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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 15 13
Rank change year-on-year -26 -2 +6
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 200 917 875
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.64% 9.36% 13.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 11.36% 27.50% 30.69%
Number of salaries quoted 137 609 411
10th Percentile £33,800 £30,385 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,750 £42,500 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +7.48%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,500 £70,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £62,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -11.29% +12.73%

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 1,761 3,335 2,851
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 49.65% 34.05% 43.00%
Number of salaries quoted 956 2,180 1,256
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,955 £30,932
25th Percentile £37,574 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £55,000 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% +0.22% +9.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £70,700
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,786 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £54,399 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.11% -9.34% +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 31 May 2025.

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 31 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
Wiltshire -4 66 £64,627 +29.25% 42
Bristol -37 45 £67,500 -0.37% 148
Gloucestershire -18 34 £61,250 +22.50% 88
Devon +27 18 £55,485 +10.97% 21
Dorset -26 16 £52,500 +12.82% 19
Cornwall - 12 £31,000 - 3
Somerset -29 6 £57,000 +87.59% 25
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 4 (2.00%) Appian
2 3 (1.50%) Confluence
2 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.50%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.00%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.50%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 14 (7.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.00%) Windchill
3 1 (0.50%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.50%) ProjectWise
3 1 (0.50%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 46 (23.00%) AWS
2 38 (19.00%) Azure
3 21 (10.50%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (4.50%) Serverless
5 8 (4.00%) Entra ID
6 6 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (2.50%) GCP
8 4 (2.00%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (2.00%) OCI
8 4 (2.00%) Power Platform
8 4 (2.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (1.50%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.50%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.00%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.00%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.00%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.50%) AWS Control Tower
11 1 (0.50%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 21 (10.50%) Firewall
2 17 (8.50%) VPN
3 10 (5.00%) DNS
4 9 (4.50%) DHCP
5 8 (4.00%) VSAT
6 7 (3.50%) Network Security
7 6 (3.00%) Cisco Firepower
7 6 (3.00%) MPLS
7 6 (3.00%) Reverse Proxy
7 6 (3.00%) VPLS
8 5 (2.50%) Cisco ASA
8 5 (2.50%) PBX
8 5 (2.50%) VLAN
9 3 (1.50%) LAN
9 3 (1.50%) OSPF
9 3 (1.50%) SAN
9 3 (1.50%) WAN
9 3 (1.50%) Wireless
10 2 (1.00%) Ethernet
10 2 (1.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.00%) MongoDB
2 5 (2.50%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.50%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.50%) Power BI
4 2 (1.00%) GIS
5 1 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.50%) MySQL
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (3.00%) GitLab
2 4 (2.00%) JIRA
3 3 (1.50%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (1.00%) Git
4 2 (1.00%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.50%) GDB
5 1 (0.50%) JUnit
5 1 (0.50%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.50%) Yeoman
General
1 38 (19.00%) Social Skills
2 31 (15.50%) Finance
3 21 (10.50%) Retail
4 16 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.50%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.50%) Manufacturing
5 9 (4.50%) Telecoms
6 8 (4.00%) Aerospace
7 7 (3.50%) Back Office
8 5 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.00%) Electronics
10 3 (1.50%) Marketing
10 3 (1.50%) Military
11 2 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.50%) Aeronautics
12 1 (0.50%) Automotive
12 1 (0.50%) Environmental Health
12 1 (0.50%) Local Government
12 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (11.50%) Administrator
1 23 (11.50%) Senior
1 23 (11.50%) Systems Administrator
2 21 (10.50%) Lead
3 19 (9.50%) Developer
4 18 (9.00%) Architect
4 18 (9.00%) Support Engineer
5 12 (6.00%) Support Technician
5 12 (6.00%) Systems Engineer
5 12 (6.00%) Technical Engineer
5 12 (6.00%) Technical Support
5 12 (6.00%) Technical Support Engineer
6 10 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (5.00%) Network Engineer
6 10 (5.00%) Software Engineer
7 9 (4.50%) Senior Developer
8 8 (4.00%) Consultant
8 8 (4.00%) NOC Engineer
