Security Cleared Jobs in England

Security Clearance
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 28 75
Rank change year-on-year +6 +47 -12
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 6,792 6,982 6,112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.01% 7.49% 4.68%
As % of the Qualifications category 28.05% 22.89% 17.68%
Number of salaries quoted 4,343 3,432 3,094
10th Percentile £31,500 £32,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,631 £41,503
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £86,675
UK median annual salary £57,500 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.54% +7.27% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

Security 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 24,218 30,499 34,574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.56% 32.72% 26.45%
Number of salaries quoted 15,725 13,726 16,723
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +5.45% -

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in England

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Security Cleared in England

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in England

Security 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 Security Cleared within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +7 1,950 £55,000 +14.58% 523
South West +2 1,918 £55,000 - 439
London +14 1,046 £72,500 +11.54% 313
North of England +17 808 £55,000 -4.35% 239
Midlands +2 629 £52,500 -4.55% 151
North West +5 583 £55,000 -4.35% 187
West Midlands +17 427 £55,000 -4.35% 116
East of England +21 412 £55,000 - 156
East Midlands -20 202 £44,500 -15.24% 35
Yorkshire +36 190 £60,000 -10.45% 31
North East -33 37 £55,000 +18.92% 21
Security Cleared
UK

Security 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
1 205 (3.02%) ArcGIS
2 196 (2.89%) GeoServer
3 144 (2.12%) Confluence
4 123 (1.81%) SharePoint
5 98 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
6 81 (1.19%) Apache
7 79 (1.16%) IIS
8 65 (0.96%) WebLogic
9 52 (0.77%) Apache Spark
10 39 (0.57%) OpenStack
11 30 (0.44%) nginx
12 28 (0.41%) JBoss
13 27 (0.40%) Red Hat Fuse
14 21 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2010
15 18 (0.27%) CMS
16 17 (0.25%) Jupyter
17 15 (0.22%) Oracle Service Bus
17 15 (0.22%) Tomcat
18 13 (0.19%) SharePoint 2010
18 13 (0.19%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 246 (3.62%) Microsoft Office
2 126 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 111 (1.63%) Simulink
4 84 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 41 (0.60%) MS Visio
6 32 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
7 29 (0.43%) Sketch
8 10 (0.15%) AutoCAD
9 6 (0.088%) Trello
10 4 (0.059%) EPLAN
10 4 (0.059%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.059%) Siemens NX
10 4 (0.059%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.059%) Stateflow
10 4 (0.059%) Windchill
11 3 (0.044%) Revit
12 2 (0.029%) Abaqus
12 2 (0.029%) GNU Octave
12 2 (0.029%) InDesign
12 2 (0.029%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 79 (1.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 57 (0.84%) Remedy ITSM
3 38 (0.56%) Siebel CRM
4 36 (0.53%) Primavera
5 29 (0.43%) NEC Housing
6 26 (0.38%) Workday HCM
7 25 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
8 22 (0.32%) Maximo
9 14 (0.21%) SAP HR
10 10 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
10 10 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
10 10 (0.15%) SAP CO
10 10 (0.15%) SAP FI
10 10 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
11 9 (0.13%) Elite 3E
11 9 (0.13%) SAP SCM
11 9 (0.13%) Teamcenter
12 8 (0.12%) SAP EWM
13 6 (0.088%) Oracle Applications
13 6 (0.088%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 1,302 (19.17%) Azure
2 1,128 (16.61%) AWS
3 261 (3.84%) Microsoft 365
4 164 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
5 152 (2.24%) SaaS
6 142 (2.09%) Power Platform
7 139 (2.05%) GCP
8 127 (1.87%) Serverless
9 115 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
10 110 (1.62%) OpenShift
11 105 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
12 92 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
13 89 (1.31%) PaaS
14 77 (1.13%) Entra ID
15 68 (1.00%) Cloud Computing
16 66 (0.97%) IaaS
17 64 (0.94%) Amazon ECS
18 63 (0.93%) GitHub
19 59 (0.87%) AWS Lambda
20 47 (0.69%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 450 (6.63%) Firewall
2 249 (3.67%) DNS
3 224 (3.30%) WAN
