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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 77 47
Rank change year-on-year +44 -30 -2
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 1,509 723 1,120
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.16% 4.48% 4.92%
As % of the Qualifications category 29.67% 12.70% 17.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,032 426 745
10th Percentile £46,500 £42,998 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,938 £78,750
90th Percentile £99,875 £90,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -

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 5,086 5,694 6,227
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.77% 35.28% 27.35%
Number of salaries quoted 3,197 2,308 2,975
10th Percentile £33,500 £31,175 £34,404
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,945 £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 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,282
% change year-on-year +9.09% -2.28% -4.00%

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 22 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 (1.86%) Apache Spark
2 25 (1.66%) SharePoint
3 22 (1.46%) Apache
4 13 (0.86%) Anypoint
4 13 (0.86%) Mule
5 12 (0.80%) Confluence
6 10 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (0.66%) Oracle Workflow
7 8 (0.53%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.53%) nginx
7 8 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 7 (0.46%) Camunda
9 4 (0.27%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.27%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.27%) Oracle Spatial
10 3 (0.20%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.066%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.066%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.066%) WordPress
Applications
1 29 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.13%) Simulink
3 15 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (0.46%) Adobe XD
6 6 (0.40%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.27%) Mathcad
7 4 (0.27%) Windchill
8 2 (0.13%) InDesign
8 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.066%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.066%) Houdini
9 1 (0.066%) InVision
9 1 (0.066%) NUKE
9 1 (0.066%) Sketch
9 1 (0.066%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.066%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 11 (0.73%) Primavera
2 7 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.40%) Workday HCM
4 5 (0.33%) Teamcenter
5 3 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.20%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.20%) SAP PSCD
5 3 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.13%) SAP QM
7 1 (0.066%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 1 (0.066%) Maximo
7 1 (0.066%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.066%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.066%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.066%) SAP EWM
7 1 (0.066%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.066%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.066%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 383 (25.38%) Azure
2 353 (23.39%) AWS
3 114 (7.55%) GCP
4 74 (4.90%) Microsoft 365
5 72 (4.77%) Power Platform
6 65 (4.31%) Entra ID
7 42 (2.78%) GitHub
8 38 (2.52%) dbt
9 37 (2.45%) Serverless
10 36 (2.39%) AWS CloudFormation
11 33 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
12 32 (2.12%) Amazon S3
13 23 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
13 23 (1.52%) OpenShift
14 21 (1.39%) Microsoft Purview
15 19 (1.26%) Azure Sentinel
15 19 (1.26%) Google Analytics
16 18 (1.19%) Amazon EC2
17 17 (1.13%) Azure Monitor
18 16 (1.06%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 44 (2.92%) Network Security
2 33 (2.19%) Firewall
3 29 (1.92%) TCP/IP
4 25 (1.66%) DNS
5 16 (1.06%) SSL
6 13 (0.86%) VPN
7 11 (0.73%) Wireless
8 10 (0.66%) ATM
9 9 (0.60%) Ethernet
9 9 (0.60%) WAN
10 8 (0.53%) DHCP
11 6 (0.40%) BGP
12 5 (0.33%) Unified Communications
12 5 (0.33%) VLAN
13 4 (0.27%) LAN
13 4 (0.27%) MPLS
13 4 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
