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 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 22 25 71
Rank change year-on-year +3 +46 +13
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 3,124 3,596 3,462
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.28% 8.78% 4.96%
As % of the Qualifications category 32.95% 34.51% 21.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,723 1,615 1,578
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,649
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,150 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,188
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% 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 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% -

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 14 May 2024.

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
1 222 (7.11%) ArcGIS
2 214 (6.85%) GeoServer
3 48 (1.54%) WebLogic
4 43 (1.38%) IIS
5 39 (1.25%) SharePoint
6 38 (1.22%) Apache
7 33 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
8 31 (0.99%) Confluence
9 25 (0.80%) OpenStack
10 24 (0.77%) Tomcat
11 16 (0.51%) CMS
12 7 (0.22%) Apache Spark
12 7 (0.22%) JBoss
12 7 (0.22%) Red Hat Fuse
13 5 (0.16%) nginx
14 4 (0.13%) Appian
15 2 (0.064%) Oracle Service Bus
15 2 (0.064%) Oracle Workflow
16 1 (0.032%) Drupal
16 1 (0.032%) WordPress
Applications
1 75 (2.40%) Simulink
2 50 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
4 16 (0.51%) MS Visio
5 15 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
6 12 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.13%) AutoCAD
7 4 (0.13%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.13%) Stateflow
7 4 (0.13%) Windchill
8 2 (0.064%) Fireworks
8 2 (0.064%) InDesign
9 1 (0.032%) 1Password
9 1 (0.032%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.032%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.032%) Blender
Business Applications
1 56 (1.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 47 (1.50%) Remedy ITSM
3 29 (0.93%) Primavera
4 28 (0.90%) NEC Housing
5 13 (0.42%) SAP HR
6 10 (0.32%) Maximo
6 10 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
6 10 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
7 8 (0.26%) Siebel CRM
8 6 (0.19%) SAP WM
9 4 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
10 3 (0.096%) Dynamics CRM
10 3 (0.096%) SAP CRM
10 3 (0.096%) SAP CX
10 3 (0.096%) SAP EWM
10 3 (0.096%) SAP GTS
10 3 (0.096%) SAP SD
11 2 (0.064%) Oracle Cash Management
11 2 (0.064%) Oracle EBS R12
11 2 (0.064%) SAP Business ByDesign
Cloud Services
1 838 (26.82%) Azure
2 707 (22.63%) AWS
3 109 (3.49%) Dynamics 365
4 101 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
5 100 (3.20%) Power Platform
6 96 (3.07%) Microsoft 365
7 91 (2.91%) Amazon EKS
8 74 (2.37%) SaaS
9 71 (2.27%) Serverless
10 62 (1.98%) PaaS
11 47 (1.50%) Amazon SQS
11 47 (1.50%) GCP
11 47 (1.50%) PowerApps
12 45 (1.44%) Entra ID
13 44 (1.41%) GitHub
14 38 (1.22%) Power Automate
15 37 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
16 36 (1.15%) IaaS
17 35 (1.12%) Amazon ECS
18 31 (0.99%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 167 (5.35%) Firewall
2 114 (3.65%) DNS
3 83 (2.66%) TCP/IP
4 78 (2.50%) WAN
5 76 (2.43%) VPN
6 61 (1.95%) BGP
7 59 (1.89%) Network Security
8 56 (1.79%) LAN
9 53 (1.70%) SSL
10 47 (1.50%) Wireless
11 39 (1.25%) Internet
12 37 (1.18%) DHCP
13 35 (1.12%) SAN
14 29 (0.93%) SD-WAN
15 25 (0.80%) 5G
16 21 (0.67%) Ethernet
17 17 (0.54%) VSAN
18 15 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
19 14 (0.45%) MPLS
20 10 (0.32%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 252 (8.07%) PostgreSQL
2 218 (6.98%) GIS
3 214 (6.85%) QGIS
4 156 (4.99%) Relational Database
5 85 (2.72%) Oracle Database
6 69 (2.21%) Power BI
7 63 (2.02%) RDBMS
8 62 (1.98%) SQL Server
9 61 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
10 43 (1.38%) NoSQL
11 28 (0.90%) MySQL
12 18 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
