SC Cleared Jobs in the Thames Valley

Security Check (SC) Clearance
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for SC 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 21 49 99
Rank change year-on-year +28 +50 +37
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 527 346 228
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.56% 5.90% 3.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 20.18% 14.12% 9.51%
Number of salaries quoted 340 182 119
10th Percentile £30,000 £23,650 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,375 £34,639
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £49,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% +10.00% -30.77%
75th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £78,125
90th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year - -0.90% +0.91%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

SC 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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,611 2,451 2,398
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 37.48% 41.81% 33.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,548 1,010 955
10th Percentile £31,000 £26,250 £28,419
25th Percentile £38,000 £36,119 £36,851
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% -5.50%
75th Percentile £67,750 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £52,000 £51,000 £52,106
% change year-on-year +1.96% -2.12% +4.21%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the Thames Valley

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for SC Cleared in the Thames Valley

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in the Thames Valley

SC Cleared
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +21 467 £53,263 +1.45% 57
Buckinghamshire -32 45 £50,000 -4.76% 24
Oxfordshire -19 15 £51,000 +7.37% 13
SC Cleared
South East

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 40 (7.59%) WebLogic
2 29 (5.50%) ArcGIS
2 29 (5.50%) GeoServer
2 29 (5.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 23 (4.36%) OpenStack
4 18 (3.42%) Exchange Server 2010
5 14 (2.66%) Oracle Service Bus
6 13 (2.47%) CMS
7 11 (2.09%) IIS
8 9 (1.71%) Red Hat Fuse
9 8 (1.52%) Confluence
9 8 (1.52%) JBoss
10 6 (1.14%) Apache
10 6 (1.14%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 39 (7.40%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (3.80%) MS Visio
4 10 (1.90%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.76%) Sketch
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (3.23%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 132 (25.05%) Azure
2 75 (14.23%) AWS
3 43 (8.16%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (5.31%) Amazon EKS
4 28 (5.31%) Azure Monitor
5 24 (4.55%) Serverless
6 23 (4.36%) Amazon ECS
7 13 (2.47%) Entra ID
7 13 (2.47%) OCI
8 10 (1.90%) Azure Storage
9 6 (1.14%) Miro
9 6 (1.14%) SaaS
10 5 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (0.95%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (0.95%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (0.95%) GitHub
10 5 (0.95%) PaaS
11 4 (0.76%) Figma
11 4 (0.76%) Heroku
11 4 (0.76%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 67 (12.71%) Firewall
2 38 (7.21%) DNS
3 34 (6.45%) DHCP
4 27 (5.12%) VPN
5 18 (3.42%) SSL
6 17 (3.23%) WAN
7 15 (2.85%) Cisco Firepower
7 15 (2.85%) Network Security
8 14 (2.66%) Wireless
9 13 (2.47%) SAN
10 12 (2.28%) BGP
11 11 (2.09%) SD-WAN
11 11 (2.09%) SNMP
12 8 (1.52%) OSPF
13 7 (1.33%) IPsec
13 7 (1.33%) LAN
13 7 (1.33%) TCP/IP
13 7 (1.33%) VLAN
13 7 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
14 6 (1.14%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (10.63%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (5.88%) GIS
