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 1 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 36 24
Rank change year-on-year +12 -12 +3
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,641 1,152 1,989
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.39% 6.97% 7.64%
As % of the Qualifications category 35.67% 20.63% 28.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,176 574 1,340
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,608 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,688 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £94,625 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% +7.76% -3.33%

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 4,601 5,583 6,887
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.71% 33.76% 26.47%
Number of salaries quoted 3,056 2,480 4,105
10th Percentile £33,300 £29,750 £33,250
25th Percentile £46,748 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £74,258 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 1 August 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 (2.25%) Apache
2 36 (2.19%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.52%) Apache Spark
4 12 (0.73%) Anypoint
4 12 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (0.73%) Mule
5 8 (0.49%) Confluence
5 8 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.43%) Jupyter
6 7 (0.43%) nginx
7 6 (0.37%) Camunda
7 6 (0.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (0.30%) IIS
9 3 (0.18%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.12%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
10 2 (0.12%) WordPress
11 1 (0.061%) Appian
Applications
1 24 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.79%) Simulink
4 11 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.55%) Adobe XD
6 5 (0.30%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.24%) Windchill
8 3 (0.18%) Mathcad
8 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.061%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.061%) CATIA
9 1 (0.061%) FrameMaker
9 1 (0.061%) Houdini
9 1 (0.061%) InDesign
9 1 (0.061%) InVision
9 1 (0.061%) NUKE
9 1 (0.061%) Sketch
9 1 (0.061%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 28 (1.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (0.43%) SAP ERP
3 6 (0.37%) Primavera
3 6 (0.37%) Workday HCM
4 5 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.24%) SAP FSCM
6 3 (0.18%) Elite 3E
6 3 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.18%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.18%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.18%) SAP HCM
6 3 (0.18%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
7 2 (0.12%) SAP QM
8 1 (0.061%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.061%) Magento
8 1 (0.061%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.061%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 447 (27.24%) Azure
2 402 (24.50%) AWS
3 130 (7.92%) GCP
4 85 (5.18%) Microsoft 365
5 71 (4.33%) Entra ID
6 70 (4.27%) Power Platform
7 40 (2.44%) dbt
8 38 (2.32%) AWS CloudFormation
9 34 (2.07%) GitHub
10 30 (1.83%) Serverless
11 29 (1.77%) SaaS
12 27 (1.65%) Azure DevOps
13 25 (1.52%) PaaS
14 22 (1.34%) Azure Sentinel
15 21 (1.28%) Google Analytics
16 20 (1.22%) Microsoft Purview
17 19 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
18 18 (1.10%) Amazon S3
18 18 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
19 17 (1.04%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 48 (2.93%) Firewall
2 45 (2.74%) Network Security
3 40 (2.44%) TCP/IP
4 32 (1.95%) DNS
5 27 (1.65%) WAN
6 19 (1.16%) VPN
7 18 (1.10%) LAN
8 16 (0.98%) DHCP
9 15 (0.91%) SSL
10 14 (0.85%) BGP
11 12 (0.73%) ATM
11 12 (0.73%) MPLS
12 9 (0.55%) SMTP
13 8 (0.49%) HTTP
14 7 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
15 6 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
15 6 (0.37%) OSPF
15 6 (0.37%) Wireless
16 5 (0.30%) SNMP
17 4 (0.24%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (3.29%) Power BI
2 43 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (1.46%) Big Data
3 24 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (1.34%) NoSQL
5 18 (1.10%) SQL Server
6 16 (0.98%) Metadata
6 16 (0.98%) MongoDB
7 13 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
8 12 (0.73%) Redis
9 11 (0.67%) DynamoDB
9 11 (0.67%) Relational Database
9 11 (0.67%) Tableau
10 9 (0.55%) Data Lake
10 9 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (0.55%) MySQL
11 7 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (0.37%) SAP HANA
13 5 (0.30%) Hadoop
13 5 (0.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 60 (3.66%) Git
2 38 (2.32%) GitLab
2 38 (2.32%) Jenkins
3 20 (1.22%) JIRA
3 20 (1.22%) JUnit
4 15 (0.91%) Selenium
5 14 (0.85%) Rational DOORS
6 12 (0.73%) Mockito
7 11 (0.67%) Maven
8 9 (0.55%) Balsamiq
8 9 (0.55%) Cucumber
9 8 (0.49%) Axure RP
9 8 (0.49%) Postman
10 7 (0.43%) Burp Suite
10 7 (0.43%) Gatling
10 7 (0.43%) Metasploit
11 5 (0.30%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.30%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.24%) LabVIEW
13 3 (0.18%) JMeter
General
1 496 (30.23%) Social Skills
2 387 (23.58%) Public Sector
3 284 (17.31%) Finance
4 271 (16.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 186 (11.33%) Analytical Skills
6 156 (9.51%) Law
7 90 (5.48%) Aerospace
8 67 (4.08%) Legal
9 53 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
10 41 (2.50%) Telecoms
11 39 (2.38%) Retail
12 37 (2.25%) Manufacturing
13 35 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
14 31 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
15 28 (1.71%) Electronics
15 28 (1.71%) Military
16 19 (1.16%) Police
17 13 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
18 12 (0.73%) Aviation
19 11 (0.67%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 312 (19.01%) Senior
2 286 (17.43%) Architect
3 190 (11.58%) Consultant
4 153 (9.32%) Lead
5 121 (7.37%) Developer
5 121 (7.37%) Solutions Architect
6 114 (6.95%) Software Engineer
7 111 (6.76%) Analyst
8 64 (3.90%) Cloud Engineer
9 63 (3.84%) Data Engineer
10 58 (3.53%) Security Consultant
11 54 (3.29%) Senior Manager
12 51 (3.11%) DevOps Engineer
12 51 (3.11%) Senior Consultant
13 50 (3.05%) Senior Developer
14 48 (2.93%) Security Architect
15 46 (2.80%) Business Analyst
16 41 (2.50%) Java Developer
16 41 (2.50%) Senior Analyst
17 38 (2.32%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (3.47%) REST
2 47 (2.86%) React
3 43 (2.62%) Spring
4 32 (1.95%) Kafka
5 31 (1.89%) .NET
6 26 (1.58%) SOAP
7 24 (1.46%) OAuth
8 22 (1.34%) CSS
9 21 (1.28%) Playwright
10 20 (1.22%) AngularJS
10 20 (1.22%) HTML
10 20 (1.22%) Spring Boot
11 16 (0.98%) Middleware
11 16 (0.98%) PySpark
12 15 (0.91%) JWT
12 15 (0.91%) OAuth2
12 15 (0.91%) RESTful
13 14 (0.85%) Web Services
14 13 (0.79%) SAML
15 12 (0.73%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 130 (7.92%) Cloud Native
2 58 (3.53%) Product Ownership
3 57 (3.47%) Onboarding
4 56 (3.41%) Management Information System
5 49 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
6 44 (2.68%) Security Posture
7 32 (1.95%) Driving Licence
7 32 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
8 31 (1.89%) Data Centre
9 26 (1.58%) Blog
10 24 (1.46%) PKI
11 23 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
12 22 (1.34%) Cyber Threat
13 20 (1.22%) Security Operations Centre
14 18 (1.10%) FPGA
15 17 (1.04%) CMDB
15 17 (1.04%) Cyber Defence
16 15 (0.91%) Data Structures
16 15 (0.91%) Public Cloud
17 14 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 126 (7.68%) Linux
2 97 (5.91%) Windows
3 40 (2.44%) Windows Server
4 32 (1.95%) Unix
5 14 (0.85%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.30%) Android
6 5 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.18%) Kali Linux
7 3 (0.18%) VxWorks
8 2 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.12%) CentOS
8 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.061%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.061%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.061%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 436 (26.57%) Agile
2 275 (16.76%) Continuous Improvement
3 249 (15.17%) Cybersecurity
4 243 (14.81%) Mentoring
