Security Check (SC) Clearance
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 59 115
Rank change year-on-year +12 +56 -10
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 4,629 5,136 5,143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.67% 5.15% 3.22%
As % of the Qualifications category 16.88% 15.64% 11.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,611 2,572 2,425
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,000 £57,100
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% +8.58% +3.82%
75th Percentile £70,250 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,112
% change year-on-year - +3.55% +1.17%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,420 32,843 43,053
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.65% 32.94% 26.93%
Number of salaries quoted 17,235 14,741 18,878
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,277 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £59,600 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.40% +8.36% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,959 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.77% +3.92% +2.04%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the UK

SC Cleared
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SC Cleared in the UK

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in the UK

SC 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 SC Cleared within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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
England +10 3,782 £55,000 -8.33% 1,167
UK excluding London +13 3,676 £55,000 - 1,024
Work from Home +2 1,870 £60,000 -4.00% 553
South East +23 1,212 £55,000 - 311
South West -1 879 £52,500 -5.41% 259
London -24 600 £70,000 +3.70% 218
North of England +25 564 £57,500 -4.17% 183
North West +10 385 £55,000 -8.33% 131
Midlands 0 383 £55,000 -8.33% 108
West Midlands +4 246 £55,000 -8.33% 74
Scotland -35 236 £60,000 +8.26% 77
Wales +12 202 £51,500 +70.50% 29
Yorkshire +76 152 £60,000 -10.45% 33
East Midlands -7 137 £50,000 -4.76% 34
East of England -13 125 £53,500 -3.60% 69
Northern Ireland +27 100 £60,000 +75.18% 18
North East -28 27 £43,072 -9.32% 19

SC 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
1 338 (7.30%) ArcGIS
2 330 (7.13%) GeoServer
3 149 (3.22%) Confluence
4 116 (2.51%) WebLogic
5 92 (1.99%) SharePoint
6 79 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
7 48 (1.04%) Apache
8 44 (0.95%) Oracle Service Bus
9 39 (0.84%) OpenStack
10 36 (0.78%) Apache Spark
11 35 (0.76%) IIS
12 21 (0.45%) Red Hat Fuse
13 20 (0.43%) JBoss
14 18 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2010
15 15 (0.32%) CMS
16 14 (0.30%) Skype for Business
17 10 (0.22%) SharePoint 2010
17 10 (0.22%) SharePoint 2013
18 7 (0.15%) Drupal
19 5 (0.11%) nginx
Applications
1 170 (3.67%) Microsoft Office
2 83 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 77 (1.66%) MS Visio
4 46 (0.99%) Sketch
5 43 (0.93%) Simulink
6 23 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
7 19 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 9 (0.19%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.086%) EPLAN
9 4 (0.086%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.065%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.043%) Abaqus
11 2 (0.043%) Fireworks
11 2 (0.043%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.043%) InDesign
12 1 (0.022%) Acrobat
12 1 (0.022%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.022%) Blender
12 1 (0.022%) Revit
Business Applications
1 89 (1.92%) Remedy ITSM
2 88 (1.90%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 41 (0.89%) Siebel CRM
4 19 (0.41%) Maximo
5 12 (0.26%) Oracle Cash Management
6 11 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
7 10 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
7 10 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
7 10 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
8 8 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
9 7 (0.15%) Elite 3E
10 6 (0.13%) Primavera
10 6 (0.13%) SAP WM
11 5 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
11 5 (0.11%) Teamcenter
12 4 (0.086%) SAP CO
12 4 (0.086%) SAP ERP
12 4 (0.086%) SAP FI
12 4 (0.086%) SAP FI/CO
12 4 (0.086%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 1,225 (26.46%) Azure
2 990 (21.39%) AWS
3 196 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
4 140 (3.02%) Amazon EKS
4 140 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
5 127 (2.74%) GCP
6 122 (2.64%) Serverless
7 121 (2.61%) Power Platform
8 116 (2.51%) SaaS
9 97 (2.10%) Dynamics 365
10 72 (1.56%) OpenShift
11 71 (1.53%) Miro
12 68 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
13 63 (1.36%) PaaS
14 60 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
15 58 (1.25%) OCI
16 55 (1.19%) Amazon ECS
17 50 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
18 48 (1.04%) Amazon SQS
19 47 (1.02%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 289 (6.24%) Firewall
2 167 (3.61%) DNS
3 122 (2.64%) WAN
4 117 (2.53%) TCP/IP
5 86 (1.86%) LAN
6 85 (1.84%) Wireless
7 84 (1.81%) Network Security
8 78 (1.69%) VPN
9 77 (1.66%) BGP
10 74 (1.60%) SSL
11 72 (1.56%) DHCP
12 71 (1.53%) SAN
13 50 (1.08%) SD-WAN
14 40 (0.86%) Software-Defined Radio
15 38 (0.82%) IPsec
16 37 (0.80%) MPLS
17 35 (0.76%) Cisco Firepower
18 32 (0.69%) AMQP
19 30 (0.65%) Cisco ASA
20 27 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 423 (9.14%) PostgreSQL
2 346 (7.47%) GIS
3 330 (7.13%) QGIS
4 156 (3.37%) Relational Database
5 116 (2.51%) SQL Server
6 108 (2.33%) Oracle Database
7 90 (1.94%) NoSQL
8 69 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
9 67 (1.45%) Big Data
10 66 (1.43%) Hadoop
11 65 (1.40%) Power BI
12 63 (1.36%) RDBMS
13 54 (1.17%) MongoDB
14 47 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
15 46 (0.99%) Oracle Database 11g
16 44 (0.95%) Oracle Database 10g
16 44 (0.95%) VLDB
17 43 (0.93%) MySQL
18 37 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
19 36 (0.78%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 242 (5.23%) Git
2 234 (5.06%) JIRA
3 206 (4.45%) Jenkins
4 109 (2.35%) Visual Studio
5 101 (2.18%) Bitbucket
6 85 (1.84%) GitLab
7 59 (1.27%) Sourcetree
8 35 (0.76%) Rational DOORS
8 35 (0.76%) Selenium
9 34 (0.73%) Cucumber
10 29 (0.63%) JUnit
11 25 (0.54%) Ant
12 23 (0.50%) Subversion
13 16 (0.35%) JMeter
13 16 (0.35%) REST Assured
13 16 (0.35%) TestNG
14 15 (0.32%) CMake
14 15 (0.32%) LabVIEW
14 15 (0.32%) Vagrant
15 14 (0.30%) WebDriver
General
1 1,030 (22.25%) Social Skills
2 502 (10.84%) Public Sector
3 331 (7.15%) Finance
4 309 (6.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 290 (6.26%) Aerospace
6 247 (5.34%) Analytical Skills
7 209 (4.52%) Presentation Skills
8 131 (2.83%) Games
9 130 (2.81%) Police
10 107 (2.31%) Telecoms
11 103 (2.23%) Military
12 75 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
13 62 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
14 56 (1.21%) Manufacturing
15 51 (1.10%) Electronics
15 51 (1.10%) Law
16 49 (1.06%) Retail
17 38 (0.82%) Marketing
18 32 (0.69%) Legal
19 17 (0.37%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,017 (21.97%) Senior
2 663 (14.32%) Architect
3 558 (12.05%) Software Engineer
4 536 (11.58%) Developer
5 347 (7.50%) Analyst
6 345 (7.45%) Lead
7 300 (6.48%) Solutions Architect
8 291 (6.29%) Senior Software Engineer
9 214 (4.62%) Consultant
10 194 (4.19%) Systems Engineer
11 190 (4.10%) Project Manager
12 180 (3.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 177 (3.82%) Senior Developer
14 162 (3.50%) Network Engineer
15 129 (2.79%) DevOps Engineer
16 120 (2.59%) Business Analyst
17 115 (2.48%) Designer
18 107 (2.31%) Technical Architect
19 95 (2.05%) Senior Analyst
20 92 (1.99%) Presales Solution Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 464 (10.02%) .NET
2 445 (9.61%) React
3 333 (7.19%) Leaflet
4 332 (7.17%) OpenLayers
5 331 (7.15%) CSS
6 330 (7.13%) PostGIS
7 303 (6.55%) .NET Core
8 177 (3.82%) Node.js
9 171 (3.69%) Spring
10 161 (3.48%) REST
11 147 (3.18%) AngularJS
12 135 (2.92%) Spring Boot
13 127 (2.74%) HTML
14 109 (2.35%) Web Services
15 99 (2.14%) RESTful
16 88 (1.90%) XML
17 82 (1.77%) Unity (Game Engine)
18 80 (1.73%) RabbitMQ
19 70 (1.51%) SOAP
20 64 (1.38%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 164 (3.54%) Management Information System
2 148 (3.20%) Data Centre
3 115 (2.48%) Product Ownership
4 98 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
4 98 (2.12%) Virtual Team
5 92 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
6 84 (1.81%) Virtual Reality
7 83 (1.79%) Driving Licence
8 67 (1.45%) Onboarding
9 66 (1.43%) Public Cloud
10 61 (1.32%) Operational Technology
11 60 (1.30%) Cyberattack
12 57 (1.23%) Cloud Native
12 57 (1.23%) Private Cloud
13 54 (1.17%) Algorithms
14 53 (1.14%) CMDB
15 40 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
16 37 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
17 36 (0.78%) Cyber Threat
17 36 (0.78%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 632 (13.65%) Linux
2 600 (12.96%) Windows
3 266 (5.75%) Windows Server
4 132 (2.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 126 (2.72%) Unix
6 107 (2.31%) Ubuntu
7 88 (1.90%) Windows 10
8 81 (1.75%) CentOS
