SC Cleared Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Security Check (SC) Clearance
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid work with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 41 47
Rank change year-on-year -55 +6 +60
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 471 1,919 2,629
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 3.15% 5.67% 6.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 10.01% 20.21% 24.17%
Number of salaries quoted 375 964 1,234
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £36,346
25th Percentile £52,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £76,875 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,750 £88,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +4.35%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

SC Cleared 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 4,703 9,496 10,878
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.45% 28.06% 25.44%
Number of salaries quoted 3,034 5,942 6,655
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,777 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% -5.00% +0.45%
75th Percentile £70,600 £72,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -6.90% +5.45%

SC Cleared
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

SC Cleared trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

SC Cleared
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing SC Cleared.

SC Cleared salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing SC Cleared over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

SC Cleared salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SC Cleared
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 10 (2.12%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 7 (1.49%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 7 (1.49%) Exchange Server 2013
4 7 (1.49%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.42%) nginx
5 2 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.21%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 11 (2.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.64%) Simulink
3 2 (0.42%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.42%) Oracle Smart View
3 2 (0.42%) Revit
3 2 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.21%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.21%) Autodesk Inventor
4 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.21%) InVision
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.21%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (2.55%) Oracle EBS
2 11 (2.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (1.70%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.85%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.42%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.42%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.42%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.21%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.21%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.21%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.21%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.21%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 106 (22.51%) AWS
2 101 (21.44%) Azure
3 35 (7.43%) Power Platform
4 27 (5.73%) GCP
4 27 (5.73%) Serverless
5 26 (5.52%) AWS CloudFormation
6 25 (5.31%) OCI
7 21 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (4.25%) Dynamics 365
8 20 (4.25%) Microsoft 365
9 19 (4.03%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (2.97%) Amazon ECS
10 14 (2.97%) PaaS
11 13 (2.76%) AWS KMS
11 13 (2.76%) PowerApps
12 11 (2.34%) Amazon ECR
12 11 (2.34%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 11 (2.34%) AWS CodeBuild
12 11 (2.34%) Power Automate
12 11 (2.34%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 25 (5.31%) Network Security
2 24 (5.10%) Firewall
3 23 (4.88%) TCP/IP
4 19 (4.03%) BGP
4 19 (4.03%) VPN
5 15 (3.18%) VLAN
6 11 (2.34%) OSPF
6 11 (2.34%) SMTP
6 11 (2.34%) WAN
7 9 (1.91%) DNS
7 9 (1.91%) IPsec
7 9 (1.91%) SAN
8 8 (1.70%) LAN
9 7 (1.49%) IMAP
9 7 (1.49%) Skype
10 6 (1.27%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (1.27%) HSRP
10 6 (1.27%) Internet
10 6 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (1.06%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (4.67%) Power BI
3 13 (2.76%) Redis
4 12 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (2.34%) MySQL
5 11 (2.34%) SQL Server
6 10 (2.12%) MongoDB
6 10 (2.12%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.49%) Tableau
8 6 (1.27%) Oracle ODI
9 5 (1.06%) Spark SQL
10 4 (0.85%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.64%) Big Data
11 3 (0.64%) Metadata
12 2 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.42%) Metadata Repository
12 2 (0.42%) Oracle Exadata
12 2 (0.42%) Pentaho
12 2 (0.42%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 29 (6.16%) Git
2 13 (2.76%) GitLab
2 13 (2.76%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.49%) JMeter
3 7 (1.49%) Selenium
4 6 (1.27%) Subversion
5 4 (0.85%) JIRA
5 4 (0.85%) JUnit
6 3 (0.64%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.64%) Gatling
6 3 (0.64%) LabVIEW
6 3 (0.64%) Locust
6 3 (0.64%) Mockito
6 3 (0.64%) Oracle APEX
6 3 (0.64%) Postman
7 2 (0.42%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.42%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.21%) Babel
8 1 (0.21%) webpack
8 1 (0.21%) Yeoman
General
1 145 (30.79%) Social Skills
2 98 (20.81%) Public Sector
3 66 (14.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 53 (11.25%) Finance
5 52 (11.04%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (6.37%) Marketing
7 23 (4.88%) Retail
8 20 (4.25%) Presentation Skills
9 16 (3.40%) Influencing Skills
10 15 (3.18%) Law
11 10 (2.12%) Aerospace
11 10 (2.12%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.70%) Police
13 7 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.49%) Electronics
