Security Cleared Jobs in the UK excluding London

Security Clearance
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 23 32
Rank change year-on-year +8 +9 +19
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 6,372 5,505 5,380
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.99% 9.15% 7.60%
As % of the Qualifications category 32.70% 25.16% 23.99%
Number of salaries quoted 3,787 2,302 2,436
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,525 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,250 £38,898
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -0.94% -1.85%
75th Percentile £68,750 £69,649 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 19,486 21,880 22,428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.48% 36.38% 31.66%
Number of salaries quoted 12,231 8,108 10,239
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,029 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,350 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +2.70% +1.01%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £59,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.24% +8.18% -

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the UK excluding London

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Security Cleared in the UK excluding London

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in the UK excluding London

Security Cleared
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Cleared within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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 +8 1,962 £55,000 +11.68% 478
South West +3 1,910 £55,000 - 440
North of England +11 806 £55,000 -4.35% 234
Midlands -3 637 £53,750 -2.27% 160
North West +3 579 £55,000 -4.35% 177
West Midlands +11 443 £55,000 - 119
East of England +21 419 £55,000 - 135
Scotland -47 320 £53,000 -3.64% 98
Wales +5 235 £54,395 +80.09% 13
East Midlands -20 194 £44,362 -15.50% 41
Yorkshire +33 188 £60,000 -9.77% 36
Northern Ireland +22 110 £60,000 +84.62% 26
North East -34 39 £55,000 +22.22% 21
Security Cleared
UK

