Security Cleared Jobs in Northern Ireland

Security Clearance
UK > Northern Ireland

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

6 months to
6 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 4 64 29
Rank change year-on-year +60 -35 +20
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 140 47 80
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 26.42% 4.69% 10.23%
As % of the Qualifications category 63.35% 15.61% 28.17%
Number of salaries quoted 34 8 7
10th Percentile £30,445 £25,050 -
25th Percentile £52,500 £37,500 £21,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £43,000 £22,500
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +91.11% -66.67%
75th Percentile £69,800 £55,000 £23,750
90th Percentile £80,070 £55,750 -
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -4.17% +9.09%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Northern Ireland

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

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 221 301 284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 41.70% 30.04% 36.32%
Number of salaries quoted 73 95 141
10th Percentile £29,993 £26,250 £25,000
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 £78,750 £74,480 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Northern Ireland

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Salary trend for Security Cleared in Northern Ireland

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 6 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in Northern Ireland

Security 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 Security Cleared within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 6 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 +54 132 £63,625 +47.97% 5
Security Cleared
UK

Security 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 (7.86%) JBoss
1 11 (7.86%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (0.71%) Confluence
2 1 (0.71%) WebSphere
2 1 (0.71%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (2.86%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 25 (17.86%) Serverless
2 16 (11.43%) AWS
3 12 (8.57%) GCP
4 11 (7.86%) Azure
5 7 (5.00%) OpenShift
6 6 (4.29%) dbt
6 6 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.43%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.43%) Pulumi
8 1 (0.71%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.71%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.71%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.43%) Firewall
1 9 (6.43%) Network Security
2 8 (5.71%) VPN
3 7 (5.00%) Cisco ASA
3 7 (5.00%) Cisco Firepower
4 4 (2.86%) Wireshark
5 2 (1.43%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.71%) LAN
6 1 (0.71%) WAN
6 1 (0.71%) Wireless
6 1 (0.71%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.00%) RDBMS
1 7 (5.00%) Relational Database
2 5 (3.57%) Oracle Database
2 5 (3.57%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.43%) JasperReports
3 2 (1.43%) MySQL
3 2 (1.43%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.43%) Redis
4 1 (0.71%) Big Data
4 1 (0.71%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.71%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.71%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 16 (11.43%) Git
2 11 (7.86%) IntelliJ
3 4 (2.86%) AutoIt
3 4 (2.86%) eggPlant
3 4 (2.86%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.86%) JIRA
4 2 (1.43%) Maven
4 2 (1.43%) Selenium
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle APEX
General
1 58 (41.43%) Social Skills
2 23 (16.43%) Public Sector
3 19 (13.57%) Presentation Skills
4 15 (10.71%) Police
5 14 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
6 13 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (7.14%) Retail
8 9 (6.43%) Telecoms
9 8 (5.71%) Finance
10 7 (5.00%) Aerospace
11 4 (2.86%) Automotive
11 4 (2.86%) Local Government
11 4 (2.86%) Social Housing
12 3 (2.14%) Banking
12 3 (2.14%) Games
12 3 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (1.43%) Digital Economy
Job Titles
1 40 (28.57%) Architect
2 32 (22.86%) Software Engineer
3 28 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
4 27 (19.29%) Senior
5 21 (15.00%) Presales Solution Architect
6 18 (12.86%) Java Engineer
6 18 (12.86%) Java Software Engineer
7 16 (11.43%) Senior Software Engineer
8 14 (10.00%) Business Development Manager
8 14 (10.00%) Business Manager
8 14 (10.00%) Development Manager
9 9 (6.43%) Developer
9 9 (6.43%) Senior Java Engineer
9 9 (6.43%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 9 (6.43%) Technical Architect
10 8 (5.71%) Network Engineer
11 7 (5.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 7 (5.00%) Network Security Engineer
11 7 (5.00%) Security Engineer
12 5 (3.57%) Ruby Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (16.43%) Spring
2 14 (10.00%) React
3 13 (9.29%) XML
4 11 (7.86%) AngularJS
4 11 (7.86%) Hibernate
4 11 (7.86%) JPA
4 11 (7.86%) JSON
4 11 (7.86%) REST
4 11 (7.86%) SOAP
4 11 (7.86%) Web Services
4 11 (7.86%) XSD
5 10 (7.14%) Java EE
6 9 (6.43%) J2EE
6 9 (6.43%) RESTful
6 9 (6.43%) Ruby on Rails
7 5 (3.57%) ModSecurity
7 5 (3.57%) Node.js
8 3 (2.14%) .NET
9 2 (1.43%) Django
10 1 (0.71%) JRuby
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.00%) Management Information System
1 7 (5.00%) Tandem
2 5 (3.57%) Data Centre
2 5 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (2.86%) Public Cloud
3 4 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (2.86%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.43%) Blog
4 2 (1.43%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.71%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.00%) Linux
2 7 (5.00%) Windows
3 5 (3.57%) Unix
4 2 (1.43%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (69.29%) Actionable Insight
2 69 (49.29%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (27.14%) Software Engineering
4 31 (22.14%) Agile
5 29 (20.71%) Coaching
5 29 (20.71%) IT Strategy
6 27 (19.29%) Microservices
7 26 (18.57%) Commercial Awareness
7 26 (18.57%) Mentoring
8 25 (17.86%) Analytics
8 25 (17.86%) Design Patterns
9 24 (17.14%) Technology Strategy
10 21 (15.00%) Business Case
10 21 (15.00%) Contract Negotiation
10 21 (15.00%) Data Analytics
10 21 (15.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 21 (15.00%) Presales
10 21 (15.00%) Thought Leadership
11 20 (14.29%) Containerisation
12 19 (13.57%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 40 (28.57%) Java
2 29 (20.71%) Python
3 15 (10.71%) Ruby
4 11 (7.86%) C#
5 9 (6.43%) Bash
6 7 (5.00%) SQL
7 6 (4.29%) Go
7 6 (4.29%) Perl
8 5 (3.57%) JavaScript
8 5 (3.57%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.43%) C
9 2 (1.43%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.71%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 103 (73.57%) SC Cleared
2 21 (15.00%) Degree
3 8 (5.71%) CCNP
3 8 (5.71%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (5.00%) CCNA
4 7 (5.00%) CCSA
4 7 (5.00%) CCSE
4 7 (5.00%) CISM
4 7 (5.00%) CISSP
4 7 (5.00%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.57%) CISA
5 5 (3.57%) CRISC
6 4 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.86%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 2 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.71%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.71%) CEH
8 1 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.71%) QA
2 6 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.57%) GRC
3 5 (3.57%) ISO 22301
3 5 (3.57%) NIST
4 1 (0.71%) GDPR
4 1 (0.71%) NCSC
4 1 (0.71%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (3.57%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.86%) Docker
3 3 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (2.86%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.14%) Terraform
3 2 (1.43%) Ansible
4 1 (0.71%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (5.71%) Cisco
1 8 (5.71%) Fortinet
1 8 (5.71%) Oracle
2 7 (5.00%) CheckPoint
2 7 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.00%) Palo Alto
3 6 (4.29%) Citrix
4 5 (3.57%) CA
5 4 (2.86%) VMware
6 3 (2.14%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.43%) Google
8 1 (0.71%) Aruba
8 1 (0.71%) Juniper
8 1 (0.71%) Meraki
8 1 (0.71%) NetApp