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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 164 121
Rank change year-on-year +95 -43 -5
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 416 137 378
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.10% 1.69% 1.93%
As % of the Qualifications category 12.71% 3.83% 9.88%
Number of salaries quoted 346 109 289
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,799 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,258 £66,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £91,000 £79,600
England median annual salary £65,576 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.29% +9.09% -12.00%

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 3,273 3,576 3,826
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.51% 44.05% 19.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,608 1,212 2,646
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,480 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -12.43%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,625 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +0.92% -9.17%

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 14 June 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 14 June 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 +96 232 £63,750 +8.05% 124
Yorkshire +13 129 £62,500 +38.89% 47
North East +1 55 £55,000 -20.73% 35
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 14 (3.37%) Apache
1 14 (3.37%) Apache Spark
2 10 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (2.40%) Jupyter
3 9 (2.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.72%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.48%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.24%) JBoss
Applications
1 27 (6.49%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 106 (25.48%) AWS
2 77 (18.51%) Azure
3 27 (6.49%) AWS CloudFormation
4 26 (6.25%) Amazon S3
5 25 (6.01%) GitHub
6 20 (4.81%) Serverless
7 17 (4.09%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (4.09%) Amazon ECR
7 17 (4.09%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
9 15 (3.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 15 (3.61%) Amazon ECS
10 14 (3.37%) Amazon EMR
11 13 (3.13%) Power Platform
11 13 (3.13%) SaaS
12 12 (2.88%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (2.88%) Dynamics 365
13 10 (2.40%) AWS Step Functions
14 9 (2.16%) Azure Sentinel
14 9 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.33%) DNS
2 17 (4.09%) Network Security
3 16 (3.85%) DHCP
3 16 (3.85%) TCP/IP
4 12 (2.88%) Firewall
5 10 (2.40%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (1.92%) Cisco Firepower
7 7 (1.68%) VLAN
8 6 (1.44%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (1.44%) LAN
8 6 (1.44%) SAN
8 6 (1.44%) Structured Cabling
8 6 (1.44%) WAN
9 5 (1.20%) VPN
10 4 (0.96%) Cisco Nexus
10 4 (0.96%) SMTP
11 3 (0.72%) AMQP
11 3 (0.72%) Broadband
11 3 (0.72%) DSLAM
11 3 (0.72%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.29%) DynamoDB
2 15 (3.61%) Amazon Athena
3 13 (3.13%) Big Data
4 12 (2.88%) Power BI
5 9 (2.16%) NoSQL
6 8 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.68%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.20%) Hadoop
8 5 (1.20%) Metadata
8 5 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.20%) Power Query
8 5 (1.20%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.96%) Tableau
10 3 (0.72%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.72%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.72%) OLAP
10 3 (0.72%) PowerPivot
10 3 (0.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 33 (7.93%) GitLab
2 25 (6.01%) Jenkins
3 14 (3.37%) Git
4 9 (2.16%) SonarQube
5 8 (1.92%) Cypress.io
5 8 (1.92%) JIRA
5 8 (1.92%) Maven
6 5 (1.20%) Claude Code
7 3 (0.72%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.48%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.48%) Postman
8 2 (0.48%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.48%) Vite
9 1 (0.24%) Selenium
General
1 60 (14.42%) Social Skills
2 56 (13.46%) Public Sector
3 34 (8.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 29 (6.97%) Finance
5 26 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (3.85%) Telecoms
7 10 (2.40%) Legal
8 9 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (1.92%) Law
10 7 (1.68%) Retail
11 6 (1.44%) Police
12 4 (0.96%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.72%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.48%) Marketing
15 1 (0.24%) Banking
15 1 (0.24%) Military
Job Titles
1 73 (17.55%) Senior
2 61 (14.66%) Developer
3 49 (11.78%) Cloud Engineer
4 35 (8.41%) Consultant
4 35 (8.41%) Software Engineer
5 33 (7.93%) Java Developer
6 31 (7.45%) Architect
7 27 (6.49%) DevOps Engineer
8 26 (6.25%) Network Engineer
9 25 (6.01%) Lead
10 21 (5.05%) Analyst
10 21 (5.05%) Senior Developer
11 18 (4.33%) IT Support
12 16 (3.85%) Data Engineer
13 14 (3.37%) AWS Engineer
14 13 (3.13%) AWS DevOps
14 13 (3.13%) Business Consultant
14 13 (3.13%) Security Consultant
15 12 (2.88%) Business Analyst
15 12 (2.88%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.57%) AngularJS
1 19 (4.57%) Spring Boot
