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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 35 22
Rank change year-on-year +10 -13 +5
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,605 1,148 2,066
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.33% 6.97% 7.75%
As % of the Qualifications category 35.41% 20.65% 28.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,165 574 1,403
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,608 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% +7.76% -3.33%

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 4,532 5,559 7,136
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.70% 33.77% 26.76%
Number of salaries quoted 3,031 2,466 4,303
10th Percentile £33,250 £29,469 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,844 £41,250 £42,608
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £78,770 £74,258 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 29 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 37 (2.31%) Apache
2 36 (2.24%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.56%) Apache Spark
4 12 (0.75%) Anypoint
4 12 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (0.75%) Mule
5 8 (0.50%) Confluence
5 8 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.44%) Jupyter
6 7 (0.44%) nginx
7 6 (0.37%) Camunda
8 5 (0.31%) IIS
8 5 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.19%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.12%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
10 2 (0.12%) WordPress
11 1 (0.062%) Drupal
Applications
1 23 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.62%) Adobe XD
3 10 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.62%) Simulink
4 4 (0.25%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.25%) Windchill
5 2 (0.12%) InVision
5 2 (0.12%) Mathcad
5 2 (0.12%) Sketch
6 1 (0.062%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.062%) CATIA
6 1 (0.062%) FrameMaker
6 1 (0.062%) Houdini
6 1 (0.062%) InDesign
6 1 (0.062%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.062%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 28 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.44%) SAP ERP
3 6 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.31%) Primavera
5 4 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.25%) SAP FSCM
5 4 (0.25%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.19%) Elite 3E
6 3 (0.19%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.19%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.19%) SAP HCM
7 2 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
7 2 (0.12%) SAP QM
7 2 (0.12%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.062%) C-CURE
8 1 (0.062%) SAP BPC
8 1 (0.062%) SAP EWM
8 1 (0.062%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 436 (27.17%) Azure
2 390 (24.30%) AWS
3 125 (7.79%) GCP
4 84 (5.23%) Microsoft 365
5 70 (4.36%) Entra ID
5 70 (4.36%) Power Platform
6 37 (2.31%) dbt
7 35 (2.18%) AWS CloudFormation
8 34 (2.12%) GitHub
9 30 (1.87%) Serverless
10 28 (1.74%) SaaS
11 27 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
12 25 (1.56%) PaaS
13 22 (1.37%) Azure Sentinel
14 20 (1.25%) Google Analytics
14 20 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
15 19 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
16 18 (1.12%) Amazon S3
16 18 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
16 18 (1.12%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 48 (2.99%) Firewall
2 45 (2.80%) Network Security
3 37 (2.31%) TCP/IP
4 32 (1.99%) DNS
5 27 (1.68%) WAN
6 19 (1.18%) VPN
7 18 (1.12%) LAN
8 16 (1.00%) DHCP
9 15 (0.93%) SSL
10 14 (0.87%) BGP
11 12 (0.75%) MPLS
12 11 (0.69%) ATM
13 9 (0.56%) SMTP
14 8 (0.50%) HTTP
15 7 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
16 6 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
16 6 (0.37%) OSPF
16 6 (0.37%) Wireless
17 5 (0.31%) SNMP
18 4 (0.25%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (3.36%) Power BI
2 42 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (1.50%) Big Data
4 23 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (1.37%) NoSQL
6 17 (1.06%) SQL Server
7 16 (1.00%) Metadata
