SC Cleared Jobs in the UK excluding London

Security Check (SC) Clearance
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 4 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 47 59
Rank change year-on-year +6 +12 +15
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 3,807 3,378 3,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.96% 6.03% 4.95%
As % of the Qualifications category 19.07% 15.92% 15.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2,084 1,521 1,612
10th Percentile £31,575 £31,250 £30,501
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,000 £39,449
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £53,056
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +8.38% +0.11%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,550 £66,250
90th Percentile £79,225 £83,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £57,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +9.65% +3.64%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 19,965 21,219 24,303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.01% 37.88% 32.52%
Number of salaries quoted 12,272 7,947 10,614
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,800 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £76,250
UK median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.83% +9.09% -

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for SC Cleared in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 June 2024.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 June 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 +13 1,244 £55,000 - 272
South West -3 923 £55,000 -8.33% 236
North of England +15 595 £57,500 -8.00% 171
North West +6 412 £55,000 -10.25% 119
Midlands -7 405 £55,000 -8.33% 138
West Midlands +2 268 £55,000 -8.33% 108
Scotland -48 240 £60,000 +8.67% 57
Wales +9 202 £58,800 +94.67% 26
Yorkshire +59 154 £60,000 -11.11% 40
East Midlands -22 137 £47,250 -10.00% 30
East of England -26 124 £52,250 -5.86% 74
Northern Ireland +15 103 £60,000 +66.67% 34
North East -31 29 £56,900 +19.79% 12
SC Cleared
UK

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 294 (7.72%) ArcGIS
2 284 (7.46%) GeoServer
3 110 (2.89%) WebLogic
4 106 (2.78%) Confluence
5 76 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 54 (1.42%) SharePoint
7 44 (1.16%) Oracle Service Bus
8 42 (1.10%) Apache
9 32 (0.84%) Apache Spark
10 30 (0.79%) OpenStack
11 29 (0.76%) IIS
12 18 (0.47%) Exchange Server 2010
13 14 (0.37%) Skype for Business
14 11 (0.29%) CMS
14 11 (0.29%) SharePoint 2010
14 11 (0.29%) SharePoint 2013
15 9 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
16 8 (0.21%) JBoss
17 6 (0.16%) Appian
18 4 (0.11%) TWiki
Applications
1 161 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
2 76 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 72 (1.89%) MS Visio
4 52 (1.37%) Simulink
5 40 (1.05%) Sketch
6 23 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
7 16 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 9 (0.24%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.11%) EPLAN
9 4 (0.11%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.053%) Abaqus
10 2 (0.053%) Fireworks
10 2 (0.053%) GNU Octave
10 2 (0.053%) InDesign
10 2 (0.053%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.026%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.026%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.026%) Revit
Business Applications
1 76 (2.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 73 (1.92%) Remedy ITSM
3 41 (1.08%) Siebel CRM
4 20 (0.53%) Maximo
5 8 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.16%) Primavera
7 4 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.11%) Q-Pulse
8 3 (0.079%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.079%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.079%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.079%) SAP FI/CO
8 3 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (0.079%) Teamcenter
9 2 (0.053%) Oracle Applications
9 2 (0.053%) Oracle Cash Management
9 2 (0.053%) Oracle EBS R12
9 2 (0.053%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.053%) SAP HR
10 1 (0.026%) CA PPM
Cloud Services
1 950 (24.95%) Azure
2 775 (20.36%) AWS
3 162 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
4 101 (2.65%) Amazon EKS
5 82 (2.15%) Serverless
6 81 (2.13%) GCP
7 78 (2.05%) OpenShift
8 66 (1.73%) Azure DevOps
9 63 (1.65%) SaaS
10 62 (1.63%) Miro
11 58 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
12 56 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
