SC Cleared Jobs in the Thames Valley

Security Check (SC) Clearance
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 50 90
Rank change year-on-year +34 +40 +31
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 564 337 227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 8.36% 5.47% 3.32%
As % of the Qualifications category 21.96% 12.84% 10.34%
Number of salaries quoted 385 169 116
10th Percentile £29,750 £24,700 £31,250
25th Percentile £34,500 £28,954 £34,778
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -6.86% -21.54%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £77,813
90th Percentile £78,250 £83,750 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -10.00% +4.35%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,568 2,624 2,195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 38.06% 42.60% 32.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,618 1,088 936
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,063 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% -6.22% -6.82%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £51,010 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.02% -4.76% +5.00%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the Thames Valley

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Salary trend for SC Cleared in the Thames Valley

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in the Thames Valley

SC Cleared
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 25 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
Berkshire +35 505 £53,000 -0.93% 64
Buckinghamshire -47 37 £50,000 -4.76% 14
Oxfordshire -11 22 £42,796 +22.27% 19
SC Cleared
South East

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (7.27%) WebLogic
2 29 (5.14%) ArcGIS
2 29 (5.14%) GeoServer
3 24 (4.26%) OpenStack
4 20 (3.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (2.66%) IIS
5 15 (2.66%) Oracle Service Bus
6 13 (2.30%) CMS
7 12 (2.13%) Confluence
8 11 (1.95%) Red Hat Fuse
9 10 (1.77%) Exchange Server 2010
9 10 (1.77%) JBoss
10 6 (1.06%) Apache
10 6 (1.06%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.18%) nginx
Applications
1 46 (8.16%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (3.90%) MS Visio
4 10 (1.77%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.71%) Sketch
6 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 18 (3.19%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 126 (22.34%) Azure
2 83 (14.72%) AWS
3 35 (6.21%) Microsoft 365
4 30 (5.32%) Amazon EKS
5 25 (4.43%) Amazon ECS
5 25 (4.43%) Serverless
6 17 (3.01%) Azure Monitor
7 12 (2.13%) OCI
8 10 (1.77%) SaaS
9 9 (1.60%) Entra ID
10 8 (1.42%) GitHub
11 7 (1.24%) Azure Storage
12 6 (1.06%) Miro
12 6 (1.06%) PaaS
13 5 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (0.89%) Azure Sentinel
13 5 (0.89%) Dynamics 365
14 4 (0.71%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (0.71%) Figma
14 4 (0.71%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 69 (12.23%) Firewall
2 39 (6.91%) DNS
3 35 (6.21%) DHCP
4 19 (3.37%) VPN
5 15 (2.66%) SNMP
5 15 (2.66%) WAN
6 13 (2.30%) SAN
6 13 (2.30%) Wireless
7 12 (2.13%) BGP
8 10 (1.77%) SD-WAN
8 10 (1.77%) SSL
9 9 (1.60%) LAN
10 8 (1.42%) OSPF
10 8 (1.42%) TCP/IP
11 7 (1.24%) Cisco Firepower
11 7 (1.24%) IPsec
11 7 (1.24%) Network Security
11 7 (1.24%) VLAN
11 7 (1.24%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (1.06%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (10.28%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (5.67%) Relational Database
3 31 (5.50%) GIS
4 29 (5.14%) QGIS
5 25 (4.43%) Oracle Database
6 23 (4.08%) Elasticsearch
7 17 (3.01%) NoSQL
8 16 (2.84%) Oracle Database 11g
9 15 (2.66%) Oracle Database 10g
