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 28 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 25 21
Rank change year-on-year -2 -4 +23
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,097 1,585 2,017
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.18% 7.99% 9.65%
As % of the Qualifications category 20.60% 29.96% 34.63%
Number of salaries quoted 699 922 1,385
10th Percentile £41,816 £41,250 £38,856
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,600 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £86,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -

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 5,324 5,291 5,825
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.83% 26.66% 27.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,468 2,676 4,333
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,750 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £78,563 £76,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £88,875 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% +0.77%

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 28 November 2025.

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 29 (2.64%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.09%) Confluence
3 9 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.55%) Appian
5 4 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.36%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.27%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.27%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.27%) WebLogic Portal
6 3 (0.27%) WordPress
7 2 (0.18%) Apache
7 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.18%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.091%) Camunda
8 1 (0.091%) IIS
Applications
1 35 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (2.19%) Adobe XD
3 18 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.36%) Revit
6 3 (0.27%) AutoCAD
6 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.27%) Simulink
7 2 (0.18%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.18%) Navisworks
8 1 (0.091%) Civil 3D
8 1 (0.091%) EPLAN
Business Applications
1 34 (3.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 28 (2.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 17 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.64%) SAP PP
5 6 (0.55%) SAP SCM
6 4 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.36%) Primavera
6 4 (0.36%) SAP CO
6 4 (0.36%) SAP FI
6 4 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.27%) SAP BPC
7 3 (0.27%) SAP PM
8 2 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.18%) SAP APO
8 2 (0.18%) SAP EWM
8 2 (0.18%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.18%) SAP MM
8 2 (0.18%) SAP QM
9 1 (0.091%) Q-Pulse
9 1 (0.091%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 211 (19.23%) Azure
2 180 (16.41%) AWS
3 77 (7.02%) Microsoft 365
4 51 (4.65%) Power Platform
5 44 (4.01%) GCP
6 37 (3.37%) Entra ID
7 36 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
8 32 (2.92%) PowerApps
9 31 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
10 28 (2.55%) Dynamics 365
10 28 (2.55%) Power Automate
11 27 (2.46%) GitHub
12 26 (2.37%) Figma
12 26 (2.37%) Serverless
13 25 (2.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 25 (2.28%) Amazon EKS
14 24 (2.19%) Amazon ECS
15 20 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
15 20 (1.82%) SaaS
16 19 (1.73%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (3.37%) Firewall
1 37 (3.37%) Network Security
2 32 (2.92%) VPN
3 21 (1.91%) LAN
4 20 (1.82%) Wireless
5 19 (1.73%) Software-Defined Radio
6 18 (1.64%) WAN
7 17 (1.55%) TCP/IP
8 14 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (1.09%) Junos
10 10 (0.91%) Ethernet
11 8 (0.73%) DNS
11 8 (0.73%) SAN
12 7 (0.64%) BGP
12 7 (0.64%) MPLS
12 7 (0.64%) SD-WAN
13 6 (0.55%) IPsec
14 5 (0.46%) Wireshark
15 4 (0.36%) Cisco IOS
15 4 (0.36%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (3.28%) Power BI
2 35 (3.19%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (1.64%) NoSQL
