SC Cleared Job Trends in Somerset

Security Check (SC) Clearance
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Somerset with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 36 36
Rank change year-on-year +22 0 -17
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 59 14 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Somerset 10.75% 3.15% 3.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 25.88% 11.86% 11.32%
Number of salaries quoted 11 1 8
10th Percentile - - £28,000
25th Percentile £60,000 - £28,218
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £40,000 £28,290
Median % change year-on-year +62.50% +41.39% -4.10%
75th Percentile £80,000 - £53,763
90th Percentile - - £61,435
South West median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £51,732
% change year-on-year - +15.98% -2.39%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 228 118 106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 41.53% 26.58% 28.27%
Number of salaries quoted 54 51 76
10th Percentile £25,353 - £28,145
25th Percentile £26,781 - £30,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £10,258 £43,750
Median % change year-on-year +270.44% -76.55% +1.74%
75th Percentile £65,000 £49,250 £65,938
90th Percentile £83,990 £60,000 £70,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

SC Cleared job vacancy trend in Somerset

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in Somerset

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing SC Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing SC Cleared

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in Somerset

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Somerset over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in Somerset

SC Cleared
Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 12 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
Bath - 46 £65,000 - 15
Clevedon - 15 - -
Weston-super-Mare - 15 - -
Wells - 8 £70,000 -
Yeovil - 2 - - 3
Bridgwater +1 1 - -
Taunton - 1 £90,000 -
SC Cleared
South West

SC Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Application Platforms
1 36 (61.02%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (15.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 45 (76.27%) Microsoft 365
2 36 (61.02%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 36 (61.02%) DHCP
1 36 (61.02%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (61.02%) Amazon RDS
General
1 45 (76.27%) Social Skills
2 36 (61.02%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (15.25%) Back Office
4 2 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (61.02%) Systems Engineer
2 9 (15.25%) Desktop Engineer
2 9 (15.25%) Desktop Support
2 9 (15.25%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 9 (15.25%) Site Engineer
2 9 (15.25%) Support Engineer
3 8 (13.56%) Consultant
3 8 (13.56%) Integration Consultant
3 8 (13.56%) Safety Consultant
4 6 (10.17%) Senior
5 4 (6.78%) Senior Consultant
6 2 (3.39%) Analyst
6 2 (3.39%) Business Analyst
6 2 (3.39%) IT Support
6 2 (3.39%) IT Support Specialist
6 2 (3.39%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (3.39%) Senior Business Analyst
6 2 (3.39%) Support Specialist
7 1 (1.69%) Hardware Design Engineer
7 1 (1.69%) Head of Technology
Miscellaneous
1 37 (62.71%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 45 (76.27%) Windows
2 36 (61.02%) Linux
2 36 (61.02%) Windows Server
2 36 (61.02%) Windows Server 2016
3 9 (15.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (76.27%) Customer Experience
1 45 (76.27%) Customer Service
2 38 (64.41%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (61.02%) Email Filtering
3 36 (61.02%) Kalman Filter
3 36 (61.02%) Migration
3 36 (61.02%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 36 (61.02%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 36 (61.02%) Web Filtering
4 10 (16.95%) Cybersecurity
5 9 (15.25%) Analytics
5 9 (15.25%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (15.25%) Customer Acquisition
5 9 (15.25%) ITIL
5 9 (15.25%) Patch Management
5 9 (15.25%) People Management
5 9 (15.25%) Software Deployment
5 9 (15.25%) Ticket Management
6 2 (3.39%) Asset Management
7 1 (1.69%) IT Strategy
Qualifications
1 59 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.25%) CTC Cleared
2 9 (15.25%) Degree
3 3 (5.08%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (61.02%) Cyber Essentials
1 36 (61.02%) PCI DSS
2 9 (15.25%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (61.02%) Active Directory
1 36 (61.02%) Hyper-V
1 36 (61.02%) Terminal Server
Vendors
1 36 (61.02%) Brocade
1 36 (61.02%) Microsoft
1 36 (61.02%) Nimble Storage
1 36 (61.02%) SolarWinds
1 36 (61.02%) Splunk
1 36 (61.02%) Tanium
1 36 (61.02%) Veeam
1 36 (61.02%) VMware
2 9 (15.25%) Cisco