9 15 (2.66%) VLDB
10 14 (2.48%) SQL Server
11 5 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.89%) MySQL
11 5 (0.89%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.18%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 47 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 33 (5.85%) Git
3 22 (3.90%) JIRA
4 14 (2.48%) JUnit
5 11 (1.95%) Cucumber
5 11 (1.95%) Selenium
6 7 (1.24%) REST Assured
6 7 (1.24%) WebDriver
7 6 (1.06%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.06%) TestNG
8 5 (0.89%) Bitbucket Server
8 5 (0.89%) JMeter
8 5 (0.89%) Oracle APEX
8 5 (0.89%) Serenity BDD
8 5 (0.89%) SoapUI
8 5 (0.89%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.71%) AdminStudio
9 4 (0.71%) InstallShield
9 4 (0.71%) MSI
9 4 (0.71%) Subversion
General
1 150 (26.60%) Social Skills
2 58 (10.28%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (8.16%) Public Sector
4 40 (7.09%) Organisational Skills
5 23 (4.08%) Police
6 15 (2.66%) Back Office
7 9 (1.60%) Finance
7 9 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.06%) Aerospace
9 5 (0.89%) Law
9 5 (0.89%) Local Government
9 5 (0.89%) Military
10 4 (0.71%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.71%) Retail
11 2 (0.35%) Electronics
12 1 (0.18%) Advertising
12 1 (0.18%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.18%) Games
12 1 (0.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 101 (17.91%) Senior
2 75 (13.30%) Analyst
3 53 (9.40%) Architect
4 51 (9.04%) Developer
5 45 (7.98%) Software Engineer
6 44 (7.80%) Applications Support
7 41 (7.27%) Support Analyst
8 37 (6.56%) Applications Support Analyst
9 36 (6.38%) Senior Analyst
10 29 (5.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 28 (4.96%) Lead
12 27 (4.79%) Java Developer
12 27 (4.79%) Senior Software Engineer
12 27 (4.79%) Support Specialist
13 26 (4.61%) Network Engineer
13 26 (4.61%) Systems Engineer
14 25 (4.43%) Windows Engineer
14 25 (4.43%) Windows Systems Engineer
15 23 (4.08%) Administrator
15 23 (4.08%) ServiceNow Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (10.11%) Spring
2 40 (7.09%) .NET
2 40 (7.09%) React
2 40 (7.09%) REST
3 36 (6.38%) Web Services
4 32 (5.67%) AngularJS
4 32 (5.67%) Leaflet
5 31 (5.50%) Node.js
5 31 (5.50%) OpenLayers
5 31 (5.50%) Spring Boot
6 30 (5.32%) CSS
7 29 (5.14%) PostGIS
8 28 (4.96%) J2EE
9 26 (4.61%) Elastic Stack
10 25 (4.43%) .NET Core
11 24 (4.26%) Apache Camel
11 24 (4.26%) Java EE
11 24 (4.26%) XML
12 23 (4.08%) JSON
13 20 (3.55%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 32 (5.67%) CMDB
2 23 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (3.72%) Product Ownership
4 19 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (2.84%) Data Centre
6 13 (2.30%) Digital Signage
7 11 (1.95%) PKI
8 9 (1.60%) Management Information System
9 7 (1.24%) Driving Licence
9 7 (1.24%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.24%) Virtual Team
10 5 (0.89%) Client/Server
10 5 (0.89%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (0.89%) Security Operations Centre
11 4 (0.71%) EMC VNX
11 4 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.71%) Private Cloud
11 4 (0.71%) Shadow IT
12 3 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.35%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 117 (20.74%) Windows
2 113 (20.04%) Linux
3 74 (13.12%) Windows Server
4 50 (8.87%) Windows 10
5 39 (6.91%) Unix
6 33 (5.85%) Windows Server 2016
7 32 (5.67%) Windows Server 2019
8 22 (3.90%) Windows 7
8 22 (3.90%) Windows Server 2012
9 16 (2.84%) CentOS
9 16 (2.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 15 (2.66%) Solaris
11 12 (2.13%) Windows XP
12 8 (1.42%) Windows NT
13 5 (0.89%) Ubuntu
