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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 48 45
Rank change year-on-year -29 -3 +86
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 722 1,152 1,511
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 4.43% 4.91% 6.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 12.63% 18.03% 23.09%
Number of salaries quoted 424 777 1,192
10th Percentile £42,799 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,313 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.35%

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 5,716 6,391 6,545
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.07% 27.27% 26.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2,330 3,104 4,901
10th Percentile £31,000 £34,384 £36,174
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -1.79% -4.27% +6.36%

SC Cleared
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SC Cleared trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

SC Cleared
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing SC Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing SC Cleared

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing SC Cleared over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

SC Cleared salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (2.35%) SharePoint
2 11 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (1.39%) Confluence
4 6 (0.83%) Appian
5 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.14%) Drupal
5 1 (0.14%) IIS
5 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 22 (3.05%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.94%) Adobe XD
3 12 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.83%) Simulink
5 5 (0.69%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.28%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.28%) Revit
8 1 (0.14%) InVision
8 1 (0.14%) Navisworks
8 1 (0.14%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 45 (6.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 14 (1.94%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.28%) Sage 200
3 2 (0.28%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.14%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.14%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.14%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.14%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 159 (22.02%) Azure
2 121 (16.76%) AWS
3 57 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
4 44 (6.09%) Entra ID
5 37 (5.12%) Power Platform
6 31 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (3.88%) GCP
8 22 (3.05%) Dynamics 365
9 21 (2.91%) Serverless
10 18 (2.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (2.49%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (2.35%) GitHub
12 16 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (2.22%) Power Automate
13 15 (2.08%) Figma
14 14 (1.94%) PowerApps
15 13 (1.80%) Azure Monitor
16 12 (1.66%) Amazon S3
16 12 (1.66%) Azure Data Factory
17 11 (1.52%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (5.68%) Software-Defined Radio
1 41 (5.68%) Wireless
2 38 (5.26%) Firewall
3 31 (4.29%) VPN
4 25 (3.46%) Network Security
5 21 (2.91%) LAN
6 18 (2.49%) WAN
7 12 (1.66%) DNS
7 12 (1.66%) Junos
7 12 (1.66%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (1.39%) TCP/IP
9 8 (1.11%) BGP
10 6 (0.83%) Ethernet
10 6 (0.83%) OSPF
10 6 (0.83%) SD-WAN
10 6 (0.83%) VLAN
11 5 (0.69%) IPsec
11 5 (0.69%) SAN
12 4 (0.55%) Cisco IOS
12 4 (0.55%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.46%) Power BI
2 24 (3.32%) MongoDB
3 14 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (1.66%) NoSQL
5 9 (1.25%) SQL Server
6 8 (1.11%) Metadata
7 7 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (0.83%) Big Data
8 6 (0.83%) MySQL
8 6 (0.83%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.42%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.42%) Neo4j
9 3 (0.42%) SAP HANA
10 2 (0.28%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.28%) DB2
10 2 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.28%) Pentaho
10 2 (0.28%) Tableau
11 1 (0.14%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 26 (3.60%) Git
2 17 (2.35%) Jenkins
3 15 (2.08%) JIRA
4 13 (1.80%) Axure RP
4 13 (1.80%) Balsamiq
5 12 (1.66%) GitLab
5 12 (1.66%) Selenium
6 7 (0.97%) Cypress.io
6 7 (0.97%) TeamCity
7 6 (0.83%) JMeter
7 6 (0.83%) WebDriver
8 5 (0.69%) JUnit
8 5 (0.69%) Mockito
9 4 (0.55%) Babel
9 4 (0.55%) MLflow
9 4 (0.55%) webpack
10 3 (0.42%) LabVIEW
10 3 (0.42%) Locust
10 3 (0.42%) Postman
10 3 (0.42%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 237 (32.83%) Finance
2 191 (26.45%) Social Skills
3 151 (20.91%) Public Sector
4 101 (13.99%) Analytical Skills
5 67 (9.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 51 (7.06%) Law
7 26 (3.60%) Manufacturing
8 22 (3.05%) Aerospace
8 22 (3.05%) Marketing
9 19 (2.63%) Electronics
10 18 (2.49%) Telecoms
11 17 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
12 16 (2.22%) Back Office
13 12 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (1.52%) Legal
15 10 (1.39%) Military
15 10 (1.39%) Retail
16 6 (0.83%) Advertising
16 6 (0.83%) Aviation
16 6 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 95 (13.16%) Senior
2 94 (13.02%) Systems Engineer
3 92 (12.74%) Architect
4 68 (9.42%) Consultant
5 67 (9.28%) Developer
6 53 (7.34%) Lead
7 52 (7.20%) Software Engineer
8 46 (6.37%) Administrator
8 46 (6.37%) Systems Administrator
9 40 (5.54%) Embedded Engineer
9 40 (5.54%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 29 (4.02%) Analyst
11 25 (3.46%) Designer
12 22 (3.05%) Security Architect
12 22 (3.05%) Senior Consultant
12 22 (3.05%) Senior Developer
12 22 (3.05%) Solutions Architect
13 18 (2.49%) DevOps Engineer
14 16 (2.22%) Desktop Support Technician
14 16 (2.22%) Desktop Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (3.60%) React
2 21 (2.91%) Node.js
3 17 (2.35%) HTML
3 17 (2.35%) Kafka
4 14 (1.94%) CSS
5 12 (1.66%) Spring
5 12 (1.66%) Spring Boot
6 11 (1.52%) .NET
7 10 (1.39%) SAP Fiori
8 9 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (1.11%) RESTful
10 7 (0.97%) HTML5 Canvas
11 6 (0.83%) AngularJS
11 6 (0.83%) Playwright
11 6 (0.83%) PySpark
12 5 (0.69%) REST
12 5 (0.69%) SAP CAF
12 5 (0.69%) SOAP
13 4 (0.55%) EDI
13 4 (0.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 174 (24.10%) e-Learning
2 47 (6.51%) Data Centre
3 40 (5.54%) Embedded Systems
4 38 (5.26%) MicroBlaze
4 38 (5.26%) RISC-V
5 33 (4.57%) Cloud Native
6 26 (3.60%) Management Information System
6 26 (3.60%) Product Ownership
7 22 (3.05%) Hybrid Cloud
8 20 (2.77%) Self-Motivation
9 19 (2.63%) Onboarding
10 18 (2.49%) Algorithms
11 12 (1.66%) FPGA
12 11 (1.52%) NHS
13 10 (1.39%) PKI
13 10 (1.39%) Security Posture
14 8 (1.11%) Housing Association
15 7 (0.97%) Driving Licence
15 7 (0.97%) IoT
15 7 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 128 (17.73%) Linux
2 57 (7.89%) Windows
3 38 (5.26%) Embedded Linux
4 31 (4.29%) Unix
5 19 (2.63%) Windows Server
6 18 (2.49%) Windows 10
7 10 (1.39%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (1.11%) Rocky
9 5 (0.69%) Android
10 4 (0.55%) CentOS
10 4 (0.55%) HPUX
10 4 (0.55%) Oracle Linux
10 4 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.55%) Solaris
11 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (27.42%) Innovative Thinking
