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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 34 35
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 +6
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,766 1,160 1,442
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.12% 6.99% 6.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.79% 7.48% 7.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,174 605 659
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £38,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -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 20,082 15,514 20,012
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.02% 93.49% 88.00%
Number of salaries quoted 14,336 8,545 11,983
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,913 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,312 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,600
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%

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 27 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 95 (5.38%) SharePoint
2 79 (4.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (0.57%) IIS
4 9 (0.51%) SAS
5 7 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.28%) Apache
6 5 (0.28%) WordPress
7 3 (0.17%) Confluence
8 1 (0.057%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 50 (2.83%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 3 (0.17%) Trello
6 2 (0.11%) Simulink
7 1 (0.057%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (1.36%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.28%) SAP Business One
3 4 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.057%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 1 (0.057%) Magento
5 1 (0.057%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.057%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.057%) SAP CAR
5 1 (0.057%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.057%) SystmOne
5 1 (0.057%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 420 (23.78%) Azure
2 253 (14.33%) Microsoft 365
3 228 (12.91%) Entra ID
4 214 (12.12%) AWS
5 107 (6.06%) SaaS
6 83 (4.70%) GCP
7 41 (2.32%) Serverless
8 40 (2.27%) Power Platform
9 36 (2.04%) Azure Sentinel
10 34 (1.93%) OneDrive
11 24 (1.36%) Microsoft Purview
12 20 (1.13%) GitHub
13 19 (1.08%) Microsoft Copilot
14 14 (0.79%) Azure Logic Apps
14 14 (0.79%) Mimecast
15 13 (0.74%) Cloud Computing
16 12 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
17 11 (0.62%) dbt
18 10 (0.57%) Azure Monitor
18 10 (0.57%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 246 (13.93%) Firewall
2 158 (8.95%) Network Security
3 88 (4.98%) VLAN
4 84 (4.76%) DNS
5 71 (4.02%) DHCP
6 67 (3.79%) VPN
7 65 (3.68%) WAN
8 53 (3.00%) TCP/IP
9 50 (2.83%) LAN
10 45 (2.55%) Wi-Fi
11 32 (1.81%) Broadband
12 31 (1.76%) VoIP
13 26 (1.47%) BGP
14 22 (1.25%) SSL
15 21 (1.19%) HTTP
16 19 (1.08%) Cisco Nexus
17 18 (1.02%) MPLS
17 18 (1.02%) SD-WAN
18 16 (0.91%) OSPF
18 16 (0.91%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (1.19%) SQL Server
2 14 (0.79%) Power BI
3 10 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (0.34%) Tableau
6 5 (0.28%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (0.28%) Apache Iceberg
6 5 (0.28%) Big Data
6 5 (0.28%) Metadata
7 3 (0.17%) MySQL
7 3 (0.17%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.17%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.11%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.057%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.057%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.057%) Power Query
9 1 (0.057%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 27 (1.53%) Snyk
2 26 (1.47%) JIRA
3 10 (0.57%) Git
4 7 (0.40%) Burp Suite
4 7 (0.40%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.40%) Metasploit
5 5 (0.28%) GitLab
5 5 (0.28%) Poetry
5 5 (0.28%) VersionOne
6 4 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.17%) Maven
7 3 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.11%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.057%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.057%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.057%) Visual Studio
General
1 621 (35.16%) Social Skills
2 198 (11.21%) Finance
3 175 (9.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 163 (9.23%) Public Sector
5 149 (8.44%) Analytical Skills
6 116 (6.57%) Marketing
7 114 (6.46%) Legal
8 101 (5.72%) Retail
9 82 (4.64%) Law
10 68 (3.85%) Telecoms
11 66 (3.74%) Organisational Skills
12 51 (2.89%) Banking
13 46 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
14 34 (1.93%) Police
15 32 (1.81%) Aerospace
16 28 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
17 27 (1.53%) Manufacturing
18 26 (1.47%) Games
19 23 (1.30%) Advertising
20 22 (1.25%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 364 (20.61%) Senior
2 214 (12.12%) Analyst
3 187 (10.59%) Consultant
4 172 (9.74%) Architect
5 132 (7.47%) Security Engineer
6 108 (6.12%) Security Manager
7 106 (6.00%) Security Architect
8 104 (5.89%) Security Consultant
9 101 (5.72%) Security Analyst
10 98 (5.55%) Lead
11 87 (4.93%) IT Support
11 87 (4.93%) Support Engineer
12 84 (4.76%) Cybersecurity Manager
13 77 (4.36%) Senior Manager
14 76 (4.30%) IT Manager
15 74 (4.19%) Senior Analyst
16 69 (3.91%) Business Manager
16 69 (3.91%) Cybersecurity Analyst
17 68 (3.85%) IT Engineer
18 62 (3.51%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (1.98%) Terraform
2 30 (1.70%) OAuth
3 23 (1.30%) SAML
4 21 (1.19%) REST
5 19 (1.08%) LDAP
6 18 (1.02%) .NET
7 16 (0.91%) OpenID
