Security Cleared Job Trends in England

Security Clearance
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 25
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 +7
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 4,336 2,917 6,240
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.26% 7.39% 6.79%
As % of the Qualifications category 25.30% 18.21% 25.82%
Number of salaries quoted 3,093 1,624 4,460
10th Percentile £43,497 £40,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,165 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,332 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.98% +6.66% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £87,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% -4.17%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

Security 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 17,138 16,020 24,170
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 20.77% 40.59% 26.31%
Number of salaries quoted 8,657 6,756 15,737
10th Percentile £30,500 £30,000 £28,501
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +0.92% -9.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £53,555
% change year-on-year +9.09% +2.70% -10.74%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Security Cleared relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Security Cleared job vacancy trend in England

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Security Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Security Cleared

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in England over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

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 8 June 2026. 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
London +42 1,168 £72,500 +11.54% 570
South West +4 969 £67,500 +12.50% 452
South East -9 806 £67,500 +16.38% 545
North of England -27 540 £60,425 +0.71% 284
Midlands +9 405 £60,000 -7.69% 147
North West -28 312 £65,000 - 168
East of England +28 310 £60,000 - 142
West Midlands -12 283 £60,000 -7.69% 102
Yorkshire +15 156 £62,500 +28.21% 50
East Midlands +27 118 £55,000 +5.77% 45
North East +11 72 £57,500 -17.13% 67
Security Cleared
UK