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 293 (4.60%) ArcGIS
2 284 (4.46%) GeoServer
3 148 (2.32%) Confluence
4 113 (1.77%) WebLogic
5 88 (1.38%) IIS
5 88 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
6 87 (1.37%) SharePoint
7 71 (1.11%) Apache
8 47 (0.74%) Apache Spark
9 44 (0.69%) Oracle Service Bus
10 34 (0.53%) OpenStack
11 24 (0.38%) nginx
12 19 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2010
12 19 (0.30%) JBoss
12 19 (0.30%) Red Hat Fuse
13 17 (0.27%) Jupyter
14 15 (0.24%) CMS
14 15 (0.24%) SharePoint 2010
14 15 (0.24%) SharePoint 2013
15 14 (0.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 257 (4.03%) Microsoft Office
2 152 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 119 (1.87%) Simulink
4 85 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 77 (1.21%) MS Visio
6 40 (0.63%) Sketch
7 31 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
8 10 (0.16%) AutoCAD
9 6 (0.094%) Trello
9 6 (0.094%) Windchill
10 4 (0.063%) EPLAN
10 4 (0.063%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.063%) Siemens NX
10 4 (0.063%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.063%) Stateflow
11 3 (0.047%) Revit
12 2 (0.031%) Abaqus
12 2 (0.031%) Fireworks
12 2 (0.031%) InDesign
12 2 (0.031%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 92 (1.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 73 (1.15%) Remedy ITSM
3 48 (0.75%) Primavera
4 40 (0.63%) Siebel CRM
5 31 (0.49%) NEC Housing
6 21 (0.33%) Maximo
7 11 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
8 10 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
9 9 (0.14%) Teamcenter
10 6 (0.094%) Oracle Applications
10 6 (0.094%) SAP ERP
11 5 (0.078%) Oracle ERP
12 4 (0.063%) SAP CO
12 4 (0.063%) SAP FI
12 4 (0.063%) SAP FI/CO
13 3 (0.047%) SAP HR
13 3 (0.047%) SAP PM
13 3 (0.047%) Workday HCM
14 2 (0.031%) Oracle Cash Management
14 2 (0.031%) SAP Business ByDesign
Cloud Services
1 1,256 (19.71%) Azure
2 1,089 (17.09%) AWS
3 215 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
4 122 (1.91%) SaaS
5 108 (1.69%) OpenShift
6 107 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
7 105 (1.65%) Amazon EKS
8 95 (1.49%) Serverless
9 87 (1.37%) GCP
10 75 (1.18%) Power Platform
11 73 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
12 66 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
13 62 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
14 61 (0.96%) Entra ID
15 60 (0.94%) Miro
15 60 (0.94%) PaaS
16 54 (0.85%) AWS Lambda
17 47 (0.74%) IaaS
18 42 (0.66%) GitHub
19 41 (0.64%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 396 (6.21%) Firewall
2 268 (4.21%) DNS
3 204 (3.20%) WAN
4 188 (2.95%) TCP/IP
5 157 (2.46%) DHCP
6 142 (2.23%) BGP
7 124 (1.95%) LAN
8 120 (1.88%) Network Security
9 92 (1.44%) VPN
10 82 (1.29%) Wireless
11 81 (1.27%) SAN
12 69 (1.08%) HTTP
13 67 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
14 65 (1.02%) SSL
15 61 (0.96%) Cisco ASA
15 61 (0.96%) MPLS
16 49 (0.77%) OSPF
17 47 (0.74%) IPsec
17 47 (0.74%) SD-WAN
18 44 (0.69%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 386 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
2 322 (5.05%) GIS
3 284 (4.46%) QGIS
4 167 (2.62%) SQL Server
5 126 (1.98%) Oracle Database
6 125 (1.96%) Relational Database
7 100 (1.57%) NoSQL
8 79 (1.24%) Big Data
9 78 (1.22%) Hadoop
10 71 (1.11%) MongoDB
11 59 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
12 55 (0.86%) RDBMS
13 54 (0.85%) Power BI
14 45 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
14 45 (0.71%) Oracle Database 10g
14 45 (0.71%) Oracle Database 11g
15 44 (0.69%) VLDB
16 38 (0.60%) MySQL
17 32 (0.50%) Oracle BI EE
17 32 (0.50%) Siebel EIM
Development Applications
1 270 (4.24%) JIRA
2 234 (3.67%) Git
3 171 (2.68%) Jenkins
4 138 (2.17%) Visual Studio
5 126 (1.98%) GitLab
6 99 (1.55%) Bitbucket
7 91 (1.43%) Rational DOORS
8 59 (0.93%) Sourcetree
9 52 (0.82%) Selenium
10 39 (0.61%) Rational Rhapsody
11 28 (0.44%) Subversion
12 27 (0.42%) Cucumber
13 25 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
14 24 (0.38%) Ant
15 23 (0.36%) LabVIEW
16 21 (0.33%) JUnit
17 17 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 15 (0.24%) CMake
18 15 (0.24%) JMeter
18 15 (0.24%) Vagrant
General
1 1,297 (20.35%) Social Skills
2 520 (8.16%) Aerospace
3 467 (7.33%) Finance
4 459 (7.20%) Public Sector
5 323 (5.07%) Analytical Skills
6 292 (4.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 216 (3.39%) Military
8 194 (3.04%) Games
9 158 (2.48%) Telecoms
10 157 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
11 128 (2.01%) Manufacturing
11 128 (2.01%) Police
12 115 (1.80%) Electronics
13 109 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
14 86 (1.35%) Retail
15 84 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
16 49 (0.77%) Law
16 49 (0.77%) Local Government
17 37 (0.58%) Legal
18 28 (0.44%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1,133 (17.78%) Senior
2 757 (11.88%) Architect
3 755 (11.85%) Software Engineer
4 547 (8.58%) Developer
5 493 (7.74%) Lead
6 443 (6.95%) Systems Engineer
7 439 (6.89%) Analyst
8 316 (4.96%) Senior Software Engineer
9 296 (4.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 289 (4.54%) Network Engineer
11 284 (4.46%) Consultant
12 267 (4.19%) Solutions Architect
13 246 (3.86%) Project Manager
14 178 (2.79%) DevOps Engineer
15 165 (2.59%) Administrator
16 159 (2.50%) Senior Developer
17 157 (2.46%) Support Engineer
18 132 (2.07%) Security Consultant
19 115 (1.80%) Designer
20 108 (1.69%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 435 (6.83%) React
2 420 (6.59%) .NET
3 288 (4.52%) CSS
4 287 (4.50%) Leaflet
4 287 (4.50%) OpenLayers
5 284 (4.46%) PostGIS
6 264 (4.14%) .NET Core
7 165 (2.59%) AngularJS
8 161 (2.53%) Node.js
