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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 37 23
Rank change year-on-year +11 -14 +5
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,546 1,109 2,409
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.22% 6.73% 7.83%
As % of the Qualifications category 34.68% 19.97% 28.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,167 558 1,648
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,608 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £47,962
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 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +12.00% +8.70% -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 4,458 5,553 8,324
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.81% 33.67% 27.04%
Number of salaries quoted 3,039 2,492 5,266
10th Percentile £33,250 £29,444 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,250 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,500 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +0.92% -9.17%

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 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 (2.39%) SharePoint
2 31 (2.01%) Apache
3 21 (1.36%) Apache Spark
4 14 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (0.65%) Anypoint
6 10 (0.65%) Mule
7 7 (0.45%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.32%) Confluence
8 5 (0.32%) IIS
8 5 (0.32%) 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
10 2 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 29 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.45%) Adobe XD
5 6 (0.39%) Simulink
6 4 (0.26%) Windchill
7 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.19%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.13%) InVision
8 2 (0.13%) Sketch
9 1 (0.065%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.065%) CATIA
9 1 (0.065%) FrameMaker
9 1 (0.065%) Houdini
9 1 (0.065%) Mathcad
9 1 (0.065%) NUKE
9 1 (0.065%) Siemens NX
9 1 (0.065%) Weka
Business Applications
1 28 (1.81%) 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 (0.065%) Magento
7 1 (0.065%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.065%) SAP EWM
7 1 (0.065%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.065%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 404 (26.13%) Azure
2 352 (22.77%) AWS
3 111 (7.18%) GCP
4 97 (6.27%) Microsoft 365
5 79 (5.11%) Entra ID
6 65 (4.20%) Power Platform
7 32 (2.07%) SaaS
8 31 (2.01%) GitHub
9 30 (1.94%) dbt
10 27 (1.75%) Serverless
11 26 (1.68%) AWS CloudFormation
12 25 (1.62%) Azure DevOps
12 25 (1.62%) PaaS
13 20 (1.29%) Azure Sentinel
14 19 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
14 19 (1.23%) Microsoft Purview
15 18 (1.16%) Amazon S3
15 18 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
16 17 (1.10%) Google Analytics
17 16 (1.03%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 48 (3.10%) Firewall
2 45 (2.91%) Network Security
3 31 (2.01%) DNS
3 31 (2.01%) WAN
4 28 (1.81%) TCP/IP
5 22 (1.42%) VPN
6 20 (1.29%) LAN
7 19 (1.23%) DHCP
8 15 (0.97%) BGP
9 14 (0.91%) MPLS
10 13 (0.84%) SMTP
10 13 (0.84%) SSL
11 10 (0.65%) ATM
11 10 (0.65%) HTTP
11 10 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (0.45%) Intrusion Detection
12 7 (0.45%) SNMP
13 6 (0.39%) Wireless
14 5 (0.32%) DMZ
14 5 (0.32%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (3.17%) Power BI
2 38 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (1.36%) Big Data
4 18 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (1.16%) NoSQL
5 14 (0.91%) Metadata
5 14 (0.91%) MongoDB
6 13 (0.84%) Amazon Athena
6 13 (0.84%) SQL Server
7 12 (0.78%) Redis
8 10 (0.65%) DynamoDB
9 9 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (0.58%) Tableau
10 7 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (0.45%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.39%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.39%) SAP HANA
12 5 (0.32%) MySQL
12 5 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (0.26%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 52 (3.36%) Git
2 35 (2.26%) Jenkins
3 34 (2.20%) GitLab
4 15 (0.97%) JIRA
5 14 (0.91%) JUnit
6 11 (0.71%) Selenium
7 8 (0.52%) Maven
7 8 (0.52%) Mockito
8 7 (0.45%) Burp Suite
8 7 (0.45%) Cucumber
8 7 (0.45%) Metasploit
9 5 (0.32%) Axure RP
9 5 (0.32%) Balsamiq
9 5 (0.32%) Rational DOORS
10 4 (0.26%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.26%) Gatling
10 4 (0.26%) Postman
11 3 (0.19%) JMeter
11 3 (0.19%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.13%) LabVIEW
General
1 450 (29.11%) Social Skills
2 352 (22.77%) Public Sector
3 223 (14.42%) Finance
4 209 (13.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 166 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
6 134 (8.67%) Law
7 59 (3.82%) Legal
8 45 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
9 39 (2.52%) Aerospace
10 35 (2.26%) Telecoms
11 32 (2.07%) Manufacturing
12 30 (1.94%) Retail
13 27 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
14 23 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
15 22 (1.42%) Back Office
16 17 (1.10%) Military
17 13 (0.84%) Aviation
17 13 (0.84%) Electronics
18 10 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
18 10 (0.65%) Police
Job Titles
1 284 (18.37%) Senior
2 277 (17.92%) Architect
3 183 (11.84%) Consultant
4 128 (8.28%) Lead
5 121 (7.83%) Solutions Architect
6 118 (7.63%) Developer
7 100 (6.47%) Analyst
8 99 (6.40%) Software Engineer
9 61 (3.95%) Data Engineer
10 59 (3.82%) Senior Manager
11 56 (3.62%) Cloud Engineer
11 56 (3.62%) Security Consultant
12 50 (3.23%) Senior Consultant
13 46 (2.98%) Security Architect
14 45 (2.91%) Java Developer
15 43 (2.78%) DevOps Engineer
16 41 (2.65%) Business Analyst
16 41 (2.65%) Senior Developer
17 40 (2.59%) Support Engineer
18 38 (2.46%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (3.30%) REST
2 37 (2.39%) Spring
3 31 (2.01%) React
4 28 (1.81%) Kafka
5 26 (1.68%) SOAP
6 24 (1.55%) .NET
7 21 (1.36%) OAuth
8 20 (1.29%) Spring Boot
9 19 (1.23%) Middleware
10 17 (1.10%) SAML
11 16 (1.03%) RESTful
12 15 (0.97%) PySpark
13 14 (0.91%) CSS
13 14 (0.91%) HTML
14 13 (0.84%) AngularJS
14 13 (0.84%) JWT
14 13 (0.84%) OAuth2
14 13 (0.84%) Playwright
15 12 (0.78%) SAP Fiori
16 11 (0.71%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 123 (7.96%) Cloud Native
2 59 (3.82%) Product Ownership
3 53 (3.43%) Security Posture
4 52 (3.36%) Management Information System
5 50 (3.23%) Onboarding
6 39 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
7 33 (2.13%) Data Centre
8 30 (1.94%) Driving Licence
9 28 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
9 28 (1.81%) PKI
10 22 (1.42%) Blog
11 21 (1.36%) Security Operations Centre
12 18 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
13 16 (1.03%) CMDB
14 14 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
15 13 (0.84%) Data Structures
15 13 (0.84%) Public Cloud
16 12 (0.78%) Cyber Defence
16 12 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
16 12 (0.78%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 107 (6.92%) Windows
2 105 (6.79%) Linux
3 35 (2.26%) Windows Server
4 29 (1.88%) Windows 10
5 20 (1.29%) Unix
6 5 (0.32%) Android
6 5 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.19%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.13%) CentOS
8 2 (0.13%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.065%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.065%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.065%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 378 (24.45%) Agile
2 244 (15.78%) Cybersecurity
3 243 (15.72%) Continuous Improvement
4 210 (13.58%) Problem-Solving
5 203 (13.13%) Mentoring
6 189 (12.23%) DevOps
7 187 (12.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 176 (11.38%) CI/CD
