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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 34 22
Rank change year-on-year +16 -12 +13
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,385 1,210 2,124
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.95% 7.38% 8.87%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.46% 25.96% 33.01%
Number of salaries quoted 912 716 1,437
10th Percentile £44,259 £42,500 £38,734
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £79,600 £74,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,249 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.40% +8.26% -

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 5,043 4,661 6,434
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 32.58% 28.43% 26.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,540 2,390 4,689
10th Percentile £30,500 £34,404 £32,603
25th Percentile £44,196 £45,456 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,159 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.47% +8.10% -4.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,430 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.45% +8.05% -4.35%

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 22 January 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 26 (1.88%) SharePoint
2 10 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.36%) Apache
4 5 (0.36%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.36%) Confluence
5 4 (0.29%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.29%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.29%) Oracle Spatial
6 3 (0.22%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.22%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.22%) WebLogic Portal
6 3 (0.22%) WordPress
7 2 (0.14%) Camunda
8 1 (0.072%) IIS
Applications
1 81 (5.85%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (2.09%) Adobe XD
3 14 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.22%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.22%) InVision
5 3 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.22%) Simulink
5 3 (0.22%) Sketch
6 2 (0.14%) Weka
7 1 (0.072%) EngageOne
7 1 (0.072%) EPLAN
7 1 (0.072%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.072%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.072%) Revit
Business Applications
1 23 (1.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (1.01%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 4 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.29%) Primavera
4 4 (0.29%) SAP PP
5 3 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.22%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.22%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.22%) SAP PM
6 2 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.14%) SAP SCM
7 1 (0.072%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.072%) Q-Pulse
7 1 (0.072%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.072%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.072%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.072%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.072%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 210 (15.16%) Azure
2 192 (13.86%) AWS
3 119 (8.59%) Microsoft 365
4 52 (3.75%) Power Platform
5 51 (3.68%) Entra ID
6 48 (3.47%) GCP
7 39 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 32 (2.31%) PowerApps
9 31 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
9 31 (2.24%) Figma
10 27 (1.95%) Amazon EKS
10 27 (1.95%) Dynamics 365
10 27 (1.95%) GitHub
10 27 (1.95%) Power Automate
11 26 (1.88%) Serverless
12 24 (1.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 22 (1.59%) Amazon ECS
14 20 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
15 19 (1.37%) Amazon S3
16 16 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 43 (3.10%) Firewall
2 27 (1.95%) VPN
3 23 (1.66%) Network Security
4 17 (1.23%) LAN
5 15 (1.08%) TCP/IP
6 13 (0.94%) WAN
7 12 (0.87%) DNS
8 11 (0.79%) BGP
9 9 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (0.65%) Wireless
10 8 (0.58%) Ethernet
10 8 (0.58%) Software-Defined Radio
11 7 (0.51%) DMZ
11 7 (0.51%) MPLS
12 6 (0.43%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (0.43%) IPsec
12 6 (0.43%) SAN
12 6 (0.43%) SD-WAN
12 6 (0.43%) VoIP
13 5 (0.36%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (2.74%) Power BI
2 31 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (1.66%) NoSQL
4 17 (1.23%) MongoDB
4 17 (1.23%) SQL Server
5 16 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
6 15 (1.08%) Metadata
7 14 (1.01%) MySQL
8 13 (0.94%) Relational Database
9 11 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (0.58%) Redis
10 8 (0.58%) Tableau
11 7 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (0.43%) GIS
13 5 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (0.36%) Big Data
13 5 (0.36%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.36%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.36%) SAP HANA
14 4 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 34 (2.45%) Jenkins
2 33 (2.38%) Git
3 29 (2.09%) Balsamiq
4 27 (1.95%) Axure RP
5 18 (1.30%) JIRA
5 18 (1.30%) Selenium
6 15 (1.08%) GitLab
7 11 (0.79%) Cypress.io
8 9 (0.65%) WebDriver
9 7 (0.51%) Burp Suite
9 7 (0.51%) Metasploit
10 6 (0.43%) JMeter
10 6 (0.43%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.36%) Robot Framework
12 4 (0.29%) Babel
12 4 (0.29%) MLflow
12 4 (0.29%) webpack
13 3 (0.22%) Oracle APEX
13 3 (0.22%) Rational Rhapsody
13 3 (0.22%) TeamCity
General
1 336 (24.26%) Social Skills
2 276 (19.93%) Public Sector
3 187 (13.50%) Finance
4 147 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
5 109 (7.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 102 (7.36%) Law
7 86 (6.21%) Manufacturing
8 63 (4.55%) Back Office
9 60 (4.33%) Telecoms
10 58 (4.19%) Electronics
11 56 (4.04%) Marketing
12 31 (2.24%) Military
13 24 (1.73%) Aerospace
13 24 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
14 21 (1.52%) Retail
15 17 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
16 14 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (0.79%) Legal
18 10 (0.72%) Banking
19 9 (0.65%) Games
Job Titles
1 176 (12.71%) Senior
2 163 (11.77%) Systems Engineer
3 130 (9.39%) Analyst
4 126 (9.10%) Architect
5 124 (8.95%) Consultant
6 85 (6.14%) Developer
6 85 (6.14%) Lead
7 82 (5.92%) Business Analyst
8 80 (5.78%) Support Engineer
9 74 (5.34%) Software Engineer
10 64 (4.62%) Site Engineer
11 61 (4.40%) Desktop Engineer
12 60 (4.33%) Desktop Support
12 60 (4.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
13 43 (3.10%) Security Consultant
14 38 (2.74%) Designer
14 38 (2.74%) Solutions Architect
15 36 (2.60%) Data Engineer
16 34 (2.45%) Administrator
17 33 (2.38%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (3.47%) React
2 38 (2.74%) .NET
3 29 (2.09%) HTML
4 28 (2.02%) CSS
4 28 (2.02%) Spring
5 24 (1.73%) SAP CAF
6 23 (1.66%) REST
7 22 (1.59%) Spring Boot
8 18 (1.30%) Django
9 17 (1.23%) Node.js
10 16 (1.16%) AngularJS
10 16 (1.16%) SOAP
11 15 (1.08%) HTML5 Canvas
11 15 (1.08%) Lightning Web Components
12 14 (1.01%) Kafka
12 14 (1.01%) Middleware
13 13 (0.94%) ASP.NET
14 11 (0.79%) OLE
14 11 (0.79%) RESTful
14 11 (0.79%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 65 (4.69%) Cloud Native
1 65 (4.69%) e-Learning
2 56 (4.04%) Product Ownership
3 45 (3.25%) Security Posture
4 44 (3.18%) Self-Motivation
5 30 (2.17%) Data Centre
6 25 (1.81%) Management Information System
7 24 (1.73%) Onboarding
8 18 (1.30%) PKI
9 17 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
10 16 (1.16%) Algorithms
11 14 (1.01%) Driving Licence
12 12 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
13 11 (0.79%) Cyber Security Posture
13 11 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
14 10 (0.72%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 10 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
14 10 (0.72%) Private Cloud
15 9 (0.65%) AI Agents
15 9 (0.65%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 121 (8.74%) Linux
1 121 (8.74%) Windows
2 66 (4.77%) Windows 10
3 43 (3.10%) Unix
4 17 (1.23%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.72%) Ubuntu
6 9 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
8 6 (0.43%) CentOS
