Security Cleared Jobs in the South East

Security Clearance
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 18 49
Rank change year-on-year +7 +31 +6
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,950 1,576 1,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 11.74% 10.45% 5.61%
As % of the Qualifications category 34.08% 26.34% 17.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,355 823 551
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,831 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £41,939
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -13.51% +0.68%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £70,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 5,722 5,984 6,427
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 34.46% 39.68% 32.61%
Number of salaries quoted 3,651 2,633 3,133
10th Percentile £29,175 £28,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,000 £67,050 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £84,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% -

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the South East

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Security Cleared in the South East

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in the South East

Security 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 Security Cleared within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +6 950 £53,000 +16.23% 180
Berkshire +6 772 £52,550 +15.24% 122
Hampshire +1 645 £57,500 +6.48% 205
Surrey +4 260 £53,250 +6.50% 59
Buckinghamshire -8 121 £55,000 +14.29% 35
Oxfordshire +6 57 £51,020 +20.05% 23
Kent +24 37 £45,250 +6.47% 9
West Sussex +32 27 £67,500 +14.89% 16
Middlesex - 11 £35,000 -
Sussex - 5 £60,000 -
East Sussex +8 1 £82,500 +48.65%
Security Cleared
England

Security 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 41 (2.10%) WebLogic
2 31 (1.59%) OpenStack
3 30 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 29 (1.49%) ArcGIS
4 29 (1.49%) GeoServer
4 29 (1.49%) SharePoint
5 16 (0.82%) Confluence
6 15 (0.77%) IIS
6 15 (0.77%) Oracle Service Bus
7 14 (0.72%) CMS
7 14 (0.72%) Exchange Server 2010
8 11 (0.56%) JBoss
8 11 (0.56%) Red Hat Fuse
9 7 (0.36%) Apache
9 7 (0.36%) nginx
10 4 (0.21%) TWiki
11 2 (0.10%) Documentum
11 2 (0.10%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.051%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 92 (4.72%) Microsoft Office
2 41 (2.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 24 (1.23%) Simulink
4 22 (1.13%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.21%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.21%) Siemens NX
7 4 (0.21%) Sketch
8 2 (0.10%) Fireworks
8 2 (0.10%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 38 (1.95%) Siebel CRM
2 18 (0.92%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.31%) Oracle Applications
4 5 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.21%) SAP CO
5 4 (0.21%) SAP FI
5 4 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
5 4 (0.21%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.15%) SAP HR
6 3 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.10%) C-CURE
7 2 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.10%) Primavera
7 2 (0.10%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.051%) SAP HCM
8 1 (0.051%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.051%) SAP PM
8 1 (0.051%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 335 (17.18%) Azure
2 225 (11.54%) AWS
3 83 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
4 46 (2.36%) Serverless
5 41 (2.10%) Amazon EKS
6 40 (2.05%) SaaS
7 35 (1.79%) Entra ID
8 34 (1.74%) Amazon ECS
8 34 (1.74%) Azure Monitor
9 32 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
10 28 (1.44%) Cloud Computing
11 23 (1.18%) OCI
12 20 (1.03%) GitHub
13 16 (0.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 16 (0.82%) Azure Storage
14 12 (0.62%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (0.62%) Amazon S3
15 11 (0.56%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (0.56%) CloudFront
15 11 (0.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 167 (8.56%) Firewall
2 116 (5.95%) DNS
3 79 (4.05%) BGP
4 76 (3.90%) DHCP
5 60 (3.08%) VPN
6 40 (2.05%) OSPF
7 34 (1.74%) WAN
8 26 (1.33%) 5G
8 26 (1.33%) Cisco Firepower
9 25 (1.28%) SSL
10 23 (1.18%) LAN
10 23 (1.18%) Network Security
11 22 (1.13%) Cisco ASA
12 21 (1.08%) Wireless
13 19 (0.97%) TCP/IP
14 18 (0.92%) SD-WAN
14 18 (0.92%) VLAN
15 17 (0.87%) MPLS
15 17 (0.87%) SAN
16 16 (0.82%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (4.77%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (2.97%) Relational Database
3 47 (2.41%) NoSQL
4 42 (2.15%) SQL Server
5 34 (1.74%) GIS
6 30 (1.54%) Oracle BI EE
6 30 (1.54%) Siebel EIM
7 29 (1.49%) QGIS
8 26 (1.33%) Oracle Database
9 22 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
10 19 (0.97%) MongoDB
11 18 (0.92%) Hadoop
12 16 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
12 16 (0.82%) Oracle Database 11g
13 15 (0.77%) Oracle Database 10g
13 15 (0.77%) VLDB
14 9 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
15 8 (0.41%) Power BI
16 7 (0.36%) Qlik Sense
16 7 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 102 (5.23%) Jenkins
2 76 (3.90%) Git
3 41 (2.10%) GitLab
4 36 (1.85%) JIRA
5 34 (1.74%) Selenium
6 29 (1.49%) Visual Studio
7 24 (1.23%) Ant
8 20 (1.03%) Subversion
9 16 (0.82%) CMake
10 15 (0.77%) JUnit
11 12 (0.62%) Cucumber
12 11 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
13 10 (0.51%) TestRail
13 10 (0.51%) Trac
13 10 (0.51%) Vagrant
14 9 (0.46%) JMeter
14 9 (0.46%) MSI
14 9 (0.46%) Rational DOORS
14 9 (0.46%) Robot Framework
15 7 (0.36%) WebDriver
General
1 358 (18.36%) Social Skills
2 136 (6.97%) Public Sector
3 134 (6.87%) Aerospace
4 95 (4.87%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (2.87%) Military
6 51 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
7 50 (2.56%) Finance
8 41 (2.10%) Police
8 41 (2.10%) Telecoms
9 33 (1.69%) Electronics
10 32 (1.64%) Manufacturing
11 25 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
12 23 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 15 (0.77%) Back Office
14 12 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
14 12 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
15 11 (0.56%) Marketing
16 10 (0.51%) Law
17 9 (0.46%) Retail
18 8 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 278 (14.26%) Senior
2 258 (13.23%) Architect
3 207 (10.62%) Developer
4 188 (9.64%) Analyst
5 160 (8.21%) Software Engineer
6 118 (6.05%) Systems Engineer
7 104 (5.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 100 (5.13%) Network Engineer
9 95 (4.87%) Lead
10 69 (3.54%) Integration Engineer
11 66 (3.38%) Senior Software Engineer
12 64 (3.28%) Support Analyst
13 55 (2.82%) Consultant
14 54 (2.77%) Senior Developer
15 50 (2.56%) Network Architect
16 47 (2.41%) DevOps Engineer
16 47 (2.41%) Solutions Architect
17 45 (2.31%) Administrator
17 45 (2.31%) Applications Support
17 45 (2.31%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (4.67%) .NET
2 68 (3.49%) REST
3 66 (3.38%) Spring
4 58 (2.97%) Node.js
5 57 (2.92%) CSS
5 57 (2.92%) React
6 52 (2.67%) XML
7 49 (2.51%) Web Services
8 48 (2.46%) AngularJS
9 43 (2.21%) HTML
10 40 (2.05%) Spring Boot
11 38 (1.95%) Elastic Stack
12 32 (1.64%) .NET Core
12 32 (1.64%) JSON
12 32 (1.64%) Leaflet
12 32 (1.64%) OpenLayers
13 31 (1.59%) Apache Camel
14 30 (1.54%) J2EE
15 29 (1.49%) Hibernate
15 29 (1.49%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 87 (4.46%) Algorithms
2 73 (3.74%) Management Information System
3 63 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
4 54 (2.77%) PKI
5 47 (2.41%) Data Centre
6 41 (2.10%) Product Ownership
7 40 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
8 33 (1.69%) CMDB
9 30 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
10 29 (1.49%) Driving Licence
11 28 (1.44%) Private Cloud
12 22 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
13 21 (1.08%) FPGA
13 21 (1.08%) Mainframe
13 21 (1.08%) Satnav
14 19 (0.97%) VHDL
15 17 (0.87%) Client/Server
15 17 (0.87%) IoT
16 16 (0.82%) Analogue Electronics
17 14 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 397 (20.36%) Windows
2 317 (16.26%) Linux
3 173 (8.87%) Windows Server
4 93 (4.77%) Windows 10
5 81 (4.15%) Windows Server 2016
6 74 (3.79%) Windows Server 2019
7 60 (3.08%) Unix
8 48 (2.46%) CentOS
9 46 (2.36%) Windows 7
10 44 (2.26%) Windows Server 2012
11 36 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 33 (1.69%) Ubuntu
