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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 91 51
Rank change year-on-year +57 -40 -2
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 1,369 641 1,139
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.98% 3.88% 4.62%
As % of the Qualifications category 28.82% 11.31% 17.47%
Number of salaries quoted 959 383 873
10th Percentile £46,450 £45,650 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,250 £91,100 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £58,194
% change year-on-year +16.67% +3.10% -6.89%

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 4,750 5,669 6,521
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.74% 34.28% 26.47%
Number of salaries quoted 3,075 2,425 3,724
10th Percentile £33,500 £29,750 £33,250
25th Percentile £46,500 £41,074 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £57,875
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -0.65% -3.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 18 August 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 (2.05%) SharePoint
2 27 (1.97%) Apache Spark
3 24 (1.75%) Apache
4 13 (0.95%) Anypoint
4 13 (0.95%) Mule
5 12 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (0.80%) Confluence
7 8 (0.58%) Jupyter
8 7 (0.51%) Camunda
8 7 (0.51%) nginx
8 7 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.22%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.22%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.22%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.22%) Oracle Spatial
10 2 (0.15%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.073%) CMS
11 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.073%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.073%) WordPress
Applications
1 24 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.24%) Simulink
3 12 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.66%) Adobe XD
4 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.51%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.29%) Mathcad
7 4 (0.29%) Windchill
8 2 (0.15%) InDesign
9 1 (0.073%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.073%) CATIA
9 1 (0.073%) Houdini
9 1 (0.073%) InVision
9 1 (0.073%) NUKE
9 1 (0.073%) Sketch
9 1 (0.073%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.073%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.073%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 10 (0.73%) Primavera
2 6 (0.44%) Workday HCM
3 5 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.37%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.15%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.15%) SAP QM
7 1 (0.073%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.073%) SAP EWM
7 1 (0.073%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.073%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.073%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 373 (27.25%) Azure
2 354 (25.86%) AWS
3 116 (8.47%) GCP
4 72 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
5 65 (4.75%) Power Platform
6 49 (3.58%) Entra ID
7 38 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
7 38 (2.78%) dbt
8 34 (2.48%) GitHub
9 25 (1.83%) Serverless
10 23 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (1.53%) Google Analytics
12 20 (1.46%) Azure Sentinel
12 20 (1.46%) Microsoft Purview
13 19 (1.39%) Amazon S3
14 18 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
14 18 (1.31%) OpenShift
14 18 (1.31%) PowerApps
15 17 (1.24%) Slack
16 15 (1.10%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 43 (3.14%) Network Security
2 32 (2.34%) Firewall
2 32 (2.34%) TCP/IP
3 24 (1.75%) DNS
4 16 (1.17%) SSL
5 15 (1.10%) WAN
6 13 (0.95%) VPN
7 12 (0.88%) ATM
8 9 (0.66%) BGP
8 9 (0.66%) Ethernet
8 9 (0.66%) LAN
9 8 (0.58%) DHCP
9 8 (0.58%) MPLS
10 7 (0.51%) Wireless
11 5 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
11 5 (0.37%) VLAN
12 3 (0.22%) OSPF
12 3 (0.22%) TETRA
12 3 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (0.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (3.87%) Power BI
