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 1 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 75 46
Rank change year-on-year +43 -29 -2
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 1,543 750 1,094
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.18% 4.46% 4.88%
As % of the Qualifications category 29.78% 11.71% 17.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,046 445 690
10th Percentile £46,500 £42,032 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £50,171 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £79,600
90th Percentile £98,750 £90,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -

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 5,181 6,407 6,194
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.76% 38.08% 27.61%
Number of salaries quoted 3,226 2,298 2,825
10th Percentile £33,013 £31,000 £34,404
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -3.51% -1.86%

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 1 October 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 29 (1.88%) Apache Spark
2 24 (1.56%) SharePoint
3 22 (1.43%) Apache
4 13 (0.84%) Anypoint
4 13 (0.84%) Confluence
4 13 (0.84%) Mule
5 10 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (0.65%) Oracle Workflow
6 9 (0.58%) nginx
6 9 (0.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 8 (0.52%) Camunda
7 8 (0.52%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.26%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.26%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.26%) Oracle Spatial
9 3 (0.19%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.19%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.13%) WebLogic Portal
11 1 (0.065%) OpenStack
Applications
1 30 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (1.10%) Simulink
4 13 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.39%) Adobe XD
5 6 (0.39%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.26%) Mathcad
6 4 (0.26%) Windchill
7 2 (0.13%) InDesign
7 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.065%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.065%) Houdini
8 1 (0.065%) NUKE
8 1 (0.065%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.065%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 11 (0.71%) Primavera
2 9 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.45%) Workday HCM
5 5 (0.32%) SAP PSCD
5 5 (0.32%) Teamcenter
6 4 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.19%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.13%) SAP QM
9 1 (0.065%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
9 1 (0.065%) Maximo
9 1 (0.065%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.065%) SAP BPC
9 1 (0.065%) SAP EWM
9 1 (0.065%) SAP GRC
9 1 (0.065%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 389 (25.21%) Azure
2 363 (23.53%) AWS
3 115 (7.45%) GCP
4 76 (4.93%) Microsoft 365
5 73 (4.73%) Power Platform
6 66 (4.28%) Entra ID
7 42 (2.72%) GitHub
8 39 (2.53%) Serverless
9 38 (2.46%) dbt
10 36 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
11 35 (2.27%) Amazon S3
12 32 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
13 25 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
14 23 (1.49%) OpenShift
15 22 (1.43%) Microsoft Purview
16 20 (1.30%) Azure Monitor
16 20 (1.30%) Azure Sentinel
17 19 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
18 18 (1.17%) Google Analytics
19 16 (1.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (2.98%) Network Security
2 33 (2.14%) Firewall
3 29 (1.88%) TCP/IP
4 24 (1.56%) DNS
5 16 (1.04%) SSL
6 13 (0.84%) VPN
7 11 (0.71%) Wireless
8 10 (0.65%) ATM
8 10 (0.65%) WAN
9 9 (0.58%) Ethernet
10 7 (0.45%) DHCP
10 7 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (0.32%) BGP
11 5 (0.32%) Unified Communications
11 5 (0.32%) VLAN
12 4 (0.26%) Internet
12 4 (0.26%) LAN
12 4 (0.26%) SAN
13 3 (0.19%) 3GPP
13 3 (0.19%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (3.95%) Power BI
2 44 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (1.56%) Big Data
