Security Cleared Jobs in the UK excluding London

Security Clearance
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 16 18 34
Rank change year-on-year +2 +16 +16
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 6,536 5,712 5,582
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.58% 10.10% 7.54%
As % of the Qualifications category 32.79% 26.76% 23.25%
Number of salaries quoted 3,852 2,287 2,503
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,378 £40,750 £38,849
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,088 £66,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 19,931 21,344 24,005
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.15% 37.76% 32.41%
Number of salaries quoted 12,288 7,988 10,550
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,785 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £76,397
UK median annual salary £53,818 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.30% +9.09% -

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the UK excluding London

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Security Cleared in the UK excluding London

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in the UK excluding London

Security Cleared
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Cleared within the UK excluding London 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
South East +6 2,045 £55,000 +10.00% 503
South West +3 1,942 £57,000 +2.70% 486
North of England +1 837 £55,000 -8.33% 254
Midlands -10 663 £55,000 -2.65% 223
North West -7 603 £53,862 -10.23% 189
West Midlands +7 470 £55,000 -4.35% 179
East of England +16 426 £55,000 - 137
Scotland -56 315 £58,000 +16.00% 105
Wales +1 228 £58,800 +75.17% 30
Yorkshire +10 193 £60,000 -9.77% 42
East Midlands -32 193 £43,072 -21.69% 43
Northern Ireland +9 115 £60,000 +71.43% 46
North East -31 41 £56,250 +25.00% 23
Security Cleared
UK

