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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 153 93
Rank change year-on-year +98 -60 +2
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 539 176 334
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.44% 1.83% 2.21%
As % of the Qualifications category 16.17% 4.60% 9.89%
Number of salaries quoted 442 140 252
10th Percentile £45,042 £37,925 £37,625
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.55% +5.00% -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,290 £74,258 £66,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +5.26% -8.80%

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 3,333 3,822 3,376
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.10% 39.75% 22.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,764 1,218 1,713
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £89,500 £75,000 £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 10 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 10 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 +114 293 £67,500 +5.88% 157
Yorkshire +7 134 £65,000 +36.84% 58
North East +19 112 £60,000 -7.69% 49
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 23 (4.27%) Apache Spark
2 18 (3.34%) Apache
3 15 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (2.78%) SharePoint
4 14 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (2.60%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.56%) Confluence
5 3 (0.56%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.19%) CMS
6 1 (0.19%) JBoss
6 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (3.15%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 150 (27.83%) AWS
2 92 (17.07%) Azure
3 37 (6.86%) GitHub
4 35 (6.49%) Amazon S3
4 35 (6.49%) AWS CloudFormation
5 31 (5.75%) Serverless
6 24 (4.45%) AWS Lambda
7 23 (4.27%) Amazon ECR
8 22 (4.08%) Amazon EC2
8 22 (4.08%) Power Platform
9 19 (3.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 19 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
10 18 (3.34%) Amazon EMR
10 18 (3.34%) GCP
11 15 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
12 13 (2.41%) Amazon EKS
12 13 (2.41%) SaaS
13 11 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (1.86%) dbt
14 10 (1.86%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.15%) Network Security
2 13 (2.41%) Firewall
3 10 (1.86%) SAN
4 8 (1.48%) Cisco Firepower
4 8 (1.48%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.30%) DNS
6 6 (1.11%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (0.93%) VLAN
7 5 (0.93%) WAN
7 5 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.74%) Cisco Nexus
8 4 (0.74%) DHCP
8 4 (0.74%) LAN
8 4 (0.74%) Skype
8 4 (0.74%) VPN
9 3 (0.56%) Broadband
9 3 (0.56%) DSLAM
9 3 (0.56%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.56%) Structured Cabling
9 3 (0.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.71%) DynamoDB
2 17 (3.15%) Amazon Athena
3 16 (2.97%) Big Data
3 16 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (2.04%) Power BI
5 9 (1.67%) BigQuery
5 9 (1.67%) Data Lake
5 9 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (1.48%) Looker
7 6 (1.11%) Hadoop
7 6 (1.11%) Metadata
8 5 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (0.74%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.74%) Tableau
10 3 (0.56%) OLAP
10 3 (0.56%) PowerPivot
10 3 (0.56%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 51 (9.46%) GitLab
2 38 (7.05%) Jenkins
3 29 (5.38%) Git
4 13 (2.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 12 (2.23%) JIRA
6 9 (1.67%) SonarQube
7 8 (1.48%) Cypress.io
7 8 (1.48%) Maven
8 3 (0.56%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.56%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.37%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.37%) Balsamiq
9 2 (0.37%) Postman
9 2 (0.37%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.37%) Vite
10 1 (0.19%) Selenium
General
1 100 (18.55%) Public Sector
2 99 (18.37%) Social Skills
3 60 (11.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 52 (9.65%) Finance
5 46 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (4.08%) Legal
7 13 (2.41%) Retail
7 13 (2.41%) Telecoms
8 9 (1.67%) Law
8 9 (1.67%) Manufacturing
9 6 (1.11%) Local Government
9 6 (1.11%) Police
10 5 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.74%) Aerospace
11 4 (0.74%) Marketing
12 3 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.37%) Military
14 1 (0.19%) Banking
14 1 (0.19%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 98 (18.18%) Senior
2 81 (15.03%) Developer
3 63 (11.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 49 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 47 (8.72%) Consultant
6 45 (8.35%) Software Engineer
7 34 (6.31%) Java Developer
8 32 (5.94%) Architect
9 31 (5.75%) Lead
10 29 (5.38%) Analyst
11 27 (5.01%) Network Engineer
12 26 (4.82%) Senior Developer
13 22 (4.08%) Data Engineer
14 21 (3.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 20 (3.71%) AWS DevOps
15 20 (3.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 20 (3.71%) Security Consultant
16 19 (3.53%) Principal Engineer
17 17 (3.15%) Cloud Native Engineer
17 17 (3.15%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.90%) CSS
