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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 47 104
Rank change year-on-year +3 +57 +11
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 1,885 2,515 2,491
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 5.58% 6.10% 3.63%
As % of the Qualifications category 19.79% 24.14% 15.85%
Number of salaries quoted 949 1,199 1,170
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,475
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £48,250
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 £88,760 £88,750 £89,100
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,063 £57,267
% change year-on-year -4.27% +4.88% +4.12%

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 9,525 10,420 15,712
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 28.17% 25.27% 22.89%
Number of salaries quoted 5,909 6,417 8,593
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 £77,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £59,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.86% +7.73% -

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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 10 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 (11.78%) ArcGIS
2 214 (11.35%) GeoServer
3 48 (2.55%) WebLogic
4 25 (1.33%) Confluence
4 25 (1.33%) OpenStack
4 25 (1.33%) SharePoint
5 15 (0.80%) CMS
6 12 (0.64%) Apache
7 11 (0.58%) 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 34 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (1.33%) Simulink
3 18 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
4 12 (0.64%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.42%) 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 (2.92%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 40 (2.12%) Remedy ITSM
3 10 (0.53%) Maximo
4 9 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.42%) Siebel CRM
6 6 (0.32%) SAP WM
7 4 (0.21%) SAP HR
7 4 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.16%) SAP CRM
8 3 (0.16%) SAP CX
8 3 (0.16%) SAP GTS
8 3 (0.16%) SAP SD
9 2 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Cash Management
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
9 2 (0.11%) Teamcenter
10 1 (0.053%) HFM
10 1 (0.053%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 618 (32.79%) Azure
2 543 (28.81%) AWS
3 87 (4.62%) Amazon EKS
4 80 (4.24%) Dynamics 365
5 74 (3.93%) Power Platform
6 66 (3.50%) Microsoft 365
7 63 (3.34%) Azure DevOps
8 60 (3.18%) SaaS
9 56 (2.97%) Serverless
10 47 (2.49%) Amazon SQS
11 41 (2.18%) PaaS
12 36 (1.91%) PowerApps
13 35 (1.86%) GCP
14 33 (1.75%) Power Automate
15 28 (1.49%) Amazon ECS
15 28 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
16 27 (1.43%) GitHub
17 25 (1.33%) IaaS
18 22 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
19 19 (1.01%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 89 (4.72%) Firewall
2 79 (4.19%) DNS
3 65 (3.45%) TCP/IP
4 53 (2.81%) SSL
5 48 (2.55%) BGP
6 35 (1.86%) Network Security
6 35 (1.86%) VPN
7 31 (1.64%) SAN
7 31 (1.64%) Wireless
8 26 (1.38%) SD-WAN
9 24 (1.27%) WAN
10 19 (1.01%) 5G
11 18 (0.95%) DHCP
12 10 (0.53%) LAN
12 10 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
13 8 (0.42%) IPv4
14 6 (0.32%) Cisco IPT
14 6 (0.32%) Ethernet
14 6 (0.32%) RS-232
14 6 (0.32%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 246 (13.05%) PostgreSQL
2 218 (11.56%) GIS
3 214 (11.35%) QGIS
4 130 (6.90%) Relational Database
5 63 (3.34%) RDBMS
6 61 (3.24%) Amazon RDS
6 61 (3.24%) Oracle Database
7 47 (2.49%) Power BI
8 40 (2.12%) NoSQL
9 32 (1.70%) SQL Server
10 26 (1.38%) MySQL
11 17 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
12 16 (0.85%) Big Data
