SC Cleared Jobs in the South East

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 25 44 84
Rank change year-on-year +19 +40 +7
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 1,237 855 815
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.11% 6.07% 3.97%
As % of the Qualifications category 21.02% 15.26% 11.63%
Number of salaries quoted 816 492 405
10th Percentile £32,500 £25,688 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,250 £41,939
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year - -0.90% +0.91%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £79,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +12.73% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 5,885 5,603 7,009
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 33.80% 39.75% 34.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3,626 2,513 3,165
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £29,183
25th Percentile £38,125 £36,713 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £51,000 £52,106
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% -2.12% +4.21%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £54,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.17% +9.09% -

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the South East

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for SC Cleared in the South East

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in the South East

SC 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 SC Cleared within the South East 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
Thames Valley +28 527 £52,500 +6.06% 94
Berkshire +21 467 £53,263 +1.45% 57
Hampshire -2 407 £55,000 -8.33% 108
Surrey +24 247 £46,500 -11.43% 28
Buckinghamshire -32 45 £50,000 -4.76% 24
West Sussex +35 20 £67,500 +14.89% 6
Oxfordshire -19 15 £51,000 +7.37% 13
Kent -5 11 £91,250 +114.71% 3
Middlesex - 6 £35,000 -
Sussex - 4 £51,250 - 1
East Sussex +19 3 £92,500 +66.67% 1
SC Cleared
England

