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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 44 25
Rank change year-on-year +27 -19 +7
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,642 961 2,521
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.67% 6.60% 7.67%
As % of the Qualifications category 38.45% 19.63% 28.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,212 478 1,742
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £61,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +5.69% +6.96% -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 4,271 4,895 8,855
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 22.55% 33.64% 26.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2,893 2,248 5,899
10th Percentile £33,350 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £48,250 £42,500 £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 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £88,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,043
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.77% -9.93%

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 26 May 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 34 (2.07%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.10%) Apache
3 15 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (0.73%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.30%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.24%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.24%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.24%) Oracle Spatial
8 3 (0.18%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.18%) Confluence
8 3 (0.18%) SAS
9 2 (0.12%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.12%) Camunda
9 2 (0.12%) IIS
9 2 (0.12%) Mule
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.061%) Appian
10 1 (0.061%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.061%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 62 (3.78%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (1.10%) Adobe XD
3 14 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.30%) InVision
5 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.30%) Sketch
6 4 (0.24%) Windchill
7 3 (0.18%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.12%) Weka
9 1 (0.061%) CATIA
9 1 (0.061%) EngageOne
9 1 (0.061%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.061%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 28 (1.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.43%) SAP ERP
3 6 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.24%) Primavera
4 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.24%) SAP FSCM
5 3 (0.18%) Elite 3E
5 3 (0.18%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.18%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.18%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.12%) SAP QM
7 1 (0.061%) Magento
7 1 (0.061%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.061%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.061%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.061%) SAP PSCD
7 1 (0.061%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.061%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 320 (19.49%) Azure
2 288 (17.54%) AWS
3 100 (6.09%) Microsoft 365
4 97 (5.91%) GCP
5 60 (3.65%) Entra ID
6 49 (2.98%) Power Platform
7 26 (1.58%) Serverless
8 24 (1.46%) AWS CloudFormation
8 24 (1.46%) SaaS
9 23 (1.40%) GitHub
10 20 (1.22%) Google Analytics
11 19 (1.16%) Figma
12 18 (1.10%) Amazon S3
12 18 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
12 18 (1.10%) PaaS
13 17 (1.04%) Azure Sentinel
13 17 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
14 16 (0.97%) PowerApps
15 15 (0.91%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 15 (0.91%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 36 (2.19%) Firewall
1 36 (2.19%) Network Security
2 29 (1.77%) WAN
3 24 (1.46%) VPN
4 23 (1.40%) DNS
5 20 (1.22%) LAN
6 19 (1.16%) DHCP
7 18 (1.10%) BGP
8 14 (0.85%) MPLS
9 13 (0.79%) TCP/IP
10 12 (0.73%) SMTP
10 12 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (0.49%) HTTP
12 7 (0.43%) Intrusion Detection
