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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 104 63
Rank change year-on-year +68 -41 -6
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 1,170 559 1,340
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.65% 3.52% 4.01%
As % of the Qualifications category 26.82% 10.41% 15.04%
Number of salaries quoted 919 375 1,001
10th Percentile £46,250 £44,279 £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 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,700 £90,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £61,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.76% +6.96% -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 4,362 5,372 8,908
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 21.05% 33.81% 26.64%
Number of salaries quoted 3,027 2,407 5,757
10th Percentile £33,250 £28,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,300 £60,000 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year +3.83% +6.15% -5.79%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £88,750 £86,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,777
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.21% -12.04%

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 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 (2.65%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.45%) Apache
3 15 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (1.11%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.60%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.51%) Anypoint
7 6 (0.51%) 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 (0.085%) Appian
10 1 (0.085%) nginx
10 1 (0.085%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.085%) Site Server
Applications
1 41 (3.50%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.68%) Adobe XD
4 7 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.34%) Windchill
6 3 (0.26%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.17%) InVision
7 2 (0.17%) Sketch
7 2 (0.17%) Weka
8 1 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.085%) CATIA
8 1 (0.085%) Houdini
8 1 (0.085%) NUKE
8 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
1 305 (26.07%) Azure
2 269 (22.99%) AWS
3 103 (8.80%) Microsoft 365
4 88 (7.52%) GCP
5 71 (6.07%) Entra ID
6 51 (4.36%) Power Platform
7 26 (2.22%) GitHub
8 22 (1.88%) SaaS
9 21 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
9 21 (1.79%) Serverless
10 19 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
10 19 (1.62%) PaaS
11 18 (1.54%) Google Analytics
12 17 (1.45%) Amazon S3
12 17 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (1.45%) PowerApps
13 16 (1.37%) Azure Sentinel
14 15 (1.28%) Amazon EC2
14 15 (1.28%) Microsoft Purview
15 13 (1.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 38 (3.25%) Network Security
2 27 (2.31%) Firewall
3 23 (1.97%) WAN
4 22 (1.88%) VPN
5 18 (1.54%) TCP/IP
6 17 (1.45%) DNS
7 15 (1.28%) LAN
8 14 (1.20%) BGP
9 13 (1.11%) DHCP
10 12 (1.03%) MPLS
11 10 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (0.77%) SMTP
12 9 (0.77%) SSL
13 7 (0.60%) Intrusion Detection
13 7 (0.60%) SNMP
14 6 (0.51%) HTTP
15 5 (0.43%) Cisco Firepower
16 4 (0.34%) ATM
16 4 (0.34%) MQTT
16 4 (0.34%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (3.33%) Power BI
2 34 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (1.20%) Metadata
4 12 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
4 12 (1.03%) Big Data
5 11 (0.94%) Redis
6 10 (0.85%) DynamoDB
6 10 (0.85%) MongoDB
6 10 (0.85%) NoSQL
7 8 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (0.51%) Data Lake
9 5 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (0.43%) BigQuery
9 5 (0.43%) SQL Server
9 5 (0.43%) Tableau
10 4 (0.34%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.26%) Flink
11 3 (0.26%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 43 (3.68%) Git
2 35 (2.99%) GitLab
3 25 (2.14%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.11%) JUnit
4 13 (1.11%) Selenium
5 10 (0.85%) JIRA
6 8 (0.68%) Maven
7 7 (0.60%) Mockito
8 6 (0.51%) Axure RP
8 6 (0.51%) Balsamiq
8 6 (0.51%) Burp Suite
8 6 (0.51%) Metasploit
9 5 (0.43%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.43%) Postman
10 4 (0.34%) JMeter
11 3 (0.26%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.26%) SoapUI
11 3 (0.26%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.17%) Babel
12 2 (0.17%) webpack
General
1 333 (28.46%) Social Skills
2 308 (26.32%) Public Sector
3 159 (13.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 121 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
5 117 (10.00%) Finance
6 103 (8.80%) Law
7 44 (3.76%) Legal
8 41 (3.50%) Presentation Skills
9 38 (3.25%) Back Office
10 32 (2.74%) Telecoms
11 27 (2.31%) Retail
12 26 (2.22%) Manufacturing
13 22 (1.88%) Aerospace
13 22 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
14 19 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (1.03%) Military
16 11 (0.94%) Aviation
17 10 (0.85%) Police
18 8 (0.68%) Automotive
19 7 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 231 (19.74%) Senior
2 184 (15.73%) Architect
3 128 (10.94%) Consultant
4 102 (8.72%) Developer
5 96 (8.21%) Lead
6 83 (7.09%) Solutions Architect
7 82 (7.01%) Analyst
8 76 (6.50%) Software Engineer
9 53 (4.53%) Security Consultant
10 51 (4.36%) Support Engineer
11 50 (4.27%) Data Engineer
12 46 (3.93%) Senior Manager
13 44 (3.76%) Cloud Engineer
14 41 (3.50%) Security Architect
15 40 (3.42%) Java Developer
16 39 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
16 39 (3.33%) Senior Analyst
17 38 (3.25%) Site Engineer
18 36 (3.08%) Business Analyst
