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 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 22 25
Rank change year-on-year -25 +3 +45
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 834 3,153 3,714
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 5.41% 9.33% 8.76%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.33% 33.24% 34.47%
Number of salaries quoted 526 1,726 1,645
10th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £35,375
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £61,164 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.37% -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 4,813 9,485 10,774
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.21% 28.07% 25.42%
Number of salaries quoted 3,069 5,912 6,583
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £70,600 £72,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +1.85% -9.28% +8.23%

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 5 May 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 (2.76%) Jupyter
2 20 (2.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.44%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.08%) OpenEdge
4 9 (1.08%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.84%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 7 (0.84%) Exchange Server 2013
5 7 (0.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.72%) Confluence
7 3 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.24%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.24%) nginx
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.12%) Apache
9 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 16 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.36%) Simulink
5 2 (0.24%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.24%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.24%) Oracle Smart View
5 2 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.12%) EPLAN
6 1 (0.12%) InVision
6 1 (0.12%) Revit
6 1 (0.12%) Sketch
6 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (1.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (1.32%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.96%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.60%) SAP HR
6 4 (0.48%) PeopleSoft HCM
6 4 (0.48%) Q-Pulse
6 4 (0.48%) SAP HCM
7 3 (0.36%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.36%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.24%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.24%) SAP PM
9 1 (0.12%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 241 (28.90%) AWS
2 230 (27.58%) Azure
3 85 (10.19%) GCP
4 83 (9.95%) AWS CloudFormation
5 57 (6.83%) Amazon EKS
6 52 (6.24%) Power Platform
7 36 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
7 36 (4.32%) Serverless
8 30 (3.60%) Dynamics 365
9 27 (3.24%) AWS Lambda
9 27 (3.24%) Microsoft 365
10 23 (2.76%) OCI
11 21 (2.52%) SaaS
12 20 (2.40%) GitHub
12 20 (2.40%) PaaS
13 18 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
14 16 (1.92%) IaaS
15 14 (1.68%) Amazon ECS
16 13 (1.56%) AWS KMS
16 13 (1.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 36 (4.32%) Firewall
2 32 (3.84%) TCP/IP
3 30 (3.60%) Network Security
4 29 (3.48%) VPN
5 26 (3.12%) BGP
6 18 (2.16%) OSPF
7 16 (1.92%) SAN
8 15 (1.80%) DNS
8 15 (1.80%) VLAN
8 15 (1.80%) WAN
9 13 (1.56%) IPsec
10 12 (1.44%) Wireless
11 11 (1.32%) DHCP
11 11 (1.32%) LAN
11 11 (1.32%) SMTP
12 9 (1.08%) Skype
13 8 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
14 7 (0.84%) IMAP
14 7 (0.84%) MPLS
14 7 (0.84%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (7.43%) Elasticsearch
2 50 (6.00%) Big Data
3 31 (3.72%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (3.48%) Power BI
5 24 (2.88%) SQL Server
6 19 (2.28%) Redis
