Security Cleared Jobs with Work from Home 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 18 73
Rank change year-on-year -3 +55 +11
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 2,457 3,634 3,824
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.79% 11.07% 4.87%
As % of the Qualifications category 31.88% 40.75% 20.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,428 1,625 1,728
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,349 £32,214
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,750 £43,023
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +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 7,707 8,918 18,247
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.59% 27.17% 23.24%
Number of salaries quoted 4,422 5,570 9,177
10th Percentile £33,755 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,999 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £58,454
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +2.64% +6.28%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -

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

Security Cleared
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

Security Cleared
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 26 July 2024.

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
1 104 (4.23%) ArcGIS
2 98 (3.99%) GeoServer
3 50 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 46 (1.87%) Apache
4 46 (1.87%) WebLogic
5 45 (1.83%) SharePoint
6 34 (1.38%) IIS
7 27 (1.10%) Tomcat
8 23 (0.94%) Appian
9 19 (0.77%) Confluence
10 14 (0.57%) Apache Spark
11 7 (0.28%) OpenStack
12 6 (0.24%) SAS
13 4 (0.16%) CMS
13 4 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2013
13 4 (0.16%) nginx
14 3 (0.12%) JBoss
14 3 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
15 2 (0.081%) Camunda
15 2 (0.081%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 98 (3.99%) Simulink
2 49 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
4 17 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.33%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.16%) AutoCAD
7 4 (0.16%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.081%) Fireworks
8 2 (0.081%) InDesign
8 2 (0.081%) Stateflow
8 2 (0.081%) Windchill
9 1 (0.041%) 1Password
9 1 (0.041%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.041%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.041%) Blender
9 1 (0.041%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.041%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 52 (2.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 45 (1.83%) NEC Housing
2 45 (1.83%) Remedy ITSM
3 15 (0.61%) Maximo
4 11 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
6 8 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
7 5 (0.20%) PeopleSoft HCM
7 5 (0.20%) SAP HR
8 3 (0.12%) Primavera
8 3 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
9 2 (0.081%) Oracle Applications
9 2 (0.081%) SAP Business ByDesign
10 1 (0.041%) Oracle Payroll
10 1 (0.041%) SAP CO
10 1 (0.041%) SAP EWM
10 1 (0.041%) SAP FI
10 1 (0.041%) SAP FI/CO
10 1 (0.041%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 648 (26.37%) Azure
2 582 (23.69%) AWS
3 132 (5.37%) Microsoft 365
4 84 (3.42%) Dynamics 365
5 80 (3.26%) Power Platform
6 70 (2.85%) SaaS
7 67 (2.73%) dbt
8 60 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
9 56 (2.28%) Entra ID
10 47 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
10 47 (1.91%) GitHub
11 46 (1.87%) Amazon SQS
11 46 (1.87%) PaaS
11 46 (1.87%) Serverless
12 45 (1.83%) PowerApps
13 44 (1.79%) Power Automate
14 38 (1.55%) GCP
15 33 (1.34%) Azure Monitor
16 32 (1.30%) IaaS
17 30 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 171 (6.96%) Firewall
2 117 (4.76%) DNS
3 89 (3.62%) TCP/IP
4 83 (3.38%) WAN
5 69 (2.81%) VPN
6 65 (2.65%) BGP
7 59 (2.40%) LAN
8 50 (2.04%) Network Security
9 47 (1.91%) SSL
10 41 (1.67%) DHCP
11 39 (1.59%) Wireless
12 31 (1.26%) Internet
13 29 (1.18%) SD-WAN
14 21 (0.85%) VLAN
14 21 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
15 19 (0.77%) OSPF
16 17 (0.69%) 5G
17 16 (0.65%) SAN
18 13 (0.53%) VSAN
19 10 (0.41%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (5.70%) Relational Database
