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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 166 117
Rank change year-on-year +99 -49 -11
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 451 157 371
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.19% 1.72% 1.96%
As % of the Qualifications category 13.49% 4.08% 9.78%
Number of salaries quoted 381 125 290
10th Percentile £42,410 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £47,316
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £56,509
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +1.75% -9.95%
75th Percentile £78,312 £74,258 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £79,263
England median annual salary £68,076 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.46% +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 3,344 3,847 3,794
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.20% 42.19% 20.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,679 1,252 2,540
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,525 £26,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £33,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £48,617
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +2.85% -9.97%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £86,500 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,347
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.20% -9.42%

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 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 5 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 +106 253 £67,500 +5.88% 155
Yorkshire +12 121 £62,500 +31.58% 58
North East +16 77 £57,500 -17.13% 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 15 (3.33%) Apache
1 15 (3.33%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (2.44%) Jupyter
3 9 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.11%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.44%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.22%) JBoss
Applications
1 23 (5.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 112 (24.83%) AWS
2 72 (15.96%) Azure
3 28 (6.21%) GitHub
4 26 (5.76%) Amazon S3
4 26 (5.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 20 (4.43%) Serverless
6 18 (3.99%) Amazon EC2
6 18 (3.99%) Amazon ECR
7 16 (3.55%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (3.33%) Amazon EMR
8 15 (3.33%) Power Platform
9 14 (3.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 14 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (2.88%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (2.88%) Dynamics 365
10 13 (2.88%) SaaS
11 12 (2.66%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (2.00%) Azure Sentinel
12 9 (2.00%) GCP
13 8 (1.77%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.55%) Network Security
2 15 (3.33%) DNS
3 12 (2.66%) DHCP
3 12 (2.66%) TCP/IP
4 11 (2.44%) Firewall
5 10 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (1.77%) Cisco Firepower
6 8 (1.77%) SAN
7 7 (1.55%) VLAN
8 6 (1.33%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (1.33%) LAN
8 6 (1.33%) Structured Cabling
8 6 (1.33%) WAN
9 5 (1.11%) VPN
10 4 (0.89%) Cisco Nexus
10 4 (0.89%) SMTP
11 3 (0.67%) AMQP
11 3 (0.67%) Broadband
11 3 (0.67%) DSLAM
11 3 (0.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.77%) DynamoDB
2 14 (3.10%) Amazon Athena
2 14 (3.10%) Big Data
3 11 (2.44%) Power BI
4 10 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (1.55%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.11%) Hadoop
6 5 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.89%) BigQuery
7 4 (0.89%) Looker
7 4 (0.89%) Tableau
8 3 (0.67%) Cloudera CDH
8 3 (0.67%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.67%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.67%) OLAP
8 3 (0.67%) Power Query
8 3 (0.67%) PowerPivot
8 3 (0.67%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 39 (8.65%) GitLab
2 30 (6.65%) Jenkins
3 17 (3.77%) Git
4 9 (2.00%) SonarQube
5 8 (1.77%) Cypress.io
5 8 (1.77%) JIRA
5 8 (1.77%) Maven
6 7 (1.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (1.11%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.67%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.44%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.44%) Postman
9 2 (0.44%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.44%) Vite
10 1 (0.22%) Selenium
General
1 69 (15.30%) Social Skills
2 63 (13.97%) Public Sector
3 39 (8.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 36 (7.98%) Finance
5 31 (6.87%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (3.55%) Telecoms
7 11 (2.44%) Legal
8 9 (2.00%) Law
9 8 (1.77%) Retail
10 6 (1.33%) Police
11 5 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.11%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.89%) Marketing
13 3 (0.67%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.22%) Banking
15 1 (0.22%) Military
Job Titles
1 81 (17.96%) Senior
2 69 (15.30%) Developer
3 53 (11.75%) Cloud Engineer
4 47 (10.42%) Consultant
5 40 (8.87%) Software Engineer
6 38 (8.43%) DevOps Engineer
7 34 (7.54%) Java Developer
8 30 (6.65%) Architect
9 26 (5.76%) Lead
10 25 (5.54%) Network Engineer
11 22 (4.88%) Senior Developer
