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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 103 61
Rank change year-on-year +70 -42 -2
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 1,153 559 1,352
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.66% 3.57% 4.00%
As % of the Qualifications category 26.65% 10.42% 15.05%
Number of salaries quoted 906 375 1,003
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,799 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,000 £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 £81,250 £78,125 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,700 £90,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £60,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +11.57% +5.22% -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 4,327 5,367 8,981
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 21.23% 34.31% 26.55%
Number of salaries quoted 3,005 2,382 5,814
10th Percentile £33,250 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,500 £88,750 £86,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +3.77% -11.67%

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 26 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 30 (2.60%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.39%) Apache
3 15 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (1.13%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.61%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.43%) Anypoint
7 5 (0.43%) Mule
8 3 (0.26%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.26%) Camunda
8 3 (0.26%) SAS
9 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.17%) Confluence
9 2 (0.17%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.17%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.087%) Appian
10 1 (0.087%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.087%) Site Server
Applications
1 40 (3.47%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.78%) Adobe XD
4 6 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.35%) Windchill
6 3 (0.26%) InVision
6 3 (0.26%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.26%) Sketch
7 2 (0.17%) Weka
8 1 (0.087%) CATIA
8 1 (0.087%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 7 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.17%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.17%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.087%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.087%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.087%) SAP FSCM
5 1 (0.087%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.087%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.087%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.087%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 301 (26.11%) Azure
2 268 (23.24%) AWS
3 101 (8.76%) Microsoft 365
4 87 (7.55%) GCP
5 70 (6.07%) Entra ID
6 48 (4.16%) Power Platform
7 25 (2.17%) GitHub
8 22 (1.91%) SaaS
9 21 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
10 20 (1.73%) Serverless
11 18 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
11 18 (1.56%) Google Analytics
12 17 (1.47%) Amazon S3
12 17 (1.47%) PaaS
13 16 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
13 16 (1.39%) Azure Sentinel
13 16 (1.39%) PowerApps
14 15 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
15 14 (1.21%) Microsoft Purview
16 13 (1.13%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 37 (3.21%) Network Security
2 27 (2.34%) Firewall
3 23 (1.99%) WAN
4 21 (1.82%) VPN
5 17 (1.47%) TCP/IP
6 15 (1.30%) DNS
6 15 (1.30%) LAN
7 14 (1.21%) BGP
8 12 (1.04%) DHCP
8 12 (1.04%) MPLS
9 10 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (0.78%) SMTP
11 7 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
11 7 (0.61%) SNMP
11 7 (0.61%) SSL
12 5 (0.43%) Cisco Firepower
12 5 (0.43%) HTTP
13 4 (0.35%) MQTT
13 4 (0.35%) SD-WAN
13 4 (0.35%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (3.21%) Power BI
2 34 (2.95%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (1.39%) Metadata
4 13 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
5 12 (1.04%) Big Data
5 12 (1.04%) NoSQL
6 11 (0.95%) DynamoDB
6 11 (0.95%) Redis
7 10 (0.87%) MongoDB
8 8 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.52%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (0.43%) BigQuery
10 5 (0.43%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.43%) SQL Server
10 5 (0.43%) Tableau
11 3 (0.26%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.26%) Flink
Development Applications
1 43 (3.73%) Git
2 35 (3.04%) GitLab
3 25 (2.17%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.13%) JUnit
4 13 (1.13%) Selenium
5 10 (0.87%) JIRA
6 8 (0.69%) Maven
7 7 (0.61%) Burp Suite
7 7 (0.61%) Metasploit
7 7 (0.61%) Mockito
8 6 (0.52%) Axure RP
8 6 (0.52%) Balsamiq
9 5 (0.43%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.43%) Postman
10 4 (0.35%) JMeter
11 3 (0.26%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.26%) SoapUI
11 3 (0.26%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.17%) Gradle
12 2 (0.17%) webpack
General
1 327 (28.36%) Social Skills
2 307 (26.63%) Public Sector
3 159 (13.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 118 (10.23%) Analytical Skills
5 114 (9.89%) Finance
6 102 (8.85%) Law
7 43 (3.73%) Legal
8 41 (3.56%) Presentation Skills
9 37 (3.21%) Back Office
10 31 (2.69%) Telecoms
11 26 (2.25%) Manufacturing
11 26 (2.25%) Retail
12 22 (1.91%) Aerospace
13 21 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
13 21 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (0.95%) Aviation
14 11 (0.95%) Military
15 9 (0.78%) Police
16 8 (0.69%) Automotive
17 6 (0.52%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 231 (20.03%) Senior
2 184 (15.96%) Architect
3 126 (10.93%) Consultant
4 101 (8.76%) Developer
5 94 (8.15%) Lead
6 82 (7.11%) Solutions Architect
7 81 (7.03%) Analyst
8 73 (6.33%) Software Engineer
9 51 (4.42%) Security Consultant
10 49 (4.25%) Data Engineer
10 49 (4.25%) Support Engineer
11 47 (4.08%) Senior Manager
12 42 (3.64%) Cloud Engineer
13 41 (3.56%) Security Architect
14 40 (3.47%) Java Developer
15 38 (3.30%) DevOps Engineer
15 38 (3.30%) Site Engineer
16 37 (3.21%) Senior Analyst
17 35 (3.04%) Business Analyst
17 35 (3.04%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (3.47%) REST
2 34 (2.95%) Spring
3 28 (2.43%) .NET
4 25 (2.17%) React
5 19 (1.65%) SOAP
6 17 (1.47%) Spring Boot
7 16 (1.39%) Middleware
8 15 (1.30%) Playwright
9 14 (1.21%) CSS
9 14 (1.21%) HTML
10 13 (1.13%) Lightning Web Components
10 13 (1.13%) Visualforce
11 12 (1.04%) Kafka
12 10 (0.87%) RESTful
13 9 (0.78%) SAML
14 8 (0.69%) Django
14 8 (0.69%) HTML5 Canvas
14 8 (0.69%) YAML
15 7 (0.61%) AngularJS
15 7 (0.61%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 84 (7.29%) Cloud Native
2 54 (4.68%) Product Ownership
3 42 (3.64%) Management Information System
4 41 (3.56%) Onboarding
5 35 (3.04%) Security Posture
6 33 (2.86%) Data Centre
7 23 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (1.65%) PKI
9 16 (1.39%) Blog
9 16 (1.39%) Driving Licence
10 13 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (1.04%) Security Operations Centre
12 10 (0.87%) Low-Code
13 9 (0.78%) Data Structures
14 7 (0.61%) AI Agents
14 7 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
14 7 (0.61%) Cyber Threat
14 7 (0.61%) Distributed Systems
14 7 (0.61%) Hybrid Cloud
14 7 (0.61%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 95 (8.24%) Windows
2 71 (6.16%) Linux
3 37 (3.21%) Windows 10
4 26 (2.25%) Windows Server
5 21 (1.82%) Unix
6 5 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.26%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.17%) Android
8 2 (0.17%) CentOS
9 1 (0.087%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.087%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.087%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.087%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 262 (22.72%) Agile
2 198 (17.17%) Continuous Improvement
3 176 (15.26%) Cybersecurity
4 157 (13.62%) Mentoring
5 146 (12.66%) CI/CD
5 146 (12.66%) DevOps
