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

6 months to
17 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 1,874 1,196 1,832
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.71% 7.36% 7.85%
As % of the Qualifications category 37.14% 21.02% 28.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,214 613 1,121
10th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £50,171 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £81,957 £80,000 £79,225
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,500 £86,250
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 5,046 5,691 6,368
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.76% 35.03% 27.28%
Number of salaries quoted 3,179 2,327 3,095
10th Percentile £33,450 £31,000 £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 £56,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -3.45%

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 17 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 (2.08%) Apache
2 31 (1.65%) Apache Spark
3 30 (1.60%) SharePoint
4 20 (1.07%) Confluence
5 13 (0.69%) Anypoint
5 13 (0.69%) Mule
6 10 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
7 9 (0.48%) nginx
8 8 (0.43%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.32%) Camunda
10 5 (0.27%) IIS
11 4 (0.21%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.21%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle Spatial
12 3 (0.16%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.11%) WordPress
14 1 (0.053%) Drupal
Applications
1 30 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (1.23%) Simulink
3 14 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (0.37%) Adobe XD
6 6 (0.32%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.21%) Mathcad
7 4 (0.21%) Windchill
8 2 (0.11%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.11%) InDesign
8 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.053%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.053%) EPLAN
9 1 (0.053%) FrameMaker
9 1 (0.053%) Houdini
9 1 (0.053%) InVision
9 1 (0.053%) Revit
9 1 (0.053%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.053%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 17 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.85%) Primavera
3 7 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.32%) Workday HCM
5 5 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.27%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.27%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.11%) SAP PSCD
7 2 (0.11%) SAP QM
7 2 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.053%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
8 1 (0.053%) Magento
8 1 (0.053%) Maximo
8 1 (0.053%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.053%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.053%) SAP GRC
8 1 (0.053%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.053%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 456 (24.33%) Azure
2 430 (22.95%) AWS
3 130 (6.94%) GCP
4 82 (4.38%) Microsoft 365
5 80 (4.27%) Power Platform
6 78 (4.16%) Entra ID
7 43 (2.29%) GitHub
8 41 (2.19%) AWS CloudFormation
9 38 (2.03%) dbt
9 38 (2.03%) Serverless
10 32 (1.71%) Amazon S3
11 27 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
12 26 (1.39%) OpenShift
13 25 (1.33%) SaaS
14 22 (1.17%) Amazon EC2
14 22 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
14 22 (1.17%) Azure Sentinel
15 21 (1.12%) Microsoft Purview
16 19 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
16 19 (1.01%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 53 (2.83%) Firewall
2 50 (2.67%) Network Security
3 42 (2.24%) TCP/IP
4 34 (1.81%) DNS
5 20 (1.07%) WAN
6 17 (0.91%) VPN
7 16 (0.85%) SSL
8 15 (0.80%) DHCP
9 13 (0.69%) BGP
10 12 (0.64%) LAN
10 12 (0.64%) Wireless
11 11 (0.59%) ATM
12 10 (0.53%) Ethernet
13 8 (0.43%) OSPF
14 7 (0.37%) MPLS
15 6 (0.32%) HTTP
16 5 (0.27%) DMZ
16 5 (0.27%) Internet
16 5 (0.27%) VLAN
16 5 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (3.42%) Power BI