14 3 (0.20%) 3GPP
14 3 (0.20%) SAN
14 3 (0.20%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (3.98%) Power BI
2 43 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (1.52%) Big Data
5 21 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
6 19 (1.26%) SQL Server
7 18 (1.19%) Relational Database
8 17 (1.13%) Data Lake
9 16 (1.06%) Metadata
9 16 (1.06%) Tableau
10 15 (0.99%) DynamoDB
11 13 (0.86%) MySQL
12 10 (0.66%) Hadoop
13 7 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (0.46%) NoSQL
13 7 (0.46%) Redis
14 6 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (0.40%) GIS
14 6 (0.40%) Parquet
15 5 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 67 (4.44%) Git
2 33 (2.19%) GitLab
3 28 (1.86%) Jenkins
4 27 (1.79%) JIRA
5 22 (1.46%) JUnit
5 22 (1.46%) Rational DOORS
6 15 (0.99%) Selenium
7 13 (0.86%) Mockito
8 11 (0.73%) Maven
9 10 (0.66%) Burp Suite
9 10 (0.66%) Metasploit
10 9 (0.60%) Cucumber
10 9 (0.60%) Postman
11 8 (0.53%) Balsamiq
12 7 (0.46%) Cypress.io
13 6 (0.40%) Axure RP
13 6 (0.40%) Gatling
13 6 (0.40%) LabVIEW
14 3 (0.20%) Snyk
14 3 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 440 (29.16%) Social Skills
2 359 (23.79%) Public Sector
3 336 (22.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 291 (19.28%) Finance
5 179 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
6 164 (10.87%) Aerospace
7 144 (9.54%) Law
8 57 (3.78%) Legal
9 51 (3.38%) Presentation Skills
10 50 (3.31%) Electronics
10 50 (3.31%) Military
11 49 (3.25%) Retail
12 41 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
12 41 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
13 39 (2.58%) Police
14 33 (2.19%) Manufacturing
15 21 (1.39%) Telecoms
16 14 (0.93%) Local Government
17 13 (0.86%) Aviation
18 11 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 301 (19.95%) Senior
2 256 (16.96%) Architect
3 139 (9.21%) Lead
3 139 (9.21%) Software Engineer
4 136 (9.01%) Consultant
5 121 (8.02%) Developer
6 110 (7.29%) Analyst
7 87 (5.77%) Solutions Architect
8 70 (4.64%) Data Engineer
9 67 (4.44%) Principal Engineer
10 54 (3.58%) Security Consultant
11 52 (3.45%) Senior Manager
12 49 (3.25%) DevOps Engineer
13 48 (3.18%) Cloud Engineer
14 46 (3.05%) Security Architect
15 42 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
15 42 (2.78%) Senior Developer
16 41 (2.72%) Business Analyst
16 41 (2.72%) Cloud Architect
17 39 (2.58%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (7.16%) Terraform
2 52 (3.45%) React
3 37 (2.45%) REST
3 37 (2.45%) Spring
4 36 (2.39%) .NET
5 27 (1.79%) CSS
6 23 (1.52%) HTML
6 23 (1.52%) PySpark
7 21 (1.39%) Node.js
7 21 (1.39%) Playwright
8 20 (1.33%) .NET Core
9 19 (1.26%) AngularJS
9 19 (1.26%) Kafka
9 19 (1.26%) OAuth
10 16 (1.06%) JSON
10 16 (1.06%) OAuth2
11 15 (0.99%) JWT
11 15 (0.99%) Spring Boot
12 14 (0.93%) Entity Framework
13 13 (0.86%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 111 (7.36%) Cloud Native
2 60 (3.98%) Management Information System
3 51 (3.38%) Product Ownership
4 44 (2.92%) Onboarding
5 36 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
6 29 (1.92%) Security Posture
7 28 (1.86%) Data Centre
7 28 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
8 27 (1.79%) Driving Licence
9 26 (1.72%) Blog
9 26 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
10 22 (1.46%) FPGA
11 19 (1.26%) Cyber Threat
12 18 (1.19%) Security Operations Centre
13 16 (1.06%) Public Cloud
14 15 (0.99%) Algorithms
14 15 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
14 15 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
15 14 (0.93%) AI Agents
16 13 (0.86%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 112 (7.42%) Linux
2 95 (6.30%) Windows
3 41 (2.72%) Windows Server
4 33 (2.19%) Unix
5 14 (0.93%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.33%) VxWorks
8 4 (0.27%) Kali Linux
8 4 (0.27%) Solaris
8 4 (0.27%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.20%) Android
10 2 (0.13%) AIX
10 2 (0.13%) FreeRTOS
10 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.066%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.066%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.066%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 414 (27.44%) Agile
2 294 (19.48%) Continuous Improvement
3 264 (17.50%) Mentoring
4 233 (15.44%) Software Engineering
5 226 (14.98%) Cybersecurity
6 220 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
7 219 (14.51%) CI/CD
8 198 (13.12%) DevOps
9 197 (13.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 181 (11.99%) AI
11 169 (11.20%) Stakeholder Management
12 158 (10.47%) Analytics
13 155 (10.27%) Decision-Making
14 150 (9.94%) Community of Practice
15 146 (9.68%) Coaching
16 133 (8.81%) Technical Leadership
17 132 (8.75%) Technology Strategy
18 128 (8.48%) Infrastructure as Code
19 126 (8.35%) Project Delivery
20 118 (7.82%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 183 (12.13%) Python
2 138 (9.15%) Java
3 113 (7.49%) SQL
4 89 (5.90%) JavaScript
5 53 (3.51%) C#
6 52 (3.45%) C++
7 43 (2.85%) Bash
8 39 (2.58%) PowerShell
9 28 (1.86%) TypeScript
10 23 (1.52%) MATLAB
11 19 (1.26%) Ada
11 19 (1.26%) C
12 15 (0.99%) PL/SQL
13 13 (0.86%) Bicep
13 13 (0.86%) DataWeave
13 13 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
14 12 (0.80%) Ruby
15 8 (0.53%) Go
15 8 (0.53%) Rust
15 8 (0.53%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,509 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 281 (18.62%) DV Cleared
3 273 (18.09%) Degree
4 186 (12.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 71 (4.71%) CISSP
6 56 (3.71%) CISM
7 48 (3.18%) Azure Certification
8 44 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
9 38 (2.52%) AWS Certification
10 30 (1.99%) Master's Degree
11 22 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
12 20 (1.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 18 (1.19%) Chartered Engineer
13 18 (1.19%) PhD
14 16 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
15 15 (0.99%) CRISC
15 15 (0.99%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 15 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
16 13 (0.86%) CHECK Team Member
17 12 (0.80%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (10.14%) Accessibility
2 127 (8.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 76 (5.04%) NIST
4 61 (4.04%) NCSC
5 48 (3.18%) QA
6 42 (2.78%) Data Quality
7 34 (2.25%) GRC
8 29 (1.92%) GDPR
9 25 (1.66%) Cyber Essentials
10 21 (1.39%) SLA
11 19 (1.26%) PCI DSS
12 18 (1.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 18 (1.19%) WCAG
13 15 (0.99%) Def Stans
14 14 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
15 10 (0.66%) JSP 440
16 7 (0.46%) NIST 800
17 6 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 6 (0.40%) PMO
18 5 (0.33%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 94 (6.23%) Docker
2 49 (3.25%) Active Directory
3 34 (2.25%) Firmware
4 31 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (1.33%) Hyper-V
6 15 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.40%) Squid
7 6 (0.40%) vSphere
8 5 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.20%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.066%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.066%) IAG
12 1 (0.066%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.066%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 100 (6.63%) Kubernetes
2 39 (2.58%) Microsoft Intune
3 32 (2.12%) Ansible
4 22 (1.46%) Grafana
5 16 (1.06%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.86%) CloudHub
7 11 (0.73%) Argo
8 10 (0.66%) Nmap
9 8 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.46%) Kustomize
11 6 (0.40%) Istio
12 5 (0.33%) Packer
13 4 (0.27%) Kibana
13 4 (0.27%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.27%) vCenter Server
14 3 (0.20%) SCCM
15 2 (0.13%) Check_MK
15 2 (0.13%) Graylog
15 2 (0.13%) Nagios
15 2 (0.13%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 224 (14.84%) Microsoft
2 62 (4.11%) ServiceNow
3 55 (3.64%) Google
3 55 (3.64%) Oracle
4 44 (2.92%) VMware
5 40 (2.65%) SAP
6 21 (1.39%) Red Hat
7 19 (1.26%) Cisco
7 19 (1.26%) Salesforce
8 17 (1.13%) Databricks
9 16 (1.06%) OpenAI
9 16 (1.06%) Workday
10 15 (0.99%) MuleSoft
10 15 (0.99%) YouTube
11 14 (0.93%) Veeam
12 13 (0.86%) Adobe
12 13 (0.86%) CyberArk
12 13 (0.86%) Thales
13 11 (0.73%) Okta
13 11 (0.73%) Siemens