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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 151 94
Rank change year-on-year +94 -57 -7
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 555 177 338
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.49% 1.83% 2.24%
As % of the Qualifications category 16.78% 4.62% 9.98%
Number of salaries quoted 451 140 254
10th Percentile £45,421 £37,925 £37,875
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.17% +7.27% -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,312 £74,258 £66,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% +4.35% -7.93%

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 3,307 3,835 3,388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 14.81% 39.68% 22.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,771 1,205 1,678
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,550 £26,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £33,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £74,258 £77,500
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 17 August 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 17 August 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 +108 303 £67,500 +3.85% 209
Yorkshire +17 137 £65,000 +36.84% 79
North East +16 115 £60,000 -7.69% 65
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 24 (4.32%) Apache Spark
2 19 (3.42%) Apache
3 16 (2.88%) SharePoint
4 15 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (2.70%) Jupyter
4 15 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.72%) Confluence
6 3 (0.54%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.18%) CMS
7 1 (0.18%) JBoss
7 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.72%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.18%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 153 (27.57%) AWS
2 89 (16.04%) Azure
3 42 (7.57%) GitHub
4 37 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 36 (6.49%) Amazon S3
6 33 (5.95%) Serverless
7 25 (4.50%) Amazon EC2
7 25 (4.50%) AWS Lambda
8 24 (4.32%) Power Platform
9 22 (3.96%) Amazon ECR
10 20 (3.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 19 (3.42%) Amazon EMR
11 19 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
12 16 (2.88%) GCP
13 13 (2.34%) Amazon ECS
13 13 (2.34%) Amazon EKS
13 13 (2.34%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (2.16%) SaaS
15 10 (1.80%) Entra ID
15 10 (1.80%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.88%) Network Security
2 12 (2.16%) Firewall
3 10 (1.80%) SAN
4 7 (1.26%) Cisco Firepower
5 6 (1.08%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (1.08%) DNS
6 5 (0.90%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.72%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (0.72%) Skype
7 4 (0.72%) VLAN
7 4 (0.72%) WAN
8 3 (0.54%) DHCP
8 3 (0.54%) LAN
8 3 (0.54%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.54%) VPN
9 2 (0.36%) AMQP
9 2 (0.36%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.36%) Wireless
10 1 (0.18%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (3.78%) DynamoDB
2 17 (3.06%) Big Data
3 16 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
5 12 (2.16%) Power BI
6 10 (1.80%) Data Lake
7 9 (1.62%) BigQuery
8 8 (1.44%) Looker
8 8 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (1.08%) Hadoop
9 6 (1.08%) Metadata
10 5 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (0.90%) Tableau
11 4 (0.72%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.72%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.54%) OLAP
12 3 (0.54%) Power Query
12 3 (0.54%) PowerPivot
12 3 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 56 (10.09%) GitLab
2 43 (7.75%) Jenkins
3 32 (5.77%) Git
4 16 (2.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 13 (2.34%) JIRA
6 9 (1.62%) Cypress.io
6 9 (1.62%) SonarQube
7 8 (1.44%) Maven
8 3 (0.54%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.54%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.36%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.36%) Balsamiq
9 2 (0.36%) Postman
9 2 (0.36%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.36%) Vite
10 1 (0.18%) Mocha
10 1 (0.18%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.18%) Selenium
General
1 106 (19.10%) Social Skills
2 104 (18.74%) Public Sector
3 57 (10.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 54 (9.73%) Finance
5 49 (8.83%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (4.14%) Legal
7 15 (2.70%) Retail
8 10 (1.80%) Law
9 9 (1.62%) Manufacturing
10 8 (1.44%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.26%) Local Government
11 7 (1.26%) Police
12 6 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.90%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.72%) Marketing
15 3 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.36%) Military
17 1 (0.18%) Banking
17 1 (0.18%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 99 (17.84%) Senior
2 83 (14.95%) Developer
3 65 (11.71%) Cloud Engineer
4 56 (10.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 49 (8.83%) Software Engineer
6 47 (8.47%) Consultant
7 34 (6.13%) Java Developer
8 33 (5.95%) Analyst
9 30 (5.41%) Architect
10 29 (5.23%) Lead
11 26 (4.68%) Network Engineer
11 26 (4.68%) Senior Developer
12 22 (3.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 22 (3.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 22 (3.96%) Principal Engineer
