SC Cleared Job Trends 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 25 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 24 16
Rank change year-on-year +14 -8 +2
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 600 238 820
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 7.58% 8.24% 7.97%
As % of the Qualifications category 28.85% 21.08% 25.33%
Number of salaries quoted 402 151 605
10th Percentile £42,600 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £50,313 £48,165 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -11.93%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £71,250
England median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% +9.09% -12.00%

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 2,080 1,129 3,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 26.27% 39.07% 31.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,050 709 2,210
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,996 £31,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £66,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -10.00%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

SC Cleared job vacancy trend in the South West

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing SC Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing SC Cleared

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in the South West over the 6 months to 25 June 2026.

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 25 June 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
Bristol +21 191 £75,000 +21.95% 58
Gloucestershire +20 191 £60,000 -7.69% 62
Wiltshire +4 122 £70,000 +8.31% 24
Somerset -2 48 £70,000 +22.81% 16
Dorset +16 39 £90,000 +75.61% 20
Devon -39 5 £35,000 -37.47% 7
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 66 (11.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (1.17%) Confluence
2 7 (1.17%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.50%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.33%) Apache
4 2 (0.33%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.17%) Site Server
Applications
1 15 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.67%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 3 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
1 3 (0.50%) Workday HCM
2 2 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 179 (29.83%) Azure
2 95 (15.83%) Microsoft 365
3 50 (8.33%) AWS
4 31 (5.17%) GCP
5 15 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (2.00%) SaaS
7 9 (1.50%) Entra ID
7 9 (1.50%) GitHub
8 7 (1.17%) OpenShift
8 7 (1.17%) Twilio
9 5 (0.83%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (0.83%) PaaS
9 5 (0.83%) Serverless
10 3 (0.50%) IaaS
10 3 (0.50%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.33%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (0.33%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (0.33%) dbt
11 2 (0.33%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 70 (11.67%) DHCP
1 70 (11.67%) DNS
2 16 (2.67%) Firewall
3 10 (1.67%) 4G
3 10 (1.67%) Broadband
3 10 (1.67%) Network Security
3 10 (1.67%) VPN
4 9 (1.50%) VoIP
5 8 (1.33%) Software-Defined Radio
6 7 (1.17%) PBX
6 7 (1.17%) WebEx
6 7 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.67%) ATM
7 4 (0.67%) Structured Cabling
7 4 (0.67%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.50%) LAN
8 3 (0.50%) LoRaWAN
8 3 (0.50%) LTE
8 3 (0.50%) WAN
9 2 (0.33%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (10.50%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (0.50%) Big Data
3 3 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (0.50%) Geospatial Data
3 3 (0.50%) Power BI
4 2 (0.33%) Cloudera CDH
4 2 (0.33%) DataStage
4 2 (0.33%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.33%) MySQL
4 2 (0.33%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.33%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.17%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.17%) GIS
5 1 (0.17%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.17%) OLAP
5 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (1.67%) Git
2 7 (1.17%) JIRA
3 4 (0.67%) GitLab
3 4 (0.67%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.50%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.50%) JMeter
4 3 (0.50%) MSI
4 3 (0.50%) Selenium
5 2 (0.33%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.33%) Gradle
5 2 (0.33%) JUnit
5 2 (0.33%) Metasploit
5 2 (0.33%) Mockito
5 2 (0.33%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.17%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.17%) Postman
6 1 (0.17%) SoapUI
General
1 157 (26.17%) Social Skills
2 82 (13.67%) Analytical Skills
3 67 (11.17%) Public Sector
4 28 (4.67%) Finance
5 20 (3.33%) Telecoms
6 17 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (2.50%) Military
8 10 (1.67%) Manufacturing
9 6 (1.00%) Aerospace
9 6 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (0.83%) Legal
11 4 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.67%) Environmental Health
12 3 (0.50%) Electronics
12 3 (0.50%) Games
13 2 (0.33%) Advertising
13 2 (0.33%) Retail
14 1 (0.17%) Automotive
14 1 (0.17%) Avionics
14 1 (0.17%) French Language
Job Titles
1 85 (14.17%) Consultant
2 79 (13.17%) Architect
3 75 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
4 73 (12.17%) Senior
5 68 (11.33%) Software Engineer
6 58 (9.67%) Security Consultant
7 36 (6.00%) Security Architect
8 32 (5.33%) Solutions Architect
9 25 (4.17%) Digital Architect
9 25 (4.17%) Digital Solutions Architect
10 24 (4.00%) Analyst
10 24 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
10 24 (4.00%) Developer
11 22 (3.67%) Cybersecurity Consultant
11 22 (3.67%) Senior Consultant
12 21 (3.50%) Auditor
13 19 (3.17%) C++ Software Engineer
13 19 (3.17%) Lead
13 19 (3.17%) Senior Security Consultant
14 16 (2.67%) Security Auditor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.83%) .NET
1 11 (1.83%) REST
2 7 (1.17%) Node.js
3 6 (1.00%) RESTful
4 5 (0.83%) AngularJS
4 5 (0.83%) ASP.NET
4 5 (0.83%) ModSecurity
4 5 (0.83%) React
5 4 (0.67%) CSS
5 4 (0.67%) CSS3
5 4 (0.67%) gRPC
5 4 (0.67%) HTML
5 4 (0.67%) HTML5
6 3 (0.50%) .NET Framework
6 3 (0.50%) ATL
6 3 (0.50%) COM
6 3 (0.50%) GeoJSON
6 3 (0.50%) Kafka
6 3 (0.50%) MFC
6 3 (0.50%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 64 (10.67%) Legacy Systems
2 23 (3.83%) Data Centre
3 19 (3.17%) Cloud Native
4 16 (2.67%) Security Posture
5 14 (2.33%) Onboarding
6 13 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (1.67%) Management Information System
8 9 (1.50%) Embedded Systems
8 9 (1.50%) Fibre Optics
9 8 (1.33%) PKI
10 7 (1.17%) CMDB
10 7 (1.17%) Driving Licence
10 7 (1.17%) IVR
11 6 (1.00%) Blog
12 5 (0.83%) FPGA
12 5 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (0.83%) Mobile App
12 5 (0.83%) Product Ownership
12 5 (0.83%) Verilog
12 5 (0.83%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 112 (18.67%) Linux
2 102 (17.00%) Windows
3 67 (11.17%) Windows Server
4 63 (10.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 16 (2.67%) Android
5 16 (2.67%) Windows 10
6 9 (1.50%) Unix
7 5 (0.83%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.50%) CentOS
9 2 (0.33%) Debian
9 2 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.33%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.33%) VMS
10 1 (0.17%) Rocky
10 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (18.67%) Cybersecurity
2 99 (16.50%) Problem-Solving
3 83 (13.83%) Software Engineering
4 72 (12.00%) Customer Experience
4 72 (12.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 68 (11.33%) Migration
6 65 (10.83%) Customer Service
6 65 (10.83%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 64 (10.67%) Kalman Filter
8 63 (10.50%) Email Filtering
8 63 (10.50%) Web Filtering
9 56 (9.33%) DevOps
10 49 (8.17%) Continuous Improvement
11 48 (8.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 46 (7.67%) Agile
13 36 (6.00%) CI/CD
13 36 (6.00%) Cloud Security
13 36 (6.00%) ITIL
14 34 (5.67%) Infrastructure as Code
15 33 (5.50%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (7.33%) Python
2 40 (6.67%) C++
3 24 (4.00%) Java
4 13 (2.17%) Bash
5 11 (1.83%) C#
5 11 (1.83%) JavaScript
6 8 (1.33%) PowerShell
6 8 (1.33%) SQL
7 7 (1.17%) Bicep
8 6 (1.00%) C
8 6 (1.00%) Go
8 6 (1.00%) TypeScript
9 5 (0.83%) Rust
10 4 (0.67%) Kotlin
10 4 (0.67%) Scala
11 3 (0.50%) Elixir
11 3 (0.50%) Erlang
12 2 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.17%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 600 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 170 (28.33%) DV Cleared
3 27 (4.50%) CISSP
3 27 (4.50%) Degree
4 24 (4.00%) CISM
5 15 (2.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 14 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (2.17%) A+ Certification
8 11 (1.83%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
10 8 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (1.33%) CREST Certified
11 7 (1.17%) AWS Certification
11 7 (1.17%) CRISC
11 7 (1.17%) CTC Cleared
11 7 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (1.00%) CCIE
12 6 (1.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 6 (1.00%) OSCP
13 5 (0.83%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (14.00%) PCI DSS
2 79 (13.17%) Cyber Essentials
3 71 (11.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 37 (6.17%) NIST
5 30 (5.00%) NCSC
6 17 (2.83%) GDPR
6 17 (2.83%) JSP 440
7 16 (2.67%) QA
8 14 (2.33%) GRC
9 10 (1.67%) Actionable Recommendations
9 10 (1.67%) Def Stans
10 9 (1.50%) ISO 9001
10 9 (1.50%) SLA
11 7 (1.17%) Accessibility
11 7 (1.17%) NIST 800
12 6 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 5 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 5 (0.83%) WCAG
14 4 (0.67%) ISO 9000
14 4 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 79 (13.17%) Active Directory
2 65 (10.83%) Hyper-V
3 63 (10.50%) Terminal Server
4 17 (2.83%) Docker
5 10 (1.67%) Firmware
6 7 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.33%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.17%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (5.83%) Terraform
2 27 (4.50%) Kubernetes
3 23 (3.83%) Ansible
4 12 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (1.33%) Puppet
6 6 (1.00%) Grafana
7 5 (0.83%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.67%) Nagios
9 3 (0.50%) SCCM
10 2 (0.33%) Nessus
10 2 (0.33%) Netcool
10 2 (0.33%) Nmap
10 2 (0.33%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.33%) Tivoli
10 2 (0.33%) WSUS
10 2 (0.33%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.17%) Podman
11 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 131 (21.83%) Microsoft
2 72 (12.00%) VMware
3 65 (10.83%) SolarWinds
4 64 (10.67%) Splunk
5 63 (10.50%) Brocade
5 63 (10.50%) Nimble Storage
5 63 (10.50%) Tanium
5 63 (10.50%) Veeam
6 18 (3.00%) Cisco
7 10 (1.67%) Starlink
8 7 (1.17%) Genesys
8 7 (1.17%) Red Hat
8 7 (1.17%) Verint
9 6 (1.00%) Google
10 5 (0.83%) BMC
10 5 (0.83%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.67%) Oracle
11 4 (0.67%) Remedy
12 3 (0.50%) CheckPoint
12 3 (0.50%) Dell