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 9 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 38 23
Rank change year-on-year +14 -15 +5
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,557 1,108 2,532
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.34% 6.75% 7.77%
As % of the Qualifications category 35.03% 20.16% 28.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,171 567 1,733
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,608 £40,000
25th Percentile £54,609 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,076 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.73% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £73,894
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £57,501
% change year-on-year +12.00% +8.69% -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 4,445 5,495 8,754
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.97% 33.49% 26.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3,034 2,477 5,634
10th Percentile £33,250 £29,150 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,125 £42,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,150 £60,000 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% +6.15% -5.79%
75th Percentile £78,750 £73,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,634 £90,000 £86,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +2.80% -10.83%

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 9 July 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 (2.44%) SharePoint
2 31 (1.99%) Apache
3 16 (1.03%) Apache Spark
4 14 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.45%) Anypoint
6 7 (0.45%) Jupyter
6 7 (0.45%) Mule
7 5 (0.32%) Confluence
7 5 (0.32%) IIS
8 4 (0.26%) nginx
9 3 (0.19%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.19%) Camunda
9 3 (0.19%) SAS
10 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.13%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.13%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle Spatial
11 1 (0.064%) WordPress
Applications
1 45 (2.89%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.45%) Adobe XD
5 4 (0.26%) Simulink
5 4 (0.26%) Windchill
6 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.19%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.13%) InVision
7 2 (0.13%) Sketch
7 2 (0.13%) Weka
8 1 (0.064%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.064%) CATIA
8 1 (0.064%) EngageOne
8 1 (0.064%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.064%) Houdini
8 1 (0.064%) NUKE
8 1 (0.064%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 28 (1.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.45%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.32%) Primavera
4 4 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.26%) SAP FSCM
5 3 (0.19%) Elite 3E
5 3 (0.19%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.19%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.19%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.13%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.13%) SAP QM
6 2 (0.13%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.064%) Magento
7 1 (0.064%) SAP EWM
7 1 (0.064%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.064%) SAP PSCD
7 1 (0.064%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 386 (24.79%) Azure
2 335 (21.52%) AWS
3 114 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
4 109 (7.00%) GCP
5 93 (5.97%) Entra ID
6 65 (4.17%) Power Platform
7 33 (2.12%) GitHub
7 33 (2.12%) SaaS
8 28 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
8 28 (1.80%) Serverless
9 26 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (1.67%) PaaS
10 19 (1.22%) Amazon EC2
10 19 (1.22%) Azure Sentinel
10 19 (1.22%) dbt
10 19 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
10 19 (1.22%) Microsoft Purview
11 17 (1.09%) Amazon S3
11 17 (1.09%) Google Analytics
12 16 (1.03%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 44 (2.83%) Firewall
2 43 (2.76%) Network Security
3 30 (1.93%) WAN
4 28 (1.80%) DNS
5 27 (1.73%) TCP/IP
6 23 (1.48%) VPN
7 19 (1.22%) DHCP
7 19 (1.22%) LAN
8 17 (1.09%) BGP
9 14 (0.90%) MPLS
10 13 (0.83%) SMTP
11 11 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
12 10 (0.64%) HTTP
12 10 (0.64%) SSL
13 8 (0.51%) ATM
