Security Cleared Jobs in the North West

Security Clearance
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 28 25
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 -9
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 657 595 698
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 8.46% 5.82% 9.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 13.15% 24.78% 26.00%
Number of salaries quoted 84 312 200
10th Percentile £43,750 £37,500 £26,554
25th Percentile £51,000 £41,851 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £54,625 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.99% -8.96% +13.55%
75th Percentile £76,063 £65,000 £78,563
90th Percentile £96,575 £79,472 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +9.09%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,996 2,401 2,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 64.33% 23.49% 35.17%
Number of salaries quoted 2,474 1,646 913
10th Percentile £28,150 £26,250 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -13.04% +21.05%
75th Percentile £58,943 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £54,793 £54,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.54% -9.17% +9.09%

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 28 May 2025.

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 28 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
Lancashire +24 384 £48,000 -4.00% 167
Manchester +4 172 £67,500 +12.50% 383
Cheshire -9 57 £50,000 - 191
Merseyside -21 22 £83,750 +39.58% 84
Cumbria -85 22 £52,000 +34.25% 9
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 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (0.30%) Skype for Business
3 1 (0.15%) nginx
3 1 (0.15%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 6 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.15%) GNU Octave
2 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.15%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 190 (28.92%) Azure
2 184 (28.01%) AWS
3 176 (26.79%) GCP
4 8 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (1.07%) Power Platform
6 5 (0.76%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (0.76%) OCI
7 3 (0.46%) Amazon ECR
7 3 (0.46%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (0.46%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 3 (0.46%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 3 (0.46%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (0.46%) AWS CodeBuild
7 3 (0.46%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (0.46%) dbt
7 3 (0.46%) Entra ID
7 3 (0.46%) GitHub
7 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (0.46%) Pulumi
7 3 (0.46%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 382 (58.14%) VPN
2 381 (57.99%) DNS
3 7 (1.07%) Firewall
3 7 (1.07%) Wireless
4 6 (0.91%) OSPF
5 5 (0.76%) BGP
5 5 (0.76%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (0.76%) Cisco Firepower
5 5 (0.76%) EIGRP
5 5 (0.76%) HSRP
5 5 (0.76%) IPsec
6 3 (0.46%) Network Security
6 3 (0.46%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.30%) Internet
7 2 (0.30%) LAN
7 2 (0.30%) Skype
7 2 (0.30%) SMTP
7 2 (0.30%) WAN
7 2 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.15%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (0.61%) Redis
2 4 (0.61%) SQL Server
3 3 (0.46%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (0.46%) MySQL
4 2 (0.30%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.15%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.15%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 11 (1.67%) Git
2 9 (1.37%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.91%) GitLab
4 2 (0.30%) ClearCase
4 2 (0.30%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.15%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.15%) JIRA
5 1 (0.15%) JUnit
5 1 (0.15%) NetBeans
5 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 563 (85.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 398 (60.58%) Finance
3 392 (59.67%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (4.72%) Social Skills
5 17 (2.59%) Law
6 14 (2.13%) Public Sector
7 11 (1.67%) Electronics
8 10 (1.52%) Telecoms
9 9 (1.37%) Aerospace
10 5 (0.76%) Legal
10 5 (0.76%) Marketing
11 4 (0.61%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.30%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.30%) Military
13 2 (0.30%) Retail
14 1 (0.15%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.15%) Police
14 1 (0.15%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.15%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 386 (58.75%) Developer
2 381 (57.99%) Software Developer
3 189 (28.77%) Senior
4 186 (28.31%) Software Engineer
5 178 (27.09%) Senior Software Engineer
6 14 (2.13%) Consultant
6 14 (2.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (1.83%) Support Engineer
8 11 (1.67%) Architect
9 9 (1.37%) Infrastructure Support
9 9 (1.37%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 6 (0.91%) ServiceNow Consultant
11 5 (0.76%) Lead
11 5 (0.76%) Senior Consultant
11 5 (0.76%) Systems Engineer
12 4 (0.61%) HR Consultant
