Security Cleared Jobs 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 18 80
Rank change year-on-year -3 +62 -15
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 5,862 6,851 6,465
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.48% 9.64% 4.40%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.61% 28.86% 15.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,647 3,340 3,399
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £30,896
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -3.36%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +9.09% -

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 21,233 23,740 40,487
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.10% 33.40% 27.54%
Number of salaries quoted 12,087 12,302 17,912
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £88,770 £95,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -1 1,814 £55,000 +6.80% 280
South West +1 1,537 £58,000 -3.33% 234
London -15 898 £70,000 +7.69% 207
North of England -13 700 £55,000 -10.57% 177
Midlands -18 591 £52,250 -7.52% 96
North West -11 510 £55,000 -12.00% 135
West Midlands +2 447 £55,000 -4.35% 71
East of England +4 267 £50,000 -9.09% 57
Yorkshire -16 153 £60,000 -10.45% 28
East Midlands -58 144 £42,500 -19.05% 25
North East -17 37 £58,800 +23.79% 15
South Coast - 1 £35,000 -
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
1 142 (2.42%) ArcGIS
2 129 (2.20%) GeoServer
3 127 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 126 (2.15%) SharePoint
5 98 (1.67%) Apache
6 74 (1.26%) Confluence
7 62 (1.06%) Apache Spark
8 43 (0.73%) WebLogic
9 38 (0.65%) IIS
10 24 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2010
10 24 (0.41%) Tomcat
11 23 (0.39%) nginx
12 17 (0.29%) OpenStack
13 16 (0.27%) Jupyter
14 15 (0.26%) Appian
15 13 (0.22%) SharePoint 2010
15 13 (0.22%) SharePoint 2013
16 11 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2013
17 9 (0.15%) JBoss
18 8 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 184 (3.14%) Microsoft Office
2 129 (2.20%) Simulink
3 69 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
4 36 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
5 34 (0.58%) Sketch
6 25 (0.43%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.14%) AutoCAD
8 7 (0.12%) Adobe XD
8 7 (0.12%) Siemens NX
9 6 (0.10%) InVision
9 6 (0.10%) Trello
10 4 (0.068%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.034%) Abaqus
11 2 (0.034%) EPLAN
11 2 (0.034%) Fireworks
11 2 (0.034%) InDesign
11 2 (0.034%) Revit
11 2 (0.034%) Stateflow
11 2 (0.034%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 66 (1.13%) NEC Housing
2 59 (1.01%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 39 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
4 36 (0.61%) Siebel CRM
5 27 (0.46%) Maximo
6 17 (0.29%) Primavera
7 14 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
8 12 (0.20%) Workday HCM
9 8 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
9 8 (0.14%) Teamcenter
10 7 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
11 6 (0.10%) Oracle Applications
11 6 (0.10%) Oracle Payroll
11 6 (0.10%) SAP CO
11 6 (0.10%) SAP FI
11 6 (0.10%) SAP FI/CO
12 5 (0.085%) PeopleSoft HCM
12 5 (0.085%) SAP HR
12 5 (0.085%) SAP S/4HANA
13 4 (0.068%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 1,111 (18.95%) Azure
2 920 (15.69%) AWS
3 287 (4.90%) Microsoft 365
4 140 (2.39%) GCP
5 136 (2.32%) Power Platform
6 135 (2.30%) SaaS
7 116 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
8 106 (1.81%) Serverless
9 101 (1.72%) OpenShift
10 97 (1.65%) Entra ID
11 90 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
12 88 (1.50%) Amazon EKS
13 75 (1.28%) PaaS
14 58 (0.99%) AWS Lambda
15 57 (0.97%) IaaS
16 56 (0.96%) AWS CloudFormation
16 56 (0.96%) PowerApps
17 54 (0.92%) Power Automate
18 53 (0.90%) Azure Monitor
19 52 (0.89%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 377 (6.43%) Firewall
2 184 (3.14%) WAN
3 177 (3.02%) DNS
4 144 (2.46%) Network Security
5 140 (2.39%) TCP/IP
6 126 (2.15%) BGP
7 124 (2.12%) VPN
8 120 (2.05%) LAN
9 101 (1.72%) DHCP
10 78 (1.33%) OSPF
11 74 (1.26%) Cisco ASA
12 72 (1.23%) SSL
13 68 (1.16%) Cisco Firepower
14 64 (1.09%) IPsec
14 64 (1.09%) Wireless
