Security Cleared Jobs with Work from Home Options

Security Clearance
UK > Work from Home

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 6 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 15 41 96
Rank change year-on-year +26 +55 +5
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 2,815 3,850 1,834
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.42% 7.07% 3.65%
As % of the Qualifications category 41.67% 29.46% 17.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,368 1,514 1,212
10th Percentile £38,856 £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £43,875 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £91,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -4.17% +9.09%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

Security Cleared is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 6,756 13,068 10,671
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 29.81% 23.99% 21.23%
Number of salaries quoted 4,276 7,626 6,980
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,640 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,000 £43,259 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,526 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% +8.23% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -

Security Cleared
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Security Cleared trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Security Cleared.

Security Cleared salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Security Cleared over the 6 months to 6 December 2023.

Security Cleared salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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 48 (1.71%) SharePoint
2 35 (1.24%) WebLogic
3 27 (0.96%) IIS
4 24 (0.85%) Confluence
5 14 (0.50%) WebSphere
6 13 (0.46%) Apache
6 13 (0.46%) WebSphere Application Server
7 12 (0.43%) Jupyter
8 9 (0.32%) Apache Spark
9 8 (0.28%) OpenStack
9 8 (0.28%) Oracle Service Bus
10 7 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
10 7 (0.25%) WinCC
11 5 (0.18%) Skype for Business
12 4 (0.14%) CMS
12 4 (0.14%) JBoss
12 4 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.11%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.11%) MS Exchange
13 3 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 54 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
4 14 (0.50%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.21%) SOLIDWORKS
7 5 (0.18%) Autodesk Inventor
7 5 (0.18%) OrCAD
8 4 (0.14%) Adobe Premiere
9 3 (0.11%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.11%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.11%) Simulink
9 3 (0.11%) Trello
10 2 (0.071%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.071%) InVision
10 2 (0.071%) Sketch
10 2 (0.071%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.036%) Adobe Captivate
11 1 (0.036%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.036%) Open Workbench
Business Applications
1 27 (0.96%) Remedy ITSM
2 16 (0.57%) Siebel CRM
3 12 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.21%) SAP CO
5 6 (0.21%) SAP FI
5 6 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
6 5 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.18%) SAP BPC
7 3 (0.11%) Maximo
7 3 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.11%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.11%) Primavera
7 3 (0.11%) SAP GRC
7 3 (0.11%) SAP HR
7 3 (0.11%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.11%) SAP PS
7 3 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.071%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 567 (20.14%) Azure
2 545 (19.36%) AWS
3 359 (12.75%) Serverless
4 212 (7.53%) GCP
5 127 (4.51%) Azure DevOps
6 126 (4.48%) OpenShift
7 108 (3.84%) Microsoft 365
8 84 (2.98%) Power Platform
9 76 (2.70%) SaaS
10 60 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
11 58 (2.06%) dbt
12 55 (1.95%) Entra ID
13 52 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
14 50 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
15 49 (1.74%) Amazon ECS
16 48 (1.71%) GitHub
17 44 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
17 44 (1.56%) PaaS
18 38 (1.35%) Amazon EKS
19 35 (1.24%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 130 (4.62%) Firewall
2 81 (2.88%) VPN
3 68 (2.42%) Network Security
4 63 (2.24%) DNS
5 46 (1.63%) TCP/IP
