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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 30 25
Rank change year-on-year +8 -5 -3
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,860 1,185 1,816
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.76% 7.32% 7.83%
As % of the Qualifications category 37.43% 20.88% 28.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,212 605 1,129
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £50,171 £47,848
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -0.50%
75th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £79,225
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,250 £86,050
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% +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 4,969 5,676 6,312
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.73% 35.06% 27.23%
Number of salaries quoted 3,140 2,316 3,117
10th Percentile £33,750 £30,956 £34,404
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,756
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.36% -3.87%

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 15 September 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 39 (2.10%) Apache
2 32 (1.72%) SharePoint
3 31 (1.67%) Apache Spark
4 19 (1.02%) Confluence
5 13 (0.70%) Anypoint
5 13 (0.70%) Mule
6 10 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
7 8 (0.43%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.43%) nginx
8 7 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.32%) Camunda
10 5 (0.27%) IIS
11 4 (0.22%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.22%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.22%) Oracle Spatial
12 3 (0.16%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.11%) WordPress
14 1 (0.054%) Appian
Applications
1 30 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (1.24%) Simulink
3 14 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (0.38%) Adobe XD
5 7 (0.38%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.22%) Mathcad
6 4 (0.22%) Windchill
7 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.11%) InDesign
7 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.054%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.054%) EPLAN
8 1 (0.054%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.054%) Houdini
8 1 (0.054%) InVision
8 1 (0.054%) Revit
8 1 (0.054%) Sketch
8 1 (0.054%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 17 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.86%) Primavera
3 6 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.32%) Workday HCM
4 5 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.27%) SAP ERP
4 5 (0.27%) Teamcenter
5 3 (0.16%) SAP PSCD
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.11%) SAP QM
7 1 (0.054%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 1 (0.054%) Magento
7 1 (0.054%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.054%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.054%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.054%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.054%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.054%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.054%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 457 (24.57%) Azure
2 429 (23.06%) AWS
3 130 (6.99%) GCP
4 85 (4.57%) Microsoft 365
5 80 (4.30%) Power Platform
6 78 (4.19%) Entra ID
7 43 (2.31%) GitHub
8 40 (2.15%) AWS CloudFormation
9 38 (2.04%) dbt
10 37 (1.99%) Serverless
11 31 (1.67%) Amazon S3
12 26 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
12 26 (1.40%) OpenShift
13 25 (1.34%) SaaS
14 22 (1.18%) Azure Sentinel
15 21 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
16 20 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
16 20 (1.08%) Microsoft Purview
17 19 (1.02%) GitHub Actions
17 19 (1.02%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 51 (2.74%) Firewall
2 50 (2.69%) Network Security
3 42 (2.26%) TCP/IP
4 34 (1.83%) DNS
5 20 (1.08%) WAN
6 16 (0.86%) SSL
6 16 (0.86%) VPN
7 15 (0.81%) DHCP
8 13 (0.70%) BGP
9 12 (0.65%) LAN
10 11 (0.59%) ATM
10 11 (0.59%) Wireless
11 10 (0.54%) Ethernet
12 8 (0.43%) OSPF
13 7 (0.38%) MPLS
14 6 (0.32%) HTTP
15 5 (0.27%) DMZ
