Security Cleared Jobs in Manchester

Security Clearance
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 42 29
Rank change year-on-year +7 -13 -10
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 181 270 428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 7.99% 5.18% 8.91%
As % of the Qualifications category 22.40% 23.06% 26.57%
Number of salaries quoted 67 103 126
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,300 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,875 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% +21.84%
75th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,000 £86,250
North West median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +18.18% -4.35% +8.28%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 808 1,171 1,611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 35.66% 22.48% 33.52%
Number of salaries quoted 436 797 525
10th Percentile £25,480 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,125 £38,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +12.97%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,775 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +11.00%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Manchester

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Security Cleared in Manchester

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Manchester over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in Manchester

Security 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 Security Cleared within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 16 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
Bury - 8 - - 2
Heywood - 7 - - 1
Oldham - 7 - - 2
Salford +14 6 £68,505 +16.50% 3
Cheadle +1 6 - - 7
Altrincham -6 6 - - 3
Dukinfield - 6 - -
Stockport - 6 - - 6
Sale - 6 - -
Stalybridge - 5 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 5 - - 2
Wigan - 4 - -
Bolton -23 3 - - 8
Rochdale - 3 - -
Littleborough - 1 - -
Security Cleared
North West

Security 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 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (0.55%) nginx
1 1 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (0.55%) SharePoint
1 1 (0.55%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.10%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 100 (55.25%) Azure
2 90 (49.72%) AWS
3 86 (47.51%) GCP
4 11 (6.08%) Dynamics 365
4 11 (6.08%) Power Platform
5 8 (4.42%) OCI
6 3 (1.66%) Amazon ECR
6 3 (1.66%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (1.66%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 3 (1.66%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 3 (1.66%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (1.66%) AWS CodeBuild
6 3 (1.66%) dbt
6 3 (1.66%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.66%) GitHub
6 3 (1.66%) IaaS
6 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (1.66%) PaaS
6 3 (1.66%) Pulumi
6 3 (1.66%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (15.47%) VPN
2 26 (14.36%) DNS
3 7 (3.87%) Wireless
4 4 (2.21%) Firewall
4 4 (2.21%) OSPF
5 3 (1.66%) BGP
5 3 (1.66%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (1.66%) Cisco Firepower
5 3 (1.66%) EIGRP
5 3 (1.66%) HSRP
5 3 (1.66%) IPsec
5 3 (1.66%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.10%) Internet
7 1 (0.55%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.55%) LAN
7 1 (0.55%) Network Security
7 1 (0.55%) WAN
7 1 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (2.21%) Redis
2 3 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (1.66%) MySQL
3 2 (1.10%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (0.55%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.55%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 8 (4.42%) Git
1 8 (4.42%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.21%) GitLab
General
1 114 (62.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 41 (22.65%) Finance
3 34 (18.78%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (12.71%) Law
5 22 (12.15%) Social Skills
6 8 (4.42%) Electronics
6 8 (4.42%) Marketing
6 8 (4.42%) Telecoms
7 7 (3.87%) Aerospace
8 5 (2.76%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.10%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.55%) Legal
10 1 (0.55%) Police
10 1 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.55%) Retail
10 1 (0.55%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 99 (54.70%) Senior
2 89 (49.17%) Software Engineer
3 88 (48.62%) Senior Software Engineer
4 34 (18.78%) Developer
5 26 (14.36%) Software Developer
6 15 (8.29%) Consultant
7 9 (4.97%) Architect
8 6 (3.31%) Lead
9 5 (2.76%) Senior Consultant
9 5 (2.76%) ServiceNow Consultant
10 4 (2.21%) Business Analyst
10 4 (2.21%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 4 (2.21%) HR Business Analyst
10 4 (2.21%) HR Consultant
10 4 (2.21%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
10 4 (2.21%) SOC Engineer
11 3 (1.66%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (1.66%) Oracle Consultant
11 3 (1.66%) Platform Engineer
11 3 (1.66%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (48.62%) .NET
2 82 (45.30%) Node.js
3 4 (2.21%) Django
4 3 (1.66%) ASP.NET Web API
4 3 (1.66%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (1.66%) React
4 3 (1.66%) REST
5 2 (1.10%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.10%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (1.10%) SOAP
5 2 (1.10%) Spring
5 2 (1.10%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.55%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.55%) Kafka
6 1 (0.55%) Middleware
6 1 (0.55%) RESTful
6 1 (0.55%) SPFx
6 1 (0.55%) Vue
6 1 (0.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 108 (59.67%) Cyberattack
2 82 (45.30%) Linux Command Line
2 82 (45.30%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (3.31%) Device Driver
4 4 (2.21%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.10%) CMDB
5 2 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.10%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.10%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.55%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.55%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.55%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.55%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.55%) IoT
6 1 (0.55%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.55%) Life Science
6 1 (0.55%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 120 (66.30%) Linux
2 26 (14.36%) Android
3 3 (1.66%) Unix
3 3 (1.66%) Windows
4 2 (1.10%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.55%) Debian
5 1 (0.55%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (67.40%) Agile
2 93 (51.38%) Software Engineering
3 87 (48.07%) Microservices
4 86 (47.51%) Scrum
5 85 (46.96%) Mentoring
5 85 (46.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 84 (46.41%) Cloud Security
7 83 (45.86%) Data Engineering
7 83 (45.86%) User Experience
8 82 (45.30%) Machine Learning
9 29 (16.02%) Line Management
10 26 (14.36%) Android Development
10 26 (14.36%) Design Patterns
10 26 (14.36%) Mathematics
10 26 (14.36%) OO
10 26 (14.36%) OOP
11 14 (7.73%) DevOps
12 11 (6.08%) CI/CD
13 10 (5.52%) Continuous Improvement
14 9 (4.97%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 123 (67.96%) Python
2 115 (63.54%) C++
3 112 (61.88%) Java
4 108 (59.67%) Go
5 86 (47.51%) JavaScript
6 83 (45.86%) Rust
7 6 (3.31%) C
8 5 (2.76%) SQL
9 4 (2.21%) C#
10 3 (1.66%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (1.10%) Bash
11 2 (1.10%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.10%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.55%) Groovy
12 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.55%) X++
Qualifications
1 116 (64.09%) DV Cleared
2 82 (45.30%) AWS Certification
2 82 (45.30%) AWS Certified Developer
2 82 (45.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 39 (21.55%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.97%) Degree
5 4 (2.21%) CompTIA CySA+
5 4 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.10%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.55%) APMG
8 1 (0.55%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.21%) SLA
2 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.55%) NCSC
2 1 (0.55%) NIST
2 1 (0.55%) P3O
2 1 (0.55%) QA
System Software
1 33 (18.23%) Docker
2 2 (1.10%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (15.47%) Ansible
2 8 (4.42%) Terraform
3 7 (3.87%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.66%) AWS Copilot
5 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.10%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.10%) QRadar
6 1 (0.55%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.55%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (9.94%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.08%) Oracle
3 8 (4.42%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.21%) AlienVault
5 3 (1.66%) CheckPoint
5 3 (1.66%) Cisco
5 3 (1.66%) Google
5 3 (1.66%) Palo Alto
5 3 (1.66%) SAP
6 2 (1.10%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.10%) Splunk
6 2 (1.10%) VMware
7 1 (0.55%) Dell
7 1 (0.55%) HP
7 1 (0.55%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.55%) Workday