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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 31 45
Rank change year-on-year +2 +14 +2
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,417 1,205 1,819
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.81% 7.55% 5.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.27% 8.05% 6.11%
Number of salaries quoted 957 690 1,171
10th Percentile £36,250 £25,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,387 £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 £81,250 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -0.86% -10.08%

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 17,138 14,975 29,784
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.33% 93.80% 89.02%
Number of salaries quoted 12,509 8,834 22,919
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £33,750
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 £80,000 £75,662
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%

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 2 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 50 (3.53%) SharePoint
2 36 (2.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.35%) SAS
3 5 (0.35%) WordPress
4 3 (0.21%) CMS
5 2 (0.14%) Apache
5 2 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.14%) IIS
6 1 (0.071%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.071%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 63 (4.45%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 3 (0.21%) Trello
6 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.071%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 24 (1.69%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.35%) SAP Business One
3 3 (0.21%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.14%) Shopify
5 1 (0.071%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 351 (24.77%) Azure
2 206 (14.54%) Microsoft 365
3 175 (12.35%) Entra ID
4 167 (11.79%) AWS
5 85 (6.00%) SaaS
6 78 (5.50%) GCP
7 39 (2.75%) Google Workspace
8 32 (2.26%) Azure Sentinel
9 29 (2.05%) Serverless
10 24 (1.69%) Power Platform
11 15 (1.06%) Mimecast
11 15 (1.06%) OneDrive
12 14 (0.99%) Azure Logic Apps
13 11 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (0.71%) PaaS
15 8 (0.56%) Cloud Computing
16 7 (0.49%) Microsoft Purview
16 7 (0.49%) Nutanix
17 6 (0.42%) Datadog
18 5 (0.35%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 187 (13.20%) Firewall
2 109 (7.69%) Network Security
3 83 (5.86%) Broadband
4 54 (3.81%) DNS
5 50 (3.53%) VLAN
5 50 (3.53%) VPN
6 44 (3.11%) WAN
7 42 (2.96%) DHCP
8 32 (2.26%) LAN
9 28 (1.98%) TCP/IP
10 25 (1.76%) VoIP
11 24 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
12 23 (1.62%) Unified Communications
13 18 (1.27%) SSL
14 17 (1.20%) BGP
15 16 (1.13%) Intrusion Detection
16 15 (1.06%) HTTP
17 14 (0.99%) CHAP
18 13 (0.92%) Internet
18 13 (0.92%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (0.64%) Power BI
2 8 (0.56%) SQL Server
3 5 (0.35%) Tableau
4 4 (0.28%) MySQL
4 4 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.21%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.21%) Big Data
6 2 (0.14%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.14%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.071%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.071%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.071%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.071%) Metadata
7 1 (0.071%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.071%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.071%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.071%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.071%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 25 (1.76%) Snyk
2 10 (0.71%) JIRA
3 7 (0.49%) Git
3 7 (0.49%) GitLab
4 6 (0.42%) Burp Suite
4 6 (0.42%) Metasploit
5 5 (0.35%) Cucumber
5 5 (0.35%) JMeter
5 5 (0.35%) Locust
5 5 (0.35%) VersionOne
6 2 (0.14%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.071%) GDB
7 1 (0.071%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.071%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.071%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.071%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.071%) WinDbg
General
1 411 (29.00%) Social Skills
2 171 (12.07%) Finance
3 118 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 114 (8.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 113 (7.97%) Public Sector
6 110 (7.76%) Marketing
7 84 (5.93%) Retail
8 63 (4.45%) Law
8 63 (4.45%) Legal
9 61 (4.30%) Organisational Skills
10 51 (3.60%) Banking
10 51 (3.60%) Games
11 43 (3.03%) Back Office
12 42 (2.96%) Telecoms
13 26 (1.83%) Aviation
14 23 (1.62%) Advertising
15 21 (1.48%) Manufacturing
16 19 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
17 16 (1.13%) Financial Institution
18 15 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 253 (17.85%) Senior
2 179 (12.63%) Analyst
3 144 (10.16%) Architect
4 118 (8.33%) Consultant
5 114 (8.05%) Security Manager
6 111 (7.83%) Security Architect
7 100 (7.06%) Security Analyst
8 93 (6.56%) Support Engineer
9 92 (6.49%) Lead
10 85 (6.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 85 (6.00%) Security Consultant
11 71 (5.01%) IT Manager
12 69 (4.87%) IT Support
13 64 (4.52%) Senior Analyst
14 63 (4.45%) Cybersecurity Analyst
14 63 (4.45%) Security Engineer
15 53 (3.74%) Cybersecurity Architect
16 51 (3.60%) IT Engineer
17 50 (3.53%) Cybersecurity Consultant
17 50 (3.53%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (3.88%) OAuth
1 55 (3.88%) SAML
