SC Cleared Job Trends in Swindon

Security Check (SC) Clearance
Wiltshire > Swindon

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Swindon with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 8 12
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 +22
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 16 29 22
As % of all permanent jobs in Swindon 9.04% 14.01% 9.69%
As % of the Qualifications category 36.36% 56.86% 31.43%
Number of salaries quoted 0 13 21
10th Percentile - - £24,750
25th Percentile - £48,165 £25,124
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £64,627 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - +52.06% +11.84%
75th Percentile - £68,568 £51,716
90th Percentile - - £55,000
Wiltshire median annual salary £50,000 £62,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +27.55% -8.44%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Swindon

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 Swindon.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 44 51 70
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Swindon 24.86% 24.64% 30.84%
Number of salaries quoted 25 22 56
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,150 £25,124
25th Percentile £32,000 £42,979 £33,342
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,752 £60,750 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.46% +42.94% -5.56%
75th Percentile - £68,568 £51,912
90th Percentile £92,500 - £58,750
Wiltshire median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% +2.04% -3.92%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SC Cleared relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Swindon.

SC Cleared job vacancy trend in Swindon

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in Swindon

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing SC Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing SC Cleared

SC Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swindon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 12 (75.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (93.75%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (75.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 12 (75.00%) DHCP
1 12 (75.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (75.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 16 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Desktop Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Desktop Support
2 3 (18.75%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Site Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (75.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 15 (93.75%) Windows
2 12 (75.00%) Linux
2 12 (75.00%) Windows Server
2 12 (75.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (18.75%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) Customer Experience
1 15 (93.75%) Customer Service
2 13 (81.25%) Migration
3 12 (75.00%) Email Filtering
3 12 (75.00%) Kalman Filter
3 12 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (75.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 12 (75.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 12 (75.00%) Web Filtering
4 3 (18.75%) Analytics
4 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (18.75%) Customer Acquisition
4 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (18.75%) ITIL
4 3 (18.75%) Patch Management
4 3 (18.75%) People Management
4 3 (18.75%) Software Deployment
4 3 (18.75%) Ticket Management
5 1 (6.25%) Workflow
5 1 (6.25%) Workflow Management
Qualifications
1 16 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) CTC Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (75.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 12 (75.00%) PCI DSS
2 3 (18.75%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (75.00%) Active Directory
1 12 (75.00%) Hyper-V
1 12 (75.00%) Terminal Server
Vendors
1 12 (75.00%) Brocade
1 12 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 12 (75.00%) Nimble Storage
1 12 (75.00%) SolarWinds
1 12 (75.00%) Splunk
1 12 (75.00%) Tanium
1 12 (75.00%) Veeam
1 12 (75.00%) VMware
2 3 (18.75%) Cisco