SC Cleared Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Security Check (SC) Clearance
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 64 31
Rank change year-on-year +18 -33 +23
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 179 143 406
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.11% 4.25% 5.65%
As % of the Qualifications category 14.84% 8.70% 16.21%
Number of salaries quoted 122 99 314
10th Percentile £39,028 £40,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £49,168 £47,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.14% +6.06%
75th Percentile £82,500 £73,750 £59,000
90th Percentile £93,250 £82,750 £78,750
South East median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +27.27% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,206 1,643 2,504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 20.96% 48.81% 34.86%
Number of salaries quoted 696 444 1,506
10th Percentile £33,350 £28,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.81% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £83,750
South East median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £51,350
% change year-on-year +14.29% +2.24% -0.43%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

SC Cleared job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing SC Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing SC Cleared

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in the Thames Valley

SC Cleared
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 June 2026. 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
Berkshire +4 108 £65,000 +4.00% 48
Buckinghamshire +37 53 £57,500 +4.55% 22
Oxfordshire +4 18 £80,000 +23.08% 11
SC Cleared
South East

SC Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (0.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (5.03%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 29 (16.20%) Azure
2 23 (12.85%) AWS
3 13 (7.26%) GCP
4 11 (6.15%) Serverless
5 10 (5.59%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (4.47%) Azure Sentinel
7 6 (3.35%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (3.35%) Amazon ECS
7 6 (3.35%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (3.35%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (3.35%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.79%) Cloudflare
8 5 (2.79%) Entra ID
8 5 (2.79%) OpenShift
9 4 (2.23%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.23%) Google Analytics
10 3 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.68%) OCI
10 3 (1.68%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 3 (1.68%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.94%) DNS
2 12 (6.70%) Structured Cabling
3 9 (5.03%) Firewall
3 9 (5.03%) TCP/IP
4 8 (4.47%) HTTP
4 8 (4.47%) VPN
5 7 (3.91%) SSL
6 2 (1.12%) Network Security
7 1 (0.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (3.91%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.79%) Power BI
3 5 (2.79%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.12%) MySQL
5 1 (0.56%) Metadata
5 1 (0.56%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.56%) Redis
5 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (5.59%) Jenkins
2 9 (5.03%) Git
3 8 (4.47%) JIRA
4 5 (2.79%) GitLab
5 4 (2.23%) JUnit
5 4 (2.23%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.68%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.12%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.12%) JMeter
7 2 (1.12%) Mockito
8 1 (0.56%) Mocha
8 1 (0.56%) Selenium
General
1 40 (22.35%) Social Skills
2 35 (19.55%) Public Sector
3 32 (17.88%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (8.94%) Law
5 12 (6.70%) Finance
6 11 (6.15%) Manufacturing
6 11 (6.15%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.79%) French Language
8 3 (1.68%) Aviation
8 3 (1.68%) Games
8 3 (1.68%) Legal
8 3 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.12%) Retail
10 1 (0.56%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (21.23%) Developer
2 30 (16.76%) Senior
3 26 (14.53%) Analyst
4 17 (9.50%) Java Developer
5 13 (7.26%) Senior Developer
6 11 (6.15%) .NET Developer
6 11 (6.15%) Senior .NET Developer
7 10 (5.59%) Lead
7 10 (5.59%) SOC Analyst
8 9 (5.03%) Architect
9 8 (4.47%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (4.47%) Security Analyst
10 7 (3.91%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 7 (3.91%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (3.91%) Auditor
10 7 (3.91%) Backend Developer
10 7 (3.91%) Cyber Threat Analyst
