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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 175 98
Rank change year-on-year +130 -77 -23
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 727 148 295
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.02% 1.54% 2.18%
As % of the Qualifications category 22.30% 3.89% 8.69%
Number of salaries quoted 537 121 181
10th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £54,250
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +10.60% -9.58%
75th Percentile £78,312 £75,000 £69,800
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £58,000 £58,800
% change year-on-year +20.69% -1.36% -2.00%

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 3,260 3,805 3,394
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 13.53% 39.65% 25.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,895 1,036 1,281
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £61,813 £63,125
90th Percentile £90,000 £74,129 £79,225
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -2.54%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 +114 419 £70,000 +7.69% 302
North East +33 174 £60,000 -7.69% 156
Yorkshire +17 143 £66,805 +40.64% 86
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 27 (3.71%) Apache Spark
2 23 (3.16%) Apache
3 18 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (2.48%) Jupyter
4 17 (2.34%) SharePoint
5 15 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.96%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (0.83%) Confluence
8 3 (0.41%) nginx
8 3 (0.41%) Skype for Business
8 3 (0.41%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.14%) CMS
9 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.69%) SAP PSCD
3 4 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.14%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 1 (0.14%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 185 (25.45%) AWS
2 98 (13.48%) Azure
3 48 (6.60%) Amazon S3
3 48 (6.60%) GitHub
4 36 (4.95%) AWS CloudFormation
5 33 (4.54%) Serverless
6 30 (4.13%) Amazon EC2
7 26 (3.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 26 (3.58%) Power Platform
8 24 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
9 23 (3.16%) Amazon ECR
10 21 (2.89%) Microsoft 365
11 20 (2.75%) Amazon EMR
12 19 (2.61%) Amazon ECS
12 19 (2.61%) GitHub Actions
13 18 (2.48%) GCP
14 13 (1.79%) SaaS
15 11 (1.51%) Amazon EKS
15 11 (1.51%) AWS KMS
15 11 (1.51%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.48%) Network Security
2 14 (1.93%) DNS
3 13 (1.79%) Firewall
4 11 (1.51%) Internet
5 10 (1.38%) SAN
6 9 (1.24%) TCP/IP
7 8 (1.10%) VPN
8 7 (0.96%) Cisco ASA
8 7 (0.96%) Cisco Firepower
9 6 (0.83%) DHCP
9 6 (0.83%) SSL
9 6 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.55%) Cisco Nexus
10 4 (0.55%) Skype
10 4 (0.55%) WAN
11 3 (0.41%) AMQP
11 3 (0.41%) Reverse Proxy
11 3 (0.41%) Structured Cabling
12 2 (0.28%) CTI
12 2 (0.28%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (2.48%) Big Data
2 17 (2.34%) Amazon Athena
2 17 (2.34%) Data Lake
2 17 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (2.20%) DynamoDB
4 13 (1.79%) Power BI
5 12 (1.65%) MongoDB
6 9 (1.24%) BigQuery
6 9 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (1.10%) Hadoop
7 8 (1.10%) Looker
8 7 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (0.69%) DocumentDB
9 5 (0.69%) Metadata
9 5 (0.69%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.55%) Tableau
11 3 (0.41%) PowerPivot
11 3 (0.41%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 77 (10.59%) GitLab
2 43 (5.91%) Jenkins
3 39 (5.36%) Git
4 19 (2.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 14 (1.93%) JIRA
6 6 (0.83%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.55%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.55%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.41%) Gatling
8 3 (0.41%) Maven
9 2 (0.28%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.28%) Balsamiq
9 2 (0.28%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.28%) JUnit
9 2 (0.28%) Mockito
9 2 (0.28%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.28%) Vite
10 1 (0.14%) Mocha
10 1 (0.14%) Postman
10 1 (0.14%) Selenium
General
1 144 (19.81%) Public Sector
2 138 (18.98%) Social Skills
3 74 (10.18%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (9.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 61 (8.39%) Finance
6 29 (3.99%) Retail
7 27 (3.71%) Aerospace
8 24 (3.30%) Legal
9 18 (2.48%) Law
10 14 (1.93%) Manufacturing
11 11 (1.51%) Police
11 11 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.10%) Marketing
14 7 (0.96%) Local Government
15 5 (0.69%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.41%) Automotive
16 3 (0.41%) Military
16 3 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
17 2 (0.28%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 134 (18.43%) Senior
2 81 (11.14%) Developer
3 76 (10.45%) DevOps Engineer
4 65 (8.94%) Cloud Engineer
5 64 (8.80%) Software Engineer
6 49 (6.74%) Architect
7 48 (6.60%) Data Engineer
8 45 (6.19%) Analyst
8 45 (6.19%) Lead
9 44 (6.05%) Consultant
10 33 (4.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 32 (4.40%) Principal Engineer
12 29 (3.99%) Systems Engineer
13 27 (3.71%) Java Developer
14 25 (3.44%) Network Engineer
15 24 (3.30%) Cloud Native Engineer
16 22 (3.03%) AWS DevOps
