SC Cleared Jobs in Manchester

Security Check (SC) Clearance
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 76 68
Rank change year-on-year -49 -8 -20
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 41 171 243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 1.80% 3.29% 4.98%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.99% 14.50% 14.96%
Number of salaries quoted 35 58 97
10th Percentile £48,500 £46,575 £47,100
25th Percentile £51,875 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £79,375 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,683 £85,000 £84,250
North West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +8.26%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 822 1,179 1,624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 36.18% 22.67% 33.27%
Number of salaries quoted 449 795 530
10th Percentile £25,480 £27,700 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £54,169 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -9.72% +12.97%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +11.62%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Manchester

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for SC Cleared in Manchester

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Manchester over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in Manchester

SC Cleared
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 12 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
Salford +14 6 £68,505 +16.50% 2
SC Cleared
North West

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.44%) nginx
1 1 (2.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.44%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 13 (31.71%) Azure
2 7 (17.07%) AWS
3 6 (14.63%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (12.20%) Power Platform
5 4 (9.76%) GCP
5 4 (9.76%) OCI
6 3 (7.32%) Amazon ECR
6 3 (7.32%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (7.32%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 3 (7.32%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 3 (7.32%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (7.32%) AWS CodeBuild
6 3 (7.32%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (7.32%) dbt
6 3 (7.32%) GitHub
6 3 (7.32%) IaaS
6 3 (7.32%) PaaS
6 3 (7.32%) Pulumi
6 3 (7.32%) SaaS
7 2 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.76%) Firewall
1 4 (9.76%) OSPF
2 3 (7.32%) BGP
2 3 (7.32%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (7.32%) Cisco Firepower
2 3 (7.32%) EIGRP
2 3 (7.32%) HSRP
2 3 (7.32%) IPsec
2 3 (7.32%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.88%) Internet
3 2 (4.88%) VPN
4 1 (2.44%) Ethernet
4 1 (2.44%) LAN
4 1 (2.44%) Network Security
4 1 (2.44%) WAN
4 1 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (2.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.76%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (9.76%) Redis
2 3 (7.32%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (7.32%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (7.32%) MySQL
3 2 (4.88%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Git
1 2 (4.88%) GitLab
2 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (31.71%) Social Skills
2 11 (26.83%) Finance
3 8 (19.51%) Marketing
4 6 (14.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (12.20%) Law
6 3 (7.32%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.88%) Electronics
7 2 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (4.88%) Manufacturing
7 2 (4.88%) Telecoms
8 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (2.44%) Legal
8 1 (2.44%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 9 (21.95%) Senior
2 8 (19.51%) Architect
3 7 (17.07%) Developer
4 6 (14.63%) Consultant
5 4 (9.76%) SOC Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Senior Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Support Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Incident Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Network Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Oracle Architect
7 2 (4.88%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Security Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Senior Consultant
7 2 (4.88%) Senior Systems Architect
7 2 (4.88%) Senior Systems Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.88%) Systems Architect
7 2 (4.88%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.76%) Django
2 2 (4.88%) .NET
2 2 (4.88%) REST
2 2 (4.88%) SOAP
3 1 (2.44%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.44%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.44%) Kafka
3 1 (2.44%) Middleware
3 1 (2.44%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (2.44%) React
3 1 (2.44%) Spring
3 1 (2.44%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.32%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.88%) CMDB
2 2 (4.88%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.44%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.44%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.44%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.44%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (14.63%) Linux
2 3 (7.32%) Unix
2 3 (7.32%) Windows
3 2 (4.88%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.44%) Debian
4 1 (2.44%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.44%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (26.83%) DevOps
2 8 (19.51%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (19.51%) CI/CD
2 8 (19.51%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (17.07%) Agile
4 6 (14.63%) CRM
5 5 (12.20%) Containerisation
5 5 (12.20%) Continuous Delivery
5 5 (12.20%) Customer Experience
5 5 (12.20%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (12.20%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 5 (12.20%) Migration
6 4 (9.76%) Computer Science
6 4 (9.76%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (9.76%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (9.76%) Open Source
6 4 (9.76%) Performance Monitoring
6 4 (9.76%) Project Delivery
6 4 (9.76%) Scrum
6 4 (9.76%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 7 (17.07%) Python
2 4 (9.76%) SQL
3 2 (4.88%) Bash
3 2 (4.88%) JavaScript
3 2 (4.88%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (2.44%) C#
4 1 (2.44%) Groovy
4 1 (2.44%) Java
4 1 (2.44%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.44%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.44%) X++
Qualifications
1 41 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (19.51%) Degree
3 4 (9.76%) CompTIA CySA+
3 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (7.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.44%) APMG
5 1 (2.44%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.44%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.44%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.76%) SLA
2 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.44%) NCSC
2 1 (2.44%) NIST
2 1 (2.44%) P3O
2 1 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 5 (12.20%) Docker
2 2 (4.88%) Hyper-V
2 2 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (17.07%) Terraform
2 5 (12.20%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.32%) AWS Copilot
4 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (4.88%) QRadar
5 1 (2.44%) Ansible
5 1 (2.44%) HAProxy
5 1 (2.44%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.44%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (36.59%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.76%) AlienVault
2 4 (9.76%) Oracle
3 3 (7.32%) CheckPoint
3 3 (7.32%) Cisco
3 3 (7.32%) Google
3 3 (7.32%) Palo Alto
4 2 (4.88%) Pega
4 2 (4.88%) SAP
4 2 (4.88%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.88%) Splunk
4 2 (4.88%) VMware
5 1 (2.44%) Dell
5 1 (2.44%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.44%) HP
5 1 (2.44%) Red Hat