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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 30 43
Rank change year-on-year +1 +13 +4
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,458 1,228 1,785
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.90% 7.55% 5.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.34% 8.07% 6.12%
Number of salaries quoted 985 706 1,140
10th Percentile £36,250 £25,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £57,912
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -5.03% -10.90%
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 17,480 15,224 29,144
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.73% 93.65% 89.10%
Number of salaries quoted 12,756 9,023 22,315
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 £78,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%

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 8 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 52 (3.57%) SharePoint
2 39 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.48%) SAS
4 5 (0.34%) WordPress
5 3 (0.21%) CMS
5 3 (0.21%) IIS
6 2 (0.14%) Apache
6 2 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.069%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.069%) Confluence
7 1 (0.069%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 63 (4.32%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
5 5 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.21%) Trello
7 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.069%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 24 (1.65%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.34%) 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 (0.069%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 376 (25.79%) Azure
2 212 (14.54%) Microsoft 365
3 189 (12.96%) Entra ID
4 177 (12.14%) AWS
5 87 (5.97%) SaaS
6 78 (5.35%) GCP
7 39 (2.67%) Google Workspace
8 33 (2.26%) Azure Sentinel
9 29 (1.99%) Serverless
10 24 (1.65%) Power Platform
11 16 (1.10%) OneDrive
12 15 (1.03%) Mimecast
13 14 (0.96%) Azure Logic Apps
14 11 (0.75%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (0.75%) dbt
15 10 (0.69%) Cloud Computing
15 10 (0.69%) PaaS
16 7 (0.48%) Nutanix
17 6 (0.41%) Datadog
17 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 192 (13.17%) Firewall
2 111 (7.61%) Network Security
3 83 (5.69%) Broadband
4 56 (3.84%) DNS
5 54 (3.70%) VPN
6 51 (3.50%) VLAN
7 46 (3.16%) WAN
8 44 (3.02%) DHCP
9 33 (2.26%) LAN
10 31 (2.13%) TCP/IP
11 29 (1.99%) Wi-Fi
12 26 (1.78%) VoIP
13 23 (1.58%) Unified Communications
14 19 (1.30%) BGP
14 19 (1.30%) SSL
15 16 (1.10%) HTTP
15 16 (1.10%) Intrusion Detection
16 15 (1.03%) MPLS
16 15 (1.03%) SD-WAN
17 14 (0.96%) CHAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (0.62%) Power BI
2 8 (0.55%) SQL Server
3 5 (0.34%) Tableau
4 4 (0.27%) MySQL
4 4 (0.27%) 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 (0.069%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.069%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.069%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.069%) Metadata
7 1 (0.069%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.069%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.069%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.069%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.069%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 25 (1.71%) Snyk
2 14 (0.96%) JIRA
3 9 (0.62%) Git
4 7 (0.48%) GitLab
5 6 (0.41%) Burp Suite
5 6 (0.41%) Metasploit
6 5 (0.34%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.34%) JMeter
6 5 (0.34%) Locust
6 5 (0.34%) VersionOne
7 2 (0.14%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.069%) GDB
8 1 (0.069%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.069%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.069%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.069%) WinDbg
General
1 447 (30.66%) Social Skills
2 173 (11.87%) Finance
3 127 (8.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 124 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
5 114 (7.82%) Public Sector
6 112 (7.68%) Marketing
7 87 (5.97%) Retail
8 79 (5.42%) Law
9 75 (5.14%) Legal
10 62 (4.25%) Organisational Skills
11 52 (3.57%) Banking
12 51 (3.50%) Games
13 43 (2.95%) Back Office
13 43 (2.95%) Telecoms
14 26 (1.78%) Aviation
15 25 (1.71%) Advertising
16 21 (1.44%) Manufacturing
17 19 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
18 16 (1.10%) Financial Institution
19 15 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 267 (18.31%) Senior
2 180 (12.35%) Analyst
3 154 (10.56%) Architect
4 117 (8.02%) Consultant
5 116 (7.96%) Security Manager
6 105 (7.20%) Security Architect
7 99 (6.79%) Security Analyst
7 99 (6.79%) Support Engineer
8 91 (6.24%) Lead
9 87 (5.97%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 84 (5.76%) Security Consultant
11 74 (5.08%) IT Manager
12 73 (5.01%) IT Support
13 64 (4.39%) Senior Analyst
13 64 (4.39%) Senior Manager
14 63 (4.32%) Security Engineer
15 62 (4.25%) Cybersecurity Analyst
16 55 (3.77%) IT Engineer
17 52 (3.57%) IT Support Engineer
18 48 (3.29%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (3.84%) OAuth
1 56 (3.84%) SAML
2 50 (3.43%) LDAP
3 45 (3.09%) OpenID
3 45 (3.09%) REST
4 37 (2.54%) SOAP
5 36 (2.47%) GraphQL
6 9 (0.62%) XMPP
7 8 (0.55%) Kafka
7 8 (0.55%) LangChain
8 7 (0.48%) .NET
8 7 (0.48%) Microsoft Graph
9 6 (0.41%) Regular Expression
9 6 (0.41%) RESTful
10 5 (0.34%) Gherkin
10 5 (0.34%) LangGraph
10 5 (0.34%) ModSecurity
10 5 (0.34%) React
10 5 (0.34%) SailPoint
11 4 (0.27%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 139 (9.53%) Cyber Threat
2 128 (8.78%) Security Posture
3 90 (6.17%) Management Information System
4 77 (5.28%) Cyberattack
5 66 (4.53%) Onboarding
6 53 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
7 46 (3.16%) Data Centre
8 45 (3.09%) Driving Licence
9 42 (2.88%) Cyber Defence
10 37 (2.54%) Cloud Native
11 34 (2.33%) PKI
12 31 (2.13%) Blog
13 27 (1.85%) Cyber Security Posture
14 24 (1.65%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 24 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
14 24 (1.65%) Security Operations Centre
15 22 (1.51%) Operational Technology
16 19 (1.30%) Web Conferencing
17 18 (1.23%) AI Agents
18 17 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 186 (12.76%) Windows
2 71 (4.87%) Windows Server
3 51 (3.50%) Linux
4 42 (2.88%) Windows 10
5 23 (1.58%) Mac OS
6 13 (0.89%) Android
7 12 (0.82%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.14%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.069%) AIX
11 1 (0.069%) FreeBSD
11 1 (0.069%) OpenBSD
11 1 (0.069%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 284 (19.48%) Continuous Improvement
2 246 (16.87%) Information Security
3 224 (15.36%) Problem-Solving
4 205 (14.06%) Risk Management
5 203 (13.92%) Incident Response
6 201 (13.79%) Mentoring
7 184 (12.62%) AI
8 171 (11.73%) Vulnerability Management
9 152 (10.43%) Decision-Making
10 151 (10.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 150 (10.29%) Cloud Security
12 139 (9.53%) Roadmaps
13 133 (9.12%) ITIL
14 132 (9.05%) SIEM
15 131 (8.98%) Agile
16 130 (8.92%) Identity Access Management
17 129 (8.85%) Security Operations
18 109 (7.48%) Stakeholder Management
19 103 (7.06%) Disaster Recovery
20 99 (6.79%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 111 (7.61%) Python
2 104 (7.13%) PowerShell
3 44 (3.02%) Bash
4 38 (2.61%) SQL
5 36 (2.47%) T-SQL
6 26 (1.78%) Java
7 22 (1.51%) JavaScript
8 12 (0.82%) C#
8 12 (0.82%) C++
9 10 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
10 9 (0.62%) C
10 9 (0.62%) Rust
11 7 (0.48%) Go
12 5 (0.34%) PHP
12 5 (0.34%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.21%) Ada
13 3 (0.21%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.14%) Search Processing Language
15 1 (0.069%) Bicep
15 1 (0.069%) Perl
Qualifications
1 237 (16.26%) Security Cleared
2 208 (14.27%) CISSP
3 194 (13.31%) SC Cleared
4 165 (11.32%) Degree
5 158 (10.84%) CISM
6 62 (4.25%) DV Cleared
7 45 (3.09%) CISA
8 38 (2.61%) Cisco Certification
9 37 (2.54%) CRISC
9 37 (2.54%) CTC Cleared
10 35 (2.40%) AWS Certification
10 35 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
11 34 (2.33%) Network+ Certification
12 33 (2.26%) A+ Certification
13 31 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
14 29 (1.99%) CREST Certified
15 28 (1.92%) Azure Certification
16 24 (1.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 22 (1.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 21 (1.44%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 307 (21.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 240 (16.46%) NIST
3 169 (11.59%) GDPR
4 109 (7.48%) GRC
5 98 (6.72%) Cyber Essentials
6 84 (5.76%) NCSC
7 82 (5.62%) PCI DSS
8 57 (3.91%) SLA
9 45 (3.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 26 (1.78%) COBIT
11 25 (1.71%) QA
12 24 (1.65%) Actionable Recommendations
13 20 (1.37%) SOC 2
14 18 (1.23%) Accessibility
14 18 (1.23%) JSP 440
15 12 (0.82%) ISO 22301
16 11 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 11 (0.75%) NIST 800
17 10 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 7 (0.48%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 182 (12.48%) Active Directory
2 38 (2.61%) Hyper-V
3 30 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (1.03%) Docker
6 10 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
7 9 (0.62%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 7 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.41%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.41%) vSphere
10 5 (0.34%) ClearTrust
11 4 (0.27%) Firmware
12 1 (0.069%) KVM
12 1 (0.069%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 106 (7.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 30 (2.06%) Kubernetes
3 25 (1.71%) Terraform
4 20 (1.37%) Grafana
5 19 (1.30%) Ansible
6 15 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (0.82%) CASB
8 10 (0.69%) FortiGate
9 9 (0.62%) Cisco CUCM
10 8 (0.55%) QRadar
11 6 (0.41%) Prometheus
12 5 (0.34%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 5 (0.34%) FTK
12 5 (0.34%) Nmap
12 5 (0.34%) SCCM
13 4 (0.27%) Computer Incident Response Team
13 4 (0.27%) CSIRT
14 3 (0.21%) Failover Clustering
14 3 (0.21%) Functional Safety
14 3 (0.21%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 431 (29.56%) Microsoft
2 93 (6.38%) Cisco
3 72 (4.94%) Palo Alto
4 52 (3.57%) VMware
5 41 (2.81%) ServiceNow
6 40 (2.74%) CrowdStrike
7 34 (2.33%) Tenable
8 32 (2.19%) Google
9 31 (2.13%) CyberArk
10 30 (2.06%) Apple
11 29 (1.99%) Adobe
11 29 (1.99%) Fortinet
11 29 (1.99%) Splunk
12 23 (1.58%) Qualys
13 21 (1.44%) Salesforce
14 16 (1.10%) Aruba
15 14 (0.96%) SAP
16 11 (0.75%) Veeam
17 10 (0.69%) OpenAI
17 10 (0.69%) Oracle