6 43 (1.53%) WAN
7 41 (1.46%) SSL
8 37 (1.31%) LAN
9 33 (1.17%) DHCP
10 32 (1.14%) HTTP
11 30 (1.07%) Internet
12 27 (0.96%) SD-WAN
12 27 (0.96%) SMTP
13 24 (0.85%) Wireless
14 21 (0.75%) Cisco Nexus
14 21 (0.75%) Intrusion Detection
15 20 (0.71%) BGP
15 20 (0.71%) SAN
16 18 (0.64%) VLAN
17 17 (0.60%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (4.40%) Relational Database
2 122 (4.33%) SQL Server
3 120 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
4 101 (3.59%) RDBMS
5 96 (3.41%) Big Data
6 91 (3.23%) Oracle Database
7 83 (2.95%) PostgreSQL
8 72 (2.56%) MySQL
9 67 (2.38%) MongoDB
10 46 (1.63%) Power BI
11 39 (1.39%) Hadoop
12 37 (1.31%) Metadata
13 35 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
14 28 (0.99%) NoSQL
15 26 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
16 25 (0.89%) Redis
17 19 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
18 18 (0.64%) GIS
19 17 (0.60%) DynamoDB
19 17 (0.60%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 298 (10.59%) Git
2 196 (6.96%) Jenkins
3 144 (5.12%) JIRA
4 99 (3.52%) GitLab
5 45 (1.60%) Selenium
6 36 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
7 35 (1.24%) Cucumber
8 33 (1.17%) Oracle APEX
9 29 (1.03%) Cypress.io
10 25 (0.89%) Artifactory
10 25 (0.89%) MSI
11 21 (0.75%) SonarQube
12 20 (0.71%) Maven
12 20 (0.71%) Rational DOORS
13 15 (0.53%) AdminStudio
13 15 (0.53%) InstallShield
13 15 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
14 14 (0.50%) JMeter
14 14 (0.50%) Subversion
15 13 (0.46%) TeamCity
General
1 856 (30.41%) Social Skills
2 423 (15.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 319 (11.33%) Finance
4 312 (11.08%) Public Sector
5 267 (9.48%) Analytical Skills
6 187 (6.64%) Police
7 152 (5.40%) Aerospace
8 133 (4.72%) Presentation Skills
9 123 (4.37%) Retail
10 114 (4.05%) Military
11 86 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
12 78 (2.77%) Law
12 78 (2.77%) Organisational Skills
13 48 (1.71%) Manufacturing
14 42 (1.49%) Telecoms
15 38 (1.35%) Marketing
16 37 (1.31%) Legal
17 33 (1.17%) Electronics
18 27 (0.96%) Local Government
19 14 (0.50%) Digital Economy
Job Titles
1 505 (17.94%) Architect
2 441 (15.67%) Software Engineer
3 440 (15.63%) Senior
4 321 (11.40%) Solutions Architect
5 252 (8.95%) Developer
6 240 (8.53%) Presales Solution Architect
7 186 (6.61%) Lead
8 180 (6.39%) Consultant
9 155 (5.51%) Analyst
10 145 (5.15%) DevOps Engineer
11 135 (4.80%) Senior Software Engineer
12 129 (4.58%) Java Engineer
13 119 (4.23%) Java Software Engineer
14 112 (3.98%) Project Manager
15 75 (2.66%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
16 67 (2.38%) Business Manager
16 67 (2.38%) Systems Engineer
17 63 (2.24%) Senior Developer
18 62 (2.20%) Business Development Manager
18 62 (2.20%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 236 (8.38%) React
2 194 (6.89%) Spring
3 153 (5.44%) .NET
4 141 (5.01%) HTML
5 136 (4.83%) J2EE
6 130 (4.62%) Node.js
7 126 (4.48%) Ruby on Rails
8 107 (3.80%) Web Services
9 82 (2.91%) ModSecurity
10 77 (2.74%) RESTful
11 74 (2.63%) CSS
12 63 (2.24%) XML
13 61 (2.17%) REST
13 61 (2.17%) SOAP
14 60 (2.13%) JSON
15 43 (1.53%) AngularJS
16 42 (1.49%) Java EE
17 41 (1.46%) Elastic Stack
18 37 (1.31%) RabbitMQ
19 36 (1.28%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 169 (6.00%) Management Information System
2 109 (3.87%) Cyberattack
3 95 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
4 90 (3.20%) Product Ownership
5 87 (3.09%) Public Cloud
6 72 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
7 71 (2.52%) Algorithms
8 68 (2.42%) Data Centre
9 66 (2.34%) Cloud Native
10 63 (2.24%) PKI
11 55 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
12 54 (1.92%) Onboarding
13 41 (1.46%) Blog
14 37 (1.31%) Private Cloud
15 35 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
16 27 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
17 26 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
18 25 (0.89%) Operational Technology
19 24 (0.85%) Virtual Team
20 21 (0.75%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 361 (12.82%) Linux
2 267 (9.48%) Windows
3 152 (5.40%) Unix
4 74 (2.63%) Android
5 69 (2.45%) Windows Server
6 39 (1.39%) Windows Server 2016
7 33 (1.17%) Windows 10
8 27 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
8 27 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
