SC Cleared Jobs in England

Security Check (SC) Clearance
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 50 60
Rank change year-on-year -56 +10 +71
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 1,440 3,893 4,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.94% 4.35% 5.00%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.85% 15.72% 15.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,031 2,419 2,318
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,175
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £62,450
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -11.93% +13.55%
75th Percentile £74,258 £70,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £83,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +10.96%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
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 England.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 24,632 24,771 28,776
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 50.31% 27.69% 33.31%
Number of salaries quoted 9,782 15,756 13,083
10th Percentile £31,750 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,897 £54,399 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -9.34% +9.09%
75th Percentile £68,938 £71,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% -10.83% +9.09%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in England

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for SC Cleared in England

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in England

SC Cleared
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 30 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 -20 519 £55,000 - 1,681
London -17 315 £64,000 -8.57% 570
South West -26 197 £60,000 +9.09% 955
Midlands -37 158 £65,000 +18.18% 1,165
West Midlands -16 130 £65,000 +18.18% 630
North of England -158 128 £55,000 -4.35% 1,287
East of England +11 81 £55,000 +5.26% 927
North West -175 67 £58,000 +5.45% 592
Yorkshire -24 52 £44,850 -25.25% 528
East Midlands -47 28 £52,000 +10.05% 452
North East +28 8 £69,384 +26.15% 168
SC Cleared
UK

