Security Clearance
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 27 75
Rank change year-on-year +6 +48 -9
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 7,868 7,985 7,494
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.99% 7.86% 4.76%
As % of the Qualifications category 28.86% 24.06% 17.71%
Number of salaries quoted 4,698 3,652 3,621
10th Percentile £31,500 £33,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,153 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -0.94% -1.85%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,264 33,185 42,304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.68% 32.68% 26.87%
Number of salaries quoted 17,216 14,890 18,866
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £59,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.24% +8.18% -
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% +1.01%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the UK

Security Cleared
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Security Cleared in the UK

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in the UK

Security 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 Security Cleared within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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 +6 6,781 £57,500 - 2,074
UK excluding London +8 6,369 £55,000 +4.76% 1,750
Work from Home +3 3,133 £60,000 - 863
South East +8 1,937 £55,000 +11.68% 565
South West +3 1,918 £55,000 - 491
London +13 1,043 £70,000 +7.69% 361
North of England +14 806 £55,000 -4.35% 264
Midlands -3 636 £52,500 -4.55% 201
North West +4 579 £55,000 -4.35% 209
West Midlands +14 439 £55,000 - 128
East of England +21 418 £55,000 - 145
Scotland -45 324 £53,000 -3.64% 111
Wales +6 243 £57,291 +89.67% 15
East Midlands -18 197 £44,362 -15.50% 73
Yorkshire +32 190 £60,000 -9.77% 33
Northern Ireland +22 113 £60,000 +84.62% 18
North East -37 37 £55,000 +22.22% 22

Security 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
1 339 (4.31%) ArcGIS
2 330 (4.19%) GeoServer
3 168 (2.14%) Confluence
4 128 (1.63%) SharePoint
5 122 (1.55%) WebLogic
6 110 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
7 96 (1.22%) IIS
8 86 (1.09%) Apache
9 56 (0.71%) Apache Spark
10 45 (0.57%) Oracle Service Bus
11 40 (0.51%) OpenStack
12 39 (0.50%) JBoss
13 37 (0.47%) Red Hat Fuse
14 29 (0.37%) nginx
15 26 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2010
16 17 (0.22%) CMS
16 17 (0.22%) Jupyter
16 17 (0.22%) Tomcat
17 14 (0.18%) SharePoint 2013
17 14 (0.18%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 290 (3.69%) Microsoft Office
2 159 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 114 (1.45%) Simulink
4 92 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 83 (1.05%) MS Visio
6 47 (0.60%) Sketch
7 33 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
8 10 (0.13%) AutoCAD
9 6 (0.076%) Trello
9 6 (0.076%) Windchill
10 4 (0.051%) EPLAN
10 4 (0.051%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.051%) Siemens NX
10 4 (0.051%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.051%) Stateflow
11 3 (0.038%) InDesign
11 3 (0.038%) Revit
12 2 (0.025%) Abaqus
12 2 (0.025%) GNU Octave
12 2 (0.025%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 104 (1.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 97 (1.23%) Remedy ITSM
3 48 (0.61%) Primavera
4 39 (0.50%) Siebel CRM
5 35 (0.44%) NEC Housing
6 26 (0.33%) Workday HCM
7 23 (0.29%) Maximo
7 23 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
8 14 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
8 14 (0.18%) SAP HR
9 12 (0.15%) Oracle Cash Management
10 11 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
10 11 (0.14%) Teamcenter
11 10 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
11 10 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
11 10 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
11 10 (0.13%) SAP CO
11 10 (0.13%) SAP FI
11 10 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
12 9 (0.11%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 1,648 (20.95%) Azure
2 1,405 (17.86%) AWS
3 270 (3.43%) Microsoft 365
4 185 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
5 184 (2.34%) Power Platform
6 180 (2.29%) SaaS
7 169 (2.15%) GCP
8 147 (1.87%) Serverless
9 144 (1.83%) Amazon EKS
10 137 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
11 117 (1.49%) OpenShift
12 107 (1.36%) PaaS
13 98 (1.25%) AWS CloudFormation
14 94 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
15 82 (1.04%) OCI
16 81 (1.03%) Entra ID
17 73 (0.93%) IaaS
18 72 (0.92%) Miro
19 70 (0.89%) AWS Lambda
