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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 85 47
Rank change year-on-year +52 -38 -1
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 1,468 688 1,144
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.12% 4.24% 4.88%
As % of the Qualifications category 29.59% 12.32% 17.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,007 410 796
10th Percentile £46,500 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,938 £49,769
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £91,375 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -1.64%

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 4,961 5,586 6,369
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.69% 34.39% 27.15%
Number of salaries quoted 3,146 2,345 3,176
10th Percentile £33,425 £30,750 £34,390
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,080 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £94,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -5.17%

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 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 (1.91%) Apache Spark
1 28 (1.91%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.50%) Apache
3 13 (0.89%) Anypoint
3 13 (0.89%) Mule
4 12 (0.82%) Confluence
5 10 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.54%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.48%) Camunda
7 7 (0.48%) nginx
7 7 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.27%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.27%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.27%) Oracle Spatial
8 4 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.20%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.14%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.068%) CMS
11 1 (0.068%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.068%) WordPress
Applications
1 27 (1.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.16%) Simulink
3 16 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.54%) Adobe XD
7 7 (0.48%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.27%) Mathcad
8 4 (0.27%) Windchill
9 2 (0.14%) InDesign
9 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.068%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.068%) CATIA
10 1 (0.068%) Houdini
10 1 (0.068%) InVision
10 1 (0.068%) NUKE
10 1 (0.068%) Sketch
10 1 (0.068%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.068%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 11 (0.75%) Primavera
2 6 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.41%) Workday HCM
3 5 (0.34%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.20%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.14%) SAP QM
7 1 (0.068%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 1 (0.068%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.068%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.068%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.068%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.068%) SAP EWM
7 1 (0.068%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.068%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.068%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.068%) SAP PSCD
7 1 (0.068%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 377 (25.68%) Azure
2 356 (24.25%) AWS
3 112 (7.63%) GCP
4 75 (5.11%) Microsoft 365
5 71 (4.84%) Power Platform
6 55 (3.75%) Entra ID
7 38 (2.59%) dbt
8 37 (2.52%) AWS CloudFormation
9 33 (2.25%) GitHub
10 28 (1.91%) Serverless
11 26 (1.77%) Amazon S3
12 24 (1.63%) OpenShift
13 23 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
14 20 (1.36%) Google Analytics
14 20 (1.36%) Microsoft Purview
15 19 (1.29%) Azure Sentinel
16 18 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
16 18 (1.23%) PowerApps
17 16 (1.09%) Slack
18 15 (1.02%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 45 (3.07%) Network Security
2 32 (2.18%) Firewall
3 31 (2.11%) TCP/IP
4 24 (1.63%) DNS
5 16 (1.09%) SSL
6 12 (0.82%) WAN
7 11 (0.75%) ATM
7 11 (0.75%) VPN
8 9 (0.61%) Ethernet
8 9 (0.61%) Wireless
9 8 (0.54%) DHCP
10 7 (0.48%) BGP
11 6 (0.41%) LAN
11 6 (0.41%) MPLS
12 5 (0.34%) VLAN
13 4 (0.27%) Unified Communications
