SC Cleared Jobs with Work from Home Options

Security Check (SC) 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 SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 46 105
Rank change year-on-year +2 +59 +9
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 1,871 2,547 2,545
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 5.53% 6.30% 3.62%
As % of the Qualifications category 19.59% 24.62% 15.73%
Number of salaries quoted 945 1,190 1,188
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,940 £39,925
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £89,520 £90,000 £88,825
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,000 £57,100
% change year-on-year -7.26% +8.58% +3.82%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

SC 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 9,550 10,344 16,175
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 28.21% 25.60% 23.00%
Number of salaries quoted 5,898 6,296 8,686
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 £92,750
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

SC Cleared trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

SC Cleared salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SC Cleared over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

SC 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 (11.87%) ArcGIS
2 214 (11.44%) GeoServer
3 48 (2.57%) WebLogic
4 25 (1.34%) Confluence
4 25 (1.34%) OpenStack
4 25 (1.34%) SharePoint
5 15 (0.80%) CMS
6 12 (0.64%) Apache
7 11 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.32%) JBoss
8 6 (0.32%) Red Hat Fuse
9 4 (0.21%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.21%) Appian
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Service Bus
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.053%) Drupal
11 1 (0.053%) nginx
11 1 (0.053%) WordPress
Applications
1 35 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (1.50%) Simulink
3 18 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
4 12 (0.64%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.21%) AutoCAD
7 4 (0.21%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.11%) Fireworks
9 2 (0.11%) InDesign
10 1 (0.053%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.053%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.053%) Blender
Business Applications
1 55 (2.94%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 39 (2.08%) Remedy ITSM
3 11 (0.59%) Maximo
4 8 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.43%) Siebel CRM
5 6 (0.32%) SAP WM
6 4 (0.21%) SAP HR
7 3 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.16%) SAP CRM
7 3 (0.16%) SAP CX
7 3 (0.16%) SAP GTS
7 3 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
7 3 (0.16%) SAP SD
8 2 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.11%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.053%) Primavera
9 1 (0.053%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 621 (33.19%) Azure
2 542 (28.97%) AWS
3 86 (4.60%) Amazon EKS
4 77 (4.12%) Dynamics 365
5 70 (3.74%) Power Platform
6 68 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
7 59 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
8 58 (3.10%) SaaS
9 55 (2.94%) Serverless
10 47 (2.51%) Amazon SQS
11 41 (2.19%) PaaS
12 36 (1.92%) PowerApps
13 35 (1.87%) GCP
14 34 (1.82%) Power Automate
15 28 (1.50%) Amazon ECS
15 28 (1.50%) Cloud Computing
16 25 (1.34%) IaaS
17 24 (1.28%) GitHub
18 21 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
19 19 (1.02%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 91 (4.86%) Firewall
2 79 (4.22%) DNS
3 65 (3.47%) TCP/IP
4 52 (2.78%) SSL
5 48 (2.57%) BGP
6 35 (1.87%) Network Security
7 33 (1.76%) VPN
8 32 (1.71%) Wireless
9 31 (1.66%) SAN
10 27 (1.44%) SD-WAN
11 25 (1.34%) WAN
12 19 (1.02%) 5G
13 18 (0.96%) DHCP
14 11 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
15 10 (0.53%) LAN
16 8 (0.43%) IPv4
17 7 (0.37%) VLAN
18 6 (0.32%) Cisco IPT
18 6 (0.32%) Ethernet
18 6 (0.32%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 246 (13.15%) PostgreSQL
2 218 (11.65%) GIS
3 214 (11.44%) QGIS
