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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 84 46
Rank change year-on-year +51 -38 +1
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 1,432 681 1,133
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.02% 4.21% 4.86%
As % of the Qualifications category 29.25% 12.19% 17.88%
Number of salaries quoted 994 412 786
10th Percentile £46,500 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,625 £49,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,075 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.81% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £91,175 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -2.44%

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 4,895 5,585 6,335
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.58% 34.50% 27.16%
Number of salaries quoted 3,132 2,353 3,145
10th Percentile £33,750 £30,500 £34,375
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,895 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £59,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.04% -0.83% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -5.44%

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 9 September 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 (1.96%) Apache Spark
1 28 (1.96%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.54%) Apache
3 13 (0.91%) Anypoint
3 13 (0.91%) Mule
4 12 (0.84%) Confluence
5 10 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.56%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.49%) Camunda
7 7 (0.49%) nginx
7 7 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.21%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.21%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.21%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle Spatial
9 2 (0.14%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.070%) CMS
10 1 (0.070%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.070%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.070%) WordPress
Applications
1 26 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.19%) Simulink
3 13 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.56%) Adobe XD
4 8 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (0.49%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.28%) Mathcad
6 4 (0.28%) Windchill
7 2 (0.14%) InDesign
7 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.070%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.070%) CATIA
8 1 (0.070%) Houdini
8 1 (0.070%) InVision
8 1 (0.070%) NUKE
8 1 (0.070%) Sketch
8 1 (0.070%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.070%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 11 (0.77%) Primavera
2 6 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.42%) Workday HCM
3 5 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.35%) Teamcenter
4 3 (0.21%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.14%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.070%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.070%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.070%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.070%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.070%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.070%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 373 (26.05%) Azure
2 352 (24.58%) AWS
3 112 (7.82%) GCP
4 74 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
5 71 (4.96%) Power Platform
6 54 (3.77%) Entra ID
7 38 (2.65%) AWS CloudFormation
7 38 (2.65%) dbt
8 33 (2.30%) GitHub
9 25 (1.75%) Serverless
10 24 (1.68%) OpenShift
11 23 (1.61%) Amazon S3
11 23 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (1.40%) Google Analytics
12 20 (1.40%) Microsoft Purview
13 19 (1.33%) Azure Sentinel
14 18 (1.26%) PowerApps
15 16 (1.12%) Slack
16 15 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
16 15 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 45 (3.14%) Network Security
2 32 (2.23%) Firewall
3 31 (2.16%) TCP/IP
4 24 (1.68%) DNS
5 16 (1.12%) SSL
6 12 (0.84%) WAN
7 11 (0.77%) ATM
7 11 (0.77%) VPN
8 9 (0.63%) Ethernet
8 9 (0.63%) Wireless
9 8 (0.56%) DHCP
10 7 (0.49%) BGP
11 6 (0.42%) LAN
