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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 83 67
Rank change year-on-year +48 -16 -8
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 903 531 1,325
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.30% 3.97% 4.39%
As % of the Qualifications category 19.18% 13.52% 16.41%
Number of salaries quoted 682 404 959
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,269 £40,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,938 £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 £78,790 £75,313 £78,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £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 4,707 3,928 8,072
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.62% 29.36% 26.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,626 2,451 5,845
10th Percentile £30,750 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £88,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,869 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.31% +7.27% -4.35%

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 21 March 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 30 (3.32%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.55%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.44%) Apache
5 4 (0.44%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.44%) Confluence
5 4 (0.44%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.44%) Oracle Spatial
6 3 (0.33%) Camunda
6 3 (0.33%) SAS
6 3 (0.33%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.33%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.33%) WebLogic Portal
7 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 71 (7.86%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (3.21%) Adobe XD
3 7 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.44%) InVision
4 4 (0.44%) Sketch
5 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.22%) Weka
6 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.11%) CATIA
6 1 (0.11%) EPLAN
6 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.11%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 14 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.44%) Primavera
5 3 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.33%) SAP PM
6 2 (0.22%) SAP SCM
7 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.11%) SAP FSCM
7 1 (0.11%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.11%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.11%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 222 (24.58%) Azure
2 187 (20.71%) AWS
3 113 (12.51%) Microsoft 365
4 71 (7.86%) GCP
5 46 (5.09%) Entra ID
6 33 (3.65%) Power Platform
7 30 (3.32%) Figma
8 29 (3.21%) AWS CloudFormation
9 26 (2.88%) PowerApps
10 24 (2.66%) Power Automate
11 20 (2.21%) Amazon ECS
11 20 (2.21%) Dynamics 365
11 20 (2.21%) Serverless
12 19 (2.10%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 19 (2.10%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 18 (1.99%) Amazon EKS
14 15 (1.66%) dbt
15 14 (1.55%) GitHub
15 14 (1.55%) Google Analytics
15 14 (1.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.32%) Firewall
2 24 (2.66%) WAN
3 23 (2.55%) VPN
4 20 (2.21%) LAN
5 18 (1.99%) TCP/IP
6 16 (1.77%) Network Security
6 16 (1.77%) Wi-Fi
7 13 (1.44%) BGP
8 12 (1.33%) DNS
9 11 (1.22%) DHCP
10 10 (1.11%) MPLS
11 9 (1.00%) SMTP
12 7 (0.78%) SNMP
13 6 (0.66%) Cisco Firepower
13 6 (0.66%) Ethernet
13 6 (0.66%) HTTP
13 6 (0.66%) Intrusion Detection
13 6 (0.66%) SD-WAN
13 6 (0.66%) VoIP
14 5 (0.55%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (4.43%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (3.10%) Power BI
3 16 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
4 15 (1.66%) NoSQL
5 14 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
5 14 (1.55%) Metadata
6 13 (1.44%) Redis
7 11 (1.22%) Relational Database
7 11 (1.22%) SQL Server
8 9 (1.00%) MongoDB
8 9 (1.00%) MySQL
9 7 (0.78%) DynamoDB
10 6 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (0.44%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.44%) GIS
11 4 (0.44%) QGIS
12 3 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 37 (4.10%) Git
2 28 (3.10%) Balsamiq
3 26 (2.88%) Axure RP
4 20 (2.21%) Jenkins
5 16 (1.77%) GitLab
6 14 (1.55%) JIRA
7 11 (1.22%) Selenium
8 8 (0.89%) Cypress.io
9 7 (0.78%) Burp Suite
9 7 (0.78%) Metasploit
10 6 (0.66%) Babel
10 6 (0.66%) webpack
11 5 (0.55%) WebDriver
12 4 (0.44%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.33%) JMeter
13 3 (0.33%) JUnit
13 3 (0.33%) Oracle APEX
13 3 (0.33%) Oracle Forms
13 3 (0.33%) Postman
13 3 (0.33%) SoapUI
General
1 307 (34.00%) Social Skills
2 260 (28.79%) Public Sector
3 141 (15.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 106 (11.74%) Analytical Skills
5 103 (11.41%) Finance
6 101 (11.18%) Law
7 62 (6.87%) Back Office
8 51 (5.65%) Telecoms
9 49 (5.43%) Manufacturing
10 32 (3.54%) Marketing
11 31 (3.43%) Electronics
12 30 (3.32%) Legal
13 21 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
14 19 (2.10%) Retail
15 14 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
15 14 (1.55%) Military
16 10 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
17 9 (1.00%) Aerospace
18 6 (0.66%) Banking
19 5 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 171 (18.94%) Senior
2 109 (12.07%) Architect
3 100 (11.07%) Consultant
4 91 (10.08%) Developer
5 74 (8.19%) Analyst
6 73 (8.08%) Support Engineer
7 64 (7.09%) Site Engineer
8 60 (6.64%) Desktop Engineer
8 60 (6.64%) Desktop Support
8 60 (6.64%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 54 (5.98%) Lead
10 42 (4.65%) Business Analyst
11 39 (4.32%) Security Consultant
12 38 (4.21%) Solutions Architect
13 34 (3.77%) Data Engineer
13 34 (3.77%) Senior Developer
14 33 (3.65%) Software Engineer
15 31 (3.43%) Designer
16 26 (2.88%) Cloud Engineer
17 25 (2.77%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (4.87%) .NET
2 38 (4.21%) REST
3 36 (3.99%) React
4 34 (3.77%) HTML
5 33 (3.65%) CSS
6 25 (2.77%) Spring
7 24 (2.66%) SOAP
8 23 (2.55%) Django
9 22 (2.44%) Middleware
10 19 (2.10%) Lightning Web Components
10 19 (2.10%) Visualforce
11 18 (1.99%) SAP CAF
12 16 (1.77%) HTML5 Canvas
12 16 (1.77%) Kafka
12 16 (1.77%) Node.js
12 16 (1.77%) Spring Boot
13 12 (1.33%) ASP.NET
14 11 (1.22%) AngularJS
14 11 (1.22%) RESTful
15 9 (1.00%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 59 (6.53%) Product Ownership
2 54 (5.98%) Cloud Native
3 35 (3.88%) Data Centre
4 27 (2.99%) Security Posture
5 26 (2.88%) Management Information System
5 26 (2.88%) Onboarding
6 19 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (1.77%) Driving Licence
8 14 (1.55%) PKI
9 12 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
10 11 (1.22%) Blog
11 9 (1.00%) AI Agents
12 8 (0.89%) Security Operations Centre
13 7 (0.78%) e-Learning
13 7 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (0.78%) Insider Threat
14 6 (0.66%) Private Cloud
15 5 (0.55%) Linux Command Line
15 5 (0.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 111 (12.29%) Windows
2 65 (7.20%) Linux
2 65 (7.20%) Windows 10
3 26 (2.88%) Unix
4 14 (1.55%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.00%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.44%) CentOS
7 3 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (23.15%) Agile
2 159 (17.61%) Continuous Improvement
3 141 (15.61%) Cybersecurity
4 126 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
5 122 (13.51%) Analytics
6 112 (12.40%) DevOps
7 107 (11.85%) ITIL
8 105 (11.63%) Community of Practice
9 97 (10.74%) Mentoring
10 96 (10.63%) Technology Strategy
11 91 (10.08%) CI/CD
12 78 (8.64%) Software Engineering
13 68 (7.53%) Customer Service
14 67 (7.42%) User Experience
15 65 (7.20%) Patch Management
16 63 (6.98%) Stakeholder Management
17 62 (6.87%) Infrastructure as Code
18 61 (6.76%) Customer Experience
18 61 (6.76%) Software Deployment
18 61 (6.76%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 99 (10.96%) Python
2 90 (9.97%) Java
3 88 (9.75%) JavaScript
4 50 (5.54%) C#
5 41 (4.54%) SQL
6 28 (3.10%) TypeScript
7 19 (2.10%) Apex Code
7 19 (2.10%) PowerShell
8 13 (1.44%) C++
9 11 (1.22%) Bash
10 8 (0.89%) C
11 7 (0.78%) Bicep
12 6 (0.66%) Rust
12 6 (0.66%) Scala
13 5 (0.55%) Go
14 4 (0.44%) Ruby
15 3 (0.33%) Pascal
15 3 (0.33%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.33%) VBA
15 3 (0.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 903 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 275 (30.45%) Degree
3 136 (15.06%) DV Cleared
4 60 (6.64%) CTC Cleared
5 57 (6.31%) CISSP
6 49 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 45 (4.98%) Microsoft Certification
8 43 (4.76%) CISM
9 27 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
10 26 (2.88%) Azure Certification
11 21 (2.33%) AWS Certification
12 18 (1.99%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 16 (1.77%) CREST Certified
14 14 (1.55%) CCNA
14 14 (1.55%) TOGAF Certification
15 12 (1.33%) Master's Degree
16 11 (1.22%) CEH
16 11 (1.22%) CompTIA Security+
17 10 (1.11%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (7.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 64 (7.09%) SLA
3 54 (5.98%) Accessibility
4 51 (5.65%) NIST
5 41 (4.54%) GDPR
6 32 (3.54%) QA
7 27 (2.99%) WCAG
8 26 (2.88%) GRC
9 13 (1.44%) Data Quality
9 13 (1.44%) PCI DSS
10 12 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (1.22%) NCSC
12 9 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 8 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.66%) Government Security Classifications
14 6 (0.66%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 6 (0.66%) JSP 440
15 3 (0.33%) ISO 14001
15 3 (0.33%) ISO 9001
15 3 (0.33%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 56 (6.20%) Docker
2 27 (2.99%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.00%) VMware NSX
4 6 (0.66%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.33%) Firmware
7 2 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.11%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.11%) vSphere
8 1 (0.11%) Xen
Systems Management
1 71 (7.86%) Terraform
2 54 (5.98%) Kubernetes
3 32 (3.54%) Ansible
4 17 (1.88%) Grafana
5 13 (1.44%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.78%) Nmap
8 6 (0.66%) Endace
8 6 (0.66%) Puppet
9 5 (0.55%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.55%) Kibana
10 4 (0.44%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 4 (0.44%) SCCM
10 4 (0.44%) WSUS
10 4 (0.44%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.33%) Nagios
11 3 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.22%) Argo
12 2 (0.22%) OpenView
12 2 (0.22%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 149 (16.50%) Microsoft
2 106 (11.74%) Cisco
3 55 (6.09%) Google
4 44 (4.87%) Salesforce
5 41 (4.54%) SAP
6 29 (3.21%) Adobe
7 19 (2.10%) MuleSoft
7 19 (2.10%) Oracle
8 15 (1.66%) VMware
9 11 (1.22%) Red Hat
10 10 (1.11%) CyberArk
10 10 (1.11%) F5
10 10 (1.11%) Juniper
11 9 (1.00%) Meraki
11 9 (1.00%) ServiceNow
11 9 (1.00%) Splunk
12 8 (0.89%) CheckPoint
13 7 (0.78%) Remedy
14 6 (0.66%) BMC
14 6 (0.66%) Databricks