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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 39 43
Rank change year-on-year +12 +4 +12
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,094 949 1,667
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.40% 7.07% 5.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.55% 7.43% 5.94%
Number of salaries quoted 670 702 1,285
10th Percentile £33,725 £25,313 £35,920
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -11.20%
75th Percentile £88,750 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,250 £91,661
UK median annual salary £52,500 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.63% +2.50% -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 14,496 12,767 28,052
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 84.79% 95.16% 91.97%
Number of salaries quoted 9,559 8,815 23,028
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £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 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 22 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 30 (2.74%) SharePoint
2 11 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.46%) Drupal
3 5 (0.46%) nginx
3 5 (0.46%) WordPress
4 4 (0.37%) CMS
5 2 (0.18%) Apache
5 2 (0.18%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.091%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.091%) Confluence
6 1 (0.091%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 82 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (2.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (1.74%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.18%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.091%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.091%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.091%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 7 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (0.64%) Shopify
2 1 (0.091%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 328 (29.98%) Azure
2 168 (15.36%) Microsoft 365
3 159 (14.53%) Entra ID
4 156 (14.26%) AWS
5 58 (5.30%) Google Workspace
6 39 (3.56%) GCP
7 33 (3.02%) SaaS
8 27 (2.47%) Power Platform
9 26 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (2.01%) Azure Sentinel
11 21 (1.92%) Azure Logic Apps
12 16 (1.46%) Nutanix
13 15 (1.37%) Mimecast
14 8 (0.73%) Microsoft Purview
15 6 (0.55%) PaaS
16 5 (0.46%) Cloud Computing
16 5 (0.46%) GitHub
17 4 (0.37%) Azure Monitor
17 4 (0.37%) Datadog
17 4 (0.37%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 132 (12.07%) Firewall
2 79 (7.22%) Broadband
3 51 (4.66%) Network Security
4 39 (3.56%) VPN
5 27 (2.47%) DNS
6 25 (2.29%) Intrusion Detection
7 23 (2.10%) CHAP
8 20 (1.83%) VLAN
9 16 (1.46%) DHCP
10 10 (0.91%) Unified Communications
11 9 (0.82%) Cisco ASA
11 9 (0.82%) TCP/IP
11 9 (0.82%) WAN
12 8 (0.73%) DMZ
12 8 (0.73%) LAN
13 7 (0.64%) IP Telephony
14 6 (0.55%) BGP
14 6 (0.55%) SSL
14 6 (0.55%) VoIP
15 5 (0.46%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (0.82%) Power BI
2 5 (0.46%) MariaDB
3 4 (0.37%) Metadata
3 4 (0.37%) Relational Database
3 4 (0.37%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.27%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.27%) MongoDB
4 3 (0.27%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.27%) Tableau
5 1 (0.091%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.091%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.091%) Big Data
5 1 (0.091%) MySQL
5 1 (0.091%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.091%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (1.01%) Jenkins
2 7 (0.64%) Git
2 7 (0.64%) GitLab
3 4 (0.37%) Cucumber
3 4 (0.37%) JMeter
3 4 (0.37%) Locust
4 2 (0.18%) Burp Suite
4 2 (0.18%) JIRA
4 2 (0.18%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.091%) GDB
5 1 (0.091%) Snyk
5 1 (0.091%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.091%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.091%) WinDbg
General
1 381 (34.83%) Social Skills
2 177 (16.18%) Finance
3 98 (8.96%) Public Sector
4 94 (8.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 88 (8.04%) Organisational Skills
6 84 (7.68%) Analytical Skills
7 77 (7.04%) Marketing
8 66 (6.03%) Back Office
9 60 (5.48%) Banking
10 59 (5.39%) Law
11 57 (5.21%) Telecoms
12 52 (4.75%) Legal
13 48 (4.39%) Games
14 40 (3.66%) Retail
15 31 (2.83%) Manufacturing
16 26 (2.38%) Financial Institution
17 22 (2.01%) Electronics
18 18 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
19 14 (1.28%) Local Government
20 12 (1.10%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 209 (19.10%) Senior
2 104 (9.51%) Support Engineer
3 101 (9.23%) Analyst
3 101 (9.23%) Architect
4 90 (8.23%) Consultant
5 69 (6.31%) Security Manager
6 65 (5.94%) Security Architect
7 60 (5.48%) Desktop Engineer
7 60 (5.48%) Desktop Support
7 60 (5.48%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 60 (5.48%) Security Consultant
8 56 (5.12%) Site Engineer
9 54 (4.94%) Cybersecurity Architect
9 54 (4.94%) Security Analyst
10 50 (4.57%) IT Manager
11 49 (4.48%) Hardware Engineer
11 49 (4.48%) IT Support
11 49 (4.48%) Senior Hardware Engineer
12 48 (4.39%) Developer
13 47 (4.30%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (5.67%) REST
2 60 (5.48%) OAuth
2 60 (5.48%) OpenID
2 60 (5.48%) SAML
2 60 (5.48%) SOAP
3 59 (5.39%) GraphQL
3 59 (5.39%) LDAP
4 20 (1.83%) SAP CAF
5 5 (0.46%) CSS
5 5 (0.46%) HTML
5 5 (0.46%) Kafka
5 5 (0.46%) LangChain
5 5 (0.46%) SailPoint
6 4 (0.37%) .NET
6 4 (0.37%) Android NDK
6 4 (0.37%) Gherkin
6 4 (0.37%) RESTful
6 4 (0.37%) WebSockets
6 4 (0.37%) XMPP
7 3 (0.27%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 107 (9.78%) Cyber Threat
2 86 (7.86%) Security Posture
3 74 (6.76%) Cyberattack
4 68 (6.22%) Management Information System
5 51 (4.66%) Onboarding
6 46 (4.20%) Blog
7 35 (3.20%) Driving Licence
8 33 (3.02%) Hybrid Cloud
9 30 (2.74%) Cloud Native
10 29 (2.65%) Public Cloud
11 27 (2.47%) Data Centre
11 27 (2.47%) Operational Technology
12 24 (2.19%) Cyber Defence
12 24 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
13 21 (1.92%) PKI
14 19 (1.74%) Cyber Security Posture
15 17 (1.55%) Security Operations Centre
16 15 (1.37%) Low-Code
16 15 (1.37%) Product Ownership
17 14 (1.28%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 165 (15.08%) Windows
2 71 (6.49%) Windows 10
3 51 (4.66%) Linux
3 51 (4.66%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.74%) Android
5 17 (1.55%) Mac OS
6 15 (1.37%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.27%) Unix
8 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.091%) Debian
9 1 (0.091%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.091%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.091%) OpenBSD
9 1 (0.091%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.091%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (17.46%) Continuous Improvement
2 152 (13.89%) Risk Management
3 139 (12.71%) Roadmaps
4 137 (12.52%) Mentoring
5 134 (12.25%) ITIL
6 133 (12.16%) Incident Response
7 132 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
8 131 (11.97%) Information Security
9 116 (10.60%) Analytics
10 111 (10.15%) AI
11 93 (8.50%) Vulnerability Management
12 92 (8.41%) Agile
13 89 (8.14%) Cloud Security
14 87 (7.95%) Customer Service
15 86 (7.86%) Project Management
16 84 (7.68%) Identity Access Management
17 79 (7.22%) Customer Experience
17 79 (7.22%) Stakeholder Management
18 73 (6.67%) Programme Delivery
19 72 (6.58%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 115 (10.51%) PowerShell
2 77 (7.04%) Python
3 67 (6.12%) Bash
4 57 (5.21%) T-SQL
5 46 (4.20%) SQL
6 23 (2.10%) JavaScript
7 22 (2.01%) C++
7 22 (2.01%) Java
8 20 (1.83%) C#
9 13 (1.19%) C
10 7 (0.64%) Go
11 5 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (0.46%) PHP
11 5 (0.46%) Rust
12 4 (0.37%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.27%) Bicep
13 3 (0.27%) R
14 2 (0.18%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.091%) Perl
15 1 (0.091%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 176 (16.09%) Degree
2 170 (15.54%) Security Cleared
3 154 (14.08%) CISSP
4 142 (12.98%) SC Cleared
5 114 (10.42%) CISM
6 60 (5.48%) CTC Cleared
7 43 (3.93%) CISA
8 41 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
9 37 (3.38%) AWS Certification
9 37 (3.38%) Cisco Certification
10 35 (3.20%) CEH
10 35 (3.20%) DV Cleared
11 29 (2.65%) SANS
12 24 (2.19%) CREST Certified
12 24 (2.19%) FFIEC
12 24 (2.19%) PMP
13 23 (2.10%) CGEIT
13 23 (2.10%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 21 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
14 21 (1.92%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 234 (21.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 234 (21.39%) NIST
2 103 (9.41%) GDPR
3 87 (7.95%) NCSC
4 77 (7.04%) Cyber Essentials
5 73 (6.67%) GRC
6 68 (6.22%) SLA
7 49 (4.48%) PCI DSS
8 37 (3.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 29 (2.65%) COBIT
10 16 (1.46%) Accessibility
10 16 (1.46%) ISO 22301
11 14 (1.28%) QA
11 14 (1.28%) SOC 2
12 13 (1.19%) JSP 440
13 11 (1.01%) IEC 61508
13 11 (1.01%) MISRA
13 11 (1.01%) MISRA C
14 9 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
14 9 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 132 (12.07%) Active Directory
2 25 (2.29%) Hyper-V
3 22 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.83%) Docker
5 10 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.55%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.46%) Firmware
7 5 (0.46%) vSphere
8 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.091%) iptables
9 1 (0.091%) KVM
9 1 (0.091%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.091%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 53 (4.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (2.56%) Terraform
3 23 (2.10%) Ansible
4 22 (2.01%) Kubernetes
5 13 (1.19%) Grafana
6 11 (1.01%) Functional Safety
7 9 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.55%) Nessus
9 5 (0.46%) FTK
9 5 (0.46%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.37%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (0.37%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 4 (0.37%) CSIRT
10 4 (0.37%) QRadar
10 4 (0.37%) RSA Archer
10 4 (0.37%) SCCM
11 3 (0.27%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.18%) CASB
12 2 (0.18%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 239 (21.85%) Microsoft
2 86 (7.86%) Cisco
3 54 (4.94%) VMware
4 33 (3.02%) Apple
5 25 (2.29%) Google
6 24 (2.19%) Adobe
6 24 (2.19%) SAP
7 20 (1.83%) Fortinet
8 19 (1.74%) PayPal
9 18 (1.65%) Splunk
10 15 (1.37%) Commvault
11 14 (1.28%) ServiceNow
11 14 (1.28%) Tenable
12 13 (1.19%) CrowdStrike
12 13 (1.19%) Salesforce
13 11 (1.01%) CheckPoint
13 11 (1.01%) Palo Alto
14 10 (0.91%) Draytek
15 9 (0.82%) Oracle
15 9 (0.82%) Qualys