Security Cleared Jobs in the South East

Security Clearance
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 16 49
Rank change year-on-year +6 +33 +8
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 2,045 1,513 1,219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 11.44% 10.99% 5.89%
As % of the Qualifications category 34.44% 27.56% 17.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,367 810 601
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,400 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,713 £41,939
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £70,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -1.18%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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 advertised in the South East with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 5,938 5,490 7,094
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 33.23% 39.89% 34.30%
Number of salaries quoted 3,641 2,479 3,148
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,138
25th Percentile £38,130 £36,713 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,350 £51,750
Median % change year-on-year +2.24% -0.77% +3.50%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £78,825
England median annual salary £54,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.17% +9.09% -

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the South East

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in the South East.

Salary trend for Security Cleared in the South East

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the South East over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in the South East

Security Cleared
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Cleared within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +2 944 £53,000 +16.23% 212
Berkshire +5 762 £52,550 +15.24% 153
Hampshire +2 710 £57,500 +4.55% 167
Surrey +6 293 £55,000 +10.00% 45
Buckinghamshire -4 130 £55,000 +10.55% 39
Oxfordshire +2 52 £51,760 +21.79% 21
Kent +16 37 £45,250 +6.47% 11
West Sussex +33 26 £67,500 +28.57% 12
Middlesex - 11 £35,000 -
Sussex - 5 £60,000 -
East Sussex +21 4 £92,500 +66.67% 3
Security Cleared
England

