Security Cleared Jobs

Security Clearance
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 21 27
Rank change year-on-year -22 +6 +48
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 3,148 7,859 8,026
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.69% 7.92% 7.92%
As % of the Qualifications category 11.56% 28.57% 24.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,855 4,724 3,688
10th Percentile £41,250 £31,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £48,165 £45,000 £43,534
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,644 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.21% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,583 £85,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +3.77% +0.95%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,222 27,508 33,255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 49.18% 27.71% 32.82%
Number of salaries quoted 11,371 17,307 15,034
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £38,500 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -9.28% +8.23%
75th Percentile £68,525 £71,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £51,603
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.11% +3.21%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the UK

Security Cleared
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Security Cleared in the UK

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in the UK

Security 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 Security Cleared within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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
England -15 2,946 £60,000 +4.35% 3,643
UK excluding London -19 2,413 £60,000 +9.09% 3,152
Work from Home -30 991 £65,000 +8.33% 3,295
South East -9 772 £57,500 +4.55% 950
North of England +4 758 £60,000 +9.09% 532
North West -1 670 £65,000 +18.18% 280
London -14 531 £65,000 -7.14% 856
South West -10 397 £59,400 +8.00% 681
Midlands -24 267 £65,000 +23.81% 432
West Midlands -11 230 £65,000 +18.18% 270
East of England -41 151 £60,000 +9.09% 398
Yorkshire -14 71 £50,000 -16.67% 201
Wales -27 42 £55,000 +1.11% 65
Scotland -35 38 £62,500 +15.74% 162
East Midlands -71 35 £52,000 +17.58% 138
North East +21 15 £69,384 +26.15% 53
Northern Ireland -15 10 £87,500 +45.83% 43

