SC Cleared Jobs in the UK excluding London

Security Check (SC) Clearance
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for SC 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 40 53 56
Rank change year-on-year +13 +3 +21
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 3,777 3,383 3,680
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.07% 5.83% 5.01%
As % of the Qualifications category 19.07% 15.64% 15.47%
Number of salaries quoted 2,069 1,510 1,614
10th Percentile £31,500 £31,250 £30,505
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,531 £39,449
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £53,056
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +8.38% +1.06%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £77,500
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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 19,804 21,625 23,792
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.56% 37.27% 32.38%
Number of salaries quoted 12,268 8,007 10,491
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,750 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £79,600 £80,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.83% +9.09% -

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for SC Cleared in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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 +19 1,238 £55,000 - 259
South West -2 916 £55,000 -4.35% 231
North of England +18 590 £57,500 -4.17% 172
North West +9 408 £55,000 -8.33% 127
Midlands -5 400 £55,000 -8.33% 123
West Midlands +7 263 £55,000 -8.33% 87
Scotland -50 236 £60,000 +9.09% 77
Wales +8 202 £58,150 +108.08% 20
Yorkshire +64 155 £60,000 -10.45% 30
East Midlands -21 137 £47,250 -10.00% 36
East of England -15 122 £52,250 -5.86% 68
Northern Ireland +22 102 £59,400 +65.00% 18
North East -24 27 £55,000 +15.79% 15
SC Cleared
UK

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 294 (7.78%) ArcGIS
2 284 (7.52%) GeoServer
3 114 (3.02%) Confluence
4 110 (2.91%) WebLogic
5 76 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
6 55 (1.46%) SharePoint
7 44 (1.16%) Oracle Service Bus
8 41 (1.09%) Apache
9 32 (0.85%) IIS
10 31 (0.82%) Apache Spark
10 31 (0.82%) OpenStack
11 18 (0.48%) Exchange Server 2010
12 14 (0.37%) Skype for Business
13 13 (0.34%) CMS
14 10 (0.26%) SharePoint 2010
14 10 (0.26%) SharePoint 2013
15 9 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
16 8 (0.21%) JBoss
17 5 (0.13%) Appian
18 4 (0.11%) TWiki
Applications
1 160 (4.24%) Microsoft Office
2 76 (2.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 72 (1.91%) MS Visio
4 48 (1.27%) Simulink
5 40 (1.06%) Sketch
6 22 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
7 16 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 9 (0.24%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.11%) EPLAN
9 4 (0.11%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.053%) Abaqus
10 2 (0.053%) Fireworks
10 2 (0.053%) GNU Octave
10 2 (0.053%) InDesign
10 2 (0.053%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.026%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.026%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.026%) Revit
Business Applications
1 77 (2.04%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 73 (1.93%) Remedy ITSM
3 41 (1.09%) Siebel CRM
4 21 (0.56%) Maximo
5 8 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.16%) Primavera
7 4 (0.11%) Q-Pulse
8 3 (0.079%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.079%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.079%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.079%) SAP FI/CO
8 3 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (0.079%) Teamcenter
9 2 (0.053%) Dynamics CRM
9 2 (0.053%) Oracle Applications
9 2 (0.053%) Oracle Cash Management
9 2 (0.053%) Oracle EBS R12
9 2 (0.053%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.053%) SAP HR
10 1 (0.026%) CA PPM
Cloud Services
1 951 (25.18%) Azure
2 766 (20.28%) AWS
3 163 (4.32%) Microsoft 365
4 101 (2.67%) Amazon EKS
5 82 (2.17%) Serverless
6 78 (2.07%) GCP
7 77 (2.04%) OpenShift
8 69 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
9 64 (1.69%) SaaS
10 62 (1.64%) Miro
11 57 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
12 54 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
13 48 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
14 44 (1.16%) Power Platform
15 41 (1.09%) Amazon SQS
15 41 (1.09%) Figma
16 40 (1.06%) Heroku
17 39 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
