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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 43 25
Rank change year-on-year +26 -18 +4
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,617 774 2,537
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 9.27% 5.89% 7.96%
As % of the Qualifications category 38.47% 19.71% 29.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,139 560 1,736
10th Percentile £46,950 £46,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £53,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,625 £86,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.88% +4.78% -0.86%

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 4,203 3,927 8,485
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 24.10% 29.89% 26.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,793 2,486 5,933
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,750 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,661 £57,500 £54,500
% change year-on-year +0.28% +5.50% -5.22%

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 14 April 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 (2.23%) SharePoint
2 16 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (0.80%) Apache
5 8 (0.49%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.25%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.25%) Confluence
6 4 (0.25%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.25%) Oracle Spatial
7 3 (0.19%) Camunda
7 3 (0.19%) SAS
7 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.19%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.19%) WebLogic Portal
8 2 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.062%) Appian
9 1 (0.062%) Drupal
9 1 (0.062%) IIS
9 1 (0.062%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.062%) OpenStack
Applications
1 77 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (1.73%) Adobe XD
3 13 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.31%) InVision
5 5 (0.31%) Sketch
6 2 (0.12%) Weka
7 1 (0.062%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.062%) CATIA
7 1 (0.062%) EngageOne
7 1 (0.062%) EPLAN
7 1 (0.062%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.062%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.062%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 26 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.25%) Primavera
3 4 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.25%) SAP CO
3 4 (0.25%) SAP FI
3 4 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
3 4 (0.25%) SAP FSCM
4 3 (0.19%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.19%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.19%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (0.12%) SAP SCM
6 1 (0.062%) Magento
6 1 (0.062%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.062%) SAP PSCD
6 1 (0.062%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.062%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 268 (16.57%) Azure
2 229 (14.16%) AWS
3 115 (7.11%) Microsoft 365
4 87 (5.38%) GCP
5 53 (3.28%) Entra ID
6 51 (3.15%) Power Platform
7 34 (2.10%) AWS CloudFormation
8 29 (1.79%) Figma
9 26 (1.61%) PowerApps
10 24 (1.48%) Serverless
11 23 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
12 22 (1.36%) Power Automate
13 21 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
14 19 (1.18%) Amazon ECS
14 19 (1.18%) Amazon EKS
14 19 (1.18%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 19 (1.18%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 18 (1.11%) GitHub
15 18 (1.11%) Google Analytics
16 15 (0.93%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.35%) Firewall
2 27 (1.67%) WAN
3 26 (1.61%) VPN
4 25 (1.55%) Network Security
5 22 (1.36%) DNS
6 19 (1.18%) DHCP
6 19 (1.18%) LAN
6 19 (1.18%) TCP/IP
7 16 (0.99%) BGP
8 13 (0.80%) MPLS
8 13 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (0.62%) SMTP
10 8 (0.49%) HTTP
11 7 (0.43%) Intrusion Detection
11 7 (0.43%) SNMP
12 6 (0.37%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (0.37%) Cisco Firepower
12 6 (0.37%) VoIP
13 5 (0.31%) DMZ
13 5 (0.31%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (2.54%) Power BI
