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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 111 70
Rank change year-on-year +78 -41 -9
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 1,120 489 1,309
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.88% 3.37% 3.98%
As % of the Qualifications category 26.13% 10.00% 14.79%
Number of salaries quoted 857 342 963
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £40,150
25th Percentile £54,750 £52,125 £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 4,287 4,891 8,853
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 22.50% 33.69% 26.93%
Number of salaries quoted 2,913 2,239 5,892
10th Percentile £33,270 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,930 £42,500 £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 £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 27 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 (2.50%) SharePoint
2 15 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.98%) Apache
5 10 (0.89%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.45%) 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 (5.18%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (1.61%) Adobe XD
3 11 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.45%) InVision
5 5 (0.45%) 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 (0.54%) 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
1 273 (24.38%) Azure
2 243 (21.70%) AWS
3 98 (8.75%) Microsoft 365
4 80 (7.14%) GCP
5 53 (4.73%) Entra ID
6 36 (3.21%) Power Platform
7 20 (1.79%) Google Analytics
7 20 (1.79%) Serverless
8 19 (1.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 19 (1.70%) GitHub
9 18 (1.61%) Figma
10 17 (1.52%) Amazon S3
10 17 (1.52%) SaaS
11 16 (1.43%) Azure Sentinel
12 14 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
12 14 (1.25%) PaaS
12 14 (1.25%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 14 (1.25%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 13 (1.16%) PowerApps
14 12 (1.07%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 30 (2.68%) Network Security
2 26 (2.32%) Firewall
3 24 (2.14%) VPN
3 24 (2.14%) WAN
4 17 (1.52%) DNS
4 17 (1.52%) LAN
5 16 (1.43%) BGP
6 13 (1.16%) DHCP
7 12 (1.07%) MPLS
7 12 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (0.98%) TCP/IP
9 9 (0.80%) SMTP
10 7 (0.63%) Intrusion Detection
10 7 (0.63%) SNMP
11 6 (0.54%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (0.54%) Cisco Firepower
11 6 (0.54%) VoIP
12 5 (0.45%) HTTP
13 4 (0.36%) MQTT
13 4 (0.36%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (3.04%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (2.59%) Power BI
3 17 (1.52%) Metadata
4 13 (1.16%) NoSQL
5 11 (0.98%) DynamoDB
5 11 (0.98%) Redis
6 10 (0.89%) MongoDB
7 9 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
7 9 (0.80%) Big Data
7 9 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.54%) BigQuery
9 6 (0.54%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.54%) SQL Server
10 5 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.36%) GIS
11 4 (0.36%) QGIS
12 3 (0.27%) Flink
12 3 (0.27%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 45 (4.02%) Git
2 29 (2.59%) GitLab
3 24 (2.14%) Jenkins
4 14 (1.25%) Axure RP
5 13 (1.16%) Balsamiq
6 11 (0.98%) JUnit
6 11 (0.98%) Selenium
7 9 (0.80%) JIRA
8 8 (0.71%) Maven
9 7 (0.63%) Mockito
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%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.27%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.27%) Postman
11 3 (0.27%) SoapUI
11 3 (0.27%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.27%) webpack
General
1 308 (27.50%) Public Sector
2 305 (27.23%) Social Skills
3 163 (14.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 106 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
5 105 (9.38%) Law
6 102 (9.11%) Finance
7 51 (4.55%) Back Office
8 40 (3.57%) Legal
9 34 (3.04%) Presentation Skills
9 34 (3.04%) Telecoms
10 24 (2.14%) Manufacturing
11 21 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
12 20 (1.79%) Aerospace
12 20 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
13 19 (1.70%) Retail
14 11 (0.98%) Aviation
14 11 (0.98%) Military
15 10 (0.89%) Marketing
16 8 (0.71%) Police
17 7 (0.63%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 218 (19.46%) Senior
2 166 (14.82%) Architect
3 118 (10.54%) Consultant
4 101 (9.02%) Developer
5 91 (8.13%) Analyst
6 81 (7.23%) Lead
7 78 (6.96%) Solutions Architect
8 71 (6.34%) Software Engineer
9 62 (5.54%) Support Engineer
10 52 (4.64%) Site Engineer
11 48 (4.29%) Desktop Engineer
11 48 (4.29%) Desktop Support
11 48 (4.29%) Desktop Support Engineer
12 47 (4.20%) Cloud Engineer
13 46 (4.11%) Business Analyst
14 43 (3.84%) Data Engineer
15 42 (3.75%) Security Consultant
16 40 (3.57%) Java Developer
16 40 (3.57%) Senior Manager
17 36 (3.21%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (3.75%) REST
