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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 31 41
Rank change year-on-year +2 +10 +5
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,462 1,229 1,781
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.89% 7.46% 5.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.32% 7.98% 6.19%
Number of salaries quoted 990 710 1,135
10th Percentile £36,250 £25,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -5.98% -10.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -0.86% -10.08%

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 17,578 15,394 28,768
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.84% 93.48% 88.98%
Number of salaries quoted 12,832 9,111 21,964
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £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 £78,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 10 July 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 53 (3.63%) SharePoint
2 41 (2.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (0.55%) SAS
4 5 (0.34%) WordPress
5 4 (0.27%) IIS
6 3 (0.21%) CMS
7 2 (0.14%) Apache
7 2 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.068%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.068%) Confluence
8 1 (0.068%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 63 (4.31%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
5 5 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.21%) Trello
7 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.068%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 24 (1.64%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.34%) SAP Business One
3 3 (0.21%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.14%) Shopify
5 1 (0.068%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 372 (25.44%) Azure
2 216 (14.77%) Microsoft 365
3 184 (12.59%) AWS
4 183 (12.52%) Entra ID
5 87 (5.95%) SaaS
6 79 (5.40%) GCP
7 33 (2.26%) Azure Sentinel
8 32 (2.19%) Google Workspace
9 29 (1.98%) Serverless
10 22 (1.50%) Power Platform
11 16 (1.09%) OneDrive
12 15 (1.03%) Mimecast
13 12 (0.82%) Azure Logic Apps
14 11 (0.75%) dbt
15 10 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
15 10 (0.68%) PaaS
16 9 (0.62%) Azure DevOps
17 7 (0.48%) Nutanix
18 6 (0.41%) Datadog
18 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 196 (13.41%) Firewall
2 112 (7.66%) Network Security
3 75 (5.13%) Broadband
4 58 (3.97%) VPN
5 57 (3.90%) DNS
6 52 (3.56%) VLAN
7 47 (3.21%) WAN
8 45 (3.08%) DHCP
9 35 (2.39%) TCP/IP
10 34 (2.33%) LAN
11 30 (2.05%) Wi-Fi
12 27 (1.85%) VoIP
13 23 (1.57%) Unified Communications
14 20 (1.37%) BGP
15 19 (1.30%) SSL
16 16 (1.09%) HTTP
16 16 (1.09%) Intrusion Detection
16 16 (1.09%) MPLS
16 16 (1.09%) SD-WAN
17 14 (0.96%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (0.62%) Power BI
2 8 (0.55%) SQL Server
3 5 (0.34%) Tableau
4 4 (0.27%) MySQL
4 4 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.21%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.21%) Big Data
6 2 (0.14%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.14%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.068%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.068%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.068%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.068%) Metadata
7 1 (0.068%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.068%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.068%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.068%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.068%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 25 (1.71%) Snyk
2 14 (0.96%) JIRA
3 9 (0.62%) Git
4 7 (0.48%) GitLab
5 6 (0.41%) Burp Suite
5 6 (0.41%) Metasploit
6 5 (0.34%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.34%) JMeter
6 5 (0.34%) Locust
6 5 (0.34%) VersionOne
7 2 (0.14%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.068%) GDB
8 1 (0.068%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.068%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.068%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.068%) WinDbg
General
1 451 (30.85%) Social Skills
2 171 (11.70%) Finance
3 132 (9.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 122 (8.34%) Analytical Skills
5 114 (7.80%) Public Sector
6 110 (7.52%) Marketing
7 89 (6.09%) Retail
8 80 (5.47%) Law
9 75 (5.13%) Legal
10 54 (3.69%) Organisational Skills
11 52 (3.56%) Banking
12 47 (3.21%) Games
13 43 (2.94%) Back Office
13 43 (2.94%) Telecoms
14 26 (1.78%) Advertising
15 24 (1.64%) Aviation
16 20 (1.37%) Manufacturing
17 19 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
18 17 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
19 14 (0.96%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 269 (18.40%) Senior
2 180 (12.31%) Analyst
3 157 (10.74%) Architect
4 117 (8.00%) Consultant
5 116 (7.93%) Security Manager
6 104 (7.11%) Security Architect
7 102 (6.98%) Support Engineer
8 99 (6.77%) Security Analyst
9 92 (6.29%) Lead
10 87 (5.95%) Cybersecurity Manager
11 84 (5.75%) Security Consultant
12 76 (5.20%) IT Manager
13 75 (5.13%) IT Support
14 66 (4.51%) Senior Analyst
15 64 (4.38%) Security Engineer
15 64 (4.38%) Senior Manager
16 62 (4.24%) Cybersecurity Analyst
17 57 (3.90%) IT Engineer
18 54 (3.69%) IT Support Engineer
19 48 (3.28%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (3.28%) OAuth
1 48 (3.28%) SAML
2 42 (2.87%) LDAP
