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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 38 46
Rank change year-on-year +11 +8 +9
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,076 951 1,617
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.38% 7.09% 5.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.52% 7.45% 5.85%
Number of salaries quoted 654 698 1,285
10th Percentile £33,500 £25,313 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £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 £51,625 £61,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.71% +2.08% -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 14,314 12,772 27,639
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 84.91% 95.24% 92.04%
Number of salaries quoted 9,412 8,783 22,888
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £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 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 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 31 (2.88%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.46%) Drupal
3 5 (0.46%) nginx
3 5 (0.46%) WordPress
4 4 (0.37%) CMS
5 2 (0.19%) Apache
5 2 (0.19%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.093%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.093%) Confluence
6 1 (0.093%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 82 (7.62%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (2.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (2.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (1.77%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.19%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.093%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.093%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.093%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 7 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (0.65%) Shopify
2 1 (0.093%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 326 (30.30%) Azure
2 166 (15.43%) Microsoft 365
3 158 (14.68%) Entra ID
4 156 (14.50%) AWS
5 58 (5.39%) Google Workspace
6 38 (3.53%) GCP
7 29 (2.70%) SaaS
8 27 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
8 27 (2.51%) Power Platform
9 22 (2.04%) Azure Sentinel
10 21 (1.95%) Azure Logic Apps
11 16 (1.49%) Nutanix
12 14 (1.30%) Mimecast
13 8 (0.74%) Microsoft Purview
14 6 (0.56%) GitHub
14 6 (0.56%) PaaS
15 5 (0.46%) Cloud Computing
16 4 (0.37%) Azure Monitor
16 4 (0.37%) Datadog
16 4 (0.37%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 131 (12.17%) Firewall
2 79 (7.34%) Broadband
3 51 (4.74%) Network Security
4 39 (3.62%) VPN
5 27 (2.51%) DNS
6 24 (2.23%) Intrusion Detection
7 23 (2.14%) CHAP
8 21 (1.95%) VLAN
9 16 (1.49%) DHCP
10 10 (0.93%) TCP/IP
10 10 (0.93%) Unified Communications
11 9 (0.84%) Cisco ASA
11 9 (0.84%) WAN
12 8 (0.74%) DMZ
12 8 (0.74%) LAN
13 7 (0.65%) IP Telephony
14 6 (0.56%) BGP
14 6 (0.56%) SSL
14 6 (0.56%) VoIP
15 5 (0.46%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (0.84%) Power BI
2 5 (0.46%) MariaDB
2 5 (0.46%) Relational Database
3 4 (0.37%) Metadata
3 4 (0.37%) 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 (0.093%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.093%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.093%) Big Data
5 1 (0.093%) MySQL
5 1 (0.093%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.093%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (1.02%) Jenkins
2 7 (0.65%) Git
2 7 (0.65%) GitLab
3 4 (0.37%) Cucumber
3 4 (0.37%) JMeter
3 4 (0.37%) Locust
4 2 (0.19%) Burp Suite
4 2 (0.19%) JIRA
4 2 (0.19%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.093%) GDB
5 1 (0.093%) Snyk
5 1 (0.093%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.093%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.093%) WinDbg
General
1 377 (35.04%) Social Skills
2 175 (16.26%) Finance
3 101 (9.39%) Public Sector
4 94 (8.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 88 (8.18%) Organisational Skills
6 83 (7.71%) Analytical Skills
7 76 (7.06%) Marketing
8 66 (6.13%) Back Office
9 60 (5.58%) Banking
9 60 (5.58%) Law
10 58 (5.39%) Telecoms
11 50 (4.65%) Legal
12 48 (4.46%) Games
13 37 (3.44%) Retail
14 32 (2.97%) Manufacturing
15 26 (2.42%) Financial Institution
16 23 (2.14%) Electronics
17 18 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
18 14 (1.30%) Local Government
19 10 (0.93%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 209 (19.42%) Senior
2 104 (9.67%) Support Engineer
3 100 (9.29%) Analyst
3 100 (9.29%) Architect
4 88 (8.18%) Consultant
5 67 (6.23%) Security Manager
6 64 (5.95%) Security Architect
7 60 (5.58%) Desktop Engineer
7 60 (5.58%) Desktop Support
7 60 (5.58%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 58 (5.39%) Security Consultant
9 56 (5.20%) Site Engineer
10 55 (5.11%) Cybersecurity Architect
11 53 (4.93%) Security Analyst
12 49 (4.55%) Hardware Engineer
12 49 (4.55%) IT Support
12 49 (4.55%) Senior Hardware Engineer
13 48 (4.46%) Developer
14 46 (4.28%) IT Engineer
15 43 (4.00%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (5.76%) REST
2 60 (5.58%) OAuth
2 60 (5.58%) OpenID
2 60 (5.58%) SAML
2 60 (5.58%) SOAP
3 59 (5.48%) GraphQL
3 59 (5.48%) LDAP
4 21 (1.95%) SAP CAF
5 6 (0.56%) CSS
5 6 (0.56%) HTML
6 5 (0.46%) .NET
6 5 (0.46%) Kafka
6 5 (0.46%) LangChain
6 5 (0.46%) SailPoint
7 4 (0.37%) Android NDK
7 4 (0.37%) Gherkin
7 4 (0.37%) RESTful
7 4 (0.37%) WebSockets
7 4 (0.37%) XMPP
8 3 (0.28%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 107 (9.94%) Cyber Threat
2 84 (7.81%) Security Posture
3 74 (6.88%) Cyberattack
4 67 (6.23%) Management Information System
5 51 (4.74%) Onboarding
6 44 (4.09%) Blog
7 33 (3.07%) Driving Licence
8 32 (2.97%) Hybrid Cloud
9 29 (2.70%) Cloud Native
9 29 (2.70%) Public Cloud
10 27 (2.51%) Data Centre
10 27 (2.51%) Operational Technology
11 24 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (1.95%) Cyber Defence
12 21 (1.95%) PKI
13 19 (1.77%) Cyber Security Posture
14 18 (1.67%) Security Operations Centre
15 16 (1.49%) Product Ownership
16 15 (1.39%) Cyber Kill Chain
16 15 (1.39%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 163 (15.15%) Windows
2 71 (6.60%) Windows 10
3 51 (4.74%) Windows Server
4 50 (4.65%) Linux
5 19 (1.77%) Android
6 17 (1.58%) Mac OS
7 15 (1.39%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.28%) Unix
9 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.093%) Debian
10 1 (0.093%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.093%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.093%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.093%) OpenWrt
10 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (17.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 150 (13.94%) Risk Management
3 137 (12.73%) Roadmaps
4 136 (12.64%) Mentoring
5 132 (12.27%) Incident Response
5 132 (12.27%) ITIL
6 129 (11.99%) Problem-Solving
7 128 (11.90%) Information Security
8 116 (10.78%) Analytics
9 110 (10.22%) AI
10 91 (8.46%) Agile
10 91 (8.46%) Vulnerability Management
11 87 (8.09%) Cloud Security
11 87 (8.09%) Customer Service
12 83 (7.71%) Identity Access Management
12 83 (7.71%) Project Management
13 79 (7.34%) Customer Experience
14 78 (7.25%) Stakeholder Management
15 73 (6.78%) Programme Delivery
16 72 (6.69%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 114 (10.59%) PowerShell
2 77 (7.16%) Python
3 67 (6.23%) Bash
4 57 (5.30%) T-SQL
5 47 (4.37%) SQL
6 23 (2.14%) JavaScript
7 22 (2.04%) C++
7 22 (2.04%) Java
8 21 (1.95%) C#
9 13 (1.21%) C
10 7 (0.65%) Go
11 5 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (0.46%) PHP
11 5 (0.46%) Rust
12 4 (0.37%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.28%) Bicep
13 3 (0.28%) R
14 2 (0.19%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.093%) Perl
15 1 (0.093%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 176 (16.36%) Degree
2 169 (15.71%) Security Cleared
3 155 (14.41%) CISSP
4 141 (13.10%) SC Cleared
5 114 (10.59%) CISM
6 60 (5.58%) CTC Cleared
7 43 (4.00%) CISA
8 40 (3.72%) Microsoft Certification
9 39 (3.62%) AWS Certification
10 37 (3.44%) Cisco Certification
11 35 (3.25%) CEH
12 34 (3.16%) DV Cleared
13 30 (2.79%) SANS
14 24 (2.23%) CREST Certified
14 24 (2.23%) FFIEC
14 24 (2.23%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 24 (2.23%) PMP
15 23 (2.14%) CGEIT
16 22 (2.04%) Azure Certification
17 21 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 235 (21.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 232 (21.56%) NIST
3 103 (9.57%) GDPR
4 88 (8.18%) NCSC
5 75 (6.97%) Cyber Essentials
6 73 (6.78%) GRC
7 68 (6.32%) SLA
8 48 (4.46%) PCI DSS
9 36 (3.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 29 (2.70%) COBIT
11 16 (1.49%) ISO 22301
12 14 (1.30%) Accessibility
13 13 (1.21%) JSP 440
13 13 (1.21%) QA
13 13 (1.21%) SOC 2
14 11 (1.02%) IEC 61508
14 11 (1.02%) MISRA
14 11 (1.02%) MISRA C
15 10 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 9 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 131 (12.17%) Active Directory
2 25 (2.32%) Hyper-V
3 23 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.86%) Docker
5 10 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.56%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.46%) Firmware
7 5 (0.46%) vSphere
8 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.093%) iptables
10 1 (0.093%) KVM
10 1 (0.093%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 53 (4.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (2.60%) Terraform
3 23 (2.14%) Ansible
4 22 (2.04%) Kubernetes
5 13 (1.21%) Grafana
6 11 (1.02%) Functional Safety
7 9 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.65%) Nessus
9 5 (0.46%) FTK
9 5 (0.46%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.37%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (0.37%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 4 (0.37%) CSIRT
10 4 (0.37%) QRadar
10 4 (0.37%) RSA Archer
11 3 (0.28%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.28%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.28%) SCCM
12 2 (0.19%) WSUS
Vendors
1 231 (21.47%) Microsoft
2 85 (7.90%) Cisco
3 54 (5.02%) VMware
4 32 (2.97%) Apple
5 25 (2.32%) SAP
6 24 (2.23%) Adobe
6 24 (2.23%) Google
7 19 (1.77%) Fortinet
7 19 (1.77%) PayPal
8 18 (1.67%) Splunk
9 15 (1.39%) Commvault
10 14 (1.30%) ServiceNow
10 14 (1.30%) Tenable
11 13 (1.21%) CrowdStrike
11 13 (1.21%) Salesforce
12 11 (1.02%) CheckPoint
12 11 (1.02%) Palo Alto
13 10 (0.93%) Draytek
14 9 (0.84%) Oracle
14 9 (0.84%) Qualys