17 21 (2.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 21 (2.89%) Software Developer
18 20 (2.75%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (15.82%) Terraform
2 39 (5.36%) CSS
3 37 (5.09%) HTML
4 36 (4.95%) Node.js
5 25 (3.44%) PySpark
6 23 (3.16%) Kafka
7 20 (2.75%) REST
8 18 (2.48%) Spring Boot
9 17 (2.34%) React
10 16 (2.20%) AngularJS
10 16 (2.20%) Spring
11 13 (1.79%) .NET
12 10 (1.38%) Jest
13 9 (1.24%) Web Services
14 8 (1.10%) OpenAPI
15 7 (0.96%) Express.js
15 7 (0.96%) JSON
15 7 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
15 7 (0.96%) RESTful
16 6 (0.83%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 77 (10.59%) Cloud Native
2 24 (3.30%) Driving Licence
3 20 (2.75%) Product Ownership
4 18 (2.48%) Management Information System
5 16 (2.20%) Onboarding
6 15 (2.06%) Data Centre
7 13 (1.79%) Data Structures
8 11 (1.51%) CMDB
8 11 (1.51%) Security Posture
8 11 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (1.38%) Enterprise Storage
10 9 (1.24%) Clustering
11 8 (1.10%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (1.10%) PDA
12 7 (0.96%) Blog
13 6 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
13 6 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (0.69%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 51 (7.02%) Linux
2 43 (5.91%) Windows
3 25 (3.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (3.03%) CentOS
5 13 (1.79%) Windows Server
6 12 (1.65%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.83%) Unix
8 3 (0.41%) Debian
8 3 (0.41%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.41%) Solaris
8 3 (0.41%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.41%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.28%) AIX
9 2 (0.28%) VMS
10 1 (0.14%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (25.58%) Agile
2 178 (24.48%) DevOps
3 145 (19.94%) CI/CD
4 118 (16.23%) Continuous Improvement
5 110 (15.13%) Mentoring
6 99 (13.62%) Infrastructure as Code
7 98 (13.48%) Technical Leadership
8 95 (13.07%) Problem-Solving
8 95 (13.07%) Software Engineering
9 75 (10.32%) Coaching
10 72 (9.90%) Validation
11 70 (9.63%) AI
12 63 (8.67%) Stakeholder Management
12 63 (8.67%) Test Automation
13 61 (8.39%) Analytics
14 59 (8.12%) Platform Engineering
15 58 (7.98%) Cybersecurity
16 56 (7.70%) Data Pipeline
17 54 (7.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 50 (6.88%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 115 (15.82%) Python
2 67 (9.22%) Java
3 63 (8.67%) SQL
4 54 (7.43%) JavaScript
5 28 (3.85%) PowerShell
6 24 (3.30%) TypeScript
7 23 (3.16%) Bash
8 12 (1.65%) Groovy
9 10 (1.38%) C#
10 7 (0.96%) PHP
10 7 (0.96%) Scala
11 5 (0.69%) ABAP
11 5 (0.69%) C++
11 5 (0.69%) Go
11 5 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (0.69%) R
11 5 (0.69%) VBScript
12 4 (0.55%) Ruby
13 3 (0.41%) Bicep
13 3 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 727 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 101 (13.89%) DV Cleared
3 40 (5.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 23 (3.16%) Degree
5 20 (2.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (1.51%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.10%) Azure Certification
8 7 (0.96%) CCNA
8 7 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (0.69%) CCNP
9 5 (0.69%) CREST Certified
9 5 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (0.69%) SAP Certification
10 4 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (0.55%) MCSA
10 4 (0.55%) MCSE
10 4 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.28%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.28%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (7.29%) QA
2 40 (5.50%) Data Quality
3 21 (2.89%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.79%) GDPR
5 12 (1.65%) SLA
6 9 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.96%) NIST
8 5 (0.69%) PMO
9 4 (0.55%) GRC
10 3 (0.41%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.28%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 2 (0.28%) NCSC
11 2 (0.28%) WCAG
12 1 (0.14%) AQAP
12 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 78 (10.73%) Docker
2 25 (3.44%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.10%) BitLocker
5 7 (0.96%) Firmware
5 7 (0.96%) vSphere
6 4 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.41%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 76 (10.45%) Kubernetes
2 46 (6.33%) Ansible
3 15 (2.06%) SCCM
4 9 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (1.24%) Progress Chef
5 7 (0.96%) Grafana
5 7 (0.96%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.83%) Argo
7 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (0.41%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.41%) Podman
8 3 (0.41%) Puppet
8 3 (0.41%) WSUS
9 2 (0.28%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.14%) Nessus
10 1 (0.14%) Opsview
10 1 (0.14%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 84 (11.55%) Microsoft
2 24 (3.30%) ServiceNow
3 20 (2.75%) VMware
4 19 (2.61%) YouTube
5 18 (2.48%) Cisco
6 17 (2.34%) Databricks
6 17 (2.34%) Thales
7 15 (2.06%) SAP
8 14 (1.93%) Google
9 12 (1.65%) Oracle
10 9 (1.24%) Fortinet
11 8 (1.10%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.96%) Dynatrace
13 6 (0.83%) OpenAI
14 5 (0.69%) Confluent
14 5 (0.69%) HP
15 4 (0.55%) Aruba
15 4 (0.55%) BMC
15 4 (0.55%) Juniper
15 4 (0.55%) Remedy