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 27 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 39 23
Rank change year-on-year +18 -16 +6
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,557 1,057 2,572
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 7.62% 6.76% 7.66%
As % of the Qualifications category 35.98% 19.73% 28.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,187 531 1,748
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £54,468 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,953 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.00% +8.70% -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 4,327 5,356 8,945
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 21.18% 34.28% 26.64%
Number of salaries quoted 3,006 2,373 5,794
10th Percentile £33,250 £28,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,500 £88,750 £86,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +3.77% -11.67%

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 27 June 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 (2.38%) SharePoint
2 24 (1.54%) Apache
3 16 (1.03%) Apache Spark
4 15 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.45%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.39%) Anypoint
7 6 (0.39%) Mule
8 5 (0.32%) IIS
9 3 (0.19%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.19%) Camunda
9 3 (0.19%) Confluence
9 3 (0.19%) SAS
10 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.13%) GeoServer
10 2 (0.13%) nginx
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle Spatial
11 1 (0.064%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.064%) Site Server
Applications
1 44 (2.83%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.58%) Adobe XD
4 6 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.26%) Windchill
6 3 (0.19%) InVision
6 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.19%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.19%) Simulink
6 3 (0.19%) Sketch
7 2 (0.13%) Weka
8 1 (0.064%) CATIA
8 1 (0.064%) EngageOne
8 1 (0.064%) FrameMaker
8 1 (0.064%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 28 (1.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.45%) SAP ERP
3 5 (0.32%) Primavera
4 4 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.26%) SAP FSCM
5 3 (0.19%) Elite 3E
5 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.19%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.19%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.19%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.13%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.13%) SAP QM
7 1 (0.064%) Magento
7 1 (0.064%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.064%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.064%) SAP PSCD
7 1 (0.064%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.064%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 363 (23.31%) Azure
2 321 (20.62%) AWS
3 108 (6.94%) GCP
4 107 (6.87%) Microsoft 365
5 86 (5.52%) Entra ID
6 61 (3.92%) Power Platform
7 32 (2.06%) GitHub
7 32 (2.06%) SaaS
8 28 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
9 27 (1.73%) Serverless
10 25 (1.61%) PaaS
11 24 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (1.22%) Amazon EC2
12 19 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
13 18 (1.16%) Amazon S3
13 18 (1.16%) Azure Sentinel
13 18 (1.16%) Google Analytics
14 17 (1.09%) PowerApps
15 15 (0.96%) OCI
16 14 (0.90%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 44 (2.83%) Network Security
2 42 (2.70%) Firewall
3 30 (1.93%) WAN
4 25 (1.61%) TCP/IP
5 24 (1.54%) DNS
5 24 (1.54%) VPN
6 20 (1.28%) LAN
7 18 (1.16%) DHCP
8 17 (1.09%) BGP
9 14 (0.90%) MPLS
10 13 (0.83%) SMTP
11 10 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (0.58%) HTTP
13 8 (0.51%) SSL
14 7 (0.45%) Intrusion Detection
14 7 (0.45%) SNMP
15 6 (0.39%) SD-WAN
16 5 (0.32%) Cisco Firepower
16 5 (0.32%) DMZ
16 5 (0.32%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (2.89%) Power BI
2 39 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (1.16%) Metadata
3 18 (1.16%) NoSQL
