SC Cleared Jobs

Security Check (SC) Clearance
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 38 153
Rank change year-on-year -11 +115 -53
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 4,063 5,046 4,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.50% 6.25% 2.71%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.09% 18.54% 9.74%
Number of salaries quoted 2,444 2,533 2,434
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +12.61% +0.91%
75th Percentile £70,250 £75,278 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,782 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -0.94%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

SC 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.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 23,768 27,219 48,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.30% 33.73% 27.87%
Number of salaries quoted 13,396 13,767 20,158
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,425 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £88,500 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +8.25% +2.11%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the UK

SC Cleared
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared.

Salary trend for SC Cleared in the UK

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in the UK

SC Cleared
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 July 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
England -4 3,351 £55,000 -12.00% 595
UK excluding London -6 3,211 £55,000 -8.33% 506
Work from Home -13 1,488 £60,000 -7.69% 323
South East +1 1,064 £55,000 - 149
South West -6 780 £55,000 -12.00% 133
London -47 523 £70,000 +7.69% 140
North of England +1 504 £55,000 -15.38% 104
North West -4 355 £53,362 -17.91% 76
Midlands -23 354 £52,500 -12.50% 55
West Midlands +2 257 £55,000 -8.33% 47
Scotland -58 188 £60,000 +20.00% 25
Wales +6 171 £60,000 +34.20% 17
Yorkshire +22 123 £60,000 -11.11% 19
East Midlands -64 97 £44,225 -15.76% 8
East of England -34 88 £52,250 -5.00% 43
Northern Ireland +4 81 £59,400 -3.61% 8
North East -21 26 £58,800 +23.79% 10

