SC Cleared Jobs in Durham

Security Check (SC) Clearance
North East > Durham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Durham with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 46 52
Rank change year-on-year +13 +6 -9
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 4 7 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Durham 1.64% 1.64% 0.63%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.26% 7.29% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 4 7 0
10th Percentile - £50,096 -
25th Percentile £64,509 £55,400 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,384 £58,800 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,388 £69,850 -
90th Percentile £83,021 £78,340 -
North East median annual salary £69,384 £43,072 £47,500
% change year-on-year +61.09% -9.32% +54.47%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Durham

SC Cleared falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Durham.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 76 96 123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Durham 31.15% 22.48% 39.05%
Number of salaries quoted 9 54 34
10th Percentile £47,250 £27,500 -
25th Percentile £64,509 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,384 £55,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.15% +37.50% -
75th Percentile £74,258 £62,500 £51,313
90th Percentile £81,355 £75,000 £61,250
North East median annual salary £56,500 £43,072 £47,500
% change year-on-year +31.18% -9.32% +18.75%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Durham

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in Durham

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

Salary trend for SC Cleared in Durham

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in Durham

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Durham over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in Durham

SC Cleared
Job Locations in Durham

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the Durham region over the 6 months to 15 May 2025. 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
Darlington +7 4 £69,384 +18.00% 2
SC Cleared
North East

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Durham 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon ECR
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (75.00%) AWS CodeBuild
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Computing
1 3 (75.00%) dbt
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
1 3 (75.00%) Pulumi
1 3 (75.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (75.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (75.00%) Redis
General
1 4 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
1 3 (75.00%) Site Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Clean Code
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Observability
1 3 (75.00%) Open Source
1 3 (75.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 3 (75.00%) Prototyping
1 3 (75.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 3 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) SABSA
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NCSC
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Copilot
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Google