Security Cleared Job Trends in Inverness

Security Clearance
Highlands > Inverness

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Inverness with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 4 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 3 -
Rank change year-on-year -7 - -
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Inverness 1.82% 12.50% -
As % of the Qualifications category 8.33% 20.00% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £35,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 - -
75th Percentile £37,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Highlands median annual salary £36,000 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Inverness

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 Inverness.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 12 5 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Inverness 21.82% 62.50% 4.55%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £37,000 £37,525 -
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,563 £58,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.22% -32.92% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £43,063 £62,000
90th Percentile - £43,175 -
Highlands median annual salary £43,000 £40,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.83% -32.92% -

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Inverness

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

Security Cleared job vacancy trend in Inverness

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in Inverness

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Inverness citing Security Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Inverness citing Security Cleared

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Inverness 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) NGN
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) WLAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Operations Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto