Security Check (SC) Clearance
UK

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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 59 117
Rank change year-on-year +13 +58 -12
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 4,715 5,197 5,025
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.77% 5.03% 3.19%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.16% 15.40% 11.85%
Number of salaries quoted 2,657 2,634 2,437
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,452 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,300 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,250 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,112
% change year-on-year - +3.55% +1.17%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,469 33,746 42,397
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.81% 32.63% 26.94%
Number of salaries quoted 17,343 15,179 19,015
10th Percentile £28,258 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £59,526 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.28% +8.23% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,350 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.63% +2.70% +0.50%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the UK

SC Cleared
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SC Cleared in the UK

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in the UK

SC Cleared
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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
England +13 3,836 £55,000 -8.33% 1,085
UK excluding London +15 3,729 £55,000 - 919
Work from Home +7 1,908 £60,000 -4.00% 487
South East +22 1,216 £55,000 - 275
South West -2 879 £52,500 -4.55% 240
London -12 623 £70,000 +3.70% 211
North of England +34 572 £57,500 -4.17% 168
North West +12 391 £55,000 -4.35% 130
Midlands +5 389 £52,500 -12.50% 91
West Midlands +4 246 £55,000 -8.33% 64
Scotland -35 245 £60,000 +4.35% 79
Wales +15 215 £50,750 +68.02% 12
Yorkshire +92 155 £60,000 -10.45% 24
East Midlands -1 143 £50,000 - 26
East of England -9 130 £55,000 - 65
Northern Ireland +29 105 £60,000 +75.18% 13
North East -33 26 £49,036 +3.23% 14

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 338 (7.17%) ArcGIS
2 330 (7.00%) GeoServer
3 158 (3.35%) Confluence
4 120 (2.55%) WebLogic
5 92 (1.95%) SharePoint
6 75 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
7 46 (0.98%) Apache
8 45 (0.95%) Oracle Service Bus
9 40 (0.85%) IIS
10 39 (0.83%) OpenStack
11 37 (0.78%) Red Hat Fuse
12 36 (0.76%) JBoss
13 34 (0.72%) Apache Spark
14 17 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2010
15 16 (0.34%) CMS
16 14 (0.30%) Skype for Business
17 9 (0.19%) SharePoint 2010
17 9 (0.19%) SharePoint 2013
18 8 (0.17%) Drupal
19 6 (0.13%) nginx
Applications
1 170 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
2 85 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 78 (1.65%) MS Visio
4 46 (0.98%) Sketch
5 40 (0.85%) Simulink
6 24 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
7 19 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 9 (0.19%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.085%) EPLAN
9 4 (0.085%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.064%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.042%) Abaqus
11 2 (0.042%) Fireworks
11 2 (0.042%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.042%) InDesign
12 1 (0.021%) Acrobat
12 1 (0.021%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.021%) Blender
12 1 (0.021%) Revit
Business Applications
1 92 (1.95%) Remedy ITSM
2 90 (1.91%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 39 (0.83%) Siebel CRM
4 17 (0.36%) Maximo
5 12 (0.25%) Oracle Cash Management
6 11 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
7 10 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
7 10 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
7 10 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
8 9 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
9 8 (0.17%) Elite 3E
10 6 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
10 6 (0.13%) Primavera
10 6 (0.13%) SAP ERP
10 6 (0.13%) SAP WM
11 5 (0.11%) Teamcenter
12 4 (0.085%) SAP CO
12 4 (0.085%) SAP FI
12 4 (0.085%) SAP FI/CO
12 4 (0.085%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 1,228 (26.04%) Azure
2 991 (21.02%) AWS
3 198 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
4 143 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
5 138 (2.93%) Amazon EKS
6 128 (2.71%) GCP
7 126 (2.67%) Power Platform
8 121 (2.57%) Serverless
9 116 (2.46%) SaaS
10 100 (2.12%) Dynamics 365
11 71 (1.51%) Miro
12 68 (1.44%) OpenShift
13 65 (1.38%) AWS CloudFormation
14 61 (1.29%) PaaS
15 58 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
15 58 (1.23%) OCI
16 54 (1.15%) Amazon ECS
17 51 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
18 48 (1.02%) Amazon SQS
19 47 (1.00%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 295 (6.26%) Firewall
2 166 (3.52%) DNS
3 130 (2.76%) WAN
4 118 (2.50%) TCP/IP
5 94 (1.99%) LAN
6 89 (1.89%) Network Security
7 87 (1.85%) VPN
8 83 (1.76%) Wireless
9 80 (1.70%) BGP
10 74 (1.57%) SSL
11 72 (1.53%) DHCP
11 72 (1.53%) SAN
12 51 (1.08%) SD-WAN
13 41 (0.87%) IPsec
14 40 (0.85%) Software-Defined Radio
15 37 (0.78%) MPLS
16 34 (0.72%) Cisco Firepower
17 32 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
18 30 (0.64%) AMQP
19 29 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 421 (8.93%) PostgreSQL
2 347 (7.36%) GIS
3 330 (7.00%) QGIS
4 156 (3.31%) Relational Database
5 117 (2.48%) SQL Server
6 109 (2.31%) Oracle Database
7 88 (1.87%) NoSQL
8 69 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
9 64 (1.36%) Power BI
10 63 (1.34%) Big Data
10 63 (1.34%) RDBMS
11 60 (1.27%) Hadoop
12 50 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
13 49 (1.04%) MongoDB
14 47 (1.00%) Oracle Database 11g
15 45 (0.95%) Oracle Database 10g
15 45 (0.95%) VLDB
16 43 (0.91%) MySQL
17 38 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
18 34 (0.72%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 248 (5.26%) JIRA
2 247 (5.24%) Git
3 206 (4.37%) Jenkins
4 112 (2.38%) Visual Studio
5 106 (2.25%) Bitbucket
6 89 (1.89%) GitLab
7 59 (1.25%) Sourcetree
8 37 (0.78%) Selenium
9 36 (0.76%) Cucumber
9 36 (0.76%) Rational DOORS
10 30 (0.64%) JUnit
11 29 (0.62%) IntelliJ
12 25 (0.53%) Ant
13 24 (0.51%) Subversion
14 17 (0.36%) REST Assured
14 17 (0.36%) TestNG
15 16 (0.34%) CMake
15 16 (0.34%) JMeter
16 15 (0.32%) LabVIEW
17 14 (0.30%) WebDriver
General
1 1,077 (22.84%) Social Skills
2 535 (11.35%) Public Sector
3 332 (7.04%) Finance
4 319 (6.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 270 (5.73%) Aerospace
6 256 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
7 220 (4.67%) Presentation Skills
8 139 (2.95%) Games
9 131 (2.78%) Police
10 107 (2.27%) Telecoms
11 105 (2.23%) Military
12 76 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
13 65 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
14 56 (1.19%) Manufacturing
15 53 (1.12%) Law
15 53 (1.12%) Retail
16 52 (1.10%) Electronics
17 41 (0.87%) Marketing
18 35 (0.74%) Legal
19 17 (0.36%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,031 (21.87%) Senior
2 694 (14.72%) Architect
3 559 (11.86%) Software Engineer
4 537 (11.39%) Developer
5 352 (7.47%) Analyst
6 350 (7.42%) Lead
7 323 (6.85%) Solutions Architect
8 297 (6.30%) Senior Software Engineer
9 227 (4.81%) Consultant
10 197 (4.18%) Systems Engineer
11 194 (4.11%) Project Manager
12 179 (3.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 174 (3.69%) Senior Developer
14 162 (3.44%) Network Engineer
15 130 (2.76%) DevOps Engineer
16 120 (2.55%) Designer
17 118 (2.50%) Business Analyst
18 116 (2.46%) Presales Solution Architect
19 111 (2.35%) Technical Architect
20 99 (2.10%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 467 (9.90%) .NET
2 443 (9.40%) React
3 333 (7.06%) Leaflet
4 332 (7.04%) OpenLayers
5 331 (7.02%) CSS
6 330 (7.00%) PostGIS
7 305 (6.47%) .NET Core
8 188 (3.99%) Spring
