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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 106 64
Rank change year-on-year +73 -42 -5
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 1,134 545 1,379
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.67% 3.54% 3.98%
As % of the Qualifications category 26.56% 10.30% 15.07%
Number of salaries quoted 888 373 1,012
10th Percentile £46,250 £44,039 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £64,627 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.45% +7.71% -7.69%
75th Percentile £81,250 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,100 £90,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% +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 4,269 5,293 9,153
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 21.33% 34.35% 26.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2,949 2,356 5,915
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 £88,750 £86,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +2.80% -10.83%

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 18 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 30 (2.65%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.41%) Apache
2 16 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (1.15%) Apache Spark
3 13 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.62%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.26%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.26%) Apache Solr
5 3 (0.26%) Mule
5 3 (0.26%) SAS
6 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.18%) Camunda
6 2 (0.18%) Confluence
6 2 (0.18%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle Spatial
7 1 (0.088%) Appian
7 1 (0.088%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.088%) Site Server
Applications
1 40 (3.53%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.06%) Adobe XD
2 12 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.35%) InVision
4 4 (0.35%) Sketch
4 4 (0.35%) Windchill
5 3 (0.26%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.18%) Weka
7 1 (0.088%) CATIA
7 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
1 294 (25.93%) Azure
2 260 (22.93%) AWS
3 97 (8.55%) Microsoft 365
4 87 (7.67%) GCP
5 66 (5.82%) Entra ID
6 44 (3.88%) Power Platform
7 23 (2.03%) GitHub
8 21 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
9 20 (1.76%) SaaS
9 20 (1.76%) Serverless
10 19 (1.68%) Google Analytics
11 18 (1.59%) Amazon S3
12 16 (1.41%) Azure Sentinel
12 16 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
13 15 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
13 15 (1.32%) PaaS
13 15 (1.32%) PowerApps
14 14 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
15 13 (1.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (1.15%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 36 (3.17%) Network Security
2 27 (2.38%) Firewall
3 24 (2.12%) WAN
4 23 (2.03%) VPN
5 17 (1.50%) TCP/IP
6 16 (1.41%) DNS
6 16 (1.41%) LAN
7 15 (1.32%) BGP
8 13 (1.15%) DHCP
9 12 (1.06%) MPLS
10 11 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (0.79%) SMTP
12 7 (0.62%) Intrusion Detection
12 7 (0.62%) SNMP
13 5 (0.44%) Cisco Firepower
13 5 (0.44%) HTTP
13 5 (0.44%) SSL
13 5 (0.44%) VoIP
14 4 (0.35%) Cisco ASA
14 4 (0.35%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (3.09%) Power BI
2 34 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (1.68%) Metadata
4 13 (1.15%) NoSQL
5 12 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
5 12 (1.06%) DynamoDB
6 11 (0.97%) Big Data
6 11 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (0.97%) Redis
7 10 (0.88%) MongoDB
8 8 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.53%) BigQuery
9 6 (0.53%) Data Lake
9 6 (0.53%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (0.44%) SQL Server
10 5 (0.44%) Tableau
11 3 (0.26%) Flink
11 3 (0.26%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 43 (3.79%) Git
2 35 (3.09%) GitLab
3 25 (2.20%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.15%) JUnit
4 13 (1.15%) Selenium
5 10 (0.88%) JIRA
6 8 (0.71%) Axure RP
6 8 (0.71%) Balsamiq
6 8 (0.71%) Maven
7 7 (0.62%) Mockito
8 6 (0.53%) Burp Suite
8 6 (0.53%) Metasploit
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
1 313 (27.60%) Social Skills
2 311 (27.43%) Public Sector
3 162 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 114 (10.05%) Analytical Skills
5 110 (9.70%) Finance
6 102 (8.99%) Law
7 40 (3.53%) Legal
8 39 (3.44%) Presentation Skills
9 36 (3.17%) Back Office
10 31 (2.73%) Telecoms
11 23 (2.03%) Manufacturing
11 23 (2.03%) Retail
12 21 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
13 20 (1.76%) Aerospace
13 20 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (0.97%) Aviation
14 11 (0.97%) Military
15 8 (0.71%) Automotive
15 8 (0.71%) Police
16 7 (0.62%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 229 (20.19%) Senior
2 177 (15.61%) Architect
3 123 (10.85%) Consultant
4 99 (8.73%) Developer
5 87 (7.67%) Lead
6 83 (7.32%) Analyst
7 81 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
8 69 (6.08%) Software Engineer
9 50 (4.41%) Data Engineer
10 47 (4.14%) Security Consultant
10 47 (4.14%) Support Engineer
11 45 (3.97%) Senior Manager
12 44 (3.88%) Cloud Engineer
13 40 (3.53%) Java Developer
14 38 (3.35%) Site Engineer
15 37 (3.26%) Business Analyst
15 37 (3.26%) DevOps Engineer
15 37 (3.26%) Security Architect
16 35 (3.09%) Senior Analyst
16 35 (3.09%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (3.53%) REST
2 34 (3.00%) Spring
3 29 (2.56%) .NET