3 30 (5.69%) Relational Database
4 29 (5.50%) QGIS
5 23 (4.36%) Oracle Database
6 22 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
7 15 (2.85%) NoSQL
7 15 (2.85%) Oracle Database 11g
8 14 (2.66%) Oracle Database 10g
8 14 (2.66%) SQL Server
8 14 (2.66%) VLDB
9 5 (0.95%) MySQL
9 5 (0.95%) RDBMS
10 4 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 42 (7.97%) Jenkins
2 29 (5.50%) Git
3 14 (2.66%) JIRA
3 14 (2.66%) JUnit
4 8 (1.52%) Cucumber
4 8 (1.52%) Selenium
5 7 (1.33%) MSI
5 7 (1.33%) REST Assured
5 7 (1.33%) WebDriver
6 6 (1.14%) AdminStudio
6 6 (1.14%) InstallShield
6 6 (1.14%) TestNG
7 5 (0.95%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.76%) Oracle APEX
8 4 (0.76%) Subversion
9 3 (0.57%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.38%) Bitbucket Server
10 2 (0.38%) JMeter
10 2 (0.38%) Serenity BDD
10 2 (0.38%) SoapUI
General
1 150 (28.46%) Social Skills
2 55 (10.44%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (7.59%) Public Sector
4 36 (6.83%) Organisational Skills
5 22 (4.17%) Police
6 18 (3.42%) Finance
7 12 (2.28%) Back Office
8 11 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.14%) Aerospace
10 5 (0.95%) Law
10 5 (0.95%) Military
11 4 (0.76%) Local Government
11 4 (0.76%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.76%) Retail
12 2 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.38%) Electronics
13 1 (0.19%) Advertising
13 1 (0.19%) Games
13 1 (0.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.19%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 93 (17.65%) Senior
2 70 (13.28%) Analyst
3 46 (8.73%) Architect
3 46 (8.73%) Developer
4 43 (8.16%) Applications Support
5 42 (7.97%) Software Engineer
6 40 (7.59%) Support Analyst
7 36 (6.83%) Applications Support Analyst
7 36 (6.83%) Senior Analyst
8 34 (6.45%) Network Engineer
9 29 (5.50%) Lead
9 29 (5.50%) Support Specialist
10 26 (4.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 24 (4.55%) Java Developer
11 24 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
11 24 (4.55%) Windows Engineer
12 23 (4.36%) Administrator
12 23 (4.36%) ServiceNow Administrator
13 22 (4.17%) Infrastructure Support
13 22 (4.17%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (9.68%) Spring
2 40 (7.59%) React
3 39 (7.40%) .NET
4 34 (6.45%) REST
5 32 (6.07%) Leaflet
6 31 (5.88%) OpenLayers
7 29 (5.50%) CSS
7 29 (5.50%) Node.js
7 29 (5.50%) PostGIS
7 29 (5.50%) Web Services
8 28 (5.31%) AngularJS
8 28 (5.31%) J2EE
8 28 (5.31%) Spring Boot
9 25 (4.74%) .NET Core
10 23 (4.36%) Apache Camel
10 23 (4.36%) Elastic Stack
11 22 (4.17%) Java EE
12 18 (3.42%) JSON
12 18 (3.42%) XML
13 13 (2.47%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (5.31%) CMDB
2 24 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
3 22 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.23%) Data Centre
5 13 (2.47%) Digital Signage
6 11 (2.09%) PKI
7 10 (1.90%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.33%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.14%) Shadow IT
10 5 (0.95%) Client/Server
10 5 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (0.95%) Public Cloud
10 5 (0.95%) Security Operations Centre
11 4 (0.76%) Driving Licence
11 4 (0.76%) EMC VNX
11 4 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.76%) Private Cloud
12 3 (0.57%) Cloud Native
12 3 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 95 (18.03%) Windows
2 89 (16.89%) Linux
3 63 (11.95%) Windows Server
4 45 (8.54%) Windows 10
5 38 (7.21%) Unix
6 35 (6.64%) Windows Server 2016
7 34 (6.45%) Windows Server 2019
8 24 (4.55%) Windows Server 2012
9 18 (3.42%) Windows 7
10 14 (2.66%) CentOS
10 14 (2.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 14 (2.66%) Solaris
