Security Cleared Jobs

Security Clearance
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 21 25 76
Rank change year-on-year +4 +51 -8
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 8,108 8,129 7,921
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.70% 8.58% 4.68%
As % of the Qualifications category 29.02% 25.37% 17.31%
Number of salaries quoted 4,811 3,629 3,759
10th Percentile £33,250 £34,452 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,000 £87,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -2.78%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 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% -

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the UK

Security Cleared
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Security Cleared in the UK

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in the UK

Security 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 Security 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 +4 7,023 £57,500 -4.17% 2,040
UK excluding London +2 6,536 £55,000 - 1,742
Work from Home +2 3,248 £60,000 -1.64% 855
South East +6 2,045 £55,000 +10.00% 507
South West +3 1,942 £57,000 +2.70% 487
London +6 1,086 £70,000 +7.69% 397
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% 190
West Midlands +7 470 £55,000 -4.35% 178
East of England +16 426 £55,000 - 139
Scotland -56 315 £58,000 +16.00% 103
Wales +1 228 £58,800 +75.17% 31
Yorkshire +10 193 £60,000 -9.77% 41
East Midlands -32 193 £43,072 -21.69% 44
Northern Ireland +9 115 £60,000 +71.43% 47
North East -31 41 £56,250 +25.00% 23

