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 30 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 87 36
Rank change year-on-year +29 -51 +23
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 122 97 113
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 2.93% 2.70% 5.28%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.02% 7.20% 15.05%
Number of salaries quoted 77 71 79
10th Percentile £30,750 £49,750 £44,625
25th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £47,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.17% -4.17% +37.14%
75th Percentile £56,250 £65,136 £69,250
90th Percentile £71,750 £73,750 £81,100
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,291
% change year-on-year - +4.73% -2.07%

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 1,353 1,348 751
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 32.46% 37.58% 35.06%
Number of salaries quoted 515 416 457
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,625 £28,920
25th Percentile £31,250 £43,750 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.09% -3.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 30 December 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 30 December 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 +15 89 £50,500 -12.17% 190
Bedfordshire +30 12 £63,750 -12.07% 103
Cambridgeshire +13 12 £42,500 -30.12% 95
Essex -12 7 £40,000 - 148
Suffolk -17 2 £57,500 +76.92% 58
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 11 (9.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.92%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 6 (4.92%) Simulink
2 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (4.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.46%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 22 (18.03%) Entra ID
2 14 (11.48%) Azure
3 11 (9.02%) AWS
4 7 (5.74%) Cohesity
5 4 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.64%) AWS KMS
6 2 (1.64%) Boomi
6 2 (1.64%) Google Workspace
6 2 (1.64%) Matillion
6 2 (1.64%) SaaS
7 1 (0.82%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.82%) IaaS
7 1 (0.82%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.38%) WAN
2 8 (6.56%) LAN
3 6 (4.92%) Firewall
3 6 (4.92%) Network Security
3 6 (4.92%) Skype
4 5 (4.10%) Internet
4 5 (4.10%) SAN
4 5 (4.10%) VPN
5 4 (3.28%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (3.28%) WLAN
6 3 (2.46%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (2.46%) VLAN
7 2 (1.64%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (1.64%) Ethernet
7 2 (1.64%) InfiniBand
7 2 (1.64%) Spanning Tree
7 2 (1.64%) VSAN
7 2 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.82%) Cisco Wireless
8 1 (0.82%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.74%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.28%) Metadata
3 3 (2.46%) SAP HANA
4 2 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.64%) Pentaho
4 2 (1.64%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.64%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (1.64%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.82%) Big Data
5 1 (0.82%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.82%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.82%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.82%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.82%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (2.46%) GitLab
1 3 (2.46%) Rational DOORS
1 3 (2.46%) Rational Rhapsody
2 1 (0.82%) Git
2 1 (0.82%) Jenkins
General
1 28 (22.95%) Law
2 26 (21.31%) Marketing
3 21 (17.21%) Social Skills
4 20 (16.39%) Public Sector
5 17 (13.93%) Finance
6 14 (11.48%) Telecoms
7 11 (9.02%) Aerospace
7 11 (9.02%) Manufacturing
8 10 (8.20%) Electronics
9 4 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (3.28%) Retail
10 3 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.64%) Advertising
11 2 (1.64%) Police
Job Titles
1 20 (16.39%) Support Engineer
2 13 (10.66%) 3rd Line Support
2 13 (10.66%) Senior
3 12 (9.84%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 11 (9.02%) 2nd Line Support
4 11 (9.02%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 11 (9.02%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 9 (7.38%) Linux Engineer
6 8 (6.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (5.74%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 6 (4.92%) Embedded Engineer
8 6 (4.92%) Software Engineer