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 227 (5.59%) ArcGIS
2 214 (5.27%) GeoServer
3 100 (2.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 88 (2.17%) SharePoint
5 85 (2.09%) WebLogic
6 82 (2.02%) Confluence
7 53 (1.30%) Apache
8 45 (1.11%) Apache Spark
9 27 (0.66%) Oracle Service Bus
10 23 (0.57%) Appian
11 18 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2010
12 16 (0.39%) OpenStack
13 12 (0.30%) Skype for Business
14 10 (0.25%) SharePoint 2010
14 10 (0.25%) SharePoint 2013
15 6 (0.15%) IIS
15 6 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
15 6 (0.15%) SAS
16 5 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2013
17 4 (0.098%) TWiki
Applications
1 149 (3.67%) Microsoft Office
2 61 (1.50%) Simulink
3 58 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 58 (1.43%) MS Visio
4 50 (1.23%) Sketch
5 24 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
6 16 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 7 (0.17%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.12%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.098%) InVision
9 4 (0.098%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.049%) Abaqus
10 2 (0.049%) EPLAN
10 2 (0.049%) Fireworks
10 2 (0.049%) InDesign
11 1 (0.025%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.025%) Blender
11 1 (0.025%) CPLEX
11 1 (0.025%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 68 (1.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 62 (1.53%) Remedy ITSM
3 36 (0.89%) Siebel CRM
4 21 (0.52%) Maximo
5 10 (0.25%) Oracle Cash Management
5 10 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
5 10 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
5 10 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
6 8 (0.20%) Primavera
7 7 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
8 5 (0.12%) SAP HR
8 5 (0.12%) SAP MM
9 4 (0.098%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.098%) Q-Pulse
10 3 (0.074%) SAP CO
10 3 (0.074%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.074%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.074%) SAP S/4HANA
11 2 (0.049%) Oracle Applications
11 2 (0.049%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 1,002 (24.66%) Azure
2 812 (19.99%) AWS
3 210 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
4 129 (3.17%) GCP
5 115 (2.83%) Power Platform
6 102 (2.51%) Amazon EKS
7 98 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
8 92 (2.26%) Dynamics 365
9 87 (2.14%) Serverless
10 74 (1.82%) Miro
11 73 (1.80%) SaaS
12 70 (1.72%) OpenShift
13 67 (1.65%) dbt
14 60 (1.48%) Entra ID
15 57 (1.40%) AWS CloudFormation
16 52 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
16 52 (1.28%) OCI
17 51 (1.26%) Figma
18 50 (1.23%) Power Automate
19 47 (1.16%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 253 (6.23%) Firewall
2 148 (3.64%) DNS
3 120 (2.95%) TCP/IP
4 108 (2.66%) WAN
5 89 (2.19%) LAN
6 79 (1.94%) BGP
7 76 (1.87%) Network Security
7 76 (1.87%) SSL
8 72 (1.77%) Wireless
9 69 (1.70%) VPN
10 63 (1.55%) DHCP
11 51 (1.26%) SAN
12 45 (1.11%) Cisco Firepower
12 45 (1.11%) IPsec
13 44 (1.08%) SD-WAN
14 41 (1.01%) Software-Defined Radio
15 34 (0.84%) AMQP
16 32 (0.79%) 5G
16 32 (0.79%) MPLS
16 32 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 297 (7.31%) PostgreSQL
2 219 (5.39%) GIS
3 214 (5.27%) QGIS
4 133 (3.27%) Relational Database
5 87 (2.14%) Hadoop
6 86 (2.12%) NoSQL
7 80 (1.97%) Oracle Database
8 78 (1.92%) SQL Server
9 73 (1.80%) Big Data
10 71 (1.75%) Power BI
11 69 (1.70%) MongoDB
12 63 (1.55%) RDBMS
13 61 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
14 37 (0.91%) MySQL
15 36 (0.89%) Oracle BI EE
15 36 (0.89%) Siebel EIM
16 30 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
17 29 (0.71%) Cloudera CDH
18 27 (0.66%) Oracle Database 10g
18 27 (0.66%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 172 (4.23%) JIRA
2 134 (3.30%) Git
3 121 (2.98%) Jenkins
4 63 (1.55%) GitLab
5 45 (1.11%) Visual Studio
6 36 (0.89%) Bitbucket
7 33 (0.81%) Vagrant
8 26 (0.64%) JUnit
8 26 (0.64%) Rational DOORS
9 25 (0.62%) SonarQube
10 23 (0.57%) Sourcetree
11 21 (0.52%) Selenium
12 20 (0.49%) Cucumber
13 17 (0.42%) MSI
13 17 (0.42%) Terragrunt
14 15 (0.37%) LabVIEW
15 14 (0.34%) TestNG
16 13 (0.32%) AdminStudio
16 13 (0.32%) InstallShield
16 13 (0.32%) WebDriver
General
1 816 (20.08%) Social Skills
2 343 (8.44%) Finance
3 342 (8.42%) Public Sector
4 251 (6.18%) Aerospace
5 244 (6.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 209 (5.14%) Analytical Skills
7 120 (2.95%) Presentation Skills
8 106 (2.61%) Military
9 98 (2.41%) Telecoms
10 72 (1.77%) Police
11 60 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
12 45 (1.11%) Games
12 45 (1.11%) Manufacturing
13 44 (1.08%) Electronics
14 39 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
15 38 (0.94%) Retail
16 34 (0.84%) Law
17 30 (0.74%) Marketing
18 23 (0.57%) Legal
19 21 (0.52%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 759 (18.68%) Senior
2 534 (13.14%) Architect
3 438 (10.78%) Software Engineer
4 380 (9.35%) Developer
5 294 (7.24%) Lead
6 293 (7.21%) Analyst
7 204 (5.02%) Consultant
8 181 (4.45%) Network Engineer
9 179 (4.41%) Systems Engineer
10 170 (4.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 170 (4.18%) Senior Software Engineer
11 169 (4.16%) Solutions Architect
12 151 (3.72%) Project Manager
13 121 (2.98%) DevOps Engineer
14 115 (2.83%) Designer
14 115 (2.83%) Senior Developer
15 106 (2.61%) Support Engineer
16 102 (2.51%) Technical Architect
17 101 (2.49%) Business Analyst
18 81 (1.99%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 329 (8.10%) React
2 321 (7.90%) .NET
3 255 (6.28%) CSS
4 220 (5.41%) .NET Core
5 217 (5.34%) Leaflet
6 216 (5.32%) OpenLayers
7 214 (5.27%) PostGIS
8 167 (4.11%) Node.js
9 111 (2.73%) HTML
