BPSS Clearance Jobs with Work from Home Options

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) 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 BPSS Clearance qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 259 542 694
Rank change year-on-year +283 +152 -313
Permanent jobs citing BPSS Clearance 419 121 170
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.24% 0.30% 0.24%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.42% 1.16% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 329 89 91
10th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £48,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £63,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% -3.08% +18.18%
75th Percentile £66,250 £82,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £75,500 £88,000 £113,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,192 £51,250
% change year-on-year -2.12% +9.64% -6.82%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

BPSS Clearance 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 9,482 10,421 15,966
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 28.16% 25.44% 22.86%
Number of salaries quoted 5,896 6,379 8,667
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,715 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -

BPSS Clearance
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

BPSS Clearance trend for jobs with a WFH option

BPSS Clearance
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

BPSS Clearance salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

BPSS Clearance
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing BPSS Clearance over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

BPSS Clearance salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

BPSS Clearance
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 6 (1.43%) Confluence
2 3 (0.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 41 (9.79%) Simulink
2 6 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.95%) Stateflow
4 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.24%) 1Password
5 1 (0.24%) Blender
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.24%) SAP MM
1 1 (0.24%) SAP PM
1 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 71 (16.95%) Azure
2 63 (15.04%) AWS
3 24 (5.73%) GitHub
4 23 (5.49%) GitHub Actions
5 21 (5.01%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (4.30%) GCP
7 17 (4.06%) PaaS
8 10 (2.39%) IaaS
8 10 (2.39%) Power Platform
8 10 (2.39%) SaaS
8 10 (2.39%) Serverless
9 6 (1.43%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (1.43%) Slack
10 4 (0.95%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 4 (0.95%) Entra ID
11 3 (0.72%) OCI
11 3 (0.72%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 2 (0.48%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.63%) Ethernet
2 8 (1.91%) Software-Defined Radio
3 6 (1.43%) Wireless
4 5 (1.19%) 5G
4 5 (1.19%) 5G NR
4 5 (1.19%) 802.11
4 5 (1.19%) LTE
4 5 (1.19%) SAN
5 4 (0.95%) DNS
5 4 (0.95%) Internet
6 3 (0.72%) Modbus
6 3 (0.72%) RS-232
6 3 (0.72%) RS-422
6 3 (0.72%) RS-485
6 3 (0.72%) Tactical Data Link
7 1 (0.24%) OpenVPN
7 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.49%) Relational Database
2 6 (1.43%) Power BI
3 4 (0.95%) Redis
3 4 (0.95%) Tableau
4 2 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.48%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 2 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.24%) MySQL
5 1 (0.24%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 39 (9.31%) Rational DOORS
2 35 (8.35%) Rational Rhapsody
3 17 (4.06%) GitLab
4 13 (3.10%) Rational Team Concert
5 12 (2.86%) Git
6 11 (2.63%) Jenkins
7 10 (2.39%) JIRA
8 8 (1.91%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.43%) CircleCI
9 6 (1.43%) git-flow
10 5 (1.19%) Postman
10 5 (1.19%) Subversion
11 4 (0.95%) JMeter
11 4 (0.95%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.72%) Eclipse
13 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
13 1 (0.24%) Moq
13 1 (0.24%) Selenium
13 1 (0.24%) SpecFlow
13 1 (0.24%) TeamCity
General
1 108 (25.78%) Social Skills
2 52 (12.41%) Public Sector
3 39 (9.31%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (8.11%) Military
5 23 (5.49%) Manufacturing
6 22 (5.25%) Electronics
6 22 (5.25%) French Language
7 17 (4.06%) Aerospace
8 14 (3.34%) Finance
8 14 (3.34%) Games
9 11 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.67%) Italian Language
11 4 (0.95%) German Language
11 4 (0.95%) Polish Language
11 4 (0.95%) Retail
12 3 (0.72%) Aeronautics
12 3 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.72%) Marketing
12 3 (0.72%) Turkish Language
13 2 (0.48%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 74 (17.66%) Systems Engineer
2 64 (15.27%) Lead
3 49 (11.69%) Senior
4 47 (11.22%) Architect
5 40 (9.55%) Developer
6 39 (9.31%) Software Engineer
