Security Cleared Jobs in the UK excluding London

Security 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 Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 6 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 8 30 40
Rank change year-on-year +22 +10 +9
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 4,749 5,234 4,218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.97% 7.88% 6.50%
As % of the Qualifications category 41.89% 23.14% 23.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,439 2,220 2,006
10th Percentile £31,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,966 £39,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -4.17% +9.09%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

Security 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 11,338 22,619 17,953
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.73% 34.04% 27.68%
Number of salaries quoted 6,693 9,552 9,930
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £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 £65,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -

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 6 December 2023.

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 6 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 West +4 1,385 £55,000 - 480
South East +17 1,377 £53,760 +5.46% 554
North of England +83 712 £60,000 +9.09% 227
North West +55 504 £61,000 +10.91% 158
Midlands +56 463 £55,000 - 174
Scotland +36 295 £50,000 -9.09% 94
West Midlands +54 291 £55,000 - 129
Wales +8 264 £55,238 +10.48% 42
Yorkshire +115 173 £60,000 -8.40% 51
East Midlands +48 172 £60,000 +4.35% 45
East of England +13 160 £58,500 +23.16% 128
Northern Ireland +60 140 £64,500 +50.00% 5
North East +13 38 £56,145 -6.42% 19
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
1 103 (2.17%) IIS
2 93 (1.96%) WebLogic
3 78 (1.64%) SharePoint
4 76 (1.60%) Red Hat Fuse
5 75 (1.58%) JBoss
6 47 (0.99%) Confluence
7 36 (0.76%) MS Exchange
8 28 (0.59%) Apache Spark
9 26 (0.55%) Apache
10 23 (0.48%) Jupyter
11 18 (0.38%) WebSphere
12 16 (0.34%) nginx
13 13 (0.27%) OpenStack
14 12 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
15 8 (0.17%) Oracle Service Bus
16 7 (0.15%) SharePoint 2010
16 7 (0.15%) SharePoint 2013
17 6 (0.13%) ArcGIS
17 6 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
18 5 (0.11%) CMS
Applications
1 155 (3.26%) Microsoft Office
2 81 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 57 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (0.29%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.23%) SOLIDWORKS
6 11 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.19%) Autodesk Inventor
8 8 (0.17%) Windchill
9 6 (0.13%) AutoCAD
9 6 (0.13%) PTC Creo
10 5 (0.11%) OrCAD
11 4 (0.084%) Adobe Premiere
12 3 (0.063%) Acrobat
12 3 (0.063%) Simulink
12 3 (0.063%) Trello
13 2 (0.042%) Chatbot
14 1 (0.021%) 3ds Max
14 1 (0.021%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 1 (0.021%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 24 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 22 (0.46%) Primavera
3 17 (0.36%) Maximo
4 16 (0.34%) Siebel CRM
5 14 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
6 12 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
7 5 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.11%) Oracle Financials
7 5 (0.11%) SAP MM
8 4 (0.084%) Dynamics CRM
8 4 (0.084%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.063%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.063%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.063%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.063%) SAP GRC
9 3 (0.063%) SAP PM
9 3 (0.063%) SAP PP
10 2 (0.042%) Oracle Assets
10 2 (0.042%) Oracle Payables
10 2 (0.042%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 795 (16.74%) Azure
2 692 (14.57%) AWS
3 298 (6.28%) Serverless
4 209 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
5 179 (3.77%) GCP
6 156 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
7 149 (3.14%) OpenShift
8 113 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
9 90 (1.90%) SaaS
10 80 (1.68%) Entra ID
11 74 (1.56%) Power Platform
12 57 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
13 48 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
13 48 (1.01%) IaaS
14 46 (0.97%) GitHub
15 44 (0.93%) PaaS
16 41 (0.86%) Amazon ECS
17 38 (0.80%) dbt
18 34 (0.72%) Amazon EKS
19 32 (0.67%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 367 (7.73%) Firewall
2 227 (4.78%) WAN
3 193 (4.06%) DNS
