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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 75 47
Rank change year-on-year +42 -28 -4
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 1,523 737 1,118
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.15% 4.46% 4.88%
As % of the Qualifications category 29.66% 12.32% 17.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,035 434 722
10th Percentile £46,500 £42,206 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £49,775
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £79,225
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £91,125
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 5,135 5,983 6,288
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.72% 36.22% 27.45%
Number of salaries quoted 3,214 2,314 2,927
10th Percentile £33,250 £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 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,525
% change year-on-year +9.09% -2.70% -3.79%

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 26 September 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 28 (1.84%) Apache Spark
2 25 (1.64%) SharePoint
3 22 (1.44%) Apache
4 13 (0.85%) Anypoint
4 13 (0.85%) Mule
5 12 (0.79%) Confluence
6 10 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (0.66%) Oracle Workflow
7 8 (0.53%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.53%) nginx
7 8 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 7 (0.46%) Camunda
9 4 (0.26%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.26%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.26%) Oracle Spatial
10 3 (0.20%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.066%) Appian
11 1 (0.066%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.066%) WordPress
Applications
1 29 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (1.12%) Simulink
4 15 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.46%) Adobe XD
7 6 (0.39%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.26%) Mathcad
8 4 (0.26%) Windchill
9 2 (0.13%) InDesign
9 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.066%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.066%) Houdini
10 1 (0.066%) InVision
10 1 (0.066%) NUKE
10 1 (0.066%) Sketch
10 1 (0.066%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.066%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 11 (0.72%) Primavera
2 8 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.46%) Workday HCM
4 6 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.33%) Teamcenter
6 4 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.20%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.20%) SAP PSCD
7 3 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.13%) SAP QM
9 1 (0.066%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
9 1 (0.066%) Oracle Cash Management
9 1 (0.066%) Oracle EBS R12
9 1 (0.066%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 1 (0.066%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.066%) SAP BPC
9 1 (0.066%) SAP EWM
9 1 (0.066%) SAP GRC
9 1 (0.066%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 385 (25.28%) Azure
2 353 (23.18%) AWS
3 114 (7.49%) GCP
4 74 (4.86%) Microsoft 365
5 73 (4.79%) Power Platform
6 66 (4.33%) Entra ID
7 42 (2.76%) GitHub
8 38 (2.50%) dbt
9 36 (2.36%) AWS CloudFormation
10 35 (2.30%) Serverless
11 32 (2.10%) Amazon S3
11 32 (2.10%) Azure DevOps
12 23 (1.51%) OpenShift
13 22 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
13 22 (1.44%) Microsoft Purview
14 19 (1.25%) Azure Sentinel
14 19 (1.25%) Google Analytics
15 18 (1.18%) Azure Monitor
16 17 (1.12%) Amazon EC2
17 16 (1.05%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (2.89%) Network Security
2 34 (2.23%) Firewall
3 29 (1.90%) TCP/IP
4 25 (1.64%) DNS
5 16 (1.05%) SSL
6 13 (0.85%) VPN
7 11 (0.72%) Wireless
8 10 (0.66%) ATM
9 9 (0.59%) Ethernet
9 9 (0.59%) WAN
10 8 (0.53%) DHCP
11 6 (0.39%) BGP
12 5 (0.33%) Unified Communications
12 5 (0.33%) VLAN
12 5 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (0.26%) Internet
13 4 (0.26%) LAN
13 4 (0.26%) MPLS
13 4 (0.26%) SAN
14 3 (0.20%) 3GPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (4.01%) Power BI
2 43 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (1.51%) Big Data
5 21 (1.38%) Amazon Athena
6 19 (1.25%) SQL Server
7 18 (1.18%) Metadata
7 18 (1.18%) Relational Database
8 17 (1.12%) Data Lake
9 15 (0.98%) Tableau
10 14 (0.92%) DynamoDB
11 13 (0.85%) MySQL
12 10 (0.66%) Hadoop
13 7 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (0.46%) NoSQL
13 7 (0.46%) Redis
14 6 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (0.39%) GIS
14 6 (0.39%) Parquet
15 5 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 66 (4.33%) Git
2 33 (2.17%) GitLab
3 27 (1.77%) JIRA
4 26 (1.71%) Jenkins
5 22 (1.44%) JUnit
5 22 (1.44%) Rational DOORS
6 15 (0.98%) Selenium
7 13 (0.85%) Mockito
8 10 (0.66%) Burp Suite
8 10 (0.66%) Maven
8 10 (0.66%) Metasploit
9 9 (0.59%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.59%) Postman
10 8 (0.53%) Balsamiq
11 7 (0.46%) Cypress.io
12 6 (0.39%) Axure RP
12 6 (0.39%) Gatling
12 6 (0.39%) LabVIEW
13 3 (0.20%) Snyk
13 3 (0.20%) SonarQube
General
1 443 (29.09%) Social Skills
2 359 (23.57%) Public Sector
3 345 (22.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 297 (19.50%) Finance
5 179 (11.75%) Analytical Skills
6 165 (10.83%) Aerospace
7 145 (9.52%) Law
8 59 (3.87%) Legal
9 51 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
9 51 (3.35%) Retail
10 50 (3.28%) Electronics
10 50 (3.28%) Military
11 43 (2.82%) Police
12 42 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
12 42 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
13 33 (2.17%) Manufacturing
14 21 (1.38%) Telecoms
15 14 (0.92%) Local Government
16 13 (0.85%) Aviation
17 11 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 303 (19.89%) Senior
2 251 (16.48%) Architect
3 145 (9.52%) Software Engineer
4 140 (9.19%) Lead
5 132 (8.67%) Consultant
6 119 (7.81%) Developer
7 113 (7.42%) Analyst
8 85 (5.58%) Solutions Architect
9 72 (4.73%) Principal Engineer
10 70 (4.60%) Data Engineer
11 55 (3.61%) Senior Manager
12 51 (3.35%) Security Consultant
13 49 (3.22%) Cloud Engineer
14 48 (3.15%) DevOps Engineer
15 45 (2.95%) Security Architect
16 41 (2.69%) Java Engineer
16 41 (2.69%) Senior Analyst
16 41 (2.69%) Senior Developer
17 40 (2.63%) Business Analyst
17 40 (2.63%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (7.22%) Terraform
2 52 (3.41%) React
3 37 (2.43%) REST
3 37 (2.43%) Spring
4 36 (2.36%) .NET
5 26 (1.71%) CSS
6 23 (1.51%) PySpark
7 22 (1.44%) HTML
8 21 (1.38%) Node.js
8 21 (1.38%) Playwright
9 20 (1.31%) .NET Core
10 19 (1.25%) AngularJS
10 19 (1.25%) Kafka
11 18 (1.18%) OAuth
12 16 (1.05%) JSON
13 15 (0.98%) JWT
13 15 (0.98%) OAuth2
13 15 (0.98%) Spring Boot
14 14 (0.92%) Entity Framework
15 13 (0.85%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 109 (7.16%) Cloud Native
2 62 (4.07%) Management Information System
3 50 (3.28%) Product Ownership
4 44 (2.89%) Onboarding
5 36 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
6 30 (1.97%) Data Centre
7 29 (1.90%) Security Posture
8 28 (1.84%) Driving Licence
8 28 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
9 26 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
10 25 (1.64%) Blog
11 22 (1.44%) FPGA
12 18 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
12 18 (1.18%) Security Operations Centre
13 16 (1.05%) Public Cloud
14 15 (0.98%) Algorithms
14 15 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
14 15 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
15 14 (0.92%) AI Agents
16 12 (0.79%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 109 (7.16%) Linux
2 95 (6.24%) Windows
3 42 (2.76%) Windows Server
4 31 (2.04%) Unix
5 14 (0.92%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.33%) VxWorks
7 4 (0.26%) Kali Linux
7 4 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.26%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.20%) Android
8 3 (0.20%) Solaris
8 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.13%) AIX
9 2 (0.13%) FreeRTOS
9 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.066%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.066%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.066%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 422 (27.71%) Agile
