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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 101 56
Rank change year-on-year +64 -45 -6
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 1,222 591 1,255
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.64% 3.58% 4.37%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.32% 10.61% 16.14%
Number of salaries quoted 966 372 964
10th Percentile £46,500 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,375 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £64,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.53% +7.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,450 £88,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +5.26% -8.80%

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 4,473 5,568 7,778
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.64% 33.77% 27.06%
Number of salaries quoted 3,038 2,483 4,828
10th Percentile £33,455 £29,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £59,400 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% +3.30% -4.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £90,000 £85,000
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 23 July 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 (2.29%) SharePoint
2 21 (1.72%) Apache Spark
3 20 (1.64%) Apache
4 14 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (0.90%) Anypoint
5 11 (0.90%) Mule
6 9 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.57%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.41%) Camunda
8 5 (0.41%) nginx
9 4 (0.33%) Confluence
10 3 (0.25%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.25%) SAS
11 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.16%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.16%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.16%) Oracle Spatial
12 1 (0.082%) Appian
12 1 (0.082%) CMS
Applications
1 18 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.65%) Adobe XD
5 4 (0.33%) Simulink
5 4 (0.33%) Windchill
6 3 (0.25%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.16%) InVision
7 2 (0.16%) Sketch
8 1 (0.082%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.082%) CATIA
8 1 (0.082%) Houdini
8 1 (0.082%) Mathcad
8 1 (0.082%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 7 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.16%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.16%) SAP QM
4 2 (0.16%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.16%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.082%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.082%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.082%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.082%) SAP FSCM
5 1 (0.082%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.082%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 346 (28.31%) Azure
2 310 (25.37%) AWS
3 96 (7.86%) GCP
4 76 (6.22%) Microsoft 365
5 55 (4.50%) Power Platform
6 44 (3.60%) Entra ID
7 32 (2.62%) dbt
8 25 (2.05%) GitHub
9 22 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
9 22 (1.80%) Serverless
10 20 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (1.64%) Microsoft Purview
10 20 (1.64%) SaaS
11 18 (1.47%) Azure Sentinel
11 18 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
11 18 (1.47%) Google Analytics
11 18 (1.47%) PaaS
12 17 (1.39%) Amazon S3
13 15 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
13 15 (1.23%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 40 (3.27%) Network Security
2 34 (2.78%) Firewall
3 24 (1.96%) TCP/IP
4 23 (1.88%) DNS
5 22 (1.80%) WAN
6 18 (1.47%) VPN
7 14 (1.15%) SSL
8 13 (1.06%) LAN
9 12 (0.98%) BGP
9 12 (0.98%) MPLS
10 11 (0.90%) DHCP
11 10 (0.82%) ATM
12 7 (0.57%) SMTP
12 7 (0.57%) SNMP
12 7 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (0.49%) HTTP
13 6 (0.49%) Intrusion Detection
13 6 (0.49%) Wireless
14 5 (0.41%) Cisco Firepower
15 4 (0.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (3.60%) Power BI
2 34 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (1.55%) Big Data
4 17 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
5 13 (1.06%) Metadata
6 11 (0.90%) Redis
7 10 (0.82%) DynamoDB
8 9 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (0.65%) NoSQL
10 7 (0.57%) MongoDB
10 7 (0.57%) SQL Server
10 7 (0.57%) Tableau
11 6 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (0.49%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.49%) Relational Database
12 5 (0.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (0.33%) Hadoop
13 4 (0.33%) MySQL
13 4 (0.33%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 46 (3.76%) Git
2 34 (2.78%) GitLab
3 23 (1.88%) Jenkins
4 14 (1.15%) JUnit
5 13 (1.06%) JIRA
6 11 (0.90%) Selenium
7 8 (0.65%) Mockito
8 7 (0.57%) Burp Suite
8 7 (0.57%) Cucumber
8 7 (0.57%) Maven
8 7 (0.57%) Metasploit
9 6 (0.49%) Axure RP
9 6 (0.49%) Balsamiq
10 5 (0.41%) Postman
10 5 (0.41%) Rational DOORS
11 4 (0.33%) Gatling
12 3 (0.25%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.16%) JMeter
13 2 (0.16%) MSTest
13 2 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 365 (29.87%) Social Skills
2 305 (24.96%) Public Sector
3 212 (17.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 144 (11.78%) Finance
5 128 (10.47%) Analytical Skills
6 120 (9.82%) Law
7 45 (3.68%) Aerospace
8 43 (3.52%) Presentation Skills
9 42 (3.44%) Legal
10 34 (2.78%) Telecoms
11 31 (2.54%) Retail
12 26 (2.13%) Manufacturing
13 24 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
14 18 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
14 18 (1.47%) Military
15 12 (0.98%) Police
16 11 (0.90%) Aviation
17 10 (0.82%) Electronics
18 9 (0.74%) Automotive
18 9 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 233 (19.07%) Senior
2 230 (18.82%) Architect
3 121 (9.90%) Consultant
4 113 (9.25%) Lead
5 106 (8.67%) Developer
6 98 (8.02%) Solutions Architect
7 88 (7.20%) Software Engineer
8 84 (6.87%) Analyst
9 51 (4.17%) Security Consultant
10 48 (3.93%) Cloud Engineer
11 45 (3.68%) DevOps Engineer
12 43 (3.52%) Senior Manager
13 42 (3.44%) Data Engineer
14 41 (3.36%) Security Architect
15 40 (3.27%) Senior Analyst
16 39 (3.19%) Senior Developer
17 38 (3.11%) Cloud Architect
17 38 (3.11%) Java Developer
18 36 (2.95%) Business Analyst
19 33 (2.70%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (2.70%) REST
2 31 (2.54%) Spring
3 28 (2.29%) React
4 21 (1.72%) .NET
5 19 (1.55%) Kafka
6 15 (1.23%) PySpark
6 15 (1.23%) Spring Boot
7 14 (1.15%) CSS
7 14 (1.15%) HTML
7 14 (1.15%) Playwright
8 13 (1.06%) OAuth
9 12 (0.98%) JWT
9 12 (0.98%) OAuth2
10 11 (0.90%) MUnit
10 11 (0.90%) RAML
11 10 (0.82%) Middleware
11 10 (0.82%) RESTful
12 9 (0.74%) SOAP
12 9 (0.74%) Web Services
12 9 (0.74%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 99 (8.10%) Cloud Native
2 50 (4.09%) Product Ownership
3 48 (3.93%) Management Information System
4 40 (3.27%) Onboarding
5 33 (2.70%) Security Posture
6 31 (2.54%) Data Centre
7 24 (1.96%) Driving Licence
7 24 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (1.31%) Blog
8 16 (1.31%) PKI
8 16 (1.31%) Security Operations Centre
8 16 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (0.82%) Public Cloud
10 9 (0.74%) Cyber Threat
11 8 (0.65%) Data Structures
11 8 (0.65%) Low-Code
12 7 (0.57%) AI Agents
12 7 (0.57%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (0.57%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 86 (7.04%) Linux
2 77 (6.30%) Windows
3 34 (2.78%) Windows Server
4 23 (1.88%) Unix
5 11 (0.90%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.25%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.16%) Android
8 2 (0.16%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.082%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.082%) CentOS
9 1 (0.082%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.082%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (26.02%) Agile
2 201 (16.45%) Continuous Improvement
3 182 (14.89%) Cybersecurity
4 180 (14.73%) Mentoring
5 163 (13.34%) CI/CD
6 159 (13.01%) DevOps
6 159 (13.01%) Problem-Solving
