Security Cleared Jobs in the North West

Security Clearance
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 6 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 13 68 34
Rank change year-on-year +55 -34 +76
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 504 419 611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 12.26% 4.64% 7.18%
As % of the Qualifications category 42.07% 17.54% 30.35%
Number of salaries quoted 203 243 411
10th Percentile £41,250 £35,250 £29,163
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,000 £38,134
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £55,000 £53,112
Median % change year-on-year +10.91% +3.55% +32.78%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £70,411
90th Percentile £80,070 £86,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +9.09%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North West

Security Cleared is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,198 2,389 2,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 29.15% 26.44% 23.65%
Number of salaries quoted 665 1,194 1,258
10th Percentile £29,500 £30,000 £26,925
25th Percentile £41,750 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +1.94% +7.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £56,480 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.81% +2.69% -

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the North West

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Security Cleared in the North West

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the North West over the 6 months to 6 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in the North West

Security Cleared
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 6 December 2023. 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
Manchester +63 308 £61,000 +10.91% 63
Merseyside +86 112 £60,000 +26.32% 5
Cumbria +14 30 £57,500 +32.18% 30
Cheshire +28 24 £42,500 - 30
Lancashire +8 20 £65,000 -29.73% 27
Security Cleared
England

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 14 (2.78%) JBoss
1 14 (2.78%) Red Hat Fuse
2 4 (0.79%) Confluence
3 3 (0.60%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.60%) WebSphere
3 3 (0.60%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (0.20%) Apache
Applications
1 17 (3.37%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.79%) Windchill
3 2 (0.40%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.40%) Simulink
4 1 (0.20%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 12 (2.38%) Primavera
2 2 (0.40%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.20%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.20%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.20%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.20%) SAP QM
3 1 (0.20%) SAP R/3
3 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.20%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.20%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 116 (23.02%) AWS
2 108 (21.43%) Azure
3 53 (10.52%) Serverless
4 48 (9.52%) GCP
5 34 (6.75%) OpenShift
6 31 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (3.57%) GitHub
8 15 (2.98%) Power Platform
9 11 (2.18%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (1.19%) dbt
12 5 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (0.79%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (0.79%) Amazon S3
13 4 (0.79%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (0.60%) Amazon ECS
14 3 (0.60%) Amazon ELB
14 3 (0.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 3 (0.60%) Entra ID
15 2 (0.40%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.96%) Wireless
2 16 (3.17%) LAN
3 14 (2.78%) Firewall
4 11 (2.18%) WLAN
5 10 (1.98%) DNS
6 8 (1.59%) VLAN
6 8 (1.59%) VPN
6 8 (1.59%) WAN
7 7 (1.39%) Software-Defined Radio
8 6 (1.19%) HTTP
8 6 (1.19%) IPv4
8 6 (1.19%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.99%) Cisco Firepower
9 5 (0.99%) Cisco IOS
9 5 (0.99%) Cisco ISE
9 5 (0.99%) Ethernet
9 5 (0.99%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 5 (0.99%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 5 (0.99%) NX-OS
9 5 (0.99%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
2 21 (4.17%) MongoDB
3 17 (3.37%) RDBMS
3 17 (3.37%) Relational Database
4 16 (3.17%) SQL Server
5 13 (2.58%) Power BI
6 10 (1.98%) MySQL
7 8 (1.59%) Oracle Database
8 6 (1.19%) Big Data
8 6 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.79%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.79%) JasperReports
9 4 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.60%) BusinessObjects
10 3 (0.60%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 3 (0.60%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.40%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.40%) Redis
Development Applications
1 53 (10.52%) Git
2 43 (8.53%) Jenkins
3 23 (4.56%) Selenium
4 19 (3.77%) Cucumber
4 19 (3.77%) Cypress.io
5 14 (2.78%) IntelliJ
6 13 (2.58%) JIRA
7 5 (0.99%) GitLab
8 4 (0.79%) AutoIt
8 4 (0.79%) eggPlant
8 4 (0.79%) GDB
8 4 (0.79%) Maven
8 4 (0.79%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (0.60%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (0.40%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.20%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.20%) IDA Disassembler
11 1 (0.20%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.20%) Subversion
11 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 195 (38.69%) Social Skills
2 85 (16.87%) Finance
3 79 (15.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 48 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 43 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
6 35 (6.94%) Aerospace
7 33 (6.55%) Influencing Skills
8 30 (5.95%) Presentation Skills
9 29 (5.75%) Police
10 23 (4.56%) Banking
10 23 (4.56%) Games
11 14 (2.78%) Retail
12 10 (1.98%) Law
13 7 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.19%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.79%) Automotive
