SC Cleared Jobs in the South East

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 44 87
Rank change year-on-year +20 +43 -9
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 1,223 918 743
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.36% 6.04% 3.78%
As % of the Qualifications category 21.30% 15.16% 11.64%
Number of salaries quoted 833 508 385
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,588 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,200 £35,400 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -10.00% +4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £79,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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 East with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 5,743 6,056 6,385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 34.57% 39.84% 32.47%
Number of salaries quoted 3,670 2,672 3,148
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,000 £66,825 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,810 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.86% +5.11% -

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 24 April 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 24 April 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
Thames Valley +35 568 £52,500 +10.53% 105
Berkshire +35 510 £53,000 - 70
Hampshire 0 382 £55,000 - 112
Surrey +20 218 £50,000 -2.44% 25
Buckinghamshire -53 36 £50,000 -4.76% 14
West Sussex +33 22 £67,500 -6.90% 6
Oxfordshire -8 22 £42,796 +22.27% 21
Kent -1 11 £91,250 +125.31% 2
Middlesex - 6 £35,000 -
Sussex - 4 £51,250 -
East Sussex +23 1 £82,500 +48.65%
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 41 (3.35%) WebLogic
2 31 (2.53%) OpenStack
3 29 (2.37%) ArcGIS
3 29 (2.37%) GeoServer
4 19 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (1.23%) Confluence
5 15 (1.23%) IIS
5 15 (1.23%) Oracle Service Bus
6 13 (1.06%) CMS
6 13 (1.06%) SharePoint
7 11 (0.90%) Red Hat Fuse
8 10 (0.82%) JBoss
9 9 (0.74%) Exchange Server 2010
10 6 (0.49%) Apache
11 4 (0.33%) TWiki
12 2 (0.16%) nginx
12 2 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 57 (4.66%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (1.80%) MS Visio
4 13 (1.06%) Simulink
5 11 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.33%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.33%) Sketch
8 2 (0.16%) Fireworks
8 2 (0.16%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 38 (3.11%) Siebel CRM
2 18 (1.47%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.33%) SAP CO
3 4 (0.33%) SAP FI
3 4 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
3 4 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.16%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.082%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.082%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 253 (20.69%) Azure
2 197 (16.11%) AWS
3 54 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
4 44 (3.60%) Serverless
5 40 (3.27%) Amazon EKS
6 33 (2.70%) SaaS
7 32 (2.62%) Amazon ECS
8 23 (1.88%) Cloud Computing
9 20 (1.64%) GitHub
10 19 (1.55%) OCI
11 16 (1.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (1.31%) Azure Monitor
12 12 (0.98%) Entra ID
12 12 (0.98%) Route 53
13 11 (0.90%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (0.90%) Amazon S3
13 11 (0.90%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (0.90%) CloudFront
13 11 (0.90%) Power Platform
13 11 (0.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 115 (9.40%) Firewall
2 67 (5.48%) DNS
3 47 (3.84%) DHCP
4 45 (3.68%) VPN
5 21 (1.72%) Cisco Firepower
5 21 (1.72%) WAN
6 20 (1.64%) BGP
6 20 (1.64%) Network Security
7 19 (1.55%) SSL
7 19 (1.55%) Wireless
8 16 (1.31%) 5G
8 16 (1.31%) SAN
8 16 (1.31%) SD-WAN
8 16 (1.31%) SNMP
9 14 (1.14%) TCP/IP
10 12 (0.98%) LAN
11 11 (0.90%) IPsec
11 11 (0.90%) OSPF
11 11 (0.90%) VLAN
12 8 (0.65%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (7.44%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (3.68%) NoSQL
