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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 32 41
Rank change year-on-year +5 +9 +9
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,251 1,015 1,890
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.99% 7.58% 5.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.40% 8.01% 6.36%
Number of salaries quoted 777 728 1,295
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,000 £36,298
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,716 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.68% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £88,750 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £86,250 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 14,887 12,677 29,712
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.14% 94.72% 91.47%
Number of salaries quoted 10,419 8,968 23,636
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,206 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.97% +6.45% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%

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 23 April 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 28 (2.24%) SharePoint
2 10 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (0.64%) WordPress
4 5 (0.40%) Drupal
4 5 (0.40%) nginx
5 4 (0.32%) CMS
6 3 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.16%) Apache
7 2 (0.16%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.080%) IIS
8 1 (0.080%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 83 (6.63%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (2.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 24 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
4 18 (1.44%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.16%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.080%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.080%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.080%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (0.96%) Cloudability
2 7 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.32%) SAP Business One
3 4 (0.32%) Shopify
4 3 (0.24%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
5 1 (0.080%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 339 (27.10%) Azure
2 171 (13.67%) Microsoft 365
3 167 (13.35%) AWS
4 156 (12.47%) Entra ID
5 58 (4.64%) Google Workspace
6 54 (4.32%) GCP
7 52 (4.16%) SaaS
8 31 (2.48%) Azure Sentinel
9 29 (2.32%) Power Platform
10 22 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (1.36%) Azure Logic Apps
12 16 (1.28%) Serverless
13 14 (1.12%) Mimecast
14 13 (1.04%) Nutanix
15 9 (0.72%) PaaS
16 8 (0.64%) Microsoft Purview
17 5 (0.40%) Cloud Computing
17 5 (0.40%) Datadog
17 5 (0.40%) dbt
17 5 (0.40%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 137 (10.95%) Firewall
2 82 (6.55%) Broadband
3 57 (4.56%) Network Security
4 35 (2.80%) VPN
5 33 (2.64%) DNS
6 25 (2.00%) CHAP
6 25 (2.00%) VLAN
7 20 (1.60%) Intrusion Detection
8 19 (1.52%) Unified Communications
8 19 (1.52%) WAN
9 18 (1.44%) DHCP
10 16 (1.28%) LAN
11 13 (1.04%) Cisco ASA
11 13 (1.04%) SSL
12 10 (0.80%) VoIP
13 9 (0.72%) TCP/IP
14 8 (0.64%) BGP
14 8 (0.64%) Cisco Firepower
14 8 (0.64%) WebEx
15 7 (0.56%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (0.88%) Power BI
2 5 (0.40%) MariaDB
2 5 (0.40%) SQL Server
3 4 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (0.32%) Tableau
4 3 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.24%) Metadata
4 3 (0.24%) MongoDB
4 3 (0.24%) MySQL
4 3 (0.24%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.24%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.080%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.080%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.080%) Big Data
5 1 (0.080%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.080%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.080%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 13 (1.04%) Snyk
2 7 (0.56%) Git
2 7 (0.56%) GitLab
2 7 (0.56%) Jenkins
3 5 (0.40%) Cucumber
3 5 (0.40%) JMeter
3 5 (0.40%) Locust
4 4 (0.32%) VersionOne
5 2 (0.16%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.16%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.080%) GDB
6 1 (0.080%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.080%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.080%) WinDbg
General
1 399 (31.89%) Social Skills
2 174 (13.91%) Finance
3 124 (9.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 106 (8.47%) Public Sector
5 88 (7.03%) Marketing
6 87 (6.95%) Analytical Skills
7 84 (6.71%) Organisational Skills
8 66 (5.28%) Banking
9 65 (5.20%) Law
10 64 (5.12%) Back Office
10 64 (5.12%) Retail
11 52 (4.16%) Legal
12 48 (3.84%) Games
12 48 (3.84%) Telecoms
13 26 (2.08%) Financial Institution
14 24 (1.92%) Aviation
15 23 (1.84%) Manufacturing
16 19 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
17 14 (1.12%) Local Government
18 13 (1.04%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 255 (20.38%) Senior
2 134 (10.71%) Analyst
3 123 (9.83%) Architect
4 97 (7.75%) Support Engineer
5 96 (7.67%) Security Manager
6 93 (7.43%) Consultant
7 88 (7.03%) Security Architect
8 71 (5.68%) Security Analyst
9 69 (5.52%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 64 (5.12%) Security Consultant
11 60 (4.80%) Desktop Engineer
11 60 (4.80%) Desktop Support
11 60 (4.80%) Desktop Support Engineer
12 58 (4.64%) Cybersecurity Architect
13 56 (4.48%) Senior Architect
13 56 (4.48%) Site Engineer
14 51 (4.08%) Developer
15 49 (3.92%) Hardware Engineer
15 49 (3.92%) Senior Hardware Engineer
