Rewards and benefits
Youll receive a starting salary of £55,758, which includes a concessionary payment of £2,758.
This role attracts a skills payment. Youll be assessed against the skills criteria during the selection process, with details of the criteria provided when youre invited to interview. If successful, the skills payment starts at £15,757 (Level 2) and can increase to £33,448 on achieving Level 3.
Other benefits include:
25 days annual leave, rising to 30 days after 5 years' service, and an additional 10.5 days of public and privilege holidays
opportunities to be recognised through our employee performance scheme
an interest-free season ticket loan
a cycle to work scheme
facilities such as a gym, restaurant, and on-site coffee bars; availability varies by location
paid parental and adoption leave
an excellent pension scheme - Civil Service pension
Equal opportunities
At GCHQ, diversity and inclusion are critical to our mission. To protect the UK, we need a truly diverse workforce that reflects the society we serve. This includes diversity in every sense of the word: those with different backgrounds, ages, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, ways of thinking and those with disabilities or neurodivergent conditions. We therefore welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including those from groups that are under-represented in our workforce such as women, those from an ethnic minority background, people with disabilities and those from low socio-economic backgrounds.
Find out more about our culture, working environment and diversity on our website.
Were Disability Confident
GCHQ is proud to have achieved Leader status within the Department for Work and Pensions Disability Confident scheme. This is aimed at encouraging employers to think differently about disability and take action to improve how they recruit, retain and develop disabled people. As a Disability Confident Leader, we aim to ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants who best meet the essential minimum criteria for this position, will be offered an interview, if it is practical for us to do so. This is known as the Offer of an Interview.
To secure an interview for this role, candidates must meet the minimum criteria, which will be assessed at the CV sift stage:
1. You'll be required to reach the minimum pass mark for the online Situational Judgement Test (SJT), which assesses criteria important for all roles in our organisation
2. Demonstrate experience of applying specialist technical security capabilities to help solve customer security problems.
3. Demonstrate how technological vulnerabilities occur, how they are discovered, and how they may be exploited.
4. Demonstrate experience of developing or supporting systems, using modern technologies.
There is a wide range of extra support available throughout the recruitment process to enable you to do your best. Please see our website for information on reasonable adjustments we can offer.