3 37 (3.03%) Relational Database
4 31 (2.53%) GIS
5 30 (2.45%) Oracle BI EE
5 30 (2.45%) Siebel EIM
6 29 (2.37%) QGIS
7 25 (2.04%) Oracle Database
8 24 (1.96%) SQL Server
9 23 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
10 19 (1.55%) MongoDB
11 18 (1.47%) Hadoop
12 16 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
12 16 (1.31%) Oracle Database 11g
13 15 (1.23%) Oracle Database 10g
13 15 (1.23%) VLDB
14 9 (0.74%) Oracle Reports
15 8 (0.65%) Power BI
16 7 (0.57%) Qlik Sense
16 7 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 101 (8.26%) Jenkins
2 63 (5.15%) Git
3 36 (2.94%) JIRA
4 24 (1.96%) Ant
5 21 (1.72%) GitLab
6 20 (1.64%) Subversion
7 16 (1.31%) CMake
8 15 (1.23%) JUnit
9 12 (0.98%) Cucumber
10 11 (0.90%) Selenium
11 10 (0.82%) Trac
11 10 (0.82%) Vagrant
12 9 (0.74%) JMeter
12 9 (0.74%) Visual Studio
13 7 (0.57%) Bitbucket
13 7 (0.57%) REST Assured
13 7 (0.57%) WebDriver
14 6 (0.49%) MSI
14 6 (0.49%) TestNG
15 5 (0.41%) Oracle APEX
General
1 266 (21.75%) Social Skills
2 100 (8.18%) Aerospace
3 90 (7.36%) Public Sector
4 82 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
6 37 (3.03%) Military
7 28 (2.29%) Police
8 26 (2.13%) Finance
9 25 (2.04%) Telecoms
10 23 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
11 21 (1.72%) Electronics
12 15 (1.23%) Back Office
12 15 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (0.65%) Manufacturing
14 7 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (0.49%) Retail
16 5 (0.41%) Law
16 5 (0.41%) Local Government
16 5 (0.41%) Marketing
17 4 (0.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 192 (15.70%) Senior
2 164 (13.41%) Architect
3 136 (11.12%) Software Engineer
4 125 (10.22%) Developer
5 105 (8.59%) Analyst
6 70 (5.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 54 (4.42%) Senior Software Engineer
8 51 (4.17%) Integration Engineer
9 48 (3.92%) Lead
10 47 (3.84%) Senior Developer
11 45 (3.68%) Consultant
12 44 (3.60%) Applications Support
12 44 (3.60%) Systems Engineer
13 43 (3.52%) Network Architect
13 43 (3.52%) Network Engineer
14 42 (3.43%) C++ Software Engineer
14 42 (3.43%) DevOps Engineer
14 42 (3.43%) Support Analyst
15 37 (3.03%) Applications Support Analyst
16 36 (2.94%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (5.40%) .NET
2 65 (5.31%) REST
3 64 (5.23%) Spring
4 56 (4.58%) Node.js
5 50 (4.09%) React
6 49 (4.01%) XML
7 48 (3.92%) Web Services
8 45 (3.68%) AngularJS
9 38 (3.11%) Spring Boot
10 36 (2.94%) CSS
11 34 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
12 32 (2.62%) Leaflet
13 31 (2.53%) Apache Camel
13 31 (2.53%) OpenLayers
14 30 (2.45%) JSON
15 29 (2.37%) J2EE
15 29 (2.37%) PostGIS
16 28 (2.29%) Hibernate
17 25 (2.04%) .NET Core
18 24 (1.96%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 38 (3.11%) Product Ownership
2 36 (2.94%) Algorithms
2 36 (2.94%) Data Centre
2 36 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
3 33 (2.70%) CMDB
4 30 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
5 27 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
6 22 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
6 22 (1.80%) Management Information System
7 21 (1.72%) Satnav
8 20 (1.64%) PKI
9 17 (1.39%) FPGA
10 16 (1.31%) Private Cloud
10 16 (1.31%) VHDL
11 15 (1.23%) Client/Server
12 14 (1.14%) Analogue Electronics
12 14 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (1.06%) Digital Signage
14 8 (0.65%) Virtual Team
15 7 (0.57%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 289 (23.63%) Windows
2 245 (20.03%) Linux
3 143 (11.69%) Windows Server
4 51 (4.17%) Windows 10
5 50 (4.09%) Windows Server 2016
6 41 (3.35%) CentOS
6 41 (3.35%) Unix
6 41 (3.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 28 (2.29%) Ubuntu
8 27 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 22 (1.80%) Windows 7
9 22 (1.80%) Windows Server 2012
10 15 (1.23%) Solaris
11 12 (0.98%) Android
11 12 (0.98%) Windows XP
12 8 (0.65%) Windows NT
13 5 (0.41%) Rocky
