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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 22 26
Rank change year-on-year -19 +4 +49
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 2,852 6,919 6,964
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.90% 7.83% 8.00%
As % of the Qualifications category 11.66% 28.10% 24.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,581 4,387 3,341
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £34,250
25th Percentile £47,650 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £61,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.96% -4.17% +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 24,455 24,619 28,799
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 50.55% 27.84% 33.07%
Number of salaries quoted 9,689 15,756 13,179
10th Percentile £31,750 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,793 £54,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.54% -9.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -10.00% +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 28 May 2025.

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 28 May 2025. 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 -9 766 £57,500 +4.55% 2,234
North of England +2 744 £60,000 +9.09% 1,594
North West -1 657 £65,000 +18.99% 759
London -26 491 £65,000 -7.14% 1,146
South West -12 384 £60,000 +5.26% 1,479
Midlands -44 242 £65,000 +18.18% 1,437
West Midlands -14 209 £65,000 +18.18% 791
East of England -43 155 £60,000 +9.09% 1,184
Yorkshire -24 73 £50,000 -16.67% 616
East Midlands -74 33 £52,000 +20.73% 556
North East +21 12 £69,384 +26.15% 221
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 64 (2.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (1.12%) Confluence
3 23 (0.81%) Jupyter
3 23 (0.81%) SharePoint
4 20 (0.70%) Apache
5 18 (0.63%) Apache Spark
6 13 (0.46%) JBoss
6 13 (0.46%) Red Hat Fuse
7 12 (0.42%) Exchange Server 2013
7 12 (0.42%) Skype for Business
8 8 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2010
9 6 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (0.21%) nginx
10 5 (0.18%) Appian
10 5 (0.18%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 5 (0.18%) CMS
10 5 (0.18%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.11%) IIS
11 3 (0.11%) Office Communications Server
11 3 (0.11%) WinCC
Applications
1 47 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 24 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.32%) Adobe XD
4 9 (0.32%) Simulink
5 7 (0.25%) InVision
5 7 (0.25%) Sketch
6 6 (0.21%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 5 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.14%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.14%) Oracle Smart View
9 3 (0.11%) GNU Octave
10 2 (0.070%) OrCAD
10 2 (0.070%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.070%) Windchill
11 1 (0.035%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.035%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.035%) ProjectWise
11 1 (0.035%) Revit
11 1 (0.035%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 15 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.25%) Q-Pulse
6 6 (0.21%) SAP HR
7 4 (0.14%) Maximo
7 4 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.11%) Oracle Payroll
8 3 (0.11%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.11%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
9 2 (0.070%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.070%) Primavera
9 2 (0.070%) SAP EWM
9 2 (0.070%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.070%) SAP MM
9 2 (0.070%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 590 (20.69%) AWS
2 573 (20.09%) Azure
3 269 (9.43%) GCP
4 104 (3.65%) Serverless
5 93 (3.26%) AWS CloudFormation
6 85 (2.98%) Power Platform
7 79 (2.77%) Amazon EKS
8 70 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
9 67 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
10 59 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
11 54 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
12 53 (1.86%) Amazon S3
12 53 (1.86%) SaaS
13 52 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
14 47 (1.65%) Entra ID
15 45 (1.58%) IaaS
16 42 (1.47%) Amazon ECS
17 41 (1.44%) AWS KMS
