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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 40 55
Rank change year-on-year -65 +15 -1
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 1,143 3,672 3,256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.92% 5.18% 5.46%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.36% 18.90% 14.93%
Number of salaries quoted 849 2,003 1,533
10th Percentile £38,347 £31,250 £30,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +3.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £61,700
% change year-on-year +4.35% -6.81% +8.06%

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 21,340 19,428 21,804
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.60% 27.42% 36.57%
Number of salaries quoted 8,878 12,209 8,120
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £37,418
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,708 £78,800 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -10.00% +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 15 May 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 15 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
South East -12 519 £55,000 - 639
South West -24 195 £60,000 +14.29% 401
Midlands -36 166 £65,000 +20.93% 276
West Midlands 0 141 £65,000 +18.18% 193
North of England -147 130 £54,500 -5.22% 390
East of England 0 76 £57,500 +4.55% 242
North West -176 71 £55,000 - 206
Yorkshire -20 50 £44,700 -25.50% 151
Wales -32 35 £55,000 +6.80% 39
Scotland -37 24 £62,500 +4.17% 102
East Midlands -60 23 £52,000 +4.00% 69
Northern Ireland -11 9 £87,500 +45.83% 32
North East +23 8 £69,384 +61.09% 34
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 25 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (1.49%) Confluence
3 16 (1.40%) SharePoint
4 13 (1.14%) JBoss
4 13 (1.14%) Red Hat Fuse
5 12 (1.05%) Skype for Business
6 10 (0.87%) Exchange Server 2013
7 8 (0.70%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 4 (0.35%) nginx
9 3 (0.26%) Apache
9 3 (0.26%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2010
9 3 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.17%) CMS
10 2 (0.17%) Documentum
10 2 (0.17%) Office Communications Server
10 2 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.17%) SAS
10 2 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
10 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 35 (3.06%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (2.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (1.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.44%) Simulink
5 3 (0.26%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 2 (0.17%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.17%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.17%) Oracle Smart View
6 2 (0.17%) Revit
6 2 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.17%) Windchill
7 1 (0.087%) GNU Octave
7 1 (0.087%) ProjectWise
7 1 (0.087%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 7 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.35%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 2 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.17%) SAP HR
5 2 (0.17%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.087%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.087%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 159 (13.91%) Azure
2 150 (13.12%) AWS
3 55 (4.81%) Microsoft 365
4 46 (4.02%) Serverless
5 41 (3.59%) Entra ID
6 38 (3.32%) Power Platform
7 33 (2.89%) Amazon ECS
8 30 (2.62%) GCP
9 22 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
10 21 (1.84%) Amazon EKS
10 21 (1.84%) OCI
11 19 (1.66%) Azure Sentinel
11 19 (1.66%) Dynamics 365
12 18 (1.57%) Amazon S3
13 15 (1.31%) SaaS
14 14 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
14 14 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
14 14 (1.22%) GitHub
14 14 (1.22%) PowerApps
15 12 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 158 (13.82%) Firewall
2 97 (8.49%) WAN
3 92 (8.05%) BGP
3 92 (8.05%) Network Security
4 73 (6.39%) OSPF
5 59 (5.16%) EIGRP
6 58 (5.07%) VPN
7 47 (4.11%) LAN
8 36 (3.15%) MPLS
9 35 (3.06%) TCP/IP
10 34 (2.97%) IPsec
11 32 (2.80%) Cisco ASA
12 31 (2.71%) Cisco Firepower