14 4 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
15 3 (0.25%) AIX
16 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 355 (29.03%) Agile
2 302 (24.69%) Problem-Solving
3 287 (23.47%) Actionable Insight
4 211 (17.25%) DevOps
5 159 (13.00%) Software Engineering
6 127 (10.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 112 (9.16%) Service Management
8 111 (9.08%) ITIL
9 104 (8.50%) Test Automation
10 98 (8.01%) Scrum
11 96 (7.85%) Collaborative Working
12 93 (7.60%) Project Management
13 80 (6.54%) Customer Service
14 68 (5.56%) Incident Management
15 65 (5.31%) Computer Science
15 65 (5.31%) Configuration Management
15 65 (5.31%) Microservices
16 63 (5.15%) Kanban
17 62 (5.07%) Containerisation
18 61 (4.99%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 213 (17.42%) Java
2 198 (16.19%) SQL
3 172 (14.06%) Python
4 164 (13.41%) PowerShell
5 124 (10.14%) JavaScript
6 105 (8.59%) C++
7 74 (6.05%) C#
8 53 (4.33%) C
9 28 (2.29%) Shell Script
10 24 (1.96%) PL/SQL
11 17 (1.39%) Kotlin
12 13 (1.06%) Ruby
13 11 (0.90%) VB
14 10 (0.82%) Groovy
15 9 (0.74%) Bash
16 7 (0.57%) Bicep
16 7 (0.57%) Go
16 7 (0.57%) VBScript
17 6 (0.49%) MATLAB
17 6 (0.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1,223 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 304 (24.86%) DV Cleared
3 174 (14.23%) Degree
4 59 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (3.27%) Cisco Certification
6 34 (2.78%) AWS Certification
7 33 (2.70%) CCNP
8 31 (2.53%) CCNA
9 27 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
10 23 (1.88%) Azure Certification
11 19 (1.55%) PhD
12 17 (1.39%) JNCIS
12 17 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
13 16 (1.31%) A+ Certification
13 16 (1.31%) DBS Check
14 15 (1.23%) CISSP
15 14 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 13 (1.06%) MCP
17 11 (0.90%) Master's Degree
18 10 (0.82%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (4.82%) SLA
2 36 (2.94%) QA
3 21 (1.72%) Software Quality Assurance
4 17 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (1.31%) NIST
6 12 (0.98%) Accessibility
6 12 (0.98%) RMADS
7 9 (0.74%) JSP 440
8 8 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 6 (0.49%) NCSC
9 6 (0.49%) PMO
10 5 (0.41%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.41%) WCAG
11 3 (0.25%) COBIT
11 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.25%) Data Quality
11 3 (0.25%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.25%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.16%) GDPR
System Software
1 144 (11.77%) Active Directory
2 95 (7.77%) Docker
3 75 (6.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 62 (5.07%) Hyper-V
5 27 (2.21%) VMware ESXi
6 23 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
7 22 (1.80%) Firmware
8 20 (1.64%) Virtual Servers
9 16 (1.31%) pfSense
10 15 (1.23%) KVM
10 15 (1.23%) Oracle RAC
11 13 (1.06%) vSphere
12 10 (0.82%) NFS
13 8 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
14 4 (0.33%) Microsoft App-V
14 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 109 (8.91%) Kubernetes
2 105 (8.59%) Ansible
3 80 (6.54%) SCCM
4 75 (6.13%) Terraform
5 60 (4.91%) SCOM
6 45 (3.68%) vCenter Server
7 38 (3.11%) WSUS
8 25 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
9 22 (1.80%) OpenSSO
10 19 (1.55%) NetBackup
11 18 (1.47%) Grafana
11 18 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
12 17 (1.39%) ZABBIX
13 16 (1.31%) EMC NetWorker
14 15 (1.23%) Data Guard
14 15 (1.23%) Oracle RMAN
15 11 (0.90%) Rancher
16 10 (0.82%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
16 10 (0.82%) Nessus
16 10 (0.82%) SCDPM
Vendors
1 206 (16.84%) Microsoft
2 118 (9.65%) Oracle
3 117 (9.57%) VMware
4 109 (8.91%) Juniper
5 89 (7.28%) Cisco
6 50 (4.09%) ServiceNow
7 40 (3.27%) Remedy
8 38 (3.11%) Siebel
9 31 (2.53%) HP
9 31 (2.53%) WSO2
10 30 (2.45%) Dynatrace
11 29 (2.37%) ESRI
12 27 (2.21%) Fortinet
13 26 (2.13%) Veeam
14 20 (1.64%) Red Hat
15 19 (1.55%) F5
16 17 (1.39%) EMC
16 17 (1.39%) McAfee
17 15 (1.23%) Sun
18 14 (1.14%) 3PAR