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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 73 46
Rank change year-on-year +41 -27 -6
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 1,568 751 1,080
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.23% 4.57% 5.23%
As % of the Qualifications category 29.99% 12.15% 19.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,037 446 689
10th Percentile £46,500 £41,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £48,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £62,759
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -4.40% +0.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £79,225
90th Percentile £98,750 £88,333 £91,250
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 5,229 6,181 5,518
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.77% 37.64% 26.70%
Number of salaries quoted 3,188 2,283 2,718
10th Percentile £33,581 £30,750 £34,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,635 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,438
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +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 16 October 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 (1.79%) Apache Spark
2 23 (1.47%) SharePoint
3 22 (1.40%) Apache
4 13 (0.83%) Anypoint
4 13 (0.83%) Confluence
4 13 (0.83%) Mule
5 12 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (0.64%) nginx
6 10 (0.64%) Oracle Workflow
7 9 (0.57%) Jupyter
7 9 (0.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 9 (0.57%) WebLogic
8 8 (0.51%) Camunda
9 5 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.26%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.26%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.26%) Oracle Spatial
11 2 (0.13%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.13%) WebLogic Portal
12 1 (0.064%) CMS
Applications
1 29 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 17 (1.08%) Simulink
4 14 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.38%) Adobe XD
5 6 (0.38%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.26%) Mathcad
6 4 (0.26%) Windchill
7 2 (0.13%) InDesign
7 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.064%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.064%) Houdini
8 1 (0.064%) NUKE
8 1 (0.064%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.064%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 12 (0.77%) Primavera
2 9 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.45%) Workday HCM
5 5 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 5 (0.32%) SAP PSCD
5 5 (0.32%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.19%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.13%) SAP QM
8 1 (0.064%) Maximo
8 1 (0.064%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.064%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 1 (0.064%) SAP BPC
8 1 (0.064%) SAP EWM
8 1 (0.064%) SAP GRC
8 1 (0.064%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 393 (25.06%) Azure
2 363 (23.15%) AWS
3 110 (7.02%) GCP
4 76 (4.85%) Microsoft 365
5 72 (4.59%) Entra ID
6 70 (4.46%) Power Platform
7 52 (3.32%) GitHub
8 38 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
8 38 (2.42%) dbt
8 38 (2.42%) Serverless
9 35 (2.23%) Amazon S3
9 35 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
10 24 (1.53%) OpenShift
11 23 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
12 22 (1.40%) Microsoft Purview
13 21 (1.34%) Azure Monitor
13 21 (1.34%) PaaS
14 20 (1.28%) Amazon EC2
15 19 (1.21%) SaaS
16 18 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 45 (2.87%) Network Security
2 38 (2.42%) Firewall
3 29 (1.85%) TCP/IP
4 26 (1.66%) DNS
5 16 (1.02%) SSL
6 13 (0.83%) VPN
7 11 (0.70%) Wireless
8 10 (0.64%) ATM
9 9 (0.57%) Ethernet
9 9 (0.57%) WAN
10 8 (0.51%) DHCP
11 7 (0.45%) SAN
11 7 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (0.38%) NAS
13 5 (0.32%) LAN
13 5 (0.32%) Unified Communications
13 5 (0.32%) VLAN
14 4 (0.26%) Internet
15 3 (0.19%) 3GPP
15 3 (0.19%) RS-422
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (3.70%) Power BI
