Security Cleared Jobs in the North of England

Security Clearance
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 55 28
Rank change year-on-year +14 -27 +78
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 806 1,002 1,443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.64% 5.81% 8.00%
As % of the Qualifications category 20.79% 19.41% 28.20%
Number of salaries quoted 377 327 690
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £39,720 £42,831 £38,037
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +11.65% -4.63%
75th Percentile £68,000 £73,613 £64,777
90th Percentile £82,500 £84,250 £76,520
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of England

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 of England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,876 5,162 5,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 22.32% 29.93% 28.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,665 1,734 2,455
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,825 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,575
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £53,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.49% +11.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £54,800 £59,526 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.94% +8.23% -

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 7 May 2024.

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 7 May 2024. 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 +4 579 £55,000 -4.35% 205
Yorkshire +32 190 £60,000 -9.77% 33
North East -37 37 £55,000 +22.22% 22
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 89 (11.04%) ArcGIS
2 85 (10.55%) GeoServer
3 15 (1.86%) Apache
4 12 (1.49%) Confluence
4 12 (1.49%) WebLogic
5 11 (1.36%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (1.24%) SharePoint
7 8 (0.99%) JBoss
7 8 (0.99%) Red Hat Fuse
8 5 (0.62%) IIS
9 4 (0.50%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.25%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.25%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.12%) CMS
11 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 22 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (1.49%) Sketch
4 10 (1.24%) MS Visio
5 9 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.62%) AutoCAD
7 4 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.25%) Revit
Business Applications
1 29 (3.60%) Primavera
2 15 (1.86%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 14 (1.74%) NEC Housing
4 9 (1.12%) Remedy ITSM
5 7 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.25%) SAP PLM
7 2 (0.25%) SAP PM
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payroll
8 1 (0.12%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 211 (26.18%) Azure
2 189 (23.45%) AWS
3 24 (2.98%) Amazon EKS
3 24 (2.98%) Dynamics 365
4 18 (2.23%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (2.23%) Miro
5 17 (2.11%) GCP
5 17 (2.11%) SaaS
6 15 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (1.86%) Serverless
7 13 (1.61%) Amazon SQS
7 13 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (1.61%) OpenShift
8 12 (1.49%) Figma
8 12 (1.49%) Heroku
9 11 (1.36%) PaaS
10 10 (1.24%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (1.24%) Power Platform
11 8 (0.99%) GitHub
12 7 (0.87%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.85%) Firewall
2 22 (2.73%) TCP/IP
3 20 (2.48%) DNS
4 16 (1.99%) Wireless
5 15 (1.86%) BGP
6 14 (1.74%) SAN
6 14 (1.74%) Software-Defined Radio
7 12 (1.49%) SSL
8 11 (1.36%) AMQP
8 11 (1.36%) Network Security
9 10 (1.24%) WAN
10 9 (1.12%) VPN
11 8 (0.99%) Internet
11 8 (0.99%) SD-WAN
11 8 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (0.74%) DHCP
12 6 (0.74%) LAN
13 4 (0.50%) DMZ
13 4 (0.50%) TETRA
13 4 (0.50%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (11.41%) PostgreSQL
2 91 (11.29%) GIS
3 85 (10.55%) QGIS
