Security Cleared Jobs in the UK excluding London

Security 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 Security 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 17 13 40
Rank change year-on-year -4 +27 -4
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 5,416 6,052 5,211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.30% 12.57% 6.65%
As % of the Qualifications category 32.10% 33.12% 19.95%
Number of salaries quoted 3,181 2,421 2,619
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £44,750 £41,250 £38,947
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £65,750
90th Percentile £84,750 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +9.09% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

Security 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% -

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the UK excluding London

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Security Cleared in the UK excluding London

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in the UK excluding London

Security 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 Security 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 1,814 £55,000 +6.80% 280
South West +1 1,537 £58,000 -3.33% 234
North of England -13 700 £55,000 -10.57% 177
Midlands -18 591 £52,250 -7.52% 96
North West -11 510 £55,000 -12.00% 135
West Midlands +2 447 £55,000 -4.35% 71
East of England +4 267 £50,000 -9.09% 57
Scotland -56 246 £58,650 +30.33% 45
Wales 0 190 £60,000 +31.30% 22
Yorkshire -16 153 £60,000 -10.45% 28
East Midlands -58 144 £42,500 -19.05% 25
Northern Ireland -1 96 £59,400 -6.09% 13
North East -17 37 £58,800 +23.79% 15
South Coast - 1 £35,000 -
Security Cleared
UK

