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 20 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 91 51
Rank change year-on-year +58 -40 -2
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 1,364 643 1,143
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.95% 3.88% 4.63%
As % of the Qualifications category 28.76% 11.26% 17.51%
Number of salaries quoted 959 381 869
10th Percentile £46,500 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +3.45% -7.20%

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 4,742 5,711 6,526
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.69% 34.48% 26.45%
Number of salaries quoted 3,075 2,417 3,690
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,750 £33,225
25th Percentile £46,743 £41,000 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -0.86% -3.33%
75th Percentile £79,125 £75,900 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 20 August 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 (2.05%) SharePoint
2 27 (1.98%) Apache Spark
3 24 (1.76%) Apache
4 13 (0.95%) Anypoint
4 13 (0.95%) Mule
5 12 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (0.81%) Confluence
7 8 (0.59%) Jupyter
8 7 (0.51%) Camunda
8 7 (0.51%) nginx
8 7 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.22%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.22%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.22%) GeoServer
9 3 (0.22%) Oracle Spatial
10 2 (0.15%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.073%) CMS
11 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.073%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.073%) WordPress
Applications
1 24 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.25%) Simulink
3 12 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.66%) Adobe XD
4 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.51%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.29%) Mathcad
7 4 (0.29%) Windchill
8 2 (0.15%) InDesign
9 1 (0.073%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.073%) CATIA
9 1 (0.073%) Houdini
9 1 (0.073%) InVision
9 1 (0.073%) NUKE
9 1 (0.073%) Sketch
9 1 (0.073%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.073%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.073%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 10 (0.73%) Primavera
2 6 (0.44%) Workday HCM
3 5 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.37%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.22%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.15%) SAP QM
7 1 (0.073%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.073%) SAP EWM
7 1 (0.073%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.073%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.073%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 371 (27.20%) Azure
2 353 (25.88%) AWS
3 113 (8.28%) GCP
4 72 (5.28%) Microsoft 365
5 67 (4.91%) Power Platform
6 50 (3.67%) Entra ID
7 38 (2.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 38 (2.79%) dbt
8 34 (2.49%) GitHub
9 25 (1.83%) Serverless
10 23 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (1.54%) Amazon S3
11 21 (1.54%) Google Analytics
12 20 (1.47%) Azure Sentinel
12 20 (1.47%) Microsoft Purview
13 18 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
13 18 (1.32%) OpenShift
13 18 (1.32%) PowerApps
14 17 (1.25%) Slack
15 15 (1.10%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 43 (3.15%) Network Security
2 32 (2.35%) Firewall
2 32 (2.35%) TCP/IP
3 24 (1.76%) DNS
4 16 (1.17%) SSL
5 15 (1.10%) WAN
6 13 (0.95%) VPN
7 12 (0.88%) ATM
8 9 (0.66%) BGP
8 9 (0.66%) Ethernet
8 9 (0.66%) LAN
9 8 (0.59%) DHCP
9 8 (0.59%) MPLS
10 7 (0.51%) Wireless
11 5 (0.37%) VLAN
12 4 (0.29%) Intrusion Detection
13 3 (0.22%) OSPF
13 3 (0.22%) TETRA
13 3 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
13 3 (0.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (4.03%) Power BI
2 42 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (1.61%) Big Data
5 17 (1.25%) SQL Server