6 135 (11.71%) Problem-Solving
7 112 (9.71%) Community of Practice
8 109 (9.45%) Software Engineering
9 108 (9.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 107 (9.28%) Analytics
10 107 (9.28%) ITIL
11 104 (9.02%) Technology Strategy
12 97 (8.41%) Infrastructure as Code
12 97 (8.41%) Stakeholder Management
13 79 (6.85%) Cloud Security
14 78 (6.76%) Decision-Making
14 78 (6.76%) Risk Management
15 76 (6.59%) Technical Leadership
16 73 (6.33%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 129 (11.19%) Python
2 118 (10.23%) Java
3 66 (5.72%) SQL
4 65 (5.64%) JavaScript
5 30 (2.60%) C#
6 28 (2.43%) Bash
6 28 (2.43%) C++
6 28 (2.43%) PowerShell
7 23 (1.99%) TypeScript
8 13 (1.13%) Apex Code
9 9 (0.78%) Rust
10 6 (0.52%) C
10 6 (0.52%) Groovy
10 6 (0.52%) PL/SQL
10 6 (0.52%) VBA
11 5 (0.43%) DataWeave
11 5 (0.43%) Ruby
11 5 (0.43%) Scala
12 4 (0.35%) Go
13 3 (0.26%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 1,153 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 224 (19.43%) Degree
3 177 (15.35%) DV Cleared
4 66 (5.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 62 (5.38%) CISSP
6 49 (4.25%) CISM
7 41 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 34 (2.95%) CTC Cleared
9 29 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 28 (2.43%) Azure Certification
11 22 (1.91%) AWS Certification
12 17 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
13 15 (1.30%) CRISC
14 14 (1.21%) CREST Certified
14 14 (1.21%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 13 (1.13%) TOGAF Certification
16 12 (1.04%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 10 (0.87%) Master's Degree
18 9 (0.78%) HNC
19 8 (0.69%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (9.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 64 (5.55%) NIST
3 48 (4.16%) SLA
4 44 (3.82%) QA
5 42 (3.64%) NCSC
6 38 (3.30%) GDPR
7 33 (2.86%) Accessibility
8 25 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
9 23 (1.99%) Data Quality
9 23 (1.99%) GRC
10 20 (1.73%) PCI DSS
11 18 (1.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 13 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
12 13 (1.13%) JSP 440
13 11 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 10 (0.87%) Def Stans
14 10 (0.87%) WCAG
15 7 (0.61%) Government Security Classifications
16 5 (0.43%) NEBOSH
16 5 (0.43%) NIST 800
System Software
1 65 (5.64%) Docker
2 41 (3.56%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.73%) Hyper-V
4 15 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.78%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.43%) Firmware
6 5 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.43%) vSphere
7 4 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.087%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.087%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.087%) IAG
8 1 (0.087%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.087%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.087%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.087%) Xen
Systems Management
1 87 (7.55%) Terraform
2 70 (6.07%) Kubernetes
3 37 (3.21%) Ansible
4 29 (2.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (1.82%) Prometheus
6 19 (1.65%) Grafana
7 10 (0.87%) Argo
8 8 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.61%) Nmap
10 6 (0.52%) Kustomize
10 6 (0.52%) Packer
10 6 (0.52%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.52%) Puppet
11 5 (0.43%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.43%) CloudHub
11 5 (0.43%) Endace
11 5 (0.43%) Istio
11 5 (0.43%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.35%) Kibana
12 4 (0.35%) Nagios
Vendors
1 188 (16.31%) Microsoft
2 62 (5.38%) Cisco
3 47 (4.08%) Google
4 34 (2.95%) Oracle
5 26 (2.25%) VMware
6 24 (2.08%) Salesforce
7 22 (1.91%) ServiceNow
8 18 (1.56%) MuleSoft
9 17 (1.47%) Red Hat
10 16 (1.39%) SAP
11 13 (1.13%) CyberArk
12 9 (0.78%) Adobe
12 9 (0.78%) Databricks
13 8 (0.69%) Splunk
14 7 (0.61%) F5
14 7 (0.61%) Juniper
14 7 (0.61%) Meraki
15 5 (0.43%) CheckPoint
15 5 (0.43%) Fortinet
15 5 (0.43%) OpenAI