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 27 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 44 25
Rank change year-on-year +28 -19 +4
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,520 786 2,529
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 9.03% 6.13% 8.18%
As % of the Qualifications category 34.75% 21.02% 30.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,062 552 1,720
10th Percentile £45,575 £46,250 £39,124
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,800 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £86,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £61,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +5.69% +6.96% -

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 4,374 3,739 8,197
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 25.99% 29.14% 26.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,647 2,447 5,942
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,900 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £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 £88,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £58,033 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.92% +5.51% -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 27 March 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 33 (2.17%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (0.79%) Apache
5 6 (0.39%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.26%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.26%) Confluence
6 4 (0.26%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.26%) Oracle Spatial
7 3 (0.20%) Camunda
7 3 (0.20%) SAS
7 3 (0.20%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.20%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.20%) WebLogic Portal
7 3 (0.20%) WordPress
8 2 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.066%) Drupal
9 1 (0.066%) IIS
9 1 (0.066%) nginx
9 1 (0.066%) OpenStack
Applications
1 78 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (1.91%) Adobe XD
3 11 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.33%) InVision
5 5 (0.33%) Sketch
6 2 (0.13%) Weka
7 1 (0.066%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.066%) CATIA
7 1 (0.066%) EngageOne
7 1 (0.066%) EPLAN
7 1 (0.066%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.066%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.066%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 25 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.26%) Primavera
4 4 (0.26%) SAP CO
4 4 (0.26%) SAP FI
4 4 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
4 4 (0.26%) SAP FSCM
5 3 (0.20%) Elite 3E
5 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.20%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.20%) SAP HCM
5 3 (0.20%) SAP PP
6 2 (0.13%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.13%) SAP PM
6 2 (0.13%) SAP SCM
7 1 (0.066%) C-CURE
7 1 (0.066%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.066%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 260 (17.11%) Azure
2 223 (14.67%) AWS
3 115 (7.57%) Microsoft 365
4 79 (5.20%) GCP
5 50 (3.29%) Entra ID
6 47 (3.09%) Power Platform
7 38 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 30 (1.97%) Figma
9 28 (1.84%) PowerApps
10 26 (1.71%) Power Automate
11 25 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
11 25 (1.64%) Serverless
12 23 (1.51%) Azure DevOps
13 22 (1.45%) Amazon ECS
14 20 (1.32%) Amazon EKS
15 19 (1.25%) GitHub
15 19 (1.25%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 19 (1.25%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 17 (1.12%) SaaS
17 16 (1.05%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 39 (2.57%) Firewall
2 24 (1.58%) WAN
3 23 (1.51%) VPN
4 22 (1.45%) Network Security
5 20 (1.32%) TCP/IP
6 19 (1.25%) DNS
6 19 (1.25%) LAN
7 16 (1.05%) DHCP
8 15 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (0.79%) BGP
10 10 (0.66%) MPLS
11 9 (0.59%) SMTP
12 8 (0.53%) SNMP
13 7 (0.46%) HTTP
13 7 (0.46%) Intrusion Detection
13 7 (0.46%) VoIP
14 6 (0.39%) Cisco Firepower
14 6 (0.39%) DMZ
15 5 (0.33%) Cisco ASA
15 5 (0.33%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (2.50%) Power BI
3 24 (1.58%) NoSQL
4 19 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (1.18%) MongoDB
5 18 (1.18%) SQL Server
6 17 (1.12%) Metadata
7 15 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
8 14 (0.92%) MySQL
8 14 (0.92%) Redis
9 12 (0.79%) Relational Database
10 9 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (0.59%) DynamoDB
10 9 (0.59%) Tableau
11 8 (0.53%) SAP HANA
12 6 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (0.33%) Oracle Database
14 4 (0.26%) Amazon Athena
14 4 (0.26%) QGIS
14 4 (0.26%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 48 (3.16%) Git
2 34 (2.24%) Jenkins
3 27 (1.78%) Balsamiq
4 25 (1.64%) Axure RP
5 21 (1.38%) GitLab
6 17 (1.12%) JIRA
7 10 (0.66%) Selenium
8 7 (0.46%) Burp Suite
8 7 (0.46%) Cypress.io
8 7 (0.46%) JMeter
8 7 (0.46%) Metasploit
8 7 (0.46%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.39%) Babel
9 6 (0.39%) webpack
10 5 (0.33%) Robot Framework
10 5 (0.33%) WebDriver
11 3 (0.20%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.20%) Maven
11 3 (0.20%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.20%) SoapUI
General
1 386 (25.39%) Social Skills
2 314 (20.66%) Public Sector
3 176 (11.58%) Finance
4 147 (9.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 143 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
6 111 (7.30%) Law
7 71 (4.67%) Manufacturing
8 62 (4.08%) Back Office
9 61 (4.01%) Telecoms
10 46 (3.03%) Legal
11 41 (2.70%) Electronics
12 40 (2.63%) Marketing
13 29 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
14 28 (1.84%) Military
15 23 (1.51%) Retail
16 20 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
17 16 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
18 13 (0.86%) Aerospace
19 10 (0.66%) Banking
20 7 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 239 (15.72%) Senior
2 154 (10.13%) Architect
3 141 (9.28%) Consultant
4 140 (9.21%) Analyst
4 140 (9.21%) Systems Engineer
5 106 (6.97%) Lead
6 104 (6.84%) Developer
7 97 (6.38%) Business Analyst
8 78 (5.13%) Software Engineer
8 78 (5.13%) Support Engineer
9 64 (4.21%) Site Engineer
10 60 (3.95%) Desktop Engineer
10 60 (3.95%) Desktop Support
10 60 (3.95%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 56 (3.68%) Solutions Architect
12 46 (3.03%) Data Engineer
13 44 (2.89%) Security Consultant
13 44 (2.89%) Senior Manager
14 41 (2.70%) Senior Consultant
15 36 (2.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (2.96%) .NET
2 41 (2.70%) React
3 39 (2.57%) REST
4 36 (2.37%) HTML
5 35 (2.30%) CSS
6 29 (1.91%) Spring
7 23 (1.51%) Django
7 23 (1.51%) Lightning Web Components
7 23 (1.51%) SOAP
8 22 (1.45%) Middleware
9 20 (1.32%) Kafka
10 19 (1.25%) Visualforce
11 18 (1.18%) Spring Boot
12 17 (1.12%) SAP CAF
13 16 (1.05%) AngularJS
13 16 (1.05%) Node.js
14 15 (0.99%) HTML5 Canvas
15 14 (0.92%) SAML
16 13 (0.86%) ASP.NET
17 12 (0.79%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 75 (4.93%) Product Ownership
2 68 (4.47%) Cloud Native
3 51 (3.36%) Security Posture
4 36 (2.37%) Data Centre
5 35 (2.30%) Onboarding
6 32 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
7 29 (1.91%) Management Information System
8 22 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
9 20 (1.32%) PKI
10 19 (1.25%) Blog
11 17 (1.12%) Driving Licence
12 12 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
12 12 (0.79%) Security Operations Centre
13 11 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
13 11 (0.72%) Cyber Security Posture
13 11 (0.72%) Data Structures
13 11 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (0.72%) Private Cloud
14 10 (0.66%) AI Agents
14 10 (0.66%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 129 (8.49%) Windows
2 103 (6.78%) Linux
3 67 (4.41%) Windows 10
4 30 (1.97%) Unix
5 20 (1.32%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.66%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.46%) CentOS
8 6 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.13%) Android
11 1 (0.066%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.066%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 299 (19.67%) Agile
2 197 (12.96%) Continuous Improvement
3 190 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 169 (11.12%) Cybersecurity
5 157 (10.33%) DevOps
6 140 (9.21%) Software Engineering
7 137 (9.01%) Analytics
8 122 (8.03%) Mentoring
9 120 (7.89%) ITIL
10 111 (7.30%) Community of Practice
11 108 (7.11%) CI/CD
12 100 (6.58%) Technology Strategy
13 92 (6.05%) Collaborative Culture
14 88 (5.79%) Stakeholder Management
15 77 (5.07%) Validation
16 76 (5.00%) Risk Management
17 75 (4.93%) Business Intelligence
17 75 (4.93%) Infrastructure as Code
18 74 (4.87%) User Experience
19 72 (4.74%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 130 (8.55%) Python
2 108 (7.11%) Java
3 94 (6.18%) JavaScript
4 67 (4.41%) SQL
5 66 (4.34%) C#
6 28 (1.84%) PowerShell
6 28 (1.84%) TypeScript
7 23 (1.51%) Apex Code
7 23 (1.51%) Bash
8 18 (1.18%) C++
9 12 (0.79%) C
10 10 (0.66%) Go
11 9 (0.59%) Ada
12 7 (0.46%) ABAP
12 7 (0.46%) Bicep
13 6 (0.39%) Groovy
13 6 (0.39%) Rust
13 6 (0.39%) Scala
14 5 (0.33%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.26%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 914 (60.13%) SC Cleared
2 307 (20.20%) Degree
3 266 (17.50%) DV Cleared
4 74 (4.87%) CISSP
5 66 (4.34%) CTC Cleared
6 54 (3.55%) BPSS Clearance
7 52 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 46 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
9 45 (2.96%) CISM
10 26 (1.71%) Azure Certification
10 26 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
11 20 (1.32%) AWS Certification
12 19 (1.25%) CREST Certified
13 18 (1.18%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 13 (0.86%) CCNA
14 13 (0.86%) HNC
14 13 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
15 12 (0.79%) GIAC
15 12 (0.79%) Master's Degree
15 12 (0.79%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (6.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 69 (4.54%) SLA
3 65 (4.28%) NIST
4 53 (3.49%) Accessibility
5 50 (3.29%) GDPR
6 41 (2.70%) QA
7 40 (2.63%) GRC
8 26 (1.71%) Data Quality
8 26 (1.71%) WCAG
9 19 (1.25%) PCI DSS
10 18 (1.18%) NCSC
11 13 (0.86%) JSP 440
12 12 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
13 9 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 8 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
15 7 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
15 7 (0.46%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 7 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 6 (0.39%) PMO
17 3 (0.20%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 79 (5.20%) Docker
2 34 (2.24%) Active Directory
3 12 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.59%) VMware NSX
5 6 (0.39%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.33%) Firmware
6 5 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.13%) vSphere
8 1 (0.066%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.066%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.066%) vCloud
8 1 (0.066%) Xen
Systems Management
1 86 (5.66%) Terraform
2 73 (4.80%) Kubernetes
3 50 (3.29%) Ansible
4 20 (1.32%) Grafana
5 15 (0.99%) Prometheus
6 12 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (0.59%) Puppet
8 7 (0.46%) Nmap
9 6 (0.39%) Endace
9 6 (0.39%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 5 (0.33%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.33%) Kibana
11 4 (0.26%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.26%) SCCM
11 4 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.26%) WSUS
11 4 (0.26%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.20%) Nagios
12 3 (0.20%) OpenView
12 3 (0.20%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 177 (11.64%) Microsoft
2 106 (6.97%) Cisco
3 68 (4.47%) SAP
4 62 (4.08%) Google
5 49 (3.22%) Salesforce
6 38 (2.50%) Oracle
7 29 (1.91%) Adobe
8 22 (1.45%) VMware
9 18 (1.18%) MuleSoft
10 17 (1.12%) Red Hat
11 15 (0.99%) ServiceNow
11 15 (0.99%) Splunk
12 11 (0.72%) Databricks
13 10 (0.66%) CyberArk
14 9 (0.59%) Juniper
14 9 (0.59%) Meraki
15 8 (0.53%) F5
16 7 (0.46%) Okta
16 7 (0.46%) Remedy
17 6 (0.39%) CheckPoint