14 6 (1.27%) Local Government
14 6 (1.27%) Tech for Good
14 6 (1.27%) Telecoms
15 5 (1.06%) Advertising
16 4 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 99 (21.02%) Architect
2 95 (20.17%) Senior
3 65 (13.80%) Developer
4 49 (10.40%) Consultant
5 44 (9.34%) Solutions Architect
6 36 (7.64%) Lead
7 27 (5.73%) Cloud Architect
7 27 (5.73%) Senior Developer
8 23 (4.88%) Senior Consultant
8 23 (4.88%) Software Engineer
9 22 (4.67%) Analyst
10 21 (4.46%) Network Engineer
11 14 (2.97%) AWS Architect
12 12 (2.55%) DevOps Engineer
12 12 (2.55%) Operations Engineer
12 12 (2.55%) Senior ServiceNow Consultant
12 12 (2.55%) Senior Technical Consultant
12 12 (2.55%) ServiceNow Consultant
12 12 (2.55%) Systems Engineer
12 12 (2.55%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (6.16%) React
2 25 (5.31%) Kafka
3 17 (3.61%) .NET
3 17 (3.61%) AngularJS
4 16 (3.40%) HTML
4 16 (3.40%) RESTful
5 15 (3.18%) Elastic Stack
6 14 (2.97%) Django
7 13 (2.76%) CSS
8 9 (1.91%) .NET Framework
9 8 (1.70%) SAP Fiori
9 8 (1.70%) Spring
10 7 (1.49%) Node.js
10 7 (1.49%) PySpark
10 7 (1.49%) Ruby on Rails
11 6 (1.27%) Oracle Fusion
11 6 (1.27%) Spring Boot
11 6 (1.27%) Web Services
12 5 (1.06%) Entity Framework
12 5 (1.06%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 29 (6.16%) Cloud Native
2 28 (5.94%) Management Information System
3 22 (4.67%) Data Centre
4 20 (4.25%) Algorithms
5 17 (3.61%) Onboarding
6 14 (2.97%) Security Posture
7 13 (2.76%) Virtual Team
8 10 (2.12%) CSOC
8 10 (2.12%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (2.12%) FPGA
8 10 (2.12%) Linux Command Line
8 10 (2.12%) NHS
9 9 (1.91%) Product Ownership
10 8 (1.70%) Housing Association
10 8 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.49%) Blackberry
11 7 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.27%) e-Learning
12 6 (1.27%) Security Operations Centre
13 5 (1.06%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 54 (11.46%) Linux
2 29 (6.16%) Windows
3 26 (5.52%) Unix
4 13 (2.76%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.64%) AIX
5 3 (0.64%) Solaris
5 3 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.21%) Android
7 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (23.35%) DevOps
2 108 (22.93%) Agile
3 80 (16.99%) Software Engineering
4 76 (16.14%) CI/CD
5 74 (15.71%) Mentoring
6 53 (11.25%) Problem-Solving
7 51 (10.83%) Cybersecurity
8 50 (10.62%) Technical Leadership
9 45 (9.55%) Containerisation
10 44 (9.34%) Business Intelligence
11 43 (9.13%) Computer Science
12 42 (8.92%) Continuous Improvement
12 42 (8.92%) Migration
12 42 (8.92%) Open Source
13 41 (8.70%) Analytics
13 41 (8.70%) Microservices
14 37 (7.86%) Cloud Security
15 31 (6.58%) Scrum
15 31 (6.58%) SDLC
16 29 (6.16%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 69 (14.65%) Python
2 48 (10.19%) Java
3 44 (9.34%) JavaScript
4 35 (7.43%) C#
5 34 (7.22%) SQL
6 20 (4.25%) TypeScript
7 17 (3.61%) C
8 16 (3.40%) C++
9 13 (2.76%) Bash
10 9 (1.91%) Fortran
10 9 (1.91%) Ruby
11 5 (1.06%) PowerShell
12 4 (0.85%) MATLAB
12 4 (0.85%) X++
13 3 (0.64%) R
13 3 (0.64%) VBA
14 2 (0.42%) Go
14 2 (0.42%) Scala
14 2 (0.42%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.42%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 471 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 100 (21.23%) Degree
3 47 (9.98%) DV Cleared
4 33 (7.01%) AWS Certification
5 28 (5.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (4.88%) Cisco Certification
7 20 (4.25%) Master's Degree
8 17 (3.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 17 (3.61%) CISSP
8 17 (3.61%) TOGAF Certification
9 16 (3.40%) CCNP
10 15 (3.18%) CISM
11 12 (2.55%) CCNA
12 8 (1.70%) PhD
13 7 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (1.27%) JNCIS
15 5 (1.06%) Azure Certification
15 5 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
15 5 (1.06%) CISA
15 5 (1.06%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.46%) QA
2 19 (4.03%) GDPR
3 16 (3.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (3.18%) NIST
5 13 (2.76%) HIPAA
6 12 (2.55%) Def Stans
7 10 (2.12%) NCSC
8 9 (1.91%) GRC
9 8 (1.70%) Accessibility
10 6 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (1.27%) JSP 440
11 4 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.85%) SLA
12 3 (0.64%) Data Quality
12 3 (0.64%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.42%) Dublin Core
13 2 (0.42%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.42%) RMADS
13 2 (0.42%) WCAG
14 1 (0.21%) COBIT
System Software
1 52 (11.04%) Docker
2 16 (3.40%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (1.70%) Firmware
4 8 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.85%) Embedded Firmware
6 3 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.42%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.21%) IAG
8 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.21%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (8.70%) Kubernetes
2 39 (8.28%) Terraform
3 19 (4.03%) Prometheus
4 14 (2.97%) Grafana
5 13 (2.76%) Ansible
6 11 (2.34%) AWS Copilot
7 10 (2.12%) QRadar
8 5 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.85%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.64%) Argo
10 3 (0.64%) Kibana
10 3 (0.64%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.42%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.42%) Iperf
11 2 (0.42%) Nagios
11 2 (0.42%) Nessus
11 2 (0.42%) Puppet
12 1 (0.21%) HP UCMDB
12 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 71 (15.07%) Microsoft
2 32 (6.79%) Oracle
3 27 (5.73%) VMware
4 21 (4.46%) Google
5 17 (3.61%) Cisco
6 16 (3.40%) SAP
7 15 (3.18%) ServiceNow
8 11 (2.34%) Juniper
9 7 (1.49%) F5
9 7 (1.49%) NetApp
10 6 (1.27%) Foundry
10 6 (1.27%) Palantir
11 5 (1.06%) CheckPoint
11 5 (1.06%) Fortinet
11 5 (1.06%) Splunk
12 4 (0.85%) Hyperion
12 4 (0.85%) JD Edwards
12 4 (0.85%) Palo Alto
12 4 (0.85%) PeopleSoft
12 4 (0.85%) Tenable