2 38 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (1.42%) NoSQL
4 18 (1.11%) MongoDB
5 17 (1.05%) Metadata
6 16 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
7 15 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
7 15 (0.93%) SQL Server
8 14 (0.87%) Redis
9 10 (0.62%) MySQL
9 10 (0.62%) Relational Database
10 9 (0.56%) DynamoDB
10 9 (0.56%) Tableau
11 8 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (0.49%) SAP HANA
12 6 (0.37%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.37%) Oracle Database
13 5 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.25%) QGIS
14 4 (0.25%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 51 (3.15%) Git
2 32 (1.98%) Jenkins
3 26 (1.61%) Balsamiq
4 24 (1.48%) Axure RP
5 23 (1.42%) GitLab
6 17 (1.05%) JIRA
7 11 (0.68%) Selenium
8 8 (0.49%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.43%) Burp Suite
9 7 (0.43%) JMeter
9 7 (0.43%) Metasploit
10 6 (0.37%) Babel
10 6 (0.37%) webpack
11 5 (0.31%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.31%) Robot Framework
12 4 (0.25%) JUnit
12 4 (0.25%) WebDriver
13 3 (0.19%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
13 3 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
General
1 396 (24.49%) Social Skills
2 339 (20.96%) Public Sector
3 189 (11.69%) Finance
4 158 (9.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 143 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
6 124 (7.67%) Law
7 65 (4.02%) Manufacturing
8 63 (3.90%) Back Office
9 59 (3.65%) Telecoms
10 49 (3.03%) Legal
11 34 (2.10%) Electronics
12 33 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
13 32 (1.98%) Marketing
14 28 (1.73%) Retail
15 27 (1.67%) Military
16 24 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
17 20 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
18 18 (1.11%) Aerospace
19 10 (0.62%) Banking
20 7 (0.43%) Police
Job Titles
1 259 (16.02%) Senior
2 169 (10.45%) Architect
3 150 (9.28%) Analyst
4 145 (8.97%) Consultant
5 140 (8.66%) Systems Engineer
6 117 (7.24%) Lead
7 101 (6.25%) Business Analyst
8 99 (6.12%) Developer
9 93 (5.75%) Software Engineer
10 78 (4.82%) Support Engineer
11 65 (4.02%) Solutions Architect
12 63 (3.90%) Site Engineer
13 60 (3.71%) Desktop Engineer
13 60 (3.71%) Desktop Support
13 60 (3.71%) Desktop Support Engineer
14 51 (3.15%) Senior Manager
15 50 (3.09%) Data Engineer
16 42 (2.60%) Senior Consultant
17 41 (2.54%) Security Consultant
18 40 (2.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (2.72%) .NET
2 40 (2.47%) REST
3 33 (2.04%) React
4 32 (1.98%) CSS
4 32 (1.98%) HTML
4 32 (1.98%) Spring
5 23 (1.42%) Lightning Web Components
5 23 (1.42%) SOAP
6 22 (1.36%) Middleware
7 20 (1.24%) Kafka
8 19 (1.18%) Visualforce
9 17 (1.05%) Spring Boot
10 16 (0.99%) Django
11 14 (0.87%) AngularJS
11 14 (0.87%) SAML
12 13 (0.80%) ASP.NET
13 12 (0.74%) HTML5 Canvas
13 12 (0.74%) SAP CAF
14 11 (0.68%) OLE
14 11 (0.68%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 80 (4.95%) Product Ownership
2 65 (4.02%) Cloud Native
3 52 (3.22%) Security Posture
4 44 (2.72%) Onboarding
5 41 (2.54%) Data Centre
6 38 (2.35%) Management Information System
7 34 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
8 23 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
8 23 (1.42%) PKI
9 19 (1.18%) Blog
10 17 (1.05%) Low-Code
11 16 (0.99%) Driving Licence
12 14 (0.87%) Security Operations Centre
13 13 (0.80%) Cyber Threat
13 13 (0.80%) Data Structures
14 12 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
15 11 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
15 11 (0.68%) Cyber Security Posture
15 11 (0.68%) Cyberattack
15 11 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 131 (8.10%) Windows
2 104 (6.43%) Linux
3 67 (4.14%) Windows 10
4 32 (1.98%) Unix
5 22 (1.36%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.56%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.37%) CentOS
8 5 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.19%) Android
9 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.062%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.062%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.062%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (19.29%) Agile
