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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 35 71
Rank change year-on-year -6 +36 -12
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 3,211 3,520 3,189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.92% 7.31% 4.07%
As % of the Qualifications category 19.03% 19.26% 12.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,897 1,612 1,627
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £30,505
25th Percentile £43,227 £42,955 £39,449
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -0.94%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £79,225 £83,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £55,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +12.61% +0.91%

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 16,873 18,275 26,124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.85% 37.96% 33.36%
Number of salaries quoted 9,460 7,807 11,272
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,000 £28,109
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +8.25% +2.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 +1 1,064 £55,000 - 149
South West -6 780 £55,000 -12.00% 133
North of England +1 504 £55,000 -15.38% 104
North West -4 355 £53,362 -17.91% 76
Midlands -23 354 £52,500 -12.50% 55
West Midlands +2 257 £55,000 -8.33% 47
Scotland -58 188 £60,000 +20.00% 25
Wales +6 171 £60,000 +34.20% 17
Yorkshire +22 123 £60,000 -11.11% 19
East Midlands -64 97 £44,225 -15.76% 8
East of England -34 88 £52,250 -5.00% 43
Northern Ireland +4 81 £59,400 -3.61% 8
North East -21 26 £58,800 +23.79% 10
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
1 197 (6.14%) ArcGIS
2 184 (5.73%) GeoServer
3 89 (2.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 79 (2.46%) WebLogic
5 63 (1.96%) Confluence
6 50 (1.56%) SharePoint
7 46 (1.43%) Apache
8 39 (1.21%) Apache Spark
9 27 (0.84%) Oracle Service Bus
10 22 (0.69%) Appian
11 18 (0.56%) Exchange Server 2010
12 15 (0.47%) OpenStack
13 12 (0.37%) Skype for Business
14 9 (0.28%) SharePoint 2010
14 9 (0.28%) SharePoint 2013
15 6 (0.19%) IIS
15 6 (0.19%) Red Hat Fuse
15 6 (0.19%) SAS
16 5 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2013
17 4 (0.12%) TWiki
Applications
1 132 (4.11%) Microsoft Office
2 61 (1.90%) Simulink
3 54 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
4 49 (1.53%) MS Visio
5 40 (1.25%) Sketch
6 24 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
7 13 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 7 (0.22%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.12%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.062%) Abaqus
10 2 (0.062%) EPLAN
10 2 (0.062%) Fireworks
10 2 (0.062%) InDesign
11 1 (0.031%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.031%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 60 (1.87%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 57 (1.78%) Remedy ITSM
3 36 (1.12%) Siebel CRM
4 19 (0.59%) Maximo
5 7 (0.22%) Primavera
6 4 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.12%) Q-Pulse
7 2 (0.062%) Oracle Applications
7 2 (0.062%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.062%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.062%) SAP GRC
7 2 (0.062%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.031%) CA PPM
8 1 (0.031%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 1 (0.031%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.031%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.031%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.031%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.031%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.031%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 755 (23.51%) Azure
2 645 (20.09%) AWS
3 165 (5.14%) Microsoft 365
4 90 (2.80%) GCP
5 82 (2.55%) Amazon EKS
6 68 (2.12%) OpenShift
7 63 (1.96%) Miro
8 62 (1.93%) Serverless
9 60 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
10 56 (1.74%) dbt
11 49 (1.53%) Entra ID
12 48 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
13 45 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
14 41 (1.28%) Amazon SQS
14 41 (1.28%) Figma
15 40 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
15 40 (1.25%) Heroku
15 40 (1.25%) Power Platform
16 37 (1.15%) SaaS
17 30 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 217 (6.76%) Firewall
