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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 38 24
Rank change year-on-year +16 -14 +4
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,567 1,060 2,571
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.63% 6.73% 7.66%
As % of the Qualifications category 36.06% 19.82% 28.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,193 535 1,750
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,608 £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% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.00% +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 4,346 5,348 8,944
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 21.15% 33.97% 26.66%
Number of salaries quoted 3,020 2,379 5,790
10th Percentile £33,250 £28,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £56,650
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +5.91% -5.58%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,500 £88,750 £86,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +3.77% -11.67%

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 28 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 37 (2.36%) SharePoint
2 24 (1.53%) Apache
3 16 (1.02%) Apache Spark
4 15 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.45%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.38%) Anypoint
7 6 (0.38%) Mule
8 5 (0.32%) IIS
9 4 (0.26%) Confluence
10 3 (0.19%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.19%) Camunda
10 3 (0.19%) SAS
11 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.13%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.13%) nginx
11 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.13%) Oracle Spatial
12 1 (0.064%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.064%) WordPress
Applications
1 45 (2.87%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.57%) Adobe XD
4 7 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.26%) Windchill
6 3 (0.19%) InVision
6 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.19%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.19%) Simulink
6 3 (0.19%) Sketch
7 2 (0.13%) Weka
8 1 (0.064%) CATIA
8 1 (0.064%) EngageOne
8 1 (0.064%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.064%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 28 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.45%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.32%) Primavera
4 4 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.26%) SAP FSCM
5 3 (0.19%) Elite 3E
5 3 (0.19%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.19%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.19%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.13%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.13%) SAP QM
7 1 (0.064%) C-CURE
7 1 (0.064%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.064%) SAP EWM
7 1 (0.064%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.064%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.064%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 365 (23.29%) Azure
2 324 (20.68%) AWS
3 108 (6.89%) GCP
4 107 (6.83%) Microsoft 365
5 86 (5.49%) Entra ID
6 62 (3.96%) Power Platform
7 33 (2.11%) GitHub
8 32 (2.04%) SaaS
9 28 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
10 27 (1.72%) Serverless
11 26 (1.66%) PaaS
12 24 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
13 19 (1.21%) Amazon EC2
13 19 (1.21%) Dynamics 365
14 18 (1.15%) Amazon S3
14 18 (1.15%) Azure Sentinel
14 18 (1.15%) Google Analytics
15 17 (1.08%) PowerApps
16 15 (0.96%) OCI
17 14 (0.89%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 44 (2.81%) Network Security
2 42 (2.68%) Firewall
3 30 (1.91%) WAN
4 25 (1.60%) TCP/IP
5 24 (1.53%) DNS
5 24 (1.53%) VPN
6 20 (1.28%) LAN
7 18 (1.15%) DHCP
8 17 (1.08%) BGP
9 14 (0.89%) MPLS
10 13 (0.83%) SMTP
11 10 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (0.57%) HTTP
13 8 (0.51%) SSL
14 7 (0.45%) Intrusion Detection
14 7 (0.45%) SNMP
15 6 (0.38%) SD-WAN
16 5 (0.32%) Cisco Firepower
16 5 (0.32%) DMZ
16 5 (0.32%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (2.94%) Power BI