4 132 (7.06%) Relational Database
5 63 (3.37%) RDBMS
6 61 (3.26%) Amazon RDS
7 60 (3.21%) Oracle Database
8 46 (2.46%) Power BI
9 42 (2.24%) NoSQL
10 33 (1.76%) SQL Server
11 27 (1.44%) MySQL
12 16 (0.86%) Big Data
13 15 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
14 12 (0.64%) MongoDB
14 12 (0.64%) Tableau
15 10 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
15 10 (0.53%) Metadata
16 9 (0.48%) Data Lake
16 9 (0.48%) Hadoop
17 7 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 104 (5.56%) Git
2 92 (4.92%) Jenkins
3 84 (4.49%) JIRA
4 44 (2.35%) GitLab
5 19 (1.02%) Subversion
6 17 (0.91%) Vagrant
7 15 (0.80%) CMake
7 15 (0.80%) Selenium
8 14 (0.75%) Cucumber
8 14 (0.75%) JUnit
8 14 (0.75%) Rational DOORS
9 11 (0.59%) JMeter
10 10 (0.53%) Trac
11 7 (0.37%) CircleCI
12 6 (0.32%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.32%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.32%) TestNG
12 6 (0.32%) WebDriver
13 5 (0.27%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.27%) git-flow
General
1 522 (27.90%) Social Skills
2 284 (15.18%) Public Sector
3 211 (11.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 153 (8.18%) Finance
5 103 (5.51%) Analytical Skills
6 62 (3.31%) Aerospace
6 62 (3.31%) Police
7 51 (2.73%) Military
8 44 (2.35%) Telecoms
9 40 (2.14%) Games
10 36 (1.92%) Law
11 34 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
12 27 (1.44%) Retail
13 25 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
14 21 (1.12%) Marketing
15 16 (0.86%) Manufacturing
16 15 (0.80%) Electronics
16 15 (0.80%) Legal
17 12 (0.64%) Local Government
18 10 (0.53%) French Language
Job Titles
1 490 (26.19%) Senior
2 383 (20.47%) Architect
3 317 (16.94%) Software Engineer
4 272 (14.54%) Developer
5 250 (13.36%) Senior Software Engineer
6 201 (10.74%) Lead
6 201 (10.74%) Solutions Architect
7 138 (7.38%) Analyst
8 92 (4.92%) Presales Solution Architect
8 92 (4.92%) Senior Developer
9 88 (4.70%) Business Analyst
10 66 (3.53%) Project Manager
11 62 (3.31%) Consultant
12 52 (2.78%) DevOps Engineer
12 52 (2.78%) Technical Architect
13 51 (2.73%) Lead Architect
14 50 (2.67%) Systems Engineer
15 49 (2.62%) Full Stack Developer
15 49 (2.62%) Java Developer
16 48 (2.57%) Lead Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 261 (13.95%) React
2 242 (12.93%) .NET
3 214 (11.44%) Leaflet
3 214 (11.44%) OpenLayers
3 214 (11.44%) PostGIS
4 202 (10.80%) CSS
5 182 (9.73%) .NET Core
6 103 (5.51%) Node.js
7 76 (4.06%) Spring Boot
8 70 (3.74%) RESTful
9 67 (3.58%) AngularJS
10 64 (3.42%) Web Services
11 60 (3.21%) Spring
12 59 (3.15%) Django
13 56 (2.99%) REST
14 51 (2.73%) RabbitMQ
15 50 (2.67%) XML
16 44 (2.35%) Express.js
17 43 (2.30%) SOAP
18 39 (2.08%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 81 (4.33%) Virtual Team
2 66 (3.53%) Product Ownership
3 64 (3.42%) Management Information System
4 61 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
5 57 (3.05%) Public Cloud
6 50 (2.67%) Data Centre
7 46 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
8 44 (2.35%) Private Cloud
9 30 (1.60%) Onboarding
9 30 (1.60%) Operational Technology
10 27 (1.44%) Algorithms
11 24 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
12 21 (1.12%) CMDB
12 21 (1.12%) Driving Licence
12 21 (1.12%) Satnav
13 20 (1.07%) Cloud Native
14 17 (0.91%) PKI
15 14 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
16 13 (0.69%) Digital Signage
17 11 (0.59%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 280 (14.97%) Linux
2 149 (7.96%) Windows
3 70 (3.74%) Windows Server
4 67 (3.58%) Ubuntu
5 64 (3.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 41 (2.19%) Unix
7 22 (1.18%) Android
8 19 (1.02%) CentOS
8 19 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
9 17 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
10 12 (0.64%) VMS
10 12 (0.64%) Windows 10
11 10 (0.53%) zOS
12 9 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
13 5 (0.27%) Windows NT
14 4 (0.21%) AIX
14 4 (0.21%) Windows 7
15 3 (0.16%) Kali Linux
16 2 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
