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 11 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 43 25
Rank change year-on-year +27 -18 +8
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,655 985 2,488
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.98% 6.74% 7.65%
As % of the Qualifications category 38.76% 21.75% 28.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,198 530 1,726
10th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £54,468 £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 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £89,650 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £61,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +5.69% +6.96% -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 4,270 4,529 8,800
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 23.16% 30.98% 27.04%
Number of salaries quoted 2,883 2,459 5,905
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,800 £32,500
25th Percentile £48,115 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,296
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.30% -7.19%

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 11 May 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 (2.11%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.03%) Apache
3 16 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (0.73%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.24%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.24%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.24%) Oracle Spatial
7 3 (0.18%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.18%) Confluence
7 3 (0.18%) SAS
8 2 (0.12%) Camunda
8 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.060%) Appian
9 1 (0.060%) Drupal
9 1 (0.060%) nginx
9 1 (0.060%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.060%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.060%) WordPress
Applications
1 67 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (1.39%) Adobe XD
3 12 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.30%) InVision
4 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.30%) Sketch
5 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.12%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.12%) Weka
6 2 (0.12%) Windchill
7 1 (0.060%) CATIA
7 1 (0.060%) EngageOne
7 1 (0.060%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.060%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 27 (1.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (0.36%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.24%) SAP FSCM
4 3 (0.18%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.18%) Primavera
4 3 (0.18%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.18%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.18%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (0.12%) SAP SCM
6 1 (0.060%) Magento
6 1 (0.060%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.060%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.060%) SAP PSCD
6 1 (0.060%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.060%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.060%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 295 (17.82%) Azure
2 262 (15.83%) AWS
3 106 (6.40%) Microsoft 365
4 96 (5.80%) GCP
5 58 (3.50%) Entra ID
6 52 (3.14%) Power Platform
7 26 (1.57%) Serverless
8 24 (1.45%) Figma
9 23 (1.39%) GitHub
10 22 (1.33%) AWS CloudFormation
10 22 (1.33%) SaaS
11 20 (1.21%) Dynamics 365
11 20 (1.21%) PowerApps
12 19 (1.15%) Google Analytics
13 18 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
13 18 (1.09%) Power Automate
14 17 (1.03%) Azure Sentinel
14 17 (1.03%) PaaS
15 16 (0.97%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 16 (0.97%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 40 (2.42%) Firewall
2 32 (1.93%) Network Security
3 30 (1.81%) WAN
4 25 (1.51%) VPN
5 23 (1.39%) DNS
6 20 (1.21%) LAN
7 19 (1.15%) DHCP
8 18 (1.09%) BGP
9 15 (0.91%) MPLS
10 12 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (0.66%) SMTP
11 11 (0.66%) TCP/IP
12 7 (0.42%) DMZ
12 7 (0.42%) HTTP