13 49 (1.29%) AWS Lambda
14 42 (1.10%) Power Platform
15 41 (1.08%) Amazon SQS
15 41 (1.08%) Figma
16 40 (1.05%) Heroku
17 39 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
18 38 (1.00%) Entra ID
19 32 (0.84%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 247 (6.49%) Firewall
2 159 (4.18%) DNS
3 115 (3.02%) TCP/IP
4 114 (2.99%) WAN
5 78 (2.05%) DHCP
6 73 (1.92%) Wireless
7 70 (1.84%) LAN
7 70 (1.84%) VPN
8 69 (1.81%) BGP
9 67 (1.76%) Network Security
10 65 (1.71%) SAN
10 65 (1.71%) SSL
11 40 (1.05%) Cisco Firepower
11 40 (1.05%) SD-WAN
12 39 (1.02%) IPsec
13 38 (1.00%) MPLS
14 36 (0.95%) Software-Defined Radio
15 34 (0.89%) AMQP
16 26 (0.68%) VLAN
17 25 (0.66%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 370 (9.72%) PostgreSQL
2 295 (7.75%) GIS
3 284 (7.46%) QGIS
4 97 (2.55%) Relational Database
5 93 (2.44%) Oracle Database
6 83 (2.18%) SQL Server
7 76 (2.00%) Hadoop
8 75 (1.97%) NoSQL
9 58 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
10 57 (1.50%) Big Data
11 55 (1.44%) RDBMS
12 53 (1.39%) MongoDB
13 45 (1.18%) Oracle Database 11g
14 44 (1.16%) Oracle Database 10g
14 44 (1.16%) VLDB
15 38 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
16 36 (0.95%) Oracle BI EE
16 36 (0.95%) Siebel EIM
17 33 (0.87%) MySQL
18 29 (0.76%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 182 (4.78%) JIRA
2 162 (4.26%) Git
3 120 (3.15%) Jenkins
4 90 (2.36%) Visual Studio
5 73 (1.92%) Bitbucket
6 59 (1.55%) Sourcetree
7 57 (1.50%) GitLab
8 35 (0.92%) Rational DOORS
9 22 (0.58%) Cucumber
10 21 (0.55%) Ant
10 21 (0.55%) JUnit
10 21 (0.55%) Selenium
10 21 (0.55%) Subversion
11 20 (0.53%) Vagrant
12 16 (0.42%) LabVIEW
12 16 (0.42%) SonarQube
13 14 (0.37%) CMake
14 12 (0.32%) JMeter
15 11 (0.29%) MSI
16 10 (0.26%) Trac
General
1 794 (20.86%) Social Skills
2 296 (7.78%) Aerospace
3 264 (6.93%) Finance
4 218 (5.73%) Public Sector
5 193 (5.07%) Analytical Skills
6 189 (4.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 125 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
8 110 (2.89%) Military
9 108 (2.84%) Games
10 95 (2.50%) Telecoms
11 69 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
12 63 (1.65%) Police
13 45 (1.18%) Electronics
14 41 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
15 40 (1.05%) Retail
16 36 (0.95%) Manufacturing
17 19 (0.50%) Law
18 17 (0.45%) Marketing
19 16 (0.42%) Back Office
20 13 (0.34%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 827 (21.72%) Senior
2 499 (13.11%) Software Engineer
3 462 (12.14%) Architect
4 383 (10.06%) Developer
5 300 (7.88%) Lead
6 261 (6.86%) Analyst
7 259 (6.80%) Senior Software Engineer
8 199 (5.23%) Solutions Architect
9 191 (5.02%) Systems Engineer
10 169 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 168 (4.41%) Project Manager
12 166 (4.36%) Network Engineer
13 141 (3.70%) Consultant
14 133 (3.49%) Senior Developer
15 98 (2.57%) Designer
16 95 (2.50%) Business Analyst
17 90 (2.36%) DevOps Engineer
18 87 (2.29%) Support Engineer
19 79 (2.08%) Applications Support
20 77 (2.02%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 398 (10.45%) React
2 368 (9.67%) .NET
3 287 (7.54%) Leaflet
4 286 (7.51%) OpenLayers
5 284 (7.46%) PostGIS
6 263 (6.91%) CSS
7 251 (6.59%) .NET Core
8 171 (4.49%) Node.js
9 116 (3.05%) AngularJS
10 109 (2.86%) REST
10 109 (2.86%) Spring Boot
11 107 (2.81%) Spring
12 76 (2.00%) HTML
13 74 (1.94%) RabbitMQ
14 65 (1.71%) Unity (Game Engine)
15 59 (1.55%) Django
16 52 (1.37%) Kafka
17 43 (1.13%) Web Services
17 43 (1.13%) XML
18 41 (1.08%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 121 (3.18%) Data Centre
2 114 (2.99%) Management Information System
3 89 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
4 85 (2.23%) Driving Licence
5 79 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
5 79 (2.08%) Product Ownership
6 73 (1.92%) Virtual Team
7 67 (1.76%) Virtual Reality
8 56 (1.47%) Algorithms
8 56 (1.47%) Private Cloud
9 52 (1.37%) Cloud Native
9 52 (1.37%) Public Cloud
10 45 (1.18%) Operational Technology
11 42 (1.10%) CMDB
12 38 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
13 37 (0.97%) Cyberattack
14 33 (0.87%) PKI
15 31 (0.81%) Clustering
16 28 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
17 26 (0.68%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 593 (15.58%) Linux
2 534 (14.03%) Windows
3 234 (6.15%) Windows Server
4 129 (3.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 129 (3.39%) Unix
5 105 (2.76%) Ubuntu
6 93 (2.44%) Windows 10
7 86 (2.26%) CentOS