4 22 (2.73%) Oracle Database
5 20 (2.48%) SQL Server
6 16 (1.99%) RDBMS
6 16 (1.99%) Relational Database
7 13 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (1.36%) Big Data
8 11 (1.36%) Cloudera CDH
8 11 (1.36%) Hadoop
9 8 (0.99%) Power BI
10 6 (0.74%) Geospatial Data
11 5 (0.62%) Oracle Database 12c
12 4 (0.50%) MySQL
12 4 (0.50%) NoSQL
12 4 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (0.50%) Tableau
13 3 (0.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 2 (0.25%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 42 (5.21%) JIRA
2 16 (1.99%) GitLab
3 12 (1.49%) Git
3 12 (1.49%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.99%) IntelliJ
4 8 (0.99%) Selenium
5 6 (0.74%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.50%) HP UFT
6 4 (0.50%) JMeter
6 4 (0.50%) LoadRunner
6 4 (0.50%) MSTest
6 4 (0.50%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.37%) Burp Suite
7 3 (0.37%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.37%) JUnit
7 3 (0.37%) Metasploit
7 3 (0.37%) Postman
7 3 (0.37%) REST Assured
7 3 (0.37%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.25%) SOAtest
General
1 195 (24.19%) Social Skills
2 90 (11.17%) Public Sector
3 72 (8.93%) Finance
4 53 (6.58%) Aerospace
5 43 (5.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 42 (5.21%) Analytical Skills
7 25 (3.10%) Police
8 23 (2.85%) Law
9 19 (2.36%) Local Government
10 17 (2.11%) Manufacturing
11 14 (1.74%) Military
12 13 (1.61%) Telecoms
13 9 (1.12%) Retail
14 8 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (0.87%) Avionics
15 7 (0.87%) Legal
16 6 (0.74%) Games
16 6 (0.74%) Polish Language
17 5 (0.62%) Back Office
17 5 (0.62%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 167 (20.72%) Senior
2 121 (15.01%) Software Engineer
3 109 (13.52%) Architect
4 97 (12.03%) Lead
5 72 (8.93%) Developer
6 69 (8.56%) Senior Software Engineer
7 60 (7.44%) Solutions Architect
8 54 (6.70%) Analyst
9 44 (5.46%) Systems Engineer
10 29 (3.60%) Designer
10 29 (3.60%) Project Manager
11 27 (3.35%) Presales Solution Architect
11 27 (3.35%) Project Planner
12 26 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
13 21 (2.61%) UX Designer
14 20 (2.48%) Senior Developer
15 17 (2.11%) Business Analyst
15 17 (2.11%) Product Manager
15 17 (2.11%) Senior Analyst
15 17 (2.11%) UI Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (14.64%) React
2 89 (11.04%) .NET
3 85 (10.55%) Leaflet
3 85 (10.55%) OpenLayers
3 85 (10.55%) PostGIS
4 73 (9.06%) .NET Core
4 73 (9.06%) CSS
5 37 (4.59%) AngularJS
6 33 (4.09%) Spring Boot
7 32 (3.97%) Spring
8 29 (3.60%) Node.js
9 23 (2.85%) RabbitMQ
10 19 (2.36%) REST
11 18 (2.23%) RESTful
12 17 (2.11%) Django
12 17 (2.11%) HTML
13 14 (1.74%) SOAP
14 13 (1.61%) Swagger
15 12 (1.49%) OpenAPI
15 12 (1.49%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 27 (3.35%) Operational Technology
2 21 (2.61%) Cloud Native
3 19 (2.36%) Driving Licence
3 19 (2.36%) Virtual Team
4 18 (2.23%) Private Cloud
5 17 (2.11%) Public Cloud
6 16 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (1.86%) Product Ownership
8 13 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
8 13 (1.61%) SCADA
9 12 (1.49%) Data Centre
9 12 (1.49%) Management Information System
10 11 (1.36%) Cyberattack
11 10 (1.24%) Cyber Threat
12 9 (1.12%) Industrial Internet of Things
12 9 (1.12%) Onboarding
13 7 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (0.74%) Cyber Defence
15 5 (0.62%) IoT
16 4 (0.50%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 91 (11.29%) Linux
2 44 (5.46%) Windows
3 25 (3.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 24 (2.98%) Ubuntu
4 24 (2.98%) Unix
5 11 (1.36%) CentOS
5 11 (1.36%) Debian
6 9 (1.12%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.74%) VMS
8 5 (0.62%) Mac OS X
9 4 (0.50%) Solaris
10 3 (0.37%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.37%) zOS
11 2 (0.25%) FreeBSD
