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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 38 22
Rank change year-on-year +13 -16 +6
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,537 1,109 2,498
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.20% 6.73% 7.83%
As % of the Qualifications category 34.67% 20.00% 29.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,162 564 1,715
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,608 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £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 £93,375 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +12.00% +8.70% -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 4,433 5,545 8,607
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.76% 33.63% 26.96%
Number of salaries quoted 3,013 2,488 5,504
10th Percentile £33,250 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £56,825
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +5.59% -5.29%
75th Percentile £78,750 £73,511 £72,444
90th Percentile £93,634 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +2.80% -10.83%

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 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 37 (2.41%) SharePoint
2 30 (1.95%) Apache
3 21 (1.37%) Apache Spark
4 14 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.59%) Anypoint
6 9 (0.59%) Mule
7 7 (0.46%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.33%) Confluence
8 5 (0.33%) IIS
9 4 (0.26%) nginx
10 3 (0.20%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.20%) Camunda
10 3 (0.20%) SAS
11 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.13%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.13%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.13%) Oracle Spatial
11 2 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 28 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.46%) Adobe XD
5 4 (0.26%) Simulink
5 4 (0.26%) Windchill
6 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.20%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.13%) InVision
7 2 (0.13%) Sketch
8 1 (0.065%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.065%) CATIA
8 1 (0.065%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.065%) Houdini
8 1 (0.065%) NUKE
8 1 (0.065%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.065%) Weka
Business Applications
1 28 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.46%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.33%) Primavera
4 4 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
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%) C-CURE
7 1 (0.065%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.065%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.065%) SAP EWM
7 1 (0.065%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 400 (26.02%) Azure
2 348 (22.64%) AWS
3 111 (7.22%) GCP
4 96 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
5 79 (5.14%) Entra ID
6 63 (4.10%) Power Platform
7 33 (2.15%) SaaS
8 32 (2.08%) GitHub
9 30 (1.95%) dbt
10 28 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
11 27 (1.76%) Serverless
12 26 (1.69%) PaaS
13 25 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
14 19 (1.24%) Amazon EC2
14 19 (1.24%) Azure Sentinel
14 19 (1.24%) Microsoft Purview
15 18 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
16 17 (1.11%) Amazon S3
16 17 (1.11%) Google Analytics
17 16 (1.04%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 45 (2.93%) Firewall
2 44 (2.86%) Network Security
3 31 (2.02%) WAN
4 28 (1.82%) DNS
5 27 (1.76%) TCP/IP
6 22 (1.43%) VPN
7 20 (1.30%) LAN
8 19 (1.24%) DHCP
9 15 (0.98%) BGP
10 14 (0.91%) MPLS
11 13 (0.85%) SMTP
12 12 (0.78%) SSL
13 10 (0.65%) HTTP
13 10 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
14 9 (0.59%) ATM
15 7 (0.46%) Intrusion Detection
15 7 (0.46%) SNMP
16 5 (0.33%) Cisco Firepower
16 5 (0.33%) DMZ
16 5 (0.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (3.06%) Power BI
2 38 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (1.37%) Big Data
