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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 27 35
Rank change year-on-year 0 +8 +8
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,651 1,242 1,458
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.10% 7.51% 5.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.65% 8.08% 6.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,113 711 786
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,313 £38,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,500 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -6.98%

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 19,089 15,370 21,707
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.04% 92.98% 87.48%
Number of salaries quoted 13,792 8,913 14,844
10th Percentile £34,750 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 28 August 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 67 (4.06%) SharePoint
2 54 (3.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.55%) SAS
4 8 (0.48%) IIS
5 5 (0.30%) WordPress
6 4 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.12%) Apache
8 1 (0.061%) CMS
8 1 (0.061%) Confluence
Applications
1 42 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.18%) Trello
7 2 (0.12%) Simulink
7 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (1.45%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.30%) SAP Business One
3 3 (0.18%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.061%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.061%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.061%) Shopify
5 1 (0.061%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 378 (22.90%) Azure
2 206 (12.48%) Microsoft 365
3 194 (11.75%) AWS
4 178 (10.78%) Entra ID
5 100 (6.06%) SaaS
6 70 (4.24%) GCP
7 33 (2.00%) Azure Sentinel
8 32 (1.94%) Serverless
9 25 (1.51%) Power Platform
10 19 (1.15%) OneDrive
11 14 (0.85%) Mimecast
12 13 (0.79%) dbt
12 13 (0.79%) Microsoft Purview
13 12 (0.73%) Cloud Computing
13 12 (0.73%) Microsoft Copilot
14 11 (0.67%) Azure Logic Apps
15 9 (0.55%) GitHub
16 8 (0.48%) PaaS
17 6 (0.36%) GitHub Actions
17 6 (0.36%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 236 (14.29%) Firewall
2 166 (10.05%) Network Security
3 88 (5.33%) VLAN
4 67 (4.06%) DNS
5 59 (3.57%) WAN
6 55 (3.33%) VPN
7 53 (3.21%) DHCP
8 46 (2.79%) LAN
9 44 (2.67%) TCP/IP
10 39 (2.36%) Broadband
11 36 (2.18%) Wi-Fi
12 28 (1.70%) VoIP
13 25 (1.51%) BGP
14 19 (1.15%) Cisco Nexus
14 19 (1.15%) Unified Communications
15 18 (1.09%) HTTP
15 18 (1.09%) MPLS
15 18 (1.09%) SSL
16 16 (0.97%) SD-WAN
17 15 (0.91%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (0.67%) Power BI
1 11 (0.67%) SQL Server
2 6 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (0.36%) Tableau
3 4 (0.24%) Big Data
4 3 (0.18%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (0.18%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (0.18%) Metadata
4 3 (0.18%) MySQL
4 3 (0.18%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.12%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (0.12%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.061%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.061%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.061%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.061%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.061%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.061%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.061%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.061%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 27 (1.64%) Snyk
2 22 (1.33%) JIRA
3 7 (0.42%) Git
4 6 (0.36%) Burp Suite
4 6 (0.36%) Metasploit
5 5 (0.30%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.30%) VersionOne
6 4 (0.24%) GitLab
7 2 (0.12%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.12%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.12%) JMeter
7 2 (0.12%) Locust
7 2 (0.12%) Maven
7 2 (0.12%) Poetry
7 2 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.061%) GDB
8 1 (0.061%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.061%) WinDbg
General
1 556 (33.68%) Social Skills
2 170 (10.30%) Finance
3 166 (10.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 142 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
5 138 (8.36%) Public Sector
6 116 (7.03%) Marketing
7 110 (6.66%) Legal
8 91 (5.51%) Retail
9 70 (4.24%) Law
10 55 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
11 50 (3.03%) Telecoms
12 47 (2.85%) Banking
13 42 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
14 32 (1.94%) Aerospace
15 27 (1.64%) Games
16 25 (1.51%) Manufacturing
17 24 (1.45%) Advertising
18 22 (1.33%) Aviation
18 22 (1.33%) Police
18 22 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 334 (20.23%) Senior
2 196 (11.87%) Analyst
3 175 (10.60%) Consultant
4 163 (9.87%) Architect
5 116 (7.03%) Security Manager
6 115 (6.97%) Security Engineer
7 111 (6.72%) Security Consultant
8 104 (6.30%) Security Architect
9 103 (6.24%) Security Analyst
10 93 (5.63%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 93 (5.63%) Lead
11 89 (5.39%) IT Manager
12 78 (4.72%) Senior Manager
13 74 (4.48%) Senior Analyst
13 74 (4.48%) Support Engineer
14 66 (4.00%) IT Support
15 64 (3.88%) Cybersecurity Analyst
16 57 (3.45%) Senior Security Engineer
17 54 (3.27%) IT Engineer
18 53 (3.21%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.57%) OAuth
2 23 (1.39%) SAML
3 21 (1.27%) Terraform
4 17 (1.03%) LDAP
5 15 (0.91%) OpenID
6 14 (0.85%) REST
7 11 (0.67%) .NET
8 8 (0.48%) LangChain
8 8 (0.48%) XMPP
9 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Graph
