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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 89 70
Rank change year-on-year +56 -19 -11
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 1,013 479 1,320
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.66% 3.58% 4.06%
As % of the Qualifications category 23.82% 11.78% 15.17%
Number of salaries quoted 777 382 973
10th Percentile £45,950 £44,956 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,125 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% +4.58% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,395
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.54% -4.34%

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 4,253 4,067 8,700
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 23.75% 30.39% 26.78%
Number of salaries quoted 2,853 2,483 5,932
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,750 £42,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £60,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £78,800 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £58,497 £57,500 £54,151
% change year-on-year +1.73% +6.19% -6.33%

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 23 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 (2.76%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (0.69%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.49%) Apache
5 5 (0.49%) ArcGIS
5 5 (0.49%) GeoServer
5 5 (0.49%) Oracle Spatial
6 3 (0.30%) Camunda
6 3 (0.30%) SAS
7 2 (0.20%) Confluence
8 1 (0.099%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.099%) Appian
8 1 (0.099%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.099%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.099%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.099%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.099%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 71 (7.01%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (2.76%) Adobe XD
3 9 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.49%) InVision
4 5 (0.49%) Sketch
5 2 (0.20%) Weka
6 1 (0.099%) CATIA
6 1 (0.099%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.099%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 9 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.20%) SAP HCM
3 2 (0.20%) SAP SCM
4 1 (0.099%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.099%) Primavera
4 1 (0.099%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.099%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.099%) SAP FSCM
4 1 (0.099%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.099%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.099%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.099%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 230 (22.70%) Azure
2 195 (19.25%) AWS
3 111 (10.96%) Microsoft 365
4 73 (7.21%) GCP
5 50 (4.94%) Entra ID
6 33 (3.26%) Power Platform
7 28 (2.76%) Figma
8 21 (2.07%) PowerApps
9 19 (1.88%) Google Analytics
10 17 (1.68%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (1.68%) Power Automate
10 17 (1.68%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 17 (1.68%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 17 (1.68%) Serverless
11 15 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
12 14 (1.38%) Azure Sentinel
12 14 (1.38%) GitHub
12 14 (1.38%) SaaS
13 12 (1.18%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (1.18%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 29 (2.86%) Firewall
2 26 (2.57%) WAN
3 25 (2.47%) VPN
4 21 (2.07%) Network Security
5 18 (1.78%) LAN
6 16 (1.58%) BGP
6 16 (1.58%) DNS
7 13 (1.28%) DHCP
7 13 (1.28%) MPLS
8 12 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (0.89%) SMTP
9 9 (0.89%) TCP/IP
10 7 (0.69%) Intrusion Detection
10 7 (0.69%) SNMP
11 6 (0.59%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (0.59%) Cisco Firepower
11 6 (0.59%) HTTP
11 6 (0.59%) VoIP
12 5 (0.49%) SD-WAN
