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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 42 25
Rank change year-on-year +25 -17 +4
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,637 796 2,494
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 9.21% 5.99% 7.67%
As % of the Qualifications category 38.31% 19.89% 28.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,153 543 1,737
10th Percentile £47,100 £45,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £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 £75,000 £74,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.44% +5.22% -0.56%

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 4,273 4,002 8,745
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 24.05% 30.14% 26.88%
Number of salaries quoted 2,847 2,478 5,956
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,563 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £60,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £78,790 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £58,500 £57,500 £54,048
% change year-on-year +1.74% +6.39% -6.00%

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 19 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 35 (2.14%) SharePoint
2 16 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (0.86%) Apache
3 14 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (0.55%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.24%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.24%) Confluence
5 4 (0.24%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.24%) Oracle Spatial
6 3 (0.18%) Camunda
6 3 (0.18%) SAS
7 2 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.061%) Appian
8 1 (0.061%) Drupal
8 1 (0.061%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.061%) nginx
8 1 (0.061%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.061%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.061%) WebLogic Portal
8 1 (0.061%) WordPress
Applications
1 76 (4.64%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (1.71%) Adobe XD
3 12 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.31%) InVision
4 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.31%) Sketch
5 2 (0.12%) Weka
6 1 (0.061%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.061%) CATIA
6 1 (0.061%) EngageOne
6 1 (0.061%) EPLAN
6 1 (0.061%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.061%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.061%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 30 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.24%) SAP CO
3 4 (0.24%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.24%) SAP FI
3 4 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
3 4 (0.24%) SAP FSCM
3 4 (0.24%) SAP HCM
4 3 (0.18%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (0.12%) SAP SCM
6 1 (0.061%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.061%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.061%) Primavera
6 1 (0.061%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.061%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.061%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.061%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 273 (16.68%) Azure
2 234 (14.29%) AWS
3 115 (7.03%) Microsoft 365
4 91 (5.56%) GCP
5 54 (3.30%) Entra ID
6 51 (3.12%) Power Platform
7 32 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
8 29 (1.77%) Figma
9 24 (1.47%) PowerApps
10 21 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
10 21 (1.28%) Serverless
11 20 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
11 20 (1.22%) Power Automate
12 19 (1.16%) Google Analytics
12 19 (1.16%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 19 (1.16%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 18 (1.10%) Amazon ECS
13 18 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
13 18 (1.10%) GitHub
14 15 (0.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (2.38%) Firewall
2 29 (1.77%) WAN
3 26 (1.59%) Network Security
3 26 (1.59%) VPN
4 21 (1.28%) DNS
5 20 (1.22%) LAN
6 19 (1.16%) DHCP
7 18 (1.10%) TCP/IP
8 17 (1.04%) BGP
9 14 (0.86%) MPLS
10 12 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (0.67%) SMTP
