SC Cleared Jobs in Scotland

Security Check (SC) Clearance
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 100 65
Rank change year-on-year -37 -35 -8
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 24 236 204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.82% 3.53% 4.40%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.84% 19.52% 14.61%
Number of salaries quoted 18 37 38
10th Percentile £39,000 £46,288 £36,075
25th Percentile £46,563 £51,250 £47,072
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +2.13% +22.40%
75th Percentile £79,375 £79,600 £72,575
90th Percentile £99,825 £82,500 £82,875
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £61,700
% change year-on-year +4.35% -6.81% +8.06%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,304 1,209 1,396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 44.44% 18.09% 30.13%
Number of salaries quoted 645 543 433
10th Percentile £37,574 £26,700 £28,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £34,000 £38,039
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +16.21%
75th Percentile £60,265 £63,750 £67,603
90th Percentile £63,000 £79,600 £77,715
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -10.00% +9.09%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Scotland

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for SC Cleared in Scotland

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Scotland over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in Scotland

SC Cleared
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 15 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
Glasgow +84 12 £63,750 +6.25% 33
Renfrewshire - 3 £52,500 - 14
Argyll and Bute +7 2 £67,500 +53.41%
Lanarkshire -7 2 £59,500 - 7
Fife -9 2 - - 5
Aberdeen - 2 - - 13
Edinburgh -52 1 £81,764 +39.05% 25
SC Cleared
UK

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (4.17%) AutoCAD
2 1 (4.17%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) Azure
2 3 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 2 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Copilot
3 2 (8.33%) OCI
4 1 (4.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) DHCP
1 1 (4.17%) DNS
1 1 (4.17%) Firewall
1 1 (4.17%) Network Security
1 1 (4.17%) VLAN
1 1 (4.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle ODI
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) LabVIEW
2 1 (4.17%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Forms
General
1 5 (20.83%) Finance
1 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Law
2 4 (16.67%) Marketing
3 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Electronics
3 2 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.17%) Legal
4 1 (4.17%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Analyst
2 5 (20.83%) Consultant
2 5 (20.83%) Senior
3 2 (8.33%) Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Cloud Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Development Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Embedded Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Oracle Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Security Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Senior Consultant
3 2 (8.33%) Senior Development Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Senior Test Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) SOC Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Software Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Test Development Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Test Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Server Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (8.33%) Analogue Electronics
2 2 (8.33%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Low-Code
3 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (33.33%) Windows
2 7 (29.17%) Linux
3 3 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 2 (8.33%) AIX
4 2 (8.33%) Solaris
5 1 (4.17%) Unix
5 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (29.17%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (25.00%) Open Source
3 5 (20.83%) Computer Science
3 5 (20.83%) CRM
3 5 (20.83%) Customer Experience
3 5 (20.83%) SIEM
4 4 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 4 (16.67%) Kalman Filter
4 4 (16.67%) OSINT
4 4 (16.67%) Service-Level Objective
4 4 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 3 (12.50%) Agile
5 3 (12.50%) Cyber Threat Analysis
5 3 (12.50%) Incident Response
5 3 (12.50%) Project Delivery
5 3 (12.50%) Risk Management
5 3 (12.50%) Threat Analysis
6 2 (8.33%) Customer Service
6 2 (8.33%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (8.33%) C
2 2 (8.33%) C#
2 2 (8.33%) C++
3 1 (4.17%) Java
3 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.17%) PL/SQL
3 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 7 (29.17%) Degree
4 4 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (8.33%) CCA
5 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (4.17%) APMG
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
6 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) NIST
2 1 (4.17%) GRC
2 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.17%) NCSC
2 1 (4.17%) NIST 800
2 1 (4.17%) P3O
2 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
1 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) ArcSight
2 2 (8.33%) Mentor Graphics
2 2 (8.33%) Oracle
3 1 (4.17%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.17%) VMware