15 5 (0.27%) Internet
15 5 (0.27%) VLAN
15 5 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (3.44%) Power BI
2 48 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (1.56%) Big Data
3 29 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (1.40%) NoSQL
5 24 (1.29%) SQL Server
6 21 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
6 21 (1.13%) Relational Database
7 19 (1.02%) Tableau
8 18 (0.97%) Data Lake
9 16 (0.86%) Metadata
10 15 (0.81%) DynamoDB
10 15 (0.81%) MySQL
11 14 (0.75%) MongoDB
12 10 (0.54%) Hadoop
13 7 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (0.38%) Redis
14 6 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
14 6 (0.32%) Parquet
14 6 (0.32%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 78 (4.19%) Git
2 42 (2.26%) Jenkins
3 37 (1.99%) JIRA
4 36 (1.94%) GitLab
5 23 (1.24%) JUnit
5 23 (1.24%) Rational DOORS
6 18 (0.97%) Selenium
7 14 (0.75%) Mockito
8 13 (0.70%) Maven
9 11 (0.59%) Cucumber
10 10 (0.54%) Cypress.io
10 10 (0.54%) Postman
11 9 (0.48%) Burp Suite
11 9 (0.48%) Metasploit
12 8 (0.43%) Balsamiq
12 8 (0.43%) SonarQube
13 7 (0.38%) Gatling
14 6 (0.32%) Axure RP
14 6 (0.32%) LabVIEW
15 4 (0.22%) JMeter
General
1 544 (29.25%) Social Skills
2 437 (23.49%) Public Sector
3 369 (19.84%) Finance
4 350 (18.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 233 (12.53%) Analytical Skills
6 190 (10.22%) Aerospace
7 164 (8.82%) Law
8 69 (3.71%) Legal
9 58 (3.12%) Electronics
9 58 (3.12%) Presentation Skills
10 56 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
11 54 (2.90%) Military
12 49 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
12 49 (2.63%) Retail
13 42 (2.26%) Manufacturing
14 35 (1.88%) Telecoms
15 34 (1.83%) Police
16 16 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
17 15 (0.81%) Automotive
17 15 (0.81%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 346 (18.60%) Senior
2 300 (16.13%) Architect
3 200 (10.75%) Consultant
4 163 (8.76%) Lead
5 154 (8.28%) Software Engineer
6 137 (7.37%) Developer
7 133 (7.15%) Analyst
8 108 (5.81%) Solutions Architect
9 94 (5.05%) Data Engineer
10 66 (3.55%) Security Consultant
11 63 (3.39%) Principal Engineer
12 62 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
13 56 (3.01%) Senior Manager
14 55 (2.96%) Security Architect
15 54 (2.90%) DevOps Engineer
16 50 (2.69%) Senior Consultant
17 49 (2.63%) Business Analyst
17 49 (2.63%) Senior Developer
18 44 (2.37%) Senior Analyst
19 41 (2.20%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (6.24%) Terraform
2 63 (3.39%) React
3 52 (2.80%) REST
4 44 (2.37%) Spring
5 42 (2.26%) .NET
6 33 (1.77%) CSS
7 30 (1.61%) Kafka
8 27 (1.45%) AngularJS
8 27 (1.45%) HTML
9 25 (1.34%) Playwright
10 24 (1.29%) OAuth
10 24 (1.29%) PySpark
11 22 (1.18%) Node.js
11 22 (1.18%) SOAP
12 21 (1.13%) RESTful
12 21 (1.13%) Spring Boot
13 20 (1.08%) .NET Core
14 18 (0.97%) Web Services
15 17 (0.91%) JWT
16 16 (0.86%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 137 (7.37%) Cloud Native
2 64 (3.44%) Self-Motivation
3 61 (3.28%) Management Information System
4 60 (3.23%) Product Ownership
5 52 (2.80%) Onboarding
6 43 (2.31%) Security Posture
7 35 (1.88%) Driving Licence
8 34 (1.83%) Blog
9 31 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
10 30 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
10 30 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
11 27 (1.45%) Data Centre
11 27 (1.45%) FPGA
11 27 (1.45%) PKI
12 24 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
13 23 (1.24%) CMDB
13 23 (1.24%) Cyber Defence
14 21 (1.13%) Algorithms
15 20 (1.08%) Security Operations Centre
16 19 (1.02%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 138 (7.42%) Linux
2 106 (5.70%) Windows
3 40 (2.15%) Windows Server
4 34 (1.83%) Unix
5 13 (0.70%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.38%) VxWorks
7 6 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.27%) Android
9 4 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
9 4 (0.22%) Kali Linux
9 4 (0.22%) Solaris
9 4 (0.22%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.16%) CentOS
10 3 (0.16%) OpenWrt
11 2 (0.11%) AIX
11 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.11%) FreeRTOS
11 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 519 (27.90%) Agile
