Government Security Classifications Jobs in the UK excluding London

Government Security Classifications (GSC)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Government Security Classifications skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Government Security Classifications over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 579 772 745
Rank change year-on-year +193 -27 +114
Permanent jobs citing Government Security Classifications 1 3 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.003% 0.004% 0.017%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.015% 0.031% 0.086%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 5
10th Percentile - £52,450 -
25th Percentile £61,250 £53,875 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% -13.33%
75th Percentile £63,750 £58,750 £67,500
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £47,236
% change year-on-year +8.70% +21.73% -34.85%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

Government Security Classifications falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 6,462 9,680 11,641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.57% 13.08% 20.04%
Number of salaries quoted 3,038 6,321 4,497
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,600 £62,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,950
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

Government Security Classifications
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Government Security Classifications as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Government Security Classifications in the UK excluding London

Government Security Classifications
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Government Security Classifications in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Government Security Classifications in the UK excluding London

Government Security Classifications
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Government Security Classifications within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 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
East of England - 1 £62,500 -
Government Security Classifications
UK

Government Security Classifications
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Innovative Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Time Management
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Avamar
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (100.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Aruba
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) EMC
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware