SC Cleared Jobs in the North East

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 87 63
Rank change year-on-year +28 -24 +15
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 8 27 50
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 0.90% 1.36% 3.96%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.92% 7.16% 11.82%
Number of salaries quoted 8 21 32
10th Percentile £51,250 £33,750 -
25th Percentile £62,132 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,384 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.15% +15.79% +54.47%
75th Percentile £77,388 £62,200 £60,537
90th Percentile £86,993 £67,500 £71,090
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £62,450
% change year-on-year +9.09% -11.93% +13.55%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North East

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 the North East.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 274 377 423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 30.89% 19.03% 33.47%
Number of salaries quoted 111 299 163
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,500 £34,600
25th Percentile £40,500 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +32.94% -10.53% +18.75%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £60,800
90th Percentile £82,500 £73,250 £70,600
England median annual salary £54,897 £54,399 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% -9.34% +9.09%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the North East

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Salary Trend in the North East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in the North East.

Salary trend for SC Cleared in the North East

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in the North East over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in the North East

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Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the North East region over the 6 months to 30 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
Durham +12 5 £69,384 +18.00% 6
Tyne and Wear +33 3 £60,000 +71.43% 79
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon ECR
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (37.50%) AWS CodeBuild
2 3 (37.50%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (37.50%) dbt
2 3 (37.50%) GCP
2 3 (37.50%) Pulumi
2 3 (37.50%) Sentry
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) TCP/IP
2 2 (25.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (37.50%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (37.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 5 (62.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Legal
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Site Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Security Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Security Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Principal Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Principal Security Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Microsoft Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Django
2 1 (12.50%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
1 4 (50.00%) Unix
2 1 (12.50%) AIX
2 1 (12.50%) Solaris
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Application Performance Monitoring
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) Clean Code
2 3 (37.50%) Continuous Delivery
2 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (37.50%) Observability
2 3 (37.50%) Open Source
2 3 (37.50%) Performance Monitoring
2 3 (37.50%) Prototyping
2 3 (37.50%) Service-Level Objective
2 3 (37.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (25.00%) Information Assurance
3 2 (25.00%) Information Security Management
3 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (25.00%) SABSA
3 2 (25.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (25.00%) NCSC
1 2 (25.00%) NIST
2 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) AWS Copilot
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft