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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 92 53
Rank change year-on-year +57 -39 -3
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 1,347 626 1,149
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.96% 3.80% 4.57%
As % of the Qualifications category 28.64% 11.20% 17.30%
Number of salaries quoted 986 381 872
10th Percentile £46,500 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,000 £47,500
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 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% +4.35% -8.00%

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 4,704 5,590 6,642
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.81% 33.91% 26.45%
Number of salaries quoted 3,099 2,474 3,890
10th Percentile £33,500 £29,575 £33,980
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,118 £42,999
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £79,688 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,675 £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 7 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 29 (2.15%) SharePoint
2 25 (1.86%) Apache Spark
3 22 (1.63%) Apache
4 13 (0.97%) Anypoint
4 13 (0.97%) Mule
5 11 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.67%) Confluence
7 7 (0.52%) Camunda
7 7 (0.52%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 6 (0.45%) nginx
9 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.22%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.15%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.15%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.15%) Oracle Spatial
12 1 (0.074%) Appian
12 1 (0.074%) CMS
12 1 (0.074%) WordPress
Applications
1 24 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.97%) Simulink
3 12 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (0.67%) Adobe XD
6 7 (0.52%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.30%) Mathcad
7 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.30%) Windchill
8 1 (0.074%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.074%) CATIA
8 1 (0.074%) Houdini
8 1 (0.074%) InDesign
8 1 (0.074%) InVision
8 1 (0.074%) NUKE
8 1 (0.074%) Sketch
8 1 (0.074%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.074%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 7 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.45%) Workday HCM
3 5 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.37%) Primavera
4 4 (0.30%) Teamcenter
5 3 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.15%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.15%) SAP QM
7 1 (0.074%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.074%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.074%) SAP EWM
7 1 (0.074%) SAP FSCM
7 1 (0.074%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.074%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 382 (28.36%) Azure
2 358 (26.58%) AWS
3 118 (8.76%) GCP
4 77 (5.72%) Microsoft 365
5 61 (4.53%) Power Platform
6 49 (3.64%) Entra ID
7 43 (3.19%) dbt
8 40 (2.97%) AWS CloudFormation
9 30 (2.23%) GitHub
10 25 (1.86%) Serverless
11 22 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
12 21 (1.56%) Google Analytics
13 20 (1.48%) Microsoft Purview
14 19 (1.41%) Azure Sentinel
15 18 (1.34%) PaaS
16 17 (1.26%) Amazon S3
16 17 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
16 17 (1.26%) PowerApps
17 14 (1.04%) Amazon EC2
17 14 (1.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (3.12%) Network Security
2 36 (2.67%) TCP/IP
3 33 (2.45%) Firewall
4 25 (1.86%) DNS
5 17 (1.26%) WAN
6 16 (1.19%) SSL
7 15 (1.11%) VPN
8 12 (0.89%) ATM
9 11 (0.82%) LAN
10 10 (0.74%) DHCP
11 9 (0.67%) BGP
11 9 (0.67%) MPLS
12 7 (0.52%) Wireless
13 6 (0.45%) Intrusion Detection
14 5 (0.37%) Ethernet
14 5 (0.37%) SMTP
14 5 (0.37%) VLAN
14 5 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
15 4 (0.30%) SNMP
16 3 (0.22%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (3.64%) Power BI
2 41 (3.04%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (1.56%) Big Data
