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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 32 43
Rank change year-on-year +3 +11 +4
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,440 1,216 1,793
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.83% 7.49% 5.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.28% 8.00% 6.13%
Number of salaries quoted 975 698 1,144
10th Percentile £36,250 £25,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,688 £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% -9.42%

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 17,396 15,199 29,273
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.50% 93.62% 88.90%
Number of salaries quoted 12,715 9,007 22,430
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 7 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 (3.61%) SharePoint
2 38 (2.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (0.49%) SAS
4 5 (0.35%) 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 (4.38%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
5 5 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.21%) Trello
7 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.069%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 24 (1.67%) 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 (0.069%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 363 (25.21%) Azure
2 210 (14.58%) Microsoft 365
3 180 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 175 (12.15%) AWS
5 87 (6.04%) SaaS
6 78 (5.42%) GCP
7 39 (2.71%) Google Workspace
8 32 (2.22%) Azure Sentinel
9 29 (2.01%) Serverless
10 24 (1.67%) Power Platform
11 16 (1.11%) OneDrive
12 15 (1.04%) Mimecast
13 14 (0.97%) Azure Logic Apps
14 11 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
15 10 (0.69%) Cloud Computing
15 10 (0.69%) dbt
15 10 (0.69%) PaaS
16 7 (0.49%) Nutanix
17 6 (0.42%) Datadog
17 6 (0.42%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 190 (13.19%) Firewall
2 110 (7.64%) Network Security
3 83 (5.76%) Broadband
4 56 (3.89%) DNS
5 53 (3.68%) VPN
6 51 (3.54%) VLAN
7 46 (3.19%) WAN
8 44 (3.06%) DHCP
9 33 (2.29%) LAN
10 31 (2.15%) TCP/IP
11 27 (1.88%) Wi-Fi
12 26 (1.81%) VoIP
13 23 (1.60%) Unified Communications
14 19 (1.32%) BGP
14 19 (1.32%) SSL
15 16 (1.11%) HTTP
15 16 (1.11%) Intrusion Detection
16 15 (1.04%) MPLS
16 15 (1.04%) SD-WAN
17 14 (0.97%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (0.63%) 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 (0.069%) 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 (1.74%) Snyk
2 14 (0.97%) JIRA
3 9 (0.63%) Git
4 7 (0.49%) GitLab
5 6 (0.42%) Burp Suite
5 6 (0.42%) Metasploit
6 5 (0.35%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.35%) JMeter
6 5 (0.35%) Locust
6 5 (0.35%) 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
1 433 (30.07%) Social Skills
2 173 (12.01%) Finance
3 124 (8.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 123 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
5 113 (7.85%) Public Sector
6 112 (7.78%) Marketing
7 87 (6.04%) Retail
8 71 (4.93%) Law
9 67 (4.65%) Legal
10 62 (4.31%) Organisational Skills
11 52 (3.61%) Banking
12 51 (3.54%) Games
13 43 (2.99%) Back Office
13 43 (2.99%) Telecoms
14 26 (1.81%) Aviation
15 24 (1.67%) Advertising
16 21 (1.46%) Manufacturing
17 19 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
18 16 (1.11%) Financial Institution
19 15 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 258 (17.92%) Senior
2 179 (12.43%) Analyst
3 151 (10.49%) Architect
4 116 (8.06%) Consultant
5 115 (7.99%) Security Manager
6 106 (7.36%) Security Architect
7 100 (6.94%) Security Analyst
8 97 (6.74%) Support Engineer
9 91 (6.32%) Lead
10 85 (5.90%) Cybersecurity Manager
11 84 (5.83%) Security Consultant
12 72 (5.00%) IT Manager
12 72 (5.00%) IT Support
13 64 (4.44%) Security Engineer
14 63 (4.38%) Senior Analyst
15 62 (4.31%) Cybersecurity Analyst
16 55 (3.82%) Senior Manager
17 54 (3.75%) IT Engineer
18 51 (3.54%) IT Support Engineer
19 48 (3.33%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (3.89%) OAuth
1 56 (3.89%) SAML
2 50 (3.47%) LDAP
3 45 (3.13%) OpenID
3 45 (3.13%) REST
4 37 (2.57%) SOAP
5 36 (2.50%) GraphQL
6 9 (0.63%) XMPP
7 8 (0.56%) Kafka
7 8 (0.56%) LangChain
8 7 (0.49%) .NET
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%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 139 (9.65%) Cyber Threat
2 128 (8.89%) Security Posture
3 90 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 77 (5.35%) Cyberattack
5 65 (4.51%) Onboarding
6 53 (3.68%) Self-Motivation
7 46 (3.19%) Data Centre
8 42 (2.92%) Cyber Defence
8 42 (2.92%) Driving Licence
9 36 (2.50%) Cloud Native
10 34 (2.36%) PKI
11 31 (2.15%) Blog
12 27 (1.88%) Cyber Security Posture
