SC Cleared Jobs

Security Check (SC) Clearance
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SC 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 48 54 126
Rank change year-on-year +6 +72 -15
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 4,787 5,157 5,262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.55% 5.44% 3.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.13% 16.10% 11.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2,713 2,550 2,423
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +9.65% +3.64%
75th Percentile £70,875 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £53,112
% change year-on-year -4.35% +8.26% +1.17%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,942 32,039 45,768
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.55% 33.80% 27.07%
Number of salaries quoted 17,249 14,523 19,205
10th Percentile £28,668 £32,000 £30,932
25th Percentile £38,524 £42,500 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,818 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.30% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the UK

SC Cleared
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared.

Salary trend for SC Cleared in the UK

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in the UK

SC Cleared
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the UK 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
England +9 3,921 £55,000 -12.00% 1,169
UK excluding London +6 3,801 £55,000 -4.35% 990
Work from Home -2 1,935 £60,000 -4.37% 554
South East +16 1,246 £55,000 - 276
South West -3 921 £55,000 -8.33% 239
London -29 618 £70,000 +4.47% 247
North of England +17 593 £57,500 -4.27% 166
North West +10 409 £55,000 -8.43% 123
Midlands -7 405 £55,000 -8.33% 146
West Midlands +3 268 £55,000 -8.33% 116
Scotland -54 239 £60,000 +8.67% 64
Wales +8 202 £58,800 +94.67% 23
Yorkshire +57 155 £60,000 -10.78% 32
East Midlands -20 137 £47,250 -10.00% 30
East of England -23 121 £52,000 -6.31% 76
Northern Ireland +15 103 £60,000 +66.67% 31
North East -30 29 £56,900 +19.79% 11

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 340 (7.10%) ArcGIS
2 330 (6.89%) GeoServer
3 127 (2.65%) Confluence
4 116 (2.42%) WebLogic
5 93 (1.94%) SharePoint
6 82 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
7 50 (1.04%) Apache
8 44 (0.92%) Oracle Service Bus
9 38 (0.79%) Apache Spark
10 34 (0.71%) OpenStack
11 30 (0.63%) IIS
12 18 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2010
13 14 (0.29%) CMS
13 14 (0.29%) Skype for Business
14 10 (0.21%) SharePoint 2010
14 10 (0.21%) SharePoint 2013
15 9 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
16 8 (0.17%) JBoss
17 7 (0.15%) Drupal
18 6 (0.13%) Appian
Applications
1 180 (3.76%) Microsoft Office
2 81 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 77 (1.61%) MS Visio
4 52 (1.09%) Simulink
5 47 (0.98%) Sketch
6 24 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
7 19 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 9 (0.19%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.084%) EPLAN
9 4 (0.084%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.042%) Abaqus
10 2 (0.042%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.042%) Fireworks
10 2 (0.042%) GNU Octave
10 2 (0.042%) InDesign
10 2 (0.042%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.021%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.021%) Blender
11 1 (0.021%) InVision
11 1 (0.021%) Revit
Business Applications
1 86 (1.80%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 85 (1.78%) Remedy ITSM
3 41 (0.86%) Siebel CRM
4 22 (0.46%) Maximo
5 12 (0.25%) Oracle Cash Management
6 10 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
6 10 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
6 10 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
6 10 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
7 6 (0.13%) Primavera
8 5 (0.10%) Elite 3E
8 5 (0.10%) SAP HR
8 5 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
8 5 (0.10%) SAP WM
8 5 (0.10%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.084%) Q-Pulse
9 4 (0.084%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.084%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.084%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 1,258 (26.28%) Azure
2 1,021 (21.33%) AWS
3 198 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
4 146 (3.05%) GCP
5 136 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
6 134 (2.80%) Amazon EKS
7 118 (2.47%) Power Platform
8 114 (2.38%) Serverless
9 107 (2.24%) SaaS
10 97 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
11 79 (1.65%) AWS CloudFormation
11 79 (1.65%) OpenShift
12 74 (1.55%) Miro
13 69 (1.44%) OCI
14 63 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
15 58 (1.21%) AWS Lambda
16 57 (1.19%) PaaS
17 49 (1.02%) Amazon ECS
18 48 (1.00%) Amazon SQS
18 48 (1.00%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 295 (6.16%) Firewall
2 176 (3.68%) DNS
3 126 (2.63%) WAN
4 124 (2.59%) TCP/IP
5 89 (1.86%) Wireless
6 87 (1.82%) Network Security
7 86 (1.80%) LAN
8 79 (1.65%) DHCP
9 77 (1.61%) BGP
10 75 (1.57%) SSL
10 75 (1.57%) VPN
11 72 (1.50%) SAN
12 53 (1.11%) SD-WAN
13 41 (0.86%) Cisco Firepower
14 40 (0.84%) IPsec
14 40 (0.84%) Software-Defined Radio
15 37 (0.77%) MPLS
16 34 (0.71%) AMQP
17 30 (0.63%) Cisco ASA
18 27 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 426 (8.90%) PostgreSQL
2 343 (7.17%) GIS
3 330 (6.89%) QGIS
4 155 (3.24%) Relational Database
5 115 (2.40%) SQL Server
6 105 (2.19%) Oracle Database
7 94 (1.96%) NoSQL
8 77 (1.61%) Hadoop
9 70 (1.46%) Big Data
10 67 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
10 67 (1.40%) Power BI
11 63 (1.32%) RDBMS
12 62 (1.30%) MongoDB
13 45 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
13 45 (0.94%) Oracle Database 11g
14 44 (0.92%) Oracle Database 10g
14 44 (0.92%) VLDB
15 41 (0.86%) MySQL
16 36 (0.75%) Oracle BI EE
16 36 (0.75%) Siebel EIM
Development Applications
1 225 (4.70%) JIRA
2 215 (4.49%) Git
3 195 (4.07%) Jenkins
4 96 (2.01%) Visual Studio
5 85 (1.78%) Bitbucket
6 84 (1.75%) GitLab
7 59 (1.23%) Sourcetree
8 35 (0.73%) Rational DOORS
9 30 (0.63%) Cucumber
9 30 (0.63%) JUnit
10 29 (0.61%) Selenium
11 22 (0.46%) SonarQube
12 21 (0.44%) Ant
12 21 (0.44%) Subversion
12 21 (0.44%) Vagrant
13 16 (0.33%) Terragrunt
14 15 (0.31%) LabVIEW
14 15 (0.31%) REST Assured
15 14 (0.29%) TestNG
15 14 (0.29%) WebDriver
General
1 1,063 (22.21%) Social Skills
2 476 (9.94%) Public Sector
3 360 (7.52%) Finance
4 313 (6.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 310 (6.48%) Aerospace
6 253 (5.29%) Analytical Skills
7 185 (3.86%) Presentation Skills
8 117 (2.44%) Police
9 116 (2.42%) Games
10 110 (2.30%) Military
11 104 (2.17%) Telecoms
12 75 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
13 61 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
14 57 (1.19%) Manufacturing
15 50 (1.04%) Electronics
15 50 (1.04%) Retail
16 43 (0.90%) Law
17 28 (0.58%) Marketing
18 26 (0.54%) Legal
19 18 (0.38%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1,041 (21.75%) Senior
2 677 (14.14%) Architect
3 577 (12.05%) Software Engineer
4 527 (11.01%) Developer
5 361 (7.54%) Lead
6 350 (7.31%) Analyst
7 298 (6.23%) Senior Software Engineer
8 292 (6.10%) Solutions Architect
9 215 (4.49%) Consultant
10 214 (4.47%) Systems Engineer
11 195 (4.07%) Project Manager
12 188 (3.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 172 (3.59%) Senior Developer
14 168 (3.51%) Network Engineer
15 143 (2.99%) DevOps Engineer
16 122 (2.55%) Business Analyst
17 121 (2.53%) Technical Architect
18 117 (2.44%) Designer
19 94 (1.96%) Senior Analyst
20 92 (1.92%) Presales Solution Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 462 (9.65%) .NET
2 457 (9.55%) React
3 333 (6.96%) Leaflet
4 332 (6.94%) CSS
4 332 (6.94%) OpenLayers
5 330 (6.89%) PostGIS
6 303 (6.33%) .NET Core
7 203 (4.24%) Node.js
