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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 32 45
Rank change year-on-year +3 +13 +3
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,359 1,192 1,889
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.76% 7.72% 5.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.26% 8.17% 6.13%
Number of salaries quoted 919 669 1,225
10th Percentile £36,250 £25,000 £37,050
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £72,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,416 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £58,250
% change year-on-year +4.35% -1.29% -10.38%

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 16,449 14,587 30,837
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.87% 94.52% 88.90%
Number of salaries quoted 11,886 8,474 23,847
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 June 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 46 (3.38%) SharePoint
2 32 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.37%) WordPress
4 4 (0.29%) SAS
5 3 (0.22%) CMS
6 2 (0.15%) Apache
6 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.15%) IIS
7 1 (0.074%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.074%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 60 (4.42%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.37%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (1.77%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.37%) SAP Business One
3 3 (0.22%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.15%) Shopify
5 1 (0.074%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 346 (25.46%) Azure
2 188 (13.83%) Microsoft 365
3 167 (12.29%) AWS
3 167 (12.29%) Entra ID
4 76 (5.59%) SaaS
5 73 (5.37%) GCP
6 51 (3.75%) Google Workspace
7 32 (2.35%) Azure Sentinel
8 28 (2.06%) Serverless
9 25 (1.84%) Power Platform
10 16 (1.18%) Mimecast
11 14 (1.03%) Azure Logic Apps
11 14 (1.03%) OneDrive
12 12 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (0.74%) PaaS
14 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Purview
15 8 (0.59%) Nutanix
16 6 (0.44%) Cloud Computing
16 6 (0.44%) Datadog
16 6 (0.44%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 169 (12.44%) Firewall
2 94 (6.92%) Broadband
3 92 (6.77%) Network Security
4 48 (3.53%) VPN
5 47 (3.46%) DNS
6 40 (2.94%) WAN
7 36 (2.65%) DHCP
8 33 (2.43%) VLAN
9 30 (2.21%) LAN
10 23 (1.69%) Unified Communications
11 22 (1.62%) TCP/IP
12 21 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
13 20 (1.47%) VoIP
14 17 (1.25%) Intrusion Detection
15 16 (1.18%) CHAP
15 16 (1.18%) SSL
16 15 (1.10%) BGP
17 12 (0.88%) HTTP
17 12 (0.88%) Internet
17 12 (0.88%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (0.66%) Power BI
2 5 (0.37%) SQL Server
2 5 (0.37%) Tableau
3 3 (0.22%) Big Data
3 3 (0.22%) MySQL
3 3 (0.22%) NoSQL
3 3 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.15%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.15%) Oracle Database
4 2 (0.15%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.074%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.074%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.074%) Metadata
5 1 (0.074%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.074%) Pinecone
5 1 (0.074%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.074%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 25 (1.84%) Snyk
2 9 (0.66%) JIRA
3 8 (0.59%) GitLab
4 7 (0.52%) Git
5 5 (0.37%) Cucumber
5 5 (0.37%) JMeter
5 5 (0.37%) Locust
5 5 (0.37%) VersionOne
6 4 (0.29%) Burp Suite
6 4 (0.29%) Metasploit
7 2 (0.15%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.074%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.074%) GDB
8 1 (0.074%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.074%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.074%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.074%) WinDbg
General
1 373 (27.45%) Social Skills
2 165 (12.14%) Finance
3 117 (8.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 115 (8.46%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (8.46%) Public Sector
5 107 (7.87%) Marketing
6 80 (5.89%) Retail
7 72 (5.30%) Organisational Skills
8 57 (4.19%) Games
9 51 (3.75%) Banking
10 48 (3.53%) Law
11 46 (3.38%) Legal
12 39 (2.87%) Back Office
13 38 (2.80%) Telecoms
14 28 (2.06%) Aviation
15 20 (1.47%) Advertising
16 19 (1.40%) Manufacturing
17 18 (1.32%) Financial Institution
18 17 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
19 15 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 237 (17.44%) Senior
2 176 (12.95%) Analyst
3 151 (11.11%) Architect
4 115 (8.46%) Security Architect
5 112 (8.24%) Security Manager
6 107 (7.87%) Consultant
7 97 (7.14%) Security Analyst
8 92 (6.77%) Lead
9 88 (6.48%) Support Engineer
10 84 (6.18%) Cybersecurity Manager
11 78 (5.74%) Security Consultant
12 65 (4.78%) IT Manager
12 65 (4.78%) IT Support
13 62 (4.56%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 60 (4.42%) Cybersecurity Architect
15 59 (4.34%) Senior Analyst
16 53 (3.90%) Security Engineer
17 51 (3.75%) Senior Architect
18 50 (3.68%) Developer
19 49 (3.61%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (4.64%) SAML
2 62 (4.56%) LDAP
2 62 (4.56%) OAuth
3 56 (4.12%) REST
4 55 (4.05%) OpenID
5 49 (3.61%) SOAP
6 48 (3.53%) GraphQL
7 9 (0.66%) XMPP
8 8 (0.59%) LangChain