SC Cleared
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 28 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (1.88%) Confluence
3 20 (1.39%) SharePoint
4 14 (0.97%) JBoss
4 14 (0.97%) Red Hat Fuse
5 13 (0.90%) Apache Spark
6 10 (0.69%) Apache
7 9 (0.63%) Skype for Business
8 7 (0.49%) Appian
8 7 (0.49%) Exchange Server 2013
9 6 (0.42%) nginx
10 5 (0.35%) CMS
10 5 (0.35%) Headless CMS
11 4 (0.28%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 4 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2010
12 3 (0.21%) Alfresco
12 3 (0.21%) Office Communications Server
12 3 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
12 3 (0.21%) WinCC
13 2 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 41 (2.85%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.63%) Adobe XD
5 7 (0.49%) InVision
5 7 (0.49%) Sketch
6 5 (0.35%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 5 (0.35%) Simulink
7 4 (0.28%) Oracle Smart View
8 3 (0.21%) MS Visio
9 2 (0.14%) GNU Octave
9 2 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.14%) Windchill
10 1 (0.069%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.069%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.069%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.069%) Revit
10 1 (0.069%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (1.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 10 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.42%) Maximo
5 4 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.14%) PeopleSoft HCM
7 2 (0.14%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.14%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.14%) SAP HR
7 2 (0.14%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.14%) SAP Payroll
7 2 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 260 (18.06%) Azure
2 259 (17.99%) AWS
3 74 (5.14%) GCP
4 68 (4.72%) Power Platform
5 64 (4.44%) Serverless
6 56 (3.89%) Microsoft 365
7 51 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
8 43 (2.99%) Amazon EC2
9 39 (2.71%) Amazon ECS
9 39 (2.71%) Amazon S3
9 39 (2.71%) AWS KMS
10 37 (2.57%) Dynamics 365
10 37 (2.57%) Entra ID
11 31 (2.15%) AWS CloudFormation
11 31 (2.15%) Azure Data Factory
12 27 (1.88%) OCI
13 26 (1.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 26 (1.81%) AWS Lambda
14 25 (1.74%) Amazon EKS
15 24 (1.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 179 (12.43%) Firewall
2 119 (8.26%) WAN
3 102 (7.08%) Network Security
4 78 (5.42%) BGP
5 72 (5.00%) LAN
6 61 (4.24%) OSPF
7 54 (3.75%) VPN
8 49 (3.40%) EIGRP
9 43 (2.99%) DNS
9 43 (2.99%) SD-WAN
10 38 (2.64%) Software-Defined Radio
11 37 (2.57%) TCP/IP
12 35 (2.43%) Ethernet
12 35 (2.43%) MPLS
13 34 (2.36%) Cisco ISE
14 32 (2.22%) IPsec
15 27 (1.88%) Cisco ASA
15 27 (1.88%) VoIP
16 26 (1.81%) ATM
16 26 (1.81%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (5.49%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (2.85%) Amazon RDS
3 40 (2.78%) Relational Database
4 38 (2.64%) Power BI
5 35 (2.43%) MongoDB
6 31 (2.15%) SQL Server
7 22 (1.53%) MySQL
8 18 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
9 17 (1.18%) NoSQL
10 15 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
11 14 (0.97%) Redis
12 12 (0.83%) Amazon Aurora
13 11 (0.76%) Data Lake
14 10 (0.69%) Big Data
14 10 (0.69%) DynamoDB
15 9 (0.63%) Metadata
16 8 (0.56%) GIS
16 8 (0.56%) RDBMS
17 7 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
18 5 (0.35%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 85 (5.90%) Git
2 82 (5.69%) Jenkins
3 46 (3.19%) JIRA
4 36 (2.50%) JUnit
5 26 (1.81%) GitLab
6 20 (1.39%) JMeter
6 20 (1.39%) Mockito
7 15 (1.04%) Selenium
7 15 (1.04%) Vagrant
8 12 (0.83%) Maven
9 11 (0.76%) Bitbucket Server
10 9 (0.63%) SonarQube
11 8 (0.56%) Axure RP
11 8 (0.56%) DbUnit
11 8 (0.56%) jMock
11 8 (0.56%) Postman
12 7 (0.49%) Cypress.io
12 7 (0.49%) Rational DOORS
12 7 (0.49%) Robot Framework
13 6 (0.42%) NDoc
General
1 296 (20.56%) Social Skills
2 197 (13.68%) Public Sector
3 171 (11.88%) Finance
4 90 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 78 (5.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 58 (4.03%) Law
7 47 (3.26%) Military
8 46 (3.19%) Aerospace
9 36 (2.50%) Marketing
10 30 (2.08%) Telecoms
11 29 (2.01%) Electronics
12 28 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
13 26 (1.81%) Retail
14 25 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
15 22 (1.53%) Manufacturing
16 21 (1.46%) Advertising
17 19 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
17 19 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
18 13 (0.90%) Legal
19 12 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 249 (17.29%) Architect
2 162 (11.25%) Developer
3 138 (9.58%) Senior
4 116 (8.06%) Network Engineer
5 108 (7.50%) Network Architect
6 105 (7.29%) Lead
7 73 (5.07%) Analyst
7 73 (5.07%) Support Engineer
8 72 (5.00%) Consultant
9 69 (4.79%) Systems Engineer
10 51 (3.54%) Java Developer
11 50 (3.47%) Software Engineer
11 50 (3.47%) Solutions Architect
12 43 (2.99%) Security Engineer
13 39 (2.71%) Designer
14 37 (2.57%) DevOps Engineer
15 35 (2.43%) Data Engineer
16 33 (2.29%) Field Engineer
16 33 (2.29%) Field Service Engineer
16 33 (2.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (4.51%) React
2 56 (3.89%) Spring
3 50 (3.47%) HTML
3 50 (3.47%) REST
3 50 (3.47%) RESTful
3 50 (3.47%) Spring Boot
4 48 (3.33%) Kafka
5 47 (3.26%) AngularJS
6 46 (3.19%) Web Services
