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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 28 39
Rank change year-on-year 0 +11 +10
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,268 1,193 1,881
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.87% 8.20% 5.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.30% 8.63% 6.34%
Number of salaries quoted 791 715 1,279
10th Percentile £36,250 £25,000 £37,350
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £93,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 15,280 13,822 29,655
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.76% 95.02% 91.06%
Number of salaries quoted 10,821 8,823 23,459
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £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% -9.84%

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 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 34 (2.68%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.55%) WordPress
4 4 (0.32%) CMS
5 3 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.24%) Drupal
5 3 (0.24%) nginx
6 2 (0.16%) Apache
6 2 (0.16%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.079%) IIS
7 1 (0.079%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.079%) SAS
Applications
1 78 (6.15%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (2.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 23 (1.81%) 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
Cloud Services
1 336 (26.50%) Azure
2 172 (13.56%) AWS
3 169 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
4 156 (12.30%) Entra ID
5 66 (5.21%) GCP
6 54 (4.26%) Google Workspace
7 49 (3.86%) SaaS
8 31 (2.44%) Azure Sentinel
8 31 (2.44%) Power Platform
9 27 (2.13%) Serverless
10 20 (1.58%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (1.18%) Azure Logic Apps
12 14 (1.10%) Mimecast
13 12 (0.95%) Nutanix
14 10 (0.79%) PaaS
15 8 (0.63%) OneDrive
16 7 (0.55%) Microsoft Purview
17 5 (0.39%) Datadog
17 5 (0.39%) dbt
17 5 (0.39%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 140 (11.04%) Firewall
2 90 (7.10%) Broadband
3 66 (5.21%) Network Security
4 35 (2.76%) DNS
5 34 (2.68%) VPN
6 24 (1.89%) VLAN
7 22 (1.74%) CHAP
7 22 (1.74%) Unified Communications
7 22 (1.74%) WAN
8 20 (1.58%) DHCP
9 18 (1.42%) LAN
10 17 (1.34%) Intrusion Detection
11 14 (1.10%) Cisco ASA
11 14 (1.10%) SSL
12 12 (0.95%) VoIP
13 10 (0.79%) TCP/IP
14 9 (0.71%) BGP
14 9 (0.71%) Cisco Firepower
14 9 (0.71%) DMZ
14 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 4 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.24%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.24%) MariaDB
5 3 (0.24%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.24%) MySQL
5 3 (0.24%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.16%) Big Data
6 2 (0.16%) Metadata
6 2 (0.16%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.079%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.079%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.079%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.079%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.079%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 24 (1.89%) Snyk
2 8 (0.63%) GitLab
3 7 (0.55%) Git
4 6 (0.47%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.39%) Cucumber
5 5 (0.39%) JMeter
5 5 (0.39%) Locust
5 5 (0.39%) VersionOne
6 2 (0.16%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.16%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.079%) GDB
7 1 (0.079%) JIRA
7 1 (0.079%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.079%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.079%) WinDbg
General
1 366 (28.86%) Social Skills
2 168 (13.25%) Finance
3 137 (10.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 107 (8.44%) Public Sector
5 95 (7.49%) Analytical Skills
6 88 (6.94%) Marketing
7 75 (5.91%) Organisational Skills
8 68 (5.36%) Retail
9 62 (4.89%) Banking
10 55 (4.34%) Back Office
11 50 (3.94%) Games
12 48 (3.79%) Law
13 40 (3.15%) Telecoms
14 34 (2.68%) Legal
15 28 (2.21%) Aviation
16 23 (1.81%) Financial Institution
17 22 (1.74%) Manufacturing
18 20 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
19 13 (1.03%) Advertising
20 12 (0.95%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 272 (21.45%) Senior
2 159 (12.54%) Analyst
3 144 (11.36%) Architect
4 107 (8.44%) Security Architect
5 104 (8.20%) Security Manager
6 95 (7.49%) Consultant
7 89 (7.02%) Support Engineer
8 77 (6.07%) Cybersecurity Manager
8 77 (6.07%) Security Analyst
9 71 (5.60%) Senior Architect
10 67 (5.28%) Security Consultant
11 61 (4.81%) Cybersecurity Architect
12 55 (4.34%) Lead
13 53 (4.18%) Developer
14 52 (4.10%) Senior Security Architect
15 51 (4.02%) Desktop Engineer
15 51 (4.02%) Desktop Support
15 51 (4.02%) Desktop Support Engineer
15 51 (4.02%) IT Manager
16 48 (3.79%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (4.73%) LDAP
