Security Cleared Jobs in Hertfordshire

Security Clearance
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 15 4 16
Rank change year-on-year -11 +12 +15
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 93 282 194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 11.26% 13.72% 11.16%
As % of the Qualifications category 23.54% 42.86% 24.97%
Number of salaries quoted 72 200 84
10th Percentile £28,750 £42,500 £28,800
25th Percentile £49,750 £46,250 £46,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £73,250 £65,313 £61,063
90th Percentile £87,500 £70,025 £66,250
East of England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 395 658 777
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 47.82% 32.02% 44.68%
Number of salaries quoted 168 427 207
10th Percentile £30,500 £27,100 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,273 £41,188 £42,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,967 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.92% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £63,250 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £72,500 £75,500
East of England median annual salary £53,000 £47,500 £54,500
% change year-on-year +11.58% -12.84% +9.00%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Hertfordshire

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Salary trend for Security Cleared in Hertfordshire

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in Hertfordshire

Security 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 Security Cleared within the Hertfordshire 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
Stevenage 0 36 £57,750 +6.94% 50
Hemel Hempstead +1 18 £61,750 +2.92% 23
Hatfield +21 11 £29,500 -46.36% 7
Watford - 5 £48,750 - 13
Hoddesdon - 1 - -
Security Cleared
East of England