7 16 (1.00%) MongoDB
8 13 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
9 12 (0.75%) Redis
10 11 (0.69%) DynamoDB
10 11 (0.69%) Tableau
11 10 (0.62%) Relational Database
12 9 (0.56%) Data Lake
12 9 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
13 8 (0.50%) MySQL
14 7 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
15 6 (0.37%) SAP HANA
16 5 (0.31%) Hadoop
16 5 (0.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 57 (3.55%) Git
2 38 (2.37%) GitLab
3 37 (2.31%) Jenkins
4 20 (1.25%) JIRA
5 18 (1.12%) JUnit
6 14 (0.87%) Selenium
7 12 (0.75%) Rational DOORS
8 11 (0.69%) Mockito
9 10 (0.62%) Maven
10 9 (0.56%) Balsamiq
11 8 (0.50%) Axure RP
11 8 (0.50%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.44%) Burp Suite
12 7 (0.44%) Metasploit
12 7 (0.44%) Postman
13 6 (0.37%) Gatling
14 5 (0.31%) Cypress.io
14 5 (0.31%) SonarQube
15 3 (0.19%) JMeter
15 3 (0.19%) LabVIEW
General
1 471 (29.35%) Social Skills
2 377 (23.49%) Public Sector
3 256 (15.95%) Finance
4 250 (15.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 179 (11.15%) Analytical Skills
6 151 (9.41%) Law
7 73 (4.55%) Aerospace
8 67 (4.17%) Legal
9 50 (3.12%) Presentation Skills
10 38 (2.37%) Telecoms
11 37 (2.31%) Retail
12 34 (2.12%) Manufacturing
13 33 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
14 28 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
15 25 (1.56%) Military
16 22 (1.37%) Electronics
17 18 (1.12%) Police
18 13 (0.81%) Aviation
19 12 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
20 11 (0.69%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 302 (18.82%) Senior
2 284 (17.69%) Architect
3 190 (11.84%) Consultant
4 144 (8.97%) Lead
5 120 (7.48%) Solutions Architect
6 119 (7.41%) Developer
7 112 (6.98%) Software Engineer
8 109 (6.79%) Analyst
9 63 (3.93%) Data Engineer
10 62 (3.86%) Cloud Engineer
11 57 (3.55%) Security Consultant
12 53 (3.30%) Senior Manager
13 51 (3.18%) Senior Consultant
14 49 (3.05%) DevOps Engineer
15 48 (2.99%) Security Architect
16 47 (2.93%) Senior Developer
17 46 (2.87%) Business Analyst
18 42 (2.62%) Java Developer
19 41 (2.55%) Senior Analyst
20 38 (2.37%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (3.30%) REST
2 43 (2.68%) React
3 41 (2.55%) Spring
4 32 (1.99%) Kafka
5 29 (1.81%) .NET
6 25 (1.56%) SOAP
7 24 (1.50%) OAuth
8 20 (1.25%) CSS
8 20 (1.25%) Spring Boot
9 19 (1.18%) AngularJS
10 18 (1.12%) HTML
10 18 (1.12%) Playwright
11 16 (1.00%) Middleware
11 16 (1.00%) PySpark
12 15 (0.93%) JWT
12 15 (0.93%) OAuth2
12 15 (0.93%) RESTful
13 14 (0.87%) Web Services
14 13 (0.81%) SAML
15 12 (0.75%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 127 (7.91%) Cloud Native
2 58 (3.61%) Product Ownership
3 57 (3.55%) Onboarding
4 54 (3.36%) Management Information System
5 45 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
6 43 (2.68%) Security Posture
7 31 (1.93%) Data Centre
7 31 (1.93%) Driving Licence
7 31 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
8 26 (1.62%) Blog
9 24 (1.50%) PKI
10 20 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
10 20 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
10 20 (1.25%) Security Operations Centre
11 17 (1.06%) CMDB
11 17 (1.06%) Cyber Defence
12 15 (0.93%) Data Structures
12 15 (0.93%) Public Cloud
13 14 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
14 13 (0.81%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 119 (7.41%) Linux
2 94 (5.86%) Windows
3 39 (2.43%) Windows Server
4 29 (1.81%) Unix
5 14 (0.87%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.31%) Android
6 5 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.19%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.12%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.12%) CentOS
8 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.12%) VxWorks
8 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.062%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.062%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.062%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (26.36%) Agile
2 259 (16.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 243 (15.14%) Cybersecurity
4 233 (14.52%) Mentoring
