Security Cleared Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Security Clearance
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid work with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 21 19
Rank change year-on-year -29 -2 +50
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,113 2,839 3,711
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 5.25% 9.04% 10.88%
As % of the Qualifications category 14.29% 32.43% 40.08%
Number of salaries quoted 563 1,629 1,608
10th Percentile £45,608 £40,000 £37,328
25th Percentile £51,500 £47,848 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,500 £85,000 £85,977
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -4.17% +9.09%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

Security 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 7,789 8,753 9,259
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.72% 27.88% 27.14%
Number of salaries quoted 3,141 5,182 5,756
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% -4.17% +2.64%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,995 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.01% -8.34% +9.09%

Security Cleared
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Security Cleared
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Security Cleared salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Security Cleared over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Security Cleared salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Security 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 23 (2.07%) Jupyter
2 18 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (1.53%) SharePoint
4 9 (0.81%) Confluence
5 6 (0.54%) Appian
6 2 (0.18%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.18%) nginx
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.18%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.18%) WordPress
7 1 (0.090%) Alfresco
7 1 (0.090%) Apache
7 1 (0.090%) Drupal
7 1 (0.090%) Moodle
Applications
1 22 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.72%) Adobe XD
3 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.36%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.36%) Revit
4 4 (0.36%) Simulink
5 3 (0.27%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.27%) EPLAN
6 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle Smart View
6 2 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.090%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.090%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.090%) InVision
7 1 (0.090%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 30 (2.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 22 (1.98%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.63%) Q-Pulse
4 4 (0.36%) SAP BPC
4 4 (0.36%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.36%) SAP SCM
5 3 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.27%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.27%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.27%) SAP PP
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.18%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.18%) SAP EWM
6 2 (0.18%) SAP GRC
6 2 (0.18%) SAP LE
6 2 (0.18%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.18%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 391 (35.13%) Azure
2 378 (33.96%) AWS
3 219 (19.68%) GCP
4 83 (7.46%) AWS CloudFormation
5 55 (4.94%) Amazon EKS
6 51 (4.58%) Microsoft 365
7 40 (3.59%) Entra ID
8 36 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
9 33 (2.96%) Power Platform
10 29 (2.61%) Serverless
11 26 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
12 19 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
13 16 (1.44%) Amazon ECS
13 16 (1.44%) SaaS
14 15 (1.35%) GitHub
15 14 (1.26%) IaaS
16 13 (1.17%) GitHub Actions
16 13 (1.17%) PaaS
16 13 (1.17%) Power Automate
17 12 (1.08%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 56 (5.03%) Network Security
2 37 (3.32%) Firewall
3 36 (3.23%) Wireless
4 32 (2.88%) Software-Defined Radio
4 32 (2.88%) TCP/IP
4 32 (2.88%) VPN
5 23 (2.07%) WAN
6 20 (1.80%) LAN
7 19 (1.71%) DNS
8 15 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
9 14 (1.26%) BGP
10 13 (1.17%) Junos
10 13 (1.17%) OSPF
11 12 (1.08%) DHCP
11 12 (1.08%) SAN
12 9 (0.81%) VLAN
13 8 (0.72%) IPsec
14 7 (0.63%) Cisco ASA
14 7 (0.63%) SD-WAN
15 6 (0.54%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (5.75%) Elasticsearch
2 49 (4.40%) Big Data
3 29 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (1.98%) Power BI
5 19 (1.71%) MongoDB
6 18 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
6 18 (1.62%) SQL Server
7 15 (1.35%) Redis
8 10 (0.90%) NoSQL
9 8 (0.72%) MySQL
10 4 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.36%) Metadata
10 4 (0.36%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.27%) Metadata Repository
11 3 (0.27%) Pentaho
12 2 (0.18%) DB2
12 2 (0.18%) GIS
12 2 (0.18%) Neo4j
12 2 (0.18%) Oracle Exadata
12 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 47 (4.22%) Git
2 21 (1.89%) Jenkins
3 20 (1.80%) JIRA
4 14 (1.26%) GitLab
5 10 (0.90%) SonarQube
6 8 (0.72%) Selenium
7 7 (0.63%) Axure RP
7 7 (0.63%) Balsamiq
7 7 (0.63%) JMeter
8 6 (0.54%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.45%) JUnit
10 4 (0.36%) Babel
10 4 (0.36%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.36%) Mockito
10 4 (0.36%) Subversion
10 4 (0.36%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.36%) webpack
11 3 (0.27%) Gatling
11 3 (0.27%) Locust
11 3 (0.27%) Postman
General
1 355 (31.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 285 (25.61%) Finance
3 257 (23.09%) Social Skills
4 176 (15.81%) Public Sector
5 175 (15.72%) Analytical Skills
6 71 (6.38%) Electronics
7 63 (5.66%) Telecoms
8 58 (5.21%) Marketing
9 56 (5.03%) Manufacturing
10 45 (4.04%) Law
11 31 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
12 30 (2.70%) Aerospace
13 23 (2.07%) Military
14 20 (1.80%) Legal
15 16 (1.44%) Back Office
16 14 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
17 12 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
18 10 (0.90%) Aviation
18 10 (0.90%) Police
19 9 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 319 (28.66%) Senior
2 228 (20.49%) Software Engineer
3 180 (16.17%) Senior Software Engineer
4 130 (11.68%) Developer
5 122 (10.96%) Architect
6 93 (8.36%) Consultant
7 72 (6.47%) Systems Engineer
8 63 (5.66%) Lead
9 59 (5.30%) Software Developer
10 47 (4.22%) Data Scientist
11 46 (4.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 35 (3.14%) Embedded Engineer
13 31 (2.79%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 31 (2.79%) Security Consultant
14 30 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
15 28 (2.52%) DevOps Engineer
15 28 (2.52%) Senior Developer
16 27 (2.43%) Administrator
17 26 (2.34%) Security Architect
18 25 (2.25%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 250 (22.46%) Node.js
2 247 (22.19%) .NET
3 49 (4.40%) Pandas
4 27 (2.43%) OLE
5 26 (2.34%) Kafka
6 25 (2.25%) React
7 22 (1.98%) Elastic Stack
8 21 (1.89%) RESTful
9 20 (1.80%) HTML
10 17 (1.53%) CSS
10 17 (1.53%) Django
11 15 (1.35%) SAP Fiori
12 14 (1.26%) AngularJS
13 12 (1.08%) REST
13 12 (1.08%) Spring
14 11 (0.99%) XML
15 10 (0.90%) Spring Boot
16 9 (0.81%) Middleware
16 9 (0.81%) RabbitMQ
17 8 (0.72%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 274 (24.62%) Cyberattack
2 201 (18.06%) Self-Motivation
3 179 (16.08%) Linux Command Line
4 127 (11.41%) e-Learning
5 53 (4.76%) Algorithms
6 42 (3.77%) Management Information System
7 41 (3.68%) Data Centre
8 33 (2.96%) MicroBlaze
9 31 (2.79%) Embedded Systems
10 29 (2.61%) RISC-V
11 25 (2.25%) FPGA
11 25 (2.25%) Product Ownership
12 20 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
12 20 (1.80%) Cloud Native
12 20 (1.80%) Onboarding
13 19 (1.71%) PMI
14 18 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
15 15 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
16 13 (1.17%) Driving Licence
16 13 (1.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 358 (32.17%) Linux
2 81 (7.28%) Windows
3 54 (4.85%) Android
4 31 (2.79%) Unix
5 29 (2.61%) Embedded Linux
6 28 (2.52%) Windows Server
7 23 (2.07%) Windows 10
8 12 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
9 11 (0.99%) Rocky
10 6 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.36%) CentOS
