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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 36 22
Rank change year-on-year +9 -14 +5
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,533 1,120 2,305
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.10% 6.80% 7.91%
As % of the Qualifications category 34.43% 20.12% 29.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,160 563 1,574
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,608 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £48,000
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 £93,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £57,513
% change year-on-year +12.00% +8.67% -4.15%

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 4,453 5,566 7,869
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.61% 33.79% 27.00%
Number of salaries quoted 3,044 2,492 4,884
10th Percentile £33,350 £29,525 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £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 21 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 36 (2.35%) SharePoint
2 32 (2.09%) Apache
3 22 (1.44%) Apache Spark
4 14 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (0.72%) Anypoint
5 11 (0.72%) Mule
6 10 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.46%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.39%) nginx
9 5 (0.33%) Confluence
9 5 (0.33%) IIS
10 4 (0.26%) Camunda
11 3 (0.20%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.20%) 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 21 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.52%) Adobe XD
5 6 (0.39%) Simulink
6 4 (0.26%) Windchill
7 3 (0.20%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.13%) InVision
8 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
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 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.46%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.33%) Primavera
4 4 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.26%) SAP FSCM
5 3 (0.20%) Elite 3E
5 3 (0.20%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.20%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.20%) 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
1 413 (26.94%) Azure
2 358 (23.35%) AWS
3 116 (7.57%) GCP
4 81 (5.28%) Microsoft 365
5 66 (4.31%) Power Platform
6 65 (4.24%) Entra ID
7 32 (2.09%) dbt
7 32 (2.09%) SaaS
8 31 (2.02%) GitHub
9 28 (1.83%) AWS CloudFormation
9 28 (1.83%) Serverless
10 26 (1.70%) Azure DevOps
11 25 (1.63%) PaaS
12 21 (1.37%) Azure Sentinel
13 20 (1.30%) Microsoft Purview
14 19 (1.24%) Amazon EC2
15 18 (1.17%) Amazon S3
15 18 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
15 18 (1.17%) Google Analytics
16 17 (1.11%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 48 (3.13%) Firewall
2 45 (2.94%) Network Security
3 32 (2.09%) DNS
4 31 (2.02%) TCP/IP
5 30 (1.96%) WAN
6 21 (1.37%) VPN
7 19 (1.24%) LAN
8 18 (1.17%) DHCP
9 15 (0.98%) BGP
10 14 (0.91%) MPLS
10 14 (0.91%) SSL
11 13 (0.85%) SMTP
12 10 (0.65%) ATM
12 10 (0.65%) HTTP
13 9 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
14 7 (0.46%) Intrusion Detection
14 7 (0.46%) SNMP
15 6 (0.39%) Wireless
16 5 (0.33%) Cisco Firepower
16 5 (0.33%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (3.26%) Power BI
2 38 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (1.37%) Big Data
4 19 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
5 18 (1.17%) NoSQL
6 15 (0.98%) Metadata
7 14 (0.91%) MongoDB
8 13 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
8 13 (0.85%) SQL Server
9 12 (0.78%) Redis
10 10 (0.65%) DynamoDB
10 10 (0.65%) Tableau
11 9 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (0.46%) Data Lake
12 7 (0.46%) Relational Database
13 6 (0.39%) SAP HANA
14 5 (0.33%) MySQL
14 5 (0.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 4 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 52 (3.39%) Git
2 36 (2.35%) Jenkins
3 34 (2.22%) GitLab
4 15 (0.98%) JIRA
5 14 (0.91%) JUnit
6 11 (0.72%) Selenium
7 9 (0.59%) Mockito
8 8 (0.52%) Maven
9 7 (0.46%) Burp Suite
9 7 (0.46%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.46%) Metasploit
10 6 (0.39%) Axure RP
10 6 (0.39%) Balsamiq
11 5 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
12 4 (0.26%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.26%) Gatling
12 4 (0.26%) Postman
13 3 (0.20%) JMeter
13 3 (0.20%) SonarQube
14 2 (0.13%) webpack
General
1 436 (28.44%) Social Skills
2 352 (22.96%) Public Sector
3 217 (14.16%) Finance
4 210 (13.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 168 (10.96%) Analytical Skills
6 138 (9.00%) Law
7 59 (3.85%) Legal
8 46 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
9 39 (2.54%) Aerospace
10 36 (2.35%) Telecoms
11 32 (2.09%) Manufacturing
11 32 (2.09%) Retail
12 27 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
13 22 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
14 17 (1.11%) Military
15 13 (0.85%) Aviation
15 13 (0.85%) Electronics
16 10 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
16 10 (0.65%) Police
17 9 (0.59%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 289 (18.85%) Senior
2 278 (18.13%) Architect
3 184 (12.00%) Consultant
4 128 (8.35%) Lead
5 121 (7.89%) Solutions Architect
6 118 (7.70%) Developer
7 102 (6.65%) Analyst
8 101 (6.59%) Software Engineer
9 60 (3.91%) Data Engineer
10 59 (3.85%) Senior Manager
11 57 (3.72%) Cloud Engineer
12 56 (3.65%) Security Consultant
13 50 (3.26%) Senior Consultant
14 46 (3.00%) Security Architect
15 45 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
15 45 (2.94%) Java Developer
16 43 (2.80%) Business Analyst
17 42 (2.74%) Senior Developer
18 39 (2.54%) Senior Analyst
19 38 (2.48%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (3.33%) REST
2 38 (2.48%) Spring
3 33 (2.15%) React
4 29 (1.89%) Kafka
5 24 (1.57%) .NET
