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 7 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 234 320 278
Rank change year-on-year +86 -42 +355
Permanent jobs citing BPSS Clearance 146 144 211
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.95% 0.77% 1.02%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.78% 2.84% 3.68%
Number of salaries quoted 78 89 156
10th Percentile £35,854 £49,570 £24,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £53,750 £36,005
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +19.05% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,900 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £78,125
UK median annual salary £54,797 £60,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year -8.67% +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 5,254 5,074 5,736
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.35% 26.98% 27.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2,437 2,617 4,273
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,750 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.80%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £88,850 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,125 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.83% -

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 7 December 2025.

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 4 (2.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.05%) WordPress
3 2 (1.37%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.68%) Confluence
4 1 (0.68%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 5 (3.42%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.05%) Simulink
3 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.68%) CATIA
4 1 (0.68%) PTC Creo
4 1 (0.68%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.68%) SOLIDWORKS
4 1 (0.68%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Sage 200
1 1 (0.68%) SAP IBP
1 1 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 27 (18.49%) Azure
2 22 (15.07%) Entra ID
3 9 (6.16%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (5.48%) AWS
5 7 (4.79%) Azure Stack
6 6 (4.11%) PaaS
7 5 (3.42%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (3.42%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (3.42%) IaaS
8 4 (2.74%) GitHub
8 4 (2.74%) Google Workspace
8 4 (2.74%) SaaS
9 3 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.05%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.37%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.37%) Azure AI
10 2 (1.37%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.37%) Azure App Service
11 1 (0.68%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.68%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.42%) DNS
1 5 (3.42%) Firewall
1 5 (3.42%) VPN
2 3 (2.05%) Internet
3 2 (1.37%) SSH
4 1 (0.68%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.53%) Oracle Reports
2 5 (3.42%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.74%) Big Data
3 4 (2.74%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.74%) MySQL
3 4 (2.74%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.05%) Power BI
5 2 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.37%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.68%) DB2
6 1 (0.68%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.68%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.68%) Power Query
6 1 (0.68%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.68%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (19.86%) Rational DOORS
2 6 (4.11%) Git
3 4 (2.74%) GitLab
4 3 (2.05%) JIRA
5 1 (0.68%) MSTest
5 1 (0.68%) NUnit
5 1 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio
General
1 57 (39.04%) Social Skills
2 33 (22.60%) Electronics
3 20 (13.70%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (13.01%) Public Sector
5 15 (10.27%) Aerospace
6 11 (7.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (7.53%) Police
7 6 (4.11%) Finance
8 5 (3.42%) Marketing
9 4 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.74%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.05%) Aeronautics
10 3 (2.05%) Aviation
10 3 (2.05%) Avionics
10 3 (2.05%) Brand Awareness
10 3 (2.05%) Games
11 2 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.37%) Legal
11 2 (1.37%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.68%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 30 (20.55%) Systems Engineer
2 29 (19.86%) Principal Engineer
2 29 (19.86%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 24 (16.44%) Analyst
4 12 (8.22%) Support Analyst
5 11 (7.53%) Development Analyst
5 11 (7.53%) Development Support Analyst
5 11 (7.53%) Systems Analyst
5 11 (7.53%) Systems Development Analyst
5 11 (7.53%) Systems Support
5 11 (7.53%) Systems Support Analyst
6 8 (5.48%) Lead
7 7 (4.79%) Developer
