SC Cleared Jobs in the South West

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 14 19
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 +9
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 879 908 1,056
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.51% 13.10% 13.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 26.48% 31.83% 34.06%
Number of salaries quoted 582 434 547
10th Percentile £30,385 £35,000 £37,200
25th Percentile £41,217 £41,327 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £54,255
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.37% +8.51%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £70,250 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,434
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.47% +4.43%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South West

SC Cleared is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,320 2,853 3,100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 35.93% 41.15% 38.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,156 1,270 1,621
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,493 £30,505
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,940 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +3.69%
75th Percentile £66,313 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,750 £76,520
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.60% +8.23% -

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 +1 275 £68,500 +14.17% 91
Gloucestershire -10 241 £50,000 -20.00% 30
Wiltshire +4 190 £49,000 -2.00% 47
Dorset +3 97 £40,000 -23.81% 22
Somerset +10 50 £30,385 -28.86% 21
Devon -20 11 £49,515 -0.97% 26
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 93 (10.58%) Confluence
2 32 (3.64%) SharePoint
3 31 (3.53%) ArcGIS
4 30 (3.41%) Microsoft Exchange
5 27 (3.07%) GeoServer
6 21 (2.39%) Apache
7 17 (1.93%) Apache Spark
8 9 (1.02%) SharePoint 2010
8 9 (1.02%) SharePoint 2013
9 4 (0.46%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.23%) JBoss
10 2 (0.23%) MS Project Server
10 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Fuse
10 2 (0.23%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.23%) WildFly
Applications
1 32 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.37%) Simulink
3 7 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.46%) Sketch
5 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.23%) GNU Octave
6 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.11%) Revit
Business Applications
1 44 (5.01%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 17 (1.93%) Maximo
3 4 (0.46%) Primavera
4 3 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.11%) Q-Pulse
5 1 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 188 (21.39%) Azure
2 157 (17.86%) AWS
3 76 (8.65%) Microsoft 365
4 51 (5.80%) OpenShift
5 40 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
6 34 (3.87%) GCP
7 20 (2.28%) AWS Lambda
7 20 (2.28%) SaaS
7 20 (2.28%) Serverless
8 19 (2.16%) Power Platform
9 18 (2.05%) Amazon EKS
10 16 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (1.02%) PaaS
12 8 (0.91%) Power Automate
13 7 (0.80%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (0.80%) IaaS
14 6 (0.68%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (0.68%) Miro
14 6 (0.68%) PowerApps
15 5 (0.57%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.30%) Firewall
2 24 (2.73%) TCP/IP
3 21 (2.39%) DNS
3 21 (2.39%) Wireless
4 19 (2.16%) AMQP
4 19 (2.16%) LAN
4 19 (2.16%) WAN
5 16 (1.82%) DHCP
6 15 (1.71%) SAN
7 14 (1.59%) HTTP
8 10 (1.14%) Network Security
9 9 (1.02%) Ethernet
9 9 (1.02%) iSCSI
10 8 (0.91%) BGP
10 8 (0.91%) Cisco IPT
10 8 (0.91%) Fibre Channel
11 6 (0.68%) RS-232
12 5 (0.57%) IPv4
12 5 (0.57%) Structured Cabling
12 5 (0.57%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (4.66%) GIS
2 28 (3.19%) Big Data
3 27 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (3.07%) QGIS
4 24 (2.73%) SQL Server