13 16 (0.51%) Big Data
14 14 (0.45%) Metadata
15 13 (0.42%) Tableau
16 11 (0.35%) Hadoop
16 11 (0.35%) MongoDB
17 10 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
17 10 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
18 9 (0.29%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 141 (4.51%) JIRA
2 139 (4.45%) Git
3 109 (3.49%) Jenkins
4 99 (3.17%) GitLab
5 58 (1.86%) Rational DOORS
6 38 (1.22%) Rational Rhapsody
7 37 (1.18%) Selenium
8 25 (0.80%) Subversion
9 18 (0.58%) Visual Studio
10 16 (0.51%) SonarQube
10 16 (0.51%) Vagrant
11 15 (0.48%) CMake
11 15 (0.48%) Cucumber
11 15 (0.48%) JUnit
12 13 (0.42%) Rational Team Concert
12 13 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
13 12 (0.38%) Bitbucket
13 12 (0.38%) JMeter
14 10 (0.32%) Trac
15 7 (0.22%) CircleCI
General
1 773 (24.74%) Social Skills
2 382 (12.23%) Public Sector
3 291 (9.31%) Finance
4 289 (9.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 235 (7.52%) Aerospace
6 178 (5.70%) Analytical Skills
7 125 (4.00%) Military
8 106 (3.39%) Police
9 78 (2.50%) Games
10 74 (2.37%) Manufacturing
11 73 (2.34%) Retail
12 65 (2.08%) Law
13 61 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
14 59 (1.89%) Telecoms
15 58 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
16 48 (1.54%) Electronics
17 42 (1.34%) Local Government
18 37 (1.18%) Marketing
19 22 (0.70%) French Language
20 18 (0.58%) Legal
Job Titles
1 648 (20.74%) Senior
2 495 (15.85%) Architect
3 452 (14.47%) Software Engineer
4 379 (12.13%) Developer
5 357 (11.43%) Lead
6 290 (9.28%) Senior Software Engineer
7 213 (6.82%) Systems Engineer
8 212 (6.79%) Solutions Architect
9 193 (6.18%) Analyst
10 156 (4.99%) Consultant
11 124 (3.97%) DevOps Engineer
12 123 (3.94%) Project Manager
13 97 (3.10%) Senior Developer
14 95 (3.04%) Business Analyst
15 92 (2.94%) Presales Solution Architect
16 81 (2.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 66 (2.11%) Lead Architect
18 62 (1.98%) Full Stack Developer
19 59 (1.89%) Embedded Engineer
20 57 (1.82%) Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 288 (9.22%) .NET
2 287 (9.19%) React
3 228 (7.30%) CSS
4 214 (6.85%) Leaflet
4 214 (6.85%) OpenLayers
4 214 (6.85%) PostGIS
5 187 (5.99%) .NET Core
6 121 (3.87%) Node.js
7 94 (3.01%) Web Services
8 93 (2.98%) HTML
9 87 (2.78%) AngularJS
10 83 (2.66%) Spring Boot
11 80 (2.56%) RESTful
12 77 (2.46%) Spring
13 69 (2.21%) REST
14 63 (2.02%) Django
15 61 (1.95%) XML
16 51 (1.63%) RabbitMQ
17 49 (1.57%) Express.js
18 46 (1.47%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 127 (4.07%) Management Information System
2 99 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
3 96 (3.07%) Product Ownership
4 91 (2.91%) Public Cloud
5 86 (2.75%) Private Cloud
6 85 (2.72%) Algorithms
6 85 (2.72%) Virtual Team
7 76 (2.43%) Data Centre
8 65 (2.08%) Onboarding
9 49 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
10 39 (1.25%) Operational Technology
11 30 (0.96%) PKI
12 29 (0.93%) Mainframe
13 28 (0.90%) IoT
14 25 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
15 24 (0.77%) Cloud Native
16 23 (0.74%) CMDB
16 23 (0.74%) Cyber Threat
16 23 (0.74%) Satnav
17 22 (0.70%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 544 (17.41%) Linux
2 280 (8.96%) Windows
3 103 (3.30%) Ubuntu
4 99 (3.17%) Windows Server
5 75 (2.40%) Unix
6 73 (2.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 68 (2.18%) Embedded Linux
8 48 (1.54%) VMS
9 31 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
10 30 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
11 26 (0.83%) Solaris
12 25 (0.80%) CentOS
13 21 (0.67%) Android
14 19 (0.61%) Windows 10
15 14 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
16 10 (0.32%) zOS
17 9 (0.29%) Windows NT
18 4 (0.13%) AIX
18 4 (0.13%) Windows 7
19 3 (0.096%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,172 (37.52%) Agile
2 771 (24.68%) Actionable Insight
3 725 (23.21%) Software Engineering
4 696 (22.28%) DevOps
5 555 (17.77%) Problem-Solving
