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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 30 33
Rank change year-on-year +2 +3 +9
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,725 1,185 1,478
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.20% 7.32% 6.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.85% 7.86% 7.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,156 642 693
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,599 £38,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -6.98%

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 19,495 15,078 20,328
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.33% 93.14% 87.68%
Number of salaries quoted 14,036 8,555 12,692
10th Percentile £34,250 £29,913 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,549 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 15 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 84 (4.87%) SharePoint
2 67 (3.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.52%) SAS
4 8 (0.46%) IIS
5 7 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.29%) Apache
6 5 (0.29%) WordPress
7 1 (0.058%) Confluence
7 1 (0.058%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 46 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.17%) Trello
7 2 (0.12%) Simulink
7 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (1.39%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.29%) SAP Business One
3 3 (0.17%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
3 3 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.058%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.058%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.058%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 401 (23.25%) Azure
2 236 (13.68%) Microsoft 365
3 206 (11.94%) AWS
3 206 (11.94%) Entra ID
4 104 (6.03%) SaaS
5 75 (4.35%) GCP
6 36 (2.09%) Serverless
7 35 (2.03%) Azure Sentinel
8 32 (1.86%) Power Platform
9 26 (1.51%) OneDrive
10 20 (1.16%) Microsoft Purview
11 18 (1.04%) Microsoft Copilot
12 15 (0.87%) Mimecast
13 13 (0.75%) Azure Logic Apps
13 13 (0.75%) GitHub
14 12 (0.70%) dbt
15 11 (0.64%) Cloud Computing
16 10 (0.58%) GitHub Actions
17 7 (0.41%) Power Automate
17 7 (0.41%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 251 (14.55%) Firewall
2 160 (9.28%) Network Security
3 92 (5.33%) VLAN
4 76 (4.41%) DNS
5 65 (3.77%) WAN
6 62 (3.59%) DHCP
6 62 (3.59%) VPN
7 52 (3.01%) TCP/IP
8 48 (2.78%) LAN
9 40 (2.32%) Wi-Fi
10 32 (1.86%) Broadband
11 31 (1.80%) VoIP
12 26 (1.51%) BGP
13 20 (1.16%) Cisco Nexus
14 18 (1.04%) HTTP
14 18 (1.04%) Intrusion Detection
14 18 (1.04%) MPLS
14 18 (1.04%) SD-WAN
14 18 (1.04%) SSL
14 18 (1.04%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (0.93%) SQL Server
2 11 (0.64%) Power BI
3 6 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (0.35%) Tableau
4 5 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (0.29%) Apache Iceberg
4 5 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (0.29%) Big Data
5 3 (0.17%) Metadata
5 3 (0.17%) MySQL
5 3 (0.17%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.058%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.058%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.058%) GIS
6 1 (0.058%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.058%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.058%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.058%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.058%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 27 (1.57%) Snyk
2 22 (1.28%) JIRA
3 9 (0.52%) Git
4 6 (0.35%) Burp Suite
4 6 (0.35%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.35%) Metasploit
5 5 (0.29%) GitLab
5 5 (0.29%) Poetry
5 5 (0.29%) VersionOne
6 4 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.12%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.12%) Maven
7 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.058%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.058%) GDB
8 1 (0.058%) JMeter
8 1 (0.058%) Locust
8 1 (0.058%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.058%) WinDbg
General
1 602 (34.90%) Social Skills
2 186 (10.78%) Finance
3 172 (9.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 151 (8.75%) Public Sector
5 147 (8.52%) Analytical Skills
6 117 (6.78%) Marketing
7 114 (6.61%) Legal
8 97 (5.62%) Retail
9 75 (4.35%) Law
10 64 (3.71%) Telecoms
11 61 (3.54%) Organisational Skills
12 49 (2.84%) Banking
13 46 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
14 32 (1.86%) Aerospace
15 29 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
16 26 (1.51%) Aviation
16 26 (1.51%) Games
17 25 (1.45%) Manufacturing
18 24 (1.39%) Police
19 23 (1.33%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 357 (20.70%) Senior
2 199 (11.54%) Analyst
3 187 (10.84%) Consultant
4 162 (9.39%) Architect
5 126 (7.30%) Security Engineer
6 116 (6.72%) Security Manager
7 111 (6.43%) Security Consultant
8 105 (6.09%) Security Architect
9 97 (5.62%) Security Analyst
10 92 (5.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 92 (5.33%) Lead
11 83 (4.81%) Support Engineer
12 82 (4.75%) IT Manager
13 79 (4.58%) IT Support
13 79 (4.58%) Senior Manager
14 74 (4.29%) Senior Analyst
15 64 (3.71%) IT Engineer
16 63 (3.65%) Business Manager
16 63 (3.65%) Cybersecurity Analyst
17 61 (3.54%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (1.68%) Terraform
2 26 (1.51%) OAuth
3 22 (1.28%) SAML
4 17 (0.99%) LDAP
5 15 (0.87%) .NET
6 14 (0.81%) OpenID
7 13 (0.75%) REST
8 8 (0.46%) Kafka
8 8 (0.46%) SailPoint