19 35 (2.99%) Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (3.33%) REST
2 34 (2.91%) Spring
3 27 (2.31%) .NET
4 25 (2.14%) React
5 18 (1.54%) SOAP
6 17 (1.45%) Spring Boot
7 15 (1.28%) Middleware
7 15 (1.28%) Playwright
8 14 (1.20%) CSS
8 14 (1.20%) HTML
9 12 (1.03%) Kafka
9 12 (1.03%) Lightning Web Components
9 12 (1.03%) Visualforce
10 10 (0.85%) RESTful
11 9 (0.77%) SAML
12 8 (0.68%) Django
12 8 (0.68%) HTML5 Canvas
12 8 (0.68%) Node.js
12 8 (0.68%) YAML
13 7 (0.60%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 89 (7.61%) Cloud Native
2 54 (4.62%) Product Ownership
3 45 (3.85%) Management Information System
4 41 (3.50%) Onboarding
5 34 (2.91%) Security Posture
6 33 (2.82%) Data Centre
7 23 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
8 18 (1.54%) Driving Licence
8 18 (1.54%) PKI
9 17 (1.45%) Blog
10 13 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (1.03%) Security Operations Centre
12 10 (0.85%) Low-Code
13 9 (0.77%) Public Cloud
14 8 (0.68%) Data Structures
15 7 (0.60%) AI Agents
15 7 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
15 7 (0.60%) Cyber Threat
15 7 (0.60%) Distributed Systems
15 7 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 97 (8.29%) Windows
2 73 (6.24%) Linux
3 38 (3.25%) Windows 10
4 27 (2.31%) Windows Server
5 22 (1.88%) 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 (0.085%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.085%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.085%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.085%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (22.74%) Agile
2 204 (17.44%) Continuous Improvement
3 176 (15.04%) Cybersecurity
4 159 (13.59%) Mentoring
5 149 (12.74%) CI/CD
6 148 (12.65%) DevOps
7 139 (11.88%) Problem-Solving
8 114 (9.74%) Software Engineering
9 113 (9.66%) Community of Practice
10 110 (9.40%) Analytics
10 110 (9.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 109 (9.32%) ITIL
12 103 (8.80%) Technology Strategy
13 99 (8.46%) Infrastructure as Code
14 98 (8.38%) Stakeholder Management
15 82 (7.01%) Cloud Security
16 80 (6.84%) Risk Management
17 79 (6.75%) Decision-Making
18 77 (6.58%) Technical Leadership
19 74 (6.32%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 133 (11.37%) Python
2 120 (10.26%) Java
3 69 (5.90%) SQL
4 64 (5.47%) JavaScript
5 32 (2.74%) C#
6 30 (2.56%) C++
7 29 (2.48%) Bash
7 29 (2.48%) PowerShell
8 24 (2.05%) TypeScript
9 12 (1.03%) Apex Code
10 9 (0.77%) Rust
11 7 (0.60%) C
11 7 (0.60%) VBA
12 6 (0.51%) DataWeave
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 3 (0.26%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 1,170 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 226 (19.32%) Degree
3 175 (14.96%) DV Cleared
4 68 (5.81%) BPSS Clearance
5 63 (5.38%) CISSP
6 51 (4.36%) CISM
7 42 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 35 (2.99%) CTC Cleared
9 30 (2.56%) Azure Certification
9 30 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (1.79%) AWS Certification
11 16 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (1.37%) CRISC
12 14 (1.20%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 14 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
13 13 (1.11%) CREST Certified
13 13 (1.11%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 11 (0.94%) Master's Degree
15 9 (0.77%) HNC
16 8 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (9.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 63 (5.38%) NIST
3 51 (4.36%) SLA
4 44 (3.76%) QA
5 42 (3.59%) NCSC
6 37 (3.16%) GDPR
7 33 (2.82%) Accessibility
8 26 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
9 23 (1.97%) Data Quality
9 23 (1.97%) GRC
10 19 (1.62%) PCI DSS
11 18 (1.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 13 (1.11%) JSP 440
13 12 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
14 11 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 10 (0.85%) Def Stans
15 10 (0.85%) WCAG
16 7 (0.60%) Government Security Classifications
17 5 (0.43%) NEBOSH
17 5 (0.43%) NIST 800
System Software
1 65 (5.56%) Docker
2 42 (3.59%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.79%) Hyper-V
4 17 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.77%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.51%) vSphere
7 5 (0.43%) Firmware
7 5 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.085%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.085%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.085%) IAG
8 1 (0.085%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.085%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.085%) Squid
8 1 (0.085%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.085%) Xen
Systems Management
1 87 (7.44%) Terraform
2 70 (5.98%) Kubernetes
3 37 (3.16%) Ansible
4 31 (2.65%) 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 6 (0.51%) CloudHub
9 6 (0.51%) Kustomize
9 6 (0.51%) Nmap
9 6 (0.51%) Packer
9 6 (0.51%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.51%) Puppet
10 5 (0.43%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.43%) Endace
10 5 (0.43%) Istio
10 5 (0.43%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.34%) Kibana
12 3 (0.26%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 192 (16.41%) Microsoft
2 61 (5.21%) Cisco
3 49 (4.19%) Google
4 36 (3.08%) Oracle
5 28 (2.39%) VMware
6 24 (2.05%) Salesforce
6 24 (2.05%) ServiceNow
7 18 (1.54%) MuleSoft
8 17 (1.45%) Red Hat
8 17 (1.45%) SAP
9 13 (1.11%) CyberArk
10 9 (0.77%) Adobe
10 9 (0.77%) Databricks
11 8 (0.68%) Splunk
12 7 (0.60%) Juniper
12 7 (0.60%) Meraki
13 6 (0.51%) F5
14 5 (0.43%) OpenAI
15 4 (0.34%) BeyondTrust
15 4 (0.34%) Workday