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 19 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 94 47
Rank change year-on-year -47 -47 +19
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 25 233 242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.82% 3.39% 5.68%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.26% 19.42% 17.47%
Number of salaries quoted 17 41 34
10th Percentile £38,000 £44,000 £34,175
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +11.63% +11.98%
75th Percentile £86,776 £78,750 £72,575
90th Percentile £100,000 £82,500 £84,625
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +12.61%

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 1,108 1,200 1,385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 36.20% 17.44% 32.53%
Number of salaries quoted 533 559 413
10th Percentile £36,250 £27,350 £28,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £35,000 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £48,500 £50,139
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% -3.27% +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,265 £64,375 £67,500
90th Percentile £63,000 £80,000 £79,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.77% -11.67% +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 19 June 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 19 June 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 +47 10 £63,750 +6.25% 104
Edinburgh -42 4 £75,000 +27.55% 98
Fife -4 3 - - 12
Aberdeen - 3 - - 49
Renfrewshire - 3 £52,500 - 16
Lanarkshire -7 2 £56,500 - 5
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:

Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (4.00%) AutoCAD
2 1 (4.00%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (32.00%) Azure
2 3 (12.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (12.00%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (12.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) LabVIEW
General
1 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Finance
2 4 (16.00%) Law
3 3 (12.00%) Electronics
4 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (8.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.00%) Aerospace
5 1 (4.00%) Billing
5 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Senior
2 6 (24.00%) Analyst
3 4 (16.00%) Architect
3 4 (16.00%) Consultant
4 3 (12.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) Development Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Security Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) Senior Development Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Senior Test Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Test Development Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Test Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Azure Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Data Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Embedded Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Security Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Data Architect
5 2 (8.00%) SOC Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Analogue Electronics
1 3 (12.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (8.00%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.00%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 7 (28.00%) Linux
1 7 (28.00%) Windows
2 1 (4.00%) AIX
2 1 (4.00%) Solaris
2 1 (4.00%) Unix
2 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (32.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (24.00%) Open Source
2 6 (24.00%) SIEM
3 5 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 5 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
3 5 (20.00%) OSINT
4 4 (16.00%) Incident Response
4 4 (16.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (12.00%) Agile
5 3 (12.00%) Cyber Threat Analysis
5 3 (12.00%) Risk Management
5 3 (12.00%) Service-Level Objective
5 3 (12.00%) Threat Analysis
5 3 (12.00%) Threat Detection
5 3 (12.00%) Workflow
6 2 (8.00%) Event Correlation
6 2 (8.00%) SABSA
6 2 (8.00%) Schematic Capture
6 2 (8.00%) Security Monitoring
6 2 (8.00%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 3 (12.00%) C#
3 2 (8.00%) C
3 2 (8.00%) C++
4 1 (4.00%) Bash
4 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (28.00%) DV Cleared
3 6 (24.00%) Degree
4 4 (16.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (8.00%) CCA
5 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (4.00%) APMG
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
6 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (8.00%) NCSC
1 2 (8.00%) NIST
2 1 (4.00%) P3O
2 1 (4.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) ArcSight
2 3 (12.00%) Mentor Graphics
3 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow