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 6 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 41 25
Rank change year-on-year +22 -16 +5
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,613 986 2,601
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.34% 6.62% 7.71%
As % of the Qualifications category 37.85% 19.63% 28.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,202 497 1,756
10th Percentile £45,454 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £54,813 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% -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 4,261 5,022 9,025
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 22.02% 33.74% 26.75%
Number of salaries quoted 2,907 2,324 5,883
10th Percentile £33,350 £27,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,300 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.83% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £88,625 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +2.80% -10.83%

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 6 June 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 35 (2.17%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.43%) Apache
3 17 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (0.87%) Apache Spark
4 14 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.43%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.19%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.19%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.19%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.19%) Confluence
6 3 (0.19%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.19%) IIS
6 3 (0.19%) Mule
6 3 (0.19%) Oracle Spatial
6 3 (0.19%) SAS
7 2 (0.12%) Camunda
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.062%) nginx
8 1 (0.062%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.062%) WordPress
Applications
1 61 (3.78%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (0.93%) Adobe XD
3 14 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.31%) InVision
5 5 (0.31%) Sketch
6 4 (0.25%) Windchill
7 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.19%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.12%) Weka
9 1 (0.062%) CATIA
9 1 (0.062%) EngageOne
9 1 (0.062%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 27 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.43%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.25%) Primavera
3 4 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.25%) SAP FSCM
4 3 (0.19%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.19%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.19%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.19%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (0.12%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.062%) Magento
6 1 (0.062%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.062%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.062%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.062%) SAP PSCD
6 1 (0.062%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.062%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 335 (20.77%) Azure
2 305 (18.91%) AWS
3 106 (6.57%) Microsoft 365
4 102 (6.32%) GCP
5 66 (4.09%) Entra ID
6 53 (3.29%) Power Platform
7 26 (1.61%) GitHub
7 26 (1.61%) SaaS
7 26 (1.61%) Serverless
8 25 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
9 21 (1.30%) PaaS
10 20 (1.24%) Google Analytics
11 19 (1.18%) Amazon S3
12 18 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
12 18 (1.12%) Azure Sentinel
13 17 (1.05%) Amazon EC2
13 17 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
14 16 (0.99%) Figma
14 16 (0.99%) PowerApps
15 15 (0.93%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 41 (2.54%) Firewall
2 40 (2.48%) Network Security
3 31 (1.92%) WAN
4 26 (1.61%) VPN
5 24 (1.49%) DNS
6 21 (1.30%) LAN
7 20 (1.24%) BGP
7 20 (1.24%) DHCP
8 19 (1.18%) TCP/IP
9 14 (0.87%) MPLS
10 12 (0.74%) SMTP
10 12 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (0.50%) HTTP
12 7 (0.43%) Intrusion Detection
12 7 (0.43%) SNMP
12 7 (0.43%) VoIP
13 6 (0.37%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (0.37%) Cisco Firepower
13 6 (0.37%) DMZ
13 6 (0.37%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (2.60%) Power BI
2 38 (2.36%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (1.18%) Metadata
3 19 (1.18%) NoSQL
4 17 (1.05%) MongoDB
5 15 (0.93%) SQL Server
6 14 (0.87%) Big Data
7 12 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (0.74%) DynamoDB
7 12 (0.74%) Redis
8 11 (0.68%) Amazon Athena
9 9 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (0.50%) MySQL
11 7 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (0.43%) Relational Database
11 7 (0.43%) Tableau
12 6 (0.37%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.37%) SAP HANA
13 5 (0.31%) Data Lake
14 4 (0.25%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 54 (3.35%) Git
2 36 (2.23%) GitLab
3 35 (2.17%) Jenkins
4 13 (0.81%) JIRA
4 13 (0.81%) JUnit
4 13 (0.81%) Selenium
5 11 (0.68%) Axure RP
6 10 (0.62%) Balsamiq
7 8 (0.50%) Maven
8 7 (0.43%) Mockito
9 6 (0.37%) Burp Suite
9 6 (0.37%) JMeter
9 6 (0.37%) Metasploit
10 5 (0.31%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.31%) Postman
11 4 (0.25%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.19%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.19%) Gatling
12 3 (0.19%) SoapUI
12 3 (0.19%) webpack
General
1 388 (24.05%) Social Skills
2 371 (23.00%) Public Sector
3 182 (11.28%) Finance
4 174 (10.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 152 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
6 127 (7.87%) Law
7 52 (3.22%) Legal
8 51 (3.16%) Back Office
9 38 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
10 36 (2.23%) Manufacturing
11 34 (2.11%) Telecoms
12 27 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
13 26 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
14 25 (1.55%) Retail
15 23 (1.43%) Aerospace
16 16 (0.99%) Military
17 13 (0.81%) Aviation
18 10 (0.62%) Banking
19 9 (0.56%) Electronics
19 9 (0.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 286 (17.73%) Senior
2 214 (13.27%) Architect
3 163 (10.11%) Consultant
4 143 (8.87%) Analyst
5 122 (7.56%) Lead
6 118 (7.32%) Developer
7 97 (6.01%) Solutions Architect
8 92 (5.70%) Software Engineer
9 88 (5.46%) Business Analyst
10 76 (4.71%) Systems Engineer
11 68 (4.22%) Support Engineer
12 64 (3.97%) Data Engineer
13 59 (3.66%) Cloud Engineer
14 55 (3.41%) Senior Manager
15 54 (3.35%) Site Engineer
16 48 (2.98%) Desktop Engineer
16 48 (2.98%) Desktop Support
16 48 (2.98%) Desktop Support Engineer
17 47 (2.91%) Java Developer
18 44 (2.73%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (3.22%) REST
2 41 (2.54%) Spring
3 35 (2.17%) .NET
4 33 (2.05%) React
5 28 (1.74%) SOAP
6 22 (1.36%) Middleware
7 21 (1.30%) Spring Boot
8 18 (1.12%) CSS
8 18 (1.12%) HTML
8 18 (1.12%) Kafka
9 17 (1.05%) Lightning Web Components
10 15 (0.93%) Playwright
10 15 (0.93%) Visualforce
11 14 (0.87%) AngularJS
11 14 (0.87%) SAML
12 13 (0.81%) RESTful
13 12 (0.74%) SAP Fiori
14 10 (0.62%) JSON
15 9 (0.56%) Django
15 9 (0.56%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 96 (5.95%) Cloud Native
2 70 (4.34%) Product Ownership
3 57 (3.53%) Security Posture
4 51 (3.16%) Onboarding
5 39 (2.42%) Management Information System
6 38 (2.36%) Data Centre
7 37 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
8 30 (1.86%) PKI
9 26 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
10 20 (1.24%) Blog
11 18 (1.12%) Driving Licence
11 18 (1.12%) Low-Code
12 17 (1.05%) Security Operations Centre
13 15 (0.93%) Data Structures
14 14 (0.87%) CMDB
15 12 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
15 12 (0.74%) Cyber Threat
16 11 (0.68%) Cyber Security Posture
16 11 (0.68%) Cyberattack
16 11 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 119 (7.38%) Windows
2 97 (6.01%) Linux
3 56 (3.47%) Windows 10
4 27 (1.67%) Windows Server
5 21 (1.30%) Unix
6 5 (0.31%) Android
6 5 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.31%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.19%) CentOS
9 1 (0.062%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.062%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.062%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 337 (20.89%) Agile
