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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 87 63
Rank change year-on-year +53 -24 -6
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 941 489 1,343
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.58% 3.81% 4.32%
As % of the Qualifications category 22.95% 13.19% 16.31%
Number of salaries quoted 719 391 997
10th Percentile £45,484 £46,250 £40,000
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 £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £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 4,100 3,708 8,234
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 24.33% 28.86% 26.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,717 2,461 5,964
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £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 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.86% +5.45% -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 2 April 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 (2.98%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.53%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.43%) Apache
5 4 (0.43%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.43%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.43%) Oracle Spatial
6 3 (0.32%) Camunda
6 3 (0.32%) Confluence
6 3 (0.32%) SAS
6 3 (0.32%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.32%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.32%) WebLogic Portal
7 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 71 (7.55%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (3.08%) Adobe XD
3 9 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.53%) InVision
4 5 (0.53%) Sketch
5 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.21%) 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 12 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.43%) Primavera
3 4 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.21%) SAP PM
5 2 (0.21%) SAP SCM
6 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP FSCM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.11%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 229 (24.34%) Azure
2 193 (20.51%) AWS
3 111 (11.80%) Microsoft 365
4 73 (7.76%) GCP
5 46 (4.89%) Entra ID
6 35 (3.72%) Power Platform
7 29 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
7 29 (3.08%) Figma
8 24 (2.55%) PowerApps
9 21 (2.23%) Power Automate
10 20 (2.13%) Serverless
11 19 (2.02%) Amazon ECS
12 18 (1.91%) Amazon EKS
12 18 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
12 18 (1.91%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 18 (1.91%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 17 (1.81%) GitHub
13 17 (1.81%) Google Analytics
14 15 (1.59%) dbt
15 14 (1.49%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.29%) Firewall
2 24 (2.55%) VPN
2 24 (2.55%) WAN
3 18 (1.91%) LAN
3 18 (1.91%) TCP/IP
4 16 (1.70%) Network Security
5 14 (1.49%) BGP
5 14 (1.49%) DNS
5 14 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (1.28%) DHCP
7 11 (1.17%) MPLS
8 9 (0.96%) SMTP
9 7 (0.74%) Intrusion Detection
9 7 (0.74%) SNMP
10 6 (0.64%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (0.64%) Cisco Firepower
10 6 (0.64%) HTTP
10 6 (0.64%) VoIP
11 5 (0.53%) SD-WAN
12 4 (0.43%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (3.93%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (3.19%) Power BI
3 16 (1.70%) Metadata
4 15 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
4 15 (1.59%) NoSQL
5 14 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (1.38%) Redis
7 11 (1.17%) MongoDB
8 10 (1.06%) Relational Database
9 9 (0.96%) SQL Server
10 8 (0.85%) DynamoDB
11 7 (0.74%) MySQL
12 6 (0.64%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
14 4 (0.43%) GIS
14 4 (0.43%) Oracle Database
14 4 (0.43%) QGIS
14 4 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 40 (4.25%) Git
2 27 (2.87%) Balsamiq
3 25 (2.66%) Axure RP
4 21 (2.23%) Jenkins
5 20 (2.13%) GitLab
6 12 (1.28%) JIRA
7 11 (1.17%) Selenium
8 7 (0.74%) Burp Suite
8 7 (0.74%) Metasploit
9 6 (0.64%) Babel
9 6 (0.64%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.64%) webpack
10 5 (0.53%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.53%) WebDriver
11 3 (0.32%) JMeter
11 3 (0.32%) JUnit
11 3 (0.32%) Maven
11 3 (0.32%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.32%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (0.32%) SoapUI
General
1 315 (33.48%) Social Skills
2 276 (29.33%) Public Sector
3 152 (16.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 107 (11.37%) Analytical Skills
5 106 (11.26%) Law
6 104 (11.05%) Finance
7 63 (6.70%) Back Office
8 48 (5.10%) Telecoms
9 44 (4.68%) Manufacturing
10 31 (3.29%) Legal
11 29 (3.08%) Marketing
12 26 (2.76%) Electronics
13 24 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
14 22 (2.34%) Retail
15 16 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
16 15 (1.59%) Aerospace
17 13 (1.38%) Military
18 11 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
19 6 (0.64%) Banking
19 6 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 184 (19.55%) Senior
2 114 (12.11%) Architect
3 107 (11.37%) Consultant
4 88 (9.35%) Developer
5 81 (8.61%) Analyst
6 74 (7.86%) Support Engineer
7 64 (6.80%) Site Engineer
8 60 (6.38%) Desktop Engineer
8 60 (6.38%) Desktop Support
8 60 (6.38%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 59 (6.27%) Lead
10 46 (4.89%) Business Analyst
11 42 (4.46%) Solutions Architect