11 6 (0.42%) MPLS
12 5 (0.35%) VLAN
13 4 (0.28%) Unified Communications
14 3 (0.21%) 3GPP
14 3 (0.21%) Intrusion Detection
14 3 (0.21%) TETRA
15 2 (0.14%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (4.12%) Power BI
2 40 (2.79%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (1.54%) Big Data
5 17 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
5 17 (1.19%) SQL Server
6 16 (1.12%) Relational Database
6 16 (1.12%) Tableau
7 15 (1.05%) DynamoDB
8 14 (0.98%) MySQL
9 12 (0.84%) Data Lake
10 11 (0.77%) Metadata
11 9 (0.63%) Hadoop
12 6 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (0.42%) MongoDB
12 6 (0.42%) NoSQL
12 6 (0.42%) Redis
13 5 (0.35%) GIS
14 4 (0.28%) OLAP
14 4 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 60 (4.19%) Git
2 34 (2.37%) GitLab
3 26 (1.82%) Jenkins
4 24 (1.68%) JIRA
5 21 (1.47%) JUnit
5 21 (1.47%) Rational DOORS
6 15 (1.05%) Selenium
7 12 (0.84%) Mockito
8 11 (0.77%) Maven
9 9 (0.63%) Balsamiq
9 9 (0.63%) Burp Suite
9 9 (0.63%) Metasploit
9 9 (0.63%) Postman
10 8 (0.56%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.49%) Axure RP
12 6 (0.42%) Cypress.io
12 6 (0.42%) Gatling
12 6 (0.42%) LabVIEW
13 3 (0.21%) CMake
13 3 (0.21%) Snyk
General
1 430 (30.03%) Social Skills
2 339 (23.67%) Public Sector
3 322 (22.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 272 (18.99%) Finance
5 176 (12.29%) Analytical Skills
6 156 (10.89%) Aerospace
7 147 (10.27%) Law
8 57 (3.98%) Legal
9 48 (3.35%) Military
9 48 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
10 45 (3.14%) Electronics
11 42 (2.93%) Retail
12 40 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
13 37 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
14 36 (2.51%) Manufacturing
15 26 (1.82%) Police
16 20 (1.40%) Telecoms
17 14 (0.98%) Local Government
18 13 (0.91%) Aviation
19 12 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 269 (18.78%) Senior
2 243 (16.97%) Architect
3 138 (9.64%) Consultant
4 131 (9.15%) Lead
5 127 (8.87%) Software Engineer
6 123 (8.59%) Developer
7 115 (8.03%) Analyst
8 85 (5.94%) Solutions Architect
9 58 (4.05%) Principal Engineer
9 58 (4.05%) Security Consultant
10 55 (3.84%) DevOps Engineer
11 52 (3.63%) Cloud Engineer
12 50 (3.49%) Senior Manager
13 48 (3.35%) Data Engineer
14 47 (3.28%) Security Architect
15 45 (3.14%) Business Analyst
15 45 (3.14%) Senior Analyst
16 44 (3.07%) Senior Developer
17 39 (2.72%) Cloud Architect
18 37 (2.58%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (7.05%) Terraform
2 51 (3.56%) React
3 37 (2.58%) Spring
4 33 (2.30%) .NET
5 32 (2.23%) REST
6 28 (1.96%) CSS
7 24 (1.68%) HTML
8 21 (1.47%) Node.js
9 20 (1.40%) .NET Core
9 20 (1.40%) Kafka
9 20 (1.40%) Playwright
10 19 (1.33%) AngularJS
10 19 (1.33%) PySpark
11 17 (1.19%) OAuth
12 14 (0.98%) Entity Framework
12 14 (0.98%) OAuth2
12 14 (0.98%) Spring Boot
13 13 (0.91%) JWT
13 13 (0.91%) MUnit
13 13 (0.91%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 103 (7.19%) Cloud Native
2 52 (3.63%) Product Ownership
3 46 (3.21%) Management Information System
4 38 (2.65%) Onboarding
5 35 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
6 33 (2.30%) Blog
7 32 (2.23%) Security Posture
8 31 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
9 27 (1.89%) Driving Licence
10 23 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
11 22 (1.54%) FPGA
12 21 (1.47%) Data Centre
13 20 (1.40%) Cyber Threat
14 18 (1.26%) Security Operations Centre
15 15 (1.05%) AI Agents
15 15 (1.05%) Algorithms
15 15 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
16 14 (0.98%) Public Cloud
17 13 (0.91%) PKI
18 11 (0.77%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 114 (7.96%) Linux
2 92 (6.42%) Windows
3 38 (2.65%) Windows Server
4 34 (2.37%) Unix
5 12 (0.84%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.28%) Kali Linux
7 4 (0.28%) VxWorks
7 4 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.21%) Android
8 3 (0.21%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.14%) Solaris
9 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.070%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.070%) CentOS
