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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 165 97
Rank change year-on-year +120 -68 -19
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 705 151 306
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.93% 1.59% 2.22%
As % of the Qualifications category 21.42% 4.08% 8.97%
Number of salaries quoted 527 124 191
10th Percentile £45,326 £32,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,805 £62,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.75% +12.73% -12.35%
75th Percentile £78,312 £80,188 £69,800
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £58,800
% change year-on-year +16.67% +2.04% -2.00%

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 3,291 3,699 3,411
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 13.70% 38.93% 24.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,878 1,031 1,321
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £42,054 £33,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,683 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.35% -4.63% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -3.51% -5.00%

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 28 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 28 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 +119 413 £70,000 +7.69% 264
North East +30 152 £60,000 -7.69% 133
Yorkshire +27 146 £66,805 +40.64% 78
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 (3.69%) Apache Spark
2 22 (3.12%) Apache
3 17 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (2.41%) Jupyter
3 17 (2.41%) SharePoint
4 15 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.99%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (0.71%) Confluence
7 3 (0.43%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.28%) nginx
9 1 (0.14%) CMS
9 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 21 (2.98%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.43%) SAP PSCD
4 1 (0.14%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
4 1 (0.14%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 179 (25.39%) AWS
2 101 (14.33%) Azure
3 49 (6.95%) GitHub
4 47 (6.67%) Amazon S3
5 35 (4.96%) AWS CloudFormation
5 35 (4.96%) Serverless
6 31 (4.40%) Amazon EC2
7 28 (3.97%) AWS Lambda
8 26 (3.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 26 (3.69%) Power Platform
9 22 (3.12%) Amazon ECR
10 20 (2.84%) Amazon EMR
10 20 (2.84%) Microsoft 365
11 19 (2.70%) GCP
12 18 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (2.41%) Amazon ECS
14 15 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
15 11 (1.56%) Power Automate
15 11 (1.56%) PowerApps
15 11 (1.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.27%) Network Security
2 13 (1.84%) Firewall
3 12 (1.70%) DNS
4 10 (1.42%) Internet
4 10 (1.42%) SAN
5 8 (1.13%) TCP/IP
6 7 (0.99%) Cisco ASA
6 7 (0.99%) Cisco Firepower
6 7 (0.99%) VPN
7 6 (0.85%) DHCP
8 5 (0.71%) SSL
9 4 (0.57%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (0.57%) Skype
9 4 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.43%) AMQP
10 3 (0.43%) Structured Cabling
11 2 (0.28%) CTI
11 2 (0.28%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.28%) VLAN
11 2 (0.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (2.55%) Big Data
2 17 (2.41%) Amazon Athena
2 17 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (2.27%) DynamoDB
4 15 (2.13%) Data Lake
5 13 (1.84%) Power BI
6 11 (1.56%) MongoDB
7 10 (1.42%) BigQuery
8 9 (1.28%) Looker
9 8 (1.13%) Hadoop
9 8 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (0.71%) DocumentDB
11 5 (0.71%) Metadata
11 5 (0.71%) NoSQL
12 4 (0.57%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.57%) Tableau
13 3 (0.43%) PowerPivot
13 3 (0.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 3 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 73 (10.35%) GitLab
2 46 (6.52%) Jenkins
3 43 (6.10%) Git
4 19 (2.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 15 (2.13%) JIRA
6 6 (0.85%) Cypress.io
6 6 (0.85%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.71%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.43%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.43%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.43%) Maven
9 2 (0.28%) Balsamiq
9 2 (0.28%) Gatling
9 2 (0.28%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.28%) Vite
10 1 (0.14%) JMeter
10 1 (0.14%) Mocha
10 1 (0.14%) Postman
10 1 (0.14%) Selenium
General
1 138 (19.57%) Public Sector
2 137 (19.43%) Social Skills
3 68 (9.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 66 (9.36%) Analytical Skills
5 59 (8.37%) Finance
6 31 (4.40%) Retail
7 25 (3.55%) Aerospace
8 24 (3.40%) Legal
9 21 (2.98%) Law
10 15 (2.13%) Police
11 13 (1.84%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (1.13%) Marketing
14 7 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.99%) Local Government
15 5 (0.71%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.43%) Automotive
16 3 (0.43%) Military
16 3 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
17 2 (0.28%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 128 (18.16%) Senior
2 85 (12.06%) Developer
3 69 (9.79%) Cloud Engineer
3 69 (9.79%) DevOps Engineer
4 63 (8.94%) Software Engineer
5 48 (6.81%) Architect
6 45 (6.38%) Analyst
6 45 (6.38%) Consultant
7 44 (6.24%) Data Engineer
8 40 (5.67%) Lead
9 33 (4.68%) Principal Engineer
10 32 (4.54%) Java Developer
11 29 (4.11%) Systems Engineer
12 27 (3.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 25 (3.55%) Network Engineer
14 24 (3.40%) Cloud Native Engineer
15 23 (3.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 20 (2.84%) AWS DevOps
16 20 (2.84%) Senior Developer
16 20 (2.84%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (16.31%) Terraform
2 35 (4.96%) CSS
3 33 (4.68%) HTML
4 31 (4.40%) Node.js
5 24 (3.40%) PySpark
6 21 (2.98%) REST
7 20 (2.84%) React
8 19 (2.70%) AngularJS
8 19 (2.70%) Kafka
9 17 (2.41%) Spring Boot
10 15 (2.13%) Spring
11 14 (1.99%) .NET
12 11 (1.56%) Web Services
13 10 (1.42%) Jest
14 9 (1.28%) JSON
14 9 (1.28%) RESTful
15 8 (1.13%) OpenAPI
16 7 (0.99%) Oracle Fusion
16 7 (0.99%) RabbitMQ
17 6 (0.85%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 73 (10.35%) Cloud Native
2 23 (3.26%) Driving Licence
3 20 (2.84%) Management Information System
4 18 (2.55%) Onboarding
5 17 (2.41%) Product Ownership
6 14 (1.99%) Data Centre
7 13 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (1.70%) Data Structures
9 11 (1.56%) CMDB
10 10 (1.42%) Enterprise Storage
10 10 (1.42%) Security Posture
10 10 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.28%) Clustering
11 9 (1.28%) Cyberattack
12 8 (1.13%) AI Agents
13 7 (0.99%) Blog
13 7 (0.99%) PDA
14 6 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (0.85%) Low-Code
14 6 (0.85%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 49 (6.95%) Linux
2 42 (5.96%) Windows
3 24 (3.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (3.12%) CentOS
5 13 (1.84%) Windows 10
5 13 (1.84%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.85%) Unix
7 3 (0.43%) Debian
7 3 (0.43%) Solaris
7 3 (0.43%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.43%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.28%) AIX
8 2 (0.28%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.28%) VMS
9 1 (0.14%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (24.68%) Agile
2 166 (23.55%) DevOps
3 134 (19.01%) CI/CD
4 111 (15.74%) Continuous Improvement
5 105 (14.89%) Mentoring
6 95 (13.48%) Software Engineering
7 93 (13.19%) Infrastructure as Code
8 88 (12.48%) Problem-Solving
8 88 (12.48%) Technical Leadership
9 70 (9.93%) Coaching
10 68 (9.65%) Validation
11 64 (9.08%) Cybersecurity
12 60 (8.51%) AI
13 59 (8.37%) Analytics
14 57 (8.09%) Platform Engineering
14 57 (8.09%) Stakeholder Management
15 56 (7.94%) Test Automation
16 54 (7.66%) Data Pipeline
17 53 (7.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 51 (7.23%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 116 (16.45%) Python
2 70 (9.93%) Java
3 64 (9.08%) SQL
4 50 (7.09%) JavaScript
5 32 (4.54%) PowerShell
6 23 (3.26%) TypeScript
7 19 (2.70%) Bash
8 14 (1.99%) Groovy
9 10 (1.42%) C#
10 7 (0.99%) PHP
10 7 (0.99%) Scala
11 6 (0.85%) C++
12 5 (0.71%) R
12 5 (0.71%) VBScript
13 4 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (0.57%) Ruby
14 3 (0.43%) ABAP
14 3 (0.43%) Bicep
14 3 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.28%) Go
Qualifications
1 705 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 102 (14.47%) DV Cleared
3 40 (5.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 24 (3.40%) Degree
5 21 (2.98%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (1.56%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.13%) Azure Certification
8 7 (0.99%) CCNA
8 7 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (0.71%) CCNP
9 5 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.57%) CISSP
10 4 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (0.57%) CREST Certified
10 4 (0.57%) MCSA
10 4 (0.57%) MCSE
10 4 (0.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.43%) SAP Certification
12 2 (0.28%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (7.23%) QA
2 39 (5.53%) Data Quality
3 18 (2.55%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.84%) GDPR
5 12 (1.70%) SLA
6 9 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.99%) NIST
8 6 (0.85%) GRC
9 5 (0.71%) PMO
10 3 (0.43%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.28%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 2 (0.28%) NCSC
11 2 (0.28%) WCAG
12 1 (0.14%) AQAP
12 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 73 (10.35%) Docker
2 26 (3.69%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.13%) BitLocker
5 7 (0.99%) Firmware
5 7 (0.99%) vSphere
6 4 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.43%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 77 (10.92%) Kubernetes
2 50 (7.09%) Ansible
3 16 (2.27%) SCCM
4 9 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (1.28%) Progress Chef
5 6 (0.85%) Argo
5 6 (0.85%) Grafana
5 6 (0.85%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (0.43%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.43%) Puppet
7 3 (0.43%) WSUS
8 2 (0.28%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.28%) Kibana
8 2 (0.28%) Packer
8 2 (0.28%) Podman
8 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.14%) Nessus
9 1 (0.14%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 86 (12.20%) Microsoft
2 25 (3.55%) ServiceNow
3 20 (2.84%) VMware
4 18 (2.55%) Cisco
5 15 (2.13%) Databricks
5 15 (2.13%) Google
5 15 (2.13%) Thales
6 13 (1.84%) SAP
6 13 (1.84%) YouTube
7 10 (1.42%) Oracle
8 9 (1.28%) Fortinet
9 7 (0.99%) Dynatrace
9 7 (0.99%) Red Hat
10 6 (0.85%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.71%) Confluent
11 5 (0.71%) IBM
12 4 (0.57%) Aruba
12 4 (0.57%) HP
12 4 (0.57%) Juniper
12 4 (0.57%) Remedy