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

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 50 59
Rank change year-on-year -49 +9 +74
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 1,476 3,949 4,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.99% 4.19% 5.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.11% 15.51% 15.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,051 2,452 2,299
10th Percentile £38,500 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £74,258 £70,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £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 24,168 25,469 27,896
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 48.89% 27.04% 33.75%
Number of salaries quoted 9,810 15,718 12,868
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,691 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -9.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £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 10 June 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 10 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
South East -22 508 £55,000 - 593
London -20 315 £62,500 -10.71% 660
South West -23 212 £60,000 +9.09% 453
Midlands -30 175 £65,000 +18.18% 210
West Midlands -5 141 £67,500 +22.73% 117
North of England -143 135 £55,000 -3.09% 346
East of England +17 89 £55,000 +4.76% 137
North West -172 66 £60,750 +10.45% 215
Yorkshire -16 59 £45,000 -25.00% 77
East Midlands -32 34 £52,000 +10.05% 82
North East +29 9 £69,384 +21.94% 55
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 39 (2.64%) Confluence
2 30 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 20 (1.36%) SharePoint
4 14 (0.95%) JBoss
4 14 (0.95%) Red Hat Fuse
5 12 (0.81%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.61%) Apache
6 9 (0.61%) Skype for Business
7 8 (0.54%) Appian
8 7 (0.47%) Exchange Server 2013
8 7 (0.47%) nginx
9 5 (0.34%) CMS
9 5 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2010
9 5 (0.34%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.27%) Office Communications Server
10 4 (0.27%) SharePoint Server
11 3 (0.20%) Alfresco
11 3 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.20%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 3 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 44 (2.98%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.68%) Adobe XD
5 7 (0.47%) InVision
5 7 (0.47%) Sketch
6 6 (0.41%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 5 (0.34%) Simulink
8 4 (0.27%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.27%) Oracle Smart View
9 3 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.14%) GNU Octave
10 2 (0.14%) Revit
10 2 (0.14%) Windchill
11 1 (0.068%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.068%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.068%) ProjectWise
11 1 (0.068%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (1.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 10 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.41%) Maximo
4 5 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.14%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.14%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.14%) SAP HR
6 2 (0.14%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.14%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.068%) Lorenzo
7 1 (0.068%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.068%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 276 (18.70%) AWS
1 276 (18.70%) Azure
2 75 (5.08%) GCP
3 71 (4.81%) Power Platform
4 63 (4.27%) Serverless
5 59 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
6 52 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
7 51 (3.46%) Amazon EC2
8 48 (3.25%) Amazon S3
9 46 (3.12%) AWS KMS
10 40 (2.71%) Amazon ECS
10 40 (2.71%) Dynamics 365
11 39 (2.64%) Entra ID
12 35 (2.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 31 (2.10%) AWS CloudFormation
13 31 (2.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 30 (2.03%) Azure Data Factory
15 25 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
15 25 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
16 23 (1.56%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 174 (11.79%) Firewall
