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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 39 46
Rank change year-on-year +12 +7 +11
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,064 963 1,602
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.35% 6.93% 5.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.44% 7.27% 5.82%
Number of salaries quoted 642 681 1,268
10th Percentile £32,600 £25,313 £36,151
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £88,750 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,250 £91,934
UK median annual salary £50,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 14,297 13,240 27,544
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.26% 95.33% 92.13%
Number of salaries quoted 9,336 8,795 22,823
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.31%

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 12 March 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 32 (3.01%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.47%) Drupal
3 5 (0.47%) nginx
3 5 (0.47%) WordPress
4 4 (0.38%) CMS
5 2 (0.19%) Apache
5 2 (0.19%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.094%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.094%) Confluence
6 1 (0.094%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 82 (7.71%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (2.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (1.79%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.19%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.094%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.094%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.094%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 7 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (0.66%) Shopify
2 1 (0.094%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 320 (30.08%) Azure
2 167 (15.70%) Microsoft 365
3 158 (14.85%) Entra ID
4 153 (14.38%) AWS
5 58 (5.45%) Google Workspace
6 38 (3.57%) GCP
7 28 (2.63%) Power Platform
7 28 (2.63%) SaaS
8 27 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (2.07%) Azure Sentinel
10 21 (1.97%) Azure Logic Apps
11 16 (1.50%) Nutanix
12 14 (1.32%) Mimecast
13 8 (0.75%) Microsoft Purview
14 6 (0.56%) PaaS
15 5 (0.47%) Azure Monitor
15 5 (0.47%) Cloud Computing
15 5 (0.47%) Dynamics 365
15 5 (0.47%) GitHub
16 4 (0.38%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 130 (12.22%) Firewall
2 76 (7.14%) Broadband
3 48 (4.51%) Network Security
4 40 (3.76%) VPN
5 27 (2.54%) DNS
6 22 (2.07%) CHAP
6 22 (2.07%) Intrusion Detection
7 20 (1.88%) VLAN
8 17 (1.60%) DHCP
9 11 (1.03%) TCP/IP
10 10 (0.94%) Unified Communications
11 9 (0.85%) WAN
12 8 (0.75%) Cisco ASA
12 8 (0.75%) DMZ
12 8 (0.75%) LAN
13 7 (0.66%) IP Telephony
13 7 (0.66%) VoIP
14 6 (0.56%) BGP
14 6 (0.56%) Internet
14 6 (0.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (0.85%) Power BI
2 5 (0.47%) MariaDB
2 5 (0.47%) Relational Database
3 4 (0.38%) Metadata
3 4 (0.38%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.28%) MongoDB
4 3 (0.28%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.28%) Tableau
5 1 (0.094%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.094%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.094%) Big Data
5 1 (0.094%) MySQL
5 1 (0.094%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.094%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (1.03%) Jenkins
2 7 (0.66%) Git
2 7 (0.66%) GitLab
3 4 (0.38%) Cucumber
3 4 (0.38%) JMeter
3 4 (0.38%) Locust
4 2 (0.19%) Burp Suite
4 2 (0.19%) JIRA
4 2 (0.19%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.094%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.094%) Snyk
5 1 (0.094%) SonarQube
General
1 375 (35.24%) Social Skills
2 179 (16.82%) Finance
3 100 (9.40%) Public Sector
4 93 (8.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 88 (8.27%) Organisational Skills
6 85 (7.99%) Analytical Skills
7 76 (7.14%) Marketing
8 66 (6.20%) Back Office
9 60 (5.64%) Banking
9 60 (5.64%) Telecoms
10 58 (5.45%) Law
11 48 (4.51%) Games
12 47 (4.42%) Legal
13 34 (3.20%) Manufacturing
13 34 (3.20%) Retail
14 25 (2.35%) Electronics
14 25 (2.35%) Financial Institution
15 17 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
16 14 (1.32%) Local Government
17 9 (0.85%) German Language
Job Titles
1 207 (19.45%) Senior
2 103 (9.68%) Support Engineer
3 99 (9.30%) Analyst
4 97 (9.12%) Architect
5 85 (7.99%) Consultant
6 65 (6.11%) Security Manager
7 63 (5.92%) Security Architect
8 60 (5.64%) Desktop Engineer
8 60 (5.64%) Desktop Support
8 60 (5.64%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 56 (5.26%) Site Engineer
10 54 (5.08%) Cybersecurity Architect
10 54 (5.08%) Security Consultant
11 51 (4.79%) Security Analyst
12 49 (4.61%) Hardware Engineer
12 49 (4.61%) IT Support
12 49 (4.61%) Senior Hardware Engineer
13 47 (4.42%) Developer
13 47 (4.42%) IT Engineer
14 43 (4.04%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (5.83%) REST
2 60 (5.64%) OAuth
2 60 (5.64%) OpenID
2 60 (5.64%) SAML
2 60 (5.64%) SOAP
3 59 (5.55%) GraphQL
3 59 (5.55%) LDAP
4 23 (2.16%) SAP CAF
5 6 (0.56%) CSS
5 6 (0.56%) HTML
6 5 (0.47%) .NET
6 5 (0.47%) Kafka
7 4 (0.38%) Android NDK