5 24 (1.57%) SOAP
6 23 (1.50%) OAuth
7 20 (1.30%) Spring Boot
8 18 (1.17%) SAML
9 17 (1.11%) Middleware
10 16 (1.04%) PySpark
10 16 (1.04%) RESTful
11 14 (0.91%) CSS
11 14 (0.91%) HTML
11 14 (0.91%) JWT
11 14 (0.91%) OAuth2
11 14 (0.91%) Playwright
12 13 (0.85%) AngularJS
13 12 (0.78%) SAP Fiori
13 12 (0.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 125 (8.15%) Cloud Native
2 59 (3.85%) Product Ownership
3 51 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 49 (3.20%) Onboarding
5 42 (2.74%) Security Posture
6 40 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
7 33 (2.15%) Data Centre
8 29 (1.89%) Driving Licence
9 28 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
10 25 (1.63%) PKI
11 22 (1.44%) Security Operations Centre
12 21 (1.37%) Blog
13 18 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
14 16 (1.04%) CMDB
15 14 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
15 14 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
16 13 (0.85%) Data Structures
16 13 (0.85%) Public Cloud
17 12 (0.78%) FPGA
17 12 (0.78%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 110 (7.18%) Linux
2 93 (6.07%) Windows
3 37 (2.41%) Windows Server
4 22 (1.44%) Unix
5 13 (0.85%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.26%) Android
8 3 (0.20%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.13%) CentOS
9 2 (0.13%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.065%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.065%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.065%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 385 (25.11%) Agile
2 232 (15.13%) Continuous Improvement
3 220 (14.35%) Cybersecurity
4 209 (13.63%) Problem-Solving
5 208 (13.57%) Mentoring
6 194 (12.65%) DevOps
7 187 (12.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 182 (11.87%) CI/CD
9 159 (10.37%) Software Engineering
10 152 (9.92%) Stakeholder Management
11 130 (8.48%) AI
12 122 (7.96%) Community of Practice
13 114 (7.44%) Collaborative Culture
14 113 (7.37%) Technical Leadership
15 111 (7.24%) ITIL
15 111 (7.24%) Project Delivery
16 109 (7.11%) Infrastructure as Code
17 108 (7.05%) Decision-Making
18 107 (6.98%) Technology Strategy
19 105 (6.85%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 180 (11.74%) Python
2 141 (9.20%) Java
3 100 (6.52%) SQL
4 71 (4.63%) JavaScript
5 45 (2.94%) C++
6 38 (2.48%) C#
7 36 (2.35%) PowerShell
8 34 (2.22%) Bash
9 26 (1.70%) C
10 25 (1.63%) TypeScript
11 14 (0.91%) Groovy
12 11 (0.72%) DataWeave
12 11 (0.72%) Rust
13 9 (0.59%) Ada
13 9 (0.59%) Apex Code
14 8 (0.52%) Scala
15 7 (0.46%) Go
15 7 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
15 7 (0.46%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.46%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,207 (78.73%) SC Cleared
2 289 (18.85%) DV Cleared
3 246 (16.05%) Degree
4 110 (7.18%) BPSS Clearance
5 75 (4.89%) CISSP
6 53 (3.46%) CISM
7 46 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 39 (2.54%) Azure Certification
9 36 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 22 (1.44%) AWS Certification
11 17 (1.11%) CREST Certified
11 17 (1.11%) CRISC
12 16 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (1.04%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 15 (0.98%) Master's Degree
14 14 (0.91%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 12 (0.78%) HNC
15 12 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
16 11 (0.72%) GIAC
17 10 (0.65%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (8.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 78 (5.09%) NIST
3 53 (3.46%) QA
4 49 (3.20%) NCSC
5 46 (3.00%) GDPR
6 41 (2.67%) Accessibility
7 38 (2.48%) GRC
8 33 (2.15%) Data Quality
9 27 (1.76%) Cyber Essentials
10 25 (1.63%) PCI DSS
11 24 (1.57%) SLA
12 21 (1.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 17 (1.11%) JSP 440
14 15 (0.98%) WCAG
15 11 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
16 10 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 10 (0.65%) Def Stans
17 7 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
18 6 (0.39%) NIST 800
18 6 (0.39%) PMO
System Software
1 81 (5.28%) Docker
2 70 (4.57%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.57%) Hyper-V
3 24 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.98%) Firmware
5 11 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.46%) vSphere
7 6 (0.39%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.33%) Squid
8 5 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.065%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.065%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.065%) IAG
10 1 (0.065%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.065%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.065%) Xen
Systems Management
1 96 (6.26%) Terraform
2 94 (6.13%) Kubernetes
3 45 (2.94%) Ansible
4 37 (2.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (1.24%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.17%) Grafana
7 11 (0.72%) CloudHub
8 10 (0.65%) Argo
9 9 (0.59%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.46%) Nmap
10 7 (0.46%) Puppet
10 7 (0.46%) QRadar
11 6 (0.39%) Kustomize
11 6 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.33%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.33%) Endace
12 5 (0.33%) Istio
12 5 (0.33%) Packer
12 5 (0.33%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.26%) Kibana
Vendors
1 227 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 58 (3.78%) Google
3 56 (3.65%) ServiceNow
4 51 (3.33%) SAP
5 49 (3.20%) Oracle
6 34 (2.22%) Cisco
6 34 (2.22%) VMware
7 30 (1.96%) Salesforce
8 23 (1.50%) MuleSoft
9 21 (1.37%) Red Hat
10 18 (1.17%) OpenAI
11 17 (1.11%) CyberArk
11 17 (1.11%) Databricks
12 15 (0.98%) Splunk
13 13 (0.85%) Okta
14 10 (0.65%) Adobe
15 9 (0.59%) Juniper
16 8 (0.52%) Meraki
17 7 (0.46%) Dell
17 7 (0.46%) Fortinet