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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 28 34
Rank change year-on-year -1 +6 +12
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,609 1,260 1,450
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.09% 7.66% 5.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.57% 8.25% 6.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,090 726 818
10th Percentile £36,250 £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% -8.46%

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 18,770 15,275 21,889
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.72% 92.90% 87.76%
Number of salaries quoted 13,576 8,969 15,635
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £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% - -9.09%

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 11 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 63 (3.92%) SharePoint
2 49 (3.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.56%) SAS
4 7 (0.44%) IIS
5 5 (0.31%) WordPress
6 2 (0.12%) Apache
6 2 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.12%) CMS
7 1 (0.062%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.062%) Confluence
7 1 (0.062%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 41 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.19%) Trello
7 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (1.49%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.31%) SAP Business One
3 3 (0.19%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.12%) Shopify
5 1 (0.062%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.062%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.062%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 390 (24.24%) Azure
2 205 (12.74%) AWS
3 200 (12.43%) Microsoft 365
4 168 (10.44%) Entra ID
5 97 (6.03%) SaaS
6 78 (4.85%) GCP
7 33 (2.05%) Azure Sentinel
8 29 (1.80%) Serverless
9 22 (1.37%) Power Platform
10 19 (1.18%) OneDrive
11 16 (0.99%) dbt
12 12 (0.75%) Azure Logic Apps
12 12 (0.75%) Cloud Computing
12 12 (0.75%) Mimecast
13 10 (0.62%) Microsoft Copilot
13 10 (0.62%) PaaS
14 9 (0.56%) Microsoft Purview
15 7 (0.44%) GitHub
16 6 (0.37%) Datadog
17 5 (0.31%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 221 (13.74%) Firewall
2 152 (9.45%) Network Security
3 78 (4.85%) VLAN
4 61 (3.79%) DNS
5 56 (3.48%) VPN
6 54 (3.36%) WAN
7 47 (2.92%) DHCP
8 41 (2.55%) Broadband
8 41 (2.55%) LAN
9 39 (2.42%) TCP/IP
10 36 (2.24%) Wi-Fi
11 26 (1.62%) VoIP
12 21 (1.31%) Unified Communications
13 20 (1.24%) BGP
14 19 (1.18%) SSL
15 18 (1.12%) HTTP
15 18 (1.12%) Intrusion Detection
16 16 (0.99%) Cisco Nexus
16 16 (0.99%) MPLS
16 16 (0.99%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (0.68%) Power BI
2 9 (0.56%) SQL Server
3 7 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (0.37%) Tableau
5 5 (0.31%) Big Data
6 4 (0.25%) Metadata
6 4 (0.25%) MySQL
6 4 (0.25%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.12%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.12%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.062%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.062%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.062%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.062%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.062%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.062%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.062%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.062%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.062%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 27 (1.68%) Snyk
2 21 (1.31%) JIRA
3 7 (0.44%) Git
4 6 (0.37%) 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 (0.12%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.062%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.062%) GDB
8 1 (0.062%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.062%) WinDbg
General
1 525 (32.63%) Social Skills
2 175 (10.88%) Finance
3 168 (10.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 138 (8.58%) Analytical Skills
5 132 (8.20%) Public Sector
6 114 (7.09%) Legal
7 111 (6.90%) Marketing
8 88 (5.47%) Retail
9 74 (4.60%) Law
10 50 (3.11%) Organisational Skills
11 47 (2.92%) Telecoms
12 42 (2.61%) Banking
13 36 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
14 32 (1.99%) Games
15 27 (1.68%) Advertising
15 27 (1.68%) Aerospace
16 23 (1.43%) Manufacturing
17 22 (1.37%) Aviation
18 20 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
19 19 (1.18%) Police
Job Titles
1 335 (20.82%) Senior
2 195 (12.12%) Analyst
3 164 (10.19%) Consultant
4 161 (10.01%) Architect
5 117 (7.27%) Security Manager
6 108 (6.71%) Security Consultant
7 103 (6.40%) Security Analyst
8 102 (6.34%) Security Engineer
9 99 (6.15%) Security Architect
10 97 (6.03%) Lead
11 92 (5.72%) Senior Manager
12 91 (5.66%) Cybersecurity Manager
13 86 (5.34%) IT Manager
14 74 (4.60%) Senior Analyst
15 71 (4.41%) Support Engineer
16 68 (4.23%) IT Support
17 64 (3.98%) Cybersecurity Analyst
18 52 (3.23%) Cybersecurity Consultant
18 52 (3.23%) IT Engineer
19 50 (3.11%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.62%) OAuth
2 23 (1.43%) SAML
3 17 (1.06%) LDAP
4 15 (0.93%) OpenID
5 13 (0.81%) REST
6 10 (0.62%) .NET
6 10 (0.62%) XMPP
7 8 (0.50%) LangChain
8 7 (0.44%) Microsoft Graph
8 7 (0.44%) SailPoint
9 6 (0.37%) Kafka
9 6 (0.37%) Regular Expression
9 6 (0.37%) RESTful
10 5 (0.31%) Gherkin
10 5 (0.31%) JSON
10 5 (0.31%) LangGraph
10 5 (0.31%) ModSecurity
10 5 (0.31%) React
11 4 (0.25%) PyTorch
11 4 (0.25%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 125 (7.77%) Cyber Threat
2 123 (7.64%) Security Posture
3 99 (6.15%) Management Information System
4 79 (4.91%) Onboarding
5 57 (3.54%) Self-Motivation
6 52 (3.23%) Driving Licence
7 47 (2.92%) Data Centre
8 45 (2.80%) Cloud Native
8 45 (2.80%) Cyber Defence
9 35 (2.18%) Cyberattack
10 33 (2.05%) PKI
11 32 (1.99%) Operational Technology
12 28 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
13 25 (1.55%) Security Operations Centre
14 24 (1.49%) Blog
14 24 (1.49%) Cyber Kill Chain
15 20 (1.24%) AI Agents
15 20 (1.24%) Social Media
15 20 (1.24%) Web Conferencing
16 18 (1.12%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 165 (10.25%) Windows
2 67 (4.16%) Windows Server
3 57 (3.54%) Linux
4 25 (1.55%) Mac OS
5 9 (0.56%) Android
6 8 (0.50%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (0.44%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.062%) AIX
9 1 (0.062%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.062%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.062%) OpenBSD
9 1 (0.062%) Solaris
9 1 (0.062%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 313 (19.45%) Continuous Improvement
2 295 (18.33%) Information Security
3 280 (17.40%) AI
4 245 (15.23%) Problem-Solving
5 218 (13.55%) Risk Management
6 212 (13.18%) Mentoring
7 210 (13.05%) Decision-Making
8 205 (12.74%) Incident Response
9 202 (12.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 176 (10.94%) Vulnerability Management
11 171 (10.63%) Cloud Security
12 156 (9.70%) Agile
13 154 (9.57%) ITIL
14 148 (9.20%) SIEM
15 141 (8.76%) Identity Access Management
15 141 (8.76%) Security Operations
16 140 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
17 130 (8.08%) Business Continuity
18 125 (7.77%) Service Delivery
19 124 (7.71%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 116 (7.21%) Python
2 72 (4.47%) PowerShell
3 27 (1.68%) SQL
4 23 (1.43%) Java
5 19 (1.18%) JavaScript
6 14 (0.87%) C++
7 13 (0.81%) Bash
7 13 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
8 9 (0.56%) C#
8 9 (0.56%) Rust
9 8 (0.50%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.44%) Go
11 4 (0.25%) C
11 4 (0.25%) VB.NET
12 3 (0.19%) Ada
12 3 (0.19%) PHP
13 2 (0.12%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.062%) Bicep
14 1 (0.062%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.062%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 273 (16.97%) Security Cleared
2 234 (14.54%) CISSP
3 207 (12.87%) SC Cleared
4 184 (11.44%) CISM
5 155 (9.63%) Degree
6 79 (4.91%) DV Cleared
7 59 (3.67%) A+ Certification
8 58 (3.60%) Network+ Certification
9 46 (2.86%) AWS Certification
10 40 (2.49%) CRISC
11 39 (2.42%) CISA
12 38 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
13 37 (2.30%) CompTIA Security+
14 36 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
15 35 (2.18%) Azure Certification
16 33 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
17 28 (1.74%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
18 27 (1.68%) CREST Certified
19 26 (1.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 26 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 309 (19.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 217 (13.49%) NIST
3 162 (10.07%) GDPR
4 132 (8.20%) GRC
5 115 (7.15%) Cyber Essentials
6 83 (5.16%) PCI DSS
7 56 (3.48%) NCSC
8 49 (3.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 29 (1.80%) SLA
10 27 (1.68%) Accessibility
10 27 (1.68%) QA
11 25 (1.55%) COBIT
11 25 (1.55%) SOC 2
12 21 (1.31%) Actionable Recommendations
13 17 (1.06%) JSP 440
14 16 (0.99%) ISO 22301
15 15 (0.93%) NIST 800
16 12 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 12 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 10 (0.62%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 179 (11.12%) Active Directory
2 40 (2.49%) Hyper-V
3 30 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (1.06%) Firmware
6 14 (0.87%) Docker
7 11 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
8 10 (0.62%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 7 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.44%) VMware NSX
9 7 (0.44%) vSphere
10 5 (0.31%) ClearTrust
11 1 (0.062%) KVM
11 1 (0.062%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 128 (7.96%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (1.74%) Kubernetes
3 25 (1.55%) Terraform
4 18 (1.12%) Ansible
4 18 (1.12%) Grafana
5 17 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (0.87%) CASB
7 12 (0.75%) FortiGate
8 10 (0.62%) Cisco CUCM
9 7 (0.44%) QRadar
10 5 (0.31%) Nmap
11 3 (0.19%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 3 (0.19%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 3 (0.19%) CSIRT
11 3 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
11 3 (0.19%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 3 (0.19%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.19%) SCCM
12 2 (0.12%) Graylog
12 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 481 (29.89%) Microsoft
2 81 (5.03%) Palo Alto
3 75 (4.66%) Cisco
4 62 (3.85%) CyberArk
5 48 (2.98%) VMware
6 43 (2.67%) ServiceNow
7 37 (2.30%) CrowdStrike
8 36 (2.24%) Apple
9 34 (2.11%) Adobe
9 34 (2.11%) Fortinet
10 33 (2.05%) Google
11 31 (1.93%) Splunk
11 31 (1.93%) Tenable
12 26 (1.62%) Salesforce
13 24 (1.49%) Qualys
14 18 (1.12%) Aruba
15 15 (0.93%) OpenAI
16 13 (0.81%) SAP
17 11 (0.68%) Veeam
18 9 (0.56%) Oracle