2 59 (4.65%) REST
2 59 (4.65%) SAML
3 58 (4.57%) OAuth
3 58 (4.57%) OpenID
4 54 (4.26%) SOAP
5 53 (4.18%) GraphQL
6 9 (0.71%) XMPP
7 8 (0.63%) SAP CAF
8 7 (0.55%) Kafka
8 7 (0.55%) RESTful
9 6 (0.47%) React
9 6 (0.47%) Regular Expression
10 5 (0.39%) Gherkin
10 5 (0.39%) LangChain
10 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Graph
11 4 (0.32%) SailPoint
11 4 (0.32%) Spring
11 4 (0.32%) Spring Boot
12 3 (0.24%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 122 (9.62%) Cyber Threat
2 99 (7.81%) Security Posture
3 84 (6.62%) Cyberattack
4 79 (6.23%) Management Information System
5 77 (6.07%) Onboarding
6 50 (3.94%) Data Centre
7 45 (3.55%) Cyber Defence
8 36 (2.84%) Blog
9 35 (2.76%) Driving Licence
10 33 (2.60%) PKI
11 32 (2.52%) Hybrid Cloud
12 30 (2.37%) Operational Technology
12 30 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
13 29 (2.29%) Cloud Native
14 25 (1.97%) Cyber Security Posture
15 23 (1.81%) Public Cloud
16 22 (1.74%) Low-Code
17 17 (1.34%) Security Operations Centre
18 15 (1.18%) Cloud Security Posture
19 14 (1.10%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 150 (11.83%) Windows
2 59 (4.65%) Windows 10
3 51 (4.02%) Windows Server
4 43 (3.39%) Linux
5 17 (1.34%) Android
6 15 (1.18%) Mac OS
7 14 (1.10%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.079%) AIX
10 1 (0.079%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.079%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.079%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.079%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (16.48%) Continuous Improvement
2 164 (12.93%) Mentoring
3 159 (12.54%) Risk Management
4 157 (12.38%) Information Security
5 155 (12.22%) Incident Response
6 147 (11.59%) Problem-Solving
7 140 (11.04%) AI
8 138 (10.88%) Roadmaps
9 131 (10.33%) Vulnerability Management
10 119 (9.38%) Cloud Security
11 115 (9.07%) ITIL
12 104 (8.20%) Agile
13 103 (8.12%) Analytics
14 96 (7.57%) Security Operations
15 93 (7.33%) Security Architecture
16 92 (7.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 91 (7.18%) Identity Access Management
18 90 (7.10%) Project Management
19 88 (6.94%) Threat Modelling
20 84 (6.62%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 111 (8.75%) PowerShell
2 94 (7.41%) Python
3 59 (4.65%) Bash
4 52 (4.10%) T-SQL
5 41 (3.23%) SQL
6 26 (2.05%) Java
7 23 (1.81%) JavaScript
8 20 (1.58%) C++
9 18 (1.42%) C#
10 13 (1.03%) C
11 8 (0.63%) Go
12 5 (0.39%) PHP
12 5 (0.39%) Rust
13 4 (0.32%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.24%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.16%) Bicep
16 1 (0.079%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.079%) Perl
16 1 (0.079%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 199 (15.69%) Security Cleared
2 166 (13.09%) SC Cleared
3 161 (12.70%) Degree
4 153 (12.07%) CISSP
5 119 (9.38%) CISM
6 56 (4.42%) AWS Certification
7 51 (4.02%) CTC Cleared
8 44 (3.47%) DV Cleared
9 42 (3.31%) CISA
10 34 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
11 30 (2.37%) SANS
12 29 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
13 26 (2.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 26 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
14 25 (1.97%) CEH
15 24 (1.89%) CREST Certified
16 23 (1.81%) FFIEC
17 22 (1.74%) Azure Certification
17 22 (1.74%) CGEIT
18 18 (1.42%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 236 (18.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 231 (18.22%) NIST
3 126 (9.94%) GDPR
4 96 (7.57%) GRC
5 85 (6.70%) NCSC
6 83 (6.55%) Cyber Essentials
7 64 (5.05%) SLA
8 60 (4.73%) PCI DSS
9 43 (3.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 29 (2.29%) COBIT
11 21 (1.66%) QA
12 20 (1.58%) 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 (10.49%) 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 28 (2.21%) Kubernetes
3 27 (2.13%) Terraform
4 22 (1.74%) Ansible
5 19 (1.50%) Grafana
6 11 (0.87%) Functional Safety
7 10 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.71%) Cisco CUCM
9 5 (0.39%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 5 (0.39%) FTK
9 5 (0.39%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.39%) SCCM
10 4 (0.32%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 4 (0.32%) CSIRT
10 4 (0.32%) Nessus
10 4 (0.32%) QRadar
11 3 (0.24%) CASB
11 3 (0.24%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.24%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.16%) Graylog
Vendors
1 304 (23.97%) Microsoft
2 84 (6.62%) Cisco
3 55 (4.34%) Apple
4 51 (4.02%) Adobe
5 48 (3.79%) VMware
6 44 (3.47%) Palo Alto
7 37 (2.92%) CrowdStrike
8 36 (2.84%) ServiceNow
8 36 (2.84%) Tenable
9 29 (2.29%) Google
10 27 (2.13%) Fortinet
11 20 (1.58%) Splunk
12 17 (1.34%) SAP
13 16 (1.26%) Salesforce
14 11 (0.87%) Commvault
15 10 (0.79%) CheckPoint
16 9 (0.71%) Sophos
17 8 (0.63%) Qualys
18 7 (0.55%) Oracle
19 6 (0.47%) NetApp