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

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 22 26
Rank change year-on-year -19 +4 +51
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 2,849 6,938 6,942
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.87% 7.81% 8.02%
As % of the Qualifications category 11.63% 28.10% 24.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,573 4,379 3,318
10th Percentile £40,000 £33,100 £33,985
25th Percentile £48,000 £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 24,505 24,690 28,718
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 50.48% 27.79% 33.17%
Number of salaries quoted 9,706 15,746 13,110
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 £53,555 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.70% -10.74% +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 29 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 29 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 -9 767 £57,500 +4.55% 894
North of England +5 745 £60,000 +9.09% 490
North West -1 658 £65,000 +18.99% 284
London -30 491 £65,000 -7.14% 857
South West -12 383 £60,000 +5.26% 682
Midlands -43 241 £65,000 +18.18% 421
West Midlands -14 208 £65,000 +18.18% 254
East of England -45 152 £60,000 +9.09% 352
Yorkshire -26 73 £50,000 -16.67% 146
East Midlands -78 33 £52,000 +20.73% 146
North East +19 12 £69,384 +26.15% 62
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 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (1.16%) Confluence
3 24 (0.84%) SharePoint
4 23 (0.81%) Jupyter
5 20 (0.70%) Apache
6 18 (0.63%) Apache Spark
7 13 (0.46%) JBoss
7 13 (0.46%) Red Hat Fuse
8 11 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2013
8 11 (0.39%) Skype for Business
9 8 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2010
10 6 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
10 6 (0.21%) Appian
10 6 (0.21%) nginx
11 5 (0.18%) CMS
11 5 (0.18%) Headless CMS
12 4 (0.14%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 3 (0.11%) IIS
13 3 (0.11%) Office Communications Server
13 3 (0.11%) WinCC
Applications
1 48 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (1.09%) 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%) Maximo
6 6 (0.21%) SAP HR
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 Assets
9 2 (0.070%) Oracle Cash Management
9 2 (0.070%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.070%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.070%) SAP EWM
9 2 (0.070%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 591 (20.74%) AWS
2 575 (20.18%) Azure
3 269 (9.44%) GCP
4 104 (3.65%) Serverless
5 93 (3.26%) AWS CloudFormation
6 87 (3.05%) Power Platform
7 79 (2.77%) Amazon EKS
8 70 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
9 68 (2.39%) Microsoft 365
10 59 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
11 55 (1.93%) Amazon EC2
12 54 (1.90%) Amazon S3
13 53 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
13 53 (1.86%) SaaS
14 47 (1.65%) Entra ID
15 44 (1.54%) IaaS
16 42 (1.47%) Amazon ECS
16 42 (1.47%) AWS KMS
17 40 (1.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 36 (1.26%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 492 (17.27%) VPN
2 472 (16.57%) DNS
3 227 (7.97%) Firewall
4 151 (5.30%) WAN
5 119 (4.18%) Network Security
6 96 (3.37%) BGP
7 95 (3.33%) LAN
8 76 (2.67%) OSPF
9 74 (2.60%) TCP/IP
10 72 (2.53%) Cisco ISE
11 55 (1.93%) 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 37 (1.30%) SMTP
16 37 (1.30%) Software-Defined Radio
17 35 (1.23%) Ethernet
17 35 (1.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
