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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 143 132
Rank change year-on-year +51 -11 -19
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 330 132 320
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.79% 1.78% 1.90%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.09% 3.91% 9.10%
Number of salaries quoted 273 106 245
10th Percentile £33,800 £37,375 £36,351
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,762 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -6.09% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,819 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,000 £88,279 £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 4,657 3,378 3,516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 25.27% 45.51% 20.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,515 1,315 2,593
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,500 £36,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -10.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,790 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.55% +1.44% -6.78%

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 9 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 9 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 +67 185 £65,000 +18.18% 125
Yorkshire -3 108 £60,425 +35.18% 44
North East -16 37 £57,500 -17.13% 58
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 6 (1.82%) Apache
1 6 (1.82%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.61%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.30%) JBoss
4 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.30%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 21 (6.36%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 75 (22.73%) AWS
2 66 (20.00%) Azure
3 19 (5.76%) AWS CloudFormation
3 19 (5.76%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (5.45%) Serverless
5 15 (4.55%) Amazon S3
5 15 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (3.94%) Amazon ECS
6 13 (3.94%) GitHub
7 12 (3.64%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (3.64%) SaaS
8 9 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (2.42%) Amazon ECR
9 8 (2.42%) AWS Step Functions
10 7 (2.12%) Azure Sentinel
11 6 (1.82%) Apigee
11 6 (1.82%) GCP
12 5 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (1.52%) Amazon EMR
12 5 (1.52%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.15%) DHCP
1 17 (5.15%) DNS
1 17 (5.15%) TCP/IP
2 15 (4.55%) Network Security
3 10 (3.03%) Firewall
3 10 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (2.12%) VLAN
5 6 (1.82%) LAN
5 6 (1.82%) VPN
5 6 (1.82%) WAN
6 5 (1.52%) Cisco Firepower
7 4 (1.21%) SMTP
8 3 (0.91%) AMQP
8 3 (0.91%) Broadband
8 3 (0.91%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (0.91%) DMZ
8 3 (0.91%) DSLAM
8 3 (0.91%) Modbus
8 3 (0.91%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.91%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.24%) DynamoDB
2 7 (2.12%) Amazon Athena
2 7 (2.12%) NoSQL
3 6 (1.82%) Big Data
4 5 (1.52%) Hadoop
4 5 (1.52%) Metadata
4 5 (1.52%) Power BI
4 5 (1.52%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.91%) Cloudera CDH
5 3 (0.91%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.91%) Power Query
6 2 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.61%) Redis
6 2 (0.61%) Tableau
7 1 (0.30%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.30%) Looker
7 1 (0.30%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.30%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 16 (4.85%) GitLab
2 13 (3.94%) Jenkins
3 10 (3.03%) Git
4 8 (2.42%) SonarQube
5 7 (2.12%) JIRA
6 6 (1.82%) Cypress.io
6 6 (1.82%) Maven
7 5 (1.52%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.91%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.61%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.61%) Postman
9 2 (0.61%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.30%) Selenium
General
1 50 (15.15%) Social Skills
2 46 (13.94%) Public Sector
3 29 (8.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 23 (6.97%) Finance
5 13 (3.94%) Telecoms
6 11 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.73%) Legal
8 7 (2.12%) Law
8 7 (2.12%) Police
8 7 (2.12%) Retail
9 3 (0.91%) Aerospace
9 3 (0.91%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.61%) Military
10 2 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.30%) Banking
Job Titles
1 55 (16.67%) Senior
2 51 (15.45%) Developer
3 35 (10.61%) Cloud Engineer
4 34 (10.30%) Architect
5 27 (8.18%) Java Developer
6 25 (7.58%) Software Engineer
7 24 (7.27%) Consultant
8 23 (6.97%) Lead
9 22 (6.67%) Analyst
10 19 (5.76%) DevOps Engineer
11 18 (5.45%) IT Support
12 17 (5.15%) Senior Developer
13 12 (3.64%) Business Analyst
13 12 (3.64%) Network Engineer
14 11 (3.33%) Business Consultant
14 11 (3.33%) Full-Stack Developer
15 10 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
15 10 (3.03%) Security Consultant
16 9 (2.73%) .NET Developer
16 9 (2.73%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.15%) AngularJS
2 16 (4.85%) Spring Boot
3 14 (4.24%) REST
4 10 (3.03%) Spring
5 9 (2.73%) .NET
5 9 (2.73%) React
6 7 (2.12%) Node.js
6 7 (2.12%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (1.82%) Gherkin
7 6 (1.82%) Jest
7 6 (1.82%) Regular Expression
7 6 (1.82%) YAML
8 5 (1.52%) Vue
9 4 (1.21%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (1.21%) Kafka
9 4 (1.21%) SAML
10 3 (0.91%) gRPC
10 3 (0.91%) PySpark
10 3 (0.91%) Swagger
10 3 (0.91%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.24%) Onboarding
2 12 (3.64%) Data Centre
3 10 (3.03%) Security Operations Centre
4 9 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (2.73%) Driving Licence
5 8 (2.42%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.12%) Cyberattack
6 7 (2.12%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.82%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.52%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.52%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (1.52%) Fibre Optics
9 4 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.21%) SCADA
10 3 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.91%) Operational Technology
11 2 (0.61%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.61%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 37 (11.21%) Windows
2 23 (6.97%) Windows Server
3 11 (3.33%) Linux
4 6 (1.82%) Windows 10
5 5 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.21%) Unix
7 3 (0.91%) CentOS
7 3 (0.91%) Debian
7 3 (0.91%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.61%) Solaris
9 1 (0.30%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (20.00%) Agile
2 58 (17.58%) DevOps
3 37 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
3 37 (11.21%) Software Engineering
4 33 (10.00%) CI/CD
4 33 (10.00%) Mentoring
5 29 (8.79%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (8.48%) Cybersecurity
7 26 (7.88%) Infrastructure as Code
8 23 (6.97%) ITIL
8 23 (6.97%) Platform Engineering
9 19 (5.76%) Coaching
9 19 (5.76%) Full-Stack Development
9 19 (5.76%) Incident Management
9 19 (5.76%) Scrum
10 17 (5.15%) Security Operations
10 17 (5.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 16 (4.85%) SIEM
12 15 (4.55%) Risk Management
13 14 (4.24%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (14.55%) Java
2 43 (13.03%) Python
3 25 (7.58%) SQL
4 11 (3.33%) Bash
5 10 (3.03%) Groovy
6 9 (2.73%) JavaScript
7 8 (2.42%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.12%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.52%) C++
10 3 (0.91%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.61%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.61%) Scala
12 1 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.30%) Ladder Logic
12 1 (0.30%) R
Qualifications
1 330 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 50 (15.15%) DV Cleared
3 17 (5.15%) Degree
4 12 (3.64%) AWS Certification
5 9 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.21%) CCNP
9 3 (0.91%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.91%) CCNA
9 3 (0.91%) CISSP
9 3 (0.91%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.91%) HND
9 3 (0.91%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.61%) A+ Certification
10 2 (0.61%) CIPD
10 2 (0.61%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.42%) Data Quality
1 8 (2.42%) SLA
2 4 (1.21%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.21%) NIST
2 4 (1.21%) QA
3 3 (0.91%) GRC
3 3 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.30%) IEC 61508
4 1 (0.30%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.30%) NCSC
System Software
1 27 (8.18%) Active Directory
2 18 (5.45%) Docker
3 3 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.30%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 36 (10.91%) Terraform
2 20 (6.06%) Ansible
3 17 (5.15%) Kubernetes
4 6 (1.82%) HP Fortify
4 6 (1.82%) SCCM
5 3 (0.91%) Puppet
6 2 (0.61%) AWS Copilot
6 2 (0.61%) Kibana
6 2 (0.61%) Packer
6 2 (0.61%) Podman
7 1 (0.30%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.30%) Grafana
7 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (0.30%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 43 (13.03%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.76%) VMware
3 15 (4.55%) Citrix
4 11 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.42%) Cisco
5 8 (2.42%) Databricks
6 6 (1.82%) Fortinet
6 6 (1.82%) Google
7 5 (1.52%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.21%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.21%) CyberArk
8 4 (1.21%) IBM
8 4 (1.21%) Juniper
8 4 (1.21%) Palo Alto
9 3 (0.91%) BT
9 3 (0.91%) CheckPoint
9 3 (0.91%) Oracle
9 3 (0.91%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.61%) Aruba
10 2 (0.61%) Mirantis