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 295 (4.51%) ArcGIS
2 284 (4.35%) GeoServer
3 120 (1.84%) Confluence
4 112 (1.71%) WebLogic
5 94 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
6 86 (1.32%) SharePoint
7 77 (1.18%) Apache
7 77 (1.18%) IIS
8 49 (0.75%) Apache Spark
9 44 (0.67%) Oracle Service Bus
10 31 (0.47%) OpenStack
11 21 (0.32%) nginx
12 19 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2010
13 18 (0.28%) Tomcat
14 16 (0.24%) Jupyter
15 15 (0.23%) CMS
15 15 (0.23%) SharePoint 2010
15 15 (0.23%) SharePoint 2013
16 14 (0.21%) Skype for Business
17 10 (0.15%) JBoss
Applications
1 258 (3.95%) Microsoft Office
2 141 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 135 (2.07%) Simulink
4 76 (1.16%) MS Visio
5 74 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 40 (0.61%) Sketch
7 31 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
8 10 (0.15%) AutoCAD
9 6 (0.092%) Trello
9 6 (0.092%) Windchill
10 4 (0.061%) EPLAN
10 4 (0.061%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.061%) Siemens NX
10 4 (0.061%) Stateflow
11 3 (0.046%) Revit
11 3 (0.046%) Spreadsheet
12 2 (0.031%) Abaqus
12 2 (0.031%) Fireworks
12 2 (0.031%) InDesign
12 2 (0.031%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 88 (1.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 73 (1.12%) Remedy ITSM
3 49 (0.75%) Primavera
4 41 (0.63%) Siebel CRM
5 37 (0.57%) NEC Housing
6 24 (0.37%) Maximo
7 13 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
8 9 (0.14%) Teamcenter
9 7 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
9 7 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
10 6 (0.092%) Oracle Applications
11 4 (0.061%) Q-Pulse
12 3 (0.046%) Dynamics CRM
12 3 (0.046%) PeopleSoft HCM
12 3 (0.046%) SAP CO
12 3 (0.046%) SAP ERP
12 3 (0.046%) SAP FI
12 3 (0.046%) SAP FI/CO
12 3 (0.046%) Workday HCM
13 2 (0.031%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 1,283 (19.63%) Azure
2 1,089 (16.66%) AWS
3 218 (3.34%) Microsoft 365
4 124 (1.90%) SaaS
5 116 (1.77%) OpenShift
6 104 (1.59%) GCP
7 103 (1.58%) Amazon EKS
8 97 (1.48%) Azure DevOps
9 89 (1.36%) Serverless
10 70 (1.07%) Entra ID
10 70 (1.07%) Power Platform
11 68 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
12 62 (0.95%) Miro
13 61 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
14 58 (0.89%) AWS CloudFormation
15 57 (0.87%) PaaS
16 53 (0.81%) AWS Lambda
17 47 (0.72%) OCI
18 44 (0.67%) Azure Monitor
19 43 (0.66%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 394 (6.03%) Firewall
2 249 (3.81%) DNS
3 192 (2.94%) WAN
4 163 (2.49%) TCP/IP
5 143 (2.19%) BGP
6 134 (2.05%) DHCP
7 126 (1.93%) Network Security
8 111 (1.70%) LAN
9 89 (1.36%) Wireless
10 88 (1.35%) VPN
11 83 (1.27%) SAN
12 72 (1.10%) Cisco ASA
13 71 (1.09%) SSL
14 65 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
15 61 (0.93%) MPLS
16 58 (0.89%) SD-WAN
17 52 (0.80%) OSPF
18 48 (0.73%) IPsec
19 46 (0.70%) Cisco Firepower
20 44 (0.67%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 396 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
2 318 (4.87%) GIS
3 284 (4.35%) QGIS
4 158 (2.42%) SQL Server
5 127 (1.94%) Oracle Database
6 121 (1.85%) Relational Database
7 97 (1.48%) NoSQL
8 91 (1.39%) Hadoop
9 87 (1.33%) MongoDB
10 83 (1.27%) Big Data
11 58 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
12 55 (0.84%) RDBMS
13 54 (0.83%) Power BI
14 45 (0.69%) Oracle Database 11g
15 44 (0.67%) Oracle Database 10g
15 44 (0.67%) VLDB
16 41 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
17 38 (0.58%) MySQL
18 36 (0.55%) Oracle BI EE
18 36 (0.55%) Siebel EIM
Development Applications
1 259 (3.96%) JIRA
2 203 (3.11%) Git
3 162 (2.48%) Jenkins
4 132 (2.02%) GitLab
5 126 (1.93%) Visual Studio
6 93 (1.42%) Rational DOORS
7 83 (1.27%) Bitbucket
8 59 (0.90%) Sourcetree
9 49 (0.75%) Selenium
10 39 (0.60%) Rational Rhapsody
11 29 (0.44%) SonarQube
12 27 (0.41%) Subversion
13 25 (0.38%) Cucumber
14 23 (0.35%) LabVIEW
15 22 (0.34%) JUnit
16 21 (0.32%) Ant
16 21 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
16 21 (0.32%) Vagrant
17 16 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 15 (0.23%) JMeter
General
1 1,274 (19.49%) Social Skills
2 580 (8.87%) Aerospace
3 478 (7.31%) Finance
4 439 (6.72%) Public Sector
5 325 (4.97%) Analytical Skills
6 272 (4.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 234 (3.58%) Military
8 168 (2.57%) Games
9 161 (2.46%) Telecoms
10 135 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
11 134 (2.05%) Manufacturing
12 125 (1.91%) Police
13 118 (1.81%) Electronics
14 109 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
15 89 (1.36%) Retail
16 85 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
17 53 (0.81%) Local Government
18 46 (0.70%) Law
19 36 (0.55%) Legal
20 31 (0.47%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1,137 (17.40%) Senior
2 788 (12.06%) Software Engineer
3 736 (11.26%) Architect
4 534 (8.17%) Developer
5 508 (7.77%) Lead
6 459 (7.02%) Systems Engineer
7 450 (6.88%) Analyst
8 332 (5.08%) Senior Software Engineer
9 311 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 297 (4.54%) Consultant
11 291 (4.45%) Network Engineer
12 253 (3.87%) Project Manager
13 240 (3.67%) Solutions Architect
14 198 (3.03%) DevOps Engineer
15 182 (2.78%) Administrator
16 153 (2.34%) Support Engineer
17 151 (2.31%) Senior Developer
18 134 (2.05%) Security Consultant
19 116 (1.77%) Business Analyst
20 108 (1.65%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 448 (6.85%) React
2 416 (6.36%) .NET
3 287 (4.39%) Leaflet
3 287 (4.39%) OpenLayers
4 286 (4.38%) CSS
5 284 (4.35%) PostGIS
6 262 (4.01%) .NET Core
7 186 (2.85%) Node.js
8 146 (2.23%) AngularJS
9 125 (1.91%) Spring
10 122 (1.87%) REST
