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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 37 44
Rank change year-on-year +4 +7 +16
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 947 1,163 1,233
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.19% 6.72% 6.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.97% 7.23% 6.57%
Number of salaries quoted 627 649 937
10th Percentile £35,300 £38,700 £37,268
25th Percentile £45,500 £46,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £63,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -20.63% +0.80% -3.85%

All Process and 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 13,580 16,082 18,763
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 88.75% 92.94% 94.71%
Number of salaries quoted 8,665 9,722 15,078
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,074 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,243
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +3.75% -3.61%
75th Percentile £79,157 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 24 December 2025.

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 (3.48%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.80%) IIS
2 17 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.63%) CMS
4 5 (0.53%) Confluence
4 5 (0.53%) Drupal
4 5 (0.53%) nginx
4 5 (0.53%) WordPress
5 4 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.32%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.32%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 43 (4.54%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (3.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (2.01%) Chatbot
4 18 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.74%) AutoCAD
5 7 (0.74%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.11%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 9 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.53%) Shopify
3 4 (0.42%) NEC Housing
3 4 (0.42%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.11%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 252 (26.61%) Azure
2 136 (14.36%) AWS
3 133 (14.04%) Microsoft 365
4 69 (7.29%) Entra ID
5 38 (4.01%) Power Platform
6 30 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (3.17%) SaaS
7 19 (2.01%) Azure Sentinel
8 18 (1.90%) GCP
9 13 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
10 11 (1.16%) Azure Logic Apps
10 11 (1.16%) Google Workspace
11 10 (1.06%) Azure Monitor
11 10 (1.06%) GitHub
11 10 (1.06%) Nutanix
12 8 (0.84%) IaaS
12 8 (0.84%) PaaS
13 7 (0.74%) dbt
13 7 (0.74%) Mimecast
13 7 (0.74%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 105 (11.09%) Firewall
2 65 (6.86%) Network Security
3 58 (6.12%) VPN
4 26 (2.75%) TCP/IP
5 24 (2.53%) LAN
6 21 (2.22%) VoIP
7 19 (2.01%) DNS
7 19 (2.01%) WAN
8 17 (1.80%) Intrusion Detection
8 17 (1.80%) SD-WAN
9 15 (1.58%) Broadband
9 15 (1.58%) Wireshark
10 14 (1.48%) VLAN
11 13 (1.37%) DHCP
11 13 (1.37%) Unified Communications
12 12 (1.27%) DMZ
13 10 (1.06%) CHAP
13 10 (1.06%) Modbus
14 9 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
15 7 (0.74%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (2.32%) SQL Server
2 21 (2.22%) Power BI
3 13 (1.37%) Tableau
4 8 (0.84%) Relational Database
5 5 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (0.53%) MariaDB
5 5 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (0.42%) BusinessObjects
6 4 (0.42%) Metadata
6 4 (0.42%) MS Access
6 4 (0.42%) SAP Data Services
7 3 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.32%) MySQL
8 1 (0.11%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.11%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.11%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (1.37%) Jenkins
2 9 (0.95%) JIRA
3 5 (0.53%) TeamCity
4 4 (0.42%) Git
4 4 (0.42%) Toad
5 3 (0.32%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (0.32%) Snyk
6 2 (0.21%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.21%) GitLab
6 2 (0.21%) Metasploit
General
1 351 (37.06%) Social Skills
2 185 (19.54%) Finance
3 143 (15.10%) Analytical Skills
4 107 (11.30%) Public Sector
5 105 (11.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 94 (9.93%) Telecoms
7 86 (9.08%) Marketing
8 59 (6.23%) Electronics
9 58 (6.12%) Manufacturing
10 49 (5.17%) Organisational Skills
11 47 (4.96%) Law
12 45 (4.75%) Banking
13 36 (3.80%) Legal
14 33 (3.48%) Back Office
15 23 (2.43%) Retail
16 20 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
17 17 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
18 16 (1.69%) German Language
19 15 (1.58%) Financial Institution
20 14 (1.48%) Games
Job Titles
1 171 (18.06%) Senior
2 114 (12.04%) Consultant
3 88 (9.29%) Security Consultant
4 84 (8.87%) Architect
5 81 (8.55%) Analyst
6 79 (8.34%) Support Engineer
7 56 (5.91%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 49 (5.17%) Hardware Engineer
8 49 (5.17%) Senior Hardware Engineer
9 48 (5.07%) IT Manager
10 45 (4.75%) Security Engineer
11 44 (4.65%) Security Architect
12 40 (4.22%) Security Manager
13 39 (4.12%) IT Engineer
14 35 (3.70%) Security Analyst
15 33 (3.48%) Cybersecurity Architect
15 33 (3.48%) Senior Architect
16 32 (3.38%) Lead
17 31 (3.27%) Head of IT
17 31 (3.27%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (2.64%) SAP CAF
2 13 (1.37%) REST
3 12 (1.27%) GraphQL
3 12 (1.27%) OAuth
3 12 (1.27%) OpenID
3 12 (1.27%) SAML
3 12 (1.27%) SOAP
4 10 (1.06%) LDAP
5 9 (0.95%) Node.js
5 9 (0.95%) Web Services
6 8 (0.84%) .NET
7 6 (0.63%) XML
8 5 (0.53%) CSS
8 5 (0.53%) FreeSWITCH
8 5 (0.53%) HTML
8 5 (0.53%) JSON
8 5 (0.53%) PyTorch
8 5 (0.53%) TensorFlow
9 4 (0.42%) Android NDK
9 4 (0.42%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 73 (7.71%) Management Information System
2 55 (5.81%) Cyber Threat
3 50 (5.28%) Security Posture
4 49 (5.17%) Data Centre
5 42 (4.44%) Onboarding
6 35 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
7 31 (3.27%) Public Cloud
8 30 (3.17%) Driving Licence
9 28 (2.96%) Hybrid Cloud
10 27 (2.85%) Cloud Native
11 26 (2.75%) Blog
12 25 (2.64%) Security Operations Centre
13 24 (2.53%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 24 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
14 22 (2.32%) Operational Technology
15 20 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
16 18 (1.90%) Product Ownership
17 16 (1.69%) CESG
18 15 (1.58%) Cyberattack
18 15 (1.58%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 138 (14.57%) Windows
2 57 (6.02%) Linux
3 47 (4.96%) Windows Server
4 41 (4.33%) Windows 10
5 18 (1.90%) Unix
6 14 (1.48%) Mac OS
7 12 (1.27%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.95%) Android
9 6 (0.63%) Debian
10 5 (0.53%) Mac OS X
11 3 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.11%) Check Point GAiA
13 1 (0.11%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.11%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (15.95%) Risk Management
2 143 (15.10%) Problem-Solving
3 140 (14.78%) AI
4 132 (13.94%) ITIL
5 131 (13.83%) Continuous Improvement
6 128 (13.52%) Information Security
7 124 (13.09%) Incident Response
8 99 (10.45%) Roadmaps
9 97 (10.24%) Analytics
10 94 (9.93%) Mentoring
11 91 (9.61%) Vulnerability Management
12 83 (8.76%) Business Intelligence
13 82 (8.66%) DevOps
14 79 (8.34%) SIEM
15 77 (8.13%) Agile
16 70 (7.39%) Project Management
17 65 (6.86%) Security Operations
18 64 (6.76%) Cloud Security
18 64 (6.76%) Data Protection
19 63 (6.65%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 60 (6.34%) Python
2 58 (6.12%) PowerShell
3 49 (5.17%) SQL
4 26 (2.75%) Bash
5 14 (1.48%) T-SQL
6 13 (1.37%) C++
7 12 (1.27%) C#
8 10 (1.06%) JavaScript
8 10 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
9 7 (0.74%) R
10 6 (0.63%) Java
11 4 (0.42%) C
11 4 (0.42%) Kotlin
11 4 (0.42%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.42%) VB
12 3 (0.32%) Bicep
12 3 (0.32%) Go
13 2 (0.21%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 206 (21.75%) Degree
2 180 (19.01%) CISSP
3 153 (16.16%) Security Cleared
4 134 (14.15%) CISM
5 103 (10.88%) SC Cleared
6 59 (6.23%) CEH
7 54 (5.70%) CompTIA Security+
8 47 (4.96%) CISA
9 45 (4.75%) Cisco Certification
10 44 (4.65%) AWS Certification
11 39 (4.12%) Microsoft Certification
12 38 (4.01%) PMP
13 34 (3.59%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 31 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
15 28 (2.96%) Azure Certification
15 28 (2.96%) CTC Cleared
16 26 (2.75%) CRISC
17 25 (2.64%) CCNP
17 25 (2.64%) CISMP
18 24 (2.53%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 227 (23.97%) NIST
2 226 (23.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 81 (8.55%) Cyber Essentials
4 76 (8.03%) GRC
5 75 (7.92%) GDPR
6 55 (5.81%) NCSC
7 49 (5.17%) PCI DSS
8 36 (3.80%) SLA
9 35 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 30 (3.17%) NIST 800
11 28 (2.96%) JSP 440
12 20 (2.11%) COBIT
13 18 (1.90%) SOC 2
14 16 (1.69%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 16 (1.69%) RMADS
15 15 (1.58%) ISO 9001
16 11 (1.16%) QA
17 9 (0.95%) ISO 22301
17 9 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 42001
18 7 (0.74%) Data Quality
System Software
1 70 (7.39%) Active Directory
2 24 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (1.48%) Hyper-V
4 14 (1.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (1.16%) Docker
6 8 (0.84%) Firmware
7 6 (0.63%) vSphere
8 5 (0.53%) Kamailio
9 3 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.21%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.21%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.11%) iptables
11 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 57 (6.02%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (1.80%) Terraform
3 15 (1.58%) Ansible
4 9 (0.95%) Jamf Pro
4 9 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (0.84%) Nessus
5 8 (0.84%) QRadar
6 7 (0.74%) RSA Archer
7 5 (0.53%) Kubernetes
8 4 (0.42%) Computer Incident Response Team
8 4 (0.42%) FortiGate
8 4 (0.42%) Functional Safety
8 4 (0.42%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.32%) Nmap
10 2 (0.21%) Nagios
10 2 (0.21%) Suricata
10 2 (0.21%) WSUS
10 2 (0.21%) ZENworks
11 1 (0.11%) CASB
11 1 (0.11%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 221 (23.34%) Microsoft
2 58 (6.12%) SAP
3 56 (5.91%) Cisco
4 53 (5.60%) Apple
5 50 (5.28%) VMware
6 45 (4.75%) Adobe
7 31 (3.27%) Palo Alto
8 19 (2.01%) PayPal
8 19 (2.01%) Salesforce
9 18 (1.90%) Oracle
10 16 (1.69%) CrowdStrike
11 13 (1.37%) Fortinet
12 12 (1.27%) Tenable
13 10 (1.06%) Splunk
14 9 (0.95%) Commvault
15 8 (0.84%) Draytek
15 8 (0.84%) ServiceNow
16 7 (0.74%) Mitel
16 7 (0.74%) Qualys
16 7 (0.74%) WatchGuard