13 14 (0.74%) Metadata
14 13 (0.69%) Tableau
15 11 (0.58%) MongoDB
16 10 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
17 9 (0.48%) Data Lake
17 9 (0.48%) Hadoop
18 7 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 104 (5.52%) Git
2 94 (4.99%) Jenkins
3 86 (4.56%) JIRA
4 44 (2.33%) GitLab
5 19 (1.01%) Subversion
6 17 (0.90%) Selenium
7 16 (0.85%) Cucumber
8 15 (0.80%) CMake
8 15 (0.80%) JUnit
8 15 (0.80%) Vagrant
9 14 (0.74%) Rational DOORS
10 12 (0.64%) JMeter
11 10 (0.53%) Trac
12 7 (0.37%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.37%) CircleCI
12 7 (0.37%) REST Assured
12 7 (0.37%) TestNG
13 6 (0.32%) git-flow
13 6 (0.32%) WebDriver
14 5 (0.27%) Cypress.io
General
1 534 (28.33%) Social Skills
2 287 (15.23%) Public Sector
3 215 (11.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 159 (8.44%) Finance
5 104 (5.52%) Analytical Skills
6 63 (3.34%) Aerospace
7 62 (3.29%) Police
8 51 (2.71%) Military
9 44 (2.33%) Telecoms
10 40 (2.12%) Games
11 38 (2.02%) Law
11 38 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
12 27 (1.43%) Marketing
12 27 (1.43%) Retail
13 25 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
14 17 (0.90%) Manufacturing
15 16 (0.85%) Legal
16 15 (0.80%) Electronics
17 12 (0.64%) Local Government
18 10 (0.53%) French Language
Job Titles
1 485 (25.73%) Senior
2 400 (21.22%) Architect
3 308 (16.34%) Software Engineer
4 275 (14.59%) Developer
5 243 (12.89%) Senior Software Engineer
6 212 (11.25%) Solutions Architect
7 203 (10.77%) Lead
8 139 (7.37%) Analyst
9 104 (5.52%) Presales Solution Architect
10 91 (4.83%) Senior Developer
11 87 (4.62%) Business Analyst
12 67 (3.55%) Consultant
12 67 (3.55%) Project Manager
13 53 (2.81%) Technical Architect
14 52 (2.76%) DevOps Engineer
14 52 (2.76%) Lead Architect
15 50 (2.65%) Systems Engineer
16 49 (2.60%) ERP Developer
16 49 (2.60%) Java Developer
17 48 (2.55%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 261 (13.85%) React
2 242 (12.84%) .NET
3 214 (11.35%) Leaflet
3 214 (11.35%) OpenLayers
3 214 (11.35%) PostGIS
4 201 (10.66%) CSS
5 183 (9.71%) .NET Core
6 102 (5.41%) Node.js
7 75 (3.98%) Spring Boot
8 72 (3.82%) RESTful
9 67 (3.55%) AngularJS
10 66 (3.50%) Web Services
11 59 (3.13%) Django
11 59 (3.13%) Spring
12 56 (2.97%) REST
13 51 (2.71%) RabbitMQ
13 51 (2.71%) XML
14 47 (2.49%) SOAP
15 44 (2.33%) Express.js
16 38 (2.02%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 83 (4.40%) Virtual Team
2 67 (3.55%) Product Ownership
3 64 (3.40%) Management Information System
4 61 (3.24%) Self-Motivation
5 57 (3.02%) Public Cloud
6 51 (2.71%) Data Centre
7 46 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
8 44 (2.33%) Private Cloud
9 31 (1.64%) Onboarding
10 30 (1.59%) Operational Technology
11 26 (1.38%) Algorithms
12 24 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
13 22 (1.17%) CMDB
14 21 (1.11%) Driving Licence
14 21 (1.11%) Satnav
15 20 (1.06%) Cloud Native
16 17 (0.90%) PKI
17 14 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
18 13 (0.69%) Digital Signage
19 11 (0.58%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 279 (14.80%) Linux
2 146 (7.75%) Windows
3 70 (3.71%) Windows Server
4 65 (3.45%) Ubuntu
5 62 (3.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (2.12%) Unix
7 19 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
8 18 (0.95%) Android
9 17 (0.90%) CentOS
9 17 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
10 12 (0.64%) VMS
11 11 (0.58%) Windows 10
12 10 (0.53%) zOS
13 9 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
14 5 (0.27%) Windows NT
15 4 (0.21%) AIX
15 4 (0.21%) Windows 7
16 3 (0.16%) Kali Linux
17 2 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
