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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 182 127
Rank change year-on-year +98 -55 -5
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 393 129 355
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.96% 1.63% 1.99%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.05% 3.67% 9.88%
Number of salaries quoted 329 101 275
10th Percentile £37,900 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,799 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,258 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,500 £88,333 £79,600
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 4,343 3,518 3,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 21.71% 44.45% 20.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,594 1,212 2,625
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £33,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +5.26% -13.45%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £79,600
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 31 May 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 May 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 +98 221 £65,000 +12.07% 75
Yorkshire +13 120 £62,500 +39.82% 35
North East -3 52 £55,000 -20.73% 28
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 13 (3.31%) Apache
1 13 (3.31%) Apache Spark
2 9 (2.29%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (2.29%) Jupyter
3 8 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.51%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.25%) JBoss
5 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 24 (6.11%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 97 (24.68%) AWS
2 76 (19.34%) Azure
3 24 (6.11%) Amazon S3
4 22 (5.60%) AWS CloudFormation
5 19 (4.83%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (4.83%) Serverless
6 18 (4.58%) GitHub
7 16 (4.07%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (3.82%) Amazon ECR
9 14 (3.56%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (3.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (3.31%) Amazon EC2
10 13 (3.31%) Amazon EMR
10 13 (3.31%) SaaS
11 12 (3.05%) Amazon EKS
12 11 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (2.29%) AWS Step Functions
13 9 (2.29%) Power Platform
14 8 (2.04%) Azure Sentinel
14 8 (2.04%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.83%) DNS
2 18 (4.58%) Network Security
3 17 (4.33%) DHCP
3 17 (4.33%) TCP/IP
4 13 (3.31%) Firewall
5 10 (2.54%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (2.04%) Cisco Firepower
7 7 (1.78%) VLAN
8 6 (1.53%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (1.53%) LAN
8 6 (1.53%) VPN
8 6 (1.53%) WAN
9 5 (1.27%) SAN
9 5 (1.27%) Structured Cabling
10 4 (1.02%) Cisco Nexus
10 4 (1.02%) SMTP
11 3 (0.76%) AMQP
11 3 (0.76%) Broadband
11 3 (0.76%) DSLAM
11 3 (0.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.09%) DynamoDB
2 14 (3.56%) Amazon Athena
3 13 (3.31%) Big Data
4 9 (2.29%) Power BI
5 8 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (1.78%) Data Lake
6 7 (1.78%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.27%) Hadoop
7 5 (1.27%) Metadata
7 5 (1.27%) Power Query
7 5 (1.27%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.02%) Tableau
9 3 (0.76%) BigQuery
9 3 (0.76%) Cloudera CDH
9 3 (0.76%) Looker
9 3 (0.76%) OLAP
9 3 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.76%) PowerPivot
9 3 (0.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (7.12%) GitLab
2 18 (4.58%) Jenkins
3 12 (3.05%) Git
4 8 (2.04%) SonarQube
5 7 (1.78%) Cypress.io
5 7 (1.78%) Maven
6 6 (1.53%) JIRA
7 5 (1.27%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.76%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.51%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.51%) Postman
9 2 (0.51%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.25%) Selenium
General
1 59 (15.01%) Social Skills
2 57 (14.50%) Public Sector
3 33 (8.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 29 (7.38%) Finance
5 26 (6.62%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (3.82%) Telecoms
7 10 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (2.54%) Legal
8 7 (1.78%) Law
8 7 (1.78%) Police
8 7 (1.78%) Retail
9 3 (0.76%) Aerospace
9 3 (0.76%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.25%) Banking
11 1 (0.25%) Marketing
11 1 (0.25%) Military
Job Titles
1 66 (16.79%) Senior
2 57 (14.50%) Developer
3 45 (11.45%) Cloud Engineer
4 33 (8.40%) Software Engineer
5 32 (8.14%) Architect
6 31 (7.89%) Java Developer
7 30 (7.63%) Consultant
8 25 (6.36%) DevOps Engineer
9 24 (6.11%) Lead
10 23 (5.85%) Analyst
10 23 (5.85%) Network Engineer
11 20 (5.09%) Senior Developer
12 18 (4.58%) IT Support
13 16 (4.07%) Data Engineer
14 13 (3.31%) Business Analyst
15 12 (3.05%) AWS Engineer
15 12 (3.05%) Business Consultant
15 12 (3.05%) Security Consultant
16 11 (2.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 11 (2.80%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.58%) AngularJS
1 18 (4.58%) Spring Boot
2 14 (3.56%) REST
3 12 (3.05%) Spring