SC 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 (3.23%) WebLogic
2 30 (2.43%) OpenStack
3 29 (2.34%) ArcGIS
3 29 (2.34%) GeoServer
3 29 (2.34%) Microsoft Exchange
4 18 (1.46%) Exchange Server 2010
5 14 (1.13%) Oracle Service Bus
6 13 (1.05%) CMS
7 12 (0.97%) SharePoint
8 11 (0.89%) Confluence
8 11 (0.89%) IIS
9 9 (0.73%) Red Hat Fuse
10 8 (0.65%) JBoss
11 6 (0.49%) Apache
12 4 (0.32%) TWiki
13 2 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.081%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 55 (4.45%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (2.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (1.86%) Simulink
4 20 (1.62%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.32%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.32%) Sketch
8 2 (0.16%) Fireworks
8 2 (0.16%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 41 (3.31%) Siebel CRM
2 17 (1.37%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.32%) Q-Pulse
3 4 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.24%) SAP CO
4 3 (0.24%) SAP FI
4 3 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.16%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.16%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.081%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.081%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 292 (23.61%) Azure
2 214 (17.30%) AWS
3 60 (4.85%) Microsoft 365
4 43 (3.48%) Serverless
5 38 (3.07%) Amazon EKS
6 30 (2.43%) Amazon ECS
7 28 (2.26%) Azure Monitor
7 28 (2.26%) SaaS
8 22 (1.78%) Cloud Computing
9 20 (1.62%) OCI
10 17 (1.37%) Entra ID
10 17 (1.37%) GitHub
11 15 (1.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 15 (1.21%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (0.89%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (0.89%) Power Platform
13 10 (0.81%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (0.81%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (0.81%) Route 53
13 10 (0.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 111 (8.97%) Firewall
2 64 (5.17%) DNS
3 53 (4.28%) VPN
4 44 (3.56%) DHCP
5 29 (2.34%) Cisco Firepower
6 26 (2.10%) Network Security
6 26 (2.10%) SSL
7 23 (1.86%) WAN
8 21 (1.70%) Wireless
9 19 (1.54%) BGP
10 17 (1.37%) SAN
11 16 (1.29%) 5G
11 16 (1.29%) SD-WAN
12 13 (1.05%) TCP/IP
13 11 (0.89%) SNMP
13 11 (0.89%) VLAN
14 10 (0.81%) IPsec
14 10 (0.81%) LAN
14 10 (0.81%) OSPF
15 8 (0.65%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (8.81%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (5.01%) NoSQL
3 38 (3.07%) Hadoop
3 38 (3.07%) MongoDB
4 37 (2.99%) Relational Database
5 34 (2.75%) Oracle BI EE
5 34 (2.75%) Siebel EIM
6 31 (2.51%) GIS
7 29 (2.34%) QGIS
7 29 (2.34%) SQL Server
8 23 (1.86%) Oracle Database
9 22 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
10 15 (1.21%) Oracle Database 11g
11 14 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
11 14 (1.13%) Oracle Database 10g
11 14 (1.13%) VLDB
12 9 (0.73%) Oracle Reports
13 8 (0.65%) Big Data
13 8 (0.65%) Power BI
14 7 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 99 (8.00%) Jenkins
2 73 (5.90%) Git
3 27 (2.18%) JIRA
4 23 (1.86%) Ant
5 18 (1.46%) Subversion
5 18 (1.46%) Vagrant
6 17 (1.37%) GitLab
7 16 (1.29%) JUnit
8 14 (1.13%) CMake
9 13 (1.05%) Visual Studio
10 10 (0.81%) Cucumber
10 10 (0.81%) Trac
11 9 (0.73%) eggPlant
11 9 (0.73%) MSI
12 8 (0.65%) Selenium
13 7 (0.57%) REST Assured
13 7 (0.57%) WebDriver
14 6 (0.49%) InstallShield
14 6 (0.49%) JMeter
14 6 (0.49%) TestNG
General
1 266 (21.50%) Social Skills
2 121 (9.78%) Aerospace
3 79 (6.39%) Public Sector
4 76 (6.14%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (2.99%) Military
6 36 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
7 33 (2.67%) Finance
8 27 (2.18%) Police
9 25 (2.02%) Telecoms
10 23 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
11 18 (1.46%) Electronics
12 15 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (0.97%) Back Office
14 10 (0.81%) Retail
15 8 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (0.57%) Manufacturing
17 6 (0.49%) Advertising
17 6 (0.49%) Marketing
18 5 (0.40%) Law
19 4 (0.32%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 196 (15.84%) Senior
2 168 (13.58%) Architect
3 153 (12.37%) Software Engineer
4 124 (10.02%) Developer
5 98 (7.92%) Analyst
6 66 (5.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 61 (4.93%) Senior Software Engineer
8 60 (4.85%) Lead
9 58 (4.69%) DevOps Engineer
10 50 (4.04%) Network Engineer
11 49 (3.96%) Senior Developer
12 45 (3.64%) Consultant
13 44 (3.56%) Integration Engineer
14 43 (3.48%) Applications Support
14 43 (3.48%) Network Architect
15 42 (3.40%) Systems Engineer
16 41 (3.31%) Support Analyst
17 39 (3.15%) C++ Software Engineer
18 38 (3.07%) Senior Analyst
19 36 (2.91%) Applications Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (5.98%) Node.js
2 70 (5.66%) .NET
3 60 (4.85%) REST
4 58 (4.69%) Spring
5 50 (4.04%) React
6 41 (3.31%) AngularJS
6 41 (3.31%) Web Services
6 41 (3.31%) XML
7 38 (3.07%) Kafka
8 35 (2.83%) CSS
8 35 (2.83%) Middleware
8 35 (2.83%) Spring Boot
9 32 (2.59%) Leaflet
10 31 (2.51%) OpenLayers
11 30 (2.43%) Apache Camel
11 30 (2.43%) Elastic Stack
12 29 (2.34%) Hibernate
12 29 (2.34%) J2EE
12 29 (2.34%) PostGIS