12 7 (0.43%) SNMP
13 6 (0.37%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (0.37%) Cisco Firepower
13 6 (0.37%) DMZ
13 6 (0.37%) SD-WAN
13 6 (0.37%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (2.38%) Power BI
2 35 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (1.16%) Metadata
3 19 (1.16%) NoSQL
4 16 (0.97%) MongoDB
5 15 (0.91%) SQL Server
6 11 (0.67%) Big Data
6 11 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (0.67%) DynamoDB
7 10 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (0.61%) Redis
8 9 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
9 7 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (0.43%) MySQL
9 7 (0.43%) Relational Database
10 6 (0.37%) BigQuery
10 6 (0.37%) SAP HANA
10 6 (0.37%) Tableau
11 5 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.24%) GIS
Development Applications
1 52 (3.17%) Git
2 33 (2.01%) Jenkins
3 30 (1.83%) GitLab
4 15 (0.91%) JIRA
5 14 (0.85%) Axure RP
6 13 (0.79%) Balsamiq
7 11 (0.67%) JUnit
7 11 (0.67%) Selenium
8 8 (0.49%) Maven
9 7 (0.43%) Mockito
10 6 (0.37%) JMeter
11 4 (0.24%) Burp Suite
11 4 (0.24%) Metasploit
11 4 (0.24%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.18%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.18%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.18%) MSTest
12 3 (0.18%) Postman
12 3 (0.18%) SoapUI
12 3 (0.18%) webpack
General
1 377 (22.96%) Social Skills
2 366 (22.29%) Public Sector
3 185 (11.27%) Finance
4 168 (10.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 139 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
6 126 (7.67%) Law
7 52 (3.17%) Legal
8 51 (3.11%) Back Office
9 39 (2.38%) Manufacturing
10 36 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
10 36 (2.19%) Telecoms
11 27 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
12 26 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
13 22 (1.34%) Aerospace
13 22 (1.34%) Retail
14 17 (1.04%) Military
15 11 (0.67%) Aviation
15 11 (0.67%) Marketing
16 10 (0.61%) Banking
16 10 (0.61%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 280 (17.05%) Senior
2 212 (12.91%) Architect
3 161 (9.81%) Consultant
4 151 (9.20%) Analyst
5 121 (7.37%) Lead
6 114 (6.94%) Developer
7 100 (6.09%) Software Engineer
8 98 (5.97%) Solutions Architect
8 98 (5.97%) Systems Engineer
9 96 (5.85%) Business Analyst
10 67 (4.08%) Support Engineer
11 62 (3.78%) Cloud Engineer
12 56 (3.41%) Data Engineer
13 54 (3.29%) Senior Manager
14 52 (3.17%) Site Engineer
15 48 (2.92%) Desktop Engineer
15 48 (2.92%) Desktop Support
15 48 (2.92%) Desktop Support Engineer
16 47 (2.86%) Java Developer
17 43 (2.62%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (3.11%) REST
2 41 (2.50%) Spring
3 38 (2.31%) .NET
4 34 (2.07%) React
5 28 (1.71%) SOAP
6 22 (1.34%) Spring Boot
7 20 (1.22%) CSS
7 20 (1.22%) HTML
7 20 (1.22%) Middleware
8 18 (1.10%) Lightning Web Components
9 15 (0.91%) Kafka
9 15 (0.91%) Visualforce
10 14 (0.85%) AngularJS
10 14 (0.85%) SAML
11 13 (0.79%) RESTful
12 12 (0.73%) Playwright
12 12 (0.73%) SAP Fiori
13 10 (0.61%) ASP.NET
13 10 (0.61%) Django
13 10 (0.61%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 83 (5.05%) Cloud Native
2 71 (4.32%) Product Ownership
3 53 (3.23%) Security Posture
4 51 (3.11%) Onboarding
5 38 (2.31%) Management Information System
6 37 (2.25%) Data Centre
7 36 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
8 28 (1.71%) PKI
9 24 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
10 20 (1.22%) Blog
11 18 (1.10%) Driving Licence
11 18 (1.10%) Low-Code
12 17 (1.04%) Security Operations Centre
13 16 (0.97%) Data Structures
14 14 (0.85%) CMDB
15 12 (0.73%) Cyber Threat
16 11 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
16 11 (0.67%) Cyber Security Posture
16 11 (0.67%) Cyberattack
17 10 (0.61%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 115 (7.00%) Windows
2 90 (5.48%) Linux
3 56 (3.41%) Windows 10
4 23 (1.40%) Windows Server
5 19 (1.16%) Unix
6 6 (0.37%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.30%) Android
7 5 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.18%) CentOS
