SC Cleared Job Trends in Glasgow

Security Check (SC) Clearance
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 70 124
Rank change year-on-year +9 +54 -77
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 14 14 25
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 1.00% 1.87% 1.38%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.14% 7.25% 8.56%
Number of salaries quoted 9 13 10
10th Percentile - £42,350 £35,531
25th Percentile - £58,750 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £90,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +60.00% -16.05%
75th Percentile - £99,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,000 £100,000 £63,325
Scotland median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £57,150
% change year-on-year +7.69% +13.74% +3.91%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Glasgow

SC 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 Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 172 193 292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 12.32% 25.80% 16.09%
Number of salaries quoted 64 67 99
10th Percentile £25,375 £28,250 £36,000
25th Percentile £34,438 £31,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,250 £37,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +34.00% -31.82% -
75th Percentile £68,125 £63,750 £76,125
90th Percentile £70,000 £90,000 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £43,250 £50,309
% change year-on-year +27.17% -14.03% -1.49%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SC Cleared relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

SC Cleared job vacancy trend in Glasgow

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing SC Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing SC Cleared

SC Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Amazon S3
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
1 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (14.29%) Azure Functions
1 2 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 2 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (14.29%) Data Lake
1 2 (14.29%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
General
1 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Aviation
2 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Developer
3 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Risk Manager
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Apache Avro
1 2 (14.29%) JSON
1 2 (14.29%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Validation
2 8 (57.14%) Verification and Validation
3 3 (21.43%) DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
4 2 (14.29%) Agile
4 2 (14.29%) Analytics
4 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 2 (14.29%) Community of Practice
4 2 (14.29%) Data Engineering
4 2 (14.29%) Data Integration
4 2 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (14.29%) ETL
4 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 2 (14.29%) Microservices
4 2 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (14.29%) Runbook
4 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
5 1 (7.14%) Asset Management
5 1 (7.14%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Java
2 2 (14.29%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Computacenter
1 1 (7.14%) Dell
1 1 (7.14%) HP