13 24 (1.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 24 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
13 24 (1.67%) Security Operations Centre
14 23 (1.60%) Operational Technology
15 19 (1.32%) Web Conferencing
16 18 (1.25%) AI Agents
17 17 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 184 (12.78%) Windows
2 71 (4.93%) Windows Server
3 51 (3.54%) Linux
4 42 (2.92%) Windows 10
5 23 (1.60%) Mac OS
6 13 (0.90%) Android
7 12 (0.83%) 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 (0.069%) AIX
11 1 (0.069%) FreeBSD
11 1 (0.069%) OpenBSD
11 1 (0.069%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (19.03%) Continuous Improvement
2 237 (16.46%) Information Security
3 223 (15.49%) Problem-Solving
4 204 (14.17%) Risk Management
5 202 (14.03%) Incident Response
6 192 (13.33%) Mentoring
7 175 (12.15%) AI
8 169 (11.74%) Vulnerability Management
9 151 (10.49%) Decision-Making
10 150 (10.42%) Cloud Security
11 140 (9.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 138 (9.58%) Roadmaps
13 132 (9.17%) SIEM
14 128 (8.89%) Security Operations
15 127 (8.82%) Agile
16 125 (8.68%) ITIL
17 121 (8.40%) Identity Access Management
18 108 (7.50%) Stakeholder Management
19 103 (7.15%) Disaster Recovery
20 99 (6.88%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 111 (7.71%) Python
2 104 (7.22%) PowerShell
3 44 (3.06%) Bash
4 38 (2.64%) SQL
5 36 (2.50%) T-SQL
6 26 (1.81%) Java
7 22 (1.53%) JavaScript
8 13 (0.90%) C++
9 12 (0.83%) C#
10 10 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
11 9 (0.63%) C
11 9 (0.63%) Rust
12 7 (0.49%) Go
13 5 (0.35%) PHP
13 5 (0.35%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.21%) Ada
14 3 (0.21%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.14%) Search Processing Language
16 1 (0.069%) Bicep
16 1 (0.069%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 232 (16.11%) Security Cleared
2 200 (13.89%) CISSP
3 190 (13.19%) SC Cleared
4 163 (11.32%) Degree
5 150 (10.42%) CISM
6 61 (4.24%) DV Cleared
7 45 (3.13%) CISA
8 38 (2.64%) Cisco Certification
9 37 (2.57%) CRISC
9 37 (2.57%) CTC Cleared
10 35 (2.43%) AWS Certification
10 35 (2.43%) Microsoft Certification
11 31 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
12 29 (2.01%) CREST Certified
13 27 (1.88%) Azure Certification
14 26 (1.81%) Network+ Certification
15 25 (1.74%) A+ Certification
16 24 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 22 (1.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 21 (1.46%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 305 (21.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 239 (16.60%) NIST
3 169 (11.74%) GDPR
4 109 (7.57%) GRC
5 97 (6.74%) Cyber Essentials
6 84 (5.83%) NCSC
7 82 (5.69%) PCI DSS
8 57 (3.96%) SLA
9 45 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 26 (1.81%) COBIT
11 25 (1.74%) QA
12 24 (1.67%) Actionable Recommendations
13 20 (1.39%) SOC 2
14 18 (1.25%) Accessibility
14 18 (1.25%) JSP 440
15 12 (0.83%) ISO 22301
16 11 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 11 (0.76%) NIST 800
17 10 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 7 (0.49%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 173 (12.01%) Active Directory
2 38 (2.64%) Hyper-V
3 30 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (1.04%) Docker
6 10 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
7 9 (0.63%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 7 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.42%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.42%) vSphere
10 5 (0.35%) ClearTrust
11 4 (0.28%) Firmware
12 1 (0.069%) KVM
12 1 (0.069%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 97 (6.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 30 (2.08%) Kubernetes
3 25 (1.74%) Terraform
4 20 (1.39%) Grafana
5 19 (1.32%) Ansible
6 15 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (0.83%) CASB
8 10 (0.69%) FortiGate
9 9 (0.63%) Cisco CUCM
10 8 (0.56%) QRadar
11 6 (0.42%) Prometheus
12 5 (0.35%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 5 (0.35%) FTK
12 5 (0.35%) Nmap
12 5 (0.35%) SCCM
13 4 (0.28%) Computer Incident Response Team
13 4 (0.28%) CSIRT
14 3 (0.21%) Failover Clustering
14 3 (0.21%) Functional Safety
14 3 (0.21%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 418 (29.03%) Microsoft
2 92 (6.39%) Cisco
3 71 (4.93%) Palo Alto
4 52 (3.61%) VMware
5 41 (2.85%) ServiceNow
6 40 (2.78%) CrowdStrike
7 34 (2.36%) Tenable
8 32 (2.22%) Google
9 31 (2.15%) Apple
10 29 (2.01%) Adobe
10 29 (2.01%) Fortinet
10 29 (2.01%) Splunk
11 23 (1.60%) CyberArk
12 22 (1.53%) Qualys
13 21 (1.46%) Salesforce
14 15 (1.04%) Aruba
15 14 (0.97%) SAP
16 11 (0.76%) Veeam
17 10 (0.69%) Oracle
18 9 (0.63%) Sophos