6 356 (11.40%) Project Management
7 324 (10.37%) Scrum
8 288 (9.22%) Systems Engineering
9 278 (8.90%) CI/CD
9 278 (8.90%) Mentoring
10 273 (8.74%) Cybersecurity
11 243 (7.78%) ITIL
12 239 (7.65%) Continuous Integration
13 235 (7.52%) Web Development
14 225 (7.20%) Collaborative Working
15 204 (6.53%) Kanban
16 202 (6.47%) Stakeholder Management
17 201 (6.43%) Open Source
18 194 (6.21%) Presales
19 190 (6.08%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 585 (18.73%) Python
2 480 (15.36%) JavaScript
3 335 (10.72%) Java
4 246 (7.87%) C#
5 157 (5.03%) SQL
6 155 (4.96%) C
7 116 (3.71%) PowerShell
8 114 (3.65%) C++
9 101 (3.23%) Bash
10 77 (2.46%) TypeScript
11 60 (1.92%) MATLAB
12 56 (1.79%) Rust
13 50 (1.60%) Embedded C
14 42 (1.34%) Shell Script
15 39 (1.25%) Go
16 29 (0.93%) Ada
17 27 (0.86%) Bicep
17 27 (0.86%) VB
18 20 (0.64%) VBScript
19 19 (0.61%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 1,866 (59.73%) SC Cleared
2 597 (19.11%) Degree
3 512 (16.39%) DV Cleared
4 361 (11.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 110 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 92 (2.94%) Azure Certification
7 87 (2.78%) AWS Certification
8 60 (1.92%) CISSP
9 59 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 56 (1.79%) CISM
11 47 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
12 43 (1.38%) DBS Check
13 42 (1.34%) CTC Cleared
14 39 (1.25%) Master's Degree
15 36 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
16 33 (1.06%) CRISC
17 29 (0.93%) NVQ Level 3
18 28 (0.90%) CCNA
18 28 (0.90%) CCNP
19 23 (0.74%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (3.46%) QA
2 73 (2.34%) Accessibility
3 50 (1.60%) NCSC
4 45 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 37 (1.18%) NIST
6 32 (1.02%) COBIT
7 28 (0.90%) PMO
8 26 (0.83%) JSP 440
9 24 (0.77%) SLA
10 22 (0.70%) GDPR
11 21 (0.67%) Software Quality Assurance
12 20 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
13 19 (0.61%) Data Quality
13 19 (0.61%) GRC
14 17 (0.54%) RMADS
15 16 (0.51%) NIST 800
16 14 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 11 (0.35%) Def Stans
17 11 (0.35%) MISRA
18 10 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 204 (6.53%) Docker
2 177 (5.67%) Active Directory
3 62 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 60 (1.92%) Hyper-V
5 59 (1.89%) Firmware
6 34 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
7 22 (0.70%) vSphere
8 16 (0.51%) pfSense
9 15 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
9 15 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
10 14 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
11 10 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
11 10 (0.32%) NFS
12 9 (0.29%) Forefront TMG
12 9 (0.29%) VMware Workstation
13 7 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
14 2 (0.064%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.032%) Lustre
15 1 (0.032%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 1 (0.032%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 236 (7.55%) Ansible
2 226 (7.23%) Terraform
3 200 (6.40%) Kubernetes
4 64 (2.05%) SCCM
5 50 (1.60%) WSUS
6 40 (1.28%) SCOM
7 32 (1.02%) Grafana
7 32 (1.02%) OpenView
8 25 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 25 (0.80%) Puppet
9 22 (0.70%) vCenter Server
10 20 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
11 16 (0.51%) Kibana
11 16 (0.51%) ZABBIX
12 12 (0.38%) Prometheus
13 11 (0.35%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
14 10 (0.32%) Progress Chef
14 10 (0.32%) SCDPM
15 9 (0.29%) Sysprep
16 6 (0.19%) HP UCMDB
Vendors
1 466 (14.92%) Microsoft
2 219 (7.01%) ESRI
3 158 (5.06%) Oracle
4 150 (4.80%) VMware
5 92 (2.94%) ServiceNow
6 90 (2.88%) Cisco
7 69 (2.21%) Juniper
8 56 (1.79%) HP
8 56 (1.79%) Sparx
9 52 (1.66%) IBM
10 47 (1.50%) Remedy
11 46 (1.47%) BMC
12 44 (1.41%) Fortinet
13 39 (1.25%) Xilinx
14 32 (1.02%) SAP
15 30 (0.96%) Thales
16 29 (0.93%) NEC
16 29 (0.93%) Palo Alto
16 29 (0.93%) Red Hat
17 28 (0.90%) Riverbed