2 20 (3.71%) HTML
3 19 (3.53%) PySpark
4 18 (3.34%) AngularJS
5 17 (3.15%) .NET
5 17 (3.15%) Spring Boot
6 16 (2.97%) Node.js
6 16 (2.97%) React
6 16 (2.97%) REST
7 11 (2.04%) Jest
8 10 (1.86%) Kafka
8 10 (1.86%) Spring
9 8 (1.48%) Web Services
10 7 (1.30%) Gherkin
10 7 (1.30%) JSON
11 6 (1.11%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (1.11%) Regular Expression
11 6 (1.11%) YAML
12 5 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
12 5 (0.93%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 45 (8.35%) Cloud Native
2 24 (4.45%) Driving Licence
3 21 (3.90%) Onboarding
4 14 (2.60%) Data Centre
5 13 (2.41%) Data Structures
6 12 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (1.86%) Enterprise Storage
7 10 (1.86%) Product Ownership
8 9 (1.67%) Clustering
9 7 (1.30%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.11%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.11%) Blog
10 6 (1.11%) Cyberattack
10 6 (1.11%) Low-Code
10 6 (1.11%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.11%) Security Operations Centre
11 5 (0.93%) CMDB
11 5 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (0.74%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 34 (6.31%) Windows
2 33 (6.12%) Linux
3 16 (2.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (2.78%) CentOS
5 13 (2.41%) Windows 10
5 13 (2.41%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.30%) Unix
7 3 (0.56%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.37%) Debian
8 2 (0.37%) Solaris
8 2 (0.37%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.37%) VMS
9 1 (0.19%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (25.05%) Agile
2 125 (23.19%) DevOps
3 98 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 81 (15.03%) Continuous Improvement
5 73 (13.54%) Mentoring
6 72 (13.36%) Infrastructure as Code
7 67 (12.43%) Software Engineering
8 60 (11.13%) Problem-Solving
9 55 (10.20%) Technical Leadership
10 48 (8.91%) Cybersecurity
10 48 (8.91%) Platform Engineering
11 45 (8.35%) Coaching
12 41 (7.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 38 (7.05%) Analytics
13 38 (7.05%) Stakeholder Management
14 35 (6.49%) AI
14 35 (6.49%) Containerisation
14 35 (6.49%) Data Modelling
14 35 (6.49%) Data Pipeline
14 35 (6.49%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 92 (17.07%) Python
2 67 (12.43%) Java
3 52 (9.65%) SQL
4 30 (5.57%) JavaScript
5 27 (5.01%) PowerShell
6 18 (3.34%) Bash
6 18 (3.34%) TypeScript
7 16 (2.97%) Groovy
8 7 (1.30%) Scala
9 6 (1.11%) C#
9 6 (1.11%) C++
10 5 (0.93%) PHP
10 5 (0.93%) R
10 5 (0.93%) VBScript
11 3 (0.56%) Bicep
11 3 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.56%) Ruby
12 2 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.37%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.19%) VB
Qualifications
1 539 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 92 (17.07%) DV Cleared
3 37 (6.86%) BPSS Clearance
4 19 (3.53%) Microsoft Certification
5 17 (3.15%) Degree
6 13 (2.41%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.48%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (1.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (1.11%) CCNP
9 6 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.93%) CCNA
10 5 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (0.74%) CISSP
11 4 (0.74%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.74%) MCSA
11 4 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.37%) CIPD
12 2 (0.37%) CompTIA CySA+
12 2 (0.37%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (6.49%) Data Quality
2 29 (5.38%) QA
3 12 (2.23%) GDPR
4 10 (1.86%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.67%) SLA
6 6 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.93%) NIST
8 3 (0.56%) PMO
9 2 (0.37%) GRC
9 2 (0.37%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.37%) WCAG
10 1 (0.19%) AQAP
10 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.19%) IEC 61508
10 1 (0.19%) JSP 440
System Software
1 58 (10.76%) Docker
2 29 (5.38%) Active Directory
3 14 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.30%) BitLocker
4 7 (1.30%) Firmware
5 5 (0.93%) vSphere
6 3 (0.56%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 89 (16.51%) Terraform
2 53 (9.83%) Kubernetes
3 38 (7.05%) Ansible
4 14 (2.60%) SCCM
5 8 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (1.30%) HP Fortify
7 6 (1.11%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (0.56%) Argo
9 3 (0.56%) Grafana
9 3 (0.56%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.37%) AWS Copilot
10 2 (0.37%) Kibana
10 2 (0.37%) Packer
10 2 (0.37%) Puppet
10 2 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.37%) WSUS
11 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.19%) Nessus
11 1 (0.19%) Podman
Vendors
1 72 (13.36%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.82%) ServiceNow
3 18 (3.34%) VMware
4 15 (2.78%) Cisco
4 15 (2.78%) Google
5 13 (2.41%) Databricks
6 8 (1.48%) Fortinet
7 6 (1.11%) OpenAI
7 6 (1.11%) SAP
8 5 (0.93%) Aruba
9 4 (0.74%) AppDynamics
9 4 (0.74%) HP
9 4 (0.74%) IBM
9 4 (0.74%) Juniper
9 4 (0.74%) Remedy
10 3 (0.56%) BT
10 3 (0.56%) CheckPoint
10 3 (0.56%) Informatica
10 3 (0.56%) Oracle
10 3 (0.56%) Red Hat