Hybrid/Remote Security Cleared Job Trends

Security Clearance
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid work with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 28 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 46 25
Rank change year-on-year +30 -21 +7
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,659 791 2,479
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 9.14% 5.86% 7.64%
As % of the Qualifications category 38.69% 19.23% 28.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,182 533 1,723
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £38,833
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,603 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £61,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +6.56% +6.09% -2.54%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

Security 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 4,288 4,114 8,732
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 23.62% 30.46% 26.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2,875 2,466 5,899
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,125 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,018 £60,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.70% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £78,800 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,300 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £54,296
% change year-on-year +4.35% +5.90% -6.08%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Security Cleared and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Security Cleared job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Security Cleared
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Security Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Security Cleared

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Security Cleared over the 6 months to 28 April 2026.

Security Cleared salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Security 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 34 (2.05%) SharePoint
2 16 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (0.84%) Apache
3 14 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (0.66%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.30%) ArcGIS
5 5 (0.30%) GeoServer
5 5 (0.30%) Oracle Spatial
6 3 (0.18%) Camunda
6 3 (0.18%) Confluence
6 3 (0.18%) SAS
7 2 (0.12%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.060%) Appian
8 1 (0.060%) Drupal
8 1 (0.060%) IIS
8 1 (0.060%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.060%) nginx
8 1 (0.060%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.060%) WordPress
Applications
1 76 (4.58%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (1.63%) Adobe XD
3 12 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.30%) InVision
4 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.30%) Sketch
5 2 (0.12%) Weka
6 1 (0.060%) CATIA
6 1 (0.060%) EngageOne
6 1 (0.060%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.060%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.060%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 28 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.30%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.24%) SAP FSCM
4 4 (0.24%) SAP HCM
5 3 (0.18%) Elite 3E
5 3 (0.18%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.18%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.12%) SAP SCM
7 1 (0.060%) Magento
7 1 (0.060%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.060%) Primavera
7 1 (0.060%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.060%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.060%) SAP PSCD
7 1 (0.060%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 276 (16.64%) Azure
2 242 (14.59%) AWS
3 115 (6.93%) Microsoft 365
4 89 (5.36%) GCP
5 57 (3.44%) Entra ID
6 50 (3.01%) Power Platform
7 28 (1.69%) Figma
8 25 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
9 23 (1.39%) PowerApps
9 23 (1.39%) Serverless
10 20 (1.21%) Dynamics 365
11 19 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
11 19 (1.15%) Google Analytics
11 19 (1.15%) Power Automate
12 18 (1.08%) GitHub
12 18 (1.08%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 18 (1.08%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 17 (1.02%) Azure Sentinel
13 17 (1.02%) SaaS
14 16 (0.96%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 40 (2.41%) Firewall
2 30 (1.81%) WAN
3 29 (1.75%) Network Security
4 25 (1.51%) VPN
5 22 (1.33%) DNS
6 20 (1.21%) LAN
7 18 (1.08%) BGP
7 18 (1.08%) DHCP
8 15 (0.90%) MPLS
9 12 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
10 11 (0.66%) SMTP
10 11 (0.66%) TCP/IP
11 8 (0.48%) HTTP
12 7 (0.42%) Intrusion Detection
12 7 (0.42%) SD-WAN
12 7 (0.42%) SNMP
13 6 (0.36%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (0.36%) Cisco Firepower
13 6 (0.36%) DMZ
13 6 (0.36%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (2.41%) Power BI
2 34 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (1.39%) NoSQL
4 18 (1.08%) Metadata
5 17 (1.02%) MongoDB
6 15 (0.90%) SQL Server
7 9 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (0.54%) DynamoDB
7 9 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (0.54%) MySQL
7 9 (0.54%) Relational Database
8 8 (0.48%) Redis
8 8 (0.48%) SAP HANA
8 8 (0.48%) Tableau
9 6 (0.36%) BigQuery
10 5 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (0.30%) GIS
10 5 (0.30%) QGIS
11 4 (0.24%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 49 (2.95%) Git
2 29 (1.75%) Jenkins
3 24 (1.45%) Balsamiq
4 23 (1.39%) Axure RP
4 23 (1.39%) GitLab
5 17 (1.02%) JIRA
6 9 (0.54%) Selenium
7 6 (0.36%) JMeter
7 6 (0.36%) SonarQube
8 5 (0.30%) Babel
8 5 (0.30%) Burp Suite
8 5 (0.30%) JUnit
8 5 (0.30%) Metasploit
8 5 (0.30%) webpack
9 4 (0.24%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.18%) Maven
10 3 (0.18%) MSTest
10 3 (0.18%) Postman
10 3 (0.18%) SoapUI
11 2 (0.12%) TestRail
General
1 389 (23.45%) Social Skills
2 333 (20.07%) Public Sector
3 192 (11.57%) Finance
4 165 (9.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 138 (8.32%) Analytical Skills
6 125 (7.53%) Law
7 63 (3.80%) Back Office
8 62 (3.74%) Manufacturing
9 56 (3.38%) Telecoms
10 52 (3.13%) Legal
11 35 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
12 27 (1.63%) Electronics
12 27 (1.63%) Marketing
13 26 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
14 25 (1.51%) Military
14 25 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
14 25 (1.51%) Retail
15 23 (1.39%) Aerospace
16 11 (0.66%) Banking
17 10 (0.60%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 257 (15.49%) Senior
2 185 (11.15%) Architect
3 154 (9.28%) Consultant
4 152 (9.16%) Analyst
5 132 (7.96%) Systems Engineer
6 123 (7.41%) Lead
7 102 (6.15%) Business Analyst
8 96 (5.79%) Developer
9 95 (5.73%) Software Engineer
10 78 (4.70%) Support Engineer
11 74 (4.46%) Solutions Architect
12 60 (3.62%) Desktop Engineer
12 60 (3.62%) Desktop Support
12 60 (3.62%) Desktop Support Engineer
12 60 (3.62%) Site Engineer
13 53 (3.19%) Senior Manager
14 52 (3.13%) Data Engineer
15 49 (2.95%) Cloud Engineer
16 44 (2.65%) Senior Consultant
17 43 (2.59%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (2.47%) .NET
1 41 (2.47%) REST
2 32 (1.93%) Spring
3 29 (1.75%) CSS
3 29 (1.75%) HTML
4 28 (1.69%) React
5 23 (1.39%) SOAP
6 22 (1.33%) Lightning Web Components
6 22 (1.33%) Middleware
7 19 (1.15%) Kafka
8 18 (1.08%) Visualforce
9 17 (1.02%) Spring Boot
10 14 (0.84%) AngularJS
10 14 (0.84%) SAML
11 12 (0.72%) ASP.NET
12 11 (0.66%) OLE
13 10 (0.60%) RESTful
13 10 (0.60%) SAP CAF
13 10 (0.60%) SAP Fiori
13 10 (0.60%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 80 (4.82%) Product Ownership
2 65 (3.92%) Cloud Native
3 51 (3.07%) Security Posture
4 47 (2.83%) Onboarding
5 42 (2.53%) Data Centre
6 40 (2.41%) Management Information System
7 30 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
8 27 (1.63%) PKI
9 23 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
10 20 (1.21%) Blog
11 18 (1.08%) Driving Licence
11 18 (1.08%) Low-Code
12 16 (0.96%) Security Operations Centre
13 15 (0.90%) Data Structures
14 12 (0.72%) Cyber Threat
15 11 (0.66%) Cyber Security Posture
15 11 (0.66%) Cyberattack
16 10 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
16 10 (0.60%) Cloud Security Posture
16 10 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 130 (7.84%) Windows
2 91 (5.49%) Linux
3 68 (4.10%) Windows 10
4 22 (1.33%) Windows Server
5 21 (1.27%) Unix
6 9 (0.54%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.30%) Android
