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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 165 114
Rank change year-on-year +99 -51 -18
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 472 162 365
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.27% 1.72% 2.00%
As % of the Qualifications category 13.98% 4.22% 9.83%
Number of salaries quoted 399 130 285
10th Percentile £44,482 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,750 £56,509
Median % change year-on-year +12.55% +2.20% -13.06%
75th Percentile £78,312 £74,258 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £79,225
England median annual salary £69,305 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.51% +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 3,376 3,840 3,712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.20% 40.74% 20.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,706 1,239 2,470
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,725 £26,250
25th Percentile £39,722 £33,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,835 £50,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.67% +1.01% -8.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £76,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -10.00%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 +92 255 £67,500 +3.85% 115
Yorkshire +12 128 £62,500 +31.58% 53
North East +16 89 £58,750 -15.33% 43
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 19 (4.03%) Apache Spark
2 16 (3.39%) Apache
3 12 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (2.54%) Jupyter
4 9 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (1.06%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.42%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.21%) CMS
7 1 (0.21%) JBoss
7 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 24 (5.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.64%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 123 (26.06%) AWS
2 77 (16.31%) Azure
3 31 (6.57%) GitHub
4 28 (5.93%) AWS CloudFormation
5 27 (5.72%) Amazon S3
6 22 (4.66%) Serverless
7 19 (4.03%) Amazon EC2
7 19 (4.03%) Amazon ECR
8 16 (3.39%) Amazon EMR
8 16 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (3.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 15 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
9 15 (3.18%) Power Platform
10 13 (2.75%) Amazon ECS
11 12 (2.54%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
12 11 (2.33%) SaaS
13 9 (1.91%) Azure Sentinel
13 9 (1.91%) GCP
14 8 (1.69%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.39%) Network Security
2 15 (3.18%) DNS
3 12 (2.54%) DHCP
3 12 (2.54%) TCP/IP
4 11 (2.33%) Firewall
5 10 (2.12%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (1.69%) Cisco Firepower
6 8 (1.69%) SAN
7 7 (1.48%) VLAN
8 6 (1.27%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (1.27%) LAN
8 6 (1.27%) Structured Cabling
8 6 (1.27%) WAN
9 5 (1.06%) VPN
10 4 (0.85%) Cisco Nexus
10 4 (0.85%) SMTP
11 3 (0.64%) AMQP
11 3 (0.64%) Broadband
11 3 (0.64%) DSLAM
11 3 (0.64%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.81%) DynamoDB
2 17 (3.60%) Big Data
3 15 (3.18%) Amazon Athena
4 11 (2.33%) Power BI
5 10 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (1.48%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.06%) Hadoop
7 5 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.85%) BigQuery
8 4 (0.85%) Looker
8 4 (0.85%) Tableau
9 3 (0.64%) Cloudera CDH
9 3 (0.64%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.64%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.64%) OLAP
9 3 (0.64%) Power Query
9 3 (0.64%) PowerPivot
9 3 (0.64%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 43 (9.11%) GitLab
2 33 (6.99%) Jenkins
3 20 (4.24%) Git
4 10 (2.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 9 (1.91%) SonarQube
6 8 (1.69%) Cypress.io
6 8 (1.69%) JIRA
6 8 (1.69%) Maven
7 3 (0.64%) Claude Code
7 3 (0.64%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.42%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.42%) Postman
8 2 (0.42%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.42%) Vite
9 1 (0.21%) Selenium
General
1 82 (17.37%) Social Skills
2 73 (15.47%) Public Sector
3 47 (9.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 34 (7.20%) Finance
5 33 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (3.39%) Telecoms
7 11 (2.33%) Legal
8 9 (1.91%) Law
9 8 (1.69%) Retail
10 6 (1.27%) Police
11 5 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.06%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.85%) Marketing
13 3 (0.64%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.21%) Banking
15 1 (0.21%) Military
15 1 (0.21%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 85 (18.01%) Senior
2 72 (15.25%) Developer
3 55 (11.65%) Cloud Engineer
4 49 (10.38%) Consultant
5 43 (9.11%) DevOps Engineer
6 41 (8.69%) Software Engineer
7 35 (7.42%) Architect
8 34 (7.20%) Java Developer
9 26 (5.51%) Lead
10 25 (5.30%) Network Engineer
11 24 (5.08%) Analyst
12 23 (4.87%) Senior Developer
13 21 (4.45%) Security Consultant
14 20 (4.24%) Data Engineer
15 19 (4.03%) AWS DevOps
16 16 (3.39%) Principal Engineer
17 15 (3.18%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
