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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 43 25
Rank change year-on-year +26 -18 +3
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,614 762 2,570
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 9.33% 5.87% 8.12%
As % of the Qualifications category 38.35% 19.92% 30.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,135 556 1,753
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £53,750 £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 £93,125 £86,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -0.15%

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 4,209 3,826 8,380
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 24.32% 29.46% 26.47%
Number of salaries quoted 2,799 2,481 5,985
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,500 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%

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 10 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 37 (2.29%) SharePoint
2 16 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (0.81%) Apache
5 8 (0.50%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.25%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.25%) Confluence
6 4 (0.25%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.25%) Oracle Spatial
7 3 (0.19%) Camunda
7 3 (0.19%) SAS
7 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.19%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.19%) WebLogic Portal
8 2 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.062%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.062%) Appian
9 1 (0.062%) IIS
9 1 (0.062%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.062%) nginx
Applications
1 78 (4.83%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (1.73%) Adobe XD
3 13 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.31%) InVision
5 5 (0.31%) Sketch
6 2 (0.12%) Weka
7 1 (0.062%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.062%) CATIA
7 1 (0.062%) EngageOne
7 1 (0.062%) EPLAN
7 1 (0.062%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.062%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.062%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 26 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.25%) Primavera
4 4 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.25%) SAP CO
4 4 (0.25%) SAP FI
4 4 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
4 4 (0.25%) SAP FSCM
5 3 (0.19%) Elite 3E
5 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.19%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.19%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.12%) SAP PP
6 2 (0.12%) SAP SCM
7 1 (0.062%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.062%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.062%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.062%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 271 (16.79%) Azure
2 234 (14.50%) AWS
3 117 (7.25%) Microsoft 365
4 87 (5.39%) GCP
5 53 (3.28%) Entra ID
6 52 (3.22%) Power Platform
7 37 (2.29%) AWS CloudFormation
8 29 (1.80%) Figma
9 27 (1.67%) PowerApps
10 25 (1.55%) Serverless
11 24 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
11 24 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
12 23 (1.43%) Power Automate
13 21 (1.30%) Amazon ECS
13 21 (1.30%) Amazon EKS
14 20 (1.24%) GitHub
15 19 (1.18%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 19 (1.18%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 18 (1.12%) Google Analytics
17 15 (0.93%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 40 (2.48%) Firewall
2 27 (1.67%) VPN
2 27 (1.67%) WAN
3 25 (1.55%) Network Security
4 22 (1.36%) DNS
5 20 (1.24%) TCP/IP
6 19 (1.18%) DHCP
6 19 (1.18%) LAN
7 16 (0.99%) BGP
8 13 (0.81%) MPLS
8 13 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (0.62%) SMTP
10 8 (0.50%) HTTP
11 7 (0.43%) Intrusion Detection
11 7 (0.43%) SNMP
12 6 (0.37%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (0.37%) Cisco Firepower
12 6 (0.37%) DMZ
12 6 (0.37%) VoIP
13 5 (0.31%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (2.60%) Power BI