2 39 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (1.15%) NoSQL
4 17 (1.08%) Metadata
5 16 (1.02%) Big Data
5 16 (1.02%) MongoDB
6 14 (0.89%) SQL Server
7 12 (0.77%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (0.77%) Redis
8 11 (0.70%) DynamoDB
9 9 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (0.51%) Tableau
11 7 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (0.45%) Data Lake
11 7 (0.45%) MySQL
11 7 (0.45%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.38%) SAP HANA
13 5 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (0.32%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 51 (3.25%) Git
2 39 (2.49%) Jenkins
3 36 (2.30%) GitLab
4 15 (0.96%) JIRA
5 14 (0.89%) JUnit
5 14 (0.89%) Selenium
6 9 (0.57%) Maven
7 8 (0.51%) Mockito
8 7 (0.45%) Burp Suite
8 7 (0.45%) Metasploit
9 6 (0.38%) Axure RP
9 6 (0.38%) Balsamiq
9 6 (0.38%) Cucumber
9 6 (0.38%) JMeter
10 5 (0.32%) Postman
10 5 (0.32%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.26%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.19%) Gatling
12 3 (0.19%) SoapUI
13 2 (0.13%) Gradle
General
1 406 (25.91%) Social Skills
2 368 (23.48%) Public Sector
3 206 (13.15%) Finance
4 165 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 161 (10.27%) Analytical Skills
6 124 (7.91%) Law
7 57 (3.64%) Legal
8 42 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
9 38 (2.43%) Back Office
10 37 (2.36%) Manufacturing
11 32 (2.04%) Telecoms
12 30 (1.91%) Retail
13 26 (1.66%) Aerospace
13 26 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
14 25 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
15 14 (0.89%) Military
16 13 (0.83%) Aviation
17 10 (0.64%) Banking
17 10 (0.64%) Electronics
18 9 (0.57%) Games
Job Titles
1 297 (18.95%) Senior
2 230 (14.68%) Architect
3 175 (11.17%) Consultant
4 124 (7.91%) Analyst
5 122 (7.79%) Lead
6 115 (7.34%) Developer
7 103 (6.57%) Solutions Architect
8 96 (6.13%) Software Engineer
9 66 (4.21%) Business Analyst
10 65 (4.15%) Data Engineer
11 59 (3.77%) Senior Manager
12 58 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
13 57 (3.64%) Support Engineer
14 54 (3.45%) Security Consultant
15 49 (3.13%) Senior Consultant
16 47 (3.00%) Java Developer
17 46 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
18 42 (2.68%) Security Architect
19 40 (2.55%) Senior Developer
20 39 (2.49%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (3.45%) REST
2 41 (2.62%) Spring
3 32 (2.04%) React
4 31 (1.98%) .NET
4 31 (1.98%) SOAP
5 23 (1.47%) Middleware
6 22 (1.40%) Spring Boot
7 19 (1.21%) Kafka
8 16 (1.02%) Playwright
9 15 (0.96%) AngularJS
9 15 (0.96%) Lightning Web Components
9 15 (0.96%) RESTful
9 15 (0.96%) SAML
10 14 (0.89%) CSS
10 14 (0.89%) HTML
10 14 (0.89%) OAuth
10 14 (0.89%) Visualforce
11 12 (0.77%) SAP Fiori
12 9 (0.57%) JSON
12 9 (0.57%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 114 (7.28%) Cloud Native
2 65 (4.15%) Product Ownership
3 56 (3.57%) Security Posture
4 51 (3.25%) Onboarding
5 46 (2.94%) Management Information System
6 42 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
7 34 (2.17%) Data Centre
8 29 (1.85%) PKI
9 27 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
10 22 (1.40%) Blog
10 22 (1.40%) Driving Licence
11 17 (1.08%) CMDB
11 17 (1.08%) Security Operations Centre
12 15 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
12 15 (0.96%) Low-Code
13 14 (0.89%) Data Structures
14 13 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
15 12 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
15 12 (0.77%) Public Cloud
16 11 (0.70%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 112 (7.15%) Windows
2 100 (6.38%) Linux
3 42 (2.68%) Windows 10
4 30 (1.91%) Windows Server
5 23 (1.47%) Unix
6 5 (0.32%) Android
6 5 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.19%) CentOS
7 3 (0.19%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.064%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.064%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.064%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.064%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (22.40%) Agile