2 231 (14.32%) Continuous Improvement
3 210 (13.02%) Cybersecurity
4 181 (11.22%) DevOps
5 179 (11.10%) Problem-Solving
6 170 (10.54%) Mentoring
7 148 (9.18%) CI/CD
8 137 (8.49%) Analytics
8 137 (8.49%) Software Engineering
9 135 (8.37%) ITIL
10 124 (7.69%) Community of Practice
11 121 (7.50%) Stakeholder Management
12 120 (7.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 114 (7.07%) Technology Strategy
14 107 (6.63%) Collaborative Culture
15 103 (6.39%) Infrastructure as Code
16 98 (6.08%) Risk Management
17 90 (5.58%) AI
18 88 (5.46%) Decision-Making
18 88 (5.46%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 150 (9.30%) Python
2 136 (8.43%) Java
3 91 (5.64%) SQL
4 74 (4.59%) JavaScript
5 47 (2.91%) C#
6 34 (2.11%) PowerShell
7 32 (1.98%) Bash
8 27 (1.67%) C++
9 26 (1.61%) TypeScript
10 17 (1.05%) Apex Code
11 12 (0.74%) Groovy
12 9 (0.56%) Rust
13 7 (0.43%) C
14 6 (0.37%) Go
14 6 (0.37%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.37%) Scala
15 4 (0.25%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.25%) VBA
16 3 (0.19%) ABAP
16 3 (0.19%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,146 (71.05%) SC Cleared
2 316 (19.59%) DV Cleared
3 280 (17.36%) Degree
4 84 (5.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 73 (4.53%) CISSP
6 52 (3.22%) CTC Cleared
7 46 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 42 (2.60%) CISM
9 38 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
10 25 (1.55%) AWS Certification
10 25 (1.55%) Azure Certification
11 18 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (0.99%) CREST Certified
13 15 (0.93%) HNC
13 15 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
14 14 (0.87%) PMI Certification
15 13 (0.81%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 10 (0.62%) CRISC
16 10 (0.62%) GIAC
17 9 (0.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (7.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 68 (4.22%) NIST
3 62 (3.84%) SLA
4 57 (3.53%) QA
5 48 (2.98%) GDPR
6 44 (2.73%) Accessibility
7 41 (2.54%) NCSC
8 35 (2.17%) Data Quality
9 27 (1.67%) GRC
10 25 (1.55%) PCI DSS
11 18 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
12 17 (1.05%) JSP 440
13 16 (0.99%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 16 (0.99%) WCAG
14 13 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
15 11 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 9 (0.56%) Def Stans
17 7 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
18 6 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
18 6 (0.37%) PMO
System Software
1 80 (4.96%) Docker
2 44 (2.73%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.68%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.56%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.50%) Firmware
7 6 (0.37%) vSphere
8 5 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.062%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.062%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.062%) IAG
10 1 (0.062%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.062%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.062%) Xen
Systems Management
1 100 (6.20%) Terraform
2 88 (5.46%) Kubernetes
3 53 (3.29%) Ansible
4 21 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (1.30%) Prometheus
5 20 (1.24%) Grafana
6 10 (0.62%) Argo
7 8 (0.50%) Progress Chef
7 8 (0.50%) Puppet
7 8 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.43%) Packer
9 6 (0.37%) Kustomize
9 6 (0.37%) Nmap
9 6 (0.37%) QRadar
10 5 (0.31%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.31%) Endace
10 5 (0.31%) Istio
10 5 (0.31%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.25%) Kibana
11 4 (0.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 204 (12.65%) Microsoft
2 88 (5.46%) Cisco
3 54 (3.35%) Google
4 44 (2.73%) Oracle
4 44 (2.73%) SAP
5 35 (2.17%) ServiceNow
6 30 (1.86%) Salesforce
6 30 (1.86%) VMware
7 22 (1.36%) Red Hat
8 17 (1.05%) MuleSoft
9 15 (0.93%) Adobe
9 15 (0.93%) Splunk
10 13 (0.81%) Databricks
11 12 (0.74%) CyberArk
12 11 (0.68%) Meraki
13 10 (0.62%) Juniper
14 8 (0.50%) F5
14 8 (0.50%) Okta
15 7 (0.43%) CheckPoint
15 7 (0.43%) Dell