4 174 (2.56%) TCP/IP
5 164 (2.41%) LAN
6 159 (2.34%) DHCP
7 135 (1.99%) BGP
8 132 (1.94%) Network Security
9 129 (1.90%) VPN
10 77 (1.13%) Wireless
11 75 (1.10%) SAN
12 71 (1.05%) HTTP
13 59 (0.87%) MPLS
13 59 (0.87%) SSL
14 58 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
15 55 (0.81%) Internet
16 52 (0.77%) OSPF
17 50 (0.74%) Cisco ASA
18 49 (0.72%) IPsec
19 48 (0.71%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 305 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
2 230 (3.39%) GIS
3 196 (2.89%) QGIS
4 171 (2.52%) SQL Server
5 138 (2.03%) Relational Database
6 93 (1.37%) NoSQL
7 91 (1.34%) Power BI
8 87 (1.28%) Big Data
9 83 (1.22%) Oracle Database
10 71 (1.05%) Hadoop
11 70 (1.03%) MongoDB
12 51 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
13 47 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
14 38 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
14 38 (0.56%) MySQL
15 36 (0.53%) RDBMS
16 34 (0.50%) Oracle BI EE
17 30 (0.44%) Siebel EIM
18 25 (0.37%) Tableau
19 24 (0.35%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 268 (3.95%) JIRA
2 259 (3.81%) Git
3 235 (3.46%) Jenkins
4 143 (2.11%) GitLab
5 134 (1.97%) Visual Studio
6 111 (1.63%) Bitbucket
7 93 (1.37%) Rational DOORS
8 66 (0.97%) Selenium
9 59 (0.87%) Sourcetree
10 38 (0.56%) Rational Rhapsody
11 37 (0.54%) Cucumber
12 29 (0.43%) JUnit
12 29 (0.43%) Subversion
13 26 (0.38%) Team Foundation Server
14 25 (0.37%) Ant
15 23 (0.34%) LabVIEW
16 21 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 19 (0.28%) JMeter
18 18 (0.27%) IntelliJ
19 17 (0.25%) TestNG
General
1 1,458 (21.47%) Social Skills
2 693 (10.20%) Public Sector
3 520 (7.66%) Finance
4 508 (7.48%) Aerospace
5 376 (5.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 337 (4.96%) Analytical Skills
7 246 (3.62%) Military
8 209 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
9 188 (2.77%) Games
10 157 (2.31%) Telecoms
11 149 (2.19%) Manufacturing
12 143 (2.11%) Police
13 130 (1.91%) Retail
14 121 (1.78%) Electronics
15 120 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
16 113 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
17 92 (1.35%) Law
18 54 (0.80%) Marketing
19 53 (0.78%) Legal
20 47 (0.69%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,132 (16.67%) Senior
2 866 (12.75%) Architect
3 670 (9.86%) Software Engineer
4 589 (8.67%) Developer
5 501 (7.38%) Lead
6 459 (6.76%) Consultant
7 428 (6.30%) Analyst
8 420 (6.18%) Systems Engineer
9 321 (4.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 287 (4.23%) Network Engineer
11 285 (4.20%) Solutions Architect
12 268 (3.95%) Project Manager
13 259 (3.81%) Senior Software Engineer
14 230 (3.39%) DevOps Engineer
15 181 (2.66%) Security Consultant
16 176 (2.59%) Support Engineer
17 167 (2.46%) Administrator
18 138 (2.03%) Senior Developer
19 121 (1.78%) Technical Architect
20 109 (1.60%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 379 (5.58%) .NET
2 353 (5.20%) React
3 226 (3.33%) CSS
4 199 (2.93%) Leaflet
4 199 (2.93%) OpenLayers
5 196 (2.89%) .NET Core
5 196 (2.89%) PostGIS
6 177 (2.61%) REST
7 172 (2.53%) Spring
8 168 (2.47%) HTML
9 159 (2.34%) AngularJS
10 137 (2.02%) Node.js
11 126 (1.86%) Spring Boot
12 120 (1.77%) XML
13 114 (1.68%) Web Services
14 101 (1.49%) JSON
15 93 (1.37%) Elastic Stack
16 88 (1.30%) Unity (Game Engine)
17 87 (1.28%) RESTful
18 79 (1.16%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 268 (3.95%) Management Information System
2 205 (3.02%) Driving Licence
3 190 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
4 186 (2.74%) Algorithms
5 145 (2.13%) Product Ownership
6 144 (2.12%) Data Centre
7 129 (1.90%) PKI
8 124 (1.83%) Public Cloud
9 117 (1.72%) Cloud Native
10 107 (1.58%) Cyberattack
11 103 (1.52%) Private Cloud
12 97 (1.43%) Virtual Reality
13 87 (1.28%) Security Operations Centre
14 79 (1.16%) Operational Technology
15 77 (1.13%) Virtual Team
16 72 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
17 71 (1.05%) Onboarding
18 65 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
19 60 (0.88%) Cyber Defence
20 54 (0.80%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 1,053 (15.50%) Linux
2 989 (14.56%) Windows
3 356 (5.24%) Windows Server
4 177 (2.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 150 (2.21%) Windows 10
6 126 (1.86%) Windows Server 2016
7 125 (1.84%) CentOS
8 124 (1.83%) Unix
9 123 (1.81%) Windows Server 2019
10 122 (1.80%) Ubuntu
11 97 (1.43%) Windows Server 2012
12 66 (0.97%) Windows 7
