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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 28 33
Rank change year-on-year -1 +5 +12
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,594 1,272 1,469
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.07% 7.72% 5.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.54% 8.30% 6.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,086 736 844
10th Percentile £35,625 £25,000 £38,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £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 £71,250 £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% -8.11%

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 18,662 15,317 22,161
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.81% 92.95% 87.77%
Number of salaries quoted 13,504 9,019 15,975
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,903 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,250 £58,800
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% +0.77% -5.92%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £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% - -8.71%

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 6 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 64 (4.02%) SharePoint
2 50 (3.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.56%) SAS
4 7 (0.44%) IIS
5 5 (0.31%) WordPress
6 2 (0.13%) Apache
6 2 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.13%) CMS
7 1 (0.063%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.063%) Confluence
7 1 (0.063%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 40 (2.51%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.19%) Trello
7 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (1.51%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.31%) SAP Business One
3 3 (0.19%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.13%) Shopify
5 1 (0.063%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.063%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.063%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 391 (24.53%) Azure
2 202 (12.67%) AWS
3 201 (12.61%) Microsoft 365
4 170 (10.66%) Entra ID
5 96 (6.02%) SaaS
6 79 (4.96%) GCP
7 33 (2.07%) Azure Sentinel
8 29 (1.82%) Serverless
9 22 (1.38%) Power Platform
10 19 (1.19%) OneDrive
11 16 (1.00%) dbt
12 13 (0.82%) Mimecast
13 12 (0.75%) Cloud Computing
14 11 (0.69%) Azure Logic Apps
14 11 (0.69%) PaaS
15 9 (0.56%) Microsoft Copilot
16 8 (0.50%) Google Workspace
16 8 (0.50%) Microsoft Purview
17 7 (0.44%) GitHub
18 6 (0.38%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 221 (13.86%) Firewall
2 147 (9.22%) Network Security
3 77 (4.83%) VLAN
4 62 (3.89%) DNS
5 57 (3.58%) VPN
6 52 (3.26%) WAN
7 47 (2.95%) DHCP
8 46 (2.89%) Broadband
9 39 (2.45%) LAN
10 37 (2.32%) TCP/IP
11 35 (2.20%) Wi-Fi
12 26 (1.63%) VoIP
13 22 (1.38%) Unified Communications
14 19 (1.19%) BGP
14 19 (1.19%) SSL
15 18 (1.13%) HTTP
15 18 (1.13%) Intrusion Detection
16 16 (1.00%) SD-WAN
17 15 (0.94%) Cisco Nexus
17 15 (0.94%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (0.69%) Power BI
2 9 (0.56%) SQL Server
3 6 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (0.38%) Tableau
4 5 (0.31%) Big Data
5 4 (0.25%) Metadata
5 4 (0.25%) MySQL
5 4 (0.25%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.13%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.13%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.063%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.063%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.063%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.063%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.063%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.063%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.063%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.063%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.063%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 27 (1.69%) Snyk
2 20 (1.25%) JIRA
3 8 (0.50%) Git
4 7 (0.44%) 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 (0.13%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.063%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.063%) GDB
8 1 (0.063%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.063%) WinDbg
General
1 514 (32.25%) Social Skills
2 176 (11.04%) Finance
3 161 (10.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 137 (8.59%) Analytical Skills
5 128 (8.03%) Public Sector
6 110 (6.90%) Marketing
7 108 (6.78%) Legal
8 87 (5.46%) Retail
9 75 (4.71%) Law
10 51 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
11 46 (2.89%) Telecoms
12 42 (2.63%) Banking
13 37 (2.32%) Games
14 31 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
15 28 (1.76%) Advertising
16 23 (1.44%) Aerospace
16 23 (1.44%) Manufacturing
17 22 (1.38%) Aviation
18 21 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
19 15 (0.94%) Police
Job Titles
1 336 (21.08%) Senior
2 198 (12.42%) Analyst
3 161 (10.10%) Architect
4 154 (9.66%) Consultant
5 118 (7.40%) Security Manager
6 104 (6.52%) Security Analyst
6 104 (6.52%) Security Engineer
7 103 (6.46%) Security Consultant
8 98 (6.15%) Security Architect
9 96 (6.02%) Lead
10 95 (5.96%) Senior Manager
11 89 (5.58%) Cybersecurity Manager
12 85 (5.33%) IT Manager
13 73 (4.58%) Senior Analyst
14 72 (4.52%) IT Support
14 72 (4.52%) Support Engineer
15 65 (4.08%) Cybersecurity Analyst
16 54 (3.39%) IT Engineer
17 51 (3.20%) Cybersecurity Consultant
17 51 (3.20%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (1.76%) OAuth
2 26 (1.63%) SAML
3 19 (1.19%) LDAP
4 17 (1.07%) OpenID
5 16 (1.00%) REST
6 10 (0.63%) XMPP
7 9 (0.56%) .NET
8 8 (0.50%) LangChain
9 7 (0.44%) Kafka
9 7 (0.44%) Microsoft Graph
9 7 (0.44%) SailPoint
9 7 (0.44%) SOAP
10 6 (0.38%) GraphQL
10 6 (0.38%) Regular Expression
10 6 (0.38%) RESTful
11 5 (0.31%) Gherkin
11 5 (0.31%) LangGraph
11 5 (0.31%) ModSecurity
11 5 (0.31%) React
12 4 (0.25%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 130 (8.16%) Cyber Threat
2 120 (7.53%) Security Posture
3 98 (6.15%) Management Information System
4 80 (5.02%) Onboarding
5 58 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
6 55 (3.45%) Driving Licence
7 47 (2.95%) Data Centre
8 45 (2.82%) Cyber Defence
9 43 (2.70%) Cloud Native
10 39 (2.45%) Cyberattack
11 32 (2.01%) PKI
12 28 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
12 28 (1.76%) Operational Technology
13 25 (1.57%) Blog
14 24 (1.51%) Security Operations Centre
15 23 (1.44%) Cyber Kill Chain
16 20 (1.25%) Web Conferencing
17 19 (1.19%) AI Agents
18 18 (1.13%) Cyber Security Posture
18 18 (1.13%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 166 (10.41%) Windows
2 70 (4.39%) Windows Server
3 56 (3.51%) Linux
4 25 (1.57%) Mac OS
5 10 (0.63%) Android
6 9 (0.56%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.50%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
7 8 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.063%) AIX
9 1 (0.063%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.063%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.063%) OpenBSD
9 1 (0.063%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (19.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 290 (18.19%) Information Security
3 270 (16.94%) AI
4 247 (15.50%) Problem-Solving
5 215 (13.49%) Risk Management
6 213 (13.36%) Mentoring
7 208 (13.05%) Decision-Making
8 205 (12.86%) Incident Response
9 195 (12.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 174 (10.92%) Vulnerability Management
11 167 (10.48%) Cloud Security
12 153 (9.60%) Agile
13 152 (9.54%) ITIL
14 142 (8.91%) SIEM
15 138 (8.66%) Identity Access Management
15 138 (8.66%) Security Operations
16 132 (8.28%) Stakeholder Management
17 129 (8.09%) Business Continuity
18 124 (7.78%) Project Delivery
19 120 (7.53%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 115 (7.21%) Python
2 74 (4.64%) PowerShell
3 27 (1.69%) SQL
4 23 (1.44%) Java
5 19 (1.19%) JavaScript
6 16 (1.00%) Bash
7 14 (0.88%) C++
8 12 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
9 10 (0.63%) Rust
10 9 (0.56%) C#
11 8 (0.50%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.44%) Go
13 4 (0.25%) C
13 4 (0.25%) PHP
13 4 (0.25%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.19%) Ada
14 3 (0.19%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.13%) Search Processing Language
16 1 (0.063%) Bicep
16 1 (0.063%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 261 (16.37%) Security Cleared
2 228 (14.30%) CISSP
3 197 (12.36%) SC Cleared
4 182 (11.42%) CISM
5 156 (9.79%) Degree
6 73 (4.58%) DV Cleared
7 59 (3.70%) A+ Certification
8 58 (3.64%) Network+ Certification
9 43 (2.70%) AWS Certification
10 39 (2.45%) CISA
10 39 (2.45%) CRISC
11 37 (2.32%) Cisco Certification
12 36 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
13 35 (2.20%) CompTIA Security+
14 34 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
15 33 (2.07%) Azure Certification
16 26 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 26 (1.63%) CREST Certified
16 26 (1.63%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
17 23 (1.44%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 306 (19.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 218 (13.68%) NIST
3 161 (10.10%) GDPR
4 128 (8.03%) GRC
5 112 (7.03%) Cyber Essentials
6 84 (5.27%) PCI DSS
7 59 (3.70%) NCSC
8 49 (3.07%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 29 (1.82%) SLA
10 27 (1.69%) QA
11 26 (1.63%) SOC 2
12 25 (1.57%) Accessibility
13 24 (1.51%) COBIT
14 20 (1.25%) Actionable Recommendations
15 16 (1.00%) ISO 22301
15 16 (1.00%) JSP 440
16 14 (0.88%) NIST 800
17 12 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 42001
18 11 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 9 (0.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 182 (11.42%) Active Directory
2 41 (2.57%) Hyper-V
3 30 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.94%) Docker
5 15 (0.94%) Firmware
6 11 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
7 10 (0.63%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 7 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.44%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.44%) vSphere
9 5 (0.31%) ClearTrust
10 1 (0.063%) KVM
10 1 (0.063%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 132 (8.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (1.76%) Kubernetes
3 26 (1.63%) Terraform
4 19 (1.19%) Ansible
4 19 (1.19%) Grafana
5 16 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (0.88%) CASB
7 12 (0.75%) FortiGate
8 10 (0.63%) Cisco CUCM
9 7 (0.44%) QRadar
10 5 (0.31%) Nmap
11 4 (0.25%) Prometheus
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%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 3 (0.19%) SCCM
13 2 (0.13%) FTK
13 2 (0.13%) Graylog
Vendors
1 478 (29.99%) Microsoft
2 81 (5.08%) Palo Alto
3 73 (4.58%) Cisco
4 62 (3.89%) CyberArk
5 49 (3.07%) VMware
6 44 (2.76%) ServiceNow
7 37 (2.32%) CrowdStrike
8 34 (2.13%) Apple
8 34 (2.13%) Fortinet
9 33 (2.07%) Google
10 32 (2.01%) Adobe
10 32 (2.01%) Tenable
11 31 (1.94%) Splunk
12 25 (1.57%) Qualys
12 25 (1.57%) Salesforce
13 18 (1.13%) Aruba
14 15 (0.94%) OpenAI
15 13 (0.82%) SAP
16 11 (0.69%) Veeam
17 9 (0.56%) Oracle