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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 23 33
Rank change year-on-year +8 +10 +17
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 6,379 5,630 5,244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.11% 9.11% 7.43%
As % of the Qualifications category 32.95% 24.93% 23.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,799 2,352 2,413
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £29,033
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,940 £38,947
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £53,112
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -1.15% -1.64%
75th Percentile £68,750 £69,196 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.54% +7.27% -

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 19,361 22,582 22,148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.64% 36.54% 31.37%
Number of salaries quoted 12,186 8,272 10,253
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,181 £37,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,296 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.59% +0.59% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £76,150
UK median annual salary £54,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +5.45% -

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +7 1,950 £55,000 +14.58% 522
South West +2 1,918 £55,000 - 438
North of England +17 808 £55,000 -4.35% 240
Midlands +2 629 £52,500 -4.55% 150
North West +5 583 £55,000 -4.35% 189
West Midlands +17 427 £55,000 -4.35% 115
East of England +21 412 £55,000 - 157
Scotland -43 332 £52,500 - 95
Wales +7 243 £50,000 +65.54% 17
East Midlands -20 202 £44,500 -15.24% 35
Yorkshire +36 190 £60,000 -10.45% 31
Northern Ireland +21 114 £60,000 +84.62% 19
North East -33 37 £55,000 +18.92% 20
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
1 293 (4.59%) ArcGIS
2 284 (4.45%) GeoServer
3 149 (2.34%) Confluence
4 116 (1.82%) WebLogic
5 90 (1.41%) IIS
6 86 (1.35%) SharePoint
7 80 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
8 65 (1.02%) Apache
9 45 (0.71%) Apache Spark
9 45 (0.71%) Oracle Service Bus
10 34 (0.53%) OpenStack
11 32 (0.50%) JBoss
11 32 (0.50%) Red Hat Fuse
12 25 (0.39%) nginx
13 17 (0.27%) Jupyter
14 15 (0.24%) CMS
15 14 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2010
15 14 (0.22%) Skype for Business
16 13 (0.20%) SharePoint 2010
16 13 (0.20%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 264 (4.14%) Microsoft Office
2 149 (2.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 111 (1.74%) Simulink
4 85 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 77 (1.21%) MS Visio
6 40 (0.63%) Sketch
7 31 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
8 10 (0.16%) AutoCAD
9 6 (0.094%) Trello
9 6 (0.094%) Windchill
10 4 (0.063%) EPLAN
10 4 (0.063%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.063%) Siemens NX
10 4 (0.063%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.063%) Stateflow
11 3 (0.047%) Revit
12 2 (0.031%) Abaqus
12 2 (0.031%) Fireworks
12 2 (0.031%) InDesign
12 2 (0.031%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 91 (1.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 74 (1.16%) Remedy ITSM
3 48 (0.75%) Primavera
4 38 (0.60%) Siebel CRM
5 21 (0.33%) NEC Housing
6 20 (0.31%) Maximo
7 11 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
7 11 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
8 9 (0.14%) Teamcenter
9 6 (0.094%) Oracle Applications
10 5 (0.078%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (0.078%) SAP ERP
11 4 (0.063%) SAP CO
11 4 (0.063%) SAP FI
11 4 (0.063%) SAP FI/CO
12 3 (0.047%) SAP HR
12 3 (0.047%) SAP PM
13 2 (0.031%) Oracle EBS R12
13 2 (0.031%) SAP FSCM
13 2 (0.031%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 1,237 (19.39%) Azure
2 1,072 (16.81%) AWS
3 216 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
4 123 (1.93%) SaaS
5 108 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
6 106 (1.66%) OpenShift
7 102 (1.60%) Amazon EKS
8 91 (1.43%) Serverless
9 85 (1.33%) GCP
10 71 (1.11%) AWS CloudFormation
11 70 (1.10%) Power Platform
12 66 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
13 64 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
14 61 (0.96%) Entra ID
15 60 (0.94%) Miro
16 58 (0.91%) PaaS
17 51 (0.80%) AWS Lambda
18 49 (0.77%) IaaS
19 45 (0.71%) GitHub
