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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 31 39
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 +7
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,485 1,234 1,766
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.95% 7.46% 5.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.40% 8.00% 6.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,007 713 1,118
10th Percentile £36,250 £25,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £81,250 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £95,375
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -0.86% -9.42%

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 17,688 15,434 28,381
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.75% 93.34% 88.85%
Number of salaries quoted 12,944 9,142 21,602
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%

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 July 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 54 (3.64%) SharePoint
2 42 (2.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (0.54%) SAS
4 5 (0.34%) WordPress
5 4 (0.27%) IIS
6 3 (0.20%) CMS
7 2 (0.13%) Apache
7 2 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.067%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.067%) Confluence
8 1 (0.067%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 63 (4.24%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
5 5 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.20%) Trello
7 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.067%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 24 (1.62%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.34%) SAP Business One
3 3 (0.20%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.13%) Shopify
5 1 (0.067%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 377 (25.39%) Azure
2 218 (14.68%) Microsoft 365
3 187 (12.59%) AWS
4 184 (12.39%) Entra ID
5 88 (5.93%) SaaS
6 79 (5.32%) GCP
7 34 (2.29%) Azure Sentinel
8 31 (2.09%) Google Workspace
9 29 (1.95%) Serverless
10 22 (1.48%) Power Platform
11 16 (1.08%) dbt
11 16 (1.08%) OneDrive
12 15 (1.01%) Mimecast
13 12 (0.81%) Azure Logic Apps
14 10 (0.67%) Cloud Computing
14 10 (0.67%) PaaS
15 9 (0.61%) Azure DevOps
16 7 (0.47%) Nutanix
17 6 (0.40%) Datadog
17 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 203 (13.67%) Firewall
2 119 (8.01%) Network Security
3 74 (4.98%) Broadband
4 59 (3.97%) VLAN
4 59 (3.97%) VPN
5 58 (3.91%) DNS
6 47 (3.16%) WAN
7 46 (3.10%) DHCP
8 35 (2.36%) TCP/IP
9 34 (2.29%) LAN
10 31 (2.09%) Wi-Fi
11 27 (1.82%) VoIP
12 23 (1.55%) Unified Communications
13 20 (1.35%) BGP
14 19 (1.28%) SSL
15 16 (1.08%) HTTP
15 16 (1.08%) Intrusion Detection
15 16 (1.08%) MPLS
15 16 (1.08%) SD-WAN
16 14 (0.94%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (0.61%) Power BI
2 8 (0.54%) SQL Server
3 5 (0.34%) Tableau
4 4 (0.27%) MySQL
4 4 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.20%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.20%) Big Data
6 2 (0.13%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.13%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.067%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.067%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.067%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.067%) Metadata
7 1 (0.067%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.067%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.067%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.067%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.067%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 25 (1.68%) Snyk
2 14 (0.94%) JIRA
3 9 (0.61%) Git
4 7 (0.47%) GitLab
5 6 (0.40%) Burp Suite
5 6 (0.40%) Metasploit
6 5 (0.34%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.34%) JMeter
6 5 (0.34%) Locust
6 5 (0.34%) VersionOne
7 2 (0.13%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.067%) GDB
8 1 (0.067%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.067%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.067%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.067%) WinDbg
General
1 469 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 171 (11.52%) Finance
3 140 (9.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 124 (8.35%) Analytical Skills
5 114 (7.68%) Public Sector
6 110 (7.41%) Marketing
7 89 (5.99%) Retail
8 80 (5.39%) Law
9 75 (5.05%) Legal
10 53 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
11 52 (3.50%) Banking
12 47 (3.16%) Games
13 43 (2.90%) Back Office
13 43 (2.90%) Telecoms
14 27 (1.82%) Advertising
15 24 (1.62%) Aviation
16 20 (1.35%) Manufacturing
17 19 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
18 17 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
19 14 (0.94%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 278 (18.72%) Senior
2 183 (12.32%) Analyst
3 163 (10.98%) Architect
4 119 (8.01%) Consultant
5 116 (7.81%) Security Manager
6 104 (7.00%) Support Engineer
7 101 (6.80%) Security Architect
8 100 (6.73%) Security Analyst
9 92 (6.20%) Lead
10 88 (5.93%) Cybersecurity Manager
11 83 (5.59%) Security Consultant
12 77 (5.19%) IT Support
13 76 (5.12%) IT Manager
14 72 (4.85%) Security Engineer
15 67 (4.51%) Senior Analyst
16 65 (4.38%) Senior Manager
17 63 (4.24%) Cybersecurity Analyst
18 59 (3.97%) IT Engineer
19 56 (3.77%) IT Support Engineer
20 48 (3.23%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (3.23%) OAuth
1 48 (3.23%) SAML
2 41 (2.76%) LDAP
3 37 (2.49%) OpenID
4 36 (2.42%) REST
5 28 (1.89%) SOAP