7 154 (12.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 135 (11.05%) Software Engineering
9 120 (9.82%) Stakeholder Management
10 116 (9.49%) Community of Practice
11 105 (8.59%) Technology Strategy
12 99 (8.10%) Infrastructure as Code
13 94 (7.69%) AI
14 90 (7.36%) Analytics
15 89 (7.28%) Decision-Making
15 89 (7.28%) Project Delivery
16 87 (7.12%) Risk Management
16 87 (7.12%) Scrum
16 87 (7.12%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 150 (12.27%) Python
2 120 (9.82%) Java
3 76 (6.22%) SQL
4 66 (5.40%) JavaScript
5 39 (3.19%) C++
6 32 (2.62%) Bash
7 31 (2.54%) C#
7 31 (2.54%) PowerShell
8 22 (1.80%) TypeScript
9 15 (1.23%) C
10 11 (0.90%) DataWeave
10 11 (0.90%) Rust
11 9 (0.74%) Ada
12 7 (0.57%) Apex Code
12 7 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (0.57%) PL/SQL
12 7 (0.57%) Scala
12 7 (0.57%) VBA
13 6 (0.49%) Ruby
14 5 (0.41%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1,222 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 212 (17.35%) Degree
3 188 (15.38%) DV Cleared
4 89 (7.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 63 (5.16%) CISSP
6 50 (4.09%) CISM
7 45 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 33 (2.70%) Azure Certification
9 28 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 20 (1.64%) AWS Certification
11 16 (1.31%) CRISC
12 15 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
12 15 (1.23%) CREST Certified
12 15 (1.23%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 15 (1.23%) Master's Degree
13 14 (1.15%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 11 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
15 8 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 8 (0.65%) PMI Certification
16 7 (0.57%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (9.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 65 (5.32%) NIST
3 52 (4.26%) Accessibility
4 42 (3.44%) NCSC
5 40 (3.27%) QA
6 31 (2.54%) GDPR
7 28 (2.29%) GRC
8 25 (2.05%) Cyber Essentials
8 25 (2.05%) Data Quality
9 20 (1.64%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 19 (1.55%) PCI DSS
11 18 (1.47%) SLA
12 15 (1.23%) WCAG
13 12 (0.98%) JSP 440
14 11 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
15 10 (0.82%) Def Stans
16 9 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 6 (0.49%) Government Security Classifications
18 5 (0.41%) NEBOSH
18 5 (0.41%) NIST 800
System Software
1 69 (5.65%) Docker
2 46 (3.76%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.96%) Hyper-V
3 24 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.06%) Firmware
5 12 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (0.49%) vSphere
7 5 (0.41%) Squid
7 5 (0.41%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.082%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.082%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.082%) IAG
9 1 (0.082%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.082%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.082%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.082%) Xen
Systems Management
1 85 (6.96%) Terraform
2 78 (6.38%) Kubernetes
3 36 (2.95%) Microsoft Intune
4 35 (2.86%) Ansible
5 18 (1.47%) Prometheus
6 16 (1.31%) Grafana
7 11 (0.90%) CloudHub
8 10 (0.82%) Argo
9 7 (0.57%) Nmap
10 6 (0.49%) Kustomize
10 6 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.41%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.41%) Endace
11 5 (0.41%) Istio
11 5 (0.41%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.33%) Kibana
12 4 (0.33%) Packer
12 4 (0.33%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.33%) Puppet
13 3 (0.25%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 184 (15.06%) Microsoft
2 49 (4.01%) Google
3 34 (2.78%) ServiceNow
4 33 (2.70%) VMware
5 32 (2.62%) Oracle
6 27 (2.21%) Cisco
7 22 (1.80%) Salesforce
8 21 (1.72%) SAP
9 20 (1.64%) MuleSoft
10 18 (1.47%) Red Hat
11 16 (1.31%) OpenAI
12 12 (0.98%) CyberArk
13 11 (0.90%) Databricks
14 9 (0.74%) Adobe
15 7 (0.57%) Splunk
16 6 (0.49%) F5
16 6 (0.49%) Fortinet
16 6 (0.49%) Juniper
16 6 (0.49%) Veeam
17 5 (0.41%) Informatica