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 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 96 51 58
Rank change year-on-year -45 +7 +76
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 1,501 3,967 4,191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.05% 4.13% 5.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.32% 15.44% 15.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,070 2,472 2,292
10th Percentile £38,500 £33,750 £36,614
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 £75,000 £70,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £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 23,758 25,700 27,560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 48.24% 26.74% 33.83%
Number of salaries quoted 9,578 15,764 12,782
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,757 £38,603 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,273 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.34% -9.55% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,263 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.26% -11.23% +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 15 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 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
South East -20 508 £55,750 +1.36% 638
London -24 320 £64,500 -7.86% 807
South West -17 225 £62,373 +13.40% 448
Midlands -33 178 £65,000 +18.18% 202
West Midlands -2 140 £67,500 +22.73% 125
North of England -136 139 £55,000 - 303
East of England +19 89 £55,000 +4.76% 151
North West -165 68 £59,000 +7.27% 182
Yorkshire -10 61 £45,000 -25.00% 76
East Midlands -20 38 £52,000 +10.05% 66
North East +31 9 £69,384 +18.00% 46
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 41 (2.73%) Confluence
2 31 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 22 (1.47%) SharePoint
4 14 (0.93%) JBoss
4 14 (0.93%) Red Hat Fuse
5 12 (0.80%) Apache Spark
6 9 (0.60%) Apache
7 8 (0.53%) Appian
8 7 (0.47%) nginx
8 7 (0.47%) Skype for Business
9 5 (0.33%) CMS
9 5 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2010
9 5 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2013
9 5 (0.33%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.27%) Office Communications Server
10 4 (0.27%) SharePoint Server
11 3 (0.20%) Alfresco
11 3 (0.20%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
11 3 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 51 (3.40%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.80%) Adobe XD
5 7 (0.47%) InVision
5 7 (0.47%) Sketch
6 6 (0.40%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 5 (0.33%) Simulink
8 4 (0.27%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.27%) Oracle Smart View
9 3 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.13%) GNU Octave
10 2 (0.13%) Revit
10 2 (0.13%) Windchill
11 1 (0.067%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.067%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.067%) ProjectWise
11 1 (0.067%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (1.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 10 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.40%) Maximo
4 5 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.13%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.13%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.13%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.13%) SAP HR
6 2 (0.13%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.13%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.067%) Lorenzo
7 1 (0.067%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 291 (19.39%) Azure
2 289 (19.25%) AWS
3 78 (5.20%) GCP
4 73 (4.86%) Power Platform
5 71 (4.73%) Microsoft 365
6 61 (4.06%) Serverless
7 53 (3.53%) Amazon EC2
7 53 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
8 50 (3.33%) Amazon S3
9 48 (3.20%) AWS KMS
10 47 (3.13%) Entra ID
11 42 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
12 41 (2.73%) Amazon ECS
13 37 (2.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 33 (2.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 31 (2.07%) AWS CloudFormation
15 31 (2.07%) Azure Data Factory
16 25 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
16 25 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
16 25 (1.67%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 174 (11.59%) Firewall