2 134 (4.17%) DNS
3 112 (3.49%) TCP/IP
4 94 (2.93%) WAN
5 71 (2.21%) LAN
6 70 (2.18%) BGP
7 67 (2.09%) VPN
8 65 (2.02%) SSL
9 63 (1.96%) DHCP
10 60 (1.87%) Network Security
11 57 (1.78%) Wireless
12 44 (1.37%) SAN
13 42 (1.31%) Cisco Firepower
14 39 (1.21%) IPsec
15 37 (1.15%) Software-Defined Radio
16 34 (1.06%) AMQP
17 32 (1.00%) 5G
18 31 (0.97%) MPLS
18 31 (0.97%) SD-WAN
19 27 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 258 (8.03%) PostgreSQL
2 189 (5.89%) GIS
3 184 (5.73%) QGIS
4 89 (2.77%) Relational Database
5 86 (2.68%) Hadoop
6 72 (2.24%) NoSQL
7 70 (2.18%) Oracle Database
8 65 (2.02%) Big Data
9 62 (1.93%) MongoDB
10 55 (1.71%) RDBMS
11 53 (1.65%) SQL Server
12 52 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
13 36 (1.12%) Oracle BI EE
13 36 (1.12%) Siebel EIM
14 30 (0.93%) MySQL
15 29 (0.90%) Cloudera CDH
16 27 (0.84%) Oracle Database 10g
16 27 (0.84%) Oracle Database 11g
16 27 (0.84%) VLDB
17 24 (0.75%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 133 (4.14%) JIRA
2 97 (3.02%) Git
3 74 (2.30%) Jenkins
4 47 (1.46%) GitLab
5 44 (1.37%) Visual Studio
6 32 (1.00%) Vagrant
7 29 (0.90%) Bitbucket
8 24 (0.75%) Rational DOORS
9 23 (0.72%) Sourcetree
10 17 (0.53%) MSI
10 17 (0.53%) SonarQube
11 16 (0.50%) JUnit
12 15 (0.47%) LabVIEW
12 15 (0.47%) Selenium
13 14 (0.44%) Cucumber
14 13 (0.40%) AdminStudio
14 13 (0.40%) InstallShield
15 10 (0.31%) Terragrunt
16 9 (0.28%) eggPlant
16 9 (0.28%) Trac
General
1 600 (18.69%) Social Skills
2 245 (7.63%) Finance
3 231 (7.19%) Aerospace
4 169 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 164 (5.11%) Public Sector
6 154 (4.80%) Analytical Skills
7 98 (3.05%) Military
8 90 (2.80%) Telecoms
9 71 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
10 54 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
11 43 (1.34%) Games
12 42 (1.31%) Police
13 39 (1.21%) Electronics
14 35 (1.09%) Manufacturing
15 28 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
16 26 (0.81%) Retail
17 24 (0.75%) Marketing
18 20 (0.62%) Back Office
19 14 (0.44%) Law
19 14 (0.44%) Legal
Job Titles
1 597 (18.59%) Senior
2 383 (11.93%) Software Engineer
3 369 (11.49%) Architect
4 270 (8.41%) Developer
5 244 (7.60%) Lead
6 207 (6.45%) Analyst
7 180 (5.61%) Network Engineer
8 155 (4.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 150 (4.67%) Senior Software Engineer
10 147 (4.58%) Systems Engineer
11 130 (4.05%) Consultant
11 130 (4.05%) Project Manager
12 113 (3.52%) Solutions Architect
13 99 (3.08%) Support Engineer
14 96 (2.99%) Designer
15 93 (2.90%) DevOps Engineer
16 82 (2.55%) Senior Developer
17 80 (2.49%) Business Analyst
18 65 (2.02%) Senior Manager
19 64 (1.99%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 288 (8.97%) React
2 254 (7.91%) .NET
3 193 (6.01%) CSS
4 188 (5.85%) .NET Core
5 187 (5.82%) Leaflet
6 186 (5.79%) OpenLayers
7 184 (5.73%) PostGIS
8 144 (4.48%) Node.js
9 89 (2.77%) Spring Boot
10 74 (2.30%) RabbitMQ
11 70 (2.18%) Kafka
12 67 (2.09%) HTML
12 67 (2.09%) REST
13 65 (2.02%) Spring
14 60 (1.87%) Middleware
15 47 (1.46%) Django
16 46 (1.43%) AngularJS
17 34 (1.06%) OpenAPI
18 31 (0.97%) Swagger
19 29 (0.90%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 103 (3.21%) Management Information System
2 85 (2.65%) Driving Licence
3 80 (2.49%) Data Centre
4 79 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
5 72 (2.24%) Product Ownership
6 56 (1.74%) Algorithms
6 56 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
7 54 (1.68%) Public Cloud
8 52 (1.62%) Cloud Native
9 44 (1.37%) Private Cloud
10 43 (1.34%) Operational Technology
11 37 (1.15%) Cyberattack
12 36 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
13 30 (0.93%) Security Operations Centre
14 28 (0.87%) CMDB
14 28 (0.87%) PKI
14 28 (0.87%) Virtual Team
15 25 (0.78%) Virtual Reality
16 24 (0.75%) Client/Server
16 24 (0.75%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 482 (15.01%) Linux
2 463 (14.42%) Windows
3 177 (5.51%) Windows Server
4 140 (4.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 99 (3.08%) Windows 10
6 89 (2.77%) CentOS
7 83 (2.58%) Unix
8 80 (2.49%) Ubuntu
9 60 (1.87%) Windows Server 2016
10 53 (1.65%) Windows Server 2019
11 50 (1.56%) Android
12 47 (1.46%) Solaris
13 29 (0.90%) Debian
13 29 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
14 23 (0.72%) Windows 7
15 14 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