10 7 (3.91%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 7 (3.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (3.91%) Security Auditor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.50%) .NET
2 12 (6.70%) REST
2 12 (6.70%) Spring
3 8 (4.47%) React
4 7 (3.91%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (3.91%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (3.35%) Java EE
5 6 (3.35%) JPA
5 6 (3.35%) Spring Boot
6 5 (2.79%) AngularJS
6 5 (2.79%) Middleware
6 5 (2.79%) RESTful
6 5 (2.79%) SOAP
7 4 (2.23%) JMS
7 4 (2.23%) Loki
7 4 (2.23%) Web Services
8 3 (1.68%) HTML
8 3 (1.68%) Lightning Web Components
8 3 (1.68%) Visualforce
8 3 (1.68%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.82%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.26%) Cyber Defence
3 10 (5.59%) Cyber Threat
4 9 (5.03%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.03%) Onboarding
5 8 (4.47%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (3.35%) Security Operations Centre
7 5 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.68%) Arduino
8 3 (1.68%) Hackathon
8 3 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.68%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.68%) Raspberry Pi
9 2 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.12%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.12%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.56%) CSOC
10 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.56%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.56%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (15.64%) Linux
2 21 (11.73%) Windows
3 3 (1.68%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (18.44%) Continuous Improvement
2 32 (17.88%) Agile
3 24 (13.41%) Cybersecurity
4 22 (12.29%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (11.73%) DevOps
6 17 (9.50%) CI/CD
7 16 (8.94%) Community of Practice
7 16 (8.94%) Mentoring
7 16 (8.94%) Technology Strategy
8 15 (8.38%) ITIL
9 14 (7.82%) Analytics
9 14 (7.82%) SIEM
9 14 (7.82%) Stakeholder Management
10 13 (7.26%) Service Management
11 12 (6.70%) Asset Management
11 12 (6.70%) Change Control
11 12 (6.70%) Containerisation
11 12 (6.70%) Microservices
11 12 (6.70%) Scrum
12 11 (6.15%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 27 (15.08%) Python
2 23 (12.85%) Java
3 16 (8.94%) SQL
4 9 (5.03%) PowerShell
5 7 (3.91%) PL/SQL
5 7 (3.91%) Search Processing Language
6 6 (3.35%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.79%) Bash
8 4 (2.23%) Groovy
8 4 (2.23%) Ladder Logic
8 4 (2.23%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.68%) Apex Code
9 3 (1.68%) C
9 3 (1.68%) C#
9 3 (1.68%) Pascal
9 3 (1.68%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.12%) Go
10 2 (1.12%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.12%) Perl
11 1 (0.56%) Korn
Qualifications
1 179 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 48 (26.82%) DV Cleared
3 36 (20.11%) Degree
4 13 (7.26%) HNC
5 8 (4.47%) CompTIA Security+
5 8 (4.47%) CREST Certified
5 8 (4.47%) GCIA
5 8 (4.47%) GCIH
5 8 (4.47%) GIAC
5 8 (4.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 7 (3.91%) GCED
6 7 (3.91%) SANS
7 6 (3.35%) OSCP
8 3 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.68%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.56%) CHECK Team Member
10 1 (0.56%) CompTIA CySA+
10 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.70%) GDPR
2 6 (3.35%) PMO
3 5 (2.79%) NEBOSH
4 4 (2.23%) QA
5 3 (1.68%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.68%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.12%) ISO 22301
6 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.56%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (6.15%) Docker
2 9 (5.03%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (8.94%) Kubernetes
2 14 (7.82%) Kibana
3 8 (4.47%) Ansible
3 8 (4.47%) Terraform
4 6 (3.35%) Graylog
5 4 (2.23%) Argo
5 4 (2.23%) Grafana
5 4 (2.23%) Kustomize
5 4 (2.23%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.68%) Istio
6 3 (1.68%) Packer
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 34 (18.99%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.26%) Oracle
3 12 (6.70%) Splunk
4 10 (5.59%) Google
5 8 (4.47%) AppDynamics
5 8 (4.47%) CrowdStrike
6 7 (3.91%) Carbon Black
6 7 (3.91%) IBM
7 5 (2.79%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.79%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.79%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.68%) Motorola
8 3 (1.68%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.12%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.56%) Citrix
10 1 (0.56%) SAP