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 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 29 31
Rank change year-on-year -16 +2 +28
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 105 173 183
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 3.60% 6.49% 7.23%
As % of the Qualifications category 10.71% 18.58% 31.12%
Number of salaries quoted 97 90 126
10th Percentile £47,000 £46,416 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £78,790 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,625 £82,500
North West median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,291
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.73% +4.16%

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 980 931 588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 33.60% 34.91% 23.24%
Number of salaries quoted 341 388 408
10th Percentile £24,500 £30,000 £37,431
25th Percentile £29,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £68,666 £68,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,375 £82,500
North West median annual salary £48,979 £50,055 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.15% -4.66% -4.55%

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 14 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 14 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 -6 4 £73,801 +16.62% 2
Stockport +7 3 £32,500 - 4
Bolton +13 1 £52,500 - 24
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 4 (3.81%) Apache
2 3 (2.86%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.95%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.95%) InVision
1 1 (0.95%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.95%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.95%) SAP CO
1 1 (0.95%) SAP FI
1 1 (0.95%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 32 (30.48%) Azure
2 31 (29.52%) AWS
3 8 (7.62%) GCP
4 7 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (5.71%) Serverless
6 4 (3.81%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (3.81%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (3.81%) GitHub
6 4 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (3.81%) SaaS
7 3 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (2.86%) dbt
7 3 (2.86%) OpenShift
7 3 (2.86%) PaaS
7 3 (2.86%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.90%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (1.90%) Anthropic Claude
8 2 (1.90%) OCI
8 2 (1.90%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.81%) Firewall
2 3 (2.86%) AMQP
3 2 (1.90%) BGP
3 2 (1.90%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (1.90%) Cisco Firepower
3 2 (1.90%) EIGRP
3 2 (1.90%) HSRP
3 2 (1.90%) IPsec
3 2 (1.90%) OSPF
3 2 (1.90%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.90%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.95%) HTTP
4 1 (0.95%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.71%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (3.81%) Big Data
2 4 (3.81%) Hadoop
2 4 (3.81%) Neo4j
2 4 (3.81%) NoSQL
2 4 (3.81%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.86%) Cloudera CDH
3 3 (2.86%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.90%) Redis
5 1 (0.95%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.95%) Power BI
5 1 (0.95%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (0.95%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.95%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.95%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (3.81%) GitLab
1 4 (3.81%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.90%) JMeter
3 1 (0.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.95%) Axure RP
3 1 (0.95%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.95%) Gatling
3 1 (0.95%) Git
3 1 (0.95%) JIRA
3 1 (0.95%) LoadRunner
3 1 (0.95%) Locust
3 1 (0.95%) NUnit
General
1 16 (15.24%) Finance
1 16 (15.24%) Social Skills
2 14 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 13 (12.38%) Manufacturing
4 8 (7.62%) Electronics
4 8 (7.62%) Law
4 8 (7.62%) Marketing
4 8 (7.62%) Telecoms
5 3 (2.86%) Aerospace
5 3 (2.86%) Military
5 3 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (2.86%) Retail
6 2 (1.90%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.90%) Fire and Rescue
6 2 (1.90%) Police
7 1 (0.95%) Advertising
7 1 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.95%) Legal
7 1 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (13.33%) Consultant
1 14 (13.33%) Software Engineer
2 11 (10.48%) Analyst
3 10 (9.52%) Business Analyst
4 9 (8.57%) Cloud Engineer
5 8 (7.62%) Developer
5 8 (7.62%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 8 (7.62%) Lead
5 8 (7.62%) Senior
6 6 (5.71%) Architect
6 6 (5.71%) Test Engineer
7 5 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (4.76%) Manufacturing Engineer
8 4 (3.81%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (3.81%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (3.81%) Power Platform Consultant
8 4 (3.81%) Technical Consultant
9 3 (2.86%) Security Analyst
9 3 (2.86%) Senior Consultant
9 3 (2.86%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.38%) React
2 11 (10.48%) AngularJS
3 8 (7.62%) Node.js
4 6 (5.71%) Spring
4 6 (5.71%) Spring Boot
5 5 (4.76%) REST
6 4 (3.81%) Vue
7 3 (2.86%) CSS
7 3 (2.86%) Django
7 3 (2.86%) gRPC
7 3 (2.86%) HTML
7 3 (2.86%) Material-UI
7 3 (2.86%) MERN Stack
7 3 (2.86%) OLE
7 3 (2.86%) OpenAPI
7 3 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (2.86%) Swagger
8 2 (1.90%) CSS3
8 2 (1.90%) HTML5
8 2 (1.90%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.76%) Driving Licence
3 4 (3.81%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.86%) Digital Signage
4 3 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.86%) Home Automation
4 3 (2.86%) Smart Home
5 2 (1.90%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.90%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.95%) Cyberattack
6 1 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.95%) IoT
6 1 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.95%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.95%) Smart Energy
6 1 (0.95%) Smart Meter
6 1 (0.95%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.57%) Linux
1 9 (8.57%) Windows
2 8 (7.62%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.86%) CentOS
4 3 (2.86%) Debian
4 3 (2.86%) Ubuntu
4 3 (2.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (30.48%) Agile
2 21 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 17 (16.19%) DevOps
4 14 (13.33%) CI/CD
4 14 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (10.48%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (9.52%) Containerisation
6 10 (9.52%) Scrum
7 9 (8.57%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (7.62%) Digital Marketing
8 8 (7.62%) Full-Stack Development
8 8 (7.62%) Programme Management
9 7 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (6.67%) Kanban
9 7 (6.67%) Mentoring
9 7 (6.67%) Open Source
10 6 (5.71%) Microservices
10 6 (5.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 6 (5.71%) Workshop Facilitation
11 5 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (17.14%) Python
2 16 (15.24%) Java
3 13 (12.38%) JavaScript
4 7 (6.67%) SQL
4 7 (6.67%) TypeScript
5 3 (2.86%) C
6 2 (1.90%) Bash
6 2 (1.90%) C#
6 2 (1.90%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.95%) Bicep
7 1 (0.95%) Groovy
7 1 (0.95%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 58 (55.24%) SC Cleared
2 32 (30.48%) DV Cleared
3 3 (2.86%) CCA
4 2 (1.90%) A+ Certification
4 2 (1.90%) Degree
5 1 (0.95%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.95%) CREST Certified
5 1 (0.95%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.95%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.81%) Accessibility
1 4 (3.81%) QA
2 2 (1.90%) SLA
2 2 (1.90%) WCAG
3 1 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (9.52%) Docker
2 2 (1.90%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.95%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (17.14%) Terraform
2 12 (11.43%) Kubernetes
3 8 (7.62%) Ansible
4 3 (2.86%) Puppet
5 1 (0.95%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (0.95%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (8.57%) SAP
2 6 (5.71%) Google
3 5 (4.76%) Oracle
4 4 (3.81%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.81%) Red Hat
5 3 (2.86%) SaltStack
6 2 (1.90%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.90%) CheckPoint
6 2 (1.90%) Cisco
6 2 (1.90%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.90%) Spotify
6 2 (1.90%) VMware
7 1 (0.95%) Adobe
7 1 (0.95%) Dell
7 1 (0.95%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.95%) Splunk
7 1 (0.95%) Veeam