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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 31 25
Rank change year-on-year +11 -6 -4
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,922 1,210 1,777
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.75% 7.29% 7.81%
As % of the Qualifications category 37.39% 19.93% 28.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,237 622 1,036
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £48,750 £47,772
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% - +2.46%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -

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 5,140 6,070 6,258
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.74% 36.58% 27.52%
Number of salaries quoted 3,216 2,320 2,886
10th Percentile £33,013 £31,000 £34,577
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 £57,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -3.51% -3.39%

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 27 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 (2.03%) Apache
2 31 (1.61%) Apache Spark
3 28 (1.46%) SharePoint
4 19 (0.99%) Confluence
5 13 (0.68%) Anypoint
5 13 (0.68%) Mule
6 10 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
7 9 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 8 (0.42%) Camunda
8 8 (0.42%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.42%) nginx
9 4 (0.21%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.21%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.21%) IIS
9 4 (0.21%) Oracle Spatial
10 3 (0.16%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.16%) CMS
10 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.10%) WebLogic
Applications
1 30 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (1.20%) Simulink
4 15 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.31%) Adobe XD
6 6 (0.31%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.21%) Mathcad
7 4 (0.21%) Windchill
8 2 (0.10%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.10%) InDesign
8 2 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.052%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.052%) EPLAN
9 1 (0.052%) FrameMaker
9 1 (0.052%) Houdini
9 1 (0.052%) NUKE
9 1 (0.052%) Revit
9 1 (0.052%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.052%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 20 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.83%) Primavera
3 9 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.36%) Workday HCM
5 5 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.26%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.26%) Teamcenter
6 4 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.16%) SAP PSCD
7 3 (0.16%) SAP QM
7 3 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.10%) Oracle Applications
8 2 (0.10%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.10%) SAP PM
9 1 (0.052%) Oracle Cash Management
9 1 (0.052%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.052%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 1 (0.052%) SAP BPC
9 1 (0.052%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 469 (24.40%) Azure
2 430 (22.37%) AWS
3 129 (6.71%) GCP
4 92 (4.79%) Entra ID
5 90 (4.68%) Microsoft 365
6 83 (4.32%) Power Platform
7 50 (2.60%) GitHub
8 43 (2.24%) Serverless
9 40 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
10 38 (1.98%) dbt
11 35 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
12 34 (1.77%) Amazon S3
13 31 (1.61%) SaaS
14 25 (1.30%) OpenShift
15 24 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
16 23 (1.20%) Azure Sentinel
17 22 (1.14%) Microsoft Purview
18 21 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
18 21 (1.09%) PaaS
19 19 (0.99%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 55 (2.86%) Firewall
2 52 (2.71%) Network Security
3 41 (2.13%) TCP/IP
4 36 (1.87%) DNS
5 20 (1.04%) WAN
6 18 (0.94%) VPN
7 17 (0.88%) DHCP
8 16 (0.83%) SSL
9 14 (0.73%) Wireless
10 13 (0.68%) LAN
11 12 (0.62%) BGP
12 11 (0.57%) ATM
12 11 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
13 10 (0.52%) Ethernet
14 8 (0.42%) Internet
14 8 (0.42%) OSPF
15 6 (0.31%) DMZ
15 6 (0.31%) HTTP
15 6 (0.31%) MPLS
16 5 (0.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (3.49%) Power BI
2 48 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (1.51%) Big Data
3 29 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
4 27 (1.40%) NoSQL
5 24 (1.25%) SQL Server
6 23 (1.20%) Relational Database
7 21 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
7 21 (1.09%) Metadata
8 18 (0.94%) Tableau
9 17 (0.88%) Data Lake
10 14 (0.73%) DynamoDB
10 14 (0.73%) MySQL
11 11 (0.57%) MongoDB
12 10 (0.52%) Hadoop
13 7 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (0.36%) Redis
14 6 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (0.31%) GIS
Development Applications
1 79 (4.11%) Git
2 40 (2.08%) Jenkins
3 39 (2.03%) JIRA
4 37 (1.93%) GitLab
5 25 (1.30%) JUnit
6 24 (1.25%) Rational DOORS
7 17 (0.88%) Selenium
8 16 (0.83%) Mockito
9 12 (0.62%) Maven
10 11 (0.57%) Cucumber
11 10 (0.52%) Burp Suite
11 10 (0.52%) Metasploit
12 9 (0.47%) Cypress.io
12 9 (0.47%) Postman
13 8 (0.42%) Balsamiq
13 8 (0.42%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.31%) Axure RP
14 6 (0.31%) Gatling
14 6 (0.31%) LabVIEW
15 3 (0.16%) Snyk
General
1 557 (28.98%) Social Skills
2 464 (24.14%) Public Sector
3 388 (20.19%) Finance
4 371 (19.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 233 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
6 196 (10.20%) Aerospace
7 163 (8.48%) Law
8 73 (3.80%) Legal
9 61 (3.17%) Electronics
9 61 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
10 56 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
11 55 (2.86%) Military
12 53 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
13 52 (2.71%) Retail
14 48 (2.50%) Police
15 43 (2.24%) Manufacturing
16 38 (1.98%) Telecoms
17 16 (0.83%) Automotive
18 15 (0.78%) Local Government
19 14 (0.73%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 361 (18.78%) Senior
2 302 (15.71%) Architect
3 199 (10.35%) Consultant
4 170 (8.84%) Software Engineer
5 168 (8.74%) Lead
6 135 (7.02%) Analyst
7 131 (6.82%) Developer
8 108 (5.62%) Solutions Architect
9 95 (4.94%) Data Engineer
10 78 (4.06%) Principal Engineer
11 62 (3.23%) Cloud Engineer
11 62 (3.23%) Senior Manager
12 61 (3.17%) Security Consultant
13 54 (2.81%) Security Architect
14 51 (2.65%) DevOps Engineer
15 48 (2.50%) Senior Consultant
16 47 (2.45%) Senior Developer
17 46 (2.39%) Business Analyst
18 45 (2.34%) Java Engineer
19 44 (2.29%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (6.50%) Terraform
2 64 (3.33%) React
3 59 (3.07%) REST
4 45 (2.34%) Spring
5 43 (2.24%) .NET
6 32 (1.66%) CSS
7 29 (1.51%) Kafka
8 26 (1.35%) AngularJS
8 26 (1.35%) HTML
9 25 (1.30%) Playwright
10 24 (1.25%) OAuth
10 24 (1.25%) PySpark
11 23 (1.20%) Spring Boot
12 22 (1.14%) Node.js
12 22 (1.14%) SOAP
13 21 (1.09%) RESTful
14 20 (1.04%) .NET Core
15 19 (0.99%) JWT
16 18 (0.94%) LDAP
16 18 (0.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 137 (7.13%) Cloud Native
2 72 (3.75%) Management Information System
3 63 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
4 61 (3.17%) Onboarding
5 58 (3.02%) Product Ownership
6 42 (2.19%) Security Posture
7 37 (1.93%) Driving Licence
8 33 (1.72%) Data Centre
8 33 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
9 31 (1.61%) Blog
9 31 (1.61%) FPGA
10 29 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
10 29 (1.51%) PKI
11 28 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
12 26 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
13 25 (1.30%) CMDB
14 22 (1.14%) Cyber Defence
15 20 (1.04%) Algorithms
15 20 (1.04%) Embedded Systems
16 19 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 137 (7.13%) Linux
2 115 (5.98%) Windows
3 44 (2.29%) Windows Server
4 33 (1.72%) Unix
5 15 (0.78%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.36%) VxWorks
7 5 (0.26%) Android
7 5 (0.26%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.21%) Kali Linux
8 4 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.21%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.16%) OpenWrt
9 3 (0.16%) Solaris
9 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.10%) AIX
