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 24 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 313 277
Rank change year-on-year +107 -36 +119
Permanent jobs citing BPSS Clearance 280 115 291
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.29% 0.70% 1.03%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.23% 2.06% 3.80%
Number of salaries quoted 132 82 237
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,581 £40,224
25th Percentile £54,544 £47,683 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £70,600 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +22.78% +4.55%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,900 £65,000
90th Percentile £91,436 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £59,490 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.16% - -0.90%

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 4,494 5,576 7,663
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 20.71% 33.86% 27.09%
Number of salaries quoted 3,037 2,493 4,725
10th Percentile £33,350 £29,550 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £59,400 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% +3.30% -4.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £86,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 24 July 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 8 (2.86%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.71%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.71%) Confluence
4 1 (0.36%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 9 (3.21%) Simulink
2 5 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.71%) Mathcad
4 1 (0.36%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.36%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.79%) Primavera
2 5 (1.79%) SAP ERP
3 3 (1.07%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.71%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.36%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.36%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.36%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 18 (6.43%) AWS
2 14 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (4.64%) Entra ID
4 7 (2.50%) Azure
5 6 (2.14%) Power Platform
6 2 (0.71%) Figma
7 1 (0.36%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.36%) Boomi
7 1 (0.36%) GitHub
7 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.57%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.79%) DHCP
2 5 (1.79%) DNS
2 5 (1.79%) VPN
3 4 (1.43%) LAN
3 4 (1.43%) Network Security
3 4 (1.43%) WAN
3 4 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (1.07%) Skype
5 1 (0.36%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.36%) 4G
5 1 (0.36%) 5G
5 1 (0.36%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.36%) OSPF
5 1 (0.36%) TETRA
5 1 (0.36%) VLAN
5 1 (0.36%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (2.14%) Power BI
2 4 (1.43%) OLAP
2 4 (1.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 4 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (1.07%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.07%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.71%) Big Data
4 2 (0.71%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.71%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.36%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.36%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.36%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.36%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 9 (3.21%) Rational DOORS
2 5 (1.79%) JIRA
3 2 (0.71%) LabVIEW
4 1 (0.36%) Balsamiq
4 1 (0.36%) CMake
4 1 (0.36%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.36%) Git
4 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.36%) Maven
4 1 (0.36%) Postman
4 1 (0.36%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (0.36%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.36%) SonarQube
General
1 152 (54.29%) Finance
2 145 (51.79%) Social Skills
3 107 (38.21%) Organisational Skills
4 104 (37.14%) Legal
5 33 (11.79%) Aerospace
5 33 (11.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 30 (10.71%) Public Sector
7 12 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (3.93%) Electronics
9 8 (2.86%) Military
10 6 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.14%) Italian Language
10 6 (2.14%) Japanese Language
10 6 (2.14%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.43%) Retail
12 3 (1.07%) Games
12 3 (1.07%) Police
13 2 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.71%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.36%) Billing
Job Titles
1 39 (13.93%) Senior
2 18 (6.43%) Architect
3 17 (6.07%) Analyst
4 14 (5.00%) AWS Architect
4 14 (5.00%) AWS Solution Architect
4 14 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
5 12 (4.29%) Lead
6 11 (3.93%) Bid Writer
6 11 (3.93%) Developer
6 11 (3.93%) Principal Engineer
6 11 (3.93%) Senior Bid Writer
7 10 (3.57%) Systems Engineer
8 9 (3.21%) Penetration Tester
8 9 (3.21%) Tester
9 8 (2.86%) Business Analyst