2 75 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
3 72 (2.53%) Big Data
4 54 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
5 53 (1.86%) SQL Server
6 48 (1.68%) MongoDB
7 46 (1.61%) Relational Database
8 42 (1.47%) 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 11 (0.39%) GIS
16 9 (0.32%) DB2
17 8 (0.28%) RDBMS
18 7 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 114 (4.00%) Git
2 101 (3.55%) Jenkins
3 62 (2.18%) 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
8 14 (0.49%) Vagrant
9 13 (0.46%) Maven
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 (28.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 697 (24.46%) Finance
3 596 (20.92%) Analytical Skills
4 471 (16.53%) Social Skills
5 276 (9.69%) Public Sector
6 130 (4.56%) Law
7 88 (3.09%) Military
8 83 (2.91%) Aerospace
9 71 (2.49%) Telecoms
10 64 (2.25%) Electronics
11 53 (1.86%) Marketing
12 42 (1.47%) Retail
13 41 (1.44%) Manufacturing
14 40 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
15 37 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
16 29 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
17 28 (0.98%) Advertising
18 24 (0.84%) Legal
19 23 (0.81%) Aviation
20 21 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 637 (22.36%) Developer
2 465 (16.32%) Software Developer
3 415 (14.57%) Senior
4 322 (11.30%) Architect
5 272 (9.55%) Software Engineer
6 197 (6.91%) Senior Software Engineer
7 174 (6.11%) Lead
8 150 (5.27%) Network Engineer
9 133 (4.67%) Consultant
10 120 (4.21%) Analyst
11 113 (3.97%) Support Engineer
12 109 (3.83%) Network Architect
13 85 (2.98%) Systems Engineer
14 81 (2.84%) Designer
15 70 (2.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 65 (2.28%) Solutions Architect
17 60 (2.11%) Java Developer
18 58 (2.04%) Administrator
18 58 (2.04%) DevOps Engineer
19 55 (1.93%) Field Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 255 (8.95%) Node.js
2 253 (8.88%) .NET
3 88 (3.09%) React
4 76 (2.67%) RESTful
5 69 (2.42%) Spring
6 66 (2.32%) Spring Boot
7 62 (2.18%) HTML
8 60 (2.11%) AngularJS
9 56 (1.97%) REST
10 55 (1.93%) Kafka
11 50 (1.76%) 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 (24.15%) Cyberattack
2 216 (7.58%) Self-Motivation
3 183 (6.42%) Linux Command Line
4 94 (3.30%) Management Information System
5 75 (2.63%) Data Centre
6 69 (2.42%) e-Learning
7 65 (2.28%) Algorithms
8 52 (1.83%) Cloud Native
9 40 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
9 40 (1.40%) Driving Licence
10 38 (1.33%) PKI
11 33 (1.16%) Product Ownership
12 32 (1.12%) Onboarding
12 32 (1.12%) Security Operations Centre
13 30 (1.05%) FPGA
13 30 (1.05%) Public Cloud
14 29 (1.02%) Private Cloud
14 29 (1.02%) SCADA
15 26 (0.91%) Security Posture
16 24 (0.84%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 888 (31.17%) Linux
2 460 (16.15%) Android
3 278 (9.76%) Windows
4 140 (4.91%) Windows Server
5 30 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 30 (1.05%) Unix
6 21 (0.74%) Embedded Linux
7 19 (0.67%) Windows 10
8 14 (0.49%) VMS
9 13 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
10 11 (0.39%) Apple iOS
11 9 (0.32%) CentOS
11 9 (0.32%) Ubuntu
12 8 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
13 7 (0.25%) Rocky
13 7 (0.25%) Windows Server 2003
14 6 (0.21%) AIX
14 6 (0.21%) Mac OS
15 5 (0.18%) Windows 7
15 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,056 (37.07%) Agile
2 537 (18.85%) Mathematics
3 523 (18.36%) Line Management
4 484 (16.99%) Design Patterns
5 473 (16.60%) OO
6 460 (16.15%) OOP
7 452 (15.87%) Software Engineering
8 448 (15.72%) Android Development
