SC Cleared Jobs in the UK excluding London

Security Check (SC) 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 SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 54 58
Rank change year-on-year +14 +4 +20
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 3,750 3,390 3,483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.36% 5.45% 4.93%
As % of the Qualifications category 19.38% 14.91% 15.78%
Number of salaries quoted 2,054 1,557 1,617
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,221 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,125 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £53,350
Median % change year-on-year - +3.09% -1.20%
75th Percentile £66,938 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,700 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £58,750
% change year-on-year -4.17% +2.13% +6.82%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

SC 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 19,350 22,744 22,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.68% 36.55% 31.25%
Number of salaries quoted 12,241 8,328 10,270
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,103 £37,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £64,106
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £57,810 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.59% +5.11% -

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for SC Cleared in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in the UK excluding London

SC 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 SC Cleared within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 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 +20 1,223 £55,000 +1.85% 271
South West -2 878 £52,500 -4.55% 234
North of England +36 580 £57,500 -4.17% 158
North West +16 397 £56,504 -1.73% 125
Midlands +11 388 £52,500 -12.50% 86
Scotland -23 246 £60,000 +9.09% 85
West Midlands +13 243 £52,500 -16.00% 64
Wales +19 216 £50,000 +78.92% 19
Yorkshire +88 158 £60,000 -10.45% 17
East Midlands -2 145 £50,000 -4.76% 22
East of England +1 135 £60,000 +9.09% 71
Northern Ireland +33 107 £60,000 +75.18% 16
North East -24 27 £55,000 +15.79% 16
SC Cleared
UK

