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 16 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 30 25
Rank change year-on-year +8 -5 -3
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,856 1,196 1,832
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.70% 7.36% 7.85%
As % of the Qualifications category 37.08% 21.02% 28.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,205 613 1,121
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £50,171 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £81,788 £80,000 £79,225
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,500 £86,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% +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 5,005 5,691 6,368
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.76% 35.03% 27.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3,156 2,327 3,095
10th Percentile £33,500 £31,000 £34,404
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -3.45%

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 16 September 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 39 (2.10%) Apache
2 31 (1.67%) Apache Spark
3 30 (1.62%) SharePoint
4 19 (1.02%) Confluence
5 13 (0.70%) Anypoint
5 13 (0.70%) Mule
6 10 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
7 8 (0.43%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.43%) nginx
7 8 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 6 (0.32%) Camunda
9 5 (0.27%) IIS
10 4 (0.22%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.22%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.22%) Oracle Spatial
11 3 (0.16%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.11%) WordPress
13 1 (0.054%) Drupal
Applications
1 29 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (1.24%) Simulink
3 22 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.38%) Adobe XD
7 6 (0.32%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.22%) Mathcad
8 4 (0.22%) Windchill
9 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.11%) InDesign
9 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.054%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.054%) EPLAN
10 1 (0.054%) FrameMaker
10 1 (0.054%) Houdini
10 1 (0.054%) InVision
10 1 (0.054%) Revit
10 1 (0.054%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.054%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 17 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.86%) Primavera
3 7 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.32%) Workday HCM
5 5 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.27%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.27%) Teamcenter
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.11%) SAP PSCD
6 2 (0.11%) SAP QM
6 2 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.054%) Magento
7 1 (0.054%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.054%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.054%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.054%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.054%) SAP EWM
7 1 (0.054%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.054%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 453 (24.41%) Azure
2 428 (23.06%) AWS
3 130 (7.00%) GCP
4 82 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
5 78 (4.20%) Entra ID
5 78 (4.20%) Power Platform
6 43 (2.32%) GitHub
7 41 (2.21%) AWS CloudFormation
8 38 (2.05%) dbt
8 38 (2.05%) Serverless
9 32 (1.72%) Amazon S3
10 26 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
10 26 (1.40%) OpenShift
11 25 (1.35%) SaaS
12 22 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
12 22 (1.19%) Azure Sentinel
13 21 (1.13%) Amazon EC2
14 20 (1.08%) Microsoft Purview
15 19 (1.02%) GitHub Actions
15 19 (1.02%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 53 (2.86%) Firewall
2 50 (2.69%) Network Security
3 42 (2.26%) TCP/IP
4 34 (1.83%) DNS
5 20 (1.08%) WAN
6 16 (0.86%) SSL
6 16 (0.86%) VPN
7 15 (0.81%) DHCP
8 13 (0.70%) BGP
9 12 (0.65%) LAN
9 12 (0.65%) Wireless
10 11 (0.59%) ATM
11 10 (0.54%) Ethernet
12 8 (0.43%) OSPF
13 7 (0.38%) MPLS
14 6 (0.32%) HTTP
15 5 (0.27%) DMZ
15 5 (0.27%) Internet
15 5 (0.27%) VLAN
15 5 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (3.34%) Power BI
2 48 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (1.56%) Big Data
3 29 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (1.40%) NoSQL
5 24 (1.29%) SQL Server
6 21 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
6 21 (1.13%) Relational Database
7 19 (1.02%) Tableau
8 17 (0.92%) Data Lake
8 17 (0.92%) Metadata
9 15 (0.81%) DynamoDB
9 15 (0.81%) MySQL
10 13 (0.70%) MongoDB
11 10 (0.54%) Hadoop
12 7 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (0.38%) Redis
13 6 (0.32%) GIS
13 6 (0.32%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 79 (4.26%) Git
2 42 (2.26%) Jenkins
3 37 (1.99%) JIRA
4 36 (1.94%) GitLab
5 23 (1.24%) JUnit
5 23 (1.24%) Rational DOORS
6 17 (0.92%) Selenium
7 14 (0.75%) Mockito
8 13 (0.70%) Maven
9 11 (0.59%) Cucumber
10 10 (0.54%) Burp Suite
10 10 (0.54%) Metasploit
11 9 (0.48%) Cypress.io
11 9 (0.48%) Postman
12 8 (0.43%) Balsamiq
12 8 (0.43%) SonarQube
13 7 (0.38%) Gatling
14 6 (0.32%) Axure RP
14 6 (0.32%) LabVIEW
15 3 (0.16%) JMeter
General
1 542 (29.20%) Social Skills
2 435 (23.44%) Public Sector
3 369 (19.88%) Finance
4 349 (18.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 234 (12.61%) Analytical Skills
6 190 (10.24%) Aerospace
7 164 (8.84%) Law
8 70 (3.77%) Legal
9 58 (3.13%) Electronics
9 58 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
10 55 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
11 54 (2.91%) Military
12 50 (2.69%) Retail
13 49 (2.64%) Influencing Skills
14 41 (2.21%) Manufacturing
15 35 (1.89%) Police
15 35 (1.89%) Telecoms
16 15 (0.81%) Automotive
16 15 (0.81%) Aviation
16 15 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 345 (18.59%) Senior
2 298 (16.06%) Architect
3 198 (10.67%) Consultant
4 163 (8.78%) Lead
5 154 (8.30%) Software Engineer
6 136 (7.33%) Developer
7 131 (7.06%) Analyst
8 106 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
9 93 (5.01%) Data Engineer
10 65 (3.50%) Security Consultant
11 63 (3.39%) Principal Engineer
12 62 (3.34%) Cloud Engineer
13 57 (3.07%) Senior Manager
14 55 (2.96%) Security Architect
15 54 (2.91%) DevOps Engineer
16 49 (2.64%) Senior Consultant
16 49 (2.64%) Senior Developer
17 48 (2.59%) Business Analyst
18 43 (2.32%) Senior Analyst
19 42 (2.26%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (6.25%) Terraform
2 63 (3.39%) React
3 53 (2.86%) REST
4 44 (2.37%) Spring
5 42 (2.26%) .NET
6 33 (1.78%) CSS
7 30 (1.62%) Kafka
8 27 (1.45%) AngularJS
8 27 (1.45%) HTML
9 25 (1.35%) Playwright
10 24 (1.29%) OAuth
10 24 (1.29%) PySpark
11 22 (1.19%) Node.js
11 22 (1.19%) SOAP
12 21 (1.13%) RESTful
12 21 (1.13%) Spring Boot
13 20 (1.08%) .NET Core
14 18 (0.97%) Web Services
15 17 (0.92%) JWT
15 17 (0.92%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 137 (7.38%) Cloud Native
2 64 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
3 61 (3.29%) Management Information System
4 60 (3.23%) Product Ownership
5 54 (2.91%) Onboarding
6 43 (2.32%) Security Posture
7 36 (1.94%) Driving Licence
8 33 (1.78%) Blog
9 30 (1.62%) Cyber Threat
9 30 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
10 28 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
10 28 (1.51%) PKI
11 27 (1.45%) Data Centre
11 27 (1.45%) FPGA
12 24 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
13 23 (1.24%) CMDB
13 23 (1.24%) Cyber Defence
14 21 (1.13%) Algorithms
15 20 (1.08%) Security Operations Centre
16 19 (1.02%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 138 (7.44%) Linux
2 106 (5.71%) Windows
3 41 (2.21%) Windows Server
4 35 (1.89%) Unix
5 13 (0.70%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.38%) VxWorks
7 6 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.27%) Android
9 4 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
9 4 (0.22%) Kali Linux
9 4 (0.22%) Solaris
9 4 (0.22%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.16%) CentOS
10 3 (0.16%) OpenWrt
11 2 (0.11%) AIX
11 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.11%) FreeRTOS
11 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 520 (28.02%) Agile
2 345 (18.59%) Continuous Improvement