11 12 (2.28%) Windows XP
12 11 (2.09%) Windows NT
13 4 (0.76%) Rocky
13 4 (0.76%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (32.26%) Agile
2 128 (24.29%) Actionable Insight
3 109 (20.68%) DevOps
4 105 (19.92%) Problem-Solving
5 89 (16.89%) ITIL
6 87 (16.51%) Service Management
7 53 (10.06%) Scrum
8 52 (9.87%) Project Management
9 51 (9.68%) ITSM
10 46 (8.73%) Containerisation
11 45 (8.54%) Customer Service
11 45 (8.54%) Software Engineering
12 43 (8.16%) Incident Management
13 41 (7.78%) CI/CD
14 40 (7.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 40 (7.59%) Release Management
15 33 (6.26%) Analytics
16 31 (5.88%) Kanban
17 30 (5.69%) BDD
18 29 (5.50%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 83 (15.75%) JavaScript
2 67 (12.71%) Java
3 52 (9.87%) Python
4 51 (9.68%) SQL
5 44 (8.35%) C#
6 41 (7.78%) PowerShell
7 27 (5.12%) Shell Script
8 20 (3.80%) PL/SQL
9 16 (3.04%) VB
10 10 (1.90%) Bicep
10 10 (1.90%) Groovy
10 10 (1.90%) VBScript
11 6 (1.14%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.76%) C
12 4 (0.76%) C++
12 4 (0.76%) Ruby
12 4 (0.76%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.19%) Bash
13 1 (0.19%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 527 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 178 (33.78%) DV Cleared
3 86 (16.32%) Degree
4 25 (4.74%) Cisco Certification
5 23 (4.36%) BPSS Clearance
6 22 (4.17%) CCNP
7 21 (3.98%) AWS Certification
8 19 (3.61%) CCNA
9 14 (2.66%) A+ Certification
9 14 (2.66%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (2.47%) Azure Certification
10 13 (2.47%) MCP
11 10 (1.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 9 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
13 6 (1.14%) CISSP
14 5 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
15 4 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (0.76%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 2 (0.38%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (9.30%) SLA
2 11 (2.09%) QA
3 10 (1.90%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.52%) NIST
5 7 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.14%) JSP 440
6 6 (1.14%) RMADS
7 5 (0.95%) PMO
7 5 (0.95%) WCAG
8 3 (0.57%) COBIT
8 3 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.19%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 85 (16.13%) Active Directory
2 52 (9.87%) Docker
3 34 (6.45%) Hyper-V
4 19 (3.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 18 (3.42%) Firmware
6 16 (3.04%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (2.66%) Oracle RAC
8 12 (2.28%) KVM
9 10 (1.90%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
10 7 (1.33%) Microsoft App-V
11 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 4 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 76 (14.42%) SCCM
2 59 (11.20%) Kubernetes
3 57 (10.82%) SCOM
4 46 (8.73%) Ansible
5 41 (7.78%) WSUS
6 32 (6.07%) Terraform
7 28 (5.31%) Microsoft Intune
8 22 (4.17%) OpenSSO
8 22 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
9 19 (3.61%) NetBackup
10 17 (3.23%) vCenter Server
11 16 (3.04%) EMC NetWorker
12 14 (2.66%) Data Guard
12 14 (2.66%) Oracle RMAN
13 11 (2.09%) Sysprep
14 10 (1.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 5 (0.95%) Rancher
16 3 (0.57%) Nagios
16 3 (0.57%) OpenView
17 2 (0.38%) Grafana
Vendors
1 132 (25.05%) Microsoft
2 67 (12.71%) Oracle
3 63 (11.95%) Cisco
4 48 (9.11%) Juniper
5 41 (7.78%) ServiceNow
6 39 (7.40%) Remedy
7 31 (5.88%) VMware
8 29 (5.50%) ESRI
9 28 (5.31%) HP
10 24 (4.55%) Dynatrace
11 23 (4.36%) WSO2
12 17 (3.23%) EMC
13 16 (3.04%) Veeam
14 15 (2.85%) F5
15 14 (2.66%) Sun
16 13 (2.47%) Dell
16 13 (2.47%) Riverbed
17 12 (2.28%) 3PAR
17 12 (2.28%) Palo Alto
17 12 (2.28%) Symantec