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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 66 64
Rank change year-on-year +31 -2 +2
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 933 698 1,301
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.70% 4.55% 4.68%
As % of the Qualifications category 19.17% 15.42% 17.34%
Number of salaries quoted 687 417 962
10th Percentile £43,649 £43,799 £41,275
25th Percentile £51,250 £54,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £64,627 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% +7.71% -4.00%
75th Percentile £78,790 £76,250 £79,600
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,400 £88,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -4.17%

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 4,866 4,528 7,501
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 29.71% 29.53% 27.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,623 2,418 5,495
10th Percentile £30,962 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,879 £42,765
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £74,014 £73,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £88,750 £88,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%

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 22 February 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 32 (3.43%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.64%) Confluence
5 5 (0.54%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.43%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.43%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.43%) Oracle Spatial
7 3 (0.32%) SAS
7 3 (0.32%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.32%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.32%) WebLogic Portal
8 2 (0.21%) Apache
8 2 (0.21%) Camunda
9 1 (0.11%) IIS
9 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 75 (8.04%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (2.89%) Adobe XD
3 14 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.43%) InVision
4 4 (0.43%) Sketch
5 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.32%) Simulink
6 2 (0.21%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.21%) Weka
7 1 (0.11%) EPLAN
7 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.11%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 18 (1.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.64%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.43%) Primavera
5 3 (0.32%) SAP PM
5 3 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.21%) SAP SCM
7 1 (0.11%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.11%) SAP FSCM
7 1 (0.11%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.11%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.11%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 221 (23.69%) Azure
2 187 (20.04%) AWS
3 127 (13.61%) Microsoft 365
4 65 (6.97%) GCP
5 52 (5.57%) Entra ID
6 40 (4.29%) Power Platform
7 33 (3.54%) AWS CloudFormation
8 30 (3.22%) PowerApps
9 28 (3.00%) Figma
10 26 (2.79%) Amazon ECS
11 25 (2.68%) Power Automate
12 23 (2.47%) Serverless
13 22 (2.36%) Amazon EKS
14 21 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
15 20 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
15 20 (2.14%) GitHub
16 19 (2.04%) PaaS
17 17 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 17 (1.82%) SaaS
17 17 (1.82%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.75%) Firewall
2 30 (3.22%) VPN
3 21 (2.25%) WAN
4 19 (2.04%) LAN
5 17 (1.82%) DNS
6 16 (1.71%) Network Security
6 16 (1.71%) TCP/IP
7 15 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
8 14 (1.50%) BGP
9 12 (1.29%) MPLS
10 11 (1.18%) DHCP
11 9 (0.96%) SMTP
12 7 (0.75%) Ethernet
12 7 (0.75%) HTTP
13 6 (0.64%) Cisco Firepower
13 6 (0.64%) SD-WAN
13 6 (0.64%) SNMP
14 5 (0.54%) Cisco ASA
