SC Cleared Job Trends in Worcester

Security Check (SC) Clearance
Worcestershire > Worcester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Worcester with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 22 -
Rank change year-on-year +14 - -
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 8 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Worcester 10.81% 1.67% -
As % of the Qualifications category 18.60% 3.57% -
Number of salaries quoted 8 1 0
10th Percentile £75,125 - -
25th Percentile £76,250 £41,625 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £43,250 -
Median % change year-on-year +84.97% - -
75th Percentile - £44,875 -
90th Percentile - - -
Worcestershire median annual salary £78,750 £61,625 £55,000
% change year-on-year +27.79% +12.05% -15.38%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Worcester

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 Worcester.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 43 28 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Worcester 58.11% 46.67% 25.00%
Number of salaries quoted 32 20 11
10th Percentile £31,800 £36,250 £33,750
25th Percentile - £42,938 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £65,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +34.02% +29.33%
75th Percentile £71,875 - £50,250
90th Percentile £80,000 - -
Worcestershire median annual salary £39,000 £59,346 £50,000
% change year-on-year -34.28% +18.69% +5.26%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcester

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

SC Cleared job vacancy trend in Worcester

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in Worcester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Worcester citing SC Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Worcester citing SC Cleared

SC Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcester 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) Azure Stack
2 5 (62.50%) Entra ID
General
1 5 (62.50%) Public Sector
2 3 (37.50%) Military
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) IT Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Data Centre
1 5 (62.50%) Hybrid Cloud
1 5 (62.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (62.50%) Rocky
2 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 5 (62.50%) Windows Server
2 5 (62.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Containerisation
1 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) GitOps
2 3 (37.50%) Microservices
2 3 (37.50%) Migration
2 3 (37.50%) Platform Engineering
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) Azure Certification
2 5 (62.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (62.50%) DV Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
1 5 (62.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (37.50%) Ansible
2 3 (37.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Dell