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 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 25 22
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 +49
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,196 1,832 2,274
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.36% 7.85% 9.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 21.02% 28.76% 34.20%
Number of salaries quoted 613 1,121 1,551
10th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £38,353
25th Percentile £50,171 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,225 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,500 £86,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - +8.76%

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 5,691 6,369 6,650
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.04% 27.29% 26.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2,327 3,096 4,998
10th Percentile £31,000 £34,404 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -1.79% -3.45% +5.45%

Security Cleared
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Security Cleared trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Security Cleared
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Security Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Security Cleared

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Security Cleared over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Security Cleared salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 24 (2.01%) SharePoint
2 22 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (0.84%) Confluence
4 6 (0.50%) Appian
5 2 (0.17%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.17%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.17%) WordPress
6 1 (0.084%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.084%) Apache
6 1 (0.084%) Drupal
6 1 (0.084%) IIS
6 1 (0.084%) Moodle
Applications
1 28 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (1.17%) Adobe XD
4 9 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.59%) Simulink
6 5 (0.42%) AutoCAD
6 5 (0.42%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.42%) Revit
7 3 (0.25%) EPLAN
7 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.25%) Navisworks
8 2 (0.17%) Civil 3D
9 1 (0.084%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.084%) InVision
9 1 (0.084%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 46 (3.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 28 (2.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.59%) Q-Pulse
4 4 (0.33%) SAP CO
4 4 (0.33%) SAP FI
4 4 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
4 4 (0.33%) SAP SCM
5 3 (0.25%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.25%) SAP HR
5 3 (0.25%) SAP PP
6 2 (0.17%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.17%) SAP APO
6 2 (0.17%) SAP EWM
6 2 (0.17%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.17%) SAP QM
7 1 (0.084%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.084%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.084%) SAP LE
7 1 (0.084%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.084%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 406 (33.95%) Azure
2 372 (31.10%) AWS
3 215 (17.98%) GCP
4 72 (6.02%) AWS CloudFormation
5 69 (5.77%) Microsoft 365
6 58 (4.85%) Amazon EKS
7 43 (3.60%) Entra ID
8 39 (3.26%) Power Platform
9 33 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
10 27 (2.26%) Serverless
11 24 (2.01%) AWS Lambda
12 22 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
13 19 (1.59%) GitHub
13 19 (1.59%) SaaS
14 18 (1.51%) GitHub Actions
15 17 (1.42%) Power Automate
16 16 (1.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 15 (1.25%) Figma
17 15 (1.25%) PowerApps
18 14 (1.17%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 53 (4.43%) Network Security
2 42 (3.51%) Software-Defined Radio
3 41 (3.43%) Wireless
4 39 (3.26%) Firewall
5 34 (2.84%) VPN
6 21 (1.76%) LAN
7 18 (1.51%) WAN
8 17 (1.42%) SAN
9 15 (1.25%) TCP/IP
10 13 (1.09%) Junos
