Security Cleared Job Trends 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 18 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 28 56
Rank change year-on-year -10 +28 -7
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 773 788 499
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.45% 8.19% 3.31%
As % of the Qualifications category 23.47% 20.67% 14.75%
Number of salaries quoted 588 171 330
10th Percentile £45,000 £38,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,625 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,861 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.38% +13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £79,375 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £79,263
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +3.45% -3.33%

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 3,293 3,812 3,383
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 14.71% 39.61% 22.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,777 1,193 1,674
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,525 £26,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £33,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £74,258 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Security Cleared relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Security Cleared job vacancy trend in the North of England

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Security Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Security Cleared

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 18 August 2026.

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 18 August 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 -15 448 £70,000 +3.70% 169
Yorkshire +13 163 £65,000 +19.27% 47
North East +29 162 £60,000 -7.69% 64
Security Cleared
England

Security 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 28 (3.62%) Apache Spark
2 20 (2.59%) Apache
3 16 (2.07%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (2.07%) SharePoint
4 15 (1.94%) Jupyter
4 15 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (1.42%) Confluence
6 3 (0.39%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.13%) CMS
7 1 (0.13%) JBoss
7 1 (0.13%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.78%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (0.65%) SAP ERP
1 5 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 198 (25.61%) AWS
2 103 (13.32%) Azure
3 47 (6.08%) GitHub
4 40 (5.17%) AWS CloudFormation
5 38 (4.92%) Serverless
6 37 (4.79%) Amazon S3
7 29 (3.75%) Amazon EC2
8 26 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
8 26 (3.36%) Power Platform
9 22 (2.85%) Amazon ECR
10 20 (2.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 20 (2.59%) GCP
11 19 (2.46%) Amazon EMR
11 19 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
12 16 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (1.81%) Amazon EKS
14 13 (1.68%) Amazon ECS
14 13 (1.68%) SaaS
15 11 (1.42%) Entra ID
16 10 (1.29%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.07%) Network Security
2 12 (1.55%) Firewall
3 10 (1.29%) SAN
4 8 (1.03%) DNS
5 7 (0.91%) Cisco Firepower
6 6 (0.78%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (0.65%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.65%) VPN
7 5 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.52%) Cisco Nexus
8 4 (0.52%) Skype
8 4 (0.52%) VLAN
8 4 (0.52%) WAN
9 3 (0.39%) DHCP
9 3 (0.39%) LAN
9 3 (0.39%) Structured Cabling
10 2 (0.26%) AMQP
10 2 (0.26%) Internet
10 2 (0.26%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (2.85%) Big Data
1 22 (2.85%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (2.72%) DynamoDB
3 15 (1.94%) Amazon Athena
4 14 (1.81%) Power BI
5 10 (1.29%) Data Lake
6 9 (1.16%) BigQuery
7 8 (1.03%) Looker
7 8 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (0.91%) Metadata
9 6 (0.78%) Hadoop
9 6 (0.78%) Tableau
10 5 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (0.52%) Flink
11 4 (0.52%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.52%) Neo4j
11 4 (0.52%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.39%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 64 (8.28%) GitLab
2 55 (7.12%) Jenkins
3 40 (5.17%) Git
4 22 (2.85%) JIRA
5 16 (2.07%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 15 (1.94%) SonarQube
7 13 (1.68%) Cypress.io
8 10 (1.29%) Maven
9 8 (1.03%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.52%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.52%) Vite
11 3 (0.39%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.39%) Claude Code
12 2 (0.26%) Balsamiq
12 2 (0.26%) Postman
12 2 (0.26%) REST Assured
13 1 (0.13%) gulp
13 1 (0.13%) Mocha
13 1 (0.13%) Rational DOORS
13 1 (0.13%) webpack
General
1 123 (15.91%) Public Sector
1 123 (15.91%) Social Skills
2 72 (9.31%) Analytical Skills
3 65 (8.41%) Finance
4 60 (7.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (3.49%) Legal
6 24 (3.10%) Law
7 17 (2.20%) Manufacturing
8 16 (2.07%) Retail
9 9 (1.16%) Telecoms
10 8 (1.03%) Local Government
10 8 (1.03%) Police
11 7 (0.91%) Aerospace
12 6 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.52%) Marketing
14 4 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.26%) Military
16 1 (0.13%) Electronics
16 1 (0.13%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 123 (15.91%) Senior
2 89 (11.51%) DevOps Engineer
3 86 (11.13%) Developer
4 75 (9.70%) Consultant
5 73 (9.44%) Cloud Engineer
