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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 106 64
Rank change year-on-year +73 -42 -4
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 1,133 545 1,379
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.69% 3.55% 3.99%
As % of the Qualifications category 26.64% 10.33% 15.07%
Number of salaries quoted 886 374 1,006
10th Percentile £46,250 £44,159 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £64,627 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.45% +7.71% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,900 £90,000
UK median annual salary £65,288 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.81% +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 4,253 5,278 9,150
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 21.36% 34.43% 26.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2,938 2,363 5,898
10th Percentile £33,350 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £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 £88,667 £86,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +2.80% -10.83%

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 June 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 29 (2.56%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (1.32%) Apache
4 13 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (1.06%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.62%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.26%) Anypoint
7 3 (0.26%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.26%) Mule
7 3 (0.26%) SAS
8 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.18%) Camunda
8 2 (0.18%) Confluence
8 2 (0.18%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.18%) Oracle Spatial
9 1 (0.088%) Appian
9 1 (0.088%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.088%) Site Server
Applications
1 40 (3.53%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.15%) Adobe XD
3 12 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.35%) InVision
5 4 (0.35%) Sketch
5 4 (0.35%) Windchill
6 3 (0.26%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.18%) Weka
8 1 (0.088%) CATIA
8 1 (0.088%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 7 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.18%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.18%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.088%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.088%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.088%) SAP FSCM
4 1 (0.088%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.088%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.088%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 293 (25.86%) Azure
2 261 (23.04%) AWS
3 93 (8.21%) Microsoft 365
4 86 (7.59%) GCP
5 62 (5.47%) Entra ID
6 43 (3.80%) Power Platform
7 23 (2.03%) GitHub
8 21 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
9 20 (1.77%) Google Analytics
9 20 (1.77%) SaaS
9 20 (1.77%) Serverless
10 19 (1.68%) Amazon S3
11 16 (1.41%) Azure Sentinel
11 16 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
12 15 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
12 15 (1.32%) PaaS
13 14 (1.24%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (1.24%) PowerApps
14 13 (1.15%) Figma
14 13 (1.15%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.09%) Network Security
2 27 (2.38%) Firewall
3 24 (2.12%) WAN
4 23 (2.03%) VPN
5 16 (1.41%) BGP
5 16 (1.41%) DNS
5 16 (1.41%) LAN
5 16 (1.41%) TCP/IP
6 13 (1.15%) DHCP
7 12 (1.06%) MPLS
8 11 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (0.79%) SMTP
10 7 (0.62%) Intrusion Detection
10 7 (0.62%) SNMP
11 5 (0.44%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (0.44%) Cisco Firepower
11 5 (0.44%) HTTP
11 5 (0.44%) SSL
11 5 (0.44%) VoIP
12 4 (0.35%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (3.09%) Power BI
2 34 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (1.68%) Metadata
4 13 (1.15%) NoSQL
5 12 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
5 12 (1.06%) DynamoDB
6 11 (0.97%) Big Data
6 11 (0.97%) Redis
7 10 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (0.88%) MongoDB
8 8 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.53%) BigQuery
9 6 (0.53%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (0.44%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.44%) SQL Server
10 5 (0.44%) Tableau
11 3 (0.26%) Flink
11 3 (0.26%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 43 (3.80%) Git
2 35 (3.09%) GitLab
3 25 (2.21%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.15%) JUnit
4 13 (1.15%) Selenium
5 10 (0.88%) JIRA
6 9 (0.79%) Axure RP
6 9 (0.79%) Balsamiq
7 8 (0.71%) Maven
8 7 (0.62%) Burp Suite
8 7 (0.62%) Metasploit
8 7 (0.62%) Mockito
9 5 (0.44%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.44%) Postman
10 4 (0.35%) JMeter
11 3 (0.26%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.26%) SoapUI
11 3 (0.26%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.18%) Babel
12 2 (0.18%) webpack
General
1 313 (27.63%) Public Sector
2 309 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 164 (14.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 118 (10.41%) Analytical Skills
5 109 (9.62%) Finance
6 104 (9.18%) Law
7 40 (3.53%) Legal
8 39 (3.44%) Presentation Skills
9 36 (3.18%) Back Office
10 32 (2.82%) Telecoms
11 25 (2.21%) Retail
12 23 (2.03%) Manufacturing
13 21 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
14 20 (1.77%) Aerospace
14 20 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (0.97%) Aviation
16 10 (0.88%) Military
17 8 (0.71%) Automotive
18 7 (0.62%) Banking
18 7 (0.62%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 230 (20.30%) Senior
2 175 (15.45%) Architect
3 122 (10.77%) Consultant
4 99 (8.74%) Developer
5 87 (7.68%) Lead
6 85 (7.50%) Analyst
7 80 (7.06%) Solutions Architect
8 69 (6.09%) Software Engineer
9 50 (4.41%) Data Engineer
10 47 (4.15%) Support Engineer
11 46 (4.06%) Security Consultant
12 44 (3.88%) Cloud Engineer
12 44 (3.88%) Senior Manager
13 40 (3.53%) Java Developer
14 39 (3.44%) Business Analyst
