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

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 44 25
Rank change year-on-year +27 -19 +3
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,582 761 2,542
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 9.21% 5.90% 8.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 38.10% 20.46% 30.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,112 556 1,742
10th Percentile £47,050 £46,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,938 £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 £93,125 £86,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £61,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +5.69% +6.96% -

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 4,152 3,720 8,248
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 24.18% 28.83% 26.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,765 2,475 5,955
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £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 £57,500 £57,560 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.10% +4.65% -4.35%

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 7 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 37 (2.34%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (0.76%) Apache
5 6 (0.38%) 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 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.13%) WordPress
9 1 (0.063%) Drupal
9 1 (0.063%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.063%) nginx
9 1 (0.063%) OpenStack
Applications
1 78 (4.93%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (1.77%) Adobe XD
3 13 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.32%) InVision
5 5 (0.32%) Sketch
6 2 (0.13%) Weka
7 1 (0.063%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.063%) CATIA
7 1 (0.063%) EngageOne
7 1 (0.063%) EPLAN
7 1 (0.063%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.063%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.063%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 26 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.25%) Primavera
4 4 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.25%) SAP CO
4 4 (0.25%) SAP FI
4 4 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
4 4 (0.25%) SAP FSCM
5 3 (0.19%) Elite 3E
5 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.19%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.19%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.13%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.13%) SAP PP
6 2 (0.13%) SAP SCM
7 1 (0.063%) Magento
7 1 (0.063%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.063%) SAP PSCD
7 1 (0.063%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 269 (17.00%) Azure
2 230 (14.54%) AWS
3 115 (7.27%) Microsoft 365
4 83 (5.25%) GCP
5 51 (3.22%) Entra ID
5 51 (3.22%) Power Platform
6 37 (2.34%) AWS CloudFormation
7 29 (1.83%) Figma
8 27 (1.71%) PowerApps
9 24 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
10 23 (1.45%) Power Automate
10 23 (1.45%) Serverless
11 21 (1.33%) Amazon ECS
11 21 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
12 20 (1.26%) GitHub
13 19 (1.20%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 19 (1.20%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 17 (1.07%) Google Analytics
15 16 (1.01%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 40 (2.53%) Firewall
2 26 (1.64%) VPN
2 26 (1.64%) WAN
3 23 (1.45%) Network Security
4 21 (1.33%) DNS
5 20 (1.26%) TCP/IP
6 19 (1.20%) LAN
7 18 (1.14%) DHCP
8 15 (0.95%) BGP
9 14 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
10 12 (0.76%) MPLS
11 10 (0.63%) SMTP
12 8 (0.51%) HTTP
13 7 (0.44%) Intrusion Detection
13 7 (0.44%) SNMP
14 6 (0.38%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (0.38%) Cisco Firepower
14 6 (0.38%) DMZ
14 6 (0.38%) VoIP
15 5 (0.32%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
1 41 (2.59%) Power BI
2 24 (1.52%) NoSQL
3 19 (1.20%) MongoDB
4 17 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