17 2 (0.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 817 (43.34%) Agile
2 672 (35.65%) Actionable Insight
3 517 (27.43%) DevOps
4 478 (25.36%) Software Engineering
5 371 (19.68%) Problem-Solving
6 226 (11.99%) Project Management
7 215 (11.41%) Web Development
8 209 (11.09%) Scrum
9 179 (9.50%) Presales
10 174 (9.23%) CI/CD
11 156 (8.28%) Open Source
12 145 (7.69%) Kanban
13 142 (7.53%) Stakeholder Management
14 141 (7.48%) Analytics
15 138 (7.32%) Service Management
16 131 (6.95%) ITIL
17 129 (6.84%) Business Case
18 127 (6.74%) Mentoring
19 123 (6.53%) Project Delivery
20 119 (6.31%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 396 (21.01%) Python
2 370 (19.63%) JavaScript
3 224 (11.88%) Java
4 161 (8.54%) C#
5 123 (6.53%) SQL
6 72 (3.82%) C++
7 71 (3.77%) PowerShell
8 38 (2.02%) TypeScript
9 33 (1.75%) C
10 29 (1.54%) Go
11 26 (1.38%) MATLAB
12 21 (1.11%) Bash
13 19 (1.01%) Bicep
14 18 (0.95%) PL/SQL
15 17 (0.90%) VBA
16 15 (0.80%) Shell Script
17 14 (0.74%) Kotlin
17 14 (0.74%) VB
18 12 (0.64%) Groovy
19 10 (0.53%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,885 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 360 (19.10%) Degree
3 153 (8.12%) DV Cleared
4 86 (4.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 83 (4.40%) AWS Certification
6 82 (4.35%) Azure Certification
7 66 (3.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 59 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 49 (2.60%) CISM
10 46 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
11 36 (1.91%) CISSP
12 29 (1.54%) CRISC
13 25 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
14 23 (1.22%) CCNP
15 22 (1.17%) CISA
16 18 (0.95%) CCNA
17 16 (0.85%) Master's Degree
18 14 (0.74%) CEH
18 14 (0.74%) DBS Check
19 12 (0.64%) CASP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (2.97%) QA
2 39 (2.07%) Accessibility
3 38 (2.02%) NCSC
4 34 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 32 (1.70%) COBIT
6 22 (1.17%) PMO
7 21 (1.11%) Software Quality Assurance
8 18 (0.95%) Data Quality
8 18 (0.95%) GDPR
9 17 (0.90%) NIST
10 16 (0.85%) SLA
11 15 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
11 15 (0.80%) GRC
12 12 (0.64%) JSP 440
13 11 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 8 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 8 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.32%) RMADS
16 3 (0.16%) NIST 800
16 3 (0.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 121 (6.42%) Docker
2 92 (4.88%) Active Directory
3 41 (2.18%) Hyper-V
4 23 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
6 16 (0.85%) 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 (0.42%) 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
1 116 (6.15%) Terraform
2 113 (5.99%) Kubernetes
3 102 (5.41%) Ansible
4 43 (2.28%) SCCM
5 32 (1.70%) OpenView
6 29 (1.54%) WSUS
7 27 (1.43%) Grafana
8 24 (1.27%) SCOM
9 16 (0.85%) ZABBIX
10 12 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 11 (0.58%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 11 (0.58%) Prometheus
12 10 (0.53%) SCDPM
13 9 (0.48%) vCenter Server
14 8 (0.42%) Kibana
14 8 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
15 6 (0.32%) HP UCMDB
15 6 (0.32%) Progress Chef
16 5 (0.27%) Puppet
16 5 (0.27%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 269 (14.27%) Microsoft
2 219 (11.62%) ESRI
3 120 (6.37%) Oracle
4 79 (4.19%) VMware
5 74 (3.93%) ServiceNow
6 60 (3.18%) Cisco
7 56 (2.97%) HP
8 55 (2.92%) Sparx
9 47 (2.49%) Juniper
10 40 (2.12%) Remedy
11 38 (2.02%) BMC
12 37 (1.96%) Fortinet
13 25 (1.33%) Citrix
13 25 (1.33%) NetApp
14 24 (1.27%) WSO2
15 22 (1.17%) Meraki
16 17 (0.90%) Google
16 17 (0.90%) Xilinx
17 16 (0.85%) IBM
17 16 (0.85%) McAfee