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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 40 53
Rank change year-on-year -64 +13 +3
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 1,140 3,777 3,383
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.89% 5.07% 5.83%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.35% 19.07% 15.64%
Number of salaries quoted 800 2,069 1,510
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £41,531
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +8.38%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £78,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% -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 21,309 19,804 21,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.11% 26.56% 37.27%
Number of salaries quoted 8,672 12,268 8,007
10th Percentile £31,000 £27,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,900 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,708 £79,600 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% -10.83% +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 30 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 30 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 -20 519 £55,000 - 1,518
South West -26 197 £60,000 +9.09% 871
Midlands -37 158 £65,000 +18.18% 1,031
West Midlands -16 130 £65,000 +18.18% 561
North of England -158 128 £55,000 -4.35% 1,138
East of England +11 81 £55,000 +5.26% 818
North West -175 67 £58,000 +5.45% 524
Yorkshire -24 52 £44,850 -25.25% 465
Wales -31 37 £55,000 -5.42% 192
East Midlands -47 28 £52,000 +10.05% 398
Scotland -38 21 £58,250 -2.92% 245
North East +28 8 £69,384 +26.15% 149
Northern Ireland -15 8 £85,151 +43.35% 72
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 29 (2.54%) Confluence
2 25 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (1.23%) JBoss
3 14 (1.23%) Red Hat Fuse
3 14 (1.23%) SharePoint
4 9 (0.79%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.61%) Appian
5 7 (0.61%) Exchange Server 2013
6 6 (0.53%) nginx
7 5 (0.44%) Apache
8 4 (0.35%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 4 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2010
9 3 (0.26%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.26%) Office Communications Server
9 3 (0.26%) SharePoint Server
10 2 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.18%) CMS
10 2 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2007
10 2 (0.18%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 37 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.44%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 5 (0.44%) Simulink
5 2 (0.18%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.18%) GNU Octave
5 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle Smart View
5 2 (0.18%) Revit
5 2 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.18%) Windchill
6 1 (0.088%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.088%) ProjectWise
6 1 (0.088%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (1.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.18%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 2 (0.18%) SAP HR
5 2 (0.18%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.088%) Maximo
6 1 (0.088%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.088%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 171 (15.00%) AWS
2 163 (14.30%) Azure
3 53 (4.65%) Serverless
4 46 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
5 40 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
6 38 (3.33%) Entra ID
7 37 (3.25%) Amazon ECS
7 37 (3.25%) Amazon S3
8 36 (3.16%) Power Platform
9 32 (2.81%) GCP
10 25 (2.19%) AWS KMS
11 24 (2.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 24 (2.11%) Amazon EKS
11 24 (2.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 20 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
13 18 (1.58%) AWS Lambda
14 15 (1.32%) AWS CloudFormation
14 15 (1.32%) Azure Sentinel
15 14 (1.23%) GitHub
15 14 (1.23%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 151 (13.25%) Firewall
2 97 (8.51%) WAN
3 87 (7.63%) Network Security
4 81 (7.11%) BGP
5 64 (5.61%) OSPF
6 54 (4.74%) VPN
