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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 175 122
Rank change year-on-year +105 -53 -7
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 434 140 379
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.16% 1.68% 1.90%
As % of the Qualifications category 13.13% 3.77% 9.79%
Number of salaries quoted 365 112 291
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,786 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% - -12.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,258 £66,250
90th Percentile £93,180 £89,833 £79,600
England median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% +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 3,305 3,712 3,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.42% 44.46% 19.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,647 1,215 2,660
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,480 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,250 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -12.72%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £74,258 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -10.00%

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 21 June 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 21 June 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 +116 242 £67,500 +14.41% 89
Yorkshire +15 130 £62,500 +38.89% 43
North East +3 62 £55,500 -20.01% 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 13 (3.00%) Apache
1 13 (3.00%) Apache Spark
2 10 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (2.30%) Jupyter
3 9 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.15%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.46%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.23%) JBoss
Applications
1 26 (5.99%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 108 (24.88%) AWS
2 76 (17.51%) Azure
3 27 (6.22%) Amazon S3
4 26 (5.99%) AWS CloudFormation
5 25 (5.76%) GitHub
6 20 (4.61%) Serverless
7 17 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (3.92%) Amazon ECR
7 17 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
7 17 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (3.92%) Power Platform
8 15 (3.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 15 (3.46%) Amazon ECS
8 15 (3.46%) Dynamics 365
9 14 (3.23%) Amazon EMR
10 13 (3.00%) SaaS
11 11 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (2.30%) AWS Step Functions
13 9 (2.07%) Azure Sentinel
13 9 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.15%) DNS
2 17 (3.92%) Network Security
3 15 (3.46%) DHCP
3 15 (3.46%) TCP/IP
4 12 (2.76%) Firewall
5 10 (2.30%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (1.84%) Cisco Firepower
6 8 (1.84%) VLAN
7 7 (1.61%) SAN
8 6 (1.38%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (1.38%) LAN
8 6 (1.38%) Structured Cabling
8 6 (1.38%) WAN
9 5 (1.15%) VPN
10 4 (0.92%) Cisco Nexus
10 4 (0.92%) SMTP
11 3 (0.69%) Broadband
11 3 (0.69%) DSLAM
11 3 (0.69%) Wireless
12 2 (0.46%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.07%) DynamoDB
2 15 (3.46%) Amazon Athena
3 13 (3.00%) Big Data
3 13 (3.00%) Power BI
4 10 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (2.07%) NoSQL
6 7 (1.61%) Data Lake
7 6 (1.38%) Metadata
8 5 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.15%) Power Query
8 5 (1.15%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.92%) BigQuery
9 4 (0.92%) Hadoop
9 4 (0.92%) Looker
9 4 (0.92%) Tableau
10 3 (0.69%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.69%) OLAP
10 3 (0.69%) PowerPivot
10 3 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 33 (7.60%) GitLab
2 25 (5.76%) Jenkins
3 14 (3.23%) Git
4 9 (2.07%) SonarQube
5 8 (1.84%) Cypress.io
5 8 (1.84%) JIRA
5 8 (1.84%) Maven
6 5 (1.15%) Claude Code
7 3 (0.69%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.46%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.46%) Postman
8 2 (0.46%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.46%) Vite
9 1 (0.23%) Selenium
General
1 66 (15.21%) Social Skills
2 58 (13.36%) Public Sector
3 34 (7.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 33 (7.60%) Finance
5 31 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (3.69%) Telecoms
7 11 (2.53%) Legal
8 9 (2.07%) Law
9 8 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (1.84%) Retail
10 6 (1.38%) Police
11 5 (1.15%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.92%) Marketing
12 4 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.46%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.23%) Banking
14 1 (0.23%) Military
Job Titles
1 79 (18.20%) Senior
2 66 (15.21%) Developer
3 51 (11.75%) Cloud Engineer
4 41 (9.45%) Consultant
5 35 (8.06%) Software Engineer
6 34 (7.83%) Java Developer
7 32 (7.37%) Architect
8 31 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
9 26 (5.99%) Lead
9 26 (5.99%) Network Engineer
10 22 (5.07%) Analyst
10 22 (5.07%) Senior Developer
11 17 (3.92%) Data Engineer
11 17 (3.92%) IT Support
12 16 (3.69%) AWS DevOps
13 15 (3.46%) AWS Engineer
14 14 (3.23%) Business Consultant
14 14 (3.23%) Security Consultant
