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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 32 26
Rank change year-on-year +10 -6 -3
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,849 1,174 1,823
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.73% 7.23% 7.78%
As % of the Qualifications category 37.32% 21.04% 28.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,204 610 1,136
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,875 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -1.64%
75th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £78,869
90th Percentile £95,875 £93,875 £86,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% +4.17% -

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 4,955 5,581 6,365
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.72% 34.38% 27.16%
Number of salaries quoted 3,131 2,345 3,172
10th Percentile £33,750 £30,750 £34,375
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -5.17%

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 12 September 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 40 (2.16%) Apache
2 33 (1.78%) SharePoint
3 31 (1.68%) Apache Spark
4 19 (1.03%) Confluence
5 13 (0.70%) Anypoint
5 13 (0.70%) Mule
6 10 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.43%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.43%) nginx
8 7 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.32%) Camunda
10 5 (0.27%) IIS
11 4 (0.22%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.22%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.22%) Oracle Spatial
11 4 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.16%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.11%) WordPress
14 1 (0.054%) Drupal
Applications
1 30 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (1.24%) Simulink
3 14 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.43%) Adobe XD
6 7 (0.38%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.22%) Mathcad
7 4 (0.22%) Windchill
8 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.11%) InDesign
8 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.054%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.054%) CATIA
9 1 (0.054%) EPLAN
9 1 (0.054%) FrameMaker
9 1 (0.054%) InVision
9 1 (0.054%) Revit
9 1 (0.054%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.054%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 16 (0.87%) Primavera
1 16 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.32%) Workday HCM
3 5 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.27%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.27%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.11%) SAP PSCD
4 2 (0.11%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.054%) Magento
5 1 (0.054%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.054%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.054%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.054%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.054%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.054%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.054%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.054%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 458 (24.77%) Azure
2 427 (23.09%) AWS
3 129 (6.98%) GCP
4 86 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
5 82 (4.43%) Power Platform
6 78 (4.22%) Entra ID
7 42 (2.27%) GitHub
8 40 (2.16%) AWS CloudFormation
9 38 (2.06%) dbt
10 35 (1.89%) Serverless
11 28 (1.51%) Amazon S3
12 26 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
12 26 (1.41%) OpenShift
13 25 (1.35%) SaaS
14 22 (1.19%) Azure Sentinel
15 20 (1.08%) Google Analytics
15 20 (1.08%) Microsoft Purview
16 19 (1.03%) Amazon EC2
16 19 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
17 18 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.70%) Firewall
1 50 (2.70%) Network Security
2 42 (2.27%) TCP/IP
3 34 (1.84%) DNS
4 21 (1.14%) WAN
5 16 (0.87%) SSL
5 16 (0.87%) VPN
6 15 (0.81%) DHCP
7 13 (0.70%) BGP
7 13 (0.70%) LAN
8 11 (0.59%) ATM
8 11 (0.59%) Wireless
9 10 (0.54%) Ethernet
10 8 (0.43%) OSPF
11 7 (0.38%) MPLS
12 6 (0.32%) HTTP
13 5 (0.27%) DMZ
13 5 (0.27%) Internet
13 5 (0.27%) VLAN
13 5 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (3.57%) Power BI
2 48 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (1.62%) Big Data
3 30 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
4 27 (1.46%) NoSQL
5 24 (1.30%) SQL Server
6 21 (1.14%) Relational Database
7 20 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
7 20 (1.08%) Tableau
8 17 (0.92%) Data Lake
9 16 (0.87%) Metadata
10 15 (0.81%) DynamoDB
10 15 (0.81%) MongoDB
10 15 (0.81%) MySQL
11 10 (0.54%) Hadoop
12 7 (0.38%) Redis
13 6 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (0.32%) GIS
13 6 (0.32%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 77 (4.16%) Git
2 41 (2.22%) Jenkins
3 36 (1.95%) JIRA
4 35 (1.89%) GitLab
5 23 (1.24%) JUnit
5 23 (1.24%) Rational DOORS
6 18 (0.97%) Selenium
7 14 (0.76%) Mockito
8 13 (0.70%) Maven
9 11 (0.59%) Cucumber
10 9 (0.49%) Balsamiq
10 9 (0.49%) Burp Suite
10 9 (0.49%) Cypress.io
10 9 (0.49%) Metasploit
10 9 (0.49%) Postman
11 8 (0.43%) SonarQube
12 7 (0.38%) Axure RP
12 7 (0.38%) Gatling
13 6 (0.32%) LabVIEW
14 3 (0.16%) JMeter
General
1 547 (29.58%) Social Skills
2 433 (23.42%) Public Sector
3 368 (19.90%) Finance
4 351 (18.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 233 (12.60%) Analytical Skills
6 189 (10.22%) Aerospace
7 167 (9.03%) Law
8 70 (3.79%) Legal
9 58 (3.14%) Electronics
9 58 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
10 56 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
11 54 (2.92%) Military
12 49 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
13 48 (2.60%) Retail
14 44 (2.38%) Manufacturing
15 35 (1.89%) Telecoms
16 34 (1.84%) Police
17 16 (0.87%) Automotive
17 16 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
18 15 (0.81%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 334 (18.06%) Senior
2 299 (16.17%) Architect
3 202 (10.92%) Consultant
4 165 (8.92%) Lead
5 153 (8.27%) Software Engineer
6 138 (7.46%) Developer
7 133 (7.19%) Analyst
8 108 (5.84%) Solutions Architect
9 86 (4.65%) Data Engineer
10 66 (3.57%) Security Consultant
11 62 (3.35%) Cloud Engineer
12 61 (3.30%) Principal Engineer
13 55 (2.97%) Security Architect
13 55 (2.97%) Senior Manager
14 54 (2.92%) DevOps Engineer
15 50 (2.70%) Senior Developer
16 49 (2.65%) Business Analyst
16 49 (2.65%) Senior Consultant
17 44 (2.38%) Senior Analyst
18 41 (2.22%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (6.27%) Terraform
2 63 (3.41%) React
3 52 (2.81%) REST
4 44 (2.38%) Spring
5 42 (2.27%) .NET
6 34 (1.84%) CSS
7 31 (1.68%) Kafka
8 28 (1.51%) HTML
9 27 (1.46%) AngularJS
10 24 (1.30%) OAuth
10 24 (1.30%) Playwright
11 23 (1.24%) PySpark
12 22 (1.19%) Node.js
12 22 (1.19%) SOAP
13 21 (1.14%) Spring Boot
14 20 (1.08%) .NET Core
14 20 (1.08%) RESTful
15 18 (0.97%) Web Services
16 17 (0.92%) JWT
17 16 (0.87%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 136 (7.36%) Cloud Native
2 64 (3.46%) Self-Motivation
3 60 (3.24%) Management Information System
3 60 (3.24%) Product Ownership
4 51 (2.76%) Onboarding
5 43 (2.33%) Security Posture
6 35 (1.89%) Blog
6 35 (1.89%) Driving Licence
7 32 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
8 30 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
9 29 (1.57%) Cyber Threat
10 27 (1.46%) FPGA
10 27 (1.46%) PKI
11 25 (1.35%) Data Centre
12 24 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
13 23 (1.24%) CMDB
13 23 (1.24%) Cyber Defence
14 21 (1.14%) Algorithms
15 20 (1.08%) Security Operations Centre
16 19 (1.03%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 140 (7.57%) Linux
2 107 (5.79%) Windows
3 40 (2.16%) Windows Server
4 34 (1.84%) Unix
5 13 (0.70%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.38%) VxWorks
7 6 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.27%) Android
9 4 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
9 4 (0.22%) Kali Linux
9 4 (0.22%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.16%) CentOS
10 3 (0.16%) OpenWrt
10 3 (0.16%) Solaris
11 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.11%) FreeRTOS
11 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.054%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 520 (28.12%) Agile
2 339 (18.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 292 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
