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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 39 46
Rank change year-on-year +12 +7 +11
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,064 968 1,608
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.31% 6.98% 5.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.41% 7.32% 5.83%
Number of salaries quoted 644 689 1,278
10th Percentile £32,800 £25,313 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,608 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £88,750 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,300 £91,934
UK median annual salary £50,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 14,366 13,216 27,580
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.17% 95.27% 92.06%
Number of salaries quoted 9,452 8,852 22,837
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,478 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 March 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 31 (2.91%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.47%) Drupal
3 5 (0.47%) nginx
3 5 (0.47%) WordPress
4 4 (0.38%) CMS
5 2 (0.19%) Apache
5 2 (0.19%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.094%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.094%) Confluence
6 1 (0.094%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 82 (7.71%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (2.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (1.79%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.19%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.094%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.094%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.094%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 7 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (0.66%) Shopify
2 1 (0.094%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 322 (30.26%) Azure
2 165 (15.51%) Microsoft 365
3 156 (14.66%) Entra ID
4 154 (14.47%) AWS
5 58 (5.45%) Google Workspace
6 38 (3.57%) GCP
7 30 (2.82%) SaaS
8 28 (2.63%) Power Platform
9 27 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (2.07%) Azure Sentinel
11 21 (1.97%) Azure Logic Apps
12 16 (1.50%) Nutanix
13 13 (1.22%) Mimecast
14 8 (0.75%) Microsoft Purview
15 6 (0.56%) PaaS
16 5 (0.47%) Azure Monitor
16 5 (0.47%) Cloud Computing
16 5 (0.47%) Dynamics 365
16 5 (0.47%) GitHub
17 4 (0.38%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 125 (11.75%) Firewall
2 79 (7.42%) Broadband
3 47 (4.42%) Network Security
4 38 (3.57%) VPN
5 27 (2.54%) DNS
6 22 (2.07%) CHAP
6 22 (2.07%) Intrusion Detection
7 19 (1.79%) VLAN
8 17 (1.60%) DHCP
9 10 (0.94%) TCP/IP
9 10 (0.94%) Unified Communications
10 9 (0.85%) WAN
11 8 (0.75%) Cisco ASA
11 8 (0.75%) DMZ
11 8 (0.75%) LAN
12 7 (0.66%) IP Telephony
12 7 (0.66%) VoIP
13 6 (0.56%) BGP
13 6 (0.56%) SSL
14 5 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (0.85%) Power BI
2 5 (0.47%) MariaDB
2 5 (0.47%) Relational Database
3 4 (0.38%) Metadata
3 4 (0.38%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.28%) MongoDB
4 3 (0.28%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.28%) Tableau
5 1 (0.094%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.094%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.094%) Big Data
5 1 (0.094%) MySQL
5 1 (0.094%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.094%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (1.03%) Jenkins
2 7 (0.66%) Git
2 7 (0.66%) GitLab
3 4 (0.38%) Cucumber
3 4 (0.38%) JMeter
3 4 (0.38%) Locust
4 2 (0.19%) Burp Suite
4 2 (0.19%) JIRA
4 2 (0.19%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.094%) Snyk
5 1 (0.094%) SonarQube
General
1 373 (35.06%) Social Skills
2 177 (16.64%) Finance
3 100 (9.40%) Public Sector
4 93 (8.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 88 (8.27%) Organisational Skills
6 81 (7.61%) Analytical Skills
7 75 (7.05%) Marketing
8 66 (6.20%) Back Office
9 60 (5.64%) Banking
10 59 (5.55%) Telecoms
11 58 (5.45%) Law
12 48 (4.51%) Games
12 48 (4.51%) Legal
13 34 (3.20%) Retail
14 33 (3.10%) Manufacturing
15 25 (2.35%) Financial Institution
16 24 (2.26%) Electronics
17 17 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
18 14 (1.32%) Local Government
19 9 (0.85%) German Language
Job Titles
1 206 (19.36%) Senior
2 103 (9.68%) Support Engineer
3 100 (9.40%) Architect
4 98 (9.21%) Analyst
5 86 (8.08%) Consultant
6 64 (6.02%) Security Architect
7 63 (5.92%) Security Manager
8 60 (5.64%) Desktop Engineer
8 60 (5.64%) Desktop Support
8 60 (5.64%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 56 (5.26%) Site Engineer
10 55 (5.17%) Cybersecurity Architect
10 55 (5.17%) Security Consultant
11 52 (4.89%) Security Analyst
12 49 (4.61%) Hardware Engineer
12 49 (4.61%) IT Support
12 49 (4.61%) Senior Hardware Engineer
13 48 (4.51%) Developer
14 47 (4.42%) IT Engineer
15 43 (4.04%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (5.83%) REST
2 60 (5.64%) OAuth
2 60 (5.64%) OpenID
2 60 (5.64%) SAML
2 60 (5.64%) SOAP
3 59 (5.55%) GraphQL
3 59 (5.55%) LDAP
4 22 (2.07%) SAP CAF
5 6 (0.56%) CSS
5 6 (0.56%) HTML
6 5 (0.47%) .NET
6 5 (0.47%) Kafka
6 5 (0.47%) LangChain
7 4 (0.38%) Android NDK
