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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 68 64
Rank change year-on-year +33 -4 +3
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 947 654 1,333
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.76% 4.42% 4.68%
As % of the Qualifications category 19.60% 14.98% 17.37%
Number of salaries quoted 697 420 973
10th Percentile £43,649 £44,106 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £54,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,627 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.58% +7.71% -4.00%
75th Percentile £78,790 £76,250 £79,600
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,100 £88,750
UK median annual salary £62,772 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.62% +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 4,832 4,367 7,676
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 29.38% 29.51% 26.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,608 2,396 5,610
10th Percentile £31,084 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,658 £42,500
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 £90,000 £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 1 March 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 (3.38%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.63%) Confluence
5 5 (0.53%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.42%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.42%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.42%) Oracle Spatial
7 3 (0.32%) Apache
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%) Camunda
9 1 (0.11%) IIS
9 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 75 (7.92%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (2.85%) Adobe XD
3 12 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.42%) InVision
4 4 (0.42%) Sketch
5 3 (0.32%) Simulink
6 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.21%) Weka
7 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.11%) EPLAN
7 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.11%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 18 (1.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (1.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.42%) Primavera
5 3 (0.32%) SAP PM
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%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 223 (23.55%) Azure
2 188 (19.85%) AWS
3 128 (13.52%) Microsoft 365
4 68 (7.18%) GCP
5 52 (5.49%) Entra ID
6 40 (4.22%) Power Platform
7 32 (3.38%) AWS CloudFormation
8 30 (3.17%) PowerApps
9 28 (2.96%) Figma
10 25 (2.64%) Amazon ECS
10 25 (2.64%) Power Automate
11 24 (2.53%) Serverless
12 21 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
12 21 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
13 20 (2.11%) PaaS
14 19 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
14 19 (2.01%) GitHub
15 18 (1.90%) SaaS
15 18 (1.90%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 18 (1.90%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 36 (3.80%) Firewall
2 31 (3.27%) VPN
3 21 (2.22%) WAN
4 20 (2.11%) LAN
5 17 (1.80%) DNS
6 16 (1.69%) Network Security
6 16 (1.69%) TCP/IP
6 16 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
7 15 (1.58%) BGP
8 12 (1.27%) MPLS
9 11 (1.16%) DHCP
10 9 (0.95%) SMTP
11 7 (0.74%) Ethernet
11 7 (0.74%) HTTP
12 6 (0.63%) Cisco Firepower
12 6 (0.63%) SD-WAN
12 6 (0.63%) SNMP
13 5 (0.53%) Cisco ASA
13 5 (0.53%) IPsec
13 5 (0.53%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (4.01%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (3.27%) Power BI
3 17 (1.80%) NoSQL
4 16 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (1.37%) Metadata
6 13 (1.37%) Redis
6 13 (1.37%) SQL Server
7 12 (1.27%) MongoDB
8 11 (1.16%) Relational Database
9 9 (0.95%) MySQL
10 6 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (0.63%) DynamoDB
10 6 (0.63%) SAP HANA
11 5 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (0.53%) Big Data
12 4 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (0.42%) BigQuery
12 4 (0.42%) GIS
12 4 (0.42%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 40 (4.22%) Git
2 26 (2.75%) Balsamiq
3 24 (2.53%) Axure RP
3 24 (2.53%) Jenkins
4 18 (1.90%) GitLab
5 17 (1.80%) JIRA
6 14 (1.48%) Selenium
7 9 (0.95%) Cypress.io
8 7 (0.74%) Burp Suite
8 7 (0.74%) Metasploit
8 7 (0.74%) WebDriver
9 6 (0.63%) Babel
9 6 (0.63%) webpack
10 4 (0.42%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.32%) JUnit
11 3 (0.32%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.32%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (0.32%) Rational Rhapsody
12 2 (0.21%) JMeter
12 2 (0.21%) Maven
General
1 321 (33.90%) Social Skills
2 261 (27.56%) Public Sector
3 132 (13.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 119 (12.57%) Finance
5 116 (12.25%) Analytical Skills
6 97 (10.24%) Law
7 61 (6.44%) Back Office
8 58 (6.12%) Telecoms
9 57 (6.02%) Manufacturing
10 40 (4.22%) Electronics
11 39 (4.12%) Marketing
12 24 (2.53%) Legal
13 21 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
13 21 (2.22%) Retail
14 18 (1.90%) Aerospace
15 16 (1.69%) Military
16 12 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
17 10 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
18 9 (0.95%) Aviation
19 5 (0.53%) Games
Job Titles
1 173 (18.27%) Senior
2 119 (12.57%) Consultant
3 100 (10.56%) Architect
4 94 (9.93%) Developer
5 77 (8.13%) Support Engineer
6 76 (8.03%) Analyst
7 66 (6.97%) Lead
8 64 (6.76%) Site Engineer
