BPSS Clearance Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 260 446
Rank change year-on-year +178 +186 +283
Permanent jobs citing BPSS Clearance 859 383 170
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 4.08% 1.16% 0.48%
As % of the Qualifications category 11.29% 4.16% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 668 308 130
10th Percentile - £37,101 £35,975
25th Percentile - £48,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70,600 £65,000 £74,375
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,875 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +10.89%

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 7,611 9,204 9,387
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.18% 27.93% 26.77%
Number of salaries quoted 3,080 5,513 5,882
10th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% -5.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £70,600 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% -10.83% +9.09%

BPSS Clearance
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing BPSS Clearance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

BPSS Clearance trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

BPSS Clearance
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing BPSS Clearance over the 6 months to 12 July 2025.

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 9 (1.05%) Confluence
2 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.58%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.12%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.12%) Mule
4 1 (0.12%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 41 (4.77%) Simulink
2 40 (4.66%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.47%) Trello
4 1 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.23%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.12%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 25 (2.91%) Azure
2 13 (1.51%) Entra ID
2 13 (1.51%) GitHub
3 10 (1.16%) AWS
4 9 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
4 9 (1.05%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (1.05%) PaaS
5 8 (0.93%) Power Platform
6 5 (0.58%) Azure Stack
6 5 (0.58%) GCP
6 5 (0.58%) IaaS
6 5 (0.58%) SaaS
7 4 (0.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 4 (0.47%) Google Analytics
7 4 (0.47%) Google Data Studio
7 4 (0.47%) Google Sheets
7 4 (0.47%) Google Tag Manager
8 3 (0.35%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (0.23%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.23%) HTTP
2 1 (0.12%) LAN
2 1 (0.12%) SAN
2 1 (0.12%) Skype
2 1 (0.12%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.12%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (0.81%) Power BI
2 5 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (0.47%) Power Query
3 4 (0.47%) Relational Database
4 3 (0.35%) Redis
5 2 (0.23%) MySQL
5 2 (0.23%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.12%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.12%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.12%) DB2
6 1 (0.12%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.12%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.12%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 247 (28.75%) Rational DOORS
2 9 (1.05%) JIRA
3 8 (0.93%) SonarQube
4 5 (0.58%) Git
5 4 (0.47%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.35%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.23%) JUnit
7 2 (0.23%) Subversion
8 1 (0.12%) Gatling
8 1 (0.12%) JMeter
8 1 (0.12%) Locust
8 1 (0.12%) Postman
General
1 398 (46.33%) Presentation Skills
2 317 (36.90%) Electronics
3 73 (8.50%) Social Skills
4 40 (4.66%) Aerospace
5 23 (2.68%) Public Sector
6 20 (2.33%) Avionics
7 18 (2.10%) Finance
8 6 (0.70%) Legal
9 4 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (0.47%) Marketing
9 4 (0.47%) Police
10 3 (0.35%) Military
11 2 (0.23%) Publishing
12 1 (0.12%) Law
12 1 (0.12%) Local Government
12 1 (0.12%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 705 (82.07%) Systems Engineer
2 247 (28.75%) Principal Engineer
2 247 (28.75%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 63 (7.33%) Senior
4 60 (6.98%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 42 (4.89%) Lead
6 40 (4.66%) Lead Systems Engineer
6 40 (4.66%) Team Leader
7 38 (4.42%) Radar Engineer
8 15 (1.75%) Analyst
9 9 (1.05%) Developer
10 5 (0.58%) Development Analyst
10 5 (0.58%) Development Support Analyst
