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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 32 42
Rank change year-on-year +4 +10 +5
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,378 1,202 1,854
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.76% 7.68% 5.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.23% 8.14% 6.16%
Number of salaries quoted 938 680 1,198
10th Percentile £36,250 £25,000 £36,565
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £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 £82,500 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,875 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -0.86% -10.42%

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 16,752 14,764 30,098
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.21% 94.38% 88.98%
Number of salaries quoted 12,199 8,615 23,204
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,500 £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 £79,688 £75,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 26 June 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 49 (3.56%) SharePoint
2 35 (2.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.36%) SAS
3 5 (0.36%) WordPress
4 3 (0.22%) CMS
5 2 (0.15%) Apache
5 2 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.15%) IIS
6 1 (0.073%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.073%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 62 (4.50%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.15%) Trello
7 1 (0.073%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 24 (1.74%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.36%) SAP Business One
3 3 (0.22%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.15%) Shopify
5 1 (0.073%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 336 (24.38%) Azure
2 199 (14.44%) Microsoft 365
3 165 (11.97%) AWS
4 160 (11.61%) Entra ID
5 82 (5.95%) SaaS
6 75 (5.44%) GCP
7 42 (3.05%) Google Workspace
8 30 (2.18%) Azure Sentinel
9 29 (2.10%) Serverless
10 25 (1.81%) Power Platform
11 16 (1.16%) Mimecast
12 15 (1.09%) OneDrive
13 14 (1.02%) Azure Logic Apps
14 12 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
15 10 (0.73%) PaaS
16 8 (0.58%) Cloud Computing
16 8 (0.58%) Microsoft Purview
17 7 (0.51%) Nutanix
18 6 (0.44%) Datadog
18 6 (0.44%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 177 (12.84%) Firewall
2 100 (7.26%) Network Security
3 85 (6.17%) Broadband
4 52 (3.77%) DNS
5 49 (3.56%) VPN
6 43 (3.12%) WAN
7 41 (2.98%) VLAN
8 40 (2.90%) DHCP
9 32 (2.32%) LAN
10 25 (1.81%) TCP/IP
11 24 (1.74%) Wi-Fi
12 23 (1.67%) Unified Communications
12 23 (1.67%) VoIP
13 17 (1.23%) Intrusion Detection
13 17 (1.23%) SSL
14 16 (1.16%) BGP
14 16 (1.16%) CHAP
15 14 (1.02%) HTTP
16 13 (0.94%) Cisco Nexus
16 13 (0.94%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (0.65%) Power BI
2 8 (0.58%) SQL Server
3 5 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (0.36%) Tableau
4 4 (0.29%) MySQL
5 3 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.22%) Big Data
5 3 (0.22%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.15%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.15%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.073%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.073%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.073%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.073%) Metadata
7 1 (0.073%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.073%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.073%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.073%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 25 (1.81%) Snyk
2 9 (0.65%) JIRA
3 8 (0.58%) Git
3 8 (0.58%) GitLab
4 6 (0.44%) Burp Suite
4 6 (0.44%) Metasploit
5 5 (0.36%) Cucumber
5 5 (0.36%) JMeter
5 5 (0.36%) Locust
5 5 (0.36%) VersionOne
6 2 (0.15%) Claude Code
6 2 (0.15%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.073%) GDB
7 1 (0.073%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.073%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.073%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.073%) WinDbg
General
1 382 (27.72%) Social Skills
2 170 (12.34%) Finance
3 120 (8.71%) Analytical Skills
4 114 (8.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 114 (8.27%) Public Sector
5 109 (7.91%) Marketing
6 82 (5.95%) Retail
7 62 (4.50%) Organisational Skills
8 54 (3.92%) Banking
9 53 (3.85%) Games
10 48 (3.48%) Legal
11 47 (3.41%) Law
12 42 (3.05%) Back Office
13 40 (2.90%) Telecoms
14 26 (1.89%) Aviation
15 22 (1.60%) Advertising
16 21 (1.52%) Manufacturing
17 18 (1.31%) Financial Institution
18 16 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
19 15 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 233 (16.91%) Senior
2 177 (12.84%) Analyst
3 147 (10.67%) Architect
4 114 (8.27%) Security Manager
5 112 (8.13%) Consultant
5 112 (8.13%) Security Architect
6 99 (7.18%) Security Analyst
7 93 (6.75%) Lead
8 91 (6.60%) Support Engineer
9 86 (6.24%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 83 (6.02%) Security Consultant
11 68 (4.93%) IT Manager
11 68 (4.93%) IT Support
12 63 (4.57%) Cybersecurity Analyst
13 62 (4.50%) Senior Analyst
14 56 (4.06%) Security Engineer
15 54 (3.92%) Cybersecurity Architect
16 51 (3.70%) IT Engineer
17 48 (3.48%) Developer
17 48 (3.48%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (3.99%) OAuth
1 55 (3.99%) SAML
2 53 (3.85%) LDAP
3 48 (3.48%) REST
4 46 (3.34%) OpenID
5 40 (2.90%) SOAP
6 39 (2.83%) GraphQL