10 1 (0.070%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.070%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.070%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 401 (28.00%) Agile
2 269 (18.78%) Continuous Improvement
3 238 (16.62%) Mentoring
4 214 (14.94%) Cybersecurity
5 208 (14.53%) Software Engineering
6 206 (14.39%) CI/CD
6 206 (14.39%) Problem-Solving
7 189 (13.20%) DevOps
8 188 (13.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 156 (10.89%) AI
10 142 (9.92%) Community of Practice
11 138 (9.64%) Stakeholder Management
12 131 (9.15%) Decision-Making
13 129 (9.01%) Technology Strategy
14 128 (8.94%) Project Delivery
15 125 (8.73%) Coaching
16 122 (8.52%) Analytics
17 118 (8.24%) Infrastructure as Code
18 117 (8.17%) Scrum
19 114 (7.96%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 168 (11.73%) Python
2 131 (9.15%) Java
3 93 (6.49%) SQL
4 88 (6.15%) JavaScript
5 51 (3.56%) C++
6 49 (3.42%) C#
7 43 (3.00%) Bash
8 37 (2.58%) PowerShell
9 27 (1.89%) TypeScript
10 23 (1.61%) MATLAB
11 21 (1.47%) C
12 19 (1.33%) Ada
13 13 (0.91%) DataWeave
13 13 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
14 12 (0.84%) PL/SQL
14 12 (0.84%) Ruby
15 9 (0.63%) VBA
16 8 (0.56%) Go
16 8 (0.56%) Rust
17 6 (0.42%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1,432 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 292 (20.39%) DV Cleared
3 272 (18.99%) Degree
4 185 (12.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 75 (5.24%) CISSP
6 60 (4.19%) CISM
7 49 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 42 (2.93%) Azure Certification
9 36 (2.51%) AWS Certification
10 30 (2.09%) Master's Degree
11 23 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
12 20 (1.40%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 18 (1.26%) CRISC
13 18 (1.26%) PhD
14 17 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
15 16 (1.12%) CREST Certified
16 15 (1.05%) Chartered Engineer
16 15 (1.05%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 11 (0.77%) CHECK Team Member
17 11 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (10.27%) Accessibility
2 133 (9.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 80 (5.59%) NIST
4 59 (4.12%) NCSC
5 47 (3.28%) QA
6 35 (2.44%) Data Quality
6 35 (2.44%) GRC
7 29 (2.03%) GDPR
8 24 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials
9 22 (1.54%) PCI DSS
10 21 (1.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 19 (1.33%) SLA
11 19 (1.33%) WCAG
12 14 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
13 13 (0.91%) Def Stans
13 13 (0.91%) JSP 440
14 7 (0.49%) NIST 800
15 5 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 5 (0.35%) NEBOSH
16 4 (0.28%) HIPAA
System Software
1 91 (6.35%) Docker
2 52 (3.63%) Active Directory
3 34 (2.37%) Firmware
4 28 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (1.47%) Hyper-V
6 15 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.42%) Squid
7 6 (0.42%) vSphere
8 4 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.28%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.070%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.070%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.070%) IAG
10 1 (0.070%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.070%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 99 (6.91%) Kubernetes
2 36 (2.51%) Microsoft Intune
3 35 (2.44%) Ansible
4 16 (1.12%) Prometheus
5 15 (1.05%) Grafana
6 13 (0.91%) CloudHub
7 11 (0.77%) Argo
8 9 (0.63%) Nmap
9 7 (0.49%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.42%) Istio
11 5 (0.35%) Packer
11 5 (0.35%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.28%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.21%) Check_MK
13 3 (0.21%) Kibana
14 2 (0.14%) Graylog
14 2 (0.14%) Nagios
14 2 (0.14%) Oracle RMAN
14 2 (0.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 207 (14.46%) Microsoft
2 58 (4.05%) Google
3 55 (3.84%) ServiceNow
4 41 (2.86%) VMware
5 40 (2.79%) Oracle
6 31 (2.16%) SAP
7 21 (1.47%) Red Hat
8 18 (1.26%) Cisco
9 17 (1.19%) Salesforce
10 16 (1.12%) OpenAI
11 15 (1.05%) MuleSoft
12 14 (0.98%) Databricks
13 13 (0.91%) Veeam
14 12 (0.84%) Adobe
15 11 (0.77%) Siemens
16 10 (0.70%) CyberArk
17 9 (0.63%) Okta
17 9 (0.63%) Workday
18 8 (0.56%) BeyondTrust
18 8 (0.56%) YouTube