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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 28 75
Rank change year-on-year +5 +47 -9
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 6,785 6,788 6,393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.85% 7.69% 4.73%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.74% 23.39% 17.87%
Number of salaries quoted 4,325 3,333 3,174
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,950 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% +5.45% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £72,000
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 24,459 29,017 35,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.31% 32.86% 26.49%
Number of salaries quoted 15,748 13,231 16,717
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,228 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,700 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.83% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 17 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 17 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 +7 1,977 £55,000 +11.11% 554
South West +3 1,891 £56,000 +1.82% 465
London +14 1,046 £70,000 +7.69% 355
North of England +10 803 £55,000 -4.76% 279
Midlands -8 630 £55,000 - 195
North West 0 578 £55,000 -4.35% 208
West Midlands +14 438 £55,000 - 141
East of England +24 420 £55,000 - 118
East Midlands -24 192 £44,225 -15.76% 53
Yorkshire +18 186 £60,000 -9.77% 44
North East -33 39 £43,072 -4.28% 27
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
1 205 (3.02%) ArcGIS
2 196 (2.89%) GeoServer
3 135 (1.99%) Confluence
4 127 (1.87%) SharePoint
5 110 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
6 93 (1.37%) Apache
7 78 (1.15%) IIS
8 64 (0.94%) WebLogic
9 56 (0.83%) Apache Spark
10 39 (0.57%) OpenStack
11 29 (0.43%) nginx
12 25 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2010
13 24 (0.35%) Tomcat
14 19 (0.28%) JBoss
15 17 (0.25%) CMS
15 17 (0.25%) Jupyter
15 17 (0.25%) Red Hat Fuse
16 15 (0.22%) SharePoint 2010
16 15 (0.22%) SharePoint 2013
17 14 (0.21%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 237 (3.49%) Microsoft Office
2 125 (1.84%) Simulink
3 120 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
4 75 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 41 (0.60%) MS Visio
6 31 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
7 29 (0.43%) Sketch
8 10 (0.15%) AutoCAD
9 6 (0.088%) Trello
10 4 (0.059%) EPLAN
10 4 (0.059%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.059%) Siemens NX
10 4 (0.059%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.059%) Stateflow
10 4 (0.059%) Windchill
11 3 (0.044%) Revit
12 2 (0.029%) Abaqus
12 2 (0.029%) Fireworks
12 2 (0.029%) InDesign
12 2 (0.029%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 77 (1.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 53 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
3 49 (0.72%) NEC Housing
4 41 (0.60%) Siebel CRM
5 37 (0.55%) Primavera
6 28 (0.41%) Workday HCM
7 24 (0.35%) Maximo
8 20 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
9 13 (0.19%) SAP HR
10 10 (0.15%) SAP CO
10 10 (0.15%) SAP FI
10 10 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
11 9 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
11 9 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
11 9 (0.13%) SAP SCM
11 9 (0.13%) Teamcenter
12 8 (0.12%) SAP EWM
13 6 (0.088%) Elite 3E
13 6 (0.088%) Oracle Applications
14 5 (0.074%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1,323 (19.50%) Azure
2 1,108 (16.33%) AWS
3 265 (3.91%) Microsoft 365
4 154 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
5 145 (2.14%) SaaS
6 141 (2.08%) GCP
7 139 (2.05%) Power Platform
8 128 (1.89%) Serverless
9 120 (1.77%) Amazon EKS
10 117 (1.72%) OpenShift
11 99 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
12 91 (1.34%) PaaS
13 82 (1.21%) Entra ID
14 65 (0.96%) AWS CloudFormation
15 64 (0.94%) IaaS
16 63 (0.93%) Amazon ECS
17 62 (0.91%) AWS Lambda
18 57 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
19 54 (0.80%) Azure Monitor
20 53 (0.78%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 432 (6.37%) Firewall
2 228 (3.36%) DNS
3 205 (3.02%) WAN
4 143 (2.11%) Network Security
4 143 (2.11%) TCP/IP
5 142 (2.09%) LAN
6 131 (1.93%) DHCP
7 129 (1.90%) BGP
8 124 (1.83%) VPN
9 79 (1.16%) SAN
10 77 (1.13%) Wireless
11 62 (0.91%) SSL
