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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 86 66
Rank change year-on-year +53 -20 -8
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 1,000 464 1,349
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.70% 3.52% 4.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 23.66% 11.89% 15.38%
Number of salaries quoted 764 370 997
10th Percentile £46,400 £44,840 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% +4.58% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £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 4,227 3,902 8,772
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 24.08% 29.58% 27.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2,814 2,457 5,972
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £60,000 £57,291
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +4.73% -4.52%
75th Percentile £78,797 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £58,000 £57,500 £54,500
% change year-on-year +0.87% +5.50% -5.22%

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 April 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 (2.90%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (0.70%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.50%) Apache
6 4 (0.40%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.40%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.40%) Oracle Spatial
7 3 (0.30%) Camunda
7 3 (0.30%) Confluence
7 3 (0.30%) SAS
8 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.20%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.20%) WebLogic Portal
9 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.10%) Appian
9 1 (0.10%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 71 (7.10%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (2.80%) Adobe XD
3 9 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.50%) InVision
4 5 (0.50%) Sketch
5 2 (0.20%) Weka
6 1 (0.10%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.10%) CATIA
6 1 (0.10%) EPLAN
6 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.10%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 9 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.30%) Primavera
5 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.20%) SAP SCM
6 1 (0.10%) SAP FSCM
6 1 (0.10%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.10%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.10%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.10%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 234 (23.40%) Azure
2 197 (19.70%) AWS
3 111 (11.10%) Microsoft 365
4 79 (7.90%) GCP
5 48 (4.80%) Entra ID
6 33 (3.30%) Power Platform
7 28 (2.80%) Figma
8 24 (2.40%) AWS CloudFormation
9 22 (2.20%) PowerApps
10 19 (1.90%) Serverless
11 18 (1.80%) Google Analytics
11 18 (1.80%) Power Automate
11 18 (1.80%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 18 (1.80%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 17 (1.70%) Amazon ECS
13 16 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
14 15 (1.50%) Amazon EKS
15 14 (1.40%) dbt
15 14 (1.40%) GitHub
15 14 (1.40%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.10%) Firewall
2 26 (2.60%) VPN
2 26 (2.60%) WAN
3 20 (2.00%) Network Security
4 18 (1.80%) LAN
5 17 (1.70%) TCP/IP
6 16 (1.60%) BGP
6 16 (1.60%) DNS
7 14 (1.40%) DHCP
8 13 (1.30%) MPLS
8 13 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (0.90%) SMTP
10 7 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
10 7 (0.70%) SNMP
11 6 (0.60%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (0.60%) Cisco Firepower
11 6 (0.60%) HTTP
11 6 (0.60%) VoIP
12 5 (0.50%) SD-WAN
13 4 (0.40%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (2.90%) Power BI
3 16 (1.60%) Metadata
4 14 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
4 14 (1.40%) NoSQL
5 13 (1.30%) Redis
6 10 (1.00%) MongoDB
7 9 (0.90%) Relational Database
8 8 (0.80%) DynamoDB
9 7 (0.70%) SQL Server
10 6 (0.60%) BigQuery
11 5 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.50%) MySQL
12 4 (0.40%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (0.40%) GIS
12 4 (0.40%) QGIS
12 4 (0.40%) Tableau
13 3 (0.30%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 41 (4.10%) Git
2 26 (2.60%) Balsamiq
3 24 (2.40%) Axure RP
4 21 (2.10%) GitLab
5 19 (1.90%) Jenkins
6 12 (1.20%) JIRA
7 11 (1.10%) Selenium
8 6 (0.60%) Babel
8 6 (0.60%) Burp Suite
8 6 (0.60%) Metasploit
8 6 (0.60%) webpack
9 5 (0.50%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.50%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.40%) JUnit
10 4 (0.40%) WebDriver
11 3 (0.30%) JMeter
11 3 (0.30%) Maven
11 3 (0.30%) Postman
11 3 (0.30%) SoapUI
12 2 (0.20%) MSTest
General
1 326 (32.60%) Social Skills
2 284 (28.40%) Public Sector
3 155 (15.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 112 (11.20%) Law
5 106 (10.60%) Finance
6 100 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
7 63 (6.30%) Back Office
8 46 (4.60%) Telecoms
9 38 (3.80%) Manufacturing
10 34 (3.40%) Legal
11 29 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
12 23 (2.30%) Marketing
12 23 (2.30%) Retail
13 20 (2.00%) Electronics
13 20 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
14 16 (1.60%) Aerospace
15 15 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
16 12 (1.20%) Military
17 8 (0.80%) Police
18 6 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 197 (19.70%) Senior
2 129 (12.90%) Architect
3 112 (11.20%) Consultant
4 85 (8.50%) Developer
5 82 (8.20%) Analyst
6 74 (7.40%) Support Engineer
7 65 (6.50%) Site Engineer
8 64 (6.40%) Lead
9 60 (6.00%) Desktop Engineer
9 60 (6.00%) Desktop Support
9 60 (6.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
10 53 (5.30%) Solutions Architect
11 49 (4.90%) Software Engineer
12 47 (4.70%) Business Analyst
13 39 (3.90%) Security Consultant
14 36 (3.60%) Senior Manager
15 35 (3.50%) Data Engineer
16 33 (3.30%) Designer
17 32 (3.20%) Senior Developer
18 31 (3.10%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (4.20%) .NET
2 38 (3.80%) REST
3 31 (3.10%) CSS
3 31 (3.10%) HTML
4 28 (2.80%) Spring
5 26 (2.60%) React
6 23 (2.30%) SOAP
7 21 (2.10%) Middleware
8 18 (1.80%) Lightning Web Components
8 18 (1.80%) Visualforce
9 16 (1.60%) Django
10 15 (1.50%) Kafka
10 15 (1.50%) Spring Boot
11 12 (1.20%) ASP.NET
12 11 (1.10%) HTML5 Canvas
12 11 (1.10%) SAP CAF
13 9 (0.90%) AngularJS
13 9 (0.90%) Node.js
13 9 (0.90%) RESTful
13 9 (0.90%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 64 (6.40%) Product Ownership
2 54 (5.40%) Cloud Native
3 39 (3.90%) Data Centre
3 39 (3.90%) Management Information System
4 35 (3.50%) Onboarding
5 29 (2.90%) Security Posture
6 20 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
7 18 (1.80%) PKI
8 14 (1.40%) Blog
8 14 (1.40%) Driving Licence
9 12 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (1.20%) Low-Code
10 11 (1.10%) Security Operations Centre
11 9 (0.90%) AI Agents
11 9 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (0.70%) Cyber Threat
12 7 (0.70%) Cyberattack
12 7 (0.70%) Data Structures
12 7 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 114 (11.40%) Windows
2 68 (6.80%) Linux
3 65 (6.50%) Windows 10
4 27 (2.70%) Unix
5 18 (1.80%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.90%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.40%) CentOS
9 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.10%) Android
10 1 (0.10%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.10%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.10%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (21.80%) Agile
2 165 (16.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 161 (16.10%) Cybersecurity
4 126 (12.60%) Analytics
5 122 (12.20%) DevOps
6 117 (11.70%) Community of Practice
7 113 (11.30%) Problem-Solving
8 112 (11.20%) ITIL
9 109 (10.90%) Mentoring
10 106 (10.60%) Technology Strategy
11 99 (9.90%) CI/CD
12 83 (8.30%) Software Engineering
13 73 (7.30%) Stakeholder Management
14 70 (7.00%) User Experience
15 69 (6.90%) Customer Service
16 68 (6.80%) Infrastructure as Code
17 65 (6.50%) Patch Management
18 63 (6.30%) Collaborative Culture
19 62 (6.20%) Risk Management
20 61 (6.10%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 99 (9.90%) Python
2 98 (9.80%) Java
3 73 (7.30%) JavaScript
4 45 (4.50%) SQL
5 43 (4.30%) C#
6 26 (2.60%) TypeScript
7 24 (2.40%) PowerShell
8 18 (1.80%) Apex Code
9 16 (1.60%) C++
10 12 (1.20%) Bash
11 8 (0.80%) Rust
12 6 (0.60%) C
12 6 (0.60%) VBA
13 5 (0.50%) Go
14 4 (0.40%) Scala
15 3 (0.30%) Google Apps Script
15 3 (0.30%) Pascal
15 3 (0.30%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.30%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.30%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1,000 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 278 (27.80%) Degree
3 162 (16.20%) DV Cleared
4 60 (6.00%) CTC Cleared
5 55 (5.50%) CISSP
6 51 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 42 (4.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 41 (4.10%) CISM
9 35 (3.50%) BPSS Clearance
10 24 (2.40%) Azure Certification
11 21 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
12 18 (1.80%) AWS Certification
13 17 (1.70%) CREST Certified
14 14 (1.40%) TOGAF Certification
15 13 (1.30%) Master's Degree
16 12 (1.20%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 10 (1.00%) CCNA
17 10 (1.00%) CRISC
17 10 (1.00%) HNC
18 9 (0.90%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (6.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 64 (6.40%) SLA
3 52 (5.20%) Accessibility
4 48 (4.80%) NIST
5 37 (3.70%) GDPR
6 31 (3.10%) QA
7 26 (2.60%) WCAG
8 24 (2.40%) GRC
9 14 (1.40%) PCI DSS
10 13 (1.30%) Data Quality
10 13 (1.30%) NCSC
11 12 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 9 (0.90%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 8 (0.80%) JSP 440
14 7 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
14 7 (0.70%) Government Security Classifications
15 4 (0.40%) NEBOSH
15 4 (0.40%) PMO
16 2 (0.20%) HIPAA
System Software
1 63 (6.30%) Docker
2 30 (3.00%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.10%) VMware NSX
5 6 (0.60%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.50%) Firmware
6 5 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.40%) vSphere
8 2 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.10%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.10%) Xen
Systems Management
1 75 (7.50%) Terraform
2 58 (5.80%) Kubernetes
3 38 (3.80%) Ansible
4 16 (1.60%) Prometheus
5 15 (1.50%) Grafana
5 15 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (0.60%) Endace
6 6 (0.60%) Nmap
6 6 (0.60%) Puppet
7 5 (0.50%) AWS Copilot
7 5 (0.50%) Kibana
8 4 (0.40%) Argo
8 4 (0.40%) SCCM
8 4 (0.40%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.40%) WSUS
8 4 (0.40%) ZABBIX
9 3 (0.30%) Check_MK
9 3 (0.30%) Nagios
9 3 (0.30%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 3 (0.30%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 160 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 101 (10.10%) Cisco
3 58 (5.80%) Google
4 35 (3.50%) Salesforce
5 29 (2.90%) SAP
6 28 (2.80%) Adobe
7 24 (2.40%) Oracle
8 23 (2.30%) VMware
9 18 (1.80%) MuleSoft
10 15 (1.50%) Red Hat
11 12 (1.20%) Splunk
12 11 (1.10%) CyberArk
13 9 (0.90%) Juniper
13 9 (0.90%) Meraki
14 8 (0.80%) F5
14 8 (0.80%) ServiceNow
15 7 (0.70%) Databricks
16 6 (0.60%) CheckPoint
17 5 (0.50%) Remedy
18 4 (0.40%) BMC