Security Cleared Job Trends in the North East

Security Clearance
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 54 80
Rank change year-on-year +9 +26 -30
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 75 13 43
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 3.13% 1.93% 1.96%
As % of the Qualifications category 16.59% 4.66% 10.36%
Number of salaries quoted 55 11 27
10th Percentile £45,500 £55,000 £28,850
25th Percentile £46,750 £64,509 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £69,384 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.13% +20.67% +21.05%
75th Percentile £60,000 £80,517 £65,625
90th Percentile £79,000 £87,500 £79,225
England median annual salary £67,500 £61,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.76% +6.96% -4.17%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North East

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 the North East.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 452 279 415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 18.84% 41.33% 18.90%
Number of salaries quoted 205 116 299
10th Percentile £29,250 £31,375 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,038 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £55,000 £43,072
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +27.69% -9.65%
75th Percentile £65,640 £67,688 £61,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,875 £73,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +0.92% -9.17%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Security Cleared job vacancy trend in the North East

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in the North East

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

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

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the North East over the 6 months to 15 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in the North East

Security 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 Security Cleared within the North East region over the 6 months to 15 June 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 +11 74 £57,500 -19.30% 39
Durham -16 1 - - 4
Security Cleared
England

Security 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 11 (14.67%) Apache Airflow
1 11 (14.67%) Apache Spark
2 10 (13.33%) Apache
2 10 (13.33%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.33%) Confluence
3 1 (1.33%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 27 (36.00%) AWS
2 10 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 10 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
2 10 (13.33%) Amazon EMR
2 10 (13.33%) Amazon S3
3 9 (12.00%) Amazon ECR
4 5 (6.67%) Azure
4 5 (6.67%) Textract
5 3 (4.00%) GCP
6 2 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.67%) dbt
6 2 (2.67%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.67%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.33%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (1.33%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.33%) AWS CodeBuild
7 1 (1.33%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (1.33%) Pulumi
7 1 (1.33%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.33%) Broadband
1 1 (1.33%) DSLAM
1 1 (1.33%) Network Security
1 1 (1.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.67%) Amazon Athena
2 8 (10.67%) Big Data
2 8 (10.67%) DynamoDB
3 3 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.67%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.67%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.67%) Power BI
4 2 (2.67%) Tableau
5 1 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.33%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.33%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.33%) Looker
5 1 (1.33%) Metadata
5 1 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.33%) Redis
5 1 (1.33%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 12 (16.00%) GitLab
2 3 (4.00%) JIRA
3 2 (2.67%) Postman
3 2 (2.67%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.33%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (28.00%) Public Sector
2 12 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 11 (14.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (6.67%) Legal
5 4 (5.33%) Finance
6 1 (1.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (28.00%) Developer
2 16 (21.33%) Java Developer
3 14 (18.67%) Senior
4 12 (16.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (13.33%) Analyst
6 9 (12.00%) AWS DevOps
6 9 (12.00%) Senior Developer
6 9 (12.00%) Senior Java Developer
7 8 (10.67%) Business Analyst
7 8 (10.67%) Test Engineer
8 7 (9.33%) Lead
9 6 (8.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 6 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (6.67%) Consultant
10 5 (6.67%) Data Engineer
10 5 (6.67%) Software Developer
11 4 (5.33%) Architect
11 4 (5.33%) Network Architect
12 3 (4.00%) Lead Test Engineer
13 2 (2.67%) Lead Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.33%) PySpark
2 3 (4.00%) Spring
2 3 (4.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (2.67%) Playwright
3 2 (2.67%) Spring MVC
4 1 (1.33%) Django
4 1 (1.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.33%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.33%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.33%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.33%) Linux
1 1 (1.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (38.67%) Agile
2 24 (32.00%) DevOps
3 17 (22.67%) Validation
4 16 (21.33%) Data Pipeline
5 15 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 15 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 14 (18.67%) Test Automation
7 13 (17.33%) Data Engineering
8 12 (16.00%) Coaching
8 12 (16.00%) Data Modelling
8 12 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (14.67%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (14.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 10 (13.33%) Containerisation
11 9 (12.00%) User Stories
12 8 (10.67%) Analytics
12 8 (10.67%) Customer Requirements
12 8 (10.67%) Cybersecurity
12 8 (10.67%) Technical Leadership
13 6 (8.00%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 25 (33.33%) Java
2 16 (21.33%) Python
2 16 (21.33%) SQL
3 5 (6.67%) Bash
4 4 (5.33%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 55 (73.33%) SC Cleared
2 10 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.67%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.33%) CISSP
4 1 (1.33%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.33%) Degree
4 1 (1.33%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (17.33%) Data Quality
2 7 (9.33%) QA
3 2 (2.67%) GDPR
4 1 (1.33%) GRC
4 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.33%) NIST
4 1 (1.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (18.67%) Terraform
2 1 (1.33%) AWS Copilot
2 1 (1.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (2.67%) Databricks
1 2 (2.67%) Google
2 1 (1.33%) Alteryx
2 1 (1.33%) BT
2 1 (1.33%) Cloudera
2 1 (1.33%) Dataiku
2 1 (1.33%) Splunk