2 49 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (1.55%) Big Data
3 29 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (1.39%) NoSQL
5 25 (1.33%) SQL Server
6 21 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
6 21 (1.12%) Relational Database
7 19 (1.01%) Tableau
8 18 (0.96%) Metadata
9 17 (0.91%) Data Lake
10 15 (0.80%) DynamoDB
10 15 (0.80%) MySQL
11 13 (0.69%) MongoDB
12 10 (0.53%) Hadoop
13 7 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (0.37%) Redis
14 6 (0.32%) GIS
14 6 (0.32%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 79 (4.22%) Git
2 43 (2.29%) Jenkins
3 39 (2.08%) JIRA
4 37 (1.97%) GitLab
5 23 (1.23%) JUnit
5 23 (1.23%) Rational DOORS
6 17 (0.91%) Selenium
7 14 (0.75%) Mockito
8 13 (0.69%) Maven
9 11 (0.59%) Cucumber
10 10 (0.53%) Burp Suite
10 10 (0.53%) Metasploit
11 9 (0.48%) Cypress.io
11 9 (0.48%) Postman
12 8 (0.43%) Balsamiq
12 8 (0.43%) SonarQube
13 7 (0.37%) Gatling
14 6 (0.32%) Axure RP
14 6 (0.32%) LabVIEW
15 3 (0.16%) JMeter
General
1 545 (29.08%) Social Skills
2 440 (23.48%) Public Sector
3 375 (20.01%) Finance
4 356 (19.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 237 (12.65%) Analytical Skills
6 191 (10.19%) Aerospace
7 164 (8.75%) Law
8 70 (3.74%) Legal
9 59 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
10 58 (3.09%) Electronics
11 56 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
12 54 (2.88%) Military
13 51 (2.72%) Retail
14 50 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
15 41 (2.19%) Manufacturing
16 35 (1.87%) Police
16 35 (1.87%) Telecoms
17 15 (0.80%) Automotive
17 15 (0.80%) Aviation
17 15 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 348 (18.57%) Senior
2 300 (16.01%) Architect
3 199 (10.62%) Consultant
4 164 (8.75%) Lead
5 156 (8.32%) Software Engineer
6 137 (7.31%) Developer
7 132 (7.04%) Analyst
8 106 (5.66%) Solutions Architect
9 93 (4.96%) Data Engineer
10 65 (3.47%) Principal Engineer
10 65 (3.47%) Security Consultant
11 62 (3.31%) Cloud Engineer
12 58 (3.09%) Senior Manager
13 56 (2.99%) Security Architect
14 55 (2.93%) DevOps Engineer
15 49 (2.61%) Senior Consultant
15 49 (2.61%) Senior Developer
16 48 (2.56%) Business Analyst
17 43 (2.29%) Project Manager
17 43 (2.29%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (6.30%) Terraform
2 64 (3.42%) React
3 54 (2.88%) REST
4 44 (2.35%) Spring
5 43 (2.29%) .NET
6 33 (1.76%) CSS
7 30 (1.60%) Kafka
8 27 (1.44%) AngularJS
8 27 (1.44%) HTML
9 25 (1.33%) Playwright
10 24 (1.28%) OAuth
10 24 (1.28%) PySpark
11 22 (1.17%) Node.js
11 22 (1.17%) SOAP
12 21 (1.12%) RESTful
12 21 (1.12%) Spring Boot
13 20 (1.07%) .NET Core
14 18 (0.96%) Web Services
15 17 (0.91%) JWT
15 17 (0.91%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 137 (7.31%) Cloud Native
2 64 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
3 62 (3.31%) Management Information System
4 60 (3.20%) Product Ownership
5 55 (2.93%) Onboarding
6 43 (2.29%) Security Posture
7 37 (1.97%) Driving Licence
8 33 (1.76%) Blog
9 30 (1.60%) Cyber Threat
9 30 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
10 29 (1.55%) PKI
11 28 (1.49%) Data Centre
11 28 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
12 27 (1.44%) FPGA
13 24 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
14 23 (1.23%) CMDB
14 23 (1.23%) Cyber Defence
15 21 (1.12%) Algorithms
16 20 (1.07%) Security Operations Centre
17 19 (1.01%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 139 (7.42%) Linux
2 108 (5.76%) Windows
3 42 (2.24%) Windows Server
4 35 (1.87%) Unix
5 13 (0.69%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.37%) VxWorks
7 6 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.27%) Android
9 4 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
9 4 (0.21%) Kali Linux
9 4 (0.21%) Solaris
9 4 (0.21%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.21%) 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
1 522 (27.85%) Agile
2 346 (18.46%) Continuous Improvement
3 295 (15.74%) Problem-Solving
4 294 (15.69%) Mentoring