4 25 (2.20%) React
5 19 (1.68%) SOAP
6 17 (1.50%) Spring Boot
7 16 (1.41%) Middleware
8 15 (1.32%) CSS
8 15 (1.32%) HTML
8 15 (1.32%) Playwright
9 13 (1.15%) Lightning Web Components
9 13 (1.15%) Visualforce
10 12 (1.06%) Kafka
11 10 (0.88%) RESTful
12 9 (0.79%) SAML
13 8 (0.71%) Django
13 8 (0.71%) HTML5 Canvas
13 8 (0.71%) YAML
14 7 (0.62%) AngularJS
14 7 (0.62%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 80 (7.05%) Cloud Native
2 56 (4.94%) Product Ownership
3 40 (3.53%) Onboarding
4 38 (3.35%) Management Information System
5 36 (3.17%) Security Posture
6 34 (3.00%) Data Centre
7 21 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (1.68%) PKI
9 14 (1.23%) Blog
9 14 (1.23%) Driving Licence
10 12 (1.06%) Security Operations Centre
10 12 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (0.88%) Data Structures
11 10 (0.88%) Low-Code
12 8 (0.71%) AI Agents
13 7 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (0.62%) Distributed Systems
13 7 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (0.53%) Cyber Threat
14 6 (0.53%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 93 (8.20%) Windows
2 69 (6.08%) Linux
3 37 (3.26%) Windows 10
4 27 (2.38%) 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
1 257 (22.66%) Agile
2 191 (16.84%) Continuous Improvement
3 169 (14.90%) Cybersecurity
4 149 (13.14%) Mentoring
5 141 (12.43%) DevOps
6 139 (12.26%) CI/CD
7 127 (11.20%) Problem-Solving
8 112 (9.88%) Community of Practice
9 105 (9.26%) Analytics
9 105 (9.26%) Technology Strategy
10 103 (9.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 102 (8.99%) ITIL
11 102 (8.99%) Software Engineering
12 96 (8.47%) Infrastructure as Code
13 93 (8.20%) Stakeholder Management
14 74 (6.53%) Cloud Security
15 73 (6.44%) Collaborative Culture
15 73 (6.44%) Risk Management
15 73 (6.44%) Scrum
16 72 (6.35%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 123 (10.85%) Python
2 113 (9.96%) Java
3 66 (5.82%) JavaScript
4 64 (5.64%) SQL
5 29 (2.56%) C#
6 28 (2.47%) Bash
7 27 (2.38%) PowerShell
8 26 (2.29%) C++
9 23 (2.03%) TypeScript
10 13 (1.15%) Apex Code
11 9 (0.79%) Rust
12 6 (0.53%) C
12 6 (0.53%) Groovy
12 6 (0.53%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.44%) Scala
13 5 (0.44%) VBA
14 4 (0.35%) Go
15 3 (0.26%) Google Apps Script
15 3 (0.26%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.26%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,134 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 223 (19.66%) Degree
3 183 (16.14%) DV Cleared
4 66 (5.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 59 (5.20%) CISSP
6 45 (3.97%) CISM
7 41 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 33 (2.91%) CTC Cleared
9 31 (2.73%) Microsoft Certification
10 24 (2.12%) Azure Certification
11 22 (1.94%) AWS Certification
12 16 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
13 14 (1.23%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 13 (1.15%) CREST Certified
14 13 (1.15%) CRISC
14 13 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
15 10 (0.88%) HNC
16 9 (0.79%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 9 (0.79%) Master's Degree
17 8 (0.71%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (9.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 62 (5.47%) NIST
3 46 (4.06%) SLA
4 45 (3.97%) QA
5 39 (3.44%) NCSC
6 38 (3.35%) GDPR
7 36 (3.17%) Accessibility
8 23 (2.03%) Cyber Essentials
8 23 (2.03%) Data Quality
9 21 (1.85%) GRC
10 19 (1.68%) PCI DSS
11 17 (1.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 14 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
13 12 (1.06%) JSP 440
13 12 (1.06%) WCAG
14 11 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 10 (0.88%) Def Stans
16 7 (0.62%) Government Security Classifications
17 5 (0.44%) NEBOSH
17 5 (0.44%) NIST 800
System Software
1 64 (5.64%) Docker
2 37 (3.26%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.41%) Hyper-V
3 16 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.88%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.44%) Firmware
5 5 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.44%) vSphere
6 4 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.088%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.088%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.088%) IAG
7 1 (0.088%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.088%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.088%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.088%) Xen
Systems Management
1 90 (7.94%) Terraform
2 71 (6.26%) Kubernetes
3 38 (3.35%) Ansible
4 28 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (1.85%) Prometheus
6 19 (1.68%) Grafana
7 10 (0.88%) Argo
8 8 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.53%) Kustomize
9 6 (0.53%) Nmap
9 6 (0.53%) Packer
9 6 (0.53%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.53%) Puppet
10 5 (0.44%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.44%) Endace
10 5 (0.44%) Istio
10 5 (0.44%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.35%) Kibana
11 4 (0.35%) Nagios
12 3 (0.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 184 (16.23%) Microsoft
2 64 (5.64%) Cisco
3 48 (4.23%) Google
4 31 (2.73%) Oracle
5 27 (2.38%) VMware
6 22 (1.94%) Salesforce
7 19 (1.68%) ServiceNow
8 17 (1.50%) Red Hat
9 16 (1.41%) MuleSoft
10 14 (1.23%) SAP
11 12 (1.06%) Adobe
11 12 (1.06%) CyberArk
12 9 (0.79%) Databricks
13 8 (0.71%) Meraki
13 8 (0.71%) Splunk
14 7 (0.62%) F5
14 7 (0.62%) Juniper
15 6 (0.53%) CheckPoint
16 5 (0.44%) Fortinet
16 5 (0.44%) OpenAI