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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 38 44
Rank change year-on-year +11 +6 +10
Permanent jobs citing Cybersecurity 1,167 917 1,764
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.74% 7.06% 5.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.08% 7.45% 6.09%
Number of salaries quoted 730 731 1,302
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,313 £36,255
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,788 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.20% - -10.20%
75th Percentile £88,750 £73,818 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £92,443
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

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 14,438 12,307 28,972
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.43% 94.78% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 10,082 8,885 23,509
10th Percentile £32,000 £32,500 £33,800
25th Percentile £44,447 £46,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%

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 10 April 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 27 (2.31%) SharePoint
2 9 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.51%) WordPress
4 5 (0.43%) Drupal
4 5 (0.43%) nginx
5 4 (0.34%) CMS
6 3 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.17%) Apache
7 2 (0.17%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.086%) Confluence
8 1 (0.086%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 82 (7.03%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (2.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 26 (2.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 18 (1.54%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.17%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.086%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.086%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 7 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.43%) Cloudability
2 5 (0.43%) Shopify
3 3 (0.26%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 2 (0.17%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.086%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 330 (28.28%) Azure
2 167 (14.31%) Microsoft 365
3 162 (13.88%) AWS
4 156 (13.37%) Entra ID
5 58 (4.97%) Google Workspace
6 49 (4.20%) SaaS
7 46 (3.94%) GCP
8 28 (2.40%) Power Platform
9 27 (2.31%) Azure Sentinel
10 24 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
11 19 (1.63%) Azure Logic Apps
12 15 (1.29%) Mimecast
12 15 (1.29%) Nutanix
13 10 (0.86%) Serverless
14 8 (0.69%) Microsoft Purview
15 7 (0.60%) PaaS
16 5 (0.43%) Cloud Computing
16 5 (0.43%) Datadog
16 5 (0.43%) dbt
16 5 (0.43%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 133 (11.40%) Firewall
2 78 (6.68%) Broadband
3 55 (4.71%) Network Security
4 35 (3.00%) VPN
5 29 (2.49%) DNS
6 24 (2.06%) CHAP
7 23 (1.97%) Intrusion Detection
7 23 (1.97%) VLAN
8 15 (1.29%) DHCP
9 13 (1.11%) WAN
10 12 (1.03%) LAN
10 12 (1.03%) Unified Communications
11 11 (0.94%) Cisco ASA
12 8 (0.69%) DMZ
12 8 (0.69%) VoIP
13 7 (0.60%) SSL
13 7 (0.60%) TCP/IP
14 6 (0.51%) BGP
14 6 (0.51%) Cisco Firepower
14 6 (0.51%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (0.86%) Power BI
2 5 (0.43%) MariaDB
3 4 (0.34%) Relational Database
3 4 (0.34%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.26%) Metadata
4 3 (0.26%) MongoDB
4 3 (0.26%) MySQL
4 3 (0.26%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.26%) Tableau
5 1 (0.086%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.086%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.086%) Big Data
5 1 (0.086%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.086%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (0.77%) Jenkins
2 7 (0.60%) Git
2 7 (0.60%) GitLab
2 7 (0.60%) Snyk
3 5 (0.43%) Cucumber
3 5 (0.43%) JMeter
3 5 (0.43%) Locust
4 2 (0.17%) Burp Suite
4 2 (0.17%) Metasploit
4 2 (0.17%) VersionOne
5 1 (0.086%) GDB
5 1 (0.086%) JIRA
5 1 (0.086%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.086%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.086%) WinDbg
General
1 390 (33.42%) Social Skills
2 173 (14.82%) Finance
3 110 (9.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 105 (9.00%) Public Sector
5 84 (7.20%) Organisational Skills
6 81 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
7 78 (6.68%) Marketing
8 64 (5.48%) Back Office
9 63 (5.40%) Law
10 62 (5.31%) Banking
11 52 (4.46%) Legal
12 51 (4.37%) Telecoms
13 50 (4.28%) Retail
14 48 (4.11%) Games
15 25 (2.14%) Financial Institution
15 25 (2.14%) Manufacturing
16 18 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
17 16 (1.37%) Electronics
18 14 (1.20%) Aviation
18 14 (1.20%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 233 (19.97%) Senior
2 115 (9.85%) Architect
3 111 (9.51%) Analyst
4 100 (8.57%) Support Engineer
5 89 (7.63%) Consultant
6 85 (7.28%) Security Manager
7 80 (6.86%) Security Architect
8 62 (5.31%) Security Consultant
9 60 (5.14%) Desktop Engineer
9 60 (5.14%) Desktop Support
9 60 (5.14%) Desktop Support Engineer
10 59 (5.06%) Cybersecurity Manager
11 58 (4.97%) Security Analyst
12 56 (4.80%) Cybersecurity Architect
12 56 (4.80%) Site Engineer
13 50 (4.28%) IT Manager
13 50 (4.28%) Senior Architect
14 49 (4.20%) Developer
14 49 (4.20%) Hardware Engineer
14 49 (4.20%) Senior Hardware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (5.31%) REST
