Security Check (SC) Clearance
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 60 115
Rank change year-on-year +14 +55 -13
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 4,723 5,247 4,934
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.81% 5.01% 3.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.27% 15.29% 11.86%
Number of salaries quoted 2,675 2,633 2,444
10th Percentile £31,600 £33,780 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £43,023
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +2.56% +6.36%
75th Percentile £70,250 £76,250 £73,675
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,350
% change year-on-year - +3.09% -1.20%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,346 34,318 41,611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.85% 32.75% 27.00%
Number of salaries quoted 17,301 15,331 18,985
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,043 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +5.45% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,296 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.59% +0.59% -

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 April 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 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
England +11 3,838 £55,000 -8.33% 1,037
UK excluding London +13 3,741 £55,000 - 894
Work from Home +6 1,927 £60,000 -4.00% 461
South East +24 1,220 £55,000 +1.85% 269
South West -1 875 £52,500 -4.55% 237
London -6 616 £71,750 +6.30% 194
North of England +36 581 £57,500 -4.17% 155
North West +14 399 £56,504 -1.73% 122
Midlands +5 387 £52,500 -12.50% 87
Scotland -30 247 £60,000 +8.67% 73
West Midlands +6 242 £55,000 -9.84% 66
Wales +16 215 £50,000 +65.54% 13
Yorkshire +90 157 £60,000 -10.45% 17
East Midlands +3 145 £50,000 -4.76% 21
East of England -2 132 £55,000 - 72
Northern Ireland +35 107 £60,000 +75.18% 14
North East -27 27 £55,000 +15.79% 16

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
1 338 (7.16%) ArcGIS
2 330 (6.99%) GeoServer
3 159 (3.37%) Confluence
4 120 (2.54%) WebLogic
5 89 (1.88%) SharePoint
6 70 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
7 45 (0.95%) Apache
7 45 (0.95%) Oracle Service Bus
8 43 (0.91%) IIS
9 39 (0.83%) OpenStack
10 37 (0.78%) Red Hat Fuse
11 36 (0.76%) JBoss
12 33 (0.70%) Apache Spark
13 16 (0.34%) CMS
14 14 (0.30%) Skype for Business
15 11 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2010
16 8 (0.17%) Drupal
16 8 (0.17%) SharePoint 2010
16 8 (0.17%) SharePoint 2013
17 6 (0.13%) nginx
Applications
1 175 (3.71%) Microsoft Office
2 85 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 79 (1.67%) MS Visio
4 46 (0.97%) Sketch
5 39 (0.83%) Simulink
6 24 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
7 19 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 9 (0.19%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.085%) EPLAN
9 4 (0.085%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.064%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.042%) Abaqus
11 2 (0.042%) Fireworks
11 2 (0.042%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.042%) InDesign
12 1 (0.021%) Acrobat
12 1 (0.021%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.021%) Blender
12 1 (0.021%) Revit
Business Applications
1 94 (1.99%) Remedy ITSM
2 90 (1.91%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 38 (0.80%) Siebel CRM
4 17 (0.36%) Maximo
5 12 (0.25%) Oracle Cash Management
6 11 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
7 10 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
7 10 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
7 10 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
8 9 (0.19%) Elite 3E
9 8 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
10 6 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
10 6 (0.13%) Primavera
10 6 (0.13%) SAP WM
11 5 (0.11%) SAP ERP
11 5 (0.11%) Teamcenter
12 4 (0.085%) SAP CO
12 4 (0.085%) SAP FI
12 4 (0.085%) SAP FI/CO
12 4 (0.085%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 1,209 (25.60%) Azure
2 983 (20.81%) AWS
3 198 (4.19%) Microsoft 365
4 145 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
5 141 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
6 127 (2.69%) GCP
6 127 (2.69%) Power Platform
7 120 (2.54%) Serverless
8 117 (2.48%) SaaS
9 101 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
10 71 (1.50%) Miro
11 66 (1.40%) OpenShift
12 64 (1.36%) AWS CloudFormation
13 61 (1.29%) PaaS
14 58 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
14 58 (1.23%) OCI