7 4 (0.38%) Gherkin
7 4 (0.38%) RESTful
7 4 (0.38%) SailPoint
7 4 (0.38%) WebSockets
8 3 (0.28%) CSS3
8 3 (0.28%) HTML5
8 3 (0.28%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 109 (10.24%) Cyber Threat
2 80 (7.52%) Security Posture
3 75 (7.05%) Cyberattack
4 65 (6.11%) Management Information System
5 52 (4.89%) Onboarding
6 41 (3.85%) Blog
7 33 (3.10%) Hybrid Cloud
8 32 (3.01%) Driving Licence
9 30 (2.82%) Public Cloud
10 28 (2.63%) Data Centre
11 26 (2.44%) Operational Technology
11 26 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
12 24 (2.26%) Cloud Native
13 22 (2.07%) PKI
14 19 (1.79%) Cyber Security Posture
14 19 (1.79%) Security Operations Centre
15 18 (1.69%) Cyber Defence
16 15 (1.41%) Cyber Kill Chain
16 15 (1.41%) Low-Code
16 15 (1.41%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 159 (14.94%) Windows
2 71 (6.67%) Windows 10
3 51 (4.79%) Windows Server
4 43 (4.04%) Linux
5 19 (1.79%) Android
6 16 (1.50%) Mac OS
7 15 (1.41%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.28%) Unix
9 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.094%) Debian
10 1 (0.094%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.094%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.094%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.094%) OpenWrt
10 1 (0.094%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (17.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 144 (13.53%) Risk Management
3 135 (12.69%) ITIL
3 135 (12.69%) Roadmaps
4 131 (12.31%) Mentoring
5 130 (12.22%) Incident Response
6 127 (11.94%) Information Security
6 127 (11.94%) Problem-Solving
7 116 (10.90%) Analytics
8 112 (10.53%) AI
9 87 (8.18%) Customer Service
10 86 (8.08%) Vulnerability Management
11 84 (7.89%) Agile
12 83 (7.80%) Cloud Security
12 83 (7.80%) Identity Access Management
12 83 (7.80%) Project Management
13 76 (7.14%) Customer Experience
13 76 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
14 73 (6.86%) Programme Delivery
15 71 (6.67%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 113 (10.62%) PowerShell
2 76 (7.14%) Python
3 68 (6.39%) Bash
4 57 (5.36%) T-SQL
5 47 (4.42%) SQL
6 23 (2.16%) C++
6 23 (2.16%) JavaScript
7 21 (1.97%) C#
7 21 (1.97%) Java
8 13 (1.22%) C
9 7 (0.66%) Go
10 5 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (0.47%) PHP
10 5 (0.47%) Rust
11 4 (0.38%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.28%) Bicep
12 3 (0.28%) R
13 2 (0.19%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.094%) Perl
14 1 (0.094%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 187 (17.58%) Degree
2 170 (15.98%) Security Cleared
3 155 (14.57%) CISSP
4 142 (13.35%) SC Cleared
5 112 (10.53%) CISM
6 60 (5.64%) CTC Cleared
7 42 (3.95%) CISA
7 42 (3.95%) Microsoft Certification
8 41 (3.85%) AWS Certification
9 37 (3.48%) Cisco Certification
10 35 (3.29%) CEH
11 31 (2.91%) DV Cleared
12 30 (2.82%) SANS
13 26 (2.44%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 25 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
14 25 (2.35%) PMP
15 23 (2.16%) Azure Certification
15 23 (2.16%) FFIEC
16 22 (2.07%) CGEIT
16 22 (2.07%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 230 (21.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 226 (21.24%) NIST
3 97 (9.12%) GDPR
4 87 (8.18%) NCSC
5 74 (6.95%) Cyber Essentials
6 72 (6.77%) GRC
7 68 (6.39%) SLA
8 43 (4.04%) PCI DSS
9 36 (3.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 28 (2.63%) COBIT
11 16 (1.50%) ISO 22301
12 13 (1.22%) Accessibility
12 13 (1.22%) JSP 440
13 12 (1.13%) QA
13 12 (1.13%) SOC 2
14 11 (1.03%) IEC 61508
14 11 (1.03%) MISRA
14 11 (1.03%) MISRA C
15 10 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 8 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 130 (12.22%) Active Directory
2 24 (2.26%) Hyper-V
3 23 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.88%) Docker
5 11 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.56%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.38%) Firmware
8 4 (0.38%) vSphere
9 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.094%) iptables
10 1 (0.094%) KVM
10 1 (0.094%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 54 (5.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (2.63%) Terraform
3 23 (2.16%) Ansible
4 22 (2.07%) Kubernetes
5 12 (1.13%) Grafana
6 11 (1.03%) Functional Safety
7 10 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.85%) Nessus
9 5 (0.47%) FTK
9 5 (0.47%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.38%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 4 (0.38%) CSIRT
10 4 (0.38%) Proxmox
10 4 (0.38%) QRadar
10 4 (0.38%) RSA Archer
11 3 (0.28%) Cisco CUCM
11 3 (0.28%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.28%) SCCM
12 2 (0.19%) Nagios
Vendors
1 230 (21.62%) Microsoft
2 84 (7.89%) Cisco
3 54 (5.08%) VMware
4 31 (2.91%) Apple
5 27 (2.54%) SAP
6 24 (2.26%) Adobe
7 20 (1.88%) Google
8 19 (1.79%) PayPal
9 16 (1.50%) Fortinet
9 16 (1.50%) Splunk
10 15 (1.41%) Commvault
10 15 (1.41%) ServiceNow
10 15 (1.41%) Tenable
11 14 (1.32%) CrowdStrike
11 14 (1.32%) Salesforce
12 10 (0.94%) CheckPoint
12 10 (0.94%) Draytek
12 10 (0.94%) Palo Alto
13 9 (0.85%) Qualys
14 8 (0.75%) Oracle