SC Cleared Jobs in the South East

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > South East

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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 25 44
Rank change year-on-year -20 +19 +40
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 519 1,238 853
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 5.39% 7.06% 6.07%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.34% 20.96% 15.26%
Number of salaries quoted 322 821 488
10th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £26,425
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £39,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.90%
75th Percentile £72,188 £70,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £62,450
% change year-on-year +9.09% -11.93% +13.55%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 5,559 5,907 5,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 57.70% 33.68% 39.79%
Number of salaries quoted 2,498 3,633 2,495
10th Percentile £34,988 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,125 £36,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,000 £51,350
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +1.27% -1.25%
75th Percentile £70,600 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,875 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £54,897 £54,399 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% -9.34% +9.09%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the South East

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in the South East.

Salary trend for SC Cleared in the South East

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in the South East over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in the South East

SC Cleared
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the South East region over the 6 months to 30 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
Hampshire +11 336 £55,000 - 289
Thames Valley -41 137 £57,500 +9.52% 511
Berkshire -29 108 £61,500 +15.47% 300
Surrey -60 28 £34,750 -30.50% 140
Buckinghamshire +2 17 £55,000 +10.00% 140
Oxfordshire +34 12 £65,000 +27.45% 74
Kent +32 8 £65,000 -28.77% 121
West Sussex +26 8 £37,500 -44.44% 65
Home Counties - 1 £60,000 -
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 14 (2.70%) JBoss
1 14 (2.70%) Red Hat Fuse
2 9 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.16%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.58%) Apache
4 3 (0.58%) Confluence
4 3 (0.58%) Exchange Server 2013
4 3 (0.58%) Office Communications Server
4 3 (0.58%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2007
5 2 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (0.39%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.19%) Appian
6 1 (0.19%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 17 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.96%) Simulink
5 3 (0.58%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 2 (0.39%) GNU Octave
7 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (2.89%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.39%) SAP HR
2 2 (0.39%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.19%) Maximo
3 1 (0.19%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.19%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 55 (10.60%) AWS
2 28 (5.39%) Serverless
3 27 (5.20%) Azure
4 25 (4.82%) Amazon ECS
5 22 (4.24%) Amazon EKS
6 15 (2.89%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (2.12%) Amazon S3
8 9 (1.73%) Power Platform
9 7 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (1.35%) SaaS
10 6 (1.16%) AWS KMS
10 6 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (1.16%) GCP
10 6 (1.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (0.96%) GitHub
12 4 (0.77%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (0.77%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (0.77%) Azure Sentinel
13 3 (0.58%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 72 (13.87%) Firewall
