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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 29 24
Rank change year-on-year +8 -5 -3
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,895 1,199 1,779
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.70% 7.42% 7.89%
As % of the Qualifications category 37.12% 21.03% 28.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,223 617 1,072
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,332 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £48,750 £47,772
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +1.63% +0.82%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £79,600
90th Percentile £97,450 £92,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,625 £60,000
% change year-on-year +15.46% +1.04% -

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 5,105 5,701 6,168
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.75% 35.28% 27.35%
Number of salaries quoted 3,202 2,311 2,937
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,000 £34,404
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,890 £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 £56,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -2.65% -3.42%

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 23 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 38 (2.01%) Apache
2 31 (1.64%) Apache Spark
3 28 (1.48%) SharePoint
4 19 (1.00%) Confluence
5 13 (0.69%) Anypoint
5 13 (0.69%) Mule
6 10 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
7 8 (0.42%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.42%) nginx
7 8 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 7 (0.37%) Camunda
9 4 (0.21%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.21%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.21%) IIS
9 4 (0.21%) Oracle Spatial
10 3 (0.16%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.11%) CMS
12 1 (0.053%) Tomcat
Applications
1 30 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (1.21%) Simulink
4 15 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.37%) Adobe XD
7 6 (0.32%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.21%) Mathcad
8 4 (0.21%) Windchill
9 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.11%) InDesign
9 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.053%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.053%) EPLAN
10 1 (0.053%) FrameMaker
10 1 (0.053%) Houdini
10 1 (0.053%) InVision
10 1 (0.053%) Revit
10 1 (0.053%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.053%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 17 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.84%) Primavera
3 7 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.32%) Workday HCM
5 5 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.26%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.26%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.16%) SAP PSCD
6 3 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.11%) SAP QM
8 1 (0.053%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
8 1 (0.053%) Maximo
8 1 (0.053%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.053%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.053%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.053%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 1 (0.053%) SAP EWM
8 1 (0.053%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 466 (24.59%) Azure
2 429 (22.64%) AWS
3 130 (6.86%) GCP
4 88 (4.64%) Entra ID
5 86 (4.54%) Microsoft 365
6 82 (4.33%) Power Platform
7 50 (2.64%) GitHub
8 43 (2.27%) Serverless
9 39 (2.06%) AWS CloudFormation
10 38 (2.01%) dbt
11 35 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
12 32 (1.69%) Amazon S3
13 30 (1.58%) SaaS
14 25 (1.32%) OpenShift
15 23 (1.21%) AWS Lambda
16 22 (1.16%) Azure Sentinel
17 21 (1.11%) Amazon EC2
17 21 (1.11%) Microsoft Purview
17 21 (1.11%) PaaS
18 19 (1.00%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 54 (2.85%) Firewall
2 52 (2.74%) Network Security
3 41 (2.16%) TCP/IP
4 35 (1.85%) DNS
5 20 (1.06%) WAN
6 18 (0.95%) VPN
7 16 (0.84%) SSL
8 15 (0.79%) DHCP
9 14 (0.74%) Wireless
10 13 (0.69%) LAN
11 12 (0.63%) BGP
12 11 (0.58%) ATM
13 10 (0.53%) Ethernet
