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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 27 39
Rank change year-on-year -1 +12 +8
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,501 1,238 1,646
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.95% 7.51% 5.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.40% 8.06% 6.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,032 716 1,003
10th Percentile £36,250 £25,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £81,250 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -7.56% -8.11%

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 17,875 15,362 25,786
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.74% 93.25% 88.48%
Number of salaries quoted 13,022 9,082 19,277
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £34,089
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 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -8.84%

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 21 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 59 (3.93%) SharePoint
2 43 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.60%) SAS
4 5 (0.33%) IIS
4 5 (0.33%) WordPress
5 3 (0.20%) CMS
6 2 (0.13%) Apache
6 2 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.067%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.067%) Confluence
7 1 (0.067%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 32 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
5 5 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.20%) Trello
7 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (1.60%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.33%) 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
5 1 (0.067%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 405 (26.98%) Azure
2 197 (13.12%) AWS
3 193 (12.86%) Microsoft 365
4 174 (11.59%) Entra ID
5 91 (6.06%) SaaS
6 81 (5.40%) GCP
7 35 (2.33%) Azure Sentinel
8 29 (1.93%) Serverless
9 27 (1.80%) Google Workspace
10 23 (1.53%) Power Platform
11 17 (1.13%) OneDrive
12 16 (1.07%) dbt
13 15 (1.00%) Mimecast
14 12 (0.80%) Azure Logic Apps
15 11 (0.73%) Cloud Computing
15 11 (0.73%) PaaS
16 8 (0.53%) Azure DevOps
17 7 (0.47%) Nutanix
18 6 (0.40%) Datadog
18 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 207 (13.79%) Firewall
2 125 (8.33%) Network Security
3 70 (4.66%) Broadband
4 64 (4.26%) VLAN
5 59 (3.93%) DNS
6 58 (3.86%) VPN
7 46 (3.06%) DHCP
7 46 (3.06%) WAN
8 37 (2.47%) TCP/IP
9 33 (2.20%) LAN
10 31 (2.07%) Wi-Fi
11 27 (1.80%) VoIP
12 23 (1.53%) Unified Communications
13 19 (1.27%) SSL
14 17 (1.13%) BGP
15 16 (1.07%) HTTP
15 16 (1.07%) Intrusion Detection
15 16 (1.07%) SD-WAN
16 15 (1.00%) Cisco Nexus
16 15 (1.00%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (0.67%) Power BI
2 8 (0.53%) SQL Server
3 6 (0.40%) Tableau
4 4 (0.27%) MySQL
4 4 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.20%) Big Data
6 2 (0.13%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.13%) Metadata
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%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.067%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.067%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.067%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.067%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.067%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.067%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 25 (1.67%) Snyk
2 15 (1.00%) JIRA
3 9 (0.60%) Git
4 8 (0.53%) GitLab
5 6 (0.40%) Burp Suite
5 6 (0.40%) Metasploit
6 5 (0.33%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.33%) JMeter
6 5 (0.33%) Locust
6 5 (0.33%) VersionOne
7 2 (0.13%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.13%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.067%) GDB
8 1 (0.067%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.067%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.067%) WinDbg
General
1 476 (31.71%) Social Skills
2 163 (10.86%) Finance
3 139 (9.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 121 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
5 114 (7.59%) Public Sector
6 108 (7.20%) Marketing
7 100 (6.66%) Legal
8 84 (5.60%) Retail
9 78 (5.20%) Law
10 49 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
11 46 (3.06%) Banking
12 45 (3.00%) Games
13 42 (2.80%) Telecoms
14 27 (1.80%) Advertising
15 22 (1.47%) Aviation
15 22 (1.47%) Manufacturing
16 21 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
17 19 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
18 14 (0.93%) Aerospace
18 14 (0.93%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 312 (20.79%) Senior
2 185 (12.33%) Analyst
3 164 (10.93%) Architect
4 136 (9.06%) Consultant
5 116 (7.73%) Security Manager
6 100 (6.66%) Security Architect
7 98 (6.53%) Security Analyst
8 93 (6.20%) Security Consultant
9 92 (6.13%) Senior Manager
10 88 (5.86%) Lead
11 87 (5.80%) Cybersecurity Manager
12 83 (5.53%) Security Engineer
13 81 (5.40%) IT Manager
14 76 (5.06%) IT Support
15 73 (4.86%) Support Engineer
16 70 (4.66%) Senior Analyst
17 62 (4.13%) Cybersecurity Analyst
18 58 (3.86%) IT Engineer
19 55 (3.66%) IT Support Engineer
20 48 (3.20%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (2.93%) OAuth
1 44 (2.93%) SAML
2 37 (2.47%) LDAP
3 33 (2.20%) OpenID
4 32 (2.13%) REST
