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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 176 126
Rank change year-on-year +90 -50 -10
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 367 124 343
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.88% 1.60% 1.99%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.43% 3.55% 9.67%
Number of salaries quoted 307 98 268
10th Percentile £35,250 £36,775 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,799 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,850 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.64% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £76,750 £74,258 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,333 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -10.86%

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 4,354 3,493 3,546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 22.28% 45.14% 20.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,566 1,215 2,628
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,792 £26,250
25th Percentile £34,313 £35,000 £34,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -13.45%
75th Percentile £66,000 £63,813 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £79,720
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 24 May 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 24 May 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 +90 209 £65,000 +8.33% 108
Yorkshire +9 112 £62,500 +39.35% 45
North East -3 46 £55,000 -20.73% 46
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 10 (2.72%) Apache
1 10 (2.72%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.63%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.54%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.27%) JBoss
5 1 (0.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 24 (6.54%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 90 (24.52%) AWS
2 75 (20.44%) Azure
3 22 (5.99%) AWS CloudFormation
4 21 (5.72%) Amazon S3
5 19 (5.18%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (5.18%) Serverless
6 16 (4.36%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (4.36%) GitHub
7 14 (3.81%) Amazon ECS
8 13 (3.54%) SaaS
9 12 (3.27%) Amazon ECR
9 12 (3.27%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (2.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (2.72%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (2.72%) Amazon EMR
11 9 (2.45%) AWS Step Functions
11 9 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (2.18%) Power Platform
13 7 (1.91%) Azure Sentinel
13 7 (1.91%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.63%) DHCP
1 17 (4.63%) DNS
1 17 (4.63%) Network Security
1 17 (4.63%) TCP/IP
2 13 (3.54%) Firewall
3 10 (2.72%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (2.18%) Cisco Firepower
5 7 (1.91%) VLAN
6 6 (1.63%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (1.63%) LAN
6 6 (1.63%) VPN
6 6 (1.63%) WAN
7 4 (1.09%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (1.09%) SAN
7 4 (1.09%) SMTP
7 4 (1.09%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.82%) AMQP
8 3 (0.82%) Broadband
8 3 (0.82%) DSLAM
8 3 (0.82%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.90%) DynamoDB
2 11 (3.00%) Amazon Athena
3 8 (2.18%) Power BI
4 7 (1.91%) Big Data
4 7 (1.91%) NoSQL
5 6 (1.63%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.36%) Hadoop
6 5 (1.36%) Metadata
6 5 (1.36%) Power Query
6 5 (1.36%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.09%) Tableau
8 3 (0.82%) Cloudera CDH
8 3 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.82%) OLAP
8 3 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.82%) PowerPivot
8 3 (0.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.54%) Looker
Development Applications
1 23 (6.27%) GitLab
2 17 (4.63%) Jenkins
3 11 (3.00%) Git
4 8 (2.18%) SonarQube
5 7 (1.91%) Cypress.io
5 7 (1.91%) Maven
6 6 (1.63%) JIRA
7 5 (1.36%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.82%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.54%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.54%) Postman
9 2 (0.54%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.27%) Selenium
General
1 53 (14.44%) Social Skills
2 52 (14.17%) Public Sector
3 31 (8.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 24 (6.54%) Finance
5 18 (4.90%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (3.81%) Telecoms
7 10 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (2.72%) Legal
8 7 (1.91%) Police
8 7 (1.91%) Retail
9 6 (1.63%) Law
10 3 (0.82%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.82%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.27%) Banking
12 1 (0.27%) Military
Job Titles
1 64 (17.44%) Senior
2 57 (15.53%) Developer
3 45 (12.26%) Cloud Engineer
4 32 (8.72%) Architect
4 32 (8.72%) Software Engineer
5 31 (8.45%) Java Developer
6 25 (6.81%) Consultant
7 23 (6.27%) Analyst
7 23 (6.27%) DevOps Engineer
8 22 (5.99%) Lead
9 21 (5.72%) Network Engineer
10 20 (5.45%) Senior Developer
11 19 (5.18%) IT Support
12 13 (3.54%) Business Analyst
13 12 (3.27%) AWS Engineer
14 11 (3.00%) Business Consultant
14 11 (3.00%) Full-Stack Developer
14 11 (3.00%) Security Consultant
14 11 (3.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 11 (3.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.90%) AngularJS
1 18 (4.90%) Spring Boot
2 14 (3.81%) REST
3 12 (3.27%) Spring
4 9 (2.45%) .NET
4 9 (2.45%) React
5 8 (2.18%) PySpark
6 7 (1.91%) Jest
6 7 (1.91%) Node.js
6 7 (1.91%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (1.63%) Gherkin
7 6 (1.63%) Regular Expression
7 6 (1.63%) YAML
8 5 (1.36%) Kafka
8 5 (1.36%) Vue
9 4 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (1.09%) SAML
9 4 (1.09%) Web Services
10 3 (0.82%) gRPC
10 3 (0.82%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 18 (4.90%) Data Centre
2 16 (4.36%) Driving Licence
3 15 (4.09%) Onboarding
4 10 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (2.72%) Security Operations Centre
5 9 (2.45%) Cloud Native
6 8 (2.18%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.91%) Cyberattack
7 7 (1.91%) Data Structures
7 7 (1.91%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.63%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.36%) Fibre Optics
10 4 (1.09%) Clustering
10 4 (1.09%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.54%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.54%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.54%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 43 (11.72%) Windows
2 26 (7.08%) Windows Server
3 11 (3.00%) Linux
4 9 (2.45%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.82%) CentOS
6 3 (0.82%) Debian
6 3 (0.82%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.82%) Unix
7 2 (0.54%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.27%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (21.25%) Agile
2 69 (18.80%) DevOps
3 45 (12.26%) Software Engineering
4 43 (11.72%) CI/CD
5 39 (10.63%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (10.08%) Continuous Improvement
7 36 (9.81%) Mentoring
8 35 (9.54%) Infrastructure as Code
9 28 (7.63%) Platform Engineering
10 27 (7.36%) Cybersecurity
11 25 (6.81%) ITIL
12 22 (5.99%) Coaching
13 20 (5.45%) Full-Stack Development
13 20 (5.45%) Scrum
14 19 (5.18%) Incident Management
15 18 (4.90%) Containerisation
15 18 (4.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 17 (4.63%) Security Operations
16 17 (4.63%) Stakeholder Management
17 16 (4.36%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 54 (14.71%) Java
2 52 (14.17%) Python
3 35 (9.54%) SQL
4 15 (4.09%) Bash
5 12 (3.27%) Groovy
6 11 (3.00%) PowerShell
7 10 (2.72%) JavaScript
8 9 (2.45%) TypeScript
9 6 (1.63%) C++
10 3 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.82%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.82%) R
11 2 (0.54%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.54%) Scala
11 2 (0.54%) VBScript
12 1 (0.27%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 367 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 61 (16.62%) DV Cleared
3 14 (3.81%) AWS Certification
3 14 (3.81%) Degree
4 13 (3.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (1.91%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.91%) CCNP
6 7 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.63%) CCNA
7 6 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (1.36%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.09%) MCSA
9 4 (1.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (0.82%) CISSP
10 3 (0.82%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.82%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.54%) A+ Certification
11 2 (0.54%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.81%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.45%) SLA
3 8 (2.18%) QA
4 5 (1.36%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.82%) NIST
6 2 (0.54%) GDPR
6 2 (0.54%) GRC
7 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.27%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.27%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.27%) PMO
System Software
1 30 (8.17%) Active Directory
2 25 (6.81%) Docker
3 6 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.09%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 47 (12.81%) Terraform
2 22 (5.99%) Kubernetes
3 20 (5.45%) Ansible
4 9 (2.45%) SCCM
5 6 (1.63%) HP Fortify
6 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (0.82%) Grafana
7 3 (0.82%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.82%) Puppet
8 2 (0.54%) Argo
8 2 (0.54%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.54%) Kibana
8 2 (0.54%) Packer
8 2 (0.54%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.27%) Podman
9 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (13.35%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.72%) VMware
3 16 (4.36%) ServiceNow
4 15 (4.09%) Citrix
5 11 (3.00%) Cisco
6 10 (2.72%) Databricks
7 7 (1.91%) Google
8 6 (1.63%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.36%) Aruba
10 4 (1.09%) AppDynamics
10 4 (1.09%) CyberArk
10 4 (1.09%) HP
10 4 (1.09%) IBM
10 4 (1.09%) Juniper
10 4 (1.09%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.09%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.82%) BT
11 3 (0.82%) CheckPoint
11 3 (0.82%) Oracle
11 3 (0.82%) SAP