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 4 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 100 60
Rank change year-on-year +66 -40 -4
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 1,176 573 1,357
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.65% 3.54% 4.09%
As % of the Qualifications category 26.74% 10.56% 15.34%
Number of salaries quoted 924 381 1,020
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,799 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,500 £88,755
UK median annual salary £67,500 £61,500 £57,000
% change year-on-year +9.76% +7.89% -8.80%

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 4,398 5,425 8,844
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 21.11% 33.56% 26.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,039 2,436 5,707
10th Percentile £33,250 £28,000 £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 £93,527 £88,750 £86,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +2.80% -10.83%

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 4 July 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 31 (2.64%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.53%) Apache
3 14 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (1.11%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.60%) Anypoint
6 7 (0.60%) Jupyter
6 7 (0.60%) Mule
7 3 (0.26%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.26%) Camunda
7 3 (0.26%) SAS
8 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.17%) Confluence
8 2 (0.17%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.17%) nginx
8 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.085%) Appian
9 1 (0.085%) Site Server
Applications
1 41 (3.49%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.60%) Adobe XD
3 7 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.34%) Windchill
5 3 (0.26%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.17%) InVision
6 2 (0.17%) Sketch
6 2 (0.17%) Weka
7 1 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.085%) CATIA
7 1 (0.085%) Houdini
7 1 (0.085%) NUKE
7 1 (0.085%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 7 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.17%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.17%) SAP QM
4 2 (0.17%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.085%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.085%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.085%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.085%) SAP FSCM
5 1 (0.085%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.085%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.085%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 308 (26.19%) Azure
2 272 (23.13%) AWS
3 106 (9.01%) Microsoft 365
4 87 (7.40%) GCP
5 73 (6.21%) Entra ID
6 51 (4.34%) Power Platform
7 26 (2.21%) GitHub
8 22 (1.87%) SaaS
8 22 (1.87%) Serverless
9 21 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
10 19 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
10 19 (1.62%) PaaS
11 17 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (1.45%) Google Analytics
11 17 (1.45%) PowerApps
12 16 (1.36%) Amazon S3
12 16 (1.36%) Azure Sentinel
12 16 (1.36%) Microsoft Purview
13 15 (1.28%) Amazon EC2
14 13 (1.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 37 (3.15%) Network Security
2 28 (2.38%) Firewall
3 23 (1.96%) WAN
4 21 (1.79%) VPN
5 19 (1.62%) TCP/IP
6 18 (1.53%) DNS
7 15 (1.28%) LAN
8 14 (1.19%) BGP
9 13 (1.11%) DHCP
10 12 (1.02%) MPLS
11 10 (0.85%) SSL
11 10 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (0.77%) SMTP
13 7 (0.60%) Intrusion Detection
13 7 (0.60%) SNMP
14 6 (0.51%) HTTP
15 5 (0.43%) ATM
15 5 (0.43%) Cisco Firepower
16 4 (0.34%) MQTT
16 4 (0.34%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (3.32%) Power BI
2 33 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (1.11%) Metadata
5 12 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
5 12 (1.02%) Big Data
6 11 (0.94%) Redis
7 10 (0.85%) DynamoDB
7 10 (0.85%) MongoDB
8 9 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (0.68%) NoSQL
10 6 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (0.51%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (0.43%) SQL Server
11 5 (0.43%) Tableau
12 4 (0.34%) BigQuery
12 4 (0.34%) Relational Database
13 3 (0.26%) Flink
13 3 (0.26%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 43 (3.66%) Git
2 34 (2.89%) GitLab
3 24 (2.04%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.11%) JUnit
4 13 (1.11%) Selenium
5 12 (1.02%) JIRA
6 8 (0.68%) Maven
7 7 (0.60%) Burp Suite
7 7 (0.60%) Metasploit
7 7 (0.60%) Mockito
8 5 (0.43%) Axure RP
8 5 (0.43%) Balsamiq
8 5 (0.43%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.43%) Postman
9 4 (0.34%) JMeter
10 3 (0.26%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.26%) SoapUI
10 3 (0.26%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.17%) Gatling
11 2 (0.17%) webpack
General
1 345 (29.34%) Social Skills
2 309 (26.28%) Public Sector
3 166 (14.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 121 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
5 120 (10.20%) Finance
6 105 (8.93%) Law
7 44 (3.74%) Legal
8 41 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
9 38 (3.23%) Back Office
10 34 (2.89%) Telecoms
11 29 (2.47%) Retail
12 27 (2.30%) Manufacturing
13 24 (2.04%) Aerospace
14 23 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
15 18 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
16 12 (1.02%) Military
17 11 (0.94%) Aviation
18 10 (0.85%) Police
19 9 (0.77%) Automotive
20 8 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 229 (19.47%) Senior
2 192 (16.33%) Architect
3 126 (10.71%) Consultant
4 102 (8.67%) Developer
5 97 (8.25%) Lead
6 86 (7.31%) Solutions Architect
7 84 (7.14%) Analyst
8 77 (6.55%) Software Engineer
9 53 (4.51%) Security Consultant
10 51 (4.34%) Support Engineer
11 49 (4.17%) Data Engineer