7 14 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
8 13 (1.56%) MySQL
9 12 (1.44%) Relational Database
10 10 (1.20%) MongoDB
11 8 (0.96%) Tableau
12 5 (0.60%) Oracle ODI
13 4 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.48%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.48%) Spark SQL
14 3 (0.36%) BusinessObjects
14 3 (0.36%) DynamoDB
14 3 (0.36%) Metadata
15 2 (0.24%) Metadata Repository
15 2 (0.24%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 57 (6.83%) Git
2 27 (3.24%) Jenkins
3 17 (2.04%) JIRA
3 17 (2.04%) SonarQube
4 15 (1.80%) GitLab
5 7 (0.84%) JMeter
5 7 (0.84%) Selenium
6 5 (0.60%) JUnit
6 5 (0.60%) Subversion
7 4 (0.48%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.48%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.36%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.36%) Gatling
8 3 (0.36%) LabVIEW
8 3 (0.36%) Locust
8 3 (0.36%) LSMW
8 3 (0.36%) MLflow
8 3 (0.36%) Mockito
8 3 (0.36%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (0.36%) Postman
General
1 236 (28.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 224 (26.86%) Social Skills
3 161 (19.30%) Finance
4 157 (18.82%) Public Sector
5 145 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
6 53 (6.35%) Marketing
7 46 (5.52%) Electronics
8 44 (5.28%) Law
8 44 (5.28%) Telecoms
9 34 (4.08%) Manufacturing
10 30 (3.60%) Aerospace
11 29 (3.48%) Retail
12 28 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
13 20 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
14 15 (1.80%) Military
15 13 (1.56%) Police
16 12 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (1.44%) Legal
17 8 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
18 7 (0.84%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 204 (24.46%) Senior
2 137 (16.43%) Developer
3 121 (14.51%) Architect
4 88 (10.55%) Software Engineer
5 74 (8.87%) Consultant
6 64 (7.67%) Senior Software Engineer
7 60 (7.19%) Solutions Architect
8 54 (6.47%) Data Scientist
8 54 (6.47%) Lead
9 53 (6.35%) Software Developer
10 38 (4.56%) Senior Developer
11 33 (3.96%) Analyst
12 28 (3.36%) Cloud Architect
12 28 (3.36%) DevOps Engineer
13 27 (3.24%) Network Engineer
14 25 (3.00%) Senior Consultant
15 23 (2.76%) Senior Data Scientist
16 19 (2.28%) Systems Engineer
17 18 (2.16%) Lead Architect
17 18 (2.16%) ServiceNow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (15.47%) .NET
2 111 (13.31%) Node.js
3 49 (5.88%) Pandas
4 39 (4.68%) React
5 32 (3.84%) RESTful
6 27 (3.24%) Kafka
7 26 (3.12%) AngularJS
7 26 (3.12%) HTML
8 23 (2.76%) CSS
9 22 (2.64%) Elastic Stack
10 20 (2.40%) Django
11 17 (2.04%) .NET Framework
12 14 (1.68%) Spring
12 14 (1.68%) Vue
13 12 (1.44%) Spring Boot
14 11 (1.32%) .NET Core
14 11 (1.32%) Middleware
15 10 (1.20%) OAuth
15 10 (1.20%) RabbitMQ
16 9 (1.08%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 148 (17.75%) Cyberattack
2 68 (8.15%) Self-Motivation
3 67 (8.03%) Algorithms
4 63 (7.55%) Linux Command Line
5 49 (5.88%) Management Information System
6 38 (4.56%) Onboarding
7 30 (3.60%) Data Centre
8 27 (3.24%) Cloud Native
9 19 (2.28%) PMI
10 18 (2.16%) e-Learning
11 15 (1.80%) Virtual Team
12 14 (1.68%) FPGA
12 14 (1.68%) Security Posture
13 13 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
14 12 (1.44%) Product Ownership
15 10 (1.20%) NHS
16 9 (1.08%) CSOC
16 9 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
16 9 (1.08%) Operational Technology
17 8 (0.96%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 186 (22.30%) Linux
2 50 (6.00%) Android
2 50 (6.00%) Windows
3 29 (3.48%) Unix
4 22 (2.64%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (0.60%) Rocky
7 4 (0.48%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.36%) AIX
8 3 (0.36%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.36%) Solaris
