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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 109 69
Rank change year-on-year +77 -40 -9
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 1,124 492 1,311
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.87% 3.37% 3.98%
As % of the Qualifications category 26.16% 10.03% 14.79%
Number of salaries quoted 859 341 965
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £40,300
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 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,750 £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 4,297 4,905 8,866
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 22.42% 33.64% 26.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2,918 2,255 5,892
10th Percentile £33,250 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,560 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £88,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -10.00%

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 28 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 (2.49%) SharePoint
2 15 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.98%) Apache
5 10 (0.89%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.44%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.36%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.36%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.36%) Oracle Spatial
8 3 (0.27%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.27%) Camunda
8 3 (0.27%) SAS
9 2 (0.18%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.18%) Confluence
9 2 (0.18%) Mule
9 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.089%) Appian
10 1 (0.089%) OpenStack
Applications
1 58 (5.16%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.51%) Adobe XD
3 11 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.44%) InVision
5 5 (0.44%) Sketch
6 4 (0.36%) Windchill
7 3 (0.27%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.18%) Weka
9 1 (0.089%) CATIA
9 1 (0.089%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 6 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.18%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.18%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.089%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.089%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.089%) SAP FSCM
4 1 (0.089%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.089%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.089%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 276 (24.56%) Azure
2 245 (21.80%) AWS
3 99 (8.81%) Microsoft 365
4 80 (7.12%) GCP
5 54 (4.80%) Entra ID
6 36 (3.20%) Power Platform
7 20 (1.78%) Google Analytics
7 20 (1.78%) Serverless
8 19 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 19 (1.69%) GitHub
9 17 (1.51%) Amazon S3
9 17 (1.51%) Figma
9 17 (1.51%) SaaS
10 16 (1.42%) Azure Sentinel
11 14 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
11 14 (1.25%) PaaS
11 14 (1.25%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 14 (1.25%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 13 (1.16%) PowerApps
13 12 (1.07%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.76%) Network Security
2 26 (2.31%) Firewall
3 24 (2.14%) VPN
3 24 (2.14%) WAN
4 17 (1.51%) DNS
4 17 (1.51%) LAN
5 16 (1.42%) BGP
6 13 (1.16%) DHCP
7 12 (1.07%) MPLS
7 12 (1.07%) TCP/IP
7 12 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (0.80%) SMTP
9 7 (0.62%) Intrusion Detection
9 7 (0.62%) SNMP
10 6 (0.53%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (0.53%) Cisco Firepower
10 6 (0.53%) VoIP
11 5 (0.44%) HTTP
12 4 (0.36%) MQTT
12 4 (0.36%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (3.02%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (2.58%) Power BI
3 17 (1.51%) Metadata
4 13 (1.16%) NoSQL
5 11 (0.98%) DynamoDB
5 11 (0.98%) Redis
6 10 (0.89%) Big Data
6 10 (0.89%) MongoDB
7 9 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
7 9 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (0.53%) BigQuery
8 6 (0.53%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.53%) SQL Server
9 5 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.36%) GIS
10 4 (0.36%) QGIS
11 3 (0.27%) Flink
11 3 (0.27%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 47 (4.18%) Git
2 31 (2.76%) GitLab
3 24 (2.14%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.16%) Axure RP
4 13 (1.16%) JUnit
4 13 (1.16%) Selenium
5 12 (1.07%) Balsamiq
6 9 (0.80%) JIRA
7 8 (0.71%) Maven
8 7 (0.62%) Mockito
9 5 (0.44%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.44%) Postman
10 4 (0.36%) Burp Suite
10 4 (0.36%) JMeter
10 4 (0.36%) Metasploit
11 3 (0.27%) Babel
11 3 (0.27%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.27%) SoapUI
11 3 (0.27%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.27%) webpack
General
1 308 (27.40%) Social Skills
2 307 (27.31%) Public Sector
3 162 (14.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 107 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 104 (9.25%) Finance
5 104 (9.25%) Law
6 51 (4.54%) Back Office
7 40 (3.56%) Legal
8 34 (3.02%) Presentation Skills
8 34 (3.02%) Telecoms
9 24 (2.14%) Manufacturing
10 21 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
11 20 (1.78%) Aerospace
11 20 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
12 19 (1.69%) Retail
13 11 (0.98%) Aviation
13 11 (0.98%) Military
14 10 (0.89%) Marketing
15 8 (0.71%) Police
16 7 (0.62%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 219 (19.48%) Senior
2 167 (14.86%) Architect
3 118 (10.50%) Consultant
4 101 (8.99%) Developer
5 91 (8.10%) Analyst
6 81 (7.21%) Lead
7 78 (6.94%) Solutions Architect
8 71 (6.32%) Software Engineer
9 62 (5.52%) Support Engineer
10 52 (4.63%) Site Engineer
11 48 (4.27%) Desktop Engineer
11 48 (4.27%) Desktop Support
11 48 (4.27%) Desktop Support Engineer