Security Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 99 (2.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 85 (1.96%) SharePoint
3 55 (1.27%) Apache
4 43 (0.99%) Confluence
5 31 (0.71%) Apache Spark
6 25 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
7 22 (0.51%) SAS
8 18 (0.42%) Jupyter
9 13 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
10 9 (0.21%) IIS
11 7 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 7 (0.16%) Skype for Business
12 4 (0.092%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.092%) Anypoint
12 4 (0.092%) JBoss
12 4 (0.092%) Mule
12 4 (0.092%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.046%) Camunda
13 2 (0.046%) Exchange Server 2013
14 1 (0.023%) Appian
Applications
1 97 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
2 42 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (0.39%) Adobe XD
4 15 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.35%) Simulink
5 7 (0.16%) InVision
5 7 (0.16%) Sketch
6 4 (0.092%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.092%) Windchill
7 3 (0.069%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.069%) Stateflow
8 2 (0.046%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.046%) Lectora
8 2 (0.046%) Weka
9 1 (0.023%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.023%) CATIA
9 1 (0.023%) Trello
Business Applications
1 30 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.25%) Maximo
3 7 (0.16%) SAP ERP
4 6 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.12%) Primavera
6 4 (0.092%) SAP FI
6 4 (0.092%) SAP FSCM
7 3 (0.069%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.069%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.069%) SAP HCM
8 2 (0.046%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.046%) SAP Payroll
8 2 (0.046%) SAP QM
9 1 (0.023%) C-CURE
9 1 (0.023%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 1 (0.023%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.023%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.023%) SAP BPC
9 1 (0.023%) SAP EWM
9 1 (0.023%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 827 (19.07%) Azure
2 750 (17.30%) AWS
3 271 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
4 202 (4.66%) GCP
5 106 (2.44%) Serverless
6 97 (2.24%) Power Platform
7 91 (2.10%) Entra ID
8 88 (2.03%) GitHub
9 78 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
10 71 (1.64%) Amazon S3
11 68 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
12 58 (1.34%) SaaS
13 56 (1.29%) Azure DevOps
14 54 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
15 42 (0.97%) OpenShift
16 38 (0.88%) Amazon EC2
17 37 (0.85%) Azure Sentinel
18 36 (0.83%) Amazon EKS
19 35 (0.81%) GitHub Actions
20 26 (0.60%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 221 (5.10%) Firewall
2 191 (4.40%) DNS
3 120 (2.77%) DHCP
3 120 (2.77%) WAN
4 99 (2.28%) VPN
5 98 (2.26%) Network Security
6 92 (2.12%) LAN
7 62 (1.43%) TCP/IP
8 43 (0.99%) SAN
9 42 (0.97%) BGP
9 42 (0.97%) SD-WAN
9 42 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
10 37 (0.85%) Structured Cabling
11 28 (0.65%) VLAN
12 27 (0.62%) VoIP
13 26 (0.60%) Broadband
14 23 (0.53%) HTTP
15 22 (0.51%) MPLS
16 21 (0.48%) 4G
17 20 (0.46%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (1.96%) Power BI
2 65 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
3 62 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
4 49 (1.13%) NoSQL
5 39 (0.90%) Big Data
6 38 (0.88%) MongoDB
7 33 (0.76%) DynamoDB
7 33 (0.76%) SQL Server
8 32 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
9 31 (0.71%) Data Lake
9 31 (0.71%) Metadata
10 29 (0.67%) Relational Database
11 28 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
12 23 (0.53%) Tableau
13 20 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
13 20 (0.46%) MySQL
14 19 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
15 15 (0.35%) DTS
16 13 (0.30%) SAP HANA
17 12 (0.28%) GIS
Development Applications
1 176 (4.06%) Git
2 156 (3.60%) GitLab
3 125 (2.88%) Jenkins
4 90 (2.08%) JIRA
5 32 (0.74%) Maven
6 28 (0.65%) SonarQube
7 25 (0.58%) Cucumber
8 24 (0.55%) JUnit
9 20 (0.46%) Cypress.io
10 18 (0.42%) Selenium
11 15 (0.35%) Bitbucket
12 14 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
13 13 (0.30%) Axure RP
13 13 (0.30%) Mockito
13 13 (0.30%) Subversion
14 11 (0.25%) Vite
15 10 (0.23%) Balsamiq
15 10 (0.23%) Gradle
15 10 (0.23%) JMeter
16 9 (0.21%) Burp Suite
General
1 842 (19.42%) Social Skills
2 654 (15.08%) Public Sector
3 365 (8.42%) Finance
4 358 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
5 286 (6.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 164 (3.78%) Law
7 126 (2.91%) Aerospace
8 80 (1.85%) Telecoms
9 75 (1.73%) Electronics
10 73 (1.68%) Manufacturing
10 73 (1.68%) Military
11 57 (1.31%) Legal
12 52 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
12 52 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
13 49 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
14 47 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
15 33 (0.76%) Games
16 32 (0.74%) Aviation
16 32 (0.74%) Retail
17 22 (0.51%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 661 (15.24%) Senior
2 529 (12.20%) Architect
3 374 (8.63%) Consultant
4 317 (7.31%) Analyst
5 312 (7.20%) Developer
6 309 (7.13%) Software Engineer
7 248 (5.72%) Lead
8 191 (4.40%) Data Engineer
9 189 (4.36%) Systems Engineer
10 172 (3.97%) Cloud Engineer
11 169 (3.90%) Solutions Architect
12 143 (3.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 140 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
14 131 (3.02%) Network Engineer
15 119 (2.74%) Business Analyst
16 117 (2.70%) Security Consultant
17 110 (2.54%) Security Architect
18 103 (2.38%) Java Developer
19 98 (2.26%) Support Engineer
20 93 (2.14%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (2.77%) React
2 95 (2.19%) REST
3 85 (1.96%) .NET
4 82 (1.89%) Spring
5 67 (1.55%) Spring Boot
6 60 (1.38%) AngularJS
7 53 (1.22%) Node.js
8 49 (1.13%) Kafka
9 38 (0.88%) PySpark
9 38 (0.88%) SOAP
10 37 (0.85%) HTML
11 36 (0.83%) Vue
12 34 (0.78%) CSS
13 33 (0.76%) JSON
14 31 (0.71%) Elastic Stack
15 30 (0.69%) Apache NiFi
15 30 (0.69%) LDAP
15 30 (0.69%) RESTful
15 30 (0.69%) Web Services
16 29 (0.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 173 (3.99%) Cloud Native
2 132 (3.04%) Data Centre
3 115 (2.65%) Product Ownership
4 95 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
5 94 (2.17%) Onboarding
6 85 (1.96%) Driving Licence
7 84 (1.94%) Security Posture
8 74 (1.71%) Management Information System
8 74 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
9 67 (1.55%) PKI
10 57 (1.31%) Security Operations Centre
11 47 (1.08%) Algorithms
12 39 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
12 39 (0.90%) Data Structures
13 38 (0.88%) CMDB
13 38 (0.88%) Cyber Defence
14 35 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
14 35 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
14 35 (0.81%) Public Cloud
15 34 (0.78%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 440 (10.15%) Windows
2 435 (10.03%) Linux
3 232 (5.35%) Windows Server
4 82 (1.89%) Windows Server 2016
5 67 (1.55%) Windows 10
6 60 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 45 (1.04%) Android
8 31 (0.71%) CentOS
9 27 (0.62%) Ubuntu
10 20 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
11 19 (0.44%) Unix
12 10 (0.23%) Apple iOS
12 10 (0.23%) VMS
13 7 (0.16%) Debian
14 6 (0.14%) AIX
15 5 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
15 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
15 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.092%) Solaris
17 3 (0.069%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 722 (16.65%) Agile
2 531 (12.25%) DevOps
3 515 (11.88%) Problem-Solving
4 482 (11.12%) Software Engineering
5 481 (11.09%) Cybersecurity
6 453 (10.45%) Continuous Improvement
7 452 (10.42%) CI/CD
8 341 (7.86%) AI
9 316 (7.29%) Mentoring
10 315 (7.26%) Infrastructure as Code
11 267 (6.16%) ITIL
12 244 (5.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 238 (5.49%) Analytics
14 215 (4.96%) Containerisation
15 210 (4.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 207 (4.77%) Decision-Making
17 205 (4.73%) Stakeholder Management
18 194 (4.47%) Scrum
19 191 (4.40%) Collaborative Culture
20 182 (4.20%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 604 (13.93%) Python
2 357 (8.23%) Java
3 242 (5.58%) SQL
4 183 (4.22%) JavaScript
5 152 (3.51%) C++
6 143 (3.30%) PowerShell
7 138 (3.18%) Bash
8 106 (2.44%) C#
9 101 (2.33%) TypeScript
10 72 (1.66%) C
11 43 (0.99%) Rust
12 35 (0.81%) Go
13 30 (0.69%) Groovy
14 21 (0.48%) MATLAB
15 20 (0.46%) PL/SQL
16 19 (0.44%) Shell Script
17 18 (0.42%) Apex Code
18 17 (0.39%) Bicep
18 17 (0.39%) Embedded C
18 17 (0.39%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2,808 (64.76%) SC Cleared
2 1,234 (28.46%) DV Cleared
3 456 (10.52%) Degree
4 133 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
5 106 (2.44%) CISSP
6 83 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
7 72 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 67 (1.55%) CISM
9 65 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 49 (1.13%) AWS Certification
11 41 (0.95%) Azure Certification
12 40 (0.92%) Master's Degree
13 38 (0.88%) CCNP
14 37 (0.85%) CCNA
15 36 (0.83%) CREST Certified
16 35 (0.81%) DBS Check
17 33 (0.76%) HNC
18 32 (0.74%) A+ Certification
19 31 (0.71%) CompTIA Security+
19 31 (0.71%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 130 (3.00%) NIST
3 106 (2.44%) QA
4 103 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
5 97 (2.24%) PCI DSS
6 91 (2.10%) SLA
7 77 (1.78%) GDPR
8 73 (1.68%) Data Quality
8 73 (1.68%) NCSC
9 71 (1.64%) Accessibility
10 48 (1.11%) GRC
11 41 (0.95%) JSP 440
12 26 (0.60%) PMO
13 23 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 22 (0.51%) ISO 9001
14 22 (0.51%) WCAG
15 20 (0.46%) Def Stans
16 19 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 16 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
17 16 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 273 (6.30%) Active Directory
2 236 (5.44%) Docker
3 114 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 95 (2.19%) Hyper-V
5 59 (1.36%) vSphere
6 57 (1.31%) Terminal Server
7 51 (1.18%) Firmware
8 43 (0.99%) VMware NSX
9 18 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
10 17 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
11 12 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
12 10 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
13 6 (0.14%) BitLocker
14 5 (0.12%) KVM
15 4 (0.092%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 4 (0.092%) Squid
16 3 (0.069%) Lustre
17 2 (0.046%) UAG
18 1 (0.023%) IAG
18 1 (0.023%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 338 (7.80%) Terraform
2 297 (6.85%) Kubernetes
3 194 (4.47%) Ansible
4 66 (1.52%) Grafana
5 52 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
6 50 (1.15%) Prometheus
7 43 (0.99%) SCCM
8 29 (0.67%) Puppet
9 27 (0.62%) Kibana
9 27 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
10 26 (0.60%) Argo
11 24 (0.55%) vCenter Server
12 22 (0.51%) WSUS
13 17 (0.39%) Nagios
14 15 (0.35%) SCOM
15 14 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 12 (0.28%) Podman
16 12 (0.28%) Progress Chef
17 11 (0.25%) logstash
17 11 (0.25%) QRadar
Vendors
1 549 (12.66%) Microsoft
2 260 (6.00%) VMware
3 156 (3.60%) Cisco
4 123 (2.84%) Splunk
5 106 (2.44%) ServiceNow
6 92 (2.12%) Oracle
7 82 (1.89%) Google
7 82 (1.89%) Red Hat
8 76 (1.75%) SolarWinds
9 67 (1.55%) SAP
10 59 (1.36%) Veeam
11 58 (1.34%) Brocade
11 58 (1.34%) Databricks
12 56 (1.29%) Nimble Storage
12 56 (1.29%) Tanium
13 49 (1.13%) Dell
14 48 (1.11%) Salesforce
15 35 (0.81%) Fortinet
15 35 (0.81%) HP
16 34 (0.78%) McAfee