4 19 (1.24%) NoSQL
5 17 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (1.04%) MongoDB
7 14 (0.91%) Metadata
8 13 (0.85%) SQL Server
9 12 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
9 12 (0.78%) Redis
10 10 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (0.59%) DynamoDB
12 8 (0.52%) Tableau
13 7 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (0.46%) Data Lake
13 7 (0.46%) MySQL
14 6 (0.39%) Relational Database
14 6 (0.39%) SAP HANA
15 4 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
15 4 (0.26%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 52 (3.38%) Git
2 37 (2.41%) Jenkins
3 35 (2.28%) GitLab
4 16 (1.04%) JIRA
5 14 (0.91%) JUnit
6 12 (0.78%) Selenium
7 9 (0.59%) Maven
8 8 (0.52%) Mockito
9 6 (0.39%) Burp Suite
9 6 (0.39%) Cucumber
9 6 (0.39%) Metasploit
10 5 (0.33%) Axure RP
10 5 (0.33%) Balsamiq
10 5 (0.33%) JMeter
10 5 (0.33%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.26%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.26%) Postman
12 3 (0.20%) Gatling
13 2 (0.13%) Babel
13 2 (0.13%) webpack
General
1 445 (28.95%) Social Skills
2 346 (22.51%) Public Sector
3 215 (13.99%) Finance
4 201 (13.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 164 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
6 132 (8.59%) Law
7 58 (3.77%) Legal
8 44 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
9 33 (2.15%) Telecoms
10 31 (2.02%) Aerospace
10 31 (2.02%) Manufacturing
11 30 (1.95%) Retail
12 28 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
13 22 (1.43%) Back Office
13 22 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
14 17 (1.11%) Military
15 13 (0.85%) Aviation
16 11 (0.72%) Electronics
17 10 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
17 10 (0.65%) Police
Job Titles
1 281 (18.28%) Senior
2 278 (18.09%) Architect
3 179 (11.65%) Consultant
4 124 (8.07%) Lead
5 122 (7.94%) Solutions Architect
6 117 (7.61%) Developer
7 102 (6.64%) Analyst
8 98 (6.38%) Software Engineer
9 61 (3.97%) Data Engineer
10 59 (3.84%) Senior Manager
11 56 (3.64%) Cloud Engineer
12 53 (3.45%) Security Consultant
13 48 (3.12%) Senior Consultant
14 46 (2.99%) Java Developer
14 46 (2.99%) Security Architect
15 45 (2.93%) DevOps Engineer
16 43 (2.80%) Business Analyst
17 40 (2.60%) Senior Developer
18 39 (2.54%) Support Engineer
19 38 (2.47%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (3.32%) REST
2 39 (2.54%) Spring
3 30 (1.95%) React
4 28 (1.82%) Kafka
4 28 (1.82%) SOAP
5 25 (1.63%) .NET
6 20 (1.30%) OAuth
6 20 (1.30%) Spring Boot
7 19 (1.24%) Middleware
8 17 (1.11%) SAML
9 16 (1.04%) RESTful
10 14 (0.91%) Playwright
10 14 (0.91%) PySpark
11 13 (0.85%) AngularJS
11 13 (0.85%) CSS
11 13 (0.85%) HTML
12 12 (0.78%) JWT
12 12 (0.78%) OAuth2
12 12 (0.78%) SAP Fiori
13 11 (0.72%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 122 (7.94%) Cloud Native
2 62 (4.03%) Product Ownership
3 53 (3.45%) Security Posture
4 49 (3.19%) Management Information System
4 49 (3.19%) Onboarding
5 43 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
6 33 (2.15%) Data Centre
7 28 (1.82%) Driving Licence
7 28 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
7 28 (1.82%) PKI
8 22 (1.43%) Blog
9 19 (1.24%) Security Operations Centre
10 17 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
11 16 (1.04%) CMDB
12 14 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
13 13 (0.85%) Data Structures
13 13 (0.85%) Public Cloud
14 12 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
14 12 (0.78%) Low-Code
15 11 (0.72%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 105 (6.83%) Linux
2 102 (6.64%) Windows
3 34 (2.21%) Windows Server
4 26 (1.69%) Windows 10
5 21 (1.37%) Unix
6 6 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.33%) Android
7 5 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.20%) CentOS
8 3 (0.20%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.13%) Kali Linux
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
1 376 (24.46%) Agile
2 243 (15.81%) Continuous Improvement
