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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 104 70
Rank change year-on-year +71 -34 -9
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 1,074 462 1,300
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.85% 3.24% 3.99%
As % of the Qualifications category 25.05% 10.61% 14.83%
Number of salaries quoted 820 366 956
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,314 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% +7.19% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,188 £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% -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 4,287 4,354 8,766
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 23.35% 30.56% 26.93%
Number of salaries quoted 2,898 2,471 5,917
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,750 £60,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.92% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £71,622 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,125 £54,399
% change year-on-year +6.90% +3.17% -7.80%

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 7 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 (2.51%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (1.02%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.65%) Apache
6 5 (0.47%) ArcGIS
6 5 (0.47%) GeoServer
6 5 (0.47%) Oracle Spatial
7 3 (0.28%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.28%) SAS
8 2 (0.19%) Camunda
8 2 (0.19%) Confluence
8 2 (0.19%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.093%) Appian
9 1 (0.093%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.093%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 70 (6.52%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (2.23%) Adobe XD
3 9 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.47%) InVision
4 5 (0.47%) Sketch
5 2 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.19%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.19%) Weka
6 1 (0.093%) CATIA
6 1 (0.093%) Siemens NX
6 1 (0.093%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.19%) SAP SCM
4 1 (0.093%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.093%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.093%) SAP FSCM
4 1 (0.093%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.093%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.093%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 249 (23.18%) Azure
2 218 (20.30%) AWS
3 109 (10.15%) Microsoft 365
4 80 (7.45%) GCP
5 52 (4.84%) Entra ID
6 33 (3.07%) Power Platform
7 24 (2.23%) Figma
8 19 (1.77%) Google Analytics
8 19 (1.77%) PowerApps
8 19 (1.77%) Serverless
9 17 (1.58%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (1.49%) Azure Sentinel
10 16 (1.49%) GitHub
10 16 (1.49%) Power Automate
10 16 (1.49%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 16 (1.49%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 15 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
12 14 (1.30%) Amazon S3
12 14 (1.30%) SaaS
13 12 (1.12%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (2.70%) Firewall
2 26 (2.42%) WAN
3 25 (2.33%) Network Security
3 25 (2.33%) VPN
4 18 (1.68%) LAN
5 17 (1.58%) DNS
6 16 (1.49%) BGP
7 13 (1.21%) DHCP
7 13 (1.21%) MPLS
8 12 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (0.84%) SMTP
9 9 (0.84%) TCP/IP
10 7 (0.65%) Intrusion Detection
10 7 (0.65%) SNMP
11 6 (0.56%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (0.56%) Cisco Firepower
11 6 (0.56%) HTTP
11 6 (0.56%) VoIP
12 5 (0.47%) SD-WAN
13 4 (0.37%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (2.79%) Power BI
3 17 (1.58%) Metadata
4 14 (1.30%) NoSQL
5 10 (0.93%) MongoDB
6 9 (0.84%) DynamoDB
6 9 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (0.84%) Relational Database
7 8 (0.74%) Redis
8 7 (0.65%) SQL Server
9 6 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.56%) BigQuery
9 6 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (0.47%) GIS
10 5 (0.47%) QGIS
11 4 (0.37%) MySQL
11 4 (0.37%) Tableau
12 3 (0.28%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 42 (3.91%) Git
2 23 (2.14%) GitLab
3 22 (2.05%) Jenkins
4 20 (1.86%) Axure RP
4 20 (1.86%) Balsamiq
5 10 (0.93%) JIRA
5 10 (0.93%) Selenium
6 6 (0.56%) JUnit
7 4 (0.37%) Babel
7 4 (0.37%) Burp Suite
7 4 (0.37%) Maven
7 4 (0.37%) Metasploit
7 4 (0.37%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.37%) webpack
8 3 (0.28%) JMeter
8 3 (0.28%) Mockito
8 3 (0.28%) Postman
8 3 (0.28%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.19%) MSTest
9 2 (0.19%) WebDriver
General
1 315 (29.33%) Social Skills
2 292 (27.19%) Public Sector
3 163 (15.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 110 (10.24%) Finance
4 110 (10.24%) Law
5 99 (9.22%) Analytical Skills
6 62 (5.77%) Back Office
7 44 (4.10%) Telecoms
8 41 (3.82%) Legal
9 35 (3.26%) Manufacturing
10 33 (3.07%) Presentation Skills
11 21 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
12 20 (1.86%) Marketing
13 19 (1.77%) Aerospace
13 19 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
13 19 (1.77%) Retail
14 13 (1.21%) Electronics
15 11 (1.02%) Military
16 8 (0.74%) Aviation
16 8 (0.74%) Police
Job Titles
1 205 (19.09%) Senior
2 154 (14.34%) Architect
3 124 (11.55%) Consultant
4 89 (8.29%) Analyst
5 88 (8.19%) Developer
6 73 (6.80%) Support Engineer
7 71 (6.61%) Lead
8 69 (6.42%) Solutions Architect
