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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 108 75
Rank change year-on-year +74 -33 -16
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 1,085 513 1,283
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.77% 3.40% 3.94%
As % of the Qualifications category 25.44% 10.27% 14.56%
Number of salaries quoted 826 373 945
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £54,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,627 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.58% +7.71% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £96,250 £89,520
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -7.26%

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 4,265 4,997 8,811
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 22.69% 33.10% 27.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,865 2,418 5,893
10th Percentile £33,125 £27,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £48,065 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £56,650
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +5.91% -5.58%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -9.40%

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 20 May 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 (2.58%) SharePoint
2 14 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (0.83%) Apache
4 9 (0.83%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.37%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.37%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.37%) Oracle Spatial
6 3 (0.28%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.28%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.28%) SAS
7 2 (0.18%) Camunda
7 2 (0.18%) Confluence
8 1 (0.092%) Appian
8 1 (0.092%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.092%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.092%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 59 (5.44%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (1.75%) Adobe XD
3 10 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.46%) InVision
4 5 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.46%) Sketch
5 3 (0.28%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.28%) Windchill
6 2 (0.18%) Weka
7 1 (0.092%) CATIA
7 1 (0.092%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 7 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.092%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.092%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.092%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.092%) SAP FSCM
3 1 (0.092%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.092%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.092%) SAP QM
3 1 (0.092%) SAP SCM
3 1 (0.092%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 260 (23.96%) Azure
2 227 (20.92%) AWS
3 98 (9.03%) Microsoft 365
4 77 (7.10%) GCP
5 53 (4.88%) Entra ID
6 35 (3.23%) Power Platform
7 20 (1.84%) Google Analytics
7 20 (1.84%) Serverless
8 19 (1.75%) Figma
8 19 (1.75%) GitHub
9 16 (1.47%) Azure Sentinel
10 15 (1.38%) Amazon S3
10 15 (1.38%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
10 15 (1.38%) PowerApps
11 14 (1.29%) SaaS
11 14 (1.29%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 14 (1.29%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 13 (1.20%) Power Automate
13 12 (1.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.49%) Firewall
2 25 (2.30%) Network Security
2 25 (2.30%) VPN
2 25 (2.30%) WAN
3 18 (1.66%) LAN
4 17 (1.57%) DNS
5 16 (1.47%) BGP
6 13 (1.20%) DHCP
7 12 (1.11%) MPLS
7 12 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (0.83%) SMTP
8 9 (0.83%) TCP/IP
9 7 (0.65%) Intrusion Detection
9 7 (0.65%) SNMP
10 6 (0.55%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (0.55%) Cisco Firepower
10 6 (0.55%) VoIP
11 5 (0.46%) HTTP
12 4 (0.37%) MQTT
12 4 (0.37%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (2.67%) Power BI
3 16 (1.47%) Metadata
4 12 (1.11%) NoSQL
5 10 (0.92%) DynamoDB
6 9 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (0.83%) MongoDB
6 9 (0.83%) Redis
7 7 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (0.55%) BigQuery
8 6 (0.55%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.55%) SQL Server
9 5 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.37%) Big Data
10 4 (0.37%) GIS
10 4 (0.37%) QGIS
11 3 (0.28%) Flink
11 3 (0.28%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 43 (3.96%) Git
2 23 (2.12%) GitLab
3 22 (2.03%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.38%) Axure RP
5 14 (1.29%) Balsamiq
6 12 (1.11%) Selenium
7 9 (0.83%) JIRA
8 8 (0.74%) JUnit
9 6 (0.55%) Maven
10 5 (0.46%) Mockito
11 4 (0.37%) Burp Suite
11 4 (0.37%) JMeter
11 4 (0.37%) Metasploit
12 3 (0.28%) Babel
12 3 (0.28%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.28%) Postman
12 3 (0.28%) SoapUI
12 3 (0.28%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.28%) webpack
13 2 (0.18%) SpecFlow
General
1 299 (27.56%) Social Skills
2 293 (27.00%) Public Sector
3 162 (14.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 103 (9.49%) Finance
5 101 (9.31%) Law
6 96 (8.85%) Analytical Skills
7 51 (4.70%) Back Office
8 39 (3.59%) Legal
9 36 (3.32%) Presentation Skills
9 36 (3.32%) Telecoms
10 27 (2.49%) Manufacturing
11 22 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
12 20 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
13 19 (1.75%) Aerospace
13 19 (1.75%) Retail
14 12 (1.11%) Marketing
15 10 (0.92%) Military
16 9 (0.83%) Aviation
17 7 (0.65%) Automotive
17 7 (0.65%) Police
Job Titles
1 213 (19.63%) Senior
2 159 (14.65%) Architect
3 117 (10.78%) Consultant
4 95 (8.76%) Developer
5 90 (8.29%) Analyst
6 76 (7.00%) Lead
7 75 (6.91%) Solutions Architect
8 68 (6.27%) Software Engineer
9 62 (5.71%) Support Engineer