9 59 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
10 50 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
11 44 (0.95%) Solaris
12 31 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
13 30 (0.65%) Windows 7
14 28 (0.60%) Debian
15 27 (0.58%) Android
16 19 (0.41%) VMS
17 18 (0.39%) AIX
18 12 (0.26%) Windows XP
19 10 (0.22%) zOS
20 8 (0.17%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,565 (33.81%) Agile
2 1,339 (28.93%) Actionable Insight
3 1,066 (23.03%) DevOps
4 879 (18.99%) Software Engineering
5 781 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
6 460 (9.94%) Scrum
7 437 (9.44%) Cybersecurity
8 421 (9.09%) Project Management
9 342 (7.39%) Web Development
10 337 (7.28%) Stakeholder Management
11 335 (7.24%) ITIL
12 301 (6.50%) Collaborative Working
13 288 (6.22%) Mentoring
14 281 (6.07%) CI/CD
15 260 (5.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 251 (5.42%) Service Management
17 224 (4.84%) Presales
18 221 (4.77%) Kanban
19 217 (4.69%) Artificial Intelligence
20 207 (4.47%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 765 (16.53%) Python
2 619 (13.37%) JavaScript
3 517 (11.17%) Java
4 443 (9.57%) C#
5 425 (9.18%) SQL
6 295 (6.37%) PowerShell
7 156 (3.37%) C++
8 95 (2.05%) Bash
9 84 (1.81%) C
10 75 (1.62%) TypeScript
11 67 (1.45%) PL/SQL
12 57 (1.23%) MATLAB
13 54 (1.17%) Shell Script
14 37 (0.80%) Go
15 25 (0.54%) Bicep
15 25 (0.54%) Kotlin
16 20 (0.43%) Ruby
16 20 (0.43%) VB
17 19 (0.41%) VBA
18 18 (0.39%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4,629 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 752 (16.25%) Degree
3 629 (13.59%) DV Cleared
4 268 (5.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 141 (3.05%) AWS Certification
6 128 (2.77%) Azure Certification
7 127 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 117 (2.53%) Cisco Certification
8 117 (2.53%) CISM
9 112 (2.42%) CISSP
10 90 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
11 74 (1.60%) CCNA
12 72 (1.56%) CCNP
13 70 (1.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 64 (1.38%) CESG Certified Professional
15 63 (1.36%) CRISC
16 59 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
17 53 (1.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 36 (0.78%) A+ Certification
19 33 (0.71%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 145 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 134 (2.89%) SLA
4 88 (1.90%) NCSC
5 87 (1.88%) QA
6 58 (1.25%) WCAG
7 57 (1.23%) NIST
8 39 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 38 (0.82%) GDPR
9 38 (0.82%) PMO
10 32 (0.69%) COBIT
11 30 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
12 26 (0.56%) Def Stans
13 24 (0.52%) Data Quality
13 24 (0.52%) GRC
14 23 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 21 (0.45%) JSP 440
15 21 (0.45%) Software Quality Assurance
16 16 (0.35%) ISO 9001
16 16 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 322 (6.96%) Active Directory
2 255 (5.51%) Docker
3 181 (3.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 129 (2.79%) Hyper-V
5 44 (0.95%) Oracle RAC
5 44 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
6 36 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
7 32 (0.69%) vSphere
8 31 (0.67%) Firmware
9 22 (0.48%) KVM
9 22 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
10 16 (0.35%) pfSense
11 13 (0.28%) VMware NSX
12 10 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
12 10 (0.22%) NFS
12 10 (0.22%) XenDesktop
13 9 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
14 4 (0.086%) Embedded Firmware
14 4 (0.086%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.086%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 280 (6.05%) Kubernetes
2 272 (5.88%) Ansible
3 242 (5.23%) Terraform
4 154 (3.33%) SCCM
5 71 (1.53%) Puppet
6 62 (1.34%) SCOM
7 58 (1.25%) vCenter Server
8 52 (1.12%) WSUS
9 47 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
10 44 (0.95%) Data Guard
10 44 (0.95%) Oracle RMAN
11 39 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
12 36 (0.78%) Grafana
13 32 (0.69%) NetBackup
13 32 (0.69%) OpenView
14 29 (0.63%) EMC NetWorker
15 26 (0.56%) OpenSSO
16 24 (0.52%) ZABBIX
17 21 (0.45%) Prometheus
18 19 (0.41%) Nagios
Vendors
1 792 (17.11%) Microsoft
2 347 (7.50%) Oracle
3 337 (7.28%) ESRI
4 293 (6.33%) VMware
5 258 (5.57%) Cisco
6 206 (4.45%) Juniper
7 115 (2.48%) Remedy
8 110 (2.38%) ServiceNow
9 95 (2.05%) Google
10 88 (1.90%) Sparx
11 87 (1.88%) HP
12 83 (1.79%) Red Hat
13 55 (1.19%) Fortinet
14 52 (1.12%) Palo Alto
15 50 (1.08%) NetApp
15 50 (1.08%) Splunk
16 48 (1.04%) IBM
17 47 (1.02%) BMC
18 45 (0.97%) CheckPoint
18 45 (0.97%) Sun