Security Cleared Jobs in the UK excluding London

Security 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 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 16 21 34
Rank change year-on-year +5 +13 +15
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 6,467 5,770 5,564
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.74% 9.93% 7.55%
As % of the Qualifications category 32.79% 26.76% 23.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3,815 2,280 2,497
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,227 £39,925 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% +4.29% -2.78%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 19,720 21,566 23,835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.65% 37.13% 32.34%
Number of salaries quoted 12,249 8,030 10,534
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,500 £27,750
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 £79,600 £80,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £53,555 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.74% +9.09% -

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the UK excluding London

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Security Cleared in the UK excluding London

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in the UK excluding London

Security 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 Security Cleared within the UK excluding London 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
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
Scotland -55 313 £58,000 +16.00% 128
Wales +3 227 £58,800 +91.97% 33
East Midlands -30 193 £43,072 -17.96% 55
Yorkshire +8 190 £60,000 -9.77% 46
Northern Ireland +12 113 £60,000 +71.43% 36
North East -31 39 £55,000 +22.22% 23
Security Cleared
UK

Security 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
1 295 (4.56%) ArcGIS
2 284 (4.39%) GeoServer
3 125 (1.93%) Confluence
4 112 (1.73%) WebLogic
5 95 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
6 84 (1.30%) SharePoint
7 81 (1.25%) IIS
8 77 (1.19%) Apache
9 49 (0.76%) Apache Spark
10 44 (0.68%) Oracle Service Bus
11 34 (0.53%) OpenStack
12 22 (0.34%) nginx
13 19 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2010
14 18 (0.28%) Tomcat
15 17 (0.26%) Jupyter
16 15 (0.23%) CMS
16 15 (0.23%) SharePoint 2010
16 15 (0.23%) SharePoint 2013
17 14 (0.22%) Skype for Business
18 10 (0.15%) JBoss
Applications
1 256 (3.96%) Microsoft Office
2 141 (2.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 129 (1.99%) Simulink
4 76 (1.18%) MS Visio
5 75 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 40 (0.62%) Sketch
7 30 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
8 10 (0.15%) AutoCAD
9 6 (0.093%) Trello
9 6 (0.093%) Windchill
10 4 (0.062%) EPLAN
10 4 (0.062%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.062%) Siemens NX
10 4 (0.062%) Stateflow
11 3 (0.046%) Revit
11 3 (0.046%) Spreadsheet
12 2 (0.031%) Abaqus
12 2 (0.031%) Fireworks
12 2 (0.031%) InDesign
12 2 (0.031%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 88 (1.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 73 (1.13%) Remedy ITSM
3 49 (0.76%) Primavera
4 41 (0.63%) Siebel CRM
5 37 (0.57%) NEC Housing
6 24 (0.37%) Maximo
7 12 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
8 9 (0.14%) Teamcenter
9 7 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
10 6 (0.093%) Oracle Applications
10 6 (0.093%) Oracle ERP
11 4 (0.062%) Q-Pulse
12 3 (0.046%) SAP CO
12 3 (0.046%) SAP ERP
12 3 (0.046%) SAP FI
12 3 (0.046%) SAP FI/CO
12 3 (0.046%) Workday HCM
13 2 (0.031%) Dynamics CRM
13 2 (0.031%) Oracle EBS R12
13 2 (0.031%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 1,282 (19.82%) Azure
2 1,084 (16.76%) AWS
3 216 (3.34%) Microsoft 365
4 125 (1.93%) SaaS
5 116 (1.79%) OpenShift
6 106 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
7 97 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
7 97 (1.50%) GCP
8 92 (1.42%) Serverless
9 70 (1.08%) Power Platform
10 69 (1.07%) Entra ID
11 67 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
12 62 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
