SC Cleared Jobs in the South West

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 14 8 26
Rank change year-on-year -6 +18 +1
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 780 946 864
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 8.87% 15.20% 9.44%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.90% 33.91% 23.66%
Number of salaries quoted 526 503 494
10th Percentile £30,385 £36,314 £35,256
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £54,038
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +15.66% +3.92%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £68,633
90th Percentile £71,250 £85,000 £80,000
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 West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,796 2,790 3,652
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 31.79% 44.83% 39.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,755 1,423 1,721
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £35,343
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +3.31%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £84,500 £85,000 £75,000
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the South West

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for SC Cleared in the South West

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in the South West over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in the South West

SC Cleared
Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Bristol +7 264 £67,250 +7.60% 41
Wiltshire +6 194 £50,000 -1.96% 27
Gloucestershire -15 163 £55,000 -15.38% 14
Dorset -15 86 £40,000 -33.33% 18
Somerset +16 49 £30,385 -42.12% 4
Devon -12 10 £49,515 -40.25% 22
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 36 (4.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (3.72%) SharePoint
3 27 (3.46%) ArcGIS
3 27 (3.46%) Confluence
4 25 (3.21%) Apache
5 18 (2.31%) Apache Spark
5 18 (2.31%) GeoServer
6 9 (1.15%) SharePoint 2010
6 9 (1.15%) SharePoint 2013
7 4 (0.51%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.13%) Appian
8 1 (0.13%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.13%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.13%) IIS
8 1 (0.13%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 48 (6.15%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.41%) Simulink
3 7 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.51%) Sketch
6 2 (0.26%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 24 (3.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 18 (2.31%) Maximo
3 5 (0.64%) Primavera
4 4 (0.51%) Q-Pulse
4 4 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 171 (21.92%) Azure
2 144 (18.46%) AWS
3 68 (8.72%) Microsoft 365
4 51 (6.54%) OpenShift
5 41 (5.26%) GCP
6 25 (3.21%) AWS Lambda
6 25 (3.21%) Serverless
7 22 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
7 22 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 20 (2.56%) SaaS
9 19 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (1.41%) Power Platform
11 9 (1.15%) Miro
12 8 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (0.77%) Power Automate
13 6 (0.77%) PowerApps
14 5 (0.64%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (0.64%) Amazon S3
14 5 (0.64%) Figma
15 4 (0.51%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 39 (5.00%) Firewall
1 39 (5.00%) TCP/IP
2 30 (3.85%) DNS
3 23 (2.95%) AMQP
4 22 (2.82%) DHCP
5 19 (2.44%) HTTP
5 19 (2.44%) Wireless
6 16 (2.05%) LAN
6 16 (2.05%) SAN
6 16 (2.05%) WAN
7 15 (1.92%) ADSL
8 11 (1.41%) VLAN
9 9 (1.15%) Cisco IPT
9 9 (1.15%) Network Security
10 7 (0.90%) Fibre Channel
10 7 (0.90%) iSCSI
11 6 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.64%) BGP
12 5 (0.64%) Structured Cabling
13 4 (0.51%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (3.97%) Big Data
2 21 (2.69%) GIS
3 18 (2.31%) Cloudera CDH
3 18 (2.31%) Hadoop