13 19 (3.42%) AWS DevOps
13 19 (3.42%) Cloud Native Engineer
13 19 (3.42%) Data Engineer
13 19 (3.42%) Security Consultant
14 17 (3.06%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (4.50%) CSS
2 23 (4.14%) HTML
3 20 (3.60%) Node.js
3 20 (3.60%) PySpark
4 18 (3.24%) .NET
4 18 (3.24%) AngularJS
4 18 (3.24%) React
5 17 (3.06%) REST
5 17 (3.06%) Spring Boot
6 12 (2.16%) Jest
7 10 (1.80%) Kafka
7 10 (1.80%) Spring
7 10 (1.80%) Web Services
8 7 (1.26%) Gherkin
8 7 (1.26%) JSON
8 7 (1.26%) OpenAPI
9 6 (1.08%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (1.08%) Regular Expression
9 6 (1.08%) YAML
10 5 (0.90%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 52 (9.37%) Cloud Native
2 21 (3.78%) Driving Licence
3 20 (3.60%) Onboarding
4 13 (2.34%) Data Centre
4 13 (2.34%) Data Structures
4 13 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (1.98%) Product Ownership
6 10 (1.80%) Enterprise Storage
7 9 (1.62%) Clustering
8 7 (1.26%) Blog
8 7 (1.26%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.26%) Security Posture
9 6 (1.08%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.08%) Cyberattack
9 6 (1.08%) Low-Code
9 6 (1.08%) Security Operations Centre
10 5 (0.90%) CMDB
10 5 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (0.90%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 37 (6.67%) Linux
2 33 (5.95%) Windows
3 19 (3.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 18 (3.24%) CentOS
5 13 (2.34%) Windows 10
6 12 (2.16%) Windows Server
7 6 (1.08%) Unix
8 3 (0.54%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.36%) Debian
9 2 (0.36%) Solaris
9 2 (0.36%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.36%) VMS
10 1 (0.18%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (25.05%) Agile
2 134 (24.14%) DevOps
3 106 (19.10%) CI/CD
4 85 (15.32%) Continuous Improvement
5 75 (13.51%) Infrastructure as Code
6 73 (13.15%) Mentoring
6 73 (13.15%) Software Engineering
7 60 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
7 60 (10.81%) Technical Leadership
8 51 (9.19%) Platform Engineering
9 48 (8.65%) Cybersecurity
10 45 (8.11%) Coaching
11 41 (7.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 40 (7.21%) Stakeholder Management
13 39 (7.03%) Validation
14 38 (6.85%) AI
14 38 (6.85%) Containerisation
15 37 (6.67%) Data Modelling
15 37 (6.67%) Data Pipeline
15 37 (6.67%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 95 (17.12%) Python
2 69 (12.43%) Java
3 54 (9.73%) SQL
4 36 (6.49%) JavaScript
5 27 (4.86%) PowerShell
6 20 (3.60%) TypeScript
7 19 (3.42%) Bash
8 18 (3.24%) Groovy
9 8 (1.44%) C#
10 7 (1.26%) Scala
11 6 (1.08%) C++
11 6 (1.08%) PHP
12 5 (0.90%) R
12 5 (0.90%) VBScript
13 4 (0.72%) Ruby
14 3 (0.54%) Bicep
14 3 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.36%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.18%) VB
Qualifications
1 555 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 97 (17.48%) DV Cleared
3 37 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 19 (3.42%) Microsoft Certification
5 18 (3.24%) Degree
6 13 (2.34%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.44%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (0.90%) CCNA
9 5 (0.90%) CCNP
9 5 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (0.72%) CISSP
10 4 (0.72%) MCSA
10 4 (0.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.36%) A+ Certification
11 2 (0.36%) CIPD
11 2 (0.36%) CompTIA CySA+
11 2 (0.36%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (6.31%) Data Quality
2 33 (5.95%) QA
3 12 (2.16%) GDPR
4 10 (1.80%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.62%) SLA
6 6 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.90%) NIST
8 3 (0.54%) PMO
9 2 (0.36%) GRC
9 2 (0.36%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.36%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.36%) WCAG
10 1 (0.18%) AQAP
10 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.18%) IEC 61508
10 1 (0.18%) JSP 440
System Software
1 65 (11.71%) Docker
2 27 (4.86%) Active Directory
3 14 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.26%) BitLocker
4 7 (1.26%) Firmware
5 5 (0.90%) vSphere
6 3 (0.54%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 93 (16.76%) Terraform
2 62 (11.17%) Kubernetes
3 43 (7.75%) Ansible
4 14 (2.52%) SCCM
5 8 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (1.44%) Progress Chef
6 7 (1.26%) HP Fortify
7 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (0.54%) Argo
8 3 (0.54%) Grafana
8 3 (0.54%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.36%) Kibana
9 2 (0.36%) Packer
9 2 (0.36%) Puppet
9 2 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.36%) WSUS
10 1 (0.18%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.18%) Nessus
10 1 (0.18%) Podman
10 1 (0.18%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 73 (13.15%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.68%) ServiceNow
3 17 (3.06%) VMware
4 15 (2.70%) Cisco
5 13 (2.34%) Databricks
5 13 (2.34%) Google
6 8 (1.44%) Fortinet
7 7 (1.26%) SAP
8 6 (1.08%) OpenAI
9 5 (0.90%) Aruba
10 4 (0.72%) AppDynamics
10 4 (0.72%) HP
10 4 (0.72%) IBM
10 4 (0.72%) Juniper
10 4 (0.72%) Remedy
11 3 (0.54%) Informatica
11 3 (0.54%) Oracle
11 3 (0.54%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.36%) CheckPoint
12 2 (0.36%) Salesforce