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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 86 67
Rank change year-on-year +49 -19 -5
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 899 531 1,326
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.33% 3.94% 4.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 19.18% 13.48% 16.50%
Number of salaries quoted 680 402 959
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,060 £41,240
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £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 £75,000 £79,600
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £88,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +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 4,686 3,939 8,035
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.79% 29.20% 26.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,614 2,437 5,841
10th Percentile £31,028 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,104 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £88,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,250 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.36% +7.27% -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 18 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 (3.56%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.56%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.44%) Apache
5 4 (0.44%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.44%) Confluence
5 4 (0.44%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.44%) Oracle Spatial
6 3 (0.33%) Camunda
6 3 (0.33%) SAS
6 3 (0.33%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.33%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.33%) WebLogic Portal
7 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 71 (7.90%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (3.23%) Adobe XD
3 9 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.44%) InVision
4 4 (0.44%) Sketch
5 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.22%) Weka
6 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.11%) CATIA
6 1 (0.11%) EPLAN
6 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.11%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 16 (1.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.44%) Primavera
5 3 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.33%) SAP PM
6 2 (0.22%) SAP SCM
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
1 226 (25.14%) Azure
2 186 (20.69%) AWS
3 116 (12.90%) Microsoft 365
4 71 (7.90%) GCP
5 48 (5.34%) Entra ID
6 36 (4.00%) Power Platform
7 30 (3.34%) AWS CloudFormation
7 30 (3.34%) Figma
8 28 (3.11%) PowerApps
9 25 (2.78%) Power Automate
10 21 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
11 20 (2.22%) Amazon ECS
11 20 (2.22%) Serverless
12 19 (2.11%) Amazon EKS
12 19 (2.11%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 19 (2.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 15 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (1.67%) dbt
13 15 (1.67%) GitHub
14 14 (1.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.23%) Firewall
2 22 (2.45%) VPN
2 22 (2.45%) WAN
3 19 (2.11%) LAN
4 17 (1.89%) TCP/IP
5 16 (1.78%) Wi-Fi
6 15 (1.67%) Network Security
7 12 (1.33%) BGP
8 11 (1.22%) DNS
9 10 (1.11%) DHCP
10 9 (1.00%) MPLS
10 9 (1.00%) SMTP
11 7 (0.78%) SNMP
12 6 (0.67%) Cisco Firepower
12 6 (0.67%) Ethernet
12 6 (0.67%) HTTP
12 6 (0.67%) SD-WAN
12 6 (0.67%) VoIP
13 5 (0.56%) Cisco ASA
13 5 (0.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (4.34%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (3.34%) Power BI
3 16 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
4 15 (1.67%) NoSQL
5 14 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
5 14 (1.56%) Metadata
6 13 (1.45%) Redis
7 11 (1.22%) Relational Database
7 11 (1.22%) SQL Server
8 9 (1.00%) MongoDB
9 8 (0.89%) MySQL
10 7 (0.78%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (0.44%) BigQuery
12 4 (0.44%) GIS
12 4 (0.44%) QGIS
13 3 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (0.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 37 (4.12%) Git
2 28 (3.11%) Balsamiq
3 26 (2.89%) Axure RP
4 21 (2.34%) Jenkins
5 16 (1.78%) GitLab
6 14 (1.56%) JIRA
7 11 (1.22%) Selenium
8 8 (0.89%) Cypress.io
9 7 (0.78%) Burp Suite
9 7 (0.78%) Metasploit
10 6 (0.67%) Babel
10 6 (0.67%) webpack
11 5 (0.56%) WebDriver
12 4 (0.44%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.33%) JMeter
13 3 (0.33%) JUnit
13 3 (0.33%) Oracle APEX
13 3 (0.33%) Oracle Forms
13 3 (0.33%) Postman
13 3 (0.33%) SoapUI
General
1 307 (34.15%) Social Skills
2 262 (29.14%) Public Sector
3 141 (15.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 105 (11.68%) Analytical Skills
4 105 (11.68%) Finance
5 101 (11.23%) Law
6 62 (6.90%) Back Office
7 52 (5.78%) Telecoms
8 49 (5.45%) Manufacturing
9 34 (3.78%) Marketing
10 32 (3.56%) Electronics
11 29 (3.23%) Legal
12 21 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
13 19 (2.11%) Retail
14 14 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
14 14 (1.56%) Military
15 11 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (0.89%) Aerospace
17 6 (0.67%) Banking
18 5 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 170 (18.91%) Senior
2 107 (11.90%) Architect
3 101 (11.23%) Consultant
4 88 (9.79%) Developer
5 76 (8.45%) Analyst
6 74 (8.23%) Support Engineer
7 64 (7.12%) Site Engineer
8 60 (6.67%) Desktop Engineer
8 60 (6.67%) Desktop Support
8 60 (6.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 53 (5.90%) Lead
