SC Cleared Job Trends 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 17 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 66 79
Rank change year-on-year -1 +13 +4
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 115 97 142
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 2.18% 3.45% 2.66%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.93% 7.59% 9.49%
Number of salaries quoted 90 81 90
10th Percentile £31,200 £51,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £58,000 £62,150
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% -6.68% +13.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £72,625 £72,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £56,175
% change year-on-year +8.33% +6.81% -6.38%

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 1,451 1,278 1,497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 27.56% 45.51% 28.02%
Number of salaries quoted 530 554 1,042
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,781 £34,100
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,253 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,500 £72,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £59,430 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.77% +8.05% -4.35%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SC Cleared relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

SC Cleared job vacancy trend in the East of England

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing SC Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing SC Cleared

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 17 March 2026.

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 17 March 2026. 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 -5 88 £51,750 -10.00% 32
Bedfordshire +23 9 £57,500 -10.16% 12
Suffolk +8 6 £67,500 +107.69% 7
Essex -12 5 £65,000 +18.18% 14
Cambridgeshire -17 5 £42,500 -29.17% 19
Norfolk -9 2 £65,000 +18.18% 7
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (6.09%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.87%) CATIA
1 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (5.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (20.00%) Azure
2 21 (18.26%) Entra ID
3 17 (14.78%) AWS
4 9 (7.83%) SaaS
5 8 (6.96%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (5.22%) Boomi
7 5 (4.35%) AWS KMS
7 5 (4.35%) Matillion
8 2 (1.74%) Cohesity
8 2 (1.74%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.74%) IaaS
8 2 (1.74%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.87%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.87%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.87%) PaaS
9 1 (0.87%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.87%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.96%) Firewall
2 7 (6.09%) WAN
3 6 (5.22%) LAN
4 4 (3.48%) Cisco ISE
4 4 (3.48%) Network Security
4 4 (3.48%) VLAN
5 3 (2.61%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (2.61%) Spanning Tree
5 3 (2.61%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (1.74%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (1.74%) Ethernet
6 2 (1.74%) InfiniBand
6 2 (1.74%) SAN
6 2 (1.74%) VPN
6 2 (1.74%) WLAN
7 1 (0.87%) Cisco Wireless
7 1 (0.87%) DNS
7 1 (0.87%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.87%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.87%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (4.35%) Pentaho
1 5 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
1 5 (4.35%) Star Schema
2 3 (2.61%) Metadata
3 1 (0.87%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (0.87%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.87%) Power BI
3 1 (0.87%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.87%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Git
General
1 30 (26.09%) Law
2 27 (23.48%) Public Sector
3 24 (20.87%) Social Skills
4 19 (16.52%) Marketing
5 17 (14.78%) Finance
6 10 (8.70%) Telecoms
7 6 (5.22%) Manufacturing
8 5 (4.35%) Legal
9 4 (3.48%) Electronics
10 3 (2.61%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.74%) Police
12 1 (0.87%) Advertising
12 1 (0.87%) Analytical Skills
12 1 (0.87%) Automotive
12 1 (0.87%) Back Office
12 1 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.87%) Retail
12 1 (0.87%) Swedish Language
12 1 (0.87%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 20 (17.39%) Support Engineer
2 13 (11.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (10.43%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 12 (10.43%) Senior
4 11 (9.57%) 3rd Line Support
4 11 (9.57%) Data Engineer
5 10 (8.70%) 2nd Line Support
