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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 106 63
Rank change year-on-year +73 -43 -4
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 1,137 540 1,386
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.75% 3.53% 4.02%
As % of the Qualifications category 26.66% 10.26% 15.12%
Number of salaries quoted 883 374 1,011
10th Percentile £46,250 £44,159 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,722 £64,627 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.24% +7.71% -5.73%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,125
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,900 £90,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +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 4,265 5,262 9,164
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 21.55% 34.40% 26.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,932 2,361 5,917
10th Percentile £33,250 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £88,333 £86,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £53,833
% change year-on-year +9.09% +2.17% -10.28%

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 14 June 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 (2.55%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (1.32%) Apache
4 13 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (1.06%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.62%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.26%) Anypoint
7 3 (0.26%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.26%) Mule
7 3 (0.26%) SAS
8 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.18%) Camunda
8 2 (0.18%) Confluence
8 2 (0.18%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.18%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.088%) Appian
9 1 (0.088%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.088%) Site Server
Applications
1 47 (4.13%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.14%) Adobe XD
3 12 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.35%) InVision
5 4 (0.35%) Sketch
5 4 (0.35%) Windchill
6 3 (0.26%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.18%) Weka
8 1 (0.088%) CATIA
8 1 (0.088%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 7 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.18%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.18%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.088%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.088%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.088%) SAP FSCM
4 1 (0.088%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.088%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.088%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 290 (25.51%) Azure
2 259 (22.78%) AWS
3 99 (8.71%) Microsoft 365
4 85 (7.48%) GCP
5 61 (5.36%) Entra ID
6 42 (3.69%) Power Platform
7 23 (2.02%) GitHub
8 20 (1.76%) AWS CloudFormation
8 20 (1.76%) Google Analytics
8 20 (1.76%) SaaS
8 20 (1.76%) Serverless
9 18 (1.58%) Amazon S3
10 16 (1.41%) Azure Sentinel
11 15 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
11 15 (1.32%) PaaS
12 14 (1.23%) PowerApps
13 13 (1.14%) Figma
13 13 (1.14%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 13 (1.14%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 34 (2.99%) Network Security
2 27 (2.37%) Firewall
3 24 (2.11%) WAN
4 23 (2.02%) VPN
5 16 (1.41%) BGP
5 16 (1.41%) DNS
5 16 (1.41%) LAN
5 16 (1.41%) TCP/IP
6 13 (1.14%) DHCP
7 12 (1.06%) MPLS
8 11 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (0.79%) SMTP
10 7 (0.62%) Intrusion Detection
10 7 (0.62%) SNMP
11 5 (0.44%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (0.44%) Cisco Firepower
11 5 (0.44%) HTTP
11 5 (0.44%) SSL
11 5 (0.44%) VoIP
12 4 (0.35%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (3.08%) Power BI
2 34 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (1.58%) Metadata
4 13 (1.14%) NoSQL
5 12 (1.06%) DynamoDB
6 11 (0.97%) Amazon Athena
6 11 (0.97%) Big Data
6 11 (0.97%) Redis
7 10 (0.88%) MongoDB
8 9 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (0.53%) BigQuery
10 6 (0.53%) Relational Database
11 5 (0.44%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.44%) SQL Server
11 5 (0.44%) Tableau
12 4 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (0.26%) Flink
13 3 (0.26%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 43 (3.78%) Git
2 35 (3.08%) GitLab
3 25 (2.20%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.14%) JUnit
4 13 (1.14%) Selenium
5 10 (0.88%) JIRA
6 9 (0.79%) Axure RP
6 9 (0.79%) Balsamiq
7 8 (0.70%) Maven
8 7 (0.62%) Burp Suite
8 7 (0.62%) Metasploit
8 7 (0.62%) Mockito
9 5 (0.44%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.44%) Postman
10 4 (0.35%) JMeter
11 3 (0.26%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.26%) SoapUI
11 3 (0.26%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.18%) Babel
12 2 (0.18%) webpack
General
1 314 (27.62%) Social Skills
2 310 (27.26%) Public Sector
3 163 (14.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 118 (10.38%) Analytical Skills
5 108 (9.50%) Finance
6 103 (9.06%) Law
7 43 (3.78%) Back Office
8 40 (3.52%) Legal
9 38 (3.34%) Presentation Skills
10 32 (2.81%) Telecoms
11 24 (2.11%) Retail
12 22 (1.93%) Manufacturing
13 21 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
14 20 (1.76%) Aerospace
14 20 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (0.97%) Aviation
16 10 (0.88%) Military
17 8 (0.70%) Automotive
18 7 (0.62%) Banking
18 7 (0.62%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 231 (20.32%) Senior
2 172 (15.13%) Architect
3 122 (10.73%) Consultant
4 100 (8.80%) Developer
5 87 (7.65%) Analyst
5 87 (7.65%) Lead
6 79 (6.95%) Solutions Architect
7 69 (6.07%) Software Engineer
8 54 (4.75%) Support Engineer
9 50 (4.40%) Data Engineer
10 46 (4.05%) Security Consultant
10 46 (4.05%) Site Engineer
11 44 (3.87%) Cloud Engineer
11 44 (3.87%) Senior Manager
12 41 (3.61%) Business Analyst
13 40 (3.52%) Desktop Engineer