12 60 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
13 58 (0.85%) Internet
13 58 (0.85%) MPLS
14 57 (0.84%) Cisco ASA
15 54 (0.80%) SD-WAN
16 49 (0.72%) OSPF
17 48 (0.71%) IPsec
18 44 (0.65%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 325 (4.79%) PostgreSQL
2 227 (3.35%) GIS
3 196 (2.89%) QGIS
4 177 (2.61%) SQL Server
5 139 (2.05%) Relational Database
6 102 (1.50%) NoSQL
7 99 (1.46%) Oracle Database
8 97 (1.43%) Power BI
9 95 (1.40%) Big Data
10 89 (1.31%) Hadoop
11 85 (1.25%) MongoDB
12 50 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
13 47 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
14 36 (0.53%) RDBMS
15 34 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
15 34 (0.50%) MySQL
16 33 (0.49%) Oracle BI EE
16 33 (0.49%) Siebel EIM
17 29 (0.43%) Tableau
18 27 (0.40%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 263 (3.88%) Git
2 254 (3.74%) JIRA
3 235 (3.46%) Jenkins
4 145 (2.14%) GitLab
5 135 (1.99%) Visual Studio
6 106 (1.56%) Bitbucket
7 93 (1.37%) Rational DOORS
8 59 (0.87%) Selenium
8 59 (0.87%) Sourcetree
9 38 (0.56%) Rational Rhapsody
10 34 (0.50%) Cucumber
11 29 (0.43%) JUnit
11 29 (0.43%) Subversion
12 24 (0.35%) Ant
13 23 (0.34%) LabVIEW
13 23 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
14 21 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 20 (0.29%) SonarQube
16 18 (0.27%) Vagrant
17 16 (0.24%) TestNG
General
1 1,406 (20.72%) Social Skills
2 672 (9.90%) Public Sector
3 567 (8.36%) Aerospace
4 502 (7.40%) Finance
5 344 (5.07%) Analytical Skills
6 326 (4.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 257 (3.79%) Military
8 193 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
9 177 (2.61%) Games
10 164 (2.42%) Telecoms
11 162 (2.39%) Police
12 152 (2.24%) Manufacturing
13 128 (1.89%) Retail
14 118 (1.74%) Electronics
14 118 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
15 109 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
16 87 (1.28%) Law
17 66 (0.97%) Local Government
18 52 (0.77%) Legal
19 48 (0.71%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1,099 (16.20%) Senior
2 819 (12.07%) Architect
3 704 (10.38%) Software Engineer
4 598 (8.81%) Developer
5 498 (7.34%) Lead
6 442 (6.51%) Consultant
7 439 (6.47%) Analyst
8 436 (6.43%) Systems Engineer
9 330 (4.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 278 (4.10%) Network Engineer
11 267 (3.94%) Senior Software Engineer
12 258 (3.80%) Project Manager
13 256 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
14 240 (3.54%) DevOps Engineer
15 193 (2.84%) Administrator
16 168 (2.48%) Security Consultant
17 164 (2.42%) Support Engineer
18 144 (2.12%) Senior Developer
19 116 (1.71%) Technical Architect
20 110 (1.62%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 375 (5.53%) .NET
2 358 (5.28%) React
3 222 (3.27%) CSS
4 199 (2.93%) Leaflet
4 199 (2.93%) OpenLayers
5 196 (2.89%) PostGIS
6 194 (2.86%) .NET Core
7 164 (2.42%) Spring
8 160 (2.36%) REST
9 153 (2.25%) Node.js
10 149 (2.20%) AngularJS
11 128 (1.89%) HTML
11 128 (1.89%) Spring Boot
12 101 (1.49%) XML
13 99 (1.46%) Web Services
14 96 (1.41%) Elastic Stack
15 88 (1.30%) JSON
16 80 (1.18%) Unity (Game Engine)
17 79 (1.16%) RabbitMQ
18 69 (1.02%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 281 (4.14%) Management Information System
2 211 (3.11%) Driving Licence
3 201 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
4 185 (2.73%) Algorithms
5 147 (2.17%) Data Centre
6 144 (2.12%) Product Ownership
7 128 (1.89%) Public Cloud
8 127 (1.87%) PKI
9 98 (1.44%) Private Cloud
10 91 (1.34%) Cloud Native
11 89 (1.31%) Virtual Reality
12 86 (1.27%) Security Operations Centre
13 78 (1.15%) Operational Technology
14 77 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
15 72 (1.06%) Virtual Team
16 69 (1.02%) Cyberattack
17 64 (0.94%) Cyber Defence
18 61 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
19 60 (0.88%) Onboarding
20 50 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1,088 (16.04%) Linux
2 1,000 (14.74%) Windows
3 345 (5.08%) Windows Server
4 184 (2.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 149 (2.20%) Windows 10
6 147 (2.17%) Unix
7 134 (1.97%) CentOS
8 133 (1.96%) Ubuntu
9 122 (1.80%) Windows Server 2016
10 121 (1.78%) Windows Server 2019
11 97 (1.43%) Windows Server 2012
12 70 (1.03%) Embedded Linux
13 65 (0.96%) Windows 7
14 54 (0.80%) VMS
15 37 (0.55%) Solaris
16 35 (0.52%) Debian
17 31 (0.46%) Android
18 17 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
19 16 (0.24%) AIX
20 12 (0.18%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,932 (28.47%) Agile
2 1,176 (17.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1,132 (16.68%) DevOps
4 1,123 (16.55%) Software Engineering
5 1,064 (15.68%) Problem-Solving
6 783 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
7 618 (9.11%) Project Management
8 565 (8.33%) Scrum
9 534 (7.87%) ITIL
10 507 (7.47%) Mentoring
11 497 (7.32%) Collaborative Working
12 453 (6.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 409 (6.03%) CI/CD
14 405 (5.97%) Systems Engineering
15 375 (5.53%) Project Delivery
16 369 (5.44%) Stakeholder Management
17 312 (4.60%) Customer Service
18 302 (4.45%) Coaching
18 302 (4.45%) Validation
19 288 (4.24%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,072 (15.80%) Python
2 702 (10.35%) Java
3 629 (9.27%) JavaScript
4 478 (7.04%) C#
5 474 (6.99%) SQL
6 449 (6.62%) PowerShell
7 307 (4.52%) C++
8 291 (4.29%) Bash
9 273 (4.02%) C
10 146 (2.15%) MATLAB
11 108 (1.59%) TypeScript
12 99 (1.46%) Shell Script
13 60 (0.88%) Rust
14 53 (0.78%) Embedded C
15 44 (0.65%) Ada
15 44 (0.65%) Fortran
16 33 (0.49%) VB
17 31 (0.46%) Perl
18 30 (0.44%) Bicep
19 29 (0.43%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 3,802 (56.04%) SC Cleared
2 1,605 (23.66%) DV Cleared
3 1,129 (16.64%) Degree
4 585 (8.62%) BPSS Clearance
5 201 (2.96%) Cisco Certification
6 172 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 141 (2.08%) CISSP
8 130 (1.92%) CCNP
9 124 (1.83%) CCNA
10 114 (1.68%) CISM
11 107 (1.58%) AWS Certification
12 101 (1.49%) Azure Certification
13 95 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
14 86 (1.27%) CESG Certified Professional
15 83 (1.22%) Master's Degree
16 68 (1.00%) CRISC
17 67 (0.99%) DBS Check
18 58 (0.85%) CTC Cleared
19 56 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
20 54 (0.80%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 221 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 188 (2.77%) SLA
3 151 (2.23%) QA
4 134 (1.97%) Accessibility
5 131 (1.93%) NIST
6 107 (1.58%) NCSC
7 73 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
8 54 (0.80%) GDPR
9 52 (0.77%) ISO 9001
10 48 (0.71%) NIST 800
11 42 (0.62%) Def Stans
11 42 (0.62%) PCI DSS
12 41 (0.60%) GRC
13 40 (0.59%) JSP 440
14 39 (0.57%) PMO
15 38 (0.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 37 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 15288
17 36 (0.53%) WCAG
18 35 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 17025
19 34 (0.50%) RMADS
System Software
1 502 (7.40%) Active Directory
2 407 (6.00%) Docker
3 339 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 184 (2.71%) Hyper-V
5 102 (1.50%) Firmware
6 90 (1.33%) vSphere
7 76 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
8 53 (0.78%) KVM
8 53 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
9 43 (0.63%) VMware NSX
10 23 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
11 22 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
12 16 (0.24%) pfSense
13 15 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
14 14 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
15 12 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
16 11 (0.16%) NFS
17 10 (0.15%) XenDesktop
18 9 (0.13%) Forefront TMG
18 9 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 506 (7.46%) Ansible
2 455 (6.71%) Kubernetes
3 394 (5.81%) Terraform
4 201 (2.96%) SCCM
5 154 (2.27%) Puppet
6 87 (1.28%) WSUS
7 84 (1.24%) SCOM
7 84 (1.24%) vCenter Server
8 68 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
9 54 (0.80%) Grafana
10 47 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
11 39 (0.57%) Progress Chef
11 39 (0.57%) Prometheus
12 36 (0.53%) NetBackup
13 35 (0.52%) EnCase
14 32 (0.47%) FortiGate
15 30 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 29 (0.43%) EMC NetWorker
17 24 (0.35%) Nagios
17 24 (0.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1,159 (17.08%) Microsoft
2 498 (7.34%) VMware
3 417 (6.15%) Cisco
4 344 (5.07%) Oracle
5 286 (4.22%) Juniper
6 202 (2.98%) ESRI
7 194 (2.86%) Red Hat
8 121 (1.78%) ServiceNow
9 96 (1.41%) HP
10 87 (1.28%) IBM
11 86 (1.27%) Google
12 78 (1.15%) Dell
12 78 (1.15%) Remedy
13 77 (1.13%) SAP
13 77 (1.13%) Sparx
14 64 (0.94%) NEC
14 64 (0.94%) Splunk
15 57 (0.84%) Fortinet
16 53 (0.78%) SolarWinds
16 53 (0.78%) Veeam