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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 154 84
Rank change year-on-year +102 -70 +2
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 581 161 349
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.53% 1.69% 2.35%
As % of the Qualifications category 18.00% 4.45% 10.28%
Number of salaries quoted 462 130 235
10th Percentile £45,125 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.17% +7.27% -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,312 £74,815 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £77,092
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% +4.35% -4.17%

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 3,227 3,622 3,396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 14.08% 37.94% 22.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,751 1,177 1,556
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,575 £26,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £32,500 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £73,804 £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 31 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 31 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 +120 322 £70,000 +12.00% 148
Yorkshire +15 138 £65,000 +36.84% 52
North East +25 121 £57,500 -8.00% 67
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 24 (4.13%) Apache Spark
2 19 (3.27%) Apache
3 17 (2.93%) SharePoint
4 15 (2.58%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (2.58%) Jupyter
4 15 (2.58%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.69%) Confluence
6 3 (0.52%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.17%) CMS
7 1 (0.17%) JBoss
7 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.17%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 155 (26.68%) AWS
2 91 (15.66%) Azure
3 43 (7.40%) GitHub
4 37 (6.37%) AWS CloudFormation
5 36 (6.20%) Amazon S3
6 32 (5.51%) Serverless
7 26 (4.48%) Amazon EC2
8 25 (4.30%) Power Platform
9 24 (4.13%) AWS Lambda
10 21 (3.61%) Amazon ECR
11 20 (3.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 20 (3.44%) Microsoft 365
12 19 (3.27%) Amazon EMR
13 17 (2.93%) GCP
14 14 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (2.24%) Amazon EKS
16 12 (2.07%) Amazon ECS
16 12 (2.07%) SaaS
17 11 (1.89%) Power Automate
17 11 (1.89%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.75%) Network Security
2 12 (2.07%) Firewall
3 10 (1.72%) SAN
4 8 (1.38%) DNS
5 7 (1.20%) Cisco Firepower
5 7 (1.20%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.03%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (0.86%) Internet
7 5 (0.86%) VPN
7 5 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.69%) Cisco Nexus
8 4 (0.69%) Skype
8 4 (0.69%) VLAN
8 4 (0.69%) WAN
9 3 (0.52%) DHCP
9 3 (0.52%) LAN
9 3 (0.52%) SSL
9 3 (0.52%) Structured Cabling
10 2 (0.34%) AMQP
10 2 (0.34%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.44%) DynamoDB
2 17 (2.93%) Big Data
3 16 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (2.58%) Amazon Athena
5 12 (2.07%) Power BI
6 10 (1.72%) BigQuery
6 10 (1.72%) Data Lake
7 9 (1.55%) Looker
8 8 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (1.03%) Hadoop
9 6 (1.03%) Metadata
10 5 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (0.86%) Tableau
11 4 (0.69%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.69%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.52%) OLAP
12 3 (0.52%) PowerPivot
12 3 (0.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 3 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 57 (9.81%) GitLab
2 43 (7.40%) Jenkins
3 32 (5.51%) Git
4 16 (2.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 13 (2.24%) JIRA
6 8 (1.38%) Cypress.io
6 8 (1.38%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.20%) Maven
8 3 (0.52%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.52%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.34%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.34%) Balsamiq
9 2 (0.34%) Postman
9 2 (0.34%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.34%) Vite
10 1 (0.17%) Mocha
10 1 (0.17%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.17%) Selenium
General
1 110 (18.93%) Social Skills
2 105 (18.07%) Public Sector
3 58 (9.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 52 (8.95%) Finance
5 50 (8.61%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (3.96%) Legal
7 17 (2.93%) Retail
8 14 (2.41%) Law
9 10 (1.72%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.55%) Police
11 7 (1.20%) Local Government
12 6 (1.03%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.03%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.69%) Marketing
14 3 (0.52%) Military
14 3 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
16 1 (0.17%) Banking
16 1 (0.17%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 99 (17.04%) Senior
2 82 (14.11%) Developer
3 68 (11.70%) Cloud Engineer
4 57 (9.81%) DevOps Engineer
5 56 (9.64%) Software Engineer
6 47 (8.09%) Consultant
7 35 (6.02%) Lead
8 34 (5.85%) Analyst
9 33 (5.68%) Architect
9 33 (5.68%) Java Developer
10 26 (4.48%) Network Engineer
11 25 (4.30%) Principal Engineer
11 25 (4.30%) Senior Developer
12 23 (3.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 22 (3.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 21 (3.61%) Cloud Native Engineer