Security 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 4 (4.30%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 4 (4.30%) Exchange Server 2013
1 4 (4.30%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (4.30%) Skype for Business
2 2 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.15%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.15%) Appian
3 1 (1.08%) Alfresco
3 1 (1.08%) Confluence
3 1 (1.08%) Documentum
3 1 (1.08%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.08%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (25.81%) AWS
2 15 (16.13%) AWS CodePipeline
2 15 (16.13%) AWS Lambda
2 15 (16.13%) SaaS
2 15 (16.13%) Serverless
3 14 (15.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 14 (15.05%) Amazon EventBridge
3 14 (15.05%) Amazon SQS
3 14 (15.05%) AWS CodeBuild
3 14 (15.05%) AWS CodeDeploy
3 14 (15.05%) AWS Step Functions
3 14 (15.05%) Boomi
4 11 (11.83%) Azure
5 7 (7.53%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (7.53%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (4.30%) Cohesity
7 3 (3.23%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.15%) MinIO
8 2 (2.15%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (17.20%) SMTP
2 13 (13.98%) Firewall
2 13 (13.98%) VPN
2 13 (13.98%) WAN
3 12 (12.90%) Cisco ISE
3 12 (12.90%) FTP
3 12 (12.90%) HTTP
3 12 (12.90%) LAN
3 12 (12.90%) TCP/IP
4 9 (9.68%) Internet
5 8 (8.60%) Network Security
6 5 (5.38%) SAN
7 4 (4.30%) IMAP
7 4 (4.30%) Skype
8 3 (3.23%) Ethernet
8 3 (3.23%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (3.23%) MPLS
9 1 (1.08%) DNS
9 1 (1.08%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (1.08%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (17.20%) Big Data
2 8 (8.60%) Relational Database
3 7 (7.53%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.15%) GitLab
1 2 (2.15%) Jenkins
1 2 (2.15%) Robot Framework
1 2 (2.15%) Selenium
1 2 (2.15%) Snyk
2 1 (1.08%) Artifactory
2 1 (1.08%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.08%) ClearCase
2 1 (1.08%) ClearQuest
2 1 (1.08%) Git
2 1 (1.08%) JIRA
General
1 25 (26.88%) Law
2 16 (17.20%) Public Sector
3 13 (13.98%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (13.98%) Social Skills
4 9 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (8.60%) Marketing
5 8 (8.60%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (6.45%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.15%) Advertising
7 2 (2.15%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.08%) Electronics
8 1 (1.08%) Finance
8 1 (1.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (34.41%) Lead
2 16 (17.20%) Analyst
3 12 (12.90%) Support Analyst
4 10 (10.75%) 2nd Line Support
4 10 (10.75%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 9 (9.68%) Designer
5 9 (9.68%) Network Designer
6 8 (8.60%) Architect
7 7 (7.53%) Developer
7 7 (7.53%) Software Developer
8 6 (6.45%) Network Architect
9 4 (4.30%) Messaging Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) SOC Analyst
9 4 (4.30%) Wintel Engineer
10 2 (2.15%) Applications Architect
10 2 (2.15%) IT Engineer
10 2 (2.15%) Systems Engineer
11 1 (1.08%) Integration Engineer
11 1 (1.08%) Systems Integration Engineer
11 1 (1.08%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.13%) RESTful
2 14 (15.05%) JWT
2 14 (15.05%) OAuth
3 11 (11.83%) LDAP
4 8 (8.60%) .NET
5 7 (7.53%) Node.js
5 7 (7.53%) Pandas
6 2 (2.15%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (2.15%) Kafka
7 1 (1.08%) CSS
7 1 (1.08%) HTML
7 1 (1.08%) Spring
7 1 (1.08%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.98%) Security Operations Centre
2 12 (12.90%) Client/Server
3 7 (7.53%) Cyberattack
4 4 (4.30%) Blackberry
5 3 (3.23%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (3.23%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.23%) MISP
6 2 (2.15%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.15%) iSeries
6 2 (2.15%) Low-Code
6 2 (2.15%) Robotics
7 1 (1.08%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.08%) Clustering
7 1 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.08%) FPGA
7 1 (1.08%) Verilog
7 1 (1.08%) VHDL
7 1 (1.08%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.08%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 16 (17.20%) Linux
2 8 (8.60%) Windows
3 7 (7.53%) Android
4 4 (4.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (3.23%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.08%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (37.63%) Line Management
2 24 (25.81%) CI/CD
3 20 (21.51%) DevOps
4 19 (20.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 19 (20.43%) Project Management
4 19 (20.43%) SIEM
5 18 (19.35%) Analytics
5 18 (19.35%) Coaching
6 17 (18.28%) Data Analytics
7 15 (16.13%) Technology Strategy
8 14 (15.05%) API Design
8 14 (15.05%) API Development
8 14 (15.05%) Collaborative Culture
8 14 (15.05%) Event-Driven
8 14 (15.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 13 (13.98%) Security Operations
10 12 (12.90%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 12 (12.90%) Network Management
11 11 (11.83%) Use Case
12 10 (10.75%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 22 (23.66%) Java
2 17 (18.28%) Python
3 15 (16.13%) C#
4 13 (13.98%) C++
5 11 (11.83%) SQL
6 8 (8.60%) Bash
6 8 (8.60%) JavaScript
6 8 (8.60%) PowerShell
7 7 (7.53%) Go
7 7 (7.53%) Rust
8 6 (6.45%) Perl
9 1 (1.08%) C
9 1 (1.08%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 48 (51.61%) SC Cleared
2 30 (32.26%) DV Cleared
3 6 (6.45%) Degree
4 2 (2.15%) GCIA
5 1 (1.08%) A+ Certification
5 1 (1.08%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.08%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.08%) CISSP
5 1 (1.08%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.08%) CREST Certified
5 1 (1.08%) GCIH
5 1 (1.08%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.83%) SLA
2 1 (1.08%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 8 (8.60%) Docker
2 7 (7.53%) Active Directory
3 6 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.08%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (10.75%) Ansible
1 10 (10.75%) QRadar
2 9 (9.68%) Terraform
3 8 (8.60%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.08%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 19 (20.43%) VMware
2 18 (19.35%) Microsoft
2 18 (19.35%) Splunk
3 16 (17.20%) ServiceNow
4 14 (15.05%) Informatica
4 14 (15.05%) MuleSoft
4 14 (15.05%) Salesforce
5 12 (12.90%) Cisco
5 12 (12.90%) Juniper
5 12 (12.90%) SevOne
6 4 (4.30%) NetApp
7 3 (3.23%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.15%) BiZZdesign
8 2 (2.15%) Black Duck
8 2 (2.15%) UiPath
9 1 (1.08%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.08%) Intel
9 1 (1.08%) Microsemi
9 1 (1.08%) SAP
9 1 (1.08%) Xilinx