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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 26 79
Rank change year-on-year +1 +53 -2
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 1,064 893 909
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.05% 7.71% 4.12%
As % of the Qualifications category 22.10% 19.29% 11.01%
Number of salaries quoted 738 517 478
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,939
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £65,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -0.16%

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 4,814 4,629 8,259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 31.90% 39.95% 37.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,888 2,312 3,312
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £29,388
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,988 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,000 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% +2.97% +1.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £65,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 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
Hampshire 0 417 £55,000 -8.33% 61
Thames Valley +2 387 £52,500 - 55
Berkshire +7 304 £53,263 +1.45% 38
Surrey +11 216 £45,000 -18.18% 7
Buckinghamshire +19 50 £50,000 -4.76% 12
Oxfordshire -22 33 £45,096 -5.06% 5
West Sussex +10 13 £67,500 +28.57%
Kent -10 8 £72,500 +70.59% 3
Middlesex - 6 £35,000 -
East Sussex +19 5 £92,500 +32.14%
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 40 (3.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (1.79%) ArcGIS
2 19 (1.79%) GeoServer
2 19 (1.79%) WebLogic
3 18 (1.69%) Exchange Server 2010
4 12 (1.13%) OpenStack
5 11 (1.03%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.75%) Apache
7 7 (0.66%) Confluence
8 6 (0.56%) Red Hat Fuse
9 4 (0.38%) JBoss
9 4 (0.38%) TWiki
10 3 (0.28%) CMS
10 3 (0.28%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2013
11 2 (0.19%) IIS
11 2 (0.19%) nginx
11 2 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
12 1 (0.094%) Appian
Applications
1 41 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (3.76%) Simulink
3 16 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.47%) MS Visio
7 4 (0.38%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.38%) Sketch
8 2 (0.19%) Fireworks
8 2 (0.19%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 36 (3.38%) Siebel CRM
2 6 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.38%) Q-Pulse
3 4 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.19%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.19%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.094%) Primavera
5 1 (0.094%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.094%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.094%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 250 (23.50%) Azure
2 193 (18.14%) AWS
3 63 (5.92%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (2.54%) Azure Monitor
5 23 (2.16%) GCP
6 19 (1.79%) Serverless
7 17 (1.60%) Amazon EKS
7 17 (1.60%) Entra ID
8 15 (1.41%) GitHub
9 14 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
11 12 (1.13%) SaaS
12 10 (0.94%) OCI
13 9 (0.85%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (0.85%) Azure Storage
13 9 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (0.75%) PaaS
15 7 (0.66%) AWS Lambda
16 6 (0.56%) Amazon S3
16 6 (0.56%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 89 (8.36%) Firewall
2 58 (5.45%) VPN
3 43 (4.04%) DNS
4 32 (3.01%) Network Security
5 30 (2.82%) Cisco Firepower
6 28 (2.63%) DHCP
7 27 (2.54%) SSL
8 23 (2.16%) WAN
9 18 (1.69%) BGP
10 16 (1.50%) LAN
10 16 (1.50%) Wireless
11 15 (1.41%) 5G
11 15 (1.41%) TCP/IP
12 12 (1.13%) SAN
12 12 (1.13%) VLAN
13 11 (1.03%) IPsec
14 10 (0.94%) OSPF
14 10 (0.94%) SNMP
15 9 (0.85%) Cisco ASA
16 8 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (8.65%) PostgreSQL
2 69 (6.48%) NoSQL
3 56 (5.26%) MongoDB
4 55 (5.17%) Hadoop
5 36 (3.38%) Oracle BI EE
5 36 (3.38%) Siebel EIM