7 50 (4.39%) LAN
8 49 (4.30%) EIGRP
9 42 (3.68%) DNS
10 38 (3.33%) Software-Defined Radio
11 37 (3.25%) TCP/IP
12 35 (3.07%) MPLS
13 33 (2.89%) IPsec
14 27 (2.37%) Cisco ASA
14 27 (2.37%) VoIP
15 26 (2.28%) ATM
15 26 (2.28%) Wireless
16 25 (2.19%) Junos
17 24 (2.11%) VLAN
18 21 (1.84%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (3.25%) Amazon RDS
3 31 (2.72%) Relational Database
4 27 (2.37%) MongoDB
5 21 (1.84%) SQL Server
6 16 (1.40%) Power BI
7 12 (1.05%) Amazon Aurora
7 12 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (1.05%) MySQL
7 12 (1.05%) Redis
8 10 (0.88%) DynamoDB
9 8 (0.70%) NoSQL
9 8 (0.70%) RDBMS
10 7 (0.61%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (0.44%) GIS
13 3 (0.26%) Pentaho
14 2 (0.18%) Big Data
14 2 (0.18%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 65 (5.70%) Jenkins
2 61 (5.35%) Git
3 40 (3.51%) JIRA
4 35 (3.07%) JUnit
5 20 (1.75%) Mockito
6 15 (1.32%) GitLab
7 14 (1.23%) Vagrant
8 11 (0.96%) Bitbucket Server
9 10 (0.88%) JMeter
9 10 (0.88%) Maven
10 9 (0.79%) SonarQube
11 8 (0.70%) DbUnit
11 8 (0.70%) jMock
12 7 (0.61%) Rational DOORS
13 6 (0.53%) NDoc
14 5 (0.44%) LabVIEW
15 4 (0.35%) Selenium
15 4 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
16 3 (0.26%) ClearCase
17 2 (0.18%) MSI
General
1 207 (18.16%) Social Skills
2 132 (11.58%) Finance
3 114 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 64 (5.61%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (5.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 43 (3.77%) Aerospace
6 40 (3.51%) Military
7 29 (2.54%) Law
8 28 (2.46%) Marketing
9 27 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
10 26 (2.28%) Electronics
11 25 (2.19%) Retail
12 24 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
13 23 (2.02%) Telecoms
14 21 (1.84%) Advertising
15 17 (1.49%) Manufacturing
16 15 (1.32%) Legal
16 15 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
17 11 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
18 8 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 174 (15.26%) Architect
2 114 (10.00%) Developer
2 114 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 106 (9.30%) Senior
4 87 (7.63%) Network Architect
5 83 (7.28%) Lead
6 73 (6.40%) Support Engineer
7 62 (5.44%) Analyst
8 60 (5.26%) Systems Engineer
9 51 (4.47%) Software Engineer
10 42 (3.68%) Java Developer
11 41 (3.60%) Security Engineer
12 37 (3.25%) Consultant
13 35 (3.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 33 (2.89%) Field Engineer
14 33 (2.89%) Field Service Engineer
15 28 (2.46%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 28 (2.46%) Solutions Architect
16 27 (2.37%) Designer
16 27 (2.37%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (4.12%) Spring Boot
2 44 (3.86%) Spring
3 41 (3.60%) React
4 39 (3.42%) REST
5 37 (3.25%) Web Services
6 36 (3.16%) RESTful
7 33 (2.89%) SOAP
8 28 (2.46%) Kafka
9 26 (2.28%) AngularJS
10 22 (1.93%) Apache Camel
11 20 (1.75%) ActiveMQ
11 20 (1.75%) HTML
12 19 (1.67%) Hibernate
13 16 (1.40%) SAPUI5
14 14 (1.23%) J2EE
14 14 (1.23%) Node.js
14 14 (1.23%) Vue
15 13 (1.14%) Django
16 11 (0.96%) .NET
17 10 (0.88%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 66 (5.79%) e-Learning
2 35 (3.07%) Data Centre
3 34 (2.98%) FPGA
4 33 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
5 30 (2.63%) Management Information System
6 29 (2.54%) Driving Licence
7 26 (2.28%) Embedded Systems
8 24 (2.11%) SCADA
9 19 (1.67%) Private Cloud
10 18 (1.58%) Security Operations Centre
11 17 (1.49%) MicroBlaze
11 17 (1.49%) RISC-V
12 16 (1.40%) Cloud Native
12 16 (1.40%) Replication
13 13 (1.14%) Algorithms
14 11 (0.96%) PKI
14 11 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
15 10 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
16 9 (0.79%) Onboarding
16 9 (0.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 150 (13.16%) Windows
2 149 (13.07%) Linux
3 65 (5.70%) Windows Server
4 21 (1.84%) Embedded Linux
5 18 (1.58%) Unix
5 18 (1.58%) Windows 10
6 14 (1.23%) VMS
7 11 (0.96%) Android
7 11 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
8 10 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (0.70%) Amazon Linux
