Security Cleared Jobs in England

Security Clearance
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 29 75
Rank change year-on-year +6 +46 -8
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 6,756 6,758 6,326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.88% 7.57% 4.69%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.72% 23.13% 17.78%
Number of salaries quoted 4,316 3,356 3,141
10th Percentile £31,750 £33,950 £31,275
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,153 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% +5.45% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £86,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

Security 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 advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 24,370 29,220 35,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.43% 32.72% 26.38%
Number of salaries quoted 15,757 13,335 16,761
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,019 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,700 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.83% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in England

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Security Cleared in England

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in England over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in England

Security Cleared
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Cleared within the England region over the 6 months to 14 May 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
South East +8 1,961 £55,000 +11.11% 546
South West +4 1,882 £55,000 - 486
London +12 1,043 £70,000 +7.69% 354
North of England +11 798 £55,000 -4.35% 277
Midlands -4 626 £53,750 -2.27% 185
North West +2 572 £55,000 -4.35% 207
West Midlands +10 434 £55,000 -2.22% 136
East of England +21 426 £55,000 - 145
East Midlands -24 192 £44,225 -15.76% 48
Yorkshire +33 187 £60,000 -9.09% 45
North East -33 39 £43,072 -4.28% 25
Security Cleared
UK

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 205 (3.03%) ArcGIS
2 196 (2.90%) GeoServer
3 137 (2.03%) Confluence
4 127 (1.88%) SharePoint
5 106 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
6 93 (1.38%) Apache
7 81 (1.20%) IIS
8 64 (0.95%) WebLogic
9 56 (0.83%) Apache Spark
10 39 (0.58%) OpenStack
11 29 (0.43%) nginx
12 25 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2010
13 24 (0.36%) Tomcat
14 18 (0.27%) JBoss
14 18 (0.27%) Jupyter
15 17 (0.25%) CMS
15 17 (0.25%) Red Hat Fuse
16 15 (0.22%) SharePoint 2010
16 15 (0.22%) SharePoint 2013
17 14 (0.21%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 231 (3.42%) Microsoft Office
2 124 (1.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 120 (1.78%) Simulink
4 79 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 41 (0.61%) MS Visio
6 31 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
7 29 (0.43%) Sketch
8 10 (0.15%) AutoCAD
9 6 (0.089%) Trello
10 4 (0.059%) EPLAN
10 4 (0.059%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.059%) Siemens NX
10 4 (0.059%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.059%) Stateflow
10 4 (0.059%) Windchill
11 3 (0.044%) Revit
12 2 (0.030%) Abaqus
12 2 (0.030%) Fireworks
12 2 (0.030%) InDesign
12 2 (0.030%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 78 (1.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 55 (0.81%) Remedy ITSM
3 46 (0.68%) NEC Housing
4 40 (0.59%) Siebel CRM
5 37 (0.55%) Primavera
6 28 (0.41%) Workday HCM
7 24 (0.36%) Maximo
8 21 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
9 14 (0.21%) SAP HR
10 10 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
10 10 (0.15%) SAP CO
10 10 (0.15%) SAP FI
10 10 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
11 9 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
11 9 (0.13%) SAP SCM
11 9 (0.13%) Teamcenter
12 8 (0.12%) SAP EWM
13 7 (0.10%) Elite 3E
14 6 (0.089%) Oracle Applications
15 5 (0.074%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1,310 (19.39%) Azure
2 1,116 (16.52%) AWS
3 265 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
4 156 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
5 145 (2.15%) SaaS
6 142 (2.10%) Power Platform
7 138 (2.04%) GCP
8 127 (1.88%) Serverless
9 119 (1.76%) Amazon EKS
10 114 (1.69%) OpenShift
11 100 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
12 92 (1.36%) PaaS
13 82 (1.21%) Entra ID
14 79 (1.17%) AWS CloudFormation
15 65 (0.96%) IaaS
16 63 (0.93%) Amazon ECS
17 61 (0.90%) AWS Lambda
18 59 (0.87%) Cloud Computing
