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

6 months to
15 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 119 91
Rank change year-on-year +19 -28 +6
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 89 122 139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 2.61% 1.77% 3.00%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.24% 7.45% 6.81%
Number of salaries quoted 83 71 73
10th Percentile £28,750 £40,000 £42,100
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -5.41% +5.71%
75th Percentile £63,625 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £66,500 £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 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 1,699 1,638 2,040
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 49.81% 23.79% 44.08%
Number of salaries quoted 608 1,098 580
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,313 £32,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,215 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,750 £72,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £54,273 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.34% -9.55% +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 June 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 June 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 +17 55 £52,500 - 79
Norfolk - 12 £55,000 - 3
Cambridgeshire +37 11 £64,000 +17.27% 18
Essex +10 5 £64,000 +68.42% 17
Bedfordshire -15 4 £64,000 - 28
Suffolk -25 2 £66,250 - 1
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 1 (1.12%) Alfresco
1 1 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.12%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.12%) Appian
1 1 (1.12%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 1 (1.12%) Confluence
1 1 (1.12%) Documentum
1 1 (1.12%) Exchange Server 2013
1 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.12%) SAS
1 1 (1.12%) Skype for Business
1 1 (1.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (5.62%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (7.87%) AWS
2 6 (6.74%) Azure
3 1 (1.12%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (1.12%) Amazon S3
3 1 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.12%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (1.12%) Cohesity
3 1 (1.12%) Entra ID
3 1 (1.12%) Figma
3 1 (1.12%) GitHub
3 1 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (1.12%) IaaS
3 1 (1.12%) MinIO
3 1 (1.12%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.11%) Firewall
2 8 (8.99%) WAN
3 7 (7.87%) Internet
3 7 (7.87%) LAN
3 7 (7.87%) Network Security
3 7 (7.87%) SMTP
3 7 (7.87%) TCP/IP
3 7 (7.87%) VPN
4 6 (6.74%) FTP
4 6 (6.74%) HTTP
5 4 (4.49%) Ethernet
5 4 (4.49%) MPLS
6 3 (3.37%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (2.25%) SAN
8 1 (1.12%) BGP
8 1 (1.12%) DNS
8 1 (1.12%) SD-WAN
8 1 (1.12%) Skype
8 1 (1.12%) VSAN
8 1 (1.12%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.74%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Git
2 1 (1.12%) Artifactory
2 1 (1.12%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.12%) ClearCase
2 1 (1.12%) ClearQuest
2 1 (1.12%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.12%) JIRA
2 1 (1.12%) LabVIEW
2 1 (1.12%) Robot Framework
2 1 (1.12%) Selenium
2 1 (1.12%) Snyk
General
1 22 (24.72%) Social Skills
2 15 (16.85%) Law
3 14 (15.73%) Marketing
3 14 (15.73%) Organisational Skills
4 12 (13.48%) Pharmaceutical
5 9 (10.11%) Public Sector
6 8 (8.99%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.25%) Aerospace
8 2 (2.25%) Electronics
9 1 (1.12%) Finance
9 1 (1.12%) Front Office
9 1 (1.12%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (24.72%) Analyst
2 21 (23.60%) Support Analyst
3 19 (21.35%) 2nd Line Support
3 19 (21.35%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 13 (14.61%) Lead
5 12 (13.48%) Automation Engineer
5 12 (13.48%) Field Engineer
5 12 (13.48%) Field Service Engineer
6 7 (7.87%) Architect
7 6 (6.74%) Network Architect
7 6 (6.74%) Senior
8 5 (5.62%) Wintel Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (4.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) Agile Project Manager
10 3 (3.37%) Project Manager
11 2 (2.25%) IT Engineer
11 2 (2.25%) Software Engineer
12 1 (1.12%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.74%) LDAP
2 2 (2.25%) RESTful
3 1 (1.12%) .NET
3 1 (1.12%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (1.12%) CSS
3 1 (1.12%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.12%) HTML
3 1 (1.12%) Kafka
3 1 (1.12%) Keycloak
3 1 (1.12%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.48%) SCADA
2 7 (7.87%) Security Operations Centre
3 6 (6.74%) Client/Server
4 5 (5.62%) iSeries
5 4 (4.49%) PKI
6 3 (3.37%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.37%) Private Cloud
7 2 (2.25%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.12%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.12%) Blackberry
8 1 (1.12%) Clustering
8 1 (1.12%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.12%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.12%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.12%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.12%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.12%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (1.12%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.24%) Linux
2 6 (6.74%) Windows
3 3 (3.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.37%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.12%) Android
4 1 (1.12%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.12%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (19.10%) Incident Management
2 14 (15.73%) Batch Management
2 14 (15.73%) Patch Management
3 13 (14.61%) SIEM
4 12 (13.48%) Line Management
4 12 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (12.36%) Service Delivery
6 10 (11.24%) Agile
7 9 (10.11%) Problem Management
8 8 (8.99%) Contract Management
8 8 (8.99%) Kanban
8 8 (8.99%) Scrum
8 8 (8.99%) Software Engineering
9 7 (7.87%) CI/CD
9 7 (7.87%) DevOps
9 7 (7.87%) Security Operations
9 7 (7.87%) Use Case
10 6 (6.74%) Change Control
10 6 (6.74%) ITIL
10 6 (6.74%) Reverse Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (22.47%) SQL
2 10 (11.24%) Python
3 7 (7.87%) C++
3 7 (7.87%) PowerShell
4 6 (6.74%) Bash
4 6 (6.74%) Perl
5 1 (1.12%) C
5 1 (1.12%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 89 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 25 (28.09%) DV Cleared
3 20 (22.47%) Degree
4 12 (13.48%) HNC
4 12 (13.48%) HND
5 2 (2.25%) CCNA
5 2 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.12%) CISSP
6 1 (1.12%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.12%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (22.47%) SLA
2 1 (1.12%) QA
System Software
1 6 (6.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (4.49%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.49%) Docker
3 1 (1.12%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (6.74%) QRadar
2 5 (5.62%) Terraform
3 4 (4.49%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.12%) Ansible
4 1 (1.12%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (1.12%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 12 (13.48%) Splunk
2 8 (8.99%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.87%) VMware
4 6 (6.74%) Cisco
5 3 (3.37%) Juniper
5 3 (3.37%) Red Hat
5 3 (3.37%) SevOne
6 1 (1.12%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.12%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (1.12%) Black Duck
6 1 (1.12%) Mentor Graphics
6 1 (1.12%) NetApp
6 1 (1.12%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (1.12%) Nokia
6 1 (1.12%) UiPath