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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 31 40
Rank change year-on-year +3 +9 +10
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,269 1,175 1,871
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.85% 8.03% 5.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.27% 8.45% 6.34%
Number of salaries quoted 798 699 1,269
10th Percentile £36,250 £25,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,250 £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 £88,750 £70,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £57,750 £60,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -3.75% +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 15,340 13,907 29,523
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.77% 95.05% 91.04%
Number of salaries quoted 10,890 8,636 23,352
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,188 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +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 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%

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 15 May 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 33 (2.60%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.55%) WordPress
4 4 (0.32%) CMS
5 3 (0.24%) Drupal
5 3 (0.24%) nginx
6 2 (0.16%) Apache
6 2 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.079%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.079%) IIS
7 1 (0.079%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.079%) SAS
Applications
1 77 (6.07%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (2.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 24 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.16%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 24 (1.89%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.39%) SAP Business One
3 3 (0.24%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.16%) Shopify
5 1 (0.079%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 334 (26.32%) Azure
2 172 (13.55%) AWS
3 166 (13.08%) Microsoft 365
4 156 (12.29%) Entra ID
5 67 (5.28%) GCP
6 54 (4.26%) Google Workspace
7 49 (3.86%) SaaS
8 31 (2.44%) Power Platform
9 30 (2.36%) Azure Sentinel
10 27 (2.13%) Serverless
11 21 (1.65%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (1.18%) Azure Logic Apps
13 14 (1.10%) Mimecast
14 12 (0.95%) Nutanix
15 10 (0.79%) PaaS
16 8 (0.63%) OneDrive
17 7 (0.55%) Microsoft Purview
18 6 (0.47%) Datadog
19 5 (0.39%) GitHub
19 5 (0.39%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 138 (10.87%) Firewall
2 90 (7.09%) Broadband
3 66 (5.20%) Network Security
4 36 (2.84%) DNS
5 35 (2.76%) VPN
6 25 (1.97%) VLAN
7 24 (1.89%) WAN
8 22 (1.73%) CHAP
8 22 (1.73%) Unified Communications
9 21 (1.65%) DHCP
10 19 (1.50%) LAN
11 17 (1.34%) Intrusion Detection
12 15 (1.18%) SSL
13 14 (1.10%) Cisco ASA
14 12 (0.95%) VoIP
15 11 (0.87%) TCP/IP
16 10 (0.79%) BGP
17 9 (0.71%) Cisco Firepower
17 9 (0.71%) DMZ
17 9 (0.71%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (0.87%) Power BI
2 6 (0.47%) SQL Server
3 5 (0.39%) Tableau
4 3 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.24%) Big Data
4 3 (0.24%) MariaDB
4 3 (0.24%) MySQL
4 3 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.16%) Metadata
5 2 (0.16%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.16%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.16%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.079%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.079%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.079%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.079%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.079%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 24 (1.89%) Snyk
2 8 (0.63%) GitLab
3 6 (0.47%) Git
4 5 (0.39%) Cucumber
4 5 (0.39%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.39%) JMeter
4 5 (0.39%) Locust
4 5 (0.39%) VersionOne
5 2 (0.16%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.16%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.079%) GDB
6 1 (0.079%) JIRA
6 1 (0.079%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.079%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.079%) WinDbg
General
1 366 (28.84%) Social Skills
2 170 (13.40%) Finance
3 138 (10.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 108 (8.51%) Public Sector
5 97 (7.64%) Analytical Skills
6 91 (7.17%) Marketing
7 75 (5.91%) Organisational Skills
8 70 (5.52%) Retail
9 64 (5.04%) Banking
10 55 (4.33%) Back Office
11 50 (3.94%) Games
12 48 (3.78%) Law
13 40 (3.15%) Telecoms
14 35 (2.76%) Legal
15 28 (2.21%) Aviation
16 23 (1.81%) Financial Institution
17 22 (1.73%) Manufacturing
18 20 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
19 14 (1.10%) Advertising
20 13 (1.02%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 263 (20.72%) Senior
2 160 (12.61%) Analyst
3 147 (11.58%) Architect
4 110 (8.67%) Security Architect
5 101 (7.96%) Security Manager
6 98 (7.72%) Consultant
7 88 (6.93%) Support Engineer
8 76 (5.99%) Cybersecurity Manager
8 76 (5.99%) Security Analyst
9 71 (5.59%) Senior Architect
10 69 (5.44%) Security Consultant
11 63 (4.96%) Cybersecurity Architect
12 58 (4.57%) Lead
13 53 (4.18%) Developer
14 52 (4.10%) Senior Security Architect
15 50 (3.94%) Desktop Engineer
15 50 (3.94%) Desktop Support
15 50 (3.94%) Desktop Support Engineer
15 50 (3.94%) IT Manager
16 48 (3.78%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (4.81%) LDAP