18 14 (2.97%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 14 (2.97%) AWS Engineer
18 14 (2.97%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.81%) Spring Boot
2 17 (3.60%) PySpark
3 16 (3.39%) AngularJS
4 13 (2.75%) HTML
4 13 (2.75%) REST
5 12 (2.54%) Node.js
6 11 (2.33%) CSS
6 11 (2.33%) Spring
7 10 (2.12%) React
8 9 (1.91%) .NET
9 8 (1.69%) Jest
9 8 (1.69%) Kafka
10 7 (1.48%) Gherkin
10 7 (1.48%) RabbitMQ
10 7 (1.48%) Web Services
11 6 (1.27%) Regular Expression
11 6 (1.27%) YAML
12 5 (1.06%) Elastic Stack
13 4 (0.85%) SAML
13 4 (0.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 35 (7.42%) Cloud Native
2 23 (4.87%) Driving Licence
3 20 (4.24%) Onboarding
4 17 (3.60%) Data Centre
5 10 (2.12%) Security Operations Centre
6 9 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (1.69%) Data Structures
7 8 (1.69%) Enterprise Storage
8 6 (1.27%) Cyberattack
8 6 (1.27%) Low-Code
8 6 (1.27%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.06%) Fibre Optics
9 5 (1.06%) Product Ownership
10 4 (0.85%) Clustering
10 4 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.64%) CCTV
11 3 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.42%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.42%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 33 (6.99%) Windows
2 24 (5.08%) Linux
3 17 (3.60%) Windows Server
4 14 (2.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (2.75%) CentOS
6 12 (2.54%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.64%) Debian
7 3 (0.64%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.64%) Unix
8 2 (0.42%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.21%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (24.15%) Agile
2 101 (21.40%) DevOps
3 76 (16.10%) CI/CD
4 64 (13.56%) Continuous Improvement
5 57 (12.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 57 (12.08%) Problem-Solving
6 56 (11.86%) Software Engineering
7 55 (11.65%) Mentoring
8 44 (9.32%) Platform Engineering
9 42 (8.90%) Technical Leadership
10 41 (8.69%) Cybersecurity
11 36 (7.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 32 (6.78%) Stakeholder Management
13 31 (6.57%) Analytics
13 31 (6.57%) Coaching
14 30 (6.36%) Containerisation
15 29 (6.14%) Data Pipeline
16 27 (5.72%) Data Modelling
17 26 (5.51%) AI
17 26 (5.51%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 78 (16.53%) Python
2 60 (12.71%) Java
3 47 (9.96%) SQL
4 22 (4.66%) JavaScript
5 18 (3.81%) PowerShell
6 17 (3.60%) Bash
7 16 (3.39%) Groovy
8 13 (2.75%) TypeScript
9 7 (1.48%) Scala
10 6 (1.27%) C++
11 4 (0.85%) VBScript
12 3 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.64%) R
13 2 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.42%) PHP
13 2 (0.42%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.21%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.21%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 472 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 80 (16.95%) DV Cleared
3 22 (4.66%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (2.75%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (2.54%) AWS Certification
5 12 (2.54%) Degree
6 7 (1.48%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (1.27%) CCNP
7 6 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (1.06%) CCNA
8 5 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.85%) CISSP
9 4 (0.85%) MCSA
9 4 (0.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (0.64%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.42%) CIPD
11 2 (0.42%) CompTIA CySA+
11 2 (0.42%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.30%) Data Quality
2 22 (4.66%) QA
3 9 (1.91%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.91%) SLA
4 7 (1.48%) GDPR
5 5 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.06%) NIST
6 3 (0.64%) PMO
7 2 (0.42%) GRC
7 2 (0.42%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 2 (0.42%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.21%) AQAP
8 1 (0.21%) IEC 61508
8 1 (0.21%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 45 (9.53%) Docker
2 30 (6.36%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.27%) BitLocker
5 4 (0.85%) Firmware
6 3 (0.64%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 69 (14.62%) Terraform
2 44 (9.32%) Kubernetes
3 32 (6.78%) Ansible
4 11 (2.33%) SCCM
5 7 (1.48%) HP Fortify
6 5 (1.06%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (0.64%) Argo
8 3 (0.64%) Grafana
8 3 (0.64%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.64%) Puppet
9 2 (0.42%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (0.42%) Kibana
9 2 (0.42%) Packer
9 2 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.21%) Podman
Vendors
1 61 (12.92%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.66%) VMware
3 19 (4.03%) ServiceNow
4 13 (2.75%) Cisco
5 10 (2.12%) Citrix
5 10 (2.12%) Databricks
6 9 (1.91%) Google
7 6 (1.27%) Fortinet
7 6 (1.27%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.06%) Aruba
9 4 (0.85%) AppDynamics
9 4 (0.85%) CyberArk
9 4 (0.85%) HP
9 4 (0.85%) IBM
9 4 (0.85%) Juniper
9 4 (0.85%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.64%) CheckPoint
10 3 (0.64%) Informatica
10 3 (0.64%) Oracle
10 3 (0.64%) SAP