SC Cleared Job Trends in the North of England

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 28 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 158 130
Rank change year-on-year +96 -28 -19
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 443 146 363
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.18% 1.67% 1.89%
As % of the Qualifications category 13.35% 3.81% 9.49%
Number of salaries quoted 374 117 282
10th Percentile £41,598 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,799 £46,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £56,509
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -2.67% -11.01%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,258 £67,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £79,563
England median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% +9.09% -12.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,318 3,831 3,824
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.32% 43.69% 19.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,662 1,222 2,598
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,482 £26,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £33,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £47,547
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.16% -13.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £74,258 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -10.00%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

SC Cleared job vacancy trend in the North of England

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SC Cleared

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in the North of England over the 6 months to 28 June 2026.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in the North of England

SC Cleared
Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 28 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
North West +113 246 £67,500 +9.76% 99
Yorkshire +14 126 £62,500 +31.58% 45
North East +11 71 £57,500 -17.13% 32
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 15 (3.39%) Apache
1 15 (3.39%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (2.48%) Jupyter
3 9 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.13%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.45%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.23%) JBoss
Applications
1 25 (5.64%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 111 (25.06%) AWS
2 74 (16.70%) Azure
3 27 (6.09%) Amazon S3
3 27 (6.09%) AWS CloudFormation
4 26 (5.87%) GitHub
5 21 (4.74%) Serverless
6 18 (4.06%) Amazon EC2
6 18 (4.06%) Amazon ECR
7 17 (3.84%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
8 16 (3.61%) Power Platform
9 15 (3.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 15 (3.39%) Amazon EMR
10 14 (3.16%) Amazon ECS
10 14 (3.16%) Dynamics 365
11 13 (2.93%) SaaS
12 12 (2.71%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (2.03%) AWS Step Functions
13 9 (2.03%) Azure Sentinel
13 9 (2.03%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.84%) DNS
2 16 (3.61%) Network Security
3 14 (3.16%) DHCP
3 14 (3.16%) TCP/IP
4 11 (2.48%) Firewall
5 10 (2.26%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (1.81%) Cisco Firepower
6 8 (1.81%) SAN
7 7 (1.58%) VLAN
8 6 (1.35%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (1.35%) LAN
8 6 (1.35%) Structured Cabling
8 6 (1.35%) WAN
9 5 (1.13%) VPN
10 4 (0.90%) Cisco Nexus
10 4 (0.90%) SMTP
11 3 (0.68%) AMQP
11 3 (0.68%) Broadband
11 3 (0.68%) DSLAM
11 3 (0.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.51%) DynamoDB
2 15 (3.39%) Amazon Athena
3 14 (3.16%) Big Data
4 12 (2.71%) Power BI
5 10 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (1.58%) Data Lake
7 6 (1.35%) NoSQL
8 5 (1.13%) Hadoop
8 5 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.90%) BigQuery
9 4 (0.90%) Looker
9 4 (0.90%) Metadata
9 4 (0.90%) Power Query
9 4 (0.90%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.90%) Tableau
10 3 (0.68%) Cloudera CDH
10 3 (0.68%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.68%) OLAP
10 3 (0.68%) PowerPivot
10 3 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 36 (8.13%) GitLab
2 27 (6.09%) Jenkins
3 15 (3.39%) Git
4 9 (2.03%) SonarQube
5 8 (1.81%) Cypress.io
5 8 (1.81%) JIRA
5 8 (1.81%) Maven
6 5 (1.13%) Claude Code
7 4 (0.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (0.68%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.45%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.45%) Postman
9 2 (0.45%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.45%) Vite
10 1 (0.23%) Selenium
General
1 67 (15.12%) Social Skills
2 61 (13.77%) Public Sector
3 35 (7.90%) Finance
3 35 (7.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 32 (7.22%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (3.61%) Telecoms
6 11 (2.48%) Legal
7 9 (2.03%) Law
8 8 (1.81%) Retail
9 7 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.35%) Police
11 5 (1.13%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.90%) Marketing
13 3 (0.68%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.23%) Banking
15 1 (0.23%) Military
Job Titles
1 81 (18.28%) Senior
2 68 (15.35%) Developer
3 54 (12.19%) Cloud Engineer
4 43 (9.71%) Consultant
5 38 (8.58%) Software Engineer
6 35 (7.90%) DevOps Engineer
7 34 (7.67%) Java Developer
8 29 (6.55%) Architect
9 26 (5.87%) Lead
10 25 (5.64%) Network Engineer
11 22 (4.97%) Analyst
11 22 (4.97%) Senior Developer
