SC Cleared Software Engineer Jobs in England

Security Check Clearance Software Engineer
UK > England

The median Security Check Clearance Software Engineer salary in England is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 656 816 896
Rank change year-on-year +160 +80 +254
Permanent jobs requiring a SC Cleared Software Engineer 6 17 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.013% 0.020% 0.036%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.014% 0.021% 0.039%
Number of salaries quoted 4 14 10
10th Percentile - - £52,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £45,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -30.77% -
75th Percentile £72,188 £50,000 £74,688
90th Percentile £76,125 £57,000 £76,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £45,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +27.78% -30.77% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 41,555 80,517 84,778
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.29% 94.48% 91.54%
Number of salaries quoted 24,558 60,256 53,687
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,626
25th Percentile £42,415 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,000 £60,775
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% -11.15% +1.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,991 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.83% -

SC Cleared Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured SC Cleared Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared Software Engineer in England

SC Cleared Software Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared Software Engineer in England.

Salary trend for SC Cleared Software Engineer in England

SC Cleared Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared Software Engineer in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared Software Engineer in England

SC Cleared Software Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared Software Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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
South East +102 3 £71,250 +58.33%
London +109 2 £45,000 -25.00% 1
North West - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - - 2
SC Cleared Software Engineer
UK

SC Cleared Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, SC Cleared Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring SC Cleared Software Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) Docker
2 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (66.67%) Git
2 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Python
3 3 (50.00%) Scrum
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Apache
4 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
4 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
4 2 (33.33%) ETL
4 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (33.33%) AWS
4 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
4 2 (33.33%) Machine Learning
4 2 (33.33%) Big Data
4 2 (33.33%) Data Transformation
4 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
4 2 (33.33%) React
4 2 (33.33%) Data Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Apache Spark
4 2 (33.33%) YAML
4 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Data Lake
4 2 (33.33%) Databricks

SC Cleared Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (33.33%) Apache
1 2 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Functions
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Big Data
1 2 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) PySpark
1 2 (33.33%) React
1 2 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Android
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 2 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (33.33%) Data Transformation
3 2 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) ETL
3 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
4 1 (16.67%) C
4 1 (16.67%) C#
4 1 (16.67%) C++
4 1 (16.67%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle