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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 26 36
Rank change year-on-year -2 +10 +11
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,519 1,251 1,620
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.00% 7.60% 5.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.45% 8.15% 6.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,041 722 976
10th Percentile £36,250 £25,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £45,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% -8.75%
75th Percentile £81,250 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.98% -9.30%

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 17,978 15,345 25,010
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.84% 93.19% 88.41%
Number of salaries quoted 13,054 9,077 18,589
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £34,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £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 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 24 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 59 (3.88%) SharePoint
2 45 (2.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.59%) SAS
4 6 (0.39%) IIS
5 5 (0.33%) WordPress
6 2 (0.13%) Apache
6 2 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.13%) CMS
7 1 (0.066%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.066%) Confluence
7 1 (0.066%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 33 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
5 5 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.20%) Trello
7 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (1.58%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.33%) SAP Business One
3 3 (0.20%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.13%) Shopify
5 1 (0.066%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.066%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 400 (26.33%) Azure
2 195 (12.84%) Microsoft 365
3 194 (12.77%) AWS
4 177 (11.65%) Entra ID
5 92 (6.06%) SaaS
6 78 (5.13%) GCP
7 33 (2.17%) Azure Sentinel
8 29 (1.91%) Serverless
9 22 (1.45%) Google Workspace
9 22 (1.45%) Power Platform
10 17 (1.12%) OneDrive
11 16 (1.05%) dbt
12 15 (0.99%) Mimecast
13 12 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
14 11 (0.72%) Azure Logic Apps
14 11 (0.72%) PaaS
15 7 (0.46%) Azure DevOps
16 6 (0.39%) Datadog
16 6 (0.39%) GitHub
16 6 (0.39%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 208 (13.69%) Firewall
2 125 (8.23%) Network Security
3 66 (4.34%) Broadband
4 63 (4.15%) VLAN
5 59 (3.88%) DNS
6 58 (3.82%) VPN
7 48 (3.16%) WAN
8 46 (3.03%) DHCP
9 37 (2.44%) TCP/IP
10 35 (2.30%) LAN
11 34 (2.24%) Wi-Fi
12 28 (1.84%) VoIP
13 23 (1.51%) Unified Communications
14 19 (1.25%) SSL
15 18 (1.18%) BGP
16 16 (1.05%) Cisco Nexus
16 16 (1.05%) HTTP
16 16 (1.05%) Intrusion Detection
16 16 (1.05%) SD-WAN
17 15 (0.99%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (0.66%) Power BI
2 8 (0.53%) SQL Server
3 6 (0.39%) Tableau
4 5 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.26%) MySQL
6 3 (0.20%) Big Data
7 2 (0.13%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.13%) Metadata
7 2 (0.13%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.13%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.066%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.066%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.066%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.066%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.066%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.066%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.066%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.066%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.066%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 26 (1.71%) Snyk
2 17 (1.12%) JIRA
3 9 (0.59%) Git
4 8 (0.53%) GitLab
5 6 (0.39%) Burp Suite
5 6 (0.39%) Metasploit
6 5 (0.33%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.33%) JMeter
6 5 (0.33%) Locust
6 5 (0.33%) VersionOne
7 2 (0.13%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.13%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.066%) GDB
8 1 (0.066%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.066%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.066%) WinDbg
General
1 482 (31.73%) Social Skills
2 162 (10.66%) Finance
3 142 (9.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 124 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
5 116 (7.64%) Public Sector
6 108 (7.11%) Marketing
7 104 (6.85%) Legal
8 84 (5.53%) Retail
9 78 (5.13%) Law
10 48 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
11 44 (2.90%) Telecoms
12 43 (2.83%) Banking
13 42 (2.76%) Games
14 28 (1.84%) Advertising
15 25 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
16 22 (1.45%) Aviation
16 22 (1.45%) Manufacturing
17 19 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
18 15 (0.99%) Aerospace
19 12 (0.79%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 318 (20.93%) Senior
2 189 (12.44%) Analyst
3 160 (10.53%) Architect
4 142 (9.35%) Consultant
5 115 (7.57%) Security Manager
6 99 (6.52%) Security Analyst
7 98 (6.45%) Security Architect
8 97 (6.39%) Security Consultant
9 94 (6.19%) Senior Manager
10 90 (5.92%) Lead
11 86 (5.66%) Cybersecurity Manager
12 84 (5.53%) Security Engineer
13 82 (5.40%) IT Manager
14 75 (4.94%) IT Support
15 73 (4.81%) Support Engineer
16 72 (4.74%) Senior Analyst
17 63 (4.15%) Cybersecurity Analyst
18 57 (3.75%) IT Engineer
19 53 (3.49%) IT Support Engineer
20 51 (3.36%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (2.63%) OAuth
