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 19 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 50 41
Rank change year-on-year +2 -9 +44
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 766 1,040 1,367
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.01% 5.31% 6.37%
As % of the Qualifications category 14.16% 20.25% 22.61%
Number of salaries quoted 484 649 1,096
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,150 £40,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £86,114
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +2.32%

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 5,411 5,135 6,045
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.42% 26.21% 28.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,463 2,519 4,438
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £35,249
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,900 £87,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% +1.77%

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 19 November 2025.

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 (3.52%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.57%) Confluence
3 9 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.78%) Appian
5 4 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.39%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.39%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.39%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.39%) WebLogic Portal
7 2 (0.26%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.26%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.26%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.13%) Camunda
8 1 (0.13%) IIS
Applications
1 26 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (2.74%) Adobe XD
3 16 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.39%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.39%) Simulink
6 2 (0.26%) Revit
7 1 (0.13%) EPLAN
7 1 (0.13%) Navisworks
Business Applications
1 32 (4.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 17 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.52%) Primavera
4 3 (0.39%) SAP PM
5 2 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.26%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.13%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.13%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.13%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.13%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.13%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.13%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 184 (24.02%) Azure
2 153 (19.97%) AWS
3 73 (9.53%) Microsoft 365
4 43 (5.61%) Power Platform
5 37 (4.83%) Entra ID
5 37 (4.83%) GCP
6 34 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
7 29 (3.79%) PowerApps
8 28 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (3.39%) Serverless
10 25 (3.26%) Power Automate
11 24 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
11 24 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
11 24 (3.13%) GitHub
12 23 (3.00%) Amazon EKS
12 23 (3.00%) Figma
13 21 (2.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 19 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
14 19 (2.48%) GitHub Actions
15 17 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 33 (4.31%) Firewall
2 29 (3.79%) VPN
3 26 (3.39%) Wireless
4 23 (3.00%) Software-Defined Radio
5 22 (2.87%) LAN
6 19 (2.48%) WAN
7 16 (2.09%) Wi-Fi
8 15 (1.96%) TCP/IP
9 13 (1.70%) Junos
10 10 (1.31%) DNS
10 10 (1.31%) Ethernet
11 9 (1.17%) Network Security
12 8 (1.04%) SD-WAN
13 7 (0.91%) BGP
14 6 (0.78%) IPsec
14 6 (0.78%) MPLS
15 5 (0.65%) Wireshark
16 4 (0.52%) Cisco IOS
16 4 (0.52%) Modbus
16 4 (0.52%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (4.18%) Power BI
3 16 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (1.83%) MongoDB
4 14 (1.83%) NoSQL
5 11 (1.44%) Relational Database
5 11 (1.44%) SQL Server
6 10 (1.31%) MySQL
7 9 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (1.04%) Redis
9 6 (0.78%) Metadata
10 5 (0.65%) Big Data
11 4 (0.52%) SAP HANA
12 3 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.39%) Neo4j
12 3 (0.39%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.39%) Oracle Discoverer
12 3 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
12 3 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (3.79%) Git
2 24 (3.13%) Balsamiq
3 21 (2.74%) Axure RP
3 21 (2.74%) Jenkins
4 19 (2.48%) JIRA
5 11 (1.44%) Cypress.io
6 10 (1.31%) GitLab
6 10 (1.31%) Selenium
7 7 (0.91%) TeamCity
7 7 (0.91%) WebDriver
8 6 (0.78%) Babel
8 6 (0.78%) webpack
9 4 (0.52%) MLflow
10 3 (0.39%) Burp Suite
10 3 (0.39%) Metasploit
10 3 (0.39%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
10 3 (0.39%) Rational Rhapsody
11 2 (0.26%) ER Studio
11 2 (0.26%) SonarQube
General
1 228 (29.77%) Social Skills
2 208 (27.15%) Finance
3 188 (24.54%) Public Sector
4 132 (17.23%) Analytical Skills
5 83 (10.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 82 (10.70%) Law
7 50 (6.53%) Manufacturing
8 41 (5.35%) Electronics
9 39 (5.09%) Marketing
10 37 (4.83%) Telecoms
11 21 (2.74%) Back Office
12 19 (2.48%) Aerospace
13 17 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
14 13 (1.70%) Military
15 11 (1.44%) Retail
16 10 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
17 7 (0.91%) Aviation
18 6 (0.78%) Legal
19 5 (0.65%) Advertising
19 5 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 116 (15.14%) Senior
2 89 (11.62%) Developer
3 83 (10.84%) Architect
3 83 (10.84%) Consultant
4 75 (9.79%) Systems Engineer
5 48 (6.27%) Administrator
5 48 (6.27%) Analyst
6 40 (5.22%) Lead
6 40 (5.22%) Software Engineer
6 40 (5.22%) Systems Administrator
7 31 (4.05%) Designer
7 31 (4.05%) Senior Developer
8 28 (3.66%) Security Consultant
9 23 (3.00%) Embedded Engineer
9 23 (3.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 21 (2.74%) Cloud Engineer
11 20 (2.61%) Desktop Support
12 19 (2.48%) Support Engineer
13 18 (2.35%) Solutions Architect
13 18 (2.35%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (5.74%) React
2 29 (3.79%) Node.js
3 24 (3.13%) HTML
4 23 (3.00%) .NET
4 23 (3.00%) CSS
5 20 (2.61%) SAP CAF
6 18 (2.35%) Spring
7 17 (2.22%) Django
8 16 (2.09%) Spring Boot
9 15 (1.96%) HTML5 Canvas
10 12 (1.57%) AngularJS
11 11 (1.44%) REST
12 9 (1.17%) Kafka
12 9 (1.17%) SAP Fiori
13 8 (1.04%) Middleware
13 8 (1.04%) RESTful
13 8 (1.04%) SOAP
14 7 (0.91%) .NET Core
14 7 (0.91%) Playwright
14 7 (0.91%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 133 (17.36%) e-Learning
2 50 (6.53%) Cloud Native
3 45 (5.87%) Data Centre
4 34 (4.44%) Product Ownership
5 24 (3.13%) Management Information System
6 23 (3.00%) Embedded Systems
6 23 (3.00%) MicroBlaze
6 23 (3.00%) RISC-V
7 22 (2.87%) Hybrid Cloud
8 21 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
9 19 (2.48%) Onboarding
10 17 (2.22%) Algorithms
11 13 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (1.70%) Security Posture
12 11 (1.44%) Driving Licence
13 10 (1.31%) PKI
14 9 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
15 8 (1.04%) Private Cloud
15 8 (1.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
15 8 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 121 (15.80%) Linux
2 63 (8.22%) Windows
3 45 (5.87%) Unix
4 23 (3.00%) Embedded Linux
5 22 (2.87%) Windows 10
6 14 (1.83%) Windows Server
7 8 (1.04%) Rocky
7 8 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (0.78%) CentOS
8 6 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.52%) Android
9 4 (0.52%) HPUX
9 4 (0.52%) Oracle Linux
9 4 (0.52%) Solaris
9 4 (0.52%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.39%) VMS
11 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (26.63%) Agile
2 157 (20.50%) Innovative Thinking
3 151 (19.71%) Problem-Solving
4 109 (14.23%) Continuous Improvement
5 107 (13.97%) Software Engineering
6 104 (13.58%) DevOps
7 96 (12.53%) Cybersecurity
8 95 (12.40%) CI/CD
9 78 (10.18%) Analytics
10 74 (9.66%) Computer Science
11 72 (9.40%) Business Intelligence
12 68 (8.88%) Community of Practice
13 63 (8.22%) Technology Strategy
14 57 (7.44%) Infrastructure as Code
14 57 (7.44%) Mentoring
15 56 (7.31%) AI
15 56 (7.31%) Collaborative Culture
15 56 (7.31%) High Availability
16 54 (7.05%) User Experience
17 53 (6.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 110 (14.36%) Python
2 80 (10.44%) JavaScript
3 69 (9.01%) Java
4 40 (5.22%) SQL
5 39 (5.09%) C#
6 37 (4.83%) C
7 36 (4.70%) C++
8 32 (4.18%) PowerShell
9 29 (3.79%) TypeScript
10 22 (2.87%) Bash
11 21 (2.74%) Bicep
12 11 (1.44%) Go
13 10 (1.31%) MATLAB
14 8 (1.04%) Kotlin
15 7 (0.91%) VBA
16 6 (0.78%) Apex Code
17 5 (0.65%) R
17 5 (0.65%) Scala
18 4 (0.52%) PL/SQL
18 4 (0.52%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 766 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 248 (32.38%) Degree
3 138 (18.02%) DV Cleared
4 74 (9.66%) Cisco Certification
5 59 (7.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 58 (7.57%) CCNP
7 53 (6.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 49 (6.40%) CISSP
9 44 (5.74%) CISM
10 42 (5.48%) CCNA
11 39 (5.09%) Azure Certification
12 35 (4.57%) AWS Certification
13 33 (4.31%) Microsoft Certification
14 25 (3.26%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 20 (2.61%) CTC Cleared
16 17 (2.22%) Master's Degree
17 15 (1.96%) RHCSA
18 11 (1.44%) CompTIA Security+
19 9 (1.17%) JNCIA
19 9 (1.17%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (7.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 48 (6.27%) NIST
3 44 (5.74%) Accessibility
4 30 (3.92%) GRC
4 30 (3.92%) QA
5 25 (3.26%) GDPR
6 24 (3.13%) SLA
7 23 (3.00%) WCAG
8 8 (1.04%) NCSC
9 7 (0.91%) JSP 440
10 6 (0.78%) Data Quality
11 5 (0.65%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.52%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.39%) ISO 14001
13 3 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 3 (0.39%) NEBOSH
13 3 (0.39%) PCI DSS
14 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.26%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 40 (5.22%) Docker
2 32 (4.18%) Active Directory
3 30 (3.92%) Firmware
4 23 (3.00%) Embedded Firmware
5 18 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
6 17 (2.22%) Hyper-V
7 12 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.91%) vSphere
9 3 (0.39%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.26%) IAG
10 2 (0.26%) pfSense
11 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 60 (7.83%) Kubernetes
2 58 (7.57%) Terraform
3 30 (3.92%) Ansible
4 23 (3.00%) Grafana
5 7 (0.91%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.78%) SCOM
7 5 (0.65%) Kibana
8 3 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.39%) Argo
8 3 (0.39%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.39%) Nagios
8 3 (0.39%) Nmap
8 3 (0.39%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (0.26%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 2 (0.26%) Endace
9 2 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.26%) SCCM
9 2 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.26%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 115 (15.01%) Microsoft
2 94 (12.27%) Cisco
3 52 (6.79%) SAP
4 35 (4.57%) Google
5 32 (4.18%) Sparx
6 29 (3.79%) VMware
7 27 (3.52%) Salesforce
8 21 (2.74%) Adobe
9 20 (2.61%) Red Hat
10 17 (2.22%) Juniper
10 17 (2.22%) Oracle
11 10 (1.31%) Dell
12 9 (1.17%) ServiceNow
13 7 (0.91%) Splunk
14 6 (0.78%) Fortinet
14 6 (0.78%) MuleSoft
15 5 (0.65%) CheckPoint
15 5 (0.65%) Databricks
15 5 (0.65%) F5
16 4 (0.52%) Samsung