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 17 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 33 20
Rank change year-on-year +14 -13 +16
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,347 1,217 2,098
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.78% 7.41% 9.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 26.88% 26.09% 34.18%
Number of salaries quoted 886 722 1,404
10th Percentile £44,259 £42,500 £38,734
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,312 £79,600 £74,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,450 £88,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +8.70% -

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 5,011 4,665 6,138
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 32.68% 28.42% 26.90%
Number of salaries quoted 2,512 2,383 4,435
10th Percentile £30,500 £34,404 £32,863
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,896 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +6.84% -2.50%
75th Percentile £78,312 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £94,875 £90,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,518 £56,000
% change year-on-year -7.59% +6.28% -2.61%

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 17 January 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 26 (1.93%) SharePoint
2 8 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.45%) Confluence
4 5 (0.37%) Apache
4 5 (0.37%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.30%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.30%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.30%) Oracle Spatial
6 3 (0.22%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.22%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.22%) WebLogic Portal
6 3 (0.22%) WordPress
7 2 (0.15%) Camunda
8 1 (0.074%) IIS
Applications
1 65 (4.83%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (2.15%) Adobe XD
3 14 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.22%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.22%) InVision
5 3 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.22%) Simulink
5 3 (0.22%) Sketch
6 1 (0.074%) EngageOne
6 1 (0.074%) EPLAN
6 1 (0.074%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.074%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.074%) Revit
6 1 (0.074%) Weka
Business Applications
1 24 (1.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (1.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 4 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.30%) Primavera
4 4 (0.30%) SAP PP
5 3 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.22%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.22%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.22%) SAP PM
6 2 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.15%) SAP SCM
7 1 (0.074%) Q-Pulse
7 1 (0.074%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.074%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.074%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.074%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.074%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.074%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 204 (15.14%) Azure
2 187 (13.88%) AWS
3 102 (7.57%) Microsoft 365
4 52 (3.86%) Power Platform
5 46 (3.41%) GCP
6 38 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 35 (2.60%) Entra ID
8 32 (2.38%) PowerApps
9 31 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
9 31 (2.30%) Figma
10 27 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
10 27 (2.00%) GitHub
10 27 (2.00%) Power Automate
11 26 (1.93%) Amazon EKS
11 26 (1.93%) Serverless
12 24 (1.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 21 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
14 20 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
15 19 (1.41%) Amazon S3
16 16 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 40 (2.97%) Firewall
2 27 (2.00%) Network Security
2 27 (2.00%) VPN
3 16 (1.19%) LAN
4 15 (1.11%) TCP/IP
5 12 (0.89%) WAN
6 11 (0.82%) BGP
6 11 (0.82%) DNS
6 11 (0.82%) Wireless
7 10 (0.74%) Software-Defined Radio
8 8 (0.59%) Ethernet
8 8 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (0.52%) MPLS
10 6 (0.45%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (0.45%) DMZ
10 6 (0.45%) IPsec
10 6 (0.45%) SAN
10 6 (0.45%) SD-WAN
10 6 (0.45%) VoIP
11 4 (0.30%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (2.82%) Power BI
2 31 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (1.63%) NoSQL
4 17 (1.26%) MongoDB
4 17 (1.26%) SQL Server
5 16 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (1.19%) Metadata
6 14 (1.04%) MySQL
7 13 (0.97%) Relational Database
8 11 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (0.59%) Redis
9 8 (0.59%) Tableau
10 7 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (0.45%) GIS
12 5 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (0.37%) Big Data
12 5 (0.37%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.37%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.37%) SAP HANA
13 4 (0.30%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 34 (2.52%) Jenkins
2 31 (2.30%) Git
3 29 (2.15%) Balsamiq
4 27 (2.00%) Axure RP
5 19 (1.41%) JIRA
6 18 (1.34%) Selenium
7 15 (1.11%) GitLab
8 11 (0.82%) Cypress.io
9 9 (0.67%) WebDriver
10 7 (0.52%) Burp Suite
10 7 (0.52%) Metasploit
11 6 (0.45%) JMeter
11 6 (0.45%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.37%) Robot Framework
13 4 (0.30%) Babel
13 4 (0.30%) MLflow
13 4 (0.30%) webpack
14 3 (0.22%) Bitbucket
14 3 (0.22%) Rational Rhapsody
14 3 (0.22%) TeamCity
General
1 315 (23.39%) Social Skills
2 277 (20.56%) Public Sector
3 188 (13.96%) Finance
4 155 (11.51%) Analytical Skills
5 106 (7.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 103 (7.65%) Law
7 91 (6.76%) Manufacturing
8 66 (4.90%) Telecoms
9 64 (4.75%) Electronics
10 62 (4.60%) Marketing
11 47 (3.49%) Back Office
12 31 (2.30%) Military
13 24 (1.78%) Aerospace
13 24 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
14 22 (1.63%) Retail
15 19 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
16 13 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
17 10 (0.74%) Banking
18 9 (0.67%) Games
18 9 (0.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 172 (12.77%) Senior
2 167 (12.40%) Systems Engineer
3 131 (9.73%) Analyst
4 124 (9.21%) Consultant
5 123 (9.13%) Architect
6 84 (6.24%) Lead
7 82 (6.09%) Business Analyst
8 81 (6.01%) Developer
9 74 (5.49%) Software Engineer
10 63 (4.68%) Support Engineer
11 48 (3.56%) Site Engineer
12 47 (3.49%) Security Consultant
13 46 (3.41%) Desktop Engineer
14 44 (3.27%) Desktop Support
14 44 (3.27%) Desktop Support Engineer
15 38 (2.82%) Designer
15 38 (2.82%) Solutions Architect
16 36 (2.67%) Administrator
17 34 (2.52%) Data Engineer
18 33 (2.45%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (3.56%) React
2 37 (2.75%) .NET
3 28 (2.08%) HTML
4 27 (2.00%) CSS
4 27 (2.00%) Spring
5 24 (1.78%) SAP CAF
6 22 (1.63%) Spring Boot
7 19 (1.41%) REST
8 18 (1.34%) Django
9 17 (1.26%) Node.js
10 16 (1.19%) AngularJS
11 15 (1.11%) HTML5 Canvas
12 14 (1.04%) Kafka
13 13 (0.97%) ASP.NET
13 13 (0.97%) Lightning Web Components
13 13 (0.97%) SOAP
14 12 (0.89%) Middleware
15 11 (0.82%) OLE
15 11 (0.82%) RESTful
15 11 (0.82%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 73 (5.42%) e-Learning
2 64 (4.75%) Cloud Native
3 55 (4.08%) Product Ownership
4 44 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
5 34 (2.52%) Security Posture
6 30 (2.23%) Data Centre
7 23 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
7 23 (1.71%) Onboarding
8 22 (1.63%) Management Information System
9 16 (1.19%) Algorithms
10 15 (1.11%) PKI
11 13 (0.97%) Driving Licence
12 12 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
12 12 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
13 10 (0.74%) Embedded Systems
13 10 (0.74%) Private Cloud
14 9 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (0.67%) Low-Code
14 9 (0.67%) MicroBlaze
14 9 (0.67%) RISC-V
Operating Systems
1 124 (9.21%) Linux
2 105 (7.80%) Windows