9 60 (6.34%) Desktop Engineer
9 60 (6.34%) Desktop Support
9 60 (6.34%) Desktop Support Engineer
10 43 (4.54%) Security Consultant
11 40 (4.22%) Business Analyst
12 37 (3.91%) Software Engineer
12 37 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
13 35 (3.70%) Data Engineer
14 34 (3.59%) Senior Developer
15 29 (3.06%) Designer
16 25 (2.64%) Cloud Engineer
17 24 (2.53%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (4.96%) React
2 44 (4.65%) .NET
3 37 (3.91%) REST
4 32 (3.38%) HTML
5 31 (3.27%) CSS
6 28 (2.96%) Spring
7 24 (2.53%) SOAP
8 23 (2.43%) Django
8 23 (2.43%) SAP CAF
9 21 (2.22%) Middleware
10 20 (2.11%) Spring Boot
11 18 (1.90%) Lightning Web Components
11 18 (1.90%) Visualforce
12 17 (1.80%) Node.js
13 16 (1.69%) HTML5 Canvas
13 16 (1.69%) Kafka
14 13 (1.37%) AngularJS
14 13 (1.37%) ASP.NET
15 11 (1.16%) RESTful
16 9 (0.95%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 61 (6.44%) Cloud Native
2 55 (5.81%) Product Ownership
3 35 (3.70%) Data Centre
4 30 (3.17%) Onboarding
5 25 (2.64%) Management Information System
5 25 (2.64%) Security Posture
6 20 (2.11%) e-Learning
7 16 (1.69%) Driving Licence
7 16 (1.69%) PKI
8 14 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
8 14 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.37%) Algorithms
9 13 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
11 9 (0.95%) AI Agents
11 9 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (0.84%) Private Cloud
12 8 (0.84%) Security Operations Centre
13 7 (0.74%) Insider Threat
13 7 (0.74%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 109 (11.51%) Windows
2 70 (7.39%) Linux
3 65 (6.86%) Windows 10
4 29 (3.06%) Unix
5 14 (1.48%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.95%) 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%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (23.76%) Agile
2 161 (17.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 153 (16.16%) Cybersecurity
4 143 (15.10%) Problem-Solving
5 134 (14.15%) Analytics
6 121 (12.78%) DevOps
7 111 (11.72%) ITIL
8 108 (11.40%) Software Engineering
9 104 (10.98%) CI/CD
10 94 (9.93%) Community of Practice
11 89 (9.40%) Mentoring
12 88 (9.29%) Technology Strategy
13 74 (7.81%) Infrastructure as Code
14 72 (7.60%) User Experience
15 71 (7.50%) Business Intelligence
16 70 (7.39%) Computer Science
17 68 (7.18%) Collaborative Culture
17 68 (7.18%) Customer Service
18 65 (6.86%) Patch Management
19 64 (6.76%) AI
Programming Languages
1 132 (13.94%) Python
2 105 (11.09%) Java
3 93 (9.82%) JavaScript
4 53 (5.60%) C#
5 46 (4.86%) SQL
6 33 (3.48%) TypeScript
7 29 (3.06%) PowerShell
8 21 (2.22%) C++
9 18 (1.90%) Apex Code
10 17 (1.80%) Bicep
11 15 (1.58%) Bash
11 15 (1.58%) C
12 8 (0.84%) Go
13 6 (0.63%) Google Apps Script
13 6 (0.63%) MATLAB
13 6 (0.63%) Rust
13 6 (0.63%) Scala
13 6 (0.63%) VBA
14 4 (0.42%) Ruby
15 3 (0.32%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 947 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 292 (30.83%) Degree
3 129 (13.62%) DV Cleared
4 65 (6.86%) CISSP
5 60 (6.34%) CTC Cleared
6 54 (5.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 53 (5.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 51 (5.39%) CISM
9 50 (5.28%) Computer Science Degree
10 37 (3.91%) Cisco Certification
11 36 (3.80%) Azure Certification
12 27 (2.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 26 (2.75%) AWS Certification
14 22 (2.32%) CCNA
15 16 (1.69%) Master's Degree
16 14 (1.48%) TOGAF Certification
17 13 (1.37%) CCNP
18 12 (1.27%) CREST Certified
18 12 (1.27%) CRISC
19 11 (1.16%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (7.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 65 (6.86%) SLA
3 57 (6.02%) NIST
4 55 (5.81%) Accessibility
5 40 (4.22%) GDPR
6 34 (3.59%) QA
7 32 (3.38%) GRC
8 25 (2.64%) WCAG
9 13 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
10 12 (1.27%) Data Quality
10 12 (1.27%) NCSC
11 11 (1.16%) JSP 440
12 10 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 9 (0.95%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.53%) NIST 800
16 4 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
16 4 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 3 (0.32%) NEBOSH
17 3 (0.32%) PMO
System Software
1 62 (6.55%) Docker
2 27 (2.85%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.27%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.95%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.74%) Firmware
6 7 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.11%) vSphere
8 1 (0.11%) Xen
Systems Management
1 80 (8.45%) Terraform
2 62 (6.55%) Kubernetes
3 33 (3.48%) Ansible
4 23 (2.43%) Grafana
5 13 (1.37%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.74%) Nmap
8 6 (0.63%) Endace
8 6 (0.63%) Puppet
8 6 (0.63%) SCOM
9 5 (0.53%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.53%) Kibana
10 4 (0.42%) Nagios
10 4 (0.42%) SCCM
10 4 (0.42%) WSUS
10 4 (0.42%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.32%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.32%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.21%) Argo
Vendors
1 165 (17.42%) Microsoft
2 116 (12.25%) Cisco
3 58 (6.12%) Google
4 54 (5.70%) SAP
5 46 (4.86%) Salesforce
6 27 (2.85%) Adobe
7 23 (2.43%) VMware
8 20 (2.11%) Oracle
9 18 (1.90%) MuleSoft
10 13 (1.37%) Juniper
11 12 (1.27%) F5
12 11 (1.16%) Red Hat
12 11 (1.16%) ServiceNow
13 10 (1.06%) CheckPoint
14 9 (0.95%) CyberArk
14 9 (0.95%) Meraki
15 8 (0.84%) Splunk
16 7 (0.74%) Remedy
17 6 (0.63%) BMC
18 5 (0.53%) Dell