19 70 (0.89%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 505 (6.42%) Firewall
2 290 (3.69%) DNS
3 265 (3.37%) WAN
4 217 (2.76%) TCP/IP
5 185 (2.35%) LAN
6 163 (2.07%) Network Security
7 161 (2.05%) DHCP
8 153 (1.94%) BGP
9 142 (1.80%) VPN
10 107 (1.36%) Wireless
11 92 (1.17%) SAN
12 80 (1.02%) SSL
13 74 (0.94%) HTTP
14 73 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
15 68 (0.86%) Cisco ASA
16 64 (0.81%) MPLS
17 62 (0.79%) Internet
18 61 (0.78%) SD-WAN
19 54 (0.69%) OSPF
20 50 (0.64%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 451 (5.73%) PostgreSQL
2 371 (4.72%) GIS
3 330 (4.19%) QGIS
4 207 (2.63%) SQL Server
5 189 (2.40%) Relational Database
6 143 (1.82%) Oracle Database
7 119 (1.51%) NoSQL
8 116 (1.47%) Power BI
9 96 (1.22%) Big Data
10 83 (1.05%) MongoDB
11 82 (1.04%) Hadoop
12 69 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
13 63 (0.80%) RDBMS
14 56 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
15 49 (0.62%) MySQL
16 47 (0.60%) Oracle Database 11g
17 46 (0.58%) Oracle Database 10g
18 45 (0.57%) VLDB
19 41 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
19 41 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 317 (4.03%) JIRA
2 300 (3.81%) Git
3 255 (3.24%) Jenkins
4 161 (2.05%) GitLab
5 138 (1.75%) Visual Studio
6 112 (1.42%) Bitbucket
7 93 (1.18%) Rational DOORS
8 65 (0.83%) Selenium
9 59 (0.75%) Sourcetree
10 39 (0.50%) Cucumber
10 39 (0.50%) Rational Rhapsody
11 31 (0.39%) JUnit
12 29 (0.37%) IntelliJ
12 29 (0.37%) Subversion
13 25 (0.32%) Ant
13 25 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
14 23 (0.29%) LabVIEW
15 21 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 19 (0.24%) JMeter
16 19 (0.24%) SonarQube
General
1 1,726 (21.94%) Social Skills
2 835 (10.61%) Public Sector
3 644 (8.19%) Finance
4 550 (6.99%) Aerospace
5 463 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 416 (5.29%) Analytical Skills
7 258 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
8 245 (3.11%) Military
9 208 (2.64%) Games
10 194 (2.47%) Police
11 174 (2.21%) Telecoms
12 161 (2.05%) Manufacturing
13 131 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
14 130 (1.65%) Retail
15 120 (1.53%) Electronics
16 119 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
17 103 (1.31%) Law
18 64 (0.81%) Legal
19 57 (0.72%) Local Government
20 55 (0.70%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1,432 (18.20%) Senior
2 1,074 (13.65%) Architect
3 855 (10.87%) Software Engineer
4 702 (8.92%) Developer
5 597 (7.59%) Lead
6 538 (6.84%) Analyst
7 508 (6.46%) Consultant
8 484 (6.15%) Systems Engineer
9 395 (5.02%) Solutions Architect
10 365 (4.64%) Senior Software Engineer
11 344 (4.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 295 (3.75%) Network Engineer
13 292 (3.71%) Project Manager
14 247 (3.14%) DevOps Engineer
15 195 (2.48%) Senior Developer
16 180 (2.29%) Administrator
17 178 (2.26%) Security Consultant
18 177 (2.25%) Support Engineer
19 152 (1.93%) Technical Architect
20 145 (1.84%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 526 (6.69%) .NET
2 504 (6.41%) React
3 363 (4.61%) CSS
4 333 (4.23%) Leaflet
4 333 (4.23%) OpenLayers
5 330 (4.19%) PostGIS
6 316 (4.02%) .NET Core
7 218 (2.77%) HTML
8 214 (2.72%) Spring
9 201 (2.55%) Node.js
10 199 (2.53%) AngularJS
11 197 (2.50%) REST
12 148 (1.88%) Web Services
13 147 (1.87%) Spring Boot
14 136 (1.73%) XML
15 131 (1.66%) RESTful
16 116 (1.47%) JSON
17 103 (1.31%) Elastic Stack
18 96 (1.22%) RabbitMQ
19 89 (1.13%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 339 (4.31%) Management Information System
2 226 (2.87%) Driving Licence
3 208 (2.64%) Data Centre
4 204 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
5 189 (2.40%) Algorithms
6 164 (2.08%) Product Ownership
7 154 (1.96%) Public Cloud
8 133 (1.69%) Cloud Native
9 128 (1.63%) Onboarding
10 124 (1.58%) Cyberattack
10 124 (1.58%) PKI
11 109 (1.39%) Virtual Team
12 108 (1.37%) Private Cloud
13 98 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
14 97 (1.23%) Virtual Reality
15 94 (1.19%) Operational Technology
16 87 (1.11%) Security Operations Centre
17 75 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
18 68 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
19 67 (0.85%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 1,174 (14.92%) Linux
2 1,053 (13.38%) Windows
3 370 (4.70%) Windows Server
4 202 (2.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 187 (2.38%) Unix
6 148 (1.88%) Ubuntu
6 148 (1.88%) Windows 10
7 131 (1.66%) CentOS
8 123 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
9 121 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
