Security Cleared Jobs in England

Security Clearance
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 26 76
Rank change year-on-year +4 +50 -8
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 6,964 6,964 6,482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.78% 8.06% 4.64%
As % of the Qualifications category 28.11% 24.20% 17.41%
Number of salaries quoted 4,392 3,321 3,192
10th Percentile £33,250 £34,452 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £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 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £86,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 24,771 28,776 37,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.69% 33.31% 26.67%
Number of salaries quoted 15,756 13,083 16,855
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £30,875
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £40,853
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,399 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.34% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.83% +9.09% -

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in England

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Security Cleared in England

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in England

Security 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 Security Cleared within the England region over the 6 months to 29 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 +5 2,024 £55,000 +10.00% 499
South West +3 1,930 £57,000 +3.64% 470
London +6 1,080 £70,000 +7.69% 357
North of England +3 830 £55,000 -8.33% 258
Midlands -10 655 £55,000 -1.35% 202
North West -4 599 £54,223 -9.63% 192
West Midlands +11 462 £55,000 -4.35% 144
East of England +18 425 £55,000 - 138
East Midlands -34 193 £43,072 -19.87% 57
Yorkshire +7 192 £60,000 -9.77% 42
North East -28 39 £55,000 +22.22% 24
Security Cleared
UK