6 27 (1.82%) GraphQL
7 9 (0.61%) XMPP
8 8 (0.54%) Kafka
8 8 (0.54%) LangChain
9 7 (0.47%) .NET
9 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Graph
9 7 (0.47%) SailPoint
10 6 (0.40%) Regular Expression
10 6 (0.40%) RESTful
11 5 (0.34%) Gherkin
11 5 (0.34%) LangGraph
11 5 (0.34%) ModSecurity
11 5 (0.34%) React
12 4 (0.27%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 139 (9.36%) Cyber Threat
2 129 (8.69%) Security Posture
3 89 (5.99%) Management Information System
4 69 (4.65%) Onboarding
5 68 (4.58%) Cyberattack
6 53 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
7 50 (3.37%) Driving Licence
8 47 (3.16%) Data Centre
9 42 (2.83%) Cyber Defence
10 37 (2.49%) Cloud Native
11 33 (2.22%) PKI
12 30 (2.02%) Blog
13 27 (1.82%) Cyber Security Posture
14 25 (1.68%) Security Operations Centre
15 24 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
16 23 (1.55%) Cyber Kill Chain
17 19 (1.28%) Operational Technology
17 19 (1.28%) Web Conferencing
18 18 (1.21%) AI Agents
19 17 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 191 (12.86%) Windows
2 71 (4.78%) Windows Server
3 53 (3.57%) Linux
4 42 (2.83%) Windows 10
5 24 (1.62%) Mac OS
6 13 (0.88%) Android
7 12 (0.81%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.13%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.067%) AIX
11 1 (0.067%) FreeBSD
11 1 (0.067%) OpenBSD
11 1 (0.067%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 290 (19.53%) Continuous Improvement
2 252 (16.97%) Information Security
3 227 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
4 208 (14.01%) Incident Response
4 208 (14.01%) Risk Management
5 194 (13.06%) AI
5 194 (13.06%) Mentoring
6 172 (11.58%) Vulnerability Management
7 161 (10.84%) Decision-Making
7 161 (10.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 153 (10.30%) Cloud Security
9 140 (9.43%) Agile
10 139 (9.36%) SIEM
11 136 (9.16%) ITIL
11 136 (9.16%) Roadmaps
11 136 (9.16%) Security Operations
12 123 (8.28%) Identity Access Management
13 110 (7.41%) Stakeholder Management
14 106 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
15 100 (6.73%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 113 (7.61%) Python
2 94 (6.33%) PowerShell
3 35 (2.36%) Bash
4 34 (2.29%) SQL
5 27 (1.82%) Java
5 27 (1.82%) T-SQL
6 20 (1.35%) JavaScript
7 14 (0.94%) C++
8 12 (0.81%) Rust
9 10 (0.67%) C#
9 10 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
10 9 (0.61%) C
11 8 (0.54%) Go
12 7 (0.47%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.34%) PHP
14 3 (0.20%) Ada
14 3 (0.20%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.13%) Search Processing Language
16 1 (0.067%) Bicep
16 1 (0.067%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 252 (16.97%) Security Cleared
2 211 (14.21%) CISSP
3 208 (14.01%) SC Cleared
4 173 (11.65%) Degree
5 159 (10.71%) CISM
6 63 (4.24%) DV Cleared
7 45 (3.03%) CISA
8 39 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
9 38 (2.56%) AWS Certification
9 38 (2.56%) CRISC
10 37 (2.49%) CTC Cleared
11 35 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
12 34 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
12 34 (2.29%) Network+ Certification
13 33 (2.22%) A+ Certification
14 29 (1.95%) CREST Certified
15 28 (1.89%) Azure Certification
16 26 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 22 (1.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 22 (1.48%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 311 (20.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 234 (15.76%) NIST
3 168 (11.31%) GDPR
4 113 (7.61%) GRC
5 104 (7.00%) Cyber Essentials
6 81 (5.45%) PCI DSS
7 74 (4.98%) NCSC
8 57 (3.84%) SLA
9 45 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 25 (1.68%) COBIT
10 25 (1.68%) QA
11 24 (1.62%) Actionable Recommendations
12 23 (1.55%) SOC 2
13 18 (1.21%) Accessibility
14 17 (1.14%) JSP 440
15 14 (0.94%) ISO 22301
16 12 (0.81%) NIST 800
17 11 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 11 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 7 (0.47%) SOC 1
System Software
1 176 (11.85%) Active Directory
2 38 (2.56%) Hyper-V
3 29 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.94%) Docker
6 10 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
7 9 (0.61%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 7 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.47%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.40%) vSphere
10 5 (0.34%) ClearTrust
11 4 (0.27%) Firmware
12 1 (0.067%) KVM
12 1 (0.067%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 107 (7.21%) Microsoft Intune
2 30 (2.02%) Kubernetes
3 24 (1.62%) Terraform
4 20 (1.35%) Grafana
5 19 (1.28%) Ansible
6 16 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (0.81%) CASB
8 10 (0.67%) FortiGate
9 9 (0.61%) Cisco CUCM
10 8 (0.54%) QRadar
11 6 (0.40%) Prometheus
12 5 (0.34%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 5 (0.34%) FTK
12 5 (0.34%) Nmap
13 4 (0.27%) Computer Incident Response Team
13 4 (0.27%) CSIRT
13 4 (0.27%) SCCM
14 3 (0.20%) Failover Clustering
14 3 (0.20%) Functional Safety
14 3 (0.20%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 443 (29.83%) Microsoft
2 94 (6.33%) Cisco
3 73 (4.92%) Palo Alto
4 52 (3.50%) VMware
5 41 (2.76%) ServiceNow
6 40 (2.69%) CrowdStrike
7 34 (2.29%) Tenable
8 32 (2.15%) CyberArk
8 32 (2.15%) Google
9 30 (2.02%) Fortinet
10 29 (1.95%) Adobe
10 29 (1.95%) Apple
10 29 (1.95%) Splunk
11 23 (1.55%) Qualys
12 21 (1.41%) Salesforce
13 16 (1.08%) Aruba
14 15 (1.01%) OpenAI
15 13 (0.88%) SAP
16 11 (0.74%) Veeam
17 10 (0.67%) Oracle