4 17 (1.07%) Metadata
5 16 (1.01%) SQL Server
6 15 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
7 14 (0.88%) Redis
8 12 (0.76%) MySQL
8 12 (0.76%) Relational Database
9 9 (0.57%) DynamoDB
9 9 (0.57%) Tableau
10 8 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (0.51%) SAP HANA
11 6 (0.38%) BigQuery
11 6 (0.38%) Oracle Database
12 5 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.25%) QGIS
13 4 (0.25%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 51 (3.22%) Git
2 34 (2.15%) Jenkins
3 26 (1.64%) Balsamiq
4 24 (1.52%) Axure RP
5 23 (1.45%) GitLab
6 17 (1.07%) JIRA
7 11 (0.70%) Selenium
8 8 (0.51%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.44%) Burp Suite
9 7 (0.44%) JMeter
9 7 (0.44%) Metasploit
10 6 (0.38%) Babel
10 6 (0.38%) webpack
11 5 (0.32%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.32%) Robot Framework
12 4 (0.25%) WebDriver
13 3 (0.19%) JUnit
13 3 (0.19%) MSTest
13 3 (0.19%) Oracle APEX
13 3 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
General
1 391 (24.72%) Social Skills
2 333 (21.05%) Public Sector
3 185 (11.69%) Finance
4 157 (9.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 142 (8.98%) Analytical Skills
6 119 (7.52%) Law
7 67 (4.24%) Manufacturing
8 63 (3.98%) Back Office
9 58 (3.67%) Telecoms
10 46 (2.91%) Legal
11 37 (2.34%) Electronics
12 35 (2.21%) Marketing
13 31 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
14 28 (1.77%) Military
15 27 (1.71%) Retail
16 22 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
17 18 (1.14%) Aerospace
17 18 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
18 10 (0.63%) Banking
19 7 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 253 (15.99%) Senior
2 165 (10.43%) Architect
3 148 (9.36%) Analyst
4 147 (9.29%) Consultant
5 140 (8.85%) Systems Engineer
6 114 (7.21%) Lead
7 101 (6.38%) Developer
8 99 (6.26%) Business Analyst
9 84 (5.31%) Software Engineer
10 78 (4.93%) Support Engineer
11 64 (4.05%) Site Engineer
12 60 (3.79%) Desktop Engineer
12 60 (3.79%) Desktop Support
12 60 (3.79%) Desktop Support Engineer
12 60 (3.79%) Solutions Architect
13 48 (3.03%) Data Engineer
14 47 (2.97%) Senior Manager
15 43 (2.72%) Security Consultant
16 42 (2.65%) Senior Consultant
17 40 (2.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (2.78%) .NET
2 40 (2.53%) React
2 40 (2.53%) REST
3 33 (2.09%) CSS
3 33 (2.09%) HTML
4 32 (2.02%) Spring
5 23 (1.45%) Django
5 23 (1.45%) Lightning Web Components
5 23 (1.45%) SOAP
6 22 (1.39%) Middleware
7 19 (1.20%) Kafka
7 19 (1.20%) Visualforce
8 18 (1.14%) Spring Boot
9 16 (1.01%) AngularJS
9 16 (1.01%) Node.js
10 14 (0.88%) SAML
10 14 (0.88%) SAP CAF
11 13 (0.82%) ASP.NET
11 13 (0.82%) HTML5 Canvas
12 11 (0.70%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 76 (4.80%) Product Ownership
2 64 (4.05%) Cloud Native
3 51 (3.22%) Security Posture
4 40 (2.53%) Onboarding
5 38 (2.40%) Data Centre
6 35 (2.21%) Management Information System
7 32 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
8 22 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
8 22 (1.39%) PKI
9 20 (1.26%) Blog
10 17 (1.07%) Driving Licence
11 15 (0.95%) Low-Code
12 14 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
12 14 (0.88%) Security Operations Centre
13 13 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
14 12 (0.76%) Data Structures
15 11 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
15 11 (0.70%) Cyber Security Posture
15 11 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
16 10 (0.63%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 131 (8.28%) Windows
2 106 (6.70%) Linux
3 67 (4.24%) Windows 10
4 32 (2.02%) Unix
5 22 (1.39%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.63%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.44%) CentOS
8 6 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.13%) Android
11 1 (0.063%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.063%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.063%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (19.72%) Agile