2 41 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (1.43%) NoSQL
4 18 (1.12%) MongoDB
5 17 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (1.05%) Metadata
6 16 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
6 16 (0.99%) SQL Server
7 15 (0.93%) Redis
8 12 (0.74%) Relational Database
9 11 (0.68%) MySQL
10 9 (0.56%) DynamoDB
10 9 (0.56%) Tableau
11 8 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (0.50%) SAP HANA
12 6 (0.37%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.37%) Oracle Database
13 5 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
14 4 (0.25%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 51 (3.16%) Git
2 35 (2.17%) Jenkins
3 26 (1.61%) Balsamiq
4 24 (1.49%) Axure RP
4 24 (1.49%) GitLab
5 17 (1.05%) JIRA
6 11 (0.68%) Selenium
7 8 (0.50%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.43%) Burp Suite
8 7 (0.43%) JMeter
8 7 (0.43%) Metasploit
9 6 (0.37%) Babel
9 6 (0.37%) webpack
10 5 (0.31%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.31%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.25%) WebDriver
12 3 (0.19%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.19%) MSTest
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
12 3 (0.19%) SoapUI
General
1 399 (24.72%) Social Skills
2 342 (21.19%) Public Sector
3 192 (11.90%) Finance
4 158 (9.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 146 (9.05%) Analytical Skills
6 126 (7.81%) Law
7 66 (4.09%) Manufacturing
8 63 (3.90%) Back Office
9 60 (3.72%) Telecoms
10 49 (3.04%) Legal
11 35 (2.17%) Electronics
12 33 (2.04%) Marketing
12 33 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
13 28 (1.73%) Retail
14 27 (1.67%) Military
15 23 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
16 20 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
17 18 (1.12%) Aerospace
18 10 (0.62%) Banking
19 7 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 262 (16.23%) Senior
2 166 (10.29%) Architect
3 150 (9.29%) Analyst
4 147 (9.11%) Consultant
5 140 (8.67%) Systems Engineer
6 117 (7.25%) Lead
7 102 (6.32%) Developer
8 101 (6.26%) Business Analyst
9 88 (5.45%) Software Engineer
10 78 (4.83%) Support Engineer
11 64 (3.97%) Site Engineer
11 64 (3.97%) Solutions Architect
12 60 (3.72%) Desktop Engineer
12 60 (3.72%) Desktop Support
12 60 (3.72%) Desktop Support Engineer
13 51 (3.16%) Senior Manager
14 49 (3.04%) Data Engineer
15 42 (2.60%) Security Consultant
15 42 (2.60%) Senior Consultant
16 41 (2.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (2.79%) .NET
2 40 (2.48%) REST
3 35 (2.17%) React
4 33 (2.04%) CSS
4 33 (2.04%) HTML
4 33 (2.04%) Spring
5 23 (1.43%) Lightning Web Components
5 23 (1.43%) SOAP
6 22 (1.36%) Middleware
7 20 (1.24%) Kafka
8 19 (1.18%) Visualforce
9 18 (1.12%) Spring Boot
10 17 (1.05%) Django
11 16 (0.99%) AngularJS
12 14 (0.87%) SAML
13 13 (0.81%) ASP.NET
13 13 (0.81%) HTML5 Canvas
13 13 (0.81%) SAP CAF
14 11 (0.68%) OLE
15 10 (0.62%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 79 (4.89%) Product Ownership
2 67 (4.15%) Cloud Native
3 54 (3.35%) Security Posture
4 44 (2.73%) Onboarding
5 41 (2.54%) Data Centre
6 37 (2.29%) Management Information System
7 34 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
8 23 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
8 23 (1.43%) PKI
9 20 (1.24%) Blog
10 17 (1.05%) Driving Licence
10 17 (1.05%) Low-Code
11 15 (0.93%) Security Operations Centre
12 14 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
13 13 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
14 12 (0.74%) Data Structures
15 11 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
15 11 (0.68%) Cyber Security Posture
15 11 (0.68%) Cyberattack
15 11 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 133 (8.24%) Windows
2 107 (6.63%) Linux
3 67 (4.15%) Windows 10
4 33 (2.04%) Unix
5 23 (1.43%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.62%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.43%) CentOS
8 6 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.12%) Android
