SC Cleared Jobs in London

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 87 337
Rank change year-on-year -47 +250 -108
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 523 965 938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.52% 3.56% 1.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.07% 13.63% 5.81%
Number of salaries quoted 345 667 430
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,550 £39,444
25th Percentile £52,750 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £82,313
90th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £100,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -0.16%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 5,766 7,082 16,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 27.80% 26.11% 21.51%
Number of salaries quoted 3,193 4,957 7,030
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £88,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £102,300 £112,500 £102,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in London

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for SC Cleared in London

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in London

SC Cleared
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the London region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
Central London -26 101 £65,000 -4.06% 36
South London -5 35 £72,500 +36.79% 8
West London -32 7 £37,500 -37.50% 9
East London +20 1 £28,000 - 4
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 36 (6.88%) SharePoint
2 18 (3.44%) ArcGIS
2 18 (3.44%) GeoServer
3 10 (1.91%) Confluence
4 8 (1.53%) Apache
5 7 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (1.15%) OpenStack
6 6 (1.15%) Red Hat Fuse
7 4 (0.76%) JBoss
7 4 (0.76%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.38%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.38%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.19%) Camunda
10 1 (0.19%) SharePoint 2010
10 1 (0.19%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 10 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.53%) Sketch
3 4 (0.76%) Adobe XD
3 4 (0.76%) InVision
3 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.76%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.19%) Blender
5 1 (0.19%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.19%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 5 (0.96%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.38%) Maximo
4 2 (0.38%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.19%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 147 (28.11%) Azure
2 106 (20.27%) AWS
3 51 (9.75%) Power Platform
4 38 (7.27%) Microsoft 365
5 34 (6.50%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (5.74%) PowerApps
7 29 (5.54%) Power Automate
8 25 (4.78%) Amazon EKS
9 21 (4.02%) Dynamics 365
10 19 (3.63%) Serverless
11 18 (3.44%) GCP
12 17 (3.25%) Amazon ECS
13 16 (3.06%) SaaS
14 14 (2.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 11 (2.10%) Cloud Computing
15 11 (2.10%) PaaS
16 10 (1.91%) dbt
17 9 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
17 9 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
17 9 (1.72%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.87%) Firewall
2 9 (1.72%) DNS
2 9 (1.72%) SSL
3 8 (1.53%) Structured Cabling
4 7 (1.34%) BGP
5 6 (1.15%) IPsec
5 6 (1.15%) Network Security
5 6 (1.15%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.15%) WAN
5 6 (1.15%) Wireless
6 5 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.76%) IPv4
7 4 (0.76%) IPv6
7 4 (0.76%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.76%) SSH
8 3 (0.57%) Cisco Firepower
8 3 (0.57%) LAN
8 3 (0.57%) NGFW
8 3 (0.57%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.38%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (8.03%) Power BI
2 38 (7.27%) Relational Database
3 32 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (4.21%) SQL Server
5 18 (3.44%) GIS
5 18 (3.44%) QGIS
6 15 (2.87%) Tableau
7 11 (2.10%) Data Lake
8 9 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (1.53%) NoSQL
10 7 (1.34%) MongoDB
10 7 (1.34%) Oracle Database
11 6 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (1.15%) Big Data
11 6 (1.15%) MySQL
12 5 (0.96%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 3 (0.57%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 41 (7.84%) Jenkins
2 32 (6.12%) Git
3 23 (4.40%) JIRA
4 15 (2.87%) JUnit
5 14 (2.68%) GitLab
6 7 (1.34%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.34%) Cucumber
6 7 (1.34%) Maven
6 7 (1.34%) Selenium
6 7 (1.34%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.15%) REST Assured
7 6 (1.15%) Terragrunt
7 6 (1.15%) TestNG
7 6 (1.15%) WebDriver
8 5 (0.96%) Gradle
9 4 (0.76%) Axure RP
10 1 (0.19%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.19%) Mocha
10 1 (0.19%) Sinon.JS
10 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 138 (26.39%) Social Skills
2 115 (21.99%) Public Sector
3 53 (10.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 48 (9.18%) Finance
5 41 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (3.63%) Law
7 16 (3.06%) Police
8 12 (2.29%) Banking
8 12 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (2.29%) Retail
9 8 (1.53%) Military
9 8 (1.53%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.15%) Marketing
10 6 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (0.96%) Electronics
12 4 (0.76%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.76%) Automotive
12 4 (0.76%) Legal
12 4 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.38%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 94 (17.97%) Senior
2 88 (16.83%) Architect
3 77 (14.72%) Developer
4 50 (9.56%) Analyst
5 44 (8.41%) Consultant