2 60 (4.73%) SAML
3 59 (4.65%) OAuth
3 59 (4.65%) REST
4 58 (4.57%) OpenID
5 54 (4.26%) SOAP
6 53 (4.18%) GraphQL
7 9 (0.71%) XMPP
8 8 (0.63%) SAP CAF
9 7 (0.55%) Kafka
9 7 (0.55%) RESTful
10 6 (0.47%) Regular Expression
11 5 (0.39%) Gherkin
11 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Graph
11 5 (0.39%) React
12 4 (0.32%) LangChain
12 4 (0.32%) SailPoint
13 3 (0.24%) Semantic Kernel
13 3 (0.24%) Spring Boot
13 3 (0.24%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 121 (9.54%) Cyber Threat
2 98 (7.72%) Security Posture
3 84 (6.62%) Cyberattack
4 78 (6.15%) Management Information System
4 78 (6.15%) Onboarding
5 50 (3.94%) Data Centre
6 45 (3.55%) Cyber Defence
7 36 (2.84%) Blog
8 34 (2.68%) Driving Licence
8 34 (2.68%) PKI
9 33 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
10 32 (2.52%) Hybrid Cloud
11 31 (2.44%) Cloud Native
12 30 (2.36%) Operational Technology
13 25 (1.97%) Cyber Security Posture
14 23 (1.81%) Public Cloud
15 22 (1.73%) Low-Code
16 16 (1.26%) Cyber Kill Chain
16 16 (1.26%) Security Operations Centre
17 14 (1.10%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 149 (11.74%) Windows
2 58 (4.57%) Windows 10
3 51 (4.02%) Windows Server
4 43 (3.39%) Linux
5 18 (1.42%) Android
6 15 (1.18%) Apple iOS
6 15 (1.18%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.079%) AIX
9 1 (0.079%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.079%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.079%) OpenBSD
9 1 (0.079%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (16.47%) Continuous Improvement
2 166 (13.08%) Mentoring
3 161 (12.69%) Risk Management
4 157 (12.37%) Incident Response
5 155 (12.21%) Information Security
6 149 (11.74%) Problem-Solving
7 141 (11.11%) AI
8 135 (10.64%) Roadmaps
9 131 (10.32%) Vulnerability Management
10 119 (9.38%) Cloud Security
11 114 (8.98%) ITIL
12 107 (8.43%) Agile
13 105 (8.27%) Analytics
14 96 (7.57%) Security Operations
15 93 (7.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 92 (7.25%) Identity Access Management
16 92 (7.25%) Security Architecture
17 91 (7.17%) Project Management
18 89 (7.01%) Threat Modelling
19 85 (6.70%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 112 (8.83%) PowerShell
2 96 (7.57%) Python
3 59 (4.65%) Bash
4 52 (4.10%) T-SQL
5 39 (3.07%) SQL
6 27 (2.13%) Java
7 22 (1.73%) JavaScript
8 20 (1.58%) C++
9 17 (1.34%) C#
10 13 (1.02%) C
11 9 (0.71%) Go
12 5 (0.39%) PHP
12 5 (0.39%) Rust
13 3 (0.24%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.24%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.079%) Bicep
14 1 (0.079%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.079%) Perl
14 1 (0.079%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 199 (15.68%) Security Cleared
2 165 (13.00%) SC Cleared
3 160 (12.61%) Degree
4 150 (11.82%) CISSP
5 116 (9.14%) CISM
6 56 (4.41%) AWS Certification
7 50 (3.94%) CTC Cleared
8 44 (3.47%) DV Cleared
9 42 (3.31%) CISA
10 34 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
11 30 (2.36%) SANS
12 28 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
13 26 (2.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 26 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
14 25 (1.97%) CREST Certified
15 24 (1.89%) CEH
16 23 (1.81%) FFIEC
17 22 (1.73%) Azure Certification
17 22 (1.73%) CGEIT
18 19 (1.50%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 235 (18.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 231 (18.20%) NIST
3 125 (9.85%) GDPR
4 94 (7.41%) GRC
5 85 (6.70%) NCSC
6 81 (6.38%) Cyber Essentials
7 64 (5.04%) SLA
8 60 (4.73%) PCI DSS
9 40 (3.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 30 (2.36%) COBIT
11 21 (1.65%) QA
12 19 (1.50%) Accessibility
13 17 (1.34%) SOC 2
14 15 (1.18%) JSP 440
15 14 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
16 12 (0.95%) ISO 22301
17 11 (0.87%) IEC 61508
17 11 (0.87%) MISRA
17 11 (0.87%) MISRA C
18 8 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 133 (10.48%) Active Directory
2 27 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (1.89%) Hyper-V
5 19 (1.50%) Docker
6 10 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
8 7 (0.55%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 6 (0.47%) Firmware
9 6 (0.47%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.47%) vSphere
10 1 (0.079%) KVM
10 1 (0.079%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 53 (4.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 30 (2.36%) Kubernetes
3 27 (2.13%) Terraform
4 22 (1.73%) Ansible
5 20 (1.58%) Grafana
6 11 (0.87%) Functional Safety
7 10 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.71%) Cisco CUCM
9 6 (0.47%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.39%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 5 (0.39%) FTK
10 5 (0.39%) QRadar
10 5 (0.39%) SCCM
11 4 (0.32%) CASB
11 4 (0.32%) Computer Incident Response Team
11 4 (0.32%) CSIRT
11 4 (0.32%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.32%) Nessus
12 3 (0.24%) RSA Archer
13 2 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 307 (24.19%) Microsoft
2 84 (6.62%) Cisco
3 55 (4.33%) Apple
4 51 (4.02%) Adobe
5 48 (3.78%) VMware
6 44 (3.47%) Palo Alto
7 36 (2.84%) CrowdStrike
7 36 (2.84%) ServiceNow
8 34 (2.68%) Tenable
9 28 (2.21%) Google
10 27 (2.13%) Fortinet
11 21 (1.65%) Splunk
12 19 (1.50%) SAP
13 17 (1.34%) Salesforce
14 11 (0.87%) Commvault
15 10 (0.79%) CheckPoint
16 9 (0.71%) Sophos
17 8 (0.63%) Oracle
17 8 (0.63%) Qualys
18 6 (0.47%) NetApp