4 17 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (1.46%) MongoDB
6 13 (1.19%) MySQL
7 12 (1.09%) Relational Database
7 12 (1.09%) SQL Server
8 11 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (0.73%) Redis
10 7 (0.64%) Metadata
10 7 (0.64%) Tableau
11 6 (0.55%) SAP HANA
12 5 (0.46%) Big Data
12 5 (0.46%) GIS
13 4 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.27%) DB2
14 3 (0.27%) Neo4j
14 3 (0.27%) Oracle Discoverer
14 3 (0.27%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 31 (2.83%) Git
2 29 (2.64%) Jenkins
3 27 (2.46%) Balsamiq
4 24 (2.19%) Axure RP
5 20 (1.82%) JIRA
6 13 (1.19%) Selenium
7 12 (1.09%) GitLab
8 11 (1.00%) Cypress.io
9 8 (0.73%) WebDriver
10 6 (0.55%) Babel
10 6 (0.55%) TeamCity
10 6 (0.55%) webpack
11 5 (0.46%) Burp Suite
11 5 (0.46%) Metasploit
12 4 (0.36%) MLflow
12 4 (0.36%) Robot Framework
12 4 (0.36%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.27%) Oracle APEX
13 3 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
13 3 (0.27%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 282 (25.71%) Social Skills
2 249 (22.70%) Public Sector
3 230 (20.97%) Finance
4 175 (15.95%) Analytical Skills
5 96 (8.75%) Manufacturing
6 92 (8.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 92 (8.39%) Law
7 88 (8.02%) Electronics
8 80 (7.29%) Telecoms
9 76 (6.93%) Marketing
10 32 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
11 26 (2.37%) Aerospace
12 25 (2.28%) Military
13 23 (2.10%) Back Office
14 16 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (1.09%) Legal
15 12 (1.09%) Retail
16 11 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
17 8 (0.73%) Aviation
18 7 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 145 (13.22%) Senior
2 137 (12.49%) Consultant
3 117 (10.67%) Architect
4 111 (10.12%) Systems Engineer
5 96 (8.75%) Developer
6 71 (6.47%) Lead
7 67 (6.11%) Analyst
8 60 (5.47%) Security Consultant
9 52 (4.74%) Software Engineer
10 48 (4.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 47 (4.28%) Administrator
12 37 (3.37%) Systems Administrator
13 35 (3.19%) Designer
14 33 (3.01%) Senior Developer
15 29 (2.64%) Cybersecurity Consultant
15 29 (2.64%) Solutions Architect
16 28 (2.55%) Support Engineer
17 27 (2.46%) DevOps Engineer
18 24 (2.19%) Embedded Software Engineer
18 24 (2.19%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (4.19%) React
2 38 (3.46%) OLE
3 27 (2.46%) Node.js
4 26 (2.37%) .NET
5 25 (2.28%) HTML
6 24 (2.19%) CSS
7 22 (2.01%) SAP CAF
8 19 (1.73%) Spring
9 17 (1.55%) Django
9 17 (1.55%) SAP Fiori
9 17 (1.55%) Spring Boot
10 16 (1.46%) HTML5 Canvas
11 14 (1.28%) AngularJS
11 14 (1.28%) REST
12 10 (0.91%) Elastic Stack
12 10 (0.91%) Kafka
13 9 (0.82%) Middleware
13 9 (0.82%) RESTful
13 9 (0.82%) Web Services
14 8 (0.73%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 112 (10.21%) e-Learning
2 60 (5.47%) Cloud Native
3 46 (4.19%) Product Ownership
4 44 (4.01%) Data Centre
5 38 (3.46%) Analytical Mindset
6 37 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
7 25 (2.28%) Management Information System
8 22 (2.01%) Onboarding
9 21 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
9 21 (1.91%) Security Posture
10 19 (1.73%) Embedded Systems
11 18 (1.64%) Driving Licence
11 18 (1.64%) MicroBlaze
11 18 (1.64%) RISC-V
12 17 (1.55%) Algorithms
13 15 (1.37%) Private Cloud
14 12 (1.09%) PKI
15 11 (1.00%) Virtual Team
16 10 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
17 9 (0.82%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 142 (12.94%) Linux
2 84 (7.66%) Windows
3 50 (4.56%) Unix
4 24 (2.19%) Windows 10
5 18 (1.64%) Embedded Linux
6 16 (1.46%) Windows Server
7 11 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.73%) CentOS
8 8 (0.73%) Rocky
8 8 (0.73%) Solaris
8 8 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (0.55%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.46%) Debian
10 5 (0.46%) Mac OS X
11 4 (0.36%) Android
12 3 (0.27%) HPUX
12 3 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
12 3 (0.27%) VMS
13 2 (0.18%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.091%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (22.79%) Agile
2 188 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
3 148 (13.49%) Cybersecurity
4 140 (12.76%) Software Engineering
5 139 (12.67%) Innovative Thinking
6 126 (11.49%) Continuous Improvement
7 121 (11.03%) DevOps
8 109 (9.94%) Business Intelligence
8 109 (9.94%) CI/CD
9 100 (9.12%) Mentoring
10 90 (8.20%) Analytics
11 81 (7.38%) Computer Science
12 74 (6.75%) Community of Practice
13 72 (6.56%) Collaborative Culture
13 72 (6.56%) Infrastructure as Code
14 70 (6.38%) Programme Management
15 69 (6.29%) Technology Strategy
16 68 (6.20%) AI
16 68 (6.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 67 (6.11%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 132 (12.03%) Python
2 87 (7.93%) JavaScript
3 77 (7.02%) Java
4 47 (4.28%) SQL
5 42 (3.83%) C#
6 40 (3.65%) PowerShell
7 39 (3.56%) C
8 38 (3.46%) C++
9 33 (3.01%) Bash
10 29 (2.64%) TypeScript
11 22 (2.01%) Bicep
12 14 (1.28%) Go
13 11 (1.00%) MATLAB
14 8 (0.73%) ABAP
14 8 (0.73%) Apex Code
14 8 (0.73%) Kotlin
15 7 (0.64%) VBA
16 6 (0.55%) Ada
16 6 (0.55%) Scala
17 5 (0.46%) R
Qualifications
1 742 (67.64%) SC Cleared
2 276 (25.16%) Degree
3 244 (22.24%) DV Cleared
4 75 (6.84%) CISSP
5 74 (6.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 72 (6.56%) Cisco Certification
7 59 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
8 54 (4.92%) CCNP
9 45 (4.10%) CISM
10 44 (4.01%) Azure Certification
10 44 (4.01%) CCNA
11 41 (3.74%) Microsoft Certification
12 35 (3.19%) CompTIA Security+
13 34 (3.10%) AWS Certification
14 32 (2.92%) CEH
15 27 (2.46%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 23 (2.10%) CTC Cleared
17 20 (1.82%) SAP Certification
18 18 (1.64%) Master's Degree
19 11 (1.00%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (8.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 81 (7.38%) NIST
3 49 (4.47%) Accessibility
4 39 (3.56%) GRC
5 38 (3.46%) QA
6 34 (3.10%) GDPR
7 33 (3.01%) SLA
8 31 (2.83%) PCI DSS
9 26 (2.37%) WCAG
10 12 (1.09%) NCSC
11 11 (1.00%) JSP 440
12 10 (0.91%) Data Quality
13 7 (0.64%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 5 (0.46%) NIST 800
16 4 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
17 3 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
17 3 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 3 (0.27%) ISO 14001
17 3 (0.27%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 58 (5.29%) Docker
2 35 (3.19%) Firmware
3 32 (2.92%) Active Directory
4 28 (2.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 18 (1.64%) Embedded Firmware
6 16 (1.46%) Hyper-V
7 15 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.64%) vSphere
9 4 (0.36%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.27%) IAG
11 2 (0.18%) pfSense
12 1 (0.091%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.091%) vCloud
12 1 (0.091%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 75 (6.84%) Kubernetes
2 68 (6.20%) Terraform
3 41 (3.74%) Ansible
4 30 (2.73%) Grafana
5 7 (0.64%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.55%) SCOM
7 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.36%) Kibana
8 4 (0.36%) Nmap
8 4 (0.36%) SCCM
8 4 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.27%) Argo
9 3 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.27%) Endace
9 3 (0.27%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.27%) Nessus
9 3 (0.27%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.18%) Nagios
10 2 (0.18%) WSUS
10 2 (0.18%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 135 (12.31%) Microsoft
2 113 (10.30%) SAP
3 93 (8.48%) Cisco
4 40 (3.65%) VMware
5 39 (3.56%) Google
6 32 (2.92%) Salesforce
7 28 (2.55%) Sparx
8 24 (2.19%) Adobe
9 19 (1.73%) Juniper
9 19 (1.73%) Oracle
10 17 (1.55%) Red Hat
11 14 (1.28%) ServiceNow
12 11 (1.00%) Splunk
13 10 (0.91%) Dell
14 7 (0.64%) MuleSoft
15 6 (0.55%) Databricks
15 6 (0.55%) Fortinet
16 5 (0.46%) CheckPoint
16 5 (0.46%) F5
16 5 (0.46%) NetApp