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 40 (1.96%) WebLogic
2 38 (1.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 30 (1.47%) SharePoint
4 29 (1.42%) ArcGIS
4 29 (1.42%) GeoServer
5 28 (1.37%) OpenStack
6 19 (0.93%) Exchange Server 2010
7 14 (0.68%) CMS
7 14 (0.68%) Oracle Service Bus
8 11 (0.54%) Confluence
9 10 (0.49%) IIS
9 10 (0.49%) Red Hat Fuse
10 9 (0.44%) JBoss
11 6 (0.29%) Apache
12 4 (0.20%) nginx
12 4 (0.20%) TWiki
13 2 (0.098%) Documentum
13 2 (0.098%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.049%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.049%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 92 (4.50%) Microsoft Office
2 46 (2.25%) Simulink
3 41 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 20 (0.98%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.20%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.20%) Siemens NX
7 4 (0.20%) Sketch
8 2 (0.098%) Fireworks
8 2 (0.098%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 41 (2.00%) Siebel CRM
2 17 (0.83%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
4 5 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.20%) Q-Pulse
5 4 (0.20%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.15%) Primavera
6 3 (0.15%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.15%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.15%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.098%) C-CURE
7 2 (0.098%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.098%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.098%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.098%) SAP HR
7 2 (0.098%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.049%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 366 (17.90%) Azure
2 246 (12.03%) AWS
3 88 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
4 42 (2.05%) Azure Monitor
4 42 (2.05%) Serverless
5 40 (1.96%) Entra ID
6 37 (1.81%) Amazon EKS
7 34 (1.66%) SaaS
8 32 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
9 29 (1.42%) Amazon ECS
10 24 (1.17%) Cloud Computing
10 24 (1.17%) OCI
11 19 (0.93%) Azure Storage
12 17 (0.83%) GitHub
13 15 (0.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 14 (0.68%) GCP
15 11 (0.54%) AWS Lambda
15 11 (0.54%) Power Platform
16 10 (0.49%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (0.49%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 157 (7.68%) Firewall
2 109 (5.33%) DNS
3 79 (3.86%) BGP
4 70 (3.42%) DHCP
5 64 (3.13%) VPN
6 40 (1.96%) OSPF
7 36 (1.76%) Cisco Firepower
7 36 (1.76%) WAN
8 32 (1.56%) SSL
9 29 (1.42%) Network Security
10 27 (1.32%) Cisco ASA
11 26 (1.27%) 5G
12 23 (1.12%) Wireless
13 22 (1.08%) DMVPN
13 22 (1.08%) EIGRP
14 20 (0.98%) LAN
15 18 (0.88%) SAN
15 18 (0.88%) SD-WAN
15 18 (0.88%) VLAN
16 17 (0.83%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (5.43%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (3.13%) NoSQL
3 53 (2.59%) Relational Database
4 44 (2.15%) SQL Server
5 39 (1.91%) Hadoop
5 39 (1.91%) MongoDB
6 36 (1.76%) Oracle BI EE
6 36 (1.76%) Siebel EIM
7 34 (1.66%) GIS
8 29 (1.42%) QGIS
9 24 (1.17%) Oracle Database
10 22 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
11 15 (0.73%) Oracle Database 11g
12 14 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
12 14 (0.68%) Oracle Database 10g
12 14 (0.68%) VLDB
13 9 (0.44%) Big Data
13 9 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
14 8 (0.39%) Power BI
15 6 (0.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 96 (4.69%) Jenkins
2 87 (4.25%) Git
3 45 (2.20%) GitLab
4 41 (2.00%) Visual Studio
5 31 (1.52%) Selenium
6 29 (1.42%) JIRA
7 21 (1.03%) Ant
7 21 (1.03%) Vagrant
8 18 (0.88%) Subversion
9 17 (0.83%) JUnit
10 14 (0.68%) CMake
11 12 (0.59%) MSI
11 12 (0.59%) TestRail
12 11 (0.54%) Rational DOORS
12 11 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
13 10 (0.49%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.49%) Trac
14 9 (0.44%) eggPlant
15 7 (0.34%) Robot Framework
15 7 (0.34%) WebDriver
General
1 377 (18.44%) Social Skills
2 166 (8.12%) Aerospace
3 130 (6.36%) Public Sector
4 90 (4.40%) Analytical Skills
5 69 (3.37%) Finance
6 58 (2.84%) Military
7 45 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
8 44 (2.15%) Telecoms
9 40 (1.96%) Police
10 36 (1.76%) Manufacturing
11 32 (1.56%) Electronics
12 23 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 23 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
13 13 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
13 13 (0.64%) Marketing
13 13 (0.64%) Retail
14 12 (0.59%) Back Office
14 12 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
15 11 (0.54%) Law
16 10 (0.49%) Legal
Job Titles
1 303 (14.82%) Senior
2 267 (13.06%) Architect
3 212 (10.37%) Developer
4 190 (9.29%) Software Engineer
5 189 (9.24%) Analyst
6 139 (6.80%) Systems Engineer
7 113 (5.53%) Network Engineer
8 101 (4.94%) Lead
9 100 (4.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 79 (3.86%) Senior Software Engineer
11 68 (3.33%) Integration Engineer
12 64 (3.13%) DevOps Engineer
13 63 (3.08%) Consultant
13 63 (3.08%) Support Analyst
14 58 (2.84%) Senior Developer
15 53 (2.59%) Software Developer
16 51 (2.49%) Administrator
17 49 (2.40%) Network Architect
18 45 (2.20%) Project Manager
19 44 (2.15%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (4.50%) .NET
2 74 (3.62%) Node.js
3 59 (2.89%) REST
4 57 (2.79%) React
4 57 (2.79%) Spring
5 51 (2.49%) CSS
6 40 (1.96%) AngularJS
7 39 (1.91%) Kafka
7 39 (1.91%) Web Services
7 39 (1.91%) XML
8 38 (1.86%) Middleware
9 37 (1.81%) HTML
10 34 (1.66%) Spring Boot
11 32 (1.56%) .NET Core
11 32 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
11 32 (1.56%) Leaflet
11 32 (1.56%) OpenLayers
12 29 (1.42%) J2EE
12 29 (1.42%) PostGIS
13 28 (1.37%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 94 (4.60%) Algorithms
2 86 (4.21%) Management Information System
3 68 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
4 49 (2.40%) PKI
5 48 (2.35%) Data Centre
5 48 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
6 42 (2.05%) Product Ownership
7 33 (1.61%) Driving Licence
8 29 (1.42%) CMDB
9 28 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
10 24 (1.17%) Private Cloud
11 23 (1.12%) Client/Server
12 20 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
13 18 (0.88%) Satnav
14 17 (0.83%) FPGA
14 17 (0.83%) IoT
14 17 (0.83%) Mainframe
15 15 (0.73%) VHDL
16 14 (0.68%) Security Operations Centre
17 13 (0.64%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 367 (17.95%) Windows
2 334 (16.33%) Linux
3 158 (7.73%) Windows Server
4 85 (4.16%) Windows 10
5 82 (4.01%) Windows Server 2016
6 73 (3.57%) Windows Server 2019
7 71 (3.47%) Unix
8 56 (2.74%) CentOS
9 44 (2.15%) Windows Server 2012
10 43 (2.10%) Ubuntu
11 42 (2.05%) Windows 7
12 39 (1.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 23 (1.12%) Android
14 20 (0.98%) Embedded Linux
15 15 (0.73%) Solaris
16 12 (0.59%) Windows NT
16 12 (0.59%) Windows XP
17 9 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
18 6 (0.29%) Rocky
19 3 (0.15%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 522 (25.53%) Agile
2 441 (21.56%) Problem-Solving
3 304 (14.87%) Actionable Insight
4 300 (14.67%) DevOps
5 290 (14.18%) Software Engineering
6 208 (10.17%) ITIL
7 182 (8.90%) Collaborative Working
8 163 (7.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 155 (7.58%) Computer Science
10 149 (7.29%) Test Automation
11 138 (6.75%) Customer Service
12 135 (6.60%) Project Delivery
13 134 (6.55%) Project Management
14 131 (6.41%) Cybersecurity
15 129 (6.31%) Service Management
16 120 (5.87%) Scrum
17 107 (5.23%) Mentoring
18 102 (4.99%) Artificial Intelligence
19 101 (4.94%) Mathematics
20 90 (4.40%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 301 (14.72%) Python
2 279 (13.64%) Java
3 250 (12.22%) SQL
4 201 (9.83%) C++
5 197 (9.63%) PowerShell
6 165 (8.07%) JavaScript
7 137 (6.70%) C#
8 101 (4.94%) C
9 52 (2.54%) Fortran
10 39 (1.91%) Bash
11 37 (1.81%) Kotlin
12 30 (1.47%) Shell Script
13 29 (1.42%) VB
14 23 (1.12%) VBScript
15 22 (1.08%) PL/SQL
16 21 (1.03%) MATLAB
17 18 (0.88%) TypeScript
18 17 (0.83%) Bicep
19 15 (0.73%) COBOL
20 11 (0.54%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,246 (60.93%) SC Cleared
2 576 (28.17%) DV Cleared
3 362 (17.70%) Degree
4 102 (4.99%) Cisco Certification
5 100 (4.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 77 (3.77%) CCNP
7 56 (2.74%) CCNA
8 53 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 51 (2.49%) PhD
10 43 (2.10%) CTC Cleared
11 40 (1.96%) Master's Degree
12 38 (1.86%) AWS Certification
13 29 (1.42%) NVQ Level 3
14 24 (1.17%) Azure Certification
15 23 (1.12%) HNC
16 22 (1.08%) DBS Check
17 21 (1.03%) A+ Certification
18 19 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
19 18 (0.88%) CISSP
20 17 (0.83%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (4.11%) SLA
2 79 (3.86%) QA
3 31 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
5 20 (0.98%) NIST
6 18 (0.88%) Software Quality Assurance
7 15 (0.73%) GDPR
8 13 (0.64%) Accessibility
8 13 (0.64%) GRC
9 11 (0.54%) NCSC
9 11 (0.54%) PMO
10 10 (0.49%) COSHH
10 10 (0.49%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 9 (0.44%) NIST 800
12 8 (0.39%) JSP 440
13 7 (0.34%) RMADS
14 6 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 5 (0.24%) PCI DSS
15 5 (0.24%) WCAG
16 3 (0.15%) COBIT
System Software
1 183 (8.95%) Active Directory
2 100 (4.89%) Docker
3 76 (3.72%) Hyper-V
4 69 (3.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 42 (2.05%) Firmware
6 35 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
7 20 (0.98%) Virtual Servers
8 19 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
9 16 (0.78%) pfSense
10 15 (0.73%) vSphere
11 14 (0.68%) Oracle RAC
12 12 (0.59%) KVM
13 10 (0.49%) NFS
14 7 (0.34%) Microsoft App-V
15 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 2 (0.098%) Embedded Firmware
16 2 (0.098%) VMware NSX
17 1 (0.049%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 123 (6.01%) Ansible
1 123 (6.01%) Kubernetes
2 117 (5.72%) SCCM
3 92 (4.50%) Terraform
4 72 (3.52%) WSUS
5 66 (3.23%) SCOM
6 46 (2.25%) Microsoft Intune
7 40 (1.96%) vCenter Server
8 33 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
9 31 (1.52%) FortiGate
10 23 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 22 (1.08%) OpenSSO
12 19 (0.93%) Grafana
12 19 (0.93%) NetBackup
13 16 (0.78%) EMC NetWorker
13 16 (0.78%) ZABBIX
14 14 (0.68%) Data Guard
14 14 (0.68%) Oracle RMAN
15 12 (0.59%) Sysprep
16 10 (0.49%) SCDPM
Vendors
1 388 (18.97%) Microsoft
2 204 (9.98%) Cisco
3 177 (8.66%) Juniper
4 139 (6.80%) Oracle
5 127 (6.21%) VMware
6 49 (2.40%) Fortinet
6 49 (2.40%) HP
6 49 (2.40%) ServiceNow
7 45 (2.20%) Xilinx
8 42 (2.05%) Remedy
9 41 (2.00%) Siebel
10 34 (1.66%) McAfee
11 33 (1.61%) F5
12 29 (1.42%) ESRI
13 28 (1.37%) WSO2
14 26 (1.27%) Veeam
15 25 (1.22%) Dynatrace
15 25 (1.22%) Red Hat
16 17 (0.83%) EMC
17 16 (0.78%) Palo Alto