SC Cleared Jobs in Northern Ireland

Security Check (SC) Clearance
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 10 40
Rank change year-on-year -19 +30 +3
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 8 106 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 2.78% 15.32% 7.83%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.41% 43.98% 26.25%
Number of salaries quoted 4 12 4
10th Percentile £75,125 - £23,550
25th Percentile £79,063 £55,400 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £60,000 £34,250
Median % change year-on-year +45.83% +75.18% +9.60%
75th Percentile £95,313 £69,800 £42,250
90th Percentile £98,125 £78,620 £48,100
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +4.35%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Northern Ireland

SC 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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 85 241 259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 29.51% 34.83% 29.84%
Number of salaries quoted 20 75 77
10th Percentile £33,826 £27,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £34,112 £32,748 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,221 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.62% +5.88% -4.49%
75th Percentile £73,750 £62,200 £60,000
90th Percentile £94,375 £70,670 £74,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -6.90% +5.45%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Northern Ireland

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in Northern Ireland.

Salary trend for SC Cleared in Northern Ireland

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in Northern Ireland

SC Cleared
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 1 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
County Antrim -17 8 £87,500 +45.83% 15
SC Cleared
UK

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (50.00%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) OCI
2 2 (25.00%) Boomi
3 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) IPsec
1 2 (25.00%) Network Security
1 2 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
4 2 (25.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Architect
2 4 (50.00%) Senior
3 3 (37.50%) Consultant
3 3 (37.50%) Senior Consultant
3 3 (37.50%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (25.00%) Cloud Consultant
4 2 (25.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (25.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 2 (25.00%) Oracle Architect
4 2 (25.00%) Oracle Consultant
4 2 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
4 2 (25.00%) Senior Oracle Consultant
5 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Architect
5 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Solution Architect
5 1 (12.50%) Senior Architect
5 1 (12.50%) Senior ServiceNow Consultant
5 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Analytics
1 4 (50.00%) Coaching
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
1 4 (50.00%) ERP
1 4 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (37.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
3 2 (25.00%) Business Development
3 2 (25.00%) Customer Retention
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Presales
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (12.50%) ITSM
4 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
1 2 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Hyperion
1 4 (50.00%) JD Edwards
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle
1 4 (50.00%) PeopleSoft
2 3 (37.50%) Salesforce
2 3 (37.50%) ServiceNow
3 2 (25.00%) MuleSoft