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 15 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 323 231
Rank change year-on-year +46 -92 +347
Permanent jobs citing BPSS Clearance 115 75 444
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.66% 0.57% 1.38%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.73% 1.92% 5.09%
Number of salaries quoted 79 61 341
10th Percentile £46,500 £45,863 £31,250
25th Percentile £56,337 £47,683 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £70,600 £67,500
90th Percentile £91,436 £75,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

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 4,209 3,902 8,716
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 24.09% 29.78% 27.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2,801 2,452 5,935
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,750 £42,688 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,661 £57,500 £54,500
% change year-on-year +0.28% +5.50% -5.22%

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 15 April 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 11 (9.57%) SharePoint
2 8 (6.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.87%) Confluence
3 1 (0.87%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 5 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (3.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.61%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.87%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.87%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 12 (10.43%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (9.57%) Azure
3 10 (8.70%) Entra ID
4 4 (3.48%) AWS
5 3 (2.61%) GitHub
6 2 (1.74%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.74%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 2 (1.74%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (0.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.87%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.87%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.87%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.87%) Asana
7 1 (0.87%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.87%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.87%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (0.87%) SaaS
7 1 (0.87%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.83%) WAN
2 8 (6.96%) DHCP
2 8 (6.96%) DNS
2 8 (6.96%) LAN
2 8 (6.96%) VPN
2 8 (6.96%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (2.61%) Skype
4 1 (0.87%) 4G
4 1 (0.87%) 5G
4 1 (0.87%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.48%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.74%) Oracle Database
2 2 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.74%) Power BI
3 1 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.87%) SAP HANA
3 1 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (0.87%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (11.30%) Rational DOORS
2 4 (3.48%) Git
3 2 (1.74%) JIRA
4 1 (0.87%) Android Studio
4 1 (0.87%) GitLab
4 1 (0.87%) MSTest
4 1 (0.87%) NUnit
4 1 (0.87%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 40 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 25 (21.74%) Public Sector
3 22 (19.13%) Finance
4 14 (12.17%) Electronics
4 14 (12.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (9.57%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (6.96%) Legal
8 4 (3.48%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.48%) Police
8 4 (3.48%) Retail
9 3 (2.61%) Games
10 2 (1.74%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.74%) Marketing
10 2 (1.74%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.87%) Billing
11 1 (0.87%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (22.61%) Senior
2 14 (12.17%) Systems Engineer
3 13 (11.30%) Principal Engineer
3 13 (11.30%) Principal Systems Engineer
4 12 (10.43%) Lead
5 11 (9.57%) Bid Writer
5 11 (9.57%) Senior Bid Writer
6 8 (6.96%) Developer
6 8 (6.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (6.96%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
6 8 (6.96%) IT Engineer
6 8 (6.96%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (6.96%) Operations Engineer
6 8 (6.96%) Project Manager
7 6 (5.22%) Finance Manager
7 6 (5.22%) Senior Developer
7 6 (5.22%) Systems Manager
8 5 (4.35%) Administrator
8 5 (4.35%) Head of Support
8 5 (4.35%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.48%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (2.61%) CSS
2 3 (2.61%) HTML
2 3 (2.61%) OpenGL
2 3 (2.61%) Vulkan
3 2 (1.74%) .NET
3 2 (1.74%) .NET Framework
3 2 (1.74%) ASP.NET
3 2 (1.74%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (1.74%) Middleware
3 2 (1.74%) REST
3 2 (1.74%) SOAP
3 2 (1.74%) Visualforce
4 1 (0.87%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (0.87%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (0.87%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 1 (0.87%) Dapper ORM
4 1 (0.87%) Entity Framework
4 1 (0.87%) NHibernate
4 1 (0.87%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.17%) Driving Licence
2 13 (11.30%) Algorithms
3 9 (7.83%) Management Information System
4 8 (6.96%) Podcast
4 8 (6.96%) Virtual Team
4 8 (6.96%) Web Conferencing
5 6 (5.22%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.61%) 3D Graphics
6 3 (2.61%) CUDA
6 3 (2.61%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.61%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.74%) PMI
7 2 (1.74%) Replication
7 2 (1.74%) Robotics
7 2 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.74%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.87%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.87%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.83%) Windows
2 6 (5.22%) Linux
3 2 (1.74%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.74%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.87%) Android
4 1 (0.87%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (15.65%) Technical Leadership
3 16 (13.91%) Continuous Improvement
4 15 (13.04%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 14 (12.17%) Service Delivery
5 14 (12.17%) Signal Processing
5 14 (12.17%) Systems Engineering
6 13 (11.30%) Customer Service
6 13 (11.30%) Test Planning
7 12 (10.43%) Data Migration
7 12 (10.43%) ITIL
7 12 (10.43%) Migration
8 11 (9.57%) ERP
9 10 (8.70%) Agile
10 8 (6.96%) Cloud Security
10 8 (6.96%) Disaster Recovery
10 8 (6.96%) Roadmaps
10 8 (6.96%) Service Management
10 8 (6.96%) User Experience
10 8 (6.96%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (5.22%) Python
2 4 (3.48%) Java
3 3 (2.61%) C
3 3 (2.61%) C++
3 3 (2.61%) GLSL
3 3 (2.61%) JavaScript
3 3 (2.61%) SQL
4 2 (1.74%) Apex Code
4 2 (1.74%) C#
4 2 (1.74%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.74%) SOQL
4 2 (1.74%) SOSL
5 1 (0.87%) ABAP
5 1 (0.87%) Kotlin
5 1 (0.87%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 59 (51.30%) Security Cleared
2 34 (29.57%) SC Cleared
3 19 (16.52%) Degree
4 10 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (6.09%) DBS Check
6 6 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.48%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (3.48%) CISM
7 4 (3.48%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 3 (2.61%) CISSP
8 3 (2.61%) HNC
8 3 (2.61%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.74%) CCNA
9 2 (1.74%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.87%) APMP
10 1 (0.87%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 1 (0.87%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.87%) PMP
10 1 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.30%) ISO/IEC 15288
1 13 (11.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (7.83%) Cyber Essentials
2 9 (7.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 5 (4.35%) NEBOSH
4 4 (3.48%) GDPR
5 2 (1.74%) GRC
5 2 (1.74%) PMO
6 1 (0.87%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.87%) NCSC
6 1 (0.87%) NIST
6 1 (0.87%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.87%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.61%) Ansible
3 2 (1.74%) Data Guard
3 2 (1.74%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (1.74%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (1.74%) Terraform
4 1 (0.87%) Grafana
4 1 (0.87%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.87%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (18.26%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.30%) IBM
3 11 (9.57%) Cisco
4 8 (6.96%) Meraki
5 6 (5.22%) Oracle
6 5 (4.35%) SAP
7 3 (2.61%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.87%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.87%) Google
8 1 (0.87%) Juniper
8 1 (0.87%) Mercator
8 1 (0.87%) ServiceNow