3 18 (2.31%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (2.31%) QGIS
4 12 (1.54%) Relational Database
5 11 (1.41%) Power BI
5 11 (1.41%) SQL Server
6 10 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (0.77%) InfluxDB
8 6 (0.77%) MySQL
8 6 (0.77%) RDBMS
9 5 (0.64%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.38%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.38%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.26%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 39 (5.00%) JIRA
2 30 (3.85%) Visual Studio
3 28 (3.59%) Git
4 26 (3.33%) Bitbucket
5 23 (2.95%) Sourcetree
6 16 (2.05%) GitLab
6 16 (2.05%) Jenkins
7 15 (1.92%) LabVIEW
8 10 (1.28%) Rational DOORS
9 6 (0.77%) NetBeans
10 4 (0.51%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.38%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.38%) JMeter
11 3 (0.38%) Robot Framework
12 2 (0.26%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.26%) Selenium
13 1 (0.13%) Cucumber
13 1 (0.13%) MSI
13 1 (0.13%) Subversion
13 1 (0.13%) Terragrunt
General
1 121 (15.51%) Social Skills
2 88 (11.28%) Aerospace
3 81 (10.38%) Finance
4 45 (5.77%) Military
5 41 (5.26%) Games
6 33 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
7 32 (4.10%) Public Sector
8 30 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 27 (3.46%) Analytical Skills
10 25 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
11 16 (2.05%) Back Office
11 16 (2.05%) Telecoms
12 14 (1.79%) Manufacturing
13 13 (1.67%) Electronics
14 12 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (1.28%) Marketing
16 7 (0.90%) Publishing
17 4 (0.51%) Law
17 4 (0.51%) Legal
17 4 (0.51%) Retail
Job Titles
1 105 (13.46%) Senior
2 75 (9.62%) Developer
3 66 (8.46%) Architect
3 66 (8.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 64 (8.21%) Software Engineer
5 63 (8.08%) Support Engineer
6 59 (7.56%) Consultant
7 51 (6.54%) Systems Engineer
8 45 (5.77%) Lead
9 44 (5.64%) Project Manager
10 39 (5.00%) Information Assurance Manager
10 39 (5.00%) Information Manager
11 38 (4.87%) Security Consultant
11 38 (4.87%) Security Manager
11 38 (4.87%) Solutions Architect
12 33 (4.23%) Cybersecurity Manager
13 32 (4.10%) Analyst
13 32 (4.10%) Security Assurance Manager
14 30 (3.85%) Information Security Manager
15 29 (3.72%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (7.82%) React
2 45 (5.77%) .NET
3 27 (3.46%) RabbitMQ
4 25 (3.21%) Spring Boot
5 24 (3.08%) CSS
6 23 (2.95%) Node.js
6 23 (2.95%) Spring
6 23 (2.95%) Unity (Game Engine)
7 22 (2.82%) REST
8 20 (2.56%) .NET Core
9 19 (2.44%) AngularJS
10 18 (2.31%) gRPC
10 18 (2.31%) Leaflet
10 18 (2.31%) Material-UI
10 18 (2.31%) OpenAPI
10 18 (2.31%) OpenLayers
10 18 (2.31%) PostGIS
10 18 (2.31%) Swagger
11 9 (1.15%) HTML
11 9 (1.15%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 57 (7.31%) Driving Licence
2 34 (4.36%) Cyberattack
2 34 (4.36%) Management Information System
3 23 (2.95%) Virtual Reality
4 21 (2.69%) Cloud Native
5 18 (2.31%) Private Cloud
6 13 (1.67%) Clustering
6 13 (1.67%) Cyber Defence
7 10 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (1.28%) PMI
8 9 (1.15%) EMC VNX
9 8 (1.03%) Replication
10 7 (0.90%) Embedded Systems
10 7 (0.90%) Public Cloud
10 7 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (0.90%) Smartphone
11 6 (0.77%) Algorithms
11 6 (0.77%) Data Centre
11 6 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (0.77%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 158 (20.26%) Windows
2 121 (15.51%) Linux
3 54 (6.92%) Windows 10
4 47 (6.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 47 (6.03%) Windows Server
5 23 (2.95%) CentOS
6 18 (2.31%) Debian
6 18 (2.31%) Ubuntu
7 12 (1.54%) AIX
8 11 (1.41%) Unix
9 9 (1.15%) Android
9 9 (1.15%) Windows Server 2012
10 7 (0.90%) Windows 7
10 7 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (0.77%) Solaris
11 6 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.38%) zOS