14 3 (0.20%) 3GPP
14 3 (0.20%) Intrusion Detection
14 3 (0.20%) TETRA
15 2 (0.14%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (4.02%) Power BI
2 42 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (1.57%) Big Data
5 19 (1.29%) Amazon Athena
6 18 (1.23%) SQL Server
7 16 (1.09%) Relational Database
7 16 (1.09%) Tableau
8 15 (1.02%) Data Lake
8 15 (1.02%) DynamoDB
9 14 (0.95%) MySQL
10 12 (0.82%) Metadata
11 10 (0.68%) Hadoop
12 7 (0.48%) NoSQL
13 6 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (0.41%) GIS
13 6 (0.41%) MongoDB
13 6 (0.41%) Redis
14 5 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
15 4 (0.27%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 63 (4.29%) Git
2 33 (2.25%) GitLab
3 26 (1.77%) Jenkins
4 24 (1.63%) JIRA
5 21 (1.43%) JUnit
5 21 (1.43%) Rational DOORS
6 16 (1.09%) Selenium
7 12 (0.82%) Mockito
8 11 (0.75%) Maven
9 9 (0.61%) Balsamiq
9 9 (0.61%) Burp Suite
9 9 (0.61%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.61%) Metasploit
9 9 (0.61%) Postman
10 7 (0.48%) Axure RP
10 7 (0.48%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.41%) Gatling
11 6 (0.41%) LabVIEW
12 3 (0.20%) Snyk
12 3 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 432 (29.43%) Social Skills
2 349 (23.77%) Public Sector
3 330 (22.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 281 (19.14%) Finance
5 179 (12.19%) Analytical Skills
6 163 (11.10%) Aerospace
7 147 (10.01%) Law
8 60 (4.09%) Legal
9 49 (3.34%) Military
9 49 (3.34%) Presentation Skills
10 48 (3.27%) Electronics
11 46 (3.13%) Retail
12 43 (2.93%) Organisational Skills
13 38 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
14 37 (2.52%) Manufacturing
15 28 (1.91%) Police
16 21 (1.43%) Telecoms
17 14 (0.95%) Local Government
18 13 (0.89%) Aviation
19 12 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 280 (19.07%) Senior
2 247 (16.83%) Architect
3 139 (9.47%) Consultant
4 132 (8.99%) Lead
5 129 (8.79%) Software Engineer
6 124 (8.45%) Developer
7 113 (7.70%) Analyst
8 85 (5.79%) Solutions Architect
9 60 (4.09%) Principal Engineer
10 57 (3.88%) Security Consultant
11 56 (3.81%) Data Engineer
12 53 (3.61%) DevOps Engineer
13 52 (3.54%) Senior Manager
14 51 (3.47%) Cloud Engineer
15 47 (3.20%) Security Architect
16 44 (3.00%) Business Analyst
16 44 (3.00%) Senior Analyst
16 44 (3.00%) Senior Developer
17 39 (2.66%) Cloud Architect
18 37 (2.52%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (6.88%) Terraform
2 51 (3.47%) React
3 37 (2.52%) Spring
4 34 (2.32%) .NET
5 32 (2.18%) REST
6 28 (1.91%) CSS
7 24 (1.63%) HTML
8 21 (1.43%) Node.js
8 21 (1.43%) PySpark
9 20 (1.36%) .NET Core
9 20 (1.36%) Kafka
9 20 (1.36%) Playwright
10 19 (1.29%) AngularJS
11 17 (1.16%) OAuth
12 14 (0.95%) Entity Framework
12 14 (0.95%) OAuth2
12 14 (0.95%) Spring Boot
13 13 (0.89%) JSON
13 13 (0.89%) JWT
13 13 (0.89%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 107 (7.29%) Cloud Native
2 52 (3.54%) Product Ownership
3 51 (3.47%) Management Information System
4 38 (2.59%) Onboarding
5 35 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
6 32 (2.18%) Blog
6 32 (2.18%) Security Posture
7 31 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
8 28 (1.91%) Driving Licence
9 23 (1.57%) Data Centre
9 23 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
10 22 (1.50%) FPGA
11 20 (1.36%) Cyber Threat
12 18 (1.23%) Security Operations Centre
13 15 (1.02%) AI Agents
13 15 (1.02%) Algorithms
13 15 (1.02%) Public Cloud
14 14 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
15 13 (0.89%) PKI
16 11 (0.75%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 114 (7.77%) Linux
2 91 (6.20%) Windows
3 38 (2.59%) Windows Server
4 34 (2.32%) Unix
5 12 (0.82%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.27%) Kali Linux
7 4 (0.27%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.27%) VxWorks
7 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.20%) Android
8 3 (0.20%) Solaris
9 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.068%) AIX
10 1 (0.068%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.068%) CentOS
10 1 (0.068%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.068%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.068%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 406 (27.66%) Agile