9 18 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 17 (0.60%) Windows 7
11 15 (0.53%) VMS
12 12 (0.43%) Apple iOS
12 12 (0.43%) Solaris
13 9 (0.32%) Ubuntu
13 9 (0.32%) Windows NT
14 8 (0.28%) Debian
15 7 (0.25%) CentOS
16 6 (0.21%) Mac OS
17 1 (0.036%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 936 (33.25%) Actionable Insight
2 896 (31.83%) Agile
3 785 (27.89%) Problem-Solving
4 641 (22.77%) Software Engineering
5 545 (19.36%) DevOps
6 422 (14.99%) Mentoring
7 405 (14.39%) Analytics
8 388 (13.78%) Microservices
9 367 (13.04%) CI/CD
10 354 (12.58%) Continuous Integration
11 344 (12.22%) IT Strategy
12 341 (12.11%) Design Patterns
13 318 (11.30%) Containerisation
14 315 (11.19%) Coaching
14 315 (11.19%) Presales
15 305 (10.83%) Digital Transformation Programme
16 270 (9.59%) Business Case
17 266 (9.45%) Thought Leadership
18 260 (9.24%) Technology Strategy
19 258 (9.17%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 636 (22.59%) Java
2 624 (22.17%) Python
3 309 (10.98%) JavaScript
4 282 (10.02%) C#
5 249 (8.85%) SQL
6 210 (7.46%) Ruby
7 204 (7.25%) PowerShell
8 131 (4.65%) Bash
9 123 (4.37%) Go
10 93 (3.30%) C++
11 81 (2.88%) Perl
12 58 (2.06%) PL/SQL
13 54 (1.92%) C
14 46 (1.63%) VB
15 43 (1.53%) R
16 23 (0.82%) Rust
16 23 (0.82%) TypeScript
17 22 (0.78%) VBScript
18 16 (0.57%) Delphi
18 16 (0.57%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,990 (70.69%) SC Cleared
2 475 (16.87%) DV Cleared
3 468 (16.63%) Degree
4 143 (5.08%) CISSP
5 97 (3.45%) CISM
6 94 (3.34%) BPSS Clearance
7 73 (2.59%) CISA
8 72 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 69 (2.45%) CRISC
10 68 (2.42%) AWS Certification
11 47 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
12 38 (1.35%) CCNA
13 36 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
14 35 (1.24%) Azure Certification
14 35 (1.24%) CREST Certified
15 33 (1.17%) CCNP
16 31 (1.10%) Master's Degree
17 29 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 29 (1.03%) HND
18 28 (0.99%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 194 (6.89%) QA
2 136 (4.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 86 (3.06%) NIST
4 76 (2.70%) GRC
5 61 (2.17%) ISO 22301
6 53 (1.88%) NCSC
7 49 (1.74%) Accessibility
8 46 (1.63%) SLA
9 26 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
10 24 (0.85%) Data Quality
11 22 (0.78%) RMADS
12 18 (0.64%) JSP 440
13 15 (0.53%) Def Stans
14 14 (0.50%) PMO
15 13 (0.46%) ISO 9001
16 12 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 12 (0.43%) GDPR
17 11 (0.39%) Software Quality Assurance
18 9 (0.32%) COBIT
19 7 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 226 (8.03%) Docker
2 153 (5.44%) Active Directory
3 79 (2.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 40 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
5 38 (1.35%) Hyper-V
6 26 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
7 24 (0.85%) vSphere
8 23 (0.82%) VMware NSX
9 21 (0.75%) Firmware
10 15 (0.53%) Microsoft App-V
11 13 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
12 8 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
13 3 (0.11%) KVM
14 2 (0.071%) Embedded Firmware
15 1 (0.036%) BitLocker
15 1 (0.036%) Ceph
15 1 (0.036%) GPFS
15 1 (0.036%) Lustre
15 1 (0.036%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 1 (0.036%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 264 (9.38%) Kubernetes
2 180 (6.39%) Terraform
3 142 (5.04%) Ansible
4 82 (2.91%) SCCM
5 49 (1.74%) WSUS
6 46 (1.63%) Puppet
7 35 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
8 34 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
9 31 (1.10%) AirWatch
10 29 (1.03%) SCOM
11 28 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 26 (0.92%) OpenSSO
13 19 (0.67%) Grafana
14 17 (0.60%) HP UCMDB
14 17 (0.60%) Packer
14 17 (0.60%) Progress Chef
15 15 (0.53%) FortiGate
16 12 (0.43%) Kustomize
17 11 (0.39%) Failover Clustering
17 11 (0.39%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 364 (12.93%) Microsoft
2 283 (10.05%) Oracle
3 129 (4.58%) VMware
4 111 (3.94%) ServiceNow
5 76 (2.70%) Google
6 72 (2.56%) CA
7 70 (2.49%) Cisco
8 60 (2.13%) SAP
9 31 (1.10%) Remedy
10 30 (1.07%) F5
10 30 (1.07%) Juniper
11 24 (0.85%) CheckPoint
11 24 (0.85%) HP
12 23 (0.82%) Red Hat
13 20 (0.71%) NetApp
13 20 (0.71%) Palo Alto
14 19 (0.67%) Apple
14 19 (0.67%) Salesforce
14 19 (0.67%) SolarWinds
15 18 (0.64%) Fortinet