13 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.13%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (25.90%) Agile
2 136 (17.44%) DevOps
3 127 (16.28%) Software Engineering
4 108 (13.85%) Cybersecurity
5 104 (13.33%) Actionable Insight
6 89 (11.41%) ITIL
7 87 (11.15%) Problem-Solving
8 84 (10.77%) Scrum
9 82 (10.51%) Information Assurance
9 82 (10.51%) Risk Management
10 69 (8.85%) Collaborative Working
11 63 (8.08%) Project Management
12 61 (7.82%) Stakeholder Management
12 61 (7.82%) UML
13 60 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 54 (6.92%) Configuration Management
15 52 (6.67%) Open Source
15 52 (6.67%) Service Management
16 46 (5.90%) Microservices
17 45 (5.77%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 107 (13.72%) Python
2 92 (11.79%) Java
3 61 (7.82%) JavaScript
4 47 (6.03%) C#
5 37 (4.74%) SQL
6 34 (4.36%) PowerShell
7 29 (3.72%) Bash
8 27 (3.46%) TypeScript
9 26 (3.33%) C++
10 19 (2.44%) MATLAB
11 14 (1.79%) C
12 13 (1.67%) Go
13 6 (0.77%) Fortran
13 6 (0.77%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.51%) Perl
15 2 (0.26%) Ruby
15 2 (0.26%) VBA
16 1 (0.13%) Bicep
16 1 (0.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 780 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 141 (18.08%) Degree
3 129 (16.54%) DV Cleared
4 67 (8.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 50 (6.41%) CISM
5 50 (6.41%) CISSP
6 47 (6.03%) CESG Certified Professional
7 34 (4.36%) CRISC
8 27 (3.46%) TOGAF Certification
9 26 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (1.92%) A+ Certification
11 13 (1.67%) CompTIA Security+
12 12 (1.54%) Azure Certification
12 12 (1.54%) CEH
12 12 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
12 12 (1.54%) MCSE
13 11 (1.41%) DBS Check
14 10 (1.28%) CISA
14 10 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
14 10 (1.28%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (7.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 51 (6.54%) NCSC
3 15 (1.92%) SLA
4 12 (1.54%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
5 10 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 9 (1.15%) GDPR
7 8 (1.03%) Def Stans
7 8 (1.03%) QA
8 7 (0.90%) IEC 61508
8 7 (0.90%) ISO 9001
8 7 (0.90%) TickIT
9 6 (0.77%) Data Quality
10 5 (0.64%) JSP 440
10 5 (0.64%) RMADS
10 5 (0.64%) WCAG
11 4 (0.51%) COBIT
12 2 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.26%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.26%) NIST
System Software
1 100 (12.82%) Active Directory
2 79 (10.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 67 (8.59%) Hyper-V
4 51 (6.54%) Docker
5 13 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (1.15%) XenDesktop
7 6 (0.77%) XenApp
8 4 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.38%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (0.38%) vCloud
9 3 (0.38%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.13%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 85 (10.90%) Ansible
2 63 (8.08%) Kubernetes
3 44 (5.64%) SCCM
4 41 (5.26%) Terraform
5 38 (4.87%) Puppet
6 12 (1.54%) Backup Exec
6 12 (1.54%) NetBackup
7 11 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
8 10 (1.28%) Nagios
8 10 (1.28%) SCOM
9 9 (1.15%) EMC NetWorker
9 9 (1.15%) vCenter Server
10 7 (0.90%) Kibana
10 7 (0.90%) ZABBIX
11 6 (0.77%) Grafana
11 6 (0.77%) Icinga
11 6 (0.77%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.77%) Prometheus
12 5 (0.64%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.64%) WSUS
Vendors
1 183 (23.46%) Microsoft
2 97 (12.44%) VMware
3 49 (6.28%) Red Hat
4 38 (4.87%) Google
5 26 (3.33%) Oracle
6 25 (3.21%) ESRI
7 24 (3.08%) Sparx
8 21 (2.69%) IBM
9 20 (2.56%) NetApp
10 18 (2.31%) SaltStack
11 16 (2.05%) HP
11 16 (2.05%) SolarWinds
12 14 (1.79%) Cisco
13 13 (1.67%) Dell
14 12 (1.54%) Citrix
14 12 (1.54%) Hitachi
14 12 (1.54%) Snow
14 12 (1.54%) Veritas
15 11 (1.41%) Veeam
16 10 (1.28%) EMC