15 13 (3.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 13 (3.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.15%) AngularJS
1 18 (4.15%) Spring Boot
2 13 (3.00%) REST
3 12 (2.76%) PySpark
4 11 (2.53%) Spring
5 10 (2.30%) React
6 9 (2.07%) .NET
7 8 (1.84%) Jest
7 8 (1.84%) Node.js
8 7 (1.61%) Gherkin
8 7 (1.61%) Web Services
9 6 (1.38%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (1.38%) Regular Expression
9 6 (1.38%) YAML
10 5 (1.15%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (1.15%) HTML
10 5 (1.15%) Kafka
10 5 (1.15%) Vue
11 4 (0.92%) CSS
11 4 (0.92%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (5.07%) Cloud Native
1 22 (5.07%) Driving Licence
2 21 (4.84%) Onboarding
3 18 (4.15%) Data Centre
4 11 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (2.30%) Data Structures
5 10 (2.30%) Security Operations Centre
6 8 (1.84%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.61%) Enterprise Storage
7 7 (1.61%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.38%) Cyberattack
8 6 (1.38%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.15%) Fibre Optics
10 4 (0.92%) Clustering
10 4 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.69%) CCTV
11 3 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.46%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.46%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 37 (8.53%) Windows
2 22 (5.07%) Windows Server
3 15 (3.46%) Linux
4 11 (2.53%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.92%) CentOS
7 3 (0.69%) Unix
8 2 (0.46%) Debian
8 2 (0.46%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.46%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.23%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (22.81%) Agile
2 88 (20.28%) DevOps
3 61 (14.06%) CI/CD
4 54 (12.44%) Continuous Improvement
4 54 (12.44%) Problem-Solving
5 50 (11.52%) Software Engineering
6 46 (10.60%) Infrastructure as Code
6 46 (10.60%) Mentoring
7 36 (8.29%) Platform Engineering
8 32 (7.37%) Stakeholder Management
9 29 (6.68%) Cybersecurity
10 28 (6.45%) Analytics
11 27 (6.22%) Containerisation
11 27 (6.22%) Data Modelling
11 27 (6.22%) ITIL
12 26 (5.99%) Coaching
13 25 (5.76%) AI
13 25 (5.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 24 (5.53%) Data Pipeline
14 24 (5.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 71 (16.36%) Python
2 61 (14.06%) Java
3 48 (11.06%) SQL
4 18 (4.15%) PowerShell
5 17 (3.92%) Bash
6 16 (3.69%) Groovy
7 14 (3.23%) JavaScript
8 13 (3.00%) TypeScript
9 6 (1.38%) C++
9 6 (1.38%) Scala
10 4 (0.92%) VBScript
11 3 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.69%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.69%) R
12 2 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.46%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.23%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 434 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 68 (15.67%) DV Cleared
3 19 (4.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 14 (3.23%) AWS Certification
4 14 (3.23%) Degree
5 13 (3.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (1.61%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.61%) CCNP
7 7 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (1.38%) CCNA
8 6 (1.38%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (0.92%) CISSP
9 4 (0.92%) MCSA
9 4 (0.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (0.69%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.69%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.46%) A+ Certification
11 2 (0.46%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.76%) Data Quality
2 16 (3.69%) QA
3 9 (2.07%) SLA
4 7 (1.61%) GDPR
5 6 (1.38%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.15%) NIST
7 3 (0.69%) PMO
8 2 (0.46%) GRC
8 2 (0.46%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 2 (0.46%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.23%) AQAP
9 1 (0.23%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.23%) JSP 440
System Software
1 37 (8.53%) Docker
2 31 (7.14%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.38%) BitLocker
5 3 (0.69%) Firmware
5 3 (0.69%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 56 (12.90%) Terraform
2 31 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 20 (4.61%) Ansible
4 11 (2.53%) SCCM
5 7 (1.61%) HP Fortify
6 5 (1.15%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (0.69%) Argo
8 3 (0.69%) Grafana
8 3 (0.69%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.46%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (0.46%) Kibana
9 2 (0.46%) Packer
9 2 (0.46%) Puppet
9 2 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.23%) Podman
Vendors
1 60 (13.82%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.53%) VMware
3 21 (4.84%) ServiceNow
4 14 (3.23%) Cisco
5 13 (3.00%) Citrix
6 10 (2.30%) Databricks
7 8 (1.84%) Google
8 6 (1.38%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.15%) Aruba
10 4 (0.92%) AppDynamics
10 4 (0.92%) CyberArk
10 4 (0.92%) HP
10 4 (0.92%) IBM
10 4 (0.92%) Juniper
10 4 (0.92%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.92%) Palo Alto
11 3 (0.69%) CheckPoint
11 3 (0.69%) Oracle
11 3 (0.69%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.69%) SAP