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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 26 77
Rank change year-on-year +4 +51 -9
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 6,938 6,942 6,497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.81% 8.02% 4.64%
As % of the Qualifications category 28.10% 24.17% 17.41%
Number of salaries quoted 4,379 3,318 3,204
10th Percentile £33,100 £33,985 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £86,250
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 24,690 28,718 37,313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.79% 33.17% 26.66%
Number of salaries quoted 15,746 13,110 16,945
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £30,898
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £40,973
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £53,555 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.74% +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 28 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 28 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 +5 2,016 £55,000 +10.28% 517
South West +3 1,930 £57,000 +3.64% 487
London +10 1,071 £70,000 +7.69% 363
North of England +1 825 £55,000 -8.33% 263
Midlands -9 652 £55,000 - 203
North West -4 596 £54,625 -8.96% 194
West Midlands +11 459 £55,000 -4.35% 147
East of England +17 425 £55,000 - 141
East Midlands -30 193 £43,072 -17.96% 55
Yorkshire +8 190 £60,000 -9.77% 46
North East -31 39 £55,000 +22.22% 23
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
1 207 (2.98%) ArcGIS
2 196 (2.83%) GeoServer
3 128 (1.84%) SharePoint
4 124 (1.79%) Confluence
5 113 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
6 97 (1.40%) Apache
7 81 (1.17%) IIS
8 64 (0.92%) WebLogic
9 57 (0.82%) Apache Spark
10 39 (0.56%) OpenStack
11 27 (0.39%) Tomcat
12 26 (0.37%) nginx
13 25 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2010
14 17 (0.25%) Jupyter
15 16 (0.23%) CMS
16 15 (0.22%) SharePoint 2010
16 15 (0.22%) SharePoint 2013
17 14 (0.20%) Oracle Service Bus
18 13 (0.19%) JBoss
19 11 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 235 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
2 129 (1.86%) Simulink
3 118 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
4 74 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 41 (0.59%) MS Visio
6 30 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
6 30 (0.43%) Sketch
7 10 (0.14%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.086%) Trello
9 4 (0.058%) EPLAN
9 4 (0.058%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.058%) Siemens NX
9 4 (0.058%) Stateflow
9 4 (0.058%) Windchill
10 3 (0.043%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.043%) Revit
10 3 (0.043%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.029%) Abaqus
11 2 (0.029%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.029%) InVision
Business Applications
1 76 (1.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 52 (0.75%) NEC Housing
2 52 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
3 41 (0.59%) Siebel CRM
4 37 (0.53%) Primavera
5 28 (0.40%) Workday HCM
6 27 (0.39%) Maximo
7 16 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
8 12 (0.17%) SAP HR
9 10 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
9 10 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
10 9 (0.13%) SAP SCM
10 9 (0.13%) Teamcenter
11 8 (0.12%) SAP CO
11 8 (0.12%) SAP EWM
11 8 (0.12%) SAP FI
11 8 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
12 6 (0.086%) Oracle Applications
13 5 (0.072%) Oracle Payroll
13 5 (0.072%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 1,366 (19.69%) Azure
2 1,135 (16.36%) AWS
3 269 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
4 155 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
5 148 (2.13%) GCP
6 146 (2.10%) SaaS
7 144 (2.08%) Power Platform
8 125 (1.80%) Serverless
9 122 (1.76%) OpenShift
10 120 (1.73%) Amazon EKS
11 103 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
12 88 (1.27%) Entra ID
12 88 (1.27%) PaaS
13 72 (1.04%) AWS CloudFormation
14 64 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
15 62 (0.89%) IaaS
16 61 (0.88%) Amazon ECS
17 59 (0.85%) AWS Lambda
18 57 (0.82%) Azure Monitor
19 54 (0.78%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 437 (6.30%) Firewall
2 236 (3.40%) DNS
3 210 (3.03%) WAN
4 148 (2.13%) TCP/IP
5 144 (2.08%) Network Security
6 139 (2.00%) LAN
7 137 (1.97%) DHCP
8 129 (1.86%) BGP
9 124 (1.79%) VPN
10 81 (1.17%) SAN
11 79 (1.14%) Wireless
12 65 (0.94%) Internet
13 64 (0.92%) SSL
14 60 (0.86%) SD-WAN
14 60 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
15 59 (0.85%) Cisco ASA
15 59 (0.85%) MPLS
16 50 (0.72%) OSPF
17 49 (0.71%) IPsec
18 44 (0.63%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 328 (4.73%) PostgreSQL
2 225 (3.24%) GIS
3 196 (2.83%) QGIS
4 177 (2.55%) SQL Server
5 136 (1.96%) Relational Database
6 103 (1.48%) NoSQL
7 101 (1.46%) Oracle Database
8 100 (1.44%) Power BI
9 96 (1.38%) Big Data
9 96 (1.38%) Hadoop
10 94 (1.35%) MongoDB
11 48 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
12 43 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
13 36 (0.52%) RDBMS
14 34 (0.49%) MySQL
14 34 (0.49%) Oracle BI EE
14 34 (0.49%) Siebel EIM
15 33 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
16 31 (0.45%) Tableau
17 28 (0.40%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 258 (3.72%) JIRA
2 253 (3.65%) Git
3 233 (3.36%) Jenkins
4 151 (2.18%) GitLab
5 132 (1.90%) Visual Studio
6 100 (1.44%) Bitbucket
7 94 (1.35%) Rational DOORS
8 59 (0.85%) Sourcetree
9 55 (0.79%) Selenium
10 38 (0.55%) Rational Rhapsody
11 31 (0.45%) Cucumber
11 31 (0.45%) JUnit
12 30 (0.43%) SonarQube
13 27 (0.39%) Subversion
14 23 (0.33%) Ant
14 23 (0.33%) LabVIEW
15 22 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 22 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
16 20 (0.29%) Vagrant
17 15 (0.22%) MSI
General
1 1,425 (20.54%) Social Skills
2 656 (9.46%) Public Sector
3 591 (8.52%) Aerospace
4 540 (7.78%) Finance
5 350 (5.04%) Analytical Skills
6 326 (4.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 257 (3.70%) Military
8 183 (2.64%) Presentation Skills
9 166 (2.39%) Games
10 162 (2.33%) Telecoms
11 155 (2.23%) Police
12 154 (2.22%) Manufacturing
13 133 (1.92%) Retail
14 120 (1.73%) Electronics
15 116 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
16 108 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
17 90 (1.30%) Law
18 67 (0.97%) Local Government
19 50 (0.72%) Legal
20 45 (0.65%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1,127 (16.24%) Senior
2 819 (11.80%) Architect
3 725 (10.45%) Software Engineer
4 595 (8.58%) Developer
5 505 (7.28%) Lead
6 459 (6.62%) Systems Engineer
7 445 (6.41%) Analyst
8 444 (6.40%) Consultant
9 344 (4.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 276 (3.98%) Network Engineer
11 275 (3.96%) Senior Software Engineer
12 263 (3.79%) Project Manager
13 255 (3.68%) DevOps Engineer
14 250 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
15 203 (2.93%) Administrator
16 167 (2.41%) Security Consultant
17 163 (2.35%) Support Engineer
18 141 (2.03%) Senior Developer
19 123 (1.77%) Technical Architect
20 111 (1.60%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 377 (5.43%) .NET
2 365 (5.26%) React
3 223 (3.21%) CSS
4 199 (2.87%) Leaflet
4 199 (2.87%) OpenLayers
5 196 (2.83%) PostGIS
6 194 (2.80%) .NET Core
7 168 (2.42%) Node.js
8 151 (2.18%) Spring
9 150 (2.16%) REST
10 143 (2.06%) AngularJS
11 128 (1.84%) HTML
12 127 (1.83%) Spring Boot
13 98 (1.41%) Elastic Stack
14 92 (1.33%) Web Services
15 91 (1.31%) XML
16 80 (1.15%) RabbitMQ
17 77 (1.11%) JSON
18 74 (1.07%) Unity (Game Engine)
19 64 (0.92%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 287 (4.14%) Management Information System
2 211 (3.04%) Driving Licence
3 205 (2.95%) Self-Motivation
4 195 (2.81%) Algorithms
5 151 (2.18%) Product Ownership
6 149 (2.15%) Data Centre
7 134 (1.93%) PKI
8 130 (1.87%) Public Cloud
9 102 (1.47%) Private Cloud
10 93 (1.34%) Cloud Native
11 87 (1.25%) Security Operations Centre
12 82 (1.18%) Virtual Reality
13 79 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
13 79 (1.14%) Operational Technology
14 70 (1.01%) Virtual Team
15 68 (0.98%) Cyberattack
16 65 (0.94%) Cyber Defence
17 63 (0.91%) Cyber Threat
18 58 (0.84%) Onboarding
19 50 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1,139 (16.42%) Linux
2 1,023 (14.74%) Windows
3 343 (4.94%) Windows Server
4 185 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 168 (2.42%) Unix
6 149 (2.15%) Windows 10
7 139 (2.00%) CentOS
7 139 (2.00%) Ubuntu
8 129 (1.86%) Windows Server 2016
9 128 (1.84%) Windows Server 2019
10 102 (1.47%) Windows Server 2012
11 72 (1.04%) Embedded Linux
12 63 (0.91%) Windows 7
13 56 (0.81%) VMS
