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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 74 49
Rank change year-on-year +41 -25 -5
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 1,528 744 1,112
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.16% 4.48% 4.89%
As % of the Qualifications category 29.73% 12.26% 17.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,039 439 710
10th Percentile £46,500 £42,064 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,625 £79,225
90th Percentile £99,000 £90,000 £90,125
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 5,140 6,070 6,258
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.74% 36.58% 27.52%
Number of salaries quoted 3,216 2,320 2,886
10th Percentile £33,013 £31,000 £34,577
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 £57,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -3.51% -3.39%

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 27 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 (1.83%) 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 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (0.65%) Oracle Workflow
7 9 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 8 (0.52%) Camunda
8 8 (0.52%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.52%) nginx
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 2 (0.13%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.13%) WebLogic Portal
12 1 (0.065%) Appian
Applications
1 29 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (1.11%) Simulink
4 15 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.39%) Adobe XD
6 6 (0.39%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.26%) Mathcad
7 4 (0.26%) Windchill
8 2 (0.13%) InDesign
8 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.065%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.065%) Houdini
9 1 (0.065%) NUKE
9 1 (0.065%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.065%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 11 (0.72%) Primavera
2 9 (0.59%) 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%) Oracle Applications
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.13%) SAP QM
9 1 (0.065%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
9 1 (0.065%) Maximo
9 1 (0.065%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.065%) SAP BPC
9 1 (0.065%) SAP EWM
9 1 (0.065%) SAP GRC
9 1 (0.065%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 385 (25.20%) Azure
2 355 (23.23%) AWS
3 114 (7.46%) GCP
4 75 (4.91%) Microsoft 365
5 73 (4.78%) Power Platform
6 67 (4.38%) Entra ID
7 42 (2.75%) GitHub
8 38 (2.49%) dbt
9 37 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
9 37 (2.42%) Serverless
10 34 (2.23%) Amazon S3
11 33 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
12 24 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
13 23 (1.51%) OpenShift
14 22 (1.44%) Microsoft Purview
15 20 (1.31%) Azure Sentinel
16 19 (1.24%) Azure Monitor
16 19 (1.24%) Google Analytics
17 18 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
18 16 (1.05%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (2.88%) Network Security
2 33 (2.16%) Firewall
3 29 (1.90%) TCP/IP
4 24 (1.57%) DNS
5 16 (1.05%) SSL
6 13 (0.85%) VPN
7 11 (0.72%) Wireless
8 10 (0.65%) ATM
9 9 (0.59%) Ethernet
9 9 (0.59%) WAN
10 8 (0.52%) 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 (3.99%) Power BI
2 43 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (1.51%) Big Data
5 21 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
6 19 (1.24%) SQL Server
7 18 (1.18%) Metadata
7 18 (1.18%) Relational Database
8 17 (1.11%) Data Lake
9 15 (0.98%) Tableau
10 14 (0.92%) DynamoDB
11 13 (0.85%) MySQL
12 10 (0.65%) Hadoop
13 7 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (0.46%) NoSQL
13 7 (0.46%) Redis
14 6 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (0.39%) GIS
14 6 (0.39%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 67 (4.38%) Git
2 33 (2.16%) GitLab
3 27 (1.77%) JIRA
4 26 (1.70%) Jenkins
5 23 (1.51%) JUnit
6 22 (1.44%) Rational DOORS
7 15 (0.98%) Selenium
8 14 (0.92%) Mockito
9 10 (0.65%) Burp Suite
9 10 (0.65%) Maven
9 10 (0.65%) Metasploit
10 9 (0.59%) Cucumber
10 9 (0.59%) Postman
11 8 (0.52%) Balsamiq
12 7 (0.46%) Cypress.io
13 6 (0.39%) Axure RP
13 6 (0.39%) Gatling
13 6 (0.39%) LabVIEW
14 3 (0.20%) Snyk
14 3 (0.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 441 (28.86%) Social Skills
2 362 (23.69%) Public Sector
3 345 (22.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 297 (19.44%) Finance
5 178 (11.65%) Analytical Skills
6 165 (10.80%) Aerospace
7 145 (9.49%) Law
8 59 (3.86%) Legal
9 51 (3.34%) Presentation Skills
9 51 (3.34%) Retail
10 50 (3.27%) Electronics
10 50 (3.27%) Military
11 43 (2.81%) Police
12 42 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
12 42 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
13 33 (2.16%) Manufacturing
14 21 (1.37%) Telecoms
15 14 (0.92%) Local Government
16 13 (0.85%) Aviation
17 10 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 305 (19.96%) Senior
2 251 (16.43%) Architect
