SC Cleared Jobs in Hertfordshire

Security Check (SC) Clearance
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 53 50
Rank change year-on-year +11 -3 +23
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 44 70 96
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 5.33% 3.50% 5.34%
As % of the Qualifications category 11.31% 10.61% 11.81%
Number of salaries quoted 40 56 42
10th Percentile £28,750 - £41,375
25th Percentile £45,938 £42,500 £48,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -5.45% -12.00%
75th Percentile £63,250 £67,813 £61,250
90th Percentile £63,500 £68,750 £66,250
East of England median annual salary £57,500 £52,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year +10.58% -6.31% +0.91%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 389 660 813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 47.09% 33.00% 45.24%
Number of salaries quoted 170 429 212
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,563 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,967 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.92% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £63,250 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £72,500 £77,500
East of England median annual salary £53,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +11.58% -9.52% +5.00%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Hertfordshire

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in Hertfordshire.

Salary trend for SC Cleared in Hertfordshire

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in Hertfordshire

SC Cleared
Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 17 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
Stevenage +9 17 £57,500 +27.78% 26
Hemel Hempstead -1 12 £61,750 -8.52% 12
Hatfield +15 6 £29,500 -46.36% 8
Watford - 5 £47,500 - 8
SC Cleared
East of England

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 8 (18.18%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 8 (18.18%) Exchange Server 2013
1 8 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (18.18%) Skype for Business
2 2 (4.55%) Alfresco
2 2 (4.55%) Documentum
2 2 (4.55%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (18.18%) Cohesity
2 2 (4.55%) Azure
3 1 (2.27%) AWS
3 1 (2.27%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (2.27%) Cloudflare
3 1 (2.27%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (31.82%) SMTP
2 8 (18.18%) IMAP
2 8 (18.18%) SAN
2 8 (18.18%) Skype
3 7 (15.91%) Internet
4 6 (13.64%) Firewall
4 6 (13.64%) FTP
4 6 (13.64%) HTTP
4 6 (13.64%) LAN
4 6 (13.64%) Network Security
4 6 (13.64%) TCP/IP
4 6 (13.64%) VPN
4 6 (13.64%) WAN
5 3 (6.82%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (6.82%) Ethernet
5 3 (6.82%) MPLS
6 1 (2.27%) DNS
6 1 (2.27%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (2.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.64%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.27%) Big Data
2 1 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Artifactory
1 1 (2.27%) Bitbucket
1 1 (2.27%) ClearCase
1 1 (2.27%) ClearQuest
1 1 (2.27%) Git
1 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.27%) JIRA
1 1 (2.27%) Log4j
General
1 7 (15.91%) Law
2 6 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.36%) Marketing
3 5 (11.36%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (6.82%) Advertising
5 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (29.55%) Lead
2 11 (25.00%) Analyst
3 9 (20.45%) Support Analyst
4 8 (18.18%) Messaging Engineer
5 6 (13.64%) 2nd Line Support
5 6 (13.64%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 6 (13.64%) Architect
5 6 (13.64%) Network Architect
6 2 (4.55%) Applications Support
6 2 (4.55%) Applications Support Analyst
6 2 (4.55%) SOC Analyst
7 1 (2.27%) Desktop Engineer
7 1 (2.27%) IT Analyst
7 1 (2.27%) IT Engineer
7 1 (2.27%) IT Procurement Manager
7 1 (2.27%) IT Support Analyst
7 1 (2.27%) Junior Analyst
7 1 (2.27%) Procurement Manager
7 1 (2.27%) Technical Analyst
7 1 (2.27%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.64%) LDAP
2 1 (2.27%) .NET
2 1 (2.27%) Apache Camel
2 1 (2.27%) CSS
2 1 (2.27%) HTML
2 1 (2.27%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.18%) Blackberry
2 7 (15.91%) Client/Server
2 7 (15.91%) Security Operations Centre
3 4 (9.09%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (4.55%) Robotics
5 1 (2.27%) iSeries
5 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.27%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 9 (20.45%) Linux
2 8 (18.18%) Windows
3 3 (6.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.55%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.82%) SIEM
2 12 (27.27%) Line Management
3 8 (18.18%) Problem Management
3 8 (18.18%) Security Operations
4 7 (15.91%) Capacity Management
5 6 (13.64%) Blue Team
5 6 (13.64%) Malware Analysis
5 6 (13.64%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 6 (13.64%) People Management
5 6 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (13.64%) Reverse Engineering
5 6 (13.64%) Use Case
6 5 (11.36%) Batch Management
6 5 (11.36%) Incident Management
6 5 (11.36%) Patch Management
7 4 (9.09%) Content Management
7 4 (9.09%) Data Security
7 4 (9.09%) Enterprise Content Management
7 4 (9.09%) Information Management
7 4 (9.09%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.91%) PowerShell
1 7 (15.91%) Python
1 7 (15.91%) SQL
2 6 (13.64%) Bash
2 6 (13.64%) C++
2 6 (13.64%) Perl
3 1 (2.27%) C#
3 1 (2.27%) Go
3 1 (2.27%) Java
3 1 (2.27%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 44 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (34.09%) DV Cleared
3 2 (4.55%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (4.55%) Degree
4 1 (2.27%) A+ Certification
4 1 (2.27%) CISSP
4 1 (2.27%) GCIA
4 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.91%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (20.45%) Active Directory
2 7 (15.91%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (13.64%) QRadar
2 1 (2.27%) Graylog
Vendors
1 16 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 12 (27.27%) Splunk
3 11 (25.00%) VMware
4 8 (18.18%) NetApp
5 3 (6.82%) Cisco
5 3 (6.82%) Juniper
5 3 (6.82%) Red Hat
5 3 (6.82%) SevOne
6 2 (4.55%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.27%) Apple
7 1 (2.27%) Atlassian