11 12 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
12 11 (0.92%) DNS
13 8 (0.67%) BGP
13 8 (0.67%) DHCP
14 6 (0.50%) Ethernet
14 6 (0.50%) OSPF
14 6 (0.50%) SD-WAN
14 6 (0.50%) VLAN
15 5 (0.42%) IPsec
15 5 (0.42%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (4.52%) Elasticsearch
2 26 (2.17%) Power BI
3 24 (2.01%) MongoDB
4 15 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (1.25%) SQL Server
5 14 (1.17%) NoSQL
6 9 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (0.75%) Metadata
7 6 (0.50%) Big Data
7 6 (0.50%) MySQL
7 6 (0.50%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.33%) Neo4j
8 4 (0.33%) SAP HANA
9 3 (0.25%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (0.25%) DB2
9 3 (0.25%) GIS
9 3 (0.25%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.17%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.17%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.17%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 28 (2.34%) Git
2 20 (1.67%) Jenkins
3 17 (1.42%) JIRA
4 16 (1.34%) GitLab
5 14 (1.17%) Selenium
6 13 (1.09%) Axure RP
6 13 (1.09%) Balsamiq
7 8 (0.67%) Cypress.io
8 7 (0.59%) TeamCity
9 6 (0.50%) JMeter
9 6 (0.50%) WebDriver
10 5 (0.42%) JUnit
10 5 (0.42%) Mockito
11 4 (0.33%) Babel
11 4 (0.33%) MLflow
11 4 (0.33%) webpack
12 3 (0.25%) LabVIEW
12 3 (0.25%) Locust
12 3 (0.25%) Postman
12 3 (0.25%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 307 (25.67%) Finance
2 306 (25.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 265 (22.16%) Social Skills
4 217 (18.14%) Public Sector
5 207 (17.31%) Analytical Skills
6 79 (6.61%) Electronics
7 74 (6.19%) Manufacturing
7 74 (6.19%) Telecoms
8 67 (5.60%) Law
8 67 (5.60%) Marketing
9 39 (3.26%) Aerospace
10 30 (2.51%) Presentation Skills
11 26 (2.17%) Military
12 21 (1.76%) Legal
13 18 (1.51%) Back Office
14 15 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
15 13 (1.09%) Aviation
15 13 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
16 10 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
16 10 (0.84%) Retail
Job Titles
1 301 (25.17%) Senior
2 237 (19.82%) Software Engineer
3 178 (14.88%) Senior Software Engineer
4 126 (10.54%) Developer
5 119 (9.95%) Architect
6 117 (9.78%) Consultant
7 105 (8.78%) Systems Engineer
8 70 (5.85%) Lead
9 63 (5.27%) Software Developer
10 47 (3.93%) Administrator
11 46 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 45 (3.76%) Systems Administrator
13 44 (3.68%) Security Consultant
14 40 (3.34%) Embedded Engineer
14 40 (3.34%) Embedded Software Engineer
15 31 (2.59%) Analyst
16 29 (2.42%) Cybersecurity Consultant
16 29 (2.42%) DevOps Engineer
17 28 (2.34%) Solutions Architect
18 26 (2.17%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 249 (20.82%) Node.js
2 243 (20.32%) .NET
3 50 (4.18%) Pandas
4 27 (2.26%) OLE
5 25 (2.09%) React
6 20 (1.67%) Kafka
7 18 (1.51%) SAP Fiori
8 17 (1.42%) HTML
9 14 (1.17%) CSS
9 14 (1.17%) Elastic Stack
10 13 (1.09%) Spring
10 13 (1.09%) Spring Boot
11 11 (0.92%) XML
12 9 (0.75%) RESTful
13 8 (0.67%) AngularJS
14 7 (0.59%) HTML5 Canvas
14 7 (0.59%) REST
15 6 (0.50%) JPA
15 6 (0.50%) Middleware
15 6 (0.50%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 228 (19.06%) Cyberattack
2 209 (17.47%) Self-Motivation
3 190 (15.89%) e-Learning
4 180 (15.05%) Linux Command Line
5 48 (4.01%) Data Centre
6 40 (3.34%) Embedded Systems
7 38 (3.18%) Cloud Native
7 38 (3.18%) MicroBlaze
7 38 (3.18%) RISC-V
8 34 (2.84%) Product Ownership
9 33 (2.76%) Management Information System
10 28 (2.34%) Analytical Mindset
11 24 (2.01%) FPGA
12 19 (1.59%) Algorithms
12 19 (1.59%) Onboarding
13 18 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
13 18 (1.51%) PMI
14 16 (1.34%) Driving Licence
15 12 (1.00%) NHS
15 12 (1.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 384 (32.11%) Linux
2 85 (7.11%) Windows
3 54 (4.52%) Android
4 38 (3.18%) Embedded Linux
5 37 (3.09%) Unix
6 29 (2.42%) Windows Server
7 23 (1.92%) Windows 10
8 12 (1.00%) Rocky
8 12 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
