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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 33 40
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 +10
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,280 1,176 1,867
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.83% 7.79% 5.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.26% 8.20% 6.30%
Number of salaries quoted 811 706 1,259
10th Percentile £37,000 £25,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.82% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £88,750 £70,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year - +0.80% -8.42%

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 15,505 14,349 29,620
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.74% 95.06% 90.89%
Number of salaries quoted 11,008 8,690 23,384
10th Percentile £34,000 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £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 £58,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -10.10%

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 19 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 37 (2.89%) SharePoint
2 20 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.47%) WordPress
4 4 (0.31%) CMS
5 2 (0.16%) Apache
5 2 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.16%) Drupal
5 2 (0.16%) nginx
6 1 (0.078%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.078%) IIS
6 1 (0.078%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.078%) SAS
Applications
1 77 (6.02%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (2.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 24 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.16%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 24 (1.88%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.39%) SAP Business One
3 4 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.23%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 2 (0.16%) Shopify
6 1 (0.078%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 335 (26.17%) Azure
2 169 (13.20%) AWS
2 169 (13.20%) Microsoft 365
3 159 (12.42%) Entra ID
4 67 (5.23%) GCP
5 54 (4.22%) Google Workspace
6 51 (3.98%) SaaS
7 31 (2.42%) Power Platform
8 30 (2.34%) Azure Sentinel
9 28 (2.19%) Serverless
10 21 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (1.17%) Azure Logic Apps
12 14 (1.09%) Mimecast
13 11 (0.86%) Nutanix
14 10 (0.78%) OneDrive
14 10 (0.78%) PaaS
15 7 (0.55%) Microsoft Purview
16 6 (0.47%) Datadog
17 5 (0.39%) GitHub
17 5 (0.39%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 142 (11.09%) Firewall
2 90 (7.03%) Broadband
3 69 (5.39%) Network Security
4 36 (2.81%) DNS
5 35 (2.73%) VPN
6 25 (1.95%) VLAN
6 25 (1.95%) WAN
7 24 (1.88%) Unified Communications
8 21 (1.64%) DHCP
9 20 (1.56%) CHAP
9 20 (1.56%) LAN
10 17 (1.33%) Intrusion Detection
11 15 (1.17%) SSL
12 14 (1.09%) Cisco ASA
13 13 (1.02%) VoIP
14 11 (0.86%) TCP/IP
15 10 (0.78%) BGP
16 9 (0.70%) Cisco Firepower
16 9 (0.70%) WebEx
17 8 (0.63%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (0.78%) Power BI
2 6 (0.47%) SQL Server
3 5 (0.39%) 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 (0.16%) MariaDB
5 2 (0.16%) Metadata
5 2 (0.16%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.16%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.16%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.078%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.078%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.078%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.078%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.078%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 25 (1.95%) Snyk
2 8 (0.63%) GitLab
3 6 (0.47%) Git
4 5 (0.39%) Cucumber
4 5 (0.39%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.39%) JMeter
4 5 (0.39%) Locust
4 5 (0.39%) VersionOne
5 2 (0.16%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.16%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.078%) GDB
6 1 (0.078%) JIRA
6 1 (0.078%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.078%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.078%) WinDbg
General
1 357 (27.89%) Social Skills
2 166 (12.97%) Finance
3 136 (10.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 106 (8.28%) Public Sector
5 97 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
6 94 (7.34%) Marketing
7 75 (5.86%) Organisational Skills
8 69 (5.39%) Retail
9 61 (4.77%) Banking
10 53 (4.14%) Back Office
11 50 (3.91%) Games
12 47 (3.67%) Law
13 37 (2.89%) Telecoms
14 35 (2.73%) Legal
15 28 (2.19%) Aviation
16 21 (1.64%) Financial Institution
17 20 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
17 20 (1.56%) Manufacturing
18 15 (1.17%) Advertising
19 12 (0.94%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 265 (20.70%) Senior
2 160 (12.50%) Analyst
3 155 (12.11%) Architect
4 116 (9.06%) Security Architect
5 101 (7.89%) Security Manager
6 93 (7.27%) Consultant
7 89 (6.95%) Support Engineer
8 77 (6.02%) Security Analyst
9 76 (5.94%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 73 (5.70%) Senior Architect
11 68 (5.31%) Cybersecurity Architect
12 66 (5.16%) Security Consultant
13 63 (4.92%) Lead
14 54 (4.22%) Developer
15 53 (4.14%) Senior Security Architect
16 50 (3.91%) IT Manager
17 48 (3.75%) Desktop Engineer
17 48 (3.75%) Desktop Support
17 48 (3.75%) Desktop Support Engineer
17 48 (3.75%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (4.84%) LDAP