6 16 (1.17%) Relational Database
7 15 (1.10%) DynamoDB
8 14 (1.03%) MySQL
8 14 (1.03%) Tableau
9 13 (0.95%) Amazon Athena
9 13 (0.95%) Metadata
10 11 (0.81%) Data Lake
11 9 (0.66%) Hadoop
12 7 (0.51%) MongoDB
12 7 (0.51%) NoSQL
13 6 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (0.44%) Redis
14 5 (0.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 4 (0.29%) BigQuery
15 4 (0.29%) Flink
Development Applications
1 60 (4.40%) Git
2 36 (2.64%) GitLab
3 27 (1.98%) Jenkins
4 24 (1.76%) JIRA
5 21 (1.54%) JUnit
5 21 (1.54%) Rational DOORS
6 15 (1.10%) Selenium
7 12 (0.88%) Mockito
8 11 (0.81%) Maven
9 10 (0.73%) Balsamiq
10 9 (0.66%) Postman
11 8 (0.59%) Axure RP
11 8 (0.59%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.51%) Burp Suite
12 7 (0.51%) Metasploit
13 6 (0.44%) Cypress.io
13 6 (0.44%) Gatling
13 6 (0.44%) LabVIEW
14 3 (0.22%) CMake
14 3 (0.22%) Snyk
General
1 428 (31.38%) Social Skills
2 338 (24.78%) Public Sector
3 316 (23.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 267 (19.57%) Finance
5 165 (12.10%) Analytical Skills
6 146 (10.70%) Law
7 144 (10.56%) Aerospace
8 63 (4.62%) Legal
9 49 (3.59%) Presentation Skills
10 43 (3.15%) Military
11 40 (2.93%) Electronics
12 38 (2.79%) Retail
13 36 (2.64%) Organisational Skills
14 35 (2.57%) Manufacturing
15 34 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
16 25 (1.83%) Police
16 25 (1.83%) Telecoms
17 15 (1.10%) Local Government
18 13 (0.95%) Aviation
19 11 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 259 (18.99%) Senior
2 241 (17.67%) Architect
3 133 (9.75%) Lead
4 127 (9.31%) Consultant
5 117 (8.58%) Software Engineer
6 115 (8.43%) Developer
7 106 (7.77%) Analyst
8 91 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
9 55 (4.03%) Security Consultant
10 53 (3.89%) Cloud Engineer
10 53 (3.89%) DevOps Engineer
11 48 (3.52%) Principal Engineer
11 48 (3.52%) Senior Developer
12 45 (3.30%) Senior Manager
13 44 (3.23%) Senior Analyst
14 43 (3.15%) Security Architect
15 41 (3.01%) Business Analyst
16 40 (2.93%) Data Engineer
17 38 (2.79%) Cloud Architect
18 35 (2.57%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (7.70%) Terraform
2 51 (3.74%) React
3 40 (2.93%) Spring
4 35 (2.57%) .NET
5 33 (2.42%) REST
6 29 (2.13%) CSS
7 25 (1.83%) HTML
8 21 (1.54%) Kafka
9 20 (1.47%) .NET Core
9 20 (1.47%) Playwright
10 19 (1.39%) AngularJS
11 17 (1.25%) OAuth
11 17 (1.25%) Spring Boot
12 16 (1.17%) Node.js
12 16 (1.17%) PySpark
13 14 (1.03%) Entity Framework
13 14 (1.03%) OAuth2
14 13 (0.95%) JWT
14 13 (0.95%) MUnit
14 13 (0.95%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 103 (7.55%) Cloud Native
2 51 (3.74%) Product Ownership
3 44 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 41 (3.01%) Onboarding
5 34 (2.49%) Blog
6 32 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
6 32 (2.35%) Security Posture
6 32 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
7 25 (1.83%) Driving Licence
8 23 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
9 22 (1.61%) FPGA
10 20 (1.47%) Data Centre
11 17 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
11 17 (1.25%) Security Operations Centre
12 16 (1.17%) Public Cloud
13 15 (1.10%) Algorithms
14 13 (0.95%) AI Agents
14 13 (0.95%) PKI
15 10 (0.73%) Data Structures
15 10 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 109 (7.99%) Linux
2 85 (6.23%) Windows
3 38 (2.79%) Windows Server
4 33 (2.42%) Unix
5 11 (0.81%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.22%) Kali Linux
8 3 (0.22%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.22%) VxWorks
9 2 (0.15%) Android
9 2 (0.15%) Solaris
9 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.073%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.073%) CentOS
10 1 (0.073%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 391 (28.67%) Agile
2 258 (18.91%) Continuous Improvement
3 226 (16.57%) Mentoring
4 206 (15.10%) Cybersecurity
5 204 (14.96%) CI/CD
6 200 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
7 195 (14.30%) Software Engineering
