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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 173 129
Rank change year-on-year +85 -44 -14
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 343 130 322
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.86% 1.70% 1.91%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.88% 3.86% 9.10%
Number of salaries quoted 284 104 247
10th Percentile £35,150 £34,475 £36,351
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,786 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £54,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.09% -5.22% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,250 £74,258 £68,125
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,300 £79,600
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -8.33%

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 4,351 3,365 3,537
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 23.58% 44.03% 20.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,515 1,294 2,598
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £33,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -13.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £79,000
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 13 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 13 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 +88 191 £63,750 +15.91% 121
Yorkshire -4 112 £62,500 +39.82% 61
North East -6 40 £56,250 -18.93% 61
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 7 (2.04%) Apache
1 7 (2.04%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.87%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.29%) JBoss
4 1 (0.29%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.29%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 21 (6.12%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 79 (23.03%) AWS
2 67 (19.53%) Azure
3 19 (5.54%) AWS CloudFormation
3 19 (5.54%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (5.54%) Serverless
4 17 (4.96%) Amazon S3
5 16 (4.66%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (4.08%) Amazon ECS
7 12 (3.50%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (3.50%) GitHub
7 12 (3.50%) SaaS
8 9 (2.62%) Amazon ECR
8 9 (2.62%) AWS Step Functions
8 9 (2.62%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (2.04%) Azure Sentinel
10 6 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (1.75%) Amazon EMR
10 6 (1.75%) Apigee
10 6 (1.75%) GCP
10 6 (1.75%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.96%) DHCP
1 17 (4.96%) DNS
1 17 (4.96%) TCP/IP
2 16 (4.66%) Network Security
3 11 (3.21%) Firewall
4 10 (2.92%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (2.04%) VLAN
6 6 (1.75%) Cisco Firepower
6 6 (1.75%) LAN
6 6 (1.75%) VPN
6 6 (1.75%) WAN
7 4 (1.17%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (1.17%) SMTP
8 3 (0.87%) AMQP
8 3 (0.87%) Broadband
8 3 (0.87%) DMZ
8 3 (0.87%) DSLAM
8 3 (0.87%) Modbus
8 3 (0.87%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.87%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.66%) DynamoDB
2 8 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
3 7 (2.04%) NoSQL
4 6 (1.75%) Big Data
4 6 (1.75%) Power BI
5 5 (1.46%) Hadoop
5 5 (1.46%) Metadata
5 5 (1.46%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.17%) Power Query
7 3 (0.87%) Cloudera CDH
7 3 (0.87%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.87%) Tableau
8 2 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.58%) OLAP
8 2 (0.58%) PowerPivot
8 2 (0.58%) Redis
8 2 (0.58%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 18 (5.25%) GitLab
2 14 (4.08%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.92%) Git
4 8 (2.33%) SonarQube
5 7 (2.04%) Cypress.io
5 7 (2.04%) Maven
6 6 (1.75%) JIRA
7 5 (1.46%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.87%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.58%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.58%) Postman
9 2 (0.58%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.29%) Selenium
General
1 51 (14.87%) Social Skills
2 47 (13.70%) Public Sector
3 30 (8.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 24 (7.00%) Finance
5 13 (3.79%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (3.79%) Telecoms
6 11 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (2.92%) Legal
8 7 (2.04%) Police
8 7 (2.04%) Retail
9 6 (1.75%) Law
10 3 (0.87%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.87%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.58%) Military
11 2 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.29%) Banking
Job Titles
1 56 (16.33%) Senior
2 54 (15.74%) Developer
3 35 (10.20%) Cloud Engineer
4 34 (9.91%) Architect
5 30 (8.75%) Software Engineer
6 29 (8.45%) Java Developer
7 23 (6.71%) Analyst
7 23 (6.71%) Lead
8 22 (6.41%) Consultant
9 20 (5.83%) DevOps Engineer
10 18 (5.25%) IT Support
10 18 (5.25%) Senior Developer
11 16 (4.66%) Network Engineer
12 13 (3.79%) Business Analyst
13 11 (3.21%) Business Consultant