15 4 (0.79%) Avionics
15 4 (0.79%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.40%) Electronics
16 2 (0.40%) Legal
Job Titles
1 99 (19.64%) Software Engineer
2 98 (19.44%) Architect
3 76 (15.08%) Senior
4 53 (10.52%) Developer
5 52 (10.32%) Solutions Architect
6 41 (8.13%) Lead
7 40 (7.94%) Presales Solution Architect
8 31 (6.15%) Senior Software Engineer
9 30 (5.95%) DevOps Engineer
10 29 (5.75%) Business Development Manager
10 29 (5.75%) Business Manager
10 29 (5.75%) Development Manager
10 29 (5.75%) Java Engineer
10 29 (5.75%) Java Software Engineer
11 28 (5.56%) Project Manager
11 28 (5.56%) Software Developer
12 24 (4.76%) Analyst
12 24 (4.76%) Security Architect
13 14 (2.78%) Consultant
13 14 (2.78%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (11.51%) React
1 58 (11.51%) Spring
2 47 (9.33%) Node.js
3 36 (7.14%) .NET
4 23 (4.56%) AngularJS
5 21 (4.17%) JSON
6 20 (3.97%) Spring Boot
7 19 (3.77%) J2EE
7 19 (3.77%) Ruby on Rails
7 19 (3.77%) Web Services
7 19 (3.77%) XML
8 16 (3.17%) RESTful
9 15 (2.98%) Hibernate
9 15 (2.98%) SOAP
10 14 (2.78%) JPA
10 14 (2.78%) REST
10 14 (2.78%) XSD
11 12 (2.38%) Java EE
12 10 (1.98%) ModSecurity
13 9 (1.79%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (6.55%) Cyberattack
2 29 (5.75%) Self-Motivation
3 23 (4.56%) Linux Command Line
4 20 (3.97%) Public Cloud
5 19 (3.77%) Management Information System
6 13 (2.58%) Product Ownership
7 11 (2.18%) Algorithms
7 11 (2.18%) Embedded Systems
8 10 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (1.98%) Private Cloud
9 9 (1.79%) FPGA
9 9 (1.79%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.79%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.59%) Data Centre
10 8 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.39%) VHDL
12 6 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
13 5 (0.99%) Security Posture
14 4 (0.79%) Cloud Native
14 4 (0.79%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 80 (15.87%) Linux
2 37 (7.34%) Windows
3 16 (3.17%) Unix
4 5 (0.99%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.79%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.60%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.40%) Android
7 2 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.20%) CentOS
8 1 (0.20%) Fedora
8 1 (0.20%) FreeBSD
8 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.20%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.20%) VMS
8 1 (0.20%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.20%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (40.48%) Actionable Insight
2 147 (29.17%) Agile
3 143 (28.37%) Problem-Solving
4 138 (27.38%) Software Engineering
5 95 (18.85%) DevOps
6 89 (17.66%) Mentoring
7 80 (15.87%) Microservices
8 69 (13.69%) Coaching
9 66 (13.10%) Containerisation
10 63 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 58 (11.51%) IT Strategy
12 56 (11.11%) User Experience
13 54 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
14 53 (10.52%) Analytics
15 50 (9.92%) Design Patterns
16 46 (9.13%) Business Case
16 46 (9.13%) Technology Strategy
17 44 (8.73%) Continuous Integration
18 43 (8.53%) CI/CD
18 43 (8.53%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 148 (29.37%) Java
2 146 (28.97%) Python
3 74 (14.68%) JavaScript
4 47 (9.33%) C++
5 45 (8.93%) C#
6 41 (8.13%) SQL
7 36 (7.14%) Go
8 33 (6.55%) Ruby
9 23 (4.56%) Rust
10 20 (3.97%) Bash
11 18 (3.57%) PowerShell
11 18 (3.57%) TypeScript
12 17 (3.37%) C
13 11 (2.18%) Perl
14 9 (1.79%) MATLAB
15 4 (0.79%) VB.NET
16 3 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
16 3 (0.60%) PL/SQL
17 2 (0.40%) Kotlin
17 2 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 285 (56.55%) SC Cleared
2 104 (20.63%) DV Cleared
3 46 (9.13%) Degree
4 27 (5.36%) AWS Certification
5 23 (4.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 23 (4.56%) AWS Certified Developer
5 23 (4.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 10 (1.98%) CISA
6 10 (1.98%) CISM
6 10 (1.98%) CISSP
6 10 (1.98%) CRISC
7 9 (1.79%) PhD
8 6 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.19%) GIAC
9 5 (0.99%) RHCE
10 4 (0.79%) CTC Cleared
10 4 (0.79%) HND
10 4 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.60%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (5.95%) QA
2 15 (2.98%) Accessibility
3 12 (2.38%) GRC
4 10 (1.98%) ISO 22301
4 10 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (1.98%) NIST
5 4 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 4 (0.79%) WCAG
6 2 (0.40%) PMO
7 1 (0.20%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 1 (0.20%) SLA
System Software
1 58 (11.51%) Docker
2 23 (4.56%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (3.17%) Active Directory
4 9 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.99%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.40%) Firmware
6 2 (0.40%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.20%) NFS
7 1 (0.20%) Samba
7 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 56 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 30 (5.95%) Terraform
3 19 (3.77%) Ansible
4 7 (1.39%) Puppet
5 5 (0.99%) FortiGate
6 3 (0.60%) SCCM
7 2 (0.40%) CSIRT
7 2 (0.40%) Packer
7 2 (0.40%) SCOM
8 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.20%) Nagios
8 1 (0.20%) OpenNMS
8 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.20%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.20%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 36 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.56%) Oracle
3 15 (2.98%) CA
4 14 (2.78%) VMware
5 13 (2.58%) Juniper
6 10 (1.98%) Aruba
6 10 (1.98%) ServiceNow
7 9 (1.79%) Cisco
7 9 (1.79%) Infoblox
8 8 (1.59%) Google
9 7 (1.39%) Fortinet
9 7 (1.39%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.19%) SolarWinds
11 5 (0.99%) Blue Coat
11 5 (0.99%) CheckPoint
11 5 (0.99%) F5
11 5 (0.99%) NetApp
12 3 (0.60%) SAP
13 2 (0.40%) Dell
13 2 (0.40%) IBM