13 25 (2.02%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 40 (3.23%) Data Centre
1 40 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
2 36 (2.91%) Product Ownership
3 34 (2.75%) Algorithms
4 31 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
5 30 (2.43%) CMDB
6 29 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
7 23 (1.86%) Client/Server
7 23 (1.86%) Management Information System
8 20 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
8 20 (1.62%) Satnav
9 15 (1.21%) FPGA
9 15 (1.21%) PKI
10 14 (1.13%) Private Cloud
10 14 (1.13%) VHDL
11 13 (1.05%) Digital Signage
12 12 (0.97%) Analogue Electronics
12 12 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
13 9 (0.73%) Driving Licence
14 8 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 262 (21.18%) Windows
2 242 (19.56%) Linux
3 129 (10.43%) Windows Server
4 52 (4.20%) Windows Server 2016
5 47 (3.80%) CentOS
6 46 (3.72%) Windows 10
7 43 (3.48%) Windows Server 2019
8 41 (3.31%) Unix
9 35 (2.83%) Ubuntu
10 33 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 24 (1.94%) Windows Server 2012
12 20 (1.62%) Android
13 18 (1.46%) Windows 7
14 14 (1.13%) Solaris
15 12 (0.97%) Windows XP
16 11 (0.89%) Windows NT
17 9 (0.73%) Windows Server 2008
18 6 (0.49%) Rocky
19 3 (0.24%) AIX
20 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 366 (29.59%) Agile
2 291 (23.52%) Problem-Solving
3 276 (22.31%) Actionable Insight
4 238 (19.24%) DevOps
5 186 (15.04%) Software Engineering
6 124 (10.02%) Collaborative Working
7 122 (9.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 110 (8.89%) Scrum
8 110 (8.89%) Test Automation
9 109 (8.81%) Service Management
10 105 (8.49%) ITIL
11 92 (7.44%) Project Management
12 73 (5.90%) Computer Science
13 70 (5.66%) Customer Service
13 70 (5.66%) Kanban
14 69 (5.58%) Microservices
15 66 (5.34%) Artificial Intelligence
16 65 (5.25%) Containerisation
17 64 (5.17%) CI/CD
18 58 (4.69%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 239 (19.32%) Java
2 229 (18.51%) SQL
3 187 (15.12%) Python
4 150 (12.13%) PowerShell
5 129 (10.43%) JavaScript
6 107 (8.65%) C++
7 82 (6.63%) C#
8 53 (4.28%) C
9 34 (2.75%) Kotlin
10 27 (2.18%) Shell Script
11 22 (1.78%) PL/SQL
12 16 (1.29%) VB
13 11 (0.89%) Ruby
14 10 (0.81%) Bicep
14 10 (0.81%) Groovy
14 10 (0.81%) VBScript
15 9 (0.73%) TypeScript
16 8 (0.65%) Go
16 8 (0.65%) MATLAB
17 6 (0.49%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1,237 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 315 (25.46%) DV Cleared
3 188 (15.20%) Degree
4 68 (5.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (3.15%) Cisco Certification
6 38 (3.07%) AWS Certification
7 34 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 33 (2.67%) CCNP
9 30 (2.43%) CCNA
10 24 (1.94%) Azure Certification
11 18 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
12 17 (1.37%) JNCIS
13 16 (1.29%) A+ Certification
13 16 (1.29%) DBS Check
13 16 (1.29%) PhD
14 14 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 13 (1.05%) MCP
16 11 (0.89%) CISSP
17 10 (0.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 10 (0.81%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (4.53%) SLA
2 42 (3.40%) QA
3 20 (1.62%) Software Quality Assurance
4 15 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.13%) NIST
6 12 (0.97%) Accessibility
7 7 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 7 (0.57%) JSP 440
8 6 (0.49%) PMO
8 6 (0.49%) RMADS
9 5 (0.40%) NCSC
9 5 (0.40%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.40%) WCAG
10 3 (0.24%) COBIT
10 3 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.24%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.24%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.16%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.16%) GDPR
System Software
1 107 (8.65%) Active Directory
2 93 (7.52%) Docker
3 57 (4.61%) Hyper-V
4 41 (3.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 26 (2.10%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (1.78%) Firmware
7 20 (1.62%) Virtual Servers
8 16 (1.29%) pfSense
8 16 (1.29%) VMware ESXi
9 14 (1.13%) Oracle RAC
10 12 (0.97%) KVM
10 12 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
10 12 (0.97%) vSphere
11 10 (0.81%) NFS
12 7 (0.57%) Microsoft App-V
13 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
15 1 (0.081%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 111 (8.97%) Ansible
2 109 (8.81%) Kubernetes
3 82 (6.63%) SCCM
4 78 (6.31%) Terraform
5 57 (4.61%) SCOM
6 47 (3.80%) WSUS
7 34 (2.75%) vCenter Server
8 30 (2.43%) Microsoft Intune
9 25 (2.02%) Single Sign-On
10 22 (1.78%) OpenSSO
11 19 (1.54%) Grafana
11 19 (1.54%) NetBackup
12 16 (1.29%) EMC NetWorker
12 16 (1.29%) ZABBIX
13 14 (1.13%) Data Guard
13 14 (1.13%) Oracle RMAN
14 11 (0.89%) Sysprep
15 10 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 10 (0.81%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
15 10 (0.81%) SCDPM
Vendors
1 194 (15.68%) Microsoft
2 121 (9.78%) Oracle
3 111 (8.97%) Juniper
4 101 (8.16%) Cisco
5 89 (7.19%) VMware
6 43 (3.48%) ServiceNow
7 41 (3.31%) Siebel
8 39 (3.15%) Remedy
9 30 (2.43%) WSO2
10 29 (2.34%) ESRI
11 28 (2.26%) HP
12 27 (2.18%) F5
12 27 (2.18%) Fortinet
13 26 (2.10%) Dynatrace
13 26 (2.10%) Veeam
14 22 (1.78%) Xilinx
15 19 (1.54%) Red Hat
16 17 (1.37%) EMC
16 17 (1.37%) McAfee
17 14 (1.13%) Sun