7 5 (0.30%) CentOS
7 5 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.060%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.060%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.060%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (18.63%) Agile
2 204 (12.30%) Cybersecurity
3 201 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
4 162 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
5 156 (9.40%) DevOps
6 147 (8.86%) Analytics
7 145 (8.74%) Software Engineering
8 137 (8.26%) Mentoring
9 130 (7.84%) ITIL
10 124 (7.47%) Community of Practice
11 113 (6.81%) Technology Strategy
12 110 (6.63%) CI/CD
13 105 (6.33%) Stakeholder Management
14 97 (5.85%) Collaborative Culture
15 94 (5.67%) Risk Management
16 84 (5.06%) Project Delivery
17 81 (4.88%) User Experience
18 79 (4.76%) Roadmaps
18 79 (4.76%) Validation
19 77 (4.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 128 (7.72%) Python
2 117 (7.05%) Java
3 72 (4.34%) JavaScript
3 72 (4.34%) SQL
4 54 (3.25%) C#
5 32 (1.93%) PowerShell
6 26 (1.57%) TypeScript
7 23 (1.39%) C++
8 22 (1.33%) Apex Code
9 20 (1.21%) Bash
10 10 (0.60%) C
11 9 (0.54%) Ada
11 9 (0.54%) Go
11 9 (0.54%) Rust
12 7 (0.42%) Groovy
13 6 (0.36%) VBA
14 5 (0.30%) Scala
15 4 (0.24%) Bicep
15 4 (0.24%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.18%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 1,043 (62.87%) SC Cleared
2 300 (18.08%) Degree
3 297 (17.90%) DV Cleared
4 74 (4.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 70 (4.22%) CISSP
6 66 (3.98%) CTC Cleared
7 50 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 43 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 41 (2.47%) CISM
10 25 (1.51%) Azure Certification
11 20 (1.21%) AWS Certification
11 20 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
12 17 (1.02%) CREST Certified
13 15 (0.90%) HNC
14 13 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
15 11 (0.66%) GIAC
15 11 (0.66%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 11 (0.66%) Master's Degree
16 10 (0.60%) OSCP
16 10 (0.60%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (5.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 69 (4.16%) SLA
3 61 (3.68%) NIST
4 50 (3.01%) Accessibility
5 48 (2.89%) GDPR
6 41 (2.47%) QA
7 35 (2.11%) GRC
8 28 (1.69%) Data Quality
9 26 (1.57%) WCAG
10 23 (1.39%) NCSC
11 20 (1.21%) PCI DSS
12 14 (0.84%) JSP 440
13 12 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
14 11 (0.66%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 9 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 7 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
16 7 (0.42%) PMO
17 6 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
17 6 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 6 (0.36%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 74 (4.46%) Docker
2 37 (2.23%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.66%) VMware NSX
5 8 (0.48%) Firmware
6 7 (0.42%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.24%) vSphere
9 2 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.060%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.060%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.060%) IAG
10 1 (0.060%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.060%) Xen
Systems Management
1 84 (5.06%) Terraform
2 78 (4.70%) Kubernetes
3 55 (3.32%) Ansible
4 20 (1.21%) Grafana
5 18 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (1.02%) Prometheus
7 9 (0.54%) Puppet
8 6 (0.36%) Argo
8 6 (0.36%) Endace
9 5 (0.30%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.30%) Nmap
9 5 (0.30%) Packer
10 4 (0.24%) Istio
10 4 (0.24%) Kustomize
10 4 (0.24%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.24%) QRadar
10 4 (0.24%) SCCM
10 4 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.24%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.24%) WSUS
Vendors
1 189 (11.39%) Microsoft
2 104 (6.27%) Cisco
3 57 (3.44%) Google
4 55 (3.32%) SAP
5 40 (2.41%) Oracle
6 37 (2.23%) Salesforce
7 28 (1.69%) VMware
8 27 (1.63%) Adobe
9 23 (1.39%) Red Hat
10 17 (1.02%) MuleSoft
10 17 (1.02%) Splunk
11 15 (0.90%) ServiceNow
12 13 (0.78%) Databricks
13 11 (0.66%) CyberArk
13 11 (0.66%) Juniper
13 11 (0.66%) Meraki
14 8 (0.48%) F5
15 7 (0.42%) Okta
16 6 (0.36%) Ariba
16 6 (0.36%) CheckPoint