14 47 (0.68%) Solaris
15 38 (0.55%) Android
16 37 (0.53%) Debian
17 19 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
18 16 (0.23%) AIX
19 12 (0.17%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,997 (28.78%) Agile
2 1,168 (16.83%) DevOps
3 1,153 (16.62%) Software Engineering
4 1,143 (16.47%) Actionable Insight
5 1,056 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
6 775 (11.17%) Cybersecurity
7 627 (9.04%) Project Management
8 583 (8.40%) Scrum
9 536 (7.73%) ITIL
10 523 (7.54%) Collaborative Working
11 516 (7.44%) Mentoring
12 463 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 440 (6.34%) CI/CD
14 418 (6.02%) Systems Engineering
15 379 (5.46%) Stakeholder Management
16 373 (5.38%) Project Delivery
17 313 (4.51%) Customer Service
18 306 (4.41%) Coaching
18 306 (4.41%) Computer Science
19 302 (4.35%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1,112 (16.03%) Python
2 711 (10.25%) Java
3 647 (9.33%) JavaScript
4 489 (7.05%) SQL
5 486 (7.00%) C#
6 450 (6.49%) PowerShell
7 314 (4.53%) C++
8 303 (4.37%) Bash
9 283 (4.08%) C
10 147 (2.12%) MATLAB
11 119 (1.72%) TypeScript
12 101 (1.46%) Shell Script
13 59 (0.85%) Rust
14 55 (0.79%) Fortran
15 52 (0.75%) Embedded C
16 43 (0.62%) Ada
17 37 (0.53%) VB
18 35 (0.50%) Kotlin
19 33 (0.48%) Bicep
20 29 (0.42%) Go
Qualifications
1 3,883 (55.97%) SC Cleared
2 1,698 (24.47%) DV Cleared
3 1,158 (16.69%) Degree
4 583 (8.40%) BPSS Clearance
5 192 (2.77%) Cisco Certification
6 179 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 141 (2.03%) CISSP
8 128 (1.84%) CCNP
9 120 (1.73%) AWS Certification
10 116 (1.67%) CCNA
11 113 (1.63%) Azure Certification
11 113 (1.63%) CISM
12 93 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
13 92 (1.33%) Master's Degree
14 86 (1.24%) CESG Certified Professional
15 68 (0.98%) CRISC
16 67 (0.97%) DBS Check
17 63 (0.91%) PhD
18 55 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
19 53 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 212 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 187 (2.70%) SLA
3 156 (2.25%) QA
4 138 (1.99%) Accessibility
5 133 (1.92%) NIST
6 110 (1.59%) NCSC
7 68 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
8 55 (0.79%) GDPR
9 49 (0.71%) NIST 800
10 47 (0.68%) ISO 9001
11 42 (0.61%) Def Stans
11 42 (0.61%) PCI DSS
12 40 (0.58%) GRC
13 39 (0.56%) PMO
14 38 (0.55%) JSP 440
15 37 (0.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 36 (0.52%) WCAG
17 31 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 15288
17 31 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 17025
17 31 (0.45%) RMADS
System Software
1 507 (7.31%) Active Directory
2 421 (6.07%) Docker
3 342 (4.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 186 (2.68%) Hyper-V
5 100 (1.44%) Firmware
6 91 (1.31%) vSphere
7 76 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
8 52 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
9 51 (0.74%) KVM
10 46 (0.66%) VMware NSX
11 26 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
12 24 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
13 16 (0.23%) pfSense
14 15 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
14 15 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
15 14 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
16 11 (0.16%) NFS
17 10 (0.14%) XenDesktop
18 9 (0.13%) Forefront TMG
18 9 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 523 (7.54%) Ansible
2 481 (6.93%) Kubernetes
3 405 (5.84%) Terraform
4 210 (3.03%) SCCM
5 157 (2.26%) Puppet
6 95 (1.37%) SCOM
7 93 (1.34%) WSUS
8 83 (1.20%) vCenter Server
9 72 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
10 55 (0.79%) Grafana
11 46 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
12 40 (0.58%) Prometheus
13 39 (0.56%) Progress Chef
14 37 (0.53%) NetBackup
15 36 (0.52%) FortiGate
16 33 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 31 (0.45%) EMC NetWorker
17 31 (0.45%) EnCase
18 26 (0.37%) Nagios
19 25 (0.36%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1,169 (16.85%) Microsoft
2 504 (7.26%) VMware
3 412 (5.94%) Cisco
4 346 (4.99%) Oracle
5 289 (4.17%) Juniper
6 206 (2.97%) Red Hat
7 204 (2.94%) ESRI
8 134 (1.93%) ServiceNow
9 94 (1.35%) HP
10 89 (1.28%) IBM
11 87 (1.25%) Google
12 81 (1.17%) Dell
13 77 (1.11%) Remedy
14 76 (1.10%) Sparx
15 71 (1.02%) SAP
16 67 (0.97%) NEC
17 63 (0.91%) Splunk
18 60 (0.86%) Fortinet
19 57 (0.82%) SolarWinds
20 56 (0.81%) Veeam