2 124 (5.05%) PostgreSQL
3 99 (4.03%) GIS
4 98 (3.99%) QGIS
5 91 (3.70%) Oracle Database
6 62 (2.52%) RDBMS
7 61 (2.48%) Power BI
8 58 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
9 55 (2.24%) NoSQL
10 46 (1.87%) SQL Server
11 31 (1.26%) MySQL
12 20 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
13 18 (0.73%) Big Data
14 16 (0.65%) MongoDB
14 16 (0.65%) Tableau
15 13 (0.53%) Data Lake
16 12 (0.49%) Hadoop
17 9 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
17 9 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 8 (0.33%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 124 (5.05%) JIRA
2 82 (3.34%) Git
3 72 (2.93%) GitLab
4 63 (2.56%) Jenkins
5 34 (1.38%) Selenium
5 34 (1.38%) Vagrant
6 28 (1.14%) Rational DOORS
7 24 (0.98%) SonarQube
8 15 (0.61%) JUnit
9 13 (0.53%) Rational Rhapsody
10 12 (0.49%) Visual Studio
11 11 (0.45%) Cucumber
12 10 (0.41%) Oracle APEX
13 9 (0.37%) Bitbucket
13 9 (0.37%) JMeter
13 9 (0.37%) Rational Team Concert
13 9 (0.37%) Subversion
13 9 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
13 9 (0.37%) Trac
13 9 (0.37%) WebDriver
General
1 621 (25.27%) Social Skills
2 301 (12.25%) Public Sector
3 286 (11.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 269 (10.95%) Finance
5 184 (7.49%) Aerospace
6 167 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
7 90 (3.66%) Police
8 76 (3.09%) Military
9 62 (2.52%) Law
10 54 (2.20%) Local Government
10 54 (2.20%) Retail
11 52 (2.12%) Manufacturing
12 51 (2.08%) Games
13 49 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
14 44 (1.79%) Telecoms
15 29 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
16 23 (0.94%) Marketing
17 22 (0.90%) Electronics
18 20 (0.81%) Legal
19 11 (0.45%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 451 (18.36%) Senior
2 365 (14.86%) Architect
3 321 (13.06%) Software Engineer
4 305 (12.41%) Developer
5 279 (11.36%) Lead
6 178 (7.24%) Senior Software Engineer
7 161 (6.55%) Systems Engineer
8 139 (5.66%) Analyst
9 119 (4.84%) Consultant
10 109 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
11 104 (4.23%) DevOps Engineer
12 102 (4.15%) Project Manager
13 84 (3.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 76 (3.09%) Technical Architect
15 74 (3.01%) Business Analyst
16 72 (2.93%) Software Developer
17 67 (2.73%) Tester
18 65 (2.65%) Lead Architect
19 53 (2.16%) Principal Engineer
20 51 (2.08%) Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (7.37%) React
2 177 (7.20%) .NET
3 144 (5.86%) CSS
4 103 (4.19%) .NET Core
5 98 (3.99%) Leaflet
5 98 (3.99%) OpenLayers
5 98 (3.99%) PostGIS
6 85 (3.46%) Node.js
7 72 (2.93%) HTML
8 69 (2.81%) Spring Boot
9 62 (2.52%) Web Services
10 53 (2.16%) Django
11 51 (2.08%) RabbitMQ
12 49 (1.99%) REST
13 45 (1.83%) ARM Templates
14 40 (1.63%) RESTful
15 39 (1.59%) Middleware
15 39 (1.59%) Spring
16 32 (1.30%) XML
17 26 (1.06%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 111 (4.52%) Management Information System
2 97 (3.95%) Public Cloud
3 70 (2.85%) Private Cloud
4 65 (2.65%) Product Ownership
5 63 (2.56%) Algorithms
6 60 (2.44%) Onboarding
7 59 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
8 50 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
9 41 (1.67%) Data Centre
10 32 (1.30%) Virtual Team
11 28 (1.14%) Operational Technology
11 28 (1.14%) PKI
12 24 (0.98%) IoT
13 23 (0.94%) Cyber Threat
14 22 (0.90%) Cloud Native
14 22 (0.90%) Cyberattack
15 21 (0.85%) Driving Licence
15 21 (0.85%) Low-Code
15 21 (0.85%) Mainframe
16 20 (0.81%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 456 (18.56%) Linux
2 239 (9.73%) Windows
3 87 (3.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 80 (3.26%) Embedded Linux
5 71 (2.89%) Windows Server
6 64 (2.60%) Ubuntu
7 54 (2.20%) Unix
8 47 (1.91%) Android
9 40 (1.63%) CentOS
10 33 (1.34%) Windows 10
11 31 (1.26%) Windows Server 2019
12 28 (1.14%) Solaris
12 28 (1.14%) VMS
13 24 (0.98%) Windows Server 2016
14 13 (0.53%) zOS
15 9 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.16%) Debian
16 4 (0.16%) FreeRTOS
16 4 (0.16%) Windows 7
17 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 861 (35.04%) Agile
