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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 36 24
Rank change year-on-year +20 -12 +8
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,524 1,034 2,374
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 9.27% 6.89% 8.56%
As % of the Qualifications category 31.38% 23.29% 31.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,047 598 1,602
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,608 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,800 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £61,644 £57,500
% change year-on-year +5.44% +7.21% -

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 4,857 4,440 7,503
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 29.54% 29.61% 27.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2,613 2,406 5,487
10th Percentile £30,987 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £74,014 £73,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £88,750 £88,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 27 February 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 33 (2.17%) SharePoint
2 19 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (0.52%) Apache
5 6 (0.39%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.39%) Confluence
6 4 (0.26%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.26%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.26%) Oracle Spatial
7 3 (0.20%) SAS
7 3 (0.20%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.20%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.20%) WebLogic Portal
7 3 (0.20%) WordPress
8 2 (0.13%) Camunda
8 2 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.066%) IIS
Applications
1 82 (5.38%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (1.77%) Adobe XD
3 13 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.26%) InVision
5 4 (0.26%) Sketch
6 3 (0.20%) Simulink
7 2 (0.13%) Weka
8 1 (0.066%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.066%) EngageOne
8 1 (0.066%) EPLAN
8 1 (0.066%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.066%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.066%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 30 (1.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.26%) Primavera
4 4 (0.26%) SAP PP
5 3 (0.20%) Elite 3E
5 3 (0.20%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.20%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.20%) SAP FSCM
5 3 (0.20%) SAP HCM
5 3 (0.20%) SAP PM
6 2 (0.13%) SAP ERP
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
1 254 (16.67%) Azure
2 223 (14.63%) AWS
3 132 (8.66%) Microsoft 365
4 74 (4.86%) GCP
5 56 (3.67%) Entra ID
6 52 (3.41%) Power Platform
7 39 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 34 (2.23%) PowerApps
9 29 (1.90%) Figma
9 29 (1.90%) Power Automate
10 28 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
10 28 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
11 27 (1.77%) Serverless
12 26 (1.71%) Amazon ECS
13 24 (1.57%) Amazon EKS
14 22 (1.44%) SaaS
15 21 (1.38%) GitHub
16 20 (1.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 20 (1.31%) PaaS
17 19 (1.25%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 45 (2.95%) Firewall
2 32 (2.10%) VPN
3 22 (1.44%) DNS
3 22 (1.44%) Network Security
3 22 (1.44%) WAN
4 21 (1.38%) LAN
5 18 (1.18%) TCP/IP
6 16 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
7 15 (0.98%) BGP
7 15 (0.98%) DHCP
8 13 (0.85%) MPLS
9 9 (0.59%) SMTP
10 8 (0.52%) HTTP
11 7 (0.46%) DMZ
11 7 (0.46%) Ethernet
11 7 (0.46%) SNMP
11 7 (0.46%) VoIP
12 6 (0.39%) Cisco Firepower
12 6 (0.39%) SD-WAN
13 5 (0.33%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
1 40 (2.62%) Power BI
2 24 (1.57%) NoSQL
3 18 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
3 18 (1.18%) MongoDB
4 17 (1.12%) SQL Server
5 15 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
