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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 28 35
Rank change year-on-year 0 +7 +8
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,661 1,221 1,443
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.11% 7.45% 5.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.68% 8.01% 6.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,121 691 761
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,000 £38,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,250 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -6.98%

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 19,145 15,240 21,286
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.96% 92.98% 87.58%
Number of salaries quoted 13,809 8,865 14,207
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,750 £44,541
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -1.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £79,225
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,075
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.92% -6.54%

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 September 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 70 (4.21%) SharePoint
2 57 (3.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.54%) SAS
4 8 (0.48%) IIS
5 5 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.30%) WordPress
6 3 (0.18%) Apache
7 1 (0.060%) CMS
7 1 (0.060%) Confluence
Applications
1 43 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.18%) Trello
7 2 (0.12%) Simulink
7 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (1.44%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.30%) SAP Business One
3 3 (0.18%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.060%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.060%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.060%) Shopify
5 1 (0.060%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 386 (23.24%) Azure
2 213 (12.82%) Microsoft 365
3 199 (11.98%) AWS
4 185 (11.14%) Entra ID
5 101 (6.08%) SaaS
6 71 (4.27%) GCP
7 36 (2.17%) Azure Sentinel
8 33 (1.99%) Serverless
9 27 (1.63%) Power Platform
10 20 (1.20%) OneDrive
11 16 (0.96%) Microsoft Purview
12 14 (0.84%) Mimecast
13 13 (0.78%) Azure Logic Apps
13 13 (0.78%) dbt
13 13 (0.78%) Microsoft Copilot
14 12 (0.72%) Cloud Computing
15 11 (0.66%) GitHub
16 8 (0.48%) GitHub Actions
16 8 (0.48%) PaaS
17 6 (0.36%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 236 (14.21%) Firewall
2 166 (9.99%) Network Security
3 89 (5.36%) VLAN
4 69 (4.15%) DNS
5 60 (3.61%) WAN
6 57 (3.43%) VPN
7 55 (3.31%) DHCP
8 46 (2.77%) LAN
9 45 (2.71%) TCP/IP
10 39 (2.35%) Broadband
11 36 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
12 29 (1.75%) VoIP
13 24 (1.44%) BGP
14 19 (1.14%) Unified Communications
15 18 (1.08%) Cisco Nexus
15 18 (1.08%) HTTP
15 18 (1.08%) MPLS
15 18 (1.08%) SSL
16 16 (0.96%) SD-WAN
17 14 (0.84%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (0.78%) SQL Server
2 11 (0.66%) Power BI
3 6 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (0.36%) Tableau
4 4 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (0.24%) Big Data
4 4 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.18%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (0.18%) Apache Iceberg
5 3 (0.18%) Metadata
5 3 (0.18%) MySQL
5 3 (0.18%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.060%) Chroma
6 1 (0.060%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.060%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.060%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.060%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.060%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (0.060%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.060%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 27 (1.63%) Snyk
2 22 (1.32%) JIRA
3 7 (0.42%) Git
4 6 (0.36%) Burp Suite
4 6 (0.36%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.36%) Metasploit
5 5 (0.30%) GitLab
5 5 (0.30%) VersionOne
6 3 (0.18%) Poetry
7 2 (0.12%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.12%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.12%) JMeter
7 2 (0.12%) Locust
7 2 (0.12%) Maven
7 2 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.060%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.060%) GDB
8 1 (0.060%) WinDbg
General
1 566 (34.08%) Social Skills
2 172 (10.36%) Finance
3 165 (9.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 143 (8.61%) Analytical Skills
5 141 (8.49%) Public Sector
6 116 (6.98%) Marketing
7 110 (6.62%) Legal
8 89 (5.36%) Retail
9 70 (4.21%) Law
10 56 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
11 51 (3.07%) Telecoms
12 46 (2.77%) Banking
13 42 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
14 32 (1.93%) Aerospace
15 27 (1.63%) Games
16 25 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
17 24 (1.44%) Advertising
17 24 (1.44%) Manufacturing
18 22 (1.32%) Aviation
18 22 (1.32%) Police
Job Titles
1 341 (20.53%) Senior
2 197 (11.86%) Analyst
3 177 (10.66%) Consultant
4 161 (9.69%) Architect
5 118 (7.10%) Security Engineer
6 115 (6.92%) Security Manager
7 112 (6.74%) Security Consultant
8 103 (6.20%) Security Analyst
8 103 (6.20%) Security Architect
9 94 (5.66%) Lead
10 92 (5.54%) Cybersecurity Manager
11 84 (5.06%) IT Manager
12 78 (4.70%) Senior Manager
13 76 (4.58%) Support Engineer
14 74 (4.46%) Senior Analyst
15 68 (4.09%) IT Support
16 64 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Analyst
17 58 (3.49%) Senior Security Engineer
18 56 (3.37%) IT Engineer
19 55 (3.31%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.51%) OAuth
2 24 (1.44%) Terraform
3 22 (1.32%) SAML
4 16 (0.96%) LDAP
5 14 (0.84%) OpenID
6 13 (0.78%) REST
7 12 (0.72%) .NET
8 8 (0.48%) LangChain