2 50 (3.53%) LDAP
3 45 (3.18%) OpenID
3 45 (3.18%) REST
4 37 (2.61%) SOAP
5 36 (2.54%) GraphQL
6 9 (0.64%) XMPP
7 8 (0.56%) LangChain
8 7 (0.49%) .NET
8 7 (0.49%) Kafka
8 7 (0.49%) Microsoft Graph
9 6 (0.42%) Regular Expression
9 6 (0.42%) RESTful
10 5 (0.35%) Gherkin
10 5 (0.35%) LangGraph
10 5 (0.35%) ModSecurity
10 5 (0.35%) React
10 5 (0.35%) SailPoint
11 4 (0.28%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 135 (9.53%) Cyber Threat
2 125 (8.82%) Security Posture
3 85 (6.00%) Management Information System
4 77 (5.43%) Cyberattack
5 63 (4.45%) Onboarding
6 52 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
7 45 (3.18%) Data Centre
8 41 (2.89%) Cyber Defence
9 39 (2.75%) Driving Licence
10 35 (2.47%) PKI
11 34 (2.40%) Cloud Native
12 31 (2.19%) Blog
13 26 (1.83%) Cyber Security Posture
13 26 (1.83%) Operational Technology
14 25 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
15 23 (1.62%) Security Operations Centre
16 22 (1.55%) Cyber Kill Chain
17 19 (1.34%) Web Conferencing
18 18 (1.27%) AI Agents
19 17 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 177 (12.49%) Windows
2 69 (4.87%) Windows Server
3 44 (3.11%) Linux
4 42 (2.96%) Windows 10
5 22 (1.55%) Mac OS
6 13 (0.92%) Android
7 12 (0.85%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.14%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.071%) AIX
11 1 (0.071%) FreeBSD
11 1 (0.071%) OpenBSD
11 1 (0.071%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (18.77%) Continuous Improvement
2 226 (15.95%) Information Security
3 217 (15.31%) Problem-Solving
4 198 (13.97%) Risk Management
5 195 (13.76%) Incident Response
6 184 (12.99%) Mentoring
7 166 (11.71%) Vulnerability Management
8 159 (11.22%) AI
9 150 (10.59%) Cloud Security
10 148 (10.44%) Decision-Making
11 133 (9.39%) Roadmaps
12 128 (9.03%) SIEM
13 126 (8.89%) Security Operations
14 125 (8.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 121 (8.54%) ITIL
16 116 (8.19%) Identity Access Management
17 112 (7.90%) Agile
18 103 (7.27%) Stakeholder Management
19 102 (7.20%) Disaster Recovery
20 99 (6.99%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 105 (7.41%) Python
2 103 (7.27%) PowerShell
3 44 (3.11%) Bash
4 37 (2.61%) SQL
5 36 (2.54%) T-SQL
6 25 (1.76%) Java
7 22 (1.55%) JavaScript
8 15 (1.06%) C++
9 12 (0.85%) C#
10 10 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
11 7 (0.49%) C
11 7 (0.49%) Go
11 7 (0.49%) Rust
12 5 (0.35%) PHP
12 5 (0.35%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.21%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.14%) Search Processing Language
15 1 (0.071%) Ada
15 1 (0.071%) Bicep
15 1 (0.071%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 217 (15.31%) Security Cleared
2 194 (13.69%) CISSP
3 175 (12.35%) SC Cleared
4 156 (11.01%) Degree
5 145 (10.23%) CISM
6 57 (4.02%) DV Cleared
7 44 (3.11%) CISA
8 38 (2.68%) CRISC
9 37 (2.61%) Cisco Certification
9 37 (2.61%) CTC Cleared
10 35 (2.47%) AWS Certification
10 35 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
11 29 (2.05%) CREST Certified
12 28 (1.98%) Azure Certification
12 28 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
13 24 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 22 (1.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 22 (1.55%) Network+ Certification
15 21 (1.48%) A+ Certification
15 21 (1.48%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 298 (21.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 235 (16.58%) NIST
3 167 (11.79%) GDPR
4 106 (7.48%) GRC
5 96 (6.77%) Cyber Essentials
6 85 (6.00%) NCSC
7 83 (5.86%) PCI DSS
8 57 (4.02%) SLA
9 45 (3.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 27 (1.91%) COBIT
11 25 (1.76%) QA
12 24 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
13 19 (1.34%) SOC 2
14 18 (1.27%) Accessibility
14 18 (1.27%) JSP 440
15 12 (0.85%) ISO 22301
16 10 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 10 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 9 (0.64%) NIST 800
18 7 (0.49%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 167 (11.79%) Active Directory
2 38 (2.68%) Hyper-V
3 30 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (1.06%) Docker
6 10 (0.71%) Virtual Servers
7 9 (0.64%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 7 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.42%) vSphere
10 5 (0.35%) ClearTrust
10 5 (0.35%) VMware NSX
11 4 (0.28%) Firmware
12 1 (0.071%) KVM
12 1 (0.071%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 91 (6.42%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (2.05%) Kubernetes
3 25 (1.76%) Terraform
4 20 (1.41%) Grafana
5 18 (1.27%) Ansible
6 15 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (0.78%) CASB
8 9 (0.64%) Cisco CUCM
8 9 (0.64%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.56%) QRadar
10 6 (0.42%) Prometheus
11 5 (0.35%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 5 (0.35%) FTK
11 5 (0.35%) Functional Safety
11 5 (0.35%) Nmap
11 5 (0.35%) SCCM
12 4 (0.28%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 4 (0.28%) CSIRT
13 3 (0.21%) Failover Clustering
13 3 (0.21%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 403 (28.44%) Microsoft
2 90 (6.35%) Cisco
3 69 (4.87%) Palo Alto
4 51 (3.60%) VMware
5 40 (2.82%) CrowdStrike
5 40 (2.82%) ServiceNow
6 34 (2.40%) Tenable
7 32 (2.26%) Google
8 31 (2.19%) Apple
9 29 (2.05%) Adobe
10 28 (1.98%) Fortinet
10 28 (1.98%) Splunk
11 21 (1.48%) Qualys
12 20 (1.41%) Salesforce
13 19 (1.34%) CyberArk
14 15 (1.06%) Aruba
15 14 (0.99%) SAP
16 11 (0.78%) Veeam
17 10 (0.71%) Oracle
18 9 (0.64%) Sophos