5 234 (14.26%) Problem-Solving
6 221 (13.47%) DevOps
7 219 (13.35%) CI/CD
8 202 (12.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 192 (11.70%) Software Engineering
10 166 (10.12%) Stakeholder Management
11 163 (9.93%) AI
12 134 (8.17%) Collaborative Culture
13 133 (8.10%) Community of Practice
14 128 (7.80%) Technical Leadership
15 127 (7.74%) Infrastructure as Code
16 123 (7.50%) Decision-Making
17 122 (7.43%) Project Delivery
18 120 (7.31%) Analytics
19 117 (7.13%) Technology Strategy
20 114 (6.95%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 203 (12.37%) Python
2 153 (9.32%) Java
3 107 (6.52%) SQL
4 87 (5.30%) JavaScript
5 50 (3.05%) C++
6 46 (2.80%) C#
7 39 (2.38%) Bash
7 39 (2.38%) PowerShell
8 29 (1.77%) TypeScript
9 27 (1.65%) C
10 16 (0.98%) Ada
10 16 (0.98%) Groovy
11 12 (0.73%) DataWeave
11 12 (0.73%) MATLAB
12 11 (0.67%) Rust
13 10 (0.61%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.49%) Apex Code
14 8 (0.49%) Go
14 8 (0.49%) Ruby
14 8 (0.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,297 (79.04%) SC Cleared
2 344 (20.96%) DV Cleared
3 291 (17.73%) Degree
4 165 (10.05%) BPSS Clearance
5 75 (4.57%) CISSP
6 53 (3.23%) CISM
6 53 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 41 (2.50%) Azure Certification
8 35 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
9 29 (1.77%) AWS Certification
10 22 (1.34%) Master's Degree
11 19 (1.16%) CREST Certified
12 18 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
12 18 (1.10%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 17 (1.04%) CRISC
14 16 (0.98%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 13 (0.79%) HNC
15 13 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
16 11 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 10 (0.61%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (8.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 92 (5.61%) Accessibility
3 87 (5.30%) NIST
4 56 (3.41%) QA
5 55 (3.35%) NCSC
6 42 (2.56%) GDPR
7 41 (2.50%) GRC
8 38 (2.32%) Data Quality
9 25 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
10 24 (1.46%) PCI DSS
11 22 (1.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 22 (1.34%) SLA
12 20 (1.22%) WCAG
13 16 (0.98%) JSP 440
14 11 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
15 10 (0.61%) Def Stans
16 9 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 8 (0.49%) NIST 800
18 6 (0.37%) Government Security Classifications
18 6 (0.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 94 (5.73%) Docker
2 73 (4.45%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.71%) Firmware
3 28 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (1.46%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.43%) vSphere
7 6 (0.37%) Squid
7 6 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.30%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.061%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.061%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.061%) IAG
10 1 (0.061%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.061%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.061%) Xen
Systems Management
1 110 (6.70%) Terraform
2 105 (6.40%) Kubernetes
3 44 (2.68%) Ansible
4 39 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (1.16%) Prometheus
6 17 (1.04%) Grafana
7 12 (0.73%) CloudHub
8 10 (0.61%) Argo
9 8 (0.49%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.43%) Nmap
10 7 (0.43%) QRadar
10 7 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.37%) Kustomize
11 6 (0.37%) Puppet
12 5 (0.30%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.30%) Istio
12 5 (0.30%) Packer
12 5 (0.30%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.24%) Kibana
Vendors
1 234 (14.26%) Microsoft
2 70 (4.27%) Google
3 57 (3.47%) ServiceNow
4 54 (3.29%) SAP
5 49 (2.99%) Oracle
6 38 (2.32%) VMware
7 33 (2.01%) Cisco
8 29 (1.77%) Salesforce
9 23 (1.40%) MuleSoft
10 22 (1.34%) Databricks
10 22 (1.34%) Red Hat
11 19 (1.16%) OpenAI
12 18 (1.10%) Splunk
13 17 (1.04%) CyberArk
14 15 (0.91%) Okta
15 12 (0.73%) Adobe
16 8 (0.49%) Juniper
16 8 (0.49%) Veeam
17 7 (0.43%) Dell
17 7 (0.43%) Xilinx