8 8 (0.48%) XMPP
9 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Graph
9 7 (0.42%) ModSecurity
10 6 (0.36%) Kafka
10 6 (0.36%) React
10 6 (0.36%) Regular Expression
10 6 (0.36%) RESTful
10 6 (0.36%) SailPoint
11 5 (0.30%) JSON
11 5 (0.30%) LangGraph
11 5 (0.30%) Node.js
11 5 (0.30%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 130 (7.83%) Cyber Threat
2 125 (7.53%) Security Posture
3 95 (5.72%) Management Information System
4 79 (4.76%) Onboarding
5 55 (3.31%) Data Centre
5 55 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
6 54 (3.25%) Driving Licence
7 45 (2.71%) Cloud Native
7 45 (2.71%) Cyber Defence
8 38 (2.29%) Operational Technology
9 34 (2.05%) PKI
10 32 (1.93%) Cyberattack
10 32 (1.93%) Security Operations Centre
11 27 (1.63%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 24 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
13 22 (1.32%) Social Media
14 21 (1.26%) AI Agents
14 21 (1.26%) Blog
15 20 (1.20%) Web Conferencing
16 19 (1.14%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 168 (10.11%) Windows
2 74 (4.46%) Windows Server
3 55 (3.31%) Linux
4 21 (1.26%) Mac OS
5 8 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (0.30%) Android
7 4 (0.24%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.24%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.12%) Unix
9 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.060%) AIX
10 1 (0.060%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.060%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (19.39%) Continuous Improvement
2 310 (18.66%) AI
3 301 (18.12%) Information Security
4 247 (14.87%) Problem-Solving
5 223 (13.43%) Risk Management
6 219 (13.18%) Decision-Making
7 210 (12.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 208 (12.52%) Mentoring
9 200 (12.04%) Incident Response
10 180 (10.84%) Cloud Security
10 180 (10.84%) Vulnerability Management
11 160 (9.63%) Security Operations
12 155 (9.33%) SIEM
13 152 (9.15%) ITIL
13 152 (9.15%) Stakeholder Management
14 150 (9.03%) Agile
15 148 (8.91%) Business Continuity
16 143 (8.61%) Service Delivery
17 142 (8.55%) Identity Access Management
18 124 (7.47%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 114 (6.86%) Python
2 71 (4.27%) PowerShell
3 33 (1.99%) SQL
4 18 (1.08%) Java
5 17 (1.02%) C++
5 17 (1.02%) Kusto Query Language
6 15 (0.90%) JavaScript
7 12 (0.72%) Bash
8 9 (0.54%) C#
8 9 (0.54%) TypeScript
9 8 (0.48%) Go
9 8 (0.48%) Rust
10 6 (0.36%) C
11 4 (0.24%) VB.NET
12 3 (0.18%) Ada
13 2 (0.12%) Embedded C
13 2 (0.12%) Embedded C++
13 2 (0.12%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.12%) Search Processing Language
13 2 (0.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 283 (17.04%) Security Cleared
2 231 (13.91%) CISSP
3 210 (12.64%) SC Cleared
4 188 (11.32%) CISM
5 154 (9.27%) Degree
6 91 (5.48%) DV Cleared
7 58 (3.49%) A+ Certification
8 57 (3.43%) Network+ Certification
9 48 (2.89%) AWS Certification
10 43 (2.59%) CRISC
11 40 (2.41%) CISA
12 39 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
13 38 (2.29%) Azure Certification
13 38 (2.29%) CompTIA Security+
13 38 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
14 35 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
15 30 (1.81%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 28 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
17 27 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 25 (1.51%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 310 (18.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 221 (13.31%) NIST
3 154 (9.27%) GDPR
4 142 (8.55%) GRC
5 128 (7.71%) Cyber Essentials
6 81 (4.88%) PCI DSS
7 60 (3.61%) NCSC
8 48 (2.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 30 (1.81%) SLA
10 25 (1.51%) QA
11 24 (1.44%) Accessibility
11 24 (1.44%) SOC 2
12 23 (1.38%) COBIT
13 20 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
14 18 (1.08%) JSP 440
15 17 (1.02%) NIST 800
16 16 (0.96%) ISO 22301
17 14 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 13 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 42001
19 9 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 185 (11.14%) Active Directory
2 47 (2.83%) Hyper-V
3 29 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (1.14%) Firmware
6 13 (0.78%) Docker
7 9 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
8 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 7 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.36%) VMware NSX
11 5 (0.30%) ClearTrust
11 5 (0.30%) vSphere
12 1 (0.060%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.060%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 134 (8.07%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (1.51%) Kubernetes
2 25 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
3 17 (1.02%) Ansible
4 15 (0.90%) CASB
5 13 (0.78%) FortiGate
6 11 (0.66%) Grafana
7 8 (0.48%) Cisco CUCM
8 7 (0.42%) QRadar
9 6 (0.36%) Nmap
10 5 (0.30%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.24%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 3 (0.18%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 3 (0.18%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 3 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
12 3 (0.18%) SCCM
13 2 (0.12%) Functional Safety
13 2 (0.12%) Graylog
14 1 (0.060%) Oracle Flashback
14 1 (0.060%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 499 (30.04%) Microsoft
2 83 (5.00%) Palo Alto
3 78 (4.70%) Cisco
4 65 (3.91%) CyberArk
5 45 (2.71%) VMware
6 40 (2.41%) CrowdStrike
7 38 (2.29%) Apple
7 38 (2.29%) ServiceNow
8 37 (2.23%) Adobe
9 33 (1.99%) Tenable
10 30 (1.81%) Fortinet
11 29 (1.75%) Splunk
12 28 (1.69%) Google
13 27 (1.63%) Salesforce
14 26 (1.57%) Qualys
15 18 (1.08%) Aruba
16 15 (0.90%) OpenAI
16 15 (0.90%) Veeam
17 12 (0.72%) SAP
18 8 (0.48%) Juniper