12 47 (4.18%) Cloud Engineer
13 46 (4.09%) Business Analyst
14 44 (3.91%) Data Engineer
15 42 (3.74%) Security Consultant
16 40 (3.56%) Java Developer
16 40 (3.56%) Senior Manager
17 36 (3.20%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (3.74%) REST
2 36 (3.20%) Spring
3 35 (3.11%) .NET
4 26 (2.31%) React
5 20 (1.78%) SOAP
6 19 (1.69%) CSS
6 19 (1.69%) HTML
7 18 (1.60%) Spring Boot
8 17 (1.51%) Middleware
9 14 (1.25%) Lightning Web Components
9 14 (1.25%) Playwright
9 14 (1.25%) Visualforce
10 11 (0.98%) Kafka
10 11 (0.98%) RESTful
11 10 (0.89%) Django
12 9 (0.80%) ASP.NET
12 9 (0.80%) SAML
13 8 (0.71%) HTML5 Canvas
13 8 (0.71%) YAML
14 7 (0.62%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 63 (5.60%) Cloud Native
2 58 (5.16%) Product Ownership
3 42 (3.74%) Onboarding
4 37 (3.29%) Management Information System
5 36 (3.20%) Data Centre
6 32 (2.85%) Security Posture
7 21 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (1.69%) PKI
9 15 (1.33%) Driving Licence
10 14 (1.25%) Blog
11 12 (1.07%) Security Operations Centre
12 11 (0.98%) Low-Code
13 9 (0.80%) AI Agents
13 9 (0.80%) Data Structures
13 9 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
14 7 (0.62%) Distributed Systems
15 6 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
15 6 (0.53%) Greenfield Project
15 6 (0.53%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 104 (9.25%) Windows
2 68 (6.05%) Linux
3 53 (4.72%) Windows 10
4 21 (1.87%) Windows Server
5 19 (1.69%) Unix
6 6 (0.53%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.18%) Android
9 2 (0.18%) CentOS
10 1 (0.089%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.089%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.089%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (22.24%) Agile
2 186 (16.55%) Continuous Improvement
3 171 (15.21%) Cybersecurity
4 135 (12.01%) DevOps
5 132 (11.74%) Mentoring
6 125 (11.12%) CI/CD
7 119 (10.59%) Analytics
7 119 (10.59%) Problem-Solving
8 112 (9.96%) Community of Practice
9 111 (9.88%) ITIL
10 109 (9.70%) Software Engineering
11 104 (9.25%) Technology Strategy
12 90 (8.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 88 (7.83%) Stakeholder Management
14 87 (7.74%) Infrastructure as Code
15 73 (6.49%) Collaborative Culture
16 70 (6.23%) Scrum
17 67 (5.96%) Risk Management
18 64 (5.69%) Technical Leadership
19 63 (5.60%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 116 (10.32%) Python
2 114 (10.14%) Java
3 73 (6.49%) JavaScript
4 65 (5.78%) SQL
5 32 (2.85%) C#
6 28 (2.49%) PowerShell
7 26 (2.31%) Bash
7 26 (2.31%) C++
8 24 (2.14%) TypeScript
9 14 (1.25%) Apex Code
10 9 (0.80%) Rust
11 6 (0.53%) C
11 6 (0.53%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.53%) Scala
12 5 (0.44%) Groovy
13 4 (0.36%) VBA
14 3 (0.27%) Pascal
14 3 (0.27%) Perl
14 3 (0.27%) Ruby
14 3 (0.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,124 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 238 (21.17%) Degree
3 201 (17.88%) DV Cleared
4 59 (5.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 52 (4.63%) CISSP
6 48 (4.27%) CTC Cleared
7 41 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
8 37 (3.29%) CISM
9 34 (3.02%) Microsoft Certification
10 20 (1.78%) AWS Certification
11 19 (1.69%) Azure Certification
12 14 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
12 14 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
13 13 (1.16%) CREST Certified
14 10 (0.89%) CRISC
14 10 (0.89%) HNC
14 10 (0.89%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 8 (0.71%) CCIE
15 8 (0.71%) Master's Degree
16 7 (0.62%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (7.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 55 (4.89%) SLA
3 54 (4.80%) NIST
4 45 (4.00%) Accessibility
5 44 (3.91%) QA
6 37 (3.29%) GDPR
7 28 (2.49%) NCSC
8 21 (1.87%) Data Quality
9 18 (1.60%) PCI DSS
10 17 (1.51%) GRC
10 17 (1.51%) WCAG
11 14 (1.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 13 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
13 12 (1.07%) Actionable Recommendations
14 10 (0.89%) JSP 440
15 8 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 7 (0.62%) Def Stans
16 7 (0.62%) Government Security Classifications
17 5 (0.44%) NEBOSH
18 4 (0.36%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 66 (5.87%) Docker
2 30 (2.67%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.98%) VMware NSX
5 8 (0.71%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.44%) Firmware
6 5 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.36%) vSphere
8 2 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.089%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.089%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.089%) IAG
9 1 (0.089%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.089%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.089%) Xen
Systems Management
1 85 (7.56%) Terraform
2 71 (6.32%) Kubernetes
3 41 (3.65%) Ansible
4 19 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (1.60%) Prometheus
6 17 (1.51%) Grafana
7 8 (0.71%) Argo
7 8 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.53%) Puppet
9 5 (0.44%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.44%) Endace
9 5 (0.44%) Packer
9 5 (0.44%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.36%) Istio
10 4 (0.36%) Kustomize
10 4 (0.36%) Nmap
10 4 (0.36%) SCCM
10 4 (0.36%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.27%) Kibana
11 3 (0.27%) Nagios
Vendors
1 168 (14.95%) Microsoft
2 83 (7.38%) Cisco
3 48 (4.27%) Google
4 32 (2.85%) Oracle
5 27 (2.40%) VMware
6 25 (2.22%) Salesforce
7 17 (1.51%) Adobe
7 17 (1.51%) Red Hat
8 16 (1.42%) MuleSoft
8 16 (1.42%) SAP
9 14 (1.25%) ServiceNow
10 12 (1.07%) CyberArk
11 9 (0.80%) Meraki
12 8 (0.71%) F5
13 7 (0.62%) Databricks
13 7 (0.62%) Juniper
13 7 (0.62%) Splunk
14 6 (0.53%) CheckPoint
15 4 (0.36%) BMC
15 4 (0.36%) Dell