Security Cleared Jobs in the South East

Security Clearance
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 19 47
Rank change year-on-year +8 +28 +11
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,961 1,477 1,161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 11.70% 10.25% 5.82%
As % of the Qualifications category 33.91% 25.94% 17.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,348 799 570
10th Percentile £33,025 £29,191 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,713 £41,939
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,500 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.81% +0.91%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £71,131
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,500 £77,670
England median annual salary £57,500 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.86% +5.45% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

Security 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 5,783 5,695 6,553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 34.49% 39.53% 32.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3,636 2,539 3,145
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,000 £29,138
25th Percentile £38,000 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £65,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £54,700 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.83% +9.09% -

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the South East

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in the South East.

Salary trend for Security Cleared in the South East

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the South East over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in the South East

Security 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 Security Cleared within the South East region over the 6 months to 14 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
Thames Valley +6 927 £53,818 +18.02% 223
Berkshire +6 752 £52,550 +15.24% 154
Hampshire +2 667 £57,500 +4.55% 186
Surrey +8 273 £52,500 +5.00% 50
Buckinghamshire +4 125 £55,000 +21.69% 43
Oxfordshire +4 50 £51,760 +21.79% 26
Kent +21 37 £45,250 +6.47% 7
West Sussex +32 25 £67,500 +28.57% 19
Middlesex - 11 £35,000 -
Sussex - 5 £60,000 - 1
East Sussex +15 1 £92,500 +66.67% 2
Security Cleared
England

Security 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 40 (2.04%) WebLogic
2 34 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 31 (1.58%) OpenStack
4 29 (1.48%) ArcGIS
4 29 (1.48%) GeoServer
5 28 (1.43%) SharePoint
6 19 (0.97%) Exchange Server 2010
7 14 (0.71%) CMS
7 14 (0.71%) Oracle Service Bus
8 13 (0.66%) IIS
9 12 (0.61%) Confluence
10 10 (0.51%) Red Hat Fuse
11 9 (0.46%) JBoss
12 7 (0.36%) Apache
13 5 (0.25%) nginx
14 4 (0.20%) TWiki
15 2 (0.10%) Documentum
15 2 (0.10%) Oracle Workflow
16 1 (0.051%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 1 (0.051%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 86 (4.39%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 33 (1.68%) Simulink
4 20 (1.02%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.20%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.20%) Siemens NX
7 4 (0.20%) Sketch
8 2 (0.10%) Fireworks
8 2 (0.10%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 40 (2.04%) Siebel CRM
2 17 (0.87%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.31%) Oracle Applications
4 5 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.20%) SAP CO
5 4 (0.20%) SAP FI
5 4 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
5 4 (0.20%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.15%) Primavera
6 3 (0.15%) SAP HR
6 3 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.15%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.10%) C-CURE
7 2 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.10%) Q-Pulse
8 1 (0.051%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.051%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.051%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 352 (17.95%) Azure
2 236 (12.03%) AWS
3 84 (4.28%) Microsoft 365
4 48 (2.45%) Serverless
5 42 (2.14%) Amazon EKS
6 39 (1.99%) Azure Monitor
7 38 (1.94%) SaaS
8 36 (1.84%) Entra ID
9 34 (1.73%) Amazon ECS
10 32 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
11 24 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
12 23 (1.17%) OCI
13 18 (0.92%) GitHub
14 16 (0.82%) Azure Storage
15 15 (0.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 12 (0.61%) AWS Lambda
17 11 (0.56%) Amazon EC2
17 11 (0.56%) Amazon S3
17 11 (0.56%) CloudFront
17 11 (0.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 157 (8.01%) Firewall
2 112 (5.71%) DNS
3 78 (3.98%) BGP
4 73 (3.72%) DHCP
5 64 (3.26%) VPN
6 39 (1.99%) OSPF
7 32 (1.63%) WAN
8 31 (1.58%) Cisco Firepower
9 28 (1.43%) SSL
10 27 (1.38%) Network Security
11 26 (1.33%) 5G
12 25 (1.27%) Cisco ASA
13 20 (1.02%) LAN
13 20 (1.02%) Wireless
14 19 (0.97%) DMVPN
14 19 (0.97%) EIGRP
15 18 (0.92%) SAN
15 18 (0.92%) TCP/IP
16 17 (0.87%) MPLS
16 17 (0.87%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (5.35%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (3.06%) Relational Database
3 58 (2.96%) NoSQL
4 42 (2.14%) SQL Server
5 34 (1.73%) GIS
6 32 (1.63%) Oracle BI EE
6 32 (1.63%) Siebel EIM
7 30 (1.53%) Hadoop
7 30 (1.53%) MongoDB
8 29 (1.48%) QGIS
9 25 (1.27%) Oracle Database
10 22 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
11 15 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
11 15 (0.76%) Oracle Database 11g
12 14 (0.71%) Oracle Database 10g
12 14 (0.71%) VLDB
13 9 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
14 8 (0.41%) Big Data
14 8 (0.41%) Power BI
15 7 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 101 (5.15%) Jenkins
2 84 (4.28%) Git
3 41 (2.09%) GitLab
4 34 (1.73%) Visual Studio
5 30 (1.53%) Selenium
6 28 (1.43%) JIRA
7 24 (1.22%) Ant
8 19 (0.97%) Subversion
9 16 (0.82%) JUnit
10 15 (0.76%) CMake
10 15 (0.76%) Vagrant
11 11 (0.56%) Cucumber
11 11 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
12 10 (0.51%) Rational DOORS
12 10 (0.51%) TestRail
12 10 (0.51%) Trac
13 9 (0.46%) MSI
14 7 (0.36%) JMeter
14 7 (0.36%) REST Assured
14 7 (0.36%) Robot Framework
General
1 358 (18.26%) Social Skills
2 145 (7.39%) Aerospace
3 131 (6.68%) Public Sector
4 90 (4.59%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (2.86%) Military
6 50 (2.55%) Finance
7 48 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
8 43 (2.19%) Telecoms
9 41 (2.09%) Police
10 33 (1.68%) Manufacturing
11 31 (1.58%) Electronics
12 24 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
13 23 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 14 (0.71%) Back Office
15 12 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
15 12 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (0.61%) Marketing
16 11 (0.56%) Retail
17 10 (0.51%) Law
18 9 (0.46%) Legal
Job Titles
1 287 (14.64%) Senior
2 253 (12.90%) Architect
3 213 (10.86%) Developer
4 180 (9.18%) Analyst
5 171 (8.72%) Software Engineer
6 127 (6.48%) Systems Engineer
7 107 (5.46%) Network Engineer
8 101 (5.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 97 (4.95%) Lead
10 70 (3.57%) Senior Software Engineer
11 68 (3.47%) Integration Engineer
12 63 (3.21%) Support Analyst
13 57 (2.91%) Consultant
13 57 (2.91%) DevOps Engineer
14 56 (2.86%) Senior Developer
15 49 (2.50%) Administrator
15 49 (2.50%) Network Architect
16 44 (2.24%) Applications Support
16 44 (2.24%) C++ Software Engineer
17 42 (2.14%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (4.74%) .NET
2 69 (3.52%) Node.js
3 66 (3.37%) REST
4 64 (3.26%) Spring
5 57 (2.91%) React
6 56 (2.86%) CSS
7 48 (2.45%) XML
8 46 (2.35%) AngularJS
9 45 (2.29%) Web Services
10 42 (2.14%) HTML
11 39 (1.99%) Spring Boot
12 36 (1.84%) Elastic Stack
13 32 (1.63%) .NET Core
13 32 (1.63%) Leaflet
13 32 (1.63%) OpenLayers
14 31 (1.58%) Apache Camel
14 31 (1.58%) JSON
15 30 (1.53%) Kafka
16 29 (1.48%) Hibernate
16 29 (1.48%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 84 (4.28%) Algorithms
2 79 (4.03%) Management Information System
3 62 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
4 47 (2.40%) PKI
5 46 (2.35%) Data Centre
6 44 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
7 39 (1.99%) Product Ownership
8 31 (1.58%) CMDB
9 30 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
9 30 (1.53%) Driving Licence
10 24 (1.22%) Private Cloud
11 21 (1.07%) Mainframe
11 21 (1.07%) Satnav
12 20 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
13 18 (0.92%) Client/Server
13 18 (0.92%) FPGA
14 17 (0.87%) IoT
15 16 (0.82%) VHDL
16 13 (0.66%) Analogue Electronics
16 13 (0.66%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 374 (19.07%) Windows
2 318 (16.22%) Linux
3 156 (7.96%) Windows Server
4 86 (4.39%) Windows 10
5 78 (3.98%) Windows Server 2016
6 71 (3.62%) Windows Server 2019
7 60 (3.06%) Unix
8 52 (2.65%) CentOS
9 44 (2.24%) Windows 7
10 43 (2.19%) Windows Server 2012
11 38 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 37 (1.89%) Ubuntu
13 17 (0.87%) Android
14 14 (0.71%) Embedded Linux
14 14 (0.71%) Solaris
15 12 (0.61%) Windows NT
15 12 (0.61%) Windows XP
16 5 (0.25%) Rocky
16 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
17 3 (0.15%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 497 (25.34%) Agile
2 447 (22.79%) Problem-Solving
3 320 (16.32%) Actionable Insight
4 285 (14.53%) DevOps
5 254 (12.95%) Software Engineering
6 219 (11.17%) ITIL
7 167 (8.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 153 (7.80%) Collaborative Working
9 148 (7.55%) Test Automation
10 142 (7.24%) Customer Service
11 129 (6.58%) Service Management
12 128 (6.53%) Computer Science
12 128 (6.53%) Project Delivery
13 124 (6.32%) Cybersecurity
13 124 (6.32%) Project Management
14 113 (5.76%) Scrum
15 103 (5.25%) Mentoring
16 92 (4.69%) Mathematics
17 91 (4.64%) Service Delivery
18 87 (4.44%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 268 (13.67%) Python
2 267 (13.62%) Java
3 238 (12.14%) SQL
4 201 (10.25%) PowerShell
5 187 (9.54%) C++
6 168 (8.57%) JavaScript
7 130 (6.63%) C#
8 87 (4.44%) C
9 37 (1.89%) Fortran
10 32 (1.63%) Shell Script
11 30 (1.53%) Bash
12 26 (1.33%) Kotlin
13 24 (1.22%) VB
14 23 (1.17%) PL/SQL
15 22 (1.12%) VBScript
16 20 (1.02%) MATLAB
17 19 (0.97%) COBOL
18 14 (0.71%) Bicep
18 14 (0.71%) TypeScript
19 13 (0.66%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,211 (61.75%) SC Cleared
2 532 (27.13%) DV Cleared
3 319 (16.27%) Degree
4 103 (5.25%) Cisco Certification
5 88 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 76 (3.88%) CCNP
7 58 (2.96%) CCNA
8 53 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 51 (2.60%) CTC Cleared
10 42 (2.14%) PhD
11 38 (1.94%) AWS Certification
12 31 (1.58%) Master's Degree
13 29 (1.48%) NVQ Level 3
14 26 (1.33%) Azure Certification
15 23 (1.17%) HNC
16 22 (1.12%) DBS Check
17 21 (1.07%) A+ Certification
18 19 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
19 18 (0.92%) CISSP
20 17 (0.87%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (4.28%) SLA
2 72 (3.67%) QA
3 32 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
4 22 (1.12%) NIST
5 21 (1.07%) Software Quality Assurance
6 14 (0.71%) GDPR
7 13 (0.66%) Accessibility
7 13 (0.66%) GRC
8 11 (0.56%) NCSC
8 11 (0.56%) PMO
9 10 (0.51%) COSHH
10 9 (0.46%) JSP 440
10 9 (0.46%) NIST 800
11 8 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 8 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 8 (0.41%) RMADS
12 5 (0.25%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.25%) WCAG
13 3 (0.15%) COBIT
System Software
1 188 (9.59%) Active Directory
2 102 (5.20%) Docker
3 81 (4.13%) Hyper-V
4 76 (3.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 44 (2.24%) Firmware
6 32 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
7 20 (1.02%) Virtual Servers
7 20 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
8 16 (0.82%) pfSense
8 16 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
9 15 (0.76%) vSphere
10 14 (0.71%) KVM
10 14 (0.71%) Oracle RAC
11 10 (0.51%) NFS
12 4 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
12 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
13 2 (0.10%) VMware NSX
14 1 (0.051%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 129 (6.58%) Ansible
2 123 (6.27%) Kubernetes
3 111 (5.66%) SCCM
4 96 (4.90%) Terraform
5 66 (3.37%) SCOM
5 66 (3.37%) WSUS
6 43 (2.19%) Microsoft Intune
7 41 (2.09%) vCenter Server
8 33 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
9 28 (1.43%) FortiGate
10 22 (1.12%) OpenSSO
11 20 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 20 (1.02%) Grafana
12 19 (0.97%) NetBackup
13 16 (0.82%) ZABBIX
14 15 (0.76%) EMC NetWorker
15 14 (0.71%) Data Guard
15 14 (0.71%) Oracle RMAN
16 13 (0.66%) Rancher
17 12 (0.61%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 370 (18.87%) Microsoft
2 194 (9.89%) Cisco
3 175 (8.92%) Juniper
4 139 (7.09%) Oracle
5 128 (6.53%) VMware
6 51 (2.60%) HP
7 48 (2.45%) ServiceNow
8 45 (2.29%) Fortinet
9 42 (2.14%) Remedy
10 40 (2.04%) Siebel
11 32 (1.63%) McAfee
11 32 (1.63%) Xilinx
12 31 (1.58%) WSO2
13 29 (1.48%) ESRI
14 28 (1.43%) Dynatrace
14 28 (1.43%) F5
15 25 (1.27%) Veeam
16 24 (1.22%) Red Hat
17 19 (0.97%) Unisys
18 16 (0.82%) EMC