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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 37 21
Rank change year-on-year +11 -16 +6
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,596 1,139 2,124
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.31% 6.91% 7.76%
As % of the Qualifications category 35.22% 20.47% 28.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,173 574 1,450
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,608 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £47,500
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 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,375 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% +7.76% -3.33%

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 4,531 5,565 7,368
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.75% 33.76% 26.91%
Number of salaries quoted 3,055 2,480 4,500
10th Percentile £33,350 £29,494 £33,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.23% +0.43% -4.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £73,784 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 26 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 (2.32%) Apache
2 36 (2.26%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.57%) Apache Spark
4 14 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (0.69%) Anypoint
5 11 (0.69%) Mule
6 9 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.50%) Confluence
8 7 (0.44%) Jupyter
8 7 (0.44%) nginx
9 6 (0.38%) Camunda
10 5 (0.31%) IIS
11 4 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.19%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.19%) SAS
13 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.13%) GeoServer
13 2 (0.13%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.13%) Oracle Spatial
13 2 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 23 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.63%) Simulink
4 8 (0.50%) Adobe XD
5 4 (0.25%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.25%) Windchill
6 2 (0.13%) InVision
6 2 (0.13%) Mathcad
6 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.13%) Sketch
7 1 (0.063%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.063%) CATIA
7 1 (0.063%) FrameMaker
7 1 (0.063%) Houdini
7 1 (0.063%) InDesign
7 1 (0.063%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 28 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.44%) SAP ERP
3 6 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.31%) Primavera
5 4 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.25%) SAP FSCM
5 4 (0.25%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.19%) Elite 3E
6 3 (0.19%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.19%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.19%) SAP HCM
7 2 (0.13%) SAP Payroll
7 2 (0.13%) SAP QM
7 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.063%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.063%) Magento
8 1 (0.063%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.063%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 430 (26.94%) Azure
2 381 (23.87%) AWS
3 121 (7.58%) GCP
4 85 (5.33%) Microsoft 365
5 69 (4.32%) Power Platform
6 67 (4.20%) Entra ID
7 34 (2.13%) dbt
7 34 (2.13%) GitHub
8 32 (2.01%) SaaS
9 31 (1.94%) AWS CloudFormation
10 28 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
10 28 (1.75%) Serverless
11 25 (1.57%) PaaS
12 22 (1.38%) Azure Sentinel
13 20 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
14 19 (1.19%) Amazon EC2
15 18 (1.13%) Amazon S3
15 18 (1.13%) Dynamics 365
15 18 (1.13%) Google Analytics
15 18 (1.13%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 49 (3.07%) Firewall
2 45 (2.82%) Network Security
3 34 (2.13%) TCP/IP
4 32 (2.01%) DNS
5 29 (1.82%) WAN
6 21 (1.32%) VPN
7 18 (1.13%) LAN
8 16 (1.00%) BGP
8 16 (1.00%) DHCP
9 14 (0.88%) MPLS
9 14 (0.88%) SSL
10 11 (0.69%) ATM
10 11 (0.69%) SMTP
11 10 (0.63%) HTTP
12 7 (0.44%) SNMP
12 7 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (0.38%) Intrusion Detection
13 6 (0.38%) OSPF
13 6 (0.38%) Wireless
14 5 (0.31%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (3.32%) Power BI
2 42 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (1.44%) Big Data
3 23 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (1.38%) NoSQL
5 17 (1.07%) SQL Server
6 16 (1.00%) MongoDB
7 15 (0.94%) Metadata
8 13 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
9 12 (0.75%) Redis
10 10 (0.63%) DynamoDB
10 10 (0.63%) Relational Database
10 10 (0.63%) Tableau
11 9 (0.56%) Data Lake
11 9 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (0.50%) MySQL
13 7 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (0.38%) SAP HANA
15 5 (0.31%) Hadoop
15 5 (0.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 59 (3.70%) Git
2 37 (2.32%) GitLab
2 37 (2.32%) Jenkins
3 21 (1.32%) JIRA
4 18 (1.13%) JUnit
5 14 (0.88%) Selenium
6 10 (0.63%) Mockito
6 10 (0.63%) Rational DOORS
7 9 (0.56%) Cucumber
7 9 (0.56%) Maven
8 7 (0.44%) Balsamiq
8 7 (0.44%) Burp Suite
8 7 (0.44%) Metasploit
8 7 (0.44%) Postman
9 6 (0.38%) Axure RP
9 6 (0.38%) Gatling
10 5 (0.31%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.31%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.19%) JMeter
11 3 (0.19%) LabVIEW
General
1 467 (29.26%) Social Skills
2 376 (23.56%) Public Sector
3 250 (15.66%) Finance
4 243 (15.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 176 (11.03%) Analytical Skills
6 149 (9.34%) Law
7 65 (4.07%) Aerospace
7 65 (4.07%) Legal
8 49 (3.07%) Presentation Skills
9 40 (2.51%) Telecoms
10 36 (2.26%) Retail
11 34 (2.13%) Manufacturing
12 32 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
13 28 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
14 22 (1.38%) Military
15 20 (1.25%) Electronics
16 17 (1.07%) Police
17 13 (0.81%) Aviation
18 12 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
19 10 (0.63%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 308 (19.30%) Senior
2 279 (17.48%) Architect
3 191 (11.97%) Consultant
4 142 (8.90%) Lead
5 121 (7.58%) Developer
6 120 (7.52%) Solutions Architect
7 110 (6.89%) Software Engineer
8 108 (6.77%) Analyst
9 64 (4.01%) Data Engineer
10 60 (3.76%) Cloud Engineer
11 58 (3.63%) Security Consultant
11 58 (3.63%) Senior Manager
12 51 (3.20%) Senior Consultant
13 49 (3.07%) DevOps Engineer
14 48 (3.01%) Senior Developer
15 47 (2.94%) Security Architect
16 46 (2.88%) Business Analyst
17 43 (2.69%) Java Developer
18 41 (2.57%) Senior Analyst
19 38 (2.38%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (3.45%) REST
2 41 (2.57%) React
3 40 (2.51%) Spring
4 32 (2.01%) Kafka
5 30 (1.88%) .NET
6 25 (1.57%) SOAP
7 23 (1.44%) OAuth
8 20 (1.25%) Spring Boot
9 19 (1.19%) AngularJS
10 18 (1.13%) CSS
10 18 (1.13%) Playwright
11 17 (1.07%) HTML
11 17 (1.07%) Middleware
11 17 (1.07%) RESTful
12 16 (1.00%) PySpark
13 15 (0.94%) SAML
14 14 (0.88%) JWT
14 14 (0.88%) OAuth2
14 14 (0.88%) Web Services
15 12 (0.75%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 126 (7.89%) Cloud Native
2 62 (3.88%) Product Ownership
3 55 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 53 (3.32%) Management Information System
5 45 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
6 43 (2.69%) Security Posture
7 31 (1.94%) Data Centre
8 30 (1.88%) Driving Licence
9 29 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
10 26 (1.63%) Blog
10 26 (1.63%) PKI
11 20 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
11 20 (1.25%) Security Operations Centre
12 17 (1.07%) CMDB
12 17 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
13 15 (0.94%) Cyber Defence
14 14 (0.88%) Data Structures
14 14 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (0.88%) Public Cloud
15 13 (0.81%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 114 (7.14%) Linux
2 96 (6.02%) Windows
3 39 (2.44%) Windows Server
4 25 (1.57%) Unix
5 14 (0.88%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.31%) Android
6 5 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.19%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.13%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.13%) CentOS
8 2 (0.13%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.13%) VxWorks
8 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.063%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.063%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.063%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 431 (27.01%) Agile
