Hybrid/Remote BPSS Clearance Job Trends

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) Clearance
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid work with a requirement for BPSS Clearance qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 277 341
Rank change year-on-year +121 +64 -32
Permanent jobs citing BPSS Clearance 408 149 154
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.65% 0.90% 0.67%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.96% 2.51% 2.45%
Number of salaries quoted 139 91 99
10th Percentile £31,000 £35,854 £45,000
25th Percentile £45,969 £43,750 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,000 £70,600 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.10% +17.67% +12.96%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £69,375
90th Percentile £91,436 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -0.87% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

BPSS Clearance 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 5,124 5,940 6,293
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.74% 36.03% 27.32%
Number of salaries quoted 3,206 2,316 2,968
10th Percentile £33,375 £31,125 £34,404
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,517
% change year-on-year +9.09% -2.68% -3.39%

BPSS Clearance
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing BPSS Clearance and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

BPSS Clearance job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

BPSS Clearance
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing BPSS Clearance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing BPSS Clearance

BPSS Clearance
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing BPSS Clearance over the 6 months to 25 September 2026.

BPSS Clearance salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

BPSS Clearance
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 9 (2.21%) Confluence
2 4 (0.98%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 21 (5.15%) Simulink
2 6 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.98%) Mathcad
4 4 (0.98%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.25%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.25%) Sketch
6 1 (0.25%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 17 (4.17%) Primavera
2 6 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.23%) Teamcenter
4 4 (0.98%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.49%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.25%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.25%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 30 (7.35%) AWS
2 18 (4.41%) Azure
3 14 (3.43%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (2.94%) Entra ID
5 7 (1.72%) Power Platform
6 3 (0.74%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (0.74%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (0.74%) Figma
7 2 (0.49%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.49%) GitHub
7 2 (0.49%) SaaS
8 1 (0.25%) Azure API Management
8 1 (0.25%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.25%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.25%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.25%) Boomi
8 1 (0.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.94%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.47%) Ethernet
3 5 (1.23%) Network Security
4 3 (0.74%) 3GPP
4 3 (0.74%) DHCP
4 3 (0.74%) DNS
4 3 (0.74%) TETRA
5 2 (0.49%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (0.49%) OSPF
5 2 (0.49%) VLAN
5 2 (0.49%) VPN
5 2 (0.49%) Wireshark
6 1 (0.25%) Firewall
6 1 (0.25%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (1.72%) Power BI
3 6 (1.47%) Big Data
4 4 (0.98%) Hadoop
4 4 (0.98%) NoSQL
4 4 (0.98%) OLAP
4 4 (0.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.49%) Metadata
7 1 (0.25%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.25%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.25%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.25%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 20 (4.90%) Rational DOORS
2 18 (4.41%) JIRA
3 8 (1.96%) Git
4 6 (1.47%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.47%) LabVIEW
5 4 (0.98%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (0.74%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.74%) CMake
6 3 (0.74%) Mercurial
6 3 (0.74%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.49%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.25%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.25%) Maven
8 1 (0.25%) Postman
8 1 (0.25%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.25%) REST Assured
General
1 263 (64.46%) Finance
2 192 (47.06%) Social Skills
3 135 (33.09%) Aerospace
4 120 (29.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 117 (28.68%) Legal
6 114 (27.94%) Organisational Skills
7 37 (9.07%) Public Sector
8 36 (8.82%) Electronics
9 33 (8.09%) Military
10 25 (6.13%) Analytical Skills
11 16 (3.92%) Manufacturing
12 11 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (2.45%) Games
13 10 (2.45%) Italian Language
13 10 (2.45%) Japanese Language
14 5 (1.23%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.49%) Automotive
15 2 (0.49%) Law
16 1 (0.25%) Banking
16 1 (0.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 45 (11.03%) Senior
2 37 (9.07%) Architect
3 36 (8.82%) Lead
4 27 (6.62%) Analyst
4 27 (6.62%) Software Engineer
5 25 (6.13%) Systems Engineer
6 22 (5.39%) Principal Engineer
7 16 (3.92%) Solutions Architect
8 14 (3.43%) AWS Architect
8 14 (3.43%) AWS Solution Architect
9 13 (3.19%) Business Analyst
9 13 (3.19%) Consultant
9 13 (3.19%) Project Manager
10 12 (2.94%) Technical Architect
11 11 (2.70%) Senior Analyst
11 11 (2.70%) Technical Specialist
12 10 (2.45%) Data Engineer
12 10 (2.45%) Developer
12 10 (2.45%) Principal Systems Engineer
13 9 (2.21%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.47%) TensorFlow
1 6 (1.47%) Terraform
2 4 (0.98%) .NET
2 4 (0.98%) Apache NiFi
2 4 (0.98%) JSON
2 4 (0.98%) PySpark
3 3 (0.74%) OAuth
3 3 (0.74%) OpenGL
3 3 (0.74%) OpenID
3 3 (0.74%) pgvector
3 3 (0.74%) PostGIS
3 3 (0.74%) PyTorch
3 3 (0.74%) Vulkan
4 2 (0.49%) React
5 1 (0.25%) Kafka
5 1 (0.25%) Playwright
5 1 (0.25%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.25%) REST
5 1 (0.25%) SGML
5 1 (0.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 115 (28.19%) Podcast
1 115 (28.19%) Web Conferencing
2 108 (26.47%) Virtual Team
3 30 (7.35%) Self-Motivation
4 23 (5.64%) FPGA
5 16 (3.92%) Management Information System
6 13 (3.19%) Algorithms
7 10 (2.45%) Cyber Defence
7 10 (2.45%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.45%) VHDL
8 8 (1.96%) Driving Licence
8 8 (1.96%) Verilog
9 7 (1.72%) AI Agents
9 7 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.72%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.72%) Social Media
10 6 (1.47%) Embedded Systems
10 6 (1.47%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.23%) IoT
11 5 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.15%) Windows
2 12 (2.94%) Linux
3 11 (2.70%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.74%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (31.13%) Customer Service
2 81 (19.85%) Agile
3 56 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
4 44 (10.78%) Software Engineering
4 44 (10.78%) Systems Engineering
5 40 (9.80%) Decision-Making
6 39 (9.56%) DevOps
7 34 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 31 (7.60%) Cybersecurity
9 30 (7.35%) Validation
10 29 (7.11%) Project Management
11 28 (6.86%) Roadmaps
12 27 (6.62%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 24 (5.88%) Technical Leadership
14 22 (5.39%) Verification and Validation
15 21 (5.15%) Mentoring
16 20 (4.90%) Risk Management
16 20 (4.90%) Stakeholder Management
17 19 (4.66%) Coaching
17 19 (4.66%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (5.39%) MATLAB
2 21 (5.15%) Python
3 16 (3.92%) C++
4 11 (2.70%) C
4 11 (2.70%) Java
5 10 (2.45%) SQL
6 9 (2.21%) SystemVerilog
7 7 (1.72%) C#
8 6 (1.47%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.23%) Ada
9 5 (1.23%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.74%) GLSL
11 2 (0.49%) R
12 1 (0.25%) ABAP
12 1 (0.25%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.25%) Bash
12 1 (0.25%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.25%) Embedded C++
12 1 (0.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 231 (56.62%) Security Cleared
2 185 (45.34%) SC Cleared
3 122 (29.90%) DV Cleared
4 85 (20.83%) Degree
5 13 (3.19%) Chartered Engineer
5 13 (3.19%) PhD
6 9 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.21%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.72%) HNC
8 5 (1.23%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.23%) HND
9 4 (0.98%) CISSP
10 3 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.49%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.49%) CCNA
11 2 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.49%) CISM
12 1 (0.25%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.25%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (26.47%) Accessibility
2 18 (4.41%) QA
3 11 (2.70%) SLA
4 10 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.23%) NIST
6 4 (0.98%) GDPR
7 3 (0.74%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.49%) AUTOSAR
8 2 (0.49%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 2 (0.49%) MISRA
8 2 (0.49%) MISRA C
9 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.25%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.25%) ECSS
9 1 (0.25%) GRC
9 1 (0.25%) PMO
9 1 (0.25%) PSD2
9 1 (0.25%) SEPA
System Software
1 29 (7.11%) Firmware
2 9 (2.21%) Active Directory
2 9 (2.21%) Docker
3 3 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (2.21%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (1.96%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.47%) Ansible
4 5 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.25%) Argo
5 1 (0.25%) Grafana
Vendors
1 36 (8.82%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.39%) SAP
3 11 (2.70%) Siemens
4 9 (2.21%) ServiceNow
5 8 (1.96%) Xilinx
6 7 (1.72%) Atlassian
6 7 (1.72%) IBM
7 6 (1.47%) Google
8 5 (1.23%) Tagetik
9 4 (0.98%) Intel
9 4 (0.98%) Microsemi
9 4 (0.98%) Oracle
10 3 (0.74%) Perforce
10 3 (0.74%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.74%) VMware
11 2 (0.49%) Cisco
11 2 (0.49%) Peregrine
11 2 (0.49%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.49%) Veeam
12 1 (0.25%) Adobe