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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 43 25
Rank change year-on-year +26 -18 +4
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,515 840 2,499
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.86% 6.26% 8.19%
As % of the Qualifications category 32.17% 21.36% 30.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,051 562 1,684
10th Percentile £45,421 £46,250 £38,875
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,800 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,450 £86,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £61,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +5.69% +6.96% -

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 4,710 3,933 8,116
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.55% 29.31% 26.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,635 2,457 5,886
10th Percentile £30,750 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,104 £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 £56,000 £59,400 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.72% +8.00% -4.35%

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 22 March 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 (2.24%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (0.73%) Apache
5 6 (0.40%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.33%) Confluence
7 4 (0.26%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.26%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.26%) Oracle Spatial
7 4 (0.26%) WordPress
8 3 (0.20%) Camunda
8 3 (0.20%) SAS
8 3 (0.20%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.20%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.20%) WebLogic Portal
9 2 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.066%) Drupal
10 1 (0.066%) IIS
10 1 (0.066%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.066%) nginx
Applications
1 79 (5.21%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (1.91%) Adobe XD
3 10 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.26%) InVision
5 4 (0.26%) Sketch
6 2 (0.13%) Weka
7 1 (0.066%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.066%) CATIA
7 1 (0.066%) EngageOne
7 1 (0.066%) EPLAN
7 1 (0.066%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.066%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.066%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 27 (1.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.26%) Primavera
4 4 (0.26%) SAP CO
4 4 (0.26%) SAP FI
4 4 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
4 4 (0.26%) SAP FSCM
4 4 (0.26%) SAP PP
5 3 (0.20%) Elite 3E
5 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.20%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.20%) SAP HCM
5 3 (0.20%) SAP PM
6 2 (0.13%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.13%) SAP SCM
7 1 (0.066%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.066%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.066%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 259 (17.10%) Azure
2 222 (14.65%) AWS
3 116 (7.66%) Microsoft 365
4 79 (5.21%) GCP
5 51 (3.37%) Entra ID
6 47 (3.10%) Power Platform
7 39 (2.57%) AWS CloudFormation
8 31 (2.05%) Figma
9 29 (1.91%) PowerApps
10 27 (1.78%) Power Automate
11 26 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
12 23 (1.52%) Amazon EKS
12 23 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
12 23 (1.52%) Serverless
13 22 (1.45%) Amazon ECS
14 20 (1.32%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 20 (1.32%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 18 (1.19%) GitHub
15 18 (1.19%) SaaS
16 15 (0.99%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 40 (2.64%) Firewall
2 25 (1.65%) WAN
3 24 (1.58%) VPN
4 23 (1.52%) Network Security
5 21 (1.39%) LAN
6 20 (1.32%) TCP/IP
7 18 (1.19%) DNS
8 16 (1.06%) DHCP
8 16 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (0.86%) BGP
10 11 (0.73%) MPLS
11 9 (0.59%) SMTP
12 8 (0.53%) SNMP
13 7 (0.46%) HTTP
13 7 (0.46%) Intrusion Detection
13 7 (0.46%) VoIP
14 6 (0.40%) Cisco Firepower
14 6 (0.40%) DMZ
