SC Cleared Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Security Check (SC) Clearance
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 66 93
Rank change year-on-year -9 +27 +74
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 79 36 58
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 2.34% 2.86% 2.06%
As % of the Qualifications category 13.74% 7.09% 10.58%
Number of salaries quoted 61 26 34
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,625 £50,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £38,500 £51,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,850 £47,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.11% -20.83% -14.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £89,113 £82,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £44,700 £60,000
% change year-on-year +39.82% -25.50% -10.45%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Yorkshire

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 in West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 575 508 548
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 17.03% 40.32% 19.45%
Number of salaries quoted 266 205 366
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £26,750 £36,241
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,250 £42,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.17% -17.65% -11.78%
75th Percentile £70,525 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £73,831 £80,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £45,961 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +2.13% -5.26% -9.52%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SC Cleared relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

SC Cleared job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing SC Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing SC Cleared

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 15 May 2026.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in West Yorkshire

SC Cleared
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 15 May 2026. 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
Leeds -5 65 £65,000 +18.18% 22
Batley +7 6 £32,500 -2.99%
Dewsbury - 6 £32,500 -
Bradford -21 1 - - 6
Wakefield - 1 - - 1
SC Cleared
Yorkshire

SC Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.27%) JBoss
Applications
1 17 (21.52%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (29.11%) AWS
2 18 (22.78%) Azure
3 17 (21.52%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (17.72%) Serverless
5 13 (16.46%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (13.92%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (13.92%) Amazon S3
7 10 (12.66%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (11.39%) AWS Step Functions
9 6 (7.59%) Amazon ECR
9 6 (7.59%) Apigee
9 6 (7.59%) GitHub
10 5 (6.33%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (5.06%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (3.80%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (3.80%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (2.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 2 (2.53%) IaaS
13 2 (2.53%) PaaS
13 2 (2.53%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (17.72%) DHCP
1 14 (17.72%) DNS
1 14 (17.72%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.53%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.27%) Broadband
3 1 (1.27%) DSLAM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.46%) DynamoDB
2 6 (7.59%) NoSQL
3 4 (5.06%) Metadata
3 4 (5.06%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.80%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 12 (15.19%) Jenkins
2 9 (11.39%) GitLab
3 8 (10.13%) SonarQube
4 7 (8.86%) Cypress.io
4 7 (8.86%) Maven
5 6 (7.59%) Git
6 4 (5.06%) JIRA
7 3 (3.80%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.53%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.27%) Selenium
General
1 19 (24.05%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.66%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (5.06%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.06%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.80%) Finance
5 2 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.27%) Banking
6 1 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (31.65%) Developer
2 15 (18.99%) IT Support
3 13 (16.46%) Senior
4 11 (13.92%) Java Developer
5 10 (12.66%) Full-Stack Developer
6 9 (11.39%) Head of Architecture
6 9 (11.39%) Head of Delivery
6 9 (11.39%) Head of Service Delivery
7 8 (10.13%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 8 (10.13%) Python Developer
8 7 (8.86%) Lead
8 7 (8.86%) Senior Developer
9 6 (7.59%) Analyst
10 5 (6.33%) Architect
11 4 (5.06%) .NET Developer
11 4 (5.06%) Data Architect
11 4 (5.06%) Infrastructure Support
11 4 (5.06%) Senior .NET Developer
12 3 (3.80%) AWS Developer
12 3 (3.80%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.92%) AngularJS
2 9 (11.39%) Spring Boot
3 7 (8.86%) Jest
4 6 (7.59%) Gherkin
5 4 (5.06%) .NET
5 4 (5.06%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (5.06%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (5.06%) REST
6 3 (3.80%) Node.js
6 3 (3.80%) Spring
6 3 (3.80%) Web Services
7 2 (2.53%) Java EE
7 2 (2.53%) JMS
7 2 (2.53%) JPA
7 2 (2.53%) JSON
7 2 (2.53%) React
7 2 (2.53%) RESTful
7 2 (2.53%) YAML
8 1 (1.27%) HTML
8 1 (1.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.33%) Data Structures
2 4 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (5.06%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.06%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (3.80%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.53%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (2.53%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.27%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.27%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (1.27%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.27%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 17 (21.52%) Windows
2 15 (18.99%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.80%) Linux
4 2 (2.53%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (22.78%) Agile
2 16 (20.25%) Incident Management
3 14 (17.72%) DevOps
4 13 (16.46%) CI/CD
5 10 (12.66%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (12.66%) Full-Stack Development
5 10 (12.66%) ITIL
6 9 (11.39%) Mentoring
7 7 (8.86%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (8.86%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 6 (7.59%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (7.59%) SDLC
9 5 (6.33%) Clean Code
9 5 (6.33%) Secure Coding
9 5 (6.33%) Service Delivery
10 4 (5.06%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (5.06%) Data Modelling
10 4 (5.06%) Data Protection
10 4 (5.06%) Design Patterns
10 4 (5.06%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (16.46%) Java
2 12 (15.19%) Python
3 10 (12.66%) Groovy
4 9 (11.39%) TypeScript
5 8 (10.13%) SQL
6 7 (8.86%) Bash
7 3 (3.80%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.80%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.53%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 79 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (22.78%) DV Cleared
3 9 (11.39%) AWS Certification
4 7 (8.86%) Degree
5 5 (6.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 5 (6.33%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.53%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.27%) CIPD
7 1 (1.27%) CISM
7 1 (1.27%) CISSP
7 1 (1.27%) CRISC
7 1 (1.27%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.53%) Data Quality
1 2 (2.53%) QA
2 1 (1.27%) GRC
2 1 (1.27%) JSP 440
System Software
1 16 (20.25%) Active Directory
2 13 (16.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (10.13%) Terraform
2 6 (7.59%) HP Fortify
3 5 (6.33%) Kubernetes
4 4 (5.06%) Ansible
5 2 (2.53%) Kibana
5 2 (2.53%) Packer
5 2 (2.53%) SCCM
6 1 (1.27%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 17 (21.52%) Microsoft
2 15 (18.99%) Citrix
2 15 (18.99%) VMware
3 4 (5.06%) AppDynamics
3 4 (5.06%) IBM
4 2 (2.53%) Oracle
5 1 (1.27%) BT