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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 37 48
Rank change year-on-year +1 +11 +8
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 900 1,225 1,219
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.87% 6.46% 5.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.51% 7.08% 6.24%
Number of salaries quoted 593 678 936
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,716 £36,750
25th Percentile £44,196 £46,750 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -2.39%
75th Percentile £81,250 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -3.85%

All Process and 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 13,829 17,295 19,528
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.14% 91.19% 94.99%
Number of salaries quoted 8,722 10,452 15,784
10th Percentile £29,750 £36,250 £36,346
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,070
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 6 December 2025.

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 29 (3.22%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.89%) IIS
3 16 (1.78%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (1.22%) CMS
5 6 (0.67%) Apache Solr
5 6 (0.67%) Confluence
5 6 (0.67%) WordPress
6 5 (0.56%) Drupal
6 5 (0.56%) nginx
7 4 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.33%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.11%) SAS
Applications
1 31 (3.44%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (2.11%) Chatbot
3 15 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (0.78%) AutoCAD
4 7 (0.78%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.11%) GNU Octave
7 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.56%) Shopify
3 4 (0.44%) NEC Housing
3 4 (0.44%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.11%) Pegasus Opera
4 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 224 (24.89%) Azure
2 121 (13.44%) Microsoft 365
3 112 (12.44%) AWS
4 66 (7.33%) Entra ID
5 40 (4.44%) Power Platform
6 31 (3.44%) SaaS
7 27 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (2.22%) Azure Sentinel
9 17 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
10 13 (1.44%) GCP
11 11 (1.22%) GitHub
12 10 (1.11%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (1.00%) Azure Logic Apps
13 9 (1.00%) IaaS
13 9 (1.00%) Nutanix
14 8 (0.89%) PaaS
15 7 (0.78%) dbt
15 7 (0.78%) Google Workspace
15 7 (0.78%) Mimecast
15 7 (0.78%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 97 (10.78%) Firewall
2 63 (7.00%) Network Security
3 56 (6.22%) VPN
4 25 (2.78%) TCP/IP
5 23 (2.56%) LAN
6 22 (2.44%) Intrusion Detection
6 22 (2.44%) VoIP
7 18 (2.00%) WAN
8 15 (1.67%) SD-WAN
9 14 (1.56%) Wireshark
10 13 (1.44%) Unified Communications
11 12 (1.33%) DNS
12 11 (1.22%) VLAN
13 10 (1.11%) Broadband
13 10 (1.11%) Modbus
14 9 (1.00%) DHCP
14 9 (1.00%) DMZ
15 8 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
16 7 (0.78%) IP Telephony
17 6 (0.67%) CHAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (2.44%) Power BI
2 20 (2.22%) SQL Server
3 13 (1.44%) Tableau
4 10 (1.11%) Relational Database
5 6 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (0.67%) MySQL
6 5 (0.56%) MariaDB
6 5 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (0.44%) BusinessObjects
7 4 (0.44%) MS Access
7 4 (0.44%) SAP Data Services
8 3 (0.33%) Metadata
9 1 (0.11%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.11%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.11%) DB2
9 1 (0.11%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.11%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.11%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.11%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 12 (1.33%) Jenkins
2 11 (1.22%) JIRA
3 7 (0.78%) Git
4 5 (0.56%) TeamCity
5 4 (0.44%) Toad
6 3 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (0.33%) Snyk
7 2 (0.22%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.22%) GitLab
7 2 (0.22%) Metasploit
General
1 328 (36.44%) Social Skills
2 185 (20.56%) Finance
3 144 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (11.56%) Public Sector
5 103 (11.44%) Telecoms
6 83 (9.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 83 (9.22%) Marketing
7 60 (6.67%) Electronics
8 59 (6.56%) Manufacturing
9 49 (5.44%) Law
10 45 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
11 42 (4.67%) Legal
12 40 (4.44%) Banking
13 26 (2.89%) Back Office
14 21 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
15 18 (2.00%) Retail
16 16 (1.78%) German Language
16 16 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
17 13 (1.44%) Financial Institution
17 13 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 148 (16.44%) Senior
2 107 (11.89%) Consultant
3 80 (8.89%) Security Consultant
4 75 (8.33%) Analyst
5 60 (6.67%) Architect
5 60 (6.67%) Support Engineer
6 50 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Consultant
7 49 (5.44%) Hardware Engineer
7 49 (5.44%) IT Manager
7 49 (5.44%) Security Engineer
7 49 (5.44%) Senior Hardware Engineer
8 40 (4.44%) Security Manager
9 35 (3.89%) IT Engineer
10 34 (3.78%) Lead
10 34 (3.78%) Security Analyst
11 32 (3.56%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 31 (3.44%) IT Support
13 29 (3.22%) Head of IT
14 28 (3.11%) IT Support Engineer
15 24 (2.67%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.67%) SAP CAF
2 13 (1.44%) .NET