14 7 (0.45%) Intrusion Detection
14 7 (0.45%) SNMP
15 6 (0.39%) SD-WAN
16 5 (0.32%) Cisco Firepower
16 5 (0.32%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (3.08%) Power BI
2 38 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (1.28%) NoSQL
4 19 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (1.22%) MongoDB
5 16 (1.03%) Big Data
6 15 (0.96%) Metadata
7 13 (0.83%) SQL Server
8 12 (0.77%) Amazon Athena
8 12 (0.77%) Redis
9 10 (0.64%) DynamoDB
9 10 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (0.51%) Tableau
11 7 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (0.45%) Data Lake
11 7 (0.45%) MySQL
12 6 (0.39%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.39%) SAP HANA
13 5 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.26%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 54 (3.47%) Git
2 38 (2.44%) Jenkins
3 35 (2.25%) GitLab
4 18 (1.16%) JIRA
5 14 (0.90%) JUnit
5 14 (0.90%) Selenium
6 9 (0.58%) Maven
7 8 (0.51%) Mockito
8 6 (0.39%) Burp Suite
8 6 (0.39%) Cucumber
8 6 (0.39%) JMeter
8 6 (0.39%) Metasploit
9 5 (0.32%) Axure RP
9 5 (0.32%) Balsamiq
9 5 (0.32%) Postman
9 5 (0.32%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.26%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.19%) Gatling
11 3 (0.19%) SoapUI
12 2 (0.13%) Babel
General
1 444 (28.52%) Social Skills
2 352 (22.61%) Public Sector
3 217 (13.94%) Finance
4 187 (12.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 166 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
6 132 (8.48%) Law
7 58 (3.73%) Legal
8 44 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
9 38 (2.44%) Back Office
10 35 (2.25%) Manufacturing
10 35 (2.25%) Telecoms
11 32 (2.06%) Retail
12 30 (1.93%) Aerospace
13 27 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
14 23 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
15 14 (0.90%) Military
16 13 (0.83%) Aviation
17 11 (0.71%) Electronics
18 10 (0.64%) Banking
18 10 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 289 (18.56%) Senior
2 260 (16.70%) Architect
3 180 (11.56%) Consultant
4 124 (7.96%) Lead
5 118 (7.58%) Developer
5 118 (7.58%) Solutions Architect
6 105 (6.74%) Analyst
7 100 (6.42%) Software Engineer
8 59 (3.79%) Data Engineer
8 59 (3.79%) Senior Manager
9 58 (3.73%) Cloud Engineer
9 58 (3.73%) Support Engineer
10 56 (3.60%) Security Consultant
11 49 (3.15%) Senior Consultant
12 47 (3.02%) Java Developer
13 45 (2.89%) Business Analyst
13 45 (2.89%) DevOps Engineer
13 45 (2.89%) Security Architect
14 42 (2.70%) Senior Developer
15 39 (2.50%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (3.40%) REST
2 40 (2.57%) Spring
3 32 (2.06%) React
4 30 (1.93%) SOAP
5 27 (1.73%) .NET
6 24 (1.54%) Kafka
7 22 (1.41%) Middleware
8 21 (1.35%) Spring Boot
9 16 (1.03%) OAuth
9 16 (1.03%) Playwright
9 16 (1.03%) RESTful
9 16 (1.03%) SAML
10 15 (0.96%) AngularJS
11 14 (0.90%) Lightning Web Components
12 13 (0.83%) CSS
12 13 (0.83%) HTML
12 13 (0.83%) Visualforce
13 12 (0.77%) SAP Fiori
14 11 (0.71%) Web Services
15 9 (0.58%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 122 (7.84%) Cloud Native
2 64 (4.11%) Product Ownership
3 56 (3.60%) Security Posture
4 51 (3.28%) Onboarding
5 50 (3.21%) Management Information System
6 44 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
7 34 (2.18%) Data Centre
8 28 (1.80%) PKI
9 27 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
10 25 (1.61%) Driving Licence
11 22 (1.41%) Blog
12 19 (1.22%) Security Operations Centre
13 17 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
14 16 (1.03%) CMDB
15 15 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
16 13 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
16 13 (0.83%) Data Structures
16 13 (0.83%) Low-Code
16 13 (0.83%) Public Cloud
17 11 (0.71%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 117 (7.51%) Windows
2 109 (7.00%) Linux
3 43 (2.76%) Windows 10
4 32 (2.06%) Windows Server
5 23 (1.48%) Unix
6 5 (0.32%) Android
6 5 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.19%) CentOS
7 3 (0.19%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.13%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.064%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.064%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.064%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (23.64%) Agile