19 55 (0.81%) GitHub
20 54 (0.80%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 432 (6.39%) Firewall
2 242 (3.58%) DNS
3 204 (3.02%) WAN
4 159 (2.35%) TCP/IP
5 146 (2.16%) DHCP
6 143 (2.12%) LAN
7 142 (2.10%) Network Security
8 130 (1.92%) BGP
9 125 (1.85%) VPN
10 79 (1.17%) SAN
11 75 (1.11%) Wireless
12 61 (0.90%) SSL
13 59 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
14 58 (0.86%) MPLS
15 56 (0.83%) Internet
16 55 (0.81%) HTTP
17 54 (0.80%) Cisco ASA
18 50 (0.74%) OSPF
18 50 (0.74%) SD-WAN
19 48 (0.71%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 320 (4.74%) PostgreSQL
2 228 (3.37%) GIS
3 196 (2.90%) QGIS
4 176 (2.61%) SQL Server
5 139 (2.06%) Relational Database
6 101 (1.49%) NoSQL
7 98 (1.45%) Power BI
8 97 (1.44%) Oracle Database
9 95 (1.41%) Big Data
10 87 (1.29%) Hadoop
11 80 (1.18%) MongoDB
12 50 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
13 47 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
14 37 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
15 36 (0.53%) RDBMS
16 35 (0.52%) Oracle BI EE
17 34 (0.50%) MySQL
18 32 (0.47%) Siebel EIM
19 30 (0.44%) Tableau
20 26 (0.38%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 262 (3.88%) Git
2 256 (3.79%) JIRA
3 234 (3.46%) Jenkins
4 142 (2.10%) GitLab
5 134 (1.98%) Visual Studio
6 109 (1.61%) Bitbucket
7 93 (1.38%) Rational DOORS
8 59 (0.87%) Selenium
8 59 (0.87%) Sourcetree
9 38 (0.56%) Rational Rhapsody
10 36 (0.53%) Cucumber
11 29 (0.43%) JUnit
11 29 (0.43%) Subversion
12 25 (0.37%) Ant
13 24 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
14 23 (0.34%) LabVIEW
15 22 (0.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 19 (0.28%) SonarQube
17 16 (0.24%) REST Assured
17 16 (0.24%) Vagrant
General
1 1,414 (20.93%) Social Skills
2 671 (9.93%) Public Sector
3 546 (8.08%) Aerospace
4 520 (7.70%) Finance
5 345 (5.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 341 (5.05%) Analytical Skills
7 252 (3.73%) Military
8 201 (2.98%) Presentation Skills
9 180 (2.66%) Games
10 163 (2.41%) Telecoms
11 159 (2.35%) Police
12 151 (2.24%) Manufacturing
13 126 (1.87%) Retail
14 119 (1.76%) Electronics
15 116 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
16 109 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
17 87 (1.29%) Law
18 63 (0.93%) Local Government
19 53 (0.78%) Legal
20 52 (0.77%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1,105 (16.36%) Senior
2 830 (12.29%) Architect
3 683 (10.11%) Software Engineer
4 601 (8.90%) Developer
5 497 (7.36%) Lead
6 444 (6.57%) Consultant
7 434 (6.42%) Analyst
8 431 (6.38%) Systems Engineer
9 328 (4.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 275 (4.07%) Network Engineer
11 258 (3.82%) Project Manager
11 258 (3.82%) Senior Software Engineer
11 258 (3.82%) Solutions Architect
12 237 (3.51%) DevOps Engineer
13 185 (2.74%) Administrator
14 174 (2.58%) Security Consultant
15 165 (2.44%) Support Engineer
16 144 (2.13%) Senior Developer
17 118 (1.75%) Technical Architect
18 108 (1.60%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 377 (5.58%) .NET
2 354 (5.24%) React
3 224 (3.32%) CSS
4 199 (2.95%) Leaflet
4 199 (2.95%) OpenLayers
5 196 (2.90%) PostGIS
6 194 (2.87%) .NET Core
7 162 (2.40%) REST
8 161 (2.38%) Spring
9 150 (2.22%) Node.js
10 147 (2.18%) AngularJS
10 147 (2.18%) HTML
11 127 (1.88%) Spring Boot
12 103 (1.52%) Web Services
12 103 (1.52%) XML
13 95 (1.41%) Elastic Stack
14 89 (1.32%) JSON
15 83 (1.23%) Unity (Game Engine)
16 79 (1.17%) RabbitMQ
17 71 (1.05%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 279 (4.13%) Management Information System
2 208 (3.08%) Driving Licence
3 198 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
4 184 (2.72%) Algorithms
5 147 (2.18%) Data Centre
6 144 (2.13%) Product Ownership
7 131 (1.94%) Public Cloud
8 125 (1.85%) PKI
9 108 (1.60%) Cloud Native
10 98 (1.45%) Private Cloud
11 92 (1.36%) Virtual Reality
12 86 (1.27%) Security Operations Centre
13 85 (1.26%) Cyberattack
14 81 (1.20%) Operational Technology
15 76 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
16 72 (1.07%) Virtual Team
17 64 (0.95%) Cyber Defence
18 63 (0.93%) Onboarding
19 60 (0.89%) Cyber Threat
20 51 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1,078 (15.96%) Linux
2 986 (14.59%) Windows
3 342 (5.06%) Windows Server
4 180 (2.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 145 (2.15%) Windows 10
6 142 (2.10%) Unix
7 131 (1.94%) CentOS
8 129 (1.91%) Ubuntu
9 121 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
10 120 (1.78%) Windows Server 2019
