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 2 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 90 86
Rank change year-on-year -25 -4 +76
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 173 281 244
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.85% 2.46% 3.41%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.82% 7.98% 13.58%
Number of salaries quoted 144 176 190
10th Percentile £31,700 £37,875 £30,288
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,375 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,500 £58,210
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -9.81% +1.23%
75th Percentile £78,790 £69,800 £69,800
90th Percentile £90,000 £79,600 £80,188
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -

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 3,588 3,523 1,797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 38.35% 30.82% 25.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,195 1,242 1,201
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £28,500 £40,000 £39,518
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +2.68%

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 2 December 2025.

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 2 December 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
North West -19 95 £65,000 +23.81% 103
Yorkshire +11 62 £55,000 +11.62% 37
North East -2 19 £65,000 +4.48% 22
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 21 (12.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.16%) Apache
2 2 (1.16%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.16%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.58%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (7.51%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (5.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (4.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.16%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.58%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.58%) EPLAN
5 1 (0.58%) InVision
5 1 (0.58%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 59 (34.10%) Azure
2 34 (19.65%) AWS
3 20 (11.56%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (9.83%) PaaS
4 17 (9.83%) SaaS
5 15 (8.67%) Dynamics 365
6 13 (7.51%) GCP
7 12 (6.94%) IaaS
8 9 (5.20%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (4.62%) Power Platform
10 7 (4.05%) dbt
11 6 (3.47%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (3.47%) GitHub
11 6 (3.47%) Serverless
12 5 (2.89%) Amazon ECR
12 5 (2.89%) Pulumi
13 3 (1.73%) Microsoft Copilot
13 3 (1.73%) OCI
13 3 (1.73%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 18 (10.40%) TCP/IP
2 17 (9.83%) DHCP
2 17 (9.83%) DNS
3 6 (3.47%) Firewall
3 6 (3.47%) LAN
3 6 (3.47%) Network Security
3 6 (3.47%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (2.89%) VPN
4 5 (2.89%) WAN
5 3 (1.73%) BGP
5 3 (1.73%) DMZ
5 3 (1.73%) IPsec
5 3 (1.73%) Modbus
5 3 (1.73%) OSPF
5 3 (1.73%) VLAN
6 2 (1.16%) AMQP
6 2 (1.16%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (1.16%) Cisco Firepower
6 2 (1.16%) EIGRP
6 2 (1.16%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.09%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (6.36%) MongoDB
3 10 (5.78%) NoSQL
4 6 (3.47%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (2.89%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.89%) Redis
6 4 (2.31%) Big Data
6 4 (2.31%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.73%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.16%) Cloudera CDH
8 2 (1.16%) MySQL
8 2 (1.16%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.58%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (1.73%) Jenkins
1 3 (1.73%) JIRA
1 3 (1.73%) JMeter
2 2 (1.16%) Cucumber
2 2 (1.16%) Git
2 2 (1.16%) Locust
3 1 (0.58%) Axure RP
3 1 (0.58%) Gatling
3 1 (0.58%) LoadRunner
3 1 (0.58%) Mockito
3 1 (0.58%) NUnit
General
1 50 (28.90%) Social Skills
2 24 (13.87%) Public Sector
3 15 (8.67%) Documentation Skills
3 15 (8.67%) Finance
4 11 (6.36%) Law
5 6 (3.47%) Aerospace
6 5 (2.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.89%) Marketing
7 4 (2.31%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.31%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.73%) Electronics
8 3 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.73%) Retail
9 2 (1.16%) Advertising
9 2 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.16%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.58%) Military
10 1 (0.58%) Police
Job Titles
1 27 (15.61%) Senior
2 24 (13.87%) Developer
3 23 (13.29%) Architect
3 23 (13.29%) Lead
4 22 (12.72%) Consultant
5 9 (5.20%) 3rd Line Support
5 9 (5.20%) Dynamics 365 Architect
5 9 (5.20%) Software Developer
6 7 (4.05%) Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (4.05%) Lead Developer
7 6 (3.47%) Analyst
7 6 (3.47%) Java Developer
7 6 (3.47%) Lead Software Developer
