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

6 months to
17 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 1,496 719 1,153
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 6.16% 4.43% 4.94%
As % of the Qualifications category 29.65% 12.63% 18.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,021 421 777
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 5,046 5,691 6,368
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.76% 35.03% 27.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3,179 2,327 3,095
10th Percentile £33,450 £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 17 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 (1.87%) Apache Spark
2 26 (1.74%) SharePoint
3 22 (1.47%) Apache
4 13 (0.87%) Anypoint
4 13 (0.87%) Mule
5 12 (0.80%) Confluence
6 10 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (0.67%) Oracle Workflow
7 8 (0.53%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.53%) nginx
7 8 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 6 (0.40%) Camunda
9 4 (0.27%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.27%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.27%) Oracle Spatial
10 3 (0.20%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.13%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.067%) CMS
12 1 (0.067%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.067%) WordPress
Applications
1 28 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.14%) Simulink
3 14 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (0.47%) 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 (0.067%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.067%) Houdini
9 1 (0.067%) InVision
9 1 (0.067%) NUKE
9 1 (0.067%) Sketch
9 1 (0.067%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.067%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 11 (0.74%) Primavera
2 7 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.40%) Workday HCM
4 5 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.33%) Teamcenter
5 3 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.20%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.13%) SAP PSCD
6 2 (0.13%) SAP QM
6 2 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.067%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 1 (0.067%) Maximo
7 1 (0.067%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.067%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.067%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.067%) SAP EWM
7 1 (0.067%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.067%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.067%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 374 (25.00%) Azure
2 354 (23.66%) AWS
3 112 (7.49%) GCP
4 72 (4.81%) Microsoft 365
5 70 (4.68%) Power Platform
6 55 (3.68%) Entra ID
7 38 (2.54%) dbt
8 37 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
9 34 (2.27%) GitHub
10 32 (2.14%) Serverless
11 31 (2.07%) Amazon S3
12 24 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
12 24 (1.60%) OpenShift
13 22 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
14 21 (1.40%) Microsoft Purview
15 19 (1.27%) Azure Sentinel
15 19 (1.27%) Google Analytics
16 18 (1.20%) Amazon EC2
17 16 (1.07%) Slack
18 15 (1.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 44 (2.94%) Network Security
2 33 (2.21%) Firewall
3 30 (2.01%) TCP/IP
4 24 (1.60%) DNS
5 16 (1.07%) SSL
6 12 (0.80%) VPN
7 10 (0.67%) ATM
7 10 (0.67%) WAN
7 10 (0.67%) Wireless
8 9 (0.60%) Ethernet
9 8 (0.53%) DHCP
10 7 (0.47%) BGP
11 5 (0.33%) MPLS
11 5 (0.33%) Unified Communications
11 5 (0.33%) VLAN
12 4 (0.27%) LAN
13 3 (0.20%) 3GPP
13 3 (0.20%) TETRA
14 2 (0.13%) Intrusion Detection
14 2 (0.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (3.88%) Power BI
2 43 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (1.54%) Big Data
5 21 (1.40%) Amazon Athena