5 22 (1.43%) Amazon Athena
6 19 (1.23%) SQL Server
7 18 (1.17%) Data Lake
7 18 (1.17%) Metadata
7 18 (1.17%) Relational Database
8 16 (1.04%) Tableau
9 14 (0.91%) DynamoDB
10 13 (0.84%) MySQL
11 10 (0.65%) Hadoop
12 9 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (0.52%) NoSQL
14 7 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
14 7 (0.45%) Redis
15 6 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (0.39%) GIS
15 6 (0.39%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 68 (4.41%) Git
2 35 (2.27%) GitLab
3 29 (1.88%) JIRA
4 28 (1.81%) Jenkins
5 23 (1.49%) JUnit
6 22 (1.43%) Rational DOORS
7 14 (0.91%) Mockito
7 14 (0.91%) Selenium
8 11 (0.71%) Burp Suite
8 11 (0.71%) Metasploit
9 10 (0.65%) Maven
10 9 (0.58%) Cucumber
10 9 (0.58%) Postman
11 8 (0.52%) Balsamiq
12 7 (0.45%) Cypress.io
13 6 (0.39%) Axure RP
13 6 (0.39%) Gatling
13 6 (0.39%) LabVIEW
14 3 (0.19%) Snyk
14 3 (0.19%) SonarQube
General
1 445 (28.84%) Social Skills
2 366 (23.72%) Public Sector
3 346 (22.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 301 (19.51%) Finance
5 186 (12.05%) Analytical Skills
6 164 (10.63%) Aerospace
7 146 (9.46%) Law
8 59 (3.82%) Legal
9 54 (3.50%) Presentation Skills
10 52 (3.37%) Retail
11 50 (3.24%) Electronics
11 50 (3.24%) Military
12 44 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
12 44 (2.85%) Police
13 41 (2.66%) Organisational Skills
14 33 (2.14%) Manufacturing
15 21 (1.36%) Telecoms
16 14 (0.91%) Local Government
17 12 (0.78%) Aviation
18 10 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 310 (20.09%) Senior
2 251 (16.27%) Architect
3 145 (9.40%) Software Engineer
4 140 (9.07%) Lead
5 130 (8.43%) Consultant
6 119 (7.71%) Developer
7 112 (7.26%) Analyst
8 86 (5.57%) Solutions Architect
9 76 (4.93%) Principal Engineer
10 73 (4.73%) Data Engineer
11 65 (4.21%) Senior Manager
12 51 (3.31%) Security Consultant
13 50 (3.24%) DevOps Engineer
14 48 (3.11%) Cloud Engineer
15 45 (2.92%) Security Architect
16 42 (2.72%) Principal Software Engineer
17 41 (2.66%) Java Engineer
18 40 (2.59%) Business Analyst
18 40 (2.59%) Senior Analyst
18 40 (2.59%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (7.39%) Terraform
2 52 (3.37%) React
3 39 (2.53%) REST
3 39 (2.53%) Spring
4 36 (2.33%) .NET
5 26 (1.69%) CSS
6 24 (1.56%) PySpark
7 22 (1.43%) HTML
8 21 (1.36%) Node.js
9 20 (1.30%) .NET Core
9 20 (1.30%) Kafka
9 20 (1.30%) Playwright
10 18 (1.17%) AngularJS
10 18 (1.17%) OAuth
11 17 (1.10%) JSON
11 17 (1.10%) Spring Boot
12 15 (0.97%) JWT
12 15 (0.97%) OAuth2
13 14 (0.91%) Entity Framework
14 13 (0.84%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 110 (7.13%) Cloud Native
2 64 (4.15%) Management Information System
3 53 (3.43%) Product Ownership
4 45 (2.92%) Onboarding
5 36 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
6 32 (2.07%) Data Centre
7 30 (1.94%) Security Posture
8 28 (1.81%) Driving Licence
8 28 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
9 26 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
10 25 (1.62%) Blog
11 22 (1.43%) FPGA
12 18 (1.17%) Security Operations Centre
13 17 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
13 17 (1.10%) Public Cloud
14 15 (0.97%) Algorithms
14 15 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
15 14 (0.91%) AI Agents
15 14 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
16 11 (0.71%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 110 (7.13%) Linux
2 96 (6.22%) Windows
3 42 (2.72%) Windows Server
4 31 (2.01%) Unix
5 14 (0.91%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.32%) VxWorks
7 4 (0.26%) Kali Linux
7 4 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.26%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.19%) Android
8 3 (0.19%) Solaris
8 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.13%) AIX
9 2 (0.13%) FreeRTOS
9 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.065%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.065%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 427 (27.67%) Agile