4 288 (15.58%) Cybersecurity
5 286 (15.47%) Mentoring
6 259 (14.01%) Software Engineering
7 254 (13.74%) CI/CD
8 236 (12.76%) DevOps
8 236 (12.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 229 (12.39%) AI
10 195 (10.55%) Stakeholder Management
11 170 (9.19%) Decision-Making
12 161 (8.71%) Analytics
13 159 (8.60%) Technical Leadership
14 156 (8.44%) Coaching
15 148 (8.00%) Community of Practice
16 145 (7.84%) Collaborative Culture
16 145 (7.84%) Project Delivery
17 144 (7.79%) Scrum
18 135 (7.30%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 222 (12.01%) Python
2 166 (8.98%) Java
3 130 (7.03%) SQL
4 108 (5.84%) JavaScript
5 65 (3.52%) C++
6 59 (3.19%) C#
7 49 (2.65%) Bash
8 44 (2.38%) PowerShell
9 38 (2.06%) TypeScript
10 35 (1.89%) C
11 25 (1.35%) MATLAB
12 21 (1.14%) Ada
13 16 (0.87%) Groovy
14 15 (0.81%) Go
15 14 (0.76%) PL/SQL
15 14 (0.76%) Rust
16 13 (0.70%) DataWeave
16 13 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
17 12 (0.65%) Ruby
18 9 (0.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,470 (79.50%) SC Cleared
2 420 (22.71%) DV Cleared
3 339 (18.33%) Degree
4 233 (12.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 82 (4.43%) CISSP
6 62 (3.35%) CISM
7 52 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 46 (2.49%) Azure Certification
9 40 (2.16%) AWS Certification
10 32 (1.73%) Master's Degree
11 27 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
12 23 (1.24%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 21 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
14 19 (1.03%) CREST Certified
14 19 (1.03%) CRISC
15 18 (0.97%) PhD
16 17 (0.92%) Chartered Engineer
16 17 (0.92%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 14 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
18 13 (0.70%) CHECK Team Member
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (8.60%) Accessibility
2 149 (8.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 97 (5.25%) NIST
4 73 (3.95%) QA
5 72 (3.89%) NCSC
6 53 (2.87%) GRC
7 50 (2.70%) Data Quality
8 44 (2.38%) GDPR
9 27 (1.46%) PCI DSS
10 25 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 23 (1.24%) SLA
12 22 (1.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 19 (1.03%) WCAG
14 17 (0.92%) Def Stans
14 17 (0.92%) JSP 440
15 14 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
16 11 (0.59%) NIST 800
17 8 (0.43%) PMO
18 6 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 42001
18 6 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 114 (6.17%) Docker
2 81 (4.38%) Active Directory
3 45 (2.43%) Firmware
4 34 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 22 (1.19%) Hyper-V
6 15 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.38%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.38%) vSphere
9 6 (0.32%) Squid
10 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.054%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.054%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.054%) IAG
11 1 (0.054%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.054%) QEMU
11 1 (0.054%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.054%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 122 (6.60%) Kubernetes
2 48 (2.60%) Ansible
3 39 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (0.92%) Grafana
4 17 (0.92%) Prometheus
5 13 (0.70%) CloudHub
6 12 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (0.59%) Argo
8 9 (0.49%) Nmap
9 8 (0.43%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.38%) Kustomize
10 7 (0.38%) QRadar
11 6 (0.32%) Istio
11 6 (0.32%) Packer
12 5 (0.27%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.22%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.16%) Check_MK
14 3 (0.16%) Kibana
15 2 (0.11%) CASB
Vendors
1 253 (13.68%) Microsoft
2 82 (4.43%) ServiceNow
3 65 (3.52%) Google
4 56 (3.03%) SAP
5 55 (2.97%) Oracle
6 49 (2.65%) VMware
7 29 (1.57%) Cisco
8 25 (1.35%) Red Hat
9 24 (1.30%) Salesforce
10 21 (1.14%) Databricks
11 20 (1.08%) Splunk
12 19 (1.03%) OpenAI
13 17 (0.92%) MuleSoft
13 17 (0.92%) Okta
14 16 (0.87%) CyberArk
15 15 (0.81%) YouTube
16 14 (0.76%) Adobe
16 14 (0.76%) Veeam
17 12 (0.65%) EMC
17 12 (0.65%) Workday