6 63 (8.15%) Software Engineer
7 59 (7.63%) Architect
8 48 (6.21%) Lead
9 45 (5.82%) Data Engineer
10 42 (5.43%) Analyst
11 36 (4.66%) Java Developer
12 28 (3.62%) Principal Engineer
13 27 (3.49%) AWS Engineer
14 26 (3.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 26 (3.36%) Network Engineer
14 26 (3.36%) Senior Developer
15 25 (3.23%) AWS DevOps
15 25 (3.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 24 (3.10%) Security Consultant
17 22 (2.85%) Principal DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (5.17%) Spring Boot
2 33 (4.27%) Spring
3 27 (3.49%) React
4 26 (3.36%) CSS
5 24 (3.10%) HTML
6 23 (2.98%) AngularJS
7 22 (2.85%) Node.js
7 22 (2.85%) PySpark
8 19 (2.46%) REST
9 18 (2.33%) .NET
10 13 (1.68%) Kafka
10 13 (1.68%) Web Services
11 12 (1.55%) Jest
11 12 (1.55%) Oracle Fusion
12 8 (1.03%) JSON
12 8 (1.03%) Vue
13 7 (0.91%) Gherkin
13 7 (0.91%) OpenAPI
13 7 (0.91%) RabbitMQ
13 7 (0.91%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 65 (8.41%) Cloud Native
2 24 (3.10%) Onboarding
3 21 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (2.72%) Driving Licence
4 14 (1.81%) Product Ownership
5 13 (1.68%) Data Centre
5 13 (1.68%) Data Structures
6 10 (1.29%) Enterprise Storage
7 9 (1.16%) Clustering
8 8 (1.03%) AI Agents
8 8 (1.03%) Management Information System
9 7 (0.91%) Blog
9 7 (0.91%) Security Posture
10 6 (0.78%) Cyberattack
10 6 (0.78%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (0.78%) Low-Code
10 6 (0.78%) NHS
10 6 (0.78%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 69 (8.93%) Linux
2 38 (4.92%) Windows
3 27 (3.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 18 (2.33%) CentOS
5 13 (1.68%) Windows 10
5 13 (1.68%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.16%) Unix
7 8 (1.03%) AIX
8 3 (0.39%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.26%) Debian
9 2 (0.26%) Solaris
9 2 (0.26%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.26%) VMS
10 1 (0.13%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (24.19%) DevOps
2 171 (22.12%) Agile
3 157 (20.31%) CI/CD
4 108 (13.97%) Infrastructure as Code
5 103 (13.32%) Continuous Improvement
6 102 (13.20%) Software Engineering
7 87 (11.25%) Problem-Solving
8 78 (10.09%) Mentoring
9 77 (9.96%) Containerisation
10 71 (9.18%) Stakeholder Management
11 68 (8.80%) Technical Leadership
12 66 (8.54%) AI
13 61 (7.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 59 (7.63%) Platform Engineering
15 54 (6.99%) Cybersecurity
16 53 (6.86%) Coaching
17 52 (6.73%) Validation
18 51 (6.60%) Data Modelling
18 51 (6.60%) Microservices
19 49 (6.34%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 156 (20.18%) Python
2 108 (13.97%) Java
3 65 (8.41%) SQL
4 45 (5.82%) JavaScript
5 28 (3.62%) Bash
5 28 (3.62%) PowerShell
5 28 (3.62%) TypeScript
6 22 (2.85%) Groovy
7 10 (1.29%) C++
7 10 (1.29%) Scala
8 9 (1.16%) C#
9 7 (0.91%) PHP
10 6 (0.78%) C
11 5 (0.65%) Perl
11 5 (0.65%) R
11 5 (0.65%) VBScript
12 4 (0.52%) Ruby
13 3 (0.39%) Bicep
13 3 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 559 (72.32%) SC Cleared
2 190 (24.58%) DV Cleared
3 50 (6.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 24 (3.10%) Degree
5 19 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (1.68%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.16%) Azure Certification
8 6 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (0.78%) HNC
8 6 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (0.65%) CCNA
9 5 (0.65%) CCNP
10 4 (0.52%) CISSP
10 4 (0.52%) MCSA
10 4 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.26%) A+ Certification
11 2 (0.26%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (0.26%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (5.69%) Data Quality
2 37 (4.79%) QA
3 12 (1.55%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.55%) GDPR
4 9 (1.16%) SLA
5 6 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.65%) NIST
7 3 (0.39%) PMO
8 2 (0.26%) GRC
8 2 (0.26%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 2 (0.26%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.26%) WCAG
9 1 (0.13%) AQAP
9 1 (0.13%) COSHH
9 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.13%) HL7
9 1 (0.13%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
System Software
1 101 (13.07%) Docker
2 28 (3.62%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.91%) BitLocker
4 7 (0.91%) Firmware
5 5 (0.65%) vSphere
6 4 (0.52%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 120 (15.52%) Terraform
2 97 (12.55%) Kubernetes
3 70 (9.06%) Ansible
4 14 (1.81%) SCCM
5 11 (1.42%) Progress Chef
6 8 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.91%) HP Fortify
8 5 (0.65%) Puppet
9 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Clustering
10 3 (0.39%) Argo
10 3 (0.39%) Grafana
10 3 (0.39%) Packer
10 3 (0.39%) Podman
10 3 (0.39%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.26%) Kibana
11 2 (0.26%) WSUS
12 1 (0.13%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.13%) Nessus
12 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 77 (9.96%) Microsoft
2 30 (3.88%) ServiceNow
3 19 (2.46%) VMware
4 16 (2.07%) Cisco
4 16 (2.07%) Oracle
5 15 (1.94%) Databricks
6 14 (1.81%) Google
6 14 (1.81%) SAP
7 11 (1.42%) Red Hat
8 8 (1.03%) Fortinet
8 8 (1.03%) OpenAI
9 7 (0.91%) IBM
10 5 (0.65%) AppDynamics
10 5 (0.65%) Aruba
10 5 (0.65%) HP
10 5 (0.65%) YouTube
11 4 (0.52%) Juniper
11 4 (0.52%) Remedy
12 3 (0.39%) Informatica
12 3 (0.39%) Salesforce