2 305 (19.77%) Continuous Improvement
3 273 (17.69%) Mentoring
4 241 (15.62%) Software Engineering
5 233 (15.10%) Cybersecurity
6 229 (14.84%) Problem-Solving
7 226 (14.65%) CI/CD
8 200 (12.96%) AI
8 200 (12.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 199 (12.90%) DevOps
10 174 (11.28%) Stakeholder Management
11 166 (10.76%) Analytics
12 160 (10.37%) Coaching
12 160 (10.37%) Decision-Making
13 148 (9.59%) Community of Practice
14 143 (9.27%) Technical Leadership
15 135 (8.75%) Technology Strategy
16 134 (8.68%) Infrastructure as Code
17 127 (8.23%) Project Delivery
18 121 (7.84%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 187 (12.12%) Python
2 138 (8.94%) Java
3 116 (7.52%) SQL
4 89 (5.77%) JavaScript
5 54 (3.50%) C#
6 51 (3.31%) C++
7 44 (2.85%) Bash
8 39 (2.53%) PowerShell
9 27 (1.75%) TypeScript
10 23 (1.49%) MATLAB
11 19 (1.23%) Ada
11 19 (1.23%) C
12 16 (1.04%) PL/SQL
13 15 (0.97%) Kusto Query Language
14 13 (0.84%) Bicep
14 13 (0.84%) DataWeave
15 12 (0.78%) Ruby
16 9 (0.58%) Go
17 7 (0.45%) Rust
17 7 (0.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,543 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 275 (17.82%) DV Cleared
3 271 (17.56%) Degree
4 184 (11.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 70 (4.54%) CISSP
6 54 (3.50%) CISM
7 48 (3.11%) Azure Certification
8 43 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
9 41 (2.66%) AWS Certification
10 29 (1.88%) Master's Degree
11 22 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
12 20 (1.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 18 (1.17%) Chartered Engineer
13 18 (1.17%) PhD
14 16 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
15 15 (0.97%) CRISC
15 15 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
16 14 (0.91%) CHECK Team Member
16 14 (0.91%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 12 (0.78%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (10.05%) Accessibility
2 126 (8.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 76 (4.93%) NIST
4 61 (3.95%) NCSC
5 47 (3.05%) QA
6 45 (2.92%) Data Quality
7 33 (2.14%) GDPR
8 31 (2.01%) GRC
9 26 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
10 22 (1.43%) SLA
11 19 (1.23%) PCI DSS
12 18 (1.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 17 (1.10%) WCAG
14 15 (0.97%) Def Stans
15 14 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
16 10 (0.65%) JSP 440
17 7 (0.45%) NIST 800
18 6 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 6 (0.39%) PMO
19 5 (0.32%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 94 (6.09%) Docker
2 49 (3.18%) Active Directory
3 33 (2.14%) Firmware
4 31 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (1.36%) Hyper-V
6 15 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.39%) Squid
7 6 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.39%) vSphere
8 4 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.065%) IAG
11 1 (0.065%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 105 (6.80%) Kubernetes
2 39 (2.53%) Microsoft Intune
3 30 (1.94%) Ansible
4 24 (1.56%) Grafana
5 15 (0.97%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.84%) CloudHub
7 12 (0.78%) Argo
8 11 (0.71%) Nmap
9 8 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.45%) Kustomize
11 6 (0.39%) Istio
12 5 (0.32%) Packer
13 4 (0.26%) Kibana
14 3 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
14 3 (0.19%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.19%) SCCM
14 3 (0.19%) vCenter Server
15 2 (0.13%) CASB
15 2 (0.13%) Graylog
15 2 (0.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 232 (15.04%) Microsoft
2 65 (4.21%) ServiceNow
3 58 (3.76%) Oracle
4 54 (3.50%) Google
5 44 (2.85%) SAP
6 43 (2.79%) VMware
7 22 (1.43%) YouTube
8 20 (1.30%) Cisco
8 20 (1.30%) Databricks
8 20 (1.30%) Salesforce
9 19 (1.23%) Red Hat
9 19 (1.23%) Workday
10 16 (1.04%) OpenAI
11 15 (0.97%) MuleSoft
11 15 (0.97%) Thales
11 15 (0.97%) Veeam
12 13 (0.84%) CyberArk
13 12 (0.78%) Adobe
13 12 (0.78%) Dynatrace
14 11 (0.71%) Siemens