13 40 (3.52%) Desktop Support
13 40 (3.52%) Desktop Support Engineer
13 40 (3.52%) Java Developer
14 37 (3.25%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (3.52%) REST
2 34 (2.99%) Spring
3 29 (2.55%) .NET
4 25 (2.20%) React
5 19 (1.67%) SOAP
6 17 (1.50%) Spring Boot
7 16 (1.41%) CSS
7 16 (1.41%) HTML
7 16 (1.41%) Middleware
8 15 (1.32%) Playwright
9 13 (1.14%) Lightning Web Components
9 13 (1.14%) Visualforce
10 12 (1.06%) Kafka
11 10 (0.88%) RESTful
12 9 (0.79%) SAML
13 8 (0.70%) Django
13 8 (0.70%) HTML5 Canvas
13 8 (0.70%) YAML
14 7 (0.62%) AngularJS
14 7 (0.62%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 79 (6.95%) Cloud Native
2 57 (5.01%) Product Ownership
3 40 (3.52%) Onboarding
4 38 (3.34%) Management Information System
4 38 (3.34%) Security Posture
5 35 (3.08%) Data Centre
6 22 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
7 20 (1.76%) PKI
8 14 (1.23%) Blog
8 14 (1.23%) Driving Licence
9 12 (1.06%) Security Operations Centre
10 11 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (0.88%) Data Structures
11 10 (0.88%) Low-Code
12 7 (0.62%) AI Agents
12 7 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (0.62%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (0.62%) Insider Threat
13 6 (0.53%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 98 (8.62%) Windows
2 69 (6.07%) Linux
3 44 (3.87%) Windows 10
4 25 (2.20%) Windows Server
5 20 (1.76%) Unix
6 5 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.26%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.18%) Android
8 2 (0.18%) CentOS
9 1 (0.088%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.088%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.088%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (22.52%) Agile
2 195 (17.15%) Continuous Improvement
3 176 (15.48%) Cybersecurity
4 145 (12.75%) Mentoring
5 139 (12.23%) DevOps
6 136 (11.96%) CI/CD
7 126 (11.08%) Problem-Solving
8 113 (9.94%) Community of Practice
9 111 (9.76%) Analytics
10 106 (9.32%) Technology Strategy
11 105 (9.23%) ITIL
12 102 (8.97%) Software Engineering
13 100 (8.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 96 (8.44%) Infrastructure as Code
15 90 (7.92%) Stakeholder Management
16 74 (6.51%) Collaborative Culture
17 73 (6.42%) Cloud Security
17 73 (6.42%) Decision-Making
17 73 (6.42%) Scrum
18 72 (6.33%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 122 (10.73%) Python
2 113 (9.94%) Java
3 67 (5.89%) JavaScript
4 64 (5.63%) SQL
5 29 (2.55%) C#
6 28 (2.46%) Bash
7 26 (2.29%) C++
7 26 (2.29%) PowerShell
8 23 (2.02%) TypeScript
9 13 (1.14%) Apex Code
10 9 (0.79%) Rust
11 6 (0.53%) C
11 6 (0.53%) Groovy
11 6 (0.53%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.44%) Scala
12 5 (0.44%) VBA
13 4 (0.35%) Go
14 3 (0.26%) Google Apps Script
14 3 (0.26%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.26%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,137 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 231 (20.32%) Degree
3 188 (16.53%) DV Cleared
4 65 (5.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 59 (5.19%) CISSP
6 44 (3.87%) CISM
7 41 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 40 (3.52%) CTC Cleared
9 31 (2.73%) Microsoft Certification
10 22 (1.93%) Azure Certification
11 21 (1.85%) AWS Certification
12 17 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
13 14 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
14 13 (1.14%) CREST Certified
14 13 (1.14%) CRISC
14 13 (1.14%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 10 (0.88%) HNC
16 9 (0.79%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 9 (0.79%) Master's Degree
17 8 (0.70%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (8.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 61 (5.36%) NIST
3 52 (4.57%) SLA
4 45 (3.96%) QA
5 38 (3.34%) GDPR
6 37 (3.25%) Accessibility
6 37 (3.25%) NCSC
7 23 (2.02%) Data Quality
8 20 (1.76%) Cyber Essentials
8 20 (1.76%) GRC
8 20 (1.76%) PCI DSS
9 16 (1.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 14 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
11 13 (1.14%) WCAG
12 12 (1.06%) JSP 440
13 11 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 10 (0.88%) Def Stans
15 7 (0.62%) Government Security Classifications
16 5 (0.44%) NEBOSH
16 5 (0.44%) NIST 800
System Software
1 64 (5.63%) Docker
2 34 (2.99%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.14%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.97%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.44%) Firmware
6 5 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.44%) vSphere
7 4 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.088%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.088%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.088%) IAG
8 1 (0.088%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.088%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.088%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.088%) Xen
Systems Management
1 88 (7.74%) Terraform
2 70 (6.16%) Kubernetes
3 38 (3.34%) Ansible
4 25 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (1.85%) Prometheus
6 19 (1.67%) Grafana
7 10 (0.88%) Argo
8 8 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.62%) Nmap
10 6 (0.53%) Kustomize
10 6 (0.53%) Packer
10 6 (0.53%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.53%) Puppet
11 5 (0.44%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.44%) Endace
11 5 (0.44%) Istio
11 5 (0.44%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.35%) Kibana
12 4 (0.35%) Nagios
13 3 (0.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 180 (15.83%) Microsoft
2 72 (6.33%) Cisco
3 48 (4.22%) Google
4 31 (2.73%) Oracle
5 28 (2.46%) VMware
6 23 (2.02%) Salesforce
7 18 (1.58%) ServiceNow
8 17 (1.50%) Red Hat
9 16 (1.41%) MuleSoft
10 14 (1.23%) SAP
11 13 (1.14%) Adobe
12 12 (1.06%) CyberArk
13 8 (0.70%) Databricks
13 8 (0.70%) Meraki
13 8 (0.70%) Splunk
14 7 (0.62%) CheckPoint
14 7 (0.62%) F5
14 7 (0.62%) Juniper
15 4 (0.35%) BMC
15 4 (0.35%) Dell