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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 260 494 716
Rank change year-on-year +234 +222 -321
Permanent jobs citing BPSS Clearance 418 144 170
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.20% 0.37% 0.23%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.31% 1.43% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 330 106 86
10th Percentile £36,515 £40,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £48,188 £42,500 £47,735
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £65,344
Median % change year-on-year - -12.00% +18.81%
75th Percentile £66,250 £78,438 £90,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £113,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £49,200
% change year-on-year -4.35% +16.87% -10.55%

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 9,709 10,051 17,198
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.95% 26.13% 23.15%
Number of salaries quoted 5,901 6,071 8,883
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £78,725 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £53,772 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.38% +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 1 June 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 (1.44%) Confluence
2 2 (0.48%) SharePoint
Applications
1 41 (9.81%) Simulink
2 6 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.96%) 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
Cloud Services
1 74 (17.70%) Azure
2 61 (14.59%) AWS
3 23 (5.50%) GitHub
3 23 (5.50%) GitHub Actions
4 19 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (4.31%) PaaS
6 15 (3.59%) GCP
7 12 (2.87%) SaaS
8 11 (2.63%) IaaS
9 10 (2.39%) Power Platform
10 7 (1.67%) Serverless
11 6 (1.44%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (1.20%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (1.20%) Slack
13 4 (0.96%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (0.96%) Azure Cognitive Services
13 4 (0.96%) Entra ID
14 3 (0.72%) Azure Service Bus
14 3 (0.72%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.63%) Ethernet
2 8 (1.91%) Software-Defined Radio
3 5 (1.20%) 5G
3 5 (1.20%) 5G NR
3 5 (1.20%) 802.11
3 5 (1.20%) LTE
3 5 (1.20%) SAN
3 5 (1.20%) Wireless
4 4 (0.96%) DNS
4 4 (0.96%) Internet
4 4 (0.96%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.72%) Firewall
5 3 (0.72%) Modbus
5 3 (0.72%) RS-232
5 3 (0.72%) RS-422
5 3 (0.72%) RS-485
5 3 (0.72%) Tactical Data Link
5 3 (0.72%) VLAN
6 1 (0.24%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (5.98%) Relational Database
2 6 (1.44%) Power BI
3 4 (0.96%) Redis
3 4 (0.96%) 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 (9.33%) Rational DOORS
2 35 (8.37%) Rational Rhapsody
3 14 (3.35%) GitLab
4 13 (3.11%) Rational Team Concert
5 10 (2.39%) SonarQube
6 9 (2.15%) Git
6 9 (2.15%) JIRA
7 8 (1.91%) Jenkins
8 5 (1.20%) Postman
8 5 (1.20%) Subversion
9 4 (0.96%) CircleCI
9 4 (0.96%) git-flow
9 4 (0.96%) JMeter
9 4 (0.96%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.72%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.24%) Moq
11 1 (0.24%) Selenium
11 1 (0.24%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.24%) SpecFlow
General
1 108 (25.84%) Social Skills
2 50 (11.96%) Public Sector
3 37 (8.85%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (8.37%) Military
5 22 (5.26%) Electronics
5 22 (5.26%) French Language
5 22 (5.26%) Manufacturing
6 16 (3.83%) Aerospace
7 14 (3.35%) Games
8 12 (2.87%) Finance
9 11 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.67%) Italian Language
11 4 (0.96%) German Language
11 4 (0.96%) Polish Language
11 4 (0.96%) Retail
12 3 (0.72%) Aeronautics
12 3 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.72%) Turkish Language
13 2 (0.48%) Local Government
13 2 (0.48%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 74 (17.70%) Systems Engineer
2 62 (14.83%) Lead
3 49 (11.72%) Senior
4 47 (11.24%) Architect
5 41 (9.81%) Developer
6 39 (9.33%) Software Engineer
7 23 (5.50%) Full Stack Developer
8 22 (5.26%) Security Architect
9 19 (4.55%) Principal Architect
9 19 (4.55%) Principal Security Architect
10 18 (4.31%) Systems Architect
11 17 (4.07%) Senior Developer
11 17 (4.07%) Senior Full Stack Developer
12 16 (3.83%) Graduate
13 13 (3.11%) Analyst
14 12 (2.87%) .NET Developer
14 12 (2.87%) DevOps Engineer
14 12 (2.87%) Full Stack .NET Developer
15 11 (2.63%) Consultant
16 10 (2.39%) Project Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (6.94%) Node.js
2 27 (6.46%) CSS
2 27 (6.46%) HTML
3 23 (5.50%) RESTful
3 23 (5.50%) Web Services
4 20 (4.78%) .NET
5 13 (3.11%) ASP.NET
6 12 (2.87%) ASP.NET Core
7 11 (2.63%) Middleware
8 10 (2.39%) ARM Templates
8 10 (2.39%) Azure Blueprints
8 10 (2.39%) Express.js
8 10 (2.39%) OAuth
8 10 (2.39%) OpenID
9 9 (2.15%) PyTorch
10 7 (1.67%) SGML
11 5 (1.20%) .NET Framework
11 5 (1.20%) 802.1X
12 4 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
12 4 (0.96%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 52 (12.44%) Onboarding
2 46 (11.00%) Algorithms
3 27 (6.46%) Management Information System
4 21 (5.02%) Public Cloud
5 13 (3.11%) Product Ownership
5 13 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.91%) CMDB
6 8 (1.91%) FPGA
6 8 (1.91%) PCIe
6 8 (1.91%) VHDL
7 4 (0.96%) Augmented Reality
7 4 (0.96%) Cloud Native
7 4 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (0.96%) Data Structures
7 4 (0.96%) Robotics
7 4 (0.96%) Virtual Reality
7 4 (0.96%) Virtual Team
8 3 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.72%) Ray Tracing
8 3 (0.72%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 26 (6.22%) Linux
2 12 (2.87%) Windows
3 4 (0.96%) Ubuntu
3 4 (0.96%) 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
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (28.47%) Systems Engineering
2 118 (28.23%) Software Engineering
3 110 (26.32%) Agile
4 81 (19.38%) Validation
5 72 (17.22%) Problem-Solving
6 60 (14.35%) DevOps
7 55 (13.16%) Mathematics
7 55 (13.16%) Mentoring
8 52 (12.44%) Verification and Validation
9 48 (11.48%) Software Testing
10 47 (11.24%) Continuous Integration
10 47 (11.24%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
11 44 (10.53%) Project Management
12 40 (9.57%) Physics
13 39 (9.33%) TDD
14 37 (8.85%) CI/CD
14 37 (8.85%) Continuous Delivery
15 34 (8.13%) Coaching
15 34 (8.13%) Roadmaps
16 32 (7.66%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 50 (11.96%) C#
2 41 (9.81%) C
2 41 (9.81%) Python
3 39 (9.33%) JavaScript
4 36 (8.61%) MATLAB
5 29 (6.94%) Ada
5 29 (6.94%) Java
6 20 (4.78%) Go
7 7 (1.67%) Shell Script
8 6 (1.44%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.20%) SQL
10 4 (0.96%) R
10 4 (0.96%) VBA
11 3 (0.72%) C++
11 3 (0.72%) Rust
11 3 (0.72%) SystemVerilog
12 2 (0.48%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 361 (86.36%) Security Cleared
2 126 (30.14%) Degree
3 63 (15.07%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.87%) DBS Check
4 12 (2.87%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.20%) Master's Degree
5 5 (1.20%) PhD
6 4 (0.96%) APMP
6 4 (0.96%) CEH
7 3 (0.72%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.48%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.48%) HNC
9 1 (0.24%) ACCA
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%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.22%) Accessibility
2 13 (3.11%) QA
3 11 (2.63%) NCSC
4 10 (2.39%) Def Stans
4 10 (2.39%) MISRA
5 4 (0.96%) IEC 61508
5 4 (0.96%) 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 (8.61%) Firmware
2 20 (4.78%) Docker
3 8 (1.91%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.91%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.72%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (4.55%) Ansible
1 19 (4.55%) Terraform
2 15 (3.59%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.96%) Grafana
3 4 (0.96%) Kibana
4 2 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.24%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 38 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.18%) IBM
3 6 (1.44%) Salesforce
4 5 (1.20%) Google
4 5 (1.20%) ServiceNow
5 4 (0.96%) Automation Anywhere
5 4 (0.96%) Blue Prism
5 4 (0.96%) McAfee
5 4 (0.96%) Mercator
5 4 (0.96%) NVIDIA
5 4 (0.96%) OpenAI
5 4 (0.96%) SIMUL8
5 4 (0.96%) Splunk
5 4 (0.96%) Sun
5 4 (0.96%) UiPath
5 4 (0.96%) VMware
6 3 (0.72%) Dell
6 3 (0.72%) EMC
6 3 (0.72%) Intel
6 3 (0.72%) Microsemi