7 9 (0.65%) LangChain
7 9 (0.65%) XMPP
8 7 (0.51%) .NET
8 7 (0.51%) Kafka
8 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Graph
9 6 (0.44%) React
9 6 (0.44%) Regular Expression
9 6 (0.44%) RESTful
10 5 (0.36%) Gherkin
10 5 (0.36%) LangGraph
10 5 (0.36%) ModSecurity
11 4 (0.29%) PyTorch
11 4 (0.29%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 131 (9.51%) Cyber Threat
2 120 (8.71%) Security Posture
3 85 (6.17%) Management Information System
4 80 (5.81%) Cyberattack
5 59 (4.28%) Onboarding
6 48 (3.48%) Self-Motivation
7 46 (3.34%) Data Centre
8 40 (2.90%) Cyber Defence
9 37 (2.69%) Driving Licence
10 36 (2.61%) PKI
11 34 (2.47%) Cloud Native
12 31 (2.25%) Blog
13 27 (1.96%) Operational Technology
14 26 (1.89%) Cyber Security Posture
15 25 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
16 23 (1.67%) Security Operations Centre
17 21 (1.52%) Cyber Kill Chain
18 19 (1.38%) Web Conferencing
19 18 (1.31%) AI Agents
20 17 (1.23%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 171 (12.41%) Windows
2 68 (4.93%) Windows Server
3 43 (3.12%) Linux
4 41 (2.98%) Windows 10
5 22 (1.60%) Mac OS
6 13 (0.94%) Android
7 12 (0.87%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.15%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.073%) AIX
11 1 (0.073%) FreeBSD
11 1 (0.073%) OpenBSD
11 1 (0.073%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (17.56%) Continuous Improvement
2 212 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
3 204 (14.80%) Information Security
4 194 (14.08%) Risk Management
5 193 (14.01%) Incident Response
6 170 (12.34%) Mentoring
7 163 (11.83%) Vulnerability Management
8 145 (10.52%) Cloud Security
9 144 (10.45%) AI
10 137 (9.94%) Decision-Making
11 133 (9.65%) Roadmaps
12 125 (9.07%) Security Operations
13 124 (9.00%) SIEM
14 114 (8.27%) Agile
15 112 (8.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 103 (7.47%) ITIL
17 100 (7.26%) Analytics
17 100 (7.26%) Identity Access Management
18 99 (7.18%) Stakeholder Management
18 99 (7.18%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 106 (7.69%) PowerShell
2 104 (7.55%) Python
3 47 (3.41%) Bash
4 39 (2.83%) SQL
4 39 (2.83%) T-SQL
5 26 (1.89%) Java
6 23 (1.67%) JavaScript
7 15 (1.09%) C++
8 13 (0.94%) C#
9 9 (0.65%) C
9 9 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
10 7 (0.51%) Go
11 5 (0.36%) PHP
11 5 (0.36%) Rust
11 5 (0.36%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.22%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.15%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.073%) Ada
14 1 (0.073%) Bicep
14 1 (0.073%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 211 (15.31%) Security Cleared
2 177 (12.84%) CISSP
3 176 (12.77%) SC Cleared
4 155 (11.25%) Degree
5 129 (9.36%) CISM
6 56 (4.06%) DV Cleared
7 44 (3.19%) CISA
8 38 (2.76%) Cisco Certification
9 35 (2.54%) CRISC
9 35 (2.54%) CTC Cleared
9 35 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
10 34 (2.47%) AWS Certification
11 29 (2.10%) CREST Certified
12 28 (2.03%) Azure Certification
12 28 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
13 24 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 21 (1.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 21 (1.52%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 21 (1.52%) SANS
15 20 (1.45%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 288 (20.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 239 (17.34%) NIST
3 160 (11.61%) GDPR
4 105 (7.62%) GRC
5 93 (6.75%) Cyber Essentials
6 88 (6.39%) NCSC
7 80 (5.81%) PCI DSS
8 56 (4.06%) SLA
9 42 (3.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 29 (2.10%) COBIT
11 24 (1.74%) Actionable Recommendations
12 23 (1.67%) QA
13 19 (1.38%) SOC 2
14 18 (1.31%) Accessibility
14 18 (1.31%) JSP 440
15 11 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 9 (0.65%) ISO 22301
16 9 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 9 (0.65%) NIST 800
17 7 (0.51%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 150 (10.89%) Active Directory
2 37 (2.69%) Hyper-V
3 30 (2.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (1.16%) Docker
6 10 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
7 9 (0.65%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 7 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.44%) vSphere
10 5 (0.36%) ClearTrust
10 5 (0.36%) VMware NSX
11 4 (0.29%) Firmware
12 1 (0.073%) KVM
12 1 (0.073%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 75 (5.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 30 (2.18%) Kubernetes
3 26 (1.89%) Terraform
4 20 (1.45%) Grafana
5 18 (1.31%) Ansible
6 15 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.73%) CASB
8 9 (0.65%) Cisco CUCM
9 8 (0.58%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.51%) Functional Safety
10 7 (0.51%) QRadar
11 6 (0.44%) Prometheus
12 5 (0.36%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 5 (0.36%) FTK
12 5 (0.36%) Nmap
12 5 (0.36%) SCCM
13 4 (0.29%) Computer Incident Response Team
13 4 (0.29%) CSIRT
14 3 (0.22%) Failover Clustering
14 3 (0.22%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 380 (27.58%) Microsoft
2 89 (6.46%) Cisco
3 68 (4.93%) Palo Alto
4 51 (3.70%) VMware
5 40 (2.90%) ServiceNow
6 39 (2.83%) CrowdStrike
7 34 (2.47%) Tenable
8 31 (2.25%) Apple
9 30 (2.18%) Google
10 29 (2.10%) Adobe
10 29 (2.10%) Fortinet
11 28 (2.03%) Splunk
12 22 (1.60%) Qualys
13 20 (1.45%) Salesforce
14 15 (1.09%) Aruba
15 14 (1.02%) SAP
16 10 (0.73%) Oracle
16 10 (0.73%) Veeam
17 9 (0.65%) CheckPoint
17 9 (0.65%) Sophos