5 14 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
6 13 (0.97%) SQL Server
7 12 (0.89%) DynamoDB
7 12 (0.89%) Metadata
8 11 (0.82%) Redis
8 11 (0.82%) Relational Database
9 10 (0.74%) Data Lake
9 10 (0.74%) MySQL
10 9 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (0.67%) Tableau
11 8 (0.59%) Hadoop
11 8 (0.59%) NoSQL
12 7 (0.52%) MongoDB
13 6 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (0.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 4 (0.30%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 56 (4.16%) Git
2 35 (2.60%) GitLab
3 25 (1.86%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.56%) JUnit
5 20 (1.48%) JIRA
6 16 (1.19%) Rational DOORS
7 15 (1.11%) Selenium
8 12 (0.89%) Mockito
9 11 (0.82%) Maven
10 10 (0.74%) Balsamiq
11 9 (0.67%) Postman
12 8 (0.59%) Axure RP
12 8 (0.59%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.52%) Burp Suite
13 7 (0.52%) Metasploit
14 6 (0.45%) Gatling
15 5 (0.37%) Cypress.io
15 5 (0.37%) LabVIEW
16 3 (0.22%) Snyk
16 3 (0.22%) SonarQube
General
1 420 (31.18%) Social Skills
2 332 (24.65%) Public Sector
3 291 (21.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 237 (17.59%) Finance
5 151 (11.21%) Analytical Skills
6 140 (10.39%) Law
7 107 (7.94%) Aerospace
8 62 (4.60%) Legal
9 47 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
10 37 (2.75%) Retail
11 34 (2.52%) Manufacturing
11 34 (2.52%) Military
12 33 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
13 32 (2.38%) Telecoms
14 29 (2.15%) Electronics
15 26 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
16 19 (1.41%) Police
17 12 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
17 12 (0.89%) Local Government
18 11 (0.82%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 269 (19.97%) Senior
2 242 (17.97%) Architect
3 130 (9.65%) Consultant
4 129 (9.58%) Lead
5 115 (8.54%) Developer
6 108 (8.02%) Software Engineer
7 101 (7.50%) Analyst
7 101 (7.50%) Solutions Architect
8 52 (3.86%) Security Consultant
9 51 (3.79%) Cloud Engineer
10 49 (3.64%) Senior Developer
11 48 (3.56%) DevOps Engineer
12 46 (3.41%) Senior Manager
13 45 (3.34%) Senior Analyst
14 42 (3.12%) Business Analyst
14 42 (3.12%) Principal Engineer
15 41 (3.04%) Data Engineer
15 41 (3.04%) Security Architect
16 38 (2.82%) Cloud Architect
16 38 (2.82%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (3.56%) React
2 40 (2.97%) REST
3 39 (2.90%) Spring
4 31 (2.30%) .NET
5 25 (1.86%) CSS
6 22 (1.63%) HTML
7 21 (1.56%) Kafka
8 20 (1.48%) Playwright
9 16 (1.19%) AngularJS
9 16 (1.19%) OAuth
9 16 (1.19%) Spring Boot
10 15 (1.11%) .NET Core
10 15 (1.11%) PySpark
11 14 (1.04%) JWT
11 14 (1.04%) OAuth2
12 13 (0.97%) MUnit
12 13 (0.97%) RAML
13 12 (0.89%) Node.js
14 10 (0.74%) Entity Framework
14 10 (0.74%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 102 (7.57%) Cloud Native
2 54 (4.01%) Product Ownership
3 50 (3.71%) Management Information System
4 47 (3.49%) Onboarding
5 34 (2.52%) Security Posture
6 32 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
7 30 (2.23%) Blog
8 29 (2.15%) Data Centre
9 27 (2.00%) Driving Licence
10 26 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
11 22 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
12 15 (1.11%) FPGA
12 15 (1.11%) Public Cloud
13 14 (1.04%) Security Operations Centre
14 13 (0.97%) PKI
15 12 (0.89%) AI Agents
15 12 (0.89%) Algorithms
15 12 (0.89%) Cyber Threat
16 11 (0.82%) Data Structures
17 10 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 108 (8.02%) Linux
2 86 (6.38%) Windows
3 38 (2.82%) Windows Server
4 36 (2.67%) Unix
5 11 (0.82%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.22%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.15%) Android
9 2 (0.15%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.15%) VxWorks
9 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.074%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.074%) CentOS
10 1 (0.074%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.074%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (28.14%) Agile
2 240 (17.82%) Continuous Improvement
3 227 (16.85%) Mentoring
4 202 (15.00%) CI/CD
