SC Cleared Jobs in the North West

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 60 35
Rank change year-on-year +8 -25 +42
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 392 413 723
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.03% 5.20% 7.67%
As % of the Qualifications category 16.54% 15.23% 25.52%
Number of salaries quoted 180 163 381
10th Percentile £37,385 £26,680 £28,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £38,037
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £53,112
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +8.26% +1.17%
75th Percentile £66,250 £73,853 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North West

SC 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 2,370 2,712 2,833
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 24.34% 34.18% 30.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,607 923 1,313
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,800 £27,273
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.60% +8.23% -

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the North West

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for SC Cleared in the North West

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in the North West over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in the North West

SC 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 SC Cleared within the North West region over the 6 months to 3 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
Manchester -3 176 £60,000 -7.69% 42
Merseyside +19 108 £60,000 +84.62% 4
Cheshire +20 66 £55,000 +106.15% 31
Cumbria -6 26 £37,500 -40.94% 25
Lancashire -22 15 £45,000 +12.50% 22
SC Cleared
England

SC 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 61 (15.56%) ArcGIS
2 57 (14.54%) GeoServer
3 11 (2.81%) Apache
3 11 (2.81%) Apache Spark
4 10 (2.55%) SharePoint
5 9 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (2.04%) Confluence
6 8 (2.04%) WebLogic
7 5 (1.28%) JBoss
7 5 (1.28%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.26%) IIS
8 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (2.04%) MS Visio
1 8 (2.04%) Sketch
2 5 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.02%) AutoCAD
3 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.04%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (1.53%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 111 (28.32%) Azure
2 90 (22.96%) AWS
3 19 (4.85%) Amazon EKS
4 13 (3.32%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (3.06%) GCP
5 12 (3.06%) Miro
5 12 (3.06%) OpenShift
6 11 (2.81%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (2.81%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (2.81%) Serverless
7 10 (2.55%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (2.04%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (2.04%) Figma
8 8 (2.04%) Heroku
8 8 (2.04%) SaaS
9 7 (1.79%) IaaS
9 7 (1.79%) PaaS
9 7 (1.79%) Power Platform
10 6 (1.53%) Power Automate
10 6 (1.53%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.81%) AMQP
1 11 (2.81%) DNS
2 9 (2.30%) TCP/IP
3 8 (2.04%) BGP
3 8 (2.04%) Software-Defined Radio
3 8 (2.04%) SSL
3 8 (2.04%) Wireless
4 5 (1.28%) SAN
5 4 (1.02%) Firewall
5 4 (1.02%) LAN
5 4 (1.02%) TETRA
6 3 (0.77%) DHCP
6 3 (0.77%) Internet
6 3 (0.77%) Network Security
6 3 (0.77%) WAN
7 2 (0.51%) Cisco Firepower
7 2 (0.51%) PPP
7 2 (0.51%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.26%) VLAN
8 1 (0.26%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (14.54%) GIS
1 57 (14.54%) PostgreSQL
1 57 (14.54%) QGIS
2 11 (2.81%) Big Data
2 11 (2.81%) Cloudera CDH
2 11 (2.81%) Hadoop
3 10 (2.55%) RDBMS
3 10 (2.55%) Relational Database
3 10 (2.55%) SQL Server
4 8 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (2.04%) Oracle Database
5 5 (1.28%) Power BI
6 2 (0.51%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (3.57%) JIRA
2 6 (1.53%) Git
3 5 (1.28%) IntelliJ
4 4 (1.02%) GitLab
5 3 (0.77%) Burp Suite
5 3 (0.77%) Metasploit
6 2 (0.51%) Appium
6 2 (0.51%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.51%) Eclipse
6 2 (0.51%) GDB
6 2 (0.51%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.51%) JUnit
6 2 (0.51%) Postman
6 2 (0.51%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.51%) Selenium
6 2 (0.51%) SoapUI
6 2 (0.51%) SOAtest
6 2 (0.51%) TestNG
6 2 (0.51%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.51%) WebDriver
General
1 100 (25.51%) Social Skills
2 39 (9.95%) Public Sector
3 28 (7.14%) Finance
4 22 (5.61%) Aerospace
5 16 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (2.55%) Military
8 7 (1.79%) Avionics
8 7 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.53%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.28%) Polish Language
11 4 (1.02%) Local Government
11 4 (1.02%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.51%) Banking
12 2 (0.51%) Games
12 2 (0.51%) Law
12 2 (0.51%) Legal
12 2 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.51%) Police
12 2 (0.51%) Retail
Job Titles
1 98 (25.00%) Senior
2 78 (19.90%) Software Engineer
3 57 (14.54%) Architect
4 50 (12.76%) Lead
5 45 (11.48%) Senior Software Engineer