2 48 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (1.53%) Big Data
5 23 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
6 20 (1.28%) SQL Server
7 19 (1.21%) Data Lake
8 18 (1.15%) Metadata
8 18 (1.15%) Tableau
9 17 (1.08%) Relational Database
10 14 (0.89%) DynamoDB
10 14 (0.89%) MySQL
11 13 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
12 12 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
13 10 (0.64%) Hadoop
14 9 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (0.57%) NoSQL
15 6 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (0.38%) Parquet
15 6 (0.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 65 (4.15%) Git
2 36 (2.30%) GitLab
3 29 (1.85%) JIRA
4 28 (1.79%) JUnit
5 26 (1.66%) Jenkins
6 23 (1.47%) Rational DOORS
7 19 (1.21%) Mockito
8 13 (0.83%) Burp Suite
8 13 (0.83%) Metasploit
8 13 (0.83%) Selenium
9 10 (0.64%) Maven
10 9 (0.57%) Cucumber
10 9 (0.57%) Postman
11 8 (0.51%) Balsamiq
12 7 (0.45%) Cypress.io
13 6 (0.38%) Axure RP
13 6 (0.38%) Gatling
13 6 (0.38%) LabVIEW
14 3 (0.19%) Flyway
14 3 (0.19%) Snyk
General
1 446 (28.44%) Social Skills
2 363 (23.15%) Public Sector
3 335 (21.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 298 (19.01%) Finance
5 208 (13.27%) Analytical Skills
6 172 (10.97%) Aerospace
7 134 (8.55%) Law
8 57 (3.64%) Legal
9 55 (3.51%) Electronics
10 53 (3.38%) Retail
11 51 (3.25%) Military
11 51 (3.25%) Presentation Skills
12 43 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
12 43 (2.74%) Police
13 38 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
14 37 (2.36%) Manufacturing
15 18 (1.15%) Telecoms
16 14 (0.89%) Local Government
17 12 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
18 11 (0.70%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 329 (20.98%) Senior
2 243 (15.50%) Architect
3 146 (9.31%) Lead
4 143 (9.12%) Software Engineer
5 126 (8.04%) Consultant
6 120 (7.65%) Developer
7 112 (7.14%) Analyst
8 79 (5.04%) Data Engineer
9 78 (4.97%) Principal Engineer
10 77 (4.91%) Solutions Architect
11 65 (4.15%) Senior Manager
12 59 (3.76%) DevOps Engineer
13 51 (3.25%) Security Consultant
14 47 (3.00%) Principal Software Engineer
14 47 (3.00%) Senior Developer
15 46 (2.93%) Java Engineer
16 44 (2.81%) Business Analyst
16 44 (2.81%) Technical Architect
17 42 (2.68%) Security Architect
18 40 (2.55%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (7.53%) Terraform
2 51 (3.25%) .NET
2 51 (3.25%) React
3 47 (3.00%) REST
4 41 (2.61%) Spring
5 28 (1.79%) CSS
6 25 (1.59%) HTML
6 25 (1.59%) Kafka
6 25 (1.59%) PySpark
7 23 (1.47%) Node.js
7 23 (1.47%) Spring Boot
8 21 (1.34%) OAuth
9 20 (1.28%) .NET Core
9 20 (1.28%) RESTful
10 19 (1.21%) Playwright
11 18 (1.15%) JSON
11 18 (1.15%) OAuth2
12 16 (1.02%) AngularJS
12 16 (1.02%) JWT
13 14 (0.89%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 116 (7.40%) Cloud Native
2 59 (3.76%) Management Information System
3 50 (3.19%) Product Ownership
4 38 (2.42%) Onboarding
4 38 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
5 33 (2.10%) Driving Licence
6 32 (2.04%) Security Posture
7 29 (1.85%) Data Centre
8 28 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
9 27 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
10 26 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
11 25 (1.59%) Blog
12 22 (1.40%) FPGA
13 18 (1.15%) Public Cloud
14 17 (1.08%) AI Agents
15 15 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
16 14 (0.89%) Algorithms
17 13 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
17 13 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
18 12 (0.77%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 109 (6.95%) Linux
2 97 (6.19%) Windows
3 44 (2.81%) Windows Server
4 29 (1.85%) Unix
5 14 (0.89%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.38%) VxWorks
7 4 (0.26%) Kali Linux
7 4 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.26%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
8 3 (0.19%) Solaris
8 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.13%) AIX
9 2 (0.13%) Android
9 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.064%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.064%) macOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 447 (28.51%) Agile