Security 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
1 341 (4.21%) ArcGIS
2 330 (4.07%) GeoServer
3 141 (1.74%) Confluence
4 133 (1.64%) SharePoint
5 118 (1.46%) WebLogic
6 116 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
7 100 (1.23%) Apache
8 94 (1.16%) IIS
9 57 (0.70%) Apache Spark
10 44 (0.54%) Oracle Service Bus
11 36 (0.44%) OpenStack
12 30 (0.37%) Tomcat
13 25 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2010
13 25 (0.31%) nginx
14 16 (0.20%) CMS
14 16 (0.20%) Jupyter
15 15 (0.19%) SharePoint 2010
15 15 (0.19%) SharePoint 2013
16 14 (0.17%) Skype for Business
17 13 (0.16%) JBoss
Applications
1 288 (3.55%) Microsoft Office
2 150 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 135 (1.67%) Simulink
4 82 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 82 (1.01%) MS Visio
5 49 (0.60%) Sketch
6 32 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
7 10 (0.12%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.074%) Trello
8 6 (0.074%) Windchill
9 4 (0.049%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.049%) EPLAN
9 4 (0.049%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.049%) Siemens NX
9 4 (0.049%) Stateflow
10 3 (0.037%) InDesign
10 3 (0.037%) InVision
10 3 (0.037%) Revit
10 3 (0.037%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.025%) Abaqus
Business Applications
1 100 (1.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 94 (1.16%) Remedy ITSM
3 56 (0.69%) NEC Housing
4 49 (0.60%) Primavera
5 41 (0.51%) Siebel CRM
6 28 (0.35%) Workday HCM
7 27 (0.33%) Maximo
8 16 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
9 15 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
10 14 (0.17%) SAP HR
11 13 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
12 12 (0.15%) Oracle Cash Management
13 11 (0.14%) Teamcenter
14 10 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
14 10 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
14 10 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
15 9 (0.11%) SAP CO
15 9 (0.11%) SAP FI
15 9 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
15 9 (0.11%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 1,691 (20.86%) Azure
2 1,400 (17.27%) AWS
3 282 (3.48%) Microsoft 365
4 190 (2.34%) GCP
5 178 (2.20%) Power Platform
6 175 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
6 175 (2.16%) SaaS
7 140 (1.73%) Amazon EKS
8 137 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
8 137 (1.69%) Serverless
9 124 (1.53%) OpenShift
10 104 (1.28%) PaaS
11 94 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
11 94 (1.16%) OCI
12 92 (1.13%) Entra ID
13 81 (1.00%) AWS CloudFormation
14 75 (0.93%) Miro
15 70 (0.86%) IaaS
16 66 (0.81%) AWS Lambda
17 60 (0.74%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 506 (6.24%) Firewall
2 271 (3.34%) DNS
3 257 (3.17%) WAN
4 188 (2.32%) TCP/IP
5 172 (2.12%) LAN
6 166 (2.05%) Network Security
7 154 (1.90%) BGP
8 136 (1.68%) DHCP
9 133 (1.64%) VPN
10 113 (1.39%) Wireless
11 94 (1.16%) SAN
12 84 (1.04%) SSL
13 81 (1.00%) Cisco ASA
14 75 (0.93%) SD-WAN
15 71 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
16 70 (0.86%) Internet
17 64 (0.79%) MPLS
18 57 (0.70%) OSPF
19 50 (0.62%) IPsec
20 49 (0.60%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 465 (5.74%) PostgreSQL
2 367 (4.53%) GIS
3 330 (4.07%) QGIS
4 202 (2.49%) SQL Server
5 188 (2.32%) Relational Database
6 158 (1.95%) Oracle Database
7 119 (1.47%) Power BI
8 118 (1.46%) NoSQL
9 101 (1.25%) Big Data
10 99 (1.22%) MongoDB
11 96 (1.18%) Hadoop
12 67 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
13 63 (0.78%) RDBMS
14 48 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
15 47 (0.58%) MySQL
16 45 (0.56%) Oracle Database 11g
17 44 (0.54%) Oracle Database 10g
17 44 (0.54%) VLDB
18 42 (0.52%) Tableau
19 36 (0.44%) Siebel EIM
Development Applications
1 302 (3.72%) JIRA
2 267 (3.29%) Git
3 244 (3.01%) Jenkins
4 165 (2.04%) GitLab
5 130 (1.60%) Visual Studio
6 95 (1.17%) Bitbucket
7 94 (1.16%) Rational DOORS
8 59 (0.73%) Sourcetree
9 57 (0.70%) Selenium
10 39 (0.48%) Rational Rhapsody
11 36 (0.44%) SonarQube
12 33 (0.41%) Cucumber
13 32 (0.39%) JUnit
14 27 (0.33%) Subversion
15 23 (0.28%) LabVIEW
16 22 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
16 22 (0.27%) Vagrant
17 21 (0.26%) Ant
17 21 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 16 (0.20%) Terragrunt
General
1 1,701 (20.98%) Social Skills
2 798 (9.84%) Public Sector
3 680 (8.39%) Finance
4 622 (7.67%) Aerospace
5 431 (5.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 425 (5.24%) Analytical Skills
7 262 (3.23%) Military
8 221 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
9 204 (2.52%) Police
10 177 (2.18%) Telecoms
11 176 (2.17%) Games
12 171 (2.11%) Manufacturing
13 137 (1.69%) Retail
14 130 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
15 124 (1.53%) Electronics
16 119 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
17 102 (1.26%) Law
18 75 (0.93%) Local Government
19 60 (0.74%) Legal
20 46 (0.57%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1,448 (17.86%) Senior
2 1,021 (12.59%) Architect
3 898 (11.08%) Software Engineer
4 702 (8.66%) Developer
5 614 (7.57%) Lead
6 555 (6.85%) Analyst
7 521 (6.43%) Systems Engineer
8 512 (6.31%) Consultant
9 373 (4.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 373 (4.60%) Senior Software Engineer
10 348 (4.29%) Solutions Architect
11 301 (3.71%) Project Manager
12 298 (3.68%) Network Engineer
13 265 (3.27%) DevOps Engineer
14 209 (2.58%) Administrator
15 193 (2.38%) Senior Developer
16 176 (2.17%) Security Consultant
17 175 (2.16%) Support Engineer
18 158 (1.95%) Technical Architect
19 150 (1.85%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 532 (6.56%) .NET
2 519 (6.40%) React
3 366 (4.51%) CSS
4 333 (4.11%) Leaflet
4 333 (4.11%) OpenLayers
5 330 (4.07%) PostGIS
6 314 (3.87%) .NET Core
7 234 (2.89%) Node.js
8 188 (2.32%) HTML
9 168 (2.07%) Spring
10 163 (2.01%) AngularJS
11 155 (1.91%) REST
12 144 (1.78%) Spring Boot
13 121 (1.49%) Web Services
14 102 (1.26%) Elastic Stack
15 98 (1.21%) RabbitMQ
16 95 (1.17%) XML
17 91 (1.12%) RESTful
18 79 (0.97%) JSON
19 77 (0.95%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 357 (4.40%) Management Information System
2 228 (2.81%) Driving Licence
3 217 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
4 206 (2.54%) Data Centre
5 201 (2.48%) Algorithms
6 182 (2.24%) Product Ownership
7 158 (1.95%) Public Cloud
8 137 (1.69%) PKI
9 113 (1.39%) Onboarding
10 108 (1.33%) Cloud Native
11 107 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
12 106 (1.31%) Private Cloud
13 102 (1.26%) Virtual Team
14 91 (1.12%) Operational Technology
15 89 (1.10%) Security Operations Centre
16 87 (1.07%) Cyberattack
17 76 (0.94%) Virtual Reality
18 75 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
19 71 (0.88%) Cyber Defence
20 58 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1,250 (15.42%) Linux
2 1,096 (13.52%) Windows
3 373 (4.60%) Windows Server
4 224 (2.76%) Unix
5 209 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 162 (2.00%) Ubuntu
7 155 (1.91%) Windows 10
8 142 (1.75%) CentOS
9 131 (1.62%) Windows Server 2016
10 130 (1.60%) Windows Server 2019
11 103 (1.27%) Windows Server 2012
12 81 (1.00%) Solaris
13 74 (0.91%) Embedded Linux
14 63 (0.78%) Windows 7
15 61 (0.75%) VMS
16 48 (0.59%) Android
17 38 (0.47%) Debian
18 19 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
19 18 (0.22%) AIX
20 12 (0.15%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,414 (29.77%) Agile
2 1,637 (20.19%) Actionable Insight
3 1,425 (17.58%) DevOps
4 1,391 (17.16%) Software Engineering
5 1,238 (15.27%) Problem-Solving
6 851 (10.50%) Cybersecurity
7 726 (8.95%) Project Management
8 649 (8.00%) Scrum
9 595 (7.34%) Mentoring
10 586 (7.23%) ITIL
11 580 (7.15%) Collaborative Working
12 515 (6.35%) CI/CD
13 508 (6.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 494 (6.09%) Stakeholder Management
15 465 (5.74%) Systems Engineering
16 386 (4.76%) Project Delivery
17 382 (4.71%) Coaching
18 357 (4.40%) Web Development
19 348 (4.29%) Continuous Integration
20 344 (4.24%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,336 (16.48%) Python
2 841 (10.37%) JavaScript
3 782 (9.64%) Java
4 614 (7.57%) C#
5 572 (7.05%) SQL
6 454 (5.60%) PowerShell
7 326 (4.02%) C++
8 308 (3.80%) Bash
9 286 (3.53%) C
10 149 (1.84%) MATLAB
11 140 (1.73%) TypeScript
12 111 (1.37%) Shell Script
13 59 (0.73%) PL/SQL
13 59 (0.73%) Rust
14 57 (0.70%) Fortran
15 53 (0.65%) Embedded C
16 49 (0.60%) Go
17 43 (0.53%) Ada
18 41 (0.51%) VB
19 37 (0.46%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 4,787 (59.04%) SC Cleared
2 1,798 (22.18%) DV Cleared
3 1,311 (16.17%) Degree
4 666 (8.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 219 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
6 190 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 166 (2.05%) AWS Certification
8 160 (1.97%) CISSP
9 159 (1.96%) Azure Certification
10 136 (1.68%) CCNP
11 129 (1.59%) CCNA
11 129 (1.59%) CISM
12 102 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
13 99 (1.22%) Master's Degree
14 87 (1.07%) CESG Certified Professional
15 75 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 74 (0.91%) DBS Check
17 68 (0.84%) CRISC
17 68 (0.84%) PhD
18 58 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 237 (2.92%) SLA
2 215 (2.65%) Accessibility
3 213 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 171 (2.11%) QA
5 140 (1.73%) NIST
6 120 (1.48%) NCSC
7 79 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
8 61 (0.75%) GDPR
9 59 (0.73%) WCAG
10 53 (0.65%) NIST 800
10 53 (0.65%) PCI DSS
11 50 (0.62%) PMO
12 46 (0.57%) ISO 9001
13 41 (0.51%) Def Stans
14 40 (0.49%) JSP 440
15 39 (0.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 38 (0.47%) GRC
17 32 (0.39%) COBIT
18 31 (0.38%) RMADS
19 30 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 562 (6.93%) Active Directory
2 440 (5.43%) Docker
3 365 (4.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 193 (2.38%) Hyper-V
5 100 (1.23%) Firmware
6 97 (1.20%) vSphere
7 79 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
8 62 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
9 61 (0.75%) VMware NSX
10 59 (0.73%) KVM
11 44 (0.54%) Oracle RAC
12 26 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
13 24 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
14 16 (0.20%) pfSense
15 15 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
15 15 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
16 11 (0.14%) NFS
17 10 (0.12%) XenDesktop
18 9 (0.11%) Forefront TMG
18 9 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 548 (6.76%) Ansible
2 500 (6.17%) Kubernetes
3 428 (5.28%) Terraform
4 216 (2.66%) SCCM
5 156 (1.92%) Puppet
6 99 (1.22%) WSUS
7 94 (1.16%) SCOM
8 85 (1.05%) vCenter Server
9 75 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
10 60 (0.74%) Grafana
11 49 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
12 44 (0.54%) Data Guard
12 44 (0.54%) Oracle RMAN
13 41 (0.51%) Prometheus
14 39 (0.48%) FortiGate
14 39 (0.48%) Progress Chef
15 37 (0.46%) NetBackup
16 32 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 32 (0.39%) EMC NetWorker
16 32 (0.39%) OpenView
Vendors
1 1,312 (16.18%) Microsoft
2 564 (6.96%) VMware
3 472 (5.82%) Cisco
4 471 (5.81%) Oracle
5 339 (4.18%) ESRI
6 307 (3.79%) Juniper
7 211 (2.60%) Red Hat
8 165 (2.04%) ServiceNow
9 123 (1.52%) Remedy
10 108 (1.33%) Google
11 105 (1.30%) HP
12 100 (1.23%) Sparx
13 91 (1.12%) IBM
14 89 (1.10%) Dell
15 88 (1.09%) Fortinet
16 81 (1.00%) SAP
17 73 (0.90%) Splunk
18 72 (0.89%) NEC
19 68 (0.84%) Palo Alto
20 64 (0.79%) McAfee