20 41 (0.64%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 408 (6.40%) Firewall
2 264 (4.14%) DNS
3 219 (3.43%) WAN
4 189 (2.96%) TCP/IP
5 157 (2.46%) DHCP
6 147 (2.30%) BGP
7 138 (2.16%) LAN
8 112 (1.76%) Network Security
9 96 (1.50%) VPN
10 86 (1.35%) Wireless
11 80 (1.25%) SAN
12 72 (1.13%) HTTP
13 68 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
14 63 (0.99%) SSL
15 61 (0.96%) Cisco ASA
15 61 (0.96%) MPLS
16 52 (0.82%) OSPF
17 49 (0.77%) IPsec
18 47 (0.74%) SD-WAN
19 44 (0.69%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 374 (5.86%) PostgreSQL
2 323 (5.06%) GIS
3 284 (4.45%) QGIS
4 164 (2.57%) SQL Server
5 123 (1.93%) Relational Database
6 120 (1.88%) Oracle Database
7 88 (1.38%) NoSQL
8 73 (1.14%) Big Data
9 66 (1.03%) Hadoop
10 61 (0.96%) MongoDB
11 60 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
12 55 (0.86%) RDBMS
13 48 (0.75%) Power BI
14 46 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
14 46 (0.72%) Oracle Database 10g
14 46 (0.72%) Oracle Database 11g
15 45 (0.71%) VLDB
16 39 (0.61%) MySQL
17 31 (0.49%) Tableau
18 30 (0.47%) Siebel EIM
Development Applications
1 271 (4.25%) JIRA
2 222 (3.48%) Git
3 170 (2.66%) Jenkins
4 134 (2.10%) Visual Studio
5 126 (1.98%) GitLab
6 98 (1.54%) Bitbucket
7 92 (1.44%) Rational DOORS
8 59 (0.92%) Sourcetree
9 57 (0.89%) Selenium
10 39 (0.61%) Rational Rhapsody
11 28 (0.44%) Subversion
12 27 (0.42%) Cucumber
13 26 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
14 24 (0.38%) Ant
15 23 (0.36%) IntelliJ
15 23 (0.36%) LabVIEW
16 20 (0.31%) JUnit
17 17 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 17 (0.27%) JMeter
18 16 (0.25%) CMake
General
1 1,299 (20.36%) Social Skills
2 490 (7.68%) Aerospace
3 474 (7.43%) Public Sector
4 461 (7.23%) Finance
5 327 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
6 301 (4.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 218 (3.42%) Military
8 199 (3.12%) Games
9 158 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
10 151 (2.37%) Telecoms
11 127 (1.99%) Manufacturing
12 120 (1.88%) Police
13 116 (1.82%) Electronics
14 113 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
15 92 (1.44%) Retail
16 84 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
17 48 (0.75%) Law
18 40 (0.63%) Local Government
19 38 (0.60%) Legal
20 27 (0.42%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1,158 (18.15%) Senior
2 775 (12.15%) Architect
3 744 (11.66%) Software Engineer
4 529 (8.29%) Developer
5 492 (7.71%) Lead
6 441 (6.91%) Analyst
7 437 (6.85%) Systems Engineer
8 321 (5.03%) Senior Software Engineer
9 298 (4.67%) Network Engineer
10 296 (4.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 287 (4.50%) Consultant
12 279 (4.37%) Solutions Architect
13 252 (3.95%) Project Manager
14 168 (2.63%) Support Engineer
15 166 (2.60%) DevOps Engineer
16 155 (2.43%) Administrator
17 154 (2.41%) Senior Developer
18 135 (2.12%) Security Consultant
19 123 (1.93%) Designer
20 109 (1.71%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 433 (6.79%) React
2 415 (6.51%) .NET
3 289 (4.53%) CSS
4 287 (4.50%) Leaflet
4 287 (4.50%) OpenLayers
5 284 (4.45%) PostGIS
6 264 (4.14%) .NET Core
7 178 (2.79%) AngularJS
8 167 (2.62%) Spring
9 159 (2.49%) REST
10 148 (2.32%) Node.js
11 137 (2.15%) HTML
12 121 (1.90%) Spring Boot
13 104 (1.63%) XML
14 90 (1.41%) RESTful
15 88 (1.38%) Unity (Game Engine)
16 86 (1.35%) RabbitMQ
16 86 (1.35%) Web Services
17 82 (1.29%) JSON
18 64 (1.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 248 (3.89%) Management Information System
2 209 (3.28%) Driving Licence
3 187 (2.93%) Algorithms
4 174 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
5 160 (2.51%) Data Centre
6 127 (1.99%) Public Cloud
7 110 (1.72%) Cloud Native
8 108 (1.69%) Private Cloud
9 98 (1.54%) PKI
9 98 (1.54%) Product Ownership
10 95 (1.49%) Virtual Reality
11 86 (1.35%) Virtual Team
12 81 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
13 76 (1.19%) Cyberattack
14 72 (1.13%) Clustering
15 69 (1.08%) Security Operations Centre
16 66 (1.03%) Operational Technology
17 61 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
18 60 (0.94%) Cyber Threat
19 54 (0.85%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 999 (15.66%) Linux
2 903 (14.16%) Windows
3 341 (5.35%) Windows Server
4 177 (2.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 162 (2.54%) Unix
6 149 (2.34%) Windows 10
7 125 (1.96%) Windows Server 2016
8 121 (1.90%) CentOS
9 120 (1.88%) Windows Server 2019
