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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 36 22
Rank change year-on-year +10 -14 +5
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,591 1,147 2,099
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.28% 6.95% 7.74%
As % of the Qualifications category 35.14% 20.59% 28.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,166 576 1,428
10th Percentile £45,211 £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 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,125 £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 4,527 5,570 7,276
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.72% 33.74% 26.83%
Number of salaries quoted 3,043 2,474 4,425
10th Percentile £33,270 £29,306 £33,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £78,750 £74,197 £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 27 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 (2.33%) Apache
2 36 (2.26%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.57%) Apache Spark
4 14 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (0.69%) Anypoint
5 11 (0.69%) Mule
6 9 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.50%) Confluence
8 7 (0.44%) Jupyter
8 7 (0.44%) nginx
9 6 (0.38%) Camunda
10 5 (0.31%) IIS
10 5 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.19%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.19%) SAS
12 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.13%) GeoServer
12 2 (0.13%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.13%) Oracle Spatial
12 2 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 23 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.63%) Simulink
4 8 (0.50%) Adobe XD
5 4 (0.25%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.25%) Windchill
6 2 (0.13%) InVision
6 2 (0.13%) Mathcad
6 2 (0.13%) Sketch
7 1 (0.063%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.063%) CATIA
7 1 (0.063%) FrameMaker
7 1 (0.063%) Houdini
7 1 (0.063%) InDesign
7 1 (0.063%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.063%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 28 (1.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.44%) SAP ERP
3 6 (0.38%) 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 (0.13%) SAP Payroll
7 2 (0.13%) SAP QM
7 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.063%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.063%) Magento
8 1 (0.063%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.063%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 431 (27.09%) Azure
2 384 (24.14%) AWS
3 122 (7.67%) GCP
4 84 (5.28%) Microsoft 365
5 69 (4.34%) Power Platform
6 67 (4.21%) Entra ID
7 35 (2.20%) dbt
8 34 (2.14%) GitHub
9 33 (2.07%) AWS CloudFormation
10 29 (1.82%) SaaS
10 29 (1.82%) Serverless
11 27 (1.70%) Azure DevOps
12 25 (1.57%) PaaS
13 22 (1.38%) Azure Sentinel
14 20 (1.26%) Microsoft Purview
15 19 (1.19%) Amazon EC2
16 18 (1.13%) Amazon S3
16 18 (1.13%) Dynamics 365
16 18 (1.13%) Google Analytics
16 18 (1.13%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 49 (3.08%) Firewall
2 45 (2.83%) Network Security
3 35 (2.20%) TCP/IP
4 32 (2.01%) DNS
5 28 (1.76%) WAN
6 20 (1.26%) VPN
7 18 (1.13%) LAN
8 16 (1.01%) DHCP
9 15 (0.94%) BGP
10 14 (0.88%) SSL
11 13 (0.82%) MPLS
12 11 (0.69%) ATM
12 11 (0.69%) SMTP
13 9 (0.57%) HTTP
14 7 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
15 6 (0.38%) Intrusion Detection
15 6 (0.38%) OSPF
15 6 (0.38%) SNMP
15 6 (0.38%) Wireless
16 4 (0.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (3.33%) Power BI
2 42 (2.64%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (1.45%) Big Data
3 23 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (1.38%) NoSQL
5 17 (1.07%) SQL Server
6 16 (1.01%) MongoDB
7 15 (0.94%) Metadata
8 13 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
9 12 (0.75%) Redis
10 10 (0.63%) DynamoDB
10 10 (0.63%) Relational Database
10 10 (0.63%) Tableau
11 9 (0.57%) Data Lake
11 9 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (0.50%) MySQL
13 7 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (0.38%) SAP HANA
15 5 (0.31%) Hadoop
15 5 (0.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 59 (3.71%) Git
2 37 (2.33%) GitLab
2 37 (2.33%) Jenkins
3 19 (1.19%) JIRA
3 19 (1.19%) JUnit
4 14 (0.88%) Selenium
5 11 (0.69%) Mockito
6 10 (0.63%) Maven
6 10 (0.63%) Rational DOORS
7 9 (0.57%) Cucumber
8 7 (0.44%) Balsamiq
8 7 (0.44%) Burp Suite
8 7 (0.44%) Metasploit
8 7 (0.44%) Postman
9 6 (0.38%) Axure RP
9 6 (0.38%) Gatling
10 5 (0.31%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.31%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.19%) JMeter
11 3 (0.19%) LabVIEW
General
1 467 (29.35%) Social Skills
2 377 (23.70%) Public Sector
3 251 (15.78%) Finance
4 243 (15.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 176 (11.06%) Analytical Skills
6 148 (9.30%) Law
7 66 (4.15%) Legal
8 65 (4.09%) Aerospace
9 50 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
10 37 (2.33%) Telecoms
11 36 (2.26%) Retail
12 34 (2.14%) Manufacturing
13 32 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
14 28 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
15 22 (1.38%) Military
16 20 (1.26%) Electronics
17 17 (1.07%) Police
18 13 (0.82%) Aviation
19 12 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
20 10 (0.63%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 307 (19.30%) Senior
2 279 (17.54%) Architect
3 190 (11.94%) Consultant
4 139 (8.74%) Lead
5 122 (7.67%) Developer
6 120 (7.54%) Solutions Architect
7 111 (6.98%) Software Engineer
8 108 (6.79%) Analyst
9 64 (4.02%) Data Engineer
10 60 (3.77%) Cloud Engineer
11 58 (3.65%) Senior Manager
12 57 (3.58%) Security Consultant
13 51 (3.21%) Senior Consultant
14 49 (3.08%) DevOps Engineer
14 49 (3.08%) Senior Developer
15 47 (2.95%) Security Architect
16 46 (2.89%) Business Analyst
17 44 (2.77%) Java Developer
18 41 (2.58%) Senior Analyst
19 38 (2.39%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (3.52%) REST
2 43 (2.70%) React
3 41 (2.58%) Spring
4 32 (2.01%) Kafka
5 31 (1.95%) .NET
6 25 (1.57%) SOAP
7 23 (1.45%) OAuth
8 20 (1.26%) Spring Boot
9 19 (1.19%) AngularJS
9 19 (1.19%) CSS
10 18 (1.13%) Playwright
11 17 (1.07%) HTML
11 17 (1.07%) Middleware
11 17 (1.07%) RESTful
12 16 (1.01%) PySpark
13 15 (0.94%) SAML
14 14 (0.88%) JWT
14 14 (0.88%) OAuth2
14 14 (0.88%) Web Services
15 12 (0.75%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 127 (7.98%) Cloud Native
2 61 (3.83%) Product Ownership
3 54 (3.39%) Onboarding
4 53 (3.33%) Management Information System
5 46 (2.89%) Self-Motivation
6 43 (2.70%) Security Posture
7 31 (1.95%) Data Centre
8 30 (1.89%) Driving Licence
9 29 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
10 27 (1.70%) Blog
11 25 (1.57%) PKI
12 20 (1.26%) Cyber Threat
12 20 (1.26%) Security Operations Centre
13 18 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
14 17 (1.07%) CMDB
15 15 (0.94%) Cyber Defence
16 14 (0.88%) Data Structures
16 14 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
16 14 (0.88%) Public Cloud
17 13 (0.82%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 116 (7.29%) Linux
2 96 (6.03%) Windows
3 39 (2.45%) Windows Server
4 26 (1.63%) Unix
5 14 (0.88%) 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 (0.13%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.13%) CentOS
8 2 (0.13%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.13%) VxWorks
8 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.063%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.063%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.063%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 430 (27.03%) Agile
2 255 (16.03%) Continuous Improvement
3 237 (14.90%) Cybersecurity
4 231 (14.52%) Mentoring
5 222 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
6 213 (13.39%) DevOps
7 208 (13.07%) CI/CD
8 196 (12.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 180 (11.31%) Software Engineering
10 155 (9.74%) Stakeholder Management
11 151 (9.49%) AI
12 134 (8.42%) Community of Practice
13 125 (7.86%) Collaborative Culture
14 122 (7.67%) Technical Leadership
15 120 (7.54%) Decision-Making
15 120 (7.54%) Infrastructure as Code
16 116 (7.29%) Project Delivery
17 115 (7.23%) Scrum
17 115 (7.23%) Technology Strategy
18 112 (7.04%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 195 (12.26%) Python
2 154 (9.68%) Java
3 108 (6.79%) SQL
4 83 (5.22%) JavaScript
5 49 (3.08%) C++
6 42 (2.64%) C#
7 38 (2.39%) Bash
8 37 (2.33%) PowerShell
9 27 (1.70%) TypeScript
10 26 (1.63%) C
11 16 (1.01%) Groovy
12 13 (0.82%) Ada
13 11 (0.69%) DataWeave
13 11 (0.69%) Rust
14 9 (0.57%) Apex Code
14 9 (0.57%) PL/SQL
15 8 (0.50%) Go
15 8 (0.50%) MATLAB
15 8 (0.50%) Scala
15 8 (0.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,257 (79.01%) SC Cleared
2 315 (19.80%) DV Cleared
3 272 (17.10%) Degree
4 139 (8.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 73 (4.59%) CISSP
6 53 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 52 (3.27%) CISM
8 40 (2.51%) Azure Certification
9 35 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
10 27 (1.70%) AWS Certification
11 19 (1.19%) CREST Certified
11 19 (1.19%) Master's Degree
12 18 (1.13%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 17 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
14 16 (1.01%) CRISC
14 16 (1.01%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 12 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
16 10 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 10 (0.63%) CompTIA CySA+
16 10 (0.63%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (8.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 82 (5.15%) NIST
3 68 (4.27%) Accessibility
4 56 (3.52%) QA
5 53 (3.33%) NCSC
6 42 (2.64%) GDPR
7 41 (2.58%) GRC
8 37 (2.33%) Data Quality
9 25 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
10 24 (1.51%) PCI DSS
11 23 (1.45%) SLA
12 22 (1.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 16 (1.01%) JSP 440
13 16 (1.01%) WCAG
14 11 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
15 10 (0.63%) Def Stans
16 9 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 7 (0.44%) NIST 800
18 6 (0.38%) Government Security Classifications
18 6 (0.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 91 (5.72%) Docker
2 71 (4.46%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (1.57%) Hyper-V
5 21 (1.32%) Firmware
6 13 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.44%) vSphere
8 6 (0.38%) Squid
9 5 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.31%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.063%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.063%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.063%) IAG
11 1 (0.063%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.063%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.063%) Xen
Systems Management
1 104 (6.54%) Terraform
2 103 (6.47%) Kubernetes
3 45 (2.83%) Ansible
4 39 (2.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (1.26%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.13%) Grafana
7 11 (0.69%) CloudHub
8 10 (0.63%) 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 (0.38%) Kustomize
11 6 (0.38%) 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%) Endace
Vendors
1 228 (14.33%) Microsoft
2 59 (3.71%) Google
3 56 (3.52%) ServiceNow
4 51 (3.21%) SAP
5 49 (3.08%) Oracle
6 37 (2.33%) VMware
7 33 (2.07%) Cisco
8 30 (1.89%) Salesforce
9 23 (1.45%) MuleSoft
10 22 (1.38%) Red Hat
11 20 (1.26%) Databricks
12 18 (1.13%) OpenAI
13 16 (1.01%) CyberArk
13 16 (1.01%) Splunk
14 13 (0.82%) Okta
15 11 (0.69%) Adobe
16 9 (0.57%) Juniper
17 8 (0.50%) Veeam
18 7 (0.44%) Dell
18 7 (0.44%) Fortinet