6 39 (7.46%) Technical Architect
7 36 (6.88%) Lead
8 32 (6.12%) Software Engineer
9 27 (5.16%) DevOps Engineer
10 24 (4.59%) Principal Engineer
11 21 (4.02%) Platform Architect
11 21 (4.02%) Power Platform Architect
12 19 (3.63%) Principal Systems Engineer
12 19 (3.63%) Senior Developer
13 18 (3.44%) Systems Engineer
14 17 (3.25%) Solutions Architect
14 17 (3.25%) Tester
15 16 (3.06%) Designer
16 15 (2.87%) ServiceNow Developer
17 14 (2.68%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (7.84%) CSS
2 34 (6.50%) .NET
3 31 (5.93%) HTML
4 29 (5.54%) React
5 19 (3.63%) .NET Core
5 19 (3.63%) Node.js
5 19 (3.63%) Spring Boot
6 18 (3.44%) Leaflet
6 18 (3.44%) OpenLayers
6 18 (3.44%) PostGIS
6 18 (3.44%) Web Services
7 17 (3.25%) REST
7 17 (3.25%) Spring
8 16 (3.06%) RESTful
9 14 (2.68%) ARM Templates
10 12 (2.29%) AngularJS
11 10 (1.91%) Elastic Stack
11 10 (1.91%) SOAP
11 10 (1.91%) XML
12 8 (1.53%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 20 (3.82%) Product Ownership
2 14 (2.68%) Data Centre
3 13 (2.49%) Public Cloud
4 12 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (2.10%) Virtual Team
6 10 (1.91%) Management Information System
7 9 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (1.72%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.34%) IoT
9 6 (1.15%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.15%) Cloud Native
9 6 (1.15%) CMDB
9 6 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
9 6 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (0.96%) CCTV
10 5 (0.96%) Operational Technology
11 4 (0.76%) CUDA
11 4 (0.76%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 60 (11.47%) Windows
2 38 (7.27%) Linux
3 29 (5.54%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.15%) Unix
5 5 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.38%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.38%) VMS
6 2 (0.38%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.19%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (38.43%) Agile
2 131 (25.05%) DevOps
3 75 (14.34%) Cybersecurity
4 74 (14.15%) CI/CD
5 61 (11.66%) Actionable Insight
6 58 (11.09%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (10.71%) Scrum
8 55 (10.52%) Mentoring
9 53 (10.13%) Artificial Intelligence
9 53 (10.13%) Computer Science
10 51 (9.75%) Machine Learning
11 46 (8.80%) Software Engineering
12 44 (8.41%) Stakeholder Management
13 43 (8.22%) Technical Leadership
14 42 (8.03%) Project Management
15 41 (7.84%) Business Intelligence
16 39 (7.46%) Data Modelling
16 39 (7.46%) SIEM
17 34 (6.50%) Containerisation
18 33 (6.31%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 77 (14.72%) Python
2 68 (13.00%) JavaScript
3 63 (12.05%) SQL
4 55 (10.52%) C#
5 37 (7.07%) Java
6 13 (2.49%) PowerShell
7 11 (2.10%) Bash
8 10 (1.91%) C++
9 8 (1.53%) Groovy
10 6 (1.15%) Bicep
10 6 (1.15%) Scala
11 5 (0.96%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.96%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.96%) VBA
12 3 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.38%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.38%) R
13 2 (0.38%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.19%) Perl
Qualifications
1 523 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 91 (17.40%) Degree
3 64 (12.24%) DV Cleared
4 43 (8.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (5.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 27 (5.16%) AWS Certification
7 24 (4.59%) Azure Certification
8 23 (4.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 17 (3.25%) CISSP
10 13 (2.49%) CISM
10 13 (2.49%) CREST Certified
11 11 (2.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 10 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
13 7 (1.34%) Master's Degree
14 6 (1.15%) ISTQB
14 6 (1.15%) PMI Certification
14 6 (1.15%) Postgraduate
15 5 (0.96%) HNC
15 5 (0.96%) HND
15 5 (0.96%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.25%) Accessibility
2 15 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (2.68%) GDPR
4 12 (2.29%) Data Quality
5 11 (2.10%) NIST
5 11 (2.10%) QA
6 9 (1.72%) NCSC
6 9 (1.72%) PMO
7 5 (0.96%) WCAG
8 4 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.57%) COBIT
9 3 (0.57%) Def Stans
9 3 (0.57%) SLA
10 2 (0.38%) GRC
10 2 (0.38%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.38%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.19%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 56 (10.71%) Docker
2 14 (2.68%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.57%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.57%) XenDesktop
5 2 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.19%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.19%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 61 (11.66%) Kubernetes
2 52 (9.94%) Terraform
3 28 (5.35%) Ansible
4 11 (2.10%) Puppet
5 10 (1.91%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.53%) Progress Chef
6 8 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.96%) Kibana
7 5 (0.96%) QRadar
7 5 (0.96%) SCCM
8 4 (0.76%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 4 (0.76%) FortiGate
8 4 (0.76%) Grafana
9 3 (0.57%) NetBackup
9 3 (0.57%) OpenView
9 3 (0.57%) Packer
10 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.19%) HP UCMDB
11 1 (0.19%) Nessus
Vendors
1 90 (17.21%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.74%) ServiceNow
3 25 (4.78%) Oracle
4 23 (4.40%) Juniper
5 18 (3.44%) ESRI
6 12 (2.29%) Databricks
7 11 (2.10%) Splunk
8 10 (1.91%) IBM
9 9 (1.72%) Google
9 9 (1.72%) VMware
10 8 (1.53%) Cisco
11 7 (1.34%) ForgeRock
11 7 (1.34%) Zscaler
12 6 (1.15%) HP
13 5 (0.96%) BMC
13 5 (0.96%) CheckPoint
13 5 (0.96%) Remedy
13 5 (0.96%) WSO2
14 4 (0.76%) Meraki
14 4 (0.76%) Sparx