14 8 (0.42%) OSPF
14 8 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
15 6 (0.32%) DMZ
15 6 (0.32%) HTTP
15 6 (0.32%) Internet
15 6 (0.32%) MPLS
16 5 (0.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (3.48%) Power BI
2 48 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (1.53%) Big Data
3 29 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (1.37%) NoSQL
5 24 (1.27%) SQL Server
6 23 (1.21%) Relational Database
7 21 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
8 20 (1.06%) Metadata
9 19 (1.00%) Tableau
10 17 (0.90%) Data Lake
11 15 (0.79%) DynamoDB
12 14 (0.74%) MySQL
13 13 (0.69%) MongoDB
14 10 (0.53%) Hadoop
15 7 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
15 7 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
15 7 (0.37%) Redis
16 6 (0.32%) GIS
16 6 (0.32%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 79 (4.17%) Git
2 42 (2.22%) Jenkins
3 39 (2.06%) JIRA
4 37 (1.95%) GitLab
5 24 (1.27%) JUnit
5 24 (1.27%) Rational DOORS
6 17 (0.90%) Selenium
7 15 (0.79%) Mockito
8 13 (0.69%) Maven
9 11 (0.58%) Cucumber
10 10 (0.53%) Burp Suite
10 10 (0.53%) Metasploit
11 9 (0.47%) Cypress.io
11 9 (0.47%) Postman
12 8 (0.42%) Balsamiq
12 8 (0.42%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.32%) Axure RP
13 6 (0.32%) Gatling
13 6 (0.32%) LabVIEW
14 3 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 555 (29.29%) Social Skills
2 455 (24.01%) Public Sector
3 380 (20.05%) Finance
4 362 (19.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 235 (12.40%) Analytical Skills
6 192 (10.13%) Aerospace
7 163 (8.60%) Law
8 69 (3.64%) Legal
9 61 (3.22%) Presentation Skills
10 59 (3.11%) Electronics
11 57 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
12 55 (2.90%) Military
13 52 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
14 50 (2.64%) Retail
15 45 (2.37%) Police
16 40 (2.11%) Manufacturing
17 36 (1.90%) Telecoms
18 15 (0.79%) Automotive
18 15 (0.79%) Aviation
18 15 (0.79%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 354 (18.68%) Senior
2 304 (16.04%) Architect
3 198 (10.45%) Consultant
4 168 (8.87%) Lead
5 164 (8.65%) Software Engineer
6 134 (7.07%) Developer
7 131 (6.91%) Analyst
8 109 (5.75%) Solutions Architect
9 94 (4.96%) Data Engineer
10 71 (3.75%) Principal Engineer
11 63 (3.32%) Security Consultant
12 61 (3.22%) Cloud Engineer
13 56 (2.96%) Senior Manager
14 54 (2.85%) Security Architect
15 51 (2.69%) DevOps Engineer
16 48 (2.53%) Senior Consultant
17 47 (2.48%) Business Analyst
17 47 (2.48%) Senior Developer
18 44 (2.32%) Java Engineer
19 43 (2.27%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (6.54%) Terraform
2 65 (3.43%) React
3 59 (3.11%) REST
4 45 (2.37%) Spring
5 43 (2.27%) .NET
6 33 (1.74%) CSS
7 30 (1.58%) Kafka
8 27 (1.42%) AngularJS
8 27 (1.42%) HTML
9 25 (1.32%) OAuth
9 25 (1.32%) Playwright
10 24 (1.27%) PySpark
11 22 (1.16%) Node.js
11 22 (1.16%) SOAP
11 22 (1.16%) Spring Boot
12 21 (1.11%) RESTful
13 20 (1.06%) .NET Core
14 19 (1.00%) JWT
15 18 (0.95%) OAuth2
15 18 (0.95%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 139 (7.34%) Cloud Native
2 71 (3.75%) Management Information System
3 63 (3.32%) Self-Motivation
4 59 (3.11%) Onboarding
4 59 (3.11%) Product Ownership
5 42 (2.22%) Security Posture
6 35 (1.85%) Driving Licence
7 33 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
8 32 (1.69%) Blog
9 30 (1.58%) Data Centre
9 30 (1.58%) FPGA
9 30 (1.58%) PKI
10 29 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
11 28 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
12 27 (1.42%) Cyber Threat
13 25 (1.32%) CMDB
14 22 (1.16%) Cyber Defence
15 21 (1.11%) Algorithms
16 20 (1.06%) Embedded Systems
17 19 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 139 (7.34%) Linux
2 112 (5.91%) Windows
3 42 (2.22%) Windows Server
4 34 (1.79%) Unix
5 15 (0.79%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.37%) VxWorks
7 6 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.26%) Android
8 5 (0.26%) Embedded Linux
9 4 (0.21%) Kali Linux
9 4 (0.21%) Solaris
9 4 (0.21%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.16%) OpenWrt
11 2 (0.11%) AIX
11 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.11%) CentOS
11 2 (0.11%) FreeRTOS
