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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 108 64
Rank change year-on-year +75 -44 -5
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 1,138 545 1,378
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.70% 3.55% 3.99%
As % of the Qualifications category 26.65% 10.32% 15.07%
Number of salaries quoted 891 375 1,006
10th Percentile £46,250 £44,279 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £64,627 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.45% +7.71% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,700 £90,000
UK median annual salary £65,576 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.29% +4.35% -8.00%

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 4,270 5,283 9,147
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 21.39% 34.41% 26.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,950 2,360 5,899
10th Percentile £33,250 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £88,750 £86,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +2.80% -10.83%

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 17 June 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 29 (2.55%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (1.41%) Apache
4 13 (1.14%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.62%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.26%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.26%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.26%) Mule
6 3 (0.26%) SAS
7 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.18%) Camunda
7 2 (0.18%) Confluence
7 2 (0.18%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.088%) Appian
8 1 (0.088%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.088%) Site Server
Applications
1 40 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.14%) Adobe XD
3 12 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.35%) InVision
5 4 (0.35%) Sketch
5 4 (0.35%) Windchill
6 3 (0.26%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.18%) Weka
8 1 (0.088%) CATIA
8 1 (0.088%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 7 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.18%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.18%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.088%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.088%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.088%) SAP FSCM
4 1 (0.088%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.088%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.088%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 295 (25.92%) Azure
2 262 (23.02%) AWS
3 96 (8.44%) Microsoft 365
4 87 (7.64%) GCP
5 65 (5.71%) Entra ID
6 43 (3.78%) Power Platform
7 23 (2.02%) GitHub
8 21 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
9 20 (1.76%) Google Analytics
9 20 (1.76%) SaaS
9 20 (1.76%) Serverless
10 19 (1.67%) Amazon S3
11 16 (1.41%) Azure Sentinel
11 16 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
12 15 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
12 15 (1.32%) PaaS
13 14 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (1.23%) PowerApps
14 13 (1.14%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 13 (1.14%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.08%) Network Security
2 27 (2.37%) Firewall
3 24 (2.11%) WAN
4 23 (2.02%) VPN
5 17 (1.49%) TCP/IP
6 16 (1.41%) DNS
6 16 (1.41%) LAN
7 15 (1.32%) BGP
8 13 (1.14%) DHCP
9 12 (1.05%) MPLS
10 11 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (0.79%) SMTP
12 7 (0.62%) Intrusion Detection
12 7 (0.62%) SNMP
13 5 (0.44%) Cisco Firepower
13 5 (0.44%) HTTP
13 5 (0.44%) SSL
13 5 (0.44%) VoIP
14 4 (0.35%) MQTT
14 4 (0.35%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (3.08%) Power BI
2 34 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (1.67%) Metadata
4 13 (1.14%) NoSQL
5 12 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
5 12 (1.05%) DynamoDB
6 11 (0.97%) Big Data
6 11 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (0.97%) Redis
7 10 (0.88%) MongoDB
8 8 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.53%) BigQuery
9 6 (0.53%) Data Lake
9 6 (0.53%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (0.44%) SQL Server
10 5 (0.44%) Tableau
11 3 (0.26%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.26%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 43 (3.78%) Git
2 35 (3.08%) GitLab
3 25 (2.20%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.14%) JUnit
4 13 (1.14%) Selenium
5 10 (0.88%) JIRA
6 9 (0.79%) Axure RP
6 9 (0.79%) Balsamiq
7 8 (0.70%) Maven
8 7 (0.62%) Mockito
9 6 (0.53%) Burp Suite
9 6 (0.53%) Metasploit
10 5 (0.44%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.44%) Postman
11 4 (0.35%) JMeter
12 3 (0.26%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.26%) SoapUI
12 3 (0.26%) SonarQube
13 2 (0.18%) MSTest
13 2 (0.18%) webpack
General
1 313 (27.50%) Public Sector
2 311 (27.33%) Social Skills
3 164 (14.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 118 (10.37%) Analytical Skills
5 109 (9.58%) Finance
6 104 (9.14%) Law
7 40 (3.51%) Legal
8 39 (3.43%) Presentation Skills
9 36 (3.16%) Back Office
10 31 (2.72%) Telecoms
11 23 (2.02%) Manufacturing
11 23 (2.02%) Retail
12 21 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
13 20 (1.76%) Aerospace
13 20 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (0.97%) Aviation
15 10 (0.88%) Military
16 8 (0.70%) Automotive
17 7 (0.62%) Police
18 6 (0.53%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 230 (20.21%) Senior
2 177 (15.55%) Architect
3 122 (10.72%) Consultant
4 99 (8.70%) Developer
5 87 (7.64%) Lead
6 85 (7.47%) Analyst
7 81 (7.12%) Solutions Architect
8 69 (6.06%) Software Engineer
9 51 (4.48%) Data Engineer
10 47 (4.13%) Support Engineer
11 46 (4.04%) Security Consultant
12 45 (3.95%) Senior Manager
13 44 (3.87%) Cloud Engineer
14 40 (3.51%) Java Developer
15 39 (3.43%) Business Analyst
16 38 (3.34%) Security Architect
16 38 (3.34%) Site Engineer