13 63 (0.93%) Embedded Linux
14 52 (0.77%) VMS
15 30 (0.44%) Debian
16 27 (0.40%) Solaris
17 19 (0.28%) Android
18 16 (0.24%) AIX
19 14 (0.21%) Windows NT
19 14 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,928 (28.39%) Agile
2 1,255 (18.48%) Actionable Insight
3 1,100 (16.20%) DevOps
4 1,095 (16.12%) Software Engineering
5 1,093 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
6 790 (11.63%) Cybersecurity
7 624 (9.19%) Project Management
8 551 (8.11%) Scrum
9 545 (8.02%) ITIL
10 513 (7.55%) Mentoring
11 444 (6.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 440 (6.48%) Collaborative Working
13 408 (6.01%) CI/CD
14 386 (5.68%) Systems Engineering
15 385 (5.67%) Project Delivery
16 382 (5.62%) Stakeholder Management
17 316 (4.65%) Customer Service
18 303 (4.46%) Validation
19 295 (4.34%) Coaching
20 292 (4.30%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,047 (15.42%) Python
2 681 (10.03%) Java
3 621 (9.14%) JavaScript
4 473 (6.96%) PowerShell
5 469 (6.91%) C#
6 443 (6.52%) SQL
7 290 (4.27%) Bash
8 275 (4.05%) C++
9 258 (3.80%) C
10 142 (2.09%) MATLAB
11 98 (1.44%) TypeScript
12 90 (1.33%) Shell Script
13 58 (0.85%) Rust
14 53 (0.78%) Embedded C
15 44 (0.65%) Ada
16 39 (0.57%) Fortran
17 35 (0.52%) PL/SQL
18 33 (0.49%) Perl
18 33 (0.49%) VB
19 30 (0.44%) Go
Qualifications
1 3,826 (56.33%) SC Cleared
2 1,611 (23.72%) DV Cleared
3 1,111 (16.36%) Degree
4 598 (8.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 205 (3.02%) Cisco Certification
6 148 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 145 (2.13%) CISSP
8 133 (1.96%) AWS Certification
9 130 (1.91%) CCNA
10 128 (1.88%) CCNP
11 116 (1.71%) CISM
12 96 (1.41%) Azure Certification
13 89 (1.31%) CESG Certified Professional
13 89 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
14 81 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 78 (1.15%) Master's Degree
16 72 (1.06%) CRISC
17 66 (0.97%) CTC Cleared
17 66 (0.97%) DBS Check
18 59 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 230 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 187 (2.75%) SLA
3 158 (2.33%) QA
4 129 (1.90%) NIST
5 124 (1.83%) Accessibility
6 112 (1.65%) NCSC
7 88 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
8 61 (0.90%) ISO 9001
9 55 (0.81%) GDPR
10 45 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 45 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 43 (0.63%) GRC
11 43 (0.63%) NIST 800
12 42 (0.62%) Def Stans
13 41 (0.60%) PCI DSS
13 41 (0.60%) PMO
14 39 (0.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 39 (0.57%) RMADS
15 38 (0.56%) JSP 440
16 36 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 535 (7.88%) Active Directory
2 405 (5.96%) Docker
3 363 (5.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 193 (2.84%) Hyper-V
5 106 (1.56%) Firmware
6 86 (1.27%) vSphere
7 79 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
8 55 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
9 53 (0.78%) KVM
10 41 (0.60%) VMware NSX
11 23 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
12 20 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
13 16 (0.24%) pfSense
14 15 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
14 15 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
15 12 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
16 11 (0.16%) NFS
17 9 (0.13%) Forefront TMG
17 9 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
18 5 (0.074%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 487 (7.17%) Ansible
2 443 (6.52%) Kubernetes
3 415 (6.11%) Terraform
4 217 (3.19%) SCCM
5 150 (2.21%) Puppet
6 91 (1.34%) vCenter Server
7 88 (1.30%) SCOM
7 88 (1.30%) WSUS
8 60 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
9 53 (0.78%) Grafana
10 45 (0.66%) EnCase
11 44 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
12 37 (0.54%) Prometheus
13 35 (0.52%) Progress Chef
14 34 (0.50%) NetBackup
15 30 (0.44%) EMC NetWorker
16 28 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 28 (0.41%) FortiGate
17 25 (0.37%) ZABBIX
18 22 (0.32%) OpenSSO
Vendors
1 1,187 (17.48%) Microsoft
2 520 (7.66%) VMware
3 421 (6.20%) Cisco
4 330 (4.86%) Oracle
5 274 (4.03%) Juniper
6 202 (2.97%) ESRI
7 186 (2.74%) Red Hat
8 131 (1.93%) ServiceNow
9 102 (1.50%) HP
10 86 (1.27%) IBM
11 85 (1.25%) SAP
12 84 (1.24%) Google
13 82 (1.21%) Remedy
14 79 (1.16%) Sparx
15 71 (1.05%) Dell
16 63 (0.93%) Splunk
17 57 (0.84%) SolarWinds
18 54 (0.80%) Fortinet
19 52 (0.77%) Veeam
20 51 (0.75%) NetApp