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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 35 25
Rank change year-on-year +11 -10 +1
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,664 1,155 1,926
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.47% 7.00% 7.62%
As % of the Qualifications category 36.06% 20.67% 28.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,173 570 1,276
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,450 £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 £93,875 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £58,800
% change year-on-year +12.00% +6.29% -2.00%

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 4,615 5,587 6,693
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.72% 33.86% 26.47%
Number of salaries quoted 3,047 2,476 3,921
10th Percentile £33,310 £29,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,743 £40,976 £42,608
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £87,500
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 4 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 38 (2.28%) Apache
2 36 (2.16%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.62%) Apache Spark
4 12 (0.72%) Anypoint
4 12 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (0.72%) Mule
5 10 (0.60%) Confluence
6 7 (0.42%) Camunda
6 7 (0.42%) Jupyter
6 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.42%) nginx
7 6 (0.36%) 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 (0.060%) Appian
Applications
1 24 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.90%) Simulink
3 14 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.54%) Adobe XD
6 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.30%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.24%) Windchill
8 3 (0.18%) Mathcad
9 1 (0.060%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.060%) CATIA
9 1 (0.060%) FrameMaker
9 1 (0.060%) Houdini
9 1 (0.060%) InDesign
9 1 (0.060%) InVision
9 1 (0.060%) NUKE
9 1 (0.060%) Sketch
9 1 (0.060%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.060%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 28 (1.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.54%) Primavera
3 7 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
3 7 (0.42%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.36%) Workday HCM
5 5 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.24%) SAP FSCM
7 3 (0.18%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.18%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.18%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.18%) SAP HCM
7 3 (0.18%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
8 2 (0.12%) SAP QM
9 1 (0.060%) Dynamics CRM
9 1 (0.060%) Magento
9 1 (0.060%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.060%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 449 (26.98%) Azure
2 409 (24.58%) AWS
3 131 (7.87%) GCP
4 84 (5.05%) Microsoft 365
5 71 (4.27%) Power Platform
6 70 (4.21%) Entra ID
7 42 (2.52%) AWS CloudFormation
7 42 (2.52%) dbt
8 35 (2.10%) GitHub
9 29 (1.74%) Serverless
10 28 (1.68%) SaaS
11 27 (1.62%) Azure DevOps
12 25 (1.50%) PaaS
13 22 (1.32%) Azure Sentinel
14 21 (1.26%) Google Analytics
15 20 (1.20%) Microsoft Purview
16 19 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
17 18 (1.08%) Amazon S3
17 18 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
18 17 (1.02%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 49 (2.94%) Firewall
2 45 (2.70%) Network Security
3 42 (2.52%) TCP/IP
4 32 (1.92%) DNS
5 27 (1.62%) WAN
6 18 (1.08%) LAN
6 18 (1.08%) VPN
7 15 (0.90%) BGP
7 15 (0.90%) DHCP
7 15 (0.90%) SSL
8 12 (0.72%) ATM
8 12 (0.72%) MPLS
9 9 (0.54%) SMTP
10 8 (0.48%) HTTP
11 7 (0.42%) OSPF
12 6 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
12 6 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (0.36%) Wireless
13 5 (0.30%) SNMP
14 4 (0.24%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (3.31%) Power BI
2 44 (2.64%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (1.56%) Big Data
4 25 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (1.44%) NoSQL
6 19 (1.14%) SQL Server
7 16 (0.96%) Metadata
7 16 (0.96%) MongoDB
8 13 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
9 12 (0.72%) Redis
10 11 (0.66%) DynamoDB
10 11 (0.66%) Relational Database
10 11 (0.66%) Tableau
11 10 (0.60%) Data Lake
11 10 (0.60%) MySQL
12 9 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (0.42%) Hadoop
14 6 (0.36%) SAP HANA
15 5 (0.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 62 (3.73%) Git
2 39 (2.34%) Jenkins
3 37 (2.22%) GitLab
4 24 (1.44%) JIRA
5 21 (1.26%) JUnit
6 16 (0.96%) Rational DOORS
6 16 (0.96%) Selenium
7 12 (0.72%) Mockito
8 11 (0.66%) Maven
9 9 (0.54%) Balsamiq
9 9 (0.54%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.54%) Postman
10 8 (0.48%) Axure RP
11 7 (0.42%) Burp Suite
11 7 (0.42%) Gatling
11 7 (0.42%) Metasploit
12 6 (0.36%) Cypress.io
12 6 (0.36%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.24%) LabVIEW
14 3 (0.18%) JMeter
General
1 506 (30.41%) Social Skills
2 393 (23.62%) Public Sector
3 303 (18.21%) Finance
4 285 (17.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 190 (11.42%) Analytical Skills
6 158 (9.50%) Law
7 105 (6.31%) Aerospace
8 71 (4.27%) Legal
9 52 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
10 40 (2.40%) Telecoms
11 39 (2.34%) Manufacturing
11 39 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
11 39 (2.34%) Retail
12 32 (1.92%) Electronics
12 32 (1.92%) Military
13 31 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
14 20 (1.20%) Police
15 13 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (0.72%) Automotive
16 12 (0.72%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 316 (18.99%) Senior
2 289 (17.37%) Architect
3 192 (11.54%) Consultant
4 155 (9.31%) Lead
5 122 (7.33%) Solutions Architect
6 121 (7.27%) Developer
7 118 (7.09%) Software Engineer
8 115 (6.91%) Analyst
9 66 (3.97%) Data Engineer
10 63 (3.79%) Cloud Engineer
11 57 (3.43%) Security Consultant
12 53 (3.19%) Senior Manager
13 51 (3.06%) Senior Consultant
13 51 (3.06%) Senior Developer
14 49 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
14 49 (2.94%) Security Architect
15 47 (2.82%) Business Analyst
16 42 (2.52%) Senior Analyst
17 41 (2.46%) Java Developer
18 39 (2.34%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (3.49%) REST
2 50 (3.00%) React
3 43 (2.58%) Spring
4 33 (1.98%) .NET
4 33 (1.98%) Kafka
5 26 (1.56%) SOAP
6 25 (1.50%) OAuth
7 23 (1.38%) CSS
8 22 (1.32%) AngularJS
9 21 (1.26%) HTML
9 21 (1.26%) Playwright
10 20 (1.20%) Spring Boot
11 16 (0.96%) Middleware
11 16 (0.96%) PySpark
11 16 (0.96%) RESTful
12 15 (0.90%) JWT
12 15 (0.90%) OAuth2
13 14 (0.84%) Web Services
14 13 (0.78%) Apache NiFi
14 13 (0.78%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 130 (7.81%) Cloud Native
2 59 (3.55%) Onboarding
2 59 (3.55%) Product Ownership
3 56 (3.37%) Management Information System
4 51 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
5 44 (2.64%) Security Posture
6 34 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
7 31 (1.86%) Driving Licence
8 30 (1.80%) Blog
8 30 (1.80%) Data Centre
9 25 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
10 24 (1.44%) PKI
11 23 (1.38%) Cyber Threat
12 21 (1.26%) FPGA
13 19 (1.14%) Security Operations Centre
14 18 (1.08%) Cyber Defence
15 17 (1.02%) CMDB
16 16 (0.96%) Algorithms
16 16 (0.96%) Data Structures
16 16 (0.96%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 127 (7.63%) Linux
2 98 (5.89%) Windows
3 39 (2.34%) Windows Server
4 34 (2.04%) Unix
5 14 (0.84%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.30%) Android
6 5 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.18%) Kali Linux
8 3 (0.18%) VxWorks
9 2 (0.12%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.12%) CentOS
9 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.060%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.060%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.060%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 453 (27.22%) Agile
2 280 (16.83%) Continuous Improvement
3 256 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
4 252 (15.14%) Mentoring
5 239 (14.36%) Problem-Solving
6 227 (13.64%) CI/CD
6 227 (13.64%) DevOps
7 203 (12.20%) Software Engineering
7 203 (12.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 172 (10.34%) AI
9 165 (9.92%) Stakeholder Management
10 138 (8.29%) Collaborative Culture
11 135 (8.11%) Community of Practice
12 132 (7.93%) Infrastructure as Code
12 132 (7.93%) Technical Leadership
13 129 (7.75%) Decision-Making
14 124 (7.45%) Project Delivery
15 122 (7.33%) Analytics
16 119 (7.15%) Coaching
17 118 (7.09%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 210 (12.62%) Python
2 158 (9.50%) Java
3 111 (6.67%) SQL
4 91 (5.47%) JavaScript
5 51 (3.06%) C++
6 46 (2.76%) C#
7 39 (2.34%) Bash
7 39 (2.34%) PowerShell
8 29 (1.74%) TypeScript
9 27 (1.62%) C
10 17 (1.02%) Ada
11 16 (0.96%) Groovy
12 15 (0.90%) MATLAB
13 12 (0.72%) DataWeave
14 11 (0.66%) Rust
15 10 (0.60%) PL/SQL
16 9 (0.54%) Go
16 9 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
17 8 (0.48%) SystemVerilog
17 8 (0.48%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,315 (79.03%) SC Cleared
2 361 (21.69%) DV Cleared
3 301 (18.09%) Degree
4 182 (10.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 75 (4.51%) CISSP
6 55 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 53 (3.19%) CISM
8 41 (2.46%) Azure Certification
9 33 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
10 32 (1.92%) AWS Certification
11 25 (1.50%) Master's Degree
12 19 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
12 19 (1.14%) CREST Certified
13 18 (1.08%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 17 (1.02%) CRISC
15 16 (0.96%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 13 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
17 12 (0.72%) HNC
18 11 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 11 (0.66%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (8.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 108 (6.49%) Accessibility
3 88 (5.29%) NIST
4 58 (3.49%) QA
5 57 (3.43%) NCSC
6 42 (2.52%) GDPR
6 42 (2.52%) GRC
7 38 (2.28%) Data Quality
8 24 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
8 24 (1.44%) PCI DSS
8 24 (1.44%) SLA
9 22 (1.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 20 (1.20%) WCAG
11 16 (0.96%) JSP 440
12 11 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
13 10 (0.60%) Def Stans
14 8 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 8 (0.48%) NIST 800
15 6 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
15 6 (0.36%) PMO
System Software
1 97 (5.83%) Docker
2 75 (4.51%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.86%) Firmware
4 30 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 24 (1.44%) Hyper-V
6 13 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.42%) vSphere
8 6 (0.36%) Squid
8 6 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.36%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.060%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.060%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.060%) IAG
10 1 (0.060%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.060%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.060%) Xen
Systems Management
1 115 (6.91%) Terraform
2 107 (6.43%) Kubernetes
3 45 (2.70%) Ansible
4 38 (2.28%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (1.08%) Prometheus
6 17 (1.02%) Grafana
7 12 (0.72%) CloudHub
8 10 (0.60%) Argo
9 8 (0.48%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.42%) Nmap
10 7 (0.42%) QRadar
10 7 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.36%) Kustomize
12 5 (0.30%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.30%) Istio
12 5 (0.30%) Packer
12 5 (0.30%) Puppet
12 5 (0.30%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.18%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.18%) Kibana
Vendors
1 234 (14.06%) Microsoft
2 73 (4.39%) Google
3 57 (3.43%) ServiceNow
4 56 (3.37%) SAP
5 50 (3.00%) Oracle
6 39 (2.34%) VMware
7 34 (2.04%) Cisco
8 28 (1.68%) Salesforce
9 23 (1.38%) Databricks
9 23 (1.38%) Red Hat
10 22 (1.32%) MuleSoft
11 19 (1.14%) OpenAI
12 17 (1.02%) CyberArk
12 17 (1.02%) Splunk
13 15 (0.90%) Okta
14 12 (0.72%) Adobe
15 9 (0.54%) Juniper
16 8 (0.48%) Veeam
17 7 (0.42%) Fortinet
17 7 (0.42%) Siemens