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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 158 88
Rank change year-on-year +112 -70 -11
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 677 154 326
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.83% 1.64% 2.32%
As % of the Qualifications category 20.15% 4.35% 9.57%
Number of salaries quoted 508 126 214
10th Percentile £45,000 £32,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £46,178
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,153 £60,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.54% +10.45% -15.38%
75th Percentile £79,063 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £79,600
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £58,119
% change year-on-year +16.67% +3.24% -3.14%

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 3,359 3,537 3,405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 14.06% 37.74% 24.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,837 1,043 1,390
10th Percentile £31,000 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £33,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,140 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £90,042 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,252
% change year-on-year +9.09% -2.23% -6.25%

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 September 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 September 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 +107 392 £70,000 +7.69% 369
Yorkshire +22 148 £66,805 +40.64% 145
North East +29 140 £60,000 -7.69% 130
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 26 (3.84%) Apache Spark
2 21 (3.10%) Apache
3 17 (2.51%) SharePoint
4 16 (2.36%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (2.36%) Jupyter
5 15 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (1.03%) Oracle Workflow
7 4 (0.59%) Confluence
8 3 (0.44%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.15%) CMS
9 1 (0.15%) JBoss
9 1 (0.15%) nginx
9 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (2.66%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.30%) SAP PSCD
4 1 (0.15%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 1 (0.15%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 173 (25.55%) AWS
2 97 (14.33%) Azure
3 48 (7.09%) GitHub
4 46 (6.79%) Amazon S3
5 38 (5.61%) AWS CloudFormation
5 38 (5.61%) Serverless
6 30 (4.43%) AWS Lambda
7 29 (4.28%) Amazon EC2
8 26 (3.84%) Power Platform
9 25 (3.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 23 (3.40%) Amazon ECR
11 20 (2.95%) Amazon EMR
11 20 (2.95%) Microsoft 365
12 19 (2.81%) GCP
13 17 (2.51%) GitHub Actions
14 15 (2.22%) Amazon ECS
15 14 (2.07%) Amazon EKS
16 11 (1.62%) Power Automate
16 11 (1.62%) PowerApps
16 11 (1.62%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.22%) Network Security
2 12 (1.77%) DNS
2 12 (1.77%) Firewall
3 10 (1.48%) SAN
4 8 (1.18%) Internet
4 8 (1.18%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.89%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (0.89%) Cisco Firepower
5 6 (0.89%) DHCP
5 6 (0.89%) VPN
6 5 (0.74%) SSL
7 4 (0.59%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (0.59%) Skype
7 4 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.44%) AMQP
8 3 (0.44%) Structured Cabling
9 2 (0.30%) CTI
9 2 (0.30%) NX-OS
9 2 (0.30%) VLAN
9 2 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (2.81%) DynamoDB
2 18 (2.66%) Big Data
3 17 (2.51%) Amazon Athena
3 17 (2.51%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (2.07%) Data Lake
5 13 (1.92%) Power BI
6 10 (1.48%) BigQuery
7 9 (1.33%) Looker
7 9 (1.33%) MongoDB
8 8 (1.18%) Hadoop
8 8 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (0.89%) Metadata
11 5 (0.74%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.74%) Tableau
12 4 (0.59%) DocumentDB
12 4 (0.59%) Relational Database
13 3 (0.44%) Cloudera CDH
13 3 (0.44%) Power Query
13 3 (0.44%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 69 (10.19%) GitLab
2 48 (7.09%) Jenkins
3 40 (5.91%) Git
4 19 (2.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 13 (1.92%) JIRA
6 9 (1.33%) Cypress.io
7 8 (1.18%) SonarQube
8 6 (0.89%) Maven
9 5 (0.74%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.44%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.30%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.30%) Balsamiq
11 2 (0.30%) Rational DOORS
11 2 (0.30%) Selenium
11 2 (0.30%) Vite
12 1 (0.15%) Gatling
12 1 (0.15%) JMeter
12 1 (0.15%) Mocha
12 1 (0.15%) Postman
General
1 130 (19.20%) Social Skills
2 125 (18.46%) Public Sector
3 63 (9.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 62 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
5 60 (8.86%) Finance
6 28 (4.14%) Retail
7 23 (3.40%) Legal
8 22 (3.25%) Aerospace
9 21 (3.10%) Law
10 13 (1.92%) Police
11 12 (1.77%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (1.18%) Marketing
14 7 (1.03%) Local Government
15 6 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.74%) Telecoms
17 3 (0.44%) Automotive
17 3 (0.44%) Military
17 3 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
18 1 (0.15%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 120 (17.73%) Senior
2 87 (12.85%) Developer
3 68 (10.04%) Cloud Engineer
4 63 (9.31%) DevOps Engineer
5 62 (9.16%) Software Engineer
6 46 (6.79%) Architect
6 46 (6.79%) Consultant
7 44 (6.50%) Data Engineer
8 42 (6.20%) Analyst
9 41 (6.06%) Lead
10 33 (4.87%) Java Developer
11 32 (4.73%) Principal Engineer