3 236 (15.35%) Cybersecurity
4 203 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
5 196 (12.75%) Mentoring
6 192 (12.49%) DevOps
7 188 (12.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 175 (11.39%) CI/CD
9 153 (9.95%) Software Engineering
10 141 (9.17%) Stakeholder Management
11 127 (8.26%) AI
11 127 (8.26%) ITIL
12 119 (7.74%) Community of Practice
13 117 (7.61%) Analytics
14 115 (7.48%) Collaborative Culture
15 113 (7.35%) Risk Management
15 113 (7.35%) Technical Leadership
16 109 (7.09%) Infrastructure as Code
17 106 (6.90%) Decision-Making
17 106 (6.90%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 174 (11.32%) Python
2 144 (9.37%) Java
3 97 (6.31%) SQL
4 68 (4.42%) JavaScript
5 41 (2.67%) C++
6 37 (2.41%) C#
7 33 (2.15%) PowerShell
8 32 (2.08%) Bash
9 25 (1.63%) TypeScript
10 23 (1.50%) C
11 14 (0.91%) Groovy
12 11 (0.72%) Apex Code
12 11 (0.72%) Rust
13 9 (0.59%) DataWeave
14 8 (0.52%) Ada
14 8 (0.52%) Go
15 7 (0.46%) Scala
15 7 (0.46%) VBA
16 6 (0.39%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.39%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,197 (77.88%) SC Cleared
2 299 (19.45%) DV Cleared
3 254 (16.53%) Degree
4 100 (6.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 84 (5.47%) CISSP
6 54 (3.51%) CISM
7 46 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 37 (2.41%) Azure Certification
9 35 (2.28%) Microsoft Certification
10 25 (1.63%) CTC Cleared
11 23 (1.50%) AWS Certification
12 18 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
13 16 (1.04%) CREST Certified
13 16 (1.04%) CRISC
14 15 (0.98%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 14 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
16 13 (0.85%) HNC
16 13 (0.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 13 (0.85%) Master's Degree
17 10 (0.65%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (9.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 77 (5.01%) NIST
3 53 (3.45%) QA
4 49 (3.19%) GDPR
5 48 (3.12%) NCSC
6 40 (2.60%) SLA
7 37 (2.41%) GRC
8 32 (2.08%) Accessibility
9 31 (2.02%) Data Quality
10 28 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
11 26 (1.69%) PCI DSS
12 20 (1.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 18 (1.17%) JSP 440
14 11 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
14 11 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 11 (0.72%) WCAG
15 10 (0.65%) Def Stans
16 7 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
17 6 (0.39%) PMO
17 6 (0.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 80 (5.20%) Docker
2 66 (4.29%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.63%) Hyper-V
4 21 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.65%) Firmware
6 9 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.46%) vSphere
8 6 (0.39%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.20%) Squid
11 1 (0.065%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.065%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.065%) IAG
11 1 (0.065%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.065%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.065%) Xen
Systems Management
1 96 (6.25%) Terraform
2 90 (5.86%) Kubernetes
3 48 (3.12%) Ansible
4 36 (2.34%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (1.30%) Prometheus
6 19 (1.24%) Grafana
7 10 (0.65%) Argo
8 9 (0.59%) CloudHub
8 9 (0.59%) Progress Chef
9 8 (0.52%) QRadar
10 7 (0.46%) Puppet
11 6 (0.39%) Kustomize
11 6 (0.39%) Nmap
11 6 (0.39%) Packer
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%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.26%) Kibana
Vendors
1 233 (15.16%) Microsoft
2 53 (3.45%) ServiceNow
3 52 (3.38%) Google
4 50 (3.25%) Oracle
5 49 (3.19%) SAP
6 48 (3.12%) Cisco
7 31 (2.02%) VMware
8 30 (1.95%) Salesforce
9 22 (1.43%) MuleSoft
10 21 (1.37%) Red Hat
11 18 (1.17%) OpenAI
12 17 (1.11%) Splunk
13 16 (1.04%) CyberArk
13 16 (1.04%) Databricks
14 12 (0.78%) Okta
15 9 (0.59%) Adobe
15 9 (0.59%) Juniper
15 9 (0.59%) Meraki
16 7 (0.46%) Dell
17 6 (0.39%) Ariba