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 18 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 45 25
Rank change year-on-year +28 -20 +5
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,630 753 2,502
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 9.20% 5.70% 7.70%
As % of the Qualifications category 38.21% 19.02% 28.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,146 544 1,742
10th Percentile £47,250 £46,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -0.71%

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 4,266 3,958 8,739
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 24.07% 29.94% 26.88%
Number of salaries quoted 2,842 2,482 5,959
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,125 £42,563 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £60,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £78,790 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £58,000 £57,500 £54,260
% change year-on-year +0.87% +5.97% -5.64%

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 18 April 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 (2.15%) SharePoint
2 16 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (0.86%) Apache
3 14 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (0.55%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.25%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.25%) Confluence
5 4 (0.25%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.25%) Oracle Spatial
6 3 (0.18%) Camunda
6 3 (0.18%) SAS
7 2 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.12%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.12%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.12%) WebLogic Portal
8 1 (0.061%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.061%) Appian
8 1 (0.061%) Drupal
8 1 (0.061%) IIS
8 1 (0.061%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 76 (4.66%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (1.72%) Adobe XD
3 12 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.31%) InVision
5 5 (0.31%) Sketch
6 2 (0.12%) Weka
7 1 (0.061%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.061%) CATIA
7 1 (0.061%) EngageOne
7 1 (0.061%) EPLAN
7 1 (0.061%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.061%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.061%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 27 (1.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.25%) SAP CO
3 4 (0.25%) SAP FI
3 4 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
3 4 (0.25%) SAP FSCM
4 3 (0.18%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.18%) Primavera
4 3 (0.18%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.18%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (0.12%) SAP SCM
6 1 (0.061%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.061%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.061%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.061%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.061%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 271 (16.63%) Azure
2 232 (14.23%) AWS
3 115 (7.06%) Microsoft 365
4 89 (5.46%) GCP
5 54 (3.31%) Entra ID
6 51 (3.13%) Power Platform
7 32 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
8 29 (1.78%) Figma
9 24 (1.47%) PowerApps
10 21 (1.29%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
10 21 (1.29%) Serverless
11 20 (1.23%) Power Automate
12 19 (1.17%) Google Analytics
12 19 (1.17%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 19 (1.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 18 (1.10%) Amazon ECS
13 18 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
13 18 (1.10%) GitHub
14 15 (0.92%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.33%) Firewall
2 28 (1.72%) WAN
3 26 (1.60%) VPN
4 25 (1.53%) Network Security
5 21 (1.29%) DNS
6 20 (1.23%) LAN
7 19 (1.17%) DHCP
8 18 (1.10%) TCP/IP
9 16 (0.98%) BGP
10 13 (0.80%) MPLS
11 12 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
12 11 (0.67%) SMTP
13 8 (0.49%) HTTP
14 7 (0.43%) Intrusion Detection
14 7 (0.43%) SNMP
15 6 (0.37%) Cisco ASA
15 6 (0.37%) Cisco Firepower
15 6 (0.37%) VoIP
16 5 (0.31%) DMZ
16 5 (0.31%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (2.45%) Power BI
2 37 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (1.41%) NoSQL
4 18 (1.10%) Metadata
4 18 (1.10%) MongoDB
5 15 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
6 14 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (0.80%) Redis
7 13 (0.80%) SQL Server
8 9 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (0.55%) DynamoDB
8 9 (0.55%) MySQL
8 9 (0.55%) Relational Database
8 9 (0.55%) Tableau
9 8 (0.49%) SAP HANA
10 6 (0.37%) BigQuery
11 5 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (0.31%) Oracle Database
12 4 (0.25%) InfluxDB
12 4 (0.25%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 49 (3.01%) Git
2 32 (1.96%) Jenkins
3 26 (1.60%) Balsamiq
4 24 (1.47%) Axure RP
5 23 (1.41%) GitLab
6 18 (1.10%) JIRA
7 9 (0.55%) Selenium
8 8 (0.49%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.43%) JMeter
10 6 (0.37%) Burp Suite
10 6 (0.37%) Metasploit
10 6 (0.37%) Robot Framework
11 5 (0.31%) Babel
11 5 (0.31%) webpack
12 4 (0.25%) JUnit
13 3 (0.18%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.18%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.18%) Maven
13 3 (0.18%) MSTest
13 3 (0.18%) SoapUI
General
1 394 (24.17%) Social Skills
2 333 (20.43%) Public Sector
3 194 (11.90%) Finance
4 160 (9.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 135 (8.28%) Analytical Skills
6 125 (7.67%) Law
7 63 (3.87%) Back Office
7 63 (3.87%) Manufacturing
8 59 (3.62%) Telecoms
9 51 (3.13%) Legal
10 35 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
11 31 (1.90%) Electronics
12 30 (1.84%) Marketing
13 27 (1.66%) Military
13 27 (1.66%) Retail
14 25 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
15 22 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
16 20 (1.23%) Aerospace
17 10 (0.61%) Banking
18 8 (0.49%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 257 (15.77%) Senior
2 176 (10.80%) Architect
3 148 (9.08%) Analyst
4 146 (8.96%) Consultant
5 140 (8.59%) Systems Engineer
6 117 (7.18%) Lead
7 102 (6.26%) Business Analyst
8 94 (5.77%) Developer
9 93 (5.71%) Software Engineer
10 78 (4.79%) Support Engineer
11 68 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
12 64 (3.93%) Site Engineer
13 60 (3.68%) Desktop Engineer
13 60 (3.68%) Desktop Support
13 60 (3.68%) Desktop Support Engineer
14 54 (3.31%) Senior Manager
15 51 (3.13%) Data Engineer
16 43 (2.64%) Cloud Engineer
17 41 (2.52%) Security Consultant
17 41 (2.52%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (2.64%) .NET
2 40 (2.45%) REST
3 31 (1.90%) Spring
4 30 (1.84%) CSS
4 30 (1.84%) HTML
5 29 (1.78%) React
6 23 (1.41%) Lightning Web Components
6 23 (1.41%) SOAP
7 22 (1.35%) Middleware
8 19 (1.17%) Kafka
8 19 (1.17%) Visualforce
9 16 (0.98%) Spring Boot
10 15 (0.92%) Django
11 14 (0.86%) SAML
12 13 (0.80%) AngularJS
12 13 (0.80%) ASP.NET
13 11 (0.67%) OLE
13 11 (0.67%) SAP CAF
14 10 (0.61%) RESTful
14 10 (0.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 81 (4.97%) Product Ownership
2 63 (3.87%) Cloud Native
3 52 (3.19%) Security Posture
4 47 (2.88%) Onboarding
5 42 (2.58%) Data Centre
6 40 (2.45%) Management Information System
7 32 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
8 24 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
9 23 (1.41%) PKI
10 19 (1.17%) Blog
10 19 (1.17%) Low-Code
11 17 (1.04%) Driving Licence
12 15 (0.92%) Security Operations Centre
13 13 (0.80%) Data Structures
14 12 (0.74%) Cyber Threat
14 12 (0.74%) Cyberattack
15 11 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
15 11 (0.67%) Cyber Security Posture
15 11 (0.67%) Distributed Systems
15 11 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 132 (8.10%) Windows
2 101 (6.20%) Linux
3 68 (4.17%) Windows 10
4 29 (1.78%) Unix
5 22 (1.35%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.55%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.43%) CentOS
8 5 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.25%) Android
