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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 81 65
Rank change year-on-year +45 -16 +1
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 910 563 1,351
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.47% 4.04% 4.52%
As % of the Qualifications category 19.03% 13.80% 16.82%
Number of salaries quoted 676 402 978
10th Percentile £44,380 £44,956 £41,235
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 £85,900 £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 4,782 4,080 8,031
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 28.76% 29.25% 26.84%
Number of salaries quoted 2,587 2,444 5,843
10th Percentile £31,200 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,750 £45,000 £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 £72,761 £73,024
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £88,700
UK median annual salary £55,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.50% +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 11 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 31 (3.41%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.55%) 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%) SAS
6 3 (0.33%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.33%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.33%) WebLogic Portal
7 2 (0.22%) Camunda
8 1 (0.11%) IIS
8 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 73 (8.02%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (3.08%) Adobe XD
3 10 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.44%) InVision
4 4 (0.44%) Sketch
5 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.22%) Simulink
5 2 (0.22%) Weka
6 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.11%) EPLAN
6 1 (0.11%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 17 (1.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.66%) 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%) Integrated Workplace Management System
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%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 221 (24.29%) Azure
2 184 (20.22%) AWS
3 116 (12.75%) Microsoft 365
4 70 (7.69%) GCP
5 52 (5.71%) Entra ID
6 38 (4.18%) Power Platform
7 31 (3.41%) AWS CloudFormation
8 30 (3.30%) PowerApps
9 29 (3.19%) Figma
10 25 (2.75%) Power Automate
11 24 (2.64%) Dynamics 365
12 23 (2.53%) Amazon ECS
12 23 (2.53%) Serverless
13 20 (2.20%) Amazon EKS
13 20 (2.20%) PaaS
14 19 (2.09%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 19 (2.09%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 16 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
16 15 (1.65%) Amazon S3
16 15 (1.65%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.63%) Firewall
2 28 (3.08%) VPN
3 20 (2.20%) WAN
4 18 (1.98%) LAN
5 17 (1.87%) DNS
6 16 (1.76%) TCP/IP
6 16 (1.76%) Wi-Fi
7 14 (1.54%) Network Security
8 13 (1.43%) BGP
9 11 (1.21%) DHCP
10 9 (0.99%) MPLS
10 9 (0.99%) SMTP
11 7 (0.77%) HTTP
12 6 (0.66%) Cisco Firepower
12 6 (0.66%) Ethernet
12 6 (0.66%) SNMP
13 5 (0.55%) Cisco ASA
13 5 (0.55%) SD-WAN
13 5 (0.55%) VoIP
13 5 (0.55%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (3.30%) Power BI
3 16 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
4 15 (1.65%) NoSQL
5 14 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
5 14 (1.54%) Metadata
6 13 (1.43%) Redis
7 11 (1.21%) Relational Database
7 11 (1.21%) SQL Server
8 9 (0.99%) MongoDB
8 9 (0.99%) MySQL
9 7 (0.77%) DynamoDB
10 6 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.55%) SAP HANA
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%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 39 (4.29%) Git
2 27 (2.97%) Balsamiq
3 25 (2.75%) Axure RP
4 22 (2.42%) Jenkins
5 17 (1.87%) GitLab
6 14 (1.54%) JIRA
7 11 (1.21%) Selenium
8 8 (0.88%) Cypress.io
9 7 (0.77%) Burp Suite
9 7 (0.77%) Metasploit
10 6 (0.66%) Babel
10 6 (0.66%) WebDriver
10 6 (0.66%) webpack
11 4 (0.44%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.33%) JUnit
12 3 (0.33%) Oracle APEX
12 3 (0.33%) Oracle Forms
13 2 (0.22%) JMeter
13 2 (0.22%) Maven
13 2 (0.22%) SoapUI
General
1 315 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 261 (28.68%) Public Sector
3 138 (15.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 114 (12.53%) Finance
5 112 (12.31%) Analytical Skills
6 99 (10.88%) Law
7 61 (6.70%) Back Office
8 57 (6.26%) Telecoms
9 49 (5.38%) Manufacturing
10 36 (3.96%) Electronics
10 36 (3.96%) Marketing
11 28 (3.08%) Legal
12 22 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
13 19 (2.09%) Retail
14 14 (1.54%) Aerospace
14 14 (1.54%) Military
15 13 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
16 12 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
17 6 (0.66%) Aviation
17 6 (0.66%) Banking
Job Titles
1 171 (18.79%) Senior
2 102 (11.21%) Architect
3 101 (11.10%) Consultant
4 88 (9.67%) Developer
5 77 (8.46%) Analyst
5 77 (8.46%) Support Engineer
6 64 (7.03%) Site Engineer
7 60 (6.59%) Desktop Engineer
7 60 (6.59%) Desktop Support
7 60 (6.59%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 55 (6.04%) Lead
9 41 (4.51%) Business Analyst
10 38 (4.18%) Security Consultant
11 35 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
12 34 (3.74%) Data Engineer