12 31 (2.71%) DNS
13 28 (2.45%) VLAN
14 21 (1.84%) Software-Defined Radio
15 19 (1.66%) Junos
15 19 (1.66%) SAN
15 19 (1.66%) SD-WAN
16 18 (1.57%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (2.62%) Relational Database
3 27 (2.36%) MongoDB
4 22 (1.92%) SQL Server
5 20 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
5 20 (1.75%) Power BI
6 12 (1.05%) MySQL
6 12 (1.05%) Redis
7 11 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (0.61%) Data Lake
8 7 (0.61%) RDBMS
9 6 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (0.52%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.44%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (0.44%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.44%) Tableau
11 4 (0.35%) GIS
11 4 (0.35%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.35%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 47 (4.11%) Jenkins
2 45 (3.94%) Git
3 29 (2.54%) JUnit
4 27 (2.36%) JIRA
5 17 (1.49%) GitLab
6 14 (1.22%) Mockito
7 9 (0.79%) JMeter
8 7 (0.61%) NDoc
8 7 (0.61%) Rational DOORS
9 6 (0.52%) Bitbucket Server
9 6 (0.52%) Maven
10 5 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.35%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.35%) Vagrant
12 3 (0.26%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.26%) ClearCase
12 3 (0.26%) DbUnit
12 3 (0.26%) jMock
12 3 (0.26%) LabVIEW
13 2 (0.17%) MSI
General
1 198 (17.32%) Social Skills
2 110 (9.62%) Public Sector
3 92 (8.05%) Finance
4 67 (5.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 61 (5.34%) Analytical Skills
6 43 (3.76%) Aerospace
7 37 (3.24%) Military
8 31 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
8 31 (2.71%) Marketing
9 26 (2.27%) Telecoms
10 25 (2.19%) Retail
11 21 (1.84%) Advertising
12 20 (1.75%) Electronics
13 18 (1.57%) Law
14 16 (1.40%) Manufacturing
14 16 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
15 15 (1.31%) Legal
16 14 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
17 13 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
18 8 (0.70%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 182 (15.92%) Architect
2 131 (11.46%) Network Engineer
3 111 (9.71%) Senior
4 101 (8.84%) Developer
5 86 (7.52%) Network Architect
6 69 (6.04%) Lead
7 66 (5.77%) Support Engineer
8 58 (5.07%) Analyst
9 49 (4.29%) Software Engineer
10 47 (4.11%) Security Engineer
11 45 (3.94%) Designer
12 44 (3.85%) Consultant
13 42 (3.67%) Solutions Architect
14 37 (3.24%) Systems Engineer
15 33 (2.89%) Java Developer
16 28 (2.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 27 (2.36%) Field Engineer
17 27 (2.36%) Network Security Engineer
18 26 (2.27%) Network Designer
18 26 (2.27%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (3.94%) React
2 41 (3.59%) Spring Boot
3 39 (3.41%) Spring
4 36 (3.15%) REST
5 32 (2.80%) Web Services
6 30 (2.62%) RESTful
7 26 (2.27%) SOAP
8 25 (2.19%) Kafka
9 21 (1.84%) AngularJS
9 21 (1.84%) Apache Camel
10 20 (1.75%) HTML
11 16 (1.40%) SAPUI5
12 14 (1.22%) ActiveMQ
12 14 (1.22%) Django
12 14 (1.22%) Vue
13 13 (1.14%) Hibernate
13 13 (1.14%) J2EE
14 11 (0.96%) Node.js
15 10 (0.87%) .NET
16 8 (0.70%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 37 (3.24%) Data Centre
2 32 (2.80%) Management Information System
3 30 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (2.54%) e-Learning
5 24 (2.10%) SCADA
6 21 (1.84%) FPGA
7 20 (1.75%) Private Cloud
8 19 (1.66%) Algorithms
8 19 (1.66%) Cloud Native
8 19 (1.66%) Driving Licence
9 18 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
10 17 (1.49%) Security Operations Centre
11 15 (1.31%) Embedded Systems
12 12 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
13 11 (0.96%) Client/Server
13 11 (0.96%) Onboarding
14 10 (0.87%) Blackberry
14 10 (0.87%) PKI
14 10 (0.87%) Security Posture
15 9 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 157 (13.74%) Windows
2 123 (10.76%) Linux
3 65 (5.69%) Windows Server
4 21 (1.84%) Windows 10
5 19 (1.66%) Unix
6 11 (0.96%) Android
7 10 (0.87%) Embedded Linux
7 10 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (0.70%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.61%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.44%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.35%) AIX
12 4 (0.35%) VMS
13 3 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
13 3 (0.26%) Solaris
14 2 (0.17%) CentOS
14 2 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
14 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (15.40%) Agile
2 113 (9.89%) Cybersecurity
2 113 (9.89%) DevOps
3 98 (8.57%) Software Engineering
4 94 (8.22%) Problem-Solving
5 80 (7.00%) Customer Service
6 79 (6.91%) Mentoring
7 77 (6.74%) CI/CD
8 73 (6.39%) Roadmaps
9 72 (6.30%) Analytics
10 69 (6.04%) Technical Leadership
11 65 (5.69%) ITIL
12 64 (5.60%) Computer Science
12 64 (5.60%) Scrum
13 60 (5.25%) Continuous Improvement
14 54 (4.72%) Artificial Intelligence
14 54 (4.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 53 (4.64%) Microservices
16 52 (4.55%) Risk Management
17 49 (4.29%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 110 (9.62%) Python
2 78 (6.82%) Java
3 66 (5.77%) SQL
4 63 (5.51%) PowerShell
5 59 (5.16%) JavaScript
6 43 (3.76%) C++
7 30 (2.62%) TypeScript
8 29 (2.54%) C
9 23 (2.01%) Bash
10 22 (1.92%) C#
11 21 (1.84%) MATLAB
12 14 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
12 14 (1.22%) Perl
13 13 (1.14%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.79%) Fortran
15 6 (0.52%) Go
15 6 (0.52%) R
16 5 (0.44%) Groovy
17 4 (0.35%) PL/SQL
17 4 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,143 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 268 (23.45%) DV Cleared
3 159 (13.91%) Degree
4 94 (8.22%) Cisco Certification
5 71 (6.21%) CCNA
6 55 (4.81%) CCNP
7 34 (2.97%) CISSP
8 30 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 30 (2.62%) JNCIS
9 27 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (1.84%) Master's Degree
11 20 (1.75%) CISM
12 18 (1.57%) HND
13 17 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
14 15 (1.31%) HNC
15 14 (1.22%) AWS Certification
15 14 (1.22%) ISTQB
15 14 (1.22%) JNCIA
16 12 (1.05%) CISA
16 12 (1.05%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (4.90%) SLA
2 32 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (2.01%) Def Stans
3 23 (2.01%) QA
4 22 (1.92%) NIST
5 19 (1.66%) NCSC
6 12 (1.05%) GRC
7 11 (0.96%) JSP 440
8 10 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
9 9 (0.79%) GDPR
9 9 (0.79%) RMADS
10 8 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (0.61%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.35%) Accessibility
12 4 (0.35%) Data Quality
12 4 (0.35%) ISO 14001
12 4 (0.35%) ISO 9000
13 2 (0.17%) Dublin Core
13 2 (0.17%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.17%) PMO
System Software
1 85 (7.44%) Docker
2 76 (6.65%) Active Directory
3 50 (4.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.92%) Firmware
5 18 (1.57%) Embedded Firmware
6 15 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.70%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.35%) DFS Replication
10 4 (0.35%) vSphere
11 3 (0.26%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.26%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.17%) ISA Server
13 1 (0.087%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.087%) Postfix
13 1 (0.087%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.087%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 59 (5.16%) Kubernetes
2 51 (4.46%) Terraform
3 48 (4.20%) Ansible
4 30 (2.62%) FortiGate
5 18 (1.57%) QRadar
6 13 (1.14%) SCCM
7 11 (0.96%) Prometheus
8 9 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (0.79%) Nessus
9 8 (0.70%) AWS Copilot
9 8 (0.70%) Grafana
9 8 (0.70%) Kibana
10 6 (0.52%) ArcSight ESM
11 5 (0.44%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.35%) Graylog
12 4 (0.35%) HAProxy
12 4 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.35%) WMI
13 3 (0.26%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.26%) SCOM
Vendors
1 257 (22.48%) Cisco
2 173 (15.14%) Juniper
3 170 (14.87%) Microsoft
4 77 (6.74%) VMware
5 64 (5.60%) Fortinet
6 32 (2.80%) Oracle
6 32 (2.80%) Splunk
7 30 (2.62%) ServiceNow
8 29 (2.54%) SolarWinds
9 27 (2.36%) SAP
10 18 (1.57%) F5
10 18 (1.57%) Google
11 17 (1.49%) Red Hat
12 16 (1.40%) Forcepoint
13 15 (1.31%) McAfee
14 11 (0.96%) Atlassian
14 11 (0.96%) CheckPoint
14 11 (0.96%) Dynatrace
15 10 (0.87%) HP
15 10 (0.87%) Palo Alto