14 5 (0.54%) IPsec
14 5 (0.54%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (3.86%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (3.32%) Power BI
3 16 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
3 16 (1.71%) NoSQL
4 14 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
5 13 (1.39%) Redis
5 13 (1.39%) SQL Server
6 12 (1.29%) Metadata
7 11 (1.18%) MongoDB
7 11 (1.18%) Relational Database
8 9 (0.96%) MySQL
9 6 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (0.64%) SAP HANA
10 5 (0.54%) Big Data
10 5 (0.54%) BigQuery
10 5 (0.54%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.43%) GIS
11 4 (0.43%) QGIS
11 4 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 37 (3.97%) Git
2 26 (2.79%) Balsamiq
3 25 (2.68%) Jenkins
4 24 (2.57%) Axure RP
5 17 (1.82%) GitLab
6 16 (1.71%) JIRA
7 14 (1.50%) Selenium
8 9 (0.96%) Cypress.io
9 7 (0.75%) Burp Suite
9 7 (0.75%) Metasploit
9 7 (0.75%) WebDriver
10 5 (0.54%) Babel
10 5 (0.54%) webpack
11 4 (0.43%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.32%) JUnit
12 3 (0.32%) Oracle APEX
12 3 (0.32%) Oracle Forms
12 3 (0.32%) Rational Rhapsody
13 2 (0.21%) JMeter
13 2 (0.21%) TeamCity
General
1 314 (33.65%) Social Skills
2 257 (27.55%) Public Sector
3 129 (13.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 115 (12.33%) Finance
5 112 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
6 96 (10.29%) Law
7 61 (6.54%) Back Office
8 59 (6.32%) Manufacturing
9 56 (6.00%) Telecoms
10 41 (4.39%) Electronics
11 40 (4.29%) Marketing
12 22 (2.36%) Legal
13 20 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
13 20 (2.14%) Retail
14 18 (1.93%) Aerospace
15 16 (1.71%) Military
16 11 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
17 9 (0.96%) Aviation
18 5 (0.54%) Banking
Job Titles
1 168 (18.01%) Senior
2 120 (12.86%) Consultant
3 97 (10.40%) Architect
4 92 (9.86%) Developer
5 76 (8.15%) Analyst
5 76 (8.15%) Support Engineer
6 64 (6.86%) Site Engineer
7 60 (6.43%) Desktop Engineer
7 60 (6.43%) Desktop Support
7 60 (6.43%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 60 (6.43%) Lead
8 44 (4.72%) Security Consultant
9 40 (4.29%) Business Analyst
10 35 (3.75%) Solutions Architect
11 34 (3.64%) Data Engineer
11 34 (3.64%) Software Engineer
12 32 (3.43%) Senior Developer
13 30 (3.22%) Designer
14 26 (2.79%) Cloud Engineer
15 23 (2.47%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (5.04%) React
2 43 (4.61%) .NET
3 36 (3.86%) REST
4 30 (3.22%) HTML
5 29 (3.11%) CSS
6 26 (2.79%) Spring
7 24 (2.57%) SAP CAF
8 23 (2.47%) Django
8 23 (2.47%) SOAP
9 20 (2.14%) Middleware
10 18 (1.93%) Spring Boot
11 17 (1.82%) Lightning Web Components
11 17 (1.82%) Visualforce
12 16 (1.71%) HTML5 Canvas
12 16 (1.71%) Node.js
13 15 (1.61%) Kafka
14 13 (1.39%) AngularJS
14 13 (1.39%) ASP.NET
15 11 (1.18%) RESTful
16 9 (0.96%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 61 (6.54%) Cloud Native
2 54 (5.79%) Product Ownership
3 31 (3.32%) Data Centre
4 27 (2.89%) Management Information System
4 27 (2.89%) Onboarding
5 24 (2.57%) Security Posture
6 22 (2.36%) e-Learning
7 16 (1.71%) Driving Licence
7 16 (1.71%) PKI
8 14 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
9 13 (1.39%) Algorithms
9 13 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
11 9 (0.96%) AI Agents
11 9 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (0.96%) Private Cloud
12 8 (0.86%) Security Operations Centre
13 7 (0.75%) Insider Threat
13 7 (0.75%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 110 (11.79%) Windows
2 71 (7.61%) Linux
3 65 (6.97%) Windows 10
4 29 (3.11%) Unix
5 14 (1.50%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.96%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.32%) CentOS
7 3 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.32%) VMS
