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 14 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 162 85
Rank change year-on-year +115 -77 -5
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 639 154 331
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.72% 1.64% 2.35%
As % of the Qualifications category 19.53% 4.34% 9.93%
Number of salaries quoted 485 125 220
10th Percentile £45,000 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,805 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.34% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,312 £78,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £79,225
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% +2.56% -2.50%

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 3,272 3,551 3,333
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 13.94% 37.82% 23.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,776 1,055 1,403
10th Percentile £31,000 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £33,250 £37,127
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,683 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.35% -4.63% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,754 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £74,155 £79,525
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,881
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.58% -4.48%

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 14 September 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 14 September 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 +123 367 £70,000 +7.69% 300
Yorkshire +23 141 £66,805 +40.64% 120
North East +29 131 £60,000 +4.35% 99
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 25 (3.91%) Apache Spark
2 20 (3.13%) Apache
3 17 (2.66%) SharePoint
4 15 (2.35%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (2.35%) Jupyter
4 15 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.63%) Confluence
5 4 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.47%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.16%) CMS
7 1 (0.16%) JBoss
7 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.31%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
1 4 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.16%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
2 1 (0.16%) SAP PSCD
2 1 (0.16%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 157 (24.57%) AWS
2 96 (15.02%) Azure
3 43 (6.73%) GitHub
4 39 (6.10%) Amazon S3
5 35 (5.48%) AWS CloudFormation
5 35 (5.48%) Serverless
6 28 (4.38%) AWS Lambda
7 27 (4.23%) Amazon EC2
8 26 (4.07%) Power Platform
9 22 (3.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 21 (3.29%) Amazon ECR
11 20 (3.13%) Amazon EMR
11 20 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
12 18 (2.82%) GCP
13 14 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (2.03%) Amazon EKS
15 12 (1.88%) Amazon ECS
15 12 (1.88%) SaaS
16 11 (1.72%) Power Automate
16 11 (1.72%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.35%) Network Security
2 12 (1.88%) DNS
2 12 (1.88%) Firewall
3 10 (1.56%) SAN
4 8 (1.25%) Internet
4 8 (1.25%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.94%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (0.94%) Cisco Firepower
5 6 (0.94%) VPN
6 5 (0.78%) DHCP
6 5 (0.78%) SSL
7 4 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (0.63%) Skype
7 4 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.47%) AMQP
8 3 (0.47%) Structured Cabling
9 2 (0.31%) CTI
9 2 (0.31%) NX-OS
9 2 (0.31%) VLAN
9 2 (0.31%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (2.97%) DynamoDB
2 18 (2.82%) Big Data
3 17 (2.66%) Amazon Athena
3 17 (2.66%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (2.03%) Data Lake
4 13 (2.03%) Power BI
5 10 (1.56%) BigQuery
6 9 (1.41%) Looker
7 8 (1.25%) Hadoop
7 8 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (1.10%) MongoDB
9 6 (0.94%) Metadata
10 5 (0.78%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.78%) Tableau
11 4 (0.63%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.47%) Cloudera CDH
12 3 (0.47%) OLAP
12 3 (0.47%) PowerPivot
12 3 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 57 (8.92%) GitLab
2 42 (6.57%) Jenkins
3 35 (5.48%) Git
4 16 (2.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 15 (2.35%) JIRA
6 8 (1.25%) Cypress.io
7 7 (1.10%) SonarQube
8 6 (0.94%) Maven
9 4 (0.63%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.47%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.31%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.31%) Balsamiq
11 2 (0.31%) Postman
11 2 (0.31%) Rational DOORS
11 2 (0.31%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.31%) Selenium
11 2 (0.31%) Vite
12 1 (0.16%) Mocha
General
1 119 (18.62%) Social Skills
2 111 (17.37%) Public Sector
3 60 (9.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 56 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (8.76%) Finance
5 25 (3.91%) Retail
6 22 (3.44%) Legal
7 20 (3.13%) Aerospace
7 20 (3.13%) Law
8 12 (1.88%) Manufacturing
8 12 (1.88%) Police
9 9 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.10%) Local Government
10 7 (1.10%) Marketing
11 5 (0.78%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.47%) Automotive
13 3 (0.47%) Military
13 3 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.16%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 114 (17.84%) Senior
2 85 (13.30%) Developer
3 67 (10.49%) Cloud Engineer
4 60 (9.39%) Software Engineer
5 57 (8.92%) DevOps Engineer