7 4 (0.38%) Gherkin
7 4 (0.38%) RESTful
7 4 (0.38%) SailPoint
7 4 (0.38%) WebSockets
8 3 (0.28%) HTML5
8 3 (0.28%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 108 (10.15%) Cyber Threat
2 80 (7.52%) Security Posture
3 75 (7.05%) Cyberattack
4 65 (6.11%) Management Information System
5 52 (4.89%) Onboarding
6 42 (3.95%) Blog
7 33 (3.10%) Hybrid Cloud
8 32 (3.01%) Driving Licence
9 30 (2.82%) Public Cloud
10 28 (2.63%) Cloud Native
10 28 (2.63%) Data Centre
11 26 (2.44%) Operational Technology
12 24 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
13 20 (1.88%) PKI
14 19 (1.79%) Cyber Security Posture
15 18 (1.69%) Cyber Defence
15 18 (1.69%) Security Operations Centre
16 16 (1.50%) Product Ownership
17 15 (1.41%) Cyber Kill Chain
17 15 (1.41%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 158 (14.85%) Windows
2 71 (6.67%) Windows 10
3 49 (4.61%) Windows Server
4 45 (4.23%) Linux
5 19 (1.79%) Android
6 16 (1.50%) Mac OS
7 15 (1.41%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.28%) Unix
9 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.094%) Debian
10 1 (0.094%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.094%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.094%) OpenBSD
10 1 (0.094%) OpenWrt
10 1 (0.094%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (17.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 143 (13.44%) Risk Management
3 136 (12.78%) Roadmaps
4 135 (12.69%) ITIL
5 133 (12.50%) Mentoring
6 128 (12.03%) Incident Response
7 127 (11.94%) Information Security
7 127 (11.94%) Problem-Solving
8 116 (10.90%) Analytics
9 111 (10.43%) AI
10 89 (8.36%) Agile
11 87 (8.18%) Customer Service
12 86 (8.08%) Vulnerability Management
13 83 (7.80%) Identity Access Management
14 82 (7.71%) Cloud Security
15 81 (7.61%) Project Management
16 79 (7.42%) Customer Experience
17 77 (7.24%) Stakeholder Management
18 73 (6.86%) Programme Delivery
19 71 (6.67%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 113 (10.62%) PowerShell
2 77 (7.24%) Python
3 68 (6.39%) Bash
4 57 (5.36%) T-SQL
5 47 (4.42%) SQL
6 23 (2.16%) JavaScript
7 22 (2.07%) Java
8 21 (1.97%) C#
8 21 (1.97%) C++
9 13 (1.22%) C
10 7 (0.66%) Go
11 5 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (0.47%) PHP
11 5 (0.47%) Rust
12 4 (0.38%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.28%) Bicep
13 3 (0.28%) R
14 2 (0.19%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.094%) Perl
15 1 (0.094%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 179 (16.82%) Degree
2 166 (15.60%) Security Cleared
3 151 (14.19%) CISSP
4 138 (12.97%) SC Cleared
5 110 (10.34%) CISM
6 60 (5.64%) CTC Cleared
7 42 (3.95%) CISA
8 41 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
9 40 (3.76%) AWS Certification
10 36 (3.38%) Cisco Certification
11 34 (3.20%) CEH
12 32 (3.01%) DV Cleared
13 29 (2.73%) SANS
14 25 (2.35%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 25 (2.35%) PMP
15 23 (2.16%) Azure Certification
15 23 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
15 23 (2.16%) CREST Certified
15 23 (2.16%) FFIEC
16 22 (2.07%) CGEIT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 227 (21.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 224 (21.05%) NIST
3 97 (9.12%) GDPR
4 87 (8.18%) NCSC
5 74 (6.95%) Cyber Essentials
6 71 (6.67%) GRC
7 68 (6.39%) SLA
8 45 (4.23%) PCI DSS
9 37 (3.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 28 (2.63%) COBIT
11 16 (1.50%) ISO 22301
12 14 (1.32%) Accessibility
13 13 (1.22%) JSP 440
13 13 (1.22%) QA
14 12 (1.13%) SOC 2
15 11 (1.03%) IEC 61508
15 11 (1.03%) MISRA
15 11 (1.03%) MISRA C
16 10 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 8 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 129 (12.12%) Active Directory
2 24 (2.26%) Hyper-V
3 22 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.88%) Docker
5 11 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.56%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.38%) Firmware
8 4 (0.38%) vSphere
9 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.094%) iptables
11 1 (0.094%) KVM
11 1 (0.094%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 53 (4.98%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (2.63%) Terraform
3 23 (2.16%) Ansible
4 22 (2.07%) Kubernetes
5 12 (1.13%) Grafana
6 11 (1.03%) Functional Safety
7 9 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.75%) Nessus
9 5 (0.47%) FTK
9 5 (0.47%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.38%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 4 (0.38%) CSIRT
10 4 (0.38%) QRadar
10 4 (0.38%) RSA Archer
11 3 (0.28%) Cisco CUCM
11 3 (0.28%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.28%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.28%) SCCM
12 2 (0.19%) WSUS
Vendors
1 229 (21.52%) Microsoft
2 84 (7.89%) Cisco
3 52 (4.89%) VMware
4 31 (2.91%) Apple
5 26 (2.44%) SAP
6 24 (2.26%) Adobe
7 23 (2.16%) Google
8 19 (1.79%) PayPal
9 16 (1.50%) Fortinet
9 16 (1.50%) Splunk
10 15 (1.41%) Commvault
10 15 (1.41%) ServiceNow
10 15 (1.41%) Tenable
11 14 (1.32%) Salesforce
12 13 (1.22%) CrowdStrike
13 10 (0.94%) CheckPoint
13 10 (0.94%) Draytek
14 9 (0.85%) Oracle
14 9 (0.85%) Palo Alto
14 9 (0.85%) Qualys