Security 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 64 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 34 (1.08%) SharePoint
3 27 (0.86%) Confluence
4 23 (0.73%) Jupyter
5 17 (0.54%) Apache Spark
6 14 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2013
6 14 (0.44%) Skype for Business
7 13 (0.41%) JBoss
7 13 (0.41%) Red Hat Fuse
8 11 (0.35%) Apache
8 11 (0.35%) OpenEdge
9 8 (0.25%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 7 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2010
10 7 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.16%) Alfresco
11 5 (0.16%) CMS
11 5 (0.16%) Headless CMS
11 5 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
12 4 (0.13%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.13%) Documentum
Applications
1 53 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
2 44 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.25%) Adobe XD
5 7 (0.22%) Simulink
6 6 (0.19%) InVision
6 6 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.19%) Sketch
7 5 (0.16%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.16%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.13%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
9 3 (0.095%) Revit
10 2 (0.064%) EPLAN
10 2 (0.064%) GNU Octave
10 2 (0.064%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.064%) Windchill
11 1 (0.032%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.032%) OrCAD
11 1 (0.032%) Trello
Business Applications
1 30 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
4 13 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
5 11 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 7 (0.22%) SAP HR
7 5 (0.16%) Q-Pulse
7 5 (0.16%) SAP HCM
8 4 (0.13%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.13%) PeopleSoft HCM
9 3 (0.095%) Dynamics AX
9 3 (0.095%) Maximo
9 3 (0.095%) Oracle Payroll
9 3 (0.095%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.095%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.095%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 3 (0.095%) SAP Payroll
9 3 (0.095%) SAP PM
10 2 (0.064%) Oracle General Ledger
10 2 (0.064%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 620 (19.70%) Azure
2 587 (18.65%) AWS
3 281 (8.93%) GCP
4 125 (3.97%) Power Platform
5 110 (3.49%) Serverless
6 93 (2.95%) AWS CloudFormation
7 86 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
8 83 (2.64%) Amazon EKS
9 79 (2.51%) Dynamics 365
10 75 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
11 65 (2.06%) SaaS
12 61 (1.94%) IaaS
13 60 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
14 58 (1.84%) OCI
15 55 (1.75%) Entra ID
16 42 (1.33%) Amazon ECS
17 41 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
18 35 (1.11%) Amazon S3
19 33 (1.05%) PaaS
20 31 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 498 (15.82%) VPN
2 466 (14.80%) DNS
3 256 (8.13%) Firewall
4 173 (5.50%) WAN
5 136 (4.32%) Network Security
6 117 (3.72%) BGP
7 101 (3.21%) LAN
8 92 (2.92%) OSPF
9 77 (2.45%) Cisco ISE
9 77 (2.45%) TCP/IP
10 68 (2.16%) EIGRP
11 57 (1.81%) SD-WAN
12 47 (1.49%) DHCP
13 46 (1.46%) MPLS
14 45 (1.43%) IPsec
15 44 (1.40%) SAN
16 43 (1.37%) VLAN
17 42 (1.33%) Cisco ASA
18 41 (1.30%) Ethernet
19 39 (1.24%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
2 75 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
3 74 (2.35%) Big Data
4 60 (1.91%) SQL Server
5 53 (1.68%) Power BI
6 49 (1.56%) Relational Database
7 41 (1.30%) MongoDB
8 40 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
9 24 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
9 24 (0.76%) MySQL
10 22 (0.70%) NoSQL
11 20 (0.64%) Redis
12 15 (0.48%) Data Lake
13 14 (0.44%) DynamoDB
14 13 (0.41%) Metadata
14 13 (0.41%) Tableau
15 11 (0.35%) GIS
16 10 (0.32%) RDBMS
17 8 (0.25%) DB2
18 7 (0.22%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 124 (3.94%) Git
2 103 (3.27%) Jenkins
3 63 (2.00%) JIRA
4 55 (1.75%) GitLab
5 36 (1.14%) JUnit
6 24 (0.76%) JMeter
7 20 (0.64%) SonarQube
8 17 (0.54%) Mockito
9 15 (0.48%) Selenium
10 13 (0.41%) Robot Framework
11 11 (0.35%) MSI
11 11 (0.35%) Rational DOORS
11 11 (0.35%) Subversion
12 10 (0.32%) Cypress.io
13 8 (0.25%) Maven
13 8 (0.25%) Postman
14 7 (0.22%) Axure RP
14 7 (0.22%) Bitbucket Server
14 7 (0.22%) NDoc
14 7 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 866 (27.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 721 (22.90%) Finance
3 636 (20.20%) Analytical Skills
4 555 (17.63%) Social Skills
5 332 (10.55%) Public Sector
6 148 (4.70%) Law
7 95 (3.02%) Aerospace
8 91 (2.89%) Telecoms
9 82 (2.60%) Military
10 80 (2.54%) Electronics
11 78 (2.48%) Marketing
12 61 (1.94%) Manufacturing
13 51 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
13 51 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
14 48 (1.52%) Retail
15 35 (1.11%) Legal
16 25 (0.79%) Advertising
17 24 (0.76%) Police
18 20 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
18 20 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 655 (20.81%) Developer
2 465 (14.77%) Senior
3 460 (14.61%) Software Developer
4 380 (12.07%) Architect
5 282 (8.96%) Software Engineer
6 199 (6.32%) Senior Software Engineer
7 190 (6.04%) Network Engineer
8 181 (5.75%) Lead
9 168 (5.34%) Consultant
10 137 (4.35%) Analyst
11 115 (3.65%) Network Architect
12 109 (3.46%) Support Engineer
13 102 (3.24%) Solutions Architect
14 99 (3.14%) Designer
15 72 (2.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 67 (2.13%) Systems Engineer
17 66 (2.10%) DevOps Engineer
17 66 (2.10%) Network Designer
18 58 (1.84%) Administrator
19 57 (1.81%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 275 (8.74%) .NET
2 252 (8.01%) Node.js
3 102 (3.24%) React
4 76 (2.41%) RESTful
5 69 (2.19%) HTML
6 64 (2.03%) Spring
7 61 (1.94%) REST
8 59 (1.87%) AngularJS
8 59 (1.87%) Spring Boot
9 52 (1.65%) Kafka
10 50 (1.59%) CSS
10 50 (1.59%) Pandas
11 47 (1.49%) Web Services
12 40 (1.27%) JSON
13 33 (1.05%) SOAP
14 30 (0.95%) Vue
15 29 (0.92%) Django
16 27 (0.86%) Elastic Stack
17 26 (0.83%) Apache Camel
17 26 (0.83%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 689 (21.89%) Cyberattack
2 222 (7.05%) Self-Motivation
3 192 (6.10%) Linux Command Line
4 108 (3.43%) Management Information System
5 94 (2.99%) Data Centre
6 81 (2.57%) Algorithms
7 55 (1.75%) Onboarding
8 53 (1.68%) Cloud Native
9 47 (1.49%) e-Learning
10 43 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
11 38 (1.21%) Public Cloud
12 37 (1.18%) FPGA
13 36 (1.14%) Product Ownership
14 32 (1.02%) Driving Licence
14 32 (1.02%) PKI
15 31 (0.98%) SCADA
16 28 (0.89%) Cyber Threat
16 28 (0.89%) Private Cloud
17 27 (0.86%) Security Posture
18 26 (0.83%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 899 (28.56%) Linux
2 463 (14.71%) Android
3 315 (10.01%) Windows
4 148 (4.70%) Windows Server
5 38 (1.21%) Unix
6 28 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 24 (0.76%) Windows 10
8 16 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
9 13 (0.41%) Rocky
10 12 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
11 11 (0.35%) Apple iOS
12 9 (0.29%) AIX
12 9 (0.29%) Mac OS
13 8 (0.25%) Ubuntu
14 7 (0.22%) Windows 7
14 7 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
15 6 (0.19%) Windows Server 2003
15 6 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
16 5 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
17 4 (0.13%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,115 (35.42%) Agile
2 537 (17.06%) Mathematics
3 527 (16.74%) Line Management
4 487 (15.47%) Design Patterns
5 470 (14.93%) OO
6 467 (14.83%) Software Engineering
7 463 (14.71%) OOP
8 460 (14.61%) Mentoring
9 451 (14.33%) Android Development
10 375 (11.91%) Problem-Solving
11 360 (11.44%) DevOps
12 327 (10.39%) Scrum
13 305 (9.69%) Microservices
14 304 (9.66%) Machine Learning
15 297 (9.43%) CI/CD
16 285 (9.05%) Cybersecurity
17 255 (8.10%) Cloud Security
18 245 (7.78%) User Experience
19 229 (7.27%) Data Engineering
20 209 (6.64%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 985 (31.29%) Python
2 858 (27.26%) Java
3 711 (22.59%) C++
4 638 (20.27%) Go
5 427 (13.56%) JavaScript
6 236 (7.50%) Rust
7 193 (6.13%) SQL
8 167 (5.30%) PowerShell
9 96 (3.05%) C#
10 77 (2.45%) TypeScript
11 68 (2.16%) C
12 53 (1.68%) Bash
13 28 (0.89%) MATLAB
14 26 (0.83%) Perl
15 25 (0.79%) Shell Script
16 23 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
17 22 (0.70%) R
18 17 (0.54%) Scala
19 10 (0.32%) Groovy
19 10 (0.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,605 (50.98%) SC Cleared
2 1,370 (43.52%) DV Cleared
3 390 (12.39%) Degree
4 227 (7.21%) AWS Certification
5 199 (6.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 180 (5.72%) AWS Certified Developer
7 126 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
8 96 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 92 (2.92%) CCNA
10 82 (2.60%) CCNP
11 68 (2.16%) CISSP
12 63 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
13 57 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
14 47 (1.49%) Master's Degree
15 35 (1.11%) CISM
16 32 (1.02%) JNCIS
17 31 (0.98%) Azure Certification
18 27 (0.86%) HND
19 26 (0.83%) PMI Certification
20 25 (0.79%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (2.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 66 (2.10%) SLA
3 60 (1.91%) QA
4 59 (1.87%) NIST
5 39 (1.24%) GDPR
6 37 (1.18%) NCSC
7 33 (1.05%) Accessibility
8 31 (0.98%) Data Quality
9 24 (0.76%) GRC
10 23 (0.73%) Def Stans
11 19 (0.60%) HIPAA
12 18 (0.57%) PMBOK
13 16 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
13 16 (0.51%) JSP 440
14 13 (0.41%) NIST 800
15 12 (0.38%) ISO 9001
15 12 (0.38%) WCAG
16 11 (0.35%) PMO
17 10 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 8 (0.25%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 688 (21.86%) Docker
2 162 (5.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 160 (5.08%) Active Directory
4 74 (2.35%) VMware NSX
5 50 (1.59%) vSphere
6 38 (1.21%) Firmware
7 35 (1.11%) Hyper-V
8 30 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
9 29 (0.92%) Embedded Firmware
10 19 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
11 14 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
12 11 (0.35%) BitLocker
13 9 (0.29%) Microsoft App-V
14 8 (0.25%) Terminal Services
15 4 (0.13%) DFS Replication
16 2 (0.064%) ISA Server
16 2 (0.064%) Virtual Servers
17 1 (0.032%) Apache ZooKeeper
17 1 (0.032%) Slurm Workload Manager
17 1 (0.032%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 586 (18.61%) Ansible
2 256 (8.13%) Kubernetes
3 224 (7.12%) Terraform
4 61 (1.94%) FortiGate
5 37 (1.18%) Prometheus
6 32 (1.02%) Grafana
7 31 (0.98%) QRadar
8 26 (0.83%) SCCM
9 24 (0.76%) vCenter Server
10 23 (0.73%) Puppet
11 19 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
12 17 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 17 (0.54%) Kibana
12 17 (0.54%) WMI
13 14 (0.44%) vMotion
14 12 (0.38%) vRealize
15 11 (0.35%) AWS Copilot
15 11 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
15 11 (0.35%) Nessus
16 10 (0.32%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 372 (11.82%) Microsoft
2 370 (11.75%) Cisco
3 266 (8.45%) VMware
4 241 (7.66%) Juniper
5 135 (4.29%) SAP
6 104 (3.30%) Oracle
7 88 (2.80%) ServiceNow
8 81 (2.57%) Google
9 75 (2.38%) Fortinet
10 63 (2.00%) Splunk
11 51 (1.62%) F5
12 44 (1.40%) Red Hat
13 43 (1.37%) SevOne
14 42 (1.33%) CheckPoint
15 35 (1.11%) SolarWinds
16 32 (1.02%) Salesforce
17 27 (0.86%) Blue Coat
18 24 (0.76%) HP
19 23 (0.73%) Atlassian
19 23 (0.73%) Citrix