SC Cleared Jobs 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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 18 50
Rank change year-on-year -51 +32 +40
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 129 555 335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.83% 8.22% 5.48%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.81% 21.41% 13.10%
Number of salaries quoted 89 370 177
10th Percentile £40,000 £30,000 £23,500
25th Percentile £48,000 £35,000 £28,954
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.48% +10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £83,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -5.17%

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 1,652 2,592 2,558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 49.06% 38.41% 41.84%
Number of salaries quoted 438 1,602 1,061
10th Percentile £31,750 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £34,990
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £48,850
Median % change year-on-year - +7.47% -6.06%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,375 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £51,350 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.98% +2.70% -4.76%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the Thames Valley

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for SC Cleared in the Thames Valley

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

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 7 May 2025. 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 -37 94 £62,500 +17.92% 90
Buckinghamshire +18 24 £55,000 +10.00% 26
Oxfordshire +30 11 £56,875 +26.39% 31
SC Cleared
South East

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 12 (9.30%) JBoss
1 12 (9.30%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (3.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.78%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 44 (34.11%) AWS
2 28 (21.71%) Amazon ECS
2 28 (21.71%) Serverless
3 25 (19.38%) Amazon EKS
4 15 (11.63%) Amazon EC2
4 15 (11.63%) Azure
5 7 (5.43%) Power Platform
6 6 (4.65%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (4.65%) SaaS
7 5 (3.88%) GCP
8 4 (3.10%) Amazon S3
8 4 (3.10%) AWS KMS
8 4 (3.10%) GitHub
8 4 (3.10%) IaaS
8 4 (3.10%) PaaS
9 3 (2.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 3 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.33%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (13.18%) WAN
2 9 (6.98%) BGP
2 9 (6.98%) IPsec
3 7 (5.43%) Firewall
4 6 (4.65%) DNS
4 6 (4.65%) MPLS
4 6 (4.65%) VPN
5 5 (3.88%) Cisco ISE
5 5 (3.88%) Junos
5 5 (3.88%) LAN
5 5 (3.88%) SD-WAN
5 5 (3.88%) SSL
6 4 (3.10%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (3.10%) Cisco Firepower
6 4 (3.10%) Cisco IOS
6 4 (3.10%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (3.10%) HSRP
6 4 (3.10%) OSPF
6 4 (3.10%) Spanning Tree
6 4 (3.10%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (27.13%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (21.71%) Relational Database
3 13 (10.08%) RDBMS
4 8 (6.20%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.88%) Power BI
6 4 (3.10%) MySQL
6 4 (3.10%) Tableau
7 3 (2.33%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.78%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.78%) Looker
9 1 (0.78%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 37 (28.68%) Jenkins
2 30 (23.26%) JUnit
3 18 (13.95%) Git
3 18 (13.95%) Mockito
4 13 (10.08%) JMeter
5 3 (2.33%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (2.33%) GitLab
6 2 (1.55%) Babel
6 2 (1.55%) JIRA
6 2 (1.55%) Maven
6 2 (1.55%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.55%) Vite
6 2 (1.55%) webpack
7 1 (0.78%) DbUnit
7 1 (0.78%) jMock
7 1 (0.78%) LabVIEW
General
1 41 (31.78%) Public Sector
2 19 (14.73%) Social Skills
3 11 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.43%) Advertising
4 7 (5.43%) Finance
5 4 (3.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.55%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.78%) Aviation
7 1 (0.78%) Law
7 1 (0.78%) Legal
7 1 (0.78%) Military
7 1 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (29.46%) Developer
2 30 (23.26%) Java Developer
3 21 (16.28%) Architect
4 17 (13.18%) Network Architect
5 12 (9.30%) Senior
5 12 (9.30%) Software Engineer
6 9 (6.98%) Network Engineer
7 8 (6.20%) Support Engineer
8 6 (4.65%) Consultant
8 6 (4.65%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 5 (3.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 5 (3.88%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
9 5 (3.88%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (3.88%) Microsoft Developer
9 5 (3.88%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (3.88%) WAN Engineer
10 4 (3.10%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 4 (3.10%) Analyst
10 4 (3.10%) Data Scientist
10 4 (3.10%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (24.03%) Spring Boot
2 30 (23.26%) REST
2 30 (23.26%) Spring
3 26 (20.16%) Web Services
4 25 (19.38%) Apache Camel
5 18 (13.95%) RESTful
6 17 (13.18%) ActiveMQ
6 17 (13.18%) Hibernate
7 16 (12.40%) HTML
8 14 (10.85%) SOAP
9 13 (10.08%) jQuery
9 13 (10.08%) WireMock
10 12 (9.30%) J2EE
10 12 (9.30%) React
11 8 (6.20%) Kafka
12 5 (3.88%) AngularJS
13 4 (3.10%) 802.1X
13 4 (3.10%) RabbitMQ
13 4 (3.10%) Vue
14 3 (2.33%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 27 (20.93%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (10.08%) Algorithms
3 5 (3.88%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (3.10%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.33%) CESG
5 3 (2.33%) Client/Server
5 3 (2.33%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (2.33%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.55%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.55%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.55%) PKI
7 1 (0.78%) CCTV
7 1 (0.78%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.78%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.78%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (18.60%) Linux
2 10 (7.75%) Windows
3 8 (6.20%) Unix
4 4 (3.10%) Mac OS
5 3 (2.33%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.55%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (31.78%) Agile
2 32 (24.81%) Microservices
3 31 (24.03%) Scrum
4 30 (23.26%) DevOps
5 27 (20.93%) Kanban
5 27 (20.93%) TDD
6 26 (20.16%) BDD
7 23 (17.83%) CI/CD
8 18 (13.95%) SDLC
9 17 (13.18%) Collaborative Working
9 17 (13.18%) Full-Stack Development
10 15 (11.63%) Containerisation
10 15 (11.63%) Software Engineering
11 14 (10.85%) Open Source
12 13 (10.08%) Architectural Design
12 13 (10.08%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (10.08%) Process Management
12 13 (10.08%) Workflow
13 12 (9.30%) Computer Science
13 12 (9.30%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 42 (32.56%) Python
2 36 (27.91%) Java
3 22 (17.05%) JavaScript
4 16 (12.40%) Shell Script
5 14 (10.85%) SQL
6 10 (7.75%) Bash
7 9 (6.98%) C++
8 8 (6.20%) C
8 8 (6.20%) Fortran
9 4 (3.10%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.33%) C#
10 3 (2.33%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.55%) Go
11 2 (1.55%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.78%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.78%) X++
Qualifications
1 129 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 23 (17.83%) Degree
3 19 (14.73%) DV Cleared
4 10 (7.75%) CCNP
4 10 (7.75%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (7.75%) PhD
5 9 (6.98%) Master's Degree
6 7 (5.43%) CCNA
7 6 (4.65%) JNCIS
8 5 (3.88%) CISSP
9 3 (2.33%) CESG Certified Professional
9 3 (2.33%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.55%) CompTIA CySA+
10 2 (1.55%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.55%) Postgraduate
10 2 (1.55%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.78%) HND
11 1 (0.78%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (14.73%) SLA
2 2 (1.55%) Def Stans
2 2 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.78%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.78%) ISO 9000
3 1 (0.78%) NCSC
3 1 (0.78%) NIST
System Software
1 42 (32.56%) Docker
2 9 (6.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.65%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.33%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.78%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.78%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.78%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 31 (24.03%) Kubernetes
2 18 (13.95%) Ansible
3 13 (10.08%) Kibana
4 8 (6.20%) Terraform
5 3 (2.33%) Grafana
5 3 (2.33%) Graylog
5 3 (2.33%) Nessus
5 3 (2.33%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.33%) Proxmox
6 2 (1.55%) SCCM
6 2 (1.55%) SCOM
6 2 (1.55%) SCSM
7 1 (0.78%) QRadar
7 1 (0.78%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 25 (19.38%) Juniper
2 23 (17.83%) Cisco
3 21 (16.28%) Microsoft
4 14 (10.85%) Splunk
5 13 (10.08%) Dynatrace
6 11 (8.53%) VMware
7 6 (4.65%) F5
8 4 (3.10%) BMC
9 3 (2.33%) ADVA
10 2 (1.55%) AlienVault
10 2 (1.55%) Apple
10 2 (1.55%) WSO2
11 1 (0.78%) Cognos
11 1 (0.78%) Dell
11 1 (0.78%) Google
11 1 (0.78%) HP
11 1 (0.78%) Oracle
11 1 (0.78%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.78%) Qubit
11 1 (0.78%) Red Hat