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 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 49 42
Rank change year-on-year -19 -7 +68
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 764 1,067 1,447
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.73% 5.30% 6.32%
As % of the Qualifications category 12.54% 19.90% 22.61%
Number of salaries quoted 454 676 1,153
10th Percentile £41,325 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,894 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,108 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.51% +2.57% +2.46%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,225 £76,250
90th Percentile £88,333 £91,250 £85,977
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.35%

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 6,093 5,362 6,399
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.71% 26.62% 27.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,313 2,633 4,680
10th Percentile £30,500 £34,750 £36,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £93,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,513 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.37% +0.02% +4.55%

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 October 2025.

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 24 (3.14%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.57%) Confluence
3 9 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.79%) Appian
5 3 (0.39%) Tomcat
5 3 (0.39%) WebLogic
5 3 (0.39%) WebLogic Portal
6 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.13%) Drupal
6 1 (0.13%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.13%) IIS
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Spatial
6 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 22 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.96%) Adobe XD
3 14 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.52%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.39%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.39%) Simulink
7 2 (0.26%) Revit
8 1 (0.13%) EPLAN
8 1 (0.13%) Navisworks
Business Applications
1 45 (5.89%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 16 (2.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.52%) Primavera
5 3 (0.39%) SAP PM
6 2 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.26%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.26%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.13%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.13%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 175 (22.91%) Azure
2 143 (18.72%) AWS
3 65 (8.51%) Microsoft 365
4 46 (6.02%) Entra ID
5 43 (5.63%) Power Platform
6 32 (4.19%) AWS CloudFormation
7 31 (4.06%) GCP
8 28 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (3.27%) Serverless
10 24 (3.14%) Dynamics 365
11 22 (2.88%) Amazon ECS
11 22 (2.88%) PowerApps
12 21 (2.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 21 (2.75%) Power Automate
13 20 (2.62%) GitHub
14 19 (2.49%) Amazon EKS
14 19 (2.49%) AWS Lambda
15 18 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
16 17 (2.23%) Azure Monitor
16 17 (2.23%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 40 (5.24%) Wireless
2 38 (4.97%) Software-Defined Radio
3 37 (4.84%) Firewall
4 30 (3.93%) VPN
5 22 (2.88%) LAN
5 22 (2.88%) Network Security
6 18 (2.36%) WAN
7 16 (2.09%) Wi-Fi
8 15 (1.96%) TCP/IP
9 13 (1.70%) Junos
10 12 (1.57%) DNS
11 10 (1.31%) Ethernet
12 7 (0.92%) BGP
12 7 (0.92%) SD-WAN
13 6 (0.79%) IPsec
14 5 (0.65%) MPLS
14 5 (0.65%) SAN
14 5 (0.65%) Wireshark
15 4 (0.52%) Cisco IOS
15 4 (0.52%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (4.06%) Power BI
2 29 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (2.36%) MongoDB
4 17 (2.23%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (1.70%) NoSQL
5 13 (1.70%) SQL Server
6 10 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (1.31%) Relational Database
7 9 (1.18%) MySQL
8 8 (1.05%) Redis
9 6 (0.79%) Metadata
10 5 (0.65%) Big Data
11 3 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.39%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.39%) Neo4j
11 3 (0.39%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.39%) Oracle Discoverer
11 3 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (0.39%) SAP HANA
12 2 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 28 (3.66%) Git
2 21 (2.75%) Jenkins
3 17 (2.23%) JIRA
4 16 (2.09%) Balsamiq
5 15 (1.96%) Axure RP
6 13 (1.70%) Cypress.io
7 11 (1.44%) Selenium
8 9 (1.18%) GitLab
9 8 (1.05%) WebDriver
10 7 (0.92%) TeamCity
11 5 (0.65%) Babel
11 5 (0.65%) webpack
12 4 (0.52%) MLflow
13 3 (0.39%) Oracle APEX
13 3 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
13 3 (0.39%) Rational Rhapsody
14 2 (0.26%) JUnit
14 2 (0.26%) Metasploit
14 2 (0.26%) Mockito
14 2 (0.26%) SonarQube
General
1 244 (31.94%) Finance
2 218 (28.53%) Social Skills
3 175 (22.91%) Public Sector
4 125 (16.36%) Analytical Skills
5 83 (10.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 65 (8.51%) Law
7 41 (5.37%) Manufacturing
8 35 (4.58%) Marketing
9 33 (4.32%) Electronics
10 29 (3.80%) Telecoms
11 19 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
12 18 (2.36%) Aerospace
13 17 (2.23%) Back Office
14 11 (1.44%) Military
15 10 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (1.31%) Legal
15 10 (1.31%) Retail
16 7 (0.92%) Aviation
16 7 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
17 6 (0.79%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 109 (14.27%) Senior
2 97 (12.70%) Architect
3 91 (11.91%) Systems Engineer
4 86 (11.26%) Developer
5 60 (7.85%) Consultant
6 56 (7.33%) Administrator
7 54 (7.07%) Software Engineer
8 49 (6.41%) Systems Administrator
9 45 (5.89%) Lead
10 40 (5.24%) Analyst
11 39 (5.10%) Embedded Engineer
11 39 (5.10%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 30 (3.93%) Senior Developer
13 26 (3.40%) Designer
14 23 (3.01%) Security Architect
15 22 (2.88%) Security Consultant
16 19 (2.49%) DevOps Engineer
16 19 (2.49%) Software Developer
17 18 (2.36%) Cloud Engineer
17 18 (2.36%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (5.10%) React
2 28 (3.66%) Node.js
3 18 (2.36%) HTML
4 17 (2.23%) CSS
5 16 (2.09%) .NET
5 16 (2.09%) Django
5 16 (2.09%) Spring
5 16 (2.09%) Spring Boot
6 14 (1.83%) SAP CAF
7 13 (1.70%) HTML5 Canvas
8 11 (1.44%) Kafka
9 10 (1.31%) AngularJS
10 9 (1.18%) REST
10 9 (1.18%) RESTful
11 8 (1.05%) Playwright
11 8 (1.05%) SAP Fiori
12 7 (0.92%) SOAP
12 7 (0.92%) Web Services
13 6 (0.79%) Elastic Stack
14 5 (0.65%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 171 (22.38%) e-Learning
2 47 (6.15%) Cloud Native
3 45 (5.89%) Data Centre
4 39 (5.10%) Embedded Systems
5 38 (4.97%) MicroBlaze
5 38 (4.97%) RISC-V
6 27 (3.53%) Product Ownership
7 23 (3.01%) Management Information System
8 22 (2.88%) Hybrid Cloud
8 22 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
9 19 (2.49%) Onboarding
10 17 (2.23%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.44%) Security Posture
12 10 (1.31%) Driving Licence
12 10 (1.31%) PKI
13 9 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
13 9 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
13 9 (1.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 7 (0.92%) Private Cloud
14 7 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 145 (18.98%) Linux
2 60 (7.85%) Windows
3 46 (6.02%) Unix
4 38 (4.97%) Embedded Linux
5 18 (2.36%) Windows 10
6 17 (2.23%) Windows Server
7 9 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (1.05%) Rocky
9 5 (0.65%) CentOS
9 5 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.52%) Android
10 4 (0.52%) HPUX
10 4 (0.52%) Oracle Linux
10 4 (0.52%) Solaris
11 3 (0.39%) VMS
12 2 (0.26%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (26.05%) Agile
