Security Cleared Jobs with Work from Home Options

Security 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 Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 24 72
Rank change year-on-year +2 +48 +14
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 3,200 3,728 3,600
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.31% 9.37% 4.91%
As % of the Qualifications category 33.22% 36.11% 21.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,744 1,593 1,597
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £35,300
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,300 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,063 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +0.11% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £89,016 £90,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

Security 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 9,632 10,325 16,967
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 28.04% 25.96% 23.15%
Number of salaries quoted 5,895 6,199 8,867
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 £78,125 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £53,555 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.74% +9.09% -

Security Cleared
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Security 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 Security Cleared.

Security 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 Security Cleared over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Security 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 (6.94%) ArcGIS
2 214 (6.69%) GeoServer
3 48 (1.50%) WebLogic
4 47 (1.47%) IIS
5 41 (1.28%) Apache
6 40 (1.25%) SharePoint
7 36 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
8 27 (0.84%) Tomcat
9 25 (0.78%) OpenStack
10 20 (0.63%) Confluence
11 15 (0.47%) CMS
12 7 (0.22%) Apache Spark
12 7 (0.22%) JBoss
12 7 (0.22%) Red Hat Fuse
13 4 (0.13%) Appian
13 4 (0.13%) nginx
14 2 (0.063%) Oracle Service Bus
14 2 (0.063%) Oracle Workflow
15 1 (0.031%) Exchange Server 2010
15 1 (0.031%) Moodle
Applications
1 84 (2.63%) Simulink
2 52 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
4 15 (0.47%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.13%) AutoCAD
7 4 (0.13%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.13%) Stateflow
7 4 (0.13%) Windchill
8 3 (0.094%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.063%) Fireworks
9 2 (0.063%) InDesign
10 1 (0.031%) 1Password
10 1 (0.031%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.031%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.031%) Blender
Business Applications
1 56 (1.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 46 (1.44%) Remedy ITSM
3 31 (0.97%) NEC Housing
4 29 (0.91%) Primavera
5 13 (0.41%) Maximo
6 12 (0.38%) SAP HR
7 10 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
8 8 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
9 7 (0.22%) Siebel CRM
10 5 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (0.16%) SAP WM
11 4 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
12 3 (0.094%) SAP EWM
13 2 (0.063%) Oracle Applications
13 2 (0.063%) Oracle EBS R12
13 2 (0.063%) PeopleSoft HCM
13 2 (0.063%) SAP CRM
13 2 (0.063%) SAP GTS
13 2 (0.063%) SAP SD
13 2 (0.063%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 862 (26.94%) Azure
2 727 (22.72%) AWS
3 110 (3.44%) Dynamics 365
4 105 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
5 102 (3.19%) Power Platform
6 91 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
7 89 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
8 70 (2.19%) SaaS
9 68 (2.13%) Serverless
10 59 (1.84%) PaaS
11 50 (1.56%) PowerApps
12 49 (1.53%) Entra ID
13 47 (1.47%) Amazon SQS
14 44 (1.38%) GCP
15 42 (1.31%) Power Automate
16 41 (1.28%) GitHub
17 37 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
18 35 (1.09%) IaaS
19 34 (1.06%) Amazon ECS
19 34 (1.06%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 181 (5.66%) Firewall
2 121 (3.78%) DNS
3 86 (2.69%) WAN
4 84 (2.63%) TCP/IP
5 74 (2.31%) VPN
6 62 (1.94%) LAN
7 60 (1.88%) BGP
8 58 (1.81%) Network Security
9 50 (1.56%) SSL
10 49 (1.53%) Wireless
11 43 (1.34%) Internet
12 42 (1.31%) DHCP
13 36 (1.13%) SAN
14 33 (1.03%) SD-WAN
15 25 (0.78%) 5G
