SC Cleared Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Security Check (SC) Clearance
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 41 42
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 +26
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 10 37 23
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxfordshire 1.42% 4.57% 3.61%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.13% 14.18% 13.53%
Number of salaries quoted 4 16 23
10th Percentile £61,500 £27,750 -
25th Percentile £63,750 £43,911 £25,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £45,039 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +52.65% +5.97% -10.53%
75th Percentile £75,313 £57,854 £55,625
90th Percentile £78,125 £67,677 £62,500
South East median annual salary £58,000 £57,500 £54,500
% change year-on-year +0.87% +5.50% +3.81%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 123 261 170
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 17.47% 32.22% 26.65%
Number of salaries quoted 60 88 139
10th Percentile £27,250 £25,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,854 £40,000 £40,644
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,609 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.71% +5.22% +17.32%
75th Percentile £66,875 £65,000 £62,750
90th Percentile £80,375 £77,500 £73,750
South East median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £53,260
% change year-on-year -12.50% +12.65% +2.42%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

SC Cleared job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing SC Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing SC Cleared

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in Oxfordshire

SC Cleared
Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 30 December 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
Oxford +10 1 £65,000 -13.33% 51
Kidlington - 1 - -
SC Cleared
South East

SC Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (10.00%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) C-CURE
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Google Workspace
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) GitHub
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) DHCP
1 3 (30.00%) DNS
1 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (10.00%) Ethernet
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) RS-232
2 1 (10.00%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Aerospace
2 2 (20.00%) Electronics
2 2 (20.00%) Legal
2 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Automotive
3 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Analyst
1 4 (40.00%) Support Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Technical Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Technical Support
2 3 (30.00%) Technical Support Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Installations Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Hardware Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) IT Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) IT Support
4 1 (10.00%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Principal Hardware Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Fibre Optics
2 2 (20.00%) CCTV
2 2 (20.00%) Driving Licence
2 2 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (20.00%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (10.00%) Acoustics
3 1 (10.00%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (10.00%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (10.00%) Robotics
3 1 (10.00%) Self-Driving Car
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (10.00%) Android
3 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (20.00%) Customer-Centric Approach
2 2 (20.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 2 (20.00%) ITIL
2 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (10.00%) Battery Management
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (10.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Mechatronics
3 1 (10.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Software Licensing
3 1 (10.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) DBS Check
2 3 (30.00%) Degree
3 2 (20.00%) A+ Certification
3 2 (20.00%) City & Guilds
3 2 (20.00%) MCSE
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (10.00%) EMC
2 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (10.00%) VMware