93%) NIST 800
15 12 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 12 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 10 (0.62%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 178 (11.01%) Active Directory
2 40 (2.48%) Hyper-V
3 31 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (1.05%) Firmware
6 14 (0.87%) Docker
7 11 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
8 10 (0.62%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 8 (0.50%) VMware NSX
10 7 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.43%) vSphere
11 5 (0.31%) ClearTrust
12 1 (0.062%) KVM
12 1 (0.062%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 128 (7.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (1.73%) Kubernetes
3 25 (1.55%) Terraform
4 18 (1.11%) Ansible
4 18 (1.11%) Grafana
5 16 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (0.87%) CASB
7 13 (0.80%) FortiGate
8 10 (0.62%) Cisco CUCM
9 7 (0.43%) QRadar
10 5 (0.31%) Nmap
11 4 (0.25%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 3 (0.19%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 3 (0.19%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 3 (0.19%) CSIRT
12 3 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
12 3 (0.19%) Prometheus
12 3 (0.19%) SCCM
13 2 (0.12%) Graylog
13 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 479 (29.64%) Microsoft
2 82 (5.07%) Palo Alto
3 76 (4.70%) Cisco
4 62 (3.84%) CyberArk
5 49 (3.03%) VMware
6 43 (2.66%) ServiceNow
7 37 (2.29%) CrowdStrike
8 35 (2.17%) Apple
9 34 (2.10%) Adobe
9 34 (2.10%) Fortinet
9 34 (2.10%) Google
10 31 (1.92%) Splunk
10 31 (1.92%) Tenable
11 26 (1.61%) Salesforce
12 24 (1.49%) Qualys
13 18 (1.11%) Aruba
14 15 (0.93%) OpenAI
15 13 (0.80%) SAP
16 11 (0.68%) Veeam
17 9 (0.56%) Okta