8 10 (0.57%) SailPoint
9 8 (0.45%) JSON
9 8 (0.45%) Kafka
10 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Graph
10 7 (0.40%) ModSecurity
10 7 (0.40%) Regular Expression
11 6 (0.34%) PySpark
11 6 (0.34%) React
11 6 (0.34%) RESTful
11 6 (0.34%) SOAP
12 5 (0.28%) Node.js
12 5 (0.28%) XMPP
12 5 (0.28%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 141 (7.98%) Cyber Threat
2 137 (7.76%) Security Posture
3 103 (5.83%) Management Information System
4 99 (5.61%) Onboarding
5 69 (3.91%) Driving Licence
6 61 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
7 58 (3.28%) Data Centre
8 47 (2.66%) Operational Technology
9 46 (2.60%) Cloud Native
10 40 (2.27%) Security Operations Centre
11 39 (2.21%) Cyber Defence
12 33 (1.87%) PKI
13 31 (1.76%) Cyberattack
14 28 (1.59%) Cyber Kill Chain
15 26 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
16 25 (1.42%) Social Media
17 24 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
18 22 (1.25%) AI Agents
18 22 (1.25%) Cyber Security Posture
19 19 (1.08%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 189 (10.70%) Windows
2 84 (4.76%) Windows Server
3 56 (3.17%) Linux
4 22 (1.25%) Mac OS
5 9 (0.51%) Android
6 8 (0.45%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.45%) Windows 10
6 8 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.17%) Unix
8 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.057%) AIX
9 1 (0.057%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.057%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 356 (20.16%) Continuous Improvement
2 338 (19.14%) AI
3 325 (18.40%) Information Security
4 284 (16.08%) Problem-Solving
5 238 (13.48%) Decision-Making
6 220 (12.46%) Risk Management
7 215 (12.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 214 (12.12%) Mentoring
9 210 (11.89%) Incident Response
10 195 (11.04%) Cloud Security
11 189 (10.70%) Vulnerability Management
12 183 (10.36%) Security Operations
13 180 (10.19%) Stakeholder Management
14 166 (9.40%) SIEM
15 165 (9.34%) ITIL
16 158 (8.95%) Identity Access Management
17 149 (8.44%) Service Delivery
18 143 (8.10%) Business Continuity
19 141 (7.98%) Agile
20 133 (7.53%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 122 (6.91%) Python
2 79 (4.47%) PowerShell
3 40 (2.27%) SQL
4 24 (1.36%) Kusto Query Language
5 22 (1.25%) C++
6 19 (1.08%) Java
7 15 (0.85%) Bash
8 14 (0.79%) C#
9 13 (0.74%) JavaScript
9 13 (0.74%) TypeScript
10 11 (0.62%) Go
10 11 (0.62%) Rust
11 8 (0.45%) C
12 7 (0.40%) Bicep
13 5 (0.28%) VB.NET
14 3 (0.17%) Ada
14 3 (0.17%) Search Processing Language
15 2 (0.11%) Embedded C
15 2 (0.11%) Embedded C++
15 2 (0.11%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 302 (17.10%) Security Cleared
2 237 (13.42%) CISSP
3 228 (12.91%) SC Cleared
4 190 (10.76%) CISM
5 179 (10.14%) Degree
6 86 (4.87%) DV Cleared
7 60 (3.40%) A+ Certification
8 59 (3.34%) Network+ Certification
9 51 (2.89%) AWS Certification
10 49 (2.77%) Microsoft Certification
11 47 (2.66%) Azure Certification
12 46 (2.60%) Cisco Certification
12 46 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
13 44 (2.49%) CRISC
14 42 (2.38%) CISA
15 37 (2.10%) CompTIA Security+
16 32 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
17 29 (1.64%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
18 28 (1.59%) GIAC
19 27 (1.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 317 (17.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 225 (12.74%) NIST
3 154 (8.72%) GDPR
4 142 (8.04%) GRC
5 138 (7.81%) Cyber Essentials
6 81 (4.59%) PCI DSS
7 66 (3.74%) NCSC
8 52 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 32 (1.81%) SLA
10 29 (1.64%) Accessibility
11 25 (1.42%) SOC 2
12 24 (1.36%) QA
13 21 (1.19%) COBIT
14 20 (1.13%) NIST 800
15 18 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
16 16 (0.91%) ISO 22301
16 16 (0.91%) JSP 440
17 15 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 42001
18 12 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 11 (0.62%) PMO
System Software
1 197 (11.16%) Active Directory
2 56 (3.17%) Hyper-V
3 29 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.96%) Firmware
6 15 (0.85%) Docker
7 13 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
8 6 (0.34%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.28%) ClearTrust
9 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.11%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.11%) vSphere
11 1 (0.057%) NFS
11 1 (0.057%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 154 (8.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 30 (1.70%) Kubernetes
3 29 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
4 18 (1.02%) Ansible
5 15 (0.85%) CASB
6 13 (0.74%) FortiGate
6 13 (0.74%) Grafana
7 7 (0.40%) Nmap
7 7 (0.40%) Progress Chef
7 7 (0.40%) QRadar
8 5 (0.28%) Cisco CUCM
8 5 (0.28%) Functional Safety
9 4 (0.23%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 3 (0.17%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 3 (0.17%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 3 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
10 3 (0.17%) SCCM
11 2 (0.11%) Graylog
11 2 (0.11%) WMI
12 1 (0.057%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 564 (31.94%) Microsoft
2 80 (4.53%) Cisco
3 79 (4.47%) Palo Alto
4 70 (3.96%) CyberArk
5 47 (2.66%) VMware
6 45 (2.55%) CrowdStrike
7 39 (2.21%) Adobe
8 38 (2.15%) ServiceNow
9 36 (2.04%) Apple
10 34 (1.93%) Tenable
11 30 (1.70%) Salesforce
12 29 (1.64%) Qualys
13 28 (1.59%) Splunk
14 27 (1.53%) Fortinet
15 24 (1.36%) Google
16 19 (1.08%) Aruba
17 17 (0.96%) Veeam
18 15 (0.85%) OpenAI
19 12 (0.68%) SAP
20 10 (0.57%) Okta