9 8 (2.86%) Service Desk Engineer
10 7 (2.50%) Consultant
10 7 (2.50%) Java Developer
10 7 (2.50%) Senior Developer
10 7 (2.50%) Senior Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.43%) PySpark
2 3 (1.07%) OpenGL
2 3 (1.07%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (1.07%) Vulkan
3 2 (0.71%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (0.71%) JSON
3 2 (0.71%) React
4 1 (0.36%) Kafka
4 1 (0.36%) OAuth
4 1 (0.36%) OpenID
4 1 (0.36%) pgvector
4 1 (0.36%) Playwright
4 1 (0.36%) PostGIS
4 1 (0.36%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.36%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.36%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.36%) SAPUI5
4 1 (0.36%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.36%) Spring MVC
4 1 (0.36%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 104 (37.14%) Podcast
1 104 (37.14%) Virtual Team
1 104 (37.14%) Web Conferencing
2 9 (3.21%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (2.86%) Driving Licence
3 8 (2.86%) FPGA
3 8 (2.86%) VHDL
4 7 (2.50%) Algorithms
4 7 (2.50%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.14%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.14%) Verilog
6 4 (1.43%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.43%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.43%) Embedded Systems
7 3 (1.07%) 3D Graphics
7 3 (1.07%) CUDA
7 3 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.07%) IoT
7 3 (1.07%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.71%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.07%) Windows
2 12 (4.29%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.07%) Linux
4 1 (0.36%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (40.71%) Customer Service
2 29 (10.36%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 26 (9.29%) Agile
4 25 (8.93%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (8.21%) Decision-Making
6 19 (6.79%) Systems Engineering
7 18 (6.43%) Validation
8 17 (6.07%) ITIL
9 14 (5.00%) Cybersecurity
9 14 (5.00%) DevOps
10 13 (4.64%) ITSM
10 13 (4.64%) Logistics
11 12 (4.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (4.29%) ERP
11 12 (4.29%) Roadmaps
11 12 (4.29%) Signal Processing
11 12 (4.29%) Software Engineering
12 11 (3.93%) Technical Leadership
13 10 (3.57%) Migration
13 10 (3.57%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 9 (3.21%) C
1 9 (3.21%) SQL
2 8 (2.86%) Java
2 8 (2.86%) Python
3 7 (2.50%) C++
3 7 (2.50%) SystemVerilog
4 5 (1.79%) C#
4 5 (1.79%) MATLAB
5 4 (1.43%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (1.07%) GLSL
6 3 (1.07%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.71%) ABAP
8 1 (0.36%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.36%) Embedded C
8 1 (0.36%) Embedded C++
8 1 (0.36%) R
Qualifications
1 130 (46.43%) Security Cleared
2 96 (34.29%) SC Cleared
3 37 (13.21%) Degree
4 34 (12.14%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.50%) HNC
6 5 (1.79%) PhD
7 4 (1.43%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.07%) CISSP
9 1 (0.36%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.36%) CCNA
9 1 (0.36%) Chartered Engineer
9 1 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.36%) CISM
9 1 (0.36%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 1 (0.36%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.36%) MBA
9 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.86%) Accessibility
2 10 (3.57%) SLA
3 8 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.50%) QA
5 4 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 4 (1.43%) GDPR
6 3 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 3 (1.07%) NIST
6 3 (1.07%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.71%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.36%) ECSS
8 1 (0.36%) GRC
8 1 (0.36%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.36%) PMO
8 1 (0.36%) PSD2
8 1 (0.36%) SEPA
System Software
1 7 (2.50%) Firmware
2 3 (1.07%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.71%) Docker
4 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (4.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (1.43%) Terraform
3 3 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.71%) Data Guard
4 2 (0.71%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.71%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (0.71%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.36%) Ansible
5 1 (0.36%) Argo
Vendors
1 32 (11.43%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.36%) SAP
3 10 (3.57%) ServiceNow
4 6 (2.14%) IBM
4 6 (2.14%) Oracle
4 6 (2.14%) Xilinx
5 5 (1.79%) Cisco
6 4 (1.43%) Intel
6 4 (1.43%) Meraki
6 4 (1.43%) Microsemi
6 4 (1.43%) Tagetik
7 3 (1.07%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.07%) Siemens
8 2 (0.71%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.71%) Peregrine
9 1 (0.36%) Altera
9 1 (0.36%) Conga
9 1 (0.36%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.36%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.36%) Veeam