13 4 (0.39%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (2.86%) Power BI
3 16 (1.58%) Metadata
4 14 (1.38%) NoSQL
5 10 (0.99%) MongoDB
6 8 (0.79%) DynamoDB
6 8 (0.79%) Relational Database
7 7 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (0.69%) SQL Server
8 6 (0.59%) BigQuery
8 6 (0.59%) Redis
9 5 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (0.49%) GIS
9 5 (0.49%) QGIS
10 4 (0.39%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (0.39%) MySQL
10 4 (0.39%) Tableau
11 3 (0.30%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 41 (4.05%) Git
2 25 (2.47%) Balsamiq
3 24 (2.37%) Axure RP
4 20 (1.97%) GitLab
5 17 (1.68%) Jenkins
6 11 (1.09%) JIRA
7 9 (0.89%) Selenium
8 5 (0.49%) Babel
8 5 (0.49%) Burp Suite
8 5 (0.49%) JUnit
8 5 (0.49%) Metasploit
8 5 (0.49%) webpack
9 4 (0.39%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.30%) JMeter
10 3 (0.30%) Maven
10 3 (0.30%) Postman
10 3 (0.30%) SoapUI
11 2 (0.20%) Mockito
11 2 (0.20%) MSTest
11 2 (0.20%) WebDriver
General
1 316 (31.19%) Social Skills
2 276 (27.25%) Public Sector
3 156 (15.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 112 (11.06%) Law
5 109 (10.76%) Finance
6 95 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
7 63 (6.22%) Back Office
8 45 (4.44%) Telecoms
9 36 (3.55%) Legal
10 33 (3.26%) Manufacturing
11 30 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
12 21 (2.07%) Marketing
12 21 (2.07%) Retail
13 19 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
14 18 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
15 16 (1.58%) Aerospace
16 15 (1.48%) Electronics
17 11 (1.09%) Military
18 8 (0.79%) Police
19 7 (0.69%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 193 (19.05%) Senior
2 134 (13.23%) Architect
3 114 (11.25%) Consultant
4 86 (8.49%) Analyst
5 83 (8.19%) Developer
6 74 (7.31%) Support Engineer
7 65 (6.42%) Lead
8 60 (5.92%) Desktop Engineer
8 60 (5.92%) Desktop Support
8 60 (5.92%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 60 (5.92%) Site Engineer
9 57 (5.63%) Solutions Architect
10 52 (5.13%) Software Engineer
11 49 (4.84%) Business Analyst
12 39 (3.85%) Security Consultant
13 38 (3.75%) Senior Manager
14 36 (3.55%) Cloud Engineer
15 35 (3.46%) Data Engineer
16 34 (3.36%) Designer
17 31 (3.06%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (4.05%) .NET
2 38 (3.75%) REST
3 29 (2.86%) CSS
3 29 (2.86%) HTML
4 25 (2.47%) Spring
5 22 (2.17%) SOAP
6 21 (2.07%) React
7 20 (1.97%) Middleware
8 17 (1.68%) Lightning Web Components
8 17 (1.68%) Visualforce
9 13 (1.28%) Kafka
10 12 (1.18%) ASP.NET
10 12 (1.18%) Spring Boot
11 10 (0.99%) Django
11 10 (0.99%) HTML5 Canvas
11 10 (0.99%) SAP CAF
12 9 (0.89%) Node.js
12 9 (0.89%) SAML
13 8 (0.79%) RESTful
14 7 (0.69%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 66 (6.52%) Product Ownership
2 50 (4.94%) Cloud Native
3 39 (3.85%) Data Centre
4 38 (3.75%) Management Information System
5 37 (3.65%) Onboarding
6 28 (2.76%) Security Posture
7 20 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (1.88%) PKI
9 14 (1.38%) Blog
9 14 (1.38%) Driving Licence
10 12 (1.18%) Low-Code
11 11 (1.09%) Security Operations Centre
12 8 (0.79%) AI Agents
12 8 (0.79%) Data Structures
13 7 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (0.69%) Cyber Threat
13 7 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (0.59%) Cyberattack
14 6 (0.59%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (0.59%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 115 (11.35%) Windows
2 65 (6.42%) Windows 10
3 62 (6.12%) Linux
4 19 (1.88%) Unix
4 19 (1.88%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.89%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.30%) CentOS
7 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.20%) Android
9 1 (0.099%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.099%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.099%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (21.13%) Agile
2 165 (16.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 165 (16.29%) Cybersecurity
3 128 (12.64%) Analytics
4 117 (11.55%) Community of Practice
5 113 (11.15%) ITIL
5 113 (11.15%) Mentoring
6 112 (11.06%) DevOps
7 106 (10.46%) Technology Strategy
8 100 (9.87%) Problem-Solving
9 90 (8.88%) CI/CD
10 86 (8.49%) Software Engineering
11 78 (7.70%) Stakeholder Management
12 71 (7.01%) Customer Service
13 70 (6.91%) User Experience
14 66 (6.52%) Risk Management
15 65 (6.42%) Infrastructure as Code
15 65 (6.42%) Patch Management
16 63 (6.22%) Collaborative Culture
17 61 (6.02%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 97 (9.58%) Java
2 94 (9.28%) Python
3 68 (6.71%) JavaScript
4 45 (4.44%) SQL
5 38 (3.75%) C#
6 23 (2.27%) PowerShell
6 23 (2.27%) TypeScript
7 18 (1.78%) C++
8 17 (1.68%) Apex Code
9 13 (1.28%) Bash
10 9 (0.89%) Rust
11 6 (0.59%) C
11 6 (0.59%) VBA
12 5 (0.49%) Go
13 4 (0.39%) Scala
14 3 (0.30%) Google Apps Script
14 3 (0.30%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.30%) Pascal
14 3 (0.30%) Perl
14 3 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,013 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 265 (26.16%) Degree
3 164 (16.19%) DV Cleared
4 60 (5.92%) CTC Cleared
5 52 (5.13%) CISSP
6 46 (4.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 40 (3.95%) Microsoft Certification
8 39 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 39 (3.85%) CISM
9 23 (2.27%) Azure Certification
10 19 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
11 17 (1.68%) AWS Certification
12 14 (1.38%) CREST Certified
12 14 (1.38%) TOGAF Certification
13 11 (1.09%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 10 (0.99%) HNC
14 10 (0.99%) Master's Degree
15 9 (0.89%) CCIE
15 9 (0.89%) CCNA
15 9 (0.89%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (6.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 64 (6.32%) SLA
2 49 (4.84%) Accessibility
3 47 (4.64%) NIST
4 36 (3.55%) GDPR
5 30 (2.96%) QA
6 26 (2.57%) WCAG
7 23 (2.27%) GRC
8 14 (1.38%) NCSC
8 14 (1.38%) PCI DSS
9 13 (1.28%) Data Quality
10 12 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (0.99%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 9 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 8 (0.79%) JSP 440
14 7 (0.69%) Government Security Classifications
15 6 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (0.49%) NEBOSH
17 4 (0.39%) PMO
18 3 (0.30%) HIPAA
System Software
1 57 (5.63%) Docker
2 30 (2.96%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.09%) VMware NSX
5 7 (0.69%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.49%) Firmware
6 5 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.39%) vSphere
8 2 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.099%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.099%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.099%) IAG
9 1 (0.099%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.099%) Xen
Systems Management
1 69 (6.81%) Terraform
2 60 (5.92%) Kubernetes
3 39 (3.85%) Ansible
4 17 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (1.68%) Prometheus
5 16 (1.58%) Grafana
6 6 (0.59%) Argo
6 6 (0.59%) Endace
6 6 (0.59%) Puppet
7 5 (0.49%) AWS Copilot
7 5 (0.49%) Nmap
8 4 (0.39%) Istio
8 4 (0.39%) Kustomize
8 4 (0.39%) SCCM
8 4 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.39%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.39%) WSUS
8 4 (0.39%) ZABBIX
9 3 (0.30%) Kibana
9 3 (0.30%) Packer
Vendors
1 160 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 100 (9.87%) Cisco
3 51 (5.03%) Google
4 32 (3.16%) Salesforce
5 28 (2.76%) Adobe
6 27 (2.67%) SAP
7 26 (2.57%) VMware
8 25 (2.47%) Oracle
9 19 (1.88%) Red Hat
10 17 (1.68%) MuleSoft
11 11 (1.09%) CyberArk
11 11 (1.09%) Splunk
12 9 (0.89%) Juniper
12 9 (0.89%) Meraki
13 8 (0.79%) Databricks
13 8 (0.79%) F5
13 8 (0.79%) ServiceNow
14 6 (0.59%) CheckPoint
15 5 (0.49%) ESRI
15 5 (0.49%) Remedy