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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 19 49
Rank change year-on-year +8 +30 +5
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,959 1,531 1,097
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 11.76% 10.21% 5.53%
As % of the Qualifications category 34.11% 25.80% 16.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,360 822 546
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,815 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,713 £41,939
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,850 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.59% -11.98% +0.91%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £70,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £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 5,744 5,935 6,490
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 34.49% 39.60% 32.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3,658 2,630 3,149
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 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,193 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.49% +5.81% -

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 29 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 29 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 +5 953 £53,000 +16.23% 186
Berkshire +6 772 £52,550 +15.24% 127
Hampshire +1 650 £57,500 +5.50% 202
Surrey +7 261 £52,500 +5.00% 57
Buckinghamshire -4 124 £55,000 +14.29% 36
Oxfordshire +11 57 £51,020 +20.05% 23
Kent +26 37 £45,250 +6.47% 6
West Sussex +42 27 £67,500 +14.89% 16
Middlesex - 11 £35,000 -
Sussex - 5 £60,000 -
East Sussex +11 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 (2.09%) WebLogic
2 33 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 31 (1.58%) OpenStack
4 29 (1.48%) ArcGIS
4 29 (1.48%) GeoServer
4 29 (1.48%) SharePoint
5 17 (0.87%) Exchange Server 2010
6 16 (0.82%) Confluence
7 15 (0.77%) IIS
7 15 (0.77%) Oracle Service Bus
8 14 (0.71%) CMS
9 11 (0.56%) JBoss
9 11 (0.56%) Red Hat Fuse
10 7 (0.36%) Apache
10 7 (0.36%) nginx
11 4 (0.20%) TWiki
12 2 (0.10%) Documentum
12 2 (0.10%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.051%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 92 (4.70%) Microsoft Office
2 41 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 24 (1.23%) Simulink
4 22 (1.12%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.20%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.20%) Siemens NX
7 4 (0.20%) Sketch
8 2 (0.10%) Fireworks
8 2 (0.10%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 38 (1.94%) Siebel CRM
2 18 (0.92%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.31%) Oracle Applications
4 5 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.20%) SAP CO
5 4 (0.20%) SAP FI
5 4 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
5 4 (0.20%) 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
1 341 (17.41%) Azure
2 229 (11.69%) AWS
3 86 (4.39%) Microsoft 365
4 46 (2.35%) Serverless
5 41 (2.09%) Amazon EKS
6 40 (2.04%) SaaS
7 37 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
8 35 (1.79%) Entra ID
9 34 (1.74%) Amazon ECS
10 32 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
11 28 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
12 23 (1.17%) OCI
13 20 (1.02%) GitHub
14 16 (0.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 16 (0.82%) Azure Storage
15 12 (0.61%) Amazon EC2
15 12 (0.61%) Amazon S3
16 11 (0.56%) AWS Lambda
16 11 (0.56%) CloudFront
16 11 (0.56%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 167 (8.52%) Firewall
2 116 (5.92%) DNS
3 79 (4.03%) BGP
4 76 (3.88%) DHCP
5 63 (3.22%) VPN
6 40 (2.04%) OSPF
7 34 (1.74%) WAN
8 26 (1.33%) 5G
8 26 (1.33%) Cisco Firepower
9 25 (1.28%) SSL
