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 25 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 129 129
Rank change year-on-year +27 0 -6
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 285 143 329
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.59% 2.01% 1.98%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.70% 4.51% 9.42%
Number of salaries quoted 230 116 251
10th Percentile £32,285 £36,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.74% -8.26% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,842 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,250 £87,500 £79,600
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -8.33%

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 4,997 3,169 3,491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 27.90% 44.64% 21.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,532 1,315 2,567
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,600 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,000 £38,375 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,055 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +5.38% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £59,490 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.46% +4.55% -4.81%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 +23 160 £63,750 +15.91% 94
Yorkshire -19 95 £60,000 +34.23% 40
North East -22 30 £60,000 - 58
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 5 (1.75%) Apache
1 5 (1.75%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.35%) JBoss
3 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 19 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 59 (20.70%) AWS
2 57 (20.00%) Azure
3 19 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 19 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (6.32%) Serverless
5 16 (5.61%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (4.21%) Amazon ECS
6 12 (4.21%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (3.86%) SaaS
8 10 (3.51%) Amazon S3
9 9 (3.16%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (2.81%) Amazon ECR
10 8 (2.81%) AWS Step Functions
10 8 (2.81%) GitHub
11 7 (2.46%) Azure Sentinel
11 7 (2.46%) GCP
12 6 (2.11%) Apigee
13 5 (1.75%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (1.75%) Anthropic Claude
13 5 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.96%) TCP/IP
2 16 (5.61%) DHCP
2 16 (5.61%) DNS
3 9 (3.16%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (2.81%) Network Security
5 6 (2.11%) VLAN
6 5 (1.75%) Firewall
6 5 (1.75%) LAN
6 5 (1.75%) VPN
6 5 (1.75%) WAN
7 4 (1.40%) AMQP
7 4 (1.40%) SMTP
8 3 (1.05%) Broadband
8 3 (1.05%) DMZ
8 3 (1.05%) DSLAM
8 3 (1.05%) Modbus
8 3 (1.05%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (1.05%) Wireless
9 2 (0.70%) MPLS
9 2 (0.70%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.21%) DynamoDB
2 7 (2.46%) NoSQL
3 5 (1.75%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (1.75%) Metadata
4 4 (1.40%) Big Data
4 4 (1.40%) Cloudera CDH
4 4 (1.40%) Hadoop
4 4 (1.40%) Power BI
4 4 (1.40%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.70%) Power Query
5 2 (0.70%) Redis
6 1 (0.35%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.35%) Looker
6 1 (0.35%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.35%) Spark SQL
6 1 (0.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (4.21%) GitLab
2 11 (3.86%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.81%) Git
3 8 (2.81%) SonarQube
4 7 (2.46%) JIRA
5 6 (2.11%) Cypress.io
5 6 (2.11%) Maven
6 5 (1.75%) Claude Code
7 3 (1.05%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.70%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.70%) Postman
8 2 (0.70%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.35%) NUnit
9 1 (0.35%) Selenium
General
1 49 (17.19%) Social Skills
2 41 (14.39%) Public Sector
3 20 (7.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 19 (6.67%) Finance
5 13 (4.56%) Telecoms
6 11 (3.86%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.81%) Retail
8 7 (2.46%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (2.46%) Law
8 7 (2.46%) Police
9 5 (1.75%) Legal
10 4 (1.40%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.05%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.70%) Military
12 2 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.35%) Banking
Job Titles
1 47 (16.49%) Senior
2 43 (15.09%) Developer
3 27 (9.47%) Architect
4 26 (9.12%) Cloud Engineer
5 25 (8.77%) Java Developer
6 24 (8.42%) Consultant
7 22 (7.72%) Lead
8 20 (7.02%) Analyst
9 18 (6.32%) IT Support
10 17 (5.96%) DevOps Engineer
10 17 (5.96%) Software Engineer
11 15 (5.26%) Senior Developer
12 11 (3.86%) Business Consultant
13 10 (3.51%) Business Analyst
