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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 16 20
Rank change year-on-year -21 +4 +14
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 2,402 6,497 5,687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.05% 8.68% 9.92%
As % of the Qualifications category 11.24% 32.73% 26.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,264 3,830 2,260
10th Percentile £38,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,227 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £74,014 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.83% -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 21,361 19,849 21,444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 53.83% 26.51% 37.41%
Number of salaries quoted 8,719 12,283 7,957
10th Percentile £31,000 £27,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,900 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,708 £79,600 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% -10.83% +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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -9 780 £57,500 +4.55% 632
North of England +2 748 £60,000 +9.09% 383
North West 0 660 £65,000 +19.82% 238
South West -12 396 £60,000 +5.26% 610
Midlands -40 257 £65,000 +18.18% 326
West Midlands -12 217 £65,000 +18.18% 210
East of England -44 154 £60,000 +9.09% 229
Yorkshire -27 74 £50,000 -16.67% 94
Wales -31 41 £55,000 -6.46% 44
East Midlands -66 40 £52,000 +20.73% 109
Scotland -50 33 £56,500 -2.59% 157
North East +22 12 £69,384 +23.35% 52
Northern Ireland -16 9 £85,151 +41.92% 35
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 58 (2.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 38 (1.58%) Confluence
3 23 (0.96%) Jupyter
4 21 (0.87%) SharePoint
5 15 (0.62%) Apache
6 14 (0.58%) JBoss
6 14 (0.58%) Red Hat Fuse
7 12 (0.50%) Skype for Business
8 11 (0.46%) Appian
9 8 (0.33%) Exchange Server 2013
10 7 (0.29%) nginx
11 6 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
12 5 (0.21%) Apache Spark
12 5 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2010
13 4 (0.17%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 4 (0.17%) Office Communications Server
13 4 (0.17%) SAP Portal
13 4 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
14 3 (0.12%) ArcGIS
14 3 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 43 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.33%) Simulink
5 7 (0.29%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.12%) GNU Octave
7 3 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.083%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.083%) Oracle Smart View
8 2 (0.083%) OrCAD
8 2 (0.083%) Revit
8 2 (0.083%) Windchill
9 1 (0.042%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.042%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.042%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.042%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (0.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 7 (0.29%) Q-Pulse
3 6 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.25%) SAP HR
4 5 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.12%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.083%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.083%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.083%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.083%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.083%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.083%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.083%) Oracle Payroll
6 2 (0.083%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.083%) PeopleSoft HCM
7 1 (0.042%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.042%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.042%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.042%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 467 (19.44%) AWS
2 435 (18.11%) Azure
3 212 (8.83%) GCP
4 84 (3.50%) Serverless
5 62 (2.58%) Amazon EKS
6 59 (2.46%) AWS CloudFormation
7 55 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
8 53 (2.21%) Amazon S3
9 52 (2.16%) Amazon EC2
10 45 (1.87%) AWS Lambda
10 45 (1.87%) Power Platform
11 42 (1.75%) Entra ID
11 42 (1.75%) SaaS
12 40 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 40 (1.67%) IaaS
13 39 (1.62%) Amazon ECS