12 40 (4.25%) Security Consultant
13 35 (3.72%) Software Engineer
14 34 (3.61%) Data Engineer
15 33 (3.51%) Senior Developer
16 32 (3.40%) Designer
17 28 (2.98%) Cloud Engineer
17 28 (2.98%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (4.46%) .NET
2 38 (4.04%) REST
3 34 (3.61%) React
4 33 (3.51%) HTML
5 32 (3.40%) CSS
6 25 (2.66%) Spring
7 23 (2.44%) Django
7 23 (2.44%) SOAP
8 21 (2.23%) Middleware
9 18 (1.91%) Lightning Web Components
9 18 (1.91%) Visualforce
10 16 (1.70%) Node.js
11 15 (1.59%) SAP CAF
11 15 (1.59%) Spring Boot
12 14 (1.49%) Kafka
13 13 (1.38%) HTML5 Canvas
14 12 (1.28%) ASP.NET
15 11 (1.17%) AngularJS
16 9 (0.96%) RESTful
16 9 (0.96%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 62 (6.59%) Product Ownership
2 51 (5.42%) Cloud Native
3 35 (3.72%) Data Centre
4 32 (3.40%) Management Information System
5 29 (3.08%) Onboarding
6 28 (2.98%) Security Posture
7 19 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (1.59%) Driving Licence
8 15 (1.59%) PKI
9 13 (1.38%) Blog
9 13 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (1.06%) Security Operations Centre
11 9 (0.96%) AI Agents
11 9 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (0.85%) Low-Code
13 7 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (0.74%) Insider Threat
14 6 (0.64%) Data Structures
14 6 (0.64%) Linux Command Line
14 6 (0.64%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 114 (12.11%) Windows
2 70 (7.44%) Linux
3 65 (6.91%) Windows 10
4 28 (2.98%) Unix
5 16 (1.70%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.96%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.43%) CentOS
9 3 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (23.27%) Agile
2 166 (17.64%) Continuous Improvement
3 149 (15.83%) Cybersecurity
4 123 (13.07%) Analytics
5 122 (12.96%) DevOps
6 119 (12.65%) Problem-Solving
7 110 (11.69%) Community of Practice
7 110 (11.69%) ITIL
8 103 (10.95%) Mentoring
9 100 (10.63%) Technology Strategy
10 95 (10.10%) CI/CD
11 76 (8.08%) Software Engineering
12 68 (7.23%) Customer Service
13 67 (7.12%) Infrastructure as Code
13 67 (7.12%) Stakeholder Management
13 67 (7.12%) User Experience
14 65 (6.91%) Patch Management
15 63 (6.70%) Collaborative Culture
16 61 (6.48%) Customer Experience
16 61 (6.48%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 104 (11.05%) Python
2 93 (9.88%) Java
3 81 (8.61%) JavaScript
4 47 (4.99%) SQL
5 46 (4.89%) C#
6 26 (2.76%) TypeScript
7 22 (2.34%) PowerShell
8 18 (1.91%) Apex Code
9 14 (1.49%) C++
10 13 (1.38%) Bash
11 7 (0.74%) Rust
12 6 (0.64%) Bicep
12 6 (0.64%) C
12 6 (0.64%) Go
12 6 (0.64%) Scala
13 4 (0.43%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.43%) Ruby
13 4 (0.43%) VBA
14 3 (0.32%) Groovy
14 3 (0.32%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 941 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 279 (29.65%) Degree
3 142 (15.09%) DV Cleared
4 60 (6.38%) CTC Cleared
5 58 (6.16%) CISSP
6 51 (5.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 43 (4.57%) CISM
8 41 (4.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 30 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
10 25 (2.66%) Azure Certification
11 23 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
12 19 (2.02%) AWS Certification
13 17 (1.81%) CREST Certified
14 16 (1.70%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 13 (1.38%) Master's Degree
15 13 (1.38%) TOGAF Certification
16 11 (1.17%) CCNA
16 11 (1.17%) CompTIA Security+
16 11 (1.17%) CRISC
17 10 (1.06%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (7.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 64 (6.80%) SLA
3 53 (5.63%) Accessibility
4 50 (5.31%) NIST
5 39 (4.14%) GDPR
6 32 (3.40%) QA
7 27 (2.87%) GRC
8 26 (2.76%) WCAG
9 13 (1.38%) Data Quality
9 13 (1.38%) PCI DSS
10 12 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (1.06%) NCSC
12 9 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 8 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
14 7 (0.74%) Government Security Classifications
14 7 (0.74%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 7 (0.74%) JSP 440
15 4 (0.43%) PMO
16 3 (0.32%) ISO 9001
16 3 (0.32%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 62 (6.59%) Docker
2 28 (2.98%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.96%) VMware NSX
5 6 (0.64%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.53%) Firmware
6 5 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.21%) vSphere
8 1 (0.11%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.11%) Xen
Systems Management
1 76 (8.08%) Terraform
2 58 (6.16%) Kubernetes
3 39 (4.14%) Ansible
4 15 (1.59%) Grafana
5 14 (1.49%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.74%) Nmap
8 6 (0.64%) Endace
8 6 (0.64%) Puppet
9 5 (0.53%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.53%) Kibana
10 4 (0.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 4 (0.43%) SCCM
10 4 (0.43%) WSUS
10 4 (0.43%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.32%) Check_MK
11 3 (0.32%) Nagios
11 3 (0.32%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.21%) Argo
Vendors
1 151 (16.05%) Microsoft
2 102 (10.84%) Cisco
3 58 (6.16%) Google
4 41 (4.36%) Salesforce
5 35 (3.72%) SAP
6 29 (3.08%) Adobe
7 24 (2.55%) Oracle
8 19 (2.02%) VMware
9 18 (1.91%) MuleSoft
10 13 (1.38%) Red Hat
11 11 (1.17%) CyberArk
11 11 (1.17%) Splunk
12 9 (0.96%) Juniper
12 9 (0.96%) Meraki
12 9 (0.96%) ServiceNow
13 8 (0.85%) F5
14 6 (0.64%) CheckPoint
14 6 (0.64%) Databricks
15 5 (0.53%) Remedy
16 4 (0.43%) BMC