4 168 (3.54%) LAN
5 160 (3.37%) TCP/IP
6 157 (3.31%) DHCP
7 148 (3.12%) Network Security
8 146 (3.07%) VPN
9 135 (2.84%) HTTP
10 91 (1.92%) BGP
11 81 (1.71%) OSPF
12 67 (1.41%) Wireless
13 63 (1.33%) Internet
14 61 (1.28%) SMTP
15 56 (1.18%) SAN
16 50 (1.05%) Cisco Firepower
17 48 (1.01%) Cisco ASA
18 41 (0.86%) Intrusion Detection
19 39 (0.82%) IPsec
20 37 (0.78%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 253 (5.33%) SQL Server
2 145 (3.05%) Elasticsearch
3 115 (2.42%) Big Data
4 104 (2.19%) Relational Database
5 89 (1.87%) Oracle Database
6 83 (1.75%) RDBMS
7 74 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
8 71 (1.50%) MySQL
9 70 (1.47%) MongoDB
10 58 (1.22%) NoSQL
11 50 (1.05%) Power BI
12 49 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
13 39 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
14 34 (0.72%) GIS
15 26 (0.55%) Hadoop
16 24 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
17 20 (0.42%) JasperReports
18 18 (0.38%) DynamoDB
19 16 (0.34%) Redis
20 15 (0.32%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 305 (6.42%) Git
2 203 (4.27%) Jenkins
3 175 (3.68%) JIRA
4 102 (2.15%) GitLab
5 100 (2.11%) Selenium
6 74 (1.56%) IntelliJ
7 42 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
8 37 (0.78%) Maven
8 37 (0.78%) Robot Framework
9 34 (0.72%) Bitbucket
10 33 (0.69%) Cucumber
11 32 (0.67%) MSI
12 31 (0.65%) Cypress.io
12 31 (0.65%) Visual Studio
13 30 (0.63%) Rational DOORS
14 28 (0.59%) Oracle APEX
15 24 (0.51%) Team Foundation Server
16 22 (0.46%) Artifactory
17 16 (0.34%) AdminStudio
17 16 (0.34%) InstallShield
General
1 1,430 (30.11%) Social Skills
2 500 (10.53%) Finance
3 429 (9.03%) Public Sector
4 366 (7.71%) Analytical Skills
5 287 (6.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 248 (5.22%) Presentation Skills
7 228 (4.80%) Games
8 175 (3.68%) Banking
9 170 (3.58%) Aerospace
9 170 (3.58%) Influencing Skills
10 159 (3.35%) Police
11 158 (3.33%) Military
12 118 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
13 112 (2.36%) Telecoms
14 105 (2.21%) Retail
15 67 (1.41%) Manufacturing
16 64 (1.35%) Electronics
17 55 (1.16%) Law
18 43 (0.91%) Legal
19 29 (0.61%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 821 (17.29%) Senior
2 724 (15.25%) Architect
3 503 (10.59%) Software Engineer
4 358 (7.54%) Developer
5 337 (7.10%) Analyst
6 321 (6.76%) Solutions Architect
7 251 (5.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 216 (4.55%) Lead
9 202 (4.25%) Presales Solution Architect
10 198 (4.17%) Project Manager
10 198 (4.17%) Security Architect
11 191 (4.02%) Consultant
12 183 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
13 172 (3.62%) Network Engineer
14 164 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
15 160 (3.37%) Java Engineer
16 155 (3.26%) Java Software Engineer
17 146 (3.07%) Business Manager
17 146 (3.07%) Development Manager
18 143 (3.01%) Business Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 343 (7.22%) Spring
2 205 (4.32%) React
3 204 (4.30%) .NET
4 176 (3.71%) J2EE
5 172 (3.62%) REST
6 157 (3.31%) Java EE
7 149 (3.14%) XML
8 143 (3.01%) AngularJS
8 143 (3.01%) Web Services
9 136 (2.86%) HTML
9 136 (2.86%) JSON
10 131 (2.76%) Node.js
11 112 (2.36%) SOAP
12 106 (2.23%) Ruby on Rails
13 92 (1.94%) RESTful
14 89 (1.87%) Hibernate
15 79 (1.66%) JPA
16 77 (1.62%) XSD
17 67 (1.41%) ModSecurity
18 53 (1.12%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 193 (4.06%) Data Centre
2 168 (3.54%) Management Information System
3 158 (3.33%) PKI
4 130 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
5 129 (2.72%) Cyberattack
6 118 (2.48%) Public Cloud
7 109 (2.30%) Algorithms
8 83 (1.75%) Private Cloud
9 81 (1.71%) Driving Licence
10 71 (1.50%) Cloud Native
11 69 (1.45%) Cyber Threat
12 68 (1.43%) Virtual Team
13 67 (1.41%) Clustering
14 61 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
15 60 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
16 56 (1.18%) Security Operations Centre
17 52 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
17 52 (1.09%) Product Ownership
18 45 (0.95%) Operational Technology
19 43 (0.91%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 790 (16.64%) Windows
2 676 (14.23%) Linux
3 331 (6.97%) Windows Server
4 226 (4.76%) Unix
5 118 (2.48%) Windows Server 2019
6 114 (2.40%) Windows Server 2016
7 107 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 103 (2.17%) Windows 10
9 102 (2.15%) Windows Server 2012
10 89 (1.87%) Android
11 49 (1.03%) CentOS
12 41 (0.86%) Windows 7
13 36 (0.76%) Apple iOS