10 42 (4.67%) Business Analyst
11 38 (4.23%) Security Consultant
12 36 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
13 34 (3.78%) Data Engineer
14 33 (3.67%) Senior Developer
14 33 (3.67%) Software Engineer
15 31 (3.45%) Designer
16 28 (3.11%) Cloud Engineer
17 25 (2.78%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (4.89%) .NET
2 39 (4.34%) REST
3 36 (4.00%) React
4 34 (3.78%) HTML
5 33 (3.67%) CSS
6 25 (2.78%) SOAP
6 25 (2.78%) Spring
7 23 (2.56%) Django
8 22 (2.45%) Middleware
9 19 (2.11%) Lightning Web Components
9 19 (2.11%) SAP CAF
9 19 (2.11%) Visualforce
10 16 (1.78%) HTML5 Canvas
10 16 (1.78%) Kafka
10 16 (1.78%) Node.js
10 16 (1.78%) Spring Boot
11 12 (1.33%) ASP.NET
12 11 (1.22%) AngularJS
12 11 (1.22%) RESTful
13 9 (1.00%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 59 (6.56%) Product Ownership
2 55 (6.12%) Cloud Native
3 35 (3.89%) Data Centre
4 26 (2.89%) Onboarding
5 25 (2.78%) Management Information System
5 25 (2.78%) Security Posture
6 18 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (1.67%) Driving Licence
8 12 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (1.33%) PKI
9 11 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
10 10 (1.11%) Blog
11 9 (1.00%) AI Agents
12 8 (0.89%) e-Learning
12 8 (0.89%) Security Operations Centre
13 7 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (0.78%) Insider Threat
14 6 (0.67%) Low-Code
14 6 (0.67%) Private Cloud
15 5 (0.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 112 (12.46%) Windows
2 65 (7.23%) Linux
2 65 (7.23%) Windows 10
3 26 (2.89%) Unix
4 13 (1.45%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.00%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.33%) CentOS
6 3 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.33%) VMS
7 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (23.47%) Agile
2 158 (17.58%) Continuous Improvement
3 138 (15.35%) Cybersecurity
4 124 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
5 122 (13.57%) Analytics
6 113 (12.57%) DevOps
7 108 (12.01%) ITIL
8 105 (11.68%) Community of Practice
9 97 (10.79%) Mentoring
10 96 (10.68%) Technology Strategy
11 92 (10.23%) CI/CD
12 78 (8.68%) Software Engineering
13 69 (7.68%) Customer Service
14 68 (7.56%) User Experience
15 66 (7.34%) Infrastructure as Code
16 65 (7.23%) Patch Management
17 63 (7.01%) Stakeholder Management
18 61 (6.79%) Customer Experience
18 61 (6.79%) Software Deployment
18 61 (6.79%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 102 (11.35%) Python
2 88 (9.79%) Java
2 88 (9.79%) JavaScript
3 50 (5.56%) C#
4 41 (4.56%) SQL
5 28 (3.11%) TypeScript
6 22 (2.45%) PowerShell
7 19 (2.11%) Apex Code
8 13 (1.45%) C++
9 12 (1.33%) Bash
10 9 (1.00%) Bicep
11 7 (0.78%) C
12 6 (0.67%) Rust
12 6 (0.67%) Scala
13 5 (0.56%) Go
13 5 (0.56%) VBA
14 4 (0.44%) Ruby
15 3 (0.33%) Google Apps Script
15 3 (0.33%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 899 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 276 (30.70%) Degree
3 134 (14.91%) DV Cleared
4 60 (6.67%) CTC Cleared
5 56 (6.23%) CISSP
6 48 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 48 (5.34%) Microsoft Certification
7 42 (4.67%) CISM
8 28 (3.11%) Azure Certification
8 28 (3.11%) Cisco Certification
9 26 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
10 22 (2.45%) AWS Certification
11 19 (2.11%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 16 (1.78%) CREST Certified
13 15 (1.67%) CCNA
14 14 (1.56%) Master's Degree
14 14 (1.56%) TOGAF Certification
15 11 (1.22%) CEH
15 11 (1.22%) CompTIA Security+
16 10 (1.11%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (7.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 64 (7.12%) SLA
2 54 (6.01%) Accessibility
3 48 (5.34%) NIST
4 38 (4.23%) GDPR
5 31 (3.45%) QA
6 27 (3.00%) WCAG
7 25 (2.78%) GRC
8 13 (1.45%) Data Quality
9 12 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
9 12 (1.33%) PCI DSS
10 11 (1.22%) NCSC
11 9 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 8 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.67%) JSP 440
14 5 (0.56%) Government Security Classifications
14 5 (0.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 3 (0.33%) ISO 9001
15 3 (0.33%) NEBOSH
15 3 (0.33%) PMO
System Software
1 56 (6.23%) Docker
2 28 (3.11%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.89%) VMware NSX
4 6 (0.67%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.33%) Firmware
7 2 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.11%) Xen
Systems Management
1 72 (8.01%) Terraform
2 54 (6.01%) Kubernetes
3 31 (3.45%) Ansible
4 18 (2.00%) Grafana
5 13 (1.45%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.78%) Nmap
8 6 (0.67%) Endace
8 6 (0.67%) Puppet
9 5 (0.56%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.56%) Kibana
10 4 (0.44%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 4 (0.44%) SCCM
10 4 (0.44%) WSUS
10 4 (0.44%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.33%) Nagios
11 3 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.22%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.22%) Packer
12 2 (0.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 152 (16.91%) Microsoft
2 106 (11.79%) Cisco
3 54 (6.01%) Google
4 45 (5.01%) Salesforce
5 42 (4.67%) SAP
6 29 (3.23%) Adobe
7 19 (2.11%) MuleSoft
8 18 (2.00%) Oracle
9 14 (1.56%) VMware
10 10 (1.11%) CyberArk
10 10 (1.11%) F5
10 10 (1.11%) Red Hat
11 9 (1.00%) Juniper
11 9 (1.00%) Meraki
11 9 (1.00%) ServiceNow
12 8 (0.89%) CheckPoint
12 8 (0.89%) Splunk
13 7 (0.78%) Remedy
14 6 (0.67%) BMC
14 6 (0.67%) Databricks