BPSS Clearance Jobs with Work from Home Options

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) 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 BPSS Clearance qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 255 544 674
Rank change year-on-year +289 +130 -300
Permanent jobs citing BPSS Clearance 416 117 168
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.23% 0.28% 0.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.38% 1.11% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 324 84 93
10th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £48,438 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.23% - +18.18%
75th Percentile £66,563 £82,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £76,750 £89,250 £110,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,384 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.15% +9.30% -4.55%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

BPSS Clearance 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 9,505 10,536 15,647
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 28.15% 25.40% 22.86%
Number of salaries quoted 5,902 6,443 8,544
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,715 £77,313
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £93,525
UK median annual salary £54,000 £59,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.24% +8.18% -

BPSS Clearance
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

BPSS Clearance trend for jobs with a WFH option

BPSS Clearance
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

BPSS Clearance salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

BPSS Clearance
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing BPSS Clearance over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

BPSS Clearance salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

BPSS Clearance
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 6 (1.44%) Confluence
2 3 (0.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 41 (9.86%) Simulink
2 6 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.96%) Stateflow
4 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.24%) 1Password
5 1 (0.24%) Blender
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.24%) SAP MM
1 1 (0.24%) SAP PM
1 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 72 (17.31%) Azure
2 64 (15.38%) AWS
3 24 (5.77%) GitHub
4 23 (5.53%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (5.53%) GitHub Actions
5 18 (4.33%) GCP
6 17 (4.09%) PaaS
7 10 (2.40%) IaaS
7 10 (2.40%) Power Platform
7 10 (2.40%) SaaS
7 10 (2.40%) Serverless
8 8 (1.92%) Slack
9 6 (1.44%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (1.44%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (0.96%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 4 (0.96%) Entra ID
11 3 (0.72%) OCI
11 3 (0.72%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 2 (0.48%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.64%) Ethernet
2 8 (1.92%) Software-Defined Radio
3 6 (1.44%) Wireless
4 5 (1.20%) 5G
4 5 (1.20%) 5G NR
4 5 (1.20%) 802.11
4 5 (1.20%) LTE
4 5 (1.20%) SAN
5 4 (0.96%) DNS
5 4 (0.96%) Internet
6 3 (0.72%) Modbus
6 3 (0.72%) RS-232
6 3 (0.72%) RS-422
6 3 (0.72%) RS-485
6 3 (0.72%) Tactical Data Link
7 1 (0.24%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.29%) Relational Database
2 6 (1.44%) Power BI
3 4 (0.96%) Redis
3 4 (0.96%) Tableau
4 2 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.48%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 2 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.24%) MySQL
5 1 (0.24%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 39 (9.38%) Rational DOORS
2 35 (8.41%) Rational Rhapsody
3 17 (4.09%) GitLab
4 13 (3.13%) Git
4 13 (3.13%) Rational Team Concert
5 12 (2.88%) JIRA
6 11 (2.64%) Jenkins
7 8 (1.92%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.44%) CircleCI
8 6 (1.44%) git-flow
9 5 (1.20%) Postman
9 5 (1.20%) Subversion
10 4 (0.96%) JMeter
10 4 (0.96%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.72%) Eclipse
12 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.24%) Selenium
12 1 (0.24%) SpecFlow
12 1 (0.24%) TeamCity
General
1 107 (25.72%) Social Skills
2 54 (12.98%) Public Sector
3 41 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (6.73%) Military
5 23 (5.53%) Manufacturing
6 22 (5.29%) Electronics
6 22 (5.29%) French Language
7 17 (4.09%) Aerospace
8 16 (3.85%) Finance
9 14 (3.37%) Games
10 11 (2.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.68%) Italian Language
12 4 (0.96%) German Language
12 4 (0.96%) Polish Language
12 4 (0.96%) Retail
13 3 (0.72%) Aeronautics
13 3 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.72%) Marketing
13 3 (0.72%) Turkish Language
14 2 (0.48%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 74 (17.79%) Systems Engineer
2 65 (15.63%) Lead
3 50 (12.02%) Senior
4 47 (11.30%) Architect
5 40 (9.62%) Software Engineer