4 17 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (1.03%) Big Data
5 16 (1.03%) MongoDB
6 14 (0.90%) SQL Server
7 12 (0.77%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (0.77%) Redis
8 11 (0.71%) DynamoDB
9 9 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (0.51%) Tableau
11 7 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (0.45%) Data Lake
11 7 (0.45%) MySQL
11 7 (0.45%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.39%) SAP HANA
13 5 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (0.32%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 50 (3.21%) Git
2 38 (2.44%) Jenkins
3 36 (2.31%) GitLab
4 14 (0.90%) JIRA
4 14 (0.90%) JUnit
4 14 (0.90%) Selenium
5 9 (0.58%) Maven
6 8 (0.51%) Mockito
7 7 (0.45%) Burp Suite
7 7 (0.45%) Metasploit
8 6 (0.39%) Axure RP
8 6 (0.39%) Balsamiq
8 6 (0.39%) Cucumber
8 6 (0.39%) JMeter
9 5 (0.32%) Postman
9 5 (0.32%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.26%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.19%) Gatling
11 3 (0.19%) SoapUI
12 2 (0.13%) Babel
General
1 403 (25.88%) Social Skills
2 363 (23.31%) Public Sector
3 204 (13.10%) Finance
4 164 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 159 (10.21%) Analytical Skills
6 123 (7.90%) Law
7 56 (3.60%) Legal
8 42 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
9 38 (2.44%) Back Office
10 37 (2.38%) Manufacturing
11 32 (2.06%) Telecoms
12 30 (1.93%) Retail
13 26 (1.67%) Aerospace
13 26 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
13 26 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
14 13 (0.83%) Aviation
14 13 (0.83%) Military
15 10 (0.64%) Banking
15 10 (0.64%) Electronics
16 9 (0.58%) Police
Job Titles
1 294 (18.88%) Senior
2 228 (14.64%) Architect
3 174 (11.18%) Consultant
4 121 (7.77%) Analyst
4 121 (7.77%) Lead
5 115 (7.39%) Developer
6 102 (6.55%) Solutions Architect
7 95 (6.10%) Software Engineer
8 64 (4.11%) Data Engineer
9 63 (4.05%) Business Analyst
10 59 (3.79%) Senior Manager
11 58 (3.73%) Cloud Engineer
12 57 (3.66%) Support Engineer
13 54 (3.47%) Security Consultant
14 49 (3.15%) Senior Consultant
15 47 (3.02%) Java Developer
16 45 (2.89%) DevOps Engineer
17 42 (2.70%) Security Architect
18 40 (2.57%) Senior Developer
19 38 (2.44%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (3.40%) REST
2 41 (2.63%) Spring
3 32 (2.06%) React
4 31 (1.99%) .NET
5 30 (1.93%) SOAP
6 23 (1.48%) Middleware
7 22 (1.41%) Spring Boot
8 19 (1.22%) Kafka
9 16 (1.03%) Playwright
10 15 (0.96%) Lightning Web Components
10 15 (0.96%) RESTful
10 15 (0.96%) SAML
11 14 (0.90%) AngularJS
11 14 (0.90%) CSS
11 14 (0.90%) HTML
11 14 (0.90%) OAuth
11 14 (0.90%) Visualforce
12 12 (0.77%) SAP Fiori
13 9 (0.58%) Web Services
13 9 (0.58%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 112 (7.19%) Cloud Native
2 63 (4.05%) Product Ownership
3 56 (3.60%) Security Posture
4 51 (3.28%) Onboarding
5 44 (2.83%) Management Information System
6 41 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
7 34 (2.18%) Data Centre
8 29 (1.86%) PKI
9 28 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
10 21 (1.35%) Blog
10 21 (1.35%) Driving Licence
11 17 (1.09%) Security Operations Centre
12 16 (1.03%) CMDB
13 15 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
13 15 (0.96%) Low-Code
14 14 (0.90%) Data Structures
15 13 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
16 12 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
17 11 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
17 11 (0.71%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 111 (7.13%) Windows
2 99 (6.36%) Linux
3 42 (2.70%) Windows 10
4 30 (1.93%) Windows Server
5 22 (1.41%) Unix
6 5 (0.32%) Android
6 5 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.19%) CentOS
7 3 (0.19%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.064%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.064%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.064%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.064%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (22.09%) Agile
2 244 (15.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 213 (13.68%) Cybersecurity
4 195 (12.52%) Problem-Solving
5 192 (12.33%) DevOps
6 187 (12.01%) Mentoring
7 170 (10.92%) CI/CD
8 145 (9.31%) Software Engineering
9 137 (8.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 136 (8.73%) ITIL
11 129 (8.29%) Stakeholder Management
12 125 (8.03%) Analytics
13 119 (7.64%) Community of Practice
14 109 (7.00%) Collaborative Culture
14 109 (7.00%) Infrastructure as Code
15 108 (6.94%) Risk Management
15 108 (6.94%) Technology Strategy
16 103 (6.62%) AI
17 101 (6.49%) Technical Leadership
18 98 (6.29%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 163 (10.47%) Python
2 142 (9.12%) Java
3 91 (5.84%) SQL
4 70 (4.50%) JavaScript
5 45 (2.89%) C#
6 35 (2.25%) PowerShell
7 33 (2.12%) Bash
7 33 (2.12%) C++
8 26 (1.67%) TypeScript
9 15 (0.96%) Apex Code
10 13 (0.83%) C
10 13 (0.83%) Groovy
11 9 (0.58%) Rust
12 8 (0.51%) Go
13 6 (0.39%) DataWeave
13 6 (0.39%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.39%) Scala
13 6 (0.39%) VBA
14 5 (0.32%) Ruby
15 3 (0.19%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 1,156 (74.25%) SC Cleared
2 292 (18.75%) DV Cleared
3 269 (17.28%) Degree
4 94 (6.04%) BPSS Clearance
5 82 (5.27%) CISSP
6 52 (3.34%) CISM
7 45 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 40 (2.57%) CTC Cleared
9 34 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
10 33 (2.12%) Azure Certification
11 24 (1.54%) AWS Certification
12 19 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
13 18 (1.16%) CREST Certified
14 15 (0.96%) CRISC
14 15 (0.96%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 15 (0.96%) PMI Certification
15 14 (0.90%) HNC
15 14 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
16 12 (0.77%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
17 11 (0.71%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (8.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 75 (4.82%) NIST
3 59 (3.79%) QA
4 54 (3.47%) SLA
5 50 (3.21%) GDPR
6 47 (3.02%) NCSC
7 34 (2.18%) Accessibility
7 34 (2.18%) Data Quality
7 34 (2.18%) GRC
8 26 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
9 25 (1.61%) PCI DSS
10 18 (1.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 18 (1.16%) JSP 440
11 13 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
12 11 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 11 (0.71%) WCAG
13 10 (0.64%) Def Stans
14 7 (0.45%) Government Security Classifications
15 6 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 6 (0.39%) PMO
System Software
1 81 (5.20%) Docker
2 59 (3.79%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.28%) Hyper-V
4 17 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.58%) VMware NSX
6 8 (0.51%) Firmware
7 6 (0.39%) vSphere
8 5 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.064%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.064%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.064%) IAG
9 1 (0.064%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.064%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.064%) Squid
9 1 (0.064%) Xen
Systems Management
1 100 (6.42%) Terraform
2 89 (5.72%) Kubernetes
3 50 (3.21%) Ansible
4 30 (1.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (1.35%) Prometheus
6 20 (1.28%) Grafana
7 10 (0.64%) Argo
7 10 (0.64%) Progress Chef
8 8 (0.51%) Puppet
8 8 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.45%) Nmap
9 7 (0.45%) Packer
9 7 (0.45%) QRadar
10 6 (0.39%) CloudHub
10 6 (0.39%) Kustomize
11 5 (0.32%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.32%) Endace
11 5 (0.32%) Istio
11 5 (0.32%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.26%) Kibana
Vendors
1 227 (14.58%) Microsoft
2 68 (4.37%) Cisco
3 55 (3.53%) Google
4 48 (3.08%) Oracle
5 46 (2.95%) SAP
6 45 (2.89%) ServiceNow
7 32 (2.06%) Salesforce
8 28 (1.80%) VMware
9 20 (1.28%) MuleSoft
9 20 (1.28%) Red Hat
10 16 (1.03%) Databricks
10 16 (1.03%) Splunk
11 14 (0.90%) CyberArk
12 10 (0.64%) Adobe
12 10 (0.64%) Juniper
12 10 (0.64%) Okta
13 9 (0.58%) Meraki
14 7 (0.45%) Dell
14 7 (0.45%) F5
14 7 (0.45%) OpenAI