16 12 (0.37%) AIX
17 10 (0.31%) zOS
18 9 (0.28%) Windows NT
19 6 (0.19%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,023 (31.86%) Agile
2 798 (24.85%) Actionable Insight
3 589 (18.34%) DevOps
4 561 (17.47%) Software Engineering
5 417 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
6 312 (9.72%) Cybersecurity
7 293 (9.12%) Project Management
8 281 (8.75%) Scrum
9 275 (8.56%) ITIL
10 253 (7.88%) Stakeholder Management
11 243 (7.57%) Collaborative Working
12 212 (6.60%) Mentoring
13 203 (6.32%) Service Management
14 200 (6.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 191 (5.95%) Web Development
16 184 (5.73%) Artificial Intelligence
17 171 (5.33%) ITSM
18 162 (5.05%) Open Source
19 157 (4.89%) Risk Management
20 154 (4.80%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 598 (18.62%) Python
2 362 (11.27%) JavaScript
3 342 (10.65%) Java
4 291 (9.06%) SQL
5 258 (8.03%) C#
6 176 (5.48%) PowerShell
7 145 (4.52%) C++
8 71 (2.21%) C
9 65 (2.02%) TypeScript
10 59 (1.84%) Bash
11 58 (1.81%) MATLAB
12 54 (1.68%) Kotlin
13 28 (0.87%) PL/SQL
14 26 (0.81%) VB
15 25 (0.78%) Shell Script
16 16 (0.50%) Go
17 14 (0.44%) Bicep
18 13 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
19 12 (0.37%) R
20 11 (0.34%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 3,211 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 549 (17.10%) DV Cleared
3 494 (15.38%) Degree
4 118 (3.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 99 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 84 (2.62%) Cisco Certification
7 83 (2.58%) CISM
8 81 (2.52%) Azure Certification
9 77 (2.40%) CISSP
10 73 (2.27%) AWS Certification
11 67 (2.09%) CCNA
12 63 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
13 58 (1.81%) CESG Certified Professional
14 57 (1.78%) CRISC
15 44 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 44 (1.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 42 (1.31%) CCNP
17 27 (0.84%) CISA
17 27 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
18 24 (0.75%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (3.49%) Accessibility
2 105 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 83 (2.58%) NCSC
4 80 (2.49%) QA
5 79 (2.46%) SLA
6 50 (1.56%) WCAG
7 30 (0.93%) COBIT
8 29 (0.90%) NIST
9 24 (0.75%) GDPR
10 22 (0.69%) Data Quality
11 21 (0.65%) PMO
12 16 (0.50%) GRC
13 14 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
14 11 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 11 (0.34%) ISO 9001
14 11 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
15 10 (0.31%) Def Stans
15 10 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 15288
15 10 (0.31%) NIST 800
16 8 (0.25%) JSP 440
System Software
1 237 (7.38%) Active Directory
2 161 (5.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 133 (4.14%) Docker
4 100 (3.11%) Hyper-V
5 38 (1.18%) vSphere
6 31 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
7 29 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
8 27 (0.84%) Oracle RAC
9 18 (0.56%) Firmware
9 18 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
10 17 (0.53%) Microsoft App-V
11 15 (0.47%) pfSense
11 15 (0.47%) XenDesktop
12 12 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
13 9 (0.28%) NFS
14 8 (0.25%) VMware NSX
15 6 (0.19%) Lustre
15 6 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 6 (0.19%) XenApp
16 3 (0.093%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 185 (5.76%) Ansible
2 180 (5.61%) Kubernetes
3 138 (4.30%) Terraform
4 131 (4.08%) SCCM
5 53 (1.65%) Puppet
6 52 (1.62%) SCOM
7 47 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
7 47 (1.46%) WSUS
8 41 (1.28%) vCenter Server
9 30 (0.93%) Grafana
10 29 (0.90%) OpenView
11 27 (0.84%) Data Guard
11 27 (0.84%) Oracle RMAN
12 22 (0.69%) EMC NetWorker
12 22 (0.69%) ZABBIX
13 20 (0.62%) Nagios
14 17 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 17 (0.53%) NetBackup
15 16 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
16 12 (0.37%) OpenSSO
Vendors
1 499 (15.54%) Microsoft
2 258 (8.03%) VMware
3 224 (6.98%) Cisco
4 201 (6.26%) Oracle
5 191 (5.95%) ESRI
6 161 (5.01%) Juniper
7 99 (3.08%) Red Hat
8 93 (2.90%) ServiceNow
9 70 (2.18%) Remedy
10 60 (1.87%) Sparx
11 54 (1.68%) Google
11 54 (1.68%) HP
12 42 (1.31%) Fortinet
13 41 (1.28%) Xilinx
14 39 (1.21%) Veeam
15 38 (1.18%) Dell
15 38 (1.18%) IBM
15 38 (1.18%) McAfee
16 36 (1.12%) Siebel
17 34 (1.06%) F5