2 115 (7.79%) WAN
3 92 (6.23%) Network Security
4 72 (4.88%) LAN
5 68 (4.61%) BGP
6 54 (3.66%) VPN
7 51 (3.46%) OSPF
8 49 (3.32%) DNS
9 42 (2.85%) TCP/IP
10 41 (2.78%) Software-Defined Radio
11 40 (2.71%) SD-WAN
12 39 (2.64%) EIGRP
13 35 (2.37%) MPLS
14 33 (2.24%) Ethernet
15 32 (2.17%) Cisco ISE
16 30 (2.03%) IPsec
17 28 (1.90%) ATM
17 28 (1.90%) VoIP
17 28 (1.90%) Wireless
18 26 (1.76%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (5.62%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (3.32%) Amazon RDS
3 41 (2.78%) Relational Database
4 39 (2.64%) Power BI
5 37 (2.51%) MongoDB
6 33 (2.24%) SQL Server
7 21 (1.42%) MySQL
8 19 (1.29%) NoSQL
9 18 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
10 15 (1.02%) Amazon Aurora
10 15 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
11 14 (0.95%) Redis
12 11 (0.75%) DynamoDB
13 10 (0.68%) Big Data
13 10 (0.68%) Data Lake
14 9 (0.61%) Metadata
14 9 (0.61%) RDBMS
15 8 (0.54%) GIS
16 6 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
17 5 (0.34%) DB2
Development Applications
1 97 (6.57%) Git
2 90 (6.10%) Jenkins
3 58 (3.93%) JIRA
4 37 (2.51%) JUnit
5 25 (1.69%) GitLab
6 22 (1.49%) Vagrant
7 21 (1.42%) Mockito
8 20 (1.36%) JMeter
9 15 (1.02%) Selenium
10 13 (0.88%) Maven
11 12 (0.81%) Bitbucket Server
12 10 (0.68%) SonarQube
13 9 (0.61%) Axure RP
13 9 (0.61%) DbUnit
13 9 (0.61%) jMock
14 8 (0.54%) Postman
15 7 (0.47%) Cypress.io
15 7 (0.47%) Rational DOORS
15 7 (0.47%) Robot Framework
16 6 (0.41%) NDoc
General
1 314 (21.27%) Social Skills
2 210 (14.23%) Public Sector
3 175 (11.86%) Finance
4 95 (6.44%) Analytical Skills
5 77 (5.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 68 (4.61%) Law
7 51 (3.46%) Military
8 49 (3.32%) Marketing
9 46 (3.12%) Aerospace
10 36 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
11 32 (2.17%) Electronics
11 32 (2.17%) Telecoms
12 28 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
13 27 (1.83%) Manufacturing
13 27 (1.83%) Retail
14 23 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
15 21 (1.42%) Advertising
16 20 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
17 15 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
18 13 (0.88%) Legal
Job Titles
1 241 (16.33%) Architect
2 169 (11.45%) Developer
3 139 (9.42%) Senior
4 114 (7.72%) Lead
5 106 (7.18%) Network Architect
6 103 (6.98%) Network Engineer
7 79 (5.35%) Analyst
7 79 (5.35%) Support Engineer
8 77 (5.22%) Systems Engineer
9 75 (5.08%) Consultant
10 53 (3.59%) Java Developer
11 51 (3.46%) Software Engineer
12 45 (3.05%) Solutions Architect
13 42 (2.85%) Designer
14 40 (2.71%) DevOps Engineer
14 40 (2.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 39 (2.64%) Security Engineer
16 37 (2.51%) Data Engineer
17 36 (2.44%) Support Analyst
18 34 (2.30%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (4.34%) React
2 57 (3.86%) Spring
3 51 (3.46%) HTML
3 51 (3.46%) RESTful
3 51 (3.46%) Spring Boot
4 50 (3.39%) REST
5 48 (3.25%) AngularJS
6 47 (3.18%) Kafka
6 47 (3.18%) Web Services
7 38 (2.57%) CSS
8 36 (2.44%) SOAP
9 24 (1.63%) Hibernate
9 24 (1.63%) JSON
10 23 (1.56%) ActiveMQ
10 23 (1.56%) Apache Camel
11 22 (1.49%) .NET
12 21 (1.42%) PySpark
13 20 (1.36%) Elastic Stack
14 19 (1.29%) Node.js
15 18 (1.22%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 62 (4.20%) e-Learning
2 61 (4.13%) Data Centre
3 58 (3.93%) Management Information System
4 38 (2.57%) Distributed Systems
5 33 (2.24%) Cloud Native
6 31 (2.10%) Driving Licence
7 27 (1.83%) FPGA
7 27 (1.83%) Public Cloud
7 27 (1.83%) SCADA
8 25 (1.69%) Embedded Systems
9 24 (1.63%) Replication
10 21 (1.42%) Security Posture
11 19 (1.29%) Private Cloud
11 19 (1.29%) Security Operations Centre
12 18 (1.22%) MicroBlaze
12 18 (1.22%) RISC-V
13 17 (1.15%) Product Ownership
14 15 (1.02%) Algorithms
14 15 (1.02%) PKI
14 15 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 179 (12.13%) Linux
2 160 (10.84%) Windows
3 68 (4.61%) Windows Server
4 27 (1.83%) Unix
5 22 (1.49%) Embedded Linux
6 21 (1.42%) VMS
7 19 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 18 (1.22%) Android
8 18 (1.22%) Windows 10
9 12 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
10 11 (0.75%) Apple iOS
11 10 (0.68%) Amazon Linux
