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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 168 118
Rank change year-on-year +103 -50 -20
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 481 158 358
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.29% 1.68% 2.04%
As % of the Qualifications category 14.40% 4.15% 10.06%
Number of salaries quoted 407 127 281
10th Percentile £44,000 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.07% +5.45% -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,312 £74,258 £66,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £78,320
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +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 3,341 3,809 3,557
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.94% 40.43% 20.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,711 1,223 2,313
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,650 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,835 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.67% - -8.61%
75th Percentile £70,525 £63,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £75,000 £79,525
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 19 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 19 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 +100 260 £67,500 +3.85% 92
Yorkshire +15 131 £63,750 +34.21% 55
North East +22 90 £60,000 -13.52% 36
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 18 (3.74%) Apache Spark
2 14 (2.91%) Apache
3 12 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (2.49%) Jupyter
4 9 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (1.04%) 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 21 (4.37%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 126 (26.20%) AWS
2 74 (15.38%) Azure
3 32 (6.65%) GitHub
4 28 (5.82%) AWS CloudFormation
5 27 (5.61%) Amazon S3
6 22 (4.57%) Serverless
7 19 (3.95%) Amazon EC2
7 19 (3.95%) Amazon ECR
8 16 (3.33%) Amazon EMR
9 15 (3.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 15 (3.12%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (3.12%) Power Platform
10 13 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
11 12 (2.49%) Dynamics 365
11 12 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (2.29%) Amazon EKS
12 11 (2.29%) SaaS
13 9 (1.87%) Azure Sentinel
14 8 (1.66%) AWS Step Functions
14 8 (1.66%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.33%) Network Security
2 13 (2.70%) DNS
3 12 (2.49%) Firewall
4 10 (2.08%) DHCP
4 10 (2.08%) TCP/IP
4 10 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (1.66%) Cisco Firepower
5 8 (1.66%) SAN
6 7 (1.46%) VLAN
7 6 (1.25%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (1.25%) LAN
7 6 (1.25%) Structured Cabling
7 6 (1.25%) WAN
8 5 (1.04%) VPN
9 4 (0.83%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (0.83%) SMTP
10 3 (0.62%) Broadband
10 3 (0.62%) DSLAM
10 3 (0.62%) Wireless
11 2 (0.42%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.74%) DynamoDB
2 16 (3.33%) Big Data
3 15 (3.12%) Amazon Athena
4 11 (2.29%) Power BI
5 10 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (1.46%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.83%) BigQuery
8 4 (0.83%) Hadoop
8 4 (0.83%) Looker
8 4 (0.83%) Tableau
9 3 (0.62%) OLAP
9 3 (0.62%) Power Query
9 3 (0.62%) PowerPivot
9 3 (0.62%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.42%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.42%) Redis
Development Applications
1 44 (9.15%) GitLab
2 34 (7.07%) Jenkins
3 22 (4.57%) Git
4 11 (2.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 9 (1.87%) SonarQube
6 8 (1.66%) Cypress.io
6 8 (1.66%) JIRA
6 8 (1.66%) Maven
7 3 (0.62%) Claude Code
7 3 (0.62%) 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 83 (17.26%) Social Skills
2 77 (16.01%) Public Sector
3 47 (9.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 34 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (7.07%) Finance
5 16 (3.33%) Telecoms
6 11 (2.29%) Legal
7 9 (1.87%) Law
8 8 (1.66%) Retail
9 6 (1.25%) Police
10 5 (1.04%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.83%) Marketing
12 2 (0.42%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.21%) Banking
13 1 (0.21%) Military
13 1 (0.21%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 89 (18.50%) Senior
2 74 (15.38%) Developer
3 57 (11.85%) Cloud Engineer
4 50 (10.40%) Consultant
5 46 (9.56%) DevOps Engineer
6 40 (8.32%) Software Engineer
7 35 (7.28%) Architect
8 34 (7.07%) Java Developer
9 26 (5.41%) Lead
10 25 (5.20%) Analyst
10 25 (5.20%) Network Engineer
10 25 (5.20%) Senior Developer
11 22 (4.57%) Security Consultant
12 20 (4.16%) AWS DevOps
13 18 (3.74%) Data Engineer
14 17 (3.53%) Principal Engineer
15 15 (3.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 15 (3.12%) AWS Engineer
15 15 (3.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 15 (3.12%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.53%) PySpark
1 17 (3.53%) Spring Boot
2 15 (3.12%) AngularJS
3 14 (2.91%) HTML