11 93 (1.38%) Windows Server 2012
12 68 (1.01%) Embedded Linux
13 63 (0.93%) Windows 7
14 53 (0.78%) VMS
15 35 (0.52%) Solaris
16 34 (0.50%) Debian
17 27 (0.40%) Android
18 16 (0.24%) AIX
19 14 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
20 12 (0.18%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,922 (28.45%) Agile
2 1,176 (17.41%) Actionable Insight
3 1,119 (16.56%) DevOps
4 1,104 (16.34%) Software Engineering
5 1,062 (15.72%) Problem-Solving
6 791 (11.71%) Cybersecurity
7 616 (9.12%) Project Management
8 565 (8.36%) Scrum
9 534 (7.90%) ITIL
10 504 (7.46%) Mentoring
11 472 (6.99%) Collaborative Working
12 452 (6.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 408 (6.04%) CI/CD
14 398 (5.89%) Systems Engineering
15 380 (5.62%) Project Delivery
16 369 (5.46%) Stakeholder Management
17 309 (4.57%) Customer Service
18 300 (4.44%) Coaching
18 300 (4.44%) Validation
19 285 (4.22%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,059 (15.67%) Python
2 688 (10.18%) Java
3 624 (9.24%) JavaScript
4 476 (7.05%) C#
5 468 (6.93%) SQL
6 448 (6.63%) PowerShell
7 296 (4.38%) C++
8 289 (4.28%) Bash
9 268 (3.97%) C
10 144 (2.13%) MATLAB
11 104 (1.54%) TypeScript
12 100 (1.48%) Shell Script
13 60 (0.89%) Rust
14 53 (0.78%) Embedded C
15 44 (0.65%) Ada
16 42 (0.62%) Fortran
17 33 (0.49%) PL/SQL
17 33 (0.49%) VB
18 32 (0.47%) Perl
19 30 (0.44%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3,777 (55.91%) SC Cleared
2 1,591 (23.55%) DV Cleared
3 1,119 (16.56%) Degree
4 591 (8.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 201 (2.98%) Cisco Certification
6 164 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 142 (2.10%) CISSP
8 130 (1.92%) CCNP
9 124 (1.84%) CCNA
10 120 (1.78%) AWS Certification
11 115 (1.70%) CISM
12 101 (1.49%) Azure Certification
13 95 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
14 86 (1.27%) CESG Certified Professional
15 84 (1.24%) Master's Degree
16 69 (1.02%) CRISC
17 67 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 66 (0.98%) DBS Check
19 60 (0.89%) CTC Cleared
20 57 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 224 (3.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 187 (2.77%) SLA
3 143 (2.12%) QA
4 133 (1.97%) NIST
5 131 (1.94%) Accessibility
6 109 (1.61%) NCSC
7 77 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
8 55 (0.81%) GDPR
8 55 (0.81%) ISO 9001
9 47 (0.70%) NIST 800
10 43 (0.64%) GRC
11 42 (0.62%) Def Stans
11 42 (0.62%) PCI DSS
12 40 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 40 (0.59%) JSP 440
12 40 (0.59%) PMO
13 39 (0.58%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 38 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 17025
15 36 (0.53%) WCAG
16 34 (0.50%) RMADS
System Software
1 505 (7.47%) Active Directory
2 401 (5.94%) Docker
3 341 (5.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 185 (2.74%) Hyper-V
5 103 (1.52%) Firmware
6 88 (1.30%) vSphere
7 76 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
8 53 (0.78%) KVM
8 53 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
9 41 (0.61%) VMware NSX
10 22 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
10 22 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
11 16 (0.24%) pfSense
12 15 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
13 14 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
14 12 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
15 11 (0.16%) NFS
16 10 (0.15%) XenDesktop
17 9 (0.13%) Forefront TMG
17 9 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 500 (7.40%) Ansible
2 446 (6.60%) Kubernetes
3 406 (6.01%) Terraform
4 202 (2.99%) SCCM
5 153 (2.26%) Puppet
6 86 (1.27%) WSUS
7 85 (1.26%) vCenter Server
8 84 (1.24%) SCOM
9 68 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
10 56 (0.83%) Grafana
11 46 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
12 40 (0.59%) Prometheus
13 38 (0.56%) EnCase
14 37 (0.55%) Progress Chef
15 35 (0.52%) NetBackup
16 32 (0.47%) FortiGate
17 29 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 29 (0.43%) EMC NetWorker
18 24 (0.36%) ZABBIX
19 22 (0.33%) OpenSSO
Vendors
1 1,161 (17.18%) Microsoft
2 497 (7.36%) VMware
3 413 (6.11%) Cisco
4 342 (5.06%) Oracle
5 285 (4.22%) Juniper
6 202 (2.99%) ESRI
7 187 (2.77%) Red Hat
8 123 (1.82%) ServiceNow
9 98 (1.45%) HP
10 88 (1.30%) IBM
11 85 (1.26%) Google
12 82 (1.21%) SAP
13 80 (1.18%) Remedy
14 78 (1.15%) Sparx
15 76 (1.12%) Dell
16 65 (0.96%) Splunk
17 61 (0.90%) NEC
18 57 (0.84%) Fortinet
19 53 (0.78%) Veeam
20 52 (0.77%) SolarWinds