SC Cleared Jobs in Northern Ireland

Security Check (SC) Clearance
UK > Northern Ireland

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

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 9 74 30
Rank change year-on-year +65 -44 +19
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 104 34 84
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 19.44% 3.28% 10.58%
As % of the Qualifications category 46.43% 10.73% 28.38%
Number of salaries quoted 21 3 7
10th Percentile £42,500 - -
25th Percentile £53,136 £45,000 £21,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £50,000 £22,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% +122.22% -66.67%
75th Percentile £69,800 £56,250 £23,750
90th Percentile £71,000 £57,000 -
UK median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £60,050
% change year-on-year -3.33% -0.08% +9.18%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 224 317 296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 41.87% 30.57% 37.28%
Number of salaries quoted 75 94 142
10th Percentile £29,993 £26,250 £25,100
25th Percentile £38,750 £30,750 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,291 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +34.80% -5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £69,500 £60,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £74,610 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.88% +3.64% -

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 2 December 2023.

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 2 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
County Antrim +67 102 £65,000 +30.00% 4
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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (10.58%) JBoss
1 11 (10.58%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (0.96%) Confluence
2 1 (0.96%) WebSphere
2 1 (0.96%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (3.85%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 18 (17.31%) Serverless
2 10 (9.62%) Azure
3 8 (7.69%) AWS
4 6 (5.77%) dbt
5 5 (4.81%) GCP
6 2 (1.92%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.92%) Pulumi
7 1 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.96%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.69%) Firewall
1 8 (7.69%) VPN
2 7 (6.73%) Cisco ASA
2 7 (6.73%) Cisco Firepower
2 7 (6.73%) Network Security
3 4 (3.85%) Wireshark
4 2 (1.92%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.96%) LAN
5 1 (0.96%) WAN
5 1 (0.96%) Wireless
5 1 (0.96%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.73%) RDBMS
1 7 (6.73%) Relational Database
2 5 (4.81%) Oracle Database
2 5 (4.81%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.92%) JasperReports
3 2 (1.92%) MySQL
3 2 (1.92%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.92%) Redis
4 1 (0.96%) Big Data
4 1 (0.96%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.96%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.96%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 16 (15.38%) Git
2 11 (10.58%) IntelliJ
3 4 (3.85%) AutoIt
3 4 (3.85%) eggPlant
3 4 (3.85%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.85%) JIRA
4 2 (1.92%) Maven
4 2 (1.92%) Selenium
5 1 (0.96%) Oracle APEX
General
1 38 (36.54%) Social Skills
2 23 (22.12%) Public Sector
3 15 (14.42%) Police
4 14 (13.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (8.65%) Telecoms
6 7 (6.73%) Aerospace
6 7 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (5.77%) Finance
8 5 (4.81%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (4.81%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (3.85%) Automotive
9 4 (3.85%) Retail
10 3 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.92%) Digital Economy
Job Titles
1 32 (30.77%) Architect
2 28 (26.92%) Solutions Architect
3 25 (24.04%) Software Engineer
4 21 (20.19%) Presales Solution Architect
5 19 (18.27%) Senior
6 18 (17.31%) Java Engineer
6 18 (17.31%) Java Software Engineer
7 9 (8.65%) Senior Java Engineer
7 9 (8.65%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 9 (8.65%) Senior Software Engineer
8 8 (7.69%) Network Engineer
9 7 (6.73%) Developer
9 7 (6.73%) Network Security Engineer
9 7 (6.73%) Security Engineer
10 5 (4.81%) Business Development Manager
10 5 (4.81%) Business Manager
10 5 (4.81%) Development Manager
10 5 (4.81%) Project Manager
10 5 (4.81%) Ruby Engineer
10 5 (4.81%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (22.12%) Spring
2 14 (13.46%) React
3 13 (12.50%) XML
4 11 (10.58%) AngularJS
4 11 (10.58%) Hibernate
4 11 (10.58%) JPA
4 11 (10.58%) JSON
4 11 (10.58%) REST
4 11 (10.58%) SOAP
4 11 (10.58%) Web Services
4 11 (10.58%) XSD
5 10 (9.62%) Java EE
6 9 (8.65%) J2EE
6 9 (8.65%) RESTful
6 9 (8.65%) Ruby on Rails
7 5 (4.81%) Node.js
8 3 (2.88%) .NET
9 2 (1.92%) Django
10 1 (0.96%) JRuby
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.73%) Tandem
2 4 (3.85%) Public Cloud
2 4 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (3.85%) Virtual Team
3 2 (1.92%) Blog
3 2 (1.92%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (1.92%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (0.96%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.73%) Windows
2 5 (4.81%) Linux
2 5 (4.81%) Unix
3 1 (0.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (75.96%) Actionable Insight
2 68 (65.38%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (29.81%) Agile
3 31 (29.81%) Software Engineering
4 26 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 25 (24.04%) Analytics
6 23 (22.12%) IT Strategy
6 23 (22.12%) Technology Strategy
7 21 (20.19%) Business Case
7 21 (20.19%) Commercial Awareness
7 21 (20.19%) Contract Negotiation
7 21 (20.19%) Data Analytics
7 21 (20.19%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 21 (20.19%) Microservices
7 21 (20.19%) Presales
7 21 (20.19%) Thought Leadership
8 20 (19.23%) Coaching
9 19 (18.27%) Continuous Integration
10 18 (17.31%) Design Patterns
11 16 (15.38%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 33 (31.73%) Java
2 20 (19.23%) Python
3 15 (14.42%) Ruby
4 11 (10.58%) C#
5 7 (6.73%) Bash
5 7 (6.73%) SQL
6 6 (5.77%) Go
6 6 (5.77%) Perl
7 5 (4.81%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.88%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.92%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.96%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 104 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (13.46%) Degree
3 8 (7.69%) CCNP
3 8 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (6.73%) CCNA
4 7 (6.73%) CCSA
4 7 (6.73%) CCSE
5 3 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.92%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 2 (1.92%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.96%) CISM
7 1 (0.96%) CISSP
7 1 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.69%) QA
2 1 (0.96%) GDPR
2 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.96%) NCSC
2 1 (0.96%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.85%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.88%) Terraform
3 2 (1.92%) Ansible
4 1 (0.96%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (7.69%) Cisco
1 8 (7.69%) Fortinet
1 8 (7.69%) Oracle
2 7 (6.73%) CheckPoint
2 7 (6.73%) Palo Alto
3 3 (2.88%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.92%) Google
4 2 (1.92%) VMware
5 1 (0.96%) Aruba
5 1 (0.96%) Juniper
5 1 (0.96%) Meraki
5 1 (0.96%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.96%) NetApp