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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 390 393
Rank change year-on-year +342 +3 +339
Permanent jobs citing BPSS Clearance 1,139 127 186
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 5.28% 0.48% 0.58%
As % of the Qualifications category 14.33% 1.74% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 767 106 146
10th Percentile - £41,206 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,683 £48,750 £40,319
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,600 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.67% +9.09% -13.73%
75th Percentile £75,900 £67,500 £71,176
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,125 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,560 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.65% -4.35% +16.87%

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 7,950 7,302 8,738
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.84% 27.69% 27.21%
Number of salaries quoted 3,175 3,940 5,519
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,795 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,608 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,857 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.10% -4.17% +2.64%
75th Percentile £75,900 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +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 2 August 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 7 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (0.44%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.26%) Confluence
4 1 (0.088%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.088%) Mule
4 1 (0.088%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.088%) WordPress
Applications
1 41 (3.60%) Simulink
2 40 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.18%) Trello
4 1 (0.088%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.088%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.18%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.088%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 23 (2.02%) Azure
2 18 (1.58%) Entra ID
3 10 (0.88%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (0.61%) AWS
4 7 (0.61%) Azure Stack
5 6 (0.53%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (0.53%) GitHub
5 6 (0.53%) Power Platform
6 4 (0.35%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (0.35%) PaaS
7 3 (0.26%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (0.26%) GCP
8 2 (0.18%) Azure AKS
8 2 (0.18%) Google Analytics
8 2 (0.18%) Google Sheets
8 2 (0.18%) Google Tag Manager
8 2 (0.18%) IaaS
8 2 (0.18%) OneDrive
8 2 (0.18%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.18%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.088%) LAN
1 1 (0.088%) SAN
1 1 (0.088%) Skype
1 1 (0.088%) Unified Communications
1 1 (0.088%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
2 5 (0.44%) Power BI
3 3 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.18%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.18%) MySQL
4 2 (0.18%) Power Query
4 2 (0.18%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.18%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.088%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.088%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.088%) DB2
5 1 (0.088%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.088%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.088%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.088%) Redis
Development Applications
1 423 (37.14%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (0.26%) JIRA
2 3 (0.26%) SonarQube
3 2 (0.18%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.088%) Gatling
4 1 (0.088%) Git
4 1 (0.088%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.088%) JMeter
4 1 (0.088%) Locust
4 1 (0.088%) Postman
General
1 493 (43.28%) Electronics
2 356 (31.26%) Presentation Skills
3 71 (6.23%) Social Skills
4 40 (3.51%) Aerospace
5 20 (1.76%) Avionics
5 20 (1.76%) Public Sector
6 17 (1.49%) Finance
7 10 (0.88%) Police
8 6 (0.53%) Legal
9 5 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.26%) Military
11 2 (0.18%) Analytical Skills
11 2 (0.18%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.18%) Marketing
12 1 (0.088%) Law
12 1 (0.088%) Local Government
12 1 (0.088%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.088%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 839 (73.66%) Systems Engineer
2 423 (37.14%) Principal Engineer
2 423 (37.14%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 61 (5.36%) Senior
4 60 (5.27%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 40 (3.51%) Lead
5 40 (3.51%) Lead Systems Engineer
5 40 (3.51%) Team Leader
6 38 (3.34%) Radar Engineer
7 17 (1.49%) Analyst
8 10 (0.88%) Development Analyst
8 10 (0.88%) Development Support Analyst
8 10 (0.88%) Support Analyst
8 10 (0.88%) Systems Analyst
8 10 (0.88%) Systems Development Analyst
8 10 (0.88%) Systems Support
8 10 (0.88%) Systems Support Analyst
9 7 (0.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (0.61%) IT Engineer
9 7 (0.61%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (0.53%) .NET
3 3 (0.26%) JSON
4 2 (0.18%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.18%) Azure Blueprints
4 2 (0.18%) RESTful
5 1 (0.088%) CSS
5 1 (0.088%) Django
5 1 (0.088%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.088%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.088%) Flask
5 1 (0.088%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.088%) HTML
5 1 (0.088%) Keycloak
5 1 (0.088%) MUnit
5 1 (0.088%) OAuth
5 1 (0.088%) pytest
5 1 (0.088%) REST
5 1 (0.088%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (0.088%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 493 (43.28%) Algorithms
2 12 (1.05%) Management Information System
2 12 (1.05%) Onboarding
3 9 (0.79%) Data Centre
3 9 (0.79%) Product Ownership
4 8 (0.70%) e-Learning
5 7 (0.61%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (0.26%) Driving Licence
6 3 (0.26%) Social Media
7 1 (0.088%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.088%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.088%) Graphic Design
7 1 (0.088%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.088%) NHS
7 1 (0.088%) Photography
7 1 (0.088%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 18 (1.58%) Windows
2 13 (1.14%) Windows Server
3 12 (1.05%) Linux
4 9 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (0.61%) Rocky
6 3 (0.26%) Android
6 3 (0.26%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.26%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.18%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,082 (95.00%) Systems Engineering
2 546 (47.94%) Technical Leadership
3 493 (43.28%) Signal Processing
4 424 (37.23%) Test Planning
5 422 (37.05%) Agile
6 416 (36.52%) SysML
7 376 (33.01%) UML
8 364 (31.96%) Cybersecurity
9 356 (31.26%) MODAF
10 174 (15.28%) Customer Requirements
11 172 (15.10%) Systems Thinking
12 70 (6.15%) Architectural Design
13 61 (5.36%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
14 46 (4.04%) Project Management
15 40 (3.51%) Coaching
15 40 (3.51%) Safety Engineering
15 40 (3.51%) Software Delivery
15 40 (3.51%) System Testing
16 29 (2.55%) Business Continuity
17 25 (2.19%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 357 (31.34%) MATLAB
2 7 (0.61%) PowerShell
3 6 (0.53%) SQL
4 5 (0.44%) Python
5 4 (0.35%) Perl
5 4 (0.35%) PHP
6 1 (0.088%) C
6 1 (0.088%) C++
6 1 (0.088%) Java
6 1 (0.088%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.088%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.088%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 557 (48.90%) Degree
2 175 (15.36%) PhD
3 172 (15.10%) Master's Degree
4 35 (3.07%) Security Cleared
5 19 (1.67%) SC Cleared
6 12 (1.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 8 (0.70%) Network+ Certification
8 7 (0.61%) Azure Certification
8 7 (0.61%) Chartered Engineer
8 7 (0.61%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.26%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.26%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.18%) NVQ Level 4
10 2 (0.18%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.088%) A+ Certification
11 1 (0.088%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.088%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.088%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 665 (58.38%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 11 (0.97%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.35%) QA
4 2 (0.18%) ISO 22301
4 2 (0.18%) NCSC
5 1 (0.088%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.088%) SLA
5 1 (0.088%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (1.40%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.61%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (1.05%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.26%) SCCM
4 2 (0.18%) Ansible
4 2 (0.18%) Terraform
5 1 (0.088%) Grafana
5 1 (0.088%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 423 (37.14%) IBM
2 52 (4.57%) Microsoft
3 40 (3.51%) MathWorks
4 11 (0.97%) Oracle
5 7 (0.61%) Dell
6 3 (0.26%) Google
7 2 (0.18%) Concur
7 2 (0.18%) Foundry
7 2 (0.18%) HubSpot
7 2 (0.18%) Mercator
7 2 (0.18%) Pega
7 2 (0.18%) Sage
7 2 (0.18%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.18%) Snow
8 1 (0.088%) Adobe
8 1 (0.088%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.088%) Ribbon
8 1 (0.088%) Splunk
8 1 (0.088%) Verint
8 1 (0.088%) Yealink