10 93 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
11 65 (0.83%) Embedded Linux
12 62 (0.79%) Windows 7
13 59 (0.75%) Solaris
14 58 (0.74%) VMS
15 33 (0.42%) Debian
16 26 (0.33%) Android
17 18 (0.23%) AIX
18 14 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
19 12 (0.15%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,360 (29.99%) Agile
2 1,803 (22.92%) Actionable Insight
3 1,367 (17.37%) DevOps
4 1,339 (17.02%) Software Engineering
5 1,321 (16.79%) Problem-Solving
6 874 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
7 716 (9.10%) Project Management
8 646 (8.21%) Scrum
9 585 (7.44%) ITIL
10 578 (7.35%) Mentoring
11 522 (6.63%) Collaborative Working
12 484 (6.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 484 (6.15%) Stakeholder Management
13 481 (6.11%) CI/CD
14 433 (5.50%) Systems Engineering
15 399 (5.07%) Project Delivery
16 363 (4.61%) Web Development
17 356 (4.52%) Analytics
17 356 (4.52%) Coaching
18 336 (4.27%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 1,256 (15.96%) Python
2 806 (10.24%) JavaScript
3 795 (10.10%) Java
4 604 (7.68%) C#
5 550 (6.99%) SQL
6 457 (5.81%) PowerShell
7 296 (3.76%) Bash
8 289 (3.67%) C++
9 264 (3.36%) C
10 143 (1.82%) MATLAB
11 114 (1.45%) TypeScript
12 107 (1.36%) Shell Script
13 70 (0.89%) PL/SQL
14 60 (0.76%) Rust
15 53 (0.67%) Embedded C
16 47 (0.60%) Go
17 44 (0.56%) Ada
18 39 (0.50%) Fortran
19 38 (0.48%) VB
20 34 (0.43%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4,662 (59.25%) SC Cleared
2 1,669 (21.21%) DV Cleared
3 1,247 (15.85%) Degree
4 680 (8.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 231 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
6 175 (2.22%) AWS Certification
7 165 (2.10%) CISSP
7 165 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 142 (1.80%) Azure Certification
9 141 (1.79%) CCNA
9 141 (1.79%) CCNP
10 134 (1.70%) CISM
11 103 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
12 102 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 89 (1.13%) Master's Degree
14 87 (1.11%) CESG Certified Professional
15 72 (0.92%) DBS Check
16 69 (0.88%) CRISC
17 64 (0.81%) CTC Cleared
18 61 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 241 (3.06%) SLA
2 238 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 197 (2.50%) Accessibility
4 170 (2.16%) QA
5 139 (1.77%) NIST
6 120 (1.53%) NCSC
7 99 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
8 64 (0.81%) ISO 9001
9 59 (0.75%) WCAG
10 58 (0.74%) GDPR
11 53 (0.67%) PCI DSS
12 52 (0.66%) PMO
13 50 (0.64%) NIST 800
14 48 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 15288
15 45 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 17025
16 43 (0.55%) GRC
17 42 (0.53%) Def Stans
17 42 (0.53%) JSP 440
18 39 (0.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
19 34 (0.43%) RMADS
System Software
1 568 (7.22%) Active Directory
2 429 (5.45%) Docker
3 370 (4.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 197 (2.50%) Hyper-V
5 104 (1.32%) Firmware
6 87 (1.11%) vSphere
7 76 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
8 67 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
9 62 (0.79%) KVM
10 58 (0.74%) VMware NSX
11 46 (0.58%) Oracle RAC
12 22 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
13 21 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
14 16 (0.20%) pfSense
15 15 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
16 12 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
17 11 (0.14%) NFS
18 9 (0.11%) Forefront TMG
18 9 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
18 9 (0.11%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 526 (6.69%) Ansible
2 464 (5.90%) Kubernetes
3 445 (5.66%) Terraform
4 207 (2.63%) SCCM
5 154 (1.96%) Puppet
6 91 (1.16%) WSUS
7 87 (1.11%) vCenter Server
8 83 (1.05%) SCOM
9 67 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
10 59 (0.75%) Grafana
11 51 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
12 46 (0.58%) Data Guard
13 45 (0.57%) EnCase
13 45 (0.57%) Oracle RMAN
14 38 (0.48%) Prometheus
15 35 (0.44%) Progress Chef
16 34 (0.43%) FortiGate
16 34 (0.43%) NetBackup
17 32 (0.41%) OpenView
18 29 (0.37%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 1,321 (16.79%) Microsoft
2 565 (7.18%) VMware
3 474 (6.02%) Cisco
4 459 (5.83%) Oracle
5 337 (4.28%) ESRI
6 299 (3.80%) Juniper
7 192 (2.44%) Red Hat
8 148 (1.88%) ServiceNow
9 129 (1.64%) Remedy
10 111 (1.41%) HP
11 107 (1.36%) Google
12 104 (1.32%) Sparx
13 91 (1.16%) IBM
14 85 (1.08%) SAP
15 82 (1.04%) Dell
16 80 (1.02%) Fortinet
17 76 (0.97%) Splunk
18 70 (0.89%) Palo Alto
19 64 (0.81%) CheckPoint
20 59 (0.75%) McAfee