9 8 (0.70%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.53%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.26%) AIX
11 3 (0.26%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.18%) Solaris
12 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.088%) CentOS
13 1 (0.088%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (16.32%) Agile
2 117 (10.26%) DevOps
3 112 (9.82%) Cybersecurity
4 103 (9.04%) Software Engineering
5 102 (8.95%) Innovative Thinking
6 100 (8.77%) Problem-Solving
7 81 (7.11%) Mentoring
8 79 (6.93%) CI/CD
9 74 (6.49%) Customer Service
10 72 (6.32%) Technical Leadership
11 68 (5.96%) Roadmaps
12 66 (5.79%) Scrum
13 64 (5.61%) Computer Science
14 59 (5.18%) Continuous Improvement
14 59 (5.18%) Microservices
14 59 (5.18%) Risk Management
15 55 (4.82%) Analytics
15 55 (4.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 55 (4.82%) ITIL
16 48 (4.21%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 117 (10.26%) Python
2 85 (7.46%) Java
3 74 (6.49%) SQL
4 66 (5.79%) PowerShell
5 56 (4.91%) JavaScript
6 55 (4.82%) C++
7 40 (3.51%) C
8 30 (2.63%) MATLAB
9 29 (2.54%) TypeScript
10 26 (2.28%) Bash
11 18 (1.58%) C#
11 18 (1.58%) Perl
12 15 (1.32%) Groovy
13 14 (1.23%) Kusto Query Language
14 13 (1.14%) Shell Script
15 9 (0.79%) Fortran
16 6 (0.53%) R
17 4 (0.35%) Go
18 3 (0.26%) Embedded C
18 3 (0.26%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1,140 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 253 (22.19%) DV Cleared
3 164 (14.39%) Degree
4 91 (7.98%) Cisco Certification
5 63 (5.53%) CCNA
6 59 (5.18%) CCNP
7 29 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 28 (2.46%) CISSP
9 22 (1.93%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (1.84%) JNCIA
11 20 (1.75%) HND
11 20 (1.75%) JNCIS
12 19 (1.67%) Master's Degree
13 17 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
14 16 (1.40%) AWS Certification
15 15 (1.32%) HNC
15 15 (1.32%) RHCSA
16 14 (1.23%) CISM
17 12 (1.05%) PhD
18 11 (0.96%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (6.23%) SLA
2 38 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (2.28%) QA
4 25 (2.19%) NIST
5 22 (1.93%) Def Stans
5 22 (1.93%) NCSC
6 10 (0.88%) GDPR
7 9 (0.79%) RMADS
8 8 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (0.70%) GRC
8 8 (0.70%) JSP 440
9 7 (0.61%) ISO 9001
10 6 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (0.35%) ISO 14001
11 4 (0.35%) ISO 9000
11 4 (0.35%) PMO
12 3 (0.26%) Accessibility
13 2 (0.18%) Data Quality
13 2 (0.18%) Dublin Core
13 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
System Software
1 91 (7.98%) Docker
2 82 (7.19%) Active Directory
3 48 (4.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 40 (3.51%) Firmware
5 35 (3.07%) Embedded Firmware
6 11 (0.96%) DFS Replication
6 11 (0.96%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.35%) Postfix
10 3 (0.26%) ISA Server
11 2 (0.18%) Dovecot
11 2 (0.18%) Squid
11 2 (0.18%) VMware Workstation
11 2 (0.18%) vSphere
12 1 (0.088%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.088%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.088%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.088%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 64 (5.61%) Terraform
2 55 (4.82%) Kubernetes
3 48 (4.21%) Ansible
4 26 (2.28%) FortiGate
5 21 (1.84%) Prometheus
6 20 (1.75%) Grafana
7 18 (1.58%) QRadar
8 11 (0.96%) SCCM
9 10 (0.88%) Kibana
9 10 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (0.70%) AWS Copilot
11 7 (0.61%) Nessus
12 6 (0.53%) ArcSight ESM
13 5 (0.44%) Proxmox
14 4 (0.35%) HAProxy
14 4 (0.35%) SCOM
14 4 (0.35%) WMI
15 3 (0.26%) Argo
15 3 (0.26%) Progress Chef
15 3 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 228 (20.00%) Cisco
2 159 (13.95%) Microsoft
3 153 (13.42%) Juniper
4 76 (6.67%) VMware
5 51 (4.47%) Fortinet
6 36 (3.16%) ServiceNow
7 35 (3.07%) Splunk
8 29 (2.54%) SAP
9 27 (2.37%) SolarWinds
10 24 (2.11%) Red Hat
11 22 (1.93%) Oracle
12 19 (1.67%) McAfee
13 18 (1.58%) Sparx
14 17 (1.49%) Google
15 16 (1.40%) Forcepoint
16 14 (1.23%) Atlassian
17 11 (0.96%) CheckPoint
18 10 (0.88%) ArcSight
18 10 (0.88%) Dynatrace
18 10 (0.88%) HP