2 60 (5.14%) LDAP
2 60 (5.14%) OAuth
2 60 (5.14%) OpenID
2 60 (5.14%) SAML
3 59 (5.06%) SOAP
4 58 (4.97%) GraphQL
5 15 (1.29%) SAP CAF
6 7 (0.60%) Kafka
7 6 (0.51%) XMPP
8 5 (0.43%) CSS
8 5 (0.43%) Gherkin
8 5 (0.43%) HTML
8 5 (0.43%) LangChain
8 5 (0.43%) React
8 5 (0.43%) Regular Expression
8 5 (0.43%) SailPoint
9 4 (0.34%) Android NDK
9 4 (0.34%) Node.js
9 4 (0.34%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 103 (8.83%) Cyber Threat
2 92 (7.88%) Security Posture
3 78 (6.68%) Cyberattack
4 73 (6.26%) Management Information System
5 61 (5.23%) Onboarding
6 50 (4.28%) Blog
7 36 (3.08%) Driving Licence
8 32 (2.74%) Data Centre
8 32 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
9 31 (2.66%) Cloud Native
10 29 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
11 28 (2.40%) Operational Technology
12 27 (2.31%) Public Cloud
13 25 (2.14%) Cyber Defence
14 23 (1.97%) Cyber Security Posture
15 21 (1.80%) Low-Code
15 21 (1.80%) PKI
16 18 (1.54%) Security Operations Centre
17 15 (1.29%) Cyber Kill Chain
18 14 (1.20%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 162 (13.88%) Windows
2 70 (6.00%) Windows 10
3 52 (4.46%) Linux
4 49 (4.20%) Windows Server
5 18 (1.54%) Mac OS
6 17 (1.46%) Android
7 13 (1.11%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.17%) Unix
9 1 (0.086%) Debian
9 1 (0.086%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.086%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.086%) OpenBSD
9 1 (0.086%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.086%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.086%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (16.80%) Continuous Improvement
2 156 (13.37%) Risk Management
3 143 (12.25%) Mentoring
4 141 (12.08%) Roadmaps
5 137 (11.74%) Problem-Solving
6 135 (11.57%) Incident Response
7 132 (11.31%) Information Security
8 126 (10.80%) ITIL
9 125 (10.71%) AI
10 109 (9.34%) Analytics
11 102 (8.74%) Vulnerability Management
12 97 (8.31%) Agile
12 97 (8.31%) Cloud Security
13 91 (7.80%) Project Management
14 88 (7.54%) Customer Service
15 83 (7.11%) Identity Access Management
16 79 (6.77%) Stakeholder Management
17 77 (6.60%) Customer Experience
17 77 (6.60%) Security Architecture
17 77 (6.60%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 116 (9.94%) PowerShell
2 84 (7.20%) Python
3 64 (5.48%) Bash
4 56 (4.80%) T-SQL
5 43 (3.68%) SQL
6 24 (2.06%) Java
7 23 (1.97%) JavaScript
8 22 (1.89%) C++
9 20 (1.71%) C#
10 13 (1.11%) C
11 7 (0.60%) Go
12 5 (0.43%) PHP
12 5 (0.43%) Rust
13 4 (0.34%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.34%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.26%) Bicep
15 2 (0.17%) R
16 1 (0.086%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.086%) Perl
16 1 (0.086%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 189 (16.20%) Security Cleared
2 182 (15.60%) Degree
3 159 (13.62%) SC Cleared
4 155 (13.28%) CISSP
5 113 (9.68%) CISM
6 60 (5.14%) CTC Cleared
7 43 (3.68%) CISA
8 39 (3.34%) AWS Certification
8 39 (3.34%) Microsoft Certification
9 38 (3.26%) DV Cleared
10 35 (3.00%) CEH
10 35 (3.00%) Cisco Certification
11 30 (2.57%) SANS
12 25 (2.14%) CREST Certified
12 25 (2.14%) FFIEC
13 24 (2.06%) CGEIT
14 23 (1.97%) PMP
15 22 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
16 21 (1.80%) OSCP
17 19 (1.63%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 234 (20.05%) NIST
2 230 (19.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 119 (10.20%) GDPR
4 86 (7.37%) NCSC
5 82 (7.03%) Cyber Essentials
6 77 (6.60%) GRC
7 67 (5.74%) SLA
8 54 (4.63%) PCI DSS
9 41 (3.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 31 (2.66%) COBIT
11 20 (1.71%) Accessibility
12 18 (1.54%) SOC 2
13 17 (1.46%) QA
14 15 (1.29%) ISO 22301
15 13 (1.11%) JSP 440
16 11 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
16 11 (0.94%) IEC 61508
16 11 (0.94%) MISRA
16 11 (0.94%) MISRA C
17 9 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 127 (10.88%) Active Directory
2 25 (2.14%) Hyper-V
3 22 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.80%) Docker
5 11 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.51%) Firmware
7 6 (0.51%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.51%) vSphere
8 5 (0.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.086%) iptables
9 1 (0.086%) KVM
9 1 (0.086%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 50 (4.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (2.40%) Terraform
3 25 (2.14%) Kubernetes
4 23 (1.97%) Ansible
5 16 (1.37%) Grafana
6 11 (0.94%) Functional Safety
7 9 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.51%) Cisco CUCM
9 5 (0.43%) FTK
9 5 (0.43%) Nessus
9 5 (0.43%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.43%) QRadar
10 4 (0.34%) Computer Incident Response Team
10 4 (0.34%) CSIRT
10 4 (0.34%) RSA Archer
10 4 (0.34%) SCCM
11 3 (0.26%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.17%) CASB
12 2 (0.17%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 256 (21.94%) Microsoft
2 88 (7.54%) Cisco
3 50 (4.28%) VMware
4 38 (3.26%) Apple
5 30 (2.57%) Adobe
6 27 (2.31%) Google
7 25 (2.14%) Fortinet
8 22 (1.89%) Palo Alto
9 21 (1.80%) Tenable
10 20 (1.71%) SAP
11 19 (1.63%) ServiceNow
11 19 (1.63%) Splunk
12 18 (1.54%) CrowdStrike
12 18 (1.54%) PayPal
13 15 (1.29%) Salesforce
14 14 (1.20%) Commvault
15 10 (0.86%) CheckPoint
16 9 (0.77%) Qualys
16 9 (0.77%) Sophos
17 8 (0.69%) Draytek