Security 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 (3.64%) ArcGIS
2 184 (3.40%) GeoServer
3 113 (2.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 85 (1.57%) SharePoint
5 81 (1.50%) Apache
5 81 (1.50%) WebLogic
6 77 (1.42%) Confluence
7 57 (1.05%) Apache Spark
8 29 (0.54%) IIS
9 27 (0.50%) Oracle Service Bus
10 22 (0.41%) Appian
10 22 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2010
11 20 (0.37%) nginx
12 16 (0.30%) Jupyter
12 16 (0.30%) OpenStack
12 16 (0.30%) Tomcat
13 12 (0.22%) SharePoint 2010
13 12 (0.22%) SharePoint 2013
13 12 (0.22%) Skype for Business
14 8 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 201 (3.71%) Microsoft Office
2 129 (2.38%) Simulink
3 84 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
4 51 (0.94%) MS Visio
5 40 (0.74%) Sketch
6 35 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 35 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
7 8 (0.15%) AutoCAD
8 7 (0.13%) Siemens NX
9 6 (0.11%) Trello
10 4 (0.074%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.055%) Windchill
12 2 (0.037%) Abaqus
12 2 (0.037%) EPLAN
12 2 (0.037%) Fireworks
12 2 (0.037%) InDesign
12 2 (0.037%) Revit
12 2 (0.037%) Stateflow
13 1 (0.018%) Acrobat
13 1 (0.018%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 73 (1.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 57 (1.05%) Remedy ITSM
3 51 (0.94%) NEC Housing
4 36 (0.66%) Siebel CRM
5 28 (0.52%) Primavera
6 23 (0.42%) Maximo
7 9 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
7 9 (0.17%) Teamcenter
8 7 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
9 6 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
10 5 (0.092%) PeopleSoft HCM
11 4 (0.074%) Dynamics CRM
11 4 (0.074%) Q-Pulse
12 3 (0.055%) SAP S/4HANA
12 3 (0.055%) Workday HCM
13 2 (0.037%) Oracle Assets
13 2 (0.037%) Oracle Payables
13 2 (0.037%) Oracle Receivables
13 2 (0.037%) SAP Business ByDesign
13 2 (0.037%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 1,002 (18.50%) Azure
2 900 (16.62%) AWS
3 224 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
4 118 (2.18%) SaaS
5 106 (1.96%) GCP
6 93 (1.72%) OpenShift
7 83 (1.53%) Amazon EKS
8 78 (1.44%) Serverless
9 70 (1.29%) Entra ID
9 70 (1.29%) Power Platform
10 63 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
10 63 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
10 63 (1.16%) Miro
11 56 (1.03%) dbt
12 53 (0.98%) AWS CloudFormation
12 53 (0.98%) PaaS
13 51 (0.94%) AWS Lambda
14 46 (0.85%) GitHub
15 43 (0.79%) IaaS
16 41 (0.76%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 335 (6.19%) Firewall
2 191 (3.53%) DNS
3 154 (2.84%) WAN
4 151 (2.79%) TCP/IP
5 137 (2.53%) BGP
6 124 (2.29%) Network Security
7 101 (1.86%) DHCP
8 95 (1.75%) VPN
9 93 (1.72%) LAN
10 79 (1.46%) SSL
11 76 (1.40%) OSPF
12 72 (1.33%) Cisco ASA
13 65 (1.20%) Wireless
14 60 (1.11%) IPsec
15 57 (1.05%) Cisco Firepower
16 54 (1.00%) SAN
17 51 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
18 49 (0.90%) SD-WAN
19 48 (0.89%) VLAN
20 47 (0.87%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 285 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 210 (3.88%) GIS
3 188 (3.47%) QGIS
4 120 (2.22%) Oracle Database
5 106 (1.96%) SQL Server
6 105 (1.94%) Relational Database
7 104 (1.92%) Hadoop
8 93 (1.72%) Big Data
9 89 (1.64%) MongoDB
10 84 (1.55%) NoSQL
11 55 (1.02%) RDBMS
12 54 (1.00%) Power BI
13 52 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
14 37 (0.68%) MySQL
15 36 (0.66%) Oracle BI EE
15 36 (0.66%) Siebel EIM
16 29 (0.54%) Cloudera CDH
17 27 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
17 27 (0.50%) Oracle Database 10g
17 27 (0.50%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 206 (3.80%) JIRA
2 130 (2.40%) Git
3 119 (2.20%) GitLab
4 108 (1.99%) Jenkins
5 75 (1.38%) Visual Studio
6 59 (1.09%) Rational DOORS
7 39 (0.72%) Selenium
8 36 (0.66%) Bitbucket
9 35 (0.65%) SonarQube
10 33 (0.61%) Vagrant
11 23 (0.42%) MSI
11 23 (0.42%) Sourcetree
12 20 (0.37%) LabVIEW
13 17 (0.31%) Cucumber
13 17 (0.31%) JUnit
14 16 (0.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 14 (0.26%) Rational Rhapsody
16 13 (0.24%) AdminStudio
16 13 (0.24%) InstallShield
17 11 (0.20%) JMeter
General
1 1,019 (18.81%) Social Skills
2 455 (8.40%) Aerospace
2 455 (8.40%) Finance
3 335 (6.19%) Public Sector
4 262 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
5 246 (4.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 162 (2.99%) Military
7 139 (2.57%) Telecoms
8 111 (2.05%) Manufacturing
9 108 (1.99%) Police
10 92 (1.70%) Electronics
11 81 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
12 80 (1.48%) Games
12 80 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
13 62 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
14 60 (1.11%) Retail
15 58 (1.07%) Law
15 58 (1.07%) Local Government
16 36 (0.66%) Marketing
17 34 (0.63%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 861 (15.90%) Senior
2 625 (11.54%) Software Engineer
3 576 (10.64%) Architect
4 415 (7.66%) Developer
5 391 (7.22%) Lead
6 345 (6.37%) Systems Engineer
7 339 (6.26%) Analyst
8 288 (5.32%) Network Engineer
9 274 (5.06%) Consultant
10 247 (4.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 228 (4.21%) Senior Software Engineer
12 207 (3.82%) Project Manager
13 185 (3.42%) DevOps Engineer
14 152 (2.81%) Support Engineer
15 148 (2.73%) Administrator
16 142 (2.62%) Solutions Architect
17 122 (2.25%) Software Developer
18 115 (2.12%) Security Consultant
19 101 (1.86%) Designer
20 97 (1.79%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 326 (6.02%) React
2 294 (5.43%) .NET
3 213 (3.93%) CSS
4 195 (3.60%) .NET Core
5 187 (3.45%) Leaflet
5 187 (3.45%) OpenLayers
6 184 (3.40%) PostGIS
7 154 (2.84%) Node.js
8 99 (1.83%) Spring Boot
9 90 (1.66%) RabbitMQ
10 87 (1.61%) HTML
11 86 (1.59%) REST
12 80 (1.48%) Spring
13 78 (1.44%) Kafka
14 75 (1.38%) Middleware
15 65 (1.20%) AngularJS
16 56 (1.03%) Elastic Stack
17 51 (0.94%) Django
18 48 (0.89%) 802.1X
19 46 (0.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 269 (4.97%) Management Information System
2 181 (3.34%) Algorithms
3 165 (3.05%) Driving Licence
4 143 (2.64%) Self-Motivation
5 125 (2.31%) Data Centre
6 102 (1.88%) PKI
7 100 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
7 100 (1.85%) Product Ownership
8 96 (1.77%) Public Cloud
9 78 (1.44%) Cloud Native
10 76 (1.40%) Private Cloud
11 63 (1.16%) Operational Technology
12 59 (1.09%) Security Operations Centre
13 45 (0.83%) Cyberattack
14 38 (0.70%) Onboarding
15 37 (0.68%) Cyber Defence
16 36 (0.66%) Cyber Threat
16 36 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
17 31 (0.57%) CMDB
17 31 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 917 (16.93%) Linux
2 757 (13.98%) Windows
3 255 (4.71%) Windows Server
4 171 (3.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 171 (3.16%) Unix
5 146 (2.70%) Windows 10
6 125 (2.31%) CentOS
7 111 (2.05%) Windows Server 2016
8 107 (1.98%) Windows Server 2019
9 88 (1.62%) Ubuntu
10 84 (1.55%) Embedded Linux
11 72 (1.33%) Windows Server 2012
12 65 (1.20%) Solaris
13 58 (1.07%) Android
14 40 (0.74%) Windows 7
15 34 (0.63%) Debian
16 18 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
17 14 (0.26%) Kali Linux
18 12 (0.22%) AIX
19 10 (0.18%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,565 (28.90%) Agile
2 993 (18.33%) Actionable Insight
3 931 (17.19%) Software Engineering
4 825 (15.23%) DevOps
5 709 (13.09%) Problem-Solving
6 620 (11.45%) Cybersecurity
7 511 (9.44%) Project Management
8 432 (7.98%) Collaborative Working
9 404 (7.46%) ITIL
10 393 (7.26%) Scrum
11 389 (7.18%) Mentoring
12 327 (6.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 320 (5.91%) Stakeholder Management
14 304 (5.61%) Computer Science
15 291 (5.37%) Systems Engineering
16 273 (5.04%) Artificial Intelligence
16 273 (5.04%) CI/CD
17 245 (4.52%) Coaching
18 243 (4.49%) Service Management
19 240 (4.43%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1,000 (18.46%) Python
2 524 (9.68%) Java
3 481 (8.88%) JavaScript
4 432 (7.98%) SQL
5 379 (7.00%) C#
6 343 (6.33%) C++
7 274 (5.06%) PowerShell
8 271 (5.00%) C
9 225 (4.15%) Bash
10 113 (2.09%) MATLAB
11 105 (1.94%) TypeScript
12 82 (1.51%) Fortran
13 69 (1.27%) Shell Script
14 56 (1.03%) Rust
15 55 (1.02%) Kotlin
16 53 (0.98%) Embedded C
17 38 (0.70%) PL/SQL
18 37 (0.68%) VB
19 26 (0.48%) R
20 25 (0.46%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3,211 (59.29%) SC Cleared
2 1,302 (24.04%) DV Cleared
3 905 (16.71%) Degree
4 296 (5.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 170 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 157 (2.90%) Cisco Certification
7 114 (2.10%) CCNA
8 96 (1.77%) CCNP
8 96 (1.77%) CISSP
9 89 (1.64%) CISM
10 82 (1.51%) Azure Certification
11 77 (1.42%) Master's Degree
12 74 (1.37%) AWS Certification
12 74 (1.37%) PhD
13 68 (1.26%) CESG Certified Professional
13 68 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
14 63 (1.16%) DBS Check
15 59 (1.09%) CRISC
16 48 (0.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 44 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (3.08%) Accessibility
2 155 (2.86%) SLA
3 140 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 128 (2.36%) QA
5 112 (2.07%) NCSC
6 87 (1.61%) NIST
7 51 (0.94%) WCAG
8 40 (0.74%) GDPR
9 34 (0.63%) GRC
10 31 (0.57%) PCI DSS
11 30 (0.55%) COBIT
11 30 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
11 30 (0.55%) PMO
12 27 (0.50%) Data Quality
12 27 (0.50%) NIST 800
13 23 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 19 (0.35%) JSP 440
15 17 (0.31%) ISO 9001
16 16 (0.30%) Def Stans
16 16 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 353 (6.52%) Active Directory
2 290 (5.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 249 (4.60%) Docker
4 136 (2.51%) Hyper-V
5 91 (1.68%) vSphere
6 74 (1.37%) Firmware
7 69 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
8 46 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
9 41 (0.76%) VMware NSX
10 27 (0.50%) Oracle RAC
11 25 (0.46%) KVM
12 20 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
13 19 (0.35%) Microsoft App-V
14 18 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
15 15 (0.28%) pfSense
15 15 (0.28%) XenDesktop
16 10 (0.18%) Lustre
16 10 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
17 9 (0.17%) NFS
18 7 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 357 (6.59%) Ansible
2 333 (6.15%) Kubernetes
3 255 (4.71%) Terraform
4 163 (3.01%) SCCM
5 98 (1.81%) Puppet
6 70 (1.29%) WSUS
7 67 (1.24%) SCOM
8 65 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
8 65 (1.20%) vCenter Server
9 53 (0.98%) Grafana
10 36 (0.66%) FortiGate
11 31 (0.57%) Prometheus
12 29 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 29 (0.54%) OpenView
13 27 (0.50%) Data Guard
13 27 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
14 23 (0.42%) EMC NetWorker
15 22 (0.41%) Nagios
15 22 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
15 22 (0.41%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 834 (15.40%) Microsoft
2 415 (7.66%) VMware
3 371 (6.85%) Cisco
4 300 (5.54%) Oracle
5 246 (4.54%) Juniper
6 191 (3.53%) ESRI
7 156 (2.88%) Red Hat
8 119 (2.20%) ServiceNow
9 80 (1.48%) Xilinx
10 73 (1.35%) Remedy
10 73 (1.35%) Sparx
11 69 (1.27%) Fortinet
12 68 (1.26%) NEC
13 66 (1.22%) HP
14 65 (1.20%) Dell
15 63 (1.16%) Google
16 59 (1.09%) IBM
16 59 (1.09%) McAfee
17 48 (0.89%) SolarWinds
17 48 (0.89%) Veeam