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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 30 74
Rank change year-on-year +8 +44 -12
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 6,767 7,051 5,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.04% 7.43% 4.60%
As % of the Qualifications category 28.17% 22.70% 17.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4,353 3,463 3,056
10th Percentile £31,500 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,291 £57,500 £55,168
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% +4.23% -0.15%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £58,000 £55,168
% change year-on-year -0.86% +5.13% +0.30%

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 24,021 31,058 34,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.54% 32.71% 26.28%
Number of salaries quoted 15,724 13,890 16,769
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £30,932
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,700 £57,780 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +5.05% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £73,863
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £57,810 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.59% +5.11% -

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 West +3 1,948 £55,000 - 424
South East +6 1,943 £55,000 +14.29% 472
London +14 1,027 £70,000 +7.69% 296
North of England +20 794 £55,000 -4.35% 230
Midlands +4 611 £52,500 -4.55% 157
North West +11 573 £55,000 -3.93% 177
West Midlands +20 406 £52,500 -4.55% 118
East of England +19 404 £57,500 +4.55% 151
East Midlands -15 205 £49,500 -5.71% 39
Yorkshire +53 189 £60,000 -10.45% 33
North East -40 34 £52,500 +10.53% 20
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
1 205 (3.03%) ArcGIS
2 196 (2.90%) GeoServer
3 142 (2.10%) Confluence
4 130 (1.92%) SharePoint
5 89 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
6 71 (1.05%) IIS
7 69 (1.02%) Apache
8 65 (0.96%) WebLogic
9 51 (0.75%) Apache Spark
10 39 (0.58%) OpenStack
11 30 (0.44%) nginx
12 27 (0.40%) JBoss
12 27 (0.40%) Red Hat Fuse
13 18 (0.27%) CMS
14 17 (0.25%) Jupyter
15 15 (0.22%) Oracle Service Bus
16 12 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2010
17 11 (0.16%) SharePoint 2010
17 11 (0.16%) SharePoint 2013
18 10 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 251 (3.71%) Microsoft Office
2 125 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 105 (1.55%) Simulink
4 87 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 41 (0.61%) MS Visio
6 30 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
7 28 (0.41%) Sketch
8 11 (0.16%) AutoCAD
9 6 (0.089%) Trello
10 4 (0.059%) EPLAN
10 4 (0.059%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.059%) Siemens NX
10 4 (0.059%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.059%) Stateflow
10 4 (0.059%) Windchill
11 3 (0.044%) Revit
11 3 (0.044%) SOLIDWORKS
12 2 (0.030%) Abaqus
12 2 (0.030%) Fireworks
12 2 (0.030%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 77 (1.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 59 (0.87%) Remedy ITSM
3 37 (0.55%) Siebel CRM
4 36 (0.53%) Primavera
5 26 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
5 26 (0.38%) Workday HCM
6 23 (0.34%) Maximo
7 11 (0.16%) SAP HR
8 10 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
8 10 (0.15%) Elite 3E
8 10 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
8 10 (0.15%) SAP CO
8 10 (0.15%) SAP FI
8 10 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
9 9 (0.13%) SAP SCM
9 9 (0.13%) Teamcenter
10 8 (0.12%) SAP EWM
11 7 (0.10%) SAP WM
12 6 (0.089%) SAP CRM
12 6 (0.089%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1,285 (18.99%) Azure
2 1,130 (16.70%) AWS
3 265 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
4 166 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
5 154 (2.28%) SaaS
6 143 (2.11%) GCP
6 143 (2.11%) Power Platform
7 129 (1.91%) Serverless
8 117 (1.73%) Amazon EKS
9 111 (1.64%) OpenShift
10 104 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
11 91 (1.34%) AWS CloudFormation
11 91 (1.34%) PaaS
12 77 (1.14%) Entra ID
13 70 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
14 69 (1.02%) IaaS
15 67 (0.99%) GitHub
16 65 (0.96%) Amazon ECS
17 59 (0.87%) AWS Lambda
18 46 (0.68%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 454 (6.71%) Firewall
2 241 (3.56%) DNS
3 233 (3.44%) WAN
4 174 (2.57%) TCP/IP
5 172 (2.54%) LAN
6 159 (2.35%) DHCP
7 140 (2.07%) BGP
8 125 (1.85%) Network Security