9 425 (14.92%) Mentoring
10 331 (11.62%) Problem-Solving
11 325 (11.41%) DevOps
12 315 (11.06%) Scrum
13 301 (10.57%) Microservices
14 285 (10.00%) Machine Learning
15 263 (9.23%) Cloud Security
16 259 (9.09%) CI/CD
17 238 (8.35%) User Experience
18 220 (7.72%) Data Engineering
19 217 (7.62%) Cybersecurity
20 198 (6.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 955 (33.52%) Python
2 856 (30.05%) Java
3 707 (24.82%) C++
4 637 (22.36%) Go
5 402 (14.11%) JavaScript
6 235 (8.25%) Rust
7 185 (6.49%) SQL
8 164 (5.76%) PowerShell
9 72 (2.53%) TypeScript
10 67 (2.35%) C
11 62 (2.18%) 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 16 (0.56%) Groovy
19 15 (0.53%) Scala
20 12 (0.42%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,435 (50.37%) SC Cleared
2 1,300 (45.63%) DV Cleared
3 356 (12.50%) Degree
4 229 (8.04%) AWS Certification
5 200 (7.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 180 (6.32%) AWS Certified Developer
7 117 (4.11%) Cisco Certification
8 89 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
9 83 (2.91%) CCNA
9 83 (2.91%) CCNP
10 63 (2.21%) CISSP
11 55 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
12 51 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
13 37 (1.30%) Master's Degree
14 35 (1.23%) Azure Certification
15 29 (1.02%) HND
16 27 (0.95%) CISM
17 26 (0.91%) Numerate Degree
18 23 (0.81%) JNCIS
19 22 (0.77%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (2.77%) SLA
2 72 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 51 (1.79%) NIST
4 43 (1.51%) QA
5 39 (1.37%) GDPR
6 38 (1.33%) Accessibility
7 33 (1.16%) NCSC
8 30 (1.05%) Data Quality
9 24 (0.84%) Def Stans
10 18 (0.63%) HIPAA
10 18 (0.63%) PMBOK
11 14 (0.49%) GRC
11 14 (0.49%) JSP 440
12 13 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
12 13 (0.46%) WCAG
13 11 (0.39%) ISO 9001
14 9 (0.32%) NIST 800
14 9 (0.32%) PMO
14 9 (0.32%) RMADS
15 8 (0.28%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 668 (23.45%) Docker
2 162 (5.69%) Active Directory
3 147 (5.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 54 (1.90%) VMware NSX
5 44 (1.54%) Firmware
6 40 (1.40%) vSphere
7 36 (1.26%) Hyper-V
8 34 (1.19%) Embedded Firmware
9 29 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
10 14 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
11 11 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
12 10 (0.35%) DFS Replication
13 9 (0.32%) BitLocker
13 9 (0.32%) Microsoft App-V
14 8 (0.28%) Terminal Services
15 4 (0.14%) Postfix
16 3 (0.11%) ISA Server
17 2 (0.070%) NFS
17 2 (0.070%) Squid
17 2 (0.070%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 579 (20.32%) Ansible
2 228 (8.00%) Kubernetes
3 223 (7.83%) Terraform
4 50 (1.76%) FortiGate
5 42 (1.47%) Prometheus
6 39 (1.37%) Grafana
7 27 (0.95%) QRadar
8 21 (0.74%) Puppet
8 21 (0.74%) vCenter Server
9 18 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 18 (0.63%) Kibana
9 18 (0.63%) SCCM
10 17 (0.60%) WMI
11 15 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
12 14 (0.49%) vMotion
13 10 (0.35%) AWS Copilot
13 10 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
13 10 (0.35%) Nagios
13 10 (0.35%) Nessus
14 9 (0.32%) SCOM
Vendors
1 324 (11.37%) Cisco
2 314 (11.02%) Microsoft
3 249 (8.74%) VMware
4 209 (7.34%) Juniper
5 98 (3.44%) SAP
6 80 (2.81%) Oracle
6 80 (2.81%) ServiceNow
7 74 (2.60%) Splunk
8 70 (2.46%) Google
9 59 (2.07%) Fortinet
10 43 (1.51%) SevOne
11 41 (1.44%) Red Hat
12 36 (1.26%) CheckPoint
13 33 (1.16%) F5
14 28 (0.98%) SolarWinds
15 26 (0.91%) Salesforce
16 25 (0.88%) Citrix
17 24 (0.84%) HP
18 22 (0.77%) Blue Coat
18 22 (0.77%) Veeam