SC Cleared Jobs in the UK excluding London

Security Check (SC) Clearance
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 2 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 19 68 62
Rank change year-on-year +49 -6 +28
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 2,947 2,935 3,060
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.33% 4.39% 4.66%
As % of the Qualifications category 25.97% 12.75% 16.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,596 1,352 1,477
10th Percentile £31,500 £30,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,056 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.66% -3.53% +5.77%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £60,050
% change year-on-year -3.33% -0.08% +9.18%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

SC Cleared is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,347 23,019 18,188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.91% 34.40% 27.71%
Number of salaries quoted 6,659 9,592 9,980
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +2.04%
75th Percentile £66,069 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.88% +3.64% -

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 December 2023.

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 December 2023. 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 +40 874 £54,000 +2.86% 308
South West +16 764 £55,000 +2.80% 271
North of England +119 439 £57,500 - 142
Midlands +92 318 £56,000 +1.82% 129
North West +96 285 £60,000 +8.60% 100
Scotland +119 197 £55,000 - 63
West Midlands +76 195 £55,000 - 90
Wales +10 195 £55,238 +10.48% 30
East Midlands +79 123 £60,000 +9.09% 39
Yorkshire +123 122 £59,500 -14.02% 29
Northern Ireland +65 104 £64,000 +28.00% 4
East of England +23 101 £59,250 +31.67% 70
North East +25 35 £57,291 -8.34% 13
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 93 (3.16%) WebLogic
2 77 (2.61%) IIS
3 76 (2.58%) Red Hat Fuse
4 74 (2.51%) JBoss
5 55 (1.87%) SharePoint
6 37 (1.26%) Confluence
7 19 (0.64%) MS Exchange
8 14 (0.48%) Apache Spark
9 13 (0.44%) WebSphere
10 12 (0.41%) WebSphere Application Server
11 11 (0.37%) OpenStack
12 8 (0.27%) Oracle Service Bus
13 7 (0.24%) SharePoint 2010
13 7 (0.24%) SharePoint 2013
14 5 (0.17%) Apache
15 4 (0.14%) nginx
15 4 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 4 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
16 3 (0.10%) Appian
16 3 (0.10%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 106 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
2 56 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 34 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (0.34%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.27%) Windchill
7 6 (0.20%) OrCAD
8 4 (0.14%) Adobe Premiere
9 3 (0.10%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.10%) Simulink
10 2 (0.068%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.068%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.034%) 3ds Max
11 1 (0.034%) Adobe Captivate
11 1 (0.034%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.034%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.034%) CATIA
11 1 (0.034%) PTC Creo
11 1 (0.034%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.034%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (0.58%) Primavera
2 16 (0.54%) Maximo
2 16 (0.54%) Siebel CRM
3 15 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 10 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
4 10 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.10%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.10%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.068%) SAP GRC
7 2 (0.068%) SAP PM
8 1 (0.034%) ENOVIA
8 1 (0.034%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.034%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.034%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.034%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.034%) Oracle SCM
8 1 (0.034%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.034%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.034%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 532 (18.05%) Azure
2 360 (12.22%) AWS
3 221 (7.50%) Serverless
4 159 (5.40%) Microsoft 365
5 94 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
5 94 (3.19%) GCP
6 78 (2.65%) Cloud Computing
7 73 (2.48%) SaaS
8 67 (2.27%) Power Platform
9 60 (2.04%) Entra ID
10 38 (1.29%) AWS Lambda
10 38 (1.29%) dbt
11 33 (1.12%) Amazon ECS
12 28 (0.95%) GitHub
13 27 (0.92%) Amazon EKS
13 27 (0.92%) OpenShift
14 24 (0.81%) IaaS
15 22 (0.75%) AWS CloudFormation
15 22 (0.75%) Azure Monitor
15 22 (0.75%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 221 (7.50%) Firewall
2 134 (4.55%) WAN
3 118 (4.00%) DNS
4 111 (3.77%) Network Security
5 93 (3.16%) LAN
6 91 (3.09%) DHCP
7 89 (3.02%) VPN
8 74 (2.51%) TCP/IP
9 60 (2.04%) BGP
10 55 (1.87%) HTTP
11 51 (1.73%) Wireless
12 46 (1.56%) OSPF
13 42 (1.43%) Cisco Firepower
14 38 (1.29%) IPsec
15 37 (1.26%) Cisco ASA
16 36 (1.22%) SAN
17 35 (1.19%) Internet
17 35 (1.19%) SD-WAN
17 35 (1.19%) SMTP
18 29 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (6.35%) SQL Server
2 120 (4.07%) Elasticsearch
3 86 (2.92%) Relational Database
4 82 (2.78%) Oracle Database
5 81 (2.75%) RDBMS
6 69 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
7 67 (2.27%) MySQL
8 60 (2.04%) Big Data
9 45 (1.53%) Power BI
10 42 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
11 38 (1.29%) NoSQL
12 32 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
13 26 (0.88%) GIS
14 22 (0.75%) MongoDB
14 22 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
15 20 (0.68%) JasperReports
16 18 (0.61%) DynamoDB
17 16 (0.54%) Redis
18 14 (0.48%) Oracle BI EE
19 13 (0.44%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 270 (9.16%) Git
2 138 (4.68%) Jenkins
3 136 (4.61%) JIRA
4 87 (2.95%) GitLab
5 74 (2.51%) IntelliJ
6 51 (1.73%) Selenium
7 39 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
8 36 (1.22%) Maven
9 30 (1.02%) MSI
10 29 (0.98%) Rational DOORS
11 28 (0.95%) Oracle APEX
12 24 (0.81%) Bitbucket
13 23 (0.78%) Visual Studio
14 22 (0.75%) Artifactory
15 16 (0.54%) AdminStudio
15 16 (0.54%) InstallShield
15 16 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
16 15 (0.51%) Subversion
17 14 (0.48%) SonarQube
18 12 (0.41%) Robot Framework
General
1 828 (28.10%) Social Skills
2 302 (10.25%) Public Sector
3 200 (6.79%) Analytical Skills
4 155 (5.26%) Police
5 144 (4.89%) Military
6 138 (4.68%) Finance
7 134 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
8 121 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 97 (3.29%) Organisational Skills
10 96 (3.26%) Telecoms
11 86 (2.92%) Aerospace
12 67 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
13 60 (2.04%) Retail
14 47 (1.59%) Electronics
15 38 (1.29%) Manufacturing
16 25 (0.85%) Games
16 25 (0.85%) Law
17 24 (0.81%) Legal
18 23 (0.78%) Marketing
19 20 (0.68%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 517 (17.54%) Senior
2 440 (14.93%) Architect
3 356 (12.08%) Software Engineer
4 280 (9.50%) Solutions Architect
5 276 (9.37%) Developer
6 211 (7.16%) Analyst
7 202 (6.85%) Presales Solution Architect
8 154 (5.23%) Java Engineer
9 152 (5.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 149 (5.06%) Java Software Engineer
11 124 (4.21%) Lead
12 123 (4.17%) Applications Support
13 122 (4.14%) Project Manager
14 114 (3.87%) Consultant
14 114 (3.87%) Support Analyst
14 114 (3.87%) Systems Engineer
15 111 (3.77%) Applications Support Analyst
16 109 (3.70%) Senior Software Engineer
17 99 (3.36%) Support Engineer
18 98 (3.33%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 307 (10.42%) Spring
2 175 (5.94%) J2EE
3 167 (5.67%) React
4 162 (5.50%) .NET
5 157 (5.33%) Java EE
6 155 (5.26%) REST
7 139 (4.72%) XML
8 133 (4.51%) Web Services
9 129 (4.38%) JSON
10 113 (3.83%) AngularJS
11 109 (3.70%) SOAP
12 106 (3.60%) Ruby on Rails
13 92 (3.12%) Node.js
14 91 (3.09%) RESTful
15 86 (2.92%) Hibernate
16 79 (2.68%) JPA
17 77 (2.61%) XSD
18 44 (1.49%) HTML
19 36 (1.22%) CSS
19 36 (1.22%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 141 (4.78%) Data Centre
2 86 (2.92%) Management Information System
3 84 (2.85%) Self-Motivation
4 79 (2.68%) PKI
5 70 (2.38%) Public Cloud
6 64 (2.17%) Private Cloud
7 55 (1.87%) Virtual Team
8 46 (1.56%) Driving Licence
9 44 (1.49%) Clustering
10 40 (1.36%) CMDB
11 37 (1.26%) Algorithms
12 36 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
13 34 (1.15%) Virtual Reality
14 32 (1.09%) FPGA
15 29 (0.98%) Product Ownership
16 27 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
17 26 (0.88%) Security Operations Centre
18 25 (0.85%) VHDL
19 24 (0.81%) Cloud Native
19 24 (0.81%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 522 (17.71%) Windows
2 326 (11.06%) Linux
3 215 (7.30%) Windows Server
4 184 (6.24%) Unix
5 85 (2.88%) Android
6 72 (2.44%) Windows 10
7 57 (1.93%) Windows Server 2016
8 53 (1.80%) Windows Server 2019
9 48 (1.63%) Windows Server 2012