8 142 (2.97%) Spring
9 137 (2.86%) REST
10 131 (2.74%) Spring Boot
11 127 (2.65%) AngularJS
12 125 (2.61%) HTML
13 85 (1.78%) Web Services
14 82 (1.71%) RabbitMQ
15 73 (1.52%) RESTful
16 70 (1.46%) Django
17 69 (1.44%) Unity (Game Engine)
18 67 (1.40%) XML
19 59 (1.23%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 165 (3.45%) Management Information System
2 149 (3.11%) Data Centre
3 127 (2.65%) Product Ownership
4 104 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
5 95 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
6 93 (1.94%) Virtual Team
7 90 (1.88%) Driving Licence
8 71 (1.48%) Virtual Reality
9 66 (1.38%) Cloud Native
9 66 (1.38%) Public Cloud
10 61 (1.27%) Operational Technology
11 60 (1.25%) Cyberattack
11 60 (1.25%) Onboarding
12 59 (1.23%) Private Cloud
13 57 (1.19%) Algorithms
14 48 (1.00%) CMDB
15 40 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
16 39 (0.81%) PKI
17 37 (0.77%) Cyber Threat
18 34 (0.71%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 662 (13.83%) Linux
2 615 (12.85%) Windows
3 272 (5.68%) Windows Server
4 142 (2.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 138 (2.88%) Unix
6 115 (2.40%) Ubuntu
7 94 (1.96%) Windows 10
8 88 (1.84%) CentOS
9 65 (1.36%) Windows Server 2016
10 57 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
11 53 (1.11%) Solaris
12 42 (0.88%) Android
13 37 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
14 30 (0.63%) Windows 7
15 29 (0.61%) Debian
16 18 (0.38%) AIX
16 18 (0.38%) VMS
17 12 (0.25%) Windows XP
18 11 (0.23%) Windows NT
19 10 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,597 (33.36%) Agile
2 1,298 (27.12%) Actionable Insight
3 1,104 (23.06%) DevOps
4 893 (18.65%) Software Engineering
5 755 (15.77%) Problem-Solving
6 463 (9.67%) Scrum
7 431 (9.00%) Cybersecurity
8 421 (8.79%) Project Management
9 347 (7.25%) ITIL
10 346 (7.23%) Stakeholder Management
11 341 (7.12%) Web Development
12 313 (6.54%) CI/CD
13 308 (6.43%) Collaborative Working
14 304 (6.35%) Mentoring
15 270 (5.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 252 (5.26%) Service Management
17 238 (4.97%) Artificial Intelligence
18 224 (4.68%) Presales
19 223 (4.66%) Kanban
20 213 (4.45%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 817 (17.07%) Python
2 640 (13.37%) JavaScript
3 510 (10.65%) Java
4 436 (9.11%) C#
5 422 (8.82%) SQL
6 297 (6.20%) PowerShell
7 157 (3.28%) C++
8 95 (1.98%) Bash
8 95 (1.98%) TypeScript
9 80 (1.67%) C
10 60 (1.25%) MATLAB
11 59 (1.23%) PL/SQL
12 50 (1.04%) Shell Script
13 36 (0.75%) Go
13 36 (0.75%) Kotlin
14 28 (0.58%) Bicep
15 24 (0.50%) VB
16 19 (0.40%) VBA
17 17 (0.36%) Groovy
17 17 (0.36%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4,787 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 770 (16.09%) Degree
3 709 (14.81%) DV Cleared
4 247 (5.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 160 (3.34%) AWS Certification
6 142 (2.97%) Azure Certification
7 141 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
8 115 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
8 115 (2.40%) CISM
9 111 (2.32%) CISSP
10 86 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
11 73 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 72 (1.50%) CCNA
13 69 (1.44%) CCNP
14 64 (1.34%) CESG Certified Professional
15 63 (1.32%) CRISC
16 58 (1.21%) TOGAF Certification
17 53 (1.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 36 (0.75%) A+ Certification
19 34 (0.71%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (3.07%) Accessibility
2 140 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 133 (2.78%) SLA
4 89 (1.86%) NCSC
4 89 (1.86%) QA
5 58 (1.21%) WCAG
6 51 (1.07%) NIST
7 39 (0.81%) GDPR
7 39 (0.81%) PMO
8 32 (0.67%) COBIT
9 30 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
10 26 (0.54%) Def Stans
10 26 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 25 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 23 (0.48%) Data Quality
13 20 (0.42%) GRC
14 19 (0.40%) JSP 440
15 18 (0.38%) Software Quality Assurance
16 16 (0.33%) ISO 9001
17 14 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 324 (6.77%) Active Directory
2 265 (5.54%) Docker
3 182 (3.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 130 (2.72%) Hyper-V
5 44 (0.92%) Oracle RAC
6 43 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
7 38 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
8 34 (0.71%) vSphere
9 31 (0.65%) Firmware
10 24 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
11 20 (0.42%) KVM
12 16 (0.33%) pfSense
13 14 (0.29%) VMware NSX
14 13 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
15 12 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
16 10 (0.21%) NFS
16 10 (0.21%) XenDesktop
17 4 (0.084%) Embedded Firmware
17 4 (0.084%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 4 (0.084%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 311 (6.50%) Kubernetes
2 288 (6.02%) Ansible
3 255 (5.33%) Terraform
4 170 (3.55%) SCCM
5 78 (1.63%) Puppet
6 72 (1.50%) SCOM
7 60 (1.25%) WSUS
8 55 (1.15%) vCenter Server
9 51 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
10 44 (0.92%) Data Guard
10 44 (0.92%) Oracle RMAN
11 37 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
12 36 (0.75%) Grafana
13 34 (0.71%) NetBackup
14 32 (0.67%) OpenView
15 31 (0.65%) EMC NetWorker
16 26 (0.54%) OpenSSO
17 25 (0.52%) ZABBIX
18 21 (0.44%) Prometheus
19 20 (0.42%) Nagios
Vendors
1 774 (16.17%) Microsoft
2 339 (7.08%) ESRI
2 339 (7.08%) Oracle
3 302 (6.31%) VMware
4 262 (5.47%) Cisco
5 211 (4.41%) Juniper
6 130 (2.72%) ServiceNow
7 111 (2.32%) Remedy
8 97 (2.03%) Red Hat
9 96 (2.01%) Google
10 86 (1.80%) Sparx
11 83 (1.73%) HP
12 57 (1.19%) Fortinet
13 50 (1.04%) NetApp
13 50 (1.04%) Palo Alto
14 49 (1.02%) IBM
15 46 (0.96%) Splunk
16 45 (0.94%) CheckPoint
16 45 (0.94%) McAfee
16 45 (0.94%) Sun