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

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 50 87
Rank change year-on-year +33 +37 +40
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 554 336 235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 8.27% 5.49% 3.37%
As % of the Qualifications category 21.76% 13.13% 10.39%
Number of salaries quoted 369 177 123
10th Percentile £30,000 £23,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £28,954 £34,778
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year - -5.98% +6.36%

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 2,546 2,560 2,262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 38.02% 41.82% 32.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,597 1,061 947
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £27,900
25th Percentile £38,000 £34,990 £36,638
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,850 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.47% -6.06% -5.02%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £51,350 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.70% -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 5 May 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 5 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
Berkshire +31 491 £53,000 -0.93% 67
Buckinghamshire -35 44 £50,000 -4.76% 16
Oxfordshire -11 19 £45,000 +28.57% 21
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 (7.40%) WebLogic
2 29 (5.23%) ArcGIS
2 29 (5.23%) GeoServer
3 25 (4.51%) Microsoft Exchange
4 24 (4.33%) OpenStack
5 17 (3.07%) Exchange Server 2010
6 15 (2.71%) Oracle Service Bus
7 14 (2.53%) IIS
8 13 (2.35%) CMS
9 11 (1.99%) Confluence
9 11 (1.99%) Red Hat Fuse
10 10 (1.81%) JBoss
11 6 (1.08%) Apache
11 6 (1.08%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.18%) nginx
Applications
1 45 (8.12%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (4.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (3.79%) MS Visio
4 10 (1.81%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.72%) Sketch
6 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 18 (3.25%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 131 (23.65%) Azure
2 80 (14.44%) AWS
3 39 (7.04%) Microsoft 365
4 29 (5.23%) Amazon EKS
5 25 (4.51%) Amazon ECS
5 25 (4.51%) Serverless
6 24 (4.33%) Azure Monitor
7 12 (2.17%) OCI
8 9 (1.62%) Entra ID
8 9 (1.62%) SaaS
9 7 (1.26%) Azure Storage
9 7 (1.26%) GitHub
10 6 (1.08%) Miro
11 5 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (0.90%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (0.90%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (0.90%) PaaS
12 4 (0.72%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (0.72%) Figma
12 4 (0.72%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 66 (11.91%) Firewall
2 38 (6.86%) DNS
3 34 (6.14%) DHCP
4 26 (4.69%) VPN
5 14 (2.53%) SNMP
5 14 (2.53%) WAN
6 13 (2.35%) SAN
7 12 (2.17%) BGP
7 12 (2.17%) Wireless
8 11 (1.99%) SSL
9 9 (1.62%) LAN
9 9 (1.62%) SD-WAN
10 8 (1.44%) Cisco Firepower
10 8 (1.44%) Network Security
10 8 (1.44%) OSPF
10 8 (1.44%) TCP/IP
11 7 (1.26%) IPsec
11 7 (1.26%) VLAN
11 7 (1.26%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (1.08%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (10.47%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (5.78%) Relational Database
3 31 (5.60%) GIS
4 29 (5.23%) QGIS
5 25 (4.51%) Oracle Database
6 22 (3.97%) Elasticsearch
7 17 (3.07%) NoSQL
8 16 (2.89%) Oracle Database 11g
9 15 (2.71%) Oracle Database 10g
9 15 (2.71%) VLDB
10 14 (2.53%) SQL Server
11 5 (0.90%) MySQL
11 5 (0.90%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 45 (8.12%) Jenkins
2 32 (5.78%) Git
3 19 (3.43%) JIRA
4 14 (2.53%) JUnit
5 10 (1.81%) Cucumber
5 10 (1.81%) Selenium
6 7 (1.26%) REST Assured
6 7 (1.26%) WebDriver
7 6 (1.08%) TestNG
8 5 (0.90%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.90%) Oracle APEX
8 5 (0.90%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.72%) AdminStudio
9 4 (0.72%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (0.72%) InstallShield
9 4 (0.72%) JMeter
9 4 (0.72%) MSI
9 4 (0.72%) Serenity BDD
9 4 (0.72%) SoapUI
9 4 (0.72%) Subversion
General
1 146 (26.35%) Social Skills
2 56 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (8.30%) Public Sector
4 40 (7.22%) Organisational Skills
5 23 (4.15%) Police
6 15 (2.71%) Back Office
7 9 (1.62%) Finance
7 9 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.08%) Aerospace
9 5 (0.90%) Law
9 5 (0.90%) Local Government
9 5 (0.90%) Military
10 4 (0.72%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.72%) Retail
11 2 (0.36%) 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 98 (17.69%) Senior
2 72 (13.00%) Analyst
3 51 (9.21%) Developer
4 49 (8.84%) Architect
5 45 (8.12%) Software Engineer
6 44 (7.94%) Applications Support
7 41 (7.40%) Support Analyst
8 37 (6.68%) Applications Support Analyst
9 36 (6.50%) Senior Analyst
10 28 (5.05%) Lead
11 27 (4.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 27 (4.87%) Java Developer
11 27 (4.87%) Network Engineer
11 27 (4.87%) Senior Software Engineer
11 27 (4.87%) Support Specialist
12 25 (4.51%) Systems Engineer
13 24 (4.33%) Windows Engineer
13 24 (4.33%) Windows Systems Engineer
