Security Cleared Jobs in the North of England

Security 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 Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 41 56
Rank change year-on-year +3 +15 -29
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 608 814 998
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.55% 4.71% 5.73%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.38% 20.90% 18.99%
Number of salaries quoted 162 384 339
10th Percentile £38,500 £32,500 £32,450
25th Percentile £45,813 £38,746 £43,162
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +8.82%
75th Percentile £74,258 £67,625 £73,613
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% - +4.55%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of England

Security 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 6,480 3,895 5,255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 59.15% 22.54% 30.19%
Number of salaries quoted 3,129 2,664 1,760
10th Percentile £27,700 £26,250 £28,975
25th Percentile £40,748 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £48,007 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.27% -8.56% +10.53%
75th Percentile £58,943 £62,500 £69,537
90th Percentile £73,708 £78,061 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £58,193
% change year-on-year - -5.49% +5.81%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the North of England

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in the North of England.

Salary trend for Security Cleared in the North of England

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in the North of England

Security 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 Security Cleared within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 -3 519 £65,000 +18.18% 237
Yorkshire -10 72 £47,500 -20.83% 113
North East +28 15 £69,384 +26.15% 43
Security Cleared
England

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (1.64%) nginx
2 7 (1.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (0.99%) Camunda
4 5 (0.82%) Confluence
5 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.33%) Apache
6 2 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (0.33%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
6 2 (0.33%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
Applications
1 9 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.16%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 7 (1.15%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.99%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 53 (8.72%) Azure
2 34 (5.59%) AWS
3 23 (3.78%) Entra ID
4 18 (2.96%) IBM Cloud
5 17 (2.80%) Power Platform
6 15 (2.47%) Dynamics 365
7 14 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (2.30%) OCI
8 12 (1.97%) GCP
9 7 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (1.15%) GitHub
9 7 (1.15%) OpenShift
9 7 (1.15%) Serverless
10 6 (0.99%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (0.99%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 6 (0.99%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 6 (0.99%) AWS CodeBuild
10 6 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (0.99%) dbt
10 6 (0.99%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 394 (64.80%) VPN
2 393 (64.64%) DNS
3 22 (3.62%) Firewall
4 13 (2.14%) LAN
5 10 (1.64%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.48%) Wireless
7 8 (1.32%) Cisco ASA
7 8 (1.32%) Cisco Firepower
7 8 (1.32%) OSPF
8 7 (1.15%) BGP
8 7 (1.15%) IPsec
9 5 (0.82%) EIGRP
9 5 (0.82%) HSRP
10 3 (0.49%) DHCP
10 3 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.49%) WLAN
11 2 (0.33%) Network Security
11 2 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.33%) SMTP
11 2 (0.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (1.64%) MongoDB
2 10 (1.64%) Redis
3 9 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (1.32%) Oracle ODI
5 7 (1.15%) SQL Server
6 6 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (0.99%) MySQL
6 6 (0.99%) Oracle Database
6 6 (0.99%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (0.66%) Big Data
7 4 (0.66%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.33%) Flink
8 2 (0.33%) Power BI
9 1 (0.16%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.16%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.16%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 25 (4.11%) Git
2 10 (1.64%) Jenkins
3 9 (1.48%) GitLab
4 8 (1.32%) JIRA
5 7 (1.15%) Maven
6 6 (0.99%) JDeveloper
6 6 (0.99%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.33%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.33%) ClearCase
7 2 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.16%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.16%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.16%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.16%) JUnit
8 1 (0.16%) NetBeans
8 1 (0.16%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.16%) Subversion
8 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 419 (68.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 414 (68.09%) Analytical Skills
2 414 (68.09%) Finance
3 55 (9.05%) Social Skills
4 45 (7.40%) Public Sector
5 27 (4.44%) Law
6 16 (2.63%) Aerospace
7 13 (2.14%) Telecoms
8 10 (1.64%) Electronics
9 9 (1.48%) Marketing
10 5 (0.82%) Military
11 4 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.66%) Police
12 3 (0.49%) Legal
12 3 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.49%) Retail
13 2 (0.33%) Local Government