2 342 (18.39%) Continuous Improvement
3 292 (15.70%) Mentoring
3 292 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
4 289 (15.54%) Cybersecurity
5 260 (13.98%) Software Engineering
6 256 (13.76%) CI/CD
7 238 (12.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 236 (12.69%) DevOps
9 231 (12.42%) AI
10 195 (10.48%) Stakeholder Management
11 178 (9.57%) Decision-Making
12 167 (8.98%) Analytics
13 164 (8.82%) Technical Leadership
14 162 (8.71%) Coaching
15 146 (7.85%) Collaborative Culture
15 146 (7.85%) Community of Practice
16 144 (7.74%) Scrum
17 142 (7.63%) Project Delivery
18 134 (7.20%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 227 (12.20%) Python
2 167 (8.98%) Java
3 136 (7.31%) SQL
4 107 (5.75%) JavaScript
5 64 (3.44%) C++
6 58 (3.12%) C#
7 49 (2.63%) Bash
8 44 (2.37%) PowerShell
9 39 (2.10%) TypeScript
10 34 (1.83%) C
11 25 (1.34%) MATLAB
12 21 (1.13%) Ada
13 15 (0.81%) Go
13 15 (0.81%) Groovy
14 14 (0.75%) PL/SQL
14 14 (0.75%) Rust
15 13 (0.70%) DataWeave
15 13 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
16 12 (0.65%) Ruby
17 9 (0.48%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,483 (79.73%) SC Cleared
2 415 (22.31%) DV Cleared
3 336 (18.06%) Degree
4 233 (12.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 82 (4.41%) CISSP
6 62 (3.33%) CISM
7 50 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 46 (2.47%) Azure Certification
9 40 (2.15%) AWS Certification
10 32 (1.72%) Master's Degree
11 26 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
12 23 (1.24%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 21 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
14 19 (1.02%) CRISC
15 18 (0.97%) CREST Certified
15 18 (0.97%) PhD
16 17 (0.91%) Chartered Engineer
16 17 (0.91%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 14 (0.75%) CHECK Team Member
17 14 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (8.55%) Accessibility
2 148 (7.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 97 (5.22%) NIST
4 74 (3.98%) QA
5 73 (3.92%) NCSC
6 53 (2.85%) GRC
7 50 (2.69%) Data Quality
8 43 (2.31%) GDPR
9 26 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
9 26 (1.40%) PCI DSS
10 23 (1.24%) SLA
11 22 (1.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 18 (0.97%) WCAG
13 17 (0.91%) Def Stans
13 17 (0.91%) JSP 440
14 14 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
15 11 (0.59%) NIST 800
16 9 (0.48%) PMO
17 6 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 6 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 114 (6.13%) Docker
2 80 (4.30%) Active Directory
3 45 (2.42%) Firmware
4 35 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 22 (1.18%) Hyper-V
6 15 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.38%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.38%) vSphere
9 6 (0.32%) Squid
10 2 (0.11%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.054%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.054%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.054%) IAG
11 1 (0.054%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.054%) QEMU
11 1 (0.054%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.054%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 122 (6.56%) Kubernetes
2 48 (2.58%) Ansible
3 39 (2.10%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (0.91%) Grafana
4 17 (0.91%) Prometheus
5 13 (0.70%) CloudHub
6 12 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (0.59%) Argo
8 9 (0.48%) Nmap
9 8 (0.43%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.38%) Kustomize
10 7 (0.38%) QRadar
11 6 (0.32%) Istio
11 6 (0.32%) Packer
12 5 (0.27%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.27%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.16%) Check_MK
13 3 (0.16%) Kibana
14 2 (0.11%) Graylog
Vendors
1 250 (13.44%) Microsoft
2 85 (4.57%) ServiceNow
3 64 (3.44%) Google
4 61 (3.28%) Oracle
5 57 (3.06%) SAP
6 50 (2.69%) VMware
7 30 (1.61%) Cisco
8 25 (1.34%) Red Hat
9 24 (1.29%) Salesforce
10 21 (1.13%) Splunk
11 20 (1.08%) Databricks
12 19 (1.02%) OpenAI
13 17 (0.91%) MuleSoft
13 17 (0.91%) Okta
13 17 (0.91%) YouTube
14 16 (0.86%) CyberArk
15 14 (0.75%) Veeam
16 13 (0.70%) Adobe
16 13 (0.70%) Thales
17 12 (0.65%) Workday