9 151 (2.37%) Spring
10 142 (2.23%) REST
11 132 (2.07%) HTML
12 122 (1.91%) Spring Boot
13 88 (1.38%) RabbitMQ
13 88 (1.38%) Unity (Game Engine)
13 88 (1.38%) XML
14 73 (1.15%) Web Services
15 72 (1.13%) RESTful
16 68 (1.07%) JSON
17 64 (1.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 260 (4.08%) Management Information System
2 210 (3.30%) Driving Licence
3 186 (2.92%) Algorithms
4 180 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
5 161 (2.53%) Data Centre
6 126 (1.98%) Public Cloud
7 114 (1.79%) Cloud Native
8 104 (1.63%) Private Cloud
9 96 (1.51%) Product Ownership
10 95 (1.49%) Virtual Reality
11 91 (1.43%) PKI
12 85 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
13 84 (1.32%) Virtual Team
14 76 (1.19%) Cyberattack
15 71 (1.11%) Operational Technology
16 67 (1.05%) Security Operations Centre
17 65 (1.02%) Clustering
18 61 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
19 58 (0.91%) Cyber Threat
20 47 (0.74%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 1,013 (15.90%) Linux
2 879 (13.79%) Windows
3 320 (5.02%) Windows Server
4 179 (2.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 168 (2.64%) Unix
6 144 (2.26%) Windows 10
7 128 (2.01%) CentOS
8 120 (1.88%) Windows Server 2016
9 119 (1.87%) Windows Server 2019
10 105 (1.65%) Ubuntu
11 83 (1.30%) Windows Server 2012
12 67 (1.05%) Embedded Linux
13 58 (0.91%) Windows 7
14 56 (0.88%) Solaris
15 31 (0.49%) Debian
16 26 (0.41%) Android
17 16 (0.25%) AIX
18 13 (0.20%) VMS
19 12 (0.19%) Windows NT
19 12 (0.19%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,830 (28.72%) Agile
2 1,527 (23.96%) Actionable Insight
3 1,136 (17.83%) Software Engineering
4 1,096 (17.20%) DevOps
5 1,077 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
6 678 (10.64%) Cybersecurity
7 577 (9.06%) Project Management
8 532 (8.35%) ITIL
9 480 (7.53%) Scrum
10 439 (6.89%) Mentoring
11 423 (6.64%) Collaborative Working
12 417 (6.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 366 (5.74%) Systems Engineering
14 362 (5.68%) Stakeholder Management
15 312 (4.90%) CI/CD
16 311 (4.88%) Web Development
17 298 (4.68%) Validation
18 288 (4.52%) Customer Service
19 273 (4.28%) Service Management
20 265 (4.16%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 1,064 (16.70%) Python
2 641 (10.06%) Java
3 637 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 490 (7.69%) C#
5 446 (7.00%) SQL
6 413 (6.48%) PowerShell
7 282 (4.43%) C++
8 260 (4.08%) C
9 249 (3.91%) Bash
10 141 (2.21%) MATLAB
11 101 (1.59%) TypeScript
12 85 (1.33%) Shell Script
13 60 (0.94%) Rust
14 59 (0.93%) PL/SQL
15 53 (0.83%) Embedded C
16 44 (0.69%) Ada
17 41 (0.64%) Fortran
18 31 (0.49%) VB
19 26 (0.41%) Go
20 25 (0.39%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 3,693 (57.96%) SC Cleared
2 1,347 (21.14%) DV Cleared
3 1,067 (16.75%) Degree
4 547 (8.58%) BPSS Clearance
5 206 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
6 133 (2.09%) CCNA
7 131 (2.06%) CCNP
8 128 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
9 120 (1.88%) AWS Certification
10 98 (1.54%) CISSP
11 88 (1.38%) CISM
12 82 (1.29%) Azure Certification
13 80 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 73 (1.15%) CESG Certified Professional
15 70 (1.10%) DBS Check
16 62 (0.97%) CRISC
17 59 (0.93%) CTC Cleared
17 59 (0.93%) PhD
17 59 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
18 57 (0.89%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 224 (3.52%) SLA
2 188 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 156 (2.45%) Accessibility
4 126 (1.98%) QA
5 99 (1.55%) NCSC
5 99 (1.55%) NIST
6 79 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials
7 61 (0.96%) ISO 9001
8 51 (0.80%) WCAG
9 48 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 47 (0.74%) PCI DSS
11 45 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 17025
12 44 (0.69%) NIST 800
13 40 (0.63%) GDPR
14 38 (0.60%) Def Stans
15 37 (0.58%) GRC
16 36 (0.56%) JSP 440
17 32 (0.50%) PMO
18 30 (0.47%) RMADS
19 29 (0.46%) COBIT
System Software
1 441 (6.92%) Active Directory
2 326 (5.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 295 (4.63%) Docker
4 177 (2.78%) Hyper-V
5 103 (1.62%) Firmware
6 73 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
7 70 (1.10%) vSphere
8 60 (0.94%) VMware NSX
9 53 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
10 52 (0.82%) KVM
11 45 (0.71%) Oracle RAC
12 22 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
13 20 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
14 16 (0.25%) pfSense
15 15 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
16 12 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
17 11 (0.17%) NFS
18 8 (0.13%) XenDesktop
19 5 (0.078%) SRDF
20 4 (0.063%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 417 (6.54%) Ansible
2 352 (5.52%) Kubernetes
3 299 (4.69%) Terraform
4 203 (3.19%) SCCM
5 132 (2.07%) Puppet
6 85 (1.33%) vCenter Server
7 81 (1.27%) WSUS
8 77 (1.21%) SCOM
9 64 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
10 48 (0.75%) Grafana
11 45 (0.71%) Data Guard
11 45 (0.71%) EnCase
12 44 (0.69%) Oracle RMAN
13 39 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
14 31 (0.49%) FortiGate
14 31 (0.49%) NetBackup
15 29 (0.46%) EMC NetWorker
15 29 (0.46%) OpenView
16 27 (0.42%) OpenSSO
17 26 (0.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1,110 (17.42%) Microsoft
2 491 (7.71%) VMware
3 431 (6.76%) Cisco
4 359 (5.63%) Oracle
5 289 (4.54%) ESRI
6 262 (4.11%) Juniper
7 170 (2.67%) Red Hat
8 103 (1.62%) Remedy
9 100 (1.57%) ServiceNow
10 92 (1.44%) HP
10 92 (1.44%) Sparx
11 85 (1.33%) IBM
12 71 (1.11%) Dell
13 65 (1.02%) Fortinet
14 59 (0.93%) Google
15 57 (0.89%) CheckPoint
16 52 (0.82%) Palo Alto
17 51 (0.80%) McAfee
18 50 (0.78%) Splunk
18 50 (0.78%) Veeam