SC Cleared Jobs with Work from Home Options

Security Check (SC) Clearance
UK > Work from Home

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 40 111
Rank change year-on-year -2 +71 +11
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 1,935 2,589 2,609
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 5.56% 6.72% 3.50%
As % of the Qualifications category 19.91% 25.66% 15.13%
Number of salaries quoted 995 1,186 1,182
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,940 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,742 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +0.39% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £57,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +9.65% +3.64%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

SC Cleared is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 9,718 10,088 17,243
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.93% 26.18% 23.15%
Number of salaries quoted 5,904 6,114 8,887
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £53,818 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.30% +9.09% -

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SC Cleared trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SC Cleared.

SC Cleared salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SC Cleared over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

SC Cleared salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 222 (11.47%) ArcGIS
2 214 (11.06%) GeoServer
3 48 (2.48%) WebLogic
4 27 (1.40%) SharePoint
5 23 (1.19%) OpenStack
6 15 (0.78%) Confluence
7 14 (0.72%) CMS
7 14 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
8 12 (0.62%) Apache
9 6 (0.31%) Appian
9 6 (0.31%) JBoss
9 6 (0.31%) Red Hat Fuse
10 4 (0.21%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.10%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.10%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.052%) Drupal
12 1 (0.052%) IIS
12 1 (0.052%) WordPress
Applications
1 38 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (1.76%) Simulink
3 17 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
4 12 (0.62%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.21%) AutoCAD
7 4 (0.21%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.10%) Fireworks
8 2 (0.10%) InDesign
8 2 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.052%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.052%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.052%) Blender
Business Applications
1 55 (2.84%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 38 (1.96%) Remedy ITSM
3 13 (0.67%) Maximo
4 8 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.26%) SAP HR
5 5 (0.26%) SAP WM
5 5 (0.26%) Siebel CRM
6 3 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Applications
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.10%) SAP CRM
7 2 (0.10%) SAP CX
7 2 (0.10%) SAP GTS
7 2 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.10%) SAP SD
7 2 (0.10%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.052%) Primavera
8 1 (0.052%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 633 (32.71%) Azure
2 556 (28.73%) AWS
3 83 (4.29%) Amazon EKS
4 78 (4.03%) Dynamics 365
5 75 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
6 73 (3.77%) Power Platform
7 57 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
8 53 (2.74%) Serverless
9 51 (2.64%) SaaS
10 47 (2.43%) Amazon SQS
11 39 (2.02%) PowerApps
12 37 (1.91%) Power Automate
13 36 (1.86%) PaaS
14 34 (1.76%) GCP
15 32 (1.65%) dbt
16 29 (1.50%) Cloud Computing
17 26 (1.34%) Amazon ECS
18 23 (1.19%) GitHub
18 23 (1.19%) IaaS
19 21 (1.09%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 101 (5.22%) Firewall
2 87 (4.50%) DNS
3 67 (3.46%) TCP/IP
4 50 (2.58%) SSL
5 49 (2.53%) BGP
6 34 (1.76%) Network Security
7 33 (1.71%) Wireless
8 32 (1.65%) SAN
9 30 (1.55%) VPN
10 28 (1.45%) SD-WAN
10 28 (1.45%) WAN
11 23 (1.19%) DHCP
12 19 (0.98%) 5G
13 11 (0.57%) LAN
13 11 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
14 10 (0.52%) VLAN
15 8 (0.41%) IPv4
16 6 (0.31%) Cisco IPT
16 6 (0.31%) Ethernet
16 6 (0.31%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 246 (12.71%) PostgreSQL
