SC Cleared Jobs in the UK excluding London

Security Check (SC) Clearance
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 42 41
Rank change year-on-year -50 -1 +26
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 1,257 3,711 3,424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.00% 4.71% 6.43%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.25% 18.23% 16.93%
Number of salaries quoted 860 2,116 1,564
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,575
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £74,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £79,225 £83,750
UK median annual salary £61,500 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +6.96% -8.00% +10.96%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 20,101 20,351 20,222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.04% 25.83% 37.97%
Number of salaries quoted 8,320 12,173 8,004
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,500 £28,800
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +8.62%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,954 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.86% -11.74% +9.09%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for SC Cleared in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared
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 SC Cleared within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 July 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
South East -16 524 £57,500 +4.55% 1,022
South West -13 246 £60,000 +9.09% 737
Midlands -23 184 £65,000 +20.93% 511
North of England -130 153 £55,000 -2.67% 717
West Midlands -2 145 £67,627 +22.96% 334
East of England +17 87 £55,000 +5.77% 458
North West -157 74 £62,500 +13.64% 446
Yorkshire 0 70 £47,500 -20.83% 213
Wales -23 43 £55,000 -6.46% 111
East Midlands -32 39 £52,000 +9.47% 175
Scotland -50 29 £63,750 +6.25% 252
North East +28 9 £69,384 +18.00% 62
Northern Ireland -16 6 £85,151 +41.92% 50
SC Cleared
UK

SC Cleared
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:

Application Platforms
1 49 (3.90%) Confluence
2 30 (2.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 17 (1.35%) SharePoint
4 12 (0.95%) JBoss
4 12 (0.95%) Red Hat Fuse
5 8 (0.64%) Appian
5 8 (0.64%) nginx
6 6 (0.48%) Skype for Business
7 5 (0.40%) Apache
7 5 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2010
8 4 (0.32%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2013
8 4 (0.32%) Office Communications Server
8 4 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
9 3 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2007
10 2 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.16%) CMS
10 2 (0.16%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.080%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 47 (3.74%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.56%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 5 (0.40%) Simulink
6 3 (0.24%) Revit
6 3 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.16%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.16%) GNU Octave
7 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.16%) Oracle Smart View
7 2 (0.16%) Windchill
8 1 (0.080%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.080%) ProjectWise
8 1 (0.080%) Trello
Business Applications
1 22 (1.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 8 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.16%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.16%) SAP HR
4 2 (0.16%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.080%) C-CURE
5 1 (0.080%) Maximo
5 1 (0.080%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 215 (17.10%) Azure
2 209 (16.63%) AWS
3 66 (5.25%) Microsoft 365
4 55 (4.38%) Amazon EC2
5 54 (4.30%) Amazon S3
6 51 (4.06%) Entra ID
7 47 (3.74%) Serverless
8 44 (3.50%) Power Platform
9 42 (3.34%) GCP
10 41 (3.26%) AWS KMS
11 40 (3.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 39 (3.10%) Amazon ECS
12 39 (3.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 34 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
14 29 (2.31%) Amazon ELB
15 25 (1.99%) Amazon Glacier
16 22 (1.75%) SaaS
17 21 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
18 19 (1.51%) IaaS
19 18 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 147 (11.69%) Firewall