7 6 (3.47%) Senior Developer
7 6 (3.47%) Support Engineer
8 5 (2.89%) Administrator
8 5 (2.89%) Data Engineer
8 5 (2.89%) Desktop Engineer
8 5 (2.89%) Power Platform Consultant
8 5 (2.89%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.09%) Node.js
2 9 (5.20%) React
3 7 (4.05%) AngularJS
3 7 (4.05%) Django
4 6 (3.47%) CSS
4 6 (3.47%) HTML
5 5 (2.89%) .NET
5 5 (2.89%) REST
5 5 (2.89%) Spring
5 5 (2.89%) Spring Boot
5 5 (2.89%) Vue
6 4 (2.31%) CSS3
6 4 (2.31%) Express.js
6 4 (2.31%) hapi
6 4 (2.31%) HTML5
6 4 (2.31%) NestJS
7 3 (1.73%) ARM Templates
7 3 (1.73%) PyTorch
7 3 (1.73%) TensorFlow
8 2 (1.16%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.20%) Driving Licence
2 8 (4.62%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.89%) Mobile App
3 5 (2.89%) Operational Technology
3 5 (2.89%) SCADA
4 4 (2.31%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (2.31%) Digital Signage
5 3 (1.73%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (1.73%) Home Automation
5 3 (1.73%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (1.73%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.73%) Smart Home
6 2 (1.16%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.16%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.16%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.58%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.58%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 22 (12.72%) Windows
2 14 (8.09%) Windows Server
3 9 (5.20%) Linux
4 7 (4.05%) Unix
5 5 (2.89%) Windows 10
6 4 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.16%) Android
7 2 (1.16%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.16%) CentOS
7 2 (1.16%) Debian
7 2 (1.16%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.16%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.58%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (21.39%) Agile
2 28 (16.18%) DevOps
3 25 (14.45%) CI/CD
4 23 (13.29%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (11.56%) Project Delivery
6 19 (10.98%) Mentoring
7 18 (10.40%) Stakeholder Management
8 17 (9.83%) Incident Management
8 17 (9.83%) Project Management
8 17 (9.83%) Software Engineering
9 16 (9.25%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (9.25%) Cybersecurity
9 16 (9.25%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (7.51%) Clean Code
11 12 (6.94%) Virtual Environments
12 9 (5.20%) Containerisation
12 9 (5.20%) Customer Service
12 9 (5.20%) Incident Response
12 9 (5.20%) Security Testing
13 8 (4.62%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 26 (15.03%) Python
2 17 (9.83%) Java
2 17 (9.83%) JavaScript
3 16 (9.25%) SQL
4 15 (8.67%) PowerShell
5 7 (4.05%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.73%) Bash
6 3 (1.73%) C#
7 2 (1.16%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.16%) Scala
8 1 (0.58%) Bicep
8 1 (0.58%) C++
8 1 (0.58%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 173 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 22 (12.72%) Degree
3 9 (5.20%) DV Cleared
4 5 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 4 (2.31%) HND
6 3 (1.73%) CCNP
6 3 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.73%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.58%) CCNA
8 1 (0.58%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.58%) CISM
8 1 (0.58%) CISSP
8 1 (0.58%) CRISC
8 1 (0.58%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.58%) JNCIA
8 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.58%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.51%) QA
2 8 (4.62%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.05%) SLA
4 5 (2.89%) NIST
5 4 (2.31%) PMO
6 3 (1.73%) WCAG
7 2 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.58%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.58%) GRC
8 1 (0.58%) NCSC
System Software
1 18 (10.40%) Active Directory
2 13 (7.51%) Docker
3 12 (6.94%) Hyper-V
3 12 (6.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.58%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (8.67%) Terraform
2 7 (4.05%) Ansible
2 7 (4.05%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.73%) AWS Copilot
3 3 (1.73%) Grafana
3 3 (1.73%) SCCM
4 2 (1.16%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (1.16%) Puppet
5 1 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.58%) Podman
5 1 (0.58%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.58%) VxRail
Vendors
1 50 (28.90%) Microsoft
2 16 (9.25%) VMware
3 11 (6.36%) Google
4 6 (3.47%) Oracle
5 5 (2.89%) Cisco
5 5 (2.89%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.31%) Palo Alto
6 4 (2.31%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.31%) SAP
7 2 (1.16%) Apple
7 2 (1.16%) Aruba
7 2 (1.16%) CheckPoint
7 2 (1.16%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.16%) Samsung
7 2 (1.16%) Splunk
8 1 (0.58%) AVEVA
8 1 (0.58%) Mirantis
8 1 (0.58%) UiPath
8 1 (0.58%) YouTube
8 1 (0.58%) Zscaler