14 6 (0.40%) Ethernet
14 6 (0.40%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (2.51%) Power BI
3 23 (1.52%) NoSQL
4 18 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (1.19%) SQL Server
5 16 (1.06%) Metadata
5 16 (1.06%) MongoDB
6 15 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
7 14 (0.92%) MySQL
7 14 (0.92%) Redis
8 12 (0.79%) Relational Database
9 9 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (0.53%) DynamoDB
10 8 (0.53%) SAP HANA
10 8 (0.53%) Tableau
11 6 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (0.33%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.26%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
13 4 (0.26%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 47 (3.10%) Git
2 34 (2.24%) Jenkins
3 28 (1.85%) Balsamiq
4 26 (1.72%) Axure RP
5 20 (1.32%) GitLab
6 19 (1.25%) JIRA
7 11 (0.73%) Selenium
8 8 (0.53%) Cypress.io
9 7 (0.46%) Burp Suite
9 7 (0.46%) JMeter
9 7 (0.46%) Metasploit
9 7 (0.46%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.40%) Babel
10 6 (0.40%) webpack
11 5 (0.33%) Robot Framework
11 5 (0.33%) WebDriver
12 3 (0.20%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.20%) JUnit
12 3 (0.20%) Oracle APEX
12 3 (0.20%) SoapUI
General
1 384 (25.35%) Social Skills
2 313 (20.66%) Public Sector
3 176 (11.62%) Finance
4 145 (9.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 142 (9.37%) Analytical Skills
6 113 (7.46%) Law
7 74 (4.88%) Manufacturing
8 62 (4.09%) Back Office
8 62 (4.09%) Telecoms
9 46 (3.04%) Legal
10 43 (2.84%) Electronics
11 42 (2.77%) Marketing
12 29 (1.91%) Military
13 28 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
14 23 (1.52%) Retail
15 19 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
16 15 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
17 11 (0.73%) Aerospace
18 10 (0.66%) Banking
19 6 (0.40%) Games
Job Titles
1 240 (15.84%) Senior
2 154 (10.17%) Architect
3 142 (9.37%) Analyst
4 139 (9.17%) Systems Engineer
5 137 (9.04%) Consultant
6 106 (7.00%) Lead
7 103 (6.80%) Developer
8 96 (6.34%) Business Analyst
9 79 (5.21%) Software Engineer
10 77 (5.08%) Support Engineer
11 64 (4.22%) Site Engineer
12 60 (3.96%) Desktop Engineer
12 60 (3.96%) Desktop Support
12 60 (3.96%) Desktop Support Engineer
13 55 (3.63%) Solutions Architect
14 45 (2.97%) Data Engineer
14 45 (2.97%) Senior Manager
15 42 (2.77%) Security Consultant
16 40 (2.64%) Senior Consultant
17 36 (2.38%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (3.04%) .NET
2 42 (2.77%) React
3 40 (2.64%) REST
4 35 (2.31%) HTML
5 34 (2.24%) CSS
6 29 (1.91%) Spring
7 24 (1.58%) Lightning Web Components
7 24 (1.58%) SOAP
8 23 (1.52%) Django
8 23 (1.52%) Middleware
9 20 (1.32%) Kafka
9 20 (1.32%) Visualforce
10 19 (1.25%) Spring Boot
11 18 (1.19%) SAP CAF
12 16 (1.06%) HTML5 Canvas
12 16 (1.06%) Node.js
13 15 (0.99%) AngularJS
14 14 (0.92%) SAML
15 13 (0.86%) ASP.NET
15 13 (0.86%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 75 (4.95%) Product Ownership
2 68 (4.49%) Cloud Native
3 52 (3.43%) Security Posture
4 37 (2.44%) Data Centre
5 36 (2.38%) Onboarding
6 33 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (1.85%) Management Information System
8 22 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
9 20 (1.32%) PKI
10 18 (1.19%) Blog
10 18 (1.19%) Driving Licence
11 12 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
11 12 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
11 12 (0.79%) Security Operations Centre
12 11 (0.73%) Cyber Security Posture
12 11 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (0.73%) Private Cloud
13 10 (0.66%) AI Agents
13 10 (0.66%) Cyber Threat
13 10 (0.66%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 128 (8.45%) Windows
2 99 (6.53%) Linux
3 67 (4.42%) Windows 10
4 28 (1.85%) Unix
5 19 (1.25%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.66%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.46%) CentOS
8 4 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.13%) Android
9 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.066%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.066%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (19.67%) Agile
2 195 (12.87%) Continuous Improvement
3 191 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
4 170 (11.22%) Cybersecurity
5 153 (10.10%) DevOps
6 142 (9.37%) Software Engineering
7 139 (9.17%) Analytics
8 122 (8.05%) Mentoring
9 120 (7.92%) ITIL
10 111 (7.33%) Community of Practice
11 108 (7.13%) CI/CD
12 100 (6.60%) Technology Strategy
13 95 (6.27%) Collaborative Culture
14 86 (5.68%) Stakeholder Management
15 77 (5.08%) Validation
16 76 (5.02%) Risk Management
17 75 (4.95%) Business Intelligence
17 75 (4.95%) Infrastructure as Code
18 73 (4.82%) User Experience
19 72 (4.75%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 130 (8.58%) Python
2 106 (7.00%) Java
3 96 (6.34%) JavaScript
4 67 (4.42%) C#
5 64 (4.22%) SQL
6 29 (1.91%) PowerShell
6 29 (1.91%) TypeScript
7 24 (1.58%) Apex Code
8 21 (1.39%) Bash
9 19 (1.25%) C++
10 13 (0.86%) C
11 9 (0.59%) Ada
11 9 (0.59%) Go
12 8 (0.53%) ABAP
12 8 (0.53%) Bicep
13 6 (0.40%) Rust
13 6 (0.40%) Scala
14 5 (0.33%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.26%) Ruby
15 4 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 910 (60.07%) SC Cleared
2 309 (20.40%) Degree
3 265 (17.49%) DV Cleared
4 75 (4.95%) CISSP
5 66 (4.36%) CTC Cleared
6 53 (3.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 52 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
8 48 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
9 45 (2.97%) CISM
10 28 (1.85%) Azure Certification
10 28 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
11 22 (1.45%) AWS Certification
12 18 (1.19%) CREST Certified
12 18 (1.19%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 14 (0.92%) CCNA
13 14 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
14 13 (0.86%) HNC
15 12 (0.79%) GIAC
15 12 (0.79%) Master's Degree
15 12 (0.79%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (6.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 69 (4.55%) SLA
3 67 (4.42%) NIST
4 55 (3.63%) Accessibility
5 52 (3.43%) GDPR
6 42 (2.77%) QA
7 38 (2.51%) GRC
8 28 (1.85%) WCAG
9 25 (1.65%) Data Quality
10 19 (1.25%) NCSC
10 19 (1.25%) PCI DSS
11 13 (0.86%) JSP 440
12 12 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
13 9 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 8 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
15 7 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
15 7 (0.46%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 7 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 4 (0.26%) PMO
17 3 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 74 (4.88%) Docker
2 34 (2.24%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.66%) VMware NSX
5 6 (0.40%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.26%) Firmware
8 2 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.13%) vSphere
9 1 (0.066%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.066%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.066%) vCloud
9 1 (0.066%) Xen
Systems Management
1 85 (5.61%) Terraform
2 73 (4.82%) Kubernetes
3 49 (3.23%) Ansible
4 22 (1.45%) Grafana
5 14 (0.92%) Prometheus
6 12 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.53%) Puppet
8 7 (0.46%) Nmap
9 6 (0.40%) Endace
9 6 (0.40%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 5 (0.33%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.33%) Kibana
11 4 (0.26%) SCCM
11 4 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.26%) WSUS
11 4 (0.26%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.20%) Nagios
12 3 (0.20%) OpenView
12 3 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
12 3 (0.20%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 177 (11.68%) Microsoft
2 108 (7.13%) Cisco
3 72 (4.75%) SAP
4 63 (4.16%) Google
5 52 (3.43%) Salesforce
6 36 (2.38%) Oracle
7 29 (1.91%) Adobe
8 20 (1.32%) VMware
9 19 (1.25%) MuleSoft
10 15 (0.99%) ServiceNow
10 15 (0.99%) Splunk
11 14 (0.92%) Red Hat
12 11 (0.73%) Databricks
13 10 (0.66%) CyberArk
13 10 (0.66%) F5
13 10 (0.66%) Juniper
14 9 (0.59%) Meraki
15 8 (0.53%) CheckPoint
16 7 (0.46%) Okta
16 7 (0.46%) Remedy