9 7 (3.50%) Desktop Support Technician
9 7 (3.50%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (7.50%) React
2 8 (4.00%) Kafka
3 6 (3.00%) AngularJS
3 6 (3.00%) HTML
3 6 (3.00%) Spring
3 6 (3.00%) Spring Boot
4 5 (2.50%) Vue
5 3 (1.50%) AWS CDK
5 3 (1.50%) RESTful
6 2 (1.00%) .NET
6 2 (1.00%) ModSecurity
6 2 (1.00%) Web Services
7 1 (0.50%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.50%) Ajax
7 1 (0.50%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.50%) CSS
7 1 (0.50%) EDI
7 1 (0.50%) JSON
7 1 (0.50%) LDAP
7 1 (0.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.00%) e-Learning
2 9 (4.50%) Private Cloud
3 6 (3.00%) Data Centre
3 6 (3.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 6 (3.00%) Security Posture
4 5 (2.50%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.00%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.00%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.00%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.50%) Acoustics
6 3 (1.50%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.00%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.00%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.00%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.50%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.50%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.50%) NHS
8 1 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (14.00%) Linux
1 28 (14.00%) Windows
2 14 (7.00%) Windows Server
3 8 (4.00%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.50%) AIX
5 1 (0.50%) Android
5 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.50%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (23.50%) Agile
2 31 (15.50%) DevOps
3 25 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 23 (11.50%) Software Engineering
5 22 (11.00%) CI/CD
5 22 (11.00%) Innovative Thinking
5 22 (11.00%) Mentoring
6 21 (10.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (10.50%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (9.00%) High Availability
8 17 (8.50%) Analytics
8 17 (8.50%) Cloud Security
9 16 (8.00%) Customer Service
9 16 (8.00%) Roadmaps
10 15 (7.50%) Containerisation
10 15 (7.50%) Full-Stack Development
11 14 (7.00%) ITIL
11 14 (7.00%) Technical Leadership
12 11 (5.50%) Project Delivery
12 11 (5.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 19 (9.50%) Java
2 15 (7.50%) JavaScript
2 15 (7.50%) Python
3 12 (6.00%) PowerShell
4 6 (3.00%) TypeScript
5 5 (2.50%) SQL
6 3 (1.50%) Bash
6 3 (1.50%) C++
7 2 (1.00%) C
7 2 (1.00%) C#
7 2 (1.00%) R
8 1 (0.50%) Fortran
8 1 (0.50%) Go
8 1 (0.50%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.50%) Perl
8 1 (0.50%) Rust
8 1 (0.50%) VB
8 1 (0.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 200 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 42 (21.00%) DV Cleared
3 36 (18.00%) Cisco Certification
4 34 (17.00%) Degree
5 23 (11.50%) CCNP
6 18 (9.00%) CCNA
7 15 (7.50%) RHCSA
8 9 (4.50%) AWS Certification
9 8 (4.00%) CTC Cleared
9 8 (4.00%) JNCIA
10 7 (3.50%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (3.50%) CISSP
11 4 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (2.00%) Azure Certification
11 4 (2.00%) CISM
12 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.50%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (1.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (1.00%) CESG Certified Professional
13 2 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.00%) SLA
2 8 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.50%) Def Stans
4 5 (2.50%) GDPR
4 5 (2.50%) QA
5 4 (2.00%) NIST
6 3 (1.50%) RMADS
7 2 (1.00%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.00%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.00%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.00%) ISO 9001
7 2 (1.00%) JSP 440
7 2 (1.00%) NCSC
8 1 (0.50%) GRC
8 1 (0.50%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (5.50%) Docker
2 10 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (4.00%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.50%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.50%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.50%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (6.50%) Terraform
2 12 (6.00%) Ansible
2 12 (6.00%) Kubernetes
3 6 (3.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (2.50%) SCCM
5 3 (1.50%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.00%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.00%) Puppet
7 1 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.50%) Backup Exec
7 1 (0.50%) Kibana
7 1 (0.50%) Nagios
7 1 (0.50%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.50%) QRadar
7 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (19.00%) Microsoft
2 33 (16.50%) Cisco
3 18 (9.00%) VMware
4 16 (8.00%) Red Hat
5 8 (4.00%) HP
5 8 (4.00%) Oracle
6 6 (3.00%) Fortinet
7 5 (2.50%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.50%) SolarWinds
8 4 (2.00%) Citrix
8 4 (2.00%) Meraki
9 3 (1.50%) SAP
10 2 (1.00%) F5
10 2 (1.00%) IBM
10 2 (1.00%) PTC
10 2 (1.00%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.00%) Sparx
11 1 (0.50%) Freshdesk
11 1 (0.50%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.50%) Splunk