3 37 (2.53%) OpenID
3 37 (2.53%) REST
4 29 (1.98%) SOAP
5 28 (1.92%) GraphQL
6 9 (0.62%) XMPP
7 8 (0.55%) Kafka
7 8 (0.55%) LangChain
8 7 (0.48%) .NET
8 7 (0.48%) Microsoft Graph
9 6 (0.41%) Regular Expression
9 6 (0.41%) RESTful
9 6 (0.41%) SailPoint
10 5 (0.34%) Gherkin
10 5 (0.34%) LangGraph
10 5 (0.34%) ModSecurity
10 5 (0.34%) React
11 4 (0.27%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 138 (9.44%) Cyber Threat
2 128 (8.76%) Security Posture
3 89 (6.09%) Management Information System
4 69 (4.72%) Cyberattack
4 69 (4.72%) Onboarding
5 53 (3.63%) Self-Motivation
6 48 (3.28%) Driving Licence
7 46 (3.15%) Data Centre
8 42 (2.87%) Cyber Defence
9 36 (2.46%) Cloud Native
10 33 (2.26%) PKI
11 30 (2.05%) Blog
12 26 (1.78%) Cyber Security Posture
13 25 (1.71%) Security Operations Centre
14 24 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
15 23 (1.57%) Cyber Kill Chain
16 20 (1.37%) Operational Technology
17 19 (1.30%) Web Conferencing
18 18 (1.23%) AI Agents
19 17 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 189 (12.93%) Windows
2 71 (4.86%) Windows Server
3 53 (3.63%) Linux
4 42 (2.87%) Windows 10
5 23 (1.57%) Mac OS
6 13 (0.89%) Android
7 12 (0.82%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.14%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.068%) AIX
11 1 (0.068%) FreeBSD
11 1 (0.068%) OpenBSD
11 1 (0.068%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (19.77%) Continuous Improvement
2 250 (17.10%) Information Security
3 225 (15.39%) Problem-Solving
4 206 (14.09%) Risk Management
5 205 (14.02%) Incident Response
6 195 (13.34%) Mentoring
7 186 (12.72%) AI
8 169 (11.56%) Vulnerability Management
9 154 (10.53%) Decision-Making
10 152 (10.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 151 (10.33%) Cloud Security
12 138 (9.44%) SIEM
13 135 (9.23%) ITIL
13 135 (9.23%) Roadmaps
14 132 (9.03%) Security Operations
15 131 (8.96%) Agile
16 122 (8.34%) Identity Access Management
17 109 (7.46%) Stakeholder Management
18 105 (7.18%) Disaster Recovery
19 99 (6.77%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 113 (7.73%) Python
2 95 (6.50%) PowerShell
3 36 (2.46%) Bash
4 35 (2.39%) SQL
5 28 (1.92%) T-SQL
6 27 (1.85%) Java
7 20 (1.37%) JavaScript
8 13 (0.89%) C++
9 12 (0.82%) Rust
10 10 (0.68%) C#
10 10 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
11 9 (0.62%) C
12 8 (0.55%) Go
13 7 (0.48%) TypeScript
14 5 (0.34%) PHP
15 3 (0.21%) Ada
15 3 (0.21%) VB.NET
16 2 (0.14%) Search Processing Language
17 1 (0.068%) Bicep
17 1 (0.068%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 242 (16.55%) Security Cleared
2 209 (14.30%) CISSP
3 199 (13.61%) SC Cleared
4 171 (11.70%) Degree
5 158 (10.81%) CISM
6 63 (4.31%) DV Cleared
7 45 (3.08%) CISA
8 39 (2.67%) Cisco Certification
9 38 (2.60%) CRISC
10 37 (2.53%) AWS Certification
10 37 (2.53%) CTC Cleared
11 35 (2.39%) Microsoft Certification
12 34 (2.33%) Network+ Certification
13 33 (2.26%) A+ Certification
13 33 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
14 29 (1.98%) CREST Certified
15 27 (1.85%) Azure Certification
16 26 (1.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 22 (1.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 21 (1.44%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 306 (20.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 232 (15.87%) NIST
3 167 (11.42%) GDPR
4 110 (7.52%) GRC
5 101 (6.91%) Cyber Essentials
6 80 (5.47%) PCI DSS
7 75 (5.13%) NCSC
8 57 (3.90%) SLA
9 45 (3.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 25 (1.71%) COBIT
10 25 (1.71%) QA
11 24 (1.64%) Actionable Recommendations
12 21 (1.44%) SOC 2
13 18 (1.23%) Accessibility
14 17 (1.16%) JSP 440
15 13 (0.89%) ISO 22301
16 12 (0.82%) NIST 800
17 11 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 11 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 7 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 174 (11.90%) Active Directory
2 38 (2.60%) Hyper-V
3 29 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.96%) Docker
6 10 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
7 9 (0.62%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 7 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.48%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.41%) vSphere
10 5 (0.34%) ClearTrust
11 4 (0.27%) Firmware
12 1 (0.068%) KVM
12 1 (0.068%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 106 (7.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (1.98%) Kubernetes
3 24 (1.64%) Terraform
4 20 (1.37%) Grafana
5 19 (1.30%) Ansible
6 16 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (0.82%) CASB
8 10 (0.68%) FortiGate
9 9 (0.62%) Cisco CUCM
10 8 (0.55%) QRadar
11 6 (0.41%) Prometheus
12 5 (0.34%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 5 (0.34%) FTK
12 5 (0.34%) Nmap
13 4 (0.27%) Computer Incident Response Team
13 4 (0.27%) CSIRT
13 4 (0.27%) SCCM
14 3 (0.21%) Failover Clustering
14 3 (0.21%) Functional Safety
14 3 (0.21%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 434 (29.69%) Microsoft
2 94 (6.43%) Cisco
3 73 (4.99%) Palo Alto
4 52 (3.56%) VMware
5 41 (2.80%) ServiceNow
6 40 (2.74%) CrowdStrike
7 34 (2.33%) Tenable
8 32 (2.19%) Google
9 31 (2.12%) CyberArk
10 30 (2.05%) Fortinet
11 29 (1.98%) Adobe
11 29 (1.98%) Apple
11 29 (1.98%) Splunk
12 23 (1.57%) Qualys
13 20 (1.37%) Salesforce
14 16 (1.09%) Aruba
15 13 (0.89%) SAP
16 11 (0.75%) Veeam
17 10 (0.68%) CheckPoint
17 10 (0.68%) Oracle