2 197 (25.79%) Innovative Thinking
3 143 (18.72%) Problem-Solving
4 116 (15.18%) Software Engineering
5 104 (13.61%) Cybersecurity
6 100 (13.09%) DevOps
7 97 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 94 (12.30%) CI/CD
9 73 (9.55%) Computer Science
10 67 (8.77%) Analytics
10 67 (8.77%) High Availability
11 63 (8.25%) Business Intelligence
12 61 (7.98%) Systems Engineering
13 56 (7.33%) Mentoring
14 55 (7.20%) Community of Practice
14 55 (7.20%) Infrastructure as Code
15 51 (6.68%) AI
16 50 (6.54%) Technology Strategy
17 48 (6.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 48 (6.28%) UML
Programming Languages
1 104 (13.61%) Python
2 73 (9.55%) JavaScript
3 63 (8.25%) Java
4 53 (6.94%) C
4 53 (6.94%) C++
5 44 (5.76%) SQL
6 33 (4.32%) PowerShell
7 32 (4.19%) C#
8 30 (3.93%) TypeScript
9 21 (2.75%) Bash
10 20 (2.62%) Bicep
11 10 (1.31%) Go
11 10 (1.31%) MATLAB
12 8 (1.05%) Kotlin
13 5 (0.65%) R
13 5 (0.65%) VBA
14 4 (0.52%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.52%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.52%) Scala
15 3 (0.39%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 764 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 219 (28.66%) Degree
3 146 (19.11%) DV Cleared
4 81 (10.60%) Cisco Certification
5 69 (9.03%) CCNP
6 56 (7.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 50 (6.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 43 (5.63%) CCNA
9 42 (5.50%) CISSP
10 40 (5.24%) Azure Certification
11 35 (4.58%) AWS Certification
11 35 (4.58%) CISM
12 32 (4.19%) Microsoft Certification
13 24 (3.14%) RHCSA
14 19 (2.49%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 16 (2.09%) CTC Cleared
16 15 (1.96%) Master's Degree
17 9 (1.18%) CompTIA Security+
17 9 (1.18%) JNCIA
17 9 (1.18%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (8.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 54 (7.07%) NIST
3 39 (5.10%) QA
4 35 (4.58%) Accessibility
5 21 (2.75%) GDPR
5 21 (2.75%) GRC
5 21 (2.75%) NCSC
6 20 (2.62%) SLA
7 17 (2.23%) WCAG
8 8 (1.05%) JSP 440
9 5 (0.65%) NIST 800
10 4 (0.52%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.39%) Data Quality
11 3 (0.39%) Def Stans
11 3 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 3 (0.39%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.26%) AQAP
12 2 (0.26%) ISO 19650
12 2 (0.26%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 45 (5.89%) Firmware
2 38 (4.97%) Embedded Firmware
3 34 (4.45%) Active Directory
3 34 (4.45%) Docker
4 22 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 17 (2.23%) Hyper-V
6 12 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (1.05%) vSphere
8 3 (0.39%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.26%) IAG
9 2 (0.26%) pfSense
10 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 59 (7.72%) Terraform
2 54 (7.07%) Kubernetes
3 31 (4.06%) Ansible
4 22 (2.88%) Grafana
5 6 (0.79%) Kibana
5 6 (0.79%) SCOM
6 5 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.65%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.39%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.39%) Nagios
7 3 (0.39%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (0.26%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 2 (0.26%) Endace
8 2 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.26%) Nmap
8 2 (0.26%) SCCM
8 2 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.13%) QRadar
9 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 112 (14.66%) Microsoft
2 98 (12.83%) Cisco
3 45 (5.89%) Sparx
4 43 (5.63%) SAP
5 36 (4.71%) VMware
6 28 (3.66%) Google
7 26 (3.40%) Red Hat
8 19 (2.49%) Salesforce
9 17 (2.23%) Oracle
10 16 (2.09%) Juniper
11 15 (1.96%) Adobe
12 10 (1.31%) Dell
13 8 (1.05%) Fortinet
13 8 (1.05%) ServiceNow
14 5 (0.65%) CheckPoint
14 5 (0.65%) Databricks
14 5 (0.65%) F5
15 4 (0.52%) Ariba
15 4 (0.52%) MuleSoft
15 4 (0.52%) Samsung