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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 14 19
Rank change year-on-year -1 +5 +11
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 877 935 1,035
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.59% 13.29% 13.09%
As % of the Qualifications category 26.62% 32.25% 34.16%
Number of salaries quoted 581 442 535
10th Percentile £30,385 £34,306 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,206 £41,667 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £74,713 £68,875
90th Percentile £70,250 £82,500 £78,250
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 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 3,295 2,899 3,030
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 36.02% 41.20% 38.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,155 1,281 1,576
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £30,121
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,885 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £76,520
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,960 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.11% +5.38% -

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 25 April 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 25 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
Bristol +1 273 £68,500 +14.17% 97
Gloucestershire -12 240 £50,000 -20.00% 41
Wiltshire +6 194 £49,000 -2.00% 43
Dorset +2 92 £40,000 -23.81% 21
Somerset +4 53 £30,385 -13.19% 21
Devon -24 9 £49,000 -2.00% 29
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 (10.60%) Confluence
2 32 (3.65%) SharePoint
3 31 (3.53%) ArcGIS
4 27 (3.08%) GeoServer
4 27 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
5 20 (2.28%) Apache
6 16 (1.82%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.80%) SharePoint 2010
7 7 (0.80%) SharePoint 2013
8 4 (0.46%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.23%) JBoss
9 2 (0.23%) MS Project Server
9 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Fuse
9 2 (0.23%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.23%) WildFly
Applications
1 35 (3.99%) 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 (5.02%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 18 (2.05%) Maximo
3 4 (0.46%) Primavera
4 3 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 180 (20.52%) Azure
2 148 (16.88%) AWS
3 75 (8.55%) Microsoft 365
4 49 (5.59%) OpenShift
5 42 (4.79%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (3.19%) GCP
7 19 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
7 19 (2.17%) Power Platform
7 19 (2.17%) SaaS
7 19 (2.17%) Serverless
8 17 (1.94%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (1.03%) PaaS
11 7 (0.80%) IaaS
12 6 (0.68%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (0.68%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (0.68%) Miro
12 6 (0.68%) Power Automate
13 5 (0.57%) Figma
13 5 (0.57%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.85%) Firewall
2 23 (2.62%) TCP/IP
3 22 (2.51%) Wireless
4 20 (2.28%) DNS
5 18 (2.05%) AMQP
6 17 (1.94%) LAN
6 17 (1.94%) WAN
7 15 (1.71%) DHCP
7 15 (1.71%) SAN
8 13 (1.48%) HTTP
9 9 (1.03%) Ethernet
9 9 (1.03%) iSCSI
9 9 (1.03%) Network Security
10 8 (0.91%) Fibre Channel
11 7 (0.80%) BGP
11 7 (0.80%) Cisco IPT
12 6 (0.68%) RS-232
13 5 (0.57%) IPv4
13 5 (0.57%) Structured Cabling
13 5 (0.57%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (4.90%) GIS
2 27 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (3.08%) QGIS
3 26 (2.96%) Big Data
3 26 (2.96%) SQL Server
4 20 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (1.82%) Hadoop
6 13 (1.48%) Cloudera CDH
6 13 (1.48%) NoSQL
7 12 (1.37%) Relational Database
8 10 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (1.14%) Power BI
9 9 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (0.91%) MySQL
11 5 (0.57%) Geospatial Data
11 5 (0.57%) InfluxDB
11 5 (0.57%) Oracle Database
11 5 (0.57%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.46%) Tableau
13 3 (0.34%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 104 (11.86%) Git
2 98 (11.17%) JIRA
3 96 (10.95%) Visual Studio
4 88 (10.03%) Bitbucket
5 59 (6.73%) Sourcetree
6 15 (1.71%) GitLab
6 15 (1.71%) LabVIEW
6 15 (1.71%) Rational DOORS
7 12 (1.37%) Jenkins
7 12 (1.37%) Team Foundation Server
8 8 (0.91%) NetBeans
9 6 (0.68%) Selenium
10 4 (0.46%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.46%) Cypress.io
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%) SpecFlow
13 1 (0.11%) VersionOne
General
1 128 (14.60%) Social Skills
2 124 (14.14%) Games
3 110 (12.54%) Presentation Skills
4 103 (11.74%) Aerospace
5 90 (10.26%) Finance
6 49 (5.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 38 (4.33%) Military
8 33 (3.76%) Public Sector
9 26 (2.96%) Analytical Skills
9 26 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
10 22 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (1.60%) Telecoms
12 12 (1.37%) Manufacturing
13 11 (1.25%) Electronics
14 7 (0.80%) Publishing
15 6 (0.68%) Police
16 5 (0.57%) Retail
17 4 (0.46%) Legal
18 3 (0.34%) Billing
18 3 (0.34%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 165 (18.81%) Senior
2 146 (16.65%) Developer
3 92 (10.49%) Architect
4 88 (10.03%) 3D Developer
4 88 (10.03%) Games Developer
4 88 (10.03%) Unity 3D Developer
5 73 (8.32%) Solutions Architect
6 71 (8.10%) Software Engineer
7 67 (7.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 62 (7.07%) Consultant
9 59 (6.73%) Project Manager
10 58 (6.61%) Support Engineer
11 47 (5.36%) Systems Engineer
12 46 (5.25%) Lead
13 44 (5.02%) Security Consultant
14 42 (4.79%) Senior Developer
15 40 (4.56%) Information Assurance Manager
15 40 (4.56%) Information Manager
16 32 (3.65%) Security Manager
17 30 (3.42%) Senior Games Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (10.03%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 78 (8.89%) .NET
3 57 (6.50%) React
4 31 (3.53%) .NET Core
4 31 (3.53%) AngularJS
5 29 (3.31%) CSS
6 27 (3.08%) Leaflet
6 27 (3.08%) OpenLayers
6 27 (3.08%) PostGIS
6 27 (3.08%) REST
7 22 (2.51%) RabbitMQ
8 18 (2.05%) Node.js
8 18 (2.05%) Spring
8 18 (2.05%) Spring Boot
9 13 (1.48%) gRPC
9 13 (1.48%) HTML
9 13 (1.48%) Material-UI
9 13 (1.48%) OpenAPI
9 13 (1.48%) Swagger
10 7 (0.80%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 88 (10.03%) Virtual Reality
2 48 (5.47%) Driving Licence
3 34 (3.88%) Management Information System
4 30 (3.42%) Cyberattack
5 18 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (1.82%) Cloud Native
6 16 (1.82%) Private Cloud
7 15 (1.71%) Clustering
8 14 (1.60%) EMC VNX
9 13 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
10 12 (1.37%) Cyber Threat
11 11 (1.25%) Public Cloud
12 10 (1.14%) Cyber Defence
12 10 (1.14%) Security Operations Centre
12 10 (1.14%) Smartphone
13 9 (1.03%) Fat Client
13 9 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (1.03%) Replication
13 9 (1.03%) Thin Client
14 8 (0.91%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 143 (16.31%) Windows
2 113 (12.88%) Linux
3 55 (6.27%) Windows Server
4 43 (4.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 38 (4.33%) Windows 10
6 25 (2.85%) CentOS
7 18 (2.05%) Ubuntu
8 13 (1.48%) AIX
8 13 (1.48%) Debian
9 12 (1.37%) Unix
10 11 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
11 10 (1.14%) Windows 7
12 8 (0.91%) CoreOS
12 8 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
13 6 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.34%) zOS
