SC Cleared Jobs in England

Security Check (SC) Clearance
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 63 121
Rank change year-on-year +13 +58 -19
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 3,795 4,331 4,159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.42% 4.80% 3.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 15.55% 14.71% 11.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,361 2,365 2,082
10th Percentile £31,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,421 £46,214 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £56,325
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.52% +2.41%
75th Percentile £70,250 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +4.55%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

SC Cleared is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 24,401 29,435 35,051
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.45% 32.61% 26.42%
Number of salaries quoted 15,774 13,378 16,570
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,995 £59,600 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% +8.36% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £59,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.24% +8.18% -

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 9 May 2024.

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 9 May 2024. 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 +21 1,215 £55,000 - 252
South West -2 878 £52,500 -5.41% 227
London -14 606 £70,000 +3.70% 194
North of England +31 564 £57,500 -4.17% 159
North West +7 384 £55,000 -4.35% 118
Midlands -3 384 £52,500 -12.50% 85
West Midlands +1 245 £55,000 -8.33% 60
Yorkshire +87 153 £60,000 -10.45% 24
East Midlands -5 139 £50,000 -4.76% 25
East of England -5 128 £55,000 -0.90% 67
North East -30 27 £55,000 +15.79% 17
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
1 204 (5.38%) ArcGIS
2 196 (5.16%) GeoServer
3 130 (3.43%) Confluence
4 89 (2.35%) SharePoint
5 73 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
6 64 (1.69%) WebLogic
7 47 (1.24%) Apache
8 39 (1.03%) OpenStack
9 34 (0.90%) Apache Spark
10 31 (0.82%) IIS
11 18 (0.47%) Exchange Server 2010
12 16 (0.42%) Red Hat Fuse
13 15 (0.40%) CMS
13 15 (0.40%) JBoss
14 14 (0.37%) Oracle Service Bus
15 10 (0.26%) SharePoint 2010
15 10 (0.26%) SharePoint 2013
16 7 (0.18%) Drupal
17 6 (0.16%) nginx
18 4 (0.11%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 127 (3.35%) Microsoft Office
2 52 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 43 (1.13%) Simulink
4 36 (0.95%) MS Visio
5 28 (0.74%) Sketch
6 23 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
7 16 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 9 (0.24%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.11%) EPLAN
9 4 (0.11%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.079%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.053%) Abaqus
11 2 (0.053%) Fireworks
11 2 (0.053%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.053%) InDesign
12 1 (0.026%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.026%) Blender
12 1 (0.026%) Revit
Business Applications
1 70 (1.84%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 48 (1.26%) Remedy ITSM
3 40 (1.05%) Siebel CRM
4 18 (0.47%) Maximo
5 9 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
6 7 (0.18%) Elite 3E
7 6 (0.16%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.13%) Primavera
8 5 (0.13%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.11%) Oracle Cash Management
9 4 (0.11%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.11%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
9 4 (0.11%) SAP HR
9 4 (0.11%) SAP WM
10 3 (0.079%) Dynamics CRM
10 3 (0.079%) SAP CRM
10 3 (0.079%) SAP CX
10 3 (0.079%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 937 (24.69%) Azure
2 757 (19.95%) AWS
3 189 (4.98%) Microsoft 365
4 117 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
5 113 (2.98%) Amazon EKS
6 104 (2.74%) Serverless
7 103 (2.71%) Power Platform
8 96 (2.53%) GCP
9 94 (2.48%) SaaS
10 79 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
11 69 (1.82%) OpenShift
12 64 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
13 54 (1.42%) Amazon ECS
14 51 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
15 49 (1.29%) PaaS
16 44 (1.16%) Miro
17 39 (1.03%) Entra ID
18 38 (1.00%) Cloud Computing
18 38 (1.00%) GitHub
19 37 (0.97%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 226 (5.96%) Firewall
