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 6 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 16 49 72
Rank change year-on-year +33 +23 -13
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 5,180 6,542 4,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.02% 6.01% 4.32%
As % of the Qualifications category 34.09% 20.58% 17.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,919 3,059 2,655
10th Percentile £32,840 £31,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -4.17% +9.09%

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 15,194 31,792 26,823
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.33% 29.20% 24.02%
Number of salaries quoted 9,829 15,366 15,801
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,750 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,480 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.81% +2.69% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £93,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -

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 6 December 2023.

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 6 December 2023. 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 West +4 1,385 £55,000 - 480
South East +17 1,377 £53,760 +5.46% 554
London +75 906 £70,000 +7.69% 489
North of England +83 712 £60,000 +9.09% 227
North West +55 504 £61,000 +10.91% 158
Midlands +56 463 £55,000 - 174
West Midlands +54 291 £55,000 - 129
Yorkshire +115 173 £60,000 -8.40% 51
East Midlands +48 172 £60,000 +4.35% 45
East of England +13 160 £58,500 +23.16% 128
North East +13 38 £56,145 -6.42% 19
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
1 104 (2.01%) SharePoint
2 61 (1.18%) IIS
3 58 (1.12%) Confluence
4 52 (1.00%) Red Hat Fuse
5 51 (0.98%) JBoss
6 46 (0.89%) MS Exchange
7 38 (0.73%) WebLogic
8 36 (0.69%) Apache
9 32 (0.62%) Apache Spark
10 23 (0.44%) Jupyter
11 19 (0.37%) nginx
12 14 (0.27%) OpenStack
12 14 (0.27%) WebSphere
13 10 (0.19%) WinCC
14 8 (0.15%) Oracle Service Bus
14 8 (0.15%) WebSphere Application Server
15 7 (0.14%) ArcGIS
15 7 (0.14%) CMS
15 7 (0.14%) SharePoint 2010
15 7 (0.14%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 159 (3.07%) Microsoft Office
2 93 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 61 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
6 15 (0.29%) MS Visio
7 11 (0.21%) SOLIDWORKS
8 9 (0.17%) Autodesk Inventor
9 8 (0.15%) Windchill
10 6 (0.12%) AutoCAD
10 6 (0.12%) PTC Creo
11 5 (0.097%) Chatbot
11 5 (0.097%) OrCAD
12 4 (0.077%) Adobe Premiere
13 3 (0.058%) Acrobat
13 3 (0.058%) Simulink
14 2 (0.039%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 2 (0.039%) Adobe XD
14 2 (0.039%) InVision
14 2 (0.039%) Trello
Business Applications
1 40 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
2 35 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 25 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 22 (0.42%) Primavera
5 17 (0.33%) Maximo
5 17 (0.33%) Siebel CRM
6 14 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
7 12 (0.23%) SAP SCM
8 11 (0.21%) Elite 3E
8 11 (0.21%) SAP CO
9 10 (0.19%) SAP FI
9 10 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
10 9 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
11 8 (0.15%) SAP MM
12 7 (0.14%) SAP HR
13 6 (0.12%) SAP PM
13 6 (0.12%) SAP PS
13 6 (0.12%) SAP SD
14 5 (0.097%) Oracle ERP
14 5 (0.097%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 969 (18.71%) Azure
2 858 (16.56%) AWS
3 264 (5.10%) Serverless
4 241 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
5 219 (4.23%) GCP
6 194 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
7 145 (2.80%) OpenShift
8 142 (2.74%) Power Platform
9 140 (2.70%) SaaS
10 110 (2.12%) Cloud Computing
11 96 (1.85%) Entra ID
12 74 (1.43%) PaaS
13 72 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
14 68 (1.31%) IaaS
15 63 (1.22%) GitHub
16 56 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
17 55 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
18 47 (0.91%) Amazon ECS
19 41 (0.79%) Amazon S3
19 41 (0.79%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 369 (7.12%) Firewall
2 206 (3.98%) DNS
3 190 (3.67%) WAN
4 163 (3.15%) DHCP
5 147 (2.84%) LAN
6 138 (2.66%) TCP/IP
7 125 (2.41%) Network Security
8 121 (2.34%) VPN
9 114 (2.20%) HTTP
10 93 (1.80%) BGP
11 85 (1.64%) OSPF
12 70 (1.35%) Wireless
13 58 (1.12%) SAN
14 46 (0.89%) SSL
15 43 (0.83%) Cisco Firepower
16 42 (0.81%) Internet
17 40 (0.77%) Cisco ASA
18 39 (0.75%) SD-WAN
19 37 (0.71%) MPLS
20 34 (0.66%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (4.19%) SQL Server
2 134 (2.59%) Big Data
3 128 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
4 100 (1.93%) Relational Database
5 98 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
6 94 (1.81%) MongoDB
7 86 (1.66%) Power BI
8 80 (1.54%) MySQL
9 76 (1.47%) Oracle Database
10 63 (1.22%) RDBMS
11 62 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
12 60 (1.16%) NoSQL
13 54 (1.04%) Hadoop
14 52 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
15 39 (0.75%) GIS
16 37 (0.71%) Metadata
17 31 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
18 30 (0.58%) Redis
19 19 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
19 19 (0.37%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 292 (5.64%) Git
2 255 (4.92%) Jenkins
3 175 (3.38%) JIRA
4 109 (2.10%) Selenium
5 106 (2.05%) GitLab
6 54 (1.04%) IntelliJ
7 51 (0.98%) Cucumber
8 45 (0.87%) Bitbucket
9 44 (0.85%) Maven
10 39 (0.75%) Robot Framework
11 38 (0.73%) Visual Studio
12 35 (0.68%) Rational DOORS
13 34 (0.66%) Cypress.io
14 32 (0.62%) MSI
15 25 (0.48%) Artifactory
16 24 (0.46%) JUnit
16 24 (0.46%) Oracle APEX
16 24 (0.46%) Team Foundation Server
17 22 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
18 19 (0.37%) JMeter
General
1 1,456 (28.11%) Social Skills
2 565 (10.91%) Public Sector
3 557 (10.75%) Finance
4 508 (9.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 325 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
6 237 (4.58%) Presentation Skills
7 216 (4.17%) Aerospace
8 166 (3.20%) Games
9 159 (3.07%) Military
10 151 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
11 141 (2.72%) Banking
12 132 (2.55%) Police
13 130 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
14 112 (2.16%) Retail
14 112 (2.16%) Telecoms
15 96 (1.85%) Law
16 79 (1.53%) Manufacturing
17 65 (1.25%) Electronics
18 60 (1.16%) Legal
19 52 (1.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 837 (16.16%) Senior
2 702 (13.55%) Architect
3 456 (8.80%) Software Engineer
4 443 (8.55%) Developer
5 368 (7.10%) Consultant
6 328 (6.33%) Analyst
7 283 (5.46%) Solutions Architect
8 257 (4.96%) Lead
9 252 (4.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 239 (4.61%) Project Manager
11 220 (4.25%) DevOps Engineer
12 192 (3.71%) Security Architect
13 169 (3.26%) Systems Engineer
14 163 (3.15%) Senior Software Engineer
15 162 (3.13%) Network Engineer
16 152 (2.93%) Support Engineer
17 144 (2.78%) Presales Solution Architect
18 117 (2.26%) Java Engineer
19 111 (2.14%) Java Software Engineer
20 110 (2.12%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 243 (4.69%) Spring
2 208 (4.02%) React
3 204 (3.94%) .NET
3 204 (3.94%) HTML
4 173 (3.34%) REST
5 169 (3.26%) Web Services
6 153 (2.95%) XML
7 131 (2.53%) Node.js
8 127 (2.45%) JSON
8 127 (2.45%) SOAP
9 119 (2.30%) AngularJS
10 94 (1.81%) J2EE
11 87 (1.68%) RESTful
12 83 (1.60%) Java EE
13 82 (1.58%) CSS
14 79 (1.53%) Ruby on Rails
15 60 (1.16%) Hibernate
16 59 (1.14%) Elastic Stack
17 58 (1.12%) ModSecurity
18 55 (1.06%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 188 (3.63%) Management Information System
2 172 (3.32%) Data Centre
3 161 (3.11%) Cyberattack
4 155 (2.99%) PKI
5 138 (2.66%) Self-Motivation
6 122 (2.36%) Product Ownership
7 114 (2.20%) Cloud Native
8 109 (2.10%) Algorithms
9 102 (1.97%) Public Cloud
10 90 (1.74%) Private Cloud
11 82 (1.58%) Driving Licence
12 69 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
13 67 (1.29%) Virtual Team
14 65 (1.25%) Operational Technology
15 60 (1.16%) CMDB
16 53 (1.02%) Clustering
17 47 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
18 45 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
18 45 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
19 44 (0.85%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 789 (15.23%) Windows
2 718 (13.86%) Linux
3 327 (6.31%) Windows Server
4 163 (3.15%) Unix
5 122 (2.36%) Windows Server 2016
6 121 (2.34%) Windows Server 2019
7 110 (2.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 110 (2.12%) Windows Server 2012
8 103 (1.99%) Windows 10
9 84 (1.62%) Android
10 49 (0.95%) CentOS
11 48 (0.93%) Apple iOS
12 42 (0.81%) Windows 7
13 39 (0.75%) Mac OS
14 26 (0.50%) VMS
15 24 (0.46%) Solaris