8 67 (1.76%) Windows Server 2016
9 59 (1.55%) Windows Server 2019
10 57 (1.50%) Solaris
11 38 (1.00%) Android
11 38 (1.00%) Windows Server 2012
12 30 (0.79%) Windows 7
13 29 (0.76%) Debian
14 16 (0.42%) AIX
15 12 (0.32%) Windows NT
15 12 (0.32%) Windows XP
16 10 (0.26%) VMS
16 10 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,255 (32.97%) Agile
2 1,149 (30.18%) Actionable Insight
3 865 (22.72%) DevOps
4 735 (19.31%) Software Engineering
5 632 (16.60%) Problem-Solving
6 354 (9.30%) Scrum
7 346 (9.09%) Project Management
8 314 (8.25%) ITIL
9 305 (8.01%) Cybersecurity
10 291 (7.64%) Web Development
11 268 (7.04%) Stakeholder Management
12 260 (6.83%) Collaborative Working
13 241 (6.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 228 (5.99%) Mentoring
15 223 (5.86%) Service Management
16 192 (5.04%) Open Source
17 185 (4.86%) Artificial Intelligence
18 174 (4.57%) ITSM
18 174 (4.57%) Kanban
19 173 (4.54%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 675 (17.73%) Python
2 510 (13.40%) JavaScript
3 407 (10.69%) Java
4 342 (8.98%) SQL
5 329 (8.64%) C#
6 270 (7.09%) PowerShell
7 145 (3.81%) C++
8 76 (2.00%) TypeScript
9 75 (1.97%) C
10 63 (1.65%) Bash
11 60 (1.58%) MATLAB
12 54 (1.42%) PL/SQL
13 39 (1.02%) Shell Script
14 37 (0.97%) Kotlin
15 25 (0.66%) VB
16 21 (0.55%) Go
17 16 (0.42%) Bicep
18 15 (0.39%) Ruby
19 13 (0.34%) VBA
20 12 (0.32%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3,807 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 659 (17.31%) Degree
3 590 (15.50%) DV Cleared
4 170 (4.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 98 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 97 (2.55%) AWS Certification
7 96 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
8 88 (2.31%) Azure Certification
9 82 (2.15%) CISM
10 74 (1.94%) CISSP
11 67 (1.76%) CCNA
12 63 (1.65%) CESG Certified Professional
13 62 (1.63%) CCNP
14 59 (1.55%) CRISC
15 54 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
16 53 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
17 50 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 44 (1.16%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 35 (0.92%) A+ Certification
20 30 (0.79%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (3.41%) SLA
2 119 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 113 (2.97%) Accessibility
4 75 (1.97%) NCSC
5 69 (1.81%) QA
6 50 (1.31%) WCAG
7 35 (0.92%) NIST
8 29 (0.76%) COBIT
9 24 (0.63%) Def Stans
9 24 (0.63%) GDPR
10 22 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 20 (0.53%) PMO
12 18 (0.47%) Software Quality Assurance
13 17 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
13 17 (0.45%) GRC
14 16 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 16 (0.42%) JSP 440
15 14 (0.37%) IEC 61508
15 14 (0.37%) ISO 9001
16 13 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 284 (7.46%) Active Directory
2 165 (4.33%) Docker
3 162 (4.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 123 (3.23%) Hyper-V
5 44 (1.16%) Oracle RAC
6 41 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
7 33 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
8 32 (0.84%) Firmware
8 32 (0.84%) vSphere
9 23 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
10 16 (0.42%) pfSense
11 14 (0.37%) Microsoft App-V
11 14 (0.37%) VMware NSX
12 13 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
13 11 (0.29%) KVM
14 10 (0.26%) NFS
15 9 (0.24%) XenDesktop
16 5 (0.13%) XenApp
17 4 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
17 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 232 (6.09%) Ansible
2 213 (5.59%) Kubernetes
3 170 (4.47%) SCCM
4 151 (3.97%) Terraform
5 73 (1.92%) SCOM
6 64 (1.68%) Puppet
7 61 (1.60%) WSUS
8 55 (1.44%) vCenter Server
9 50 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
10 44 (1.16%) Data Guard
10 44 (1.16%) Oracle RMAN
11 31 (0.81%) EMC NetWorker
11 31 (0.81%) NetBackup
12 30 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
13 29 (0.76%) OpenView
14 28 (0.74%) Grafana
15 26 (0.68%) OpenSSO
16 25 (0.66%) ZABBIX
17 20 (0.53%) Nagios
18 16 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 638 (16.76%) Microsoft
2 291 (7.64%) ESRI
3 274 (7.20%) VMware
4 265 (6.96%) Oracle
5 230 (6.04%) Cisco
6 178 (4.68%) Juniper
7 99 (2.60%) Remedy
8 97 (2.55%) Red Hat
9 92 (2.42%) ServiceNow
10 76 (2.00%) Sparx
11 68 (1.79%) HP
12 54 (1.42%) Google
13 48 (1.26%) NetApp
14 45 (1.18%) Sun
15 44 (1.16%) Fortinet
16 42 (1.10%) Veeam
17 41 (1.08%) IBM
17 41 (1.08%) McAfee
17 41 (1.08%) Siebel
18 39 (1.02%) EMC