SC Cleared Job Trends 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 5 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 64 61
Rank change year-on-year +33 -3 -34
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 174 13 32
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 4.93% 1.32% 2.33%
As % of the Qualifications category 28.67% 3.55% 13.45%
Number of salaries quoted 153 13 23
10th Percentile £46,500 £52,500 £44,738
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +13.46%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,258 £73,068
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,221 £79,525
England median annual salary £70,000 £58,000 £58,800
% change year-on-year +20.69% -1.36% -2.00%

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 607 366 238
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 17.20% 37.27% 17.30%
Number of salaries quoted 388 127 117
10th Percentile £33,977 £28,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £44,862 £31,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £48,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.79% +6.67% -21.45%
75th Percentile £77,500 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £73,203 £89,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -2.54%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SC Cleared relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North East.

SC Cleared job vacancy trend in the North East

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing SC Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing SC Cleared

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in the North East over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in the North East

SC Cleared
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 5 October 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
Tyne and Wear +28 167 £60,000 -7.69% 138
Durham -9 7 £74,654 +20.04% 5
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 19 (10.92%) Apache Spark
2 18 (10.34%) Apache
2 18 (10.34%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (10.34%) Jupyter
3 3 (1.72%) nginx
3 3 (1.72%) WebLogic
4 2 (1.15%) Confluence
4 2 (1.15%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.57%) CMS
5 1 (0.57%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.15%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 70 (40.23%) AWS
2 35 (20.11%) Amazon S3
3 21 (12.07%) Amazon ECR
4 20 (11.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 19 (10.92%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (8.62%) Amazon EMR
7 12 (6.90%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (6.32%) AWS KMS
8 11 (6.32%) Azure
9 10 (5.75%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (5.75%) GitHub
9 10 (5.75%) Serverless
10 9 (5.17%) GCP
10 9 (5.17%) Textract
11 8 (4.60%) Amazon SQS
11 8 (4.60%) Kong
12 7 (4.02%) Google Analytics
12 7 (4.02%) Google Tag Manager
13 5 (2.87%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (2.87%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.72%) Network Security
1 3 (1.72%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (1.15%) WAN
2 2 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.62%) Amazon Athena
2 13 (7.47%) DynamoDB
3 9 (5.17%) Big Data
4 8 (4.60%) BigQuery
4 8 (4.60%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (4.60%) MongoDB
5 7 (4.02%) Data Lake
5 7 (4.02%) Looker
6 5 (2.87%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (2.87%) DocumentDB
6 5 (2.87%) Metadata
7 2 (1.15%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.57%) Flink
8 1 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 45 (25.86%) GitLab
2 15 (8.62%) Git
3 10 (5.75%) Jenkins
4 7 (4.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (2.30%) JIRA
6 3 (1.72%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.72%) Gatling
7 2 (1.15%) Balsamiq
7 2 (1.15%) JUnit
7 2 (1.15%) Mockito
7 2 (1.15%) SonarQube
General
1 75 (43.10%) Public Sector
2 68 (39.08%) Social Skills
3 44 (25.29%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (20.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (6.32%) Finance
6 5 (2.87%) Legal
7 2 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.57%) Banking
8 1 (0.57%) Publishing
8 1 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 46 (26.44%) Developer
2 33 (18.97%) Senior
3 22 (12.64%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (12.07%) Data Engineer
5 20 (11.49%) Analyst
6 19 (10.92%) Software Developer
7 17 (9.77%) Java Developer
7 17 (9.77%) Lead
8 10 (5.75%) Senior Developer
9 9 (5.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 9 (5.17%) Senior Java Developer
10 8 (4.60%) AWS DevOps
11 7 (4.02%) Architect
11 7 (4.02%) Principal DevOps Engineer
11 7 (4.02%) Principal Engineer
11 7 (4.02%) Software Engineer
12 6 (3.45%) Business Analyst
12 6 (3.45%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
12 6 (3.45%) Senior Analyst
12 6 (3.45%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (25.86%) Terraform
2 30 (17.24%) CSS
2 30 (17.24%) HTML
3 26 (14.94%) Node.js
4 15 (8.62%) PySpark
5 14 (8.05%) Kafka
6 8 (4.60%) REST
7 7 (4.02%) AngularJS
7 7 (4.02%) Spring
7 7 (4.02%) Spring Boot
8 5 (2.87%) Express.js
8 5 (2.87%) Jest
8 5 (2.87%) MEAN Stack
8 5 (2.87%) Nunjucks
8 5 (2.87%) RESTful
9 3 (1.72%) Gherkin
10 2 (1.15%) Oracle Fusion
10 2 (1.15%) Quarkus
11 1 (0.57%) HTML5
11 1 (0.57%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.64%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.75%) Data Structures
3 9 (5.17%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.02%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.15%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.57%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.57%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.17%) Linux
2 7 (4.02%) CentOS
2 7 (4.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.15%) Unix
4 1 (0.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (58.05%) Agile
2 79 (45.40%) CI/CD
3 76 (43.68%) DevOps
4 59 (33.91%) Technical Leadership
5 56 (32.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 54 (31.03%) Test Automation
7 49 (28.16%) Mentoring
7 49 (28.16%) SFIA
8 45 (25.86%) Problem-Solving
9 39 (22.41%) Infrastructure as Code
10 35 (20.11%) Data Engineering
11 32 (18.39%) Data Pipeline
12 31 (17.82%) Data Modelling
13 29 (16.67%) Validation
14 27 (15.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 27 (15.52%) Stakeholder Management
15 24 (13.79%) Analytics
15 24 (13.79%) Sprint Planning
16 23 (13.22%) Coaching
17 22 (12.64%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 38 (21.84%) Python
2 36 (20.69%) JavaScript
3 32 (18.39%) SQL
4 31 (17.82%) Java
5 15 (8.62%) TypeScript
6 9 (5.17%) Bash
7 5 (2.87%) Scala
8 2 (1.15%) R
9 1 (0.57%) PHP
Qualifications
1 174 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 28 (16.09%) BPSS Clearance
3 16 (9.20%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.30%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.15%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.15%) Degree
6 1 (0.57%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (19.54%) QA
2 27 (15.52%) Data Quality
3 10 (5.75%) Accessibility
4 8 (4.60%) GDPR
5 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.57%) NIST
5 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (20.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (12.07%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.32%) Ansible
3 3 (1.72%) Grafana
3 3 (1.72%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.15%) Argo
5 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (4.60%) Google
2 6 (3.45%) YouTube
3 5 (2.87%) Confluent
3 5 (2.87%) Databricks
3 5 (2.87%) Dynatrace
3 5 (2.87%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.87%) Oracle
4 4 (2.30%) BMC
5 2 (1.15%) Peregrine
5 2 (1.15%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.15%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.57%) Actian
6 1 (0.57%) Pega