13 2 (0.33%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.16%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 419 (68.91%) Developer
2 390 (64.14%) Software Developer
3 44 (7.24%) Senior
4 21 (3.45%) Architect
5 20 (3.29%) Consultant
6 16 (2.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (2.47%) Software Engineer
7 15 (2.47%) Support Engineer
8 11 (1.81%) Senior Developer
9 10 (1.64%) Senior Consultant
9 10 (1.64%) Service Desk Engineer
10 9 (1.48%) Analyst
10 9 (1.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 9 (1.48%) Infrastructure Support
10 9 (1.48%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 9 (1.48%) IT Engineer
10 9 (1.48%) Technical Architect
11 8 (1.32%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 8 (1.32%) Network Engineer
11 8 (1.32%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.63%) React
2 12 (1.97%) Node.js
3 11 (1.81%) .NET
4 10 (1.64%) Django
5 8 (1.32%) XML
6 7 (1.15%) REST
7 6 (0.99%) AngularJS
7 6 (0.99%) ASP.NET Web API
7 6 (0.99%) KeystoneJS
7 6 (0.99%) Swagger
8 5 (0.82%) SOAP
9 4 (0.66%) Middleware
9 4 (0.66%) Oracle Fusion
9 4 (0.66%) Vue
9 4 (0.66%) Web Services
10 3 (0.49%) RESTful
10 3 (0.49%) SailPoint
10 3 (0.49%) Spring
10 3 (0.49%) Spring Boot
11 2 (0.33%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 391 (64.31%) Cyberattack
2 20 (3.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 18 (2.96%) Blockchain
4 17 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (2.47%) Data Centre
6 12 (1.97%) e-Learning
7 9 (1.48%) Cloud Native
8 8 (1.32%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.15%) Management Information System
9 7 (1.15%) Operational Technology
10 6 (0.99%) Device Driver
11 5 (0.82%) CMDB
11 5 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (0.82%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.49%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.49%) CCTV
12 3 (0.49%) Private Cloud
13 2 (0.33%) Enterprise Cloud
13 2 (0.33%) PKI
13 2 (0.33%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 420 (69.08%) Linux
2 389 (63.98%) Android
3 28 (4.61%) Windows
4 15 (2.47%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.32%) Unix
6 4 (0.66%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.33%) AIX
8 2 (0.33%) Solaris
8 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.16%) Debian
9 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (70.07%) Agile
2 399 (65.63%) OO
3 396 (65.13%) Design Patterns
4 392 (64.47%) Line Management
5 391 (64.31%) OOP
6 390 (64.14%) Mathematics
7 388 (63.82%) Android Development
8 33 (5.43%) DevOps
9 32 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (4.61%) CI/CD
11 27 (4.44%) Customer Service
12 26 (4.28%) Mentoring
12 26 (4.28%) Software Engineering
13 24 (3.95%) Artificial Intelligence
14 23 (3.78%) Cybersecurity
14 23 (3.78%) ITIL
15 20 (3.29%) SDLC
16 19 (3.13%) Coaching
17 18 (2.96%) Project Management
18 16 (2.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 414 (68.09%) Java
2 411 (67.60%) Python
3 396 (65.13%) C++
4 388 (63.82%) Go
5 23 (3.78%) JavaScript
6 22 (3.62%) SQL
7 12 (1.97%) C#
8 8 (1.32%) C
8 8 (1.32%) TypeScript
9 6 (0.99%) Lua
9 6 (0.99%) Perl
9 6 (0.99%) PowerShell
10 5 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (0.82%) MATLAB
11 4 (0.66%) R
12 3 (0.49%) Bash
13 2 (0.33%) Groovy
13 2 (0.33%) Scala
14 1 (0.16%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.16%) X++
Qualifications
1 408 (67.11%) DV Cleared
2 137 (22.53%) SC Cleared
3 32 (5.26%) Degree
4 12 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (1.15%) Master's Degree
6 5 (0.82%) CISSP
6 5 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (0.66%) CCNA
7 4 (0.66%) CISA
7 4 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (0.66%) CISM
7 4 (0.66%) CompTIA CySA+
7 4 (0.66%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.49%) Chartered Engineer
8 3 (0.49%) PhD
9 2 (0.33%) MCSA
10 1 (0.16%) CCNP
10 1 (0.16%) CCSA
10 1 (0.16%) MCP
10 1 (0.16%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (1.15%) NIST
3 6 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 6 (0.99%) SLA
4 4 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (0.66%) Def Stans
4 4 (0.66%) GDPR
5 3 (0.49%) IEC 61508
5 3 (0.49%) ISO 14001
5 3 (0.49%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.49%) QA
6 2 (0.33%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.33%) GRC
6 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 2 (0.33%) NCSC
7 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.16%) PMBOK
7 1 (0.16%) PMO
System Software
1 414 (68.09%) Docker
2 21 (3.45%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.66%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.16%) Firmware
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 391 (64.31%) Ansible
2 14 (2.30%) Terraform
3 13 (2.14%) Kubernetes
4 6 (0.99%) AWS Copilot
5 4 (0.66%) HAProxy
5 4 (0.66%) QRadar
6 3 (0.49%) Functional Safety
6 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.49%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.33%) SCCM
8 1 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.16%) Packer
Vendors
1 43 (7.07%) Microsoft
2 33 (5.43%) Oracle
3 20 (3.29%) Red Hat
4 19 (3.13%) IBM
5 16 (2.63%) ServiceNow
6 10 (1.64%) Cisco
7 8 (1.32%) CheckPoint
8 6 (0.99%) Google
8 6 (0.99%) Palo Alto
8 6 (0.99%) VMware
9 4 (0.66%) AlienVault
10 3 (0.49%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.49%) BeyondTrust
10 3 (0.49%) CyberArk
10 3 (0.49%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.49%) Okta
10 3 (0.49%) Pega
10 3 (0.49%) SAP
10 3 (0.49%) Symantec
11 2 (0.33%) McAfee