2 181 (25.07%) Agile
3 117 (16.20%) Problem-Solving
4 109 (15.10%) Software Engineering
5 102 (14.13%) Cybersecurity
6 92 (12.74%) DevOps
7 83 (11.50%) CI/CD
8 75 (10.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 74 (10.25%) Analytics
10 70 (9.70%) Computer Science
11 66 (9.14%) High Availability
12 60 (8.31%) Systems Engineering
13 55 (7.62%) Mentoring
14 49 (6.79%) UML
15 47 (6.51%) Artificial Intelligence
15 47 (6.51%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
15 47 (6.51%) Scenario Testing
15 47 (6.51%) SysML
16 45 (6.23%) Digital Signal Processing
16 45 (6.23%) Trade-off Analysis
Programming Languages
1 83 (11.50%) Python
2 57 (7.89%) Java
3 54 (7.48%) JavaScript
4 52 (7.20%) SQL
5 51 (7.06%) C
5 51 (7.06%) C++
6 25 (3.46%) TypeScript
7 24 (3.32%) C#
7 24 (3.32%) PowerShell
8 17 (2.35%) Bash
9 14 (1.94%) MATLAB
10 13 (1.80%) Bicep
11 8 (1.11%) Go
12 6 (0.83%) Kotlin
12 6 (0.83%) R
13 4 (0.55%) X++
14 3 (0.42%) Google Apps Script
14 3 (0.42%) Objective-C
14 3 (0.42%) Swift
14 3 (0.42%) VBA
Qualifications
1 722 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 183 (25.35%) Degree
3 137 (18.98%) DV Cleared
4 77 (10.66%) Cisco Certification
5 67 (9.28%) CCNP
6 53 (7.34%) BPSS Clearance
7 46 (6.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 38 (5.26%) CCNA
9 35 (4.85%) AWS Certification
10 34 (4.71%) Azure Certification
11 30 (4.16%) CISSP
12 25 (3.46%) CISM
13 24 (3.32%) RHCSA
14 23 (3.19%) Microsoft Certification
15 16 (2.22%) CTC Cleared
16 10 (1.39%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 9 (1.25%) JNCIA
17 9 (1.25%) Network+ Certification
18 8 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 8 (1.11%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (6.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 40 (5.54%) NIST
3 39 (5.40%) QA
4 33 (4.57%) Accessibility
5 20 (2.77%) SLA
6 19 (2.63%) GDPR
6 19 (2.63%) NCSC
7 15 (2.08%) WCAG
8 10 (1.39%) GRC
9 9 (1.25%) Def Stans
10 7 (0.97%) JSP 440
11 4 (0.55%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.55%) NIST 800
11 4 (0.55%) RMADS
12 3 (0.42%) Data Quality
12 3 (0.42%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.28%) AQAP
13 2 (0.28%) ISO 22301
13 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 48 (6.65%) Firmware
2 38 (5.26%) Embedded Firmware
3 36 (4.99%) Docker
4 31 (4.29%) Active Directory
5 22 (3.05%) VMware Infrastructure
6 16 (2.22%) Hyper-V
7 12 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (1.11%) vSphere
9 2 (0.28%) IAG
9 2 (0.28%) pfSense
9 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.28%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 57 (7.89%) Kubernetes
2 45 (6.23%) Terraform
3 25 (3.46%) Ansible
4 18 (2.49%) Grafana
5 8 (1.11%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.83%) SCOM
7 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.42%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 3 (0.42%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.42%) Kibana
9 3 (0.42%) Nagios
10 2 (0.28%) Endace
10 2 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.28%) Iperf
10 2 (0.28%) SCCM
10 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.28%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.14%) Argo
11 1 (0.14%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 99 (13.71%) Microsoft
2 91 (12.60%) Cisco
3 45 (6.23%) Sparx
4 42 (5.82%) VMware
5 30 (4.16%) SAP
6 25 (3.46%) Red Hat
7 22 (3.05%) Google
8 19 (2.63%) ServiceNow
9 16 (2.22%) Juniper
10 14 (1.94%) Adobe
10 14 (1.94%) Oracle
11 10 (1.39%) Dell
12 7 (0.97%) Databricks
12 7 (0.97%) Fortinet
13 6 (0.83%) Salesforce
14 4 (0.55%) Ariba
14 4 (0.55%) F5
14 4 (0.55%) Foundry
14 4 (0.55%) HP
14 4 (0.55%) Samsung