9 7 (0.52%) Kafka
9 7 (0.52%) Microsoft Graph
10 6 (0.44%) .NET
10 6 (0.44%) Regular Expression
10 6 (0.44%) RESTful
11 5 (0.37%) Gherkin
11 5 (0.37%) ModSecurity
11 5 (0.37%) React
12 4 (0.29%) LangGraph
13 3 (0.22%) PyTorch
13 3 (0.22%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 135 (9.93%) Cyber Threat
2 115 (8.46%) Security Posture
3 89 (6.55%) Cyberattack
4 79 (5.81%) Management Information System
5 62 (4.56%) Onboarding
6 46 (3.38%) Data Centre
7 44 (3.24%) Self-Motivation
8 42 (3.09%) Cyber Defence
9 37 (2.72%) PKI
10 35 (2.58%) Driving Licence
11 34 (2.50%) Cloud Native
12 31 (2.28%) Blog
13 26 (1.91%) Cyber Security Posture
13 26 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
13 26 (1.91%) Operational Technology
14 22 (1.62%) Security Operations Centre
15 21 (1.55%) Cyber Kill Chain
16 17 (1.25%) AI Agents
16 17 (1.25%) Low-Code
16 17 (1.25%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 162 (11.92%) Windows
2 65 (4.78%) Windows Server
3 42 (3.09%) Linux
4 40 (2.94%) Windows 10
5 22 (1.62%) Mac OS
6 13 (0.96%) Android
7 12 (0.88%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.074%) AIX
10 1 (0.074%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.074%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.074%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.074%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (17.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 198 (14.57%) Problem-Solving
3 192 (14.13%) Information Security
4 187 (13.76%) Incident Response
5 182 (13.39%) Risk Management
6 173 (12.73%) Mentoring
7 159 (11.70%) Vulnerability Management
8 144 (10.60%) AI
9 140 (10.30%) Cloud Security
10 137 (10.08%) Roadmaps
11 125 (9.20%) Security Operations
12 121 (8.90%) Decision-Making
13 117 (8.61%) SIEM
14 113 (8.31%) Agile
15 112 (8.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 107 (7.87%) Identity Access Management
17 102 (7.51%) ITIL
18 99 (7.28%) Threat Modelling
19 98 (7.21%) Analytics
20 97 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 116 (8.54%) PowerShell
2 104 (7.65%) Python
3 56 (4.12%) Bash
4 48 (3.53%) T-SQL
5 41 (3.02%) SQL
6 26 (1.91%) Java
7 22 (1.62%) JavaScript
8 14 (1.03%) C++
9 12 (0.88%) C#
10 10 (0.74%) C
11 9 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (0.52%) Go
13 5 (0.37%) PHP
13 5 (0.37%) Rust
14 4 (0.29%) TypeScript
15 3 (0.22%) VB.NET
16 2 (0.15%) Search Processing Language
17 1 (0.074%) Bicep
17 1 (0.074%) Perl
17 1 (0.074%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 203 (14.94%) Security Cleared
2 169 (12.44%) CISSP
2 169 (12.44%) SC Cleared
3 149 (10.96%) Degree
4 124 (9.12%) CISM
5 56 (4.12%) DV Cleared
6 42 (3.09%) CISA
7 40 (2.94%) AWS Certification
8 36 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
9 35 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
10 33 (2.43%) CTC Cleared
11 32 (2.35%) CRISC
12 28 (2.06%) Azure Certification
13 27 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
14 26 (1.91%) CREST Certified
15 24 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 21 (1.55%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 21 (1.55%) SANS
17 19 (1.40%) CompTIA Security+
17 19 (1.40%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 284 (20.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 243 (17.88%) NIST
3 154 (11.33%) GDPR
4 104 (7.65%) GRC
5 96 (7.06%) NCSC
6 88 (6.48%) Cyber Essentials
7 78 (5.74%) PCI DSS
8 54 (3.97%) SLA
9 39 (2.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 27 (1.99%) COBIT
11 24 (1.77%) Actionable Recommendations
12 22 (1.62%) QA
13 19 (1.40%) JSP 440
14 18 (1.32%) Accessibility
15 17 (1.25%) SOC 2
16 10 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 10 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 9 (0.66%) ISO 22301
18 8 (0.59%) IEC 61508
18 8 (0.59%) NIST 800
System Software
1 154 (11.33%) Active Directory
2 34 (2.50%) Hyper-V
3 30 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (1.25%) Docker
6 10 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
7 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 7 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.44%) vSphere
10 5 (0.37%) ClearTrust
10 5 (0.37%) VMware NSX
11 4 (0.29%) Firmware
12 1 (0.074%) KVM
12 1 (0.074%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 72 (5.30%) Microsoft Intune
2 31 (2.28%) Kubernetes
3 27 (1.99%) Terraform
4 20 (1.47%) Ansible
4 20 (1.47%) Grafana
5 15 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.66%) CASB
6 9 (0.66%) Cisco CUCM
7 8 (0.59%) FortiGate
7 8 (0.59%) Functional Safety
8 7 (0.52%) QRadar
9 6 (0.44%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.44%) SCCM
10 5 (0.37%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 5 (0.37%) FTK
11 4 (0.29%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 4 (0.29%) CSIRT
12 3 (0.22%) Nmap
12 3 (0.22%) RSA Archer
13 2 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 373 (27.45%) Microsoft
2 86 (6.33%) Cisco
3 64 (4.71%) Palo Alto
4 51 (3.75%) VMware
5 40 (2.94%) ServiceNow
6 39 (2.87%) CrowdStrike
7 37 (2.72%) Apple
8 35 (2.58%) Adobe
9 34 (2.50%) Tenable
10 30 (2.21%) Google
11 29 (2.13%) Fortinet
12 28 (2.06%) Splunk
13 21 (1.55%) Salesforce
14 19 (1.40%) Qualys
15 14 (1.03%) SAP
16 13 (0.96%) Aruba
17 10 (0.74%) Oracle
18 9 (0.66%) CheckPoint
18 9 (0.66%) Sophos
18 9 (0.66%) Veeam