6 18 (1.20%) SQL Server
7 17 (1.14%) Data Lake
8 16 (1.07%) Relational Database
8 16 (1.07%) Tableau
9 15 (1.00%) DynamoDB
9 15 (1.00%) Metadata
10 14 (0.94%) MySQL
11 10 (0.67%) Hadoop
12 7 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (0.47%) NoSQL
13 6 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (0.40%) GIS
13 6 (0.40%) Parquet
13 6 (0.40%) Redis
14 5 (0.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 66 (4.41%) Git
2 34 (2.27%) GitLab
3 28 (1.87%) Jenkins
4 26 (1.74%) JIRA
5 21 (1.40%) JUnit
5 21 (1.40%) Rational DOORS
6 15 (1.00%) Selenium
7 12 (0.80%) Mockito
8 11 (0.74%) Maven
9 10 (0.67%) Burp Suite
9 10 (0.67%) Metasploit
10 9 (0.60%) Cucumber
10 9 (0.60%) Postman
11 8 (0.53%) Balsamiq
12 7 (0.47%) 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
1 432 (28.88%) Social Skills
2 350 (23.40%) Public Sector
3 334 (22.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 284 (18.98%) Finance
5 183 (12.23%) Analytical Skills
6 164 (10.96%) Aerospace
7 145 (9.69%) Law
8 59 (3.94%) Legal
9 49 (3.28%) Electronics
9 49 (3.28%) Military
9 49 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
9 49 (3.28%) Retail
10 42 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
11 39 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
12 34 (2.27%) Manufacturing
13 31 (2.07%) Police
14 21 (1.40%) Telecoms
15 14 (0.94%) Local Government
16 13 (0.87%) Aviation
17 12 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 295 (19.72%) Senior
2 250 (16.71%) Architect
3 136 (9.09%) Consultant
4 135 (9.02%) Lead
5 134 (8.96%) Software Engineer
6 124 (8.29%) Developer
7 114 (7.62%) Analyst
8 83 (5.55%) Solutions Architect
9 69 (4.61%) Data Engineer
10 62 (4.14%) Principal Engineer
11 55 (3.68%) Security Consultant
12 53 (3.54%) Senior Manager
13 51 (3.41%) DevOps Engineer
14 49 (3.28%) Cloud Engineer
15 48 (3.21%) Security Architect
16 43 (2.87%) Business Analyst
16 43 (2.87%) Senior Analyst
16 43 (2.87%) Senior Developer
17 40 (2.67%) Cloud Architect
18 37 (2.47%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (6.75%) Terraform
2 52 (3.48%) React
3 36 (2.41%) Spring
4 35 (2.34%) .NET
5 32 (2.14%) REST
6 27 (1.80%) CSS
7 23 (1.54%) HTML
7 23 (1.54%) PySpark
8 21 (1.40%) Node.js
8 21 (1.40%) Playwright
9 20 (1.34%) .NET Core
10 19 (1.27%) AngularJS
10 19 (1.27%) Kafka
11 17 (1.14%) OAuth
12 15 (1.00%) JSON
13 14 (0.94%) Entity Framework
13 14 (0.94%) OAuth2
13 14 (0.94%) Spring Boot
14 13 (0.87%) JWT
14 13 (0.87%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 109 (7.29%) Cloud Native
2 52 (3.48%) Management Information System
2 52 (3.48%) Product Ownership
3 41 (2.74%) Onboarding
4 36 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
5 31 (2.07%) Security Posture
6 30 (2.01%) Driving Licence
7 28 (1.87%) Blog
8 27 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
9 26 (1.74%) Data Centre
10 23 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
11 22 (1.47%) FPGA
12 21 (1.40%) Cyber Threat
13 18 (1.20%) Security Operations Centre
14 16 (1.07%) Public Cloud
15 15 (1.00%) Algorithms
16 14 (0.94%) AI Agents
16 14 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
16 14 (0.94%) PKI
17 11 (0.74%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 112 (7.49%) Linux
2 90 (6.02%) Windows
3 39 (2.61%) Windows Server
4 34 (2.27%) Unix
5 12 (0.80%) 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 (0.067%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.067%) CentOS
11 1 (0.067%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.067%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 410 (27.41%) Agile
2 284 (18.98%) Continuous Improvement
3 258 (17.25%) Mentoring
4 221 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
5 218 (14.57%) Software Engineering
6 217 (14.51%) Cybersecurity
7 211 (14.10%) CI/CD
8 195 (13.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 192 (12.83%) DevOps