8 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.061%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.061%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.061%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (20.22%) Agile
2 220 (13.40%) Continuous Improvement
3 203 (12.36%) Cybersecurity
4 175 (10.66%) DevOps
5 169 (10.29%) Problem-Solving
6 158 (9.62%) Mentoring
7 150 (9.14%) Software Engineering
8 137 (8.34%) ITIL
9 135 (8.22%) Analytics
10 133 (8.10%) CI/CD
11 120 (7.31%) Community of Practice
12 117 (7.13%) Stakeholder Management
13 114 (6.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 109 (6.64%) Technology Strategy
15 108 (6.58%) Collaborative Culture
16 96 (5.85%) Risk Management
17 91 (5.54%) Infrastructure as Code
18 90 (5.48%) AI
19 85 (5.18%) Roadmaps
20 83 (5.05%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 139 (8.47%) Python
2 133 (8.10%) Java
3 85 (5.18%) SQL
4 77 (4.69%) JavaScript
5 50 (3.05%) C#
6 32 (1.95%) PowerShell
7 27 (1.64%) Bash
8 26 (1.58%) C++
8 26 (1.58%) TypeScript
9 18 (1.10%) Apex Code
10 10 (0.61%) Groovy
11 9 (0.55%) Rust
12 8 (0.49%) C
13 7 (0.43%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.37%) Scala
15 5 (0.30%) Go
16 4 (0.24%) Ada
16 4 (0.24%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.24%) VBA
17 3 (0.18%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 1,112 (67.72%) SC Cleared
2 324 (19.73%) DV Cleared
3 272 (16.57%) Degree
4 83 (5.05%) BPSS Clearance
5 68 (4.14%) CISSP
6 52 (3.17%) CTC Cleared
7 45 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 38 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
9 37 (2.25%) CISM
10 22 (1.34%) AWS Certification
10 22 (1.34%) Azure Certification
11 15 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
11 15 (0.91%) CREST Certified
11 15 (0.91%) HNC
12 14 (0.85%) PMI Certification
12 14 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
13 11 (0.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 10 (0.61%) GIAC
15 9 (0.55%) CRISC
15 9 (0.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (6.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 64 (3.90%) NIST
3 58 (3.53%) QA
3 58 (3.53%) SLA
4 49 (2.98%) GDPR
5 45 (2.74%) Accessibility
6 34 (2.07%) NCSC
7 32 (1.95%) Data Quality
8 26 (1.58%) GRC
9 24 (1.46%) PCI DSS
10 17 (1.04%) WCAG
11 15 (0.91%) JSP 440
12 14 (0.85%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 13 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
14 12 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 7 (0.43%) Def Stans
16 7 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
17 6 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 6 (0.37%) PMO
System Software
1 76 (4.63%) Docker
2 41 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.67%) VMware NSX
5 8 (0.49%) Firmware
5 8 (0.49%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.30%) vSphere
7 4 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.061%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.061%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.061%) IAG
9 1 (0.061%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.061%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.061%) Xen
Systems Management
1 93 (5.66%) Terraform
2 80 (4.87%) Kubernetes
3 53 (3.23%) Ansible
4 18 (1.10%) Grafana
4 18 (1.10%) Prometheus
5 17 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.49%) Argo
6 8 (0.49%) Puppet
6 8 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.43%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.37%) Packer
9 5 (0.30%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.30%) Endace
9 5 (0.30%) QRadar
10 4 (0.24%) Istio
10 4 (0.24%) Kustomize
10 4 (0.24%) Nmap
10 4 (0.24%) SCCM
10 4 (0.24%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 196 (11.94%) Microsoft
2 87 (5.30%) Cisco
3 55 (3.35%) Google
4 46 (2.80%) Oracle
5 45 (2.74%) SAP
6 33 (2.01%) ServiceNow
7 30 (1.83%) Salesforce
8 28 (1.71%) VMware
9 20 (1.22%) Red Hat
10 18 (1.10%) Adobe
11 16 (0.97%) MuleSoft
12 13 (0.79%) Databricks
12 13 (0.79%) Splunk
13 12 (0.73%) CyberArk
14 11 (0.67%) Meraki
15 9 (0.55%) Juniper
16 8 (0.49%) F5
16 8 (0.49%) Okta
17 6 (0.37%) Ariba
17 6 (0.37%) CheckPoint