2 115 (7.66%) WAN
3 92 (6.13%) Network Security
4 72 (4.80%) LAN
5 66 (4.40%) BGP
6 56 (3.73%) VPN
7 53 (3.53%) DNS
8 50 (3.33%) OSPF
9 44 (2.93%) TCP/IP
10 41 (2.73%) Software-Defined Radio
11 40 (2.66%) SD-WAN
12 38 (2.53%) EIGRP
13 34 (2.27%) MPLS
14 33 (2.20%) Ethernet
15 32 (2.13%) Cisco ISE
16 29 (1.93%) IPsec
16 29 (1.93%) Wireless
17 28 (1.87%) ATM
17 28 (1.87%) DHCP
17 28 (1.87%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (3.40%) Amazon RDS
3 41 (2.73%) Power BI
3 41 (2.73%) Relational Database
4 39 (2.60%) MongoDB
5 32 (2.13%) SQL Server
6 21 (1.40%) NoSQL
7 20 (1.33%) MySQL
8 18 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
9 15 (1.00%) Amazon Aurora
9 15 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
10 14 (0.93%) Redis
11 13 (0.87%) Big Data
11 13 (0.87%) DynamoDB
12 10 (0.67%) Data Lake
12 10 (0.67%) RDBMS
13 8 (0.53%) GIS
13 8 (0.53%) Metadata
14 6 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
15 5 (0.33%) DB2
Development Applications
1 100 (6.66%) Git
2 92 (6.13%) Jenkins
3 60 (4.00%) JIRA
4 37 (2.47%) JUnit
5 25 (1.67%) GitLab
6 24 (1.60%) Vagrant
7 21 (1.40%) Mockito
8 20 (1.33%) JMeter
9 14 (0.93%) Selenium
10 13 (0.87%) Maven
11 12 (0.80%) Bitbucket Server
12 11 (0.73%) Axure RP
13 10 (0.67%) SonarQube
14 9 (0.60%) DbUnit
14 9 (0.60%) jMock
15 8 (0.53%) Cypress.io
15 8 (0.53%) Postman
16 7 (0.47%) Rational DOORS
16 7 (0.47%) Robot Framework
17 6 (0.40%) NDoc
General
1 331 (22.05%) Social Skills
2 216 (14.39%) Public Sector
3 177 (11.79%) Finance
4 93 (6.20%) Analytical Skills
5 80 (5.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 77 (5.13%) Law
7 53 (3.53%) Military
8 52 (3.46%) Marketing
9 47 (3.13%) Aerospace
10 38 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
11 33 (2.20%) Electronics
12 32 (2.13%) Telecoms
13 30 (2.00%) Manufacturing
14 27 (1.80%) Retail
15 25 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
16 24 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
17 20 (1.33%) Advertising
17 20 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
18 17 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
19 15 (1.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 241 (16.06%) Architect
2 172 (11.46%) Developer
3 143 (9.53%) Senior
4 117 (7.79%) Lead
5 104 (6.93%) Network Architect
6 102 (6.80%) Network Engineer
7 82 (5.46%) Analyst
8 81 (5.40%) Support Engineer
9 78 (5.20%) Consultant
10 77 (5.13%) Systems Engineer
11 54 (3.60%) Java Developer
12 51 (3.40%) Software Engineer
13 44 (2.93%) Solutions Architect
14 43 (2.86%) Designer
15 42 (2.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 41 (2.73%) DevOps Engineer
17 39 (2.60%) Security Engineer
17 39 (2.60%) Support Analyst
18 37 (2.47%) 2nd Line Support
19 36 (2.40%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (4.26%) React
2 58 (3.86%) Spring
3 53 (3.53%) REST
3 53 (3.53%) RESTful
4 52 (3.46%) Spring Boot
5 51 (3.40%) HTML
6 48 (3.20%) AngularJS
7 47 (3.13%) Kafka
7 47 (3.13%) Web Services
8 38 (2.53%) CSS
8 38 (2.53%) SOAP
9 24 (1.60%) Hibernate
9 24 (1.60%) JSON
10 23 (1.53%) ActiveMQ
10 23 (1.53%) Apache Camel
11 21 (1.40%) .NET
11 21 (1.40%) Elastic Stack
12 20 (1.33%) PySpark
13 19 (1.27%) Django
13 19 (1.27%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 63 (4.20%) Data Centre
2 62 (4.13%) e-Learning
3 61 (4.06%) Management Information System
4 42 (2.80%) Cloud Native
5 37 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
6 32 (2.13%) Driving Licence
7 27 (1.80%) FPGA
7 27 (1.80%) Public Cloud
8 26 (1.73%) Embedded Systems
9 25 (1.67%) Replication
9 25 (1.67%) SCADA
10 22 (1.47%) Product Ownership
10 22 (1.47%) Security Posture
11 20 (1.33%) Private Cloud
12 19 (1.27%) Security Operations Centre
13 18 (1.20%) MicroBlaze
13 18 (1.20%) RISC-V
14 15 (1.00%) Algorithms
14 15 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
14 15 (1.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 185 (12.33%) Linux
2 168 (11.19%) Windows
3 67 (4.46%) Windows Server
4 28 (1.87%) Unix
5 25 (1.67%) Windows 10
6 23 (1.53%) VMS
7 22 (1.47%) Embedded Linux
8 20 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 18 (1.20%) Android
10 13 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
11 11 (0.73%) Amazon Linux
11 11 (0.73%) Apple iOS
12 7 (0.47%) Ubuntu
