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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 161 100
Rank change year-on-year +99 -61 0
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 525 170 327
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.43% 1.77% 2.18%
As % of the Qualifications category 15.69% 4.45% 10.41%
Number of salaries quoted 440 134 250
10th Percentile £45,000 £34,475 £39,875
25th Percentile £50,938 £46,250 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.55% +5.00% -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,312 £74,258 £65,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £74,782
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £56,509
% change year-on-year +16.67% +6.18% -9.59%

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 3,347 3,821 3,142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.47% 39.86% 20.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,746 1,224 1,747
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,486 £26,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £33,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £89,125 £76,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 August 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 August 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 +114 287 £67,500 +8.00% 133
Yorkshire +10 131 £65,000 +36.84% 57
North East +20 107 £60,000 -7.69% 40
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 22 (4.19%) Apache Spark
2 17 (3.24%) Apache
3 14 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (2.67%) Jupyter
4 13 (2.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (2.48%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.57%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.38%) Confluence
7 1 (0.19%) CMS
7 1 (0.19%) JBoss
7 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (3.43%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 143 (27.24%) AWS
2 87 (16.57%) Azure
3 36 (6.86%) GitHub
4 34 (6.48%) Amazon S3
5 31 (5.90%) AWS CloudFormation
6 28 (5.33%) Serverless
7 23 (4.38%) Amazon ECR
8 21 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
8 21 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
9 20 (3.81%) Power Platform
10 19 (3.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 18 (3.43%) Amazon EMR
11 18 (3.43%) Microsoft 365
12 15 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
12 15 (2.86%) GCP
13 13 (2.48%) Amazon EKS
13 13 (2.48%) SaaS
14 12 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
15 9 (1.71%) dbt
15 9 (1.71%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.24%) Network Security
2 13 (2.48%) Firewall
3 9 (1.71%) DNS
3 9 (1.71%) SAN
3 9 (1.71%) TCP/IP
4 8 (1.52%) Cisco Firepower
5 6 (1.14%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (1.14%) DHCP
5 6 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (0.95%) VLAN
6 5 (0.95%) WAN
7 4 (0.76%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (0.76%) LAN
7 4 (0.76%) Skype
7 4 (0.76%) Structured Cabling
7 4 (0.76%) VPN
8 3 (0.57%) Broadband
8 3 (0.57%) DSLAM
8 3 (0.57%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.81%) DynamoDB
2 17 (3.24%) Amazon Athena
3 16 (3.05%) Big Data
4 14 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (2.10%) Power BI
6 8 (1.52%) BigQuery
6 8 (1.52%) Data Lake
6 8 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (1.33%) Looker
8 5 (0.95%) Hadoop
8 5 (0.95%) Metadata
9 4 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (0.76%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.76%) Tableau
10 3 (0.57%) OLAP
10 3 (0.57%) PowerPivot
10 3 (0.57%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 51 (9.71%) GitLab
2 37 (7.05%) Jenkins
3 28 (5.33%) Git
4 13 (2.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 11 (2.10%) JIRA
6 9 (1.71%) SonarQube
7 8 (1.52%) Cypress.io
7 8 (1.52%) Maven
8 3 (0.57%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.57%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.38%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.38%) Postman
9 2 (0.38%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.38%) Vite
10 1 (0.19%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.19%) Selenium
General
1 95 (18.10%) Social Skills
2 94 (17.90%) Public Sector
3 56 (10.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 44 (8.38%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (8.38%) Finance
5 16 (3.05%) Legal
6 15 (2.86%) Telecoms
7 11 (2.10%) Retail
8 9 (1.71%) Law
9 7 (1.33%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.14%) Police
11 4 (0.76%) Marketing
12 3 (0.57%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.38%) Local Government
13 2 (0.38%) Military
13 2 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.19%) Banking
Job Titles
1 94 (17.90%) Senior
2 81 (15.43%) Developer
3 61 (11.62%) Cloud Engineer
4 49 (9.33%) Consultant
4 49 (9.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 43 (8.19%) Software Engineer
6 35 (6.67%) Architect
7 34 (6.48%) Java Developer
8 29 (5.52%) Lead
9 28 (5.33%) Analyst
10 27 (5.14%) Network Engineer
11 26 (4.95%) Senior Developer
12 23 (4.38%) Security Consultant
13 21 (4.00%) AWS DevOps
14 20 (3.81%) Data Engineer
15 19 (3.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 19 (3.62%) Principal Engineer
16 18 (3.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 17 (3.24%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