2 93 (7.40%) WAN
3 74 (5.89%) Network Security
4 64 (5.09%) BGP
5 59 (4.69%) DNS
6 56 (4.46%) VPN
7 54 (4.30%) LAN
8 48 (3.82%) OSPF
8 48 (3.82%) Software-Defined Radio
8 48 (3.82%) TCP/IP
9 34 (2.70%) EIGRP
9 34 (2.70%) Wireless
10 31 (2.47%) DHCP
11 30 (2.39%) IPsec
11 30 (2.39%) MPLS
12 29 (2.31%) Junos
13 28 (2.23%) ATM
13 28 (2.23%) VoIP
14 24 (1.91%) Cisco ASA
15 23 (1.83%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (4.30%) Amazon RDS
3 35 (2.78%) MongoDB
4 27 (2.15%) Relational Database
5 22 (1.75%) SQL Server
6 19 (1.51%) NoSQL
7 17 (1.35%) Power BI
8 16 (1.27%) Amazon Aurora
9 14 (1.11%) DynamoDB
10 13 (1.03%) MySQL
11 12 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
11 12 (0.95%) Redis
12 8 (0.64%) Big Data
12 8 (0.64%) RDBMS
13 7 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (0.40%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.40%) GIS
14 5 (0.40%) SAP Data Services
15 4 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
16 3 (0.24%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 82 (6.52%) Git
2 77 (6.13%) Jenkins
3 61 (4.85%) JIRA
4 34 (2.70%) JUnit
5 29 (2.31%) Vagrant
6 20 (1.59%) Mockito
7 13 (1.03%) GitLab
8 12 (0.95%) Bitbucket Server
9 11 (0.88%) Maven
10 10 (0.80%) SonarQube
11 9 (0.72%) DbUnit
11 9 (0.72%) JMeter
11 9 (0.72%) jMock
12 8 (0.64%) Rational DOORS
13 6 (0.48%) NDoc
13 6 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
14 5 (0.40%) LabVIEW
14 5 (0.40%) MSI
15 3 (0.24%) SoapUI
16 2 (0.16%) Snyk
General
1 258 (20.53%) Social Skills
2 161 (12.81%) Finance
3 134 (10.66%) Public Sector
4 68 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
5 61 (4.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 51 (4.06%) Military
7 48 (3.82%) Law
8 46 (3.66%) Aerospace
8 46 (3.66%) Marketing
9 39 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
10 33 (2.63%) Electronics
11 29 (2.31%) Manufacturing
12 27 (2.15%) Telecoms
13 23 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
14 21 (1.67%) Advertising
14 21 (1.67%) Retail
15 20 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
16 18 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
17 16 (1.27%) Back Office
17 16 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 170 (13.52%) Architect
2 129 (10.26%) Developer
3 119 (9.47%) Senior
4 100 (7.96%) Lead
5 91 (7.24%) Network Engineer
5 91 (7.24%) Systems Engineer
6 86 (6.84%) Support Engineer
7 79 (6.28%) Network Architect
8 77 (6.13%) Analyst
9 54 (4.30%) Software Engineer
10 49 (3.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 45 (3.58%) Java Developer
12 41 (3.26%) Consultant
13 38 (3.02%) 2nd Line Support
13 38 (3.02%) Support Analyst
14 37 (2.94%) Security Engineer
15 34 (2.70%) Infrastructure Support
16 33 (2.63%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
16 33 (2.63%) Field Service Engineer
16 33 (2.63%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (3.66%) Spring Boot
2 43 (3.42%) Spring
3 39 (3.10%) REST
3 39 (3.10%) RESTful
4 35 (2.78%) Web Services
5 34 (2.70%) React
5 34 (2.70%) SOAP
6 26 (2.07%) AngularJS
6 26 (2.07%) Kafka
7 20 (1.59%) ActiveMQ
7 20 (1.59%) Django
8 19 (1.51%) Apache Camel
8 19 (1.51%) Hibernate
9 18 (1.43%) HTML
9 18 (1.43%) Node.js
10 16 (1.27%) SAPUI5
11 12 (0.95%) .NET
11 12 (0.95%) J2EE
11 12 (0.95%) Vue
12 11 (0.88%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 84 (6.68%) e-Learning
2 41 (3.26%) FPGA
2 41 (3.26%) Management Information System
3 34 (2.70%) Data Centre
4 31 (2.47%) Driving Licence
4 31 (2.47%) Embedded Systems
5 30 (2.39%) Cloud Native
5 30 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
6 29 (2.31%) Replication
7 21 (1.67%) MicroBlaze
7 21 (1.67%) RISC-V
8 19 (1.51%) SCADA
9 18 (1.43%) Security Operations Centre
10 16 (1.27%) Private Cloud
10 16 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
11 15 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
12 13 (1.03%) Algorithms
12 13 (1.03%) Onboarding
12 13 (1.03%) Product Ownership
13 12 (0.95%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 176 (14.00%) Linux
2 173 (13.76%) Windows
3 66 (5.25%) Windows Server
4 29 (2.31%) VMS
5 26 (2.07%) Embedded Linux
6 25 (1.99%) Windows 10
7 18 (1.43%) Android
8 17 (1.35%) Unix
9 16 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
