Hybrid/Remote SC Cleared Job Trends

Security Check (SC) Clearance
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid work with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 101 60
Rank change year-on-year +67 -41 -2
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 1,150 559 1,361
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.64% 3.57% 3.98%
As % of the Qualifications category 26.55% 10.39% 15.05%
Number of salaries quoted 904 375 1,007
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,799 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £64,627 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.45% +7.71% -7.69%
75th Percentile £81,250 £78,125 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,700 £90,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% +4.35% -8.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

SC Cleared falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,332 5,379 9,041
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 21.26% 34.40% 26.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,007 2,386 5,856
10th Percentile £33,250 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £89,375 £86,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +3.77% -11.67%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SC Cleared and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

SC Cleared job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

SC Cleared
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SC Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SC Cleared

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SC Cleared over the 6 months to 25 June 2026.

SC Cleared salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

SC Cleared
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 30 (2.61%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.39%) Apache
3 15 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (1.13%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.61%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.35%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.35%) Mule
8 3 (0.26%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.26%) Camunda
8 3 (0.26%) SAS
9 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.17%) Confluence
9 2 (0.17%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.17%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.087%) Appian
10 1 (0.087%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.087%) Site Server
Applications
1 40 (3.48%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.87%) Adobe XD
4 6 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.35%) Windchill
6 3 (0.26%) InVision
6 3 (0.26%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.26%) Sketch
7 2 (0.17%) Weka
8 1 (0.087%) CATIA
8 1 (0.087%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 7 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.17%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.17%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.087%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.087%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.087%) SAP FSCM
5 1 (0.087%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.087%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.087%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.087%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 298 (25.91%) Azure
2 264 (22.96%) AWS
3 100 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
4 85 (7.39%) GCP
5 68 (5.91%) Entra ID
6 48 (4.17%) Power Platform
7 25 (2.17%) GitHub
8 22 (1.91%) SaaS
9 21 (1.83%) AWS CloudFormation
10 20 (1.74%) Serverless
11 19 (1.65%) Google Analytics
12 18 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
13 17 (1.48%) Amazon S3
13 17 (1.48%) PaaS
14 16 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
14 16 (1.39%) Azure Sentinel
14 16 (1.39%) PowerApps
15 15 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
16 13 (1.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 13 (1.13%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 37 (3.22%) Network Security
2 27 (2.35%) Firewall
3 23 (2.00%) WAN
4 22 (1.91%) VPN
5 17 (1.48%) TCP/IP
6 15 (1.30%) DNS
6 15 (1.30%) LAN
7 14 (1.22%) BGP
8 12 (1.04%) DHCP
8 12 (1.04%) MPLS
9 10 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (0.78%) SMTP
11 7 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
11 7 (0.61%) SNMP
12 6 (0.52%) SSL
13 5 (0.43%) Cisco Firepower
13 5 (0.43%) HTTP
14 4 (0.35%) MQTT
14 4 (0.35%) SD-WAN
14 4 (0.35%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (3.22%) Power BI
2 34 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (1.48%) Metadata
4 13 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
5 12 (1.04%) Big Data
5 12 (1.04%) NoSQL
6 11 (0.96%) DynamoDB
6 11 (0.96%) Redis
7 10 (0.87%) MongoDB
8 8 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.52%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (0.43%) BigQuery
10 5 (0.43%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.43%) SQL Server
10 5 (0.43%) Tableau
11 3 (0.26%) Flink
11 3 (0.26%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 43 (3.74%) Git
2 35 (3.04%) GitLab
3 25 (2.17%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.13%) JUnit
4 13 (1.13%) Selenium
5 10 (0.87%) JIRA
6 8 (0.70%) Maven
7 7 (0.61%) Axure RP
7 7 (0.61%) Balsamiq
7 7 (0.61%) Burp Suite
7 7 (0.61%) Metasploit
7 7 (0.61%) Mockito
8 5 (0.43%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.43%) Postman
9 4 (0.35%) JMeter
10 3 (0.26%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.26%) SoapUI
10 3 (0.26%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.17%) Babel
11 2 (0.17%) webpack
General
1 324 (28.17%) Social Skills
2 306 (26.61%) Public Sector
3 158 (13.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 119 (10.35%) Analytical Skills
5 112 (9.74%) Finance
6 100 (8.70%) Law
7 43 (3.74%) Legal
8 40 (3.48%) Presentation Skills
9 37 (3.22%) Back Office
10 31 (2.70%) Telecoms
11 27 (2.35%) Manufacturing
12 26 (2.26%) Retail
13 22 (1.91%) Aerospace
14 21 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
15 20 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
16 11 (0.96%) Aviation
16 11 (0.96%) Military
17 9 (0.78%) Police
18 8 (0.70%) Automotive
19 6 (0.52%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 231 (20.09%) Senior
2 181 (15.74%) Architect
3 126 (10.96%) Consultant
4 100 (8.70%) Developer
5 92 (8.00%) Lead
6 82 (7.13%) Solutions Architect
7 81 (7.04%) Analyst
8 72 (6.26%) Software Engineer
9 51 (4.43%) Security Consultant
10 49 (4.26%) Data Engineer
10 49 (4.26%) Support Engineer
11 46 (4.00%) Senior Manager
12 43 (3.74%) Cloud Engineer
13 40 (3.48%) Java Developer
14 39 (3.39%) Security Architect
15 38 (3.30%) DevOps Engineer
15 38 (3.30%) Site Engineer
16 37 (3.22%) Senior Analyst
17 35 (3.04%) Business Analyst
17 35 (3.04%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (3.48%) REST
2 34 (2.96%) Spring
3 28 (2.43%) .NET
4 25 (2.17%) React
5 19 (1.65%) SOAP
6 17 (1.48%) Spring Boot
7 16 (1.39%) Middleware
8 15 (1.30%) CSS
8 15 (1.30%) HTML
8 15 (1.30%) Playwright
9 13 (1.13%) Lightning Web Components
9 13 (1.13%) Visualforce
10 12 (1.04%) Kafka
11 10 (0.87%) RESTful
12 9 (0.78%) SAML
13 8 (0.70%) Django
13 8 (0.70%) HTML5 Canvas
13 8 (0.70%) YAML
14 7 (0.61%) AngularJS
14 7 (0.61%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 82 (7.13%) Cloud Native
2 55 (4.78%) Product Ownership
3 42 (3.65%) Management Information System
4 40 (3.48%) Onboarding
5 35 (3.04%) Security Posture
6 33 (2.87%) Data Centre
7 22 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (1.65%) PKI
9 16 (1.39%) Blog
9 16 (1.39%) Driving Licence
10 13 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (1.04%) Security Operations Centre
12 10 (0.87%) Low-Code
13 9 (0.78%) Data Structures
14 7 (0.61%) AI Agents
14 7 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
14 7 (0.61%) Cyber Threat
14 7 (0.61%) Distributed Systems
14 7 (0.61%) Hybrid Cloud
14 7 (0.61%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 95 (8.26%) Windows
2 71 (6.17%) Linux
3 37 (3.22%) Windows 10
4 26 (2.26%) Windows Server
5 21 (1.83%) Unix
6 5 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.26%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.17%) Android
8 2 (0.17%) CentOS
9 1 (0.087%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.087%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.087%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.087%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 261 (22.70%) Agile
2 197 (17.13%) Continuous Improvement
3 176 (15.30%) Cybersecurity
4 155 (13.48%) Mentoring
5 146 (12.70%) DevOps
6 145 (12.61%) CI/CD
7 134 (11.65%) Problem-Solving
8 111 (9.65%) Community of Practice
9 108 (9.39%) Analytics
9 108 (9.39%) Software Engineering
10 106 (9.22%) ITIL
11 105 (9.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 102 (8.87%) Technology Strategy
13 97 (8.43%) Infrastructure as Code
14 94 (8.17%) Stakeholder Management
15 78 (6.78%) Decision-Making
15 78 (6.78%) Risk Management
16 77 (6.70%) Cloud Security
17 75 (6.52%) Technical Leadership
18 72 (6.26%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 129 (11.22%) Python
2 118 (10.26%) Java
3 66 (5.74%) JavaScript
3 66 (5.74%) SQL
4 30 (2.61%) C#
5 28 (2.43%) Bash
5 28 (2.43%) C++
5 28 (2.43%) PowerShell
6 23 (2.00%) TypeScript
7 13 (1.13%) Apex Code
8 9 (0.78%) Rust
9 6 (0.52%) C
9 6 (0.52%) Groovy
9 6 (0.52%) PL/SQL
9 6 (0.52%) VBA
10 5 (0.43%) Ruby
10 5 (0.43%) Scala
11 4 (0.35%) DataWeave
11 4 (0.35%) Go
12 3 (0.26%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 1,150 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 224 (19.48%) Degree
3 180 (15.65%) DV Cleared
4 66 (5.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 61 (5.30%) CISSP
6 48 (4.17%) CISM
7 41 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 34 (2.96%) CTC Cleared
9 29 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 27 (2.35%) Azure Certification
11 22 (1.91%) AWS Certification
12 17 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
13 15 (1.30%) CRISC
14 14 (1.22%) CREST Certified
14 14 (1.22%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 13 (1.13%) TOGAF Certification
16 12 (1.04%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 10 (0.87%) HNC
17 10 (0.87%) Master's Degree
18 8 (0.70%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (9.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 64 (5.57%) NIST
3 48 (4.17%) SLA
4 44 (3.83%) QA
5 41 (3.57%) NCSC
6 39 (3.39%) GDPR
7 34 (2.96%) Accessibility
8 26 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials
9 23 (2.00%) Data Quality
9 23 (2.00%) GRC
10 20 (1.74%) PCI DSS
11 17 (1.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 13 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
12 13 (1.13%) JSP 440
13 11 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 11 (0.96%) WCAG
14 10 (0.87%) Def Stans
15 7 (0.61%) Government Security Classifications
16 5 (0.43%) NEBOSH
16 5 (0.43%) NIST 800
System Software
1 65 (5.65%) Docker
2 41 (3.57%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.65%) Hyper-V
4 15 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.78%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.43%) Firmware
6 5 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.43%) vSphere
7 4 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.087%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.087%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.087%) IAG
8 1 (0.087%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.087%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.087%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.087%) Xen
Systems Management
1 88 (7.65%) Terraform
2 70 (6.09%) Kubernetes
3 37 (3.22%) Ansible
4 30 (2.61%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (1.83%) Prometheus
6 19 (1.65%) Grafana
7 10 (0.87%) Argo
8 8 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.61%) Nmap
10 6 (0.52%) Kustomize
10 6 (0.52%) Packer
10 6 (0.52%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.52%) Puppet
11 5 (0.43%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.43%) Endace
11 5 (0.43%) Istio
11 5 (0.43%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.35%) CloudHub
12 4 (0.35%) Kibana
12 4 (0.35%) Nagios
Vendors
1 188 (16.35%) Microsoft
2 62 (5.39%) Cisco
3 48 (4.17%) Google
4 34 (2.96%) Oracle
5 26 (2.26%) VMware
6 23 (2.00%) Salesforce
7 21 (1.83%) ServiceNow
8 17 (1.48%) MuleSoft
8 17 (1.48%) Red Hat
9 15 (1.30%) SAP
10 12 (1.04%) CyberArk
11 10 (0.87%) Adobe
12 9 (0.78%) Databricks
13 8 (0.70%) Splunk
14 7 (0.61%) F5
14 7 (0.61%) Juniper
14 7 (0.61%) Meraki
15 5 (0.43%) CheckPoint
15 5 (0.43%) Fortinet
15 5 (0.43%) OpenAI