9 116 (1.71%) VPN
10 85 (1.26%) SAN
11 78 (1.15%) Wireless
12 74 (1.09%) HTTP
13 59 (0.87%) SSL
14 58 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
15 57 (0.84%) MPLS
16 54 (0.80%) Internet
17 53 (0.78%) Cisco ASA
17 53 (0.78%) OSPF
18 49 (0.72%) SD-WAN
19 47 (0.69%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 289 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
2 233 (3.44%) GIS
3 196 (2.90%) QGIS
4 162 (2.39%) SQL Server
5 138 (2.04%) Relational Database
6 95 (1.40%) Big Data
7 93 (1.37%) NoSQL
8 89 (1.32%) Power BI
9 64 (0.95%) MongoDB
10 63 (0.93%) Hadoop
11 61 (0.90%) Oracle Database
12 55 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
13 51 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
14 43 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
15 41 (0.61%) MySQL
16 36 (0.53%) RDBMS
17 33 (0.49%) Oracle BI EE
18 29 (0.43%) Siebel EIM
19 23 (0.34%) Cloudera CDH
20 22 (0.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 269 (3.98%) JIRA
2 263 (3.89%) Git
3 238 (3.52%) Jenkins
4 147 (2.17%) GitLab
5 133 (1.97%) Visual Studio
6 109 (1.61%) Bitbucket
7 91 (1.34%) Rational DOORS
8 67 (0.99%) Selenium
9 59 (0.87%) Sourcetree
10 38 (0.56%) Rational Rhapsody
11 37 (0.55%) Cucumber
12 29 (0.43%) Subversion
12 29 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
13 28 (0.41%) JUnit
14 25 (0.37%) Ant
15 23 (0.34%) LabVIEW
16 21 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 20 (0.30%) JMeter
18 18 (0.27%) IntelliJ
19 17 (0.25%) TestNG
General
1 1,442 (21.31%) Social Skills
2 667 (9.86%) Public Sector
3 498 (7.36%) Aerospace
3 498 (7.36%) Finance
4 389 (5.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 322 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
6 263 (3.89%) Military
7 206 (3.04%) Presentation Skills
8 188 (2.78%) Games
9 154 (2.28%) Telecoms
10 148 (2.19%) Manufacturing
11 129 (1.91%) Retail
12 120 (1.77%) Electronics
12 120 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
13 116 (1.71%) Police
14 112 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
15 94 (1.39%) Law
16 52 (0.77%) Legal
16 52 (0.77%) Marketing
17 33 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,163 (17.19%) Senior
2 851 (12.58%) Architect
3 666 (9.84%) Software Engineer
4 586 (8.66%) Developer
5 499 (7.37%) Lead
6 460 (6.80%) Consultant
7 425 (6.28%) Analyst
8 416 (6.15%) Systems Engineer
9 321 (4.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 296 (4.37%) Network Engineer
11 282 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
12 268 (3.96%) Project Manager
13 261 (3.86%) Senior Software Engineer
14 224 (3.31%) DevOps Engineer
15 183 (2.70%) Support Engineer
16 182 (2.69%) Security Consultant
17 154 (2.28%) Administrator
18 134 (1.98%) Senior Developer
19 120 (1.77%) Technical Architect
20 106 (1.57%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 384 (5.67%) .NET
2 352 (5.20%) React
3 224 (3.31%) CSS
4 199 (2.94%) Leaflet
4 199 (2.94%) OpenLayers
5 198 (2.93%) .NET Core
6 196 (2.90%) PostGIS
7 181 (2.67%) REST
8 177 (2.62%) HTML
9 169 (2.50%) Spring
10 162 (2.39%) AngularJS
11 130 (1.92%) Node.js
12 124 (1.83%) Spring Boot
12 124 (1.83%) XML
13 107 (1.58%) Web Services
14 106 (1.57%) JSON
15 97 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
16 88 (1.30%) RESTful
16 88 (1.30%) Unity (Game Engine)
17 82 (1.21%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 265 (3.92%) Management Information System
2 197 (2.91%) Driving Licence
3 189 (2.79%) Algorithms
4 173 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
5 151 (2.23%) Data Centre
6 143 (2.11%) PKI
7 140 (2.07%) Product Ownership
8 116 (1.71%) Cloud Native
8 116 (1.71%) Cyberattack
9 113 (1.67%) Public Cloud
10 105 (1.55%) Private Cloud
11 97 (1.43%) Virtual Reality
12 91 (1.34%) Security Operations Centre
13 81 (1.20%) Operational Technology
14 79 (1.17%) Virtual Team
15 74 (1.09%) Onboarding
16 72 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
17 64 (0.95%) Clustering
17 64 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
18 60 (0.89%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 1,037 (15.32%) Linux
2 1,006 (14.87%) Windows
3 378 (5.59%) Windows Server
4 174 (2.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 156 (2.31%) Windows 10
6 141 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
7 123 (1.82%) CentOS
7 123 (1.82%) Windows Server 2019
8 118 (1.74%) Ubuntu
9 114 (1.68%) Windows Server 2012
10 99 (1.46%) Unix
11 69 (1.02%) Windows 7