14 32 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 28 (1.17%) AWS KMS
16 24 (1.00%) Amazon SQS
17 23 (0.96%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 487 (20.27%) VPN
2 467 (19.44%) DNS
3 207 (8.62%) Firewall
4 129 (5.37%) WAN
5 103 (4.29%) Network Security
6 97 (4.04%) BGP
7 78 (3.25%) OSPF
8 73 (3.04%) LAN
9 67 (2.79%) TCP/IP
10 55 (2.29%) EIGRP
11 52 (2.16%) Cisco ISE
12 48 (2.00%) DHCP
13 45 (1.87%) IPsec
14 43 (1.79%) SAN
15 41 (1.71%) MPLS
16 39 (1.62%) Software-Defined Radio
17 38 (1.58%) SMTP
18 35 (1.46%) VoIP
18 35 (1.46%) Wireless
19 33 (1.37%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (3.04%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (2.62%) Big Data
3 54 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
4 52 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
5 40 (1.67%) SQL Server
6 37 (1.54%) MongoDB
6 37 (1.54%) Relational Database
7 19 (0.79%) Power BI
8 15 (0.62%) Redis
9 14 (0.58%) DynamoDB
9 14 (0.58%) MySQL
9 14 (0.58%) NoSQL
10 13 (0.54%) Amazon Aurora
11 9 (0.37%) GIS
12 8 (0.33%) Data Lake
12 8 (0.33%) RDBMS
13 7 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
13 7 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (0.25%) Metadata
15 5 (0.21%) DB2
Development Applications
1 89 (3.71%) Jenkins
2 88 (3.66%) Git
3 57 (2.37%) JIRA
4 37 (1.54%) GitLab
4 37 (1.54%) JUnit
5 20 (0.83%) Mockito
6 19 (0.79%) SonarQube
7 16 (0.67%) Vagrant
8 14 (0.58%) MSI
9 12 (0.50%) Bitbucket Server
10 11 (0.46%) Maven
10 11 (0.46%) Rational DOORS
11 10 (0.42%) JMeter
12 8 (0.33%) DbUnit
12 8 (0.33%) jMock
12 8 (0.33%) Selenium
13 7 (0.29%) Robot Framework
14 6 (0.25%) NDoc
14 6 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
15 5 (0.21%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 760 (31.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 625 (26.02%) Finance
3 530 (22.06%) Analytical Skills
4 345 (14.36%) Social Skills
5 171 (7.12%) Public Sector
6 79 (3.29%) Aerospace
7 76 (3.16%) Law
8 73 (3.04%) Military
9 58 (2.41%) Electronics
10 49 (2.04%) Telecoms
11 45 (1.87%) Marketing
12 37 (1.54%) Retail
13 35 (1.46%) Manufacturing
14 31 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
14 31 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
15 29 (1.21%) Advertising
16 28 (1.17%) Legal
16 28 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
17 19 (0.79%) Aviation
18 17 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 567 (23.61%) Developer
2 441 (18.36%) Software Developer
3 359 (14.95%) Senior
4 262 (10.91%) Software Engineer
5 236 (9.83%) Architect
6 187 (7.79%) Senior Software Engineer
7 151 (6.29%) Network Engineer
8 147 (6.12%) Lead
9 110 (4.58%) Support Engineer
10 100 (4.16%) Analyst
11 92 (3.83%) Network Architect
12 76 (3.16%) Systems Engineer
13 74 (3.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 68 (2.83%) Consultant
15 64 (2.66%) Designer
16 62 (2.58%) Administrator
17 51 (2.12%) Systems Administrator
18 48 (2.00%) Data Scientist
18 48 (2.00%) Java Developer
19 47 (1.96%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 230 (9.58%) Node.js
2 224 (9.33%) .NET
3 61 (2.54%) RESTful
4 58 (2.41%) React
4 58 (2.41%) Spring Boot
5 53 (2.21%) Spring
6 46 (1.92%) REST
7 40 (1.67%) Web Services
8 38 (1.58%) Pandas
8 38 (1.58%) SOAP
9 35 (1.46%) AngularJS
10 33 (1.37%) Kafka
11 26 (1.08%) HTML
12 23 (0.96%) Hibernate
13 22 (0.92%) Apache Camel
13 22 (0.92%) OAuth
14 20 (0.83%) ActiveMQ
15 19 (0.79%) J2EE
15 19 (0.79%) LDAP
15 19 (0.79%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 651 (27.10%) Cyberattack
2 206 (8.58%) Self-Motivation
3 176 (7.33%) Linux Command Line
4 82 (3.41%) e-Learning
5 65 (2.71%) Algorithms
6 59 (2.46%) Management Information System
7 51 (2.12%) Data Centre
8 40 (1.67%) Driving Licence
9 39 (1.62%) FPGA
9 39 (1.62%) PKI
10 37 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
11 32 (1.33%) Security Operations Centre
12 30 (1.25%) Cloud Native
13 27 (1.12%) Embedded Systems
13 27 (1.12%) Private Cloud
14 26 (1.08%) Onboarding
14 26 (1.08%) SCADA
15 24 (1.00%) Clustering
16 19 (0.79%) Replication
17 17 (0.71%) MicroBlaze
Operating Systems
1 841 (35.01%) Linux
2 438 (18.23%) Android
3 264 (10.99%) Windows
4 128 (5.33%) Windows Server
5 24 (1.00%) Unix
6 22 (0.92%) Embedded Linux
6 22 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 22 (0.92%) Windows 10
7 16 (0.67%) VMS
8 13 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
9 12 (0.50%) Ubuntu
10 9 (0.37%) Amazon Linux
11 8 (0.33%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.33%) CentOS
11 8 (0.33%) Windows Server 2003
12 7 (0.29%) AIX
12 7 (0.29%) Rocky
13 6 (0.25%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
15 2 (0.083%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 883 (36.76%) Agile
2 520 (21.65%) Mathematics
3 502 (20.90%) Line Management
4 446 (18.57%) OO
5 437 (18.19%) Design Patterns
6 433 (18.03%) OOP
7 429 (17.86%) Android Development
8 401 (16.69%) Software Engineering
9 333 (13.86%) Mentoring
10 270 (11.24%) Microservices
10 270 (11.24%) Scrum
11 256 (10.66%) Machine Learning
12 236 (9.83%) Problem-Solving
13 225 (9.37%) Cloud Security
14 216 (8.99%) DevOps
15 212 (8.83%) User Experience
16 199 (8.28%) Cybersecurity
17 187 (7.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 178 (7.41%) Data Engineering
19 161 (6.70%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 841 (35.01%) Python
2 768 (31.97%) Java
3 683 (28.43%) C++
4 605 (25.19%) Go
5 323 (13.45%) JavaScript
6 215 (8.95%) Rust
7 153 (6.37%) PowerShell
8 117 (4.87%) SQL
9 60 (2.50%) C
10 49 (2.04%) TypeScript
11 42 (1.75%) Bash
12 38 (1.58%) C#
13 37 (1.54%) MATLAB
14 27 (1.12%) Perl
15 18 (0.75%) Groovy
16 17 (0.71%) Shell Script
17 15 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
18 12 (0.50%) PHP
19 9 (0.37%) Fortran
20 8 (0.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1,201 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1,159 (48.25%) SC Cleared
3 286 (11.91%) Degree
4 195 (8.12%) AWS Certification
5 179 (7.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 173 (7.20%) AWS Certified Developer
7 111 (4.62%) Cisco Certification
8 77 (3.21%) CCNA
9 76 (3.16%) CCNP
10 61 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
11 47 (1.96%) CISSP
12 42 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
13 29 (1.21%) HND
14 28 (1.17%) Master's Degree
14 28 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
15 24 (1.00%) Numerate Degree
16 23 (0.96%) PhD
17 22 (0.92%) JNCIA
17 22 (0.92%) JNCIS
18 20 (0.83%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (3.29%) SLA
2 61 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 45 (1.87%) QA
4 38 (1.58%) NIST
5 30 (1.25%) NCSC
6 24 (1.00%) Def Stans
7 18 (0.75%) GDPR
8 12 (0.50%) Data Quality
8 12 (0.50%) ISO 9001
8 12 (0.50%) JSP 440
9 11 (0.46%) GRC
10 10 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
11 9 (0.37%) PMO
11 9 (0.37%) RMADS
12 7 (0.29%) COSHH
13 6 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 6 (0.25%) PMBOK
14 5 (0.21%) Accessibility
14 5 (0.21%) NIST 800
System Software
1 599 (24.94%) Docker
2 149 (6.20%) Active Directory
3 144 (6.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 48 (2.00%) Firmware
5 43 (1.79%) vSphere
6 36 (1.50%) Embedded Firmware
7 35 (1.46%) Hyper-V
8 32 (1.33%) VMware NSX
9 30 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
10 13 (0.54%) DFS Replication
10 13 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
11 10 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
12 9 (0.37%) BitLocker
12 9 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
13 8 (0.33%) Terminal Services
14 5 (0.21%) Postfix
15 4 (0.17%) ISA Server
16 3 (0.12%) Dovecot
16 3 (0.12%) Squid
17 2 (0.083%) NFS
Systems Management
1 530 (22.06%) Ansible
2 157 (6.54%) Kubernetes
3 138 (5.75%) Terraform
4 28 (1.17%) FortiGate
4 28 (1.17%) Prometheus
5 26 (1.08%) Grafana
6 22 (0.92%) QRadar
6 22 (0.92%) vCenter Server
7 19 (0.79%) Puppet
8 18 (0.75%) SCCM
8 18 (0.75%) WMI
9 15 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 15 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
10 14 (0.58%) Kibana
10 14 (0.58%) vMotion
11 11 (0.46%) Nessus
12 10 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
13 9 (0.37%) SCOM
14 8 (0.33%) PowerCLI
14 8 (0.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 305 (12.70%) Cisco
2 237 (9.87%) Microsoft
3 220 (9.16%) VMware
4 215 (8.95%) Juniper
5 76 (3.16%) SAP
6 73 (3.04%) ServiceNow
7 60 (2.50%) Splunk
8 56 (2.33%) Fortinet
9 45 (1.87%) Oracle
10 43 (1.79%) SevOne
11 36 (1.50%) Red Hat
12 33 (1.37%) SolarWinds
13 24 (1.00%) Citrix
13 24 (1.00%) Google
14 23 (0.96%) Veeam
15 22 (0.92%) Atlassian
15 22 (0.92%) HP
15 22 (0.92%) McAfee
16 19 (0.79%) Salesforce
17 18 (0.75%) Sparx