SC Cleared Jobs in the East Midlands

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 94 39
Rank change year-on-year -16 -55 +47
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 44 108 169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.60% 2.14% 6.61%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.40% 9.57% 17.19%
Number of salaries quoted 42 37 46
10th Percentile - £35,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £28,750 £40,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,250 £44,500 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +6.18% -13.17% +7.89%
75th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,000 £70,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +13.64%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,296 1,129 983
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 47.25% 22.37% 38.47%
Number of salaries quoted 260 545 266
10th Percentile £27,250 £25,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,073 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.01% -10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £57,000 £55,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £70,600
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the East Midlands

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

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

Salary trend for SC Cleared in the East Midlands

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in the East Midlands

SC Cleared
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 July 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
Nottinghamshire +41 21 £29,500 -37.89% 20
Derbyshire +13 11 £65,000 +62.50% 23
Leicestershire -15 8 £52,000 +28.28% 6
Lincolnshire +5 2 £80,000 +60.00% 11
Northamptonshire +1 2 £55,000 -18.52% 3
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (4.55%) Appian
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (4.55%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.55%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (4.55%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (4.55%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (4.55%) Oracle Financials
1 2 (4.55%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (4.55%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (4.55%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.45%) Azure
2 8 (18.18%) AWS
3 7 (15.91%) GCP
4 2 (4.55%) OCI
4 2 (4.55%) PaaS
4 2 (4.55%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.64%) Modbus
2 2 (4.55%) DHCP
2 2 (4.55%) DNS
2 2 (4.55%) Firewall
2 2 (4.55%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.27%) LAN
3 1 (2.27%) MPLS
3 1 (2.27%) PBX
3 1 (2.27%) VLAN
3 1 (2.27%) VoIP
3 1 (2.27%) VPN
3 1 (2.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.64%) Big Data
2 3 (6.82%) DynamoDB
2 3 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.55%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.55%) Power BI
3 2 (4.55%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.27%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (11.36%) Git
2 1 (2.27%) Rational DOORS
General
1 17 (38.64%) Law
1 17 (38.64%) Marketing
1 17 (38.64%) Organisational Skills
2 5 (11.36%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.55%) Finance
4 2 (4.55%) General Ledger
4 2 (4.55%) Local Government
4 2 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Electronics
5 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (43.18%) 2nd Line Support
1 19 (43.18%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
1 19 (43.18%) Analyst
1 19 (43.18%) Support Analyst
2 6 (13.64%) Automation Engineer
3 4 (9.09%) Senior
4 3 (6.82%) Developer
4 3 (6.82%) Lead
4 3 (6.82%) Python Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) Python Software Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) Software Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Appian Developer
5 2 (4.55%) Network Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Windows Engineer
6 1 (2.27%) Data Engineer
6 1 (2.27%) Lead Network Engineer
6 1 (2.27%) Principal Developer
6 1 (2.27%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (2.27%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.91%) Django
1 7 (15.91%) Flask
2 3 (6.82%) REST
3 2 (4.55%) FastAPI
3 2 (4.55%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (4.55%) RESTful
3 2 (4.55%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.64%) Cloud Native
1 6 (13.64%) SCADA
2 3 (6.82%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.55%) IoT
3 2 (4.55%) iSeries
4 1 (2.27%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.27%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.27%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.27%) FPGA
4 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.27%) Verilog
4 1 (2.27%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.55%) Windows
1 2 (4.55%) Windows Server
1 2 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (43.18%) Incident Management
2 17 (38.64%) Batch Management
2 17 (38.64%) Patch Management
3 11 (25.00%) Agile
4 8 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 7 (15.91%) Computer Science
5 7 (15.91%) Mentoring
6 6 (13.64%) Decarbonisation
6 6 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (13.64%) Validation
6 6 (13.64%) Verification and Validation
7 5 (11.36%) DevOps
8 4 (9.09%) API Design
8 4 (9.09%) Machine Learning
8 4 (9.09%) Software Engineering
8 4 (9.09%) Software Testing
9 3 (6.82%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (6.82%) Data Management
9 3 (6.82%) Test Automation
9 3 (6.82%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 20 (45.45%) SQL
2 9 (20.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 44 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (18.18%) Degree
3 2 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (4.55%) CTC Cleared
3 2 (4.55%) DV Cleared
3 2 (4.55%) MCP
3 2 (4.55%) MCSA
3 2 (4.55%) MCSE
3 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.27%) CCNA
4 1 (2.27%) CCNP
4 1 (2.27%) Chartered Engineer
4 1 (2.27%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (38.64%) SLA
2 1 (2.27%) QA
System Software
1 5 (11.36%) Docker
2 2 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.55%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.27%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (15.91%) Terraform
2 6 (13.64%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.55%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (4.55%) arcserve
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft
1 2 (4.55%) Oracle
1 2 (4.55%) VMware
2 1 (2.27%) Cognos
2 1 (2.27%) Mentor Graphics
2 1 (2.27%) Xilinx