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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 18 14
Rank change year-on-year -17 -4 +25
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 2,629 6,107 6,055
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.07% 8.40% 12.04%
As % of the Qualifications category 13.78% 32.23% 32.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,374 3,621 2,375
10th Percentile £35,500 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,911 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £88,158 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -4.17% +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 19,083 18,951 18,893
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.05% 26.08% 37.56%
Number of salaries quoted 8,058 11,111 7,950
10th Percentile £30,588 £27,500 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% -4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £66,254 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% -9.17% +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 18 July 2025.

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 18 July 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 -9 838 £60,000 +9.09% 788
North of England +5 783 £65,000 +18.18% 463
North West +3 673 £65,000 +18.18% 287
South West -6 492 £60,000 +4.35% 600
Midlands -27 280 £65,000 +30.00% 374
West Midlands -9 224 £67,500 +22.73% 247
East of England -51 153 £55,000 +4.76% 378
Yorkshire -16 96 £47,500 -20.83% 138
East Midlands -46 56 £41,000 -3.53% 121
Wales -24 51 £57,500 -3.20% 60
Scotland -50 45 £62,500 +7.76% 188
North East +9 14 £69,384 +18.00% 44
Northern Ireland -15 11 £75,000 +25.00% 33
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 74 (2.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 58 (2.21%) Confluence
3 29 (1.10%) SharePoint
4 23 (0.87%) Jupyter
5 19 (0.72%) Apache
6 14 (0.53%) Appian
7 10 (0.38%) JBoss
7 10 (0.38%) Red Hat Fuse
8 9 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
8 9 (0.34%) Skype for Business
9 8 (0.30%) nginx
10 6 (0.23%) Apache Spark
11 5 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2010
12 4 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
12 4 (0.15%) Office Communications Server
12 4 (0.15%) SAP Portal
12 4 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
13 3 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2007
13 3 (0.11%) IIS
Applications
1 71 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
2 44 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.42%) Simulink
5 7 (0.27%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 4 (0.15%) Revit
7 3 (0.11%) GNU Octave
7 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.076%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.076%) Oracle Smart View
8 2 (0.076%) OrCAD
8 2 (0.076%) Windchill
9 1 (0.038%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.038%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.038%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 29 (1.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 8 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.27%) Q-Pulse
4 6 (0.23%) SAP HR
4 6 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.11%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.076%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.076%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.076%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.076%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.076%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.076%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.076%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.076%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.076%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.076%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.038%) C-CURE
7 1 (0.038%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.038%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.038%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 526 (20.01%) Azure
2 517 (19.67%) AWS
3 230 (8.75%) GCP
4 88 (3.35%) Microsoft 365
5 75 (2.85%) Serverless
6 72 (2.74%) Amazon S3
7 71 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
8 62 (2.36%) Entra ID
9 61 (2.32%) Amazon EKS
10 57 (2.17%) Power Platform
11 56 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 56 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
