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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 29 35
Rank change year-on-year +1 +6 +9
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,662 1,226 1,442
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.12% 7.46% 5.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.69% 8.02% 6.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,123 696 760
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,000 £38,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,375 £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 £73,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.19% -5.83% -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 19,126 15,292 21,289
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.98% 93.01% 87.62%
Number of salaries quoted 13,800 8,904 14,205
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,750 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,400 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -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 £56,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -6.67%

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 1 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 69 (4.15%) SharePoint
2 56 (3.37%) 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
1 384 (23.10%) Azure
2 210 (12.64%) Microsoft 365
3 197 (11.85%) AWS
4 181 (10.89%) Entra ID
5 102 (6.14%) SaaS
6 70 (4.21%) GCP
7 36 (2.17%) Azure Sentinel
8 33 (1.99%) Serverless
9 26 (1.56%) Power Platform
10 20 (1.20%) OneDrive
11 15 (0.90%) Microsoft Purview
12 14 (0.84%) Mimecast
13 13 (0.78%) Azure Logic Apps
13 13 (0.78%) dbt
14 12 (0.72%) Cloud Computing
14 12 (0.72%) Microsoft Copilot
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 (14.20%) Firewall
2 164 (9.87%) Network Security
3 89 (5.35%) VLAN
4 69 (4.15%) DNS
5 59 (3.55%) WAN
6 56 (3.37%) 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 (1.74%) 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 12 (0.72%) SQL Server
2 11 (0.66%) Power BI
3 6 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (0.36%) Tableau
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%) Azure SQL Database
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 (1.62%) 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%) GDB
8 1 (0.060%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.060%) WinDbg
General
1 564 (33.94%) Social Skills
2 172 (10.35%) Finance
3 165 (9.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 143 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
5 138 (8.30%) Public Sector
6 116 (6.98%) Marketing
7 110 (6.62%) Legal
8 90 (5.42%) Retail
9 71 (4.27%) Law
10 56 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
11 50 (3.01%) Telecoms
12 46 (2.77%) Banking
13 42 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
14 32 (1.93%) Aerospace
15 27 (1.62%) Games
16 24 (1.44%) Advertising
16 24 (1.44%) Manufacturing
16 24 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
17 22 (1.32%) Aviation
17 22 (1.32%) Police
Job Titles
1 339 (20.40%) Senior
2 196 (11.79%) Analyst
3 175 (10.53%) Consultant
4 162 (9.75%) Architect
5 118 (7.10%) Security Engineer
6 117 (7.04%) Security Manager
7 111 (6.68%) Security Consultant
8 104 (6.26%) Security Architect
9 103 (6.20%) Security Analyst
10 93 (5.60%) Cybersecurity Manager
10 93 (5.60%) Lead
11 87 (5.23%) IT Manager
12 78 (4.69%) Senior Manager
13 76 (4.57%) Support Engineer
14 74 (4.45%) Senior Analyst
15 67 (4.03%) 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 (1.50%) OAuth
2 23 (1.38%) 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
1 132 (7.94%) Cyber Threat
2 125 (7.52%) Security Posture
3 95 (5.72%) Management Information System
4 79 (4.75%) Onboarding
5 55 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
6 54 (3.25%) Data Centre
7 52 (3.13%) Driving Licence
8 45 (2.71%) Cloud Native
8 45 (2.71%) Cyber Defence
9 38 (2.29%) Operational Technology
10 34 (2.05%) PKI
11 32 (1.93%) Cyberattack
11 32 (1.93%) Security Operations Centre
12 27 (1.62%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 24 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
14 22 (1.32%) Social Media
15 21 (1.26%) AI Agents
15 21 (1.26%) Blog
16 20 (1.20%) Web Conferencing
17 19 (1.14%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 166 (9.99%) Windows
2 73 (4.39%) Windows Server
3 54 (3.25%) 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
10 1 (0.060%) AIX
10 1 (0.060%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.060%) Solaris
10 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (19.13%) Continuous Improvement
2 308 (18.53%) AI
3 303 (18.23%) Information Security
4 247 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
5 223 (13.42%) Risk Management
6 220 (13.24%) Decision-Making
7 208 (12.52%) Mentoring
7 208 (12.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 202 (12.15%) Incident Response
9 181 (10.89%) Vulnerability Management
10 180 (10.83%) Cloud Security
11 159 (9.57%) Security Operations
12 155 (9.33%) SIEM
13 151 (9.09%) ITIL
14 149 (8.97%) Stakeholder Management
15 147 (8.84%) Agile
15 147 (8.84%) Business Continuity
16 141 (8.48%) Identity Access Management
16 141 (8.48%) Service Delivery
17 126 (7.58%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 115 (6.92%) Python
2 70 (4.21%) PowerShell
3 32 (1.93%) 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
1 282 (16.97%) Security Cleared
2 230 (13.84%) CISSP
3 209 (12.58%) SC Cleared
4 187 (11.25%) 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 42 (2.53%) CRISC
11 40 (2.41%) CISA
12 38 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
12 38 (2.29%) CompTIA Security+
12 38 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
13 37 (2.23%) Azure Certification
14 35 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
15 30 (1.81%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 28 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
17 27 (1.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 25 (1.50%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 313 (18.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 222 (13.36%) NIST
3 156 (9.39%) GDPR
4 142 (8.54%) GRC
5 128 (7.70%) Cyber Essentials
6 81 (4.87%) PCI DSS
7 59 (3.55%) NCSC
8 50 (3.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 30 (1.81%) SLA
10 25 (1.50%) QA
11 24 (1.44%) Accessibility
11 24 (1.44%) SOC 2
12 23 (1.38%) COBIT
13 22 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
14 18 (1.08%) JSP 440
15 17 (1.02%) ISO 22301
15 17 (1.02%) NIST 800
16 14 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 13 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 42001
18 9 (0.54%) PMO
System Software
1 184 (11.07%) Active Directory
2 46 (2.77%) Hyper-V
3 29 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (1.56%) 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
1 132 (7.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (1.50%) Kubernetes
3 23 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
4 17 (1.02%) Ansible
5 15 (0.90%) CASB
6 13 (0.78%) FortiGate
7 11 (0.66%) Grafana
8 8 (0.48%) Cisco CUCM
9 7 (0.42%) QRadar
10 6 (0.36%) Nmap
11 5 (0.30%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.24%) Network Intrusion Detection System
13 3 (0.18%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 3 (0.18%) Computer Incident Response Team
13 3 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
13 3 (0.18%) SCCM
14 2 (0.12%) Functional Safety
14 2 (0.12%) Graylog
15 1 (0.060%) OpenVAS
15 1 (0.060%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 498 (29.96%) Microsoft
2 83 (4.99%) Palo Alto
3 78 (4.69%) 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 (1.74%) Splunk
12 27 (1.62%) Google
13 26 (1.56%) Qualys
13 26 (1.56%) Salesforce
14 18 (1.08%) Aruba
15 15 (0.90%) OpenAI
15 15 (0.90%) Veeam
16 12 (0.72%) SAP
17 8 (0.48%) Juniper