16 20 (0.39%) Windows Server 2003
17 17 (0.33%) Ubuntu
18 15 (0.29%) Windows NT
19 12 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,334 (25.75%) Agile
2 1,239 (23.92%) Actionable Insight
3 959 (18.51%) Problem-Solving
4 803 (15.50%) DevOps
5 766 (14.79%) Software Engineering
6 650 (12.55%) Cybersecurity
7 524 (10.12%) Mentoring
8 422 (8.15%) ITIL
9 421 (8.13%) CI/CD
10 411 (7.93%) Containerisation
11 398 (7.68%) Coaching
12 374 (7.22%) Analytics
13 366 (7.07%) Project Management
14 332 (6.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 329 (6.35%) Project Delivery
16 319 (6.16%) Microservices
17 308 (5.95%) Scrum
18 301 (5.81%) Continuous Integration
19 285 (5.50%) Stakeholder Management
20 279 (5.39%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 939 (18.13%) Python
2 830 (16.02%) Java
3 457 (8.82%) SQL
4 433 (8.36%) PowerShell
5 390 (7.53%) JavaScript
6 338 (6.53%) C#
7 272 (5.25%) Bash
8 221 (4.27%) C++
9 155 (2.99%) Ruby
10 137 (2.64%) C
11 113 (2.18%) Go
12 80 (1.54%) Perl
13 68 (1.31%) TypeScript
14 61 (1.18%) PL/SQL
15 55 (1.06%) VB
16 53 (1.02%) R
17 52 (1.00%) VBScript
18 49 (0.95%) Shell Script
19 38 (0.73%) MATLAB
20 30 (0.58%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3,135 (60.52%) SC Cleared
2 1,252 (24.17%) DV Cleared
3 796 (15.37%) Degree
4 173 (3.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 157 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
6 153 (2.95%) CISSP
7 113 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 112 (2.16%) AWS Certification
9 108 (2.08%) CCNA
10 92 (1.78%) CISM
10 92 (1.78%) Master's Degree
11 80 (1.54%) CCNP
12 68 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 67 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
14 62 (1.20%) CRISC
15 55 (1.06%) Azure Certification
16 52 (1.00%) HNC
17 51 (0.98%) CISA
18 48 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
19 47 (0.91%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 231 (4.46%) QA
2 216 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 97 (1.87%) SLA
4 93 (1.80%) NIST
5 75 (1.45%) NCSC
6 65 (1.25%) GRC
7 61 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
8 60 (1.16%) Accessibility
9 45 (0.87%) RMADS
10 42 (0.81%) ISO 9001
11 40 (0.77%) Data Quality
12 38 (0.73%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 35 (0.68%) ISO 22301
13 35 (0.68%) JSP 440
14 33 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 15288
15 24 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 20 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 17025
17 16 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
18 15 (0.29%) NIST 800
18 15 (0.29%) PMO
System Software
1 491 (9.48%) Active Directory
2 366 (7.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 355 (6.85%) Docker
4 211 (4.07%) Virtual Machines
5 192 (3.71%) Hyper-V
6 92 (1.78%) Firmware
7 65 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
8 55 (1.06%) vSphere
9 38 (0.73%) VMware NSX
10 31 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
11 27 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
12 16 (0.31%) Microsoft App-V
13 11 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
14 8 (0.15%) KVM
15 7 (0.14%) XenApp
16 6 (0.12%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 6 (0.12%) HDFS
17 5 (0.097%) Embedded Firmware
18 4 (0.077%) Squid
19 3 (0.058%) NFS
Systems Management
1 413 (7.97%) Kubernetes
2 311 (6.00%) Terraform
3 280 (5.41%) Ansible
4 209 (4.03%) SCCM
5 110 (2.12%) SCOM
6 104 (2.01%) Puppet
7 78 (1.51%) vCenter Server
7 78 (1.51%) WSUS
8 69 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
9 43 (0.83%) Grafana
10 37 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
11 35 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 29 (0.56%) Prometheus
13 28 (0.54%) OpenSSO
14 27 (0.52%) Nessus
15 26 (0.50%) VxRail
16 21 (0.41%) Packer
17 20 (0.39%) EnCase
17 20 (0.39%) Microsoft Clustering
17 20 (0.39%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 857 (16.54%) Microsoft
2 497 (9.59%) VMware
3 367 (7.08%) Oracle
4 286 (5.52%) Cisco
5 177 (3.42%) ServiceNow
6 154 (2.97%) Juniper
7 138 (2.66%) SAP
8 112 (2.16%) Red Hat
9 105 (2.03%) Remedy
10 85 (1.64%) Google
11 82 (1.58%) HP
12 77 (1.49%) Fortinet
13 59 (1.14%) F5
14 53 (1.02%) IBM
15 52 (1.00%) SolarWinds
16 49 (0.95%) CheckPoint
17 48 (0.93%) CA
17 48 (0.93%) Splunk
18 45 (0.87%) Aruba
18 45 (0.87%) Citrix