10 41 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 33 (1.12%) Windows 7
12 31 (1.05%) Apple iOS
13 25 (0.85%) Mac OS
14 15 (0.51%) CentOS
15 14 (0.48%) Windows Server 2003
16 13 (0.44%) Solaris
17 10 (0.34%) Ubuntu
18 8 (0.27%) VMS
19 7 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
20 5 (0.17%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,076 (36.51%) Actionable Insight
2 929 (31.52%) Problem-Solving
3 778 (26.40%) Agile
4 495 (16.80%) Software Engineering
5 451 (15.30%) DevOps
6 340 (11.54%) Mentoring
7 330 (11.20%) ITIL
8 329 (11.16%) Analytics
9 291 (9.87%) Coaching
10 277 (9.40%) Containerisation
11 248 (8.42%) Microservices
12 239 (8.11%) IT Strategy
13 234 (7.94%) Presales
14 233 (7.91%) Continuous Integration
15 230 (7.80%) Technology Strategy
16 227 (7.70%) Data Analytics
17 224 (7.60%) Design Patterns
18 222 (7.53%) Business Case
19 221 (7.50%) Unit Testing
20 215 (7.30%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 653 (22.16%) Java
2 498 (16.90%) Python
3 340 (11.54%) SQL
4 311 (10.55%) C#
5 295 (10.01%) PowerShell
6 181 (6.14%) Ruby
7 169 (5.73%) JavaScript
8 133 (4.51%) Bash
9 101 (3.43%) C++
10 87 (2.95%) Go
11 77 (2.61%) C
12 76 (2.58%) Perl
13 68 (2.31%) Shell Script
14 59 (2.00%) PL/SQL
15 44 (1.49%) VB
16 26 (0.88%) TypeScript
17 22 (0.75%) VBScript
18 21 (0.71%) R
19 20 (0.68%) VB.NET
20 19 (0.64%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 2,947 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 459 (15.58%) DV Cleared
3 384 (13.03%) Degree
4 108 (3.66%) Cisco Certification
5 82 (2.78%) CCNP
6 80 (2.71%) CCNA
7 79 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 61 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
9 58 (1.97%) CISSP
10 42 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
11 35 (1.19%) CISM
12 33 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
13 32 (1.09%) Azure Certification
14 28 (0.95%) Master's Degree
15 25 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 22 (0.75%) CTC Cleared
17 21 (0.71%) CREST Certified
18 19 (0.64%) JNCIA
19 18 (0.61%) CRISC
20 17 (0.58%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (4.75%) SLA
2 139 (4.72%) QA
3 54 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 44 (1.49%) NCSC
5 28 (0.95%) NIST
6 24 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 24 (0.81%) RMADS
7 20 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
8 17 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 16 (0.54%) Software Quality Assurance
10 13 (0.44%) GDPR
10 13 (0.44%) ISO 9001
11 12 (0.41%) Def Stans
12 11 (0.37%) Accessibility
12 11 (0.37%) GRC
12 11 (0.37%) IEC 61508
13 10 (0.34%) JSP 440
13 10 (0.34%) NIST 800
14 7 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
14 7 (0.24%) PMO
System Software
1 358 (12.15%) Active Directory
2 232 (7.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 136 (4.61%) Docker
4 106 (3.60%) Hyper-V
5 57 (1.93%) Virtual Machines
6 52 (1.76%) Firmware
7 50 (1.70%) VMware ESXi
8 32 (1.09%) vSphere
9 31 (1.05%) VMware NSX
10 26 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
10 26 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
11 16 (0.54%) Microsoft App-V
12 8 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
13 6 (0.20%) HDFS
14 5 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
14 5 (0.17%) KVM
15 2 (0.068%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 2 (0.068%) NFS
15 2 (0.068%) Terminal Services
16 1 (0.034%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 191 (6.48%) Kubernetes
2 143 (4.85%) SCCM
3 137 (4.65%) Ansible
4 128 (4.34%) Terraform
5 85 (2.88%) Single Sign-On
6 83 (2.82%) OpenSSO
7 77 (2.61%) SCOM
8 66 (2.24%) vCenter Server
9 58 (1.97%) WSUS
10 55 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
11 48 (1.63%) Puppet
12 34 (1.15%) FortiGate
13 31 (1.05%) AirWatch
14 26 (0.88%) VxRail
15 21 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 18 (0.61%) Nessus
17 17 (0.58%) Microsoft Clustering
18 14 (0.48%) Failover Clustering
18 14 (0.48%) Packer
18 14 (0.48%) SCSM
Vendors
1 523 (17.75%) Microsoft
2 306 (10.38%) VMware
3 292 (9.91%) Oracle
4 193 (6.55%) Cisco
5 131 (4.45%) ServiceNow
6 122 (4.14%) Juniper
7 97 (3.29%) Remedy
8 72 (2.44%) CheckPoint
9 60 (2.04%) Fortinet
10 50 (1.70%) Palo Alto
11 46 (1.56%) Aruba
12 45 (1.53%) F5
13 41 (1.39%) HP
14 39 (1.32%) Google
15 38 (1.29%) McAfee
16 37 (1.26%) SAP
16 37 (1.26%) Splunk
17 36 (1.22%) Red Hat
18 33 (1.12%) Citrix
19 29 (0.98%) IBM