Security Cleared Jobs 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 78 45
Rank change year-on-year +22 -33 +16
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 12 40 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 1.30% 2.01% 5.47%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.38% 10.61% 16.11%
Number of salaries quoted 10 26 45
10th Percentile £53,750 £27,625 £39,750
25th Percentile £64,509 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,384 £56,250 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.35% +25.00% -2.17%
75th Percentile £74,258 £63,363 £54,242
90th Percentile £86,849 £78,363 £70,610
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +9.09%

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 274 377 422
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 29.72% 18.93% 33.95%
Number of salaries quoted 111 298 162
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,500 £34,550
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 £55,000 £54,399 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.11% -9.34% +9.09%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the North East

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Salary Trend in the North East

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

Salary trend for Security Cleared in the North East

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Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the North East over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Security 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 Security Cleared within the North East region over the 6 months to 31 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
Tyne and Wear +30 6 £70,000 +100.00% 38
Durham +5 5 £69,384 +18.00% 10
Northumberland - 1 - -
Security Cleared
England

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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 (33.33%) AWS
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon ECR
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 3 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (25.00%) AWS CodeBuild
2 3 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (25.00%) dbt
2 3 (25.00%) GCP
2 3 (25.00%) Pulumi
2 3 (25.00%) Sentry
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (16.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (25.00%) Redis
2 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 7 (58.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Finance
4 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Law
5 1 (8.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Senior
2 3 (25.00%) Site Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Governance Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Risk Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Security Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Business Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Security Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Node.js Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Principal Security Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Dynamics 365 Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Unix Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) Django
2 1 (8.33%) .NET
2 1 (8.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (16.67%) Operational Technology
3 1 (8.33%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
1 4 (33.33%) Unix
2 1 (8.33%) AIX
2 1 (8.33%) Solaris
2 1 (8.33%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Risk Management
2 4 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (33.33%) DevOps
2 4 (33.33%) Information Security
3 3 (25.00%) Agile
3 3 (25.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
3 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (25.00%) Clean Code
3 3 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (25.00%) Observability
3 3 (25.00%) Open Source
3 3 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 3 (25.00%) Prototyping
3 3 (25.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 3 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (16.67%) Information Assurance
4 2 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (16.67%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) CISA
2 2 (16.67%) CISSP
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (16.67%) GDPR
2 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (16.67%) NCSC
2 2 (16.67%) NIST
3 1 (8.33%) GRC
3 1 (8.33%) PMBOK
3 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) AWS Copilot
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft