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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 35 40
Rank change year-on-year +8 +5 +8
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,324 1,154 1,897
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.90% 7.72% 5.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.34% 8.15% 6.33%
Number of salaries quoted 872 660 1,262
10th Percentile £36,250 £25,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,262 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £88,299 £72,500 £77,188
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,333 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,500 £59,500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -1.68% -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 15,882 14,159 29,959
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.77% 94.77% 89.99%
Number of salaries quoted 11,378 8,323 23,497
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +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 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%

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 31 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 45 (3.40%) SharePoint
2 25 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.30%) WordPress
4 3 (0.23%) CMS
4 3 (0.23%) SAS
5 2 (0.15%) Apache
5 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.076%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.076%) IIS
6 1 (0.076%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 80 (6.04%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 24 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (1.81%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.38%) SAP Business One
3 4 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.23%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.15%) Shopify
6 1 (0.076%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 350 (26.44%) Azure
2 188 (14.20%) Microsoft 365
3 175 (13.22%) AWS
4 166 (12.54%) Entra ID
5 74 (5.59%) GCP
6 58 (4.38%) SaaS
7 54 (4.08%) Google Workspace
8 33 (2.49%) Power Platform
9 31 (2.34%) Azure Sentinel
10 28 (2.11%) Serverless
11 21 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (1.28%) Azure Logic Apps
13 16 (1.21%) Mimecast
14 13 (0.98%) OneDrive
15 10 (0.76%) Nutanix
15 10 (0.76%) PaaS
16 9 (0.68%) Microsoft Purview
17 6 (0.45%) Datadog
17 6 (0.45%) GitHub
18 5 (0.38%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 149 (11.25%) Firewall
2 90 (6.80%) Broadband
3 81 (6.12%) Network Security
4 43 (3.25%) DNS
5 41 (3.10%) VPN
6 29 (2.19%) VLAN
6 29 (2.19%) WAN
7 28 (2.11%) DHCP
8 24 (1.81%) Unified Communications
9 21 (1.59%) LAN
10 20 (1.51%) CHAP
11 18 (1.36%) Intrusion Detection
12 17 (1.28%) SSL
13 15 (1.13%) TCP/IP
13 15 (1.13%) VoIP
14 14 (1.06%) Cisco ASA
15 13 (0.98%) BGP
16 11 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
17 10 (0.76%) Internet
18 9 (0.68%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (0.83%) Power BI
2 6 (0.45%) SQL Server
3 5 (0.38%) Tableau
4 3 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.23%) Big Data
4 3 (0.23%) MySQL
4 3 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.15%) Metadata
5 2 (0.15%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.15%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.15%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.076%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.076%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.076%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.076%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 25 (1.89%) Snyk
2 8 (0.60%) GitLab
3 6 (0.45%) Git
4 5 (0.38%) Cucumber
4 5 (0.38%) JMeter
4 5 (0.38%) Locust
4 5 (0.38%) VersionOne
5 4 (0.30%) JIRA
6 3 (0.23%) Burp Suite
6 3 (0.23%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.23%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.076%) GDB
7 1 (0.076%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.076%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.076%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.076%) WinDbg
General
1 377 (28.47%) Social Skills
2 164 (12.39%) Finance
3 134 (10.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 114 (8.61%) Public Sector
5 105 (7.93%) Analytical Skills
6 94 (7.10%) Marketing
7 76 (5.74%) Organisational Skills
7 76 (5.74%) Retail
8 56 (4.23%) Banking
9 53 (4.00%) Back Office
10 52 (3.93%) Games
11 48 (3.63%) Law
12 38 (2.87%) Legal
13 36 (2.72%) Telecoms
14 28 (2.11%) Aviation
15 22 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
16 21 (1.59%) Financial Institution
17 18 (1.36%) Advertising
18 17 (1.28%) Manufacturing
19 14 (1.06%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 245 (18.50%) Senior
2 166 (12.54%) Analyst
3 165 (12.46%) Architect
4 125 (9.44%) Security Architect
5 106 (8.01%) Security Manager
6 101 (7.63%) Consultant
7 96 (7.25%) Support Engineer
8 85 (6.42%) Security Analyst
9 83 (6.27%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 75 (5.66%) Lead
11 73 (5.51%) Security Consultant
11 73 (5.51%) Senior Architect
12 72 (5.44%) Cybersecurity Architect
13 57 (4.31%) IT Support
14 55 (4.15%) Developer
15 53 (4.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
15 53 (4.00%) IT Manager
15 53 (4.00%) Senior Security Architect
16 50 (3.78%) Security Engineer
17 48 (3.63%) Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (4.83%) SAML
2 63 (4.76%) OAuth
3 62 (4.68%) LDAP
4 60 (4.53%) REST
5 59 (4.46%) OpenID
6 54 (4.08%) SOAP
7 53 (4.00%) GraphQL
8 9 (0.68%) XMPP
9 8 (0.60%) Microsoft Graph
10 7 (0.53%) Kafka
10 7 (0.53%) RESTful
11 6 (0.45%) Regular Expression
12 5 (0.38%) Gherkin
12 5 (0.38%) LangChain
12 5 (0.38%) React
13 4 (0.30%) SailPoint
14 3 (0.23%) .NET
14 3 (0.23%) Semantic Kernel
14 3 (0.23%) Spring
14 3 (0.23%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 122 (9.21%) Cyber Threat
2 106 (8.01%) Security Posture
3 84 (6.34%) Cyberattack
4 82 (6.19%) Management Information System
5 81 (6.12%) Onboarding
6 48 (3.63%) Data Centre
7 45 (3.40%) Cyber Defence
8 37 (2.79%) Driving Licence
8 37 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
9 36 (2.72%) PKI
10 32 (2.42%) Cloud Native
11 31 (2.34%) Blog
12 28 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
12 28 (2.11%) Operational Technology
13 26 (1.96%) Cyber Security Posture
14 22 (1.66%) Low-Code
15 21 (1.59%) Public Cloud
16 19 (1.44%) Security Operations Centre
17 18 (1.36%) Cyber Kill Chain
18 15 (1.13%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 162 (12.24%) Windows
2 59 (4.46%) Windows Server
3 55 (4.15%) Windows 10
4 42 (3.17%) Linux
5 19 (1.44%) Mac OS
6 17 (1.28%) Android
7 15 (1.13%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.076%) AIX
10 1 (0.076%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.076%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.076%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.076%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (17.22%) Continuous Improvement
2 174 (13.14%) Incident Response
3 170 (12.84%) Mentoring
4 168 (12.69%) Risk Management
5 165 (12.46%) Information Security
5 165 (12.46%) Problem-Solving
6 142 (10.73%) Vulnerability Management
7 141 (10.65%) AI
8 137 (10.35%) Roadmaps
9 129 (9.74%) Cloud Security
10 114 (8.61%) ITIL
11 112 (8.46%) Security Operations
12 111 (8.38%) Analytics
13 106 (8.01%) Agile
14 104 (7.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 98 (7.40%) Identity Access Management
16 95 (7.18%) SIEM
17 93 (7.02%) Threat Modelling
18 92 (6.95%) Security Architecture
19 87 (6.57%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 119 (8.99%) PowerShell
2 101 (7.63%) Python
3 60 (4.53%) Bash
4 52 (3.93%) T-SQL
5 42 (3.17%) SQL
6 28 (2.11%) Java
7 22 (1.66%) JavaScript
8 18 (1.36%) C++
9 17 (1.28%) C#
10 13 (0.98%) C
11 9 (0.68%) Go
12 7 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
13 5 (0.38%) PHP
13 5 (0.38%) Rust
14 3 (0.23%) TypeScript
15 2 (0.15%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.076%) Ada
16 1 (0.076%) Perl
16 1 (0.076%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.076%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 206 (15.56%) Security Cleared
2 173 (13.07%) SC Cleared
3 160 (12.08%) Degree
4 158 (11.93%) CISSP
5 115 (8.69%) CISM
6 53 (4.00%) AWS Certification
6 53 (4.00%) DV Cleared
7 48 (3.63%) CTC Cleared
8 41 (3.10%) CISA
9 36 (2.72%) Microsoft Certification
10 31 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
11 28 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
11 28 (2.11%) CREST Certified
11 28 (2.11%) SANS
12 26 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 26 (1.96%) Azure Certification
13 23 (1.74%) CEH
14 21 (1.59%) FFIEC
15 20 (1.51%) CGEIT
15 20 (1.51%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 253 (19.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 237 (17.90%) NIST
3 133 (10.05%) GDPR
4 102 (7.70%) GRC
5 94 (7.10%) NCSC
6 85 (6.42%) Cyber Essentials
7 66 (4.98%) SLA
8 65 (4.91%) PCI DSS
9 38 (2.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 28 (2.11%) COBIT
11 21 (1.59%) Actionable Recommendations
11 21 (1.59%) QA
12 19 (1.44%) Accessibility
13 17 (1.28%) SOC 2
14 16 (1.21%) JSP 440
15 11 (0.83%) IEC 61508
15 11 (0.83%) MISRA
15 11 (0.83%) MISRA C
16 10 (0.76%) ISO 22301
17 8 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 149 (11.25%) Active Directory
2 29 (2.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (2.11%) Hyper-V
4 27 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (1.28%) Docker
6 10 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
7 9 (0.68%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.45%) Firmware
8 6 (0.45%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.45%) vSphere
9 3 (0.23%) ClearTrust
10 1 (0.076%) KVM
10 1 (0.076%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 66 (4.98%) Microsoft Intune
2 32 (2.42%) Kubernetes
3 27 (2.04%) Terraform
4 20 (1.51%) Ansible
4 20 (1.51%) Grafana
5 15 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (0.83%) Functional Safety
7 9 (0.68%) Cisco CUCM
8 7 (0.53%) CASB
8 7 (0.53%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.45%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.38%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 5 (0.38%) FTK
10 5 (0.38%) QRadar
10 5 (0.38%) SCCM
11 4 (0.30%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 4 (0.30%) CSIRT
12 3 (0.23%) RSA Archer
13 2 (0.15%) Graylog
13 2 (0.15%) Nmap
Vendors
1 349 (26.36%) Microsoft
2 90 (6.80%) Cisco
3 54 (4.08%) Apple
4 51 (3.85%) Adobe
5 49 (3.70%) Palo Alto
5 49 (3.70%) VMware
6 37 (2.79%) CrowdStrike
7 36 (2.72%) ServiceNow
8 35 (2.64%) Tenable
9 29 (2.19%) Google
10 28 (2.11%) Fortinet
11 23 (1.74%) Splunk
12 20 (1.51%) Salesforce
13 15 (1.13%) SAP
14 11 (0.83%) Qualys
15 10 (0.76%) CheckPoint
15 10 (0.76%) Oracle
16 9 (0.68%) Commvault
16 9 (0.68%) Sophos
17 7 (0.53%) Veeam