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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 28 35
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 +12
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,600 1,271 1,457
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.08% 7.71% 5.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.54% 8.30% 6.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,089 735 830
10th Percentile £36,000 £25,000 £38,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -7.56% -7.75%

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 18,735 15,321 22,033
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.88% 92.93% 87.73%
Number of salaries quoted 13,552 9,025 15,867
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,875 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,400 £58,800
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% +1.02% -5.92%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
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 7 August 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 63 (3.94%) SharePoint
2 49 (3.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.56%) SAS
4 7 (0.44%) IIS
5 5 (0.31%) WordPress
6 2 (0.13%) Apache
6 2 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.13%) CMS
7 1 (0.063%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.063%) Confluence
7 1 (0.063%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 40 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 3 (0.19%) Trello
7 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (1.50%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.31%) SAP Business One
3 3 (0.19%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.13%) Shopify
5 1 (0.063%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.063%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.063%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 390 (24.38%) Azure
2 203 (12.69%) AWS
3 200 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 170 (10.63%) Entra ID
5 97 (6.06%) SaaS
6 79 (4.94%) GCP
7 33 (2.06%) Azure Sentinel
8 29 (1.81%) Serverless
9 21 (1.31%) Power Platform
10 19 (1.19%) OneDrive
11 16 (1.00%) dbt
12 12 (0.75%) Cloud Computing
12 12 (0.75%) Mimecast
13 11 (0.69%) PaaS
14 10 (0.63%) Azure Logic Apps
15 9 (0.56%) Microsoft Copilot
16 8 (0.50%) Microsoft Purview
17 7 (0.44%) GitHub
17 7 (0.44%) Google Workspace
18 6 (0.38%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 221 (13.81%) Firewall
2 150 (9.38%) Network Security
3 78 (4.88%) VLAN
4 62 (3.88%) DNS
5 58 (3.63%) VPN
6 53 (3.31%) WAN
7 47 (2.94%) DHCP
8 45 (2.81%) Broadband
9 40 (2.50%) LAN
10 38 (2.38%) TCP/IP
11 35 (2.19%) Wi-Fi
12 26 (1.63%) VoIP
13 22 (1.38%) Unified Communications
14 19 (1.19%) BGP
14 19 (1.19%) SSL
15 18 (1.13%) HTTP
16 17 (1.06%) Intrusion Detection
17 16 (1.00%) SD-WAN
18 15 (0.94%) Cisco Nexus
18 15 (0.94%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (0.69%) Power BI
2 9 (0.56%) SQL Server
3 7 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (0.38%) Tableau
5 5 (0.31%) Big Data
6 4 (0.25%) Metadata
6 4 (0.25%) MySQL
6 4 (0.25%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.13%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.13%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.063%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.063%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.063%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.063%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.063%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.063%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.063%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.063%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.063%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 27 (1.69%) Snyk
2 20 (1.25%) JIRA
3 8 (0.50%) Git
4 7 (0.44%) GitLab
5 5 (0.31%) Burp Suite
5 5 (0.31%) Cucumber
5 5 (0.31%) JMeter
5 5 (0.31%) Locust
5 5 (0.31%) Metasploit
5 5 (0.31%) VersionOne
6 3 (0.19%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.13%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.063%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.063%) GDB
8 1 (0.063%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.063%) WinDbg
General
1 517 (32.31%) Social Skills
2 173 (10.81%) Finance
3 163 (10.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 136 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
5 129 (8.06%) Public Sector
6 109 (6.81%) Legal
6 109 (6.81%) Marketing
7 87 (5.44%) Retail
8 75 (4.69%) Law
9 51 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
10 46 (2.88%) Telecoms
11 42 (2.63%) Banking
12 35 (2.19%) Games
13 33 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
14 28 (1.75%) Advertising
15 24 (1.50%) Aerospace
16 23 (1.44%) Manufacturing
17 22 (1.38%) Aviation
18 21 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
19 16 (1.00%) Police
Job Titles
1 337 (21.06%) Senior
2 197 (12.31%) Analyst
3 161 (10.06%) Architect
4 158 (9.88%) Consultant
5 120 (7.50%) Security Manager
6 105 (6.56%) Security Consultant
7 104 (6.50%) Security Analyst
8 102 (6.38%) Security Engineer
9 98 (6.13%) Security Architect
10 96 (6.00%) Lead
11 95 (5.94%) Senior Manager
12 91 (5.69%) Cybersecurity Manager
13 85 (5.31%) IT Manager
14 74 (4.63%) Senior Analyst
15 72 (4.50%) Support Engineer
16 71 (4.44%) IT Support
17 64 (4.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
18 54 (3.38%) IT Engineer
19 51 (3.19%) Cybersecurity Consultant
20 50 (3.13%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (1.69%) OAuth
2 25 (1.56%) SAML
3 18 (1.13%) LDAP
4 16 (1.00%) OpenID
5 15 (0.94%) REST
6 10 (0.63%) XMPP
7 9 (0.56%) .NET
8 8 (0.50%) LangChain
9 7 (0.44%) Kafka
9 7 (0.44%) Microsoft Graph
9 7 (0.44%) SailPoint
10 6 (0.38%) Regular Expression
10 6 (0.38%) RESTful
10 6 (0.38%) SOAP
11 5 (0.31%) Gherkin
11 5 (0.31%) GraphQL
11 5 (0.31%) JSON
11 5 (0.31%) LangGraph
11 5 (0.31%) ModSecurity
11 5 (0.31%) React
Miscellaneous
1 129 (8.06%) Cyber Threat
2 123 (7.69%) Security Posture
3 98 (6.13%) Management Information System
4 80 (5.00%) Onboarding
5 58 (3.63%) Self-Motivation
6 54 (3.38%) Driving Licence
7 45 (2.81%) Cyber Defence
7 45 (2.81%) Data Centre
8 43 (2.69%) Cloud Native
9 38 (2.38%) Cyberattack
10 32 (2.00%) PKI
11 30 (1.88%) Operational Technology
12 28 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
13 25 (1.56%) Blog
14 24 (1.50%) Security Operations Centre
15 23 (1.44%) Cyber Kill Chain
16 20 (1.25%) Web Conferencing
17 19 (1.19%) AI Agents
18 18 (1.13%) Cyber Security Posture
18 18 (1.13%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 166 (10.38%) Windows
2 70 (4.38%) Windows Server
3 56 (3.50%) Linux
4 25 (1.56%) Mac OS
5 9 (0.56%) Android
6 8 (0.50%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.50%) Windows 10
6 8 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.063%) AIX
8 1 (0.063%) FreeBSD
8 1 (0.063%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.063%) OpenBSD
8 1 (0.063%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (19.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 290 (18.13%) Information Security
3 272 (17.00%) AI
4 244 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
5 217 (13.56%) Risk Management
6 211 (13.19%) Mentoring
7 209 (13.06%) Decision-Making
8 205 (12.81%) Incident Response
9 198 (12.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 176 (11.00%) Vulnerability Management
11 168 (10.50%) Cloud Security
12 153 (9.56%) Agile
13 151 (9.44%) ITIL
14 145 (9.06%) SIEM
15 140 (8.75%) Identity Access Management
16 139 (8.69%) Security Operations
17 135 (8.44%) Stakeholder Management
18 129 (8.06%) Business Continuity
19 124 (7.75%) Project Delivery
20 121 (7.56%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 114 (7.13%) Python
2 74 (4.63%) PowerShell
3 26 (1.63%) SQL
4 23 (1.44%) Java
5 18 (1.13%) JavaScript
6 15 (0.94%) Bash
7 14 (0.88%) C++
8 12 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
9 10 (0.63%) Rust
10 8 (0.50%) C#
10 8 (0.50%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.44%) Go
12 4 (0.25%) C
12 4 (0.25%) PHP
13 3 (0.19%) Ada
13 3 (0.19%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.19%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.13%) Search Processing Language
15 1 (0.063%) Bicep
15 1 (0.063%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 266 (16.63%) Security Cleared
2 230 (14.38%) CISSP
3 201 (12.56%) SC Cleared
4 183 (11.44%) CISM
5 156 (9.75%) Degree
6 76 (4.75%) DV Cleared
7 59 (3.69%) A+ Certification
7 59 (3.69%) Network+ Certification
8 44 (2.75%) AWS Certification
9 40 (2.50%) CRISC
10 39 (2.44%) CISA
11 38 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
12 36 (2.25%) CompTIA Security+
13 35 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
14 34 (2.13%) Azure Certification
14 34 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
15 27 (1.69%) CREST Certified
16 26 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 26 (1.63%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
17 24 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 308 (19.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 218 (13.63%) NIST
3 161 (10.06%) GDPR
4 130 (8.13%) GRC
5 116 (7.25%) Cyber Essentials
6 84 (5.25%) PCI DSS
7 58 (3.63%) NCSC
8 49 (3.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 29 (1.81%) SLA
10 28 (1.75%) QA
11 26 (1.63%) Accessibility
11 26 (1.63%) SOC 2
12 24 (1.50%) COBIT
13 20 (1.25%) Actionable Recommendations
14 17 (1.06%) JSP 440
15 16 (1.00%) ISO 22301
16 14 (0.88%) NIST 800
17 12 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 42001
18 11 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
19 9 (0.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 182 (11.38%) Active Directory
2 41 (2.56%) Hyper-V
3 30 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (1.00%) Firmware
6 15 (0.94%) Docker
7 11 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
8 10 (0.63%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 7 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.44%) VMware NSX
9 7 (0.44%) vSphere
10 5 (0.31%) ClearTrust
11 1 (0.063%) KVM
11 1 (0.063%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 131 (8.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (1.75%) Kubernetes
3 26 (1.63%) Terraform
4 19 (1.19%) Ansible
4 19 (1.19%) Grafana
5 17 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (0.88%) CASB
7 12 (0.75%) FortiGate
8 10 (0.63%) Cisco CUCM
9 7 (0.44%) QRadar
10 5 (0.31%) Nmap
11 4 (0.25%) Prometheus
12 3 (0.19%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 3 (0.19%) Computer Incident Response Team
12 3 (0.19%) CSIRT
12 3 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
12 3 (0.19%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 3 (0.19%) SCCM
13 2 (0.13%) Graylog
13 2 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 477 (29.81%) Microsoft
2 81 (5.06%) Palo Alto
3 73 (4.56%) Cisco
4 62 (3.88%) CyberArk
5 49 (3.06%) VMware
6 43 (2.69%) ServiceNow
7 37 (2.31%) CrowdStrike
8 34 (2.13%) Apple
8 34 (2.13%) Fortinet
9 33 (2.06%) Google
10 32 (2.00%) Adobe
11 31 (1.94%) Splunk
11 31 (1.94%) Tenable
12 26 (1.63%) Salesforce
13 24 (1.50%) Qualys
14 18 (1.13%) Aruba
15 15 (0.94%) OpenAI
16 13 (0.81%) SAP
17 11 (0.69%) Veeam
18 9 (0.56%) Okta