12 21 (4.66%) Analyst
13 19 (4.21%) Security Consultant
14 18 (3.99%) AWS DevOps
15 17 (3.77%) Data Engineer
16 16 (3.55%) AWS Engineer
17 15 (3.33%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
18 14 (3.10%) Business Consultant
18 14 (3.10%) IT Support
18 14 (3.10%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.21%) Spring Boot
2 17 (3.77%) AngularJS
3 14 (3.10%) REST
4 13 (2.88%) PySpark
5 12 (2.66%) Spring
6 11 (2.44%) React
7 9 (2.00%) .NET
7 9 (2.00%) HTML
7 9 (2.00%) Node.js
8 8 (1.77%) Jest
9 7 (1.55%) CSS
9 7 (1.55%) Gherkin
9 7 (1.55%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (1.55%) Web Services
10 6 (1.33%) Regular Expression
10 6 (1.33%) YAML
11 5 (1.11%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (1.11%) Kafka
11 5 (1.11%) Vue
12 4 (0.89%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (6.65%) Cloud Native
2 23 (5.10%) Driving Licence
3 21 (4.66%) Onboarding
4 17 (3.77%) Data Centre
5 11 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (2.22%) Security Operations Centre
7 8 (1.77%) Enterprise Storage
8 7 (1.55%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.33%) Cyberattack
9 6 (1.33%) Low-Code
9 6 (1.33%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.11%) Fibre Optics
10 5 (1.11%) Product Ownership
11 4 (0.89%) Clustering
11 4 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (0.67%) CCTV
12 3 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.44%) Linux Command Line
13 2 (0.44%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 32 (7.10%) Windows
2 21 (4.66%) Linux
3 17 (3.77%) Windows Server
4 11 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (2.44%) Windows 10
5 10 (2.22%) CentOS
6 3 (0.67%) Debian
6 3 (0.67%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.67%) Unix
7 2 (0.44%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.22%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (23.73%) Agile
2 95 (21.06%) DevOps
3 68 (15.08%) CI/CD
4 57 (12.64%) Continuous Improvement
5 56 (12.42%) Software Engineering
6 54 (11.97%) Problem-Solving
7 53 (11.75%) Infrastructure as Code
8 49 (10.86%) Mentoring
9 42 (9.31%) Platform Engineering
10 36 (7.98%) Cybersecurity
11 32 (7.10%) Technical Leadership
12 30 (6.65%) Stakeholder Management
13 29 (6.43%) Containerisation
14 28 (6.21%) Analytics
14 28 (6.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 27 (5.99%) Coaching
16 26 (5.76%) AI
16 26 (5.76%) ITIL
17 25 (5.54%) Data Modelling
17 25 (5.54%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 74 (16.41%) Python
2 63 (13.97%) Java
3 45 (9.98%) SQL
4 18 (3.99%) JavaScript
4 18 (3.99%) PowerShell
5 17 (3.77%) Bash
6 16 (3.55%) Groovy
7 12 (2.66%) TypeScript
8 7 (1.55%) Scala
9 6 (1.33%) C++
10 4 (0.89%) VBScript
11 3 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.67%) R
12 2 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.44%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.22%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.22%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 451 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 75 (16.63%) DV Cleared
3 22 (4.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (2.66%) AWS Certification
5 12 (2.66%) Degree
6 7 (1.55%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (1.33%) CCNP
7 6 (1.33%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (1.11%) CCNA
8 5 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.89%) CISSP
9 4 (0.89%) MCSA
9 4 (0.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (0.67%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.44%) A+ Certification
11 2 (0.44%) CIPD
11 2 (0.44%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.32%) Data Quality
2 19 (4.21%) QA
3 9 (2.00%) SLA
4 7 (1.55%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.55%) GDPR
5 5 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.11%) NIST
6 3 (0.67%) PMO
7 2 (0.44%) GRC
7 2 (0.44%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 2 (0.44%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.22%) AQAP
8 1 (0.22%) IEC 61508
8 1 (0.22%) JSP 440
System Software
1 41 (9.09%) Docker
2 29 (6.43%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.33%) BitLocker
5 4 (0.89%) Firmware
6 3 (0.67%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 63 (13.97%) Terraform
2 39 (8.65%) Kubernetes
3 27 (5.99%) Ansible
4 11 (2.44%) SCCM
5 7 (1.55%) HP Fortify
6 5 (1.11%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (0.67%) Argo
8 3 (0.67%) Grafana
8 3 (0.67%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.67%) Puppet
9 2 (0.44%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (0.44%) Kibana
9 2 (0.44%) Packer
9 2 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.22%) Podman
Vendors
1 59 (13.08%) Microsoft
2 22 (4.88%) VMware
3 19 (4.21%) ServiceNow
4 13 (2.88%) Cisco
5 10 (2.22%) Citrix
5 10 (2.22%) Databricks
6 9 (2.00%) Google
7 6 (1.33%) Fortinet
8 5 (1.11%) Aruba
8 5 (1.11%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.89%) AppDynamics
9 4 (0.89%) CyberArk
9 4 (0.89%) HP
9 4 (0.89%) IBM
9 4 (0.89%) Juniper
9 4 (0.89%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.67%) CheckPoint
10 3 (0.67%) Oracle
10 3 (0.67%) Remedy
10 3 (0.67%) SAP