12 55 (2.09%) SaaS
13 46 (1.75%) IaaS
14 44 (1.67%) AWS KMS
15 43 (1.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 41 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
16 41 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
17 39 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
18 32 (1.22%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 489 (18.60%) DNS
2 485 (18.45%) VPN
3 202 (7.68%) Firewall
4 110 (4.18%) WAN
5 105 (3.99%) Network Security
6 78 (2.97%) LAN
6 78 (2.97%) TCP/IP
7 60 (2.28%) Software-Defined Radio
8 59 (2.24%) BGP
9 57 (2.17%) DHCP
10 49 (1.86%) OSPF
11 48 (1.83%) Wireless
12 45 (1.71%) SMTP
13 42 (1.60%) SAN
14 35 (1.33%) Junos
15 32 (1.22%) VoIP
16 31 (1.18%) EIGRP
16 31 (1.18%) VLAN
17 30 (1.14%) HTTP
17 30 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
2 70 (2.66%) Amazon RDS
3 69 (2.62%) Big Data
4 55 (2.09%) Elasticsearch
5 46 (1.75%) MongoDB
6 44 (1.67%) SQL Server
7 36 (1.37%) Relational Database
8 25 (0.95%) NoSQL
9 20 (0.76%) Power BI
10 17 (0.65%) DynamoDB
11 16 (0.61%) Amazon Aurora
12 15 (0.57%) MySQL
13 14 (0.53%) Redis
14 12 (0.46%) RDBMS
15 8 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
15 8 (0.30%) GIS
16 7 (0.27%) DB2
17 6 (0.23%) Metadata
18 5 (0.19%) SAP Data Services
19 4 (0.15%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 104 (3.96%) Git
2 97 (3.69%) Jenkins
3 81 (3.08%) JIRA
4 38 (1.45%) JUnit
5 35 (1.33%) GitLab
6 32 (1.22%) Vagrant
7 24 (0.91%) Mockito
7 24 (0.91%) MSI
8 17 (0.65%) SonarQube
9 13 (0.49%) JMeter
10 12 (0.46%) Bitbucket Server
10 12 (0.46%) Maven
10 12 (0.46%) Rational DOORS
11 9 (0.34%) DbUnit
11 9 (0.34%) jMock
11 9 (0.34%) Selenium
12 8 (0.30%) Robot Framework
12 8 (0.30%) Snyk
12 8 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
13 6 (0.23%) NDoc
General
1 758 (28.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 694 (26.40%) Finance
3 556 (21.15%) Analytical Skills
4 435 (16.55%) Social Skills
5 224 (8.52%) Public Sector
6 101 (3.84%) Electronics
7 99 (3.77%) Law
8 93 (3.54%) Marketing
9 87 (3.31%) Aerospace
10 86 (3.27%) Telecoms
11 83 (3.16%) Manufacturing
11 83 (3.16%) Military
12 55 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
13 34 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
14 33 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
15 29 (1.10%) Legal
16 27 (1.03%) Advertising
17 26 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
18 22 (0.84%) Aviation
19 21 (0.80%) Retail
Job Titles
1 580 (22.06%) Developer
2 445 (16.93%) Software Developer
3 380 (14.45%) Senior
4 275 (10.46%) Software Engineer
5 248 (9.43%) Architect
6 186 (7.07%) Senior Software Engineer
7 183 (6.96%) Lead
8 152 (5.78%) Support Engineer
9 120 (4.56%) Analyst
10 119 (4.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 117 (4.45%) Systems Engineer
12 111 (4.22%) Network Engineer
13 97 (3.69%) Consultant
14 72 (2.74%) Network Architect
15 67 (2.55%) Technical Support
16 64 (2.43%) Administrator
17 62 (2.36%) Technical Engineer
17 62 (2.36%) Technical Support Engineer
18 54 (2.05%) Infrastructure Support
19 53 (2.02%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 233 (8.86%) Node.js
2 229 (8.71%) .NET
3 61 (2.32%) RESTful
4 58 (2.21%) Spring Boot
5 54 (2.05%) Spring
6 50 (1.90%) REST
7 47 (1.79%) React
8 44 (1.67%) Web Services
9 40 (1.52%) SOAP
10 38 (1.45%) Pandas
11 36 (1.37%) AngularJS
12 34 (1.29%) Kafka
13 27 (1.03%) Hibernate
13 27 (1.03%) HTML
14 25 (0.95%) OLE
14 25 (0.95%) XML
15 24 (0.91%) ActiveMQ
16 23 (0.87%) OAuth
17 22 (0.84%) Django
18 21 (0.80%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 652 (24.80%) Cyberattack
2 220 (8.37%) Self-Motivation
3 175 (6.66%) Linux Command Line
4 118 (4.49%) e-Learning
5 67 (2.55%) Management Information System
6 61 (2.32%) Algorithms
7 58 (2.21%) FPGA
8 55 (2.09%) Driving Licence
9 48 (1.83%) Cloud Native
9 48 (1.83%) PKI
10 46 (1.75%) Data Centre
11 39 (1.48%) Embedded Systems
12 36 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
13 33 (1.26%) Security Operations Centre
14 30 (1.14%) Replication
15 28 (1.07%) Onboarding
16 26 (0.99%) Clustering
16 26 (0.99%) Private Cloud
17 25 (0.95%) MicroBlaze
17 25 (0.95%) RISC-V
Operating Systems
1 888 (33.78%) Linux
2 445 (16.93%) Android
3 309 (11.75%) Windows
4 134 (5.10%) Windows Server
5 33 (1.26%) Windows 10
6 32 (1.22%) VMS
7 31 (1.18%) Embedded Linux
