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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 88 70
Rank change year-on-year +54 -18 -10
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 1,051 471 1,310
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.80% 3.50% 4.04%
As % of the Qualifications category 24.63% 11.45% 14.99%
Number of salaries quoted 807 375 964
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,875 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,921 £95,750 £88,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

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 4,267 4,113 8,738
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 23.54% 30.54% 26.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2,877 2,462 5,905
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,025 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £60,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £78,800 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,553 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £54,273
% change year-on-year +4.35% +5.95% -6.43%

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 29 April 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 27 (2.57%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (0.95%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.48%) Apache
5 5 (0.48%) ArcGIS
5 5 (0.48%) GeoServer
5 5 (0.48%) Oracle Spatial
6 3 (0.29%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.29%) Camunda
6 3 (0.29%) SAS
7 2 (0.19%) Confluence
8 1 (0.095%) Appian
8 1 (0.095%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.095%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 71 (6.76%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (2.47%) Adobe XD
3 9 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.48%) InVision
4 5 (0.48%) Sketch
5 2 (0.19%) Weka
6 1 (0.095%) CATIA
6 1 (0.095%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.095%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 8 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.19%) SAP HCM
4 2 (0.19%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.095%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.095%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.095%) SAP FSCM
5 1 (0.095%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.095%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.095%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 237 (22.55%) Azure
2 205 (19.51%) AWS
3 112 (10.66%) Microsoft 365
4 77 (7.33%) GCP
5 52 (4.95%) Entra ID
6 32 (3.04%) Power Platform
7 26 (2.47%) Figma
8 20 (1.90%) PowerApps
8 20 (1.90%) Serverless
9 19 (1.81%) Google Analytics
10 17 (1.62%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (1.62%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 17 (1.62%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 16 (1.52%) Azure Sentinel
11 16 (1.52%) Power Automate
12 14 (1.33%) Amazon S3
12 14 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
12 14 (1.33%) GitHub
12 14 (1.33%) SaaS
13 12 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (2.76%) Firewall
2 26 (2.47%) WAN
3 25 (2.38%) VPN
4 23 (2.19%) Network Security
5 18 (1.71%) LAN
6 17 (1.62%) DNS
7 16 (1.52%) BGP
8 13 (1.24%) DHCP
8 13 (1.24%) MPLS
9 12 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (0.86%) SMTP
10 9 (0.86%) TCP/IP
11 7 (0.67%) Intrusion Detection
11 7 (0.67%) SNMP
12 6 (0.57%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (0.57%) Cisco Firepower
12 6 (0.57%) HTTP
12 6 (0.57%) VoIP
13 5 (0.48%) SD-WAN
14 4 (0.38%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (3.04%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (2.76%) Power BI
3 17 (1.62%) Metadata
4 14 (1.33%) NoSQL
5 10 (0.95%) MongoDB
6 9 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (0.76%) DynamoDB
7 8 (0.76%) Redis
7 8 (0.76%) Relational Database
8 7 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (0.67%) SQL Server
9 6 (0.57%) BigQuery
9 6 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (0.48%) GIS
10 5 (0.48%) QGIS
11 4 (0.38%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (0.38%) MySQL
11 4 (0.38%) Tableau
12 3 (0.29%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 40 (3.81%) Git
2 23 (2.19%) Balsamiq
3 22 (2.09%) Axure RP
4 21 (2.00%) GitLab
5 19 (1.81%) Jenkins
6 11 (1.05%) JIRA
7 9 (0.86%) Selenium
8 5 (0.48%) Babel
8 5 (0.48%) Burp Suite
8 5 (0.48%) JUnit
8 5 (0.48%) Metasploit
8 5 (0.48%) webpack
9 4 (0.38%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.29%) JMeter
10 3 (0.29%) Maven
10 3 (0.29%) Postman
10 3 (0.29%) SoapUI
11 2 (0.19%) Mockito
11 2 (0.19%) MSTest
11 2 (0.19%) SpecFlow
General
1 323 (30.73%) Social Skills
2 284 (27.02%) Public Sector
3 159 (15.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 110 (10.47%) Finance
4 110 (10.47%) Law
5 101 (9.61%) Analytical Skills
6 63 (5.99%) Back Office
7 46 (4.38%) Telecoms
8 38 (3.62%) Legal
9 36 (3.43%) Manufacturing
10 31 (2.95%) Presentation Skills
11 21 (2.00%) Marketing
11 21 (2.00%) Retail
12 20 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
13 19 (1.81%) Aerospace
13 19 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
14 15 (1.43%) Electronics
15 11 (1.05%) Military
16 8 (0.76%) Aviation
16 8 (0.76%) Police
Job Titles
1 200 (19.03%) Senior
2 141 (13.42%) Architect
3 123 (11.70%) Consultant
4 89 (8.47%) Analyst
5 84 (7.99%) Developer
6 74 (7.04%) Support Engineer
7 69 (6.57%) Lead
8 60 (5.71%) Desktop Engineer
8 60 (5.71%) Desktop Support
8 60 (5.71%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 60 (5.71%) Site Engineer
8 60 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
9 55 (5.23%) Software Engineer
10 50 (4.76%) Business Analyst
11 40 (3.81%) Security Consultant
12 39 (3.71%) Cloud Engineer
12 39 (3.71%) Senior Manager
13 37 (3.52%) Data Engineer
14 33 (3.14%) Java Developer
15 32 (3.04%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (3.81%) .NET
2 39 (3.71%) REST
3 29 (2.76%) Spring
4 28 (2.66%) CSS
4 28 (2.66%) HTML
5 23 (2.19%) SOAP
6 21 (2.00%) Middleware
6 21 (2.00%) React
7 17 (1.62%) Lightning Web Components
7 17 (1.62%) Visualforce
8 16 (1.52%) Spring Boot
9 15 (1.43%) Kafka
10 11 (1.05%) ASP.NET
11 10 (0.95%) Django
11 10 (0.95%) SAP CAF
12 9 (0.86%) HTML5 Canvas
12 9 (0.86%) Node.js
12 9 (0.86%) SAML
13 8 (0.76%) AngularJS
13 8 (0.76%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 65 (6.18%) Product Ownership
2 53 (5.04%) Cloud Native
3 40 (3.81%) Data Centre
4 39 (3.71%) Management Information System
5 38 (3.62%) Onboarding
6 29 (2.76%) Security Posture
7 20 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (1.81%) PKI
9 15 (1.43%) Driving Licence
10 14 (1.33%) Blog
11 12 (1.14%) Security Operations Centre
12 11 (1.05%) Low-Code
13 9 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
14 8 (0.76%) AI Agents
14 8 (0.76%) Data Structures
15 7 (0.67%) Cyber Threat
16 6 (0.57%) Cyberattack
16 6 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
16 6 (0.57%) Hybrid Cloud
16 6 (0.57%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 116 (11.04%) Windows
2 65 (6.18%) Windows 10
3 62 (5.90%) Linux
4 21 (2.00%) Windows Server
5 18 (1.71%) Unix
6 9 (0.86%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.29%) CentOS
8 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.19%) Android
10 1 (0.095%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.095%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.095%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (21.03%) Agile
2 174 (16.56%) Continuous Improvement
3 173 (16.46%) Cybersecurity
4 128 (12.18%) Analytics
5 118 (11.23%) DevOps
6 116 (11.04%) Community of Practice
7 114 (10.85%) ITIL
7 114 (10.85%) Mentoring
8 108 (10.28%) Technology Strategy
9 103 (9.80%) Problem-Solving
10 94 (8.94%) CI/CD
11 88 (8.37%) Software Engineering
12 79 (7.52%) Stakeholder Management
13 72 (6.85%) Customer Service
14 70 (6.66%) Infrastructure as Code
14 70 (6.66%) Risk Management
14 70 (6.66%) User Experience
15 65 (6.18%) Collaborative Culture
15 65 (6.18%) Patch Management
16 63 (5.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 102 (9.71%) Java
2 101 (9.61%) Python
3 65 (6.18%) JavaScript
4 47 (4.47%) SQL
5 36 (3.43%) C#
6 24 (2.28%) PowerShell
6 24 (2.28%) TypeScript
7 19 (1.81%) C++
8 17 (1.62%) Apex Code
9 13 (1.24%) Bash
10 9 (0.86%) Rust
11 6 (0.57%) C
11 6 (0.57%) Scala
11 6 (0.57%) VBA
12 5 (0.48%) Go
13 3 (0.29%) Google Apps Script
13 3 (0.29%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.29%) Pascal
13 3 (0.29%) Perl
13 3 (0.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,051 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 264 (25.12%) Degree
3 168 (15.98%) DV Cleared
4 60 (5.71%) CTC Cleared
5 53 (5.04%) CISSP
6 45 (4.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 45 (4.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 40 (3.81%) CISM
8 39 (3.71%) Microsoft Certification
9 22 (2.09%) Azure Certification
10 19 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (1.71%) AWS Certification
12 14 (1.33%) CREST Certified
13 13 (1.24%) TOGAF Certification
14 11 (1.05%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 10 (0.95%) HNC
15 10 (0.95%) Master's Degree
16 9 (0.86%) CCIE
16 9 (0.86%) CCNA
16 9 (0.86%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (6.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 64 (6.09%) SLA
3 49 (4.66%) NIST
4 48 (4.57%) Accessibility
5 36 (3.43%) GDPR
6 29 (2.76%) QA
7 24 (2.28%) WCAG
8 23 (2.19%) GRC
9 16 (1.52%) NCSC
10 15 (1.43%) Data Quality
11 14 (1.33%) PCI DSS
12 12 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
13 11 (1.05%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 9 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 8 (0.76%) JSP 440
16 7 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
16 7 (0.67%) Government Security Classifications
17 6 (0.57%) NEBOSH
18 4 (0.38%) PMO
19 3 (0.29%) HIPAA
System Software
1 57 (5.42%) Docker
2 30 (2.85%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.05%) VMware NSX
5 8 (0.76%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.48%) Firmware
6 5 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.38%) vSphere
8 2 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.095%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.095%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.095%) IAG
9 1 (0.095%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.095%) Xen
Systems Management
1 73 (6.95%) Terraform
2 60 (5.71%) Kubernetes
3 41 (3.90%) Ansible
4 18 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (1.62%) Prometheus
6 16 (1.52%) Grafana
7 6 (0.57%) Argo
7 6 (0.57%) Endace
7 6 (0.57%) Puppet
8 5 (0.48%) AWS Copilot
8 5 (0.48%) Nmap
8 5 (0.48%) Packer
9 4 (0.38%) Istio
9 4 (0.38%) Kustomize
9 4 (0.38%) SCCM
9 4 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.38%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.38%) WSUS
10 3 (0.29%) Kibana
10 3 (0.29%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 160 (15.22%) Microsoft
2 100 (9.51%) Cisco
3 52 (4.95%) Google
4 31 (2.95%) Salesforce
5 27 (2.57%) VMware
6 26 (2.47%) Adobe
6 26 (2.47%) Oracle
6 26 (2.47%) SAP
7 20 (1.90%) Red Hat
8 17 (1.62%) MuleSoft
9 11 (1.05%) CyberArk
10 10 (0.95%) Splunk
11 9 (0.86%) Juniper
11 9 (0.86%) Meraki
12 8 (0.76%) Databricks
12 8 (0.76%) F5
12 8 (0.76%) ServiceNow
13 6 (0.57%) CheckPoint
14 5 (0.48%) ESRI
14 5 (0.48%) Remedy