6 14 (0.92%) MySQL
7 13 (0.85%) Metadata
7 13 (0.85%) Redis
8 12 (0.79%) Relational Database
9 10 (0.66%) SAP HANA
10 8 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (0.46%) DynamoDB
11 7 (0.46%) Tableau
12 6 (0.39%) Big Data
13 5 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (0.33%) GIS
14 4 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
14 4 (0.26%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 49 (3.22%) Git
2 36 (2.36%) Jenkins
3 26 (1.71%) Balsamiq
4 24 (1.57%) Axure RP
5 21 (1.38%) JIRA
6 20 (1.31%) GitLab
7 16 (1.05%) Selenium
8 9 (0.59%) Cypress.io
9 7 (0.46%) Burp Suite
9 7 (0.46%) Metasploit
9 7 (0.46%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.46%) WebDriver
10 6 (0.39%) Babel
10 6 (0.39%) webpack
11 5 (0.33%) JMeter
11 5 (0.33%) Robot Framework
12 3 (0.20%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.20%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.20%) JUnit
12 3 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
General
1 387 (25.39%) Social Skills
2 312 (20.47%) Public Sector
3 185 (12.14%) Finance
4 148 (9.71%) Analytical Skills
5 135 (8.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 107 (7.02%) Law
7 82 (5.38%) Manufacturing
8 68 (4.46%) Telecoms
9 61 (4.00%) Back Office
10 50 (3.28%) Electronics
10 50 (3.28%) Marketing
11 35 (2.30%) Legal
12 32 (2.10%) Military
13 28 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
14 22 (1.44%) Retail
15 20 (1.31%) Aerospace
16 15 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
16 15 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
17 10 (0.66%) Aviation
17 10 (0.66%) Games
Job Titles
1 237 (15.55%) Senior
2 150 (9.84%) Consultant
3 144 (9.45%) Systems Engineer
4 143 (9.38%) Analyst
5 141 (9.25%) Architect
6 111 (7.28%) Lead
7 107 (7.02%) Developer
8 93 (6.10%) Business Analyst
9 81 (5.31%) Support Engineer
10 80 (5.25%) Software Engineer
11 64 (4.20%) Site Engineer
12 60 (3.94%) Desktop Engineer
12 60 (3.94%) Desktop Support
12 60 (3.94%) Desktop Support Engineer
13 53 (3.48%) Solutions Architect
14 47 (3.08%) Security Consultant
15 43 (2.82%) Data Engineer
16 38 (2.49%) Senior Consultant
16 38 (2.49%) Senior Manager
17 36 (2.36%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (3.41%) React
2 45 (2.95%) .NET
3 39 (2.56%) REST
4 33 (2.17%) HTML
5 32 (2.10%) CSS
6 31 (2.03%) Spring
7 24 (1.57%) SAP CAF
7 24 (1.57%) SOAP
8 23 (1.51%) Django
8 23 (1.51%) Lightning Web Components
8 23 (1.51%) Spring Boot
9 22 (1.44%) Middleware
10 19 (1.25%) Kafka
10 19 (1.25%) Visualforce
11 17 (1.12%) HTML5 Canvas
11 17 (1.12%) Node.js
12 16 (1.05%) AngularJS
13 14 (0.92%) ASP.NET
14 13 (0.85%) RESTful
14 13 (0.85%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 74 (4.86%) Cloud Native
2 70 (4.59%) Product Ownership
3 49 (3.22%) Security Posture
4 38 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
5 37 (2.43%) Onboarding
6 34 (2.23%) Data Centre
7 27 (1.77%) Management Information System
8 22 (1.44%) e-Learning
8 22 (1.44%) PKI
9 18 (1.18%) Driving Licence
10 16 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
11 15 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
12 14 (0.92%) Algorithms
13 13 (0.85%) Private Cloud
14 12 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
14 12 (0.79%) Low-Code
15 11 (0.72%) Blog
15 11 (0.72%) Cyber Security Posture
16 10 (0.66%) AI Agents
17 9 (0.59%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 123 (8.07%) Windows
2 102 (6.69%) Linux
3 67 (4.40%) Windows 10
4 32 (2.10%) Unix
5 16 (1.05%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.66%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.39%) CentOS
8 4 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.20%) VMS
10 2 (0.13%) Android
10 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.066%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 315 (20.67%) Agile