12 18 (4.06%) AWS DevOps
13 17 (3.84%) Data Engineer
14 16 (3.61%) AWS Engineer
14 16 (3.61%) IT Support
14 16 (3.61%) Security Consultant
15 14 (3.16%) Business Consultant
15 14 (3.16%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
15 14 (3.16%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.29%) Spring Boot
2 18 (4.06%) AngularJS
3 14 (3.16%) REST
4 13 (2.93%) PySpark
5 12 (2.71%) Spring
6 11 (2.48%) React
7 10 (2.26%) Node.js
8 9 (2.03%) .NET
9 8 (1.81%) HTML
9 8 (1.81%) Jest
10 7 (1.58%) CSS
10 7 (1.58%) Gherkin
10 7 (1.58%) RabbitMQ
10 7 (1.58%) Web Services
11 6 (1.35%) Regular Expression
11 6 (1.35%) YAML
12 5 (1.13%) Elastic Stack
12 5 (1.13%) Kafka
12 5 (1.13%) Vue
13 4 (0.90%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.09%) Cloud Native
2 23 (5.19%) Driving Licence
3 21 (4.74%) Onboarding
4 17 (3.84%) Data Centre
5 11 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (2.26%) Security Operations Centre
7 9 (2.03%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.81%) Enterprise Storage
9 7 (1.58%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.35%) Cyberattack
10 6 (1.35%) Low-Code
10 6 (1.35%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.13%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.13%) Fibre Optics
12 4 (0.90%) Clustering
12 4 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
13 3 (0.68%) CCTV
13 3 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
14 2 (0.45%) Distributed Architecture
14 2 (0.45%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 35 (7.90%) Windows
2 20 (4.51%) Windows Server
3 18 (4.06%) Linux
4 11 (2.48%) Windows 10
5 8 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.58%) CentOS
7 3 (0.68%) Debian
7 3 (0.68%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.68%) Unix
8 2 (0.45%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.23%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (23.48%) Agile
2 93 (20.99%) DevOps
3 66 (14.90%) CI/CD
4 57 (12.87%) Continuous Improvement
5 55 (12.42%) Problem-Solving
6 54 (12.19%) Software Engineering
7 50 (11.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 49 (11.06%) Mentoring
9 39 (8.80%) Platform Engineering
10 32 (7.22%) Stakeholder Management
11 31 (7.00%) Cybersecurity
12 29 (6.55%) Containerisation
12 29 (6.55%) Technical Leadership
13 28 (6.32%) Analytics
14 27 (6.09%) Coaching
14 27 (6.09%) Data Modelling
15 26 (5.87%) ITIL
16 25 (5.64%) AI
16 25 (5.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 25 (5.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 73 (16.48%) Python
2 62 (14.00%) Java
3 47 (10.61%) SQL
4 18 (4.06%) JavaScript
4 18 (4.06%) PowerShell
5 17 (3.84%) Bash
6 16 (3.61%) Groovy
7 13 (2.93%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.35%) C++
8 6 (1.35%) Scala
9 4 (0.90%) VBScript
10 3 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.68%) R
11 2 (0.45%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.45%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.23%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 443 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 71 (16.03%) DV Cleared
3 20 (4.51%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (2.93%) AWS Certification
4 13 (2.93%) Degree
4 13 (2.93%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (1.58%) Azure Certification
5 7 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (1.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 6 (1.35%) CCNP
6 6 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (1.13%) CCNA
8 4 (0.90%) CISSP
8 4 (0.90%) MCSA
8 4 (0.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (0.68%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.45%) CIPD
10 2 (0.45%) CompTIA CySA+
10 2 (0.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.64%) Data Quality
2 18 (4.06%) QA
3 9 (2.03%) SLA
4 7 (1.58%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.58%) GDPR
5 5 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.13%) NIST
6 3 (0.68%) PMO
7 2 (0.45%) GRC
7 2 (0.45%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 2 (0.45%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.23%) AQAP
8 1 (0.23%) IEC 61508
8 1 (0.23%) JSP 440
System Software
1 39 (8.80%) Docker
2 31 (7.00%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.35%) BitLocker
5 4 (0.90%) Firmware
6 3 (0.68%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.68%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 61 (13.77%) Terraform
2 36 (8.13%) Kubernetes
3 24 (5.42%) Ansible
4 11 (2.48%) SCCM
5 7 (1.58%) HP Fortify
6 5 (1.13%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (0.68%) Argo
8 3 (0.68%) Grafana
8 3 (0.68%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.68%) Puppet
9 2 (0.45%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (0.45%) Kibana
9 2 (0.45%) Packer
9 2 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.23%) Podman
Vendors
1 60 (13.54%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.42%) VMware
3 20 (4.51%) ServiceNow
4 13 (2.93%) Cisco
5 12 (2.71%) Citrix
6 10 (2.26%) Databricks
7 9 (2.03%) Google
8 6 (1.35%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.13%) Aruba
10 4 (0.90%) AppDynamics
10 4 (0.90%) CyberArk
10 4 (0.90%) HP
10 4 (0.90%) IBM
10 4 (0.90%) Juniper
10 4 (0.90%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.90%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.68%) CheckPoint
11 3 (0.68%) Oracle
11 3 (0.68%) Remedy
11 3 (0.68%) SAP