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 12 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 158 135
Rank change year-on-year +71 -23 -15
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 340 134 322
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.84% 1.77% 1.91%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.77% 3.93% 9.09%
Number of salaries quoted 281 108 247
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,825 £36,351
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,786 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £54,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.09% -5.22% -4.17%
75th Percentile £76,000 £72,940 £68,125
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,257 £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 4,373 3,410 3,542
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 23.73% 44.99% 20.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,519 1,325 2,600
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,625 £36,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -13.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £79,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -7.72%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 +77 190 £62,500 +13.64% 119
Yorkshire 0 111 £60,850 +36.13% 57
North East -5 39 £57,500 -17.13% 66
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 6 (1.76%) Apache
1 6 (1.76%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.59%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.29%) JBoss
4 1 (0.29%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.29%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 21 (6.18%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 77 (22.65%) AWS
2 67 (19.71%) Azure
3 19 (5.59%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (5.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 18 (5.29%) Serverless
5 15 (4.41%) Amazon S3
5 15 (4.41%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (3.82%) Amazon ECS
7 12 (3.53%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (3.53%) GitHub
7 12 (3.53%) SaaS
8 9 (2.65%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (2.35%) Amazon ECR
9 8 (2.35%) AWS Step Functions
10 7 (2.06%) Azure Sentinel
11 6 (1.76%) Apigee
11 6 (1.76%) GCP
11 6 (1.76%) Power Platform
12 5 (1.47%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (1.47%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.00%) DHCP
1 17 (5.00%) DNS
1 17 (5.00%) TCP/IP
2 16 (4.71%) Network Security
3 11 (3.24%) Firewall
4 10 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (2.06%) VLAN
6 6 (1.76%) Cisco Firepower
6 6 (1.76%) LAN
6 6 (1.76%) VPN
6 6 (1.76%) WAN
7 4 (1.18%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (1.18%) SMTP
8 3 (0.88%) AMQP
8 3 (0.88%) Broadband
8 3 (0.88%) DMZ
8 3 (0.88%) DSLAM
8 3 (0.88%) Modbus
8 3 (0.88%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.88%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.12%) DynamoDB
2 7 (2.06%) Amazon Athena
2 7 (2.06%) NoSQL
3 6 (1.76%) Big Data
3 6 (1.76%) Power BI
4 5 (1.47%) Hadoop
4 5 (1.47%) Metadata
4 5 (1.47%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.18%) Power Query
6 3 (0.88%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (0.88%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.88%) Tableau
7 2 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.59%) OLAP
7 2 (0.59%) PowerPivot
7 2 (0.59%) Redis
7 2 (0.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (4.71%) GitLab
2 13 (3.82%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.94%) Git
4 8 (2.35%) SonarQube
5 6 (1.76%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.76%) JIRA
5 6 (1.76%) Maven
6 5 (1.47%) Claude Code
7 3 (0.88%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.59%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.59%) Postman
8 2 (0.59%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.29%) Selenium
General
1 51 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 46 (13.53%) Public Sector
3 29 (8.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 23 (6.76%) Finance
5 13 (3.82%) Telecoms
6 12 (3.53%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (3.24%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (2.65%) Legal
9 7 (2.06%) Police
9 7 (2.06%) Retail
10 6 (1.76%) Law
11 3 (0.88%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.88%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.59%) Military
12 2 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.29%) Banking
Job Titles
1 55 (16.18%) Senior
2 53 (15.59%) Developer
3 35 (10.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 34 (10.00%) Architect
5 29 (8.53%) Software Engineer
6 28 (8.24%) Java Developer
7 23 (6.76%) Analyst
8 22 (6.47%) Consultant
8 22 (6.47%) Lead
9 20 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
10 18 (5.29%) IT Support
11 17 (5.00%) Senior Developer
12 15 (4.41%) Network Engineer
13 13 (3.82%) Business Analyst