2 61 (4.77%) SAML
3 60 (4.69%) OAuth
3 60 (4.69%) REST
4 59 (4.61%) OpenID
5 54 (4.22%) SOAP
6 53 (4.14%) GraphQL
7 9 (0.70%) XMPP
8 7 (0.55%) Kafka
8 7 (0.55%) Microsoft Graph
8 7 (0.55%) RESTful
9 6 (0.47%) Regular Expression
9 6 (0.47%) SAP CAF
10 5 (0.39%) Gherkin
10 5 (0.39%) React
11 4 (0.31%) LangChain
11 4 (0.31%) SailPoint
12 3 (0.23%) Semantic Kernel
12 3 (0.23%) Spring Boot
12 3 (0.23%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 119 (9.30%) Cyber Threat
2 97 (7.58%) Security Posture
3 84 (6.56%) Cyberattack
4 78 (6.09%) Onboarding
5 76 (5.94%) Management Information System
6 50 (3.91%) Data Centre
7 45 (3.52%) Cyber Defence
8 34 (2.66%) Driving Licence
9 33 (2.58%) Blog
9 33 (2.58%) PKI
9 33 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
10 31 (2.42%) Hybrid Cloud
11 30 (2.34%) Cloud Native
12 29 (2.27%) Operational Technology
13 25 (1.95%) Cyber Security Posture
14 23 (1.80%) Public Cloud
15 22 (1.72%) Low-Code
16 16 (1.25%) Security Operations Centre
17 15 (1.17%) Cyber Kill Chain
18 13 (1.02%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 152 (11.88%) Windows
2 56 (4.38%) Windows 10
3 54 (4.22%) Windows Server
4 43 (3.36%) Linux
5 18 (1.41%) Android
6 16 (1.25%) Mac OS
7 15 (1.17%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.078%) AIX
9 1 (0.078%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.078%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.078%) OpenBSD
9 1 (0.078%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (16.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 165 (12.89%) Mentoring
3 158 (12.34%) Risk Management
4 157 (12.27%) Incident Response
5 152 (11.88%) Information Security
6 148 (11.56%) Problem-Solving
7 139 (10.86%) AI
8 135 (10.55%) Roadmaps
9 131 (10.23%) Vulnerability Management
10 118 (9.22%) Cloud Security
11 112 (8.75%) ITIL
12 105 (8.20%) Agile
13 104 (8.13%) Analytics
14 97 (7.58%) Security Operations
15 92 (7.19%) Identity Access Management
15 92 (7.19%) Security Architecture
15 92 (7.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 89 (6.95%) Threat Modelling
17 87 (6.80%) SIEM
18 86 (6.72%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 115 (8.98%) PowerShell
2 97 (7.58%) Python
3 59 (4.61%) Bash
4 52 (4.06%) T-SQL
5 40 (3.13%) SQL
6 27 (2.11%) Java
7 22 (1.72%) JavaScript
8 20 (1.56%) C++
9 17 (1.33%) C#
10 13 (1.02%) C
11 9 (0.70%) Go
12 5 (0.39%) PHP
12 5 (0.39%) Rust
13 3 (0.23%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.23%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.078%) Bicep
15 1 (0.078%) Perl
15 1 (0.078%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 196 (15.31%) Security Cleared
2 163 (12.73%) SC Cleared
3 157 (12.27%) Degree
4 147 (11.48%) CISSP
5 112 (8.75%) CISM
6 55 (4.30%) AWS Certification
7 48 (3.75%) CTC Cleared
8 45 (3.52%) DV Cleared
9 40 (3.13%) CISA
10 34 (2.66%) Microsoft Certification
11 28 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
11 28 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
11 28 (2.19%) SANS
12 26 (2.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 25 (1.95%) CREST Certified
14 24 (1.88%) CEH
15 23 (1.80%) Azure Certification
16 21 (1.64%) FFIEC
17 20 (1.56%) CGEIT
18 19 (1.48%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 234 (18.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 227 (17.73%) NIST
3 122 (9.53%) GDPR
4 96 (7.50%) GRC
5 86 (6.72%) NCSC
6 81 (6.33%) Cyber Essentials
7 62 (4.84%) SLA
8 59 (4.61%) PCI DSS
9 38 (2.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 28 (2.19%) COBIT
11 21 (1.64%) QA
12 19 (1.48%) Accessibility
13 17 (1.33%) SOC 2
14 16 (1.25%) Actionable Recommendations
15 14 (1.09%) JSP 440
16 11 (0.86%) IEC 61508
16 11 (0.86%) ISO 22301
16 11 (0.86%) MISRA
16 11 (0.86%) MISRA C
17 7 (0.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 139 (10.86%) Active Directory
2 27 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
2 27 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (1.88%) Hyper-V
4 18 (1.41%) Docker
5 10 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
7 7 (0.55%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.47%) Firmware
8 6 (0.47%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.47%) vSphere
9 1 (0.078%) KVM
9 1 (0.078%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 58 (4.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 30 (2.34%) Kubernetes
3 27 (2.11%) Terraform
4 22 (1.72%) Ansible
5 20 (1.56%) Grafana
6 11 (0.86%) Functional Safety
6 11 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.70%) Cisco CUCM
8 6 (0.47%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.39%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 5 (0.39%) FTK
9 5 (0.39%) QRadar
9 5 (0.39%) SCCM
10 4 (0.31%) CASB
10 4 (0.31%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 4 (0.31%) CSIRT
10 4 (0.31%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.31%) Nessus
11 3 (0.23%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 317 (24.77%) Microsoft
2 82 (6.41%) Cisco
3 55 (4.30%) Apple
4 51 (3.98%) Adobe
5 47 (3.67%) VMware
6 44 (3.44%) Palo Alto
7 37 (2.89%) CrowdStrike
8 36 (2.81%) ServiceNow
9 35 (2.73%) Tenable
10 28 (2.19%) Google
11 27 (2.11%) Fortinet
12 21 (1.64%) Splunk
13 17 (1.33%) Salesforce
13 17 (1.33%) SAP
14 10 (0.78%) CheckPoint
14 10 (0.78%) Commvault
15 9 (0.70%) Sophos
16 8 (0.63%) Oracle
16 8 (0.63%) Qualys
17 6 (0.47%) Veeam