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 20 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 35 24
Rank change year-on-year +13 -11 0
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,732 1,135 1,918
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.56% 6.85% 7.77%
As % of the Qualifications category 36.52% 19.87% 29.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,160 577 1,263
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,565 £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 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £85,800
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £58,800
% change year-on-year +12.00% +6.29% -2.00%

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 4,742 5,711 6,526
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.69% 34.48% 26.45%
Number of salaries quoted 3,075 2,417 3,690
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,750 £33,225
25th Percentile £46,743 £41,000 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -0.86% -3.33%
75th Percentile £79,125 £75,900 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,750 £87,500
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 20 August 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 40 (2.31%) Apache
2 35 (2.02%) SharePoint
3 29 (1.67%) Apache Spark
4 14 (0.81%) Confluence
5 13 (0.75%) Anypoint
5 13 (0.75%) Mule
6 12 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.46%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.46%) nginx
8 7 (0.40%) Camunda
8 7 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.29%) IIS
10 3 (0.17%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.17%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.17%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Spatial
11 2 (0.12%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.12%) WordPress
12 1 (0.058%) Drupal
12 1 (0.058%) Site Server
Applications
1 28 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (1.21%) Simulink
3 13 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.52%) Adobe XD
6 7 (0.40%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.23%) Mathcad
8 4 (0.23%) Windchill
9 2 (0.12%) InDesign
10 1 (0.058%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.058%) CATIA
10 1 (0.058%) FrameMaker
10 1 (0.058%) Houdini
10 1 (0.058%) InVision
10 1 (0.058%) NUKE
10 1 (0.058%) Sketch
10 1 (0.058%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.058%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.058%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 19 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.87%) Primavera
3 7 (0.40%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.35%) Workday HCM
5 5 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.29%) Teamcenter
6 4 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.12%) SAP HCM
7 2 (0.12%) SAP QM
8 1 (0.058%) Magento
8 1 (0.058%) SAP BPC
8 1 (0.058%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.058%) SAP EWM
8 1 (0.058%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.058%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.058%) SAP FSCM
8 1 (0.058%) SAP GRC
8 1 (0.058%) SAP Payroll
8 1 (0.058%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 443 (25.58%) Azure
2 419 (24.19%) AWS
3 130 (7.51%) GCP
4 78 (4.50%) Power Platform
5 77 (4.45%) Microsoft 365
6 71 (4.10%) Entra ID
7 43 (2.48%) AWS CloudFormation
8 42 (2.42%) GitHub
9 38 (2.19%) dbt
10 31 (1.79%) Serverless
11 27 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
12 25 (1.44%) SaaS
13 23 (1.33%) Azure Sentinel
14 22 (1.27%) Amazon S3
15 21 (1.21%) Google Analytics
16 20 (1.15%) Microsoft Purview
17 19 (1.10%) Amazon EC2
17 19 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
17 19 (1.10%) OpenShift
18 18 (1.04%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.89%) Firewall
2 48 (2.77%) Network Security
3 43 (2.48%) TCP/IP
4 33 (1.91%) DNS
5 25 (1.44%) WAN
6 18 (1.04%) VPN
7 17 (0.98%) LAN
8 16 (0.92%) SSL
9 15 (0.87%) BGP
10 14 (0.81%) DHCP
11 12 (0.69%) ATM
12 10 (0.58%) MPLS
13 9 (0.52%) Ethernet
13 9 (0.52%) OSPF
14 8 (0.46%) Wireless
15 7 (0.40%) HTTP
16 5 (0.29%) VLAN
17 4 (0.23%) FTP