2 205 (13.45%) Problem-Solving
3 193 (12.66%) Continuous Improvement
4 182 (11.94%) Cybersecurity
5 167 (10.96%) Software Engineering
6 160 (10.50%) DevOps
7 149 (9.78%) Analytics
8 123 (8.07%) ITIL
9 122 (8.01%) CI/CD
10 113 (7.41%) Mentoring
11 102 (6.69%) Collaborative Culture
12 99 (6.50%) Community of Practice
13 91 (5.97%) Technology Strategy
14 87 (5.71%) Business Intelligence
15 86 (5.64%) Infrastructure as Code
16 83 (5.45%) AI
17 82 (5.38%) Stakeholder Management
18 78 (5.12%) Validation
19 77 (5.05%) Risk Management
20 76 (4.99%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 163 (10.70%) Python
2 121 (7.94%) Java
3 102 (6.69%) JavaScript
4 71 (4.66%) C#
5 64 (4.20%) SQL
6 39 (2.56%) PowerShell
7 34 (2.23%) TypeScript
8 27 (1.77%) C++
9 25 (1.64%) Bash
10 23 (1.51%) Apex Code
11 22 (1.44%) C
12 17 (1.12%) Bicep
13 13 (0.85%) Go
14 9 (0.59%) Ada
15 7 (0.46%) ABAP
15 7 (0.46%) MATLAB
16 6 (0.39%) Google Apps Script
16 6 (0.39%) Rust
16 6 (0.39%) Scala
16 6 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 943 (61.88%) SC Cleared
2 324 (21.26%) Degree
3 246 (16.14%) DV Cleared
4 82 (5.38%) CISSP
5 74 (4.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 65 (4.27%) CTC Cleared
7 55 (3.61%) Microsoft Certification
8 53 (3.48%) CISM
9 52 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
10 39 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
11 37 (2.43%) Azure Certification
12 28 (1.84%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 26 (1.71%) AWS Certification
14 24 (1.57%) CCNA
15 17 (1.12%) Master's Degree
16 15 (0.98%) CCNP
17 14 (0.92%) CREST Certified
17 14 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
18 12 (0.79%) CRISC
18 12 (0.79%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (6.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 72 (4.72%) NIST
3 70 (4.59%) SLA
4 58 (3.81%) Accessibility
5 52 (3.41%) GDPR
6 45 (2.95%) GRC
6 45 (2.95%) QA
7 26 (1.71%) WCAG
8 22 (1.44%) Data Quality
9 19 (1.25%) NCSC
10 17 (1.12%) JSP 440
11 15 (0.98%) PCI DSS
12 13 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
13 10 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 9 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 8 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (0.33%) NIST 800
17 4 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
17 4 (0.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 4 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 80 (5.25%) Docker
2 32 (2.10%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.79%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.66%) VMware NSX
6 8 (0.52%) Firmware
7 7 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.13%) vSphere
10 1 (0.066%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.066%) vCloud
10 1 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.066%) Xen
Systems Management
1 92 (6.04%) Terraform
2 80 (5.25%) Kubernetes
3 47 (3.08%) Ansible
4 30 (1.97%) Grafana
5 14 (0.92%) Prometheus
6 12 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.46%) Nmap
7 7 (0.46%) Puppet
8 6 (0.39%) Endace
8 6 (0.39%) SCOM
9 5 (0.33%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.33%) Kibana
10 4 (0.26%) Nagios
10 4 (0.26%) SCCM
10 4 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.26%) WSUS
10 4 (0.26%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.20%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.20%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 185 (12.14%) Microsoft
2 119 (7.81%) Cisco
3 82 (5.38%) SAP
4 63 (4.13%) Google
5 54 (3.54%) Salesforce
6 34 (2.23%) Oracle
7 27 (1.77%) Adobe
7 27 (1.77%) VMware
8 18 (1.18%) MuleSoft
8 18 (1.18%) ServiceNow
9 14 (0.92%) Splunk
10 13 (0.85%) Juniper
10 13 (0.85%) Red Hat
11 12 (0.79%) F5
12 10 (0.66%) CheckPoint
13 9 (0.59%) CyberArk
13 9 (0.59%) Meraki
14 8 (0.52%) Databricks
15 7 (0.46%) Remedy
16 6 (0.39%) BMC