2 247 (15.76%) Continuous Improvement
3 214 (13.66%) Cybersecurity
4 200 (12.76%) Problem-Solving
5 195 (12.44%) DevOps
6 188 (12.00%) Mentoring
7 172 (10.98%) CI/CD
8 149 (9.51%) Software Engineering
9 139 (8.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 138 (8.81%) ITIL
11 130 (8.30%) Stakeholder Management
12 127 (8.10%) Analytics
13 121 (7.72%) Community of Practice
14 111 (7.08%) Infrastructure as Code
15 110 (7.02%) Collaborative Culture
16 109 (6.96%) Risk Management
17 108 (6.89%) Technology Strategy
18 106 (6.76%) AI
19 103 (6.57%) Technical Leadership
20 100 (6.38%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 166 (10.59%) Python
2 144 (9.19%) Java
3 93 (5.93%) SQL
4 70 (4.47%) JavaScript
5 47 (3.00%) C#
6 35 (2.23%) PowerShell
7 34 (2.17%) C++
8 33 (2.11%) Bash
9 26 (1.66%) TypeScript
10 15 (0.96%) Apex Code
11 14 (0.89%) C
12 13 (0.83%) Groovy
13 9 (0.57%) Rust
14 8 (0.51%) Go
15 6 (0.38%) DataWeave
15 6 (0.38%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.38%) Ruby
15 6 (0.38%) Scala
15 6 (0.38%) VBA
16 3 (0.19%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 1,162 (74.15%) SC Cleared
2 295 (18.83%) DV Cleared
3 272 (17.36%) Degree
4 95 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 82 (5.23%) CISSP
6 52 (3.32%) CISM
7 46 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 40 (2.55%) CTC Cleared
9 35 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
10 33 (2.11%) Azure Certification
11 24 (1.53%) AWS Certification
12 19 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
13 18 (1.15%) CREST Certified
14 15 (0.96%) CRISC
14 15 (0.96%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 15 (0.96%) PMI Certification
15 14 (0.89%) HNC
15 14 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
16 12 (0.77%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 11 (0.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (8.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 75 (4.79%) NIST
3 60 (3.83%) QA
4 55 (3.51%) SLA
5 50 (3.19%) GDPR
6 47 (3.00%) NCSC
7 34 (2.17%) Accessibility
7 34 (2.17%) Data Quality
7 34 (2.17%) GRC
8 26 (1.66%) Cyber Essentials
9 25 (1.60%) PCI DSS
10 18 (1.15%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 18 (1.15%) JSP 440
11 13 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
12 11 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 11 (0.70%) WCAG
13 10 (0.64%) Def Stans
14 7 (0.45%) Government Security Classifications
15 6 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 6 (0.38%) PMO
System Software
1 81 (5.17%) Docker
2 59 (3.77%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.28%) Hyper-V
4 17 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.57%) VMware NSX
6 8 (0.51%) Firmware
7 6 (0.38%) vSphere
8 5 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.064%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.064%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.064%) IAG
9 1 (0.064%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.064%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.064%) Squid
9 1 (0.064%) Xen
Systems Management
1 101 (6.45%) Terraform
2 89 (5.68%) Kubernetes
3 50 (3.19%) Ansible
4 30 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (1.34%) Prometheus
6 20 (1.28%) Grafana
7 10 (0.64%) Argo
7 10 (0.64%) Progress Chef
8 8 (0.51%) Puppet
8 8 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.45%) Nmap
9 7 (0.45%) Packer
9 7 (0.45%) QRadar
10 6 (0.38%) CloudHub
10 6 (0.38%) Kustomize
11 5 (0.32%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.32%) Endace
11 5 (0.32%) Istio
11 5 (0.32%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.26%) Kibana
Vendors
1 228 (14.55%) Microsoft
2 68 (4.34%) Cisco
3 55 (3.51%) Google
4 49 (3.13%) Oracle
5 47 (3.00%) ServiceNow
6 46 (2.94%) SAP
7 32 (2.04%) Salesforce
8 28 (1.79%) VMware
9 20 (1.28%) MuleSoft
9 20 (1.28%) Red Hat
10 16 (1.02%) Databricks
10 16 (1.02%) Splunk
11 14 (0.89%) CyberArk
12 10 (0.64%) Adobe
12 10 (0.64%) Juniper
12 10 (0.64%) Okta
13 9 (0.57%) Meraki
14 7 (0.45%) Dell
14 7 (0.45%) F5
14 7 (0.45%) OpenAI