2 14 (3.37%) REST
3 12 (2.88%) PySpark
3 12 (2.88%) Spring
4 11 (2.64%) React
5 9 (2.16%) .NET
6 8 (1.92%) Jest
7 7 (1.68%) Gherkin
7 7 (1.68%) Node.js
7 7 (1.68%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (1.68%) Web Services
8 6 (1.44%) Regular Expression
8 6 (1.44%) YAML
9 5 (1.20%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (1.20%) Kafka
9 5 (1.20%) Vue
10 4 (0.96%) SAML
11 3 (0.72%) gRPC
11 3 (0.72%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.05%) Driving Licence
2 20 (4.81%) Onboarding
3 19 (4.57%) Cloud Native
4 18 (4.33%) Data Centre
5 11 (2.64%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (2.40%) Data Structures
6 10 (2.40%) Security Operations Centre
7 8 (1.92%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.68%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.44%) Cyberattack
9 6 (1.44%) Enterprise Storage
9 6 (1.44%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.20%) Fibre Optics
11 4 (0.96%) Clustering
11 4 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (0.72%) CCTV
12 3 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.48%) Distributed Architecture
13 2 (0.48%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 40 (9.62%) Windows
2 25 (6.01%) Windows Server
3 16 (3.85%) Linux
4 11 (2.64%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.20%) CentOS
7 3 (0.72%) Debian
7 3 (0.72%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.72%) Unix
8 2 (0.48%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.24%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (21.88%) Agile
2 82 (19.71%) DevOps
3 57 (13.70%) CI/CD
4 51 (12.26%) Problem-Solving
5 49 (11.78%) Software Engineering
6 47 (11.30%) Infrastructure as Code
7 46 (11.06%) Continuous Improvement
8 43 (10.34%) Mentoring
9 35 (8.41%) Platform Engineering
10 28 (6.73%) Containerisation
11 26 (6.25%) Coaching
11 26 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
11 26 (6.25%) ITIL
11 26 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
12 24 (5.77%) Analytics
12 24 (5.77%) Data Modelling
13 23 (5.53%) Data Pipeline
13 23 (5.53%) Full-Stack Development
13 23 (5.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 22 (5.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 68 (16.35%) Python
2 59 (14.18%) Java
3 46 (11.06%) SQL
4 17 (4.09%) Bash
5 16 (3.85%) Groovy
6 15 (3.61%) PowerShell
7 12 (2.88%) JavaScript
7 12 (2.88%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.44%) C++
9 4 (0.96%) Scala
9 4 (0.96%) VBScript
10 3 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.72%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.72%) R
11 2 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.48%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.24%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 416 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 67 (16.11%) DV Cleared
3 17 (4.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 14 (3.37%) AWS Certification
4 14 (3.37%) Degree
5 9 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (1.68%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.68%) CCNP
7 7 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (1.44%) CCNA
8 6 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (0.96%) CISSP
9 4 (0.96%) MCSA
9 4 (0.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (0.72%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.72%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.48%) CIPD
11 2 (0.48%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.53%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.37%) QA
3 9 (2.16%) SLA
4 5 (1.20%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.96%) GDPR
6 3 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.72%) NIST
6 3 (0.72%) PMO
7 2 (0.48%) GRC
7 2 (0.48%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.48%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.24%) AQAP
8 1 (0.24%) IEC 61508
8 1 (0.24%) JSP 440
System Software
1 37 (8.89%) Docker
2 30 (7.21%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.44%) BitLocker
5 2 (0.48%) Firmware
5 2 (0.48%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.48%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 59 (14.18%) Terraform
2 31 (7.45%) Kubernetes
3 21 (5.05%) Ansible
4 11 (2.64%) SCCM
5 7 (1.68%) HP Fortify
6 5 (1.20%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (0.72%) Argo
8 3 (0.72%) Grafana
8 3 (0.72%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.72%) Puppet
9 2 (0.48%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (0.48%) Kibana
9 2 (0.48%) Packer
9 2 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.24%) Podman
Vendors
1 55 (13.22%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.53%) VMware
3 20 (4.81%) ServiceNow
4 14 (3.37%) Citrix
5 13 (3.13%) Cisco
6 10 (2.40%) Databricks
7 8 (1.92%) Google
8 6 (1.44%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.20%) Aruba
10 4 (0.96%) AppDynamics
10 4 (0.96%) CyberArk
10 4 (0.96%) HP
10 4 (0.96%) IBM
10 4 (0.96%) Juniper
10 4 (0.96%) Palo Alto
10 4 (0.96%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.72%) BT
11 3 (0.72%) CheckPoint
11 3 (0.72%) Oracle
11 3 (0.72%) SAP