15 38 (3.35%) Security Architect
15 38 (3.35%) Site Engineer
16 37 (3.27%) DevOps Engineer
17 36 (3.18%) Senior Analyst
18 35 (3.09%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (3.53%) REST
2 34 (3.00%) Spring
3 29 (2.56%) .NET
4 25 (2.21%) React
5 19 (1.68%) SOAP
6 17 (1.50%) Spring Boot
7 16 (1.41%) CSS
7 16 (1.41%) HTML
7 16 (1.41%) Middleware
8 15 (1.32%) Playwright
9 13 (1.15%) Lightning Web Components
9 13 (1.15%) Visualforce
10 12 (1.06%) Kafka
11 10 (0.88%) RESTful
12 9 (0.79%) SAML
13 8 (0.71%) Django
13 8 (0.71%) HTML5 Canvas
13 8 (0.71%) YAML
14 7 (0.62%) AngularJS
14 7 (0.62%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 79 (6.97%) Cloud Native
2 57 (5.03%) Product Ownership
3 40 (3.53%) Onboarding
4 38 (3.35%) Management Information System
4 38 (3.35%) Security Posture
5 35 (3.09%) Data Centre
6 22 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
7 20 (1.77%) PKI
8 14 (1.24%) Blog
8 14 (1.24%) Driving Licence
9 12 (1.06%) Security Operations Centre
10 11 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (0.88%) Data Structures
11 10 (0.88%) Low-Code
12 7 (0.62%) AI Agents
12 7 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (0.62%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (0.62%) Insider Threat
13 6 (0.53%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 91 (8.03%) Windows
2 69 (6.09%) Linux
3 37 (3.27%) Windows 10
4 25 (2.21%) Windows Server
5 20 (1.77%) Unix
6 5 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.26%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.18%) Android
8 2 (0.18%) CentOS
9 1 (0.088%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.088%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.088%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (22.77%) Agile
2 190 (16.77%) Continuous Improvement
3 170 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
4 146 (12.89%) Mentoring
5 140 (12.36%) DevOps
6 138 (12.18%) CI/CD
7 127 (11.21%) Problem-Solving
8 114 (10.06%) Community of Practice
9 107 (9.44%) Technology Strategy
10 105 (9.27%) Analytics
11 102 (9.00%) Software Engineering
11 102 (9.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 99 (8.74%) ITIL
13 97 (8.56%) Infrastructure as Code
14 91 (8.03%) Stakeholder Management
15 75 (6.62%) Decision-Making
16 74 (6.53%) Cloud Security
16 74 (6.53%) Collaborative Culture
17 73 (6.44%) Scrum
18 72 (6.35%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 122 (10.77%) Python
2 113 (9.97%) Java
3 67 (5.91%) JavaScript
4 64 (5.65%) SQL
5 29 (2.56%) C#
6 28 (2.47%) Bash
7 26 (2.29%) C++
7 26 (2.29%) PowerShell
8 23 (2.03%) TypeScript
9 13 (1.15%) Apex Code
10 9 (0.79%) Rust
11 6 (0.53%) C
11 6 (0.53%) Groovy
11 6 (0.53%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.44%) Scala
12 5 (0.44%) VBA
13 4 (0.35%) Go
14 3 (0.26%) Google Apps Script
14 3 (0.26%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.26%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,133 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 225 (19.86%) Degree
3 186 (16.42%) DV Cleared
4 65 (5.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 60 (5.30%) CISSP
6 45 (3.97%) CISM
7 41 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 33 (2.91%) CTC Cleared
9 31 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
10 23 (2.03%) Azure Certification
11 22 (1.94%) AWS Certification
12 17 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
13 14 (1.24%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 14 (1.24%) TOGAF Certification
14 13 (1.15%) CREST Certified
14 13 (1.15%) CRISC
15 10 (0.88%) HNC
16 9 (0.79%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 9 (0.79%) Master's Degree
17 8 (0.71%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (8.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 62 (5.47%) NIST
3 45 (3.97%) QA
3 45 (3.97%) SLA
4 39 (3.44%) NCSC
5 38 (3.35%) GDPR
6 37 (3.27%) Accessibility
7 24 (2.12%) Data Quality
8 21 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
9 20 (1.77%) GRC
9 20 (1.77%) PCI DSS
10 17 (1.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 15 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
12 13 (1.15%) WCAG
13 12 (1.06%) JSP 440
14 11 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 10 (0.88%) Def Stans
16 7 (0.62%) Government Security Classifications
17 5 (0.44%) NEBOSH
17 5 (0.44%) NIST 800
System Software
1 64 (5.65%) Docker
2 35 (3.09%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.24%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.97%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.44%) Firmware
6 5 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.44%) vSphere
7 4 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.088%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.088%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.088%) IAG
8 1 (0.088%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.088%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.088%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.088%) Xen
Systems Management
1 89 (7.86%) Terraform
2 70 (6.18%) Kubernetes
3 38 (3.35%) Ansible
4 26 (2.29%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (1.85%) Prometheus
6 19 (1.68%) Grafana
7 10 (0.88%) Argo
8 8 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.62%) Nmap
10 6 (0.53%) Kustomize
10 6 (0.53%) Packer
10 6 (0.53%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.53%) Puppet
11 5 (0.44%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.44%) Endace
11 5 (0.44%) Istio
11 5 (0.44%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.35%) Kibana
12 4 (0.35%) Nagios
13 3 (0.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 182 (16.06%) Microsoft
2 65 (5.74%) Cisco
3 48 (4.24%) Google
4 31 (2.74%) Oracle
5 28 (2.47%) VMware
6 22 (1.94%) Salesforce
7 18 (1.59%) ServiceNow
8 17 (1.50%) Red Hat
9 16 (1.41%) MuleSoft
10 14 (1.24%) SAP
11 13 (1.15%) Adobe
12 12 (1.06%) CyberArk
13 8 (0.71%) Databricks
13 8 (0.71%) Meraki
13 8 (0.71%) Splunk
14 7 (0.62%) CheckPoint
14 7 (0.62%) F5
14 7 (0.62%) Juniper
15 4 (0.35%) BMC
15 4 (0.35%) Dell