12 61 (0.90%) Embedded Linux
13 51 (0.75%) VMS
14 29 (0.43%) Debian
15 19 (0.28%) Android
16 17 (0.25%) Solaris
17 16 (0.24%) AIX
18 15 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
19 14 (0.21%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,906 (28.17%) Agile
2 1,255 (18.55%) Actionable Insight
3 1,098 (16.23%) DevOps
4 1,094 (16.17%) Software Engineering
5 1,088 (16.08%) Problem-Solving
6 788 (11.64%) Cybersecurity
7 622 (9.19%) Project Management
8 540 (7.98%) Scrum
9 529 (7.82%) ITIL
10 514 (7.60%) Mentoring
11 448 (6.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 432 (6.38%) Collaborative Working
13 406 (6.00%) CI/CD
14 383 (5.66%) Systems Engineering
15 379 (5.60%) Project Delivery
15 379 (5.60%) Stakeholder Management
16 304 (4.49%) Validation
17 298 (4.40%) Customer Service
18 294 (4.34%) Coaching
19 285 (4.21%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,056 (15.61%) Python
2 670 (9.90%) Java
3 623 (9.21%) JavaScript
4 506 (7.48%) PowerShell
5 466 (6.89%) C#
6 439 (6.49%) SQL
7 297 (4.39%) Bash
8 261 (3.86%) C++
9 249 (3.68%) C
10 140 (2.07%) MATLAB
11 100 (1.48%) TypeScript
12 78 (1.15%) Shell Script
13 57 (0.84%) Rust
14 53 (0.78%) Embedded C
15 44 (0.65%) Ada
16 40 (0.59%) Perl
17 38 (0.56%) PL/SQL
18 37 (0.55%) Fortran
19 35 (0.52%) Go
20 33 (0.49%) VB
Qualifications
1 3,850 (56.89%) SC Cleared
2 1,638 (24.21%) DV Cleared
3 1,089 (16.09%) Degree
4 591 (8.73%) BPSS Clearance
5 205 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
6 143 (2.11%) CISSP
7 141 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 133 (1.97%) AWS Certification
9 129 (1.91%) CCNP
10 128 (1.89%) CCNA
11 116 (1.71%) CISM
12 94 (1.39%) Azure Certification
13 91 (1.34%) CESG Certified Professional
14 87 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
15 82 (1.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 74 (1.09%) CRISC
16 74 (1.09%) Master's Degree
17 69 (1.02%) CTC Cleared
18 66 (0.98%) DBS Check
19 57 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 232 (3.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 186 (2.75%) SLA
3 160 (2.36%) QA
4 132 (1.95%) NIST
5 112 (1.66%) NCSC
6 95 (1.40%) Accessibility
7 89 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
8 63 (0.93%) ISO 9001
9 54 (0.80%) GDPR
10 47 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 45 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 43 (0.64%) NIST 800
12 43 (0.64%) RMADS
13 42 (0.62%) Def Stans
13 42 (0.62%) GRC
14 41 (0.61%) PCI DSS
15 40 (0.59%) PMO
16 39 (0.58%) JSP 440
17 38 (0.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 36 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 567 (8.38%) Active Directory
2 405 (5.98%) Docker
3 396 (5.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 215 (3.18%) Hyper-V
5 106 (1.57%) Firmware
6 96 (1.42%) vSphere
7 82 (1.21%) VMware ESXi
8 56 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
9 53 (0.78%) KVM
9 53 (0.78%) VMware NSX
10 22 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
11 19 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
12 17 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
13 16 (0.24%) pfSense
14 15 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
15 12 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
16 11 (0.16%) NFS
17 9 (0.13%) Forefront TMG
17 9 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
18 5 (0.074%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 485 (7.17%) Ansible
2 441 (6.52%) Kubernetes
3 414 (6.12%) Terraform
4 239 (3.53%) SCCM
5 149 (2.20%) Puppet
6 93 (1.37%) SCOM
6 93 (1.37%) vCenter Server
7 87 (1.29%) WSUS
8 52 (0.77%) Grafana
9 48 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
10 47 (0.69%) EnCase
11 42 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
12 36 (0.53%) Prometheus
13 35 (0.52%) Progress Chef
14 34 (0.50%) NetBackup
15 30 (0.44%) EMC NetWorker
16 28 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 28 (0.41%) FortiGate
17 25 (0.37%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
17 25 (0.37%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1,197 (17.69%) Microsoft
2 551 (8.14%) VMware
3 422 (6.24%) Cisco
4 311 (4.60%) Oracle
5 265 (3.92%) Juniper
6 202 (2.99%) ESRI
7 186 (2.75%) Red Hat
8 134 (1.98%) ServiceNow
9 103 (1.52%) HP
10 90 (1.33%) IBM
11 86 (1.27%) Google
12 84 (1.24%) Remedy
13 83 (1.23%) SAP
14 77 (1.14%) Sparx
15 68 (1.00%) Dell
16 66 (0.98%) Splunk
17 62 (0.92%) SolarWinds
18 57 (0.84%) Fortinet
19 52 (0.77%) NetApp
19 52 (0.77%) Veeam