16 47 (3.76%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (5.04%) LDAP
1 63 (5.04%) REST
2 62 (4.96%) SAML
3 61 (4.88%) OAuth
3 61 (4.88%) OpenID
4 59 (4.72%) SOAP
5 58 (4.64%) GraphQL
6 12 (0.96%) SAP CAF
7 8 (0.64%) RESTful
7 8 (0.64%) XMPP
8 7 (0.56%) Kafka
9 6 (0.48%) Regular Expression
10 5 (0.40%) Gherkin
10 5 (0.40%) LangChain
10 5 (0.40%) React
11 4 (0.32%) Android NDK
11 4 (0.32%) CSS
11 4 (0.32%) HTML
11 4 (0.32%) SailPoint
11 4 (0.32%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 110 (8.79%) Cyber Threat
2 97 (7.75%) Security Posture
3 84 (6.71%) Management Information System
4 82 (6.55%) Cyberattack
5 71 (5.68%) Onboarding
6 46 (3.68%) Blog
7 40 (3.20%) Data Centre
8 39 (3.12%) Cyber Defence
9 38 (3.04%) Driving Licence
10 35 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
11 31 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
12 29 (2.32%) Cloud Native
12 29 (2.32%) Operational Technology
12 29 (2.32%) PKI
13 25 (2.00%) Public Cloud
14 24 (1.92%) Cyber Security Posture
15 22 (1.76%) Low-Code
16 18 (1.44%) Security Operations Centre
17 15 (1.20%) Cyber Kill Chain
18 13 (1.04%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 161 (12.87%) Windows
2 68 (5.44%) Windows 10
3 51 (4.08%) Linux
4 49 (3.92%) Windows Server
5 18 (1.44%) Android
5 18 (1.44%) Mac OS
6 14 (1.12%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.080%) AIX
8 1 (0.080%) Debian
8 1 (0.080%) FreeBSD
8 1 (0.080%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.080%) OpenBSD
8 1 (0.080%) OpenWrt
8 1 (0.080%) Solaris
8 1 (0.080%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (16.55%) Continuous Improvement
2 160 (12.79%) Risk Management
3 159 (12.71%) Mentoring
4 149 (11.91%) Information Security
5 146 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
6 142 (11.35%) Roadmaps
7 141 (11.27%) Incident Response
8 136 (10.87%) AI
9 126 (10.07%) ITIL
10 111 (8.87%) Vulnerability Management
11 110 (8.79%) Analytics
12 106 (8.47%) Cloud Security
13 104 (8.31%) Agile
14 98 (7.83%) Project Management
15 90 (7.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 89 (7.11%) Customer Service
17 88 (7.03%) Identity Access Management
17 88 (7.03%) Security Operations
18 80 (6.39%) SIEM
19 79 (6.31%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 115 (9.19%) PowerShell
2 92 (7.35%) Python
3 66 (5.28%) Bash
4 56 (4.48%) T-SQL
5 42 (3.36%) SQL
6 25 (2.00%) Java
7 23 (1.84%) JavaScript
8 22 (1.76%) C++
9 19 (1.52%) C#
10 13 (1.04%) C
11 8 (0.64%) Go
12 5 (0.40%) PHP
12 5 (0.40%) Rust
13 4 (0.32%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.32%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.24%) Bicep
15 1 (0.080%) Perl
15 1 (0.080%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 195 (15.59%) Security Cleared
2 187 (14.95%) Degree
3 165 (13.19%) SC Cleared
4 164 (13.11%) CISSP
5 123 (9.83%) CISM
6 60 (4.80%) CTC Cleared
7 47 (3.76%) AWS Certification
8 46 (3.68%) CISA
9 39 (3.12%) DV Cleared
10 37 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
11 35 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
12 33 (2.64%) CEH
12 33 (2.64%) SANS
13 26 (2.08%) FFIEC
14 25 (2.00%) CGEIT
14 25 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
15 23 (1.84%) CREST Certified
16 22 (1.76%) OSCP
17 21 (1.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 21 (1.68%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 236 (18.86%) NIST
2 232 (18.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 122 (9.75%) GDPR
4 87 (6.95%) NCSC
5 84 (6.71%) Cyber Essentials
6 80 (6.39%) GRC
7 72 (5.76%) SLA
8 55 (4.40%) PCI DSS
9 44 (3.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 32 (2.56%) COBIT
11 21 (1.68%) QA
12 20 (1.60%) Accessibility
13 19 (1.52%) SOC 2
14 13 (1.04%) ISO 22301
14 13 (1.04%) JSP 440
15 11 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
15 11 (0.88%) IEC 61508
15 11 (0.88%) MISRA
15 11 (0.88%) MISRA C
16 7 (0.56%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 129 (10.31%) Active Directory
2 25 (2.00%) Hyper-V
2 25 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (1.68%) Docker
4 16 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.48%) Firmware
6 6 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
6 6 (0.48%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.48%) vSphere
7 5 (0.40%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.080%) iptables
8 1 (0.080%) KVM
8 1 (0.080%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.080%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 48 (3.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (2.24%) Kubernetes
2 28 (2.24%) Terraform
3 23 (1.84%) Ansible
4 18 (1.44%) Grafana
5 11 (0.88%) Functional Safety
6 10 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.64%) Cisco CUCM
8 7 (0.56%) QRadar
9 6 (0.48%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 5 (0.40%) FTK
10 5 (0.40%) Nessus
10 5 (0.40%) Prometheus
11 4 (0.32%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 4 (0.32%) CSIRT
11 4 (0.32%) SCCM
12 3 (0.24%) CASB
12 3 (0.24%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
12 3 (0.24%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 276 (22.06%) Microsoft
2 92 (7.35%) Cisco
3 49 (3.92%) VMware
4 45 (3.60%) Apple
5 39 (3.12%) Adobe
6 32 (2.56%) Palo Alto
7 30 (2.40%) Google
8 27 (2.16%) CrowdStrike
8 27 (2.16%) Fortinet
9 26 (2.08%) Tenable
10 24 (1.92%) ServiceNow
11 23 (1.84%) Splunk
12 19 (1.52%) SAP
13 18 (1.44%) PayPal
14 14 (1.12%) Salesforce
15 12 (0.96%) Commvault
16 10 (0.80%) CheckPoint
17 9 (0.72%) Sophos
18 8 (0.64%) Qualys
19 7 (0.56%) Oracle