15 62 (1.06%) SD-WAN
16 52 (0.89%) VLAN
17 51 (0.87%) SAN
17 51 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
18 49 (0.84%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 247 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
2 149 (2.54%) GIS
3 137 (2.34%) SQL Server
4 133 (2.27%) QGIS
5 112 (1.91%) Relational Database
6 106 (1.81%) Hadoop
7 104 (1.77%) Power BI
8 101 (1.72%) Big Data
9 100 (1.71%) Oracle Database
10 94 (1.60%) MongoDB
11 91 (1.55%) NoSQL
12 42 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
13 36 (0.61%) Oracle BI EE
13 36 (0.61%) RDBMS
13 36 (0.61%) Siebel EIM
14 35 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
15 33 (0.56%) MySQL
16 29 (0.49%) Cloudera CDH
16 29 (0.49%) Tableau
17 28 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 198 (3.38%) JIRA
2 171 (2.92%) Git
3 149 (2.54%) Jenkins
4 129 (2.20%) GitLab
5 77 (1.31%) Visual Studio
6 61 (1.04%) Rational DOORS
7 46 (0.78%) Bitbucket
8 45 (0.77%) Selenium
9 38 (0.65%) SonarQube
10 34 (0.58%) Vagrant
11 28 (0.48%) JUnit
12 23 (0.39%) MSI
12 23 (0.39%) Sourcetree
13 22 (0.38%) Cucumber
14 20 (0.34%) LabVIEW
15 17 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 15 (0.26%) WebDriver
17 14 (0.24%) TestNG
18 13 (0.22%) Rational Rhapsody
18 13 (0.22%) REST Assured
General
1 1,160 (19.79%) Social Skills
2 541 (9.23%) Finance
3 506 (8.63%) Public Sector
4 471 (8.03%) Aerospace
5 297 (5.07%) Analytical Skills
6 267 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 179 (3.05%) Military
8 146 (2.49%) Police
9 139 (2.37%) Telecoms
10 124 (2.12%) Manufacturing
11 103 (1.76%) Law
12 102 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
13 99 (1.69%) Electronics
14 96 (1.64%) Retail
15 89 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
16 79 (1.35%) Games
16 79 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
17 71 (1.21%) Local Government
18 46 (0.78%) Marketing
19 41 (0.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 891 (15.20%) Senior
2 653 (11.14%) Architect
3 596 (10.17%) Software Engineer
4 475 (8.10%) Developer
5 386 (6.58%) Consultant
6 380 (6.48%) Lead
7 364 (6.21%) Systems Engineer
8 347 (5.92%) Analyst
9 284 (4.84%) Network Engineer
10 282 (4.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 221 (3.77%) DevOps Engineer
12 216 (3.68%) Project Manager
13 209 (3.57%) Senior Software Engineer
14 176 (3.00%) Administrator
15 159 (2.71%) Solutions Architect
15 159 (2.71%) Support Engineer
16 147 (2.51%) Security Consultant
17 123 (2.10%) Software Developer
18 115 (1.96%) Principal Engineer
19 102 (1.74%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 279 (4.76%) React
2 272 (4.64%) .NET
3 185 (3.16%) CSS
4 147 (2.51%) Node.js
5 140 (2.39%) .NET Core
6 132 (2.25%) Leaflet
6 132 (2.25%) OpenLayers
7 129 (2.20%) PostGIS
8 118 (2.01%) HTML
9 99 (1.69%) REST
10 98 (1.67%) Spring
11 96 (1.64%) Spring Boot
12 84 (1.43%) Kafka
13 79 (1.35%) AngularJS
14 78 (1.33%) RabbitMQ
15 75 (1.28%) Middleware
16 66 (1.13%) Elastic Stack
17 59 (1.01%) ARM Templates
18 57 (0.97%) XML
19 56 (0.96%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 274 (4.67%) Management Information System
2 187 (3.19%) Algorithms
3 170 (2.90%) Driving Licence
4 164 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
5 132 (2.25%) PKI
6 126 (2.15%) Product Ownership
7 122 (2.08%) Data Centre
8 114 (1.94%) Public Cloud
9 90 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
10 82 (1.40%) Cloud Native
11 73 (1.25%) Private Cloud
12 70 (1.19%) Cyberattack
13 67 (1.14%) Operational Technology
14 63 (1.07%) Security Operations Centre
15 46 (0.78%) Onboarding
16 44 (0.75%) Cyber Threat
17 42 (0.72%) Cyber Defence
18 40 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
18 40 (0.68%) IoT
19 35 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 986 (16.82%) Linux
2 885 (15.10%) Windows
3 285 (4.86%) Windows Server
4 175 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 160 (2.73%) Unix
6 146 (2.49%) Windows 10
7 129 (2.20%) CentOS
8 117 (2.00%) Ubuntu
9 111 (1.89%) Windows Server 2016
10 110 (1.88%) Windows Server 2019
11 84 (1.43%) Embedded Linux
12 78 (1.33%) Windows Server 2012
13 59 (1.01%) Android
14 49 (0.84%) Solaris
15 42 (0.72%) Windows 7