9 5 (0.36%) Debian
9 5 (0.36%) Solaris
10 3 (0.22%) VMS
11 2 (0.14%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.14%) Rocky
11 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.072%) Android
12 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (19.06%) Agile
2 192 (13.86%) Problem-Solving
3 176 (12.71%) Cybersecurity
4 171 (12.35%) Continuous Improvement
5 163 (11.77%) Software Engineering
6 143 (10.32%) DevOps
7 139 (10.04%) Analytics
8 114 (8.23%) CI/CD
9 109 (7.87%) ITIL
10 95 (6.86%) Collaborative Culture
11 94 (6.79%) Innovative Thinking
12 92 (6.64%) Business Intelligence
13 86 (6.21%) Community of Practice
14 85 (6.14%) Technology Strategy
15 80 (5.78%) Mentoring
16 78 (5.63%) AI
17 76 (5.49%) Infrastructure as Code
18 71 (5.13%) Computer Science
18 71 (5.13%) Validation
19 69 (4.98%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 153 (11.05%) Python
2 98 (7.08%) Java
3 82 (5.92%) JavaScript
4 62 (4.48%) C#
5 60 (4.33%) SQL
6 42 (3.03%) PowerShell
7 35 (2.53%) Bash
8 30 (2.17%) TypeScript
9 28 (2.02%) C
10 27 (1.95%) C++
11 22 (1.59%) Bicep
12 15 (1.08%) Apex Code
12 15 (1.08%) Go
13 11 (0.79%) MATLAB
14 9 (0.65%) Ada
15 7 (0.51%) Scala
16 6 (0.43%) ABAP
16 6 (0.43%) VBA
17 5 (0.36%) Korn
17 5 (0.36%) R
Qualifications
1 844 (60.94%) SC Cleared
2 316 (22.82%) Degree
3 249 (17.98%) DV Cleared
4 71 (5.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 71 (5.13%) CISSP
5 63 (4.55%) CTC Cleared
6 53 (3.83%) Cisco Certification
7 51 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 49 (3.54%) CISM
9 47 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
10 40 (2.89%) Azure Certification
11 33 (2.38%) CCNA
12 31 (2.24%) CCNP
13 29 (2.09%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 28 (2.02%) AWS Certification
15 15 (1.08%) Master's Degree
16 13 (0.94%) CEH
16 13 (0.94%) CREST Certified
17 12 (0.87%) CompTIA Security+
17 12 (0.87%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (6.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 70 (5.05%) SLA
3 69 (4.98%) NIST
4 58 (4.19%) Accessibility
5 46 (3.32%) GRC
6 44 (3.18%) GDPR
7 42 (3.03%) QA
8 29 (2.09%) WCAG
9 22 (1.59%) Data Quality
10 18 (1.30%) NCSC
11 16 (1.16%) PCI DSS
12 15 (1.08%) JSP 440
13 9 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 7 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
14 7 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.43%) ISO 9001
16 5 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 5 (0.36%) NIST 800
17 3 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 17025
17 3 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 66 (4.77%) Docker
2 27 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (1.59%) Active Directory
4 15 (1.08%) Firmware
5 10 (0.72%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.72%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.51%) Embedded Firmware
8 4 (0.29%) vSphere
9 1 (0.072%) pfSense
9 1 (0.072%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.072%) vCloud
9 1 (0.072%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.072%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 83 (5.99%) Terraform
2 78 (5.63%) Kubernetes
3 48 (3.47%) Ansible
4 31 (2.24%) Grafana
5 10 (0.72%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.51%) Nmap
8 6 (0.43%) SCOM
9 5 (0.36%) SCCM
10 4 (0.29%) Kibana
10 4 (0.29%) WSUS
10 4 (0.29%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.22%) Argo
11 3 (0.22%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.22%) Endace
11 3 (0.22%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.22%) Nagios
11 3 (0.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (0.22%) Puppet
11 3 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 164 (11.84%) Microsoft
2 122 (8.81%) Cisco
3 81 (5.85%) SAP
4 46 (3.32%) Google
5 42 (3.03%) Salesforce
6 35 (2.53%) VMware
7 29 (2.09%) Adobe
8 25 (1.81%) Oracle
9 16 (1.16%) Red Hat
9 16 (1.16%) ServiceNow
10 14 (1.01%) Sparx
11 13 (0.94%) Splunk
12 10 (0.72%) CheckPoint
12 10 (0.72%) Juniper
13 9 (0.65%) MuleSoft
14 8 (0.58%) Databricks
15 7 (0.51%) F5
16 5 (0.36%) NetApp
17 4 (0.29%) ESRI
17 4 (0.29%) Fortinet