SC Cleared Jobs in England

Security Check (SC) Clearance
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 60 130
Rank change year-on-year +10 +70 -22
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 3,883 4,305 4,256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.37% 4.97% 3.04%
As % of the Qualifications category 15.73% 14.99% 11.41%
Number of salaries quoted 2,410 2,317 2,080
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,800 £32,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £41,939
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +12.73% -
75th Percentile £70,250 £77,500 £72,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £56,325
% change year-on-year -8.00% +10.96% +2.41%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 24,690 28,718 37,313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.79% 33.17% 26.66%
Number of salaries quoted 15,746 13,110 16,945
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £30,898
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £40,973
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £53,555 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.74% +9.09% -

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in England

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for SC Cleared in England

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in England

SC Cleared
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the England region over the 6 months to 28 May 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 +19 1,237 £55,000 - 275
South West -1 917 £55,000 -4.35% 236
London -21 609 £70,000 +3.70% 238
North of England +16 587 £57,500 -4.17% 173
North West +9 406 £55,000 -8.33% 128
Midlands +2 399 £55,000 -8.33% 123
West Midlands +2 262 £55,000 -8.33% 87
Yorkshire +64 154 £60,000 -10.45% 31
East Midlands -9 137 £47,250 -10.00% 36
East of England -22 122 £52,250 -5.86% 72
North East -27 27 £55,000 +15.79% 14
SC Cleared
UK