2 218 (11.27%) GIS
3 214 (11.06%) QGIS
4 134 (6.93%) Relational Database
5 63 (3.26%) RDBMS
6 62 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
7 58 (3.00%) Oracle Database
8 48 (2.48%) Power BI
9 47 (2.43%) NoSQL
10 36 (1.86%) SQL Server
11 26 (1.34%) MySQL
12 17 (0.88%) Big Data
13 16 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
14 14 (0.72%) Tableau
15 13 (0.67%) MongoDB
16 10 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
16 10 (0.52%) Hadoop
17 9 (0.47%) Data Lake
18 7 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
19 6 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 93 (4.81%) Git
2 79 (4.08%) Jenkins
3 76 (3.93%) JIRA
4 44 (2.27%) GitLab
5 21 (1.09%) Vagrant
6 18 (0.93%) Subversion
7 16 (0.83%) Selenium
8 15 (0.78%) JUnit
9 14 (0.72%) CMake
9 14 (0.72%) Cucumber
9 14 (0.72%) Rational DOORS
10 11 (0.57%) JMeter
11 10 (0.52%) Trac
12 6 (0.31%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.31%) CircleCI
12 6 (0.31%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.31%) TestNG
12 6 (0.31%) WebDriver
13 5 (0.26%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.26%) SonarQube
General
1 541 (27.96%) Social Skills
2 279 (14.42%) Public Sector
3 223 (11.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 168 (8.68%) Finance
5 105 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
6 67 (3.46%) Aerospace
7 50 (2.58%) Military
8 48 (2.48%) Police
9 45 (2.33%) Telecoms
10 40 (2.07%) Games
11 31 (1.60%) Law
12 28 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
13 27 (1.40%) Retail
14 23 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
15 16 (0.83%) Electronics
15 16 (0.83%) Marketing
16 15 (0.78%) Manufacturing
17 12 (0.62%) Legal
18 10 (0.52%) French Language
18 10 (0.52%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 508 (26.25%) Senior
2 384 (19.84%) Architect
3 327 (16.90%) Software Engineer
4 269 (13.90%) Developer
5 260 (13.44%) Senior Software Engineer
6 215 (11.11%) Lead
7 197 (10.18%) Solutions Architect
8 139 (7.18%) Analyst
9 92 (4.75%) Presales Solution Architect
10 89 (4.60%) Business Analyst
11 80 (4.13%) Senior Developer
12 68 (3.51%) Project Manager
13 67 (3.46%) Consultant
14 62 (3.20%) Technical Architect
15 57 (2.95%) Lead Architect
15 57 (2.95%) Systems Engineer
16 52 (2.69%) Full Stack Developer
17 50 (2.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 49 (2.53%) DevOps Engineer
19 48 (2.48%) Lead Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 273 (14.11%) React
2 244 (12.61%) .NET
3 214 (11.06%) Leaflet
3 214 (11.06%) OpenLayers
3 214 (11.06%) PostGIS
4 199 (10.28%) CSS
5 182 (9.41%) .NET Core
6 110 (5.68%) Node.js
7 74 (3.82%) Spring Boot
8 66 (3.41%) Django
9 64 (3.31%) AngularJS
10 60 (3.10%) Web Services
11 58 (3.00%) RESTful
12 55 (2.84%) REST
13 51 (2.64%) RabbitMQ
14 46 (2.38%) Spring
14 46 (2.38%) XML
15 44 (2.27%) Express.js
16 41 (2.12%) SOAP
17 35 (1.81%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 79 (4.08%) Virtual Team
2 67 (3.46%) Product Ownership
3 65 (3.36%) Management Information System
4 64 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
5 57 (2.95%) Public Cloud
6 49 (2.53%) Data Centre
7 46 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
7 46 (2.38%) Private Cloud
8 30 (1.55%) Operational Technology
9 28 (1.45%) Onboarding
10 26 (1.34%) Algorithms
11 23 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
12 22 (1.14%) Driving Licence
13 20 (1.03%) CMDB
14 19 (0.98%) PKI
15 18 (0.93%) Satnav
16 17 (0.88%) Cloud Native
17 14 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
18 13 (0.67%) Digital Signage
19 12 (0.62%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 290 (14.99%) Linux
2 154 (7.96%) Windows
3 74 (3.82%) Windows Server
4 71 (3.67%) Ubuntu
5 68 (3.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 42 (2.17%) Unix
7 30 (1.55%) Android
8 23 (1.19%) CentOS
9 21 (1.09%) Windows Server 2016
10 20 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
11 13 (0.67%) Windows 10
12 12 (0.62%) VMS
13 10 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
13 10 (0.52%) zOS
14 5 (0.26%) Windows NT
15 4 (0.21%) AIX
15 4 (0.21%) Windows 7
16 3 (0.16%) Kali Linux
17 2 (0.10%) Oracle Linux