14 11 (3.24%) Business Consultant
14 11 (3.24%) Full-Stack Developer
15 10 (2.94%) AWS Engineer
15 10 (2.94%) Security Consultant
16 9 (2.65%) .NET Developer
16 9 (2.65%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.00%) AngularJS
2 16 (4.71%) Spring Boot
3 14 (4.12%) REST
4 10 (2.94%) Spring
5 9 (2.65%) .NET
5 9 (2.65%) React
6 7 (2.06%) Node.js
6 7 (2.06%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (1.76%) Gherkin
7 6 (1.76%) Jest
7 6 (1.76%) Regular Expression
7 6 (1.76%) YAML
8 5 (1.47%) Vue
9 4 (1.18%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (1.18%) Kafka
9 4 (1.18%) SAML
10 3 (0.88%) gRPC
10 3 (0.88%) Material-UI
10 3 (0.88%) PySpark
10 3 (0.88%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.12%) Data Centre
1 14 (4.12%) Onboarding
2 11 (3.24%) Driving Licence
3 10 (2.94%) Security Operations Centre
4 9 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (2.35%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.06%) Cyberattack
6 7 (2.06%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.76%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.47%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.47%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (1.47%) Fibre Optics
9 4 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.18%) SCADA
10 3 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.88%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.59%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.59%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 38 (11.18%) Windows
2 24 (7.06%) Windows Server
3 11 (3.24%) Linux
4 6 (1.76%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.18%) Unix
7 3 (0.88%) CentOS
7 3 (0.88%) Debian
7 3 (0.88%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.59%) Solaris
9 1 (0.29%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (19.41%) Agile
2 59 (17.35%) DevOps
3 42 (12.35%) Software Engineering
4 36 (10.59%) Continuous Improvement
5 32 (9.41%) CI/CD
5 32 (9.41%) Mentoring
5 32 (9.41%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (8.24%) Cybersecurity
7 25 (7.35%) Infrastructure as Code
8 23 (6.76%) ITIL
8 23 (6.76%) Platform Engineering
9 20 (5.88%) Full-Stack Development
10 19 (5.59%) Coaching
10 19 (5.59%) Incident Management
10 19 (5.59%) Scrum
11 17 (5.00%) Security Operations
11 17 (5.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 16 (4.71%) SIEM
13 15 (4.41%) Risk Management
14 14 (4.12%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (14.41%) Java
2 43 (12.65%) Python
3 27 (7.94%) SQL
4 11 (3.24%) Bash
5 10 (2.94%) Groovy
6 9 (2.65%) JavaScript
7 8 (2.35%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.06%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.76%) C++
10 3 (0.88%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.59%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.59%) R
11 2 (0.59%) Scala
12 1 (0.29%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 340 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 56 (16.47%) DV Cleared
3 17 (5.00%) Degree
4 12 (3.53%) AWS Certification
5 9 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (1.47%) CCNP
8 5 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.18%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.18%) CCNA
9 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.88%) CISSP
10 3 (0.88%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.88%) HND
10 3 (0.88%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.59%) CISM
11 2 (0.59%) MCSA
11 2 (0.59%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.65%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.35%) SLA
3 4 (1.18%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.18%) NIST
3 4 (1.18%) QA
4 3 (0.88%) GRC
4 3 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.29%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.29%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 28 (8.24%) Active Directory
2 18 (5.29%) Docker
3 4 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.29%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 36 (10.59%) Terraform
2 19 (5.59%) Ansible
3 17 (5.00%) Kubernetes
4 6 (1.76%) HP Fortify
4 6 (1.76%) SCCM
5 3 (0.88%) Puppet
6 2 (0.59%) AWS Copilot
6 2 (0.59%) Kibana
6 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (0.59%) Packer
6 2 (0.59%) Podman
7 1 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.29%) Grafana
7 1 (0.29%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 44 (12.94%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.88%) VMware
3 15 (4.41%) Citrix
4 11 (3.24%) ServiceNow
5 9 (2.65%) Cisco
6 8 (2.35%) Databricks
7 6 (1.76%) Fortinet
7 6 (1.76%) Google
8 5 (1.47%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.18%) AppDynamics
9 4 (1.18%) CyberArk
9 4 (1.18%) IBM
9 4 (1.18%) Juniper
9 4 (1.18%) Palo Alto
10 3 (0.88%) Aruba
10 3 (0.88%) BT
10 3 (0.88%) CheckPoint
10 3 (0.88%) Oracle
10 3 (0.88%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.59%) SAP