2 36 (3.21%) Spring
3 35 (3.13%) .NET
4 26 (2.32%) React
5 20 (1.79%) SOAP
6 19 (1.70%) CSS
6 19 (1.70%) HTML
7 18 (1.61%) Spring Boot
8 17 (1.52%) Middleware
9 14 (1.25%) Lightning Web Components
9 14 (1.25%) Visualforce
10 12 (1.07%) Playwright
11 11 (0.98%) Kafka
11 11 (0.98%) RESTful
12 10 (0.89%) Django
13 9 (0.80%) ASP.NET
13 9 (0.80%) SAML
14 8 (0.71%) HTML5 Canvas
14 8 (0.71%) YAML
15 7 (0.63%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 63 (5.63%) Cloud Native
2 59 (5.27%) Product Ownership
3 42 (3.75%) Onboarding
4 37 (3.30%) Management Information System
5 36 (3.21%) Data Centre
6 32 (2.86%) Security Posture
7 21 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (1.70%) PKI
9 15 (1.34%) 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
14 8 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
15 7 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
15 7 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
16 6 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
16 6 (0.54%) Greenfield Project
16 6 (0.54%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 103 (9.20%) Windows
2 68 (6.07%) Linux
3 53 (4.73%) Windows 10
4 20 (1.79%) Windows Server
5 19 (1.70%) Unix
6 6 (0.54%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.45%) 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
1 249 (22.23%) Agile
2 185 (16.52%) Continuous Improvement
3 170 (15.18%) Cybersecurity
4 134 (11.96%) DevOps
5 129 (11.52%) Mentoring
6 123 (10.98%) CI/CD
7 119 (10.63%) Analytics
8 118 (10.54%) Problem-Solving
9 113 (10.09%) Community of Practice
10 110 (9.82%) ITIL
11 109 (9.73%) Software Engineering
12 105 (9.38%) Technology Strategy
13 89 (7.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 88 (7.86%) Stakeholder Management
15 87 (7.77%) Infrastructure as Code
16 73 (6.52%) Collaborative Culture
17 70 (6.25%) Scrum
18 66 (5.89%) Risk Management
19 63 (5.63%) Technical Leadership
20 61 (5.45%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 115 (10.27%) Python
2 114 (10.18%) Java
3 73 (6.52%) JavaScript
4 64 (5.71%) SQL
5 32 (2.86%) C#
6 28 (2.50%) PowerShell
7 26 (2.32%) Bash
7 26 (2.32%) C++
8 24 (2.14%) TypeScript
9 14 (1.25%) Apex Code
10 9 (0.80%) Rust
11 6 (0.54%) C
11 6 (0.54%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.54%) Scala
12 5 (0.45%) 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 1,120 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 238 (21.25%) Degree
3 201 (17.95%) DV Cleared
4 58 (5.18%) BPSS Clearance
5 51 (4.55%) CISSP
6 48 (4.29%) CTC Cleared
7 41 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (3.21%) CISM
9 34 (3.04%) Microsoft Certification
10 20 (1.79%) AWS Certification
11 19 (1.70%) Azure Certification
12 14 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
12 14 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
13 12 (1.07%) 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 (0.63%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (6.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 54 (4.82%) SLA
3 53 (4.73%) NIST
4 44 (3.93%) Accessibility
4 44 (3.93%) QA
5 37 (3.30%) GDPR
6 27 (2.41%) NCSC
7 20 (1.79%) Data Quality
8 18 (1.61%) PCI DSS
9 16 (1.43%) GRC
9 16 (1.43%) WCAG
10 14 (1.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 12 (1.07%) Actionable Recommendations
11 12 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
12 10 (0.89%) JSP 440
13 8 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 7 (0.63%) Def Stans
14 7 (0.63%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.45%) NEBOSH
16 4 (0.36%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 64 (5.71%) Docker
2 30 (2.68%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.98%) VMware NSX
5 8 (0.71%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.45%) Firmware
6 5 (0.45%) 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 (7.59%) Terraform
2 69 (6.16%) Kubernetes
3 41 (3.66%) Ansible
4 18 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
4 18 (1.61%) Prometheus
5 17 (1.52%) Grafana
6 8 (0.71%) Argo
6 8 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.54%) Puppet
8 5 (0.45%) AWS Copilot
8 5 (0.45%) Endace
8 5 (0.45%) Packer
8 5 (0.45%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.36%) Istio
9 4 (0.36%) Kustomize
9 4 (0.36%) Nmap
9 4 (0.36%) SCCM
9 4 (0.36%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.27%) Check_MK
10 3 (0.27%) Nagios
Vendors
1 168 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 83 (7.41%) Cisco
3 49 (4.38%) Google
4 32 (2.86%) Oracle
5 27 (2.41%) VMware
6 25 (2.23%) Salesforce
7 18 (1.61%) Adobe
8 17 (1.52%) Red Hat
9 16 (1.43%) MuleSoft
9 16 (1.43%) SAP
10 13 (1.16%) ServiceNow
11 12 (1.07%) CyberArk
12 9 (0.80%) Meraki
13 8 (0.71%) F5
14 7 (0.63%) Databricks
14 7 (0.63%) Juniper
14 7 (0.63%) Splunk
15 6 (0.54%) CheckPoint
16 4 (0.36%) BMC
16 4 (0.36%) Dell