5 222 (13.83%) Problem-Solving
6 213 (13.27%) DevOps
7 209 (13.02%) CI/CD
8 199 (12.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 183 (11.40%) Software Engineering
10 159 (9.91%) Stakeholder Management
11 155 (9.66%) AI
12 129 (8.04%) Community of Practice
13 126 (7.85%) Collaborative Culture
14 123 (7.66%) Technical Leadership
15 121 (7.54%) Infrastructure as Code
16 120 (7.48%) Decision-Making
17 116 (7.23%) Analytics
17 116 (7.23%) Project Delivery
18 114 (7.10%) Technology Strategy
19 113 (7.04%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 201 (12.52%) Python
2 153 (9.53%) Java
3 106 (6.60%) SQL
4 82 (5.11%) JavaScript
5 50 (3.12%) C++
6 44 (2.74%) C#
7 38 (2.37%) Bash
7 38 (2.37%) PowerShell
8 27 (1.68%) C
8 27 (1.68%) TypeScript
9 16 (1.00%) Groovy
10 14 (0.87%) Ada
11 12 (0.75%) DataWeave
11 12 (0.75%) Rust
12 9 (0.56%) MATLAB
12 9 (0.56%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.50%) Apex Code
13 8 (0.50%) Go
13 8 (0.50%) Ruby
13 8 (0.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,265 (78.82%) SC Cleared
2 321 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 275 (17.13%) Degree
4 146 (9.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 74 (4.61%) CISSP
6 53 (3.30%) CISM
7 52 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 40 (2.49%) Azure Certification
9 35 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
10 27 (1.68%) AWS Certification
11 19 (1.18%) CREST Certified
11 19 (1.18%) Master's Degree
12 18 (1.12%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 17 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
13 17 (1.06%) CRISC
14 16 (1.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 12 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
16 10 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 10 (0.62%) CompTIA CySA+
16 10 (0.62%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (8.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 84 (5.23%) NIST
3 74 (4.61%) Accessibility
4 54 (3.36%) QA
5 53 (3.30%) NCSC
6 42 (2.62%) GDPR
7 41 (2.55%) GRC
8 38 (2.37%) Data Quality
9 25 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
10 24 (1.50%) PCI DSS
11 23 (1.43%) SLA
12 22 (1.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 18 (1.12%) WCAG
14 16 (1.00%) JSP 440
15 11 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
16 10 (0.62%) Def Stans
17 9 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 7 (0.44%) NIST 800
19 6 (0.37%) Government Security Classifications
19 6 (0.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 90 (5.61%) Docker
2 71 (4.42%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (1.50%) Hyper-V
5 21 (1.31%) Firmware
6 13 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.44%) vSphere
8 6 (0.37%) Squid
9 5 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.31%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.062%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.062%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.062%) IAG
11 1 (0.062%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.062%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.062%) Xen
Systems Management
1 106 (6.60%) Terraform
2 102 (6.36%) Kubernetes
3 45 (2.80%) Ansible
4 39 (2.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (1.25%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.12%) Grafana
7 12 (0.75%) CloudHub
8 10 (0.62%) Argo
9 8 (0.50%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.44%) Nmap
10 7 (0.44%) QRadar
10 7 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.37%) Kustomize
11 6 (0.37%) Puppet
12 5 (0.31%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.31%) Istio
12 5 (0.31%) Packer
12 5 (0.31%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.25%) Kibana
Vendors
1 230 (14.33%) Microsoft
2 64 (3.99%) Google
3 56 (3.49%) ServiceNow
4 52 (3.24%) SAP
5 49 (3.05%) Oracle
6 37 (2.31%) VMware
7 32 (1.99%) Cisco
8 29 (1.81%) Salesforce
9 23 (1.43%) MuleSoft
10 22 (1.37%) Databricks
10 22 (1.37%) Red Hat
11 18 (1.12%) OpenAI
12 17 (1.06%) CyberArk
13 16 (1.00%) Splunk
14 15 (0.93%) Okta
15 13 (0.81%) Adobe
16 8 (0.50%) Juniper
16 8 (0.50%) Veeam
17 7 (0.44%) Dell
17 7 (0.44%) Fortinet