10 52 (4.79%) Site Engineer
11 48 (4.42%) Desktop Engineer
11 48 (4.42%) Desktop Support
11 48 (4.42%) Desktop Support Engineer
12 46 (4.24%) Business Analyst
13 44 (4.06%) Cloud Engineer
14 38 (3.50%) Senior Manager
15 37 (3.41%) Data Engineer
15 37 (3.41%) Java Developer
15 37 (3.41%) Security Consultant
16 35 (3.23%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (3.78%) REST
2 34 (3.13%) .NET
3 32 (2.95%) Spring
4 24 (2.21%) React
5 20 (1.84%) CSS
5 20 (1.84%) HTML
5 20 (1.84%) SOAP
6 17 (1.57%) Middleware
6 17 (1.57%) Spring Boot
7 14 (1.29%) Lightning Web Components
7 14 (1.29%) Visualforce
8 12 (1.11%) Kafka
8 12 (1.11%) Playwright
9 10 (0.92%) ASP.NET
9 10 (0.92%) Django
10 9 (0.83%) HTML5 Canvas
10 9 (0.83%) RESTful
10 9 (0.83%) SAML
11 7 (0.65%) Node.js
12 6 (0.55%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 59 (5.44%) Product Ownership
2 58 (5.35%) Cloud Native
3 42 (3.87%) Onboarding
4 38 (3.50%) Management Information System
5 37 (3.41%) Data Centre
6 30 (2.76%) Security Posture
7 19 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (1.75%) PKI
8 15 (1.38%) Driving Licence
9 14 (1.29%) Blog
10 12 (1.11%) Security Operations Centre
11 11 (1.01%) Low-Code
12 8 (0.74%) AI Agents
12 8 (0.74%) Data Structures
13 7 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
14 6 (0.55%) Cyber Threat
14 6 (0.55%) Cyberattack
14 6 (0.55%) Distributed Systems
14 6 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 104 (9.59%) Windows
2 65 (5.99%) Linux
3 53 (4.88%) Windows 10
4 20 (1.84%) Windows Server
5 18 (1.66%) Unix
6 7 (0.65%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.18%) Android
9 2 (0.18%) CentOS
10 1 (0.092%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.092%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.092%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (21.57%) Agile
2 176 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 161 (14.84%) Cybersecurity
4 127 (11.71%) DevOps
5 123 (11.34%) Mentoring
6 112 (10.32%) Community of Practice
7 110 (10.14%) Analytics
8 109 (10.05%) CI/CD
9 106 (9.77%) ITIL
10 105 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
11 104 (9.59%) Software Engineering
11 104 (9.59%) Technology Strategy
12 84 (7.74%) Stakeholder Management
13 77 (7.10%) Infrastructure as Code
13 77 (7.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 67 (6.18%) Collaborative Culture
14 67 (6.18%) Scrum
15 63 (5.81%) Risk Management
16 60 (5.53%) Customer Service
17 59 (5.44%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 106 (9.77%) Java
2 101 (9.31%) Python
3 68 (6.27%) JavaScript
4 55 (5.07%) SQL
5 33 (3.04%) C#
6 24 (2.21%) TypeScript
7 23 (2.12%) C++
7 23 (2.12%) PowerShell
8 17 (1.57%) Bash
9 14 (1.29%) Apex Code
10 9 (0.83%) Rust
11 6 (0.55%) C
11 6 (0.55%) Scala
12 5 (0.46%) Groovy
13 4 (0.37%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.37%) VBA
14 3 (0.28%) Pascal
14 3 (0.28%) Perl
14 3 (0.28%) Ruby
14 3 (0.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,085 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 235 (21.66%) Degree
3 188 (17.33%) DV Cleared
4 53 (4.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 48 (4.42%) CTC Cleared
6 46 (4.24%) CISSP
7 41 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (3.32%) Microsoft Certification
9 35 (3.23%) CISM
10 21 (1.94%) Azure Certification
11 20 (1.84%) AWS Certification
12 15 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
13 14 (1.29%) TOGAF Certification
14 12 (1.11%) CREST Certified
15 10 (0.92%) HNC
16 8 (0.74%) CCIE
16 8 (0.74%) CCNA
16 8 (0.74%) CRISC
16 8 (0.74%) Master's Degree
17 7 (0.65%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (6.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 53 (4.88%) SLA
3 46 (4.24%) NIST
4 44 (4.06%) Accessibility
5 40 (3.69%) QA
6 33 (3.04%) GDPR
7 22 (2.03%) NCSC
8 17 (1.57%) WCAG
9 16 (1.47%) GRC
10 15 (1.38%) Data Quality
11 14 (1.29%) PCI DSS
12 13 (1.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 12 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
14 10 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 8 (0.74%) JSP 440
16 7 (0.65%) Government Security Classifications
17 5 (0.46%) Def Stans
17 5 (0.46%) NEBOSH
18 3 (0.28%) PMO
System Software
1 55 (5.07%) Docker
2 30 (2.76%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.01%) VMware NSX
5 8 (0.74%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.46%) Firmware
6 5 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.37%) vSphere
8 2 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.092%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.092%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.092%) IAG
9 1 (0.092%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.092%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.092%) Xen
Systems Management
1 78 (7.19%) Terraform
2 62 (5.71%) Kubernetes
3 42 (3.87%) Ansible
4 18 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (1.29%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.20%) Grafana
7 6 (0.55%) Endace
7 6 (0.55%) Puppet
8 5 (0.46%) AWS Copilot
8 5 (0.46%) Packer
8 5 (0.46%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.37%) Argo
9 4 (0.37%) Istio
9 4 (0.37%) Kustomize
9 4 (0.37%) Nmap
9 4 (0.37%) SCCM
9 4 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.37%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.28%) Kibana
10 3 (0.28%) Nagios
Vendors
1 165 (15.21%) Microsoft
2 85 (7.83%) Cisco
3 49 (4.52%) Google
4 29 (2.67%) Oracle
5 27 (2.49%) VMware
6 23 (2.12%) Salesforce
7 19 (1.75%) Adobe
8 17 (1.57%) Red Hat
9 16 (1.47%) SAP
10 14 (1.29%) MuleSoft
11 12 (1.11%) CyberArk
12 9 (0.83%) Meraki
13 8 (0.74%) Databricks
13 8 (0.74%) F5
13 8 (0.74%) Juniper
13 8 (0.74%) ServiceNow
14 7 (0.65%) Splunk
15 6 (0.55%) CheckPoint
16 4 (0.37%) BMC
16 4 (0.37%) Dell