SC Cleared Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

Security Check (SC) Clearance
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Nottinghamshire with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 74 41
Rank change year-on-year +60 -33 +41
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 53 1 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Nottinghamshire 8.40% 0.11% 2.81%
As % of the Qualifications category 38.13% 0.24% 14.47%
Number of salaries quoted 53 1 9
10th Percentile - - £58,000
25th Percentile £28,750 £57,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -54.62% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £53,951 £72,500 -
90th Percentile £60,000 - -
East Midlands median annual salary £33,500 £45,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -25.56% -25.00% +4.35%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 139 419 76
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 22.03% 47.13% 19.44%
Number of salaries quoted 73 93 59
10th Percentile - £24,649 £26,000
25th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,449 £41,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% -27.83% +4.55%
75th Percentile £53,951 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,200 £62,250 £70,250
East Midlands median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% -18.18% +13.40%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SC Cleared relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire.

SC Cleared job vacancy trend in Nottinghamshire

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in Nottinghamshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing SC Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing SC Cleared

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in Nottinghamshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Nottinghamshire over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in Nottinghamshire

SC Cleared
Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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
Nottingham +47 44 £29,500 -54.62% 3
SC Cleared
East Midlands

SC Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottinghamshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 5 (9.43%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (9.43%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (16.98%) AWS
2 6 (11.32%) Azure
3 5 (9.43%) Entra ID
Development Applications
1 6 (11.32%) Burp Suite
1 6 (11.32%) Metasploit
General
1 27 (50.94%) Law
1 27 (50.94%) Marketing
2 22 (41.51%) Organisational Skills
3 11 (20.75%) Social Skills
4 9 (16.98%) Retail
5 3 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (60.38%) 2nd Line Support
2 30 (56.60%) Analyst
3 27 (50.94%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 27 (50.94%) Support Analyst
4 6 (11.32%) Security Specialist
4 6 (11.32%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
5 5 (9.43%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 5 (9.43%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 5 (9.43%) Bid Manager
5 5 (9.43%) Support Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Consultant
6 4 (7.55%) Presales Consultant
6 4 (7.55%) Technical Consultant
6 4 (7.55%) Technical Presales Consultant
7 3 (5.66%) Information Analyst
7 3 (5.66%) Information Security Analyst
7 3 (5.66%) Security Analyst
7 3 (5.66%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (5.66%) Senior Information Analyst
7 3 (5.66%) Senior Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.98%) Security Posture
2 6 (11.32%) Insider Threat
3 5 (9.43%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.43%) Android
1 5 (9.43%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (50.94%) Incident Management
2 22 (41.51%) Batch Management
2 22 (41.51%) Patch Management
3 14 (26.42%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (16.98%) Decision-Making
4 9 (16.98%) Information Security
5 6 (11.32%) Actionable Insight
5 6 (11.32%) Anomaly Detection
5 6 (11.32%) Ethical Hacking
5 6 (11.32%) Offensive Security
5 6 (11.32%) Open Source
5 6 (11.32%) Penetration Testing
5 6 (11.32%) Red Team
5 6 (11.32%) Threat Intelligence
6 5 (9.43%) Batch Processing
6 5 (9.43%) Configuration Management
6 5 (9.43%) Mobile Device Management
6 5 (9.43%) Problem Management
6 5 (9.43%) Service Management
6 5 (9.43%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 27 (50.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (16.98%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (16.98%) CISSP
2 9 (16.98%) CompTIA Security+
2 9 (16.98%) Degree
3 6 (11.32%) CCNA
3 6 (11.32%) CEH
3 6 (11.32%) CISMP
3 6 (11.32%) CREST Certified
3 6 (11.32%) GIAC
3 6 (11.32%) GPEN
3 6 (11.32%) MCP
3 6 (11.32%) MCSE
3 6 (11.32%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (11.32%) OSCP
4 3 (5.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (5.66%) AWS Certification
4 3 (5.66%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (50.94%) SLA
2 6 (11.32%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (5.66%) GDPR
3 3 (5.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (5.66%) NIST
Systems Management
1 6 (11.32%) Nmap
2 5 (9.43%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 11 (20.75%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.32%) Cisco
3 5 (9.43%) Apple
3 5 (9.43%) Samsung