SC 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
1 292 (7.79%) ArcGIS
2 284 (7.57%) GeoServer
3 141 (3.76%) Confluence
4 114 (3.04%) WebLogic
5 59 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
5 59 (1.57%) SharePoint
6 45 (1.20%) IIS
6 45 (1.20%) Oracle Service Bus
7 37 (0.99%) Apache
8 34 (0.91%) OpenStack
9 32 (0.85%) Red Hat Fuse
10 31 (0.83%) JBoss
11 27 (0.72%) Apache Spark
12 14 (0.37%) Skype for Business
13 13 (0.35%) CMS
14 9 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2010
15 6 (0.16%) SharePoint 2010
15 6 (0.16%) SharePoint 2013
16 4 (0.11%) Office Communications Server
16 4 (0.11%) TWiki
Applications
1 155 (4.13%) Microsoft Office
2 80 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 74 (1.97%) MS Visio
4 40 (1.07%) Sketch
5 39 (1.04%) Simulink
6 23 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
7 17 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 9 (0.24%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.11%) EPLAN
9 4 (0.11%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.080%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.053%) Abaqus
11 2 (0.053%) Fireworks
11 2 (0.053%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.053%) InDesign
12 1 (0.027%) Acrobat
12 1 (0.027%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.027%) Revit
Business Applications
1 81 (2.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 74 (1.97%) Remedy ITSM
3 38 (1.01%) Siebel CRM
4 18 (0.48%) Maximo
5 8 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.16%) Primavera
7 5 (0.13%) SAP ERP
7 5 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
8 4 (0.11%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.11%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.080%) Teamcenter
10 2 (0.053%) Dynamics CRM
10 2 (0.053%) Oracle Applications
10 2 (0.053%) Oracle Cash Management
10 2 (0.053%) Oracle EBS R12
10 2 (0.053%) Oracle ERP
11 1 (0.027%) CA PPM
11 1 (0.027%) SAP Oil and Gas
11 1 (0.027%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 898 (23.95%) Azure
2 715 (19.07%) AWS
3 165 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
4 103 (2.75%) Amazon EKS
5 81 (2.16%) Serverless
6 75 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
7 67 (1.79%) SaaS
8 64 (1.71%) OpenShift
9 60 (1.60%) Miro
10 54 (1.44%) GCP
11 51 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
12 48 (1.28%) Power Platform
13 44 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
14 41 (1.09%) Amazon SQS
14 41 (1.09%) AWS CloudFormation
14 41 (1.09%) Figma
15 40 (1.07%) Heroku
16 36 (0.96%) Amazon ECS
17 31 (0.83%) Entra ID
18 30 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 246 (6.56%) Firewall
2 150 (4.00%) DNS
3 118 (3.15%) WAN
4 108 (2.88%) TCP/IP
5 72 (1.92%) VPN
6 71 (1.89%) BGP
6 71 (1.89%) LAN
7 70 (1.87%) DHCP
7 70 (1.87%) Wireless
8 63 (1.68%) Network Security
9 62 (1.65%) SAN
10 57 (1.52%) SSL
11 39 (1.04%) IPsec
11 39 (1.04%) SD-WAN
12 37 (0.99%) MPLS
13 36 (0.96%) Software-Defined Radio
14 30 (0.80%) Cisco Firepower
15 29 (0.77%) AMQP
16 28 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
17 27 (0.72%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 352 (9.39%) PostgreSQL
2 302 (8.05%) GIS
3 284 (7.57%) QGIS
4 98 (2.61%) Oracle Database
5 94 (2.51%) Relational Database
6 92 (2.45%) SQL Server
7 62 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
7 62 (1.65%) NoSQL
8 55 (1.47%) RDBMS
9 47 (1.25%) Hadoop
10 46 (1.23%) Oracle Database 11g
11 45 (1.20%) Big Data
11 45 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
11 45 (1.20%) Oracle Database 10g
11 45 (1.20%) VLDB
12 31 (0.83%) MySQL
13 30 (0.80%) Oracle BI EE
13 30 (0.80%) Siebel EIM
14 28 (0.75%) MongoDB
15 27 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 210 (5.60%) JIRA
2 190 (5.07%) Git
3 127 (3.39%) Jenkins
4 109 (2.91%) Visual Studio
5 96 (2.56%) Bitbucket
6 61 (1.63%) GitLab
7 59 (1.57%) Sourcetree
8 37 (0.99%) Rational DOORS
9 28 (0.75%) Selenium
10 24 (0.64%) Ant
10 24 (0.64%) Cucumber
11 23 (0.61%) IntelliJ
12 22 (0.59%) Subversion
13 20 (0.53%) JUnit
14 16 (0.43%) CMake
15 15 (0.40%) LabVIEW
15 15 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
16 14 (0.37%) JMeter
17 10 (0.27%) Trac
17 10 (0.27%) Vagrant
General
1 790 (21.07%) Social Skills
2 257 (6.85%) Public Sector
3 255 (6.80%) Aerospace
4 244 (6.51%) Finance
5 199 (5.31%) Analytical Skills
6 185 (4.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 151 (4.03%) Presentation Skills
8 136 (3.63%) Games
9 100 (2.67%) Military
10 94 (2.51%) Telecoms
11 73 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
11 73 (1.95%) Police
12 47 (1.25%) Electronics
13 44 (1.17%) Retail
14 42 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
15 35 (0.93%) Manufacturing
16 23 (0.61%) Law
17 18 (0.48%) Legal
18 15 (0.40%) Local Government
18 15 (0.40%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 829 (22.11%) Senior
2 487 (12.99%) Software Engineer
3 465 (12.40%) Architect
4 398 (10.61%) Developer
5 282 (7.52%) Lead
6 270 (7.20%) Analyst
7 255 (6.80%) Senior Software Engineer
8 225 (6.00%) Solutions Architect
9 188 (5.01%) Systems Engineer
10 168 (4.48%) Project Manager
11 159 (4.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 153 (4.08%) Network Engineer
13 143 (3.81%) Consultant
14 136 (3.63%) Senior Developer
15 106 (2.83%) Designer
16 93 (2.48%) Support Engineer
17 90 (2.40%) Presales Solution Architect
18 89 (2.37%) Business Analyst
19 88 (2.35%) 3D Developer
19 88 (2.35%) Games Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 382 (10.19%) React
2 379 (10.11%) .NET
3 287 (7.65%) Leaflet
4 286 (7.63%) OpenLayers
5 284 (7.57%) PostGIS
6 262 (6.99%) CSS
7 254 (6.77%) .NET Core
8 150 (4.00%) REST
9 147 (3.92%) AngularJS
10 143 (3.81%) Spring
11 130 (3.47%) Node.js
12 109 (2.91%) Spring Boot