14 21 (3.61%) Data Engineer
15 20 (3.44%) Systems Engineer
16 18 (3.10%) AWS DevOps
17 17 (2.93%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (16.35%) Terraform
2 26 (4.48%) CSS
3 24 (4.13%) HTML
4 21 (3.61%) Node.js
4 21 (3.61%) PySpark
5 19 (3.27%) React
6 17 (2.93%) .NET
6 17 (2.93%) AngularJS
6 17 (2.93%) REST
7 16 (2.75%) Spring Boot
8 11 (1.89%) Jest
8 11 (1.89%) Web Services
9 10 (1.72%) Kafka
9 10 (1.72%) Spring
10 7 (1.20%) JSON
10 7 (1.20%) OpenAPI
11 6 (1.03%) Gherkin
11 6 (1.03%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (1.03%) Regular Expression
11 6 (1.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 54 (9.29%) Cloud Native
2 21 (3.61%) Driving Licence
3 18 (3.10%) Onboarding
4 13 (2.24%) Data Structures
4 13 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (1.89%) Data Centre
6 10 (1.72%) Enterprise Storage
7 9 (1.55%) Clustering
7 9 (1.55%) Management Information System
7 9 (1.55%) Product Ownership
7 9 (1.55%) Security Posture
8 7 (1.20%) Blog
8 7 (1.20%) CMDB
9 6 (1.03%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.03%) Cyberattack
9 6 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.03%) Low-Code
9 6 (1.03%) Security Operations Centre
10 5 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (0.86%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 40 (6.88%) Linux
2 34 (5.85%) Windows
3 19 (3.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 18 (3.10%) CentOS
5 13 (2.24%) Windows 10
6 12 (2.07%) Windows Server
7 6 (1.03%) Unix
8 3 (0.52%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.34%) Debian
9 2 (0.34%) Solaris
9 2 (0.34%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.34%) VMS
10 1 (0.17%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (23.75%) Agile
2 135 (23.24%) DevOps
3 108 (18.59%) CI/CD
4 85 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
5 81 (13.94%) Software Engineering
6 76 (13.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 76 (13.08%) Mentoring
7 61 (10.50%) Problem-Solving
7 61 (10.50%) Technical Leadership
8 53 (9.12%) Platform Engineering
9 50 (8.61%) Cybersecurity
10 47 (8.09%) Validation
11 43 (7.40%) Coaching
12 41 (7.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 41 (7.06%) Stakeholder Management
13 39 (6.71%) Containerisation
13 39 (6.71%) Full-Stack Development
14 38 (6.54%) AI
14 38 (6.54%) Data Modelling
14 38 (6.54%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 96 (16.52%) Python
2 70 (12.05%) Java
3 54 (9.29%) SQL
4 39 (6.71%) JavaScript
5 27 (4.65%) PowerShell
6 20 (3.44%) TypeScript
7 18 (3.10%) Bash
7 18 (3.10%) Groovy
8 9 (1.55%) C#
9 7 (1.20%) PHP
9 7 (1.20%) Scala
10 6 (1.03%) C++
11 5 (0.86%) R
11 5 (0.86%) VBScript
12 4 (0.69%) Ruby
13 3 (0.52%) Bicep
13 3 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.34%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.17%) VB
Qualifications
1 581 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 95 (16.35%) DV Cleared
3 40 (6.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 19 (3.27%) Microsoft Certification
5 17 (2.93%) Degree
6 12 (2.07%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.38%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (0.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (0.86%) CCNA
9 5 (0.86%) CCNP
9 5 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.69%) CISSP
10 4 (0.69%) MCSA
10 4 (0.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.34%) A+ Certification
11 2 (0.34%) CREST Certified
11 2 (0.34%) MCSE
11 2 (0.34%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (6.20%) Data Quality
2 35 (6.02%) QA
3 13 (2.24%) GDPR
4 10 (1.72%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.55%) SLA
6 7 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.86%) NIST
8 3 (0.52%) PMO
9 2 (0.34%) GRC
9 2 (0.34%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.34%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.34%) WCAG
10 1 (0.17%) AQAP
10 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.17%) IEC 61508
10 1 (0.17%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 66 (11.36%) Docker
2 26 (4.48%) Active Directory
3 14 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.20%) BitLocker
4 7 (1.20%) Firmware
5 5 (0.86%) vSphere
6 3 (0.52%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 64 (11.02%) Kubernetes
2 43 (7.40%) Ansible
3 14 (2.41%) SCCM
4 9 (1.55%) Progress Chef
5 8 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (1.03%) HP Fortify
7 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (0.52%) Argo
8 3 (0.52%) Grafana
8 3 (0.52%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.34%) Kibana
9 2 (0.34%) Packer
9 2 (0.34%) Puppet
9 2 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.34%) WSUS
10 1 (0.17%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.17%) Nessus
10 1 (0.17%) Podman
10 1 (0.17%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 74 (12.74%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.48%) ServiceNow
3 17 (2.93%) VMware
4 16 (2.75%) Cisco
5 14 (2.41%) Google
6 13 (2.24%) Databricks
7 9 (1.55%) Fortinet
8 8 (1.38%) SAP
9 6 (1.03%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.86%) Aruba
10 5 (0.86%) YouTube
11 4 (0.69%) AppDynamics
11 4 (0.69%) HP
11 4 (0.69%) IBM
11 4 (0.69%) Juniper
11 4 (0.69%) Remedy
12 3 (0.52%) Informatica
12 3 (0.52%) Intel
12 3 (0.52%) Oracle
12 3 (0.52%) Red Hat