17 4 (0.23%) SMTP
17 4 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (3.52%) Power BI
2 47 (2.71%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (1.62%) Big Data
4 26 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (1.44%) SQL Server
6 24 (1.39%) NoSQL
7 20 (1.15%) Relational Database
8 17 (0.98%) Metadata
8 17 (0.98%) Tableau
9 16 (0.92%) MongoDB
10 15 (0.87%) DynamoDB
10 15 (0.87%) MySQL
11 13 (0.75%) Amazon Athena
12 12 (0.69%) Data Lake
13 9 (0.52%) Hadoop
14 7 (0.40%) Redis
15 6 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
16 5 (0.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 4 (0.23%) GIS
17 4 (0.23%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 70 (4.04%) Git
2 40 (2.31%) GitLab
2 40 (2.31%) Jenkins
3 31 (1.79%) JIRA
4 23 (1.33%) Rational DOORS
5 22 (1.27%) JUnit
6 16 (0.92%) Selenium
7 13 (0.75%) Mockito
8 12 (0.69%) Maven
9 10 (0.58%) Balsamiq
10 9 (0.52%) Cucumber
10 9 (0.52%) Postman
11 8 (0.46%) Axure RP
12 7 (0.40%) Burp Suite
12 7 (0.40%) Cypress.io
12 7 (0.40%) Gatling
12 7 (0.40%) Metasploit
12 7 (0.40%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.35%) LabVIEW
14 3 (0.17%) JMeter
General
1 537 (31.00%) Social Skills
2 421 (24.31%) Public Sector
3 348 (20.09%) Finance
4 334 (19.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 217 (12.53%) Analytical Skills
6 168 (9.70%) Law
7 164 (9.47%) Aerospace
8 74 (4.27%) Legal
9 57 (3.29%) Presentation Skills
10 49 (2.83%) Electronics
11 48 (2.77%) Military
11 48 (2.77%) Organisational Skills
12 44 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
13 41 (2.37%) Manufacturing
13 41 (2.37%) Retail
14 37 (2.14%) Telecoms
15 29 (1.67%) Police
16 16 (0.92%) Local Government
17 15 (0.87%) Automotive
17 15 (0.87%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 311 (17.96%) Senior
2 288 (16.63%) Architect
3 193 (11.14%) Consultant
4 165 (9.53%) Lead
5 136 (7.85%) Software Engineer
6 126 (7.27%) Developer
7 122 (7.04%) Analyst
8 110 (6.35%) Solutions Architect
9 65 (3.75%) Cloud Engineer
9 65 (3.75%) Data Engineer
10 64 (3.70%) Security Consultant
11 56 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
12 53 (3.06%) Senior Developer
13 51 (2.94%) Principal Engineer
13 51 (2.94%) Security Architect
14 50 (2.89%) Senior Manager
15 48 (2.77%) Senior Consultant
16 46 (2.66%) Business Analyst
17 44 (2.54%) Senior Analyst
18 41 (2.37%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (6.93%) Terraform
2 62 (3.58%) React
3 54 (3.12%) REST
4 47 (2.71%) Spring
5 43 (2.48%) .NET
6 35 (2.02%) CSS
7 32 (1.85%) Kafka
8 29 (1.67%) HTML
9 27 (1.56%) AngularJS
10 25 (1.44%) OAuth
11 23 (1.33%) Playwright
11 23 (1.33%) SOAP
12 22 (1.27%) Spring Boot
13 20 (1.15%) .NET Core
14 18 (1.04%) RESTful
15 17 (0.98%) JWT
15 17 (0.98%) Node.js
15 17 (0.98%) PySpark
15 17 (0.98%) Web Services
16 16 (0.92%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 129 (7.45%) Cloud Native
2 62 (3.58%) Self-Motivation
3 59 (3.41%) Product Ownership
4 54 (3.12%) Management Information System
5 53 (3.06%) Onboarding
6 43 (2.48%) Security Posture
7 38 (2.19%) Blog
8 34 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
9 30 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
10 29 (1.67%) FPGA
11 28 (1.62%) Cyber Threat
11 28 (1.62%) Driving Licence
12 26 (1.50%) PKI
13 24 (1.39%) Cyber Defence
14 21 (1.21%) CMDB
14 21 (1.21%) Data Centre
14 21 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
14 21 (1.21%) Security Operations Centre
15 20 (1.15%) Algorithms
16 19 (1.10%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 135 (7.79%) Linux
2 100 (5.77%) Windows
3 41 (2.37%) Windows Server
4 34 (1.96%) Unix
5 12 (0.69%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.29%) VxWorks
8 4 (0.23%) Android
8 4 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.17%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.17%) OpenWrt
9 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.12%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.12%) CentOS
10 2 (0.12%) Solaris
10 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.058%) Debian
11 1 (0.058%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 493 (28.46%) Agile
2 314 (18.13%) Continuous Improvement