12 34 (3.74%) Software Engineer
13 33 (3.63%) Senior Developer
14 29 (3.19%) Designer
15 25 (2.75%) Cloud Engineer
15 25 (2.75%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (4.95%) .NET
2 41 (4.51%) React
3 38 (4.18%) REST
4 33 (3.63%) HTML
5 32 (3.52%) CSS
6 26 (2.86%) Spring
7 25 (2.75%) SOAP
8 23 (2.53%) Django
9 22 (2.42%) Middleware
10 21 (2.31%) SAP CAF
11 19 (2.09%) Lightning Web Components
11 19 (2.09%) Visualforce
12 18 (1.98%) Spring Boot
13 16 (1.76%) HTML5 Canvas
13 16 (1.76%) Node.js
14 15 (1.65%) Kafka
15 13 (1.43%) ASP.NET
16 12 (1.32%) AngularJS
17 11 (1.21%) RESTful
18 9 (0.99%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 59 (6.48%) Cloud Native
2 56 (6.15%) Product Ownership
3 35 (3.85%) Data Centre
4 32 (3.52%) Onboarding
5 25 (2.75%) Management Information System
6 24 (2.64%) Security Posture
7 15 (1.65%) e-Learning
8 14 (1.54%) Driving Licence
8 14 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (1.54%) PKI
9 13 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (0.99%) AI Agents
12 9 (0.99%) Algorithms
13 8 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
13 8 (0.88%) Security Operations Centre
14 7 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
14 7 (0.77%) Insider Threat
14 7 (0.77%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 107 (11.76%) Windows
2 65 (7.14%) Windows 10
3 64 (7.03%) Linux
4 27 (2.97%) Unix
5 14 (1.54%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.99%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.33%) CentOS
7 3 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.33%) VMS
8 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (23.85%) Agile
2 159 (17.47%) Continuous Improvement
3 140 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
4 134 (14.73%) Problem-Solving
5 130 (14.29%) Analytics
6 116 (12.75%) DevOps
7 110 (12.09%) ITIL
8 102 (11.21%) Community of Practice
9 96 (10.55%) CI/CD
9 96 (10.55%) Mentoring
10 94 (10.33%) Technology Strategy
11 87 (9.56%) Software Engineering
12 73 (8.02%) Infrastructure as Code
13 69 (7.58%) Collaborative Culture
13 69 (7.58%) User Experience
14 68 (7.47%) Customer Service
15 66 (7.25%) Business Intelligence
16 65 (7.14%) Patch Management
17 64 (7.03%) Computer Science
18 62 (6.81%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 120 (13.19%) Python
2 97 (10.66%) Java
3 93 (10.22%) JavaScript
4 52 (5.71%) C#
5 43 (4.73%) SQL
6 31 (3.41%) TypeScript
7 28 (3.08%) PowerShell
8 19 (2.09%) Apex Code
9 18 (1.98%) C++
10 15 (1.65%) Bicep
11 13 (1.43%) Bash
12 12 (1.32%) C
13 7 (0.77%) Go
14 6 (0.66%) Rust
14 6 (0.66%) Scala
14 6 (0.66%) VBA
15 5 (0.55%) Google Apps Script
16 4 (0.44%) MATLAB
16 4 (0.44%) Ruby
17 3 (0.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 910 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 286 (31.43%) Degree
3 124 (13.63%) DV Cleared
4 60 (6.59%) CTC Cleared
5 58 (6.37%) CISSP
6 52 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
7 48 (5.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 46 (5.05%) BPSS Clearance
9 44 (4.84%) CISM
10 32 (3.52%) Azure Certification
11 29 (3.19%) Cisco Certification
12 22 (2.42%) AWS Certification
12 22 (2.42%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 17 (1.87%) CCNA
14 14 (1.54%) Master's Degree
14 14 (1.54%) TOGAF Certification
15 13 (1.43%) CREST Certified
16 11 (1.21%) CEH
16 11 (1.21%) CompTIA Security+
17 10 (1.10%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (7.14%) SLA
2 63 (6.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 54 (5.93%) Accessibility
4 49 (5.38%) NIST
5 36 (3.96%) GDPR
6 31 (3.41%) QA
7 27 (2.97%) GRC
8 26 (2.86%) WCAG
9 13 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
9 13 (1.43%) Data Quality
10 11 (1.21%) NCSC
11 10 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 9 (0.99%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.66%) JSP 440
15 4 (0.44%) Government Security Classifications
15 4 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 3 (0.33%) ISO 9001
16 3 (0.33%) NEBOSH
16 3 (0.33%) PMO
System Software
1 57 (6.26%) Docker
2 28 (3.08%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.32%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.88%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.66%) Firmware
6 6 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.11%) Xen
Systems Management
1 79 (8.68%) Terraform
2 57 (6.26%) Kubernetes
3 31 (3.41%) Ansible
4 21 (2.31%) Grafana
5 13 (1.43%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.77%) Nmap
8 6 (0.66%) Endace
8 6 (0.66%) Puppet
8 6 (0.66%) SCOM
9 5 (0.55%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.55%) Kibana
10 4 (0.44%) SCCM
10 4 (0.44%) WSUS
10 4 (0.44%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.33%) Nagios
11 3 (0.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.22%) Argo
12 2 (0.22%) Nessus
Vendors
1 154 (16.92%) Microsoft
2 108 (11.87%) Cisco
3 56 (6.15%) Google
4 47 (5.16%) Salesforce
5 46 (5.05%) SAP
6 28 (3.08%) Adobe
7 21 (2.31%) VMware
8 19 (2.09%) MuleSoft
9 17 (1.87%) Oracle
10 11 (1.21%) ServiceNow
11 10 (1.10%) F5
11 10 (1.10%) Juniper
11 10 (1.10%) Red Hat
12 9 (0.99%) CyberArk
12 9 (0.99%) Meraki
13 8 (0.88%) CheckPoint
13 8 (0.88%) Splunk
14 7 (0.77%) Remedy
15 6 (0.66%) BMC
15 6 (0.66%) Databricks