2 131 (3.45%) DNS
3 95 (2.50%) WAN
4 86 (2.27%) TCP/IP
5 73 (1.92%) VPN
6 71 (1.87%) DHCP
7 69 (1.82%) Network Security
8 60 (1.58%) SAN
9 59 (1.55%) LAN
9 59 (1.55%) Wireless
10 56 (1.48%) BGP
11 52 (1.37%) SSL
12 39 (1.03%) SD-WAN
13 38 (1.00%) IPsec
14 34 (0.90%) MPLS
15 31 (0.82%) AMQP
15 31 (0.82%) Cisco Firepower
16 27 (0.71%) Software-Defined Radio
17 26 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
18 22 (0.58%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 286 (7.54%) PostgreSQL
2 213 (5.61%) GIS
3 196 (5.16%) QGIS
4 111 (2.92%) Relational Database
5 103 (2.71%) SQL Server
6 85 (2.24%) NoSQL
7 63 (1.66%) Hadoop
8 61 (1.61%) Big Data
8 61 (1.61%) Power BI
9 55 (1.45%) Oracle Database
10 50 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
11 45 (1.19%) MongoDB
12 42 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
13 36 (0.95%) RDBMS
14 35 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
14 35 (0.92%) Oracle BI EE
15 32 (0.84%) Siebel EIM
16 29 (0.76%) MySQL
17 26 (0.69%) Cloudera CDH
18 20 (0.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 220 (5.80%) Git
2 195 (5.14%) JIRA
3 186 (4.90%) Jenkins
4 111 (2.92%) Visual Studio
5 105 (2.77%) Bitbucket
6 80 (2.11%) GitLab
7 59 (1.55%) Sourcetree
8 35 (0.92%) Rational DOORS
9 33 (0.87%) Cucumber
9 33 (0.87%) Selenium
10 29 (0.76%) JUnit
11 25 (0.66%) Ant
12 23 (0.61%) Subversion
13 17 (0.45%) REST Assured
13 17 (0.45%) TestNG
14 15 (0.40%) CMake
14 15 (0.40%) LabVIEW
14 15 (0.40%) Vagrant
15 14 (0.37%) JMeter
15 14 (0.37%) WebDriver
General
1 818 (21.55%) Social Skills
2 373 (9.83%) Public Sector
3 268 (7.06%) Aerospace
4 252 (6.64%) Finance
5 227 (5.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 180 (4.74%) Analytical Skills
7 175 (4.61%) Presentation Skills
8 131 (3.45%) Games
9 100 (2.64%) Military
10 96 (2.53%) Telecoms
11 83 (2.19%) Police
12 72 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
13 52 (1.37%) Electronics
14 51 (1.34%) Manufacturing
15 49 (1.29%) Law
16 46 (1.21%) Retail
17 44 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
18 37 (0.97%) Marketing
19 22 (0.58%) Legal
20 15 (0.40%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 714 (18.81%) Senior
2 508 (13.39%) Architect
3 453 (11.94%) Developer
4 402 (10.59%) Software Engineer
5 269 (7.09%) Lead
6 243 (6.40%) Analyst
7 213 (5.61%) Solutions Architect
8 192 (5.06%) Senior Software Engineer
9 190 (5.01%) Consultant
10 165 (4.35%) Systems Engineer
11 162 (4.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 162 (4.27%) Project Manager
12 141 (3.72%) Network Engineer
13 124 (3.27%) DevOps Engineer
13 124 (3.27%) Senior Developer
14 95 (2.50%) Security Consultant
15 88 (2.32%) 3D Developer
15 88 (2.32%) Games Developer
15 88 (2.32%) Unity 3D Developer
16 85 (2.24%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 324 (8.54%) .NET
2 301 (7.93%) React
3 199 (5.24%) Leaflet
4 198 (5.22%) OpenLayers
5 196 (5.16%) PostGIS
6 195 (5.14%) CSS
7 185 (4.87%) .NET Core
8 147 (3.87%) REST
9 138 (3.64%) Spring
10 129 (3.40%) Node.js
11 117 (3.08%) AngularJS
12 113 (2.98%) Spring Boot
13 88 (2.32%) Unity (Game Engine)
14 83 (2.19%) Web Services
15 81 (2.13%) HTML
16 75 (1.98%) XML
17 64 (1.69%) RESTful
18 61 (1.61%) RabbitMQ
18 61 (1.61%) SOAP
19 54 (1.42%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 125 (3.29%) Management Information System
2 101 (2.66%) Data Centre
3 92 (2.42%) Product Ownership
4 91 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
5 90 (2.37%) Virtual Reality
6 73 (1.92%) Driving Licence
7 67 (1.77%) Virtual Team
8 66 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
9 56 (1.48%) Private Cloud
10 55 (1.45%) Algorithms
11 51 (1.34%) Operational Technology
12 48 (1.26%) Cloud Native
13 47 (1.24%) CMDB
13 47 (1.24%) Public Cloud
14 42 (1.11%) Cyberattack
15 41 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
16 37 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
16 37 (0.97%) PKI
17 30 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
17 30 (0.79%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 560 (14.76%) Windows
2 538 (14.18%) Linux
3 255 (6.72%) Windows Server
4 110 (2.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 86 (2.27%) Ubuntu
5 86 (2.27%) Windows 10
6 82 (2.16%) CentOS
7 76 (2.00%) Unix
8 59 (1.55%) Windows Server 2016
9 51 (1.34%) Windows Server 2019
10 29 (0.76%) Windows 7
11 28 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
12 27 (0.71%) Debian
13 22 (0.58%) Android
14 16 (0.42%) AIX
15 14 (0.37%) Solaris
15 14 (0.37%) VMS
16 12 (0.32%) Windows XP
17 9 (0.24%) zOS
18 8 (0.21%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,188 (31.30%) Agile
2 864 (22.77%) Actionable Insight
3 835 (22.00%) DevOps
4 683 (18.00%) Software Engineering
5 627 (16.52%) Problem-Solving
6 390 (10.28%) Scrum
7 383 (10.09%) Cybersecurity
8 355 (9.35%) Project Management
9 298 (7.85%) ITIL
10 242 (6.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 239 (6.30%) CI/CD
11 239 (6.30%) Stakeholder Management
12 237 (6.25%) Collaborative Working
12 237 (6.25%) Mentoring
13 215 (5.67%) Service Management
14 202 (5.32%) Web Development
15 196 (5.16%) Project Delivery
16 189 (4.98%) Microservices
17 179 (4.72%) Kanban
18 177 (4.66%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 593 (15.63%) Python
2 452 (11.91%) Java
2 452 (11.91%) JavaScript
3 349 (9.20%) SQL
4 331 (8.72%) C#
5 294 (7.75%) PowerShell
6 153 (4.03%) C++
7 93 (2.45%) Bash
8 83 (2.19%) C
9 67 (1.77%) TypeScript
10 57 (1.50%) MATLAB
11 44 (1.16%) Shell Script
12 35 (0.92%) PL/SQL
13 24 (0.63%) Kotlin
14 23 (0.61%) Go
15 22 (0.58%) Bicep
16 18 (0.47%) Groovy
16 18 (0.47%) Perl
16 18 (0.47%) VB
17 17 (0.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3,795 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 653 (17.21%) Degree
3 608 (16.02%) DV Cleared
4 221 (5.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 122 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 101 (2.66%) CISM
7 100 (2.64%) AWS Certification
8 96 (2.53%) CISSP
9 91 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
10 85 (2.24%) Azure Certification
11 83 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
12 64 (1.69%) CESG Certified Professional
12 64 (1.69%) CRISC
13 63 (1.66%) CCNP
14 61 (1.61%) CCNA
15 59 (1.55%) TOGAF Certification
16 51 (1.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 37 (0.97%) A+ Certification
18 33 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 30 (0.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (3.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 97 (2.56%) SLA
3 83 (2.19%) NCSC
4 82 (2.16%) Accessibility
5 71 (1.87%) QA
6 54 (1.42%) NIST
7 42 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 37 (0.97%) GDPR
9 35 (0.92%) WCAG
10 31 (0.82%) PMO
11 26 (0.69%) Def Stans
12 25 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
13 24 (0.63%) Data Quality
13 24 (0.63%) GRC
14 21 (0.55%) COBIT
14 21 (0.55%) Software Quality Assurance
15 19 (0.50%) JSP 440
16 16 (0.42%) ISO 9001
16 16 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 15 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 293 (7.72%) Active Directory
2 241 (6.35%) Docker
3 179 (4.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 123 (3.24%) Hyper-V
5 46 (1.21%) VMware ESXi
6 36 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
7 32 (0.84%) Firmware
7 32 (0.84%) vSphere
8 22 (0.58%) KVM
8 22 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
9 16 (0.42%) pfSense
10 14 (0.37%) Oracle RAC
11 10 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
11 10 (0.26%) NFS
11 10 (0.26%) XenDesktop
12 9 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
13 8 (0.21%) VMware NSX
14 4 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
14 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.11%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 266 (7.01%) Kubernetes
2 254 (6.69%) Ansible
3 219 (5.77%) Terraform
4 148 (3.90%) SCCM
5 69 (1.82%) Puppet
6 61 (1.61%) SCOM
7 60 (1.58%) vCenter Server
8 45 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
8 45 (1.19%) WSUS
9 35 (0.92%) Grafana
10 34 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
11 31 (0.82%) NetBackup
12 29 (0.76%) EMC NetWorker
13 24 (0.63%) ZABBIX
14 22 (0.58%) OpenSSO
15 21 (0.55%) OpenView
16 19 (0.50%) Prometheus
17 18 (0.47%) Nagios
18 17 (0.45%) Kibana
18 17 (0.45%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 720 (18.97%) Microsoft
2 272 (7.17%) VMware
3 229 (6.03%) Oracle
4 202 (5.32%) ESRI
5 201 (5.30%) Cisco
6 192 (5.06%) Juniper
7 99 (2.61%) ServiceNow
8 80 (2.11%) Red Hat
9 77 (2.03%) HP
10 75 (1.98%) Google
11 70 (1.84%) Remedy
11 70 (1.84%) Sparx
12 50 (1.32%) NetApp
13 47 (1.24%) IBM
14 42 (1.11%) Splunk
15 41 (1.08%) Veeam
16 40 (1.05%) Siebel
17 39 (1.03%) Citrix
18 37 (0.97%) EMC
19 36 (0.95%) BMC