9 11 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (0.75%) Solaris
11 5 (0.42%) Debian
11 5 (0.42%) Mac OS X
12 4 (0.33%) CentOS
12 4 (0.33%) HPUX
12 4 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.17%) Kali Linux
13 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
14 1 (0.084%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.084%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 451 (37.71%) Agile
2 362 (30.27%) Software Engineering
3 288 (24.08%) Mentoring
4 221 (18.48%) User Experience
5 217 (18.14%) Microservices
6 214 (17.89%) Innovative Thinking
7 208 (17.39%) Scrum
8 204 (17.06%) Cloud Security
9 203 (16.97%) Machine Learning
10 194 (16.22%) Data Engineering
11 185 (15.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 180 (15.05%) Cybersecurity
13 168 (14.05%) Problem-Solving
14 148 (12.37%) CI/CD
15 112 (9.36%) Continuous Improvement
16 111 (9.28%) DevOps
17 92 (7.69%) Mathematics
18 88 (7.36%) Business Intelligence
18 88 (7.36%) Containerisation
19 81 (6.77%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 337 (28.18%) Python
2 295 (24.67%) Java
3 283 (23.66%) JavaScript
4 280 (23.41%) C++
5 240 (20.07%) Go
6 227 (18.98%) Rust
7 69 (5.77%) SQL
8 53 (4.43%) C
9 32 (2.68%) PowerShell
10 30 (2.51%) TypeScript
11 29 (2.42%) Bash
12 25 (2.09%) C#
13 17 (1.42%) MATLAB
14 9 (0.75%) Bicep
14 9 (0.75%) R
15 8 (0.67%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.59%) Perl
17 6 (0.50%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.50%) PHP
18 5 (0.42%) Korn
Qualifications
1 719 (60.12%) SC Cleared
2 469 (39.21%) DV Cleared
3 229 (19.15%) Degree
4 218 (18.23%) AWS Certification
5 188 (15.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 178 (14.88%) AWS Certified Developer
7 80 (6.69%) Cisco Certification
8 68 (5.69%) CCNP
9 63 (5.27%) BPSS Clearance
10 57 (4.77%) CISSP
11 55 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
12 40 (3.34%) CCNA
13 33 (2.76%) CompTIA Security+
14 31 (2.59%) Azure Certification
15 27 (2.26%) CEH
15 27 (2.26%) CISM
16 24 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
16 24 (2.01%) RHCSA
17 18 (1.51%) PMI Certification
18 16 (1.34%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (6.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 67 (5.60%) NIST
3 49 (4.10%) QA
4 36 (3.01%) Accessibility
5 33 (2.76%) SLA
6 30 (2.51%) GDPR
7 27 (2.26%) PCI DSS
8 20 (1.67%) NCSC
9 16 (1.34%) WCAG
10 12 (1.00%) Data Quality
10 12 (1.00%) GRC
11 11 (0.92%) HIPAA
12 9 (0.75%) Def Stans
13 8 (0.67%) JSP 440
14 7 (0.59%) ISO 9001
14 7 (0.59%) SOC 2
15 4 (0.33%) ISO 19650
15 4 (0.33%) NIST 800
15 4 (0.33%) RMADS
16 2 (0.17%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 102 (8.53%) Docker
2 60 (5.02%) Firmware
3 39 (3.26%) Active Directory
4 38 (3.18%) Embedded Firmware
5 31 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
6 13 (1.09%) Hyper-V
7 11 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (0.84%) vSphere
9 3 (0.25%) IAG
10 2 (0.17%) pfSense
10 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 125 (10.45%) Kubernetes
2 99 (8.28%) Terraform
3 85 (7.11%) Ansible
4 26 (2.17%) Grafana
5 13 (1.09%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.59%) SCCM
8 6 (0.50%) Functional Safety
9 5 (0.42%) SCOM
10 4 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.25%) Argo
11 3 (0.25%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 3 (0.25%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.25%) Kibana
11 3 (0.25%) Nagios
11 3 (0.25%) Puppet
11 3 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.17%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.17%) SCOrch
12 2 (0.17%) SCSM
Vendors
1 123 (10.28%) Microsoft
2 98 (8.19%) Cisco
3 93 (7.78%) SAP
4 56 (4.68%) VMware
5 46 (3.85%) Sparx
6 31 (2.59%) Red Hat
7 27 (2.26%) ServiceNow
8 23 (1.92%) Google
8 23 (1.92%) Juniper
9 16 (1.34%) Adobe
10 15 (1.25%) Oracle
11 13 (1.09%) Dell
12 8 (0.67%) Databricks
12 8 (0.67%) Salesforce
12 8 (0.67%) Splunk
13 7 (0.59%) Fortinet
13 7 (0.59%) NetApp
14 5 (0.42%) Palo Alto
15 4 (0.33%) F5
15 4 (0.33%) Foundry