10 105 (2.58%) Spring Boot
11 84 (2.07%) Spring
12 80 (1.97%) RabbitMQ
12 80 (1.97%) REST
13 73 (1.80%) Kafka
14 60 (1.48%) Middleware
15 56 (1.38%) Django
16 54 (1.33%) AngularJS
17 41 (1.01%) ARM Templates
18 40 (0.98%) RESTful
19 38 (0.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 137 (3.37%) Management Information System
2 109 (2.68%) Data Centre
3 102 (2.51%) Product Ownership
4 94 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
5 89 (2.19%) Driving Licence
6 72 (1.77%) Public Cloud
7 68 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
8 64 (1.58%) Cloud Native
9 62 (1.53%) Algorithms
10 56 (1.38%) Cyberattack
11 53 (1.30%) Operational Technology
12 47 (1.16%) Private Cloud
13 45 (1.11%) Onboarding
14 44 (1.08%) Virtual Team
15 36 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
16 34 (0.84%) CMDB
16 34 (0.84%) Security Operations Centre
17 29 (0.71%) PKI
18 28 (0.69%) Cyber Threat
19 26 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 537 (13.22%) Windows
2 525 (12.92%) Linux
3 216 (5.32%) Windows Server
4 147 (3.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 101 (2.49%) Windows 10
6 90 (2.22%) Unix
7 89 (2.19%) CentOS
8 82 (2.02%) Ubuntu
9 60 (1.48%) Windows Server 2016
10 54 (1.33%) Android
11 53 (1.30%) Windows Server 2019
12 47 (1.16%) Solaris
13 30 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
14 29 (0.71%) Debian
15 23 (0.57%) Windows 7
16 14 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
17 13 (0.32%) zOS
18 12 (0.30%) AIX
19 9 (0.22%) Windows NT
20 6 (0.15%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,305 (32.12%) Agile
2 906 (22.30%) Actionable Insight
3 768 (18.90%) DevOps
4 662 (16.29%) Software Engineering
5 505 (12.43%) Problem-Solving
6 423 (10.41%) Cybersecurity
7 358 (8.81%) Scrum
8 351 (8.64%) Project Management
9 327 (8.05%) Stakeholder Management
10 305 (7.51%) ITIL
11 285 (7.01%) Mentoring
12 277 (6.82%) Collaborative Working
13 260 (6.40%) CI/CD
14 241 (5.93%) Artificial Intelligence
15 232 (5.71%) Service Management
16 226 (5.56%) Web Development
17 219 (5.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 197 (4.85%) Coaching
19 192 (4.73%) Kanban
20 191 (4.70%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 703 (17.30%) Python
2 458 (11.27%) JavaScript
3 395 (9.72%) Java
4 373 (9.18%) SQL
5 343 (8.44%) C#
6 193 (4.75%) PowerShell
7 157 (3.86%) C++
8 81 (1.99%) TypeScript
9 72 (1.77%) C
10 71 (1.75%) Bash
11 60 (1.48%) MATLAB
12 54 (1.33%) Kotlin
13 31 (0.76%) Shell Script
14 29 (0.71%) PL/SQL
15 26 (0.64%) VB
16 23 (0.57%) Bicep
17 21 (0.52%) Go
18 16 (0.39%) Groovy
18 16 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
19 14 (0.34%) R
Qualifications
1 4,063 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 634 (15.60%) DV Cleared
3 595 (14.64%) Degree
4 170 (4.18%) BPSS Clearance
5 144 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 133 (3.27%) Azure Certification
7 125 (3.08%) AWS Certification
8 113 (2.78%) CISM
9 111 (2.73%) CISSP
10 106 (2.61%) Cisco Certification
11 97 (2.39%) Microsoft Certification
12 69 (1.70%) CCNA
13 59 (1.45%) CESG Certified Professional
14 58 (1.43%) CRISC
15 57 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 50 (1.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 48 (1.18%) CCNP
18 36 (0.89%) CREST Certified
19 30 (0.74%) CISA
19 30 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (3.37%) Accessibility
2 122 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 107 (2.63%) QA
4 99 (2.44%) NCSC
5 82 (2.02%) SLA
6 58 (1.43%) WCAG
7 45 (1.11%) NIST
8 39 (0.96%) GDPR
9 37 (0.91%) Data Quality
10 36 (0.89%) PMO
11 33 (0.81%) COBIT
12 32 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
13 25 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 19 (0.47%) GRC
15 13 (0.32%) Def Stans
15 13 (0.32%) ISO 9001
16 11 (0.27%) IASME
16 11 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
17 10 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 15288
17 10 (0.25%) NIST 800
System Software
1 271 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 187 (4.60%) Docker
3 172 (4.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 108 (2.66%) Hyper-V
5 38 (0.94%) vSphere
6 33 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
7 29 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
8 27 (0.66%) Oracle RAC
9 18 (0.44%) Firmware
9 18 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
9 18 (0.44%) XenDesktop
10 17 (0.42%) Microsoft App-V
11 15 (0.37%) pfSense
12 12 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
13 9 (0.22%) NFS
13 9 (0.22%) VMware NSX
14 7 (0.17%) XenApp
15 6 (0.15%) Lustre
15 6 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 3 (0.074%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 239 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 216 (5.32%) Ansible
3 201 (4.95%) Terraform
4 136 (3.35%) SCCM
5 65 (1.60%) Puppet
6 52 (1.28%) SCOM
7 50 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
8 47 (1.16%) WSUS
9 41 (1.01%) vCenter Server
10 32 (0.79%) Grafana
10 32 (0.79%) OpenView
11 27 (0.66%) Data Guard
11 27 (0.66%) Oracle RMAN
12 25 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
13 22 (0.54%) EMC NetWorker
13 22 (0.54%) ZABBIX
14 20 (0.49%) Nagios
14 20 (0.49%) NetBackup
15 18 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 17 (0.42%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 637 (15.68%) Microsoft
2 279 (6.87%) VMware
3 256 (6.30%) Oracle
4 248 (6.10%) Cisco
5 221 (5.44%) ESRI
6 192 (4.73%) Juniper
7 124 (3.05%) ServiceNow
8 99 (2.44%) Red Hat
9 80 (1.97%) Google
10 75 (1.85%) Remedy
11 68 (1.67%) Sparx
12 60 (1.48%) HP
13 54 (1.33%) Fortinet
14 50 (1.23%) IBM
15 44 (1.08%) Palo Alto
15 44 (1.08%) Splunk
16 41 (1.01%) Xilinx
17 39 (0.96%) Dell
17 39 (0.96%) Veeam
18 38 (0.94%) McAfee