14 23 (4.15%) Administrator
14 23 (4.15%) ServiceNow Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (10.11%) Spring
2 40 (7.22%) .NET
2 40 (7.22%) React
2 40 (7.22%) REST
3 35 (6.32%) Web Services
4 32 (5.78%) AngularJS
4 32 (5.78%) Leaflet
5 31 (5.60%) OpenLayers
6 30 (5.42%) CSS
6 30 (5.42%) Node.js
6 30 (5.42%) Spring Boot
7 29 (5.23%) PostGIS
8 28 (5.05%) J2EE
9 25 (4.51%) .NET Core
9 25 (4.51%) Elastic Stack
10 24 (4.33%) Apache Camel
10 24 (4.33%) Java EE
10 24 (4.33%) XML
11 23 (4.15%) JSON
12 19 (3.43%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 31 (5.60%) CMDB
2 23 (4.15%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (3.61%) Product Ownership
4 19 (3.43%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (2.89%) Data Centre
6 13 (2.35%) Digital Signage
7 10 (1.81%) PKI
8 9 (1.62%) Management Information System
9 7 (1.26%) Driving Licence
9 7 (1.26%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.08%) Public Cloud
11 5 (0.90%) Client/Server
11 5 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
11 5 (0.90%) Security Operations Centre
12 4 (0.72%) EMC VNX
12 4 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.72%) Private Cloud
12 4 (0.72%) Shadow IT
13 3 (0.54%) Legacy Systems
14 2 (0.36%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 110 (19.86%) Windows
2 107 (19.31%) Linux
3 69 (12.45%) Windows Server
4 48 (8.66%) Windows 10
5 39 (7.04%) Unix
6 31 (5.60%) Windows Server 2016
7 30 (5.42%) Windows Server 2019
8 22 (3.97%) Windows 7
9 21 (3.79%) Windows Server 2012
10 16 (2.89%) CentOS
10 16 (2.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 15 (2.71%) Solaris
12 12 (2.17%) Windows XP
13 8 (1.44%) Windows NT
14 5 (0.90%) Ubuntu
15 3 (0.54%) Rocky
16 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
16 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (32.67%) Agile
2 135 (24.37%) Actionable Insight
3 117 (21.12%) Problem-Solving
4 112 (20.22%) DevOps
5 93 (16.79%) ITIL
6 87 (15.70%) Service Management
7 57 (10.29%) Scrum
8 54 (9.75%) Customer Service
8 54 (9.75%) ITSM
9 52 (9.39%) Incident Management
10 50 (9.03%) Project Management
11 48 (8.66%) Software Engineering
12 43 (7.76%) Containerisation
13 41 (7.40%) CI/CD
13 41 (7.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 35 (6.32%) Release Management
15 33 (5.96%) Kanban
16 32 (5.78%) BDD
17 31 (5.60%) Analytics
17 31 (5.60%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 87 (15.70%) JavaScript
2 77 (13.90%) Java
3 60 (10.83%) SQL
4 56 (10.11%) Python
5 40 (7.22%) C#
6 39 (7.04%) PowerShell
7 28 (5.05%) Shell Script
8 22 (3.97%) PL/SQL
9 11 (1.99%) VB
10 9 (1.62%) Groovy
11 7 (1.26%) Bicep
11 7 (1.26%) VBScript
12 6 (1.08%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.90%) C++
13 5 (0.90%) Ruby
14 4 (0.72%) C
14 4 (0.72%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.18%) Bash
15 1 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 554 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 177 (31.95%) DV Cleared
3 80 (14.44%) Degree
4 25 (4.51%) Cisco Certification
5 22 (3.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 22 (3.97%) CCNP
6 19 (3.43%) CCNA
7 18 (3.25%) AWS Certification
8 14 (2.53%) A+ Certification
8 14 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 13 (2.35%) Azure Certification
9 13 (2.35%) MCP
10 9 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (1.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 6 (1.08%) CISSP
13 5 (0.90%) CompTIA Security+
14 4 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 3 (0.54%) Master's Degree
16 1 (0.18%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (9.21%) SLA
2 10 (1.81%) Accessibility
2 10 (1.81%) NIST
3 9 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (1.44%) JSP 440
4 8 (1.44%) QA
4 8 (1.44%) RMADS
5 5 (0.90%) PMO
5 5 (0.90%) WCAG
6 4 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 3 (0.54%) 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 93 (16.79%) Active Directory
2 51 (9.21%) Docker
3 35 (6.32%) Hyper-V
4 29 (5.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 24 (4.33%) VMware ESXi
6 18 (3.25%) Firmware
7 15 (2.71%) KVM
7 15 (2.71%) Oracle RAC
8 7 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.72%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 4 (0.72%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 68 (12.27%) SCCM
2 59 (10.65%) Kubernetes
3 57 (10.29%) SCOM
4 53 (9.57%) Ansible
5 35 (6.32%) Terraform
6 32 (5.78%) WSUS
7 25 (4.51%) vCenter Server
8 24 (4.33%) Microsoft Intune
9 22 (3.97%) OpenSSO
9 22 (3.97%) Single Sign-On
10 19 (3.43%) NetBackup
11 16 (2.89%) EMC NetWorker
12 15 (2.71%) Data Guard
12 15 (2.71%) Oracle RMAN
13 10 (1.81%) Rancher
14 8 (1.44%) Sysprep
15 7 (1.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 3 (0.54%) Nagios
16 3 (0.54%) OpenView
17 2 (0.36%) Nessus
Vendors
1 138 (24.91%) Microsoft
2 67 (12.09%) Oracle
3 53 (9.57%) Cisco
4 46 (8.30%) Juniper
5 45 (8.12%) ServiceNow
6 42 (7.58%) VMware
7 40 (7.22%) Remedy
8 31 (5.60%) HP
9 29 (5.23%) ESRI
10 27 (4.87%) Dynatrace
11 24 (4.33%) WSO2
12 17 (3.07%) EMC
13 16 (2.89%) Veeam
14 15 (2.71%) Sun
15 13 (2.35%) Dell
15 13 (2.35%) Riverbed
16 12 (2.17%) 3PAR
16 12 (2.17%) Extreme Networks
16 12 (2.17%) Palo Alto
16 12 (2.17%) Symantec