18 37 (0.98%) Entra ID
19 32 (0.85%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 247 (6.54%) Firewall
2 160 (4.24%) DNS
3 114 (3.02%) TCP/IP
4 113 (2.99%) WAN
5 78 (2.07%) DHCP
6 74 (1.96%) Wireless
7 69 (1.83%) BGP
7 69 (1.83%) VPN
8 68 (1.80%) LAN
9 66 (1.75%) SAN
10 65 (1.72%) Network Security
11 64 (1.69%) SSL
12 40 (1.06%) SD-WAN
13 38 (1.01%) Cisco Firepower
13 38 (1.01%) IPsec
14 36 (0.95%) MPLS
14 36 (0.95%) Software-Defined Radio
15 33 (0.87%) AMQP
16 26 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
17 24 (0.64%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 368 (9.74%) PostgreSQL
2 296 (7.84%) GIS
3 284 (7.52%) QGIS
4 97 (2.57%) Relational Database
5 94 (2.49%) Oracle Database
6 87 (2.30%) SQL Server
7 73 (1.93%) NoSQL
8 72 (1.91%) Hadoop
9 58 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
10 55 (1.46%) Big Data
10 55 (1.46%) RDBMS
11 50 (1.32%) MongoDB
12 45 (1.19%) Oracle Database 11g
13 44 (1.16%) Oracle Database 10g
13 44 (1.16%) VLDB
14 38 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
15 35 (0.93%) Oracle BI EE
15 35 (0.93%) Siebel EIM
16 33 (0.87%) MySQL
17 28 (0.74%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 189 (5.00%) JIRA
2 170 (4.50%) Git
3 123 (3.26%) Jenkins
4 98 (2.59%) Visual Studio
5 81 (2.14%) Bitbucket
6 59 (1.56%) Sourcetree
7 57 (1.51%) GitLab
8 35 (0.93%) Rational DOORS
9 22 (0.58%) Ant
9 22 (0.58%) Cucumber
9 22 (0.58%) Selenium
10 21 (0.56%) JUnit
10 21 (0.56%) Subversion
11 18 (0.48%) Vagrant
12 16 (0.42%) SonarQube
13 15 (0.40%) LabVIEW
14 14 (0.37%) CMake
15 13 (0.34%) JMeter
16 10 (0.26%) MSI
16 10 (0.26%) Trac
General
1 790 (20.92%) Social Skills
2 291 (7.70%) Aerospace
3 259 (6.86%) Finance
4 222 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 191 (5.06%) Analytical Skills
6 183 (4.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 135 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
8 116 (3.07%) Games
9 103 (2.73%) Military
10 95 (2.52%) Telecoms
11 71 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
12 62 (1.64%) Police
13 44 (1.16%) Electronics
14 40 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
14 40 (1.06%) Retail
15 35 (0.93%) Manufacturing
16 21 (0.56%) Law
17 17 (0.45%) Marketing
18 16 (0.42%) Back Office
19 13 (0.34%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 825 (21.84%) Senior
2 490 (12.97%) Software Engineer
3 456 (12.07%) Architect
4 392 (10.38%) Developer
5 295 (7.81%) Lead
6 260 (6.88%) Analyst
7 254 (6.72%) Senior Software Engineer
8 200 (5.30%) Solutions Architect
9 186 (4.92%) Systems Engineer
10 170 (4.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 164 (4.34%) Project Manager
12 163 (4.32%) Network Engineer
13 137 (3.63%) Consultant
14 132 (3.49%) Senior Developer
15 98 (2.59%) Designer
16 94 (2.49%) Business Analyst
17 89 (2.36%) DevOps Engineer
18 84 (2.22%) Support Engineer
19 79 (2.09%) Applications Support
20 77 (2.04%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 392 (10.38%) React
2 369 (9.77%) .NET
3 287 (7.60%) Leaflet
4 286 (7.57%) OpenLayers
5 284 (7.52%) PostGIS
6 263 (6.96%) CSS
7 251 (6.65%) .NET Core
8 162 (4.29%) Node.js
9 117 (3.10%) AngularJS
10 113 (2.99%) REST
11 109 (2.89%) Spring Boot
12 107 (2.83%) Spring
13 77 (2.04%) HTML
14 73 (1.93%) RabbitMQ
14 73 (1.93%) Unity (Game Engine)
15 53 (1.40%) Django
16 49 (1.30%) Kafka
17 45 (1.19%) Web Services
18 44 (1.16%) XML
19 38 (1.01%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 121 (3.20%) Data Centre
2 108 (2.86%) Management Information System
3 87 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
4 83 (2.20%) Driving Licence
5 82 (2.17%) Product Ownership
6 78 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
7 75 (1.99%) Virtual Reality
8 74 (1.96%) Virtual Team
9 56 (1.48%) Private Cloud
10 54 (1.43%) Algorithms
11 51 (1.35%) Cloud Native
11 51 (1.35%) Public Cloud
12 45 (1.19%) Operational Technology
13 44 (1.16%) CMDB
14 38 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
15 36 (0.95%) Cyberattack
16 33 (0.87%) Clustering
17 32 (0.85%) PKI
18 29 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
19 27 (0.71%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 590 (15.62%) Linux
2 534 (14.14%) Windows
3 233 (6.17%) Windows Server
4 128 (3.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 125 (3.31%) Unix
6 102 (2.70%) Ubuntu
7 91 (2.41%) Windows 10
8 85 (2.25%) CentOS
9 65 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
10 57 (1.51%) Windows Server 2019
