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 25 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 44 24
Rank change year-on-year +28 -20 +8
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,635 963 2,506
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 8.67% 6.59% 7.64%
As % of the Qualifications category 38.48% 19.59% 28.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,204 479 1,740
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £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 £90,000 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £61,332 £57,500
% change year-on-year +5.98% +6.66% -4.17%

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 4,249 4,915 8,836
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 22.52% 33.65% 26.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,876 2,262 5,895
10th Percentile £33,250 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £48,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £88,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -10.00%

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 25 May 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 34 (2.08%) SharePoint
2 19 (1.16%) Apache
3 15 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (0.73%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.31%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.24%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.24%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.24%) Oracle Spatial
8 3 (0.18%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.18%) Confluence
8 3 (0.18%) SAS
9 2 (0.12%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.12%) Camunda
9 2 (0.12%) Mule
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.061%) Appian
10 1 (0.061%) nginx
10 1 (0.061%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.061%) WordPress
Applications
1 62 (3.79%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (1.10%) Adobe XD
3 13 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.31%) InVision
4 5 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.31%) Sketch
5 3 (0.18%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.18%) Windchill
6 2 (0.12%) Weka
7 1 (0.061%) CATIA
7 1 (0.061%) EngageOne
7 1 (0.061%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.061%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 27 (1.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (0.37%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.24%) Primavera
3 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.24%) SAP FSCM
4 3 (0.18%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.18%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.18%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.18%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.061%) C-CURE
6 1 (0.061%) Magento
6 1 (0.061%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.061%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.061%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.061%) SAP PSCD
6 1 (0.061%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.061%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 319 (19.51%) Azure
2 289 (17.68%) AWS
3 100 (6.12%) Microsoft 365
4 98 (5.99%) GCP
5 59 (3.61%) Entra ID
6 49 (3.00%) Power Platform
7 26 (1.59%) Serverless
8 24 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
9 23 (1.41%) SaaS
10 22 (1.35%) GitHub
11 20 (1.22%) Google Analytics
12 19 (1.16%) Figma
13 18 (1.10%) Amazon S3
13 18 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
13 18 (1.10%) PaaS
14 17 (1.04%) Azure Sentinel
14 17 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
15 16 (0.98%) PowerApps
16 15 (0.92%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 15 (0.92%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 35 (2.14%) Firewall
1 35 (2.14%) Network Security
2 29 (1.77%) WAN
3 24 (1.47%) VPN
4 23 (1.41%) DNS
5 20 (1.22%) LAN
6 19 (1.16%) DHCP
7 18 (1.10%) BGP
8 14 (0.86%) MPLS
9 12 (0.73%) SMTP
9 12 (0.73%) TCP/IP
9 12 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
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%) DMZ
12 6 (0.37%) SD-WAN
12 6 (0.37%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (2.39%) Power BI
2 35 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (1.22%) NoSQL
4 19 (1.16%) Metadata
5 16 (0.98%) MongoDB
6 14 (0.86%) SQL Server
7 11 (0.67%) DynamoDB
8 10 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (0.61%) Redis
9 9 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (0.49%) Big Data
10 8 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (0.43%) MySQL
11 7 (0.43%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.37%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.37%) SAP HANA
12 6 (0.37%) Tableau
13 5 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.24%) GIS
Development Applications
1 52 (3.18%) Git
2 33 (2.02%) Jenkins
3 30 (1.83%) GitLab
4 15 (0.92%) JIRA
5 14 (0.86%) Axure RP
6 13 (0.80%) Balsamiq
7 12 (0.73%) Selenium
8 11 (0.67%) JUnit
9 8 (0.49%) Maven
10 7 (0.43%) Mockito
11 6 (0.37%) JMeter
12 4 (0.24%) Burp Suite
12 4 (0.24%) Metasploit
12 4 (0.24%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.18%) Babel
13 3 (0.18%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.18%) Cypress.io
13 3 (0.18%) MSTest
13 3 (0.18%) Postman
13 3 (0.18%) webpack
General
1 373 (22.81%) Social Skills
2 363 (22.20%) Public Sector
3 184 (11.25%) Finance
4 169 (10.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 135 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
6 126 (7.71%) Law
7 52 (3.18%) Legal
8 51 (3.12%) Back Office
9 39 (2.39%) Manufacturing
10 38 (2.32%) Presentation Skills
11 36 (2.20%) Telecoms
12 28 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
13 26 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
14 22 (1.35%) Retail
15 20 (1.22%) Aerospace
16 16 (0.98%) Military
17 11 (0.67%) Aviation
17 11 (0.67%) Marketing
18 10 (0.61%) Banking
18 10 (0.61%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 278 (17.00%) Senior
2 213 (13.03%) Architect
3 159 (9.72%) Consultant
4 152 (9.30%) Analyst
5 119 (7.28%) Lead
6 114 (6.97%) Developer
7 100 (6.12%) Software Engineer