4 13 (2.70%) REST
5 12 (2.49%) CSS
5 12 (2.49%) Node.js
6 11 (2.29%) React
7 10 (2.08%) Spring
8 9 (1.87%) .NET
8 9 (1.87%) Jest
9 7 (1.46%) Gherkin
9 7 (1.46%) Kafka
9 7 (1.46%) Web Services
10 6 (1.25%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (1.25%) Regular Expression
10 6 (1.25%) YAML
11 5 (1.04%) Elastic Stack
12 4 (0.83%) SAML
12 4 (0.83%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 37 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 23 (4.78%) Driving Licence
3 20 (4.16%) Onboarding
4 17 (3.53%) Data Centre
5 10 (2.08%) Security Operations Centre
6 9 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (1.66%) Data Structures
7 8 (1.66%) Enterprise Storage
8 6 (1.25%) Cyberattack
8 6 (1.25%) Low-Code
8 6 (1.25%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.04%) Fibre Optics
9 5 (1.04%) Product Ownership
10 4 (0.83%) Clustering
10 4 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.62%) CCTV
11 3 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.42%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.42%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 32 (6.65%) Windows
2 25 (5.20%) Linux
3 14 (2.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (2.91%) Windows Server
4 13 (2.70%) CentOS
4 13 (2.70%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.62%) Unix
6 2 (0.42%) Debian
6 2 (0.42%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.42%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.21%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (23.70%) Agile
2 105 (21.83%) DevOps
3 78 (16.22%) CI/CD
4 63 (13.10%) Continuous Improvement
5 57 (11.85%) Infrastructure as Code
5 57 (11.85%) Problem-Solving
5 57 (11.85%) Software Engineering
6 56 (11.64%) Mentoring
7 45 (9.36%) Platform Engineering
8 43 (8.94%) Technical Leadership
9 40 (8.32%) Cybersecurity
10 36 (7.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 33 (6.86%) Stakeholder Management
12 32 (6.65%) Coaching
13 29 (6.03%) Analytics
13 29 (6.03%) Containerisation
14 27 (5.61%) Data Pipeline
14 27 (5.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 26 (5.41%) AI
15 26 (5.41%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 77 (16.01%) Python
2 60 (12.47%) Java
3 46 (9.56%) SQL
4 22 (4.57%) JavaScript
5 18 (3.74%) Bash
5 18 (3.74%) PowerShell
6 15 (3.12%) Groovy
7 14 (2.91%) TypeScript
8 7 (1.46%) Scala
9 6 (1.25%) C++
10 4 (0.83%) VBScript
11 3 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.62%) PHP
11 3 (0.62%) R
12 2 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.42%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.21%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.21%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 481 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 83 (17.26%) DV Cleared
3 22 (4.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (2.49%) AWS Certification
5 12 (2.49%) Degree
6 7 (1.46%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (1.25%) CCNP
7 6 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (1.04%) CCNA
8 5 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.83%) CISSP
9 4 (0.83%) MCSA
9 4 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (0.62%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.42%) CIPD
11 2 (0.42%) CompTIA CySA+
11 2 (0.42%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.20%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.99%) QA
3 10 (2.08%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.87%) SLA
5 7 (1.46%) GDPR
6 5 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.04%) NIST
7 3 (0.62%) PMO
8 2 (0.42%) GRC
8 2 (0.42%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 2 (0.42%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.42%) WCAG
9 1 (0.21%) AQAP
9 1 (0.21%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.21%) JSP 440
System Software
1 47 (9.77%) Docker
2 28 (5.82%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.25%) BitLocker
5 4 (0.83%) Firmware
6 3 (0.62%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.62%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 71 (14.76%) Terraform
2 47 (9.77%) Kubernetes
3 34 (7.07%) Ansible
4 12 (2.49%) SCCM
5 7 (1.46%) HP Fortify
6 5 (1.04%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (0.62%) Argo
8 3 (0.62%) Grafana
8 3 (0.62%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.42%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (0.42%) Kibana
9 2 (0.42%) Packer
9 2 (0.42%) Puppet
9 2 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.21%) Nessus
10 1 (0.21%) Podman
Vendors
1 58 (12.06%) Microsoft
2 19 (3.95%) ServiceNow
2 19 (3.95%) VMware
3 13 (2.70%) Cisco
4 10 (2.08%) Databricks
5 8 (1.66%) Citrix
5 8 (1.66%) Google
6 6 (1.25%) Fortinet
6 6 (1.25%) OpenAI
7 5 (1.04%) Aruba
8 4 (0.83%) AppDynamics
8 4 (0.83%) CyberArk
8 4 (0.83%) HP
8 4 (0.83%) IBM
8 4 (0.83%) Juniper
9 3 (0.62%) Informatica
9 3 (0.62%) Oracle
9 3 (0.62%) Palo Alto
9 3 (0.62%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.62%) SAP