Security Cleared Jobs in the East of England

Security 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 Security 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 63 23 41
Rank change year-on-year -40 +18 +20
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 159 437 289
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 4.66% 6.35% 6.24%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.36% 26.68% 14.17%
Number of salaries quoted 128 282 129
10th Percentile £28,750 £25,618 £34,600
25th Percentile £50,875 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £67,813 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £72,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £61,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.96% -4.17% +9.09%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East of England

Security 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%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the East of England

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

Salary trend for Security Cleared in the East of England

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in the East of England

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

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in the East of England

Security 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 Security 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 -9 98 £57,500 +4.55% 134
Cambridgeshire -4 24 £64,000 +68.42% 40
Essex +8 13 £64,000 +113.33% 29
Norfolk - 12 £55,000 - 3
Bedfordshire -27 9 £64,000 -17.42% 45
Suffolk -33 3 £65,000 +28.08% 8
Security Cleared
England

Security 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 2 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.26%) Apache Spark
1 2 (1.26%) Appian
2 1 (0.63%) Alfresco
2 1 (0.63%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (0.63%) Confluence
2 1 (0.63%) Documentum
2 1 (0.63%) Exchange Server 2013
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.63%) SAS
2 1 (0.63%) Skype for Business
2 1 (0.63%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (3.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.63%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 40 (25.16%) AWS
2 27 (16.98%) Azure
3 15 (9.43%) Amazon EKS
3 15 (9.43%) AWS CloudFormation
3 15 (9.43%) AWS CodePipeline
3 15 (9.43%) AWS Lambda
3 15 (9.43%) SaaS
3 15 (9.43%) Serverless
4 14 (8.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 14 (8.81%) Amazon EventBridge
4 14 (8.81%) Amazon SQS
4 14 (8.81%) AWS CodeBuild
4 14 (8.81%) AWS CodeDeploy
4 14 (8.81%) AWS Step Functions
4 14 (8.81%) Boomi
5 3 (1.89%) Amazon S3
5 3 (1.89%) Figma
6 2 (1.26%) Amazon Cognito
6 2 (1.26%) MinIO
6 2 (1.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 18 (11.32%) Firewall
2 17 (10.69%) VPN
3 16 (10.06%) WAN
4 15 (9.43%) LAN
4 15 (9.43%) TCP/IP
5 13 (8.18%) SMTP
6 12 (7.55%) FTP
6 12 (7.55%) HTTP
7 11 (6.92%) Cisco ISE
8 10 (6.29%) Internet
9 9 (5.66%) Network Security
10 4 (2.52%) DHCP
10 4 (2.52%) DNS
10 4 (2.52%) Ethernet
10 4 (2.52%) MPLS
10 4 (2.52%) SAN
11 3 (1.89%) Intrusion Detection
12 2 (1.26%) VoIP
13 1 (0.63%) VLAN
13 1 (0.63%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.43%) Big Data
1 15 (9.43%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (5.03%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.26%) GIS
4 1 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (3.77%) JIRA
2 3 (1.89%) Git
2 3 (1.89%) GitLab
2 3 (1.89%) Selenium
3 2 (1.26%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.26%) Robot Framework
3 2 (1.26%) Snyk
4 1 (0.63%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.63%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.63%) ClearCase
4 1 (0.63%) ClearQuest
4 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.63%) LabVIEW
General
1 34 (21.38%) Social Skills
2 31 (19.50%) Law
3 24 (15.09%) Public Sector
4 22 (13.84%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (11.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (9.43%) Marketing
7 14 (8.81%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (7.55%) Pharmaceutical
9 8 (5.03%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (4.40%) Aerospace
11 5 (3.14%) Electronics
12 3 (1.89%) Finance
12 3 (1.89%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.89%) Retail
13 1 (0.63%) Aviation
13 1 (0.63%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 32 (20.13%) Lead
2 30 (18.87%) Analyst
3 21 (13.21%) Support Analyst
4 19 (11.95%) 2nd Line Support
4 19 (11.95%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 16 (10.06%) Developer
6 15 (9.43%) Software Developer
7 12 (7.55%) Automation Engineer
7 12 (7.55%) Field Engineer
7 12 (7.55%) Field Service Engineer
8 10 (6.29%) Designer
8 10 (6.29%) Senior
9 8 (5.03%) Architect
9 8 (5.03%) Network Designer
10 6 (3.77%) Network Architect
11 5 (3.14%) Business Analyst