10 15 (1.19%) Amazon Linux
11 8 (0.64%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.64%) Ubuntu
12 6 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 4 (0.32%) Rocky
14 3 (0.24%) AIX
14 3 (0.24%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.24%) Windows Server 2003
15 2 (0.16%) Solaris
15 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
16 1 (0.080%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (17.82%) Agile
2 141 (11.22%) DevOps
3 132 (10.50%) Cybersecurity
4 126 (10.02%) Innovative Thinking
5 113 (8.99%) Problem-Solving
6 103 (8.19%) Software Engineering
7 94 (7.48%) CI/CD
8 90 (7.16%) Customer Service
9 86 (6.84%) Mentoring
10 80 (6.36%) Continuous Improvement
11 71 (5.65%) Patch Management
11 71 (5.65%) Roadmaps
12 68 (5.41%) Microservices
13 65 (5.17%) Incident Management
14 64 (5.09%) Analytics
14 64 (5.09%) ITIL
15 63 (5.01%) Cloud Security
15 63 (5.01%) Risk Management
16 62 (4.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 62 (4.93%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 135 (10.74%) Python
2 105 (8.35%) SQL
3 94 (7.48%) Java
4 91 (7.24%) PowerShell
5 59 (4.69%) C++
6 53 (4.22%) JavaScript
7 44 (3.50%) C
8 37 (2.94%) MATLAB
9 30 (2.39%) Groovy
10 25 (1.99%) Bash
10 25 (1.99%) TypeScript
11 23 (1.83%) Perl
12 18 (1.43%) C#
13 14 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
14 13 (1.03%) Shell Script
15 9 (0.72%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.56%) Fortran
17 6 (0.48%) R
18 4 (0.32%) Go
19 3 (0.24%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1,257 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 258 (20.53%) DV Cleared
3 192 (15.27%) Degree
4 101 (8.04%) Cisco Certification
5 71 (5.65%) CCNA
6 67 (5.33%) CCNP
7 35 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 34 (2.70%) CISSP
9 30 (2.39%) AWS Certification
9 30 (2.39%) JNCIA
10 28 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
11 23 (1.83%) HND
12 22 (1.75%) Azure Certification
12 22 (1.75%) Master's Degree
13 20 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
14 19 (1.51%) JNCIS
15 18 (1.43%) CISM
15 18 (1.43%) CTC Cleared
15 18 (1.43%) RHCSA
16 16 (1.27%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (7.24%) SLA
2 39 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 32 (2.55%) QA
4 25 (1.99%) NIST
5 24 (1.91%) Def Stans
6 23 (1.83%) NCSC
7 14 (1.11%) GDPR
8 10 (0.80%) JSP 440
8 10 (0.80%) RMADS
9 9 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
9 9 (0.72%) GRC
10 7 (0.56%) ISO 9001
11 6 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 15288
13 4 (0.32%) ISO 14001
13 4 (0.32%) ISO 9000
14 3 (0.24%) Accessibility
14 3 (0.24%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.24%) PMO
15 2 (0.16%) HIPAA
System Software
1 103 (8.19%) Docker
2 99 (7.88%) Active Directory
3 59 (4.69%) Firmware
4 54 (4.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 45 (3.58%) Embedded Firmware
6 24 (1.91%) Hyper-V
7 22 (1.75%) DFS Replication
8 7 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.48%) Postfix
10 4 (0.32%) Dovecot
10 4 (0.32%) ISA Server
10 4 (0.32%) Squid
11 3 (0.24%) Terminal Server
12 2 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.080%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.080%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.080%) NFS
13 1 (0.080%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 90 (7.16%) Terraform
2 69 (5.49%) Kubernetes
3 57 (4.53%) Ansible
4 36 (2.86%) Prometheus
5 35 (2.78%) Grafana
6 24 (1.91%) FortiGate
7 17 (1.35%) QRadar
8 10 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.72%) Kibana
9 9 (0.72%) Nessus
9 9 (0.72%) SCCM
10 8 (0.64%) AWS Copilot
11 7 (0.56%) Proxmox
11 7 (0.56%) WMI
12 6 (0.48%) ArcSight ESM
12 6 (0.48%) SCOM
13 4 (0.32%) HAProxy
14 3 (0.24%) Progress Chef
15 2 (0.16%) Puppet
15 2 (0.16%) SCSM
Vendors
1 211 (16.79%) Cisco
2 188 (14.96%) Microsoft
3 144 (11.46%) Juniper
4 83 (6.60%) VMware
5 49 (3.90%) ServiceNow
6 38 (3.02%) Fortinet
7 36 (2.86%) Splunk
8 32 (2.55%) SAP
9 29 (2.31%) SolarWinds
10 23 (1.83%) Red Hat
10 23 (1.83%) Sparx
11 21 (1.67%) McAfee
11 21 (1.67%) Oracle
12 14 (1.11%) Atlassian
13 13 (1.03%) Google
14 11 (0.88%) ArcSight
14 11 (0.88%) Forcepoint
15 10 (0.80%) CheckPoint
16 9 (0.72%) AlienVault
16 9 (0.72%) HP