16 2 (0.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 806 (43.08%) Agile
2 660 (35.28%) Actionable Insight
3 519 (27.74%) DevOps
4 483 (25.82%) Software Engineering
5 363 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
6 223 (11.92%) Project Management
7 215 (11.49%) Web Development
8 205 (10.96%) Scrum
9 171 (9.14%) CI/CD
10 165 (8.82%) Presales
11 156 (8.34%) Open Source
12 144 (7.70%) Kanban
13 140 (7.48%) Stakeholder Management
14 138 (7.38%) Service Management
15 130 (6.95%) ITIL
16 127 (6.79%) Mentoring
17 125 (6.68%) Analytics
18 121 (6.47%) Migration
19 117 (6.25%) Business Case
20 116 (6.20%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 403 (21.54%) Python
2 375 (20.04%) JavaScript
3 228 (12.19%) Java
4 163 (8.71%) C#
5 121 (6.47%) SQL
6 77 (4.12%) C++
7 71 (3.79%) PowerShell
8 43 (2.30%) TypeScript
9 33 (1.76%) C
10 29 (1.55%) Go
11 27 (1.44%) MATLAB
12 22 (1.18%) Bash
13 19 (1.02%) Bicep
14 17 (0.91%) VBA
15 16 (0.86%) Kotlin
16 14 (0.75%) Shell Script
16 14 (0.75%) VB
17 13 (0.69%) PL/SQL
18 11 (0.59%) Groovy
19 10 (0.53%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,871 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 364 (19.45%) Degree
3 159 (8.50%) DV Cleared
4 92 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 85 (4.54%) AWS Certification
6 82 (4.38%) Azure Certification
7 63 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 59 (3.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 48 (2.57%) CISM
10 44 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
11 35 (1.87%) CISSP
12 28 (1.50%) CRISC
13 24 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
14 22 (1.18%) CCNP
14 22 (1.18%) CISA
15 18 (0.96%) CCNA
16 16 (0.86%) Master's Degree
17 15 (0.80%) DBS Check
18 14 (0.75%) CEH
19 13 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (2.83%) QA
2 40 (2.14%) NCSC
3 39 (2.08%) Accessibility
4 35 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 32 (1.71%) COBIT
6 22 (1.18%) PMO
7 21 (1.12%) Software Quality Assurance
8 18 (0.96%) GDPR
9 17 (0.91%) NIST
10 16 (0.86%) Data Quality
11 15 (0.80%) GRC
11 15 (0.80%) SLA
12 13 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
13 12 (0.64%) JSP 440
14 11 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 8 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 8 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.32%) RMADS
17 3 (0.16%) NIST 800
17 3 (0.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 120 (6.41%) Docker
2 90 (4.81%) Active Directory
3 42 (2.24%) Hyper-V
4 23 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
6 16 (0.86%) pfSense
7 15 (0.80%) Virtual Servers
8 12 (0.64%) Firmware
9 10 (0.53%) NFS
10 9 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (0.48%) vSphere
11 8 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
12 7 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
13 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.053%) Lustre
14 1 (0.053%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.053%) Snort
14 1 (0.053%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 118 (6.31%) Terraform
2 117 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 104 (5.56%) Ansible
4 43 (2.30%) SCCM
5 32 (1.71%) OpenView
6 29 (1.55%) WSUS
7 27 (1.44%) Grafana
8 24 (1.28%) SCOM
9 16 (0.86%) ZABBIX
10 12 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 11 (0.59%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 11 (0.59%) Prometheus
12 10 (0.53%) SCDPM
13 9 (0.48%) vCenter Server
14 8 (0.43%) Kibana
14 8 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
15 7 (0.37%) Progress Chef
16 6 (0.32%) Puppet
17 5 (0.27%) EMC NetWorker
17 5 (0.27%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 266 (14.22%) Microsoft
2 219 (11.70%) ESRI
3 117 (6.25%) Oracle
4 80 (4.28%) VMware
5 74 (3.96%) ServiceNow
6 60 (3.21%) Cisco
7 55 (2.94%) HP
7 55 (2.94%) Sparx
8 48 (2.57%) Juniper
9 39 (2.08%) Remedy
10 38 (2.03%) Fortinet
11 37 (1.98%) BMC
12 25 (1.34%) Citrix
12 25 (1.34%) NetApp
13 24 (1.28%) WSO2
14 21 (1.12%) Meraki
15 20 (1.07%) Xilinx
16 16 (0.86%) Dynatrace
16 16 (0.86%) Google
16 16 (0.86%) Splunk