2 197 (12.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 188 (11.63%) Cybersecurity
4 177 (10.95%) Problem-Solving
5 165 (10.20%) DevOps
6 148 (9.15%) Software Engineering
7 142 (8.78%) Analytics
8 132 (8.16%) Mentoring
9 126 (7.79%) ITIL
10 123 (7.61%) Community of Practice
11 113 (6.99%) CI/CD
12 111 (6.86%) Technology Strategy
13 99 (6.12%) Collaborative Culture
14 95 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
15 85 (5.26%) Risk Management
16 80 (4.95%) Project Delivery
17 79 (4.89%) Validation
18 77 (4.76%) Infrastructure as Code
19 76 (4.70%) User Experience
20 75 (4.64%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 128 (7.92%) Python
2 117 (7.24%) Java
3 83 (5.13%) JavaScript
4 70 (4.33%) SQL
5 62 (3.83%) C#
6 32 (1.98%) PowerShell
7 28 (1.73%) TypeScript
8 23 (1.42%) Apex Code
9 21 (1.30%) C++
10 20 (1.24%) Bash
11 11 (0.68%) C
12 10 (0.62%) Go
13 9 (0.56%) Ada
14 8 (0.49%) Rust
15 7 (0.43%) Groovy
16 6 (0.37%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.37%) VBA
17 5 (0.31%) ABAP
18 4 (0.25%) Scala
18 4 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 999 (61.78%) SC Cleared
2 314 (19.42%) Degree
3 295 (18.24%) DV Cleared
4 74 (4.58%) CISSP
5 66 (4.08%) CTC Cleared
6 60 (3.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 56 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 48 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
9 43 (2.66%) CISM
10 26 (1.61%) Azure Certification
11 24 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
12 20 (1.24%) CREST Certified
13 19 (1.18%) AWS Certification
14 14 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
15 13 (0.80%) HNC
15 13 (0.80%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 13 (0.80%) Master's Degree
16 12 (0.74%) GIAC
16 12 (0.74%) OSCP
17 11 (0.68%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (5.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 69 (4.27%) SLA
3 62 (3.83%) NIST
4 53 (3.28%) Accessibility
5 48 (2.97%) GDPR
6 45 (2.78%) QA
7 35 (2.16%) GRC
8 27 (1.67%) WCAG
9 26 (1.61%) Data Quality
10 19 (1.18%) NCSC
10 19 (1.18%) PCI DSS
11 12 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
11 12 (0.74%) JSP 440
12 9 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 9 (0.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 8 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
13 8 (0.49%) PMO
14 7 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
15 6 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 3 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 81 (5.01%) Docker
2 37 (2.29%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.68%) VMware NSX
5 7 (0.43%) Firmware
6 6 (0.37%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.25%) vSphere
9 2 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.062%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.062%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.062%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.062%) vCloud
10 1 (0.062%) Xen
Systems Management
1 90 (5.57%) Terraform
2 74 (4.58%) Kubernetes
3 55 (3.40%) Ansible
4 19 (1.18%) Grafana
5 15 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (0.93%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.56%) Puppet
7 7 (0.43%) Nmap
8 6 (0.37%) Endace
8 6 (0.37%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 5 (0.31%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.31%) Kibana
10 4 (0.25%) Packer
10 4 (0.25%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.25%) SCCM
10 4 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.25%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.25%) WSUS
10 4 (0.25%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.19%) Nagios
Vendors
1 190 (11.75%) Microsoft
2 104 (6.43%) Cisco
3 65 (4.02%) Google
4 59 (3.65%) SAP
5 42 (2.60%) Oracle
6 41 (2.54%) Salesforce
7 28 (1.73%) Adobe
8 26 (1.61%) VMware
9 18 (1.11%) MuleSoft
9 18 (1.11%) ServiceNow
9 18 (1.11%) Splunk
10 17 (1.05%) Red Hat
11 12 (0.74%) Databricks
12 11 (0.68%) CyberArk
13 9 (0.56%) Juniper
13 9 (0.56%) Meraki
14 8 (0.49%) F5
14 8 (0.49%) Okta
15 6 (0.37%) CheckPoint
15 6 (0.37%) Dell