12 7 (0.42%) Intrusion Detection
12 7 (0.42%) SD-WAN
12 7 (0.42%) SNMP
13 6 (0.36%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (0.36%) Cisco Firepower
13 6 (0.36%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (2.48%) Power BI
2 36 (2.18%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (1.33%) NoSQL
4 19 (1.15%) Metadata
5 16 (0.97%) MongoDB
6 14 (0.85%) SQL Server
7 10 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (0.60%) Relational Database
8 9 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (0.54%) DynamoDB
8 9 (0.54%) Redis
9 8 (0.48%) SAP HANA
10 7 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (0.42%) MySQL
10 7 (0.42%) Tableau
11 6 (0.36%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (0.36%) Big Data
11 6 (0.36%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.24%) GIS
Development Applications
1 51 (3.08%) Git
2 31 (1.87%) Jenkins
3 23 (1.39%) GitLab
4 19 (1.15%) Axure RP
5 18 (1.09%) Balsamiq
6 15 (0.91%) JIRA
7 11 (0.66%) Selenium
8 7 (0.42%) JUnit
9 6 (0.36%) JMeter
10 5 (0.30%) Maven
11 4 (0.24%) Babel
11 4 (0.24%) Burp Suite
11 4 (0.24%) Metasploit
11 4 (0.24%) Mockito
11 4 (0.24%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.24%) webpack
12 3 (0.18%) MSTest
12 3 (0.18%) Postman
12 3 (0.18%) SoapUI
13 2 (0.12%) Cucumber
General
1 375 (22.66%) Social Skills
2 345 (20.85%) Public Sector
3 188 (11.36%) Finance
4 166 (10.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 134 (8.10%) Analytical Skills
6 124 (7.49%) Law
7 55 (3.32%) Manufacturing
8 54 (3.26%) Back Office
9 52 (3.14%) Legal
10 50 (3.02%) Telecoms
11 36 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
12 28 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
13 27 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
14 23 (1.39%) Marketing
15 22 (1.33%) Aerospace
15 22 (1.33%) Electronics
15 22 (1.33%) Retail
16 21 (1.27%) Military
17 10 (0.60%) Aviation
17 10 (0.60%) Banking
Job Titles
1 266 (16.07%) Senior
2 202 (12.21%) Architect
3 164 (9.91%) Consultant
4 150 (9.06%) Analyst
5 128 (7.73%) Lead
6 116 (7.01%) Systems Engineer
7 106 (6.40%) Developer
8 99 (5.98%) Business Analyst
9 97 (5.86%) Software Engineer
10 90 (5.44%) Solutions Architect
11 69 (4.17%) Support Engineer
12 56 (3.38%) Cloud Engineer
13 54 (3.26%) Data Engineer
14 52 (3.14%) Senior Manager
14 52 (3.14%) Site Engineer
15 51 (3.08%) Desktop Engineer
15 51 (3.08%) Desktop Support
15 51 (3.08%) Desktop Support Engineer
16 43 (2.60%) Java Developer
16 43 (2.60%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (2.72%) REST
2 37 (2.24%) .NET
3 34 (2.05%) Spring
4 31 (1.87%) React
5 26 (1.57%) CSS
5 26 (1.57%) HTML
6 24 (1.45%) SOAP
7 20 (1.21%) Middleware
8 19 (1.15%) Kafka
8 19 (1.15%) Lightning Web Components
9 18 (1.09%) Spring Boot
10 16 (0.97%) Visualforce
11 14 (0.85%) SAML
12 13 (0.79%) AngularJS
13 12 (0.73%) SAP Fiori
14 11 (0.66%) ASP.NET
15 10 (0.60%) Django
15 10 (0.60%) HTML5 Canvas
15 10 (0.60%) RESTful
16 9 (0.54%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 80 (4.83%) Cloud Native
2 77 (4.65%) Product Ownership
3 51 (3.08%) Security Posture
4 50 (3.02%) Onboarding
5 41 (2.48%) Data Centre
6 39 (2.36%) Management Information System
7 32 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
8 28 (1.69%) PKI
9 22 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
10 21 (1.27%) Blog
11 18 (1.09%) Low-Code
12 17 (1.03%) Driving Licence
13 16 (0.97%) Security Operations Centre
14 15 (0.91%) Data Structures
15 12 (0.73%) Cyber Threat
16 11 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
16 11 (0.66%) Cloud Security Posture
16 11 (0.66%) Cyber Security Posture
16 11 (0.66%) Cyberattack
17 10 (0.60%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 124 (7.49%) Windows
2 92 (5.56%) Linux
3 59 (3.56%) Windows 10
4 25 (1.51%) Windows Server
5 20 (1.21%) Unix
6 7 (0.42%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.30%) Android
7 5 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.18%) CentOS
8 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.060%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.060%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.060%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (19.21%) Agile
2 201 (12.15%) Continuous Improvement
3 200 (12.08%) Cybersecurity
4 168 (10.15%) DevOps
5 159 (9.61%) Problem-Solving
6 149 (9.00%) Mentoring
7 148 (8.94%) Software Engineering
8 137 (8.28%) Analytics
9 130 (7.85%) ITIL
10 121 (7.31%) Community of Practice
11 117 (7.07%) CI/CD
12 111 (6.71%) Stakeholder Management
13 110 (6.65%) Technology Strategy
14 101 (6.10%) Collaborative Culture
15 96 (5.80%) Risk Management
16 93 (5.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 84 (5.08%) Project Delivery
18 82 (4.95%) Roadmaps
19 81 (4.89%) Infrastructure as Code
20 79 (4.77%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 132 (7.98%) Python
2 124 (7.49%) Java
3 77 (4.65%) SQL
4 75 (4.53%) JavaScript
5 51 (3.08%) C#
6 29 (1.75%) PowerShell
7 26 (1.57%) TypeScript
8 25 (1.51%) C++
9 19 (1.15%) Apex Code
9 19 (1.15%) Bash
10 10 (0.60%) C
11 9 (0.54%) Groovy
11 9 (0.54%) Rust
12 6 (0.36%) Ada
12 6 (0.36%) Go
12 6 (0.36%) Scala
13 4 (0.24%) Bicep
13 4 (0.24%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.24%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.24%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,075 (64.95%) SC Cleared
2 314 (18.97%) DV Cleared
3 276 (16.68%) Degree
4 82 (4.95%) BPSS Clearance
5 67 (4.05%) CISSP
6 56 (3.38%) CTC Cleared
7 50 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 43 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
9 40 (2.42%) CISM
10 25 (1.51%) Azure Certification
11 19 (1.15%) AWS Certification
12 17 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
13 15 (0.91%) HNC
14 14 (0.85%) CREST Certified
14 14 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
15 11 (0.66%) PMI Certification
16 10 (0.60%) GIAC
17 9 (0.54%) CCIE
17 9 (0.54%) CRISC
17 9 (0.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (5.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 61 (3.69%) NIST
2 61 (3.69%) SLA
3 48 (2.90%) QA
4 47 (2.84%) Accessibility
5 45 (2.72%) GDPR
6 32 (1.93%) GRC
7 30 (1.81%) Data Quality
8 27 (1.63%) NCSC
9 22 (1.33%) WCAG
10 21 (1.27%) PCI DSS
11 15 (0.91%) JSP 440
12 13 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
13 12 (0.73%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 9 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 8 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
16 7 (0.42%) Government Security Classifications
16 7 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 6 (0.36%) PMO
18 5 (0.30%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 71 (4.29%) Docker
2 38 (2.30%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.66%) VMware NSX
5 8 (0.48%) Firmware
5 8 (0.48%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.30%) vSphere
7 4 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.060%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.060%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.060%) IAG
9 1 (0.060%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.060%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.060%) Xen
Systems Management
1 87 (5.26%) Terraform
2 76 (4.59%) Kubernetes
3 56 (3.38%) Ansible
4 18 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (1.03%) Grafana
6 16 (0.97%) Prometheus
7 9 (0.54%) Puppet
8 6 (0.36%) Argo
8 6 (0.36%) Endace
8 6 (0.36%) Packer
8 6 (0.36%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.30%) AWS Copilot
10 4 (0.24%) Istio
10 4 (0.24%) Kustomize
10 4 (0.24%) Nmap
10 4 (0.24%) QRadar
10 4 (0.24%) SCCM
10 4 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.24%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.24%) WSUS
Vendors
1 193 (11.66%) Microsoft
2 93 (5.62%) Cisco
3 55 (3.32%) Google
4 52 (3.14%) SAP
5 42 (2.54%) Oracle
6 28 (1.69%) Salesforce
6 28 (1.69%) VMware
7 23 (1.39%) Adobe
8 22 (1.33%) Red Hat
8 22 (1.33%) ServiceNow
9 15 (0.91%) MuleSoft
10 14 (0.85%) Databricks
11 12 (0.73%) CyberArk
11 12 (0.73%) Splunk
12 11 (0.66%) Juniper
12 11 (0.66%) Meraki
13 8 (0.48%) F5
13 8 (0.48%) Okta
14 6 (0.36%) Ariba
14 6 (0.36%) CheckPoint