5 18 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (1.93%) Hadoop
7 14 (1.59%) Cloudera CDH
8 12 (1.37%) Power BI
8 12 (1.37%) Relational Database
9 11 (1.25%) NoSQL
10 10 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (0.91%) MySQL
13 5 (0.57%) Geospatial Data
13 5 (0.57%) InfluxDB
13 5 (0.57%) Oracle Database
13 5 (0.57%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.46%) Tableau
15 3 (0.34%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 105 (11.95%) Git
2 99 (11.26%) JIRA
3 96 (10.92%) Visual Studio
4 88 (10.01%) Bitbucket
5 59 (6.71%) Sourcetree
6 15 (1.71%) GitLab
6 15 (1.71%) LabVIEW
6 15 (1.71%) Rational DOORS
7 13 (1.48%) Jenkins
8 10 (1.14%) Team Foundation Server
9 8 (0.91%) NetBeans
10 4 (0.46%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.46%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.46%) Selenium
11 3 (0.34%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.23%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.23%) PetaLinux
12 2 (0.23%) Rational Rhapsody
13 1 (0.11%) GDB
13 1 (0.11%) VersionOne
General
1 130 (14.79%) Social Skills
2 123 (13.99%) Games
3 111 (12.63%) Presentation Skills
4 104 (11.83%) Aerospace
5 90 (10.24%) Finance
6 49 (5.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 39 (4.44%) Military
8 34 (3.87%) Public Sector
9 28 (3.19%) Analytical Skills
10 24 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
11 22 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
12 15 (1.71%) Telecoms
13 12 (1.37%) Manufacturing
14 11 (1.25%) Electronics
15 7 (0.80%) Publishing
16 6 (0.68%) Police
16 6 (0.68%) Retail
17 4 (0.46%) Legal
18 3 (0.34%) Billing
18 3 (0.34%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 163 (18.54%) Senior
2 145 (16.50%) Developer
3 94 (10.69%) Architect
4 88 (10.01%) 3D Developer
4 88 (10.01%) Games Developer
4 88 (10.01%) Unity 3D Developer
5 75 (8.53%) Solutions Architect
6 71 (8.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 71 (8.08%) Software Engineer
7 62 (7.05%) Consultant
8 59 (6.71%) Project Manager
9 58 (6.60%) Support Engineer
10 50 (5.69%) Lead
11 46 (5.23%) Systems Engineer
12 44 (5.01%) Security Consultant
13 42 (4.78%) Senior Developer
14 40 (4.55%) Information Assurance Manager
14 40 (4.55%) Information Manager
15 32 (3.64%) Security Manager
16 30 (3.41%) Senior Games Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (10.01%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 77 (8.76%) .NET
3 58 (6.60%) React
4 30 (3.41%) .NET Core
4 30 (3.41%) AngularJS
5 29 (3.30%) CSS
6 27 (3.07%) Leaflet
6 27 (3.07%) OpenLayers
6 27 (3.07%) PostGIS
7 26 (2.96%) REST
8 23 (2.62%) RabbitMQ
9 20 (2.28%) Spring
10 19 (2.16%) Node.js
10 19 (2.16%) Spring Boot
11 14 (1.59%) gRPC
11 14 (1.59%) Material-UI
11 14 (1.59%) OpenAPI
11 14 (1.59%) Swagger
12 12 (1.37%) HTML
13 8 (0.91%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 88 (10.01%) Virtual Reality
2 46 (5.23%) Driving Licence
3 34 (3.87%) Management Information System
4 30 (3.41%) Cyberattack
5 18 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
6 17 (1.93%) Cloud Native
7 16 (1.82%) Private Cloud
8 15 (1.71%) Clustering
9 14 (1.59%) EMC VNX
10 13 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
11 12 (1.37%) Cyber Threat
12 11 (1.25%) Cyber Defence
12 11 (1.25%) Public Cloud
13 10 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
13 10 (1.14%) Security Operations Centre
14 9 (1.02%) Algorithms
14 9 (1.02%) Fat Client
14 9 (1.02%) Replication
14 9 (1.02%) Thin Client
15 8 (0.91%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 140 (15.93%) Windows
2 119 (13.54%) Linux
3 53 (6.03%) Windows Server
4 44 (5.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 36 (4.10%) Windows 10
6 25 (2.84%) CentOS
7 18 (2.05%) Ubuntu
8 14 (1.59%) Debian
9 13 (1.48%) AIX
9 13 (1.48%) Unix
10 11 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
11 8 (0.91%) CoreOS
11 8 (0.91%) Windows 7
