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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 99 130
Rank change year-on-year -12 +31 +1
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 254 162 323
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.62% 2.54% 2.05%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.50% 5.94% 9.58%
Number of salaries quoted 204 139 244
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,650 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £44,649 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,425 £52,000 £58,150
Median % change year-on-year +16.20% -10.58% +1.13%
75th Percentile £78,790 £70,811 £69,013
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £82,500
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 4,615 2,729 3,372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 29.50% 42.79% 21.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,481 1,290 2,482
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £29,250 £38,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £50,000 £49,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +0.50% -5.24%
75th Percentile £63,750 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.86% +5.45% -4.35%

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 3 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 3 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 -2 138 £65,000 +24.40% 106
Yorkshire -18 87 £60,000 +34.23% 68
North East -6 29 £68,076 -1.78% 43
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 (1.97%) Apache
1 5 (1.97%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.39%) Confluence
3 1 (0.39%) JBoss
3 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (7.09%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 66 (25.98%) AWS
2 61 (24.02%) Azure
3 25 (9.84%) AWS CloudFormation
4 20 (7.87%) Serverless
5 19 (7.48%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (7.09%) Amazon ECS
7 16 (6.30%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (5.51%) GCP
9 13 (5.12%) Amazon ECR
9 13 (5.12%) Amazon EKS
9 13 (5.12%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (3.94%) Amazon S3
10 10 (3.94%) SaaS
11 9 (3.54%) dbt
11 9 (3.54%) GitHub
11 9 (3.54%) PaaS
12 8 (3.15%) AWS Step Functions
13 7 (2.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 7 (2.76%) Pulumi
14 6 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 22 (8.66%) TCP/IP
2 16 (6.30%) DHCP
2 16 (6.30%) DNS
3 8 (3.15%) Firewall
4 7 (2.76%) LAN
5 6 (2.36%) Network Security
5 6 (2.36%) VLAN
5 6 (2.36%) VPN
5 6 (2.36%) WAN
5 6 (2.36%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (1.57%) AMQP
6 4 (1.57%) SMTP
6 4 (1.57%) Wireless
7 3 (1.18%) Broadband
7 3 (1.18%) DMZ
7 3 (1.18%) DSLAM
7 3 (1.18%) Modbus
7 3 (1.18%) Structured Cabling
7 3 (1.18%) WLAN
8 2 (0.79%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.72%) DynamoDB
2 8 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (2.76%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (2.76%) NoSQL
3 7 (2.76%) Redis
4 5 (1.97%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (1.97%) Metadata
4 5 (1.97%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.57%) Big Data
5 4 (1.57%) Cloudera CDH
5 4 (1.57%) Hadoop
5 4 (1.57%) Power BI
6 2 (0.79%) Power Query
7 1 (0.39%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.39%) Looker
7 1 (0.39%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.39%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (5.12%) Jenkins
2 12 (4.72%) GitLab
3 9 (3.54%) Git
4 8 (3.15%) JIRA
4 8 (3.15%) SonarQube
5 6 (2.36%) Cypress.io
5 6 (2.36%) Maven
6 5 (1.97%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.18%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.79%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.79%) JMeter
8 2 (0.79%) Locust
8 2 (0.79%) Postman
8 2 (0.79%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.39%) NUnit
9 1 (0.39%) Selenium
General
1 48 (18.90%) Social Skills
2 44 (17.32%) Public Sector
3 18 (7.09%) Finance
4 17 (6.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (5.12%) Telecoms
6 11 (4.33%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.36%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (2.36%) Retail
8 4 (1.57%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.57%) Law
8 4 (1.57%) Legal
8 4 (1.57%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.57%) Police
9 2 (0.79%) Military
9 2 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.39%) Banking
10 1 (0.39%) Electronics
10 1 (0.39%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 40 (15.75%) Senior
2 28 (11.02%) Architect
2 28 (11.02%) Developer
3 26 (10.24%) Lead
4 22 (8.66%) Consultant
5 18 (7.09%) Analyst
5 18 (7.09%) IT Support
6 16 (6.30%) Java Developer
7 15 (5.91%) Cloud Engineer
7 15 (5.91%) DevOps Engineer
8 13 (5.12%) Dynamics 365 Architect
9 11 (4.33%) Business Consultant
9 11 (4.33%) Senior Developer
10 9 (3.54%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (3.54%) Business Analyst
10 9 (3.54%) Business Security Consultant
10 9 (3.54%) Head of Delivery
10 9 (3.54%) Head of Service Delivery
10 9 (3.54%) Security Consultant
10 9 (3.54%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.69%) AngularJS
2 15 (5.91%) Spring Boot
3 14 (5.51%) REST
4 10 (3.94%) React
5 9 (3.54%) Django
5 9 (3.54%) Node.js
5 9 (3.54%) Spring
6 8 (3.15%) Gherkin
6 8 (3.15%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (2.76%) YAML
8 6 (2.36%) .NET
8 6 (2.36%) Jest
9 5 (1.97%) SAML
10 4 (1.57%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (1.57%) gRPC
10 4 (1.57%) Material-UI
10 4 (1.57%) OpenAPI
10 4 (1.57%) Swagger
10 4 (1.57%) Vue
11 3 (1.18%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.33%) Driving Licence
1 11 (4.33%) Onboarding
2 10 (3.94%) Data Centre
3 9 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (2.76%) Security Operations Centre
5 5 (1.97%) Data Structures
5 5 (1.97%) Fibre Optics
5 5 (1.97%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (1.97%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.97%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.57%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.57%) Cyberattack
6 4 (1.57%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.57%) SCADA
7 3 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.18%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.18%) Operational Technology
8 2 (0.79%) Home Automation
Operating Systems
1 37 (14.57%) Windows
2 23 (9.06%) Windows Server
3 16 (6.30%) Linux
4 9 (3.54%) Unix
5 6 (2.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.97%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.57%) CentOS
7 4 (1.57%) Debian
7 4 (1.57%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.79%) Android
8 2 (0.79%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.79%) Solaris
8 2 (0.79%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (22.44%) Agile
2 49 (19.29%) DevOps
3 35 (13.78%) CI/CD
4 32 (12.60%) Continuous Improvement
5 30 (11.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 23 (9.06%) Cybersecurity
6 23 (9.06%) ITIL
7 22 (8.66%) Mentoring
7 22 (8.66%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (7.87%) Scrum
9 19 (7.48%) Platform Engineering
10 18 (7.09%) Incident Management
11 15 (5.91%) Project Delivery
12 14 (5.51%) Software Engineering
13 13 (5.12%) Clean Code
14 12 (4.72%) Open Source
14 12 (4.72%) Service Delivery
14 12 (4.72%) Stakeholder Management
15 11 (4.33%) Kanban
15 11 (4.33%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (13.78%) Java
2 31 (12.20%) Python
3 19 (7.48%) SQL
4 11 (4.33%) JavaScript
5 9 (3.54%) Bash
5 9 (3.54%) Groovy
6 8 (3.15%) TypeScript
7 5 (1.97%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.18%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.79%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.39%) Bicep
10 1 (0.39%) C#
10 1 (0.39%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 254 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 34 (13.39%) DV Cleared
3 13 (5.12%) Degree
4 11 (4.33%) AWS Certification
5 6 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (1.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 5 (1.97%) CCNP
6 5 (1.97%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.57%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.18%) CISSP
8 3 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.18%) HND
8 3 (1.18%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.79%) A+ Certification
9 2 (0.79%) CCNA
9 2 (0.79%) CIPD
9 2 (0.79%) CISM
9 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.79%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.97%) QA
2 4 (1.57%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.18%) GRC
3 3 (1.18%) NIST
3 3 (1.18%) SLA
4 2 (0.79%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.79%) WCAG
5 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.39%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.39%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.39%) NCSC
System Software
1 25 (9.84%) Active Directory
2 24 (9.45%) Docker
3 2 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 38 (14.96%) Terraform
2 19 (7.48%) Ansible
3 16 (6.30%) Kubernetes
4 6 (2.36%) HP Fortify
5 5 (1.97%) AWS Copilot
6 4 (1.57%) Puppet
7 3 (1.18%) Grafana
7 3 (1.18%) SCCM
8 2 (0.79%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.79%) Kibana
8 2 (0.79%) Packer
8 2 (0.79%) Podman
9 1 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.39%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.39%) VxRail
Vendors
1 31 (12.20%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.87%) VMware
3 15 (5.91%) Citrix
4 13 (5.12%) Google
5 9 (3.54%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.36%) Palo Alto
6 6 (2.36%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.97%) Cisco
8 4 (1.57%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.57%) CyberArk
8 4 (1.57%) IBM
8 4 (1.57%) SaltStack
9 3 (1.18%) Aruba
9 3 (1.18%) BT
9 3 (1.18%) CheckPoint
9 3 (1.18%) Oracle
9 3 (1.18%) SAP
9 3 (1.18%) Splunk
10 2 (0.79%) Apple
10 2 (0.79%) Fortinet