12 45 (3.83%) Senior Manager
13 43 (3.66%) Cloud Engineer
14 40 (3.40%) Security Architect
14 40 (3.40%) Senior Analyst
15 39 (3.32%) DevOps Engineer
15 39 (3.32%) Java Developer
15 39 (3.32%) Site Engineer
16 37 (3.15%) Business Analyst
17 35 (2.98%) Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (3.32%) REST
2 33 (2.81%) Spring
3 25 (2.13%) .NET
4 24 (2.04%) React
5 18 (1.53%) SOAP
6 16 (1.36%) Spring Boot
7 15 (1.28%) Middleware
7 15 (1.28%) Playwright
8 12 (1.02%) CSS
8 12 (1.02%) HTML
8 12 (1.02%) Kafka
8 12 (1.02%) Lightning Web Components
8 12 (1.02%) Visualforce
9 10 (0.85%) RESTful
10 9 (0.77%) SAML
11 8 (0.68%) Django
11 8 (0.68%) Node.js
11 8 (0.68%) OAuth
11 8 (0.68%) OAuth2
11 8 (0.68%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 92 (7.82%) Cloud Native
2 53 (4.51%) Product Ownership
3 46 (3.91%) Management Information System
4 41 (3.49%) Onboarding
5 35 (2.98%) Security Posture
6 33 (2.81%) Data Centre
7 24 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (1.62%) Driving Licence
9 17 (1.45%) Blog
9 17 (1.45%) PKI
10 14 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (1.02%) Security Operations Centre
12 10 (0.85%) Low-Code
13 9 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
13 9 (0.77%) Public Cloud
14 8 (0.68%) Cyber Threat
14 8 (0.68%) Data Structures
15 7 (0.60%) AI Agents
15 7 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
15 7 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 100 (8.50%) Windows
2 78 (6.63%) Linux
3 39 (3.32%) Windows 10
4 28 (2.38%) Windows Server
5 22 (1.87%) 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
8 2 (0.17%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.085%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.085%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.085%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (23.21%) Agile
2 208 (17.69%) Continuous Improvement
3 183 (15.56%) Cybersecurity
4 161 (13.69%) Mentoring
5 151 (12.84%) CI/CD
6 149 (12.67%) DevOps
7 146 (12.41%) Problem-Solving
8 116 (9.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 115 (9.78%) Software Engineering
10 113 (9.61%) Community of Practice
11 111 (9.44%) ITIL
12 108 (9.18%) Analytics
13 104 (8.84%) Technology Strategy
14 101 (8.59%) Stakeholder Management
15 99 (8.42%) Infrastructure as Code
16 81 (6.89%) Cloud Security
16 81 (6.89%) Decision-Making
16 81 (6.89%) Technical Leadership
17 80 (6.80%) Risk Management
18 77 (6.55%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 136 (11.56%) Python
2 120 (10.20%) Java
3 67 (5.70%) SQL
4 64 (5.44%) JavaScript
5 31 (2.64%) C++
6 30 (2.55%) C#
6 30 (2.55%) PowerShell
7 29 (2.47%) Bash
8 24 (2.04%) TypeScript
9 12 (1.02%) Apex Code
10 9 (0.77%) C
10 9 (0.77%) Rust
11 7 (0.60%) DataWeave
11 7 (0.60%) VBA
12 6 (0.51%) Groovy
12 6 (0.51%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.51%) Ruby
13 5 (0.43%) Go
13 5 (0.43%) Scala
14 4 (0.34%) Ada
Qualifications
1 1,176 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 230 (19.56%) Degree
3 177 (15.05%) DV Cleared
4 69 (5.87%) BPSS Clearance
5 62 (5.27%) CISSP
6 50 (4.25%) CISM
7 43 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 35 (2.98%) CTC Cleared
9 31 (2.64%) Azure Certification
9 31 (2.64%) Microsoft Certification
10 20 (1.70%) AWS Certification
11 16 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (1.36%) CRISC
12 14 (1.19%) CREST Certified
12 14 (1.19%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 13 (1.11%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 13 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
14 12 (1.02%) Master's Degree
15 9 (0.77%) HNC
16 8 (0.68%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (9.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 61 (5.19%) NIST
3 52 (4.42%) SLA
4 44 (3.74%) QA
5 41 (3.49%) NCSC
6 37 (3.15%) GDPR
7 31 (2.64%) Accessibility
8 26 (2.21%) Cyber Essentials
9 23 (1.96%) GRC
10 22 (1.87%) Data Quality
11 19 (1.62%) PCI DSS
12 18 (1.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 13 (1.11%) JSP 440
14 12 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
15 11 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 10 (0.85%) Def Stans
17 9 (0.77%) WCAG
18 7 (0.60%) Government Security Classifications
19 5 (0.43%) NEBOSH
19 5 (0.43%) NIST 800
System Software
1 65 (5.53%) Docker
2 42 (3.57%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.87%) Hyper-V
4 18 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.77%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (0.51%) vSphere
7 5 (0.43%) Firmware
7 5 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.17%) Squid
9 1 (0.085%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.085%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.085%) IAG
9 1 (0.085%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.085%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.085%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.085%) Xen
Systems Management
1 85 (7.23%) Terraform
2 70 (5.95%) Kubernetes
3 37 (3.15%) Ansible
4 33 (2.81%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (1.79%) Prometheus
6 19 (1.62%) Grafana
7 10 (0.85%) Argo
8 8 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.60%) CloudHub
9 7 (0.60%) Nmap
10 6 (0.51%) Kustomize
10 6 (0.51%) Packer
10 6 (0.51%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.51%) 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 (0.34%) Kibana
13 3 (0.26%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 196 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 61 (5.19%) Cisco
3 48 (4.08%) Google
4 36 (3.06%) Oracle
5 29 (2.47%) VMware
6 26 (2.21%) ServiceNow
7 25 (2.13%) Salesforce
8 19 (1.62%) MuleSoft
9 18 (1.53%) SAP
10 17 (1.45%) Red Hat
11 13 (1.11%) CyberArk
12 9 (0.77%) Databricks
13 8 (0.68%) Adobe
13 8 (0.68%) Splunk
14 7 (0.60%) Juniper
14 7 (0.60%) Meraki
14 7 (0.60%) OpenAI
15 6 (0.51%) F5
16 4 (0.34%) CheckPoint
16 4 (0.34%) Dell