12 7 (0.47%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.34%) CentOS
13 5 (0.34%) Solaris
13 5 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.27%) HPUX
15 3 (0.20%) Mac OS
15 3 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
15 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (20.93%) Agile
2 214 (14.50%) DevOps
3 177 (11.99%) Problem-Solving
4 155 (10.50%) CI/CD
5 134 (9.08%) Mentoring
6 132 (8.94%) Software Engineering
7 119 (8.06%) Cybersecurity
8 101 (6.84%) Innovative Thinking
8 101 (6.84%) Scrum
9 94 (6.37%) Technical Leadership
10 90 (6.10%) Computer Science
11 84 (5.69%) Continuous Improvement
12 83 (5.62%) Cloud Security
13 82 (5.56%) Analytics
14 80 (5.42%) Customer Service
15 79 (5.35%) Microservices
16 77 (5.22%) Roadmaps
17 65 (4.40%) ITIL
17 65 (4.40%) Stakeholder Management
18 64 (4.34%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 199 (13.48%) Python
2 140 (9.49%) SQL
3 136 (9.21%) Java
4 108 (7.32%) JavaScript
5 79 (5.35%) PowerShell
6 55 (3.73%) C++
7 43 (2.91%) TypeScript
8 41 (2.78%) C
9 36 (2.44%) Bash
10 35 (2.37%) C#
11 33 (2.24%) MATLAB
12 23 (1.56%) Groovy
13 19 (1.29%) Perl
14 17 (1.15%) Shell Script
15 11 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
15 11 (0.75%) Scala
16 10 (0.68%) Go
17 9 (0.61%) Fortran
18 8 (0.54%) R
19 7 (0.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,476 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 274 (18.56%) DV Cleared
3 222 (15.04%) Degree
4 92 (6.23%) Cisco Certification
5 66 (4.47%) CCNA
6 62 (4.20%) CCNP
7 52 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 44 (2.98%) AWS Certification
9 39 (2.64%) BPSS Clearance
9 39 (2.64%) CISSP
10 29 (1.96%) Azure Certification
10 29 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
11 25 (1.69%) Master's Degree
12 23 (1.56%) JNCIA
13 20 (1.36%) HND
13 20 (1.36%) JNCIS
14 19 (1.29%) TOGAF Certification
15 18 (1.22%) CISM
16 16 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 16 (1.08%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (5.69%) SLA
2 46 (3.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 37 (2.51%) NIST
4 29 (1.96%) QA
5 28 (1.90%) GDPR
6 25 (1.69%) Accessibility
7 23 (1.56%) NCSC
8 22 (1.49%) Def Stans
9 18 (1.22%) Data Quality
10 12 (0.81%) HIPAA
10 12 (0.81%) WCAG
11 10 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (0.68%) RMADS
12 9 (0.61%) GRC
13 8 (0.54%) JSP 440
14 7 (0.47%) ISO 9001
15 6 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 4 (0.27%) ISO 14001
16 4 (0.27%) NIST 800
16 4 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 140 (9.49%) Docker
2 97 (6.57%) Active Directory
3 52 (3.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 44 (2.98%) Firmware
5 38 (2.57%) Embedded Firmware
6 20 (1.36%) VMware NSX
7 17 (1.15%) DFS Replication
8 16 (1.08%) Hyper-V
9 10 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
10 7 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
11 5 (0.34%) Postfix
12 4 (0.27%) ISA Server
13 3 (0.20%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.20%) Squid
14 2 (0.14%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.068%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 1 (0.068%) Microsoft App-V
15 1 (0.068%) NFS
15 1 (0.068%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 136 (9.21%) Terraform
2 103 (6.98%) Kubernetes
3 83 (5.62%) Ansible
4 43 (2.91%) FortiGate
5 41 (2.78%) Prometheus
6 40 (2.71%) Grafana
7 22 (1.49%) QRadar
8 13 (0.88%) Kibana
9 11 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (0.68%) AWS Copilot
11 8 (0.54%) Nessus
11 8 (0.54%) SCCM
12 6 (0.41%) ArcSight ESM
12 6 (0.41%) Proxmox
13 5 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (0.34%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.27%) HAProxy
14 4 (0.27%) Nagios
14 4 (0.27%) SCOM
14 4 (0.27%) WMI
Vendors
1 233 (15.79%) Cisco
2 209 (14.16%) Microsoft
3 148 (10.03%) Juniper
4 106 (7.18%) VMware
5 55 (3.73%) Google
6 50 (3.39%) Splunk
7 45 (3.05%) SAP
8 44 (2.98%) ServiceNow
9 42 (2.85%) Fortinet
10 41 (2.78%) Oracle
11 31 (2.10%) Red Hat
12 29 (1.96%) CheckPoint
13 26 (1.76%) F5
13 26 (1.76%) SolarWinds
14 20 (1.36%) Blue Coat
15 19 (1.29%) McAfee
15 19 (1.29%) Sparx
16 17 (1.15%) Databricks
17 16 (1.08%) Forcepoint
18 13 (0.88%) Atlassian