Security Cleared Job Trends 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 20 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 30 34
Rank change year-on-year -19 +4 +25
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 109 172 188
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 3.64% 6.51% 6.78%
As % of the Qualifications category 11.11% 18.63% 29.19%
Number of salaries quoted 101 89 132
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,120 £42,550
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £48,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.69% +11.82%
75th Percentile £78,790 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,450 £82,500
North West median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% +4.55%

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 981 923 644
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 32.74% 34.91% 23.22%
Number of salaries quoted 340 391 459
10th Percentile £26,075 £30,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £29,625 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £83,875 £82,100 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,055 £52,084
% change year-on-year -0.11% -3.90% -5.30%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Security Cleared job vacancy trend in Manchester

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Security Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Security Cleared

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Manchester over the 6 months to 20 January 2026.

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 20 January 2026. 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 -7 4 £73,801 +9.92% 3
Stockport +6 3 £32,500 - 4
Bolton +12 1 £52,500 - 23
Security Cleared
North West

Security Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (4.59%) Apache
2 4 (3.67%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.92%) Confluence
3 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.92%) InVision
1 1 (0.92%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.92%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 33 (30.28%) Azure
2 32 (29.36%) AWS
3 9 (8.26%) GCP
4 8 (7.34%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (6.42%) Serverless
6 5 (4.59%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (4.59%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.67%) GitHub
7 4 (3.67%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (3.67%) OpenShift
7 4 (3.67%) SaaS
8 3 (2.75%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (2.75%) dbt
8 3 (2.75%) PaaS
8 3 (2.75%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.83%) Amazon ECR
9 2 (1.83%) Anthropic Claude
9 2 (1.83%) OCI
9 2 (1.83%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.67%) AMQP
1 4 (3.67%) Firewall
2 2 (1.83%) BGP
2 2 (1.83%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (1.83%) Cisco Firepower
2 2 (1.83%) EIGRP
2 2 (1.83%) HSRP
2 2 (1.83%) IPsec
2 2 (1.83%) OSPF
2 2 (1.83%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.92%) HTTP
3 1 (0.92%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.50%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (4.59%) Big Data
2 5 (4.59%) Hadoop
3 4 (3.67%) Cloudera CDH
3 4 (3.67%) Neo4j
3 4 (3.67%) NoSQL
3 4 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.75%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.83%) Redis
6 1 (0.92%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.92%) Power BI
6 1 (0.92%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (0.92%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.92%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (3.67%) GitLab
1 4 (3.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.83%) JIRA
2 2 (1.83%) JMeter
3 1 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.92%) Axure RP
3 1 (0.92%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.92%) Gatling
3 1 (0.92%) Git
3 1 (0.92%) LoadRunner
3 1 (0.92%) Locust
3 1 (0.92%) NUnit
General
1 17 (15.60%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.76%) Finance
3 14 (12.84%) Public Sector
4 13 (11.93%) Manufacturing
5 8 (7.34%) Electronics
5 8 (7.34%) Law
5 8 (7.34%) Marketing
5 8 (7.34%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.67%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.75%) Military
7 3 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.75%) Retail
8 2 (1.83%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.83%) Fire and Rescue
8 2 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.83%) Police
9 1 (0.92%) Advertising
9 1 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.92%) Legal
9 1 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (14.68%) Software Engineer
2 13 (11.93%) Consultant
3 11 (10.09%) Analyst
4 10 (9.17%) Business Analyst
5 9 (8.26%) Cloud Engineer
5 9 (8.26%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 8 (7.34%) Developer
6 8 (7.34%) Lead
6 8 (7.34%) Senior
7 6 (5.50%) Architect
7 6 (5.50%) Test Engineer
8 5 (4.59%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (4.59%) Manufacturing Engineer
9 4 (3.67%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (3.67%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (3.67%) Power Platform Consultant
9 4 (3.67%) Technical Consultant
10 3 (2.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (2.75%) Security Analyst
10 3 (2.75%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.84%) React
2 12 (11.01%) AngularJS
3 9 (8.26%) Node.js
4 7 (6.42%) Spring
4 7 (6.42%) Spring Boot
5 6 (5.50%) REST
6 4 (3.67%) gRPC
6 4 (3.67%) Material-UI
6 4 (3.67%) OpenAPI
6 4 (3.67%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (3.67%) Swagger
6 4 (3.67%) Vue
7 3 (2.75%) CSS
7 3 (2.75%) Django
7 3 (2.75%) HTML
7 3 (2.75%) MERN Stack
7 3 (2.75%) OLE
8 2 (1.83%) CSS3
8 2 (1.83%) HTML5
8 2 (1.83%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.09%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.59%) Driving Licence
3 4 (3.67%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.75%) Digital Signage
4 3 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.75%) Home Automation
4 3 (2.75%) Smart Home
5 2 (1.83%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.83%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.92%) Cyberattack
6 1 (0.92%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.92%) IoT
6 1 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.92%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.92%) Smart Energy
6 1 (0.92%) Smart Meter
6 1 (0.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.17%) Linux
2 9 (8.26%) Windows
3 8 (7.34%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (3.67%) CentOS
5 4 (3.67%) Debian
5 4 (3.67%) Ubuntu
6 3 (2.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (30.28%) Agile
2 23 (21.10%) Software Engineering
3 17 (15.60%) DevOps
4 15 (13.76%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (12.84%) CI/CD
6 12 (11.01%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (10.09%) Containerisation
7 11 (10.09%) Scrum
8 9 (8.26%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (7.34%) Digital Marketing
9 8 (7.34%) Full-Stack Development
9 8 (7.34%) Kanban
9 8 (7.34%) Open Source
9 8 (7.34%) Programme Management
10 7 (6.42%) Cybersecurity
10 7 (6.42%) Mentoring
10 7 (6.42%) Microservices
11 6 (5.50%) Collaborative Working
11 6 (5.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (5.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (17.43%) Python
2 17 (15.60%) Java
3 14 (12.84%) JavaScript
4 7 (6.42%) SQL
4 7 (6.42%) TypeScript
5 3 (2.75%) C
6 2 (1.83%) Bash
6 2 (1.83%) C#
6 2 (1.83%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.92%) Bicep
7 1 (0.92%) Groovy
7 1 (0.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 60 (55.05%) SC Cleared
2 35 (32.11%) DV Cleared
3 3 (2.75%) CCA
3 3 (2.75%) Degree
4 2 (1.83%) A+ Certification
5 1 (0.92%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.92%) CREST Certified
5 1 (0.92%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.92%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.92%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.92%) PMP
5 1 (0.92%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.67%) Accessibility
1 4 (3.67%) QA
2 2 (1.83%) SLA
2 2 (1.83%) WCAG
3 1 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (9.17%) Docker
2 2 (1.83%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.92%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (17.43%) Terraform
2 13 (11.93%) Kubernetes
3 9 (8.26%) Ansible
4 4 (3.67%) Puppet
5 1 (0.92%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (0.92%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (7.34%) SAP
2 7 (6.42%) Google
3 5 (4.59%) Oracle
3 5 (4.59%) Red Hat
4 4 (3.67%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.67%) SaltStack
5 3 (2.75%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.83%) CheckPoint
6 2 (1.83%) Cisco
6 2 (1.83%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.83%) Spotify
6 2 (1.83%) VMware
7 1 (0.92%) Adobe
7 1 (0.92%) Dell
7 1 (0.92%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.92%) Splunk
7 1 (0.92%) Veeam