15 2 (0.23%) Android
15 2 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
16 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (24.74%) DevOps
2 199 (22.69%) Software Engineering
3 198 (22.58%) Agile
4 154 (17.56%) Actionable Insight
5 140 (15.96%) UML
6 134 (15.28%) Scrum
7 116 (13.23%) Cybersecurity
8 100 (11.40%) ITIL
9 98 (11.17%) Design Patterns
10 96 (10.95%) Information Assurance
11 93 (10.60%) Project Management
12 90 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
12 90 (10.26%) Use Case
13 79 (9.01%) Risk Management
14 72 (8.21%) TOGAF
15 68 (7.75%) Full Stack Development
16 66 (7.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 64 (7.30%) ArchiMate
18 58 (6.61%) Collaborative Working
18 58 (6.61%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 116 (13.23%) C#
2 115 (13.11%) Python
3 82 (9.35%) Java
4 68 (7.75%) JavaScript
5 61 (6.96%) PowerShell
6 44 (5.02%) SQL
7 30 (3.42%) Bash
8 23 (2.62%) TypeScript
9 20 (2.28%) C++
10 19 (2.17%) MATLAB
11 16 (1.82%) C
12 13 (1.48%) Go
13 8 (0.91%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.68%) VBA
15 5 (0.57%) Fortran
16 4 (0.46%) R
17 3 (0.34%) Scala
18 1 (0.11%) Perl
18 1 (0.11%) PL/SQL
18 1 (0.11%) VB
Qualifications
1 877 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 240 (27.37%) Degree
3 150 (17.10%) DV Cleared
4 144 (16.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 59 (6.73%) TOGAF Certification
6 49 (5.59%) CESG Certified Professional
6 49 (5.59%) CISSP
7 48 (5.47%) CISM
8 33 (3.76%) CRISC
9 15 (1.71%) A+ Certification
10 13 (1.48%) ITIL Certification
11 9 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (0.91%) CISA
12 8 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (0.91%) PMI Certification
13 7 (0.80%) Chartered Engineer
14 6 (0.68%) AWS Certification
14 6 (0.68%) Azure Certification
14 6 (0.68%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 5 (0.57%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 49 (5.59%) NCSC
3 35 (3.99%) 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 (1.03%) Def Stans
8 8 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 7 (0.80%) GDPR
9 7 (0.80%) QA
10 6 (0.68%) RMADS
10 6 (0.68%) TickIT
11 5 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 5 (0.57%) WCAG
12 4 (0.46%) GRC
13 3 (0.34%) COBIT
System Software
1 104 (11.86%) Active Directory
2 86 (9.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 63 (7.18%) Hyper-V
4 46 (5.25%) Docker
5 16 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (0.68%) Microsoft App-V
7 4 (0.46%) XenDesktop
8 3 (0.34%) BitLocker
8 3 (0.34%) Firmware
8 3 (0.34%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.34%) vSphere
9 2 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.23%) XenApp
10 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 78 (8.89%) Ansible
2 62 (7.07%) SCCM
3 48 (5.47%) Kubernetes
4 39 (4.45%) Puppet
5 30 (3.42%) Terraform
6 16 (1.82%) vCenter Server
7 14 (1.60%) EMC NetWorker
7 14 (1.60%) Nagios
8 12 (1.37%) Backup Exec
8 12 (1.37%) NetBackup
9 8 (0.91%) ZABBIX
10 7 (0.80%) Kibana
11 6 (0.68%) Icinga
11 6 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (0.68%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.57%) Grafana
12 5 (0.57%) Prometheus
13 4 (0.46%) SCOM
14 3 (0.34%) OpenView
Vendors
1 279 (31.81%) Microsoft
2 95 (10.83%) VMware
3 44 (5.02%) Sparx
4 42 (4.79%) Red Hat
5 32 (3.65%) ESRI
6 30 (3.42%) Google
6 30 (3.42%) IBM
7 25 (2.85%) SolarWinds
8 23 (2.62%) Oracle
9 21 (2.39%) Cisco
9 21 (2.39%) NetApp
10 14 (1.60%) EMC
10 14 (1.60%) Veeam
11 13 (1.48%) Hitachi
11 13 (1.48%) SaltStack
12 12 (1.37%) Snow
12 12 (1.37%) Veritas
13 10 (1.14%) Citrix
13 10 (1.14%) McAfee
13 10 (1.14%) MobileIron