11 5 (3.14%) DevOps Engineer
11 5 (3.14%) Wintel Engineer
12 4 (2.52%) Agile Project Manager
12 4 (2.52%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (11.32%) RESTful
2 16 (10.06%) .NET
3 15 (9.43%) Node.js
3 15 (9.43%) Pandas
4 14 (8.81%) JWT
4 14 (8.81%) OAuth
5 11 (6.92%) LDAP
6 2 (1.26%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (1.26%) Kafka
6 2 (1.26%) Keycloak
7 1 (0.63%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.63%) CSS
7 1 (0.63%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.63%) JSON
7 1 (0.63%) REST
7 1 (0.63%) SAML
7 1 (0.63%) SOAP
7 1 (0.63%) Spring
7 1 (0.63%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.63%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.43%) Cyberattack
2 13 (8.18%) Security Operations Centre
3 12 (7.55%) Client/Server
3 12 (7.55%) SCADA
4 6 (3.77%) PKI
5 5 (3.14%) iSeries
6 4 (2.52%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.89%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.89%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (1.89%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.89%) MISP
7 3 (1.89%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.26%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.26%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.26%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.63%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.63%) Robotics
9 1 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.63%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 29 (18.24%) Linux
2 16 (10.06%) Android
3 9 (5.66%) Windows
4 4 (2.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.52%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.26%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.63%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.63%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.63%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.63%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (27.04%) Line Management
2 40 (25.16%) CI/CD
3 36 (22.64%) Agile
4 29 (18.24%) Kanban
5 28 (17.61%) Software Engineering
6 25 (15.72%) DevOps
7 21 (13.21%) Project Management
8 20 (12.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (12.58%) SIEM
9 18 (11.32%) Coaching
9 18 (11.32%) Collaborative Working
9 18 (11.32%) Containerisation
9 18 (11.32%) OO
10 17 (10.69%) Incident Management
10 17 (10.69%) Mathematics
11 16 (10.06%) Analytics
11 16 (10.06%) Android Development
11 16 (10.06%) OOP
12 15 (9.43%) Secure Coding
12 15 (9.43%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 30 (18.87%) Java
2 29 (18.24%) Python
3 22 (13.84%) C++
4 20 (12.58%) SQL
5 16 (10.06%) JavaScript
6 15 (9.43%) C#
6 15 (9.43%) Go
6 15 (9.43%) Rust
7 8 (5.03%) Bash
7 8 (5.03%) PowerShell
8 6 (3.77%) Perl
9 2 (1.26%) C
10 1 (0.63%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 89 (55.97%) SC Cleared
2 56 (35.22%) DV Cleared
3 25 (15.72%) Degree
4 12 (7.55%) HNC
4 12 (7.55%) HND
5 4 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.52%) CISSP
6 3 (1.89%) CCNA
6 3 (1.89%) CISM
7 2 (1.26%) A+ Certification
7 2 (1.26%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.26%) GCIA
7 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.26%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.63%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (0.63%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.63%) PMP
8 1 (0.63%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (12.58%) SLA
2 3 (1.89%) QA
3 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.63%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (0.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (13.21%) Docker
2 10 (6.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.14%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.26%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.63%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (13.84%) Terraform
2 21 (13.21%) Kubernetes
3 20 (12.58%) Ansible
4 10 (6.29%) QRadar
5 1 (0.63%) Avamar
5 1 (0.63%) CASB
5 1 (0.63%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.63%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.63%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.63%) Nessus
5 1 (0.63%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.63%) Puppet
5 1 (0.63%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.63%) VxRail
5 1 (0.63%) WMI
5 1 (0.63%) WSUS
Vendors
1 19 (11.95%) VMware
2 18 (11.32%) Microsoft
2 18 (11.32%) Splunk
3 17 (10.69%) Cisco
4 14 (8.81%) Informatica
4 14 (8.81%) MuleSoft
4 14 (8.81%) Salesforce
4 14 (8.81%) ServiceNow
5 11 (6.92%) Juniper
5 11 (6.92%) SevOne
6 3 (1.89%) Dell
6 3 (1.89%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.26%) Aruba
7 2 (1.26%) BiZZdesign
7 2 (1.26%) Black Duck
7 2 (1.26%) EMC
7 2 (1.26%) ESRI
7 2 (1.26%) Freshdesk
7 2 (1.26%) UiPath
8 1 (0.63%) Microsemi