2 42 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (1.61%) Big Data
5 17 (1.24%) SQL Server
6 16 (1.17%) Relational Database
7 14 (1.02%) MySQL
8 13 (0.95%) DynamoDB
8 13 (0.95%) Metadata
9 12 (0.88%) Tableau
10 11 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
10 11 (0.80%) Data Lake
11 9 (0.66%) Hadoop
12 8 (0.58%) NoSQL
13 7 (0.51%) MongoDB
14 6 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (0.44%) Redis
15 5 (0.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 4 (0.29%) BigQuery
16 4 (0.29%) Flink
Development Applications
1 60 (4.38%) Git
2 35 (2.56%) GitLab
3 27 (1.97%) Jenkins
4 24 (1.75%) JIRA
5 21 (1.53%) JUnit
5 21 (1.53%) Rational DOORS
6 15 (1.10%) Selenium
7 12 (0.88%) Mockito
8 11 (0.80%) Maven
9 10 (0.73%) Balsamiq
10 9 (0.66%) Postman
11 8 (0.58%) Axure RP
11 8 (0.58%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.51%) Burp Suite
12 7 (0.51%) Metasploit
13 6 (0.44%) Cypress.io
13 6 (0.44%) Gatling
13 6 (0.44%) LabVIEW
14 3 (0.22%) CMake
14 3 (0.22%) Snyk
General
1 431 (31.48%) Social Skills
2 341 (24.91%) Public Sector
3 318 (23.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 270 (19.72%) Finance
5 160 (11.69%) Analytical Skills
6 145 (10.59%) Law
7 143 (10.45%) Aerospace
8 68 (4.97%) Legal
9 48 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
10 43 (3.14%) Military
11 40 (2.92%) Electronics
12 38 (2.78%) Retail
13 35 (2.56%) Manufacturing
13 35 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
14 34 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
15 28 (2.05%) Telecoms
16 25 (1.83%) Police
17 15 (1.10%) Local Government
18 13 (0.95%) Aviation
19 11 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 264 (19.28%) Senior
2 240 (17.53%) Architect
3 132 (9.64%) Lead
4 129 (9.42%) Consultant
5 117 (8.55%) Software Engineer
6 116 (8.47%) Developer
7 109 (7.96%) Analyst
8 92 (6.72%) Solutions Architect
9 54 (3.94%) Security Consultant
10 53 (3.87%) Cloud Engineer
10 53 (3.87%) DevOps Engineer
11 48 (3.51%) Principal Engineer
11 48 (3.51%) Senior Developer
12 47 (3.43%) Business Analyst
12 47 (3.43%) Senior Analyst
12 47 (3.43%) Senior Manager
13 42 (3.07%) Security Architect
14 40 (2.92%) Data Engineer
15 38 (2.78%) Cloud Architect
16 36 (2.63%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (3.65%) React
2 40 (2.92%) Spring
3 35 (2.56%) .NET
3 35 (2.56%) REST
4 29 (2.12%) CSS
5 25 (1.83%) HTML
6 21 (1.53%) Kafka
7 20 (1.46%) .NET Core
7 20 (1.46%) Playwright
8 19 (1.39%) AngularJS
9 17 (1.24%) OAuth
9 17 (1.24%) Spring Boot
10 16 (1.17%) Node.js
10 16 (1.17%) PySpark
11 14 (1.02%) Entity Framework
11 14 (1.02%) OAuth2
12 13 (0.95%) JWT
12 13 (0.95%) MUnit
12 13 (0.95%) RAML
13 11 (0.80%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 103 (7.52%) Cloud Native
2 56 (4.09%) Product Ownership
3 47 (3.43%) Management Information System
4 44 (3.21%) Onboarding
5 35 (2.56%) Blog
6 33 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
7 32 (2.34%) Security Posture
8 31 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
9 25 (1.83%) Driving Licence
10 23 (1.68%) Data Centre
10 23 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
11 22 (1.61%) FPGA
12 16 (1.17%) Public Cloud
13 15 (1.10%) Algorithms
13 15 (1.10%) Security Operations Centre
14 14 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
15 13 (0.95%) AI Agents
15 13 (0.95%) PKI
16 10 (0.73%) Data Structures
16 10 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 109 (7.96%) Linux
2 87 (6.36%) Windows
3 38 (2.78%) Windows Server
4 33 (2.41%) Unix
5 11 (0.80%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.22%) Kali Linux
8 3 (0.22%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.22%) VxWorks
9 2 (0.15%) Android
9 2 (0.15%) Solaris
9 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.073%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.073%) CentOS
10 1 (0.073%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 396 (28.93%) Agile
2 257 (18.77%) Continuous Improvement
3 229 (16.73%) Mentoring
4 205 (14.97%) Cybersecurity
5 203 (14.83%) CI/CD
6 196 (14.32%) Problem-Solving