9 7 (0.42%) ModSecurity
10 6 (0.36%) React
10 6 (0.36%) Regular Expression
10 6 (0.36%) RESTful
10 6 (0.36%) SailPoint
11 5 (0.30%) JSON
11 5 (0.30%) Kafka
11 5 (0.30%) LangGraph
11 5 (0.30%) SOAP
12 4 (0.24%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 130 (7.87%) Cyber Threat
2 123 (7.45%) Security Posture
3 94 (5.69%) Management Information System
4 78 (4.72%) Onboarding
5 55 (3.33%) Data Centre
5 55 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
6 52 (3.15%) Driving Licence
7 46 (2.79%) Cyber Defence
8 45 (2.73%) Cloud Native
9 36 (2.18%) Operational Technology
10 35 (2.12%) PKI
11 32 (1.94%) Cyberattack
11 32 (1.94%) Security Operations Centre
12 27 (1.64%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 24 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
14 22 (1.33%) Social Media
15 21 (1.27%) AI Agents
15 21 (1.27%) Blog
16 20 (1.21%) Web Conferencing
17 19 (1.15%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 165 (9.99%) Windows
2 71 (4.30%) Windows Server
3 53 (3.21%) Linux
4 21 (1.27%) Mac OS
5 8 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (0.36%) Android
7 5 (0.30%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.12%) Unix
11 1 (0.061%) AIX
11 1 (0.061%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.061%) Solaris
11 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 316 (19.14%) Continuous Improvement
2 303 (18.35%) AI
3 302 (18.29%) Information Security
4 244 (14.78%) Problem-Solving
5 220 (13.33%) Risk Management
6 218 (13.20%) Decision-Making
7 207 (12.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 204 (12.36%) Mentoring
9 201 (12.17%) Incident Response
10 179 (10.84%) Vulnerability Management
11 176 (10.66%) Cloud Security
12 157 (9.51%) Security Operations
13 153 (9.27%) SIEM
14 151 (9.15%) ITIL
15 147 (8.90%) Stakeholder Management
16 146 (8.84%) Agile
16 146 (8.84%) Business Continuity
17 141 (8.54%) Identity Access Management
18 138 (8.36%) Service Delivery
19 126 (7.63%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 111 (6.72%) Python
2 70 (4.24%) PowerShell
3 31 (1.88%) SQL
4 18 (1.09%) Java
5 16 (0.97%) C++
6 15 (0.91%) JavaScript
6 15 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
7 12 (0.73%) Bash
8 9 (0.55%) TypeScript
9 8 (0.48%) C#
10 7 (0.42%) Go
10 7 (0.42%) Rust
11 6 (0.36%) C
12 4 (0.24%) VB.NET
13 3 (0.18%) Ada
14 2 (0.12%) Embedded C
14 2 (0.12%) Embedded C++
14 2 (0.12%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.12%) Search Processing Language
14 2 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 282 (17.08%) Security Cleared
2 229 (13.87%) CISSP
3 209 (12.66%) SC Cleared
4 185 (11.21%) CISM
5 154 (9.33%) Degree
6 91 (5.51%) DV Cleared
7 58 (3.51%) A+ Certification
8 57 (3.45%) Network+ Certification
9 48 (2.91%) AWS Certification
10 41 (2.48%) CRISC
11 39 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
12 38 (2.30%) CISA
12 38 (2.30%) CompTIA Security+
13 37 (2.24%) Azure Certification
14 35 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
14 35 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
15 30 (1.82%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 28 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
17 27 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 25 (1.51%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 311 (18.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 220 (13.33%) NIST
3 155 (9.39%) GDPR
4 142 (8.60%) GRC
5 126 (7.63%) Cyber Essentials
6 80 (4.85%) PCI DSS
7 59 (3.57%) NCSC
8 49 (2.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 30 (1.82%) SLA
10 25 (1.51%) QA
11 24 (1.45%) Accessibility
11 24 (1.45%) SOC 2
12 23 (1.39%) COBIT
13 22 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
14 18 (1.09%) JSP 440
15 17 (1.03%) ISO 22301
15 17 (1.03%) NIST 800
16 14 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 13 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 42001
18 9 (0.55%) PMO
System Software
1 184 (11.14%) Active Directory
2 44 (2.67%) Hyper-V
3 29 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (1.15%) Firmware
6 12 (0.73%) Docker
7 9 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
8 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 7 (0.42%) VMware NSX
10 6 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.30%) ClearTrust
11 5 (0.30%) vSphere
12 1 (0.061%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.061%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 129 (7.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (1.51%) Kubernetes
3 23 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
4 16 (0.97%) Ansible
5 15 (0.91%) CASB
6 13 (0.79%) FortiGate
7 11 (0.67%) Grafana
8 8 (0.48%) Cisco CUCM
9 7 (0.42%) QRadar
10 6 (0.36%) Nmap
11 4 (0.24%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 4 (0.24%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.18%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 3 (0.18%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 3 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
12 3 (0.18%) SCCM
13 2 (0.12%) Functional Safety
13 2 (0.12%) Graylog
14 1 (0.061%) Oracle Flashback
14 1 (0.061%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 490 (29.68%) Microsoft
2 82 (4.97%) Palo Alto
3 79 (4.78%) Cisco
4 65 (3.94%) CyberArk
5 45 (2.73%) VMware
6 39 (2.36%) CrowdStrike
7 38 (2.30%) Apple
7 38 (2.30%) ServiceNow
8 37 (2.24%) Adobe
9 33 (2.00%) Tenable
10 31 (1.88%) Fortinet
11 30 (1.82%) Splunk
12 27 (1.64%) Google
13 26 (1.57%) Qualys
13 26 (1.57%) Salesforce
14 18 (1.09%) Aruba
15 15 (0.91%) OpenAI
16 14 (0.85%) Veeam
17 12 (0.73%) SAP
18 8 (0.48%) Juniper