5 290 (15.47%) Cybersecurity
6 262 (13.98%) Software Engineering
7 257 (13.71%) CI/CD
8 239 (12.75%) AI
9 238 (12.70%) DevOps
9 238 (12.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 203 (10.83%) Stakeholder Management
11 183 (9.77%) Decision-Making
12 173 (9.23%) Analytics
13 166 (8.86%) Coaching
13 166 (8.86%) Technical Leadership
14 146 (7.79%) Collaborative Culture
15 145 (7.74%) Community of Practice
16 144 (7.68%) Scrum
17 142 (7.58%) Project Delivery
18 135 (7.20%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 227 (12.11%) Python
2 168 (8.96%) Java
3 139 (7.42%) SQL
4 108 (5.76%) JavaScript
5 64 (3.42%) C++
6 60 (3.20%) C#
7 49 (2.61%) Bash
8 46 (2.45%) PowerShell
9 39 (2.08%) TypeScript
10 33 (1.76%) C
11 25 (1.33%) MATLAB
12 21 (1.12%) Ada
13 16 (0.85%) Groovy
14 15 (0.80%) Go
14 15 (0.80%) PL/SQL
15 14 (0.75%) Rust
16 13 (0.69%) DataWeave
16 13 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
17 12 (0.64%) Ruby
18 9 (0.48%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 1,496 (79.83%) SC Cleared
2 412 (21.99%) DV Cleared
3 337 (17.98%) Degree
4 231 (12.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 83 (4.43%) CISSP
6 63 (3.36%) CISM
7 51 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 47 (2.51%) Azure Certification
9 41 (2.19%) AWS Certification
10 31 (1.65%) Master's Degree
11 26 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
12 23 (1.23%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 21 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
14 19 (1.01%) CRISC
15 18 (0.96%) PhD
16 17 (0.91%) Chartered Engineer
16 17 (0.91%) CREST Certified
16 17 (0.91%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 15 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
18 14 (0.75%) CHECK Team Member
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (8.48%) Accessibility
2 151 (8.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 99 (5.28%) NIST
4 74 (3.95%) NCSC
4 74 (3.95%) QA
5 53 (2.83%) GRC
6 50 (2.67%) Data Quality
7 47 (2.51%) GDPR
8 27 (1.44%) PCI DSS
9 26 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
10 23 (1.23%) SLA
11 22 (1.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 18 (0.96%) 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 7 (0.37%) SOC 2
18 6 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 115 (6.14%) Docker
2 80 (4.27%) Active Directory
3 45 (2.40%) Firmware
4 37 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
5 22 (1.17%) Hyper-V
6 15 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.37%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.37%) vSphere
9 6 (0.32%) Squid
10 3 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.053%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.053%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.053%) IAG
11 1 (0.053%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.053%) QEMU
11 1 (0.053%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.053%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 122 (6.51%) Kubernetes
2 48 (2.56%) Ansible
3 39 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (0.91%) Grafana
4 17 (0.91%) Prometheus
5 13 (0.69%) CloudHub
6 12 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (0.59%) Argo
8 10 (0.53%) Nmap
9 8 (0.43%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.37%) Kustomize
10 7 (0.37%) QRadar
11 6 (0.32%) Istio
11 6 (0.32%) Packer
12 5 (0.27%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.27%) Kibana
12 5 (0.27%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.16%) Oracle RMAN
14 2 (0.11%) CASB
Vendors
1 248 (13.23%) Microsoft
2 87 (4.64%) ServiceNow
3 64 (3.42%) Google
3 64 (3.42%) Oracle
4 58 (3.09%) SAP
5 51 (2.72%) VMware
6 31 (1.65%) Cisco
7 26 (1.39%) Salesforce
8 25 (1.33%) Red Hat
9 21 (1.12%) Databricks
9 21 (1.12%) Splunk
10 19 (1.01%) OpenAI
11 17 (0.91%) MuleSoft
11 17 (0.91%) Okta
11 17 (0.91%) YouTube
12 16 (0.85%) CyberArk
13 14 (0.75%) Veeam
13 14 (0.75%) Workday
14 13 (0.69%) Adobe
14 13 (0.69%) Thales