11 119 (1.82%) Spring Boot
12 101 (1.55%) HTML
13 90 (1.38%) RabbitMQ
14 69 (1.06%) Unity (Game Engine)
14 69 (1.06%) XML
15 67 (1.03%) Elastic Stack
16 62 (0.95%) Django
17 60 (0.92%) Middleware
17 60 (0.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 282 (4.31%) Management Information System
2 207 (3.17%) Driving Licence
3 198 (3.03%) Algorithms
4 187 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
5 160 (2.45%) Data Centre
6 116 (1.77%) Public Cloud
7 108 (1.65%) Product Ownership
8 102 (1.56%) Private Cloud
9 98 (1.50%) PKI
10 91 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
11 89 (1.36%) Cloud Native
12 81 (1.24%) Virtual Team
13 75 (1.15%) Virtual Reality
14 69 (1.06%) Operational Technology
14 69 (1.06%) Security Operations Centre
15 57 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
16 53 (0.81%) Clustering
17 51 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
18 50 (0.76%) Cyber Defence
19 44 (0.67%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 1,066 (16.31%) Linux
2 903 (13.82%) Windows
3 321 (4.91%) Windows Server
4 192 (2.94%) Unix
5 184 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 153 (2.34%) Windows 10
7 138 (2.11%) CentOS
8 131 (2.00%) Windows Server 2016
9 127 (1.94%) Windows Server 2019
10 115 (1.76%) Ubuntu
11 94 (1.44%) Windows Server 2012
12 74 (1.13%) Embedded Linux
13 70 (1.07%) Solaris
14 59 (0.90%) Windows 7
15 44 (0.67%) Android
16 34 (0.52%) Debian
17 16 (0.24%) AIX
18 13 (0.20%) VMS
19 12 (0.18%) Windows NT
19 12 (0.18%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,890 (28.92%) Agile
2 1,437 (21.99%) Actionable Insight
3 1,174 (17.96%) Software Engineering
4 1,131 (17.30%) DevOps
5 1,014 (15.51%) Problem-Solving
6 661 (10.11%) Cybersecurity
7 588 (9.00%) Project Management
8 528 (8.08%) ITIL
9 490 (7.50%) Scrum
10 486 (7.44%) Collaborative Working
11 464 (7.10%) Mentoring
12 426 (6.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 394 (6.03%) Systems Engineering
14 372 (5.69%) Stakeholder Management
15 328 (5.02%) CI/CD
16 306 (4.68%) Web Development
17 297 (4.54%) Validation
18 287 (4.39%) Customer Service
19 276 (4.22%) Service Management
20 274 (4.19%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,126 (17.23%) Python
2 663 (10.14%) JavaScript
3 641 (9.81%) Java
4 487 (7.45%) C#
5 458 (7.01%) SQL
6 410 (6.27%) PowerShell
7 308 (4.71%) C++
8 278 (4.25%) C
9 261 (3.99%) Bash
10 147 (2.25%) MATLAB
11 118 (1.81%) TypeScript
12 85 (1.30%) Shell Script
13 59 (0.90%) Rust
14 57 (0.87%) Fortran
15 54 (0.83%) PL/SQL
16 53 (0.81%) Embedded C
17 43 (0.66%) Ada
18 37 (0.57%) Kotlin
19 36 (0.55%) VB
20 25 (0.38%) Go
Qualifications
1 3,801 (58.15%) SC Cleared
2 1,442 (22.06%) DV Cleared
3 1,110 (16.98%) Degree
4 540 (8.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 196 (3.00%) Cisco Certification
6 142 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 128 (1.96%) CCNP
8 124 (1.90%) CCNA
9 99 (1.51%) AWS Certification
10 96 (1.47%) CISSP
11 90 (1.38%) Azure Certification
12 87 (1.33%) CISM
13 73 (1.12%) CESG Certified Professional
13 73 (1.12%) DBS Check
14 67 (1.03%) Master's Degree
14 67 (1.03%) PhD
15 61 (0.93%) CRISC
16 58 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
17 55 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
18 50 (0.76%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 223 (3.41%) SLA
2 171 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 155 (2.37%) Accessibility
4 129 (1.97%) QA
5 101 (1.55%) NIST
6 99 (1.51%) NCSC
7 63 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
8 51 (0.78%) WCAG
9 47 (0.72%) NIST 800
9 47 (0.72%) PCI DSS
10 43 (0.66%) ISO 9001
11 40 (0.61%) GDPR
12 38 (0.58%) Def Stans
13 35 (0.54%) GRC
13 35 (0.54%) JSP 440
14 31 (0.47%) PMO
15 30 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 17025
16 29 (0.44%) COBIT
16 29 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 15288
17 28 (0.43%) RMADS
System Software
1 440 (6.73%) Active Directory
2 319 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 305 (4.67%) Docker
4 175 (2.68%) Hyper-V
5 100 (1.53%) Firmware
6 80 (1.22%) vSphere
7 77 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
8 60 (0.92%) VMware NSX
9 52 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
10 50 (0.76%) KVM
11 44 (0.67%) Oracle RAC
12 24 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
12 24 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
13 16 (0.24%) pfSense
14 15 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
14 15 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
15 11 (0.17%) NFS
16 8 (0.12%) XenDesktop
17 5 (0.076%) SRDF
18 4 (0.061%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 434 (6.64%) Ansible
2 377 (5.77%) Kubernetes
3 274 (4.19%) Terraform
4 212 (3.24%) SCCM
5 134 (2.05%) Puppet
6 90 (1.38%) WSUS
7 88 (1.35%) SCOM
8 85 (1.30%) vCenter Server
9 72 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
10 48 (0.73%) Grafana
11 44 (0.67%) Data Guard
11 44 (0.67%) Oracle RMAN
12 39 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
13 37 (0.57%) FortiGate
14 32 (0.49%) EMC NetWorker
15 31 (0.47%) NetBackup
16 30 (0.46%) EnCase
17 29 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 29 (0.44%) OpenView
18 27 (0.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1,093 (16.72%) Microsoft
2 490 (7.50%) VMware
3 429 (6.56%) Cisco
4 366 (5.60%) Oracle
5 291 (4.45%) ESRI
6 266 (4.07%) Juniper
7 189 (2.89%) Red Hat
8 115 (1.76%) ServiceNow
9 102 (1.56%) Remedy
10 91 (1.39%) HP
11 88 (1.35%) Sparx
12 83 (1.27%) IBM
13 77 (1.18%) Dell
14 71 (1.09%) Fortinet
15 62 (0.95%) Google
16 60 (0.92%) McAfee
17 54 (0.83%) Xilinx
18 53 (0.81%) CheckPoint
18 53 (0.81%) NEC
18 53 (0.81%) Veeam