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 206 (5.31%) ArcGIS
2 196 (5.05%) GeoServer
3 110 (2.83%) Confluence
4 91 (2.34%) SharePoint
5 80 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
6 64 (1.65%) WebLogic
7 49 (1.26%) Apache
8 38 (0.98%) OpenStack
9 36 (0.93%) Apache Spark
10 28 (0.72%) IIS
11 18 (0.46%) Exchange Server 2010
12 14 (0.36%) CMS
12 14 (0.36%) Oracle Service Bus
13 10 (0.26%) SharePoint 2010
13 10 (0.26%) SharePoint 2013
14 9 (0.23%) Red Hat Fuse
15 8 (0.21%) JBoss
16 7 (0.18%) Drupal
17 4 (0.10%) Appian
17 4 (0.10%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 139 (3.58%) Microsoft Office
2 50 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 48 (1.24%) Simulink
4 36 (0.93%) MS Visio
5 28 (0.72%) Sketch
6 22 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
7 15 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 9 (0.23%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.10%) EPLAN
9 4 (0.10%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.052%) Abaqus
10 2 (0.052%) Fireworks
10 2 (0.052%) GNU Octave
10 2 (0.052%) InDesign
10 2 (0.052%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.026%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.026%) Blender
11 1 (0.026%) Revit
Business Applications
1 66 (1.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 44 (1.13%) Remedy ITSM
3 41 (1.06%) Siebel CRM
4 22 (0.57%) Maximo
5 8 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.13%) Elite 3E
6 5 (0.13%) Primavera
6 5 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (0.13%) Teamcenter
7 4 (0.10%) Oracle Cash Management
7 4 (0.10%) Q-Pulse
8 3 (0.077%) Dynamics CRM
8 3 (0.077%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.077%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.077%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.077%) SAP FI/CO
8 3 (0.077%) SAP HR
8 3 (0.077%) SAP WM
9 2 (0.052%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.052%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 972 (25.03%) Azure
2 778 (20.04%) AWS
3 191 (4.92%) Microsoft 365
4 117 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
5 114 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
6 106 (2.73%) GCP
7 102 (2.63%) Serverless
8 99 (2.55%) Power Platform
9 90 (2.32%) SaaS
10 78 (2.01%) OpenShift
11 76 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
12 72 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
13 53 (1.36%) Amazon ECS
14 51 (1.31%) AWS Lambda
15 46 (1.18%) Miro
15 46 (1.18%) PaaS
16 44 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
17 42 (1.08%) Entra ID
18 40 (1.03%) Power Automate
18 40 (1.03%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 234 (6.03%) Firewall
2 142 (3.66%) DNS
3 99 (2.55%) WAN
4 92 (2.37%) TCP/IP
5 80 (2.06%) DHCP
6 70 (1.80%) Network Security
6 70 (1.80%) VPN
7 63 (1.62%) SAN
7 63 (1.62%) Wireless
8 57 (1.47%) BGP
8 57 (1.47%) LAN
9 55 (1.42%) SSL
10 42 (1.08%) SD-WAN
11 39 (1.00%) IPsec
12 37 (0.95%) Cisco Firepower
13 35 (0.90%) MPLS
14 33 (0.85%) AMQP
15 27 (0.70%) Software-Defined Radio
15 27 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
16 24 (0.62%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 292 (7.52%) PostgreSQL
2 209 (5.38%) GIS
3 196 (5.05%) QGIS
4 110 (2.83%) Relational Database
5 105 (2.70%) SQL Server
6 88 (2.27%) NoSQL
7 75 (1.93%) Hadoop
8 64 (1.65%) Big Data
9 63 (1.62%) Power BI
10 57 (1.47%) MongoDB
11 54 (1.39%) Oracle Database
12 48 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
13 40 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
14 36 (0.93%) RDBMS
15 34 (0.88%) Oracle BI EE
15 34 (0.88%) Siebel EIM
16 30 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
16 30 (0.77%) MySQL
17 28 (0.72%) Cloudera CDH
18 21 (0.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 201 (5.18%) Git
2 185 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 181 (4.66%) JIRA
4 99 (2.55%) Visual Studio
5 90 (2.32%) Bitbucket
6 81 (2.09%) GitLab
7 59 (1.52%) Sourcetree
8 35 (0.90%) Rational DOORS
9 29 (0.75%) JUnit
10 28 (0.72%) Cucumber
11 27 (0.70%) Selenium
12 23 (0.59%) Ant
13 21 (0.54%) Subversion
14 19 (0.49%) Vagrant
15 17 (0.44%) SonarQube
16 15 (0.39%) LabVIEW
16 15 (0.39%) REST Assured
17 14 (0.36%) CMake
17 14 (0.36%) TestNG
17 14 (0.36%) WebDriver
General
1 829 (21.35%) Social Skills
2 361 (9.30%) Public Sector
3 292 (7.52%) Aerospace
4 265 (6.82%) Finance
5 224 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 186 (4.79%) Analytical Skills
7 152 (3.91%) Presentation Skills
8 115 (2.96%) Games
9 108 (2.78%) Military
10 93 (2.40%) Telecoms
11 76 (1.96%) Police
12 74 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
13 50 (1.29%) Electronics
14 49 (1.26%) Manufacturing
15 47 (1.21%) Retail
16 42 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
16 42 (1.08%) Law
17 29 (0.75%) Marketing
18 18 (0.46%) Legal
19 17 (0.44%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 738 (19.01%) Senior
2 497 (12.80%) Architect
3 439 (11.31%) Developer
4 419 (10.79%) Software Engineer
5 278 (7.16%) Lead
6 245 (6.31%) Analyst
7 200 (5.15%) Senior Software Engineer
8 199 (5.12%) Solutions Architect
9 185 (4.76%) Consultant
10 181 (4.66%) Systems Engineer
11 171 (4.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 163 (4.20%) Project Manager
13 147 (3.79%) Network Engineer
14 134 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
15 121 (3.12%) Senior Developer
16 87 (2.24%) Support Engineer
17 86 (2.21%) Security Consultant
18 85 (2.19%) Technical Architect
19 84 (2.16%) Business Analyst
20 81 (2.09%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 318 (8.19%) .NET
2 307 (7.91%) React
3 199 (5.12%) Leaflet
4 198 (5.10%) OpenLayers
5 196 (5.05%) CSS
5 196 (5.05%) PostGIS
6 183 (4.71%) .NET Core
7 148 (3.81%) Node.js
8 132 (3.40%) REST
9 125 (3.22%) Spring
10 114 (2.94%) Spring Boot