18 16 (3.05%) Cloud Native Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.81%) HTML
2 19 (3.62%) CSS
2 19 (3.62%) PySpark
3 18 (3.43%) AngularJS
4 17 (3.24%) Spring Boot
5 16 (3.05%) Node.js
5 16 (3.05%) REST
6 14 (2.67%) .NET
6 14 (2.67%) React
7 11 (2.10%) Jest
8 10 (1.90%) Kafka
8 10 (1.90%) Spring
9 7 (1.33%) Gherkin
9 7 (1.33%) Web Services
10 6 (1.14%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (1.14%) Regular Expression
10 6 (1.14%) YAML
11 5 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (0.95%) JSON
11 5 (0.95%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 44 (8.38%) Cloud Native
2 23 (4.38%) Driving Licence
3 21 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 15 (2.86%) Data Centre
5 12 (2.29%) Data Structures
6 11 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (1.71%) Enterprise Storage
8 8 (1.52%) Clustering
8 8 (1.52%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.33%) Security Operations Centre
10 6 (1.14%) Cyberattack
10 6 (1.14%) Low-Code
10 6 (1.14%) Management Information System
11 5 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (0.95%) Fibre Optics
11 5 (0.95%) Security Posture
12 4 (0.76%) AI Agents
12 4 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
13 3 (0.57%) CCTV
13 3 (0.57%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 33 (6.29%) Windows
2 31 (5.90%) Linux
3 16 (3.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (2.86%) CentOS
5 14 (2.67%) Windows Server
6 13 (2.48%) Windows 10
7 6 (1.14%) Unix
8 3 (0.57%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.38%) Debian
9 2 (0.38%) Solaris
9 2 (0.38%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.38%) VMS
10 1 (0.19%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (24.38%) Agile
2 120 (22.86%) DevOps
3 94 (17.90%) CI/CD
4 77 (14.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 69 (13.14%) Mentoring
6 67 (12.76%) Infrastructure as Code
7 63 (12.00%) Software Engineering
8 61 (11.62%) Problem-Solving
9 54 (10.29%) Technical Leadership
10 47 (8.95%) Platform Engineering
11 46 (8.76%) Cybersecurity
12 40 (7.62%) Coaching
12 40 (7.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 38 (7.24%) Stakeholder Management
14 35 (6.67%) Analytics
15 33 (6.29%) Data Modelling
15 33 (6.29%) Data Pipeline
16 32 (6.10%) Collaborative Culture
16 32 (6.10%) Containerisation
16 32 (6.10%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 87 (16.57%) Python
2 64 (12.19%) Java
3 51 (9.71%) SQL
4 30 (5.71%) JavaScript
5 24 (4.57%) PowerShell
6 18 (3.43%) Bash
6 18 (3.43%) TypeScript
7 15 (2.86%) Groovy
8 7 (1.33%) Scala
9 6 (1.14%) C++
10 5 (0.95%) VBScript
11 4 (0.76%) C#
11 4 (0.76%) PHP
11 4 (0.76%) R
12 3 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.38%) Bicep
13 2 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.38%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.19%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.19%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 525 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 93 (17.71%) DV Cleared
3 31 (5.90%) BPSS Clearance
4 17 (3.24%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (3.05%) Degree
6 13 (2.48%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.52%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (1.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (1.14%) CCNP
9 6 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.95%) CCNA
10 5 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (0.76%) CISSP
11 4 (0.76%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.76%) MCSA
11 4 (0.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.38%) CIPD
12 2 (0.38%) MCSE
12 2 (0.38%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.10%) Data Quality
2 28 (5.33%) QA
3 11 (2.10%) GDPR
4 10 (1.90%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.71%) SLA
6 6 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.95%) NIST
8 3 (0.57%) PMO
9 2 (0.38%) GRC
9 2 (0.38%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.38%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.38%) WCAG
10 1 (0.19%) AQAP
10 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.19%) IEC 61508
10 1 (0.19%) JSP 440
System Software
1 56 (10.67%) Docker
2 27 (5.14%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.33%) BitLocker
5 6 (1.14%) Firmware
6 5 (0.95%) vSphere
7 3 (0.57%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 84 (16.00%) Terraform
2 52 (9.90%) Kubernetes
3 38 (7.24%) Ansible
4 14 (2.67%) SCCM
5 7 (1.33%) HP Fortify
6 6 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.95%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (0.57%) Argo
9 3 (0.57%) Grafana
9 3 (0.57%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.38%) AWS Copilot
10 2 (0.38%) Kibana
10 2 (0.38%) Packer
10 2 (0.38%) Puppet
10 2 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.38%) WSUS
11 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.19%) Nessus
11 1 (0.19%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 69 (13.14%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.57%) ServiceNow
3 19 (3.62%) VMware
4 15 (2.86%) Cisco
5 13 (2.48%) Google
6 12 (2.29%) Databricks
7 8 (1.52%) Fortinet
8 6 (1.14%) OpenAI
9 5 (0.95%) Aruba
10 4 (0.76%) AppDynamics
10 4 (0.76%) Citrix
10 4 (0.76%) HP
10 4 (0.76%) IBM
10 4 (0.76%) Juniper
10 4 (0.76%) Remedy
10 4 (0.76%) SAP
11 3 (0.57%) BT
11 3 (0.57%) CheckPoint
11 3 (0.57%) Informatica
11 3 (0.57%) Red Hat