SC Cleared Jobs in the East of England

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 110 110 96
Rank change year-on-year 0 -14 +1
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 76 127 148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 2.25% 2.08% 2.83%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.31% 7.91% 6.58%
Number of salaries quoted 69 70 69
10th Percentile £49,050 £41,125 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -0.90% +0.91%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £69,000 £72,500 £75,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +8.11%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,765 1,605 2,249
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 52.19% 26.25% 42.94%
Number of salaries quoted 629 1,106 609
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,000 £27,600
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,225 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £54,700 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.55% -8.83% +9.09%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the East of England

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

Salary trend for SC Cleared in the East of England

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in the East of England

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

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in the East of England

SC Cleared
Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England 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
Hertfordshire -4 40 £57,000 +6.54% 87
Cambridgeshire +28 12 £64,000 +17.27% 29
Norfolk - 12 £55,000 - 10
Bedfordshire -19 7 £64,000 -28.89% 63
Essex +16 4 £64,000 -5.19% 33
Suffolk -24 1 £70,000 - 14
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 8 (10.53%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 8 (10.53%) Exchange Server 2013
1 8 (10.53%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (10.53%) Skype for Business
2 2 (2.63%) Alfresco
2 2 (2.63%) Documentum
2 2 (2.63%) SAS
2 2 (2.63%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.32%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.53%) Cohesity
2 7 (9.21%) Azure
3 6 (7.89%) AWS
4 2 (2.63%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.63%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.32%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (1.32%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.32%) Cloudflare
5 1 (1.32%) Figma
5 1 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (18.42%) SMTP
2 9 (11.84%) Internet
3 8 (10.53%) Firewall
3 8 (10.53%) IMAP
3 8 (10.53%) Network Security
3 8 (10.53%) SAN
3 8 (10.53%) Skype
3 8 (10.53%) TCP/IP
4 6 (7.89%) FTP
4 6 (7.89%) HTTP
4 6 (7.89%) LAN
4 6 (7.89%) VPN
4 6 (7.89%) WAN
5 5 (6.58%) Ethernet
5 5 (6.58%) MPLS
6 3 (3.95%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (2.63%) BGP
7 2 (2.63%) VPLS
8 1 (1.32%) DNS
8 1 (1.32%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.89%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.63%) Power BI
2 2 (2.63%) Tableau
3 1 (1.32%) Big Data
3 1 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Git
2 1 (1.32%) Artifactory
2 1 (1.32%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.32%) ClearCase
2 1 (1.32%) ClearQuest
2 1 (1.32%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.32%) JIRA
2 1 (1.32%) Log4j
General
1 17 (22.37%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.79%) Pharmaceutical
2 12 (15.79%) Public Sector
3 8 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (10.53%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (5.26%) Law
5 3 (3.95%) Advertising
6 2 (2.63%) Front Office
6 2 (2.63%) Marketing
6 2 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.32%) Electronics
7 1 (1.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (17.11%) Lead
2 12 (15.79%) Automation Engineer
2 12 (15.79%) Field Engineer
2 12 (15.79%) Field Service Engineer
3 8 (10.53%) Messaging Engineer
4 7 (9.21%) Analyst
4 7 (9.21%) Architect
5 6 (7.89%) Network Architect
6 5 (6.58%) Senior
6 5 (6.58%) Support Analyst
7 4 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (5.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Agile Project Manager
8 3 (3.95%) Project Manager
9 2 (2.63%) 2nd Line Support
9 2 (2.63%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
9 2 (2.63%) Applications Support
9 2 (2.63%) Applications Support Analyst
9 2 (2.63%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.89%) LDAP
2 2 (2.63%) Hugging Face
3 1 (1.32%) .NET
3 1 (1.32%) Apache Camel
3 1 (1.32%) CSS
3 1 (1.32%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.32%) HTML
3 1 (1.32%) Keycloak
3 1 (1.32%) RESTful
3 1 (1.32%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.79%) SCADA
2 8 (10.53%) Blackberry
3 7 (9.21%) Client/Server
3 7 (9.21%) Security Operations Centre
4 4 (5.26%) Management Information System
4 4 (5.26%) PKI
5 3 (3.95%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.95%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.63%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.63%) Robotics
6 2 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.32%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.32%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.32%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.32%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 13 (17.11%) Linux
2 8 (10.53%) Windows
3 3 (3.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.63%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.32%) Android
5 1 (1.32%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.32%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (18.42%) SIEM
2 12 (15.79%) Line Management
3 10 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (11.84%) Agile
5 8 (10.53%) Contract Management
5 8 (10.53%) Kanban
5 8 (10.53%) Scrum
5 8 (10.53%) Security Operations
6 7 (9.21%) Capacity Management
6 7 (9.21%) Problem Management
7 6 (7.89%) Blue Team
7 6 (7.89%) DevOps
7 6 (7.89%) Malware Analysis
7 6 (7.89%) Mentoring
7 6 (7.89%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 6 (7.89%) People Management
7 6 (7.89%) Project Management
7 6 (7.89%) Reverse Engineering
7 6 (7.89%) Software Engineering
7 6 (7.89%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 11 (14.47%) Python
2 7 (9.21%) C++
2 7 (9.21%) PowerShell
3 6 (7.89%) Bash
3 6 (7.89%) Perl
4 5 (6.58%) SQL
5 1 (1.32%) C
5 1 (1.32%) C#
5 1 (1.32%) Go
5 1 (1.32%) Java
5 1 (1.32%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 76 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 25 (32.89%) DV Cleared
3 19 (25.00%) Degree
4 12 (15.79%) HNC
4 12 (15.79%) HND
5 3 (3.95%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.63%) CCNA
6 2 (2.63%) CISSP
6 2 (2.63%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.32%) A+ Certification
7 1 (1.32%) CCSP
7 1 (1.32%) CISM
7 1 (1.32%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.95%) SLA
2 1 (1.32%) GDPR
2 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.32%) NIST
2 1 (1.32%) QA
System Software
1 10 (13.16%) Active Directory
2 7 (9.21%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (7.89%) Docker
4 4 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (7.89%) QRadar
2 4 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.26%) Terraform
3 1 (1.32%) Graylog
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 17 (22.37%) Microsoft
2 12 (15.79%) Splunk
3 11 (14.47%) VMware
4 8 (10.53%) NetApp
5 5 (6.58%) Cisco
6 3 (3.95%) Juniper
6 3 (3.95%) Red Hat
6 3 (3.95%) SevOne
7 2 (2.63%) Nokia
7 2 (2.63%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.32%) Apple
8 1 (1.32%) Atlassian