7 7 (4.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (4.79%) IT Engineer
7 7 (4.79%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (4.11%) Project Manager
9 5 (3.42%) Java Developer
10 4 (2.74%) Integration Manager
10 4 (2.74%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.53%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (2.74%) .NET
3 3 (2.05%) CSS
3 3 (2.05%) HTML
3 3 (2.05%) OpenGL
3 3 (2.05%) REST
3 3 (2.05%) Vulkan
4 2 (1.37%) .NET Framework
4 2 (1.37%) ASP.NET
4 2 (1.37%) Node.js
5 1 (0.68%) Ajax
5 1 (0.68%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (0.68%) Entity Framework
5 1 (0.68%) jQuery
5 1 (0.68%) JSON
5 1 (0.68%) NHibernate
5 1 (0.68%) RESTful
5 1 (0.68%) SOAP
5 1 (0.68%) WCF
5 1 (0.68%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 42 (28.77%) Algorithms
2 17 (11.64%) Management Information System
3 16 (10.96%) Onboarding
4 12 (8.22%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (6.16%) Data Centre
6 8 (5.48%) Driving Licence
7 5 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.74%) Product Ownership
9 3 (2.05%) 3D Graphics
9 3 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (2.05%) Arduino
9 3 (2.05%) Augmented Reality
9 3 (2.05%) CUDA
9 3 (2.05%) IoT
9 3 (2.05%) PKI
9 3 (2.05%) Raspberry Pi
9 3 (2.05%) Virtual Reality
10 2 (1.37%) PMI
11 1 (0.68%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.68%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 17 (11.64%) Linux
1 17 (11.64%) Windows
2 9 (6.16%) Windows Server
2 9 (6.16%) Windows Server 2019
3 7 (4.79%) Rocky
4 3 (2.05%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.37%) Android
5 2 (1.37%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.37%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.68%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (28.08%) Systems Engineering
2 35 (23.97%) Technical Leadership
3 34 (23.29%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (23.29%) Signal Processing
4 29 (19.86%) Test Planning
5 26 (17.81%) AI
6 25 (17.12%) Innovative Thinking
7 21 (14.38%) ITIL
8 18 (12.33%) Change Control
8 18 (12.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (11.64%) Agile
9 17 (11.64%) Computer Science
10 16 (10.96%) Analytics
11 14 (9.59%) Project Management
12 13 (8.90%) Software Engineering
13 12 (8.22%) Validation
14 11 (7.53%) Data Security
14 11 (7.53%) Knowledge Management
14 11 (7.53%) Mathematics
14 11 (7.53%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 27 (18.49%) Python
2 14 (9.59%) C
2 14 (9.59%) Java
3 13 (8.90%) C++
4 12 (8.22%) PowerShell
5 8 (5.48%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.79%) SQL
7 6 (4.11%) MATLAB
8 5 (3.42%) Bicep
9 3 (2.05%) Assembly Language
9 3 (2.05%) C#
9 3 (2.05%) GLSL
9 3 (2.05%) Google Apps Script
9 3 (2.05%) Objective-C
9 3 (2.05%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.05%) Swift
9 3 (2.05%) Tcl
9 3 (2.05%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.68%) PHP
Qualifications
1 76 (52.05%) Security Cleared
2 58 (39.73%) SC Cleared
3 37 (25.34%) Degree
4 12 (8.22%) Azure Certification
4 12 (8.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 8 (5.48%) Master's Degree
5 8 (5.48%) PhD
6 7 (4.79%) DV Cleared
6 7 (4.79%) Network+ Certification
7 6 (4.11%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.74%) DBS Check
9 3 (2.05%) AWS Certification
9 3 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.37%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.68%) CCNA
11 1 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.68%) CISM
11 1 (0.68%) CISSP
11 1 (0.68%) NVQ Level 4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (25.34%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 11 (7.53%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.42%) GDPR
3 5 (3.42%) NEBOSH
3 5 (3.42%) QA
4 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.68%) GRC
4 1 (0.68%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.68%) NIST
4 1 (0.68%) PMO
4 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (13.01%) Active Directory
2 12 (8.22%) Hyper-V
3 5 (3.42%) Firmware
3 5 (3.42%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (3.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (6.85%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.11%) Terraform
3 5 (3.42%) SCOM
4 4 (2.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (2.05%) SCCM
6 2 (1.37%) Ansible
7 1 (0.68%) Grafana
7 1 (0.68%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (19.86%) IBM
2 21 (14.38%) Microsoft
3 12 (8.22%) Oracle
4 8 (5.48%) Google
5 7 (4.79%) Dell
6 5 (3.42%) VMware
7 4 (2.74%) HubSpot
8 3 (2.05%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.37%) Foundry
9 2 (1.37%) Mercator
9 2 (1.37%) Pega
10 1 (0.68%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.68%) Cisco
10 1 (0.68%) Cognos
10 1 (0.68%) Concur
10 1 (0.68%) Sage
10 1 (0.68%) SAP
10 1 (0.68%) ServiceNow