2 255 (16.38%) Continuous Improvement
3 240 (15.41%) Cybersecurity
4 203 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
5 199 (12.78%) DevOps
6 195 (12.52%) Mentoring
7 175 (11.24%) CI/CD
8 165 (10.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 156 (10.02%) Software Engineering
10 144 (9.25%) Stakeholder Management
11 143 (9.18%) ITIL
12 130 (8.35%) Analytics
13 123 (7.90%) AI
14 122 (7.84%) Community of Practice
15 116 (7.45%) Collaborative Culture
16 113 (7.26%) Infrastructure as Code
16 113 (7.26%) Risk Management
17 109 (7.00%) Technical Leadership
18 108 (6.94%) Technology Strategy
19 107 (6.87%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 175 (11.24%) Python
2 150 (9.63%) Java
3 96 (6.17%) SQL
4 70 (4.50%) JavaScript
5 40 (2.57%) C#
5 40 (2.57%) C++
6 34 (2.18%) PowerShell
7 33 (2.12%) Bash
8 27 (1.73%) TypeScript
9 23 (1.48%) C
10 16 (1.03%) Groovy
11 14 (0.90%) Apex Code
12 11 (0.71%) Rust
13 8 (0.51%) Go
14 7 (0.45%) Ada
14 7 (0.45%) DataWeave
14 7 (0.45%) VBA
15 6 (0.39%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.39%) Ruby
15 6 (0.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1,199 (77.01%) SC Cleared
2 304 (19.52%) DV Cleared
3 276 (17.73%) Degree
4 100 (6.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 82 (5.27%) CISSP
6 53 (3.40%) CISM
7 47 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 41 (2.63%) CTC Cleared
9 38 (2.44%) Azure Certification
10 36 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 24 (1.54%) AWS Certification
12 17 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
12 17 (1.09%) CREST Certified
13 16 (1.03%) CRISC
14 15 (0.96%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 14 (0.90%) HNC
15 14 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
16 13 (0.83%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 13 (0.83%) Master's Degree
17 10 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (9.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 75 (4.82%) NIST
3 58 (3.73%) QA
4 57 (3.66%) SLA
5 53 (3.40%) GDPR
6 48 (3.08%) NCSC
7 37 (2.38%) GRC
8 33 (2.12%) Accessibility
8 33 (2.12%) Data Quality
9 28 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials
10 26 (1.67%) PCI DSS
11 19 (1.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 18 (1.16%) JSP 440
13 11 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
13 11 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 10 (0.64%) Def Stans
14 10 (0.64%) WCAG
15 7 (0.45%) Government Security Classifications
16 6 (0.39%) PMO
16 6 (0.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 82 (5.27%) Docker
2 64 (4.11%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.48%) Hyper-V
4 21 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.58%) VMware NSX
6 8 (0.51%) Firmware
7 7 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.45%) vSphere
8 5 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.19%) Squid
10 1 (0.064%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.064%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.064%) IAG
10 1 (0.064%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.064%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.064%) Xen
Systems Management
1 100 (6.42%) Terraform
2 90 (5.78%) Kubernetes
3 50 (3.21%) Ansible
4 35 (2.25%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (1.35%) Prometheus
6 20 (1.28%) Grafana
7 10 (0.64%) Argo
7 10 (0.64%) Progress Chef
8 8 (0.51%) Puppet
8 8 (0.51%) QRadar
9 7 (0.45%) CloudHub
9 7 (0.45%) Packer
9 7 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.39%) Kustomize
10 6 (0.39%) Nmap
11 5 (0.32%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.32%) Endace
11 5 (0.32%) Istio
11 5 (0.32%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.26%) Kibana
Vendors
1 243 (15.61%) Microsoft
2 65 (4.17%) Cisco
3 53 (3.40%) Google
4 51 (3.28%) Oracle
4 51 (3.28%) ServiceNow
5 47 (3.02%) SAP
6 32 (2.06%) VMware
7 31 (1.99%) Salesforce
8 20 (1.28%) MuleSoft
8 20 (1.28%) Red Hat
9 17 (1.09%) Splunk
10 16 (1.03%) Databricks
11 15 (0.96%) CyberArk
12 13 (0.83%) OpenAI
13 11 (0.71%) Okta
14 10 (0.64%) Juniper
15 9 (0.58%) Adobe
15 9 (0.58%) Meraki
16 7 (0.45%) Dell
17 6 (0.39%) Ariba