8 3 (0.36%) Windows 7
8 3 (0.36%) Windows 8
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (30.46%) Agile
2 232 (27.82%) Software Engineering
3 183 (21.94%) Mentoring
4 174 (20.86%) DevOps
5 149 (17.87%) Problem-Solving
6 141 (16.91%) CI/CD
7 128 (15.35%) Microservices
8 121 (14.51%) Cybersecurity
9 119 (14.27%) Machine Learning
10 116 (13.91%) Containerisation
11 114 (13.67%) Mathematics
12 97 (11.63%) Statistics
13 92 (11.03%) Scrum
14 91 (10.91%) Computer Science
15 89 (10.67%) Cloud Security
16 81 (9.71%) Artificial Intelligence
17 80 (9.59%) Continuous Improvement
18 79 (9.47%) Collaborative Working
19 74 (8.87%) Analytics
19 74 (8.87%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 228 (27.34%) Python
2 190 (22.78%) Java
3 183 (21.94%) JavaScript
4 126 (15.11%) C++
5 106 (12.71%) Go
6 102 (12.23%) Rust
7 66 (7.91%) SQL
8 40 (4.80%) C#
9 32 (3.84%) TypeScript
10 27 (3.24%) C
11 20 (2.40%) Bash
12 14 (1.68%) PowerShell
13 9 (1.08%) Fortran
13 9 (1.08%) Perl
14 8 (0.96%) Ruby
15 6 (0.72%) R
15 6 (0.72%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.60%) MATLAB
16 5 (0.60%) PL/SQL
17 4 (0.48%) X++
Qualifications
1 462 (55.40%) SC Cleared
2 263 (31.53%) DV Cleared
3 177 (21.22%) Degree
4 90 (10.79%) AWS Certification
5 70 (8.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 53 (6.35%) AWS Certified Developer
6 53 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 31 (3.72%) CISSP
8 29 (3.48%) BPSS Clearance
9 28 (3.36%) Cisco Certification
10 27 (3.24%) Master's Degree
11 24 (2.88%) Numerate Degree
12 21 (2.52%) CISM
12 21 (2.52%) PMI Certification
13 20 (2.40%) CCNP
14 16 (1.92%) TOGAF Certification
15 14 (1.68%) CCNA
15 14 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
16 12 (1.44%) PhD
17 9 (1.08%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (4.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (3.72%) QA
3 28 (3.36%) NIST
4 26 (3.12%) GDPR
5 18 (2.16%) NCSC
6 16 (1.92%) HIPAA
7 14 (1.68%) GRC
8 12 (1.44%) Def Stans
9 10 (1.20%) Accessibility
9 10 (1.20%) JSP 440
10 9 (1.08%) Data Quality
11 8 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.96%) NIST 800
11 8 (0.96%) SLA
12 6 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 6 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 4 (0.48%) ISO 9001
13 4 (0.48%) PMO
14 3 (0.36%) PCI DSS
14 3 (0.36%) SOC 2
System Software
1 151 (18.11%) Docker
2 29 (3.48%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.44%) Firmware
3 12 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.60%) Embedded Firmware
6 4 (0.48%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.24%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.12%) IAG
9 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 143 (17.15%) Kubernetes
2 108 (12.95%) Terraform
3 81 (9.71%) Ansible
4 28 (3.36%) Prometheus
5 22 (2.64%) Grafana
6 11 (1.32%) AWS Copilot
7 9 (1.08%) QRadar
8 8 (0.96%) SCCM
9 5 (0.60%) Puppet
9 5 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.48%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.48%) Functional Safety
10 4 (0.48%) SCOM
10 4 (0.48%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.36%) Argo
11 3 (0.36%) Kibana
11 3 (0.36%) Packer
11 3 (0.36%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.36%) WMI
12 2 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 113 (13.55%) Microsoft
2 53 (6.35%) SAP
3 36 (4.32%) VMware
4 31 (3.72%) Oracle
5 28 (3.36%) Cisco
6 27 (3.24%) ServiceNow
7 21 (2.52%) Google
8 17 (2.04%) Juniper
9 10 (1.20%) Dell
10 8 (0.96%) Palo Alto
10 8 (0.96%) Red Hat
10 8 (0.96%) Splunk
11 7 (0.84%) F5
11 7 (0.84%) Fortinet
11 7 (0.84%) NetApp
12 6 (0.72%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.60%) Atlassian
13 5 (0.60%) Foundry
13 5 (0.60%) Palantir
13 5 (0.60%) SolarWinds