10 175 (11.70%) AI
11 154 (10.29%) Decision-Making
12 153 (10.23%) Stakeholder Management
13 150 (10.03%) Analytics
14 146 (9.76%) Coaching
15 142 (9.49%) Community of Practice
16 132 (8.82%) Technology Strategy
17 127 (8.49%) Project Delivery
18 126 (8.42%) Technical Leadership
19 118 (7.89%) Infrastructure as Code
19 118 (7.89%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 182 (12.17%) Python
2 136 (9.09%) Java
3 111 (7.42%) SQL
4 89 (5.95%) JavaScript
5 52 (3.48%) C#
5 52 (3.48%) C++
6 43 (2.87%) Bash
7 38 (2.54%) PowerShell
8 28 (1.87%) TypeScript
9 23 (1.54%) MATLAB
10 20 (1.34%) C
11 19 (1.27%) Ada
12 15 (1.00%) PL/SQL
13 13 (0.87%) DataWeave
13 13 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
14 12 (0.80%) Ruby
15 8 (0.53%) Go
15 8 (0.53%) Rust
15 8 (0.53%) VBA
16 6 (0.40%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1,496 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 282 (18.85%) DV Cleared
3 276 (18.45%) Degree
4 185 (12.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 75 (5.01%) CISSP
6 60 (4.01%) CISM
7 47 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 43 (2.87%) Azure Certification
9 37 (2.47%) AWS Certification
10 30 (2.01%) Master's Degree
11 23 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
12 20 (1.34%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 18 (1.20%) PhD
14 17 (1.14%) Chartered Engineer
14 17 (1.14%) CRISC
15 16 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
16 15 (1.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 12 (0.80%) CHECK Team Member
17 12 (0.80%) CREST Certified
17 12 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (10.16%) Accessibility
2 132 (8.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 81 (5.41%) NIST
4 61 (4.08%) NCSC
5 49 (3.28%) QA
6 41 (2.74%) Data Quality
7 36 (2.41%) GRC
8 33 (2.21%) GDPR
9 25 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
10 20 (1.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 20 (1.34%) PCI DSS
10 20 (1.34%) SLA
11 18 (1.20%) WCAG
12 14 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
12 14 (0.94%) Def Stans
13 12 (0.80%) JSP 440
14 7 (0.47%) NIST 800
15 6 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.40%) PMO
16 5 (0.33%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 92 (6.15%) Docker
2 49 (3.28%) Active Directory
3 34 (2.27%) Firmware
4 32 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (1.40%) Hyper-V
6 15 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.40%) Squid
7 6 (0.40%) vSphere
8 4 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.27%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.067%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.067%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.067%) IAG
10 1 (0.067%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.067%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.067%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 97 (6.48%) Kubernetes
2 36 (2.41%) Microsoft Intune
3 34 (2.27%) Ansible
4 16 (1.07%) Prometheus
5 15 (1.00%) Grafana
6 13 (0.87%) CloudHub
7 11 (0.74%) Argo
8 10 (0.67%) Nmap
9 7 (0.47%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.40%) Istio
11 5 (0.33%) Packer
11 5 (0.33%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.27%) Kibana
12 4 (0.27%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.13%) Check_MK
13 2 (0.13%) Graylog
13 2 (0.13%) Nagios
13 2 (0.13%) Oracle RMAN
13 2 (0.13%) SCCM
Vendors
1 210 (14.04%) Microsoft
2 60 (4.01%) ServiceNow
3 56 (3.74%) Google
4 55 (3.68%) Oracle
5 45 (3.01%) VMware
6 38 (2.54%) SAP
7 22 (1.47%) Red Hat
8 19 (1.27%) Salesforce
9 18 (1.20%) Cisco
10 17 (1.14%) Databricks
11 16 (1.07%) OpenAI
12 15 (1.00%) MuleSoft
13 14 (0.94%) Veeam
13 14 (0.94%) Workday
14 13 (0.87%) Thales
14 13 (0.87%) YouTube
15 12 (0.80%) Adobe
16 11 (0.74%) CyberArk
16 11 (0.74%) Siemens
17 10 (0.67%) Okta