16 38 (0.65%) Debian
17 37 (0.63%) VMS
18 23 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
19 14 (0.24%) Kali Linux
20 12 (0.20%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,650 (28.15%) Agile
2 921 (15.71%) Software Engineering
3 892 (15.22%) DevOps
4 780 (13.31%) Actionable Insight
4 780 (13.31%) Problem-Solving
5 711 (12.13%) Cybersecurity
6 519 (8.85%) Project Management
7 448 (7.64%) Mentoring
8 443 (7.56%) Collaborative Working
9 434 (7.40%) Scrum
10 416 (7.10%) ITIL
11 375 (6.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 363 (6.19%) CI/CD
13 357 (6.09%) Computer Science
14 323 (5.51%) Stakeholder Management
15 322 (5.49%) Systems Engineering
16 302 (5.15%) Artificial Intelligence
17 272 (4.64%) Coaching
18 267 (4.55%) Customer Service
19 258 (4.40%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,009 (17.21%) Python
2 570 (9.72%) Java
3 498 (8.50%) JavaScript
4 477 (8.14%) SQL
5 386 (6.58%) C#
6 357 (6.09%) C++
7 309 (5.27%) PowerShell
8 276 (4.71%) C
9 257 (4.38%) Bash
10 115 (1.96%) MATLAB
11 114 (1.94%) TypeScript
12 84 (1.43%) Shell Script
13 82 (1.40%) Fortran
14 56 (0.96%) Kotlin
14 56 (0.96%) Rust
15 53 (0.90%) Embedded C
16 37 (0.63%) VB
17 28 (0.48%) R
18 27 (0.46%) Bicep
18 27 (0.46%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3,351 (57.16%) SC Cleared
2 1,521 (25.95%) DV Cleared
3 991 (16.91%) Degree
4 320 (5.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 212 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 162 (2.76%) Cisco Certification
7 132 (2.25%) CISSP
8 109 (1.86%) CCNP
9 106 (1.81%) Azure Certification
10 105 (1.79%) CCNA
10 105 (1.79%) CISM
11 102 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
12 95 (1.62%) Master's Degree
13 85 (1.45%) AWS Certification
14 76 (1.30%) CESG Certified Professional
15 73 (1.25%) PhD
16 63 (1.07%) CRISC
17 60 (1.02%) DBS Check
18 49 (0.84%) CTC Cleared
19 40 (0.68%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 157 (2.68%) Accessibility
3 144 (2.46%) QA
4 131 (2.23%) SLA
5 123 (2.10%) NCSC
6 111 (1.89%) NIST
7 65 (1.11%) GDPR
8 41 (0.70%) Data Quality
9 37 (0.63%) GRC
10 36 (0.61%) WCAG
11 35 (0.60%) PMO
12 34 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
13 31 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 30 (0.51%) NIST 800
15 27 (0.46%) PCI DSS
16 22 (0.38%) COBIT
17 20 (0.34%) JSP 440
18 19 (0.32%) Def Stans
18 19 (0.32%) ISO 9001
19 14 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 418 (7.13%) Active Directory
2 317 (5.41%) Docker
3 312 (5.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 142 (2.42%) Hyper-V
5 94 (1.60%) vSphere
6 74 (1.26%) Firmware
7 69 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
8 49 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
9 48 (0.82%) VMware NSX
10 22 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
11 20 (0.34%) KVM
12 19 (0.32%) Microsoft App-V
13 18 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
13 18 (0.31%) XenDesktop
14 15 (0.26%) pfSense
15 10 (0.17%) Lustre
15 10 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 9 (0.15%) NFS
17 7 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
17 7 (0.12%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 420 (7.16%) Ansible
2 400 (6.82%) Kubernetes
3 344 (5.87%) Terraform
4 168 (2.87%) SCCM
5 119 (2.03%) Puppet
6 74 (1.26%) WSUS
7 70 (1.19%) SCOM
8 67 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
9 65 (1.11%) vCenter Server
10 55 (0.94%) Grafana
11 40 (0.68%) FortiGate
11 40 (0.68%) Prometheus
12 34 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
13 32 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 29 (0.49%) Progress Chef
15 25 (0.43%) Nagios
16 23 (0.39%) EMC NetWorker
16 23 (0.39%) NetBackup
17 22 (0.38%) ZABBIX
18 21 (0.36%) OpenView
Vendors
1 934 (15.93%) Microsoft
2 435 (7.42%) VMware
3 368 (6.28%) Cisco
4 293 (5.00%) Oracle
5 276 (4.71%) Juniper
6 173 (2.95%) Red Hat
7 136 (2.32%) ESRI
8 134 (2.29%) ServiceNow
9 82 (1.40%) NEC
10 80 (1.36%) Xilinx
11 77 (1.31%) Google
12 73 (1.25%) Fortinet
13 69 (1.18%) IBM
14 62 (1.06%) Dell
15 61 (1.04%) HP
16 59 (1.01%) Sparx
17 56 (0.96%) SolarWinds
18 55 (0.94%) Remedy
19 54 (0.92%) SAP
20 50 (0.85%) McAfee