2 198 (12.52%) Continuous Improvement
3 181 (11.44%) Cybersecurity
4 179 (11.31%) Problem-Solving
5 164 (10.37%) DevOps
6 143 (9.04%) Software Engineering
7 139 (8.79%) Analytics
8 126 (7.96%) Mentoring
9 125 (7.90%) ITIL
10 116 (7.33%) Community of Practice
11 112 (7.08%) CI/CD
12 104 (6.57%) Technology Strategy
13 97 (6.13%) Collaborative Culture
14 92 (5.82%) Stakeholder Management
15 79 (4.99%) Project Delivery
15 79 (4.99%) Risk Management
16 78 (4.93%) Infrastructure as Code
17 77 (4.87%) Validation
18 73 (4.61%) Business Intelligence
18 73 (4.61%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 137 (8.66%) Python
2 115 (7.27%) Java
3 87 (5.50%) JavaScript
4 70 (4.42%) SQL
5 63 (3.98%) C#
6 33 (2.09%) PowerShell
7 27 (1.71%) TypeScript
8 23 (1.45%) Apex Code
9 22 (1.39%) Bash
10 20 (1.26%) C++
11 11 (0.70%) C
12 10 (0.63%) Go
13 9 (0.57%) Ada
14 7 (0.44%) Groovy
14 7 (0.44%) Rust
15 6 (0.38%) ABAP
15 6 (0.38%) Bicep
15 6 (0.38%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.38%) Scala
16 5 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 962 (60.81%) SC Cleared
2 312 (19.72%) Degree
3 282 (17.83%) DV Cleared
4 75 (4.74%) CISSP
5 66 (4.17%) CTC Cleared
6 59 (3.73%) BPSS Clearance
7 53 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 47 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
9 44 (2.78%) CISM
10 26 (1.64%) Azure Certification
11 24 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
12 20 (1.26%) CREST Certified
13 19 (1.20%) AWS Certification
14 15 (0.95%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 14 (0.88%) Master's Degree
16 13 (0.82%) HNC
16 13 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
17 12 (0.76%) GIAC
17 12 (0.76%) OSCP
18 11 (0.70%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (6.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 69 (4.36%) SLA
3 64 (4.05%) NIST
4 53 (3.35%) Accessibility
5 50 (3.16%) GDPR
6 46 (2.91%) QA
7 39 (2.47%) GRC
8 27 (1.71%) WCAG
9 26 (1.64%) Data Quality
10 20 (1.26%) PCI DSS
11 19 (1.20%) NCSC
12 13 (0.82%) JSP 440
13 12 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 8 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.51%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 7 (0.44%) Government Security Classifications
16 7 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 7 (0.44%) PMO
17 3 (0.19%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 82 (5.18%) Docker
2 37 (2.34%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.70%) VMware NSX
5 7 (0.44%) Firmware
6 6 (0.38%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.25%) vSphere
9 2 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.063%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.063%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.063%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.063%) vCloud
10 1 (0.063%) Xen
Systems Management
1 90 (5.69%) Terraform
2 76 (4.80%) Kubernetes
3 56 (3.54%) Ansible
4 19 (1.20%) Grafana
5 15 (0.95%) Prometheus
6 12 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (0.57%) Puppet
8 7 (0.44%) Nmap
9 6 (0.38%) Endace
9 6 (0.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 5 (0.32%) AWS Copilot
10 5 (0.32%) Kibana
11 4 (0.25%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.25%) SCCM
11 4 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.25%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.25%) WSUS
11 4 (0.25%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.19%) Nagios
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 182 (11.50%) Microsoft
2 105 (6.64%) Cisco
3 65 (4.11%) Google
4 63 (3.98%) SAP
5 45 (2.84%) Salesforce
6 41 (2.59%) Oracle
7 28 (1.77%) Adobe
8 25 (1.58%) VMware
9 19 (1.20%) ServiceNow
10 18 (1.14%) MuleSoft
10 18 (1.14%) Splunk
11 17 (1.07%) Red Hat
12 11 (0.70%) CyberArk
12 11 (0.70%) Databricks
13 9 (0.57%) Juniper
13 9 (0.57%) Meraki
14 8 (0.51%) F5
14 8 (0.51%) Okta
15 6 (0.38%) CheckPoint
15 6 (0.38%) Dell