5 10 (8.70%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 8 (6.96%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 6 (5.22%) Architect
7 6 (5.22%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (5.22%) Linux Engineer
7 6 (5.22%) Software Engineer
7 6 (5.22%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (4.35%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 5 (4.35%) Embedded Engineer
8 5 (4.35%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 5 (4.35%) Infrastructure Support
8 5 (4.35%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 4 (3.48%) Category Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.35%) PySpark
2 3 (2.61%) JSON
3 2 (1.74%) Pandas
3 2 (1.74%) REST
3 2 (1.74%) SOAP
3 2 (1.74%) XML
4 1 (0.87%) .NET
4 1 (0.87%) CSS
4 1 (0.87%) FastAPI
4 1 (0.87%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.87%) HTML
4 1 (0.87%) JSON-LD
4 1 (0.87%) JWT
4 1 (0.87%) Middleware
4 1 (0.87%) React
4 1 (0.87%) RESTful
4 1 (0.87%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.78%) Onboarding
2 11 (9.57%) Data Centre
3 5 (4.35%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.48%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.61%) Low-Code
5 3 (2.61%) Semantic Web
6 2 (1.74%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.74%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.74%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.74%) Robotics
7 1 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.87%) Linked Data
7 1 (0.87%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.87%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.87%) Verilog
7 1 (0.87%) VHDL
7 1 (0.87%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 23 (20.00%) Android
2 22 (19.13%) Apple iOS
3 9 (7.83%) Linux
4 7 (6.09%) Windows
5 2 (1.74%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.87%) Unix
6 1 (0.87%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (19.13%) Mobile Device Management
2 21 (18.26%) Continuous Improvement
3 15 (13.04%) Configuration Management
3 15 (13.04%) Service Management
4 13 (11.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 12 (10.43%) Software Engineering
5 12 (10.43%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (9.57%) Zero Trust
7 9 (7.83%) DevOps
8 8 (6.96%) IT Strategy
9 7 (6.09%) Data Transformation
9 7 (6.09%) ETL
9 7 (6.09%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (5.22%) Agile
10 6 (5.22%) CRM
10 6 (5.22%) ITIL
10 6 (5.22%) Performance Tuning
11 5 (4.35%) AI
11 5 (4.35%) Data Extraction
11 5 (4.35%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 13 (11.30%) Python
2 10 (8.70%) SQL
3 3 (2.61%) Bash
4 2 (1.74%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.87%) C
5 1 (0.87%) C#
5 1 (0.87%) Embedded C
5 1 (0.87%) SHACL
5 1 (0.87%) SPARQL
5 1 (0.87%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.87%) VB
5 1 (0.87%) VB.NET
5 1 (0.87%) VB6
Qualifications
1 115 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.83%) Degree
3 3 (2.61%) DV Cleared
3 3 (2.61%) RHCE
4 2 (1.74%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (1.74%) CCNA
4 2 (1.74%) CCNP
4 2 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.87%) CCA
5 1 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (14.78%) SLA
2 7 (6.09%) QA
3 6 (5.22%) Data Quality
4 5 (4.35%) GDPR
4 5 (4.35%) HIPAA
4 5 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (4.35%) NIST
4 5 (4.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.74%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.87%) DO-254
System Software
1 5 (4.35%) Hyper-V
1 5 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (3.48%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.61%) Firmware
4 2 (1.74%) Docker
4 2 (1.74%) Lustre
4 2 (1.74%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 2 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.74%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.74%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (19.13%) Jamf Pro
2 3 (2.61%) Ansible
3 2 (1.74%) FortiGate
3 2 (1.74%) NetBackup
3 2 (1.74%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.87%) Check_MK
4 1 (0.87%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (20.87%) Microsoft
2 23 (20.00%) Apple
3 18 (15.65%) Samsung
4 9 (7.83%) Cisco
5 8 (6.96%) MuleSoft
5 8 (6.96%) Salesforce
6 6 (5.22%) Informatica
6 6 (5.22%) SAP
7 5 (4.35%) Red Hat
7 5 (4.35%) Talend
8 4 (3.48%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.61%) Fortinet
9 3 (2.61%) Palo Alto
9 3 (2.61%) SolarWinds
9 3 (2.61%) VMware
10 2 (1.74%) Google
10 2 (1.74%) HP
10 2 (1.74%) IBM
10 2 (1.74%) NetApp
10 2 (1.74%) Pega