3 277 (15.99%) Cybersecurity
4 271 (15.65%) Problem-Solving
5 261 (15.07%) Mentoring
6 243 (14.03%) CI/CD
7 237 (13.68%) Software Engineering
8 233 (13.45%) DevOps
9 219 (12.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 197 (11.37%) AI
11 172 (9.93%) Stakeholder Management
12 149 (8.60%) Decision-Making
13 147 (8.49%) Community of Practice
14 142 (8.20%) Collaborative Culture
15 141 (8.14%) Technical Leadership
16 138 (7.97%) Scrum
17 136 (7.85%) Infrastructure as Code
18 135 (7.79%) Project Delivery
19 131 (7.56%) Analytics
20 130 (7.51%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 215 (12.41%) Python
2 161 (9.30%) Java
3 117 (6.76%) SQL
4 103 (5.95%) JavaScript
5 58 (3.35%) C#
5 58 (3.35%) C++
6 46 (2.66%) Bash
7 43 (2.48%) PowerShell
8 34 (1.96%) TypeScript
9 32 (1.85%) C
10 23 (1.33%) MATLAB
11 21 (1.21%) Ada
12 16 (0.92%) Groovy
13 14 (0.81%) Go
13 14 (0.81%) Rust
14 13 (0.75%) DataWeave
15 12 (0.69%) PL/SQL
15 12 (0.69%) Ruby
16 11 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
17 9 (0.52%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 1,364 (78.75%) SC Cleared
2 415 (23.96%) DV Cleared
3 329 (19.00%) Degree
4 234 (13.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 78 (4.50%) CISSP
6 58 (3.35%) CISM
7 57 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 46 (2.66%) Azure Certification
9 38 (2.19%) AWS Certification
10 31 (1.79%) Master's Degree
11 29 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
12 24 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
13 21 (1.21%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 20 (1.15%) CREST Certified
15 19 (1.10%) CRISC
16 17 (0.98%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 17 (0.98%) PhD
17 12 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 12 (0.69%) Chartered Engineer
17 12 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (8.95%) Accessibility
2 139 (8.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 93 (5.37%) NIST
4 70 (4.04%) QA
5 64 (3.70%) NCSC
6 46 (2.66%) GRC
7 42 (2.42%) Data Quality
8 38 (2.19%) GDPR
9 24 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
9 24 (1.39%) PCI DSS
10 22 (1.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 21 (1.21%) SLA
12 20 (1.15%) WCAG
13 17 (0.98%) JSP 440
14 13 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
14 13 (0.75%) Def Stans
15 10 (0.58%) NIST 800
16 7 (0.40%) PMO
17 6 (0.35%) SOC 2
18 5 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 110 (6.35%) Docker
2 79 (4.56%) Active Directory
3 46 (2.66%) Firmware
4 33 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
5 22 (1.27%) Hyper-V
6 15 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.40%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.40%) vSphere
9 6 (0.35%) Squid
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.058%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.058%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.058%) IAG
11 1 (0.058%) QEMU
11 1 (0.058%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.058%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.058%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 118 (6.81%) Kubernetes
2 47 (2.71%) Ansible
3 36 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (0.98%) Prometheus
5 16 (0.92%) Grafana
6 13 (0.75%) CloudHub
7 12 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (0.58%) Argo
9 8 (0.46%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.40%) Nmap
10 7 (0.40%) QRadar
11 6 (0.35%) Kustomize
11 6 (0.35%) Packer
12 5 (0.29%) Istio
12 5 (0.29%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.23%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
14 3 (0.17%) Check_MK
14 3 (0.17%) Kibana
14 3 (0.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 230 (13.28%) Microsoft
2 68 (3.93%) Google
3 66 (3.81%) ServiceNow
4 53 (3.06%) SAP
5 49 (2.83%) Oracle
6 43 (2.48%) VMware
7 33 (1.91%) Cisco
8 27 (1.56%) Salesforce
9 24 (1.39%) Red Hat
10 21 (1.21%) Databricks
11 19 (1.10%) MuleSoft
11 19 (1.10%) OpenAI
12 18 (1.04%) Splunk
13 13 (0.75%) Adobe
13 13 (0.75%) CyberArk
13 13 (0.75%) Okta
14 11 (0.64%) Siemens
15 9 (0.52%) Veeam
16 8 (0.46%) Fortinet
16 8 (0.46%) Xilinx