15 54 (1.14%) Amazon ECS
16 49 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
17 48 (1.02%) Amazon SQS
17 48 (1.02%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 295 (6.25%) Firewall
2 166 (3.51%) DNS
3 130 (2.75%) WAN
4 117 (2.48%) TCP/IP
5 93 (1.97%) LAN
6 85 (1.80%) Network Security
6 85 (1.80%) VPN
7 84 (1.78%) Wireless
8 79 (1.67%) BGP
9 73 (1.55%) SSL
10 72 (1.52%) DHCP
11 68 (1.44%) SAN
12 50 (1.06%) SD-WAN
13 41 (0.87%) IPsec
14 40 (0.85%) Software-Defined Radio
15 37 (0.78%) MPLS
16 32 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
17 30 (0.64%) Cisco Firepower
18 29 (0.61%) AMQP
18 29 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 414 (8.77%) PostgreSQL
2 348 (7.37%) GIS
3 330 (6.99%) QGIS
4 154 (3.26%) Relational Database
5 119 (2.52%) SQL Server
6 108 (2.29%) Oracle Database
7 82 (1.74%) NoSQL
8 72 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
9 63 (1.33%) RDBMS
10 61 (1.29%) Power BI
11 59 (1.25%) Big Data
12 53 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
13 51 (1.08%) Hadoop
14 47 (1.00%) Oracle Database 11g
15 45 (0.95%) Oracle Database 10g
15 45 (0.95%) VLDB
16 44 (0.93%) MySQL
17 42 (0.89%) MongoDB
18 38 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
19 33 (0.70%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 252 (5.34%) JIRA
2 244 (5.17%) Git
3 210 (4.45%) Jenkins
4 112 (2.37%) Visual Studio
5 107 (2.27%) Bitbucket
6 91 (1.93%) GitLab
7 59 (1.25%) Sourcetree
8 40 (0.85%) Selenium
9 37 (0.78%) Rational DOORS
10 36 (0.76%) Cucumber
11 29 (0.61%) IntelliJ
11 29 (0.61%) JUnit
12 25 (0.53%) Ant
13 23 (0.49%) Subversion
14 18 (0.38%) JMeter
15 17 (0.36%) REST Assured
15 17 (0.36%) TestNG
16 16 (0.34%) CMake
17 15 (0.32%) LabVIEW
18 14 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,084 (22.95%) Social Skills
2 545 (11.54%) Public Sector
3 329 (6.97%) Finance
4 322 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 266 (5.63%) Aerospace
6 255 (5.40%) Analytical Skills
7 220 (4.66%) Presentation Skills
8 139 (2.94%) Games
9 130 (2.75%) Police
10 105 (2.22%) Telecoms
11 104 (2.20%) Military
12 79 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
13 65 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
14 57 (1.21%) Retail
15 56 (1.19%) Manufacturing
16 54 (1.14%) Law
17 53 (1.12%) Electronics
18 41 (0.87%) Marketing
19 36 (0.76%) Legal
20 18 (0.38%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,033 (21.87%) Senior
2 691 (14.63%) Architect
3 558 (11.81%) Software Engineer
4 531 (11.24%) Developer
5 349 (7.39%) Analyst
5 349 (7.39%) Lead
6 321 (6.80%) Solutions Architect
7 296 (6.27%) Senior Software Engineer
8 236 (5.00%) Consultant
9 200 (4.23%) Systems Engineer
10 197 (4.17%) Project Manager
11 176 (3.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 173 (3.66%) Senior Developer
13 158 (3.35%) Network Engineer
14 126 (2.67%) Designer
15 125 (2.65%) DevOps Engineer
16 119 (2.52%) Business Analyst
17 116 (2.46%) Presales Solution Architect
18 110 (2.33%) Technical Architect
19 105 (2.22%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 466 (9.87%) .NET
2 442 (9.36%) React
3 334 (7.07%) CSS
4 333 (7.05%) Leaflet
5 332 (7.03%) OpenLayers
6 330 (6.99%) PostGIS
7 305 (6.46%) .NET Core
8 188 (3.98%) Spring
9 184 (3.90%) REST
10 162 (3.43%) AngularJS
10 162 (3.43%) Node.js
11 136 (2.88%) HTML
12 135 (2.86%) Web Services
13 133 (2.82%) Spring Boot
14 122 (2.58%) RESTful
15 110 (2.33%) XML
16 95 (2.01%) SOAP
17 88 (1.86%) Unity (Game Engine)
18 83 (1.76%) JSON
19 80 (1.69%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 167 (3.54%) Management Information System
2 150 (3.18%) Data Centre
3 116 (2.46%) Product Ownership
4 103 (2.18%) Virtual Team
5 98 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
6 90 (1.91%) Virtual Reality
7 89 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
8 86 (1.82%) Driving Licence
9 81 (1.72%) Onboarding
10 69 (1.46%) Public Cloud
11 62 (1.31%) Cyberattack
11 62 (1.31%) Operational Technology
12 58 (1.23%) Private Cloud
13 57 (1.21%) CMDB
14 55 (1.16%) Algorithms
15 53 (1.12%) Cloud Native
16 46 (0.97%) PKI
17 43 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
18 42 (0.89%) Clustering
19 40 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 626 (13.25%) Linux
2 621 (13.15%) Windows
3 279 (5.91%) Windows Server
4 126 (2.67%) Unix
5 125 (2.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 101 (2.14%) Ubuntu
7 93 (1.97%) Windows 10
8 77 (1.63%) CentOS
9 63 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