9 60 (5.59%) Site Engineer
10 59 (5.49%) Desktop Engineer
10 59 (5.49%) Desktop Support
10 59 (5.49%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 57 (5.31%) Software Engineer
12 49 (4.56%) Business Analyst
13 42 (3.91%) Security Consultant
14 41 (3.82%) Cloud Engineer
15 40 (3.72%) Senior Manager
16 37 (3.45%) Data Engineer
17 35 (3.26%) Java Developer
18 33 (3.07%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (3.63%) .NET
1 39 (3.63%) REST
2 30 (2.79%) Spring
3 26 (2.42%) CSS
3 26 (2.42%) HTML
4 22 (2.05%) React
4 22 (2.05%) SOAP
5 20 (1.86%) Middleware
6 16 (1.49%) Lightning Web Components
6 16 (1.49%) Spring Boot
6 16 (1.49%) Visualforce
7 15 (1.40%) Kafka
8 11 (1.02%) ASP.NET
9 10 (0.93%) Django
9 10 (0.93%) HTML5 Canvas
10 9 (0.84%) Node.js
10 9 (0.84%) RESTful
10 9 (0.84%) SAML
10 9 (0.84%) SAP CAF
11 8 (0.74%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 64 (5.96%) Product Ownership
2 57 (5.31%) Cloud Native
3 39 (3.63%) Onboarding
4 38 (3.54%) Data Centre
5 37 (3.45%) Management Information System
6 28 (2.61%) Security Posture
7 20 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (1.77%) PKI
9 14 (1.30%) Blog
9 14 (1.30%) Driving Licence
10 12 (1.12%) Security Operations Centre
11 11 (1.02%) Low-Code
12 8 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (0.74%) Data Structures
13 7 (0.65%) AI Agents
13 7 (0.65%) Cyber Threat
14 6 (0.56%) Cyberattack
14 6 (0.56%) Distributed Systems
14 6 (0.56%) Enterprise Cloud
14 6 (0.56%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 117 (10.89%) Windows
2 65 (6.05%) Linux
3 64 (5.96%) Windows 10
4 22 (2.05%) Windows Server
5 18 (1.68%) Unix
6 9 (0.84%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.28%) CentOS
8 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.19%) Android
10 1 (0.093%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.093%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.093%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (21.04%) Agile
2 176 (16.39%) Continuous Improvement
3 175 (16.29%) Cybersecurity
4 126 (11.73%) Analytics
5 123 (11.45%) DevOps
6 118 (10.99%) Mentoring
7 117 (10.89%) Community of Practice
8 114 (10.61%) ITIL
9 110 (10.24%) Technology Strategy
10 101 (9.40%) Problem-Solving
11 99 (9.22%) CI/CD
12 92 (8.57%) Software Engineering
13 81 (7.54%) Stakeholder Management
14 72 (6.70%) Infrastructure as Code
15 71 (6.61%) Customer Service
15 71 (6.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 68 (6.33%) Risk Management
17 67 (6.24%) Collaborative Culture
18 65 (6.05%) User Experience
19 64 (5.96%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 105 (9.78%) Java
2 103 (9.59%) Python
3 69 (6.42%) JavaScript
4 52 (4.84%) SQL
5 36 (3.35%) C#
6 23 (2.14%) PowerShell
6 23 (2.14%) TypeScript
7 21 (1.96%) C++
8 16 (1.49%) Apex Code
9 15 (1.40%) Bash
10 9 (0.84%) Rust
11 7 (0.65%) Scala
12 6 (0.56%) C
13 5 (0.47%) VBA
14 4 (0.37%) Go
14 4 (0.37%) Groovy
15 3 (0.28%) Google Apps Script
15 3 (0.28%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.28%) Perl
15 3 (0.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,074 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 256 (23.84%) Degree
3 176 (16.39%) DV Cleared
4 59 (5.49%) CTC Cleared
5 52 (4.84%) CISSP
6 51 (4.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 45 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 41 (3.82%) CISM
9 39 (3.63%) Microsoft Certification
10 22 (2.05%) Azure Certification
11 16 (1.49%) AWS Certification
11 16 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
12 13 (1.21%) TOGAF Certification
13 12 (1.12%) CREST Certified
14 10 (0.93%) HNC
14 10 (0.93%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 9 (0.84%) CCIE
15 9 (0.84%) CRISC
15 9 (0.84%) Master's Degree
16 8 (0.74%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (6.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 64 (5.96%) SLA
3 50 (4.66%) NIST
4 45 (4.19%) Accessibility
5 36 (3.35%) GDPR
6 34 (3.17%) QA
7 23 (2.14%) GRC
8 22 (2.05%) WCAG
9 18 (1.68%) Data Quality
9 18 (1.68%) NCSC
10 14 (1.30%) PCI DSS
11 12 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
11 12 (1.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 9 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 8 (0.74%) JSP 440
14 7 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
14 7 (0.65%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.47%) NEBOSH
16 3 (0.28%) HIPAA
16 3 (0.28%) PMO
System Software
1 59 (5.49%) Docker
2 30 (2.79%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.02%) VMware NSX
5 8 (0.74%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.47%) Firmware
6 5 (0.47%) 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 75 (6.98%) Terraform
2 61 (5.68%) Kubernetes
3 42 (3.91%) Ansible
4 18 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (1.58%) Prometheus
6 16 (1.49%) Grafana
7 6 (0.56%) Argo
7 6 (0.56%) Endace
7 6 (0.56%) Puppet
8 5 (0.47%) AWS Copilot
8 5 (0.47%) Packer
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
1 160 (14.90%) Microsoft
2 97 (9.03%) Cisco
3 49 (4.56%) Google
4 28 (2.61%) Oracle
5 27 (2.51%) Salesforce
5 27 (2.51%) VMware
6 24 (2.23%) Adobe
6 24 (2.23%) SAP
7 20 (1.86%) Red Hat
8 16 (1.49%) MuleSoft
9 11 (1.02%) CyberArk
10 9 (0.84%) Databricks
10 9 (0.84%) Juniper
10 9 (0.84%) Meraki
10 9 (0.84%) ServiceNow
10 9 (0.84%) Splunk
11 8 (0.74%) F5
12 6 (0.56%) CheckPoint
13 5 (0.47%) ESRI
13 5 (0.47%) Remedy