9 155 (10.03%) Software Engineering
10 149 (9.64%) Stakeholder Management
11 129 (8.34%) AI
11 129 (8.34%) ITIL
12 119 (7.70%) Analytics
12 119 (7.70%) Community of Practice
13 115 (7.44%) Risk Management
14 113 (7.31%) Technical Leadership
15 111 (7.18%) Collaborative Culture
16 110 (7.12%) Decision-Making
17 109 (7.05%) Project Delivery
18 106 (6.86%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 177 (11.45%) Python
2 140 (9.06%) Java
3 98 (6.34%) SQL
4 69 (4.46%) JavaScript
5 43 (2.78%) C++
6 37 (2.39%) C#
7 34 (2.20%) PowerShell
8 32 (2.07%) Bash
9 25 (1.62%) C
10 24 (1.55%) TypeScript
11 14 (0.91%) Groovy
12 11 (0.71%) Apex Code
12 11 (0.71%) Rust
13 10 (0.65%) DataWeave
14 9 (0.58%) Ada
15 7 (0.45%) Go
15 7 (0.45%) Scala
15 7 (0.45%) VBA
16 6 (0.39%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.39%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,212 (78.40%) SC Cleared
2 297 (19.21%) DV Cleared
3 261 (16.88%) Degree
4 108 (6.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 85 (5.50%) CISSP
6 54 (3.49%) CISM
7 46 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 39 (2.52%) Azure Certification
9 35 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
10 25 (1.62%) CTC Cleared
11 24 (1.55%) AWS Certification
12 17 (1.10%) CREST Certified
13 16 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
13 16 (1.03%) CRISC
13 16 (1.03%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 15 (0.97%) Master's Degree
15 14 (0.91%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 14 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
16 13 (0.84%) HNC
17 10 (0.65%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (9.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 80 (5.17%) NIST
3 52 (3.36%) QA
4 51 (3.30%) NCSC
5 49 (3.17%) GDPR
6 40 (2.59%) SLA
7 39 (2.52%) Accessibility
8 38 (2.46%) GRC
9 32 (2.07%) Data Quality
10 28 (1.81%) Cyber Essentials
11 27 (1.75%) PCI DSS
12 21 (1.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 18 (1.16%) JSP 440
14 14 (0.91%) WCAG
15 11 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
15 11 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 10 (0.65%) Def Stans
17 7 (0.45%) Government Security Classifications
18 6 (0.39%) PMO
18 6 (0.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 78 (5.05%) Docker
2 67 (4.33%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.62%) Hyper-V
4 23 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (0.97%) Firmware
6 10 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.45%) vSphere
8 6 (0.39%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.26%) Squid
11 1 (0.065%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.065%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.065%) IAG
11 1 (0.065%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.065%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.065%) Xen
Systems Management
1 93 (6.02%) Terraform
2 90 (5.82%) Kubernetes
3 45 (2.91%) Ansible
4 37 (2.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (1.23%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.16%) Grafana
7 10 (0.65%) Argo
7 10 (0.65%) CloudHub
8 9 (0.58%) Progress Chef
9 7 (0.45%) Nmap
9 7 (0.45%) Puppet
9 7 (0.45%) QRadar
10 6 (0.39%) Kustomize
10 6 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.32%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.32%) Endace
11 5 (0.32%) Istio
11 5 (0.32%) Packer
11 5 (0.32%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.26%) Kibana
Vendors
1 238 (15.39%) Microsoft
2 55 (3.56%) ServiceNow
3 53 (3.43%) Google
4 50 (3.23%) Cisco
4 50 (3.23%) SAP
5 47 (3.04%) Oracle
6 33 (2.13%) VMware
7 31 (2.01%) Salesforce
8 23 (1.49%) MuleSoft
9 21 (1.36%) Red Hat
10 18 (1.16%) OpenAI
11 16 (1.03%) CyberArk
11 16 (1.03%) Databricks
12 15 (0.97%) Splunk
13 12 (0.78%) Okta
14 9 (0.58%) Adobe
14 9 (0.58%) Juniper
14 9 (0.58%) Meraki
15 7 (0.45%) Dell
16 6 (0.39%) Ariba