11 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 530 (27.97%) Agile
2 358 (18.89%) Continuous Improvement
3 301 (15.88%) Mentoring
4 298 (15.73%) Cybersecurity
4 298 (15.73%) Problem-Solving
5 279 (14.72%) Software Engineering
6 265 (13.98%) CI/CD
7 250 (13.19%) AI
8 243 (12.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 241 (12.72%) DevOps
10 219 (11.56%) Stakeholder Management
11 184 (9.71%) Decision-Making
12 183 (9.66%) Analytics
13 173 (9.13%) Technical Leadership
14 166 (8.76%) Coaching
15 153 (8.07%) Community of Practice
16 146 (7.70%) Collaborative Culture
17 144 (7.60%) Scrum
18 141 (7.44%) Infrastructure as Code
19 139 (7.34%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 229 (12.08%) Python
2 171 (9.02%) Java
3 141 (7.44%) SQL
4 109 (5.75%) JavaScript
5 66 (3.48%) C++
6 62 (3.27%) C#
7 49 (2.59%) Bash
8 47 (2.48%) PowerShell
9 40 (2.11%) TypeScript
10 34 (1.79%) C
11 25 (1.32%) MATLAB
12 21 (1.11%) Ada
13 16 (0.84%) Groovy
14 15 (0.79%) Go
14 15 (0.79%) PL/SQL
15 14 (0.74%) Rust
16 13 (0.69%) Bicep
16 13 (0.69%) DataWeave
16 13 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
17 12 (0.63%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,509 (79.63%) SC Cleared
2 411 (21.69%) DV Cleared
3 338 (17.84%) Degree
4 231 (12.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 78 (4.12%) CISSP
6 59 (3.11%) CISM
7 51 (2.69%) Azure Certification
8 49 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
9 41 (2.16%) AWS Certification
10 31 (1.64%) Master's Degree
11 24 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
12 23 (1.21%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 21 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
14 19 (1.00%) PhD
15 18 (0.95%) Chartered Engineer
15 18 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
16 17 (0.90%) CREST Certified
16 17 (0.90%) CRISC
16 17 (0.90%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 16 (0.84%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (8.50%) Accessibility
2 148 (7.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 94 (4.96%) NIST
4 74 (3.91%) NCSC
4 74 (3.91%) QA
5 52 (2.74%) Data Quality
6 51 (2.69%) GRC
7 45 (2.37%) GDPR
8 27 (1.42%) PCI DSS
9 26 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
10 24 (1.27%) SLA
11 20 (1.06%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 18 (0.95%) Def Stans
12 18 (0.95%) WCAG
13 16 (0.84%) JSP 440
14 14 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
15 11 (0.58%) NIST 800
16 9 (0.47%) PMO
17 7 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
18 6 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 115 (6.07%) Docker
2 80 (4.22%) Active Directory
3 45 (2.37%) Firmware
4 36 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 22 (1.16%) Hyper-V
6 15 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.37%) vSphere
9 6 (0.32%) Squid
9 6 (0.32%) VMware NSX
10 5 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
13 1 (0.053%) IAG
13 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.053%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.053%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 124 (6.54%) Kubernetes
2 44 (2.32%) Ansible
3 43 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 24 (1.27%) Grafana
5 17 (0.90%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.69%) CloudHub
6 13 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (0.58%) Argo
8 10 (0.53%) Nmap
9 7 (0.37%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.37%) Progress Chef
9 7 (0.37%) QRadar
10 6 (0.32%) Istio
11 5 (0.26%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.26%) Kibana
11 5 (0.26%) Packer
12 4 (0.21%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.16%) SCCM
13 3 (0.16%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 262 (13.83%) Microsoft
2 89 (4.70%) ServiceNow
3 63 (3.32%) Oracle
4 61 (3.22%) Google
5 59 (3.11%) SAP
6 50 (2.64%) VMware
7 33 (1.74%) Cisco
8 26 (1.37%) Salesforce
9 24 (1.27%) Red Hat
10 21 (1.11%) Databricks
11 20 (1.06%) Splunk
11 20 (1.06%) YouTube
12 19 (1.00%) OpenAI
13 18 (0.95%) CyberArk
14 17 (0.90%) MuleSoft
14 17 (0.90%) Okta
15 16 (0.84%) Workday
16 14 (0.74%) Adobe
16 14 (0.74%) Veeam
17 13 (0.69%) EMC