11 107 (2.76%) AngularJS
12 80 (2.06%) HTML
13 74 (1.91%) Unity (Game Engine)
14 67 (1.73%) Web Services
15 63 (1.62%) RabbitMQ
15 63 (1.62%) XML
16 56 (1.44%) Kafka
17 48 (1.24%) Elastic Stack
18 47 (1.21%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 124 (3.19%) Management Information System
2 105 (2.70%) Data Centre
3 99 (2.55%) Product Ownership
4 96 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
5 81 (2.09%) Driving Licence
6 76 (1.96%) Virtual Reality
7 68 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
8 64 (1.65%) Virtual Team
9 58 (1.49%) Private Cloud
10 55 (1.42%) Algorithms
11 53 (1.36%) Cloud Native
12 50 (1.29%) Operational Technology
13 47 (1.21%) Public Cloud
14 45 (1.16%) CMDB
15 43 (1.11%) Cyberattack
16 40 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
17 39 (1.00%) PKI
18 36 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
19 29 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
19 29 (0.75%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 585 (15.07%) Windows
2 574 (14.78%) Linux
3 262 (6.75%) Windows Server
4 119 (3.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 93 (2.40%) Windows 10
6 92 (2.37%) Ubuntu
7 88 (2.27%) Unix
8 85 (2.19%) CentOS
9 65 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
10 57 (1.47%) Windows Server 2019
11 37 (0.95%) Windows Server 2012
12 33 (0.85%) Android
13 30 (0.77%) Windows 7
14 29 (0.75%) Debian
15 23 (0.59%) Solaris
16 16 (0.41%) AIX
17 13 (0.33%) VMS
18 12 (0.31%) Windows XP
19 11 (0.28%) Windows NT
20 10 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,229 (31.65%) Agile
2 867 (22.33%) DevOps
3 834 (21.48%) Actionable Insight
4 691 (17.80%) Software Engineering
5 611 (15.74%) Problem-Solving
6 398 (10.25%) Scrum
7 378 (9.73%) Cybersecurity
8 351 (9.04%) Project Management
9 305 (7.85%) ITIL
10 261 (6.72%) Collaborative Working
11 258 (6.64%) CI/CD
12 253 (6.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 245 (6.31%) Stakeholder Management
14 243 (6.26%) Mentoring
15 223 (5.74%) Service Management
16 202 (5.20%) Web Development
17 195 (5.02%) Infrastructure as Code
18 190 (4.89%) Kanban
18 190 (4.89%) Microservices
19 186 (4.79%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 617 (15.89%) Python
2 465 (11.98%) Java
3 464 (11.95%) JavaScript
4 362 (9.32%) SQL
5 326 (8.40%) C#
6 295 (7.60%) PowerShell
7 154 (3.97%) C++
8 94 (2.42%) Bash
9 83 (2.14%) C
10 79 (2.03%) TypeScript
11 58 (1.49%) MATLAB
12 43 (1.11%) Shell Script
13 34 (0.88%) Kotlin
14 26 (0.67%) PL/SQL
15 25 (0.64%) Bicep
16 23 (0.59%) Go
16 23 (0.59%) VB
17 17 (0.44%) Groovy
18 16 (0.41%) VBA
19 15 (0.39%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3,883 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 679 (17.49%) DV Cleared
3 654 (16.84%) Degree
4 197 (5.07%) BPSS Clearance
5 133 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 116 (2.99%) AWS Certification
7 99 (2.55%) CISM
8 97 (2.50%) Azure Certification
9 93 (2.40%) CISSP
10 89 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
11 81 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
12 64 (1.65%) CESG Certified Professional
13 63 (1.62%) CRISC
14 62 (1.60%) CCNP
15 59 (1.52%) CCNA
16 55 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
17 53 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 36 (0.93%) A+ Certification
19 32 (0.82%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
20 30 (0.77%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (3.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 97 (2.50%) SLA
3 83 (2.14%) Accessibility
4 81 (2.09%) NCSC
5 78 (2.01%) QA
6 48 (1.24%) NIST
7 37 (0.95%) GDPR
8 35 (0.90%) WCAG
9 31 (0.80%) PMO
10 28 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 26 (0.67%) Def Stans
12 23 (0.59%) Data Quality
13 22 (0.57%) GRC
14 21 (0.54%) COBIT
14 21 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
15 20 (0.52%) Software Quality Assurance
16 17 (0.44%) JSP 440
17 16 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 16 (0.41%) ISO 9001
18 15 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 291 (7.49%) Active Directory
2 254 (6.54%) Docker
3 170 (4.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 128 (3.30%) Hyper-V
5 43 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
6 38 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
7 32 (0.82%) vSphere
8 31 (0.80%) Firmware
9 24 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
10 20 (0.52%) KVM
11 16 (0.41%) pfSense
12 14 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
13 13 (0.33%) Microsoft App-V
14 12 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
15 10 (0.26%) NFS
15 10 (0.26%) XenDesktop
16 8 (0.21%) VMware NSX
17 4 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
17 4 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 4 (0.10%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 293 (7.55%) Kubernetes
2 270 (6.95%) Ansible
3 232 (5.97%) Terraform
4 164 (4.22%) SCCM
5 77 (1.98%) Puppet
6 73 (1.88%) SCOM
7 55 (1.42%) WSUS
8 54 (1.39%) vCenter Server
9 48 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
10 35 (0.90%) Grafana
11 34 (0.88%) NetBackup
11 34 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
12 31 (0.80%) EMC NetWorker
13 25 (0.64%) ZABBIX
14 22 (0.57%) OpenSSO
15 21 (0.54%) Nagios
15 21 (0.54%) OpenView
16 20 (0.52%) Prometheus
17 19 (0.49%) Progress Chef
18 17 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 703 (18.10%) Microsoft
2 272 (7.00%) VMware
3 224 (5.77%) Oracle
4 208 (5.36%) Cisco
5 204 (5.25%) ESRI
6 198 (5.10%) Juniper
7 109 (2.81%) ServiceNow
8 94 (2.42%) Red Hat
9 77 (1.98%) Google
10 72 (1.85%) HP
11 66 (1.70%) Remedy
11 66 (1.70%) Sparx
12 50 (1.29%) NetApp
13 47 (1.21%) IBM
14 44 (1.13%) Veeam
15 41 (1.06%) Siebel
16 40 (1.03%) Splunk
17 39 (1.00%) Citrix
17 39 (1.00%) EMC
18 35 (0.90%) Dell