13 6 (0.40%) CentOS
13 6 (0.40%) Solaris
14 5 (0.33%) HPUX
14 5 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
15 4 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
16 3 (0.20%) Mac OS
16 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 320 (21.32%) Agile
2 221 (14.72%) DevOps
3 178 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
4 161 (10.73%) CI/CD
5 144 (9.59%) Mentoring
6 131 (8.73%) Cybersecurity
7 130 (8.66%) Software Engineering
8 101 (6.73%) Innovative Thinking
9 100 (6.66%) Scrum
10 94 (6.26%) Continuous Improvement
11 93 (6.20%) Analytics
11 93 (6.20%) Technical Leadership
12 90 (6.00%) Computer Science
13 87 (5.80%) Cloud Security
13 87 (5.80%) Customer Service
14 84 (5.60%) Microservices
15 81 (5.40%) Roadmaps
16 72 (4.80%) ITIL
17 68 (4.53%) Artificial Intelligence
17 68 (4.53%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 204 (13.59%) Python
2 144 (9.59%) SQL
3 140 (9.33%) Java
4 111 (7.40%) JavaScript
5 83 (5.53%) PowerShell
6 55 (3.66%) C++
7 45 (3.00%) TypeScript
8 41 (2.73%) C
9 37 (2.47%) C#
10 36 (2.40%) Bash
11 33 (2.20%) MATLAB
12 25 (1.67%) Groovy
13 20 (1.33%) Perl
14 17 (1.13%) Shell Script
15 12 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
15 12 (0.80%) Scala
16 10 (0.67%) Go
17 9 (0.60%) Fortran
18 8 (0.53%) R
19 7 (0.47%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,501 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 279 (18.59%) DV Cleared
3 236 (15.72%) Degree
4 95 (6.33%) Cisco Certification
5 68 (4.53%) CCNA
6 64 (4.26%) CCNP
7 53 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 48 (3.20%) AWS Certification
9 42 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
10 41 (2.73%) CISSP
11 30 (2.00%) Azure Certification
12 28 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
13 26 (1.73%) JNCIA
14 25 (1.67%) Master's Degree
15 20 (1.33%) HND
16 19 (1.27%) CISM
16 19 (1.27%) JNCIS
16 19 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
17 17 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 17 (1.13%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (6.26%) SLA
2 47 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 37 (2.47%) NIST
4 30 (2.00%) QA
5 29 (1.93%) GDPR
6 28 (1.87%) Accessibility
7 24 (1.60%) NCSC
8 22 (1.47%) Def Stans
9 16 (1.07%) Data Quality
10 14 (0.93%) WCAG
11 12 (0.80%) HIPAA
12 10 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
12 10 (0.67%) RMADS
13 9 (0.60%) GRC
14 8 (0.53%) JSP 440
15 7 (0.47%) ISO 9001
16 6 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 4 (0.27%) ISO 14001
17 4 (0.27%) ISO 9000
17 4 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 147 (9.79%) Docker
2 99 (6.60%) Active Directory
3 55 (3.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (3.06%) Firmware
5 38 (2.53%) Embedded Firmware
6 20 (1.33%) VMware NSX
7 19 (1.27%) Hyper-V
8 18 (1.20%) DFS Replication
9 8 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
10 7 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
11 5 (0.33%) Postfix
12 4 (0.27%) ISA Server
13 3 (0.20%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.20%) Squid
14 2 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.067%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 1 (0.067%) Microsoft App-V
15 1 (0.067%) NFS
15 1 (0.067%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 145 (9.66%) Terraform
2 112 (7.46%) Kubernetes
3 86 (5.73%) Ansible
4 44 (2.93%) FortiGate
5 43 (2.86%) Prometheus
6 42 (2.80%) Grafana
7 22 (1.47%) QRadar
8 13 (0.87%) Kibana
9 11 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (0.67%) AWS Copilot
11 8 (0.53%) Nessus
11 8 (0.53%) SCCM
12 6 (0.40%) ArcSight ESM
12 6 (0.40%) Proxmox
13 5 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (0.33%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.27%) HAProxy
14 4 (0.27%) Puppet
14 4 (0.27%) SCOM
14 4 (0.27%) WMI
Vendors
1 239 (15.92%) Cisco
2 222 (14.79%) Microsoft
3 149 (9.93%) Juniper
4 110 (7.33%) VMware
5 54 (3.60%) Google
6 51 (3.40%) Splunk
7 46 (3.06%) ServiceNow
8 45 (3.00%) SAP
9 42 (2.80%) Oracle
10 41 (2.73%) Fortinet
11 31 (2.07%) Red Hat
12 29 (1.93%) CheckPoint
13 27 (1.80%) SolarWinds
14 26 (1.73%) F5
15 20 (1.33%) Blue Coat
15 20 (1.33%) McAfee
16 19 (1.27%) Sparx
17 17 (1.13%) Databricks
18 15 (1.00%) Forcepoint
19 13 (0.87%) Atlassian