14 30 (0.63%) Mac OS
15 19 (0.40%) Windows Server 2003
16 16 (0.34%) Ubuntu
17 15 (0.32%) Windows NT
18 14 (0.29%) Solaris
19 10 (0.21%) VMS
20 9 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,635 (34.43%) Actionable Insight
2 1,180 (24.85%) Problem-Solving
3 1,110 (23.37%) Agile
4 733 (15.43%) Software Engineering
5 713 (15.01%) DevOps
6 608 (12.80%) Cybersecurity
7 507 (10.68%) Containerisation
8 494 (10.40%) Mentoring
9 460 (9.69%) ITIL
10 428 (9.01%) Coaching
11 376 (7.92%) Analytics
12 355 (7.48%) Microservices
13 348 (7.33%) CI/CD
14 337 (7.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 298 (6.28%) SIEM
16 296 (6.23%) Design Patterns
17 290 (6.11%) IT Strategy
18 285 (6.00%) Project Management
19 278 (5.85%) Continuous Integration
20 275 (5.79%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 908 (19.12%) Java
2 901 (18.97%) Python
3 447 (9.41%) SQL
4 446 (9.39%) PowerShell
5 358 (7.54%) C#
6 312 (6.57%) JavaScript
7 259 (5.45%) Bash
8 200 (4.21%) C++
9 183 (3.85%) Ruby
10 136 (2.86%) C
11 111 (2.34%) Go
12 83 (1.75%) Perl
12 83 (1.75%) Shell Script
13 59 (1.24%) PL/SQL
14 54 (1.14%) TypeScript
15 50 (1.05%) VBScript
16 47 (0.99%) R
17 46 (0.97%) VB
18 38 (0.80%) MATLAB
19 30 (0.63%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2,966 (62.46%) SC Cleared
2 1,082 (22.78%) DV Cleared
3 664 (13.98%) Degree
4 164 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
5 126 (2.65%) CISSP
6 119 (2.51%) CCNA
7 108 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
8 106 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
9 104 (2.19%) CCNP
10 98 (2.06%) AWS Certification
11 95 (2.00%) CISM
12 73 (1.54%) CRISC
12 73 (1.54%) Master's Degree
13 68 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 63 (1.33%) CISA
15 52 (1.09%) Azure Certification
16 43 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
16 43 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
17 36 (0.76%) HNC
18 34 (0.72%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 215 (4.53%) QA
2 190 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 153 (3.22%) SLA
4 86 (1.81%) NIST
5 68 (1.43%) GRC
6 55 (1.16%) NCSC
7 51 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
8 50 (1.05%) ISO 22301
9 44 (0.93%) ISO 9001
10 33 (0.69%) Accessibility
10 33 (0.69%) RMADS
11 32 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 25 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 23 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 23 (0.48%) JSP 440
14 20 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 17025
15 16 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
16 15 (0.32%) GDPR
17 14 (0.29%) Def Stans
18 12 (0.25%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 486 (10.23%) Active Directory
2 343 (7.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 294 (6.19%) Docker
4 232 (4.89%) Virtual Machines
5 177 (3.73%) Hyper-V
6 91 (1.92%) Firmware
7 60 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
8 49 (1.03%) VMware NSX
9 45 (0.95%) vSphere
10 28 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
11 27 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
12 16 (0.34%) Microsoft App-V
13 10 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
14 8 (0.17%) KVM
15 6 (0.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 6 (0.13%) HDFS
16 5 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
16 5 (0.11%) XenApp
17 3 (0.063%) NFS
17 3 (0.063%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 339 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 249 (5.24%) Ansible
3 232 (4.89%) Terraform
4 206 (4.34%) SCCM
5 109 (2.30%) SCOM
6 102 (2.15%) Puppet
7 85 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
8 83 (1.75%) OpenSSO
9 76 (1.60%) vCenter Server
9 76 (1.60%) WSUS
10 63 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
11 57 (1.20%) FortiGate
12 33 (0.69%) Grafana
13 31 (0.65%) AirWatch
14 29 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 27 (0.57%) Nessus
16 26 (0.55%) VxRail
17 21 (0.44%) Prometheus
18 20 (0.42%) EnCase
19 19 (0.40%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 781 (16.45%) Microsoft
2 487 (10.25%) VMware
3 363 (7.64%) Oracle
4 333 (7.01%) Cisco
5 192 (4.04%) Juniper
6 150 (3.16%) ServiceNow
7 105 (2.21%) CheckPoint
7 105 (2.21%) Remedy
8 103 (2.17%) Red Hat
9 80 (1.68%) Fortinet
10 71 (1.50%) F5
11 65 (1.37%) Splunk
12 64 (1.35%) IBM
13 62 (1.31%) SAP
14 61 (1.28%) CA
15 54 (1.14%) Palo Alto
16 51 (1.07%) HP
17 50 (1.05%) SolarWinds
18 49 (1.03%) Citrix
19 46 (0.97%) Aruba