4 11 (2.80%) PySpark
5 9 (2.29%) .NET
5 9 (2.29%) React
6 7 (1.78%) Jest
6 7 (1.78%) Node.js
6 7 (1.78%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (1.53%) Gherkin
7 6 (1.53%) Regular Expression
7 6 (1.53%) YAML
8 5 (1.27%) Kafka
8 5 (1.27%) Vue
9 4 (1.02%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (1.02%) SAML
9 4 (1.02%) Web Services
10 3 (0.76%) gRPC
10 3 (0.76%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 18 (4.58%) Data Centre
1 18 (4.58%) Driving Licence
1 18 (4.58%) Onboarding
2 13 (3.31%) Cloud Native
3 11 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (2.54%) Security Operations Centre
5 9 (2.29%) Data Structures
6 8 (2.04%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.78%) Cyberattack
7 7 (1.78%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.53%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.27%) Enterprise Storage
9 5 (1.27%) Fibre Optics
10 4 (1.02%) Clustering
10 4 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.51%) CCTV
12 2 (0.51%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.51%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 44 (11.20%) Windows
2 28 (7.12%) Windows Server
3 13 (3.31%) Linux
4 9 (2.29%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.27%) CentOS
7 3 (0.76%) Debian
7 3 (0.76%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.76%) Unix
8 2 (0.51%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.25%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (21.37%) Agile
2 73 (18.58%) DevOps
3 48 (12.21%) Problem-Solving
4 47 (11.96%) CI/CD
5 46 (11.70%) Software Engineering
6 43 (10.94%) Continuous Improvement
7 41 (10.43%) Mentoring
8 39 (9.92%) Infrastructure as Code
9 30 (7.63%) Platform Engineering
10 28 (7.12%) Cybersecurity
11 25 (6.36%) Coaching
11 25 (6.36%) ITIL
12 23 (5.85%) Analytics
12 23 (5.85%) Data Modelling
13 22 (5.60%) Data Pipeline
13 22 (5.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 22 (5.60%) Stakeholder Management
14 21 (5.34%) Containerisation
15 20 (5.09%) Full-Stack Development
15 20 (5.09%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 59 (15.01%) Python
2 55 (13.99%) Java
3 43 (10.94%) SQL
4 15 (3.82%) Bash
5 13 (3.31%) PowerShell
6 12 (3.05%) Groovy
7 10 (2.54%) JavaScript
8 9 (2.29%) TypeScript
9 6 (1.53%) C++
10 3 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.76%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.76%) R
11 2 (0.51%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.51%) Scala
11 2 (0.51%) VBScript
12 1 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.25%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 393 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 68 (17.30%) DV Cleared
3 14 (3.56%) AWS Certification
3 14 (3.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 14 (3.56%) Degree
4 8 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (1.78%) Azure Certification
5 7 (1.78%) CCNP
5 7 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.53%) CCNA
7 5 (1.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.02%) CISSP
8 4 (1.02%) MCSA
8 4 (1.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (0.76%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.76%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.51%) CIPD
10 2 (0.51%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.60%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.54%) QA
3 9 (2.29%) SLA
4 5 (1.27%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.02%) GDPR
5 4 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.02%) NIST
6 2 (0.51%) GRC
6 2 (0.51%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.51%) PMO
7 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.25%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.25%) JSP 440
System Software
1 33 (8.40%) Active Directory
2 29 (7.38%) Docker
3 7 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.02%) BitLocker
5 2 (0.51%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.51%) vSphere
6 1 (0.25%) Firmware
6 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 51 (12.98%) Terraform
2 24 (6.11%) Kubernetes
3 21 (5.34%) Ansible
4 9 (2.29%) SCCM
5 6 (1.53%) HP Fortify
6 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (0.76%) Puppet
8 2 (0.51%) Argo
8 2 (0.51%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.51%) Grafana
8 2 (0.51%) Kibana
8 2 (0.51%) Packer
8 2 (0.51%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.51%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.25%) Podman
Vendors
1 52 (13.23%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.11%) VMware
3 17 (4.33%) ServiceNow
4 15 (3.82%) Citrix
5 13 (3.31%) Cisco
6 10 (2.54%) Databricks
7 8 (2.04%) Google
8 6 (1.53%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.27%) Aruba
10 4 (1.02%) AppDynamics
10 4 (1.02%) CyberArk
10 4 (1.02%) HP
10 4 (1.02%) IBM
10 4 (1.02%) Juniper
10 4 (1.02%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.02%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.76%) BT
11 3 (0.76%) CheckPoint
11 3 (0.76%) Oracle
11 3 (0.76%) SAP