14 3 (0.53%) Rocky
15 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (32.80%) Agile
2 135 (23.94%) Actionable Insight
3 120 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
4 113 (20.04%) DevOps
5 94 (16.67%) ITIL
6 89 (15.78%) Service Management
7 58 (10.28%) Scrum
8 56 (9.93%) Customer Service
9 55 (9.75%) ITSM
10 54 (9.57%) Incident Management
11 50 (8.87%) Project Management
12 48 (8.51%) Software Engineering
13 43 (7.62%) CI/CD
13 43 (7.62%) Containerisation
13 43 (7.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 35 (6.21%) Release Management
15 33 (5.85%) Kanban
15 33 (5.85%) Waterfall
16 32 (5.67%) BDD
17 31 (5.50%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 88 (15.60%) JavaScript
2 80 (14.18%) Java
3 62 (10.99%) SQL
4 59 (10.46%) Python
5 41 (7.27%) PowerShell
6 40 (7.09%) C#
7 28 (4.96%) Shell Script
8 22 (3.90%) PL/SQL
9 11 (1.95%) VB
10 9 (1.60%) Groovy
11 7 (1.24%) Bicep
11 7 (1.24%) VBScript
12 6 (1.06%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.89%) C++
13 5 (0.89%) Ruby
14 4 (0.71%) C
14 4 (0.71%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.18%) Bash
15 1 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.18%) Perl
Qualifications
1 564 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 180 (31.91%) DV Cleared
3 80 (14.18%) Degree
4 25 (4.43%) Cisco Certification
5 22 (3.90%) CCNP
6 19 (3.37%) CCNA
7 17 (3.01%) AWS Certification
8 15 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (2.48%) A+ Certification
9 14 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (2.30%) Azure Certification
10 13 (2.30%) MCP
11 9 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (1.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 6 (1.06%) CISSP
14 5 (0.89%) CompTIA Security+
15 4 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 3 (0.53%) Master's Degree
17 2 (0.35%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (9.22%) SLA
2 10 (1.77%) Accessibility
2 10 (1.77%) NIST
3 9 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (1.60%) QA
4 8 (1.42%) JSP 440
4 8 (1.42%) RMADS
5 5 (0.89%) PMO
5 5 (0.89%) WCAG
6 4 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 3 (0.53%) COBIT
8 1 (0.18%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.18%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.18%) NCSC
8 1 (0.18%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 102 (18.09%) Active Directory
2 52 (9.22%) Docker
3 35 (6.21%) Hyper-V
4 33 (5.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 26 (4.61%) VMware ESXi
6 18 (3.19%) Firmware
7 15 (2.66%) KVM
7 15 (2.66%) Oracle RAC
8 7 (1.24%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.71%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 4 (0.71%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 69 (12.23%) SCCM
2 60 (10.64%) Kubernetes
3 59 (10.46%) SCOM
4 54 (9.57%) Ansible
5 36 (6.38%) Terraform
6 32 (5.67%) WSUS
7 27 (4.79%) vCenter Server
8 22 (3.90%) OpenSSO
8 22 (3.90%) Single Sign-On
9 19 (3.37%) NetBackup
10 17 (3.01%) Microsoft Intune
11 16 (2.84%) EMC NetWorker
12 15 (2.66%) Data Guard
12 15 (2.66%) Oracle RMAN
13 10 (1.77%) Rancher
14 8 (1.42%) Sysprep
15 7 (1.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 3 (0.53%) Nagios
16 3 (0.53%) Nessus
16 3 (0.53%) OpenView
Vendors
1 137 (24.29%) Microsoft
2 67 (11.88%) Oracle
3 53 (9.40%) Cisco
4 47 (8.33%) Juniper
4 47 (8.33%) ServiceNow
5 46 (8.16%) VMware
6 40 (7.09%) Remedy
7 31 (5.50%) HP
8 29 (5.14%) ESRI
9 28 (4.96%) Dynatrace
10 24 (4.26%) WSO2
11 17 (3.01%) EMC
12 16 (2.84%) Veeam
13 15 (2.66%) Sun
14 13 (2.30%) Dell
14 13 (2.30%) Riverbed
15 12 (2.13%) 3PAR
15 12 (2.13%) Extreme Networks
15 12 (2.13%) Palo Alto
15 12 (2.13%) Symantec