9 5 (4.10%) Architect
9 5 (4.10%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.10%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 5 (4.10%) Network Engineer
9 5 (4.10%) Wintel Engineer
10 4 (3.28%) Operations Engineer
10 4 (3.28%) Research Scientist
10 4 (3.28%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.28%) JSON
2 3 (2.46%) Pandas
2 3 (2.46%) SAP Basis
2 3 (2.46%) XML
3 2 (1.64%) AngularJS
3 2 (1.64%) PySpark
3 2 (1.64%) React
3 2 (1.64%) Vue
4 1 (0.82%) .NET
4 1 (0.82%) FastAPI
4 1 (0.82%) JSON-LD
4 1 (0.82%) Middleware
4 1 (0.82%) REST
4 1 (0.82%) SOAP
4 1 (0.82%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.48%) Onboarding
2 10 (8.20%) Data Centre
3 7 (5.74%) Algorithms
4 5 (4.10%) e-Learning
5 4 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.28%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.28%) Semantic Web
6 3 (2.46%) Arduino
6 3 (2.46%) IoT
6 3 (2.46%) Raspberry Pi
6 3 (2.46%) Reference Data
6 3 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.64%) Blackberry
7 2 (1.64%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.64%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.64%) PKI
7 2 (1.64%) RSA SecurID
8 1 (0.82%) Linked Data
8 1 (0.82%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.82%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 23 (18.85%) Android
1 23 (18.85%) Apple iOS
2 19 (15.57%) Linux
3 12 (9.84%) Windows
4 8 (6.56%) Windows Server
5 5 (4.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (4.10%) Unix
6 3 (2.46%) Debian
6 3 (2.46%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (18.85%) Mobile Device Management
2 20 (16.39%) Software Engineering
3 19 (15.57%) Service Management
4 16 (13.11%) Configuration Management
5 15 (12.30%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (12.30%) Innovative Thinking
6 13 (10.66%) AI
7 12 (9.84%) Validation
7 12 (9.84%) Zero Trust
8 11 (9.02%) Physics
9 10 (8.20%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (8.20%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (8.20%) DevOps
9 10 (8.20%) Digital Marketing
9 10 (8.20%) Mathematics
9 10 (8.20%) Programme Management
10 9 (7.38%) Computer Science
10 9 (7.38%) Project Delivery
10 9 (7.38%) Stakeholder Management
11 8 (6.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (19.67%) Python
2 8 (6.56%) C
3 7 (5.74%) C++
3 7 (5.74%) SQL
4 6 (4.92%) Bash
4 6 (4.92%) Java
4 6 (4.92%) MATLAB
4 6 (4.92%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.46%) Assembly Language
5 3 (2.46%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.46%) Korn
5 3 (2.46%) Objective-C
5 3 (2.46%) Swift
6 1 (0.82%) Rust
6 1 (0.82%) SHACL
6 1 (0.82%) SPARQL
6 1 (0.82%) VB
6 1 (0.82%) VB.NET
6 1 (0.82%) VB6
Qualifications
1 122 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 24 (19.67%) Degree
3 11 (9.02%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (6.56%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.28%) CCNA
5 4 (3.28%) CCNP
5 4 (3.28%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.46%) CISM
6 3 (2.46%) CISSP
6 3 (2.46%) RHCE
7 2 (1.64%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.82%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (18.85%) SLA
2 7 (5.74%) QA
3 4 (3.28%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.64%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.64%) GDPR
4 2 (1.64%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.64%) NIST
4 2 (1.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (7.38%) Active Directory
1 9 (7.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (5.74%) Firmware
3 4 (3.28%) vSphere
4 3 (2.46%) Docker
5 2 (1.64%) Lustre
5 2 (1.64%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 23 (18.85%) Jamf Pro
2 8 (6.56%) Ansible
3 6 (4.92%) SCOM
3 6 (4.92%) WSUS
4 4 (3.28%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.64%) NetBackup
5 2 (1.64%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.82%) Endace
6 1 (0.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (18.85%) Apple
2 22 (18.03%) Microsoft
3 18 (14.75%) Samsung
4 15 (12.30%) SAP
5 12 (9.84%) VMware
6 11 (9.02%) Cisco
7 7 (5.74%) Red Hat
7 7 (5.74%) Salesforce
8 5 (4.10%) Fortinet
8 5 (4.10%) NetApp
8 5 (4.10%) Palo Alto
9 4 (3.28%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (2.46%) HP
10 3 (2.46%) MuleSoft
10 3 (2.46%) ServiceNow
11 2 (1.64%) EMC
11 2 (1.64%) Google
11 2 (1.64%) IBM
11 2 (1.64%) Informatica
11 2 (1.64%) Talend