11 4 (0.36%) HPUX
11 4 (0.36%) Oracle Linux
11 4 (0.36%) Solaris
12 3 (0.27%) Mac OS X
12 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.18%) Kali Linux
13 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2003
14 1 (0.090%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 418 (37.56%) Agile
2 356 (31.99%) Software Engineering
3 311 (27.94%) Mentoring
4 248 (22.28%) Microservices
5 238 (21.38%) Machine Learning
6 207 (18.60%) Scrum
6 207 (18.60%) User Experience
7 206 (18.51%) Cloud Security
8 193 (17.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 191 (17.16%) Data Engineering
10 174 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
11 168 (15.09%) Cybersecurity
12 141 (12.67%) DevOps
13 134 (12.04%) CI/CD
14 128 (11.50%) Innovative Thinking
15 121 (10.87%) Mathematics
16 99 (8.89%) Computer Science
17 97 (8.72%) Containerisation
18 96 (8.63%) Continuous Improvement
19 95 (8.54%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 334 (30.01%) Python
2 314 (28.21%) Java
3 307 (27.58%) JavaScript
4 266 (23.90%) C++
5 234 (21.02%) Go
6 227 (20.40%) Rust
7 63 (5.66%) SQL
8 39 (3.50%) C
9 30 (2.70%) TypeScript
10 26 (2.34%) PowerShell
11 25 (2.25%) C#
12 18 (1.62%) Bash
13 10 (0.90%) Perl
14 8 (0.72%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.63%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.54%) MATLAB
16 6 (0.54%) R
16 6 (0.54%) Ruby
17 5 (0.45%) PHP
18 4 (0.36%) X++
Qualifications
1 573 (51.48%) SC Cleared
2 472 (42.41%) DV Cleared
3 227 (20.40%) AWS Certification
4 221 (19.86%) Degree
5 194 (17.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 178 (15.99%) AWS Certified Developer
7 67 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 58 (5.21%) Cisco Certification
9 51 (4.58%) CISSP
10 46 (4.13%) CCNP
11 36 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
12 28 (2.52%) CompTIA Security+
13 27 (2.43%) CCNA
14 23 (2.07%) Numerate Degree
15 22 (1.98%) CEH
16 20 (1.80%) PMI Certification
17 19 (1.71%) Azure Certification
18 18 (1.62%) CISM
18 18 (1.62%) CTC Cleared
18 18 (1.62%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (6.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 55 (4.94%) NIST
3 40 (3.59%) QA
4 36 (3.23%) GDPR
5 28 (2.52%) SLA
6 26 (2.34%) NCSC
7 21 (1.89%) Accessibility
7 21 (1.89%) PCI DSS
8 17 (1.53%) HIPAA
9 10 (0.90%) WCAG
10 9 (0.81%) Data Quality
11 8 (0.72%) Def Stans
11 8 (0.72%) GRC
12 7 (0.63%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.54%) ISO 9001
14 5 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 5 (0.45%) JSP 440
15 4 (0.36%) RMADS
16 3 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
16 3 (0.27%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 141 (12.67%) Docker
2 49 (4.40%) Firmware
3 36 (3.23%) Active Directory
4 33 (2.96%) Embedded Firmware
5 20 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
6 11 (0.99%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.63%) vSphere
9 4 (0.36%) IAG
10 3 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.090%) pfSense
11 1 (0.090%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.090%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 141 (12.67%) Kubernetes
2 109 (9.79%) Terraform
3 83 (7.46%) Ansible
4 22 (1.98%) Grafana
4 22 (1.98%) Prometheus
5 11 (0.99%) AWS Copilot
6 7 (0.63%) Functional Safety
6 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.54%) SCCM
8 5 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.45%) Puppet
9 4 (0.36%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.36%) Kibana
9 4 (0.36%) SCOM
9 4 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.27%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 3 (0.27%) Nagios
10 3 (0.27%) Packer
10 3 (0.27%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 104 (9.34%) Microsoft
2 79 (7.10%) Cisco
3 77 (6.92%) SAP
4 44 (3.95%) VMware
5 31 (2.79%) Sparx
6 25 (2.25%) Juniper
6 25 (2.25%) Red Hat
7 24 (2.16%) ServiceNow
8 20 (1.80%) Google
9 16 (1.44%) Oracle
10 12 (1.08%) Dell
11 11 (0.99%) Splunk
12 10 (0.90%) Adobe
12 10 (0.90%) Fortinet
13 7 (0.63%) Salesforce
14 6 (0.54%) Atlassian
14 6 (0.54%) Palo Alto
15 5 (0.45%) CheckPoint
15 5 (0.45%) McAfee
15 5 (0.45%) SolarWinds