8 98 (5.99%) Solutions Architect
8 98 (5.99%) Systems Engineer
9 97 (5.93%) Business Analyst
10 66 (4.04%) Support Engineer
11 62 (3.79%) Cloud Engineer
12 54 (3.30%) Data Engineer
13 53 (3.24%) Senior Manager
14 52 (3.18%) Site Engineer
15 48 (2.94%) Desktop Engineer
15 48 (2.94%) Desktop Support
15 48 (2.94%) Desktop Support Engineer
16 47 (2.87%) Java Developer
17 42 (2.57%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (3.18%) REST
2 41 (2.51%) Spring
3 36 (2.20%) .NET
4 34 (2.08%) React
5 28 (1.71%) SOAP
6 22 (1.35%) Spring Boot
7 20 (1.22%) CSS
7 20 (1.22%) HTML
8 18 (1.10%) Lightning Web Components
8 18 (1.10%) Middleware
9 15 (0.92%) Kafka
9 15 (0.92%) Visualforce
10 14 (0.86%) SAML
11 13 (0.80%) AngularJS
12 12 (0.73%) Playwright
12 12 (0.73%) RESTful
13 11 (0.67%) SAP Fiori
14 10 (0.61%) ASP.NET
14 10 (0.61%) Django
14 10 (0.61%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 84 (5.14%) Cloud Native
2 71 (4.34%) Product Ownership
3 52 (3.18%) Security Posture
4 50 (3.06%) Onboarding
5 38 (2.32%) Management Information System
6 37 (2.26%) Data Centre
7 35 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
8 27 (1.65%) PKI
9 24 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
10 20 (1.22%) Blog
11 18 (1.10%) Driving Licence
11 18 (1.10%) Low-Code
12 17 (1.04%) Security Operations Centre
13 16 (0.98%) Data Structures
14 14 (0.86%) CMDB
15 12 (0.73%) Cyber Threat
16 11 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
16 11 (0.67%) Cyber Security Posture
16 11 (0.67%) Cyberattack
17 10 (0.61%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 115 (7.03%) Windows
2 90 (5.50%) Linux
3 56 (3.43%) Windows 10
4 23 (1.41%) Windows Server
5 19 (1.16%) Unix
6 6 (0.37%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.31%) Android
7 5 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.18%) CentOS
8 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.061%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.061%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.061%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (20.24%) Agile
2 216 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
3 200 (12.23%) Cybersecurity
4 176 (10.76%) DevOps
5 165 (10.09%) Problem-Solving
6 157 (9.60%) Mentoring
7 149 (9.11%) Software Engineering
8 135 (8.26%) ITIL
9 133 (8.13%) CI/CD
10 132 (8.07%) Analytics
11 121 (7.40%) Community of Practice
12 115 (7.03%) Stakeholder Management
13 110 (6.73%) Technology Strategy
14 109 (6.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 105 (6.42%) Collaborative Culture
16 95 (5.81%) Risk Management
17 91 (5.57%) Infrastructure as Code
18 88 (5.38%) AI
19 83 (5.08%) Roadmaps
20 82 (5.02%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 136 (8.32%) Python
2 133 (8.13%) Java
3 83 (5.08%) SQL
4 76 (4.65%) JavaScript
5 49 (3.00%) C#
6 32 (1.96%) PowerShell
7 27 (1.65%) Bash
8 26 (1.59%) C++
9 25 (1.53%) TypeScript
10 18 (1.10%) Apex Code
11 10 (0.61%) Groovy
12 9 (0.55%) Rust
13 8 (0.49%) C
14 7 (0.43%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.37%) Scala
16 5 (0.31%) Go
17 4 (0.24%) Ada
17 4 (0.24%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.24%) VBA
18 3 (0.18%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 1,105 (67.58%) SC Cleared
2 321 (19.63%) DV Cleared
3 271 (16.57%) Degree
4 83 (5.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 67 (4.10%) CISSP
6 52 (3.18%) CTC Cleared
7 45 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 38 (2.32%) Microsoft Certification
9 37 (2.26%) CISM
10 22 (1.35%) AWS Certification
10 22 (1.35%) Azure Certification
11 15 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
11 15 (0.92%) CREST Certified
11 15 (0.92%) HNC
12 14 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
13 12 (0.73%) PMI Certification
14 10 (0.61%) GIAC
14 10 (0.61%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 9 (0.55%) CRISC
15 9 (0.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (6.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 63 (3.85%) NIST
3 58 (3.55%) SLA
4 57 (3.49%) QA
5 48 (2.94%) GDPR
6 45 (2.75%) Accessibility
7 33 (2.02%) NCSC
8 29 (1.77%) Data Quality
9 26 (1.59%) GRC
10 23 (1.41%) PCI DSS
11 17 (1.04%) WCAG
12 15 (0.92%) JSP 440
13 14 (0.86%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 13 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
15 11 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
16 8 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 7 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
18 6 (0.37%) Def Stans
18 6 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
18 6 (0.37%) PMO
System Software
1 75 (4.59%) Docker
2 40 (2.45%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.67%) VMware NSX
5 8 (0.49%) Firmware
5 8 (0.49%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.31%) vSphere
7 4 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.061%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.061%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.061%) IAG
9 1 (0.061%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.061%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.061%) Xen
Systems Management
1 93 (5.69%) Terraform
2 80 (4.89%) Kubernetes
3 53 (3.24%) Ansible
4 18 (1.10%) Grafana
4 18 (1.10%) Prometheus
5 17 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.49%) Argo
6 8 (0.49%) Puppet
7 7 (0.43%) Progress Chef
7 7 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.37%) Packer
9 5 (0.31%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (0.31%) Endace
9 5 (0.31%) QRadar
10 4 (0.24%) Istio
10 4 (0.24%) Kustomize
10 4 (0.24%) Nmap
10 4 (0.24%) SCCM
10 4 (0.24%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.18%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 195 (11.93%) Microsoft
2 87 (5.32%) Cisco
3 55 (3.36%) Google
4 46 (2.81%) Oracle
5 43 (2.63%) SAP
6 33 (2.02%) ServiceNow
7 29 (1.77%) Salesforce
8 28 (1.71%) VMware
9 20 (1.22%) Red Hat
10 18 (1.10%) Adobe
11 16 (0.98%) MuleSoft
12 13 (0.80%) Databricks
12 13 (0.80%) Splunk
13 12 (0.73%) CyberArk
14 11 (0.67%) Meraki
15 9 (0.55%) Juniper
16 8 (0.49%) F5
16 8 (0.49%) Okta
17 6 (0.37%) Ariba
17 6 (0.37%) CheckPoint