10 2 (0.10%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.10%) CentOS
10 2 (0.10%) FreeRTOS
10 2 (0.10%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 534 (27.78%) Agile
2 361 (18.78%) Continuous Improvement
3 305 (15.87%) Mentoring
4 303 (15.76%) Problem-Solving
5 302 (15.71%) Cybersecurity
6 285 (14.83%) Software Engineering
7 265 (13.79%) CI/CD
8 255 (13.27%) AI
9 244 (12.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 239 (12.43%) DevOps
11 224 (11.65%) Stakeholder Management
12 187 (9.73%) Analytics
12 187 (9.73%) Decision-Making
13 182 (9.47%) Technical Leadership
14 173 (9.00%) Coaching
15 151 (7.86%) Community of Practice
16 144 (7.49%) Collaborative Culture
16 144 (7.49%) Scrum
17 143 (7.44%) Infrastructure as Code
18 139 (7.23%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 228 (11.86%) Python
2 170 (8.84%) Java
3 144 (7.49%) SQL
4 108 (5.62%) JavaScript
5 66 (3.43%) C++
6 62 (3.23%) C#
7 48 (2.50%) Bash
7 48 (2.50%) PowerShell
8 40 (2.08%) TypeScript
9 35 (1.82%) C
10 25 (1.30%) MATLAB
11 21 (1.09%) Ada
12 16 (0.83%) PL/SQL
13 14 (0.73%) Go
13 14 (0.73%) Groovy
13 14 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
13 14 (0.73%) Rust
14 13 (0.68%) Bicep
14 13 (0.68%) DataWeave
15 12 (0.62%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,528 (79.50%) SC Cleared
2 416 (21.64%) DV Cleared
3 338 (17.59%) Degree
4 232 (12.07%) BPSS Clearance
5 77 (4.01%) CISSP
6 57 (2.97%) CISM
7 51 (2.65%) Azure Certification
8 48 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 43 (2.24%) AWS Certification
10 31 (1.61%) Master's Degree
11 24 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
12 23 (1.20%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 22 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
14 20 (1.04%) PhD
15 18 (0.94%) Chartered Engineer
15 18 (0.94%) DBS Check
15 18 (0.94%) TOGAF Certification
16 17 (0.88%) CRISC
17 16 (0.83%) CHECK Team Member
17 16 (0.83%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (8.43%) Accessibility
2 148 (7.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 94 (4.89%) NIST
4 75 (3.90%) QA
5 74 (3.85%) NCSC
6 52 (2.71%) Data Quality
7 50 (2.60%) GRC
8 47 (2.45%) GDPR
9 27 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
9 27 (1.40%) PCI DSS
10 25 (1.30%) SLA
11 20 (1.04%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 18 (0.94%) Def Stans
12 18 (0.94%) WCAG
13 16 (0.83%) JSP 440
14 14 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
15 11 (0.57%) NIST 800
16 7 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 7 (0.36%) PMO
17 6 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 112 (5.83%) Docker
2 83 (4.32%) Active Directory
3 44 (2.29%) Firmware
4 37 (1.93%) VMware Infrastructure
5 23 (1.20%) Hyper-V
6 16 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.42%) vSphere
8 6 (0.31%) Squid
8 6 (0.31%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.052%) IAG
12 1 (0.052%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.052%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 126 (6.56%) Kubernetes
2 45 (2.34%) Microsoft Intune
3 41 (2.13%) Ansible
4 25 (1.30%) Grafana
5 16 (0.83%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.68%) CloudHub
6 13 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (0.62%) Argo
8 10 (0.52%) Nmap
9 7 (0.36%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.36%) QRadar
10 6 (0.31%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.31%) Istio
10 6 (0.31%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.26%) Packer
11 5 (0.26%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 4 (0.21%) Kibana
12 4 (0.21%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.16%) Oracle RMAN
13 3 (0.16%) SCCM
Vendors
1 272 (14.15%) Microsoft
2 91 (4.73%) ServiceNow
3 65 (3.38%) Oracle
4 63 (3.28%) SAP
5 61 (3.17%) Google
6 50 (2.60%) VMware
7 34 (1.77%) Cisco
8 27 (1.40%) Salesforce
9 22 (1.14%) Databricks
10 21 (1.09%) Red Hat
11 20 (1.04%) YouTube
12 19 (0.99%) CyberArk
12 19 (0.99%) OpenAI
12 19 (0.99%) Splunk
12 19 (0.99%) Workday
13 18 (0.94%) Okta
14 17 (0.88%) MuleSoft
15 15 (0.78%) Veeam
16 14 (0.73%) EMC
16 14 (0.73%) Thales