7 37 (2.57%) CSS
8 35 (2.43%) SOAP
9 26 (1.81%) JSON
10 23 (1.60%) Apache Camel
10 23 (1.60%) Hibernate
11 22 (1.53%) ActiveMQ
12 21 (1.46%) PySpark
13 20 (1.39%) .NET
14 19 (1.32%) Elastic Stack
15 18 (1.25%) Node.js
15 18 (1.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 61 (4.24%) Data Centre
2 57 (3.96%) e-Learning
3 56 (3.89%) Management Information System
4 38 (2.64%) Distributed Systems
5 33 (2.29%) Cloud Native
6 28 (1.94%) Driving Licence
6 28 (1.94%) Public Cloud
6 28 (1.94%) SCADA
7 25 (1.74%) FPGA
8 24 (1.67%) Embedded Systems
9 23 (1.60%) Security Posture
10 20 (1.39%) Private Cloud
11 19 (1.32%) Security Operations Centre
12 18 (1.25%) Product Ownership
13 17 (1.18%) MicroBlaze
13 17 (1.18%) RISC-V
14 16 (1.11%) Replication
15 14 (0.97%) Onboarding
15 14 (0.97%) PKI
16 13 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 167 (11.60%) Linux
2 159 (11.04%) Windows
3 70 (4.86%) Windows Server
4 24 (1.67%) Unix
5 21 (1.46%) Embedded Linux
6 18 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (1.25%) Windows 10
7 14 (0.97%) Android
7 14 (0.97%) VMS
8 11 (0.76%) Apple iOS
8 11 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
9 8 (0.56%) Amazon Linux
10 6 (0.42%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.21%) CentOS
12 3 (0.21%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.21%) Solaris
13 2 (0.14%) AIX
13 2 (0.14%) HPUX
13 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 299 (20.76%) Agile
2 207 (14.38%) DevOps
3 171 (11.88%) Problem-Solving
4 155 (10.76%) CI/CD
5 134 (9.31%) Mentoring
6 129 (8.96%) Software Engineering
7 119 (8.26%) Cybersecurity
8 101 (7.01%) Scrum
9 98 (6.81%) Technical Leadership
10 94 (6.53%) Innovative Thinking
11 93 (6.46%) Computer Science
12 82 (5.69%) Analytics
13 80 (5.56%) Continuous Improvement
14 79 (5.49%) Microservices
15 76 (5.28%) Customer Service
15 76 (5.28%) Roadmaps
16 75 (5.21%) Cloud Security
17 65 (4.51%) ITIL
18 63 (4.38%) Risk Management
18 63 (4.38%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 189 (13.13%) Python
2 133 (9.24%) Java
3 125 (8.68%) SQL
4 106 (7.36%) JavaScript
5 71 (4.93%) PowerShell
6 55 (3.82%) C++
7 45 (3.13%) TypeScript
8 40 (2.78%) C
9 36 (2.50%) C#
10 34 (2.36%) Bash
11 30 (2.08%) MATLAB
12 18 (1.25%) Perl
13 16 (1.11%) Groovy
13 16 (1.11%) Shell Script
14 12 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
15 11 (0.76%) Scala
16 9 (0.63%) Fortran
16 9 (0.63%) Go
17 8 (0.56%) R
18 7 (0.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,440 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 277 (19.24%) DV Cleared
3 211 (14.65%) Degree
4 92 (6.39%) Cisco Certification
5 64 (4.44%) CCNA
6 60 (4.17%) CCNP
7 55 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
8 42 (2.92%) AWS Certification
9 36 (2.50%) CISSP
10 32 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
11 29 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
12 25 (1.74%) Master's Degree
13 24 (1.67%) Azure Certification
14 21 (1.46%) JNCIA
15 20 (1.39%) HND
15 20 (1.39%) JNCIS
16 18 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
17 17 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 17 (1.18%) CISM
17 17 (1.18%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (5.07%) SLA
2 46 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 36 (2.50%) NIST
4 28 (1.94%) GDPR
5 26 (1.81%) QA
6 24 (1.67%) Accessibility
7 22 (1.53%) Def Stans
7 22 (1.53%) NCSC
8 18 (1.25%) Data Quality
9 13 (0.90%) HIPAA
10 11 (0.76%) WCAG
11 10 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.63%) GRC
12 9 (0.63%) RMADS
13 8 (0.56%) JSP 440
14 7 (0.49%) ISO 9001
15 6 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 4 (0.28%) ISO 14001
16 4 (0.28%) NIST 800
16 4 (0.28%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 135 (9.38%) Docker
2 91 (6.32%) Active Directory
3 49 (3.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 40 (2.78%) Firmware
5 35 (2.43%) Embedded Firmware
6 22 (1.53%) VMware NSX
7 12 (0.83%) Hyper-V
7 12 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (0.76%) DFS Replication
9 7 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.28%) Postfix
12 3 (0.21%) ISA Server
13 2 (0.14%) Dovecot
13 2 (0.14%) Squid
13 2 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
13 2 (0.14%) vSphere
14 1 (0.069%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 1 (0.069%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.069%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 129 (8.96%) Terraform
2 99 (6.88%) Kubernetes
3 79 (5.49%) Ansible
4 48 (3.33%) FortiGate
5 35 (2.43%) Prometheus
6 33 (2.29%) Grafana
7 23 (1.60%) QRadar
8 13 (0.90%) Kibana
9 11 (0.76%) SCCM
10 10 (0.69%) AWS Copilot
10 10 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (0.49%) Nessus
12 6 (0.42%) ArcSight ESM
13 5 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (0.35%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.35%) Proxmox
14 4 (0.28%) HAProxy
14 4 (0.28%) Puppet
14 4 (0.28%) SCOM
14 4 (0.28%) WMI
Vendors
1 249 (17.29%) Cisco
2 202 (14.03%) Microsoft
3 152 (10.56%) Juniper
4 103 (7.15%) VMware
5 56 (3.89%) Google
6 51 (3.54%) Fortinet
7 48 (3.33%) Splunk
8 44 (3.06%) Oracle
9 43 (2.99%) SAP
10 38 (2.64%) ServiceNow
11 32 (2.22%) CheckPoint
12 31 (2.15%) Red Hat
13 28 (1.94%) F5
14 24 (1.67%) SolarWinds
15 22 (1.53%) Blue Coat
16 19 (1.32%) McAfee
17 18 (1.25%) Databricks
17 18 (1.25%) Sparx
18 16 (1.11%) Forcepoint
19 12 (0.83%) Atlassian