17 2 (0.10%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 823 (42.53%) Agile
2 640 (33.07%) Actionable Insight
3 536 (27.70%) DevOps
4 494 (25.53%) Software Engineering
5 352 (18.19%) Problem-Solving
6 227 (11.73%) Project Management
7 214 (11.06%) Web Development
8 206 (10.65%) Scrum
9 190 (9.82%) CI/CD
10 169 (8.73%) Open Source
11 166 (8.58%) Presales
12 152 (7.86%) Stakeholder Management
13 144 (7.44%) Kanban
14 142 (7.34%) Mentoring
15 140 (7.24%) ITIL
16 137 (7.08%) Service Management
17 130 (6.72%) Analytics
18 127 (6.56%) Artificial Intelligence
19 124 (6.41%) Migration
20 122 (6.30%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 426 (22.02%) Python
2 384 (19.84%) JavaScript
3 223 (11.52%) Java
4 170 (8.79%) C#
5 121 (6.25%) SQL
6 77 (3.98%) C++
7 76 (3.93%) PowerShell
8 60 (3.10%) TypeScript
9 30 (1.55%) C
10 29 (1.50%) Go
10 29 (1.50%) MATLAB
11 23 (1.19%) Bicep
12 22 (1.14%) Bash
13 20 (1.03%) Kotlin
14 17 (0.88%) VBA
15 16 (0.83%) VB
16 13 (0.67%) Shell Script
17 12 (0.62%) Groovy
18 10 (0.52%) PL/SQL
18 10 (0.52%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1,935 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 383 (19.79%) Degree
3 187 (9.66%) DV Cleared
4 99 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 94 (4.86%) AWS Certification
6 86 (4.44%) Azure Certification
7 63 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
8 62 (3.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 46 (2.38%) CISM
10 42 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
11 34 (1.76%) CISSP
12 28 (1.45%) CRISC
13 23 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
14 21 (1.09%) CCNP
14 21 (1.09%) CISA
15 17 (0.88%) CREST Certified
15 17 (0.88%) DBS Check
16 16 (0.83%) CCNA
16 16 (0.83%) CHECK Team Leader
16 16 (0.83%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (2.89%) QA
2 41 (2.12%) Accessibility
2 41 (2.12%) NCSC
3 32 (1.65%) COBIT
4 31 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 22 (1.14%) PMO
6 19 (0.98%) GDPR
7 18 (0.93%) Software Quality Assurance
8 16 (0.83%) NIST
9 15 (0.78%) Data Quality
10 14 (0.72%) GRC
10 14 (0.72%) SLA
11 12 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
11 12 (0.62%) JSP 440
12 11 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 8 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 8 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.31%) RMADS
15 3 (0.16%) Government Security Classifications
15 3 (0.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 120 (6.20%) Docker
2 89 (4.60%) Active Directory
3 43 (2.22%) Hyper-V
4 26 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
6 17 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
7 16 (0.83%) pfSense
8 12 (0.62%) Firmware
9 11 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
10 10 (0.52%) NFS
11 8 (0.41%) vSphere
12 7 (0.36%) Microsoft App-V
13 5 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
14 2 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
14 2 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.10%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.052%) Lustre
15 1 (0.052%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 1 (0.052%) Snort
Systems Management
1 130 (6.72%) Kubernetes
2 122 (6.30%) Terraform
3 107 (5.53%) Ansible
4 46 (2.38%) SCCM
5 32 (1.65%) OpenView
6 31 (1.60%) WSUS
7 28 (1.45%) SCOM
8 27 (1.40%) Grafana
9 16 (0.83%) ZABBIX
10 14 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 12 (0.62%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 11 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
12 11 (0.57%) Prometheus
13 10 (0.52%) SCDPM
14 7 (0.36%) Kibana
14 7 (0.36%) Progress Chef
15 6 (0.31%) Puppet
16 5 (0.26%) Docker Swarm
16 5 (0.26%) Karpenter
16 5 (0.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 271 (14.01%) Microsoft
2 219 (11.32%) ESRI
3 112 (5.79%) Oracle
4 81 (4.19%) ServiceNow
5 80 (4.13%) VMware
6 60 (3.10%) Cisco
7 55 (2.84%) HP
7 55 (2.84%) Sparx
8 50 (2.58%) Juniper
9 39 (2.02%) Fortinet
10 38 (1.96%) Remedy
11 36 (1.86%) BMC
12 25 (1.29%) Citrix
13 24 (1.24%) NetApp
13 24 (1.24%) Xilinx
14 22 (1.14%) WSO2
15 21 (1.09%) Meraki
16 16 (0.83%) Dynatrace
16 16 (0.83%) IBM
16 16 (0.83%) Veeam