8 189 (13.86%) DevOps
9 179 (13.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 144 (10.56%) Community of Practice
11 141 (10.34%) AI
12 125 (9.16%) Infrastructure as Code
13 123 (9.02%) Stakeholder Management
13 123 (9.02%) Technology Strategy
14 122 (8.94%) Decision-Making
15 117 (8.58%) Project Delivery
16 115 (8.43%) Scrum
17 112 (8.21%) Coaching
18 108 (7.92%) Analytics
19 105 (7.70%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 171 (12.54%) Python
2 131 (9.60%) Java
3 88 (6.45%) SQL
4 87 (6.38%) JavaScript
5 51 (3.74%) C#
6 47 (3.45%) C++
7 42 (3.08%) Bash
8 38 (2.79%) PowerShell
9 26 (1.91%) TypeScript
10 23 (1.69%) MATLAB
11 19 (1.39%) Ada
11 19 (1.39%) C
12 13 (0.95%) DataWeave
13 12 (0.88%) PL/SQL
13 12 (0.88%) Ruby
14 11 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
15 9 (0.66%) Rust
15 9 (0.66%) VBA
16 8 (0.59%) Go
17 6 (0.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1,364 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 282 (20.67%) DV Cleared
3 271 (19.87%) Degree
4 183 (13.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 69 (5.06%) CISSP
6 55 (4.03%) CISM
7 52 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 42 (3.08%) Azure Certification
9 34 (2.49%) AWS Certification
10 30 (2.20%) Master's Degree
11 25 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
12 19 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
13 18 (1.32%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 17 (1.25%) CRISC
14 17 (1.25%) PhD
15 15 (1.10%) CREST Certified
15 15 (1.10%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 12 (0.88%) Chartered Engineer
17 11 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
18 10 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (10.92%) Accessibility
2 124 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 75 (5.50%) NIST
4 53 (3.89%) NCSC
5 49 (3.59%) QA
6 32 (2.35%) Data Quality
7 31 (2.27%) GRC
8 25 (1.83%) GDPR
9 23 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
10 20 (1.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 20 (1.47%) WCAG
11 18 (1.32%) PCI DSS
12 17 (1.25%) SLA
13 13 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
13 13 (0.95%) JSP 440
14 11 (0.81%) Def Stans
15 6 (0.44%) NIST 800
16 5 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 5 (0.37%) NEBOSH
17 4 (0.29%) HIPAA
System Software
1 90 (6.60%) Docker
2 51 (3.74%) Active Directory
3 35 (2.57%) Firmware
4 28 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (1.54%) Hyper-V
6 15 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.44%) Squid
7 6 (0.44%) vSphere
8 4 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.29%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.073%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.073%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.073%) IAG
10 1 (0.073%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.073%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.073%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 97 (7.11%) Kubernetes
2 35 (2.57%) Ansible
2 35 (2.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (1.17%) Prometheus
4 15 (1.10%) Grafana
5 13 (0.95%) CloudHub
6 10 (0.73%) Argo
7 7 (0.51%) Nmap
7 7 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.44%) Kustomize
9 5 (0.37%) Istio
9 5 (0.37%) Packer
9 5 (0.37%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.29%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.22%) Check_MK
11 3 (0.22%) Kibana
12 2 (0.15%) Graylog
12 2 (0.15%) Nagios
12 2 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (0.15%) SCCM
Vendors
1 192 (14.08%) Microsoft
2 59 (4.33%) Google
3 39 (2.86%) ServiceNow
4 38 (2.79%) Oracle
5 37 (2.71%) VMware
6 28 (2.05%) SAP
7 21 (1.54%) Cisco
7 21 (1.54%) Red Hat
8 20 (1.47%) Salesforce
9 17 (1.25%) MuleSoft
10 16 (1.17%) Databricks
10 16 (1.17%) OpenAI
11 12 (0.88%) Adobe
12 11 (0.81%) Siemens
13 9 (0.66%) Veeam
14 8 (0.59%) Atlassian
14 8 (0.59%) CyberArk
15 7 (0.51%) Fortinet
15 7 (0.51%) Splunk
15 7 (0.51%) Workday