2 577 (23.48%) Software Engineering
3 480 (19.54%) DevOps
4 422 (17.18%) Actionable Insight
5 385 (15.67%) Problem-Solving
6 296 (12.05%) Project Management
7 287 (11.68%) Mentoring
8 250 (10.18%) Cybersecurity
9 247 (10.05%) Scrum
10 244 (9.93%) CI/CD
11 227 (9.24%) Continuous Integration
12 219 (8.91%) Collaborative Working
13 209 (8.51%) Systems Engineering
14 202 (8.22%) Artificial Intelligence
15 196 (7.98%) Stakeholder Management
16 189 (7.69%) Computer Science
17 178 (7.24%) Machine Learning
18 176 (7.16%) Roadmaps
19 173 (7.04%) Open Source
20 160 (6.51%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 513 (20.88%) Python
2 325 (13.23%) JavaScript
3 308 (12.54%) Java
4 212 (8.63%) C#
5 188 (7.65%) SQL
6 147 (5.98%) C++
7 138 (5.62%) C
8 96 (3.91%) Bash
9 93 (3.79%) TypeScript
10 90 (3.66%) PowerShell
11 51 (2.08%) Rust
12 50 (2.04%) Embedded C
13 44 (1.79%) MATLAB
14 37 (1.51%) Shell Script
15 33 (1.34%) Kotlin
16 29 (1.18%) Bicep
17 24 (0.98%) VB
18 22 (0.90%) Go
19 20 (0.81%) VBScript
20 19 (0.77%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,488 (60.56%) SC Cleared
2 512 (20.84%) Degree
3 474 (19.29%) DV Cleared
4 182 (7.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 154 (6.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 99 (4.03%) Azure Certification
7 80 (3.26%) AWS Certification
8 65 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
9 58 (2.36%) CISSP
10 56 (2.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 49 (1.99%) CISM
12 48 (1.95%) DBS Check
13 32 (1.30%) Master's Degree
14 30 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
15 27 (1.10%) CCNP
15 27 (1.10%) CREST Certified
15 27 (1.10%) CRISC
16 25 (1.02%) CEH
16 25 (1.02%) CTC Cleared
17 23 (0.94%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (4.23%) QA
2 87 (3.54%) Accessibility
3 59 (2.40%) NCSC
4 43 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 33 (1.34%) COBIT
6 29 (1.18%) Data Quality
7 24 (0.98%) GDPR
7 24 (0.98%) NIST
8 18 (0.73%) GRC
8 18 (0.73%) PMO
8 18 (0.73%) SLA
9 16 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
10 12 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 11 (0.45%) Software Quality Assurance
12 10 (0.41%) JSP 440
13 8 (0.33%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.33%) RMADS
14 5 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 15288
15 4 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 4 (0.16%) MISRA
System Software
1 171 (6.96%) Docker
2 139 (5.66%) Active Directory
3 68 (2.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 56 (2.28%) Hyper-V
5 33 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
6 26 (1.06%) Firmware
7 20 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (0.77%) vSphere
9 16 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
10 15 (0.61%) pfSense
11 9 (0.37%) NFS
11 9 (0.37%) VMware NSX
12 7 (0.28%) Microsoft App-V
12 7 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
13 6 (0.24%) Forefront TMG
13 6 (0.24%) VMware Workstation
14 4 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
15 3 (0.12%) vCloud
16 1 (0.041%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 1 (0.041%) Snort
Systems Management
1 208 (8.47%) Ansible
2 207 (8.42%) Terraform
3 182 (7.41%) Kubernetes
4 45 (1.83%) SCCM
5 35 (1.42%) SCOM
6 32 (1.30%) OpenView
7 29 (1.18%) WSUS
8 26 (1.06%) Grafana
9 23 (0.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 22 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
11 18 (0.73%) Puppet
12 15 (0.61%) ZABBIX
13 11 (0.45%) Kibana
13 11 (0.45%) vCenter Server
14 10 (0.41%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
15 9 (0.37%) Progress Chef
15 9 (0.37%) SCDPM
16 7 (0.28%) Prometheus
17 5 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
17 5 (0.20%) vRealize
Vendors
1 425 (17.30%) Microsoft
2 142 (5.78%) VMware
3 137 (5.58%) Oracle
4 100 (4.07%) ESRI
5 93 (3.79%) ServiceNow
6 86 (3.50%) Cisco
7 79 (3.22%) Xilinx
8 66 (2.69%) Juniper
9 52 (2.12%) Sparx
10 49 (1.99%) NEC
11 47 (1.91%) Fortinet
12 46 (1.87%) BMC
13 45 (1.83%) Remedy
14 44 (1.79%) HP
15 39 (1.59%) IBM
16 32 (1.30%) Palo Alto
17 27 (1.10%) Splunk
18 24 (0.98%) CheckPoint
18 24 (0.98%) Veeam
19 22 (0.90%) IFS