3 292 (15.73%) Problem-Solving
4 291 (15.68%) Mentoring
5 289 (15.57%) Cybersecurity
6 260 (14.01%) Software Engineering
7 255 (13.74%) CI/CD
8 236 (12.72%) DevOps
8 236 (12.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 232 (12.50%) AI
10 200 (10.78%) Stakeholder Management
11 178 (9.59%) Decision-Making
12 170 (9.16%) Analytics
13 166 (8.94%) Technical Leadership
14 162 (8.73%) Coaching
15 145 (7.81%) Collaborative Culture
15 145 (7.81%) Community of Practice
16 144 (7.76%) Scrum
17 142 (7.65%) Project Delivery
18 134 (7.22%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 225 (12.12%) Python
2 167 (9.00%) Java
3 137 (7.38%) SQL
4 107 (5.77%) JavaScript
5 64 (3.45%) C++
6 58 (3.13%) C#
7 49 (2.64%) Bash
8 45 (2.42%) PowerShell
9 39 (2.10%) TypeScript
10 33 (1.78%) C
11 25 (1.35%) MATLAB
12 21 (1.13%) Ada
13 15 (0.81%) Go
13 15 (0.81%) Groovy
13 15 (0.81%) PL/SQL
14 14 (0.75%) Rust
15 13 (0.70%) DataWeave
15 13 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
16 12 (0.65%) Ruby
17 9 (0.48%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 1,481 (79.80%) SC Cleared
2 410 (22.09%) DV Cleared
3 336 (18.10%) Degree
4 231 (12.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 82 (4.42%) CISSP
6 62 (3.34%) CISM
7 50 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 45 (2.42%) Azure Certification
9 40 (2.16%) AWS Certification
10 31 (1.67%) Master's Degree
11 25 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
12 23 (1.24%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 21 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
14 19 (1.02%) CRISC
15 18 (0.97%) PhD
16 17 (0.92%) Chartered Engineer
16 17 (0.92%) CREST Certified
16 17 (0.92%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 14 (0.75%) CHECK Team Member
17 14 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (8.57%) Accessibility
2 148 (7.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 97 (5.23%) NIST
4 73 (3.93%) NCSC
4 73 (3.93%) QA
5 53 (2.86%) GRC
6 49 (2.64%) Data Quality
7 44 (2.37%) GDPR
8 26 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
8 26 (1.40%) PCI DSS
9 23 (1.24%) SLA
10 22 (1.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 18 (0.97%) WCAG
12 17 (0.92%) Def Stans
12 17 (0.92%) JSP 440
13 14 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
14 11 (0.59%) NIST 800
15 9 (0.48%) PMO
16 6 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 114 (6.14%) Docker
2 79 (4.26%) Active Directory
3 45 (2.42%) Firmware
4 36 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
5 22 (1.19%) Hyper-V
6 15 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.38%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.38%) vSphere
9 6 (0.32%) Squid
10 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.054%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.054%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.054%) IAG
11 1 (0.054%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.054%) QEMU
11 1 (0.054%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.054%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 122 (6.57%) Kubernetes
2 48 (2.59%) Ansible
3 39 (2.10%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (0.92%) Grafana
4 17 (0.92%) Prometheus
5 13 (0.70%) CloudHub
6 12 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (0.59%) Argo
8 10 (0.54%) Nmap
9 8 (0.43%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.38%) Kustomize
10 7 (0.38%) QRadar
11 6 (0.32%) Istio
11 6 (0.32%) Packer
12 5 (0.27%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.27%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.22%) Kibana
14 3 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.16%) Oracle RMAN
15 2 (0.11%) Consul
Vendors
1 244 (13.15%) Microsoft
2 87 (4.69%) ServiceNow
3 64 (3.45%) Google
4 62 (3.34%) Oracle
5 56 (3.02%) SAP
6 50 (2.69%) VMware
7 31 (1.67%) Cisco
8 25 (1.35%) Red Hat
8 25 (1.35%) Salesforce
9 21 (1.13%) Splunk
10 20 (1.08%) Databricks
11 19 (1.02%) OpenAI
12 17 (0.92%) MuleSoft
12 17 (0.92%) Okta
12 17 (0.92%) YouTube
13 16 (0.86%) CyberArk
14 14 (0.75%) Veeam
15 13 (0.70%) Adobe
15 13 (0.70%) Thales
16 12 (0.65%) Workday