Security 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
1 207 (2.97%) ArcGIS
2 196 (2.81%) GeoServer
3 128 (1.84%) SharePoint
4 123 (1.77%) Confluence
5 113 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
6 96 (1.38%) Apache
7 81 (1.16%) IIS
8 64 (0.92%) WebLogic
9 56 (0.80%) Apache Spark
10 37 (0.53%) OpenStack
11 27 (0.39%) Tomcat
12 25 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2010
12 25 (0.36%) nginx
13 16 (0.23%) CMS
13 16 (0.23%) Jupyter
14 15 (0.22%) SharePoint 2010
14 15 (0.22%) SharePoint 2013
15 14 (0.20%) Oracle Service Bus
16 13 (0.19%) JBoss
17 11 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 236 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
2 129 (1.85%) Simulink
3 118 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
4 74 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 41 (0.59%) MS Visio
6 31 (0.45%) Sketch
7 30 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
8 10 (0.14%) AutoCAD
9 6 (0.086%) Trello
10 4 (0.057%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.057%) EPLAN
10 4 (0.057%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.057%) Siemens NX
10 4 (0.057%) Stateflow
10 4 (0.057%) Windchill
11 3 (0.043%) InVision
11 3 (0.043%) Revit
11 3 (0.043%) Spreadsheet
12 2 (0.029%) Abaqus
12 2 (0.029%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 76 (1.09%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 52 (0.75%) NEC Housing
2 52 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
3 41 (0.59%) Siebel CRM
4 37 (0.53%) Primavera
5 28 (0.40%) Workday HCM
6 27 (0.39%) Maximo
7 16 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
8 12 (0.17%) SAP HR
9 10 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
9 10 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
10 9 (0.13%) SAP SCM
10 9 (0.13%) Teamcenter
11 8 (0.11%) SAP CO
11 8 (0.11%) SAP EWM
11 8 (0.11%) SAP FI
11 8 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
12 6 (0.086%) Oracle Applications
13 5 (0.072%) Oracle Payroll
13 5 (0.072%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 1,370 (19.67%) Azure
2 1,138 (16.34%) AWS
3 270 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
4 156 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
5 154 (2.21%) GCP
6 146 (2.10%) SaaS
7 144 (2.07%) Power Platform
8 124 (1.78%) Serverless
9 121 (1.74%) OpenShift
10 118 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
11 103 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
12 88 (1.26%) Entra ID
13 86 (1.23%) PaaS
14 72 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
15 64 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
16 61 (0.88%) IaaS
17 60 (0.86%) AWS Lambda
18 59 (0.85%) Amazon ECS
19 57 (0.82%) Azure Monitor
20 54 (0.78%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 438 (6.29%) Firewall
2 236 (3.39%) DNS
3 210 (3.02%) WAN
4 149 (2.14%) TCP/IP
5 145 (2.08%) Network Security
6 138 (1.98%) LAN
7 137 (1.97%) DHCP
8 128 (1.84%) BGP
9 124 (1.78%) VPN
10 81 (1.16%) SAN
11 80 (1.15%) Wireless
12 66 (0.95%) Internet
13 64 (0.92%) SSL
14 61 (0.88%) SD-WAN
15 60 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
16 59 (0.85%) Cisco ASA
17 58 (0.83%) MPLS
18 49 (0.70%) IPsec
18 49 (0.70%) OSPF
19 45 (0.65%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 328 (4.71%) PostgreSQL
2 225 (3.23%) GIS
3 196 (2.81%) QGIS
4 178 (2.56%) SQL Server
5 136 (1.95%) Relational Database
6 102 (1.46%) NoSQL
7 101 (1.45%) Oracle Database
8 100 (1.44%) Power BI
9 96 (1.38%) Big Data
9 96 (1.38%) Hadoop
10 95 (1.36%) MongoDB
11 48 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
12 43 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
13 36 (0.52%) RDBMS
14 35 (0.50%) Oracle BI EE
14 35 (0.50%) Siebel EIM
15 34 (0.49%) MySQL
16 33 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
17 32 (0.46%) Tableau
18 28 (0.40%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 257 (3.69%) JIRA
2 251 (3.60%) Git
3 229 (3.29%) Jenkins
4 150 (2.15%) GitLab
5 131 (1.88%) Visual Studio
6 99 (1.42%) Bitbucket
7 94 (1.35%) Rational DOORS
8 59 (0.85%) Sourcetree
9 55 (0.79%) Selenium
10 38 (0.55%) Rational Rhapsody
11 31 (0.45%) Cucumber
11 31 (0.45%) JUnit
11 31 (0.45%) SonarQube
12 27 (0.39%) Subversion
13 23 (0.33%) LabVIEW
14 22 (0.32%) Ant
14 22 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
15 21 (0.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 20 (0.29%) Vagrant
17 15 (0.22%) REST Assured
General
1 1,432 (20.56%) Social Skills
2 662 (9.51%) Public Sector
3 592 (8.50%) Aerospace
4 546 (7.84%) Finance
5 352 (5.05%) Analytical Skills
6 326 (4.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 257 (3.69%) Military
8 182 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
9 165 (2.37%) Games
10 163 (2.34%) Telecoms
11 156 (2.24%) Manufacturing
12 154 (2.21%) Police
13 133 (1.91%) Retail
14 122 (1.75%) Electronics
15 117 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
16 108 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
17 89 (1.28%) Law
18 66 (0.95%) Local Government
19 51 (0.73%) Legal
20 46 (0.66%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1,132 (16.26%) Senior
2 825 (11.85%) Architect
3 725 (10.41%) Software Engineer
4 600 (8.62%) Developer
5 505 (7.25%) Lead
6 462 (6.63%) Systems Engineer
7 445 (6.39%) Analyst
8 444 (6.38%) Consultant
9 347 (4.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 277 (3.98%) Network Engineer
11 275 (3.95%) Senior Software Engineer
12 263 (3.78%) Project Manager
13 255 (3.66%) DevOps Engineer
14 251 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
15 205 (2.94%) Administrator
16 167 (2.40%) Security Consultant
17 164 (2.35%) Support Engineer
18 143 (2.05%) Senior Developer
19 125 (1.79%) Technical Architect
20 111 (1.59%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 378 (5.43%) .NET
2 365 (5.24%) React
3 224 (3.22%) CSS
4 199 (2.86%) Leaflet
4 199 (2.86%) OpenLayers
5 196 (2.81%) PostGIS
6 194 (2.79%) .NET Core
7 167 (2.40%) Node.js
8 149 (2.14%) Spring
9 148 (2.13%) REST
10 141 (2.02%) AngularJS
11 129 (1.85%) HTML
12 125 (1.79%) Spring Boot
13 96 (1.38%) Elastic Stack
14 90 (1.29%) Web Services
15 89 (1.28%) XML
16 79 (1.13%) RabbitMQ
17 75 (1.08%) JSON
18 73 (1.05%) Unity (Game Engine)
19 65 (0.93%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 291 (4.18%) Management Information System
2 210 (3.02%) Driving Licence
3 206 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
4 196 (2.81%) Algorithms
5 154 (2.21%) Product Ownership
6 150 (2.15%) Data Centre
7 134 (1.92%) PKI
8 128 (1.84%) Public Cloud
9 101 (1.45%) Private Cloud
10 91 (1.31%) Cloud Native
11 87 (1.25%) Security Operations Centre
12 81 (1.16%) Virtual Reality
13 80 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
14 79 (1.13%) Operational Technology
15 70 (1.01%) Virtual Team
16 69 (0.99%) Cyberattack
17 66 (0.95%) Cyber Defence
18 64 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
19 59 (0.85%) Onboarding
20 49 (0.70%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1,141 (16.38%) Linux
2 1,022 (14.68%) Windows
3 343 (4.93%) Windows Server
4 185 (2.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 169 (2.43%) Unix
6 149 (2.14%) Windows 10
7 140 (2.01%) Ubuntu
8 139 (2.00%) CentOS
9 129 (1.85%) Windows Server 2016
10 128 (1.84%) Windows Server 2019
11 102 (1.46%) Windows Server 2012
12 72 (1.03%) Embedded Linux
13 63 (0.90%) Windows 7
14 56 (0.80%) VMS
15 47 (0.67%) Solaris
16 40 (0.57%) Android
17 37 (0.53%) Debian
18 19 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
19 16 (0.23%) AIX
20 12 (0.17%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,002 (28.75%) Agile
2 1,163 (16.70%) DevOps
3 1,157 (16.61%) Software Engineering
4 1,139 (16.36%) Actionable Insight
5 1,054 (15.13%) Problem-Solving
6 777 (11.16%) Cybersecurity
7 628 (9.02%) Project Management
8 583 (8.37%) Scrum
9 534 (7.67%) ITIL
10 524 (7.52%) Collaborative Working
11 519 (7.45%) Mentoring
12 465 (6.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 436 (6.26%) CI/CD
14 419 (6.02%) Systems Engineering
15 380 (5.46%) Stakeholder Management
16 374 (5.37%) Project Delivery
17 314 (4.51%) Customer Service
18 310 (4.45%) Coaching
19 307 (4.41%) Computer Science
20 303 (4.35%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1,115 (16.01%) Python
2 709 (10.18%) Java
3 647 (9.29%) JavaScript
4 488 (7.01%) C#
4 488 (7.01%) SQL
5 451 (6.48%) PowerShell
6 315 (4.52%) C++
7 305 (4.38%) Bash
8 284 (4.08%) C
9 147 (2.11%) MATLAB
10 120 (1.72%) TypeScript
11 99 (1.42%) Shell Script
12 59 (0.85%) Rust
13 56 (0.80%) Fortran
14 52 (0.75%) Embedded C
15 43 (0.62%) Ada
16 37 (0.53%) VB
17 35 (0.50%) Kotlin
18 33 (0.47%) Bicep
19 29 (0.42%) Go
Qualifications
1 3,893 (55.90%) SC Cleared
2 1,707 (24.51%) DV Cleared
3 1,163 (16.70%) Degree
4 583 (8.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 191 (2.74%) Cisco Certification
6 179 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 140 (2.01%) CISSP
8 128 (1.84%) CCNP
9 121 (1.74%) AWS Certification
10 115 (1.65%) CCNA
11 113 (1.62%) Azure Certification
12 112 (1.61%) CISM
13 93 (1.34%) Master's Degree
13 93 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
14 86 (1.23%) CESG Certified Professional
15 68 (0.98%) CRISC
16 67 (0.96%) DBS Check
17 64 (0.92%) PhD
18 56 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
19 54 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 210 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 188 (2.70%) SLA
3 155 (2.23%) QA
4 139 (2.00%) Accessibility
5 132 (1.90%) NIST
6 111 (1.59%) NCSC
7 67 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
8 55 (0.79%) GDPR
9 50 (0.72%) NIST 800
10 46 (0.66%) ISO 9001
11 42 (0.60%) Def Stans
11 42 (0.60%) PCI DSS
12 39 (0.56%) PMO
13 38 (0.55%) GRC
13 38 (0.55%) JSP 440
14 37 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 36 (0.52%) WCAG
16 31 (0.45%) RMADS
17 30 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 15288
17 30 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 508 (7.29%) Active Directory
2 419 (6.02%) Docker
3 343 (4.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 184 (2.64%) Hyper-V
5 100 (1.44%) Firmware
6 93 (1.34%) vSphere
7 76 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
8 53 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
9 51 (0.73%) KVM
10 47 (0.67%) VMware NSX
11 26 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
12 24 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
13 16 (0.23%) pfSense
14 15 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
14 15 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
15 14 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
16 11 (0.16%) NFS
17 10 (0.14%) XenDesktop
18 9 (0.13%) Forefront TMG
18 9 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 520 (7.47%) Ansible
2 478 (6.86%) Kubernetes
3 402 (5.77%) Terraform
4 210 (3.02%) SCCM
5 156 (2.24%) Puppet
6 95 (1.36%) SCOM
7 93 (1.34%) WSUS
8 84 (1.21%) vCenter Server
9 73 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
10 54 (0.78%) Grafana
11 45 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
12 39 (0.56%) Progress Chef
12 39 (0.56%) Prometheus
13 37 (0.53%) FortiGate
13 37 (0.53%) NetBackup
14 32 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 31 (0.45%) EMC NetWorker
16 30 (0.43%) EnCase
17 26 (0.37%) Nagios
18 25 (0.36%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1,174 (16.86%) Microsoft
2 505 (7.25%) VMware
3 412 (5.92%) Cisco
4 346 (4.97%) Oracle
5 288 (4.14%) Juniper
6 206 (2.96%) Red Hat
7 204 (2.93%) ESRI
8 134 (1.92%) ServiceNow
9 94 (1.35%) HP
10 89 (1.28%) IBM
11 87 (1.25%) Google
12 81 (1.16%) Dell
13 77 (1.11%) Remedy
14 76 (1.09%) Sparx
15 72 (1.03%) SAP
16 67 (0.96%) NEC
17 63 (0.90%) Splunk
18 61 (0.88%) Fortinet
19 57 (0.82%) SolarWinds
20 56 (0.80%) Veeam