12 4 (0.61%) Network Engineer
12 4 (0.61%) SOC Engineer
13 3 (0.46%) DevOps Engineer
13 3 (0.46%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (26.48%) .NET
1 174 (26.48%) Node.js
2 4 (0.61%) Django
2 4 (0.61%) Spring
2 4 (0.61%) Spring Boot
3 3 (0.46%) React
4 2 (0.30%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.30%) FastAPI
4 2 (0.30%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (0.30%) REST
4 2 (0.30%) SOAP
4 2 (0.30%) XML
4 2 (0.30%) XSD
5 1 (0.15%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.15%) Kafka
5 1 (0.15%) Middleware
5 1 (0.15%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (0.15%) RESTful
5 1 (0.15%) Vue
5 1 (0.15%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 551 (83.87%) Cyberattack
2 177 (26.94%) Self-Motivation
3 172 (26.18%) Linux Command Line
4 13 (1.98%) Data Centre
5 6 (0.91%) Device Driver
6 4 (0.61%) Cloud Native
7 3 (0.46%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.30%) CMDB
8 2 (0.30%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.30%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.30%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.15%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.15%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.15%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.15%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.15%) IoT
9 1 (0.15%) Life Science
9 1 (0.15%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.15%) Replication
9 1 (0.15%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 564 (85.84%) Linux
2 380 (57.84%) Android
3 7 (1.07%) Windows
4 4 (0.61%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.46%) Unix
5 3 (0.46%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.15%) Debian
7 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 569 (86.61%) Agile
2 384 (58.45%) OO
3 382 (58.14%) OOP
4 381 (57.99%) Line Management
5 380 (57.84%) Design Patterns
6 379 (57.69%) Android Development
6 379 (57.69%) Mathematics
7 191 (29.07%) Software Engineering
8 181 (27.55%) Scrum
9 176 (26.79%) Mentoring
9 176 (26.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 175 (26.64%) Microservices
11 174 (26.48%) Cloud Security
11 174 (26.48%) User Experience
12 172 (26.18%) Data Engineering
12 172 (26.18%) Machine Learning
13 15 (2.28%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (2.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 14 (2.13%) Project Delivery
15 12 (1.83%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 569 (86.61%) Python
2 562 (85.54%) Java
3 559 (85.08%) C++
4 551 (83.87%) Go
5 178 (27.09%) JavaScript
6 173 (26.33%) Rust
7 7 (1.07%) C
8 6 (0.91%) SQL
9 5 (0.76%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.46%) C#
10 3 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.30%) Bash
11 2 (0.30%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.15%) Groovy
12 1 (0.15%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.15%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.15%) VB
12 1 (0.15%) VBScript
12 1 (0.15%) X++
Qualifications
1 571 (86.91%) DV Cleared
2 172 (26.18%) AWS Certification
2 172 (26.18%) AWS Certified Developer
2 172 (26.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 65 (9.89%) SC Cleared
4 20 (3.04%) Degree
5 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (0.61%) CompTIA CySA+
6 4 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (0.61%) DBS Check
7 3 (0.46%) Chartered Engineer
7 3 (0.46%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.15%) APMG
8 1 (0.15%) CCNA
8 1 (0.15%) CCNP
8 1 (0.15%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.15%) JNCIA
8 1 (0.15%) MCP
8 1 (0.15%) MCSA
8 1 (0.15%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (0.91%) SLA
2 4 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (0.61%) NCSC
2 4 (0.61%) NIST
2 4 (0.61%) QA
3 3 (0.46%) IEC 61508
4 2 (0.30%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.15%) P3O
System Software
1 385 (58.60%) Docker
2 5 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.46%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.46%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.15%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.15%) Firmware
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 381 (57.99%) Ansible
2 8 (1.22%) Terraform
3 5 (0.76%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.46%) AWS Copilot
4 3 (0.46%) Functional Safety
4 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.30%) QRadar
5 2 (0.30%) SCCM
6 1 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.15%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (3.65%) Microsoft
2 12 (1.83%) Oracle
3 10 (1.52%) ServiceNow
4 7 (1.07%) Cisco
5 5 (0.76%) CheckPoint
5 5 (0.76%) Palo Alto
5 5 (0.76%) SAP
5 5 (0.76%) VMware
6 4 (0.61%) AlienVault
7 3 (0.46%) Google
8 2 (0.30%) McAfee
8 2 (0.30%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.30%) Splunk
9 1 (0.15%) Dell
9 1 (0.15%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.15%) HP
9 1 (0.15%) Sparx
9 1 (0.15%) Symantec
9 1 (0.15%) Tripwire
9 1 (0.15%) Workday