12 29 (4.28%) Systems Engineer
13 25 (3.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 24 (3.55%) Cloud Native Engineer
14 24 (3.55%) Network Engineer
15 23 (3.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 22 (3.25%) Senior Developer
17 19 (2.81%) Principal DevOps Engineer
17 19 (2.81%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (16.10%) Terraform
2 32 (4.73%) CSS
3 30 (4.43%) HTML
4 28 (4.14%) Node.js
5 23 (3.40%) PySpark
6 20 (2.95%) AngularJS
6 20 (2.95%) React
6 20 (2.95%) REST
7 19 (2.81%) Spring Boot
8 16 (2.36%) Kafka
9 15 (2.22%) .NET
10 14 (2.07%) Spring
11 12 (1.77%) Jest
12 11 (1.62%) Web Services
13 9 (1.33%) JSON
14 8 (1.18%) OpenAPI
14 8 (1.18%) RESTful
15 7 (1.03%) Gherkin
15 7 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
15 7 (1.03%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 72 (10.64%) Cloud Native
2 23 (3.40%) Driving Licence
3 19 (2.81%) Management Information System
4 17 (2.51%) Onboarding
5 15 (2.22%) Product Ownership
6 14 (2.07%) Data Centre
7 13 (1.92%) Data Structures
7 13 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (1.62%) CMDB
9 10 (1.48%) Enterprise Storage
9 10 (1.48%) Security Posture
10 9 (1.33%) Clustering
10 9 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.18%) AI Agents
12 7 (1.03%) Blog
12 7 (1.03%) Cyberattack
13 6 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (0.89%) Low-Code
13 6 (0.89%) PDA
13 6 (0.89%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 48 (7.09%) Linux
2 40 (5.91%) Windows
3 25 (3.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (3.25%) CentOS
5 13 (1.92%) Windows 10
5 13 (1.92%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.89%) Unix
7 4 (0.59%) Solaris
8 3 (0.44%) Debian
8 3 (0.44%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.44%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.30%) AIX
9 2 (0.30%) VMS
10 1 (0.15%) Android
10 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (23.93%) Agile
2 154 (22.75%) DevOps
3 126 (18.61%) CI/CD
4 101 (14.92%) Continuous Improvement
5 100 (14.77%) Mentoring
6 91 (13.44%) Software Engineering
7 88 (13.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 82 (12.11%) Problem-Solving
9 80 (11.82%) Technical Leadership
10 66 (9.75%) Validation
11 64 (9.45%) Coaching
12 60 (8.86%) Cybersecurity
13 57 (8.42%) Analytics
14 55 (8.12%) Platform Engineering
15 53 (7.83%) Data Pipeline
16 52 (7.68%) AI
16 52 (7.68%) Stakeholder Management
17 51 (7.53%) Decision-Making
18 50 (7.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 49 (7.24%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 116 (17.13%) Python
2 73 (10.78%) Java
3 65 (9.60%) SQL
4 48 (7.09%) JavaScript
5 31 (4.58%) PowerShell
6 24 (3.55%) TypeScript
7 21 (3.10%) Bash
8 17 (2.51%) Groovy
9 10 (1.48%) C#
10 7 (1.03%) PHP
10 7 (1.03%) Scala
11 6 (0.89%) C++
12 5 (0.74%) R
12 5 (0.74%) VBScript
13 4 (0.59%) Ruby
14 3 (0.44%) Bicep
14 3 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.30%) Go
15 2 (0.30%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 677 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 103 (15.21%) DV Cleared
3 41 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
4 24 (3.55%) Degree
5 21 (3.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (1.77%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.18%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
9 6 (0.89%) CCNA
9 6 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (0.59%) CCNP
10 4 (0.59%) CISSP
10 4 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (0.59%) CREST Certified
10 4 (0.59%) MCSA
10 4 (0.59%) MCSE
10 4 (0.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.30%) HND
11 2 (0.30%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (6.94%) QA
2 39 (5.76%) Data Quality
3 15 (2.22%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.92%) GDPR
5 12 (1.77%) SLA
6 8 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (1.03%) NIST
8 5 (0.74%) GRC
8 5 (0.74%) PMO
9 2 (0.30%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (0.30%) NCSC
9 2 (0.30%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.30%) WCAG
10 1 (0.15%) AQAP
10 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 75 (11.08%) Docker
2 26 (3.84%) Active Directory
3 18 (2.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.18%) BitLocker
5 7 (1.03%) Firmware
5 7 (1.03%) vSphere
6 4 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.44%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 72 (10.64%) Kubernetes
2 49 (7.24%) Ansible
3 16 (2.36%) SCCM
4 9 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (1.33%) Progress Chef
5 5 (0.74%) Argo
5 5 (0.74%) Grafana
5 5 (0.74%) HP Fortify
5 5 (0.74%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (0.44%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.44%) Podman
7 3 (0.44%) Puppet
7 3 (0.44%) WSUS
8 2 (0.30%) Kibana
8 2 (0.30%) Packer
8 2 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.15%) Nessus
9 1 (0.15%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 81 (11.96%) Microsoft
2 25 (3.69%) ServiceNow
3 21 (3.10%) VMware
4 17 (2.51%) Cisco
5 15 (2.22%) Databricks
5 15 (2.22%) Google
6 13 (1.92%) Thales
7 12 (1.77%) SAP
8 10 (1.48%) Oracle
8 10 (1.48%) YouTube
9 8 (1.18%) Fortinet
10 7 (1.03%) Red Hat
11 6 (0.89%) Dynatrace
11 6 (0.89%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.74%) IBM
13 4 (0.59%) AppDynamics
13 4 (0.59%) Aruba
13 4 (0.59%) HP
13 4 (0.59%) Juniper
13 4 (0.59%) Remedy