6 39 (9.38%) Developer
7 22 (5.29%) Security Architect
8 21 (5.05%) Full Stack Developer
9 19 (4.57%) Principal Architect
9 19 (4.57%) Principal Security Architect
10 18 (4.33%) Systems Architect
11 17 (4.09%) Analyst
12 16 (3.85%) Graduate
12 16 (3.85%) Senior Developer
12 16 (3.85%) Senior Full Stack Developer
13 13 (3.13%) DevOps Engineer
14 10 (2.40%) Graduate Systems Engineer
14 10 (2.40%) Project Leader
14 10 (2.40%) Test Engineer
15 9 (2.16%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (6.49%) Node.js
2 25 (6.01%) HTML
3 24 (5.77%) CSS
4 20 (4.81%) RESTful
4 20 (4.81%) Web Services
5 17 (4.09%) .NET
6 11 (2.64%) Middleware
7 9 (2.16%) ASP.NET
7 9 (2.16%) Express.js
7 9 (2.16%) PyTorch
8 8 (1.92%) ARM Templates
8 8 (1.92%) ASP.NET Core
8 8 (1.92%) Azure Blueprints
8 8 (1.92%) OAuth
8 8 (1.92%) OpenID
9 6 (1.44%) .NET Framework
9 6 (1.44%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (1.20%) 802.1X
11 4 (0.96%) REST
11 4 (0.96%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 53 (12.74%) Onboarding
2 46 (11.06%) Algorithms
3 27 (6.49%) Management Information System
4 21 (5.05%) Public Cloud
5 13 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 13 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.92%) CMDB
6 8 (1.92%) FPGA
6 8 (1.92%) PCIe
6 8 (1.92%) VHDL
7 6 (1.44%) Virtual Team
8 4 (0.96%) Augmented Reality
8 4 (0.96%) Cloud Native
8 4 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (0.96%) Data Structures
8 4 (0.96%) Robotics
8 4 (0.96%) Virtual Reality
9 3 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.72%) Ray Tracing
9 3 (0.72%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 28 (6.73%) Linux
2 13 (3.13%) Windows
3 4 (0.96%) Ubuntu
3 4 (0.96%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.72%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (0.72%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.48%) Unix
5 2 (0.48%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.24%) Android
6 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (28.61%) Systems Engineering
2 117 (28.13%) Software Engineering
3 116 (27.88%) Agile
4 81 (19.47%) Validation
5 68 (16.35%) Problem-Solving
6 62 (14.90%) DevOps
7 55 (13.22%) Mathematics
8 54 (12.98%) Mentoring
9 52 (12.50%) Verification and Validation
10 47 (11.30%) Continuous Integration
10 47 (11.30%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
11 46 (11.06%) Software Testing
12 43 (10.34%) Project Management
13 40 (9.62%) Physics
14 38 (9.13%) CI/CD
15 36 (8.65%) TDD
16 35 (8.41%) Scrum
17 34 (8.17%) Coaching
17 34 (8.17%) Continuous Delivery
18 32 (7.69%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 49 (11.78%) C#
2 41 (9.86%) C
3 40 (9.62%) Python
4 37 (8.89%) JavaScript
5 36 (8.65%) MATLAB
6 29 (6.97%) Ada
6 29 (6.97%) Java
7 19 (4.57%) Go
8 9 (2.16%) Shell Script
9 7 (1.68%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.96%) R
10 4 (0.96%) VBA
11 3 (0.72%) C++
11 3 (0.72%) Rust
11 3 (0.72%) SQL
11 3 (0.72%) SystemVerilog
12 2 (0.48%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.24%) Bash
13 1 (0.24%) PHP
13 1 (0.24%) VB
Qualifications
1 357 (85.82%) Security Cleared
2 124 (29.81%) Degree
3 66 (15.87%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.88%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.16%) DBS Check
6 5 (1.20%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.20%) PhD
7 4 (0.96%) APMP
8 2 (0.48%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.48%) HNC
9 1 (0.24%) ACCA
9 1 (0.24%) CEH
9 1 (0.24%) CIMA
9 1 (0.24%) CISM
9 1 (0.24%) CISSP
9 1 (0.24%) HND
9 1 (0.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.24%) NVQ Level 3
9 1 (0.24%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.24%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.77%) Accessibility
2 14 (3.37%) QA
3 10 (2.40%) Def Stans
3 10 (2.40%) MISRA
4 9 (2.16%) NCSC
5 4 (0.96%) IEC 61508
5 4 (0.96%) MISRA C
6 3 (0.72%) NIST
7 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.24%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 36 (8.65%) Firmware
2 21 (5.05%) Docker
3 10 (2.40%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.92%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (4.81%) Terraform
2 19 (4.57%) Ansible
3 17 (4.09%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.96%) Grafana
4 4 (0.96%) Kibana
5 2 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.24%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 36 (8.65%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.21%) IBM
3 7 (1.68%) Google
4 6 (1.44%) McAfee
4 6 (1.44%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.20%) ServiceNow
6 4 (0.96%) Automation Anywhere
6 4 (0.96%) Blue Prism
6 4 (0.96%) Mercator
6 4 (0.96%) NVIDIA
6 4 (0.96%) OpenAI
6 4 (0.96%) SIMUL8
6 4 (0.96%) Splunk
6 4 (0.96%) Sun
6 4 (0.96%) UiPath
7 3 (0.72%) Dell
7 3 (0.72%) EMC
7 3 (0.72%) Microsemi
7 3 (0.72%) Red Hat
7 3 (0.72%) Xilinx