9 7 (0.41%) Microsoft Graph
9 7 (0.41%) ModSecurity
9 7 (0.41%) XMPP
10 6 (0.35%) JSON
10 6 (0.35%) React
10 6 (0.35%) Regular Expression
10 6 (0.35%) RESTful
11 5 (0.29%) Node.js
11 5 (0.29%) PySpark
11 5 (0.29%) SOAP
11 5 (0.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 132 (7.65%) Cyber Threat
1 132 (7.65%) Security Posture
2 98 (5.68%) Management Information System
3 91 (5.28%) Onboarding
4 65 (3.77%) Driving Licence
5 58 (3.36%) Self-Motivation
6 57 (3.30%) Data Centre
7 47 (2.72%) Operational Technology
8 45 (2.61%) Cyber Defence
9 43 (2.49%) Cloud Native
10 36 (2.09%) Security Operations Centre
11 32 (1.86%) PKI
12 29 (1.68%) Cyberattack
13 27 (1.57%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 25 (1.45%) Social Media
15 23 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
16 22 (1.28%) AI Agents
17 20 (1.16%) Cyber Security Posture
17 20 (1.16%) Web Conferencing
18 19 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 179 (10.38%) Windows
2 83 (4.81%) Windows Server
3 56 (3.25%) Linux
4 22 (1.28%) Mac OS
5 8 (0.46%) Android
5 8 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (0.41%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.35%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.12%) Unix
9 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.058%) AIX
10 1 (0.058%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.058%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 338 (19.59%) Continuous Improvement
2 325 (18.84%) AI
3 315 (18.26%) Information Security
4 262 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
5 233 (13.51%) Decision-Making
6 228 (13.22%) Risk Management
7 220 (12.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 212 (12.29%) Mentoring
9 209 (12.12%) Incident Response
10 187 (10.84%) Cloud Security
11 186 (10.78%) Vulnerability Management
12 171 (9.91%) Security Operations
13 165 (9.57%) Stakeholder Management
14 162 (9.39%) SIEM
15 156 (9.04%) ITIL
16 148 (8.58%) Identity Access Management
17 147 (8.52%) Business Continuity
18 146 (8.46%) Service Delivery
19 142 (8.23%) Agile
20 126 (7.30%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 116 (6.72%) Python
2 74 (4.29%) PowerShell
3 36 (2.09%) SQL
4 21 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
5 19 (1.10%) C++
6 17 (0.99%) Java
7 13 (0.75%) Bash
8 12 (0.70%) C#
8 12 (0.70%) JavaScript
9 10 (0.58%) TypeScript
10 9 (0.52%) Go
10 9 (0.52%) Rust
11 7 (0.41%) C
12 5 (0.29%) VB.NET
13 3 (0.17%) Ada
13 3 (0.17%) Search Processing Language
14 2 (0.12%) Embedded C
14 2 (0.12%) Embedded C++
14 2 (0.12%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 289 (16.75%) Security Cleared
2 240 (13.91%) CISSP
3 216 (12.52%) SC Cleared
4 195 (11.30%) CISM
5 166 (9.62%) Degree
6 88 (5.10%) DV Cleared
7 60 (3.48%) A+ Certification
8 59 (3.42%) Network+ Certification
9 48 (2.78%) AWS Certification
10 46 (2.67%) Cisco Certification
11 45 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
12 43 (2.49%) CRISC
13 42 (2.43%) CISA
14 40 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
15 39 (2.26%) Azure Certification
16 38 (2.20%) CompTIA Security+
17 31 (1.80%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
18 28 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
19 27 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
20 25 (1.45%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 319 (18.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 236 (13.68%) NIST
3 157 (9.10%) GDPR
4 142 (8.23%) GRC
5 137 (7.94%) Cyber Essentials
6 80 (4.64%) PCI DSS
7 62 (3.59%) NCSC
8 49 (2.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 31 (1.80%) Accessibility
9 31 (1.80%) SLA
10 26 (1.51%) SOC 2
11 24 (1.39%) QA
12 22 (1.28%) COBIT
13 20 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
13 20 (1.16%) NIST 800
14 17 (0.99%) JSP 440
15 15 (0.87%) ISO 22301
15 15 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 14 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 11 (0.64%) PMO
System Software
1 190 (11.01%) Active Directory
2 55 (3.19%) Hyper-V
3 30 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (1.10%) Firmware
6 14 (0.81%) Docker
7 9 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
9 7 (0.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 6 (0.35%) VMware NSX
11 5 (0.29%) ClearTrust
12 4 (0.23%) vSphere
13 2 (0.12%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.058%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 148 (8.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
3 25 (1.45%) Kubernetes
4 19 (1.10%) Ansible
5 15 (0.87%) CASB
6 13 (0.75%) FortiGate
7 9 (0.52%) Grafana
8 7 (0.41%) Cisco CUCM
8 7 (0.41%) QRadar
9 6 (0.35%) Nmap
9 6 (0.35%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.23%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 3 (0.17%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 3 (0.17%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 3 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
11 3 (0.17%) SCCM
12 2 (0.12%) Functional Safety
12 2 (0.12%) Graylog
13 1 (0.058%) Oracle Flashback
13 1 (0.058%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 533 (30.90%) Microsoft
2 84 (4.87%) Palo Alto
3 83 (4.81%) Cisco
4 67 (3.88%) CyberArk
5 49 (2.84%) VMware
6 44 (2.55%) CrowdStrike
7 38 (2.20%) Apple
8 37 (2.14%) Adobe
9 35 (2.03%) ServiceNow
10 33 (1.91%) Tenable
11 31 (1.80%) Fortinet
12 30 (1.74%) Splunk
13 28 (1.62%) Salesforce
14 26 (1.51%) Qualys
15 25 (1.45%) Google
16 18 (1.04%) Aruba
17 17 (0.99%) Veeam
18 15 (0.87%) OpenAI
19 11 (0.64%) SAP
20 9 (0.52%) Okta