7 195 (14.24%) Software Engineering
8 191 (13.95%) DevOps
9 176 (12.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 144 (10.52%) Community of Practice
11 140 (10.23%) AI
12 125 (9.13%) Infrastructure as Code
13 122 (8.91%) Technology Strategy
14 121 (8.84%) Scrum
14 121 (8.84%) Stakeholder Management
15 118 (8.62%) Coaching
15 118 (8.62%) Decision-Making
15 118 (8.62%) Project Delivery
16 107 (7.82%) Analytics
17 106 (7.74%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 171 (12.49%) Python
2 131 (9.57%) Java
3 86 (6.28%) JavaScript
3 86 (6.28%) SQL
4 50 (3.65%) C#
5 47 (3.43%) C++
6 42 (3.07%) Bash
7 38 (2.78%) PowerShell
8 25 (1.83%) TypeScript
9 23 (1.68%) MATLAB
10 19 (1.39%) Ada
10 19 (1.39%) C
11 13 (0.95%) DataWeave
12 12 (0.88%) PL/SQL
12 12 (0.88%) Ruby
13 11 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
14 9 (0.66%) Rust
14 9 (0.66%) VBA
15 8 (0.58%) Go
16 6 (0.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1,369 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 279 (20.38%) DV Cleared
3 275 (20.09%) Degree
4 183 (13.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 70 (5.11%) CISSP
6 54 (3.94%) CISM
7 52 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 41 (2.99%) Azure Certification
9 33 (2.41%) AWS Certification
10 30 (2.19%) Master's Degree
11 24 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
12 19 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
13 17 (1.24%) CRISC
13 17 (1.24%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 17 (1.24%) PhD
14 15 (1.10%) CREST Certified
14 15 (1.10%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 12 (0.88%) Chartered Engineer
16 11 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
17 10 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (10.96%) Accessibility
2 122 (8.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 74 (5.41%) NIST
4 52 (3.80%) NCSC
5 48 (3.51%) QA
6 31 (2.26%) GRC
7 30 (2.19%) Data Quality
8 27 (1.97%) GDPR
9 22 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
10 21 (1.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 20 (1.46%) WCAG
12 18 (1.31%) PCI DSS
13 17 (1.24%) SLA
14 13 (0.95%) JSP 440
15 12 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
16 11 (0.80%) Def Stans
17 5 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 5 (0.37%) Government Security Classifications
17 5 (0.37%) NEBOSH
17 5 (0.37%) NIST 800
System Software
1 90 (6.57%) Docker
2 53 (3.87%) Active Directory
3 35 (2.56%) Firmware
4 28 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (1.53%) Hyper-V
6 15 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.44%) Squid
7 6 (0.44%) vSphere
8 4 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.29%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.073%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.073%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.073%) IAG
10 1 (0.073%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.073%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.073%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 105 (7.67%) Terraform
2 97 (7.09%) Kubernetes
3 35 (2.56%) Ansible
3 35 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (1.17%) Prometheus
5 15 (1.10%) Grafana
6 13 (0.95%) CloudHub
7 10 (0.73%) Argo
8 7 (0.51%) Nmap
9 6 (0.44%) Kustomize
9 6 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.37%) Istio
10 5 (0.37%) Packer
10 5 (0.37%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.29%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.22%) Check_MK
12 3 (0.22%) Kibana
13 2 (0.15%) Graylog
13 2 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
13 2 (0.15%) SCCM
Vendors
1 190 (13.88%) Microsoft
2 62 (4.53%) Google
3 39 (2.85%) Oracle
4 38 (2.78%) ServiceNow
5 37 (2.70%) VMware
6 27 (1.97%) SAP
7 21 (1.53%) Cisco
7 21 (1.53%) Red Hat
8 20 (1.46%) Salesforce
9 17 (1.24%) MuleSoft
10 16 (1.17%) Databricks
10 16 (1.17%) OpenAI
11 12 (0.88%) Adobe
12 11 (0.80%) Siemens
13 10 (0.73%) CyberArk
14 9 (0.66%) Veeam
15 8 (0.58%) Atlassian
16 7 (0.51%) Fortinet
16 7 (0.51%) Splunk
16 7 (0.51%) Workday