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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 103 126
Rank change year-on-year -6 +23 -5
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 268 156 335
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.62% 2.43% 2.08%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.65% 5.69% 9.75%
Number of salaries quoted 218 131 253
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,799 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £58,800
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -10.71% +2.26%
75th Percentile £78,790 £72,061 £69,800
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -8.33%

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 4,740 2,743 3,436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 28.72% 42.80% 21.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,531 1,307 2,520
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £29,750 £39,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £50,055 £48,734
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% +2.71% -7.17%
75th Percentile £63,750 £66,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%

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 10 April 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 10 April 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 +9 146 £62,500 +19.05% 106
Yorkshire -12 93 £60,000 +34.23% 68
North East -13 29 £60,000 -7.20% 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 6 (2.24%) Apache
1 6 (2.24%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.37%) Confluence
3 1 (0.37%) JBoss
3 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 19 (7.09%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 65 (24.25%) AWS
2 60 (22.39%) Azure
3 24 (8.96%) AWS CloudFormation
4 21 (7.84%) Serverless
5 19 (7.09%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (6.34%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (5.97%) Amazon ECS
8 14 (5.22%) Amazon EKS
9 13 (4.85%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (4.48%) GCP
11 11 (4.10%) Amazon ECR
11 11 (4.10%) SaaS
12 10 (3.73%) Amazon S3
13 9 (3.36%) GitHub
14 8 (2.99%) AWS Step Functions
15 7 (2.61%) dbt
15 7 (2.61%) PaaS
16 6 (2.24%) Apigee
16 6 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
16 6 (2.24%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 20 (7.46%) TCP/IP
2 16 (5.97%) DHCP
2 16 (5.97%) DNS
3 7 (2.61%) Network Security
4 6 (2.24%) VLAN
4 6 (2.24%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (1.87%) AMQP
5 5 (1.87%) Firewall
5 5 (1.87%) LAN
5 5 (1.87%) VPN
5 5 (1.87%) WAN
6 4 (1.49%) SMTP
7 3 (1.12%) Broadband
7 3 (1.12%) DMZ
7 3 (1.12%) DSLAM
7 3 (1.12%) Modbus
7 3 (1.12%) Structured Cabling
7 3 (1.12%) Wireless
8 2 (0.75%) MPLS
8 2 (0.75%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.48%) DynamoDB
2 7 (2.61%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (1.87%) Big Data
4 5 (1.87%) Cloudera CDH
4 5 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (1.87%) Hadoop
4 5 (1.87%) Metadata
4 5 (1.87%) Redis
4 5 (1.87%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.49%) Power BI
6 2 (0.75%) Power Query
7 1 (0.37%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.37%) Looker
7 1 (0.37%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.37%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (4.85%) Jenkins
2 12 (4.48%) GitLab
3 9 (3.36%) Git
4 8 (2.99%) JIRA
4 8 (2.99%) SonarQube
5 6 (2.24%) Cypress.io
5 6 (2.24%) Maven
6 5 (1.87%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.49%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.75%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.75%) JMeter
8 2 (0.75%) Locust
8 2 (0.75%) Postman
8 2 (0.75%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.37%) NUnit
9 1 (0.37%) Selenium
General
1 49 (18.28%) Social Skills
2 42 (15.67%) Public Sector
3 19 (7.09%) Finance
3 19 (7.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (4.85%) Telecoms
5 11 (4.10%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (2.99%) Retail
7 6 (2.24%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (2.24%) Law
7 6 (2.24%) Police
8 5 (1.87%) Aerospace
8 5 (1.87%) Legal
9 3 (1.12%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.75%) Military
10 2 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.37%) Banking
Job Titles
1 42 (15.67%) Senior
2 36 (13.43%) Developer
3 27 (10.07%) Architect
4 24 (8.96%) Lead
5 22 (8.21%) Consultant
6 20 (7.46%) Java Developer
7 19 (7.09%) Analyst
7 19 (7.09%) Cloud Engineer
8 18 (6.72%) IT Support
9 16 (5.97%) DevOps Engineer
10 13 (4.85%) Dynamics 365 Architect
10 13 (4.85%) Software Engineer
11 12 (4.48%) Senior Developer
12 11 (4.10%) Business Consultant
13 9 (3.36%) AWS Engineer
13 9 (3.36%) Business Analyst
13 9 (3.36%) Full-Stack Developer
13 9 (3.36%) Head of Architecture
13 9 (3.36%) Head of Service Delivery
13 9 (3.36%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.72%) AngularJS
2 16 (5.97%) Spring Boot
3 15 (5.60%) REST
4 10 (3.73%) React
4 10 (3.73%) Spring
5 9 (3.36%) Node.js
5 9 (3.36%) RabbitMQ
6 8 (2.99%) Gherkin
7 7 (2.61%) YAML
8 6 (2.24%) .NET
8 6 (2.24%) Django
8 6 (2.24%) Jest
9 5 (1.87%) gRPC
9 5 (1.87%) Material-UI
9 5 (1.87%) OpenAPI
9 5 (1.87%) Regular Expression
9 5 (1.87%) SAML
9 5 (1.87%) Swagger
10 4 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (1.49%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.85%) Onboarding
2 11 (4.10%) Data Centre
2 11 (4.10%) Driving Licence
3 10 (3.73%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (3.36%) Security Operations Centre
5 7 (2.61%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.24%) Cyberattack
7 5 (1.87%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.87%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.87%) Fibre Optics
7 5 (1.87%) Low-Code
7 5 (1.87%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.49%) SCADA
9 3 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.12%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.75%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 37 (13.81%) Windows
2 22 (8.21%) Windows Server
3 15 (5.60%) Linux
4 7 (2.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.61%) Unix
5 6 (2.24%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.87%) CentOS
6 5 (1.87%) Debian
6 5 (1.87%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.75%) Solaris
7 2 (0.75%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (21.64%) Agile
2 50 (18.66%) DevOps
3 33 (12.31%) CI/CD
4 32 (11.94%) Continuous Improvement
5 29 (10.82%) Infrastructure as Code
6 25 (9.33%) Cybersecurity
7 23 (8.58%) ITIL
8 22 (8.21%) Mentoring
9 21 (7.84%) Scrum
10 20 (7.46%) Software Engineering
11 19 (7.09%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (6.72%) Platform Engineering
13 17 (6.34%) Incident Management
14 14 (5.22%) Full-Stack Development
15 13 (4.85%) Project Delivery
15 13 (4.85%) Risk Management
16 12 (4.48%) Kanban
16 12 (4.48%) Service Delivery
16 12 (4.48%) SIEM
16 12 (4.48%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (15.30%) Java
2 35 (13.06%) Python
3 20 (7.46%) SQL
4 12 (4.48%) JavaScript
5 9 (3.36%) Bash
5 9 (3.36%) Groovy
6 8 (2.99%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.61%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.12%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.75%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.37%) Bicep
10 1 (0.37%) C#
10 1 (0.37%) C++
10 1 (0.37%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 268 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 36 (13.43%) DV Cleared
3 14 (5.22%) Degree
4 11 (4.10%) AWS Certification
5 7 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 5 (1.87%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.49%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.12%) CCNP
8 3 (1.12%) CISSP
8 3 (1.12%) HND
8 3 (1.12%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.75%) A+ Certification
9 2 (0.75%) CCNA
9 2 (0.75%) CIPD
9 2 (0.75%) CISM
9 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.75%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.87%) QA
2 4 (1.49%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.12%) GRC
3 3 (1.12%) NIST
4 2 (0.75%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.75%) SLA
4 2 (0.75%) WCAG
5 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.37%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.37%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.37%) NCSC
System Software
1 25 (9.33%) Active Directory
2 22 (8.21%) Docker
3 2 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.37%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 37 (13.81%) Terraform
2 20 (7.46%) Ansible
3 17 (6.34%) Kubernetes
4 6 (2.24%) HP Fortify
5 5 (1.87%) Puppet
6 4 (1.49%) SCCM
7 3 (1.12%) AWS Copilot
7 3 (1.12%) Grafana
8 2 (0.75%) Kibana
8 2 (0.75%) Packer
8 2 (0.75%) Podman
9 1 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 36 (13.43%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.72%) VMware
3 15 (5.60%) Citrix
4 12 (4.48%) Google
5 9 (3.36%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.61%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.87%) SaltStack
8 4 (1.49%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.49%) CyberArk
8 4 (1.49%) IBM
8 4 (1.49%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.12%) BT
9 3 (1.12%) CheckPoint
9 3 (1.12%) Cisco
9 3 (1.12%) Oracle
9 3 (1.12%) Splunk
10 2 (0.75%) Databricks
10 2 (0.75%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.75%) Mirantis
11 1 (0.37%) Spotify