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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 78 47
Rank change year-on-year +45 -31 -3
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 1,481 719 1,153
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.14% 4.43% 4.94%
As % of the Qualifications category 29.59% 12.63% 18.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,013 421 777
10th Percentile £46,500 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.19% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £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 5,005 5,691 6,368
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.76% 35.03% 27.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3,156 2,327 3,095
10th Percentile £33,500 £31,000 £34,404
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £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 £56,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -3.45%

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 16 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 (1.89%) Apache Spark
2 26 (1.76%) SharePoint
3 22 (1.49%) Apache
4 13 (0.88%) Anypoint
4 13 (0.88%) Mule
5 12 (0.81%) Confluence
6 10 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (0.68%) Oracle Workflow
7 8 (0.54%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 7 (0.47%) nginx
9 6 (0.41%) Camunda
10 4 (0.27%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.27%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.27%) Oracle Spatial
11 3 (0.20%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.14%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.068%) CMS
13 1 (0.068%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.068%) WordPress
Applications
1 27 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.15%) Simulink
3 14 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (0.47%) Adobe XD
6 6 (0.41%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.27%) Mathcad
7 4 (0.27%) Windchill
8 2 (0.14%) InDesign
8 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.068%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.068%) Houdini
9 1 (0.068%) InVision
9 1 (0.068%) NUKE
9 1 (0.068%) Sketch
9 1 (0.068%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.068%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 11 (0.74%) Primavera
2 7 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.41%) Workday HCM
4 5 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.34%) Teamcenter
5 3 (0.20%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.14%) SAP PSCD
6 2 (0.14%) SAP QM
6 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.068%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 1 (0.068%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.068%) Oracle EBS R12
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
Cloud Services
1 371 (25.05%) Azure
2 352 (23.77%) AWS
3 112 (7.56%) GCP
4 72 (4.86%) Microsoft 365
5 68 (4.59%) Power Platform
6 55 (3.71%) Entra ID
7 38 (2.57%) dbt
8 37 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
9 34 (2.30%) GitHub
10 32 (2.16%) Serverless
11 31 (2.09%) Amazon S3
12 24 (1.62%) OpenShift
13 23 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
14 22 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
15 20 (1.35%) Microsoft Purview
16 19 (1.28%) Azure Sentinel
16 19 (1.28%) Google Analytics
17 17 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
18 16 (1.08%) Slack
19 15 (1.01%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 44 (2.97%) Network Security
2 33 (2.23%) Firewall
3 30 (2.03%) TCP/IP
4 24 (1.62%) DNS
5 16 (1.08%) SSL
6 11 (0.74%) VPN
7 10 (0.68%) ATM
7 10 (0.68%) WAN
7 10 (0.68%) Wireless
8 9 (0.61%) Ethernet
9 8 (0.54%) DHCP
10 7 (0.47%) BGP
11 5 (0.34%) MPLS
11 5 (0.34%) Unified Communications
11 5 (0.34%) VLAN
12 4 (0.27%) LAN
13 3 (0.20%) 3GPP
13 3 (0.20%) TETRA
14 2 (0.14%) Intrusion Detection
14 2 (0.14%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (3.78%) Power BI