5 24 (1.60%) SOAP
6 23 (1.53%) GraphQL
7 9 (0.60%) XMPP
8 8 (0.53%) Kafka
8 8 (0.53%) 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 (0.33%) Gherkin
11 5 (0.33%) LangGraph
11 5 (0.33%) ModSecurity
11 5 (0.33%) React
12 4 (0.27%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 138 (9.19%) Cyber Threat
2 116 (7.73%) Security Posture
3 93 (6.20%) Management Information System
4 72 (4.80%) Onboarding
5 64 (4.26%) Cyberattack
6 56 (3.73%) Self-Motivation
7 53 (3.53%) Driving Licence
8 43 (2.86%) Data Centre
9 41 (2.73%) Cyber Defence
10 38 (2.53%) Cloud Native
11 31 (2.07%) PKI
12 30 (2.00%) Blog
13 26 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
13 26 (1.73%) Security Operations Centre
14 22 (1.47%) Cyber Kill Chain
15 21 (1.40%) Web Conferencing
16 20 (1.33%) Operational Technology
17 18 (1.20%) AI Agents
18 17 (1.13%) Cyber Security Posture
18 17 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 160 (10.66%) Windows
2 68 (4.53%) Windows Server
3 54 (3.60%) Linux
4 24 (1.60%) Mac OS
5 12 (0.80%) Android
6 11 (0.73%) Apple iOS
7 10 (0.67%) Windows 10
8 8 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (0.53%) 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
1 283 (18.85%) Continuous Improvement
2 273 (18.19%) Information Security
3 231 (15.39%) Problem-Solving
4 227 (15.12%) AI
5 214 (14.26%) Mentoring
6 207 (13.79%) Incident Response
7 206 (13.72%) Risk Management
8 186 (12.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 175 (11.66%) Decision-Making
10 173 (11.53%) Vulnerability Management
11 160 (10.66%) Cloud Security
12 147 (9.79%) Identity Access Management
13 144 (9.59%) Agile
14 140 (9.33%) Roadmaps
15 139 (9.26%) SIEM
16 137 (9.13%) Security Operations
17 131 (8.73%) ITIL
18 115 (7.66%) Stakeholder Management
19 107 (7.13%) Disaster Recovery
20 105 (7.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 116 (7.73%) Python
2 89 (5.93%) PowerShell
3 33 (2.20%) Bash
3 33 (2.20%) SQL
4 25 (1.67%) Java
5 23 (1.53%) T-SQL
6 18 (1.20%) JavaScript
7 15 (1.00%) C++
8 12 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
8 12 (0.80%) Rust
9 8 (0.53%) C#
9 8 (0.53%) Go
10 7 (0.47%) C
10 7 (0.47%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.33%) PHP
12 3 (0.20%) Ada
12 3 (0.20%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.13%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.067%) Bicep
14 1 (0.067%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 223 (14.86%) CISSP
2 220 (14.66%) Security Cleared
3 181 (12.06%) CISM
3 181 (12.06%) SC Cleared
4 141 (9.39%) Degree
5 56 (3.73%) A+ Certification
5 56 (3.73%) Network+ Certification
6 55 (3.66%) DV Cleared
7 43 (2.86%) CISA
8 38 (2.53%) AWS Certification
8 38 (2.53%) CRISC
9 37 (2.47%) Cisco Certification
10 33 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
10 33 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
11 29 (1.93%) Azure Certification
12 27 (1.80%) CompTIA Security+
12 27 (1.80%) CREST Certified
13 26 (1.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 24 (1.60%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 21 (1.40%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 300 (19.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 228 (15.19%) NIST
3 168 (11.19%) GDPR
4 117 (7.79%) GRC
5 105 (7.00%) Cyber Essentials
6 83 (5.53%) PCI DSS
7 73 (4.86%) NCSC
8 47 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 26 (1.73%) QA
9 26 (1.73%) SLA
10 25 (1.67%) COBIT
10 25 (1.67%) SOC 2
11 23 (1.53%) Actionable Recommendations
12 20 (1.33%) Accessibility
13 17 (1.13%) JSP 440
14 14 (0.93%) ISO 22301
15 12 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 12 (0.80%) NIST 800
16 11 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 8 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 194 (12.92%) Active Directory
2 36 (2.40%) Hyper-V
3 26 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
4 25 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (1.00%) Docker
6 10 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
7 9 (0.60%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 7 (0.47%) Firmware
8 7 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.40%) vSphere
10 5 (0.33%) ClearTrust
10 5 (0.33%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.067%) KVM
11 1 (0.067%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 128 (8.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 30 (2.00%) Kubernetes
3 24 (1.60%) Terraform
4 20 (1.33%) Grafana
5 19 (1.27%) Ansible
6 15 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (0.93%) CASB
8 10 (0.67%) FortiGate
9 9 (0.60%) Cisco CUCM
10 8 (0.53%) QRadar
11 6 (0.40%) Prometheus
12 5 (0.33%) Nmap
13 4 (0.27%) Computer Incident Response Team
13 4 (0.27%) FTK
14 3 (0.20%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 3 (0.20%) CSIRT
14 3 (0.20%) Failover Clustering
14 3 (0.20%) SCCM
15 2 (0.13%) Graylog
15 2 (0.13%) Nessus
Vendors
1 447 (29.78%) Microsoft
2 74 (4.93%) Palo Alto
3 63 (4.20%) Cisco
4 55 (3.66%) CyberArk
5 48 (3.20%) VMware
6 41 (2.73%) ServiceNow
7 40 (2.66%) CrowdStrike
8 34 (2.27%) Tenable
9 33 (2.20%) Google
10 31 (2.07%) Fortinet
11 29 (1.93%) Adobe
11 29 (1.93%) Apple
11 29 (1.93%) Splunk
12 24 (1.60%) Qualys
13 20 (1.33%) Salesforce
14 17 (1.13%) Aruba
15 15 (1.00%) OpenAI
16 14 (0.93%) SAP
17 10 (0.67%) Oracle
17 10 (0.67%) Veeam