10 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.061%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.061%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.061%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (19.14%) Agile
2 198 (12.15%) Continuous Improvement
3 191 (11.72%) Cybersecurity
4 169 (10.37%) Problem-Solving
5 166 (10.18%) DevOps
6 145 (8.90%) Analytics
6 145 (8.90%) Software Engineering
7 133 (8.16%) Mentoring
8 127 (7.79%) ITIL
9 124 (7.61%) Community of Practice
10 114 (6.99%) CI/CD
11 111 (6.81%) Technology Strategy
12 101 (6.20%) Collaborative Culture
13 99 (6.07%) Stakeholder Management
14 92 (5.64%) Risk Management
15 83 (5.09%) Project Delivery
16 81 (4.97%) Validation
17 79 (4.85%) Infrastructure as Code
17 79 (4.85%) Roadmaps
18 77 (4.72%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 126 (7.73%) Python
2 115 (7.06%) Java
3 75 (4.60%) JavaScript
4 71 (4.36%) SQL
5 57 (3.50%) C#
6 34 (2.09%) PowerShell
7 25 (1.53%) TypeScript
8 23 (1.41%) Apex Code
9 22 (1.35%) Bash
10 18 (1.10%) C++
11 9 (0.55%) Ada
11 9 (0.55%) Go
12 8 (0.49%) C
12 8 (0.49%) Rust
13 7 (0.43%) Groovy
14 6 (0.37%) VBA
15 5 (0.31%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.25%) ABAP
16 4 (0.25%) Scala
16 4 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,010 (61.96%) SC Cleared
2 310 (19.02%) Degree
3 296 (18.16%) DV Cleared
4 72 (4.42%) CISSP
5 66 (4.05%) CTC Cleared
6 59 (3.62%) BPSS Clearance
7 53 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
8 46 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
9 42 (2.58%) CISM
10 26 (1.60%) Azure Certification
11 22 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
12 19 (1.17%) AWS Certification
12 19 (1.17%) CREST Certified
13 14 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
14 13 (0.80%) HNC
14 13 (0.80%) Master's Degree
15 12 (0.74%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 11 (0.67%) GIAC
16 11 (0.67%) OSCP
17 10 (0.61%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 69 (4.23%) SLA
3 61 (3.74%) NIST
4 50 (3.07%) Accessibility
5 46 (2.82%) GDPR
6 43 (2.64%) QA
7 34 (2.09%) GRC
8 27 (1.66%) Data Quality
8 27 (1.66%) WCAG
9 20 (1.23%) NCSC
10 19 (1.17%) PCI DSS
11 13 (0.80%) JSP 440
12 12 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
13 9 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 9 (0.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 7 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
14 7 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
14 7 (0.43%) PMO
15 5 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 4 (0.25%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 81 (4.97%) Docker
2 36 (2.21%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.67%) VMware NSX
5 7 (0.43%) Firmware
6 6 (0.37%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.25%) vSphere
9 2 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.061%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.061%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.061%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.061%) vCloud
10 1 (0.061%) Xen
Systems Management
1 90 (5.52%) Terraform
2 77 (4.72%) Kubernetes
3 55 (3.37%) Ansible
4 21 (1.29%) Grafana
5 17 (1.04%) Prometheus
6 16 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (0.55%) Puppet
8 6 (0.37%) Endace
8 6 (0.37%) Nmap
9 5 (0.31%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.31%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 4 (0.25%) Argo
10 4 (0.25%) Kibana
10 4 (0.25%) Packer
10 4 (0.25%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.25%) QRadar
10 4 (0.25%) SCCM
10 4 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.25%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 192 (11.78%) Microsoft
2 103 (6.32%) Cisco
3 65 (3.99%) Google
4 57 (3.50%) SAP
5 40 (2.45%) Oracle
5 40 (2.45%) Salesforce
6 28 (1.72%) Adobe
7 27 (1.66%) VMware
8 20 (1.23%) Red Hat
8 20 (1.23%) Splunk
9 18 (1.10%) MuleSoft
10 15 (0.92%) ServiceNow
11 12 (0.74%) Databricks
12 11 (0.67%) CyberArk
13 9 (0.55%) Juniper
13 9 (0.55%) Meraki
14 8 (0.49%) F5
14 8 (0.49%) Okta
15 6 (0.37%) Ariba
15 6 (0.37%) CheckPoint