10 5 (0.58%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (0.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (0.58%) Support Analyst
10 5 (0.58%) Systems Analyst
10 5 (0.58%) Systems Development Analyst
10 5 (0.58%) Systems Support
10 5 (0.58%) Systems Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (0.81%) JSON
2 5 (0.58%) ARM Templates
2 5 (0.58%) Azure Blueprints
2 5 (0.58%) Django
2 5 (0.58%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (0.47%) .NET
3 4 (0.47%) RESTful
4 3 (0.35%) CSS
4 3 (0.35%) FastAPI
4 3 (0.35%) Flask
4 3 (0.35%) GraphQL
4 3 (0.35%) HTML
4 3 (0.35%) Keycloak
4 3 (0.35%) OAuth
4 3 (0.35%) pytest
4 3 (0.35%) REST
4 3 (0.35%) SQLAlchemy
4 3 (0.35%) WebSockets
5 2 (0.23%) HTML5
5 2 (0.23%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 317 (36.90%) Algorithms
2 13 (1.51%) Onboarding
3 10 (1.16%) Product Ownership
4 9 (1.05%) Management Information System
5 8 (0.93%) e-Learning
6 5 (0.58%) Data Centre
6 5 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (0.58%) Social Media
7 3 (0.35%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.12%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.12%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.12%) Graphic Design
8 1 (0.12%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.12%) NHS
8 1 (0.12%) Photography
8 1 (0.12%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.75%) Windows
2 12 (1.40%) Linux
3 11 (1.28%) Windows Server
4 7 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (0.58%) Rocky
6 3 (0.35%) Android
6 3 (0.35%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 798 (92.90%) Systems Engineering
2 473 (55.06%) Agile
3 458 (53.32%) SysML
4 418 (48.66%) UML
5 409 (47.61%) Cybersecurity
6 398 (46.33%) MODAF
7 368 (42.84%) Technical Leadership
8 317 (36.90%) Signal Processing
9 248 (28.87%) Test Planning
10 70 (8.15%) Architectural Design
11 61 (7.10%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
12 51 (5.94%) Project Management
13 42 (4.89%) Coaching
14 40 (4.66%) Safety Engineering
14 40 (4.66%) Software Delivery
14 40 (4.66%) System Testing
15 29 (3.38%) Business Continuity
16 27 (3.14%) Line Management
17 22 (2.56%) Customer Requirements
17 22 (2.56%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 399 (46.45%) MATLAB
2 10 (1.16%) SQL
3 9 (1.05%) Python
4 6 (0.70%) PowerShell
5 4 (0.47%) Perl
5 4 (0.47%) PHP
6 2 (0.23%) C#
6 2 (0.23%) Ruby
7 1 (0.12%) C
7 1 (0.12%) C++
7 1 (0.12%) Java
7 1 (0.12%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.12%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.12%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 449 (52.27%) Degree
2 35 (4.07%) Security Cleared
3 25 (2.91%) PhD
4 22 (2.56%) Master's Degree
5 15 (1.75%) SC Cleared
6 7 (0.81%) Chartered Engineer
6 7 (0.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 6 (0.70%) Network+ Certification
8 5 (0.58%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.58%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.35%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.35%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.23%) NVQ Level 4
10 2 (0.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.12%) A+ Certification
11 1 (0.12%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.12%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 339 (39.46%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 6 (0.70%) Data Quality
3 5 (0.58%) NCSC
4 3 (0.35%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.23%) ISO 22301
5 2 (0.23%) QA
6 1 (0.12%) SLA
6 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (1.51%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.93%) Docker
3 5 (0.58%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 13 (1.51%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.58%) Ansible
2 5 (0.58%) Terraform
3 3 (0.35%) Grafana
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.35%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 247 (28.75%) IBM
2 51 (5.94%) Microsoft
3 40 (4.66%) MathWorks
4 9 (1.05%) Mercator
5 7 (0.81%) Google
6 6 (0.70%) Oracle
7 5 (0.58%) Dell
8 2 (0.23%) Concur
8 2 (0.23%) HubSpot
8 2 (0.23%) Pega
8 2 (0.23%) Sage
8 2 (0.23%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.23%) Snow
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe
9 1 (0.12%) Cognos
9 1 (0.12%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.12%) Ribbon
9 1 (0.12%) Splunk
9 1 (0.12%) Verint
9 1 (0.12%) Yealink