3 147 (9.62%) Software Engineer
4 140 (9.16%) Lead
5 131 (8.57%) Consultant
6 119 (7.79%) Developer
7 113 (7.40%) Analyst
8 85 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
9 74 (4.84%) Principal Engineer
10 70 (4.58%) Data Engineer
11 59 (3.86%) Senior Manager
12 51 (3.34%) Security Consultant
13 49 (3.21%) Cloud Engineer
14 48 (3.14%) DevOps Engineer
15 45 (2.95%) Security Architect
16 41 (2.68%) Java Engineer
16 41 (2.68%) Senior Analyst
16 41 (2.68%) Senior Developer
17 40 (2.62%) Business Analyst
17 40 (2.62%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (7.26%) Terraform
2 52 (3.40%) React
3 38 (2.49%) Spring
4 37 (2.42%) REST
5 36 (2.36%) .NET
6 26 (1.70%) CSS
7 23 (1.51%) PySpark
8 22 (1.44%) HTML
9 21 (1.37%) Node.js
9 21 (1.37%) Playwright
10 20 (1.31%) .NET Core
11 19 (1.24%) AngularJS
11 19 (1.24%) Kafka
12 18 (1.18%) OAuth
13 16 (1.05%) JSON
13 16 (1.05%) Spring Boot
14 15 (0.98%) JWT
14 15 (0.98%) OAuth2
15 14 (0.92%) Entity Framework
16 13 (0.85%) MUnit
Miscellaneous
1 109 (7.13%) Cloud Native
2 62 (4.06%) Management Information System
3 50 (3.27%) Product Ownership
4 45 (2.95%) Onboarding
5 36 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
6 30 (1.96%) Data Centre
7 29 (1.90%) Security Posture
8 28 (1.83%) Driving Licence
8 28 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
9 26 (1.70%) 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
1 110 (7.20%) Linux
2 96 (6.28%) Windows
3 43 (2.81%) Windows Server
4 32 (2.09%) 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 (0.065%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.065%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.065%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 422 (27.62%) Agile
2 296 (19.37%) Continuous Improvement
3 267 (17.47%) Mentoring
4 241 (15.77%) Software Engineering
5 228 (14.92%) Cybersecurity
6 223 (14.59%) Problem-Solving
7 220 (14.40%) CI/CD
8 199 (13.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 197 (12.89%) DevOps
10 188 (12.30%) AI
11 173 (11.32%) Stakeholder Management
12 163 (10.67%) Analytics
13 159 (10.41%) Decision-Making
14 153 (10.01%) Coaching
15 148 (9.69%) Community of Practice
16 140 (9.16%) Technical Leadership
17 133 (8.70%) Technology Strategy
18 131 (8.57%) Infrastructure as Code
19 125 (8.18%) Project Delivery
20 118 (7.72%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 182 (11.91%) Python
2 139 (9.10%) Java
3 114 (7.46%) SQL
4 88 (5.76%) JavaScript
5 54 (3.53%) C#
6 53 (3.47%) C++
7 42 (2.75%) Bash
8 40 (2.62%) PowerShell
9 28 (1.83%) TypeScript
10 23 (1.51%) MATLAB
11 19 (1.24%) Ada
11 19 (1.24%) C
12 16 (1.05%) 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 (0.52%) Rust
16 8 (0.52%) VBA
17 7 (0.46%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,528 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 279 (18.26%) DV Cleared
3 274 (17.93%) Degree
4 185 (12.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 70 (4.58%) CISSP
6 54 (3.53%) CISM
7 48 (3.14%) Azure Certification
8 44 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
9 40 (2.62%) AWS Certification
10 30 (1.96%) 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%) TOGAF Certification
16 14 (0.92%) CHECK Team Member
16 14 (0.92%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 12 (0.79%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (10.14%) Accessibility
2 126 (8.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 76 (4.97%) NIST
4 61 (3.99%) NCSC
5 48 (3.14%) QA
6 43 (2.81%) Data Quality
7 32 (2.09%) GDPR
8 31 (2.03%) GRC
9 26 (1.70%) Cyber Essentials
10 22 (1.44%) SLA
11 19 (1.24%) PCI DSS
12 18 (1.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 18 (1.18%) WCAG
13 15 (0.98%) Def Stans
14 14 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
15 10 (0.65%) JSP 440
16 7 (0.46%) NIST 800
17 6 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 6 (0.39%) PMO
18 5 (0.33%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 92 (6.02%) Docker
2 50 (3.27%) Active Directory
3 34 (2.23%) Firmware
4 32 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (1.37%) 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 (0.065%) Embedded Firmware
13 1 (0.065%) IAG
13 1 (0.065%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 103 (6.74%) Kubernetes
2 39 (2.55%) Microsoft Intune
3 30 (1.96%) Ansible
4 23 (1.51%) Grafana
5 15 (0.98%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.85%) CloudHub
7 12 (0.79%) Argo
8 10 (0.65%) Nmap
9 8 (0.52%) 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%) Oracle RMAN
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 Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 230 (15.05%) Microsoft
2 63 (4.12%) ServiceNow
3 57 (3.73%) Oracle
4 55 (3.60%) Google
5 44 (2.88%) VMware
6 42 (2.75%) SAP
7 20 (1.31%) Cisco
7 20 (1.31%) Salesforce
8 19 (1.24%) Red Hat
8 19 (1.24%) Workday
9 18 (1.18%) Databricks
10 16 (1.05%) OpenAI
10 16 (1.05%) YouTube
11 15 (0.98%) MuleSoft
11 15 (0.98%) Veeam
12 14 (0.92%) CyberArk
12 14 (0.92%) Thales
13 12 (0.79%) Adobe
13 12 (0.79%) Okta
14 11 (0.72%) Siemens