6 30 (2.82%) Relational Database
7 25 (2.35%) SQL Server
8 21 (1.97%) GIS
9 19 (1.79%) QGIS
10 17 (1.60%) Big Data
11 16 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (0.66%) Oracle Database
14 6 (0.56%) MySQL
15 5 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
15 5 (0.47%) RDBMS
16 3 (0.28%) Oracle Database 10g
16 3 (0.28%) Oracle Database 11g
16 3 (0.28%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 65 (6.11%) Git
2 47 (4.42%) Jenkins
3 32 (3.01%) Vagrant
4 22 (2.07%) JIRA
5 16 (1.50%) MSI
6 15 (1.41%) GitLab
6 15 (1.41%) JUnit
7 13 (1.22%) AdminStudio
7 13 (1.22%) InstallShield
8 12 (1.13%) Visual Studio
9 11 (1.03%) Cucumber
10 9 (0.85%) Ant
10 9 (0.85%) eggPlant
10 9 (0.85%) Trac
11 8 (0.75%) REST Assured
11 8 (0.75%) Selenium
11 8 (0.75%) TestNG
11 8 (0.75%) WebDriver
12 7 (0.66%) CMake
12 7 (0.66%) Subversion
General
1 209 (19.64%) Social Skills
2 101 (9.49%) Aerospace
3 57 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
3 57 (5.36%) Public Sector
4 50 (4.70%) Finance
5 31 (2.91%) Military
6 23 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
6 23 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
7 19 (1.79%) Telecoms
8 18 (1.69%) Electronics
9 14 (1.32%) Police
10 9 (0.85%) Advertising
11 6 (0.56%) Retail
12 5 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (0.47%) Law
12 5 (0.47%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.47%) Marketing
13 4 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.28%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 162 (15.23%) Senior
2 152 (14.29%) Architect
3 135 (12.69%) Software Engineer
4 75 (7.05%) Developer
5 69 (6.48%) DevOps Engineer
6 68 (6.39%) Network Engineer
7 65 (6.11%) Analyst
8 48 (4.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 45 (4.23%) Data Architect
9 45 (4.23%) Senior Software Engineer
10 42 (3.95%) Consultant
10 42 (3.95%) Lead
11 40 (3.76%) Senior Developer
12 36 (3.38%) Integration Engineer
12 36 (3.38%) Senior Siebel Developer
12 36 (3.38%) Siebel Developer
13 34 (3.20%) Network Architect
14 32 (3.01%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
14 32 (3.01%) Systems Engineer
15 28 (2.63%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (6.11%) Node.js
2 56 (5.26%) Kafka
3 55 (5.17%) Middleware
4 38 (3.57%) .NET
5 35 (3.29%) React
6 32 (3.01%) REST
7 24 (2.26%) Spring
8 22 (2.07%) Leaflet
9 21 (1.97%) CSS
9 21 (1.97%) OpenLayers
10 19 (1.79%) .NET Core
10 19 (1.79%) PostGIS
11 15 (1.41%) Hibernate
11 15 (1.41%) J2EE
12 14 (1.32%) Web Services
13 13 (1.22%) Spring Boot
14 12 (1.13%) HTML
14 12 (1.13%) Java EE
14 12 (1.13%) OpenID
15 11 (1.03%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (4.04%) Algorithms
2 42 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
3 41 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
4 31 (2.91%) Product Ownership
5 29 (2.73%) Data Centre
5 29 (2.73%) Management Information System
6 23 (2.16%) Client/Server
7 19 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
8 16 (1.50%) CMDB
8 16 (1.50%) FPGA
8 16 (1.50%) VHDL
9 15 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
10 14 (1.32%) PKI
11 13 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (1.22%) Shadow IT
12 12 (1.13%) Driving Licence
13 11 (1.03%) Private Cloud
13 11 (1.03%) Satnav
14 10 (0.94%) Analogue Electronics
14 10 (0.94%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 217 (20.39%) Windows
2 209 (19.64%) Linux
3 102 (9.59%) Windows Server
4 55 (5.17%) CentOS
5 48 (4.51%) Ubuntu
6 44 (4.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 42 (3.95%) Windows Server 2016
8 38 (3.57%) Windows 10
8 38 (3.57%) Windows Server 2019
9 32 (3.01%) Android
10 20 (1.88%) Unix
11 16 (1.50%) Windows 7
12 15 (1.41%) Windows Server 2012
13 9 (0.85%) Windows NT
13 9 (0.85%) Windows Server 2008
14 6 (0.56%) Rocky
15 4 (0.38%) Windows XP
16 3 (0.28%) Embedded Linux
16 3 (0.28%) Solaris
16 3 (0.28%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (26.97%) Agile
2 189 (17.76%) Problem-Solving
3 180 (16.92%) DevOps
4 174 (16.35%) Software Engineering