10 53 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
11 45 (0.95%) Solaris
12 34 (0.72%) Windows 7
13 30 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
14 25 (0.53%) Debian
15 20 (0.42%) Android
16 18 (0.38%) AIX
16 18 (0.38%) VMS
17 12 (0.25%) Windows XP
18 10 (0.21%) zOS
19 8 (0.17%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,575 (33.35%) Agile
2 1,391 (29.45%) Actionable Insight
3 1,058 (22.40%) DevOps
4 892 (18.89%) Software Engineering
5 827 (17.51%) Problem-Solving
6 452 (9.57%) Scrum
7 447 (9.46%) Cybersecurity
8 435 (9.21%) Project Management
9 357 (7.56%) ITIL
10 350 (7.41%) Stakeholder Management
11 342 (7.24%) Web Development
12 311 (6.58%) Mentoring
13 293 (6.20%) Collaborative Working
14 285 (6.03%) CI/CD
15 263 (5.57%) Service Management
16 256 (5.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 250 (5.29%) Presales
18 225 (4.76%) Business Case
19 214 (4.53%) Project Delivery
20 213 (4.51%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 763 (16.15%) Python
2 616 (13.04%) JavaScript
3 516 (10.93%) Java
4 442 (9.36%) C#
5 408 (8.64%) SQL
6 317 (6.71%) PowerShell
7 148 (3.13%) C++
8 92 (1.95%) Bash
9 82 (1.74%) C
10 70 (1.48%) PL/SQL
10 70 (1.48%) TypeScript
11 60 (1.27%) Shell Script
12 56 (1.19%) MATLAB
13 38 (0.80%) Go
14 25 (0.53%) Bicep
15 22 (0.47%) Perl
16 20 (0.42%) VB
17 19 (0.40%) VBA
18 18 (0.38%) Ruby
19 17 (0.36%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 4,723 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 761 (16.11%) Degree
3 635 (13.44%) DV Cleared
4 284 (6.01%) BPSS Clearance
5 138 (2.92%) AWS Certification
6 125 (2.65%) Azure Certification
6 125 (2.65%) CISM
7 121 (2.56%) CISSP
8 118 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
9 117 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
10 84 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
11 78 (1.65%) CCNA
12 71 (1.50%) CCNP
13 70 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 70 (1.48%) CRISC
14 68 (1.44%) CESG Certified Professional
15 62 (1.31%) TOGAF Certification
16 54 (1.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 37 (0.78%) A+ Certification
18 32 (0.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (3.18%) Accessibility
2 148 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 144 (3.05%) SLA
4 99 (2.10%) QA
5 92 (1.95%) NCSC
6 58 (1.23%) NIST
6 58 (1.23%) WCAG
7 45 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 40 (0.85%) GDPR
9 39 (0.83%) PMO
10 33 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
11 32 (0.68%) COBIT
12 26 (0.55%) Data Quality
12 26 (0.55%) Def Stans
13 24 (0.51%) GRC
14 22 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 21 (0.44%) JSP 440
15 21 (0.44%) Software Quality Assurance
16 19 (0.40%) RMADS
17 16 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 374 (7.92%) Active Directory
2 258 (5.46%) Docker
3 217 (4.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 136 (2.88%) Hyper-V
5 52 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
6 45 (0.95%) Oracle RAC
7 35 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
8 33 (0.70%) Firmware
8 33 (0.70%) vSphere
9 23 (0.49%) KVM
9 23 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
10 19 (0.40%) VMware NSX
11 16 (0.34%) pfSense
12 10 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
12 10 (0.21%) NFS
13 8 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
14 5 (0.11%) XenDesktop
15 4 (0.085%) Embedded Firmware
15 4 (0.085%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 3 (0.064%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 275 (5.82%) Kubernetes
2 260 (5.50%) Ansible
3 237 (5.02%) Terraform
4 166 (3.51%) SCCM
5 66 (1.40%) SCOM
5 66 (1.40%) vCenter Server
6 64 (1.36%) Puppet
7 50 (1.06%) WSUS
8 45 (0.95%) Data Guard
8 45 (0.95%) Oracle RMAN
9 41 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
10 39 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
11 34 (0.72%) Grafana
12 32 (0.68%) OpenView
13 31 (0.66%) NetBackup
14 30 (0.64%) EMC NetWorker
15 29 (0.61%) OpenSSO
16 25 (0.53%) ZABBIX
17 19 (0.40%) Nagios
17 19 (0.40%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 833 (17.64%) Microsoft
2 352 (7.45%) Oracle
3 337 (7.14%) ESRI
4 323 (6.84%) VMware
5 255 (5.40%) Cisco
6 203 (4.30%) Juniper
7 123 (2.60%) Remedy
8 120 (2.54%) ServiceNow
9 94 (1.99%) Google
10 90 (1.91%) HP
10 90 (1.91%) Sparx
11 81 (1.72%) Red Hat
12 55 (1.16%) Fortinet
13 54 (1.14%) BMC
14 51 (1.08%) CheckPoint
14 51 (1.08%) Palo Alto
14 51 (1.08%) Splunk
15 50 (1.06%) NetApp
16 48 (1.02%) IBM
16 48 (1.02%) McAfee