SC Cleared Job Trends in Yorkshire

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 90 120
Rank change year-on-year +18 +30 +5
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 140 66 57
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.84% 1.96% 1.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 16.53% 4.60% 4.27%
Number of salaries quoted 92 55 28
10th Percentile £50,000 £24,500 £44,066
25th Percentile £53,750 £41,074 £48,684
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,805 £47,500 £63,982
Median % change year-on-year +40.64% -25.76% +6.64%
75th Percentile £74,063 £67,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £72,500 £93,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £59,000 £58,800
% change year-on-year +18.64% +0.34% -2.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 847 1,434 1,336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 11.16% 42.69% 29.24%
Number of salaries quoted 449 310 273
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,450 £25,000
25th Percentile £39,250 £31,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -16.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,630 £74,100 £81,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -0.86%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

SC Cleared job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing SC Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing SC Cleared

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in Yorkshire

SC Cleared
Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 9 October 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
West Yorkshire -9 83 £66,805 +40.64% 77
South Yorkshire -6 30 £64,653 +2.62% 14
North Yorkshire +19 15 £95,000 +35.71% 6
East Yorkshire - 6 £70,000 - 1
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 9 (6.43%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.86%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.86%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (2.14%) nginx
5 2 (1.43%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 36 (25.71%) AWS
2 20 (14.29%) GitHub
3 18 (12.86%) AWS CloudFormation
3 18 (12.86%) Azure
4 13 (9.29%) Amazon EC2
4 13 (9.29%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (6.43%) Power Platform
5 9 (6.43%) Serverless
6 8 (5.71%) Amazon S3
6 8 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (5.00%) Entra ID
7 7 (5.00%) Power Automate
7 7 (5.00%) PowerApps
8 6 (4.29%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (4.29%) Slack
9 5 (3.57%) Amazon ECR
9 5 (3.57%) OneDrive
9 5 (3.57%) SaaS
10 3 (2.14%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.29%) Firewall
1 6 (4.29%) VPN
2 5 (3.57%) DNS
2 5 (3.57%) Internet
2 5 (3.57%) Network Security
2 5 (3.57%) SSL
2 5 (3.57%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.14%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (2.14%) Cisco Firepower
3 3 (2.14%) Reverse Proxy
3 3 (2.14%) Structured Cabling
3 3 (2.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.57%) Data Lake
2 4 (2.86%) Big Data
2 4 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.14%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.43%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.43%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 20 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 18 (12.86%) GitLab
3 10 (7.14%) Git
4 7 (5.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (2.86%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.14%) JIRA
6 3 (2.14%) Maven
7 2 (1.43%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.71%) JMeter
8 1 (0.71%) Postman
General
1 37 (26.43%) Public Sector
2 22 (15.71%) Social Skills
3 16 (11.43%) Finance
4 12 (8.57%) Legal
5 11 (7.86%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (6.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.29%) Local Government
8 5 (3.57%) Law
8 5 (3.57%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.57%) Retail
9 4 (2.86%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.71%) Marketing
11 1 (0.71%) Military
Job Titles
1 39 (27.86%) Senior
2 20 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 14 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (8.57%) Data Engineer
5 11 (7.86%) Architect
6 10 (7.14%) Developer
6 10 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
6 10 (7.14%) Senior Network Engineer
7 9 (6.43%) Software Engineer
8 8 (5.71%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 8 (5.71%) Lead
8 8 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (5.71%) Systems Engineer
9 7 (5.00%) Principal DevOps Engineer
9 7 (5.00%) Principal Engineer
9 7 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
10 5 (3.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 5 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (3.57%) Senior Developer
10 5 (3.57%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (20.00%) Terraform
2 9 (6.43%) Web Services
3 6 (4.29%) React
4 5 (3.57%) Kafka
5 4 (2.86%) .NET
5 4 (2.86%) CSS
5 4 (2.86%) Jest
5 4 (2.86%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (2.14%) .NET Core
6 3 (2.14%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.14%) Gherkin
6 3 (2.14%) Node.js
6 3 (2.14%) OpenAPI
6 3 (2.14%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.43%) Express.js
7 2 (1.43%) JSON
7 2 (1.43%) NestJS
7 2 (1.43%) PySpark
7 2 (1.43%) RESTful
8 1 (0.71%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.86%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.14%) Security Posture
3 9 (6.43%) AI Agents
4 8 (5.71%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.29%) Blog
5 6 (4.29%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (3.57%) CMDB
6 5 (3.57%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 5 (3.57%) Driving Licence
6 5 (3.57%) NHS
7 3 (2.14%) CCTV
7 3 (2.14%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.43%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.71%) Fibre Optics
9 1 (0.71%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 25 (17.86%) Linux
2 14 (10.00%) Windows
3 7 (5.00%) CentOS
3 7 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.43%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.71%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (21.43%) CI/CD
2 29 (20.71%) DevOps
2 29 (20.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 25 (17.86%) Platform Engineering
4 23 (16.43%) Mentoring
5 22 (15.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (15.00%) Agile
7 20 (14.29%) AI
8 18 (12.86%) Software Engineering
8 18 (12.86%) Technical Leadership
9 17 (12.14%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (12.14%) Workflow
10 15 (10.71%) Analytics
10 15 (10.71%) Coaching
11 14 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
11 14 (10.00%) Microservices
12 12 (8.57%) Containerisation
12 12 (8.57%) Software Delivery
13 10 (7.14%) Observability
13 10 (7.14%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 32 (22.86%) Python
2 12 (8.57%) Groovy
3 9 (6.43%) SQL
4 7 (5.00%) Bash
4 7 (5.00%) PowerShell
5 6 (4.29%) Java
5 6 (4.29%) PHP
6 5 (3.57%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.14%) C#
7 3 (2.14%) Ruby
8 2 (1.43%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.43%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 140 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (10.71%) DV Cleared
3 7 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (3.57%) CREST Certified
5 3 (2.14%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.43%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.71%) CCNA
7 1 (0.71%) CCNP
7 1 (0.71%) CCSA
7 1 (0.71%) CCSE
7 1 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.71%) Degree
7 1 (0.71%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.71%) QA
2 4 (2.86%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.86%) SLA
3 3 (2.14%) GRC
3 3 (2.14%) PMO
4 2 (1.43%) GDPR
4 2 (1.43%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (0.71%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.71%) AQAP
5 1 (0.71%) NCSC
5 1 (0.71%) NIST
5 1 (0.71%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (15.71%) Docker
2 6 (4.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (12.86%) Kubernetes
2 11 (7.86%) Ansible
3 9 (6.43%) Progress Chef
4 5 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (2.14%) Grafana
5 3 (2.14%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.43%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.71%) Nessus
Vendors
1 11 (7.86%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.43%) Cisco
3 8 (5.71%) Fortinet
4 6 (4.29%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.57%) Databricks
6 4 (2.86%) Juniper
6 4 (2.86%) Oracle
7 2 (1.43%) Foundry
7 2 (1.43%) HP
7 2 (1.43%) Informatica
7 2 (1.43%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.71%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.71%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.71%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.71%) Splunk
8 1 (0.71%) VMware