18 39 (1.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 36 (1.26%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 489 (17.15%) VPN
2 472 (16.55%) DNS
3 227 (7.96%) Firewall
4 150 (5.26%) WAN
5 121 (4.24%) Network Security
6 98 (3.44%) BGP
7 92 (3.23%) LAN
8 78 (2.73%) OSPF
9 74 (2.59%) TCP/IP
10 71 (2.49%) Cisco ISE
11 57 (2.00%) EIGRP
12 46 (1.61%) DHCP
13 45 (1.58%) SD-WAN
14 43 (1.51%) IPsec
14 43 (1.51%) MPLS
15 42 (1.47%) SAN
16 38 (1.33%) SMTP
17 37 (1.30%) Software-Defined Radio
18 35 (1.23%) Ethernet
18 35 (1.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
2 74 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
3 72 (2.52%) Big Data
4 53 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
5 52 (1.82%) SQL Server
6 48 (1.68%) MongoDB
7 46 (1.61%) Relational Database
8 41 (1.44%) Power BI
9 26 (0.91%) NoSQL
10 24 (0.84%) MySQL
11 20 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
12 17 (0.60%) Redis
13 16 (0.56%) DynamoDB
14 12 (0.42%) Amazon Aurora
14 12 (0.42%) Data Lake
14 12 (0.42%) Metadata
15 10 (0.35%) GIS
16 9 (0.32%) DB2
17 8 (0.28%) RDBMS
18 7 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 112 (3.93%) Git
2 100 (3.51%) Jenkins
3 60 (2.10%) JIRA
4 47 (1.65%) GitLab
5 39 (1.37%) JUnit
6 20 (0.70%) JMeter
6 20 (0.70%) Mockito
7 19 (0.67%) Selenium
7 19 (0.67%) SonarQube
8 14 (0.49%) MSI
9 13 (0.46%) Maven
9 13 (0.46%) Vagrant
10 12 (0.42%) Bitbucket Server
10 12 (0.42%) Robot Framework
11 11 (0.39%) Cypress.io
11 11 (0.39%) Rational DOORS
12 8 (0.28%) Axure RP
12 8 (0.28%) DbUnit
12 8 (0.28%) jMock
12 8 (0.28%) Postman
General
1 823 (28.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 694 (24.33%) Finance
3 594 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
4 471 (16.51%) Social Skills
5 279 (9.78%) Public Sector
6 129 (4.52%) Law
7 87 (3.05%) Military
8 84 (2.95%) Aerospace
9 73 (2.56%) Telecoms
10 65 (2.28%) Electronics
11 55 (1.93%) Marketing
12 43 (1.51%) Manufacturing
13 42 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
14 41 (1.44%) Retail
15 38 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
16 28 (0.98%) Advertising
17 27 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
18 24 (0.84%) Legal
19 22 (0.77%) Aviation
20 21 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 634 (22.23%) Developer
2 464 (16.27%) Software Developer
3 411 (14.41%) Senior
4 321 (11.26%) Architect
5 272 (9.54%) Software Engineer
6 197 (6.91%) Senior Software Engineer
7 176 (6.17%) Lead
8 153 (5.36%) Network Engineer
9 134 (4.70%) Consultant
10 115 (4.03%) Analyst
11 111 (3.89%) Support Engineer
12 106 (3.72%) Network Architect
13 85 (2.98%) Systems Engineer
14 83 (2.91%) Designer
15 68 (2.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 66 (2.31%) Solutions Architect
17 60 (2.10%) Java Developer
18 59 (2.07%) Administrator
18 59 (2.07%) DevOps Engineer
19 56 (1.96%) Field Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 255 (8.94%) Node.js
2 253 (8.87%) .NET
3 88 (3.09%) React
4 76 (2.66%) RESTful
5 69 (2.42%) Spring
6 66 (2.31%) Spring Boot
7 62 (2.17%) HTML
8 60 (2.10%) AngularJS
9 56 (1.96%) REST
10 55 (1.93%) Kafka
11 50 (1.75%) Pandas
12 49 (1.72%) Web Services
13 45 (1.58%) CSS
14 40 (1.40%) SOAP
15 33 (1.16%) JSON
16 29 (1.02%) Hibernate
17 27 (0.95%) Vue
18 25 (0.88%) OAuth
19 23 (0.81%) Elastic Stack
19 23 (0.81%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 688 (24.12%) Cyberattack
2 215 (7.54%) Self-Motivation
3 182 (6.38%) Linux Command Line
4 94 (3.30%) Management Information System
5 75 (2.63%) Data Centre
6 69 (2.42%) e-Learning
7 66 (2.31%) Algorithms
8 52 (1.82%) Cloud Native
9 40 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
10 39 (1.37%) Driving Licence
11 37 (1.30%) PKI
12 33 (1.16%) Onboarding
12 33 (1.16%) Product Ownership
13 31 (1.09%) Security Operations Centre
14 30 (1.05%) FPGA
14 30 (1.05%) Public Cloud
15 29 (1.02%) Private Cloud
15 29 (1.02%) SCADA
16 26 (0.91%) Security Posture
17 24 (0.84%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 886 (31.07%) Linux
2 459 (16.09%) Android
3 278 (9.75%) Windows
4 143 (5.01%) Windows Server
5 30 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 30 (1.05%) Unix
6 23 (0.81%) Embedded Linux
7 18 (0.63%) Windows 10
8 13 (0.46%) VMS
8 13 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
