Security Cleared Jobs in Scotland

Security Clearance
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 80 40 38
Rank change year-on-year -40 -2 +58
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 331 334 400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.94% 7.02% 7.04%
As % of the Qualifications category 26.52% 24.54% 26.79%
Number of salaries quoted 106 46 133
10th Percentile £25,200 £32,500 £20,595
25th Percentile £27,025 £39,065 £31,133
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £40,606
Median % change year-on-year - +29.29% -7.71%
75th Percentile £62,847 £69,649 £48,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,176 £60,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £59,000 £55,168
% change year-on-year -2.54% +6.95% +0.30%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,248 1,361 1,493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 18.62% 28.62% 26.28%
Number of salaries quoted 559 412 510
10th Percentile £26,700 £29,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £39,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,882 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.90% +21.96% -
75th Percentile £63,315 £69,733 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,715 £81,375
UK median annual salary £54,000 £57,825 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.61% +5.14% -

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Scotland

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Security Cleared in Scotland

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Scotland over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in Scotland

Security 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 Security Cleared within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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 -59 190 £55,000 -8.33% 26
Edinburgh +38 105 £65,000 +15.56% 35
Argyll and Bute -2 13 £27,400 -45.20% 8
Aberdeen - 8 £24,240 - 5
South Lanarkshire +4 5 £105,000 - 3
Scottish Borders +1 5 - -
Fife -11 1 - - 3
Lanarkshire -14 1 - - 8
Dunbartonshire - 1 - - 2
Security Cleared
UK