13 15 (0.77%) Solaris
14 14 (0.72%) Windows NT
15 12 (0.62%) Android
15 12 (0.62%) Windows XP
16 10 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
17 5 (0.26%) Rocky
18 4 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
19 3 (0.15%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 499 (25.59%) Agile
2 444 (22.77%) Problem-Solving
3 335 (17.18%) Actionable Insight
4 268 (13.74%) DevOps
5 235 (12.05%) Software Engineering
6 229 (11.74%) ITIL
7 171 (8.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 157 (8.05%) Customer Service
9 149 (7.64%) Test Automation
10 138 (7.08%) Service Management
11 133 (6.82%) Collaborative Working
12 126 (6.46%) Project Delivery
12 126 (6.46%) Project Management
13 122 (6.26%) Cybersecurity
14 116 (5.95%) Computer Science
15 110 (5.64%) Scrum
16 106 (5.44%) Mentoring
17 96 (4.92%) Service Delivery
18 94 (4.82%) Mathematics
19 86 (4.41%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 252 (12.92%) Python
2 248 (12.72%) Java
3 214 (10.97%) PowerShell
3 214 (10.97%) SQL
4 176 (9.03%) C++
5 166 (8.51%) JavaScript
6 125 (6.41%) C#
7 84 (4.31%) C
8 34 (1.74%) Fortran
9 32 (1.64%) Shell Script
10 30 (1.54%) Bash
11 25 (1.28%) VBScript
12 24 (1.23%) PL/SQL
12 24 (1.23%) VB
13 19 (0.97%) COBOL
13 19 (0.97%) MATLAB
14 17 (0.87%) Kotlin
15 14 (0.72%) Bicep
16 13 (0.67%) Ruby
16 13 (0.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1,217 (62.41%) SC Cleared
2 529 (27.13%) DV Cleared
3 304 (15.59%) Degree
4 104 (5.33%) Cisco Certification
5 79 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 77 (3.95%) CCNP
7 58 (2.97%) CCNA
8 53 (2.72%) CTC Cleared
9 48 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
10 45 (2.31%) PhD
11 38 (1.95%) AWS Certification
12 29 (1.49%) Master's Degree
12 29 (1.49%) NVQ Level 3
13 26 (1.33%) Azure Certification
14 22 (1.13%) DBS Check
15 21 (1.08%) A+ Certification
15 21 (1.08%) CISSP
15 21 (1.08%) HNC
16 18 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
17 17 (0.87%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (4.41%) SLA
2 72 (3.69%) QA
3 31 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
4 22 (1.13%) NIST
5 21 (1.08%) Software Quality Assurance
6 14 (0.72%) GDPR
7 13 (0.67%) Accessibility
7 13 (0.67%) GRC
8 12 (0.62%) NCSC
8 12 (0.62%) PMO
9 11 (0.56%) RMADS
10 10 (0.51%) COSHH
11 9 (0.46%) JSP 440
11 9 (0.46%) NIST 800
12 8 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 8 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 5 (0.26%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.26%) WCAG
14 4 (0.21%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 217 (11.13%) Active Directory
2 103 (5.28%) Docker
3 98 (5.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 84 (4.31%) Hyper-V
5 46 (2.36%) Firmware
6 31 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
7 27 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
8 21 (1.08%) Virtual Servers
9 16 (0.82%) pfSense
9 16 (0.82%) vSphere
10 15 (0.77%) KVM
10 15 (0.77%) Oracle RAC
10 15 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
11 10 (0.51%) NFS
12 4 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
12 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
13 2 (0.10%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 124 (6.36%) Kubernetes
2 122 (6.26%) Ansible
3 117 (6.00%) SCCM
4 92 (4.72%) Terraform
5 68 (3.49%) SCOM
5 68 (3.49%) WSUS
6 48 (2.46%) vCenter Server
7 38 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
8 33 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
9 25 (1.28%) FortiGate
10 22 (1.13%) OpenSSO
11 20 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 19 (0.97%) Grafana
12 19 (0.97%) NetBackup
13 17 (0.87%) ZABBIX
14 16 (0.82%) EMC NetWorker
14 16 (0.82%) Rancher
15 15 (0.77%) Data Guard
15 15 (0.77%) Oracle RMAN
16 14 (0.72%) Nessus
Vendors
1 385 (19.74%) Microsoft
2 188 (9.64%) Cisco
3 174 (8.92%) Juniper
4 150 (7.69%) VMware
5 137 (7.03%) Oracle
6 56 (2.87%) ServiceNow
7 53 (2.72%) HP
8 44 (2.26%) Fortinet
9 43 (2.21%) Remedy
10 38 (1.95%) Siebel
11 31 (1.59%) WSO2
12 30 (1.54%) Dynatrace
13 29 (1.49%) ESRI
13 29 (1.49%) McAfee
14 26 (1.33%) Veeam
15 25 (1.28%) Red Hat
16 23 (1.18%) F5
16 23 (1.18%) Xilinx
17 19 (0.97%) Unisys
18 17 (0.87%) EMC