12 8 (0.49%) HTTP
13 7 (0.43%) Intrusion Detection
13 7 (0.43%) SNMP
14 6 (0.37%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (0.37%) Cisco Firepower
14 6 (0.37%) SD-WAN
14 6 (0.37%) VoIP
15 5 (0.31%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (2.44%) Power BI
2 37 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (1.41%) NoSQL
4 18 (1.10%) Metadata
4 18 (1.10%) MongoDB
5 15 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
6 14 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (0.79%) Redis
7 13 (0.79%) SQL Server
8 9 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (0.55%) DynamoDB
8 9 (0.55%) MySQL
8 9 (0.55%) Relational Database
8 9 (0.55%) Tableau
9 8 (0.49%) SAP HANA
10 6 (0.37%) BigQuery
11 5 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.24%) InfluxDB
12 4 (0.24%) Oracle Database
12 4 (0.24%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 50 (3.05%) Git
2 32 (1.95%) Jenkins
3 26 (1.59%) Balsamiq
4 24 (1.47%) Axure RP
5 23 (1.41%) GitLab
6 18 (1.10%) JIRA
7 9 (0.55%) Selenium
8 8 (0.49%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.43%) JMeter
10 6 (0.37%) Burp Suite
10 6 (0.37%) Metasploit
10 6 (0.37%) Robot Framework
11 5 (0.31%) Babel
11 5 (0.31%) JUnit
11 5 (0.31%) webpack
12 3 (0.18%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.18%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.18%) Maven
12 3 (0.18%) MSTest
12 3 (0.18%) SoapUI
General
1 395 (24.13%) Social Skills
2 333 (20.34%) Public Sector
3 192 (11.73%) Finance
4 161 (9.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 136 (8.31%) Analytical Skills
6 126 (7.70%) Law
7 64 (3.91%) Manufacturing
8 63 (3.85%) Back Office
9 57 (3.48%) Telecoms
10 51 (3.12%) Legal
11 35 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
12 30 (1.83%) Electronics
13 29 (1.77%) Marketing
14 27 (1.65%) Military
14 27 (1.65%) Retail
15 25 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
16 22 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
17 20 (1.22%) Aerospace
18 10 (0.61%) Aviation
18 10 (0.61%) Banking
Job Titles
1 257 (15.70%) Senior
2 178 (10.87%) Architect
3 148 (9.04%) Analyst
3 148 (9.04%) Consultant
4 140 (8.55%) Systems Engineer
5 118 (7.21%) Lead
6 102 (6.23%) Business Analyst
7 95 (5.80%) Developer
8 94 (5.74%) Software Engineer
9 78 (4.76%) Support Engineer
10 69 (4.22%) Solutions Architect
11 64 (3.91%) Site Engineer
12 60 (3.67%) Desktop Engineer
12 60 (3.67%) Desktop Support
12 60 (3.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
13 53 (3.24%) Senior Manager
14 51 (3.12%) Data Engineer
15 43 (2.63%) Cloud Engineer
16 42 (2.57%) Security Consultant
16 42 (2.57%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (2.63%) .NET
2 41 (2.50%) REST
3 31 (1.89%) Spring
4 30 (1.83%) CSS
4 30 (1.83%) HTML
5 29 (1.77%) React
6 23 (1.41%) Lightning Web Components
6 23 (1.41%) SOAP
7 22 (1.34%) Middleware
8 19 (1.16%) Kafka
8 19 (1.16%) Visualforce
9 16 (0.98%) Spring Boot
10 15 (0.92%) Django
11 14 (0.86%) SAML
12 13 (0.79%) AngularJS
12 13 (0.79%) ASP.NET
13 11 (0.67%) OLE
13 11 (0.67%) RESTful
13 11 (0.67%) SAP CAF
14 10 (0.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 81 (4.95%) Product Ownership
2 63 (3.85%) Cloud Native
3 52 (3.18%) Security Posture
4 47 (2.87%) Onboarding
5 42 (2.57%) Data Centre
6 40 (2.44%) Management Information System
7 32 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
8 24 (1.47%) PKI
9 23 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
10 19 (1.16%) Blog
10 19 (1.16%) Low-Code
11 17 (1.04%) Driving Licence
12 15 (0.92%) Security Operations Centre
13 13 (0.79%) Data Structures
14 12 (0.73%) Cyber Threat
15 11 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
15 11 (0.67%) Cyber Security Posture
15 11 (0.67%) Cyberattack
15 11 (0.67%) Distributed Systems
15 11 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 132 (8.06%) Windows
2 101 (6.17%) Linux
3 68 (4.15%) Windows 10
4 28 (1.71%) Unix
5 23 (1.41%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.55%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.43%) CentOS
8 6 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.31%) Android