13 11 (3.21%) Full-Stack Developer
14 10 (2.92%) AWS Engineer
14 10 (2.92%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
14 10 (2.92%) Security Consultant
15 9 (2.62%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.25%) AngularJS
2 17 (4.96%) Spring Boot
3 14 (4.08%) REST
4 11 (3.21%) Spring
5 9 (2.62%) .NET
5 9 (2.62%) React
6 7 (2.04%) Jest
6 7 (2.04%) Node.js
6 7 (2.04%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (1.75%) Gherkin
7 6 (1.75%) Regular Expression
7 6 (1.75%) YAML
8 5 (1.46%) Vue
9 4 (1.17%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (1.17%) Kafka
9 4 (1.17%) SAML
10 3 (0.87%) gRPC
10 3 (0.87%) Material-UI
10 3 (0.87%) Swagger
10 3 (0.87%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.08%) Data Centre
1 14 (4.08%) Onboarding
2 11 (3.21%) Driving Licence
3 10 (2.92%) Security Operations Centre
4 9 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (2.33%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.04%) Cyberattack
6 7 (2.04%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.75%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.46%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.46%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.46%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (1.46%) Fibre Optics
9 4 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.17%) SCADA
10 3 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.87%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.58%) Clustering
11 2 (0.58%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 38 (11.08%) Windows
2 24 (7.00%) Windows Server
3 11 (3.21%) Linux
4 6 (1.75%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.17%) Unix
7 3 (0.87%) CentOS
7 3 (0.87%) Debian
7 3 (0.87%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.58%) Solaris
9 1 (0.29%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (20.12%) Agile
2 61 (17.78%) DevOps
3 43 (12.54%) Software Engineering
4 36 (10.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 34 (9.91%) CI/CD
5 34 (9.91%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (9.62%) Mentoring
7 27 (7.87%) Cybersecurity
8 26 (7.58%) Infrastructure as Code
9 24 (7.00%) ITIL
10 23 (6.71%) Platform Engineering
11 20 (5.83%) Coaching
11 20 (5.83%) Full-Stack Development
12 19 (5.54%) Incident Management
12 19 (5.54%) Scrum
13 17 (4.96%) Security Operations
14 16 (4.66%) SIEM
14 16 (4.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 14 (4.08%) Risk Management
15 14 (4.08%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (14.87%) Java
2 44 (12.83%) Python
3 28 (8.16%) SQL
4 13 (3.79%) Bash
5 11 (3.21%) Groovy
6 9 (2.62%) JavaScript
6 9 (2.62%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.04%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.75%) C++
9 3 (0.87%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.58%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.58%) R
10 2 (0.58%) Scala
11 1 (0.29%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 343 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 57 (16.62%) DV Cleared
3 17 (4.96%) Degree
4 13 (3.79%) AWS Certification
5 9 (2.62%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (1.46%) CCNP
8 5 (1.46%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.17%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.17%) CCNA
9 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.87%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.87%) HND
10 3 (0.87%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.58%) A+ Certification
11 2 (0.58%) CISSP
11 2 (0.58%) MCSA
11 2 (0.58%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.92%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.33%) SLA
3 5 (1.46%) QA
4 4 (1.17%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.17%) NIST
5 2 (0.58%) GRC
5 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.29%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.29%) JSP 440
System Software
1 28 (8.16%) Active Directory
2 20 (5.83%) Docker
3 4 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.29%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 37 (10.79%) Terraform
2 19 (5.54%) Ansible
3 17 (4.96%) Kubernetes
4 6 (1.75%) HP Fortify
4 6 (1.75%) SCCM
5 3 (0.87%) Puppet
6 2 (0.58%) AWS Copilot
6 2 (0.58%) Kibana
6 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (0.58%) Packer
6 2 (0.58%) Podman
7 1 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.29%) Grafana
7 1 (0.29%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 44 (12.83%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.83%) VMware
3 15 (4.37%) Citrix
4 11 (3.21%) ServiceNow
5 9 (2.62%) Cisco
6 8 (2.33%) Databricks
7 6 (1.75%) Fortinet
7 6 (1.75%) Google
8 5 (1.46%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.17%) AppDynamics
9 4 (1.17%) CyberArk
9 4 (1.17%) IBM
9 4 (1.17%) Juniper
9 4 (1.17%) Palo Alto
10 3 (0.87%) Aruba
10 3 (0.87%) BT
10 3 (0.87%) CheckPoint
10 3 (0.87%) Oracle
10 3 (0.87%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.58%) SAP