2 255 (15.98%) Continuous Improvement
3 237 (14.85%) Cybersecurity
4 229 (14.35%) Mentoring
5 222 (13.91%) Problem-Solving
6 212 (13.28%) DevOps
7 205 (12.84%) CI/CD
8 197 (12.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 179 (11.22%) Software Engineering
10 159 (9.96%) Stakeholder Management
11 151 (9.46%) AI
12 133 (8.33%) Community of Practice
13 125 (7.83%) Collaborative Culture
14 122 (7.64%) Technical Leadership
15 120 (7.52%) Decision-Making
16 118 (7.39%) Infrastructure as Code
17 117 (7.33%) Project Delivery
18 115 (7.21%) Technology Strategy
19 113 (7.08%) ITIL
19 113 (7.08%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 193 (12.09%) Python
2 152 (9.52%) Java
3 107 (6.70%) SQL
4 82 (5.14%) JavaScript
5 49 (3.07%) C++
6 41 (2.57%) C#
7 37 (2.32%) Bash
7 37 (2.32%) PowerShell
8 27 (1.69%) TypeScript
9 26 (1.63%) C
10 16 (1.00%) Groovy
11 13 (0.81%) Ada
12 11 (0.69%) DataWeave
12 11 (0.69%) Rust
13 9 (0.56%) Apex Code
14 8 (0.50%) Go
14 8 (0.50%) MATLAB
14 8 (0.50%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.50%) Scala
14 8 (0.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,260 (78.95%) SC Cleared
2 316 (19.80%) DV Cleared
3 272 (17.04%) Degree
4 139 (8.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 73 (4.57%) CISSP
6 53 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 52 (3.26%) CISM
8 40 (2.51%) Azure Certification
9 35 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
10 27 (1.69%) AWS Certification
11 19 (1.19%) CREST Certified
11 19 (1.19%) Master's Degree
12 18 (1.13%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 17 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
14 16 (1.00%) CRISC
14 16 (1.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 12 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
16 10 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 10 (0.63%) CompTIA CySA+
16 10 (0.63%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (8.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 83 (5.20%) NIST
3 69 (4.32%) Accessibility
4 56 (3.51%) QA
5 54 (3.38%) NCSC
6 42 (2.63%) GDPR
7 41 (2.57%) GRC
8 37 (2.32%) Data Quality
9 25 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
10 24 (1.50%) PCI DSS
11 23 (1.44%) SLA
12 22 (1.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 17 (1.07%) WCAG
14 16 (1.00%) JSP 440
15 11 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
16 10 (0.63%) Def Stans
17 9 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 7 (0.44%) NIST 800
19 6 (0.38%) PMO
19 6 (0.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 90 (5.64%) Docker
2 71 (4.45%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (1.57%) Hyper-V
5 21 (1.32%) Firmware
6 13 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.44%) vSphere
8 6 (0.38%) Squid
9 5 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.31%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.063%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.063%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.063%) IAG
11 1 (0.063%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.063%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.063%) Xen
Systems Management
1 102 (6.39%) Kubernetes
1 102 (6.39%) Terraform
2 45 (2.82%) Ansible
3 39 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (1.25%) Prometheus
5 18 (1.13%) Grafana
6 11 (0.69%) CloudHub
7 10 (0.63%) Argo
8 8 (0.50%) Progress Chef
9 7 (0.44%) Nmap
9 7 (0.44%) QRadar
9 7 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.38%) Kustomize
10 6 (0.38%) Puppet
11 5 (0.31%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.31%) Endace
11 5 (0.31%) Istio
11 5 (0.31%) Packer
11 5 (0.31%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 230 (14.41%) Microsoft
2 58 (3.63%) Google
3 57 (3.57%) ServiceNow
4 51 (3.20%) SAP
5 48 (3.01%) Oracle
6 37 (2.32%) VMware
7 34 (2.13%) Cisco
8 30 (1.88%) Salesforce
9 23 (1.44%) MuleSoft
10 22 (1.38%) Red Hat
11 20 (1.25%) Databricks
12 18 (1.13%) OpenAI
13 16 (1.00%) CyberArk
13 16 (1.00%) Splunk
14 13 (0.81%) Okta
15 11 (0.69%) Adobe
16 10 (0.63%) Juniper
17 8 (0.50%) Veeam
18 7 (0.44%) Dell
18 7 (0.44%) Fortinet