2 56 (10.79%) BGP
3 49 (9.44%) OSPF
4 45 (8.67%) Network Security
5 44 (8.48%) EIGRP
6 38 (7.32%) Software-Defined Radio
7 33 (6.36%) WAN
8 19 (3.66%) VoIP
8 19 (3.66%) Wireless
9 18 (3.47%) ATM
10 16 (3.08%) VPN
11 14 (2.70%) DNS
12 13 (2.50%) Cisco ASA
13 11 (2.12%) IPsec
13 11 (2.12%) TCP/IP
14 10 (1.93%) DMVPN
14 10 (1.93%) Junos
14 10 (1.93%) LAN
14 10 (1.93%) MPLS
15 9 (1.73%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (6.36%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (4.62%) Relational Database
3 16 (3.08%) MongoDB
4 8 (1.54%) RDBMS
4 8 (1.54%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (1.16%) MySQL
7 5 (0.96%) Power BI
8 4 (0.77%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (0.58%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.39%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (0.39%) GIS
10 2 (0.39%) Metadata
10 2 (0.39%) Metadata Repository
10 2 (0.39%) Pentaho
10 2 (0.39%) Triplestore
11 1 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.19%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 39 (7.51%) Jenkins
2 29 (5.59%) JUnit
3 27 (5.20%) Git
4 15 (2.89%) Mockito
5 10 (1.93%) JIRA
6 8 (1.54%) JMeter
7 6 (1.16%) Bitbucket Server
7 6 (1.16%) NDoc
8 4 (0.77%) GitLab
8 4 (0.77%) Maven
8 4 (0.77%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.58%) DbUnit
9 3 (0.58%) jMock
10 2 (0.39%) Babel
10 2 (0.39%) MSI
10 2 (0.39%) Rational DOORS
10 2 (0.39%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.39%) Vite
10 2 (0.39%) webpack
11 1 (0.19%) Subversion
General
1 51 (9.83%) Finance
1 51 (9.83%) Social Skills
2 40 (7.71%) Public Sector
3 34 (6.55%) Military
4 28 (5.39%) Aerospace
5 26 (5.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (2.89%) Advertising
8 13 (2.50%) Electronics
9 8 (1.54%) Aviation
10 6 (1.16%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.58%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.39%) Law
13 2 (0.39%) Marketing
13 2 (0.39%) Retail
14 1 (0.19%) Games
14 1 (0.19%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.19%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 83 (15.99%) Network Engineer
2 67 (12.91%) Architect
3 59 (11.37%) Developer
4 43 (8.29%) Systems Engineer
5 35 (6.74%) Network Architect
6 33 (6.36%) Support Engineer
7 31 (5.97%) Software Engineer
8 29 (5.59%) Java Developer
8 29 (5.59%) Senior
9 25 (4.82%) Lead
9 25 (4.82%) Security Engineer
10 24 (4.62%) Designer
11 22 (4.24%) Network Security Engineer
12 21 (4.05%) Field Engineer
12 21 (4.05%) Field Service Engineer
13 20 (3.85%) Analyst
14 18 (3.47%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 18 (3.47%) Embedded Software Engineer
14 18 (3.47%) Head of Analytics
14 18 (3.47%) Radio Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (5.97%) Spring Boot
2 29 (5.59%) Spring
3 26 (5.01%) REST
4 25 (4.82%) Web Services
5 22 (4.24%) Apache Camel
5 22 (4.24%) RESTful
6 20 (3.85%) SOAP
7 17 (3.28%) Kafka
8 16 (3.08%) SAPUI5
9 15 (2.89%) React
10 14 (2.70%) ActiveMQ
10 14 (2.70%) Hibernate
10 14 (2.70%) J2EE
11 11 (2.12%) HTML
12 8 (1.54%) AngularJS
12 8 (1.54%) jQuery
12 8 (1.54%) WireMock
13 5 (0.96%) Bootstrap
13 5 (0.96%) XML
14 4 (0.77%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 36 (6.94%) e-Learning
2 25 (4.82%) FPGA
3 23 (4.43%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (4.43%) Embedded Systems
4 21 (4.05%) Driving Licence
5 17 (3.28%) MicroBlaze
5 17 (3.28%) RISC-V
6 16 (3.08%) Management Information System
7 10 (1.93%) Algorithms
7 10 (1.93%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.35%) Robotics
9 5 (0.96%) Blackberry
9 5 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (0.96%) Private Cloud
10 4 (0.77%) PKI
10 4 (0.77%) Product Ownership
10 4 (0.77%) Replication
10 4 (0.77%) Security Operations Centre
11 3 (0.58%) CESG
11 3 (0.58%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 67 (12.91%) Windows
2 60 (11.56%) Linux
3 28 (5.39%) Windows Server