8 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (23.79%) Agile
2 153 (16.40%) Continuous Improvement
2 153 (16.40%) Cybersecurity
3 139 (14.90%) Problem-Solving
4 134 (14.36%) Analytics
5 122 (13.08%) DevOps
6 109 (11.68%) ITIL
7 106 (11.36%) Software Engineering
8 105 (11.25%) CI/CD
9 92 (9.86%) Community of Practice
10 89 (9.54%) Mentoring
11 85 (9.11%) Technology Strategy
12 72 (7.72%) Business Intelligence
13 71 (7.61%) Infrastructure as Code
14 70 (7.50%) User Experience
15 69 (7.40%) Collaborative Culture
16 68 (7.29%) Computer Science
16 68 (7.29%) Customer Service
17 65 (6.97%) AI
18 64 (6.86%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 132 (14.15%) Python
2 101 (10.83%) Java
3 88 (9.43%) JavaScript
4 52 (5.57%) C#
5 43 (4.61%) SQL
6 31 (3.32%) TypeScript
7 29 (3.11%) PowerShell
8 20 (2.14%) C++
9 18 (1.93%) Bicep
10 17 (1.82%) Apex Code
11 16 (1.71%) Bash
12 15 (1.61%) C
13 8 (0.86%) Go
14 7 (0.75%) MATLAB
15 6 (0.64%) Scala
15 6 (0.64%) VBA
16 5 (0.54%) Google Apps Script
16 5 (0.54%) Rust
17 4 (0.43%) Ruby
18 3 (0.32%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 933 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 287 (30.76%) Degree
3 131 (14.04%) DV Cleared
4 65 (6.97%) CISSP
5 60 (6.43%) CTC Cleared
6 55 (5.89%) BPSS Clearance
7 53 (5.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 51 (5.47%) CISM
9 49 (5.25%) Computer Science Degree
10 37 (3.97%) Cisco Certification
11 36 (3.86%) Azure Certification
12 28 (3.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 26 (2.79%) AWS Certification
14 22 (2.36%) CCNA
15 15 (1.61%) Master's Degree
16 14 (1.50%) CCNP
16 14 (1.50%) TOGAF Certification
17 12 (1.29%) CREST Certified
17 12 (1.29%) CRISC
18 11 (1.18%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (7.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 65 (6.97%) SLA
3 58 (6.22%) NIST
4 53 (5.68%) Accessibility
5 40 (4.29%) GDPR
6 33 (3.54%) GRC
7 31 (3.32%) QA
8 25 (2.68%) WCAG
9 13 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
10 12 (1.29%) NCSC
11 11 (1.18%) Data Quality
11 11 (1.18%) JSP 440
12 10 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 9 (0.96%) PCI DSS
14 7 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.54%) NIST 800
16 4 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
16 4 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 3 (0.32%) ISO 14001
17 3 (0.32%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 59 (6.32%) Docker
2 28 (3.00%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.29%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.96%) VMware NSX
6 8 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.64%) Firmware
8 5 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.21%) vSphere
10 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.11%) Xen
Systems Management
1 79 (8.47%) Terraform
2 63 (6.75%) Kubernetes
3 34 (3.64%) Ansible
4 24 (2.57%) Grafana
5 13 (1.39%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.75%) Nmap
8 6 (0.64%) Endace
8 6 (0.64%) SCOM
9 5 (0.54%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.54%) Kibana
9 5 (0.54%) Puppet
10 4 (0.43%) Nagios
10 4 (0.43%) SCCM
10 4 (0.43%) WSUS
10 4 (0.43%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.32%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.32%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.21%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 166 (17.79%) Microsoft
2 115 (12.33%) Cisco
3 58 (6.22%) Google
4 55 (5.89%) SAP
5 44 (4.72%) Salesforce
6 27 (2.89%) Adobe
7 24 (2.57%) VMware
8 19 (2.04%) Oracle
9 17 (1.82%) MuleSoft
10 13 (1.39%) Juniper
11 12 (1.29%) F5
11 12 (1.29%) ServiceNow
12 11 (1.18%) Red Hat
13 10 (1.07%) CheckPoint
14 9 (0.96%) CyberArk
14 9 (0.96%) Meraki
15 8 (0.86%) Splunk
16 7 (0.75%) Remedy
17 6 (0.64%) BMC
18 5 (0.54%) Databricks