13 10 (3.51%) Security Consultant
14 9 (3.16%) AWS Engineer
14 9 (3.16%) Full-Stack Developer
14 9 (3.16%) Head of Architecture
14 9 (3.16%) Head of Service Delivery
14 9 (3.16%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.96%) AngularJS
2 15 (5.26%) Spring Boot
3 13 (4.56%) REST
4 9 (3.16%) React
4 9 (3.16%) Spring
5 8 (2.81%) .NET
5 8 (2.81%) RabbitMQ
6 7 (2.46%) Node.js
7 6 (2.11%) Gherkin
7 6 (2.11%) Jest
7 6 (2.11%) Regular Expression
7 6 (2.11%) YAML
8 4 (1.40%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (1.40%) gRPC
8 4 (1.40%) Material-UI
8 4 (1.40%) OpenAPI
8 4 (1.40%) SAML
8 4 (1.40%) Swagger
8 4 (1.40%) Vue
9 3 (1.05%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.91%) Onboarding
2 10 (3.51%) Data Centre
2 10 (3.51%) Driving Licence
2 10 (3.51%) Security Operations Centre
3 9 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (2.81%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.46%) Cyberattack
6 6 (2.11%) Low-Code
7 5 (1.75%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.75%) Fibre Optics
7 5 (1.75%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.40%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.40%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.40%) SCADA
9 3 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.05%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.70%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 36 (12.63%) Windows
2 22 (7.72%) Windows Server
3 11 (3.86%) Linux
4 6 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.11%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.40%) CentOS
5 4 (1.40%) Debian
5 4 (1.40%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.40%) Unix
6 2 (0.70%) Solaris
6 2 (0.70%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (19.30%) Agile
2 51 (17.89%) DevOps
3 32 (11.23%) Continuous Improvement
4 28 (9.82%) Software Engineering
5 26 (9.12%) CI/CD
5 26 (9.12%) Cybersecurity
6 23 (8.07%) ITIL
6 23 (8.07%) Mentoring
7 21 (7.37%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (6.67%) Scrum
9 18 (6.32%) Platform Engineering
10 17 (5.96%) Incident Management
10 17 (5.96%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (5.61%) Full-Stack Development
12 15 (5.26%) Risk Management
13 14 (4.91%) Security Operations
13 14 (4.91%) SIEM
14 13 (4.56%) Stakeholder Management
15 12 (4.21%) Project Delivery
15 12 (4.21%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 45 (15.79%) Java
2 31 (10.88%) Python
3 20 (7.02%) SQL
4 9 (3.16%) Bash
4 9 (3.16%) Groovy
4 9 (3.16%) JavaScript
5 8 (2.81%) TypeScript
6 7 (2.46%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.40%) C++
8 3 (1.05%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.70%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.35%) C#
10 1 (0.35%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 285 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 41 (14.39%) DV Cleared
3 16 (5.61%) Degree
4 11 (3.86%) AWS Certification
5 9 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.40%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.05%) CCNP
9 3 (1.05%) CISSP
9 3 (1.05%) HND
9 3 (1.05%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.70%) A+ Certification
10 2 (0.70%) CCNA
10 2 (0.70%) CISM
10 2 (0.70%) CRISC
10 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.70%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.40%) NIST
2 3 (1.05%) GRC
2 3 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.70%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.70%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.70%) QA
3 2 (0.70%) SLA
4 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.35%) IEC 61508
4 1 (0.35%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.35%) NCSC
System Software
1 25 (8.77%) Active Directory
2 16 (5.61%) Docker
3 2 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 29 (10.18%) Terraform
2 18 (6.32%) Ansible
3 14 (4.91%) Kubernetes
4 6 (2.11%) HP Fortify
5 4 (1.40%) Puppet
5 4 (1.40%) SCCM
6 2 (0.70%) AWS Copilot
6 2 (0.70%) Kibana
6 2 (0.70%) Packer
6 2 (0.70%) Podman
7 1 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.35%) Grafana
7 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 35 (12.28%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.32%) VMware
3 15 (5.26%) Citrix
4 10 (3.51%) ServiceNow
5 7 (2.46%) Google
6 6 (2.11%) Red Hat
7 4 (1.40%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.40%) CyberArk
7 4 (1.40%) Databricks
7 4 (1.40%) IBM
7 4 (1.40%) Palo Alto
7 4 (1.40%) SaltStack
8 3 (1.05%) BT
8 3 (1.05%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.05%) Cisco
8 3 (1.05%) Oracle
9 2 (0.70%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.70%) Mirantis
10 1 (0.35%) Ekahau
10 1 (0.35%) Spotify