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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 110 71
Rank change year-on-year +77 -39 -11
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 1,078 497 1,283
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.79% 3.35% 3.95%
As % of the Qualifications category 25.37% 10.47% 14.59%
Number of salaries quoted 822 365 945
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £40,300
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,000 £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 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,921 £96,250 £88,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -7.26%

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 4,249 4,746 8,794
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 22.83% 32.04% 27.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,873 2,411 5,891
10th Percentile £32,750 £27,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £48,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £56,650
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +5.91% -5.58%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,048
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.76% -9.20%

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 16 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 27 (2.50%) SharePoint
2 14 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (0.83%) Apache
4 9 (0.83%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.37%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.37%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.37%) Oracle Spatial
6 3 (0.28%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.28%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.28%) SAS
7 2 (0.19%) Camunda
7 2 (0.19%) Confluence
8 1 (0.093%) Appian
8 1 (0.093%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.093%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.093%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 61 (5.66%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (1.86%) Adobe XD
3 9 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.46%) InVision
4 5 (0.46%) Sketch
5 3 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.19%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.19%) Weka
6 2 (0.19%) Windchill
7 1 (0.093%) CATIA
7 1 (0.093%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 7 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.093%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.093%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.093%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.093%) SAP FSCM
3 1 (0.093%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.093%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.093%) SAP QM
3 1 (0.093%) SAP SCM
3 1 (0.093%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 255 (23.65%) Azure
2 221 (20.50%) AWS
3 99 (9.18%) Microsoft 365
4 75 (6.96%) GCP
5 53 (4.92%) Entra ID
6 33 (3.06%) Power Platform
7 20 (1.86%) Figma
8 19 (1.76%) Google Analytics
8 19 (1.76%) Serverless
9 17 (1.58%) GitHub
10 16 (1.48%) Azure Sentinel
11 15 (1.39%) Amazon S3
11 15 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
11 15 (1.39%) PowerApps
11 15 (1.39%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 15 (1.39%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 14 (1.30%) AWS CloudFormation
12 14 (1.30%) SaaS
13 13 (1.21%) Power Automate
14 12 (1.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (2.69%) Firewall
2 25 (2.32%) Network Security
2 25 (2.32%) VPN
2 25 (2.32%) WAN
3 18 (1.67%) LAN
4 17 (1.58%) DNS
5 16 (1.48%) BGP
6 13 (1.21%) DHCP
7 12 (1.11%) MPLS
7 12 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (0.83%) SMTP
8 9 (0.83%) TCP/IP
9 7 (0.65%) Intrusion Detection
9 7 (0.65%) SNMP
10 6 (0.56%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (0.56%) Cisco Firepower
10 6 (0.56%) VoIP
11 5 (0.46%) HTTP
12 4 (0.37%) MQTT
12 4 (0.37%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (2.60%) Power BI
3 17 (1.58%) Metadata
4 12 (1.11%) NoSQL
5 10 (0.93%) DynamoDB
6 9 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (0.83%) MongoDB
6 9 (0.83%) Redis
7 7 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
7 7 (0.65%) Relational Database
8 6 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (0.56%) BigQuery
8 6 (0.56%) SQL Server
9 5 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.37%) Big Data
10 4 (0.37%) GIS
10 4 (0.37%) QGIS
11 3 (0.28%) Flink
11 3 (0.28%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 44 (4.08%) Git
2 23 (2.13%) GitLab
3 21 (1.95%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.48%) Axure RP
5 15 (1.39%) Balsamiq
6 12 (1.11%) Selenium
7 9 (0.83%) JIRA
8 8 (0.74%) JUnit
9 6 (0.56%) Maven
10 5 (0.46%) Mockito
11 4 (0.37%) Babel
11 4 (0.37%) Burp Suite
11 4 (0.37%) JMeter
11 4 (0.37%) Metasploit
11 4 (0.37%) webpack
12 3 (0.28%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.28%) Postman
12 3 (0.28%) SoapUI
12 3 (0.28%) SonarQube
13 2 (0.19%) SpecFlow
General
1 301 (27.92%) Social Skills
2 292 (27.09%) Public Sector
3 162 (15.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 104 (9.65%) Finance
5 102 (9.46%) Law
6 96 (8.91%) Analytical Skills
7 53 (4.92%) Back Office
8 39 (3.62%) Legal
9 38 (3.53%) Telecoms
10 35 (3.25%) Presentation Skills
11 29 (2.69%) Manufacturing
12 22 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
13 20 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
14 19 (1.76%) Aerospace
14 19 (1.76%) Retail
15 14 (1.30%) Marketing
16 11 (1.02%) Military
17 9 (0.83%) Aviation
18 7 (0.65%) Automotive
18 7 (0.65%) Police
Job Titles
1 211 (19.57%) Senior
2 154 (14.29%) Architect
3 118 (10.95%) Consultant
4 95 (8.81%) Developer
5 89 (8.26%) Analyst
6 75 (6.96%) Lead
7 71 (6.59%) Solutions Architect
8 66 (6.12%) Software Engineer
9 64 (5.94%) Support Engineer
10 52 (4.82%) Site Engineer
11 50 (4.64%) Desktop Engineer
11 50 (4.64%) Desktop Support
11 50 (4.64%) Desktop Support Engineer
12 46 (4.27%) Business Analyst
13 42 (3.90%) Cloud Engineer
14 38 (3.53%) Security Consultant
14 38 (3.53%) Senior Manager
15 37 (3.43%) Java Developer
16 36 (3.34%) Data Engineer
17 35 (3.25%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (3.80%) REST
2 35 (3.25%) .NET
3 31 (2.88%) Spring
4 24 (2.23%) React
5 21 (1.95%) CSS
5 21 (1.95%) HTML
5 21 (1.95%) SOAP
6 18 (1.67%) Middleware
7 16 (1.48%) Spring Boot
8 15 (1.39%) Lightning Web Components
8 15 (1.39%) Visualforce
9 12 (1.11%) Kafka
10 11 (1.02%) Playwright
11 10 (0.93%) ASP.NET
11 10 (0.93%) Django
12 9 (0.83%) HTML5 Canvas
12 9 (0.83%) RESTful
12 9 (0.83%) SAML
13 7 (0.65%) JSON
13 7 (0.65%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 60 (5.57%) Product Ownership
2 57 (5.29%) Cloud Native
3 42 (3.90%) Onboarding
4 38 (3.53%) Data Centre
4 38 (3.53%) Management Information System
5 30 (2.78%) Security Posture
6 19 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (1.76%) PKI
7 14 (1.30%) Blog
7 14 (1.30%) Driving Licence
8 12 (1.11%) Security Operations Centre
9 11 (1.02%) Low-Code
10 8 (0.74%) AI Agents
10 8 (0.74%) Data Structures
11 7 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (0.56%) Cyber Threat
12 6 (0.56%) Cyberattack
12 6 (0.56%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 108 (10.02%) Windows
2 66 (6.12%) Linux
3 55 (5.10%) Windows 10
4 22 (2.04%) Windows Server
5 18 (1.67%) Unix
6 7 (0.65%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.19%) Android
9 2 (0.19%) CentOS
10 1 (0.093%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.093%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.093%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (21.52%) Agile
2 172 (15.96%) Continuous Improvement
3 164 (15.21%) Cybersecurity
4 127 (11.78%) DevOps
5 121 (11.22%) Mentoring
6 113 (10.48%) Community of Practice
7 112 (10.39%) Analytics
8 108 (10.02%) ITIL
9 107 (9.93%) CI/CD
10 105 (9.74%) Problem-Solving
10 105 (9.74%) Technology Strategy
11 99 (9.18%) Software Engineering
12 82 (7.61%) Stakeholder Management
13 75 (6.96%) Infrastructure as Code
13 75 (6.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 67 (6.22%) Collaborative Culture
15 65 (6.03%) Scrum
16 64 (5.94%) Risk Management
17 62 (5.75%) Customer Service
18 61 (5.66%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 106 (9.83%) Java
2 101 (9.37%) Python
3 68 (6.31%) JavaScript
4 55 (5.10%) SQL
5 32 (2.97%) C#
6 24 (2.23%) TypeScript
7 23 (2.13%) PowerShell
8 22 (2.04%) C++
9 17 (1.58%) Bash
10 15 (1.39%) Apex Code
11 9 (0.83%) Rust
12 6 (0.56%) C
12 6 (0.56%) Scala
13 4 (0.37%) Groovy
13 4 (0.37%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.37%) VBA
14 3 (0.28%) Google Apps Script
14 3 (0.28%) Pascal
14 3 (0.28%) Perl
14 3 (0.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,078 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 238 (22.08%) Degree
3 188 (17.44%) DV Cleared
4 52 (4.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 50 (4.64%) CTC Cleared
6 47 (4.36%) CISSP
7 42 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 38 (3.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 36 (3.34%) CISM
10 23 (2.13%) Azure Certification
11 18 (1.67%) AWS Certification
12 15 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
13 14 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
14 12 (1.11%) CREST Certified
15 10 (0.93%) HNC
16 8 (0.74%) CCIE
16 8 (0.74%) CCNA
16 8 (0.74%) CRISC
16 8 (0.74%) Master's Degree
17 7 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (6.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 55 (5.10%) SLA
3 47 (4.36%) NIST
4 44 (4.08%) Accessibility
5 39 (3.62%) QA
6 33 (3.06%) GDPR
7 20 (1.86%) NCSC
8 18 (1.67%) WCAG
9 17 (1.58%) GRC
10 16 (1.48%) Data Quality
11 14 (1.30%) PCI DSS
12 13 (1.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 12 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
14 8 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 8 (0.74%) JSP 440
15 7 (0.65%) Government Security Classifications
16 5 (0.46%) NEBOSH
17 4 (0.37%) Def Stans
18 3 (0.28%) PMO
System Software
1 53 (4.92%) Docker
2 30 (2.78%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.02%) VMware NSX
5 8 (0.74%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.46%) Firmware
6 5 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.37%) vSphere
8 2 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.093%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.093%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.093%) IAG
9 1 (0.093%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.093%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.093%) Xen
Systems Management
1 77 (7.14%) Terraform
2 60 (5.57%) Kubernetes
3 42 (3.90%) Ansible
4 18 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (1.30%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.21%) Grafana
7 6 (0.56%) Endace
7 6 (0.56%) Puppet
8 5 (0.46%) AWS Copilot
8 5 (0.46%) Packer
9 4 (0.37%) Argo
9 4 (0.37%) Istio
9 4 (0.37%) Kustomize
9 4 (0.37%) Nmap
9 4 (0.37%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.37%) SCCM
9 4 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.37%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.37%) WSUS
10 3 (0.28%) Nessus
Vendors
1 163 (15.12%) Microsoft
2 87 (8.07%) Cisco
3 48 (4.45%) Google
4 29 (2.69%) Oracle
5 27 (2.50%) VMware
6 24 (2.23%) Salesforce
7 20 (1.86%) Adobe
8 18 (1.67%) SAP
9 17 (1.58%) Red Hat
10 15 (1.39%) MuleSoft
11 12 (1.11%) CyberArk
12 9 (0.83%) Meraki
13 8 (0.74%) Databricks
13 8 (0.74%) F5
13 8 (0.74%) Juniper
13 8 (0.74%) ServiceNow
14 7 (0.65%) Splunk
15 6 (0.56%) CheckPoint
16 5 (0.46%) Remedy
17 4 (0.37%) BMC