9 181 (3.84%) REST
10 170 (3.61%) Node.js
11 162 (3.44%) AngularJS
12 133 (2.82%) Spring Boot
13 131 (2.78%) HTML
14 130 (2.76%) Web Services
15 119 (2.52%) RESTful
16 109 (2.31%) XML
17 92 (1.95%) SOAP
18 88 (1.87%) Unity (Game Engine)
19 82 (1.74%) JSON
20 78 (1.65%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 165 (3.50%) Management Information System
2 152 (3.22%) Data Centre
3 113 (2.40%) Product Ownership
4 101 (2.14%) Virtual Team
5 98 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
6 90 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
6 90 (1.91%) Virtual Reality
7 82 (1.74%) Driving Licence
8 75 (1.59%) Onboarding
9 68 (1.44%) Public Cloud
10 63 (1.34%) Operational Technology
11 60 (1.27%) Cyberattack
12 58 (1.23%) Private Cloud
13 55 (1.17%) Algorithms
13 55 (1.17%) Cloud Native
13 55 (1.17%) CMDB
14 43 (0.91%) PKI
15 42 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
16 40 (0.85%) Clustering
17 38 (0.81%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 633 (13.43%) Linux
2 612 (12.98%) Windows
3 274 (5.81%) Windows Server
4 130 (2.76%) Unix
5 128 (2.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 104 (2.21%) Ubuntu
7 88 (1.87%) Windows 10
8 79 (1.68%) CentOS
9 62 (1.31%) Windows Server 2016
10 52 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
11 45 (0.95%) Solaris
12 31 (0.66%) Windows 7
13 30 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
14 26 (0.55%) Debian
15 23 (0.49%) Android
16 19 (0.40%) VMS
17 18 (0.38%) AIX
18 12 (0.25%) Windows XP
19 10 (0.21%) zOS
20 8 (0.17%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,583 (33.57%) Agile
2 1,393 (29.54%) Actionable Insight
3 1,064 (22.57%) DevOps
4 892 (18.92%) Software Engineering
5 825 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
6 461 (9.78%) Scrum
7 446 (9.46%) Cybersecurity
8 430 (9.12%) Project Management
9 354 (7.51%) ITIL
10 344 (7.30%) Stakeholder Management
11 342 (7.25%) Web Development
12 315 (6.68%) Mentoring
13 298 (6.32%) Collaborative Working
14 285 (6.04%) CI/CD
15 259 (5.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 258 (5.47%) Service Management
17 248 (5.26%) Presales
18 224 (4.75%) Business Case
19 219 (4.64%) Analytics
20 218 (4.62%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 771 (16.35%) Python
2 617 (13.09%) JavaScript
3 527 (11.18%) Java
4 447 (9.48%) C#
5 424 (8.99%) SQL
6 308 (6.53%) PowerShell
7 153 (3.24%) C++
8 95 (2.01%) Bash
9 83 (1.76%) C
10 70 (1.48%) PL/SQL
10 70 (1.48%) TypeScript
11 58 (1.23%) Shell Script
12 56 (1.19%) MATLAB
13 37 (0.78%) Go
14 25 (0.53%) Bicep
15 21 (0.45%) Kotlin
16 20 (0.42%) Ruby
16 20 (0.42%) VB
16 20 (0.42%) VBA
17 19 (0.40%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4,715 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 760 (16.12%) Degree
3 629 (13.34%) DV Cleared
4 283 (6.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 138 (2.93%) AWS Certification
6 128 (2.71%) Azure Certification
7 123 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 120 (2.55%) CISM
9 119 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
10 116 (2.46%) CISSP
11 88 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
12 76 (1.61%) CCNA
13 74 (1.57%) CCNP
14 70 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 65 (1.38%) CESG Certified Professional
15 65 (1.38%) CRISC
16 62 (1.31%) TOGAF Certification
17 53 (1.12%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 37 (0.78%) A+ Certification
19 32 (0.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 149 (3.16%) Accessibility
3 141 (2.99%) SLA
4 95 (2.01%) QA
5 91 (1.93%) NCSC
6 59 (1.25%) NIST
7 58 (1.23%) WCAG
8 45 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 39 (0.83%) GDPR
9 39 (0.83%) PMO
10 34 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
11 32 (0.68%) COBIT
12 28 (0.59%) Data Quality
13 26 (0.55%) Def Stans
14 24 (0.51%) GRC
15 23 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 21 (0.45%) JSP 440
16 21 (0.45%) Software Quality Assurance
17 16 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
18 15 (0.32%) RMADS
System Software
1 349 (7.40%) Active Directory
2 256 (5.43%) Docker
3 208 (4.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 132 (2.80%) Hyper-V
5 50 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
6 45 (0.95%) Oracle RAC
7 36 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
8 34 (0.72%) vSphere
9 33 (0.70%) Firmware
10 23 (0.49%) KVM
11 22 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
12 18 (0.38%) VMware NSX
13 16 (0.34%) pfSense
14 10 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
14 10 (0.21%) NFS
15 9 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
15 9 (0.19%) XenDesktop
16 4 (0.085%) Embedded Firmware
16 4 (0.085%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 3 (0.064%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 274 (5.81%) Kubernetes
2 265 (5.62%) Ansible
3 240 (5.09%) Terraform
4 158 (3.35%) SCCM
5 68 (1.44%) Puppet
6 64 (1.36%) vCenter Server
7 63 (1.34%) SCOM
8 50 (1.06%) WSUS
9 45 (0.95%) Data Guard
9 45 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
9 45 (0.95%) Oracle RMAN
10 41 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
11 35 (0.74%) Grafana
12 32 (0.68%) OpenView
13 31 (0.66%) NetBackup
14 30 (0.64%) EMC NetWorker
15 29 (0.62%) OpenSSO
16 25 (0.53%) ZABBIX
17 19 (0.40%) Nagios
17 19 (0.40%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 820 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 350 (7.42%) Oracle
3 337 (7.15%) ESRI
4 316 (6.70%) VMware
5 259 (5.49%) Cisco
6 206 (4.37%) Juniper
7 121 (2.57%) Remedy
8 117 (2.48%) ServiceNow
9 96 (2.04%) Google
10 90 (1.91%) Sparx
11 89 (1.89%) HP
12 83 (1.76%) Red Hat
13 56 (1.19%) Fortinet
14 53 (1.12%) Palo Alto
15 52 (1.10%) CheckPoint
15 52 (1.10%) Splunk
16 50 (1.06%) BMC
16 50 (1.06%) NetApp
17 49 (1.04%) IBM
18 46 (0.98%) Sun