10 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.061%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.061%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.061%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (19.06%) Agile
2 197 (12.03%) Continuous Improvement
3 192 (11.73%) Cybersecurity
4 170 (10.38%) Problem-Solving
5 165 (10.08%) DevOps
6 147 (8.98%) Software Engineering
7 146 (8.92%) Analytics
8 133 (8.12%) Mentoring
9 127 (7.76%) ITIL
10 125 (7.64%) Community of Practice
11 115 (7.03%) CI/CD
12 112 (6.84%) Technology Strategy
13 101 (6.17%) Collaborative Culture
14 99 (6.05%) Stakeholder Management
15 92 (5.62%) Risk Management
16 83 (5.07%) Project Delivery
17 81 (4.95%) Validation
18 79 (4.83%) Infrastructure as Code
18 79 (4.83%) Roadmaps
19 77 (4.70%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 126 (7.70%) Python
2 117 (7.15%) Java
3 74 (4.52%) JavaScript
4 70 (4.28%) SQL
5 57 (3.48%) C#
6 34 (2.08%) PowerShell
7 25 (1.53%) TypeScript
8 23 (1.41%) Apex Code
9 22 (1.34%) Bash
10 18 (1.10%) C++
11 9 (0.55%) Ada
11 9 (0.55%) Go
12 8 (0.49%) C
12 8 (0.49%) Rust
13 7 (0.43%) Groovy
14 6 (0.37%) VBA
15 4 (0.24%) ABAP
15 4 (0.24%) Bicep
15 4 (0.24%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.24%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1,015 (62.00%) SC Cleared
2 309 (18.88%) Degree
3 295 (18.02%) DV Cleared
4 73 (4.46%) CISSP
5 66 (4.03%) CTC Cleared
6 60 (3.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 52 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 46 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
9 43 (2.63%) CISM
10 26 (1.59%) Azure Certification
11 22 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
12 19 (1.16%) AWS Certification
13 18 (1.10%) CREST Certified
14 14 (0.86%) HNC
14 14 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
15 13 (0.79%) Master's Degree
16 12 (0.73%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 11 (0.67%) GIAC
18 10 (0.61%) CCNA
18 10 (0.61%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (5.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 69 (4.22%) SLA
3 62 (3.79%) NIST
4 50 (3.05%) Accessibility
5 46 (2.81%) GDPR
6 43 (2.63%) QA
7 35 (2.14%) GRC
8 27 (1.65%) Data Quality
8 27 (1.65%) WCAG
9 21 (1.28%) NCSC
10 19 (1.16%) PCI DSS
11 13 (0.79%) JSP 440
12 12 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
13 10 (0.61%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 9 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 7 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
15 7 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
15 7 (0.43%) PMO
16 5 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 4 (0.24%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 81 (4.95%) Docker
2 35 (2.14%) Active Directory
3 16 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.67%) VMware NSX
5 7 (0.43%) Firmware
5 7 (0.43%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.24%) vSphere
8 2 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.061%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.061%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.061%) IAG
9 1 (0.061%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.061%) vCloud
9 1 (0.061%) Xen
Systems Management
1 90 (5.50%) Terraform
2 77 (4.70%) Kubernetes
3 55 (3.36%) Ansible
4 21 (1.28%) Grafana
5 17 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (1.04%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.55%) Puppet
7 6 (0.37%) Endace
7 6 (0.37%) Nmap
8 5 (0.31%) AWS Copilot
8 5 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.24%) Argo
9 4 (0.24%) Kibana
9 4 (0.24%) Packer
9 4 (0.24%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.24%) QRadar
9 4 (0.24%) SCCM
9 4 (0.24%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.24%) WSUS
9 4 (0.24%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 194 (11.85%) Microsoft
2 104 (6.35%) Cisco
3 65 (3.97%) Google
4 59 (3.60%) SAP
5 40 (2.44%) Salesforce
6 39 (2.38%) Oracle
7 29 (1.77%) VMware
8 28 (1.71%) Adobe
9 21 (1.28%) Red Hat
10 20 (1.22%) Splunk
11 18 (1.10%) MuleSoft
12 15 (0.92%) ServiceNow
13 13 (0.79%) Databricks
14 11 (0.67%) CyberArk
15 10 (0.61%) Juniper
15 10 (0.61%) Meraki
16 8 (0.49%) F5
16 8 (0.49%) Okta
17 6 (0.37%) Ariba
17 6 (0.37%) Dell