2 42 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (1.55%) Big Data
5 21 (1.42%) Amazon Athena
6 17 (1.15%) Data Lake
6 17 (1.15%) SQL Server
7 16 (1.08%) Relational Database
7 16 (1.08%) Tableau
8 15 (1.01%) DynamoDB
9 14 (0.95%) Metadata
9 14 (0.95%) MySQL
10 10 (0.68%) Hadoop
11 7 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (0.47%) NoSQL
12 6 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (0.41%) GIS
12 6 (0.41%) Parquet
12 6 (0.41%) Redis
13 5 (0.34%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 66 (4.46%) Git
2 33 (2.23%) GitLab
3 27 (1.82%) Jenkins
4 25 (1.69%) JIRA
5 21 (1.42%) JUnit
5 21 (1.42%) Rational DOORS
6 15 (1.01%) Selenium
7 12 (0.81%) Mockito
8 11 (0.74%) Maven
9 10 (0.68%) Burp Suite
9 10 (0.68%) Metasploit
10 9 (0.61%) Cucumber
10 9 (0.61%) Postman
11 8 (0.54%) Balsamiq
12 7 (0.47%) Cypress.io
13 6 (0.41%) Axure RP
13 6 (0.41%) Gatling
13 6 (0.41%) LabVIEW
14 3 (0.20%) Snyk
14 3 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 429 (28.97%) Social Skills
2 347 (23.43%) Public Sector
3 329 (22.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 280 (18.91%) Finance
5 181 (12.22%) Analytical Skills
6 163 (11.01%) Aerospace
7 145 (9.79%) Law
8 59 (3.98%) Legal
9 49 (3.31%) Electronics
9 49 (3.31%) Military
10 48 (3.24%) Presentation Skills
10 48 (3.24%) Retail
11 42 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
12 38 (2.57%) Influencing Skills
13 34 (2.30%) Manufacturing
14 31 (2.09%) Police
15 21 (1.42%) Telecoms
16 14 (0.95%) Local Government
17 13 (0.88%) Aviation
18 12 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 293 (19.78%) Senior
2 248 (16.75%) Architect
3 135 (9.12%) Consultant
4 134 (9.05%) Lead
5 132 (8.91%) Software Engineer
6 123 (8.31%) Developer
7 113 (7.63%) Analyst
8 83 (5.60%) Solutions Architect
9 69 (4.66%) Data Engineer
10 60 (4.05%) Principal Engineer
11 55 (3.71%) Security Consultant
12 53 (3.58%) Senior Manager
13 50 (3.38%) DevOps Engineer
14 49 (3.31%) Cloud Engineer
15 47 (3.17%) Security Architect
16 43 (2.90%) Business Analyst
16 43 (2.90%) Senior Analyst
16 43 (2.90%) Senior Developer
17 40 (2.70%) Cloud Architect
18 36 (2.43%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (6.68%) Terraform
2 51 (3.44%) React
3 36 (2.43%) Spring
4 34 (2.30%) .NET
5 31 (2.09%) REST
6 27 (1.82%) CSS
7 23 (1.55%) HTML
7 23 (1.55%) PySpark
8 21 (1.42%) Node.js
8 21 (1.42%) Playwright
9 20 (1.35%) .NET Core
10 19 (1.28%) AngularJS
10 19 (1.28%) Kafka
11 17 (1.15%) OAuth
12 15 (1.01%) JSON
13 14 (0.95%) Entity Framework
13 14 (0.95%) OAuth2
13 14 (0.95%) Spring Boot
14 13 (0.88%) MUnit
14 13 (0.88%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 109 (7.36%) Cloud Native
2 52 (3.51%) Product Ownership
3 51 (3.44%) Management Information System
4 41 (2.77%) Onboarding
5 36 (2.43%) Self-Motivation
6 31 (2.09%) Security Posture
7 29 (1.96%) Driving Licence
8 28 (1.89%) Blog
9 27 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
10 25 (1.69%) Data Centre
11 23 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
12 22 (1.49%) FPGA
13 21 (1.42%) Cyber Threat
14 18 (1.22%) Security Operations Centre
15 15 (1.01%) Algorithms
15 15 (1.01%) Public Cloud
16 14 (0.95%) AI Agents
16 14 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
17 13 (0.88%) PKI
18 11 (0.74%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 111 (7.49%) Linux
2 88 (5.94%) Windows
3 38 (2.57%) Windows Server
4 34 (2.30%) Unix
5 12 (0.81%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.34%) 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 (0.14%) AIX
10 2 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
10 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.068%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.068%) CentOS
11 1 (0.068%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.068%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 408 (27.55%) Agile
2 283 (19.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 256 (17.29%) Mentoring