2 296 (19.44%) Continuous Improvement
3 267 (17.53%) Mentoring
4 239 (15.69%) Software Engineering
5 228 (14.97%) Cybersecurity
6 222 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
7 219 (14.38%) CI/CD
8 199 (13.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 195 (12.80%) DevOps
10 188 (12.34%) AI
11 173 (11.36%) Stakeholder Management
12 163 (10.70%) Analytics
13 159 (10.44%) Decision-Making
14 152 (9.98%) Coaching
15 148 (9.72%) Community of Practice
16 138 (9.06%) Technical Leadership
17 133 (8.73%) Technology Strategy
18 131 (8.60%) Infrastructure as Code
19 125 (8.21%) Project Delivery
20 118 (7.75%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 182 (11.95%) Python
2 138 (9.06%) Java
3 113 (7.42%) SQL
4 88 (5.78%) JavaScript
5 54 (3.55%) C#
6 53 (3.48%) C++
7 43 (2.82%) Bash
8 40 (2.63%) PowerShell
9 28 (1.84%) TypeScript
10 23 (1.51%) MATLAB
11 19 (1.25%) Ada
11 19 (1.25%) C
12 15 (0.98%) PL/SQL
13 14 (0.92%) Kusto Query Language
14 13 (0.85%) Bicep
14 13 (0.85%) DataWeave
15 12 (0.79%) Ruby
16 8 (0.53%) Rust
16 8 (0.53%) VBA
17 7 (0.46%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,523 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 280 (18.38%) DV Cleared
3 274 (17.99%) Degree
4 186 (12.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 70 (4.60%) CISSP
6 55 (3.61%) CISM
7 48 (3.15%) Azure Certification
8 44 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
9 40 (2.63%) AWS Certification
10 30 (1.97%) Master's Degree
11 22 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
12 20 (1.31%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 18 (1.18%) Chartered Engineer
13 18 (1.18%) PhD
14 16 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
15 15 (0.98%) CRISC
15 15 (0.98%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 15 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
16 13 (0.85%) CHECK Team Member
17 12 (0.79%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (10.18%) Accessibility
2 127 (8.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 76 (4.99%) NIST
4 61 (4.01%) NCSC
5 48 (3.15%) QA
6 43 (2.82%) Data Quality
7 32 (2.10%) GDPR
7 32 (2.10%) GRC
8 26 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
9 22 (1.44%) SLA
10 19 (1.25%) PCI DSS
11 18 (1.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 18 (1.18%) WCAG
12 15 (0.98%) Def Stans
13 14 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
14 10 (0.66%) JSP 440
15 7 (0.46%) NIST 800
16 6 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.39%) PMO
17 5 (0.33%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 91 (5.98%) Docker
2 49 (3.22%) Active Directory
3 34 (2.23%) Firmware
4 32 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (1.31%) Hyper-V
6 16 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.46%) vSphere
8 6 (0.39%) Squid
9 5 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
11 3 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.20%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.066%) Embedded Firmware
13 1 (0.066%) IAG
13 1 (0.066%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 102 (6.70%) Kubernetes
2 39 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 30 (1.97%) Ansible
4 23 (1.51%) Grafana
5 15 (0.98%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.85%) CloudHub
7 12 (0.79%) Argo
8 10 (0.66%) Nmap
9 8 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.46%) Kustomize
11 6 (0.39%) Istio
12 5 (0.33%) Packer
13 4 (0.26%) vCenter Server
14 3 (0.20%) Kibana
14 3 (0.20%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.20%) SCCM
15 2 (0.13%) CASB
15 2 (0.13%) Graylog
15 2 (0.13%) Oracle RMAN
16 1 (0.066%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 230 (15.10%) Microsoft
2 63 (4.14%) ServiceNow
3 56 (3.68%) Oracle
4 55 (3.61%) Google
5 43 (2.82%) VMware
6 42 (2.76%) SAP
7 20 (1.31%) Cisco
7 20 (1.31%) Salesforce
8 19 (1.25%) Red Hat
8 19 (1.25%) Workday
9 18 (1.18%) Databricks
10 16 (1.05%) OpenAI
10 16 (1.05%) YouTube
11 15 (0.98%) MuleSoft
12 14 (0.92%) CyberArk
12 14 (0.92%) Thales
12 14 (0.92%) Veeam
13 13 (0.85%) Adobe
14 12 (0.79%) Okta
15 11 (0.72%) Dynatrace