Security 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 60 (18.13%) ArcGIS
1 60 (18.13%) GeoServer
2 21 (6.34%) IIS
3 10 (3.02%) WebLogic
4 8 (2.42%) Confluence
5 4 (1.21%) JBoss
5 4 (1.21%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 12 (3.63%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.42%) Sketch
3 4 (1.21%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.60%) Windchill
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (3.63%) Primavera
2 10 (3.02%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 6 (1.81%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.60%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 106 (32.02%) Azure
2 90 (27.19%) AWS
3 14 (4.23%) Power Platform
4 13 (3.93%) Cloud Computing
5 12 (3.63%) Miro
6 8 (2.42%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (2.42%) Amazon SQS
6 8 (2.42%) Figma
6 8 (2.42%) Heroku
7 6 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (1.81%) SaaS
8 5 (1.51%) dbt
8 5 (1.51%) OCI
9 3 (0.91%) Serverless
10 2 (0.60%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.60%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (0.30%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.30%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 21 (6.34%) WAN
2 11 (3.32%) BGP
3 8 (2.42%) DNS
3 8 (2.42%) SSL
3 8 (2.42%) TCP/IP
3 8 (2.42%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (1.81%) Firewall
5 3 (0.91%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (0.91%) Cisco Firepower
5 3 (0.91%) HSRP
5 3 (0.91%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (0.91%) MPLS
5 3 (0.91%) OSPF
5 3 (0.91%) Software-Defined Radio
5 3 (0.91%) VLAN
5 3 (0.91%) VRRP
6 2 (0.60%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (19.34%) GIS
2 62 (18.73%) PostgreSQL
3 60 (18.13%) QGIS
4 23 (6.95%) SQL Server
5 14 (4.23%) NoSQL
6 12 (3.63%) Power BI
7 11 (3.32%) Oracle Database
7 11 (3.32%) Tableau
8 10 (3.02%) RDBMS
8 10 (3.02%) Relational Database
9 8 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.51%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.21%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (0.91%) MySQL
13 1 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
13 1 (0.30%) NonStop SQL
13 1 (0.30%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 18 (5.44%) JIRA
2 6 (1.81%) Git
3 5 (1.51%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.21%) IntelliJ
5 3 (0.91%) GitLab
6 1 (0.30%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.30%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.30%) JUnit
6 1 (0.30%) Mockito
6 1 (0.30%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.30%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (0.30%) Selenium
General
1 68 (20.54%) Social Skills
2 30 (9.06%) Public Sector
3 18 (5.44%) Finance
3 18 (5.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (2.42%) Police
5 7 (2.11%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (1.21%) Aerospace
7 3 (0.91%) Retail
8 2 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.60%) Games
8 2 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.60%) Local Government
8 2 (0.60%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.30%) Electronics
9 1 (0.30%) Law
9 1 (0.30%) Military
Job Titles
1 106 (32.02%) Senior
2 73 (22.05%) Software Engineer
3 51 (15.41%) Architect
4 47 (14.20%) Senior Software Engineer
5 30 (9.06%) Lead
5 30 (9.06%) Systems Engineer
6 28 (8.46%) Solutions Architect
7 20 (6.04%) 2nd Line Support
8 19 (5.74%) Infrastructure Support
9 17 (5.14%) Analyst
9 17 (5.14%) Designer
9 17 (5.14%) Developer
9 17 (5.14%) Presales Solution Architect
10 13 (3.93%) Business Analyst
11 12 (3.63%) Senior Developer
12 11 (3.32%) Product Manager
13 10 (3.02%) UI Designer
13 10 (3.02%) UI/UX Designer
13 10 (3.02%) UX Designer
14 9 (2.72%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (19.64%) React
2 60 (18.13%) Leaflet
2 60 (18.13%) OpenLayers
2 60 (18.13%) PostGIS
3 58 (17.52%) .NET
4 52 (15.71%) .NET Core
4 52 (15.71%) CSS
5 19 (5.74%) AngularJS
6 15 (4.53%) Node.js
7 14 (4.23%) Spring
8 12 (3.63%) REST
8 12 (3.63%) RESTful
9 11 (3.32%) Hibernate
10 10 (3.02%) Django
10 10 (3.02%) HTML
11 9 (2.72%) Spring Boot
12 8 (2.42%) Express.js
12 8 (2.42%) RabbitMQ
12 8 (2.42%) WebRTC
13 6 (1.81%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.34%) Clustering
1 21 (6.34%) Public Cloud
2 13 (3.93%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (3.63%) Virtual Team
4 8 (2.42%) Driving Licence
4 8 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (2.42%) Management Information System
4 8 (2.42%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.51%) Operational Technology
6 4 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (0.91%) Algorithms
7 3 (0.91%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (0.91%) Data Centre
7 3 (0.91%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.60%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.30%) CESG
9 1 (0.30%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.30%) IoT
9 1 (0.30%) Replication
9 1 (0.30%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 37 (11.18%) Windows
2 21 (6.34%) Windows Server
3 20 (6.04%) Linux
4 8 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.42%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.51%) Unix
6 2 (0.60%) VMS
7 1 (0.30%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (59.82%) Actionable Insight
2 147 (44.41%) Agile
3 87 (26.28%) DevOps
4 81 (24.47%) Problem-Solving
5 78 (23.56%) Software Engineering
6 60 (18.13%) Web Development
7 44 (13.29%) Stakeholder Management
8 42 (12.69%) Project Management
9 38 (11.48%) Prototyping
10 31 (9.37%) Workshop Facilitation
11 30 (9.06%) Risk Management
11 30 (9.06%) User Research
12 28 (8.46%) Business Case
13 25 (7.55%) Presales
13 25 (7.55%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 24 (7.25%) Decision-Making
15 22 (6.65%) Coaching
15 22 (6.65%) Continuous Integration
15 22 (6.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 21 (6.34%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 74 (22.36%) Python
2 61 (18.43%) JavaScript
3 41 (12.39%) C#
4 32 (9.67%) SQL
5 27 (8.16%) Java
6 3 (0.91%) Ruby
7 2 (0.60%) Bash
7 2 (0.60%) C++
8 1 (0.30%) Perl
8 1 (0.30%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 247 (74.62%) SC Cleared
2 31 (9.37%) Degree
3 26 (7.85%) DV Cleared
4 10 (3.02%) Azure Certification
5 9 (2.72%) AWS Certification
5 9 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (2.42%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 5 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.21%) CCIE
8 4 (1.21%) CCNP
8 4 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.21%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.21%) PhD
9 3 (0.91%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.91%) HNC
9 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.91%) OCA
9 3 (0.91%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.60%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.25%) Accessibility
2 10 (3.02%) SLA
2 10 (3.02%) WCAG
3 8 (2.42%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.81%) COBIT
5 4 (1.21%) PMO
6 3 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 3 (0.91%) NIST
6 3 (0.91%) QA
7 2 (0.60%) GDPR
7 2 (0.60%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.60%) NCSC
7 2 (0.60%) TickIT
8 1 (0.30%) IEC 61508
8 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 24 (7.25%) Active Directory
2 21 (6.34%) VMware NSX
3 9 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (2.42%) KVM
5 2 (0.60%) Docker
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (1.81%) OpenView
2 2 (0.60%) SCCM
2 2 (0.60%) WSUS
3 1 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.30%) BMC PATROL
3 1 (0.30%) Data Guard
3 1 (0.30%) McAfee ePO
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 60 (18.13%) ESRI
2 53 (16.01%) Microsoft
3 27 (8.16%) VMware
4 19 (5.74%) Oracle
5 10 (3.02%) Sparx
6 8 (2.42%) Dell
7 6 (1.81%) BMC
7 6 (1.81%) HP
7 6 (1.81%) Remedy
7 6 (1.81%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.51%) Cisco
9 3 (0.91%) Thales
10 2 (0.60%) Apple
10 2 (0.60%) Cadence
11 1 (0.30%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.30%) Coverity
11 1 (0.30%) Juniper
11 1 (0.30%) McAfee
11 1 (0.30%) NEC
11 1 (0.30%) Palo Alto