10 99 (1.55%) Ubuntu
11 87 (1.36%) Windows Server 2012
12 63 (0.99%) Embedded Linux
13 61 (0.96%) Windows 7
14 53 (0.83%) Solaris
15 29 (0.45%) Debian
16 17 (0.27%) Android
17 16 (0.25%) AIX
18 14 (0.22%) Windows NT
19 13 (0.20%) VMS
20 12 (0.19%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,819 (28.52%) Agile
2 1,583 (24.82%) Actionable Insight
3 1,115 (17.48%) Software Engineering
4 1,093 (17.13%) Problem-Solving
5 1,072 (16.81%) DevOps
6 668 (10.47%) Cybersecurity
7 579 (9.08%) Project Management
8 539 (8.45%) ITIL
9 463 (7.26%) Scrum
10 452 (7.09%) Mentoring
11 421 (6.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 400 (6.27%) Collaborative Working
13 371 (5.82%) Stakeholder Management
14 360 (5.64%) Systems Engineering
15 311 (4.88%) Web Development
16 301 (4.72%) CI/CD
17 300 (4.70%) Validation
18 297 (4.66%) Customer Service
19 279 (4.37%) Service Management
20 270 (4.23%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 1,043 (16.35%) Python
2 632 (9.91%) Java
3 629 (9.86%) JavaScript
4 480 (7.52%) C#
5 434 (6.80%) PowerShell
6 430 (6.74%) SQL
7 262 (4.11%) C++
8 251 (3.93%) C
9 250 (3.92%) Bash
10 141 (2.21%) MATLAB
11 95 (1.49%) TypeScript
12 83 (1.30%) Shell Script
13 60 (0.94%) PL/SQL
14 58 (0.91%) Rust
15 53 (0.83%) Embedded C
16 44 (0.69%) Ada
17 39 (0.61%) Fortran
18 31 (0.49%) VB
19 26 (0.41%) Go
20 25 (0.39%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3,731 (58.49%) SC Cleared
2 1,346 (21.10%) DV Cleared
3 1,050 (16.46%) Degree
4 543 (8.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 210 (3.29%) Cisco Certification
6 137 (2.15%) CCNA
7 132 (2.07%) CCNP
8 120 (1.88%) AWS Certification
9 116 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
10 98 (1.54%) CISSP
11 87 (1.36%) CISM
12 82 (1.29%) Azure Certification
13 80 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 76 (1.19%) CESG Certified Professional
15 70 (1.10%) DBS Check
16 63 (0.99%) CRISC
16 63 (0.99%) CTC Cleared
17 60 (0.94%) PhD
18 59 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
19 54 (0.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 229 (3.59%) SLA
2 186 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 146 (2.29%) Accessibility
4 133 (2.08%) QA
5 100 (1.57%) NCSC
6 95 (1.49%) NIST
7 79 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials
8 62 (0.97%) ISO 9001
9 51 (0.80%) WCAG
10 48 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 47 (0.74%) PCI DSS
12 45 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 40 (0.63%) GDPR
13 40 (0.63%) NIST 800
14 38 (0.60%) Def Stans
15 37 (0.58%) GRC
16 35 (0.55%) RMADS
17 34 (0.53%) JSP 440
18 32 (0.50%) PMO
19 29 (0.45%) COBIT
System Software
1 475 (7.45%) Active Directory
2 345 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 295 (4.62%) Docker
4 184 (2.88%) Hyper-V
5 106 (1.66%) Firmware
6 76 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
7 70 (1.10%) vSphere
8 62 (0.97%) VMware NSX
9 56 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
10 53 (0.83%) KVM
11 46 (0.72%) Oracle RAC
12 23 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
13 19 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
14 16 (0.25%) pfSense
15 15 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
16 12 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
17 11 (0.17%) NFS
18 5 (0.078%) SRDF
18 5 (0.078%) XenDesktop
19 4 (0.063%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 405 (6.35%) Ansible
2 346 (5.42%) Kubernetes
3 292 (4.58%) Terraform
4 218 (3.42%) SCCM
5 132 (2.07%) Puppet
6 90 (1.41%) vCenter Server
7 83 (1.30%) WSUS
8 82 (1.29%) SCOM
9 58 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
10 46 (0.72%) Data Guard
10 46 (0.72%) Grafana
11 45 (0.71%) EnCase
11 45 (0.71%) Oracle RMAN
12 41 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
13 33 (0.52%) FortiGate
14 31 (0.49%) NetBackup
15 30 (0.47%) EMC NetWorker
16 29 (0.45%) OpenSSO
16 29 (0.45%) OpenView
17 25 (0.39%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1,128 (17.68%) Microsoft
2 509 (7.98%) VMware
3 439 (6.88%) Cisco
4 353 (5.53%) Oracle
5 289 (4.53%) ESRI
6 259 (4.06%) Juniper
7 170 (2.66%) Red Hat
8 106 (1.66%) Remedy
9 105 (1.65%) ServiceNow
10 91 (1.43%) HP
10 91 (1.43%) Sparx
11 86 (1.35%) IBM
12 68 (1.07%) Dell
13 64 (1.00%) Fortinet
14 56 (0.88%) CheckPoint
15 55 (0.86%) Google
16 53 (0.83%) McAfee
16 53 (0.83%) Splunk
17 49 (0.77%) Veeam
18 48 (0.75%) EMC