11 8 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.34%) Android
13 3 (0.34%) zOS
14 2 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
15 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (24.80%) DevOps
2 201 (22.87%) Agile
3 200 (22.75%) Software Engineering
4 155 (17.63%) Actionable Insight
5 141 (16.04%) UML
6 138 (15.70%) Scrum
7 119 (13.54%) Cybersecurity
8 97 (11.04%) Design Patterns
8 97 (11.04%) ITIL
9 96 (10.92%) Information Assurance
10 91 (10.35%) Problem-Solving
10 91 (10.35%) Project Management
11 89 (10.13%) Use Case
12 79 (8.99%) Risk Management
13 72 (8.19%) TOGAF
14 71 (8.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 66 (7.51%) Full Stack Development
16 64 (7.28%) ArchiMate
17 61 (6.94%) Collaborative Working
18 58 (6.60%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 121 (13.77%) Python
2 117 (13.31%) C#
3 87 (9.90%) Java
4 68 (7.74%) JavaScript
5 57 (6.48%) PowerShell
6 44 (5.01%) SQL
7 32 (3.64%) Bash
8 22 (2.50%) C++
9 21 (2.39%) TypeScript
10 19 (2.16%) MATLAB
11 17 (1.93%) C
12 13 (1.48%) Go
13 7 (0.80%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.68%) VBA
15 5 (0.57%) Fortran
16 4 (0.46%) R
17 3 (0.34%) Scala
18 2 (0.23%) Perl
18 2 (0.23%) Ruby
19 1 (0.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 879 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 240 (27.30%) Degree
3 146 (16.61%) DV Cleared
4 141 (16.04%) BPSS Clearance
5 59 (6.71%) TOGAF Certification
6 50 (5.69%) CISSP
7 49 (5.57%) CESG Certified Professional
7 49 (5.57%) CISM
8 33 (3.75%) CRISC
9 15 (1.71%) A+ Certification
10 13 (1.48%) ITIL Certification
11 11 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (1.02%) CISA
13 8 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
13 8 (0.91%) PMI Certification
14 7 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
15 6 (0.68%) AWS Certification
15 6 (0.68%) Azure Certification
15 6 (0.68%) CCNP
15 6 (0.68%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (7.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 50 (5.69%) NCSC
3 35 (3.98%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 18 (2.05%) SLA
5 13 (1.48%) IEC 61508
5 13 (1.48%) NIST
6 10 (1.14%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.14%) ISO 9001
6 10 (1.14%) JSP 440
7 9 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 9 (1.02%) Def Stans
8 7 (0.80%) GDPR
9 6 (0.68%) QA
9 6 (0.68%) RMADS
9 6 (0.68%) TickIT
10 5 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 5 (0.57%) WCAG
11 4 (0.46%) GRC
12 3 (0.34%) Data Quality
System Software
1 100 (11.38%) Active Directory
2 85 (9.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 62 (7.05%) Hyper-V
4 48 (5.46%) Docker
5 16 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (0.68%) Microsoft App-V
6 6 (0.68%) XenDesktop
7 3 (0.34%) BitLocker
7 3 (0.34%) Firmware
7 3 (0.34%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.34%) vSphere
7 3 (0.34%) XenApp
8 2 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 83 (9.44%) Ansible
2 57 (6.48%) SCCM
3 51 (5.80%) Kubernetes
4 41 (4.66%) Puppet
5 33 (3.75%) Terraform
6 16 (1.82%) vCenter Server
7 14 (1.59%) EMC NetWorker
7 14 (1.59%) Nagios
8 12 (1.37%) Backup Exec
8 12 (1.37%) NetBackup
9 8 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (0.91%) ZABBIX
10 7 (0.80%) Kibana
11 6 (0.68%) Icinga
11 6 (0.68%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.57%) Grafana
12 5 (0.57%) Prometheus
13 3 (0.34%) Failover Clustering
13 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 271 (30.83%) Microsoft
2 94 (10.69%) VMware
3 44 (5.01%) Red Hat
3 44 (5.01%) Sparx
4 34 (3.87%) Google
5 32 (3.64%) ESRI
6 28 (3.19%) IBM
7 23 (2.62%) Cisco
7 23 (2.62%) Oracle
8 22 (2.50%) SolarWinds
9 21 (2.39%) NetApp
10 14 (1.59%) EMC
10 14 (1.59%) SaltStack
10 14 (1.59%) Veeam
11 13 (1.48%) Hitachi
12 12 (1.37%) Citrix
12 12 (1.37%) Snow
12 12 (1.37%) Veritas
13 9 (1.02%) Brocade
13 9 (1.02%) HP