11 2 (0.25%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.12%) Android
12 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 314 (38.96%) Actionable Insight
2 308 (38.21%) Agile
3 184 (22.83%) DevOps
4 173 (21.46%) Software Engineering
5 119 (14.76%) Problem-Solving
6 88 (10.92%) Stakeholder Management
7 85 (10.55%) Web Development
8 83 (10.30%) Mentoring
9 77 (9.55%) Project Management
9 77 (9.55%) Scrum
10 69 (8.56%) Coaching
11 65 (8.06%) Cybersecurity
12 64 (7.94%) Collaborative Working
13 59 (7.32%) CI/CD
14 58 (7.20%) Kanban
15 56 (6.95%) ITIL
16 55 (6.82%) Open Source
17 51 (6.33%) Business Case
17 51 (6.33%) Continuous Integration
17 51 (6.33%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 136 (16.87%) Python
2 132 (16.38%) JavaScript
3 65 (8.06%) Java
4 64 (7.94%) C#
5 19 (2.36%) TypeScript
6 13 (1.61%) PowerShell
7 12 (1.49%) C++
8 9 (1.12%) SQL
9 7 (0.87%) MATLAB
10 5 (0.62%) VB.NET
10 5 (0.62%) VBA
11 4 (0.50%) Bicep
11 4 (0.50%) C
11 4 (0.50%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.37%) Bash
13 2 (0.25%) Perl
14 1 (0.12%) JCL
14 1 (0.12%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.12%) R
14 1 (0.12%) REXX
Qualifications
1 569 (70.60%) SC Cleared
2 91 (11.29%) Degree
3 67 (8.31%) DV Cleared
4 20 (2.48%) Azure Certification
4 20 (2.48%) DBS Check
5 16 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (1.74%) AWS Certification
6 14 (1.74%) CISA
6 14 (1.74%) CISM
6 14 (1.74%) CRISC
7 12 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (1.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 11 (1.36%) CESG Certified Professional
8 11 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (1.12%) BC Cleared
9 9 (1.12%) CCNP
10 7 (0.87%) CCNA
10 7 (0.87%) CREST Certified
10 7 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
10 7 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (6.82%) Accessibility
2 37 (4.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 28 (3.47%) SLA
4 15 (1.86%) GRC
4 15 (1.86%) WCAG
5 14 (1.74%) GDPR
6 10 (1.24%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.12%) COBIT
7 9 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (0.99%) NIST
8 8 (0.99%) QA
9 7 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 7 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 5 (0.62%) PMO
11 3 (0.37%) NCSC
12 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.12%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 31 (3.85%) Docker
2 17 (2.11%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.87%) KVM
5 5 (0.62%) SRDF
5 5 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.37%) Firmware
7 3 (0.37%) vSphere
8 2 (0.25%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.25%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.12%) Lustre
9 1 (0.12%) NFS
9 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.12%) Snort
9 1 (0.12%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 41 (5.09%) Kubernetes
2 40 (4.96%) Terraform
3 34 (4.22%) Ansible
4 11 (1.36%) Puppet
4 11 (1.36%) SCCM
5 9 (1.12%) OpenView
6 5 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.62%) WSUS
7 4 (0.50%) Grafana
8 3 (0.37%) Nessus
8 3 (0.37%) Nmap
8 3 (0.37%) SCOM
9 2 (0.25%) Host Intrusion Detection System
9 2 (0.25%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.12%) Icinga
10 1 (0.12%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.12%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 1 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 103 (12.78%) Microsoft
2 85 (10.55%) ESRI
3 40 (4.96%) Oracle
4 26 (3.23%) VMware
5 23 (2.85%) Cisco
6 18 (2.23%) ServiceNow
7 15 (1.86%) Sparx
8 14 (1.74%) NEC
9 13 (1.61%) Red Hat
10 12 (1.49%) Fortinet
10 12 (1.49%) Juniper
11 11 (1.36%) Google
11 11 (1.36%) HP
11 11 (1.36%) SaltStack
12 10 (1.24%) BMC
13 9 (1.12%) Remedy
14 8 (0.99%) Dell
14 8 (0.99%) Splunk
15 7 (0.87%) Thales
16 6 (0.74%) Brocade