2 276 (18.80%) Continuous Improvement
3 250 (17.03%) Mentoring
4 216 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
5 214 (14.58%) Software Engineering
6 213 (14.51%) Cybersecurity
7 209 (14.24%) CI/CD
8 192 (13.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 191 (13.01%) DevOps
10 166 (11.31%) AI
11 146 (9.95%) Stakeholder Management
12 144 (9.81%) Community of Practice
13 139 (9.47%) Decision-Making
14 136 (9.26%) Coaching
15 134 (9.13%) Analytics
16 131 (8.92%) Technology Strategy
17 128 (8.72%) Project Delivery
18 119 (8.11%) Technical Leadership
19 118 (8.04%) Infrastructure as Code
19 118 (8.04%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 173 (11.78%) Python
2 134 (9.13%) Java
3 99 (6.74%) SQL
4 89 (6.06%) JavaScript
5 51 (3.47%) C#
5 51 (3.47%) C++
6 43 (2.93%) Bash
7 37 (2.52%) PowerShell
8 27 (1.84%) TypeScript
9 23 (1.57%) MATLAB
10 21 (1.43%) C
11 19 (1.29%) Ada
12 14 (0.95%) PL/SQL
13 13 (0.89%) DataWeave
13 13 (0.89%) Kusto Query Language
14 12 (0.82%) Ruby
15 9 (0.61%) VBA
16 8 (0.54%) Go
16 8 (0.54%) Rust
17 6 (0.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1,468 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 295 (20.10%) DV Cleared
3 278 (18.94%) Degree
4 185 (12.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 75 (5.11%) CISSP
6 60 (4.09%) CISM
7 49 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
8 42 (2.86%) Azure Certification
9 36 (2.45%) AWS Certification
10 31 (2.11%) Master's Degree
11 24 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
12 20 (1.36%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 18 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
13 18 (1.23%) CRISC
13 18 (1.23%) PhD
14 17 (1.16%) Chartered Engineer
15 15 (1.02%) CREST Certified
15 15 (1.02%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 11 (0.75%) CHECK Team Member
16 11 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (10.29%) Accessibility
2 132 (8.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 80 (5.45%) NIST
4 59 (4.02%) NCSC
5 48 (3.27%) QA
6 38 (2.59%) Data Quality
7 35 (2.38%) GRC
8 30 (2.04%) GDPR
9 24 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials
10 21 (1.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 21 (1.43%) PCI DSS
11 19 (1.29%) SLA
11 19 (1.29%) WCAG
12 14 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
12 14 (0.95%) Def Stans
13 13 (0.89%) JSP 440
14 7 (0.48%) NIST 800
15 5 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 5 (0.34%) NEBOSH
15 5 (0.34%) PMO
System Software
1 92 (6.27%) Docker
2 52 (3.54%) Active Directory
3 34 (2.32%) Firmware
4 30 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (1.43%) Hyper-V
6 15 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.41%) Squid
7 6 (0.41%) vSphere
8 4 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.27%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.068%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.068%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.068%) IAG
10 1 (0.068%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.068%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 99 (6.74%) Kubernetes
2 36 (2.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 35 (2.38%) Ansible
4 16 (1.09%) Prometheus
5 15 (1.02%) Grafana
6 13 (0.89%) CloudHub
7 11 (0.75%) Argo
8 9 (0.61%) Nmap
9 7 (0.48%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.41%) Istio
11 5 (0.34%) Packer
11 5 (0.34%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.27%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.20%) Check_MK
13 3 (0.20%) Kibana
14 2 (0.14%) Graylog
14 2 (0.14%) Nagios
14 2 (0.14%) Oracle RMAN
14 2 (0.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 210 (14.31%) Microsoft
2 58 (3.95%) Google
3 55 (3.75%) ServiceNow
4 47 (3.20%) Oracle
5 43 (2.93%) VMware
6 35 (2.38%) SAP
7 22 (1.50%) Red Hat
8 18 (1.23%) Cisco
9 17 (1.16%) Salesforce
10 16 (1.09%) OpenAI
11 15 (1.02%) Databricks
11 15 (1.02%) MuleSoft
12 13 (0.89%) Adobe
12 13 (0.89%) Veeam
13 12 (0.82%) Workday
14 11 (0.75%) CyberArk
14 11 (0.75%) Siemens
14 11 (0.75%) Thales
14 11 (0.75%) YouTube
15 10 (0.68%) Okta