17 37 (3.25%) DevOps Engineer
18 36 (3.16%) Senior Analyst
19 35 (3.08%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (3.51%) REST
2 34 (2.99%) Spring
3 29 (2.55%) .NET
4 25 (2.20%) React
5 19 (1.67%) SOAP
6 17 (1.49%) Spring Boot
7 16 (1.41%) CSS
7 16 (1.41%) HTML
7 16 (1.41%) Middleware
8 15 (1.32%) Playwright
9 13 (1.14%) Lightning Web Components
9 13 (1.14%) Visualforce
10 12 (1.05%) Kafka
11 10 (0.88%) RESTful
12 9 (0.79%) SAML
13 8 (0.70%) Django
13 8 (0.70%) HTML5 Canvas
13 8 (0.70%) YAML
14 7 (0.62%) AngularJS
14 7 (0.62%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 79 (6.94%) Cloud Native
2 57 (5.01%) Product Ownership
3 40 (3.51%) Onboarding
4 38 (3.34%) Management Information System
5 36 (3.16%) Security Posture
6 34 (2.99%) Data Centre
7 22 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
8 20 (1.76%) PKI
9 14 (1.23%) Blog
9 14 (1.23%) Driving Licence
10 12 (1.05%) Security Operations Centre
11 11 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (0.88%) Data Structures
12 10 (0.88%) Low-Code
13 7 (0.62%) AI Agents
13 7 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (0.62%) Distributed Systems
13 7 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (0.53%) Enterprise Cloud
14 6 (0.53%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 93 (8.17%) Windows
2 69 (6.06%) Linux
3 37 (3.25%) Windows 10
4 27 (2.37%) Windows Server
5 20 (1.76%) Unix
6 5 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.26%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.18%) Android
8 2 (0.18%) CentOS
9 1 (0.088%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.088%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.088%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (22.67%) Agile
2 192 (16.87%) Continuous Improvement
3 169 (14.85%) Cybersecurity
4 148 (13.01%) Mentoring
5 140 (12.30%) DevOps
6 138 (12.13%) CI/CD
7 127 (11.16%) Problem-Solving
8 114 (10.02%) Community of Practice
9 107 (9.40%) Analytics
9 107 (9.40%) Technology Strategy
10 102 (8.96%) ITIL
10 102 (8.96%) Software Engineering
10 102 (8.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 96 (8.44%) Infrastructure as Code
12 92 (8.08%) Stakeholder Management
13 74 (6.50%) Cloud Security
13 74 (6.50%) Collaborative Culture
13 74 (6.50%) Decision-Making
14 73 (6.41%) Scrum
15 72 (6.33%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 122 (10.72%) Python
2 113 (9.93%) Java
3 67 (5.89%) JavaScript
4 64 (5.62%) SQL
5 29 (2.55%) C#
6 28 (2.46%) Bash
7 26 (2.28%) C++
7 26 (2.28%) PowerShell
8 23 (2.02%) TypeScript
9 13 (1.14%) Apex Code
10 9 (0.79%) Rust
11 6 (0.53%) C
11 6 (0.53%) Groovy
11 6 (0.53%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.44%) Scala
12 5 (0.44%) VBA
13 4 (0.35%) Go
14 3 (0.26%) DataWeave
14 3 (0.26%) Google Apps Script
14 3 (0.26%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,138 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 225 (19.77%) Degree
3 186 (16.34%) DV Cleared
4 66 (5.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 59 (5.18%) CISSP
6 45 (3.95%) CISM
7 41 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 33 (2.90%) CTC Cleared
9 30 (2.64%) Microsoft Certification
10 25 (2.20%) Azure Certification
11 23 (2.02%) AWS Certification
12 16 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
13 14 (1.23%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 14 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
14 13 (1.14%) CRISC
15 12 (1.05%) CREST Certified
16 10 (0.88%) HNC
17 9 (0.79%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 9 (0.79%) Master's Degree
18 8 (0.70%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (8.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 62 (5.45%) NIST
3 46 (4.04%) SLA
4 45 (3.95%) QA
5 39 (3.43%) NCSC
6 38 (3.34%) GDPR
7 37 (3.25%) Accessibility
8 24 (2.11%) Data Quality
9 22 (1.93%) Cyber Essentials
10 20 (1.76%) GRC
10 20 (1.76%) PCI DSS
11 17 (1.49%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 14 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
13 13 (1.14%) WCAG
14 12 (1.05%) JSP 440
15 11 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 10 (0.88%) Def Stans
17 7 (0.62%) Government Security Classifications
18 5 (0.44%) NEBOSH
18 5 (0.44%) NIST 800
System Software
1 64 (5.62%) Docker
2 37 (3.25%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.41%) Hyper-V
3 16 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.88%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.44%) Firmware
5 5 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.44%) vSphere
6 4 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.088%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.088%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.088%) IAG
7 1 (0.088%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.088%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.088%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.088%) Xen
Systems Management
1 89 (7.82%) Terraform
2 70 (6.15%) Kubernetes
3 38 (3.34%) Ansible
4 28 (2.46%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (1.85%) Prometheus
6 19 (1.67%) Grafana
7 10 (0.88%) Argo
8 8 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.53%) Kustomize
9 6 (0.53%) Nmap
9 6 (0.53%) Packer
9 6 (0.53%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.53%) Puppet
10 5 (0.44%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.44%) Endace
10 5 (0.44%) Istio
10 5 (0.44%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.35%) Kibana
11 4 (0.35%) Nagios
12 3 (0.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 184 (16.17%) Microsoft
2 63 (5.54%) Cisco
3 48 (4.22%) Google
4 31 (2.72%) Oracle
5 27 (2.37%) VMware
6 22 (1.93%) Salesforce
7 19 (1.67%) ServiceNow
8 17 (1.49%) Red Hat
9 16 (1.41%) MuleSoft
10 14 (1.23%) SAP
11 13 (1.14%) Adobe
12 12 (1.05%) CyberArk
13 9 (0.79%) Databricks
14 8 (0.70%) Meraki
14 8 (0.70%) Splunk
15 7 (0.62%) F5
15 7 (0.62%) Juniper
16 6 (0.53%) CheckPoint
17 4 (0.35%) BMC
17 4 (0.35%) Dell