10 23 (1.17%) LAN
10 23 (1.17%) Network Security
11 22 (1.12%) Cisco ASA
12 21 (1.07%) Wireless
13 19 (0.97%) TCP/IP
14 18 (0.92%) SAN
14 18 (0.92%) SD-WAN
14 18 (0.92%) VLAN
15 17 (0.87%) MPLS
16 16 (0.82%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (4.85%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (2.96%) Relational Database
3 48 (2.45%) NoSQL
4 42 (2.14%) SQL Server
5 34 (1.74%) GIS
6 30 (1.53%) Oracle BI EE
6 30 (1.53%) Siebel EIM
7 29 (1.48%) QGIS
8 26 (1.33%) Oracle Database
9 22 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
10 21 (1.07%) MongoDB
11 20 (1.02%) 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 (5.21%) Jenkins
2 77 (3.93%) Git
3 41 (2.09%) GitLab
4 36 (1.84%) JIRA
5 34 (1.74%) Selenium
6 29 (1.48%) Visual Studio
7 24 (1.23%) Ant
8 20 (1.02%) Subversion
9 16 (0.82%) CMake
10 15 (0.77%) JUnit
11 12 (0.61%) Cucumber
12 11 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
12 11 (0.56%) Vagrant
13 10 (0.51%) TestRail
13 10 (0.51%) Trac
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
1 359 (18.33%) Social Skills
2 137 (6.99%) Public Sector
3 134 (6.84%) Aerospace
4 95 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (2.86%) Military
6 51 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
7 50 (2.55%) Finance
8 41 (2.09%) Police
8 41 (2.09%) Telecoms
9 33 (1.68%) Electronics
10 32 (1.63%) Manufacturing
11 25 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
12 23 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 15 (0.77%) Back Office
14 12 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
14 12 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
15 11 (0.56%) Marketing
16 10 (0.51%) Law
17 9 (0.46%) Retail
18 8 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 279 (14.24%) Senior
2 259 (13.22%) Architect
3 207 (10.57%) Developer
4 188 (9.60%) Analyst
5 161 (8.22%) Software Engineer
6 119 (6.07%) Systems Engineer
7 104 (5.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 101 (5.16%) Network Engineer
9 95 (4.85%) Lead
10 69 (3.52%) Integration Engineer
11 66 (3.37%) Senior Software Engineer
12 64 (3.27%) Support Analyst
13 55 (2.81%) Consultant
14 54 (2.76%) Senior Developer
15 50 (2.55%) Network Architect
16 49 (2.50%) DevOps Engineer
17 47 (2.40%) Solutions Architect
18 45 (2.30%) Administrator
18 45 (2.30%) Applications Support
18 45 (2.30%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (4.65%) .NET
2 68 (3.47%) REST
3 66 (3.37%) Spring
4 60 (3.06%) Node.js
5 57 (2.91%) CSS
5 57 (2.91%) React
6 52 (2.65%) XML
7 49 (2.50%) Web Services
8 48 (2.45%) AngularJS
9 43 (2.19%) HTML
10 40 (2.04%) Spring Boot
11 38 (1.94%) Elastic Stack
12 32 (1.63%) .NET Core
12 32 (1.63%) JSON
12 32 (1.63%) Leaflet
12 32 (1.63%) OpenLayers
13 31 (1.58%) Apache Camel
14 30 (1.53%) J2EE
15 29 (1.48%) Hibernate
15 29 (1.48%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 87 (4.44%) Algorithms
2 73 (3.73%) Management Information System
3 63 (3.22%) Self-Motivation
4 55 (2.81%) PKI
5 47 (2.40%) Data Centre
6 41 (2.09%) Product Ownership
7 40 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
8 33 (1.68%) CMDB
9 30 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
10 29 (1.48%) Driving Licence
11 28 (1.43%) Private Cloud
12 22 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
13 21 (1.07%) FPGA
13 21 (1.07%) Mainframe
13 21 (1.07%) 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 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 399 (20.37%) Windows
2 320 (16.33%) Linux
3 173 (8.83%) Windows Server
4 93 (4.75%) Windows 10
5 81 (4.13%) Windows Server 2016
6 74 (3.78%) Windows Server 2019
7 61 (3.11%) Unix
8 49 (2.50%) CentOS
9 46 (2.35%) Windows 7
10 44 (2.25%) Windows Server 2012
11 37 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 34 (1.74%) Ubuntu
13 15 (0.77%) Solaris
14 14 (0.71%) Windows NT
15 13 (0.66%) Android
16 12 (0.61%) Windows XP
17 10 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
18 5 (0.26%) Rocky
19 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
20 3 (0.15%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 500 (25.52%) Agile
2 445 (22.72%) Problem-Solving
3 335 (17.10%) Actionable Insight
4 271 (13.83%) DevOps
5 236 (12.05%) Software Engineering
6 229 (11.69%) ITIL
7 171 (8.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 157 (8.01%) Customer Service
9 149 (7.61%) Test Automation
10 138 (7.04%) Service Management
11 133 (6.79%) Collaborative Working
12 127 (6.48%) Project Delivery
13 126 (6.43%) Project Management
14 122 (6.23%) Cybersecurity
15 116 (5.92%) Computer Science
16 111 (5.67%) Scrum
17 105 (5.36%) Mentoring
18 96 (4.90%) Service Delivery
19 94 (4.80%) Mathematics
20 87 (4.44%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 255 (13.02%) Python
2 251 (12.81%) Java
3 217 (11.08%) SQL
4 214 (10.92%) PowerShell
5 176 (8.98%) C++
6 166 (8.47%) JavaScript
7 125 (6.38%) C#
8 84 (4.29%) C
9 34 (1.74%) Fortran
10 32 (1.63%) Shell Script
11 30 (1.53%) Bash
12 25 (1.28%) VBScript
13 24 (1.23%) PL/SQL
13 24 (1.23%) VB
14 19 (0.97%) COBOL
14 19 (0.97%) MATLAB
15 18 (0.92%) Kotlin
16 14 (0.71%) Bicep
17 13 (0.66%) Ruby
17 13 (0.66%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1,223 (62.43%) SC Cleared
2 530 (27.05%) DV Cleared
3 304 (15.52%) Degree
4 104 (5.31%) Cisco Certification
5 79 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 77 (3.93%) CCNP
7 58 (2.96%) CCNA
8 53 (2.71%) CTC Cleared
9 51 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
10 45 (2.30%) PhD
11 38 (1.94%) AWS Certification
12 29 (1.48%) Master's Degree
12 29 (1.48%) NVQ Level 3
13 26 (1.33%) Azure Certification
14 22 (1.12%) DBS Check
15 21 (1.07%) A+ Certification
15 21 (1.07%) CISSP
15 21 (1.07%) HNC
16 18 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
17 17 (0.87%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (4.39%) SLA
2 71 (3.62%) QA
3 31 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
4 22 (1.12%) NIST
5 21 (1.07%) Software Quality Assurance
6 14 (0.71%) GDPR
7 13 (0.66%) Accessibility
7 13 (0.66%) GRC
8 12 (0.61%) NCSC
8 12 (0.61%) 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 (0.20%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 217 (11.08%) Active Directory
2 103 (5.26%) Docker
3 99 (5.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 84 (4.29%) Hyper-V
5 46 (2.35%) Firmware
6 31 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
7 27 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
8 21 (1.07%) 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 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
12 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
13 2 (0.10%) VMware NSX
14 1 (0.051%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 124 (6.33%) Kubernetes
2 123 (6.28%) Ansible
3 117 (5.97%) SCCM
4 93 (4.75%) Terraform
5 68 (3.47%) SCOM
5 68 (3.47%) WSUS
6 48 (2.45%) vCenter Server
7 41 (2.09%) Microsoft Intune
8 33 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
9 25 (1.28%) FortiGate
10 22 (1.12%) OpenSSO
11 20 (1.02%) 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 (0.71%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 388 (19.81%) Microsoft
2 188 (9.60%) Cisco
3 174 (8.88%) Juniper
4 151 (7.71%) VMware
5 137 (6.99%) Oracle
6 56 (2.86%) ServiceNow
7 53 (2.71%) HP
8 44 (2.25%) Fortinet
9 43 (2.19%) Remedy
10 38 (1.94%) Siebel
11 31 (1.58%) WSO2
12 30 (1.53%) Dynatrace
13 29 (1.48%) ESRI
13 29 (1.48%) McAfee
14 26 (1.33%) Veeam
15 25 (1.28%) Red Hat
16 23 (1.17%) F5
16 23 (1.17%) Xilinx
17 19 (0.97%) Unisys
18 17 (0.87%) EMC