8 24 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
9 23 (0.87%) Unix
10 18 (0.68%) Amazon Linux
10 18 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 12 (0.46%) Ubuntu
12 11 (0.42%) Rocky
13 10 (0.38%) CentOS
13 10 (0.38%) Mac OS
14 9 (0.34%) AIX
15 8 (0.30%) Apple iOS
15 8 (0.30%) Windows Server 2003
16 3 (0.11%) Mac OS X
16 3 (0.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 942 (35.83%) Agile
2 530 (20.16%) Mathematics
3 505 (19.21%) Line Management
4 446 (16.96%) OO
5 437 (16.62%) Design Patterns
6 434 (16.51%) Android Development
7 431 (16.39%) OOP
8 402 (15.29%) Software Engineering
9 369 (14.04%) Mentoring
10 287 (10.92%) Microservices
11 273 (10.38%) Problem-Solving
12 265 (10.08%) Machine Learning
13 257 (9.78%) Scrum
14 252 (9.59%) Cybersecurity
15 238 (9.05%) Cloud Security
16 235 (8.94%) DevOps
17 212 (8.06%) User Experience
18 187 (7.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 182 (6.92%) CI/CD
20 181 (6.88%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 845 (32.14%) Python
2 777 (29.55%) Java
3 682 (25.94%) C++
4 605 (23.01%) Go
5 319 (12.13%) JavaScript
6 216 (8.22%) Rust
7 183 (6.96%) PowerShell
8 154 (5.86%) SQL
9 62 (2.36%) C
10 47 (1.79%) MATLAB
11 44 (1.67%) TypeScript
12 41 (1.56%) C#
13 37 (1.41%) Bash
13 37 (1.41%) Perl
14 34 (1.29%) Groovy
15 20 (0.76%) Shell Script
16 18 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
17 14 (0.53%) PHP
18 9 (0.34%) Kotlin
18 9 (0.34%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1,315 (50.02%) SC Cleared
2 1,278 (48.61%) DV Cleared
3 330 (12.55%) Degree
4 210 (7.99%) AWS Certification
5 182 (6.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 173 (6.58%) AWS Certified Developer
7 123 (4.68%) Cisco Certification
8 89 (3.39%) CCNA
9 79 (3.00%) CCNP
10 66 (2.51%) CISSP
11 64 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
12 62 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
13 40 (1.52%) JNCIA
14 37 (1.41%) HND
15 33 (1.26%) Azure Certification
16 29 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
17 28 (1.07%) CompTIA Security+
18 26 (0.99%) Master's Degree
19 23 (0.87%) Numerate Degree
20 22 (0.84%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (3.69%) SLA
2 81 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 57 (2.17%) NIST
4 51 (1.94%) QA
5 29 (1.10%) GDPR
6 27 (1.03%) NCSC
7 26 (0.99%) Def Stans
8 19 (0.72%) PCI DSS
9 15 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
10 14 (0.53%) ISO 9001
11 12 (0.46%) COSHH
11 12 (0.46%) Data Quality
12 11 (0.42%) GRC
13 10 (0.38%) JSP 440
13 10 (0.38%) RMADS
14 7 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.23%) Accessibility
15 6 (0.23%) IEC 61508
15 6 (0.23%) PMBOK
15 6 (0.23%) PMO
System Software
1 608 (23.13%) Docker
2 193 (7.34%) Active Directory
3 145 (5.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 82 (3.12%) Firmware
5 57 (2.17%) Hyper-V
6 53 (2.02%) Embedded Firmware
7 32 (1.22%) vSphere
8 31 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
9 23 (0.87%) DFS Replication
10 22 (0.84%) VMware NSX
11 12 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
12 9 (0.34%) BitLocker
12 9 (0.34%) Microsoft App-V
13 8 (0.30%) Terminal Services
13 8 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
14 6 (0.23%) Postfix
15 4 (0.15%) Dovecot
15 4 (0.15%) ISA Server
15 4 (0.15%) Squid
15 4 (0.15%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 542 (20.62%) Ansible
2 174 (6.62%) Kubernetes
3 163 (6.20%) Terraform
4 44 (1.67%) Prometheus
5 42 (1.60%) Grafana
6 28 (1.07%) FortiGate
7 27 (1.03%) WMI
8 26 (0.99%) vCenter Server
9 21 (0.80%) QRadar
10 20 (0.76%) Puppet
11 18 (0.68%) Kibana
12 17 (0.65%) SCCM
13 15 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 14 (0.53%) SCOM
14 14 (0.53%) vMotion
15 12 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
15 12 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
16 10 (0.38%) Nessus
17 8 (0.30%) PowerCLI
17 8 (0.30%) vRealize
Vendors
1 307 (11.68%) Microsoft
2 242 (9.21%) Cisco
3 193 (7.34%) VMware
4 155 (5.90%) Juniper
5 105 (3.99%) SAP
6 80 (3.04%) ServiceNow
7 65 (2.47%) Splunk
8 41 (1.56%) Fortinet
9 38 (1.45%) Oracle
10 35 (1.33%) SolarWinds
11 31 (1.18%) Red Hat
12 30 (1.14%) Sparx
13 27 (1.03%) Citrix
14 26 (0.99%) McAfee
15 22 (0.84%) Atlassian
16 21 (0.80%) HP
17 20 (0.76%) Salesforce
17 20 (0.76%) Veeam
18 19 (0.72%) Google
19 16 (0.61%) Informatica