5 201 (14.92%) Cybersecurity
6 191 (14.18%) DevOps
7 186 (13.81%) Problem-Solving
8 182 (13.51%) Software Engineering
9 169 (12.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 135 (10.02%) Community of Practice
11 127 (9.43%) Infrastructure as Code
12 125 (9.28%) AI
12 125 (9.28%) Stakeholder Management
13 115 (8.54%) Technology Strategy
14 110 (8.17%) Coaching
14 110 (8.17%) Scrum
15 109 (8.09%) Decision-Making
16 106 (7.87%) Project Delivery
17 104 (7.72%) Analytics
18 101 (7.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 172 (12.77%) Python
2 135 (10.02%) Java
3 84 (6.24%) SQL
4 83 (6.16%) JavaScript
5 46 (3.41%) C#
6 44 (3.27%) C++
7 37 (2.75%) Bash
8 36 (2.67%) PowerShell
9 26 (1.93%) TypeScript
10 18 (1.34%) C
10 18 (1.34%) MATLAB
11 17 (1.26%) Ada
12 13 (0.97%) DataWeave
13 11 (0.82%) PL/SQL
13 11 (0.82%) Ruby
14 10 (0.74%) Rust
15 9 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
15 9 (0.67%) VBA
16 7 (0.52%) Go
17 6 (0.45%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1,347 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 259 (19.23%) Degree
3 250 (18.56%) DV Cleared
4 154 (11.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 66 (4.90%) CISSP
6 52 (3.86%) CISM
6 52 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 37 (2.75%) Azure Certification
8 29 (2.15%) AWS Certification
9 27 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 25 (1.86%) Master's Degree
11 17 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
11 17 (1.26%) CRISC
12 15 (1.11%) CREST Certified
12 15 (1.11%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 14 (1.04%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 13 (0.97%) PhD
15 12 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
16 9 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 8 (0.59%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (8.83%) Accessibility
1 119 (8.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 70 (5.20%) NIST
3 47 (3.49%) NCSC
4 45 (3.34%) QA
5 30 (2.23%) Data Quality
5 30 (2.23%) GDPR
5 30 (2.23%) GRC
6 23 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
7 20 (1.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 20 (1.48%) WCAG
8 18 (1.34%) PCI DSS
9 17 (1.26%) SLA
10 13 (0.97%) JSP 440
11 11 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
12 10 (0.74%) Def Stans
13 7 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.45%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.37%) NEBOSH
15 5 (0.37%) NIST 800
System Software
1 84 (6.24%) Docker
2 53 (3.93%) Active Directory
3 28 (2.08%) Firmware
4 27 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 23 (1.71%) Hyper-V
6 14 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.45%) Squid
7 6 (0.45%) vSphere
8 4 (0.30%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.074%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.074%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.074%) IAG
11 1 (0.074%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.074%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 107 (7.94%) Terraform
2 89 (6.61%) Kubernetes
3 36 (2.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 34 (2.52%) Ansible
5 17 (1.26%) Prometheus
6 16 (1.19%) Grafana
7 13 (0.97%) CloudHub
8 10 (0.74%) Argo
9 7 (0.52%) Nmap
10 6 (0.45%) Kustomize
10 6 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.37%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.37%) Istio
11 5 (0.37%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.30%) Packer
12 4 (0.30%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.22%) Check_MK
13 3 (0.22%) Kibana
13 3 (0.22%) Puppet
14 2 (0.15%) Graylog
Vendors
1 195 (14.48%) Microsoft
2 67 (4.97%) Google
3 37 (2.75%) Oracle
4 36 (2.67%) VMware
5 35 (2.60%) ServiceNow
6 28 (2.08%) SAP
7 24 (1.78%) Cisco
8 23 (1.71%) Salesforce
9 20 (1.48%) MuleSoft
9 20 (1.48%) Red Hat
10 16 (1.19%) Databricks
10 16 (1.19%) OpenAI
11 13 (0.97%) CyberArk
12 11 (0.82%) Adobe
13 9 (0.67%) Veeam
14 8 (0.59%) Siemens
15 7 (0.52%) Okta
15 7 (0.52%) Splunk
15 7 (0.52%) Workday
16 6 (0.45%) BeyondTrust