13 88 (2.35%) Unity (Game Engine)
14 81 (2.16%) HTML
15 80 (2.13%) RESTful
16 77 (2.05%) Web Services
17 76 (2.03%) XML
18 72 (1.92%) RabbitMQ
19 64 (1.71%) SOAP
20 56 (1.49%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 121 (3.23%) Data Centre
2 106 (2.83%) Management Information System
3 90 (2.40%) Virtual Reality
4 82 (2.19%) Driving Licence
4 82 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
4 82 (2.19%) Virtual Team
5 73 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
6 72 (1.92%) Product Ownership
7 58 (1.55%) Public Cloud
8 56 (1.49%) Private Cloud
9 54 (1.44%) Algorithms
10 48 (1.28%) CMDB
11 44 (1.17%) Clustering
12 43 (1.15%) Operational Technology
13 40 (1.07%) Cloud Native
13 40 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
14 38 (1.01%) PKI
15 35 (0.93%) Cyberattack
16 32 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
17 30 (0.80%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 554 (14.77%) Linux
2 553 (14.75%) Windows
3 252 (6.72%) Windows Server
4 118 (3.15%) Unix
5 114 (3.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 91 (2.43%) Ubuntu
6 91 (2.43%) Windows 10
7 77 (2.05%) CentOS
8 63 (1.68%) Windows Server 2016
9 54 (1.44%) Windows Server 2019
10 45 (1.20%) Solaris
11 33 (0.88%) Windows 7
12 31 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
13 24 (0.64%) Debian
14 16 (0.43%) AIX
15 14 (0.37%) Android
16 12 (0.32%) Windows XP
17 10 (0.27%) VMS
18 9 (0.24%) zOS
19 8 (0.21%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,230 (32.80%) Actionable Insight
2 1,208 (32.21%) Agile
3 823 (21.95%) DevOps
4 728 (19.41%) Software Engineering
5 699 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
6 353 (9.41%) Project Management
7 341 (9.09%) Scrum
8 319 (8.51%) ITIL
9 313 (8.35%) Cybersecurity
10 290 (7.73%) Web Development
11 265 (7.07%) Stakeholder Management
12 237 (6.32%) Mentoring
13 231 (6.16%) Collaborative Working
14 229 (6.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 223 (5.95%) Service Management
16 195 (5.20%) Incident Management
17 188 (5.01%) Change Management
18 181 (4.83%) Business Case
19 180 (4.80%) Open Source
20 176 (4.69%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 620 (16.53%) Python
2 484 (12.91%) JavaScript
3 396 (10.56%) Java
4 344 (9.17%) C#
5 328 (8.75%) SQL
6 293 (7.81%) PowerShell
7 135 (3.60%) C++
8 77 (2.05%) C
9 61 (1.63%) PL/SQL
10 60 (1.60%) Bash
11 56 (1.49%) TypeScript
12 55 (1.47%) MATLAB
13 45 (1.20%) Shell Script
14 22 (0.59%) Go
15 18 (0.48%) VB
16 17 (0.45%) Kotlin
17 16 (0.43%) Ruby
18 14 (0.37%) VBA
19 11 (0.29%) Bicep
20 10 (0.27%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3,750 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 646 (17.23%) Degree
3 523 (13.95%) DV Cleared
4 194 (5.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 98 (2.61%) Cisco Certification
6 87 (2.32%) CISM
7 85 (2.27%) AWS Certification
8 81 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
9 79 (2.11%) CISSP
10 77 (2.05%) Azure Certification
11 71 (1.89%) CCNA
12 68 (1.81%) CESG Certified Professional
13 64 (1.71%) CRISC
14 63 (1.68%) CCNP
15 60 (1.60%) TOGAF Certification
16 50 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 45 (1.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 41 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
19 36 (0.96%) A+ Certification
20 27 (0.72%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (3.76%) SLA
2 122 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 113 (3.01%) Accessibility
4 80 (2.13%) NCSC
5 68 (1.81%) QA
6 50 (1.33%) WCAG
7 45 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 40 (1.07%) NIST
9 29 (0.77%) COBIT
10 25 (0.67%) GDPR
11 23 (0.61%) Def Stans
12 21 (0.56%) Software Quality Assurance
13 20 (0.53%) PMO
14 19 (0.51%) GRC
14 19 (0.51%) JSP 440
14 19 (0.51%) RMADS
15 16 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
15 16 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 15 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 13 (0.35%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 327 (8.72%) Active Directory
2 206 (5.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 157 (4.19%) Docker
4 130 (3.47%) Hyper-V
5 49 (1.31%) VMware ESXi
6 45 (1.20%) Oracle RAC
7 33 (0.88%) Firmware
8 29 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
8 29 (0.77%) vSphere
9 22 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
10 20 (0.53%) VMware NSX
11 16 (0.43%) pfSense
12 15 (0.40%) KVM
13 10 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
13 10 (0.27%) NFS
14 8 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
15 4 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
15 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 3 (0.080%) Lustre
16 3 (0.080%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 205 (5.47%) Ansible
2 180 (4.80%) Kubernetes
3 166 (4.43%) SCCM
4 134 (3.57%) Terraform
5 69 (1.84%) SCOM
6 65 (1.73%) vCenter Server
7 53 (1.41%) Puppet
8 47 (1.25%) WSUS
9 45 (1.20%) Data Guard
9 45 (1.20%) Oracle RMAN
10 33 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
11 31 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
11 31 (0.83%) NetBackup
12 30 (0.80%) EMC NetWorker
13 29 (0.77%) OpenSSO
13 29 (0.77%) OpenView
14 26 (0.69%) Grafana
15 25 (0.67%) ZABBIX
16 19 (0.51%) Nagios
17 15 (0.40%) Nessus
Vendors
1 703 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 303 (8.08%) VMware
3 289 (7.71%) ESRI
4 271 (7.23%) Oracle
5 216 (5.76%) Cisco
6 176 (4.69%) Juniper
7 103 (2.75%) Remedy
8 85 (2.27%) ServiceNow
9 81 (2.16%) Sparx
10 76 (2.03%) Red Hat
11 66 (1.76%) HP
12 48 (1.28%) CheckPoint
13 47 (1.25%) NetApp
14 46 (1.23%) IBM
14 46 (1.23%) Sun
15 44 (1.17%) Fortinet
15 44 (1.17%) Google
16 40 (1.07%) McAfee
16 40 (1.07%) Veeam
17 39 (1.04%) Splunk