9 11 (0.39%) Apple iOS
10 9 (0.32%) CentOS
10 9 (0.32%) Ubuntu
11 8 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
12 7 (0.25%) Rocky
12 7 (0.25%) Windows Server 2003
13 6 (0.21%) AIX
13 6 (0.21%) Mac OS
14 5 (0.18%) Windows 7
14 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,054 (36.96%) Agile
2 537 (18.83%) Mathematics
3 523 (18.34%) Line Management
4 484 (16.97%) Design Patterns
5 472 (16.55%) OO
6 460 (16.13%) OOP
7 450 (15.78%) Software Engineering
8 447 (15.67%) Android Development
9 425 (14.90%) Mentoring
10 332 (11.64%) Problem-Solving
11 325 (11.40%) DevOps
12 314 (11.01%) Scrum
13 301 (10.55%) Microservices
14 286 (10.03%) Machine Learning
15 262 (9.19%) Cloud Security
16 259 (9.08%) CI/CD
17 237 (8.31%) User Experience
18 220 (7.71%) Data Engineering
19 216 (7.57%) Cybersecurity
20 198 (6.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 954 (33.45%) Python
2 856 (30.01%) Java
3 706 (24.75%) C++
4 636 (22.30%) Go
5 401 (14.06%) JavaScript
6 234 (8.20%) Rust
7 185 (6.49%) SQL
8 164 (5.75%) PowerShell
9 72 (2.52%) TypeScript
10 67 (2.35%) C
11 62 (2.17%) C#
12 51 (1.79%) Bash
13 36 (1.26%) MATLAB
14 27 (0.95%) Perl
15 23 (0.81%) R
16 20 (0.70%) Shell Script
17 18 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
18 15 (0.53%) Groovy
18 15 (0.53%) Scala
19 12 (0.42%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,431 (50.18%) SC Cleared
2 1,304 (45.72%) DV Cleared
3 352 (12.34%) Degree
4 229 (8.03%) AWS Certification
5 200 (7.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 180 (6.31%) AWS Certified Developer
7 114 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
8 86 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
9 80 (2.81%) CCNA
9 80 (2.81%) CCNP
10 62 (2.17%) CISSP
11 52 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
12 49 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
13 36 (1.26%) Master's Degree
14 34 (1.19%) Azure Certification
15 28 (0.98%) HND
16 27 (0.95%) CISM
17 26 (0.91%) Numerate Degree
18 23 (0.81%) JNCIS
19 22 (0.77%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (2.73%) SLA
2 72 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 51 (1.79%) NIST
4 43 (1.51%) QA
5 38 (1.33%) Accessibility
5 38 (1.33%) GDPR
6 33 (1.16%) NCSC
7 31 (1.09%) Data Quality
8 24 (0.84%) Def Stans
9 18 (0.63%) HIPAA
9 18 (0.63%) PMBOK
10 14 (0.49%) GRC
10 14 (0.49%) JSP 440
11 13 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
11 13 (0.46%) WCAG
12 11 (0.39%) ISO 9001
13 9 (0.32%) NIST 800
13 9 (0.32%) PMO
13 9 (0.32%) RMADS
14 8 (0.28%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 667 (23.39%) Docker
2 163 (5.72%) Active Directory
3 147 (5.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 54 (1.89%) VMware NSX
5 43 (1.51%) Firmware
6 41 (1.44%) vSphere
7 36 (1.26%) Hyper-V
8 34 (1.19%) Embedded Firmware
9 29 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
10 15 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
11 11 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
12 9 (0.32%) BitLocker
12 9 (0.32%) DFS Replication
12 9 (0.32%) Microsoft App-V
13 8 (0.28%) Terminal Services
14 4 (0.14%) Postfix
15 3 (0.11%) ISA Server
16 2 (0.070%) NFS
16 2 (0.070%) Squid
16 2 (0.070%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 578 (20.27%) Ansible
2 227 (7.96%) Kubernetes
3 222 (7.78%) Terraform
4 50 (1.75%) FortiGate
5 41 (1.44%) Prometheus
6 38 (1.33%) Grafana
7 27 (0.95%) QRadar
8 21 (0.74%) Puppet
9 20 (0.70%) vCenter Server
10 19 (0.67%) SCCM
11 18 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 18 (0.63%) Kibana
12 17 (0.60%) WMI
13 15 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
14 14 (0.49%) vMotion
15 10 (0.35%) AWS Copilot
15 10 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
15 10 (0.35%) Nagios
15 10 (0.35%) Nessus
16 9 (0.32%) SCOM
Vendors
1 325 (11.40%) Cisco
2 313 (10.97%) Microsoft
3 250 (8.77%) VMware
4 208 (7.29%) Juniper
5 100 (3.51%) SAP
6 80 (2.81%) Oracle
7 79 (2.77%) ServiceNow
8 73 (2.56%) Splunk
9 69 (2.42%) Google
10 61 (2.14%) Fortinet
11 43 (1.51%) SevOne
12 41 (1.44%) Red Hat
13 36 (1.26%) CheckPoint
14 33 (1.16%) F5
15 27 (0.95%) SolarWinds
16 26 (0.91%) Salesforce
17 25 (0.88%) Citrix
18 24 (0.84%) HP
19 22 (0.77%) Blue Coat
20 21 (0.74%) Atlassian