11 53 (1.40%) Solaris
12 37 (0.98%) Windows Server 2012
13 34 (0.90%) Android
14 30 (0.79%) Windows 7
15 28 (0.74%) Debian
16 16 (0.42%) AIX
17 12 (0.32%) Windows XP
18 11 (0.29%) Windows NT
19 10 (0.26%) VMS
19 10 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,247 (33.02%) Agile
2 1,154 (30.55%) Actionable Insight
3 860 (22.77%) DevOps
4 732 (19.38%) Software Engineering
5 633 (16.76%) Problem-Solving
6 362 (9.58%) Scrum
7 343 (9.08%) Project Management
8 312 (8.26%) ITIL
9 306 (8.10%) Cybersecurity
10 290 (7.68%) Web Development
11 268 (7.10%) Stakeholder Management
12 257 (6.80%) Collaborative Working
13 242 (6.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 223 (5.90%) Mentoring
14 223 (5.90%) Service Management
15 187 (4.95%) Open Source
16 180 (4.77%) Artificial Intelligence
17 176 (4.66%) ITSM
18 175 (4.63%) Change Management
19 174 (4.61%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 658 (17.42%) Python
2 507 (13.42%) JavaScript
3 403 (10.67%) Java
4 345 (9.13%) SQL
5 336 (8.90%) C#
6 272 (7.20%) PowerShell
7 143 (3.79%) C++
8 77 (2.04%) C
9 73 (1.93%) TypeScript
10 64 (1.69%) Bash
11 56 (1.48%) MATLAB
12 55 (1.46%) PL/SQL
13 39 (1.03%) Shell Script
14 34 (0.90%) Kotlin
15 23 (0.61%) VB
16 22 (0.58%) Go
17 16 (0.42%) Ruby
18 15 (0.40%) Bicep
19 13 (0.34%) VBA
20 11 (0.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3,777 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 651 (17.24%) Degree
3 577 (15.28%) DV Cleared
4 177 (4.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 98 (2.59%) AWS Certification
6 95 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
6 95 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 89 (2.36%) Azure Certification
8 82 (2.17%) CISM
9 74 (1.96%) CISSP
10 67 (1.77%) CCNA
11 63 (1.67%) CESG Certified Professional
12 61 (1.62%) CCNP
13 59 (1.56%) CRISC
14 55 (1.46%) TOGAF Certification
15 51 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
16 50 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 43 (1.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 35 (0.93%) A+ Certification
19 29 (0.77%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (3.44%) SLA
2 121 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 113 (2.99%) Accessibility
4 75 (1.99%) NCSC
5 68 (1.80%) QA
6 50 (1.32%) WCAG
7 36 (0.95%) NIST
8 30 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 29 (0.77%) COBIT
10 24 (0.64%) GDPR
11 23 (0.61%) Def Stans
12 20 (0.53%) PMO
13 19 (0.50%) Software Quality Assurance
14 17 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
14 17 (0.45%) GRC
14 17 (0.45%) JSP 440
15 16 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 14 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 13 (0.34%) IEC 61508
17 13 (0.34%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 282 (7.47%) Active Directory
2 167 (4.42%) Docker
3 163 (4.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 123 (3.26%) Hyper-V
5 44 (1.16%) Oracle RAC
6 41 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
7 32 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
7 32 (0.85%) vSphere
8 31 (0.82%) Firmware
9 24 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
10 16 (0.42%) pfSense
11 13 (0.34%) Microsoft App-V
11 13 (0.34%) VMware NSX
12 12 (0.32%) KVM
12 12 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
13 10 (0.26%) NFS
14 8 (0.21%) XenDesktop
15 4 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
15 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.11%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 233 (6.17%) Ansible
2 210 (5.56%) Kubernetes
3 165 (4.37%) SCCM
4 151 (4.00%) Terraform
5 73 (1.93%) SCOM
6 63 (1.67%) Puppet
7 58 (1.54%) WSUS
8 55 (1.46%) vCenter Server
9 48 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
10 44 (1.16%) Data Guard
10 44 (1.16%) Oracle RMAN
11 31 (0.82%) EMC NetWorker
11 31 (0.82%) NetBackup
12 30 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
13 29 (0.77%) OpenView
14 28 (0.74%) Grafana
15 26 (0.69%) OpenSSO
16 25 (0.66%) ZABBIX
17 21 (0.56%) Nagios
18 15 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 649 (17.18%) Microsoft
2 291 (7.70%) ESRI
3 273 (7.23%) VMware
4 266 (7.04%) Oracle
5 227 (6.01%) Cisco
6 176 (4.66%) Juniper
7 99 (2.62%) Remedy
8 93 (2.46%) ServiceNow
9 92 (2.44%) Red Hat
10 77 (2.04%) Sparx
11 69 (1.83%) HP
12 52 (1.38%) Google
13 48 (1.27%) NetApp
14 45 (1.19%) Sun
15 44 (1.16%) Fortinet
16 42 (1.11%) IBM
16 42 (1.11%) Veeam
17 41 (1.09%) McAfee
17 41 (1.09%) Siebel
18 40 (1.06%) CheckPoint