7 22 (5.25%) Full Stack Developer
7 22 (5.25%) Security Architect
8 19 (4.53%) Principal Architect
8 19 (4.53%) Principal Security Architect
9 18 (4.30%) Systems Architect
10 16 (3.82%) Graduate
10 16 (3.82%) Senior Developer
10 16 (3.82%) Senior Full Stack Developer
11 15 (3.58%) Analyst
12 13 (3.10%) DevOps Engineer
13 10 (2.39%) Graduate Systems Engineer
13 10 (2.39%) Project Leader
13 10 (2.39%) Test Engineer
14 9 (2.15%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (6.68%) Node.js
2 26 (6.21%) HTML
3 25 (5.97%) CSS
4 21 (5.01%) RESTful
4 21 (5.01%) Web Services
5 17 (4.06%) .NET
6 11 (2.63%) Middleware
7 10 (2.39%) ASP.NET
7 10 (2.39%) Express.js
8 9 (2.15%) ASP.NET Core
8 9 (2.15%) OAuth
8 9 (2.15%) OpenID
8 9 (2.15%) PyTorch
9 8 (1.91%) ARM Templates
9 8 (1.91%) Azure Blueprints
10 6 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (1.43%) SGML
11 5 (1.19%) .NET Framework
11 5 (1.19%) 802.1X
12 4 (0.95%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 52 (12.41%) Onboarding
2 46 (10.98%) Algorithms
3 27 (6.44%) Management Information System
4 21 (5.01%) Public Cloud
5 13 (3.10%) Product Ownership
5 13 (3.10%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.91%) CMDB
6 8 (1.91%) FPGA
6 8 (1.91%) PCIe
6 8 (1.91%) VHDL
7 6 (1.43%) Virtual Team
8 4 (0.95%) Augmented Reality
8 4 (0.95%) Cloud Native
8 4 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (0.95%) Data Structures
8 4 (0.95%) Robotics
8 4 (0.95%) Virtual Reality
9 3 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.72%) Ray Tracing
9 3 (0.72%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 28 (6.68%) Linux
2 13 (3.10%) Windows
3 4 (0.95%) Ubuntu
3 4 (0.95%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.72%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (0.72%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.48%) Unix
5 2 (0.48%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.24%) Android
6 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (28.40%) Systems Engineering
2 117 (27.92%) Software Engineering
3 114 (27.21%) Agile
4 81 (19.33%) Validation
5 68 (16.23%) Problem-Solving
6 60 (14.32%) DevOps
7 55 (13.13%) Mathematics
8 53 (12.65%) Mentoring
9 52 (12.41%) Verification and Validation
10 48 (11.46%) Continuous Integration
11 47 (11.22%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
12 46 (10.98%) Software Testing
13 43 (10.26%) Project Management
14 40 (9.55%) Physics
15 39 (9.31%) CI/CD
16 37 (8.83%) TDD
17 35 (8.35%) Continuous Delivery
18 34 (8.11%) Coaching
19 33 (7.88%) Scrum
20 32 (7.64%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 49 (11.69%) C#
2 41 (9.79%) C
2 41 (9.79%) Python
3 38 (9.07%) JavaScript
4 36 (8.59%) MATLAB
5 30 (7.16%) Java
6 29 (6.92%) Ada
7 20 (4.77%) Go
8 9 (2.15%) Shell Script
9 7 (1.67%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.95%) R
10 4 (0.95%) VBA
11 3 (0.72%) C++
11 3 (0.72%) Rust
11 3 (0.72%) SQL
11 3 (0.72%) SystemVerilog
12 2 (0.48%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.24%) PHP
13 1 (0.24%) Ruby
13 1 (0.24%) VB
Qualifications
1 361 (86.16%) Security Cleared
2 124 (29.59%) Degree
3 65 (15.51%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.86%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.15%) DBS Check
6 5 (1.19%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.19%) PhD
7 4 (0.95%) APMP
8 2 (0.48%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.48%) HNC
9 1 (0.24%) ACCA
9 1 (0.24%) CEH
9 1 (0.24%) CIMA
9 1 (0.24%) CISM
9 1 (0.24%) CISSP
9 1 (0.24%) HND
9 1 (0.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.24%) NVQ Level 3
9 1 (0.24%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.24%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.97%) Accessibility
2 14 (3.34%) QA
3 10 (2.39%) Def Stans
3 10 (2.39%) MISRA
4 9 (2.15%) NCSC
5 4 (0.95%) IEC 61508
5 4 (0.95%) MISRA C
6 3 (0.72%) NIST
7 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.24%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 36 (8.59%) Firmware
2 21 (5.01%) Docker
3 10 (2.39%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.91%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (4.77%) Terraform
2 19 (4.53%) Ansible
3 17 (4.06%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.95%) Grafana
4 4 (0.95%) Kibana
5 2 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.24%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 36 (8.59%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.16%) IBM
3 7 (1.67%) Google
4 6 (1.43%) McAfee
4 6 (1.43%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.19%) ServiceNow
6 4 (0.95%) Automation Anywhere
6 4 (0.95%) Blue Prism
6 4 (0.95%) Mercator
6 4 (0.95%) NVIDIA
6 4 (0.95%) OpenAI
6 4 (0.95%) SIMUL8
6 4 (0.95%) Splunk
6 4 (0.95%) Sun
6 4 (0.95%) UiPath
7 3 (0.72%) Dell
7 3 (0.72%) EMC
7 3 (0.72%) Intel
7 3 (0.72%) Oracle
7 3 (0.72%) Red Hat