4 219 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
5 216 (14.58%) Cybersecurity
5 216 (14.58%) Software Engineering
6 209 (14.11%) CI/CD
7 193 (13.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 190 (12.83%) DevOps
9 169 (11.41%) AI
10 152 (10.26%) Stakeholder Management
11 149 (10.06%) Decision-Making
12 147 (9.93%) Analytics
13 143 (9.66%) Coaching
14 142 (9.59%) Community of Practice
15 131 (8.85%) Technology Strategy
16 127 (8.58%) Project Delivery
17 126 (8.51%) Technical Leadership
18 118 (7.97%) Scrum
19 116 (7.83%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 180 (12.15%) Python
2 135 (9.12%) Java
3 109 (7.36%) SQL
4 88 (5.94%) JavaScript
5 52 (3.51%) C++
6 50 (3.38%) C#
7 43 (2.90%) Bash
8 37 (2.50%) PowerShell
9 28 (1.89%) TypeScript
10 23 (1.55%) MATLAB
11 20 (1.35%) C
12 19 (1.28%) Ada
13 15 (1.01%) PL/SQL
14 13 (0.88%) DataWeave
14 13 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
15 12 (0.81%) Ruby
16 8 (0.54%) Go
16 8 (0.54%) Rust
16 8 (0.54%) VBA
17 6 (0.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1,481 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 281 (18.97%) DV Cleared
3 275 (18.57%) Degree
4 185 (12.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 74 (5.00%) CISSP
6 59 (3.98%) CISM
7 46 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 41 (2.77%) Azure Certification
9 36 (2.43%) AWS Certification
10 30 (2.03%) Master's Degree
11 22 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
12 20 (1.35%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 18 (1.22%) PhD
14 17 (1.15%) Chartered Engineer
14 17 (1.15%) CRISC
15 16 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
16 15 (1.01%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 12 (0.81%) CHECK Team Member
17 12 (0.81%) CREST Certified
18 11 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (10.26%) Accessibility
2 129 (8.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 79 (5.33%) NIST
4 60 (4.05%) NCSC
5 48 (3.24%) QA
6 40 (2.70%) Data Quality
7 36 (2.43%) GRC
8 30 (2.03%) GDPR
9 25 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
10 20 (1.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 20 (1.35%) SLA
11 19 (1.28%) PCI DSS
12 18 (1.22%) WCAG
13 14 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
13 14 (0.95%) Def Stans
14 12 (0.81%) JSP 440
15 7 (0.47%) NIST 800
16 6 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.41%) PMO
17 5 (0.34%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 91 (6.14%) Docker
2 48 (3.24%) Active Directory
3 34 (2.30%) Firmware
4 31 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (1.42%) Hyper-V
6 15 (1.01%) 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%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.068%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.068%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.068%) IAG
10 1 (0.068%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.068%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.068%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 97 (6.55%) Kubernetes
2 36 (2.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 34 (2.30%) Ansible
4 16 (1.08%) Prometheus
5 15 (1.01%) Grafana
6 13 (0.88%) CloudHub
7 11 (0.74%) Argo
8 10 (0.68%) Nmap
9 7 (0.47%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.47%) 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%) Kibana
14 2 (0.14%) Check_MK
14 2 (0.14%) Graylog
14 2 (0.14%) Nagios
14 2 (0.14%) Oracle RMAN
14 2 (0.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 207 (13.98%) Microsoft
2 60 (4.05%) ServiceNow
3 56 (3.78%) Google
4 53 (3.58%) Oracle
5 44 (2.97%) VMware
6 36 (2.43%) SAP
7 22 (1.49%) Red Hat
8 18 (1.22%) Cisco
8 18 (1.22%) Salesforce
9 16 (1.08%) Databricks
9 16 (1.08%) OpenAI
10 15 (1.01%) MuleSoft
11 14 (0.95%) Veeam
12 13 (0.88%) Thales
12 13 (0.88%) YouTube
13 12 (0.81%) Adobe
13 12 (0.81%) Workday
14 11 (0.74%) CyberArk
14 11 (0.74%) Siemens
15 10 (0.68%) Okta