2 316 (20.15%) Continuous Improvement
3 276 (17.60%) Mentoring
4 250 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
5 248 (15.82%) CI/CD
6 247 (15.75%) Software Engineering
7 226 (14.41%) Cybersecurity
8 219 (13.97%) DevOps
9 216 (13.78%) AI
10 199 (12.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 191 (12.18%) Stakeholder Management
12 174 (11.10%) Decision-Making
13 168 (10.71%) Analytics
14 161 (10.27%) Technical Leadership
15 155 (9.89%) Coaching
16 142 (9.06%) Community of Practice
17 139 (8.86%) Infrastructure as Code
18 127 (8.10%) Technology Strategy
19 124 (7.91%) Scrum
20 121 (7.72%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 185 (11.80%) Python
2 135 (8.61%) Java
3 127 (8.10%) SQL
4 91 (5.80%) JavaScript
5 69 (4.40%) C#
6 50 (3.19%) C++
7 44 (2.81%) Bash
8 35 (2.23%) PowerShell
9 28 (1.79%) TypeScript
10 23 (1.47%) MATLAB
11 21 (1.34%) C
12 20 (1.28%) Ada
13 15 (0.96%) Bicep
13 15 (0.96%) Kusto Query Language
13 15 (0.96%) PL/SQL
14 13 (0.83%) DataWeave
15 12 (0.77%) Ruby
16 10 (0.64%) Go
17 6 (0.38%) Rust
17 6 (0.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1,568 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 258 (16.45%) Degree
3 257 (16.39%) DV Cleared
4 185 (11.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 66 (4.21%) CISSP
6 53 (3.38%) Azure Certification
7 52 (3.32%) CISM
8 38 (2.42%) AWS Certification
8 38 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
9 27 (1.72%) Master's Degree
10 21 (1.34%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 21 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
11 19 (1.21%) PhD
12 18 (1.15%) Chartered Engineer
13 16 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
13 16 (1.02%) CRISC
13 16 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
14 15 (0.96%) CHECK Team Member
14 15 (0.96%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 13 (0.83%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (10.14%) Accessibility
2 126 (8.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 77 (4.91%) NIST
4 61 (3.89%) NCSC
5 50 (3.19%) Data Quality
6 47 (3.00%) QA
7 33 (2.10%) GDPR
8 29 (1.85%) GRC
9 28 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
10 22 (1.40%) SLA
11 18 (1.15%) PCI DSS
12 16 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
12 16 (1.02%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 16 (1.02%) WCAG
13 15 (0.96%) Def Stans
14 10 (0.64%) JSP 440
15 8 (0.51%) NIST 800
16 6 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 5 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 15288
17 5 (0.32%) PMO
System Software
1 104 (6.63%) Docker
2 52 (3.32%) Active Directory
3 32 (2.04%) Firmware
4 31 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
5 24 (1.53%) Hyper-V
6 14 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.38%) Squid
7 6 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.26%) vSphere
10 3 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.064%) IAG
12 1 (0.064%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 110 (7.02%) Kubernetes
2 36 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
3 28 (1.79%) Grafana
4 24 (1.53%) Ansible
5 16 (1.02%) Prometheus
6 14 (0.89%) Argo
7 13 (0.83%) CloudHub
7 13 (0.83%) Nmap
8 8 (0.51%) Kustomize
8 8 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.45%) Istio
10 6 (0.38%) SCCM
11 5 (0.32%) Packer
12 4 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.26%) Kibana
13 3 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
13 3 (0.19%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.19%) SCVMM
14 2 (0.13%) Avamar
14 2 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 240 (15.31%) Microsoft
2 67 (4.27%) ServiceNow
3 62 (3.95%) Oracle
4 53 (3.38%) Google
5 46 (2.93%) SAP
6 41 (2.61%) VMware
7 25 (1.59%) YouTube
8 22 (1.40%) Cisco
8 22 (1.40%) Salesforce
9 21 (1.34%) Workday
10 20 (1.28%) Red Hat
10 20 (1.28%) Thales
11 19 (1.21%) Databricks
12 16 (1.02%) OpenAI
13 15 (0.96%) MuleSoft
13 15 (0.96%) Veeam
14 14 (0.89%) CyberArk
14 14 (0.89%) Dynatrace
15 12 (0.77%) Adobe
15 12 (0.77%) Okta