3 10 (1.11%) Node.js
3 10 (1.11%) REST
4 9 (1.00%) Web Services
5 8 (0.89%) GraphQL
5 8 (0.89%) OAuth
5 8 (0.89%) OpenID
5 8 (0.89%) SAML
5 8 (0.89%) SOAP
6 6 (0.67%) LDAP
6 6 (0.67%) XML
7 5 (0.56%) CSS
7 5 (0.56%) FreeSWITCH
7 5 (0.56%) HTML
7 5 (0.56%) JSON
7 5 (0.56%) PyTorch
7 5 (0.56%) React
7 5 (0.56%) TensorFlow
8 4 (0.44%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 66 (7.33%) Management Information System
2 54 (6.00%) Cyber Threat
3 47 (5.22%) Data Centre
4 44 (4.89%) Security Posture
5 36 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
6 31 (3.44%) Driving Licence
7 27 (3.00%) Operational Technology
8 26 (2.89%) Security Operations Centre
9 25 (2.78%) Blog
9 25 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
10 24 (2.67%) Cloud Native
10 24 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
11 22 (2.44%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 20 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
13 19 (2.11%) Onboarding
13 19 (2.11%) Product Ownership
14 16 (1.78%) CESG
14 16 (1.78%) Public Cloud
15 12 (1.33%) Cyberattack
15 12 (1.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 133 (14.78%) Windows
2 60 (6.67%) Linux
3 45 (5.00%) Windows Server
4 33 (3.67%) Windows 10
5 18 (2.00%) Unix
6 14 (1.56%) Mac OS
7 9 (1.00%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.67%) Debian
9 5 (0.56%) Android
9 5 (0.56%) Mac OS X
10 3 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.22%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.11%) Check Point GAiA
12 1 (0.11%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (17.00%) Risk Management
2 140 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
3 130 (14.44%) Information Security
4 125 (13.89%) AI
5 121 (13.44%) ITIL
6 119 (13.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 118 (13.11%) Incident Response
8 93 (10.33%) Roadmaps
9 89 (9.89%) Analytics
10 87 (9.67%) Mentoring
11 85 (9.44%) Vulnerability Management
12 82 (9.11%) Business Intelligence
13 81 (9.00%) DevOps
14 79 (8.78%) SIEM
15 77 (8.56%) Agile
16 69 (7.67%) Project Management
17 67 (7.44%) Security Operations
18 59 (6.56%) Cloud Security
18 59 (6.56%) ISMS
19 58 (6.44%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 59 (6.56%) Python
2 49 (5.44%) PowerShell
2 49 (5.44%) SQL
3 22 (2.44%) Bash
4 16 (1.78%) C#
5 11 (1.22%) JavaScript
6 10 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
6 10 (1.11%) T-SQL
7 9 (1.00%) C++
8 7 (0.78%) R
9 5 (0.56%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.44%) Java
10 4 (0.44%) VB
11 3 (0.33%) Bicep
11 3 (0.33%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.33%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.22%) Go
13 1 (0.11%) C
13 1 (0.11%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 201 (22.33%) Degree
2 172 (19.11%) CISSP
3 149 (16.56%) Security Cleared
4 125 (13.89%) CISM
5 95 (10.56%) SC Cleared
6 56 (6.22%) CEH
7 54 (6.00%) CompTIA Security+
8 45 (5.00%) CISA
9 40 (4.44%) Cisco Certification
9 40 (4.44%) PMP
10 34 (3.78%) Microsoft Certification
11 33 (3.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 29 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
13 28 (3.11%) AWS Certification
13 28 (3.11%) CRISC
14 25 (2.78%) Azure Certification
14 25 (2.78%) CISMP
15 24 (2.67%) CCNP
15 24 (2.67%) DV Cleared
16 20 (2.22%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 216 (24.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 211 (23.44%) NIST
3 73 (8.11%) GRC
4 72 (8.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 70 (7.78%) GDPR
6 54 (6.00%) NCSC
7 48 (5.33%) PCI DSS
8 31 (3.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 30 (3.33%) NIST 800
10 27 (3.00%) JSP 440
10 27 (3.00%) SLA
11 16 (1.78%) COBIT
11 16 (1.78%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 16 (1.78%) RMADS
11 16 (1.78%) SOC 2
12 15 (1.67%) ISO 9001
13 13 (1.44%) QA
14 11 (1.22%) PMO
15 8 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 6 (0.67%) SOC 1
System Software
1 58 (6.44%) Active Directory
2 21 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (1.56%) Hyper-V
5 13 (1.44%) Docker
6 11 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.89%) Firmware
8 6 (0.67%) vSphere
9 5 (0.56%) Kamailio
10 3 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.22%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.11%) iptables
12 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 53 (5.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (2.00%) Terraform
3 13 (1.44%) Ansible
4 9 (1.00%) Jamf Pro
5 8 (0.89%) Nessus
5 8 (0.89%) QRadar
5 8 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.78%) RSA Archer
7 4 (0.44%) Computer Incident Response Team
7 4 (0.44%) Proxmox
8 3 (0.33%) Functional Safety
9 2 (0.22%) Kubernetes
9 2 (0.22%) Nagios
9 2 (0.22%) Nmap
9 2 (0.22%) Suricata
9 2 (0.22%) WSUS
9 2 (0.22%) ZENworks
10 1 (0.11%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.11%) Ganglia
10 1 (0.11%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 210 (23.33%) Microsoft
2 57 (6.33%) SAP
3 47 (5.22%) VMware
4 45 (5.00%) Cisco
5 35 (3.89%) Apple
6 31 (3.44%) Palo Alto
7 27 (3.00%) Adobe
8 19 (2.11%) Oracle
8 19 (2.11%) PayPal
9 18 (2.00%) Salesforce
10 16 (1.78%) CrowdStrike
11 12 (1.33%) Tenable
12 11 (1.22%) Splunk
13 10 (1.11%) ServiceNow
14 9 (1.00%) Fortinet
15 7 (0.78%) Avaya
15 7 (0.78%) Draytek
15 7 (0.78%) Google
15 7 (0.78%) Mitel
15 7 (0.78%) WatchGuard