4 20 (3.85%) Embedded Linux
5 9 (1.73%) Android
6 8 (1.54%) Unix
7 6 (1.16%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.96%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.58%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.39%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.19%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (16.76%) Agile
2 72 (13.87%) Innovative Thinking
3 52 (10.02%) Software Engineering
4 45 (8.67%) Roadmaps
5 41 (7.90%) Customer Service
6 40 (7.71%) Signal Processing
7 38 (7.32%) Digital Signal Processing
8 37 (7.13%) Technology Roadmap
9 36 (6.94%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (6.74%) Artificial Intelligence
10 35 (6.74%) DevOps
11 34 (6.55%) Cybersecurity
12 33 (6.36%) Physics
12 33 (6.36%) Scrum
13 32 (6.17%) Microservices
14 31 (5.97%) Computer Science
14 31 (5.97%) Systems Engineering
14 31 (5.97%) Technical Leadership
15 30 (5.78%) Risk Management
16 27 (5.20%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 49 (9.44%) Python
2 40 (7.71%) C++
3 39 (7.51%) Java
4 34 (6.55%) C
5 26 (5.01%) MATLAB
6 21 (4.05%) PowerShell
7 20 (3.85%) JavaScript
8 15 (2.89%) SQL
9 13 (2.50%) Bash
9 13 (2.50%) Shell Script
10 9 (1.73%) TypeScript
11 8 (1.54%) Fortran
12 5 (0.96%) C#
13 4 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.58%) Embedded C
14 3 (0.58%) Go
14 3 (0.58%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.39%) Embedded C++
15 2 (0.39%) SPARQL
15 2 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 519 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 163 (31.41%) DV Cleared
3 57 (10.98%) Degree
4 29 (5.59%) Cisco Certification
5 20 (3.85%) CCNA
5 20 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (3.28%) CCNP
7 14 (2.70%) CISSP
8 13 (2.50%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.93%) JNCIA
10 8 (1.54%) HND
10 8 (1.54%) JNCIS
10 8 (1.54%) PhD
11 7 (1.35%) ISTQB
12 6 (1.16%) CESG Certified Professional
12 6 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (0.77%) CISM
14 4 (0.77%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 4 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.43%) SLA
2 15 (2.89%) Def Stans
3 13 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 6 (1.16%) NIST
5 6 (1.16%) RMADS
6 4 (0.77%) GDPR
7 3 (0.58%) ISO 9000
7 3 (0.58%) QA
8 2 (0.39%) Dublin Core
8 2 (0.39%) ISO 22301
8 2 (0.39%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.19%) AQAP
9 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 1 (0.19%) NCSC
9 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.19%) PMO
9 1 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 41 (7.90%) Docker
2 39 (7.51%) Firmware
3 35 (6.74%) Embedded Firmware
4 25 (4.82%) Active Directory
5 24 (4.62%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.96%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.58%) ISA Server
8 3 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.39%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.19%) NFS
10 1 (0.19%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (5.97%) Kubernetes
2 27 (5.20%) Ansible
3 23 (4.43%) FortiGate
4 13 (2.50%) Terraform
5 8 (1.54%) Kibana
6 7 (1.35%) QRadar
7 6 (1.16%) ArcSight ESM
8 4 (0.77%) Grafana
8 4 (0.77%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.77%) SCCM
8 4 (0.77%) SCOM
8 4 (0.77%) WMI
9 3 (0.58%) Nessus
9 3 (0.58%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.39%) SCSM
11 1 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.19%) Graylog
11 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 125 (24.08%) Cisco
2 102 (19.65%) Juniper
3 54 (10.40%) Microsoft
4 43 (8.29%) Fortinet
5 35 (6.74%) VMware
6 21 (4.05%) SAP
7 17 (3.28%) McAfee
7 17 (3.28%) Splunk
8 16 (3.08%) Forcepoint
9 15 (2.89%) Sparx
10 12 (2.31%) SolarWinds
11 8 (1.54%) Dynatrace
12 7 (1.35%) ArcSight
12 7 (1.35%) Veeam
13 6 (1.16%) LogLogic
13 6 (1.16%) Xilinx
14 5 (0.96%) Atlassian
14 5 (0.96%) EMC
14 5 (0.96%) Oracle
15 4 (0.77%) BMC