16 21 (0.66%) Ethernet
17 17 (0.53%) VSAN
18 16 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
19 14 (0.44%) MPLS
19 14 (0.44%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 252 (7.88%) PostgreSQL
2 218 (6.81%) GIS
3 214 (6.69%) QGIS
4 156 (4.88%) Relational Database
5 86 (2.69%) Oracle Database
6 70 (2.19%) Power BI
7 63 (1.97%) RDBMS
8 62 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
8 62 (1.94%) SQL Server
9 47 (1.47%) NoSQL
10 27 (0.84%) MySQL
11 17 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
12 16 (0.50%) Big Data
13 13 (0.41%) Tableau
14 12 (0.38%) MongoDB
15 11 (0.34%) Hadoop
16 10 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
16 10 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
17 9 (0.28%) Data Lake
18 8 (0.25%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 135 (4.22%) JIRA
2 128 (4.00%) Git
3 99 (3.09%) GitLab
4 96 (3.00%) Jenkins
5 58 (1.81%) Rational DOORS
6 39 (1.22%) Selenium
7 38 (1.19%) Rational Rhapsody
8 24 (0.75%) Subversion
9 20 (0.63%) Vagrant
10 19 (0.59%) Visual Studio
11 18 (0.56%) SonarQube
12 16 (0.50%) JUnit
13 14 (0.44%) CMake
13 14 (0.44%) Cucumber
13 14 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
14 13 (0.41%) Rational Team Concert
15 12 (0.38%) Bitbucket
15 12 (0.38%) JMeter
16 10 (0.31%) Trac
17 7 (0.22%) Eclipse
General
1 798 (24.94%) Social Skills
2 373 (11.66%) Public Sector
3 308 (9.63%) Finance
4 295 (9.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 245 (7.66%) Aerospace
6 176 (5.50%) Analytical Skills
7 124 (3.88%) Military
8 96 (3.00%) Police
9 78 (2.44%) Games
9 78 (2.44%) Retail
10 74 (2.31%) Manufacturing
11 63 (1.97%) Law
12 60 (1.88%) Telecoms
13 59 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
14 48 (1.50%) Electronics
14 48 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
15 43 (1.34%) Local Government
16 30 (0.94%) Marketing
17 22 (0.69%) French Language
18 16 (0.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 671 (20.97%) Senior
2 488 (15.25%) Architect
3 479 (14.97%) Software Engineer
4 371 (11.59%) Developer
5 364 (11.38%) Lead
6 302 (9.44%) Senior Software Engineer
7 223 (6.97%) Systems Engineer
8 208 (6.50%) Solutions Architect
9 201 (6.28%) Analyst
10 149 (4.66%) Consultant
11 127 (3.97%) DevOps Engineer
12 122 (3.81%) Project Manager
13 95 (2.97%) Business Analyst
14 92 (2.88%) Presales Solution Architect
15 87 (2.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 86 (2.69%) Senior Developer
17 68 (2.13%) Full Stack Developer
18 65 (2.03%) Lead Architect
19 63 (1.97%) Tester
20 60 (1.88%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 297 (9.28%) React
2 289 (9.03%) .NET
3 222 (6.94%) CSS
4 214 (6.69%) Leaflet
4 214 (6.69%) OpenLayers
4 214 (6.69%) PostGIS
5 187 (5.84%) .NET Core
6 124 (3.88%) Node.js
7 94 (2.94%) Web Services
8 90 (2.81%) AngularJS
9 86 (2.69%) HTML
10 83 (2.59%) Spring Boot
11 70 (2.19%) REST
11 70 (2.19%) Spring
12 68 (2.13%) RESTful
13 64 (2.00%) Django
14 57 (1.78%) XML
15 51 (1.59%) RabbitMQ
16 50 (1.56%) Express.js
17 42 (1.31%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 127 (3.97%) Management Information System
2 100 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
3 96 (3.00%) Product Ownership
4 94 (2.94%) Public Cloud
5 89 (2.78%) Private Cloud
6 84 (2.63%) Algorithms
7 82 (2.56%) Virtual Team
8 73 (2.28%) Data Centre
9 62 (1.94%) Onboarding
10 50 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
11 39 (1.22%) Operational Technology
12 32 (1.00%) PKI
13 28 (0.88%) IoT
14 25 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
14 25 (0.78%) Mainframe
15 24 (0.75%) Cyber Threat
16 23 (0.72%) Driving Licence
17 22 (0.69%) Cloud Native
17 22 (0.69%) Cyberattack
17 22 (0.69%) Satnav
Operating Systems
1 569 (17.78%) Linux
2 292 (9.13%) Windows
3 111 (3.47%) Ubuntu
4 99 (3.09%) Windows Server
5 80 (2.50%) Unix
6 78 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 72 (2.25%) Embedded Linux
8 51 (1.59%) VMS
9 31 (0.97%) Windows Server 2019
10 29 (0.91%) Android
10 29 (0.91%) CentOS
10 29 (0.91%) Solaris
10 29 (0.91%) Windows Server 2016
11 17 (0.53%) Windows 10
12 11 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
13 10 (0.31%) zOS
14 6 (0.19%) Windows NT
15 4 (0.13%) AIX
15 4 (0.13%) Windows 7
16 3 (0.094%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,194 (37.31%) Agile
2 761 (23.78%) Software Engineering
3 754 (23.56%) Actionable Insight
4 724 (22.63%) DevOps
5 554 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
6 360 (11.25%) Project Management
7 329 (10.28%) Scrum
8 301 (9.41%) CI/CD
9 291 (9.09%) Mentoring
10 288 (9.00%) Systems Engineering
11 273 (8.53%) Cybersecurity
12 256 (8.00%) Continuous Integration
13 242 (7.56%) Collaborative Working
14 241 (7.53%) ITIL
15 230 (7.19%) Web Development
16 212 (6.63%) Kanban
17 208 (6.50%) Stakeholder Management
18 206 (6.44%) Open Source
19 192 (6.00%) Presales
20 191 (5.97%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 611 (19.09%) Python
2 489 (15.28%) JavaScript
3 342 (10.69%) Java
4 254 (7.94%) C#
5 159 (4.97%) C
6 157 (4.91%) SQL
7 128 (4.00%) C++
8 121 (3.78%) PowerShell
9 102 (3.19%) Bash
10 93 (2.91%) TypeScript
11 61 (1.91%) MATLAB
12 56 (1.75%) Rust
13 50 (1.56%) Embedded C
14 43 (1.34%) Shell Script
15 39 (1.22%) Go
16 31 (0.97%) Bicep
17 29 (0.91%) Ada
17 29 (0.91%) VB
18 23 (0.72%) VBScript
19 19 (0.59%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,903 (59.47%) SC Cleared
2 614 (19.19%) Degree
3 574 (17.94%) DV Cleared
4 358 (11.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 123 (3.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 97 (3.03%) AWS Certification
6 97 (3.03%) Azure Certification
7 61 (1.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 57 (1.78%) CISSP
9 53 (1.66%) CISM
10 45 (1.41%) DBS Check
11 44 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
12 39 (1.22%) Master's Degree
13 34 (1.06%) CTC Cleared
14 33 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
15 32 (1.00%) CRISC
16 29 (0.91%) NVQ Level 3
17 26 (0.81%) CCNA
17 26 (0.81%) CCNP
18 22 (0.69%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (3.69%) QA
2 79 (2.47%) Accessibility
3 54 (1.69%) NCSC
4 42 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 37 (1.16%) NIST
6 32 (1.00%) COBIT
7 27 (0.84%) PMO
8 26 (0.81%) JSP 440
9 24 (0.75%) SLA
10 23 (0.72%) GDPR
11 20 (0.63%) Software Quality Assurance
12 18 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
13 17 (0.53%) GRC
13 17 (0.53%) RMADS
14 16 (0.50%) Data Quality
14 16 (0.50%) NIST 800
15 14 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 11 (0.34%) Def Stans
16 11 (0.34%) MISRA
17 10 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 211 (6.59%) Docker
2 178 (5.56%) Active Directory
3 63 (1.97%) Hyper-V
4 61 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
5 55 (1.72%) Firmware
6 35 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
7 22 (0.69%) vSphere
8 18 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
9 17 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
10 16 (0.50%) pfSense
11 10 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
11 10 (0.31%) NFS
11 10 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
12 9 (0.28%) Forefront TMG
12 9 (0.28%) VMware Workstation
13 7 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
14 2 (0.063%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.063%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.031%) Lustre
15 1 (0.031%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 251 (7.84%) Ansible
2 241 (7.53%) Terraform
3 220 (6.88%) Kubernetes
4 64 (2.00%) SCCM
5 49 (1.53%) WSUS
6 44 (1.38%) SCOM
7 32 (1.00%) Grafana
7 32 (1.00%) OpenView
8 28 (0.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 26 (0.81%) Puppet
10 23 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
11 19 (0.59%) vCenter Server
12 16 (0.50%) ZABBIX
13 15 (0.47%) Kibana
14 12 (0.38%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
14 12 (0.38%) Prometheus
15 11 (0.34%) Progress Chef
16 10 (0.31%) SCDPM
17 6 (0.19%) Sysprep
18 5 (0.16%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 471 (14.72%) Microsoft
2 219 (6.84%) ESRI
3 156 (4.88%) Oracle
4 150 (4.69%) VMware
5 98 (3.06%) ServiceNow
6 91 (2.84%) Cisco
7 71 (2.22%) Juniper
8 56 (1.75%) Sparx
9 55 (1.72%) HP
10 52 (1.63%) IBM
11 48 (1.50%) Xilinx
12 46 (1.44%) Fortinet
12 46 (1.44%) Remedy
13 45 (1.41%) BMC
14 32 (1.00%) NEC
15 30 (0.94%) Thales
16 29 (0.91%) Red Hat
17 28 (0.88%) Riverbed
18 27 (0.84%) Palo Alto
19 26 (0.81%) SAP