2 39 (2.57%) SAML
3 32 (2.11%) LDAP
4 29 (1.91%) OpenID
4 29 (1.91%) REST
5 21 (1.38%) SOAP
6 20 (1.32%) GraphQL
7 9 (0.59%) XMPP
8 8 (0.53%) .NET
8 8 (0.53%) Kafka
8 8 (0.53%) LangChain
9 7 (0.46%) Microsoft Graph
9 7 (0.46%) SailPoint
10 6 (0.39%) Regular Expression
10 6 (0.39%) RESTful
11 5 (0.33%) Gherkin
11 5 (0.33%) LangGraph
11 5 (0.33%) ModSecurity
11 5 (0.33%) React
12 4 (0.26%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 137 (9.02%) Cyber Threat
2 115 (7.57%) Security Posture
3 90 (5.92%) Management Information System
4 75 (4.94%) Onboarding
5 59 (3.88%) Cyberattack
6 57 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
7 54 (3.55%) Driving Licence
8 42 (2.76%) Data Centre
9 41 (2.70%) Cyber Defence
10 38 (2.50%) Cloud Native
11 32 (2.11%) PKI
12 29 (1.91%) Blog
13 25 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
13 25 (1.65%) Security Operations Centre
14 22 (1.45%) Web Conferencing
15 21 (1.38%) Cyber Kill Chain
16 20 (1.32%) Operational Technology
17 18 (1.18%) AI Agents
18 17 (1.12%) Cyber Security Posture
18 17 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 161 (10.60%) Windows
2 67 (4.41%) Windows Server
3 53 (3.49%) Linux
4 24 (1.58%) Mac OS
5 11 (0.72%) Android
6 10 (0.66%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.59%) Windows 10
8 8 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.13%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.066%) AIX
11 1 (0.066%) FreeBSD
11 1 (0.066%) OpenBSD
11 1 (0.066%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (19.22%) Continuous Improvement
2 278 (18.30%) Information Security
3 241 (15.87%) AI
4 233 (15.34%) Problem-Solving
5 218 (14.35%) Mentoring
6 207 (13.63%) Risk Management
7 205 (13.50%) Incident Response
8 188 (12.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 181 (11.92%) Decision-Making
10 171 (11.26%) Vulnerability Management
11 159 (10.47%) Cloud Security
12 147 (9.68%) Identity Access Management
13 142 (9.35%) Agile
14 140 (9.22%) ITIL
15 139 (9.15%) SIEM
16 137 (9.02%) Security Operations
17 135 (8.89%) Roadmaps
18 112 (7.37%) Stakeholder Management
19 108 (7.11%) Disaster Recovery
20 106 (6.98%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 113 (7.44%) Python
2 84 (5.53%) PowerShell
3 33 (2.17%) SQL
4 30 (1.97%) Bash
5 24 (1.58%) Java
6 18 (1.18%) T-SQL
7 17 (1.12%) JavaScript
8 16 (1.05%) C++
9 12 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
9 12 (0.79%) Rust
10 8 (0.53%) C#
11 7 (0.46%) C
11 7 (0.46%) Go
11 7 (0.46%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.33%) PHP
13 3 (0.20%) Ada
13 3 (0.20%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.13%) Search Processing Language
15 1 (0.066%) Bicep
15 1 (0.066%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 230 (15.14%) Security Cleared
2 224 (14.75%) CISSP
3 185 (12.18%) SC Cleared
4 181 (11.92%) CISM
5 145 (9.55%) Degree
6 60 (3.95%) A+ Certification
7 59 (3.88%) DV Cleared
7 59 (3.88%) Network+ Certification
8 41 (2.70%) CISA
9 39 (2.57%) AWS Certification
10 37 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
10 37 (2.44%) CRISC
11 34 (2.24%) Microsoft Certification
12 33 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
13 30 (1.97%) CompTIA Security+
14 29 (1.91%) Azure Certification
15 28 (1.84%) CREST Certified
16 26 (1.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 26 (1.71%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
17 23 (1.51%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 303 (19.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 227 (14.94%) NIST
3 164 (10.80%) GDPR
4 120 (7.90%) GRC
5 109 (7.18%) Cyber Essentials
6 82 (5.40%) PCI DSS
7 72 (4.74%) NCSC
8 49 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 27 (1.78%) QA
9 27 (1.78%) SLA
10 25 (1.65%) SOC 2
11 23 (1.51%) Actionable Recommendations
11 23 (1.51%) COBIT
12 22 (1.45%) Accessibility
13 16 (1.05%) JSP 440
14 14 (0.92%) ISO 22301
15 12 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 12 (0.79%) NIST 800
16 11 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 9 (0.59%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 195 (12.84%) Active Directory
2 37 (2.44%) Hyper-V
3 27 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (1.05%) Docker
6 10 (0.66%) Virtual Servers
7 9 (0.59%) Firmware
7 9 (0.59%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 7 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.39%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.39%) vSphere
10 5 (0.33%) ClearTrust
11 1 (0.066%) KVM
11 1 (0.066%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 131 (8.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (1.91%) Kubernetes
3 25 (1.65%) Terraform
4 20 (1.32%) Grafana
5 19 (1.25%) Ansible
6 15 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (0.92%) CASB
8 11 (0.72%) FortiGate
9 9 (0.59%) Cisco CUCM
10 7 (0.46%) QRadar
11 6 (0.39%) Prometheus
12 5 (0.33%) Nmap
13 4 (0.26%) FTK
14 3 (0.20%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 3 (0.20%) Computer Incident Response Team
14 3 (0.20%) CSIRT
14 3 (0.20%) Failover Clustering
14 3 (0.20%) SCCM
15 2 (0.13%) Graylog
15 2 (0.13%) Nessus
Vendors
1 454 (29.89%) Microsoft
2 76 (5.00%) Palo Alto
3 67 (4.41%) Cisco
4 61 (4.02%) CyberArk
5 48 (3.16%) VMware
6 42 (2.76%) ServiceNow
7 38 (2.50%) CrowdStrike
8 34 (2.24%) Tenable
9 31 (2.04%) Fortinet
10 30 (1.97%) Google
11 29 (1.91%) Adobe
11 29 (1.91%) Apple
11 29 (1.91%) Splunk
12 25 (1.65%) Qualys
13 20 (1.32%) Salesforce
14 18 (1.18%) Aruba
15 15 (0.99%) OpenAI
16 14 (0.92%) SAP
17 10 (0.66%) Okta
18 9 (0.59%) Veeam