6 35 (8.93%) Developer
7 34 (8.67%) Systems Engineer
8 33 (8.42%) Solutions Architect
9 19 (4.85%) Presales Solution Architect
9 19 (4.85%) Project Manager
10 17 (4.34%) Analyst
11 16 (4.08%) Designer
12 12 (3.06%) Product Manager
13 11 (2.81%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
13 11 (2.81%) Information Assurance Manager
13 11 (2.81%) Information Manager
13 11 (2.81%) Senior Developer
14 10 (2.55%) UI Designer
14 10 (2.55%) UI/UX Designer
14 10 (2.55%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (20.15%) React
2 57 (14.54%) Leaflet
2 57 (14.54%) OpenLayers
2 57 (14.54%) PostGIS
3 54 (13.78%) .NET
4 49 (12.50%) .NET Core
4 49 (12.50%) CSS
5 26 (6.63%) AngularJS
6 22 (5.61%) Spring Boot
7 21 (5.36%) Spring
8 20 (5.10%) Node.js
9 19 (4.85%) RabbitMQ
10 16 (4.08%) REST
11 12 (3.06%) HTML
12 11 (2.81%) gRPC
12 11 (2.81%) Material-UI
12 11 (2.81%) OpenAPI
12 11 (2.81%) Swagger
13 10 (2.55%) Django
13 10 (2.55%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 15 (3.83%) Operational Technology
2 14 (3.57%) Cloud Native
3 12 (3.06%) SCADA
3 12 (3.06%) Virtual Team
4 10 (2.55%) Public Cloud
5 9 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (2.30%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.53%) Private Cloud
8 5 (1.28%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.77%) Embedded Systems
10 3 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.77%) IoT
10 3 (0.77%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.77%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.77%) PKI
10 3 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.51%) FPGA
11 2 (0.51%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 44 (11.22%) Linux
2 19 (4.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 19 (4.85%) Ubuntu
3 15 (3.83%) Windows
4 11 (2.81%) CentOS
4 11 (2.81%) Debian
5 6 (1.53%) Unix
5 6 (1.53%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.77%) Kali Linux
6 3 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.51%) FreeBSD
7 2 (0.51%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.51%) VMS
7 2 (0.51%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (47.96%) Actionable Insight
2 154 (39.29%) Agile
3 100 (25.51%) Software Engineering
4 96 (24.49%) DevOps
5 57 (14.54%) Web Development
6 55 (14.03%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (11.73%) Project Management
8 39 (9.95%) Stakeholder Management
9 34 (8.67%) Business Case
9 34 (8.67%) Mentoring
10 33 (8.42%) Scrum
11 32 (8.16%) Open Source
12 31 (7.91%) Collaborative Working
13 30 (7.65%) Cybersecurity
13 30 (7.65%) User Research
14 29 (7.40%) Contract Negotiation
15 28 (7.14%) Presales
16 26 (6.63%) IT Strategy
16 26 (6.63%) Kanban
17 25 (6.38%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 84 (21.43%) Python
2 79 (20.15%) JavaScript
3 35 (8.93%) C#
4 34 (8.67%) Java
5 8 (2.04%) C++
6 7 (1.79%) PowerShell
6 7 (1.79%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.02%) Bicep
8 3 (0.77%) C
9 2 (0.51%) Perl
10 1 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.26%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 392 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 41 (10.46%) Degree
3 16 (4.08%) DV Cleared
4 14 (3.57%) Azure Certification
4 14 (3.57%) CISA
4 14 (3.57%) CISM
4 14 (3.57%) CRISC
5 11 (2.81%) CESG Certified Professional
6 9 (2.30%) DBS Check
7 8 (2.04%) AWS Certification
7 8 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (2.04%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 5 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.77%) CREST Certified
9 3 (0.77%) OSCE
9 3 (0.77%) OSCP
10 2 (0.51%) CCNP
10 2 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.26%) CCNA
11 1 (0.26%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (5.36%) Accessibility
3 14 (3.57%) GDPR
3 14 (3.57%) GRC
4 10 (2.55%) WCAG
5 8 (2.04%) SLA
6 7 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 6 (1.53%) COBIT
8 3 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.51%) PMO
9 2 (0.51%) QA
10 1 (0.26%) NIST
10 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (1.53%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.02%) Docker
3 3 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.77%) vSphere
4 1 (0.26%) Firmware
4 1 (0.26%) Lustre
4 1 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.26%) Snort
4 1 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (4.08%) Terraform
2 15 (3.83%) Kubernetes
3 12 (3.06%) Ansible
4 11 (2.81%) Puppet
5 6 (1.53%) OpenView
6 3 (0.77%) Nessus
6 3 (0.77%) Nmap
7 2 (0.51%) SCCM
7 2 (0.51%) WSUS
8 1 (0.26%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.26%) Icinga
8 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.26%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 57 (14.54%) ESRI
2 38 (9.69%) Microsoft
3 12 (3.06%) Google
3 12 (3.06%) Oracle
4 11 (2.81%) Cisco
4 11 (2.81%) Red Hat
4 11 (2.81%) SaltStack
5 8 (2.04%) Sparx
5 8 (2.04%) VMware
6 7 (1.79%) HP
6 7 (1.79%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.53%) BMC
7 6 (1.53%) Remedy
8 5 (1.28%) Juniper
9 3 (0.77%) NetApp
9 3 (0.77%) Qualys
10 2 (0.51%) Apple
10 2 (0.51%) Cadence
10 2 (0.51%) F5
10 2 (0.51%) Thales