6 47 (7.36%) Consultant
7 40 (6.26%) Architect
8 39 (6.10%) Analyst
9 38 (5.95%) Lead
10 37 (5.79%) Data Engineer
11 34 (5.32%) Java Developer
12 29 (4.54%) Systems Engineer
13 27 (4.23%) Principal Engineer
14 24 (3.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 24 (3.76%) Network Engineer
14 24 (3.76%) Senior Developer
15 23 (3.60%) Cloud Native Engineer
15 23 (3.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 17 (2.66%) AWS DevOps
17 16 (2.50%) Principal DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (15.34%) Terraform
2 29 (4.54%) CSS
3 27 (4.23%) HTML
4 25 (3.91%) Node.js
5 23 (3.60%) PySpark
6 20 (3.13%) React
7 19 (2.97%) REST
8 18 (2.82%) AngularJS
8 18 (2.82%) Spring Boot
9 16 (2.50%) .NET
10 13 (2.03%) Kafka
10 13 (2.03%) Spring
11 11 (1.72%) Jest
11 11 (1.72%) Web Services
12 9 (1.41%) JSON
13 8 (1.25%) OpenAPI
14 7 (1.10%) RabbitMQ
15 6 (0.94%) Regular Expression
15 6 (0.94%) RESTful
16 5 (0.78%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 61 (9.55%) Cloud Native
2 23 (3.60%) Driving Licence
3 16 (2.50%) Management Information System
3 16 (2.50%) Onboarding
4 13 (2.03%) Data Centre
4 13 (2.03%) Data Structures
4 13 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (1.72%) Product Ownership
6 10 (1.56%) Enterprise Storage
6 10 (1.56%) Security Posture
7 9 (1.41%) Clustering
7 9 (1.41%) CMDB
8 8 (1.25%) AI Agents
9 7 (1.10%) Blog
9 7 (1.10%) Cyberattack
9 7 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (0.94%) Low-Code
10 6 (0.94%) Security Operations Centre
11 5 (0.78%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 45 (7.04%) Linux
2 38 (5.95%) Windows
3 22 (3.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (2.97%) CentOS
5 13 (2.03%) Windows 10
6 12 (1.88%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.94%) Unix
8 3 (0.47%) Debian
8 3 (0.47%) Solaris
8 3 (0.47%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.47%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.31%) VMS
10 1 (0.16%) AIX
10 1 (0.16%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (23.32%) Agile
2 144 (22.54%) DevOps
3 115 (18.00%) CI/CD
4 91 (14.24%) Mentoring
5 88 (13.77%) Continuous Improvement
5 88 (13.77%) Software Engineering
6 79 (12.36%) Infrastructure as Code
7 71 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
8 69 (10.80%) Technical Leadership
9 63 (9.86%) Validation
10 56 (8.76%) Cybersecurity
11 55 (8.61%) Coaching
12 51 (7.98%) Analytics
13 50 (7.82%) Platform Engineering
14 47 (7.36%) AI
15 46 (7.20%) Stakeholder Management
16 45 (7.04%) Data Pipeline
16 45 (7.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 43 (6.73%) Test Automation
18 42 (6.57%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 107 (16.74%) Python
2 75 (11.74%) Java
3 61 (9.55%) SQL
4 45 (7.04%) JavaScript
5 29 (4.54%) PowerShell
6 21 (3.29%) TypeScript
7 19 (2.97%) Bash
8 17 (2.66%) Groovy
9 10 (1.56%) C#
10 7 (1.10%) PHP
10 7 (1.10%) Scala
11 6 (0.94%) C++
12 5 (0.78%) R
12 5 (0.78%) VBScript
13 4 (0.63%) Ruby
14 3 (0.47%) Bicep
14 3 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.31%) Go
15 2 (0.31%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 639 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 98 (15.34%) DV Cleared
3 42 (6.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 24 (3.76%) Degree
5 21 (3.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (1.72%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.25%) Azure Certification
8 6 (0.94%) CCNA
8 6 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (0.63%) CCNP
9 4 (0.63%) CISSP
9 4 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.63%) CREST Certified
9 4 (0.63%) MCSA
9 4 (0.63%) MCSE
9 4 (0.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.31%) HND
10 2 (0.31%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (6.57%) QA
2 39 (6.10%) Data Quality
3 14 (2.19%) Accessibility
4 13 (2.03%) GDPR
5 12 (1.88%) SLA
6 7 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.78%) NIST
8 4 (0.63%) GRC
8 4 (0.63%) PMO
9 2 (0.31%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.31%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.31%) WCAG
10 1 (0.16%) AQAP
10 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.16%) NCSC
System Software
1 68 (10.64%) Docker
2 26 (4.07%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.10%) BitLocker
4 7 (1.10%) Firmware
4 7 (1.10%) vSphere
5 4 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.47%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 64 (10.02%) Kubernetes
2 44 (6.89%) Ansible
3 14 (2.19%) SCCM
4 9 (1.41%) Progress Chef
5 8 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.78%) HP Fortify
7 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (0.47%) Argo
8 3 (0.47%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.47%) Grafana
8 3 (0.47%) Podman
8 3 (0.47%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.47%) Puppet
9 2 (0.31%) Kibana
9 2 (0.31%) Packer
9 2 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.31%) WSUS
10 1 (0.16%) Nessus
10 1 (0.16%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 79 (12.36%) Microsoft
2 25 (3.91%) ServiceNow
3 20 (3.13%) VMware
4 17 (2.66%) Cisco
5 15 (2.35%) Google
6 14 (2.19%) Databricks
7 11 (1.72%) SAP
7 11 (1.72%) Thales
8 8 (1.25%) Fortinet
8 8 (1.25%) YouTube
9 7 (1.10%) Oracle
10 6 (0.94%) OpenAI
10 6 (0.94%) Red Hat
11 5 (0.78%) IBM
12 4 (0.63%) AppDynamics
12 4 (0.63%) Aruba
12 4 (0.63%) Dynatrace
12 4 (0.63%) HP
12 4 (0.63%) Juniper
12 4 (0.63%) Remedy