11 1 (0.062%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.062%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.062%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 314 (19.45%) Agile
2 202 (12.52%) Continuous Improvement
3 189 (11.71%) Cybersecurity
4 179 (11.09%) Problem-Solving
5 170 (10.53%) DevOps
6 146 (9.05%) Software Engineering
7 141 (8.74%) Analytics
8 131 (8.12%) Mentoring
9 127 (7.87%) ITIL
10 123 (7.62%) Community of Practice
11 115 (7.13%) CI/CD
12 111 (6.88%) Technology Strategy
13 99 (6.13%) Collaborative Culture
14 95 (5.89%) Stakeholder Management
15 88 (5.45%) Risk Management
16 82 (5.08%) Project Delivery
17 80 (4.96%) Infrastructure as Code
18 78 (4.83%) Validation
19 74 (4.58%) Coaching
19 74 (4.58%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 133 (8.24%) Python
2 117 (7.25%) Java
3 87 (5.39%) JavaScript
4 70 (4.34%) SQL
5 64 (3.97%) C#
6 35 (2.17%) PowerShell
7 28 (1.73%) TypeScript
8 23 (1.43%) Apex Code
9 22 (1.36%) Bash
10 19 (1.18%) C++
11 10 (0.62%) C
11 10 (0.62%) Go
12 9 (0.56%) Ada
13 7 (0.43%) Groovy
13 7 (0.43%) Rust
14 6 (0.37%) ABAP
14 6 (0.37%) Bicep
14 6 (0.37%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.37%) VBA
15 4 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 992 (61.46%) SC Cleared
2 317 (19.64%) Degree
3 289 (17.91%) DV Cleared
4 74 (4.58%) CISSP
5 66 (4.09%) CTC Cleared
6 59 (3.66%) BPSS Clearance
7 56 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 49 (3.04%) Microsoft Certification
9 43 (2.66%) CISM
10 27 (1.67%) Azure Certification
11 24 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
12 20 (1.24%) AWS Certification
12 20 (1.24%) CREST Certified
13 14 (0.87%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 14 (0.87%) Master's Degree
13 14 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
14 13 (0.81%) HNC
15 12 (0.74%) GIAC
15 12 (0.74%) OSCP
16 11 (0.68%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (5.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 69 (4.28%) SLA
3 64 (3.97%) NIST
4 53 (3.28%) Accessibility
5 49 (3.04%) GDPR
6 46 (2.85%) QA
7 38 (2.35%) GRC
8 27 (1.67%) WCAG
9 26 (1.61%) Data Quality
10 20 (1.24%) PCI DSS
11 19 (1.18%) NCSC
12 13 (0.81%) JSP 440
13 12 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 8 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 8 (0.50%) PMO
16 7 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
16 7 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 4 (0.25%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 82 (5.08%) Docker
2 38 (2.35%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.74%) VMware NSX
5 7 (0.43%) Firmware
6 6 (0.37%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.31%) vSphere
8 2 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.062%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.062%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.062%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.062%) vCloud
9 1 (0.062%) Xen
Systems Management
1 93 (5.76%) Terraform
2 75 (4.65%) Kubernetes
3 58 (3.59%) Ansible
4 20 (1.24%) Grafana
5 15 (0.93%) Prometheus
6 14 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (0.56%) Puppet
8 7 (0.43%) Nmap
9 6 (0.37%) Endace
9 6 (0.37%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 5 (0.31%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.31%) Kibana
10 5 (0.31%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.25%) Packer
11 4 (0.25%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.25%) SCCM
11 4 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.25%) WSUS
11 4 (0.25%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.19%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 189 (11.71%) Microsoft
2 105 (6.51%) Cisco
3 66 (4.09%) Google
4 62 (3.84%) SAP
5 42 (2.60%) Oracle
5 42 (2.60%) Salesforce
6 28 (1.73%) Adobe
7 26 (1.61%) VMware
8 19 (1.18%) ServiceNow
8 19 (1.18%) Splunk
9 18 (1.12%) MuleSoft
10 17 (1.05%) Red Hat
11 11 (0.68%) CyberArk
11 11 (0.68%) Databricks
12 9 (0.56%) Juniper
12 9 (0.56%) Meraki
13 8 (0.50%) F5
13 8 (0.50%) Okta
14 6 (0.37%) CheckPoint
14 6 (0.37%) Dell