3 50 (3.71%) Windows 10
4 45 (3.34%) Unix
5 17 (1.26%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.74%) Ubuntu
7 9 (0.67%) Embedded Linux
7 9 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.45%) CentOS
9 5 (0.37%) Debian
9 5 (0.37%) Solaris
10 3 (0.22%) Mac OS X
10 3 (0.22%) VMS
11 2 (0.15%) Rocky
11 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (19.52%) Agile
2 189 (14.03%) Problem-Solving
3 162 (12.03%) Software Engineering
4 153 (11.36%) Cybersecurity
5 152 (11.28%) Continuous Improvement
6 139 (10.32%) DevOps
7 123 (9.13%) Analytics
8 111 (8.24%) CI/CD
9 102 (7.57%) Innovative Thinking
10 98 (7.28%) Business Intelligence
11 92 (6.83%) Collaborative Culture
11 92 (6.83%) ITIL
12 86 (6.38%) Community of Practice
13 85 (6.31%) Technology Strategy
14 84 (6.24%) Mentoring
15 76 (5.64%) AI
16 74 (5.49%) Infrastructure as Code
17 71 (5.27%) Computer Science
18 70 (5.20%) User Experience
18 70 (5.20%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 151 (11.21%) Python
2 95 (7.05%) Java
3 80 (5.94%) JavaScript
4 61 (4.53%) C#
5 60 (4.45%) SQL
6 43 (3.19%) PowerShell
7 35 (2.60%) Bash
8 30 (2.23%) C
8 30 (2.23%) TypeScript
9 29 (2.15%) C++
10 22 (1.63%) Bicep
11 14 (1.04%) Go
12 13 (0.97%) Apex Code
13 11 (0.82%) MATLAB
14 9 (0.67%) Ada
15 7 (0.52%) Scala
16 6 (0.45%) ABAP
16 6 (0.45%) VBA
17 5 (0.37%) Korn
17 5 (0.37%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 816 (60.58%) SC Cleared
2 301 (22.35%) Degree
3 239 (17.74%) DV Cleared
4 70 (5.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 63 (4.68%) CISSP
6 55 (4.08%) Cisco Certification
7 51 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 47 (3.49%) CTC Cleared
8 47 (3.49%) Microsoft Certification
9 46 (3.41%) CISM
10 39 (2.90%) Azure Certification
11 35 (2.60%) CCNA
12 33 (2.45%) CCNP
13 29 (2.15%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 27 (2.00%) AWS Certification
15 19 (1.41%) CEH
16 18 (1.34%) CompTIA Security+
17 16 (1.19%) Master's Degree
18 13 (0.97%) CREST Certified
19 12 (0.89%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (6.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 71 (5.27%) NIST
3 58 (4.31%) Accessibility
4 54 (4.01%) SLA
5 45 (3.34%) GRC
6 41 (3.04%) QA
7 38 (2.82%) GDPR
8 29 (2.15%) WCAG
9 22 (1.63%) Data Quality
10 19 (1.41%) PCI DSS
11 15 (1.11%) NCSC
12 13 (0.97%) JSP 440
13 8 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 7 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.45%) ISO 9001
16 5 (0.37%) NIST 800
17 4 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 3 (0.22%) ISO 14001
18 3 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 66 (4.90%) Docker
2 28 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (1.63%) Active Directory
4 17 (1.26%) Firmware
5 9 (0.67%) Embedded Firmware
5 9 (0.67%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.67%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.30%) vSphere
7 1 (0.074%) pfSense
7 1 (0.074%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.074%) vCloud
7 1 (0.074%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 81 (6.01%) Terraform
2 76 (5.64%) Kubernetes
3 47 (3.49%) Ansible
4 30 (2.23%) Grafana
5 9 (0.67%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.52%) Nmap
8 6 (0.45%) SCCM
8 6 (0.45%) SCOM
9 4 (0.30%) Kibana
9 4 (0.30%) WSUS
10 3 (0.22%) Argo
10 3 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.22%) Endace
10 3 (0.22%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.22%) Nagios
10 3 (0.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.22%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.15%) Nessus
Vendors
1 148 (10.99%) Microsoft
2 107 (7.94%) Cisco
3 88 (6.53%) SAP
4 44 (3.27%) Google
5 40 (2.97%) Salesforce
6 35 (2.60%) VMware
7 29 (2.15%) Adobe
8 23 (1.71%) Oracle
9 16 (1.19%) Red Hat
9 16 (1.19%) ServiceNow
9 16 (1.19%) Sparx
10 13 (0.97%) Splunk
11 10 (0.74%) CheckPoint
11 10 (0.74%) Juniper
12 8 (0.59%) Databricks
12 8 (0.59%) MuleSoft
13 7 (0.52%) F5
14 5 (0.37%) NetApp
15 4 (0.30%) ESRI
15 4 (0.30%) Fortinet