5 168 (15.79%) Actionable Insight
6 122 (11.47%) Collaborative Working
7 89 (8.36%) Scrum
8 88 (8.27%) Computer Science
9 85 (7.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 80 (7.52%) Project Management
11 78 (7.33%) Artificial Intelligence
12 76 (7.14%) ITIL
13 75 (7.05%) Service Management
14 73 (6.86%) Cybersecurity
15 71 (6.67%) Test Automation
16 62 (5.83%) Machine Learning
17 58 (5.45%) Infrastructure as Code
17 58 (5.45%) Signal Processing
18 57 (5.36%) CI/CD
18 57 (5.36%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 209 (19.64%) Java
2 207 (19.45%) Python
3 178 (16.73%) SQL
4 117 (11.00%) PowerShell
5 106 (9.96%) C++
6 85 (7.99%) JavaScript
7 60 (5.64%) C#
8 54 (5.08%) C
8 54 (5.08%) Kotlin
9 22 (2.07%) VB
10 17 (1.60%) MATLAB
10 17 (1.60%) Shell Script
11 13 (1.22%) Bash
12 10 (0.94%) Groovy
13 9 (0.85%) Bicep
13 9 (0.85%) TypeScript
13 9 (0.85%) VBScript
14 5 (0.47%) C-shell
14 5 (0.47%) Fortran
15 4 (0.38%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,064 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 282 (26.50%) DV Cleared
3 193 (18.14%) Degree
4 73 (6.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (3.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 35 (3.29%) Cisco Certification
7 30 (2.82%) CCNA
8 25 (2.35%) CCNP
9 20 (1.88%) AWS Certification
9 20 (1.88%) JNCIS
10 18 (1.69%) Azure Certification
11 17 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
12 16 (1.50%) PhD
13 14 (1.32%) CISSP
14 11 (1.03%) HND
14 11 (1.03%) Master's Degree
15 9 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 8 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 8 (0.75%) CISM
16 8 (0.75%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (3.76%) QA
2 26 (2.44%) SLA
3 17 (1.60%) NIST
4 14 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.03%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.03%) Software Quality Assurance
6 5 (0.47%) PMO
6 5 (0.47%) WCAG
7 4 (0.38%) ISO 9001
7 4 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 3 (0.28%) COBIT
8 3 (0.28%) NCSC
8 3 (0.28%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.28%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.094%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.094%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.094%) GDPR
9 1 (0.094%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.094%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.094%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 89 (8.36%) Active Directory
2 65 (6.11%) Docker
3 52 (4.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (2.44%) Hyper-V
5 24 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (1.41%) Firmware
6 15 (1.41%) pfSense
7 14 (1.32%) Microsoft App-V
7 14 (1.32%) vSphere
8 13 (1.22%) Virtual Servers
9 11 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
10 9 (0.85%) NFS
11 8 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.28%) Ceph
12 3 (0.28%) GPFS
12 3 (0.28%) KVM
12 3 (0.28%) Lustre
12 3 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 77 (7.24%) Kubernetes
2 72 (6.77%) Ansible
3 65 (6.11%) Terraform
4 61 (5.73%) SCCM
5 42 (3.95%) WSUS
6 29 (2.73%) Microsoft Intune
7 26 (2.44%) vCenter Server
8 23 (2.16%) Grafana
8 23 (2.16%) SCOM
9 15 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
9 15 (1.41%) ZABBIX
10 12 (1.13%) OpenSSO
11 9 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (0.85%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 9 (0.85%) SCDPM
11 9 (0.85%) Sysprep
12 8 (0.75%) EMC NetWorker
13 7 (0.66%) Nagios
14 6 (0.56%) Podman
15 5 (0.47%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 159 (14.94%) Microsoft
2 108 (10.15%) Cisco
3 101 (9.49%) Juniper
4 100 (9.40%) VMware
5 79 (7.42%) Oracle
6 40 (3.76%) ServiceNow
6 40 (3.76%) Xilinx
7 36 (3.38%) Siebel
8 27 (2.54%) Veeam
9 25 (2.35%) F5
10 24 (2.26%) Fortinet
11 20 (1.88%) McAfee
12 19 (1.79%) ESRI
12 19 (1.79%) Remedy
13 18 (1.69%) Red Hat
14 14 (1.32%) Autodesk
15 12 (1.13%) Palo Alto
16 10 (0.94%) HP
17 8 (0.75%) EMC
17 8 (0.75%) WSO2