12 62 (0.96%) Miro
13 57 (0.88%) AWS CloudFormation
13 57 (0.88%) PaaS
14 52 (0.80%) AWS Lambda
15 46 (0.71%) OCI
16 45 (0.70%) IaaS
17 44 (0.68%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 391 (6.05%) Firewall
2 248 (3.83%) DNS
3 193 (2.98%) WAN
4 161 (2.49%) TCP/IP
5 141 (2.18%) BGP
6 135 (2.09%) DHCP
7 124 (1.92%) Network Security
8 109 (1.69%) LAN
9 88 (1.36%) Wireless
10 85 (1.31%) VPN
11 84 (1.30%) SAN
12 71 (1.10%) SSL
13 69 (1.07%) Cisco ASA
14 66 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
15 61 (0.94%) MPLS
16 58 (0.90%) SD-WAN
17 50 (0.77%) OSPF
18 47 (0.73%) IPsec
19 45 (0.70%) Cisco Firepower
20 44 (0.68%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 397 (6.14%) PostgreSQL
2 318 (4.92%) GIS
3 284 (4.39%) QGIS
4 160 (2.47%) SQL Server
5 128 (1.98%) Oracle Database
6 122 (1.89%) Relational Database
7 98 (1.52%) NoSQL
8 90 (1.39%) Hadoop
9 86 (1.33%) MongoDB
10 82 (1.27%) Big Data
11 58 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
12 55 (0.85%) RDBMS
13 53 (0.82%) Power BI
14 45 (0.70%) Oracle Database 11g
15 44 (0.68%) Oracle Database 10g
15 44 (0.68%) VLDB
16 41 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
17 38 (0.59%) MySQL
18 34 (0.53%) Oracle BI EE
18 34 (0.53%) Siebel EIM
Development Applications
1 263 (4.07%) JIRA
2 211 (3.26%) Git
3 170 (2.63%) Jenkins
4 134 (2.07%) GitLab
5 131 (2.03%) Visual Studio
6 93 (1.44%) Rational DOORS
7 88 (1.36%) Bitbucket
8 59 (0.91%) Sourcetree
9 50 (0.77%) Selenium
10 39 (0.60%) Rational Rhapsody
11 28 (0.43%) SonarQube
12 27 (0.42%) Subversion
13 25 (0.39%) Cucumber
14 23 (0.36%) Ant
14 23 (0.36%) LabVIEW
15 22 (0.34%) JUnit
16 21 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
17 19 (0.29%) Vagrant
18 17 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
19 16 (0.25%) JMeter
General
1 1,262 (19.51%) Social Skills
2 573 (8.86%) Aerospace
3 471 (7.28%) Finance
4 434 (6.71%) Public Sector
5 320 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
6 264 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 229 (3.54%) Military
8 172 (2.66%) Games
9 159 (2.46%) Telecoms
10 142 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
11 131 (2.03%) Manufacturing
12 123 (1.90%) Police
13 115 (1.78%) Electronics
14 109 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
15 89 (1.38%) Retail
16 83 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
17 54 (0.84%) Local Government
18 45 (0.70%) Law
19 35 (0.54%) Legal
20 30 (0.46%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1,129 (17.46%) Senior
2 783 (12.11%) Software Engineer
3 726 (11.23%) Architect
4 527 (8.15%) Developer
5 499 (7.72%) Lead
6 456 (7.05%) Systems Engineer
7 446 (6.90%) Analyst
8 329 (5.09%) Senior Software Engineer
9 305 (4.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 289 (4.47%) Consultant
11 287 (4.44%) Network Engineer
12 247 (3.82%) Project Manager
13 242 (3.74%) Solutions Architect
14 196 (3.03%) DevOps Engineer
15 180 (2.78%) Administrator
16 152 (2.35%) Support Engineer
17 149 (2.30%) Senior Developer
18 130 (2.01%) Security Consultant
19 115 (1.78%) Business Analyst
20 108 (1.67%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 441 (6.82%) React
2 414 (6.40%) .NET
3 287 (4.44%) Leaflet
3 287 (4.44%) OpenLayers
4 286 (4.42%) CSS
5 284 (4.39%) PostGIS
6 262 (4.05%) .NET Core
7 181 (2.80%) Node.js
8 149 (2.30%) AngularJS
9 128 (1.98%) Spring
10 126 (1.95%) REST
11 122 (1.89%) Spring Boot
12 101 (1.56%) HTML
13 90 (1.39%) RabbitMQ
14 74 (1.14%) Unity (Game Engine)
15 73 (1.13%) XML
16 68 (1.05%) Elastic Stack
17 64 (0.99%) Web Services
18 58 (0.90%) Middleware
19 55 (0.85%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 272 (4.21%) Management Information System
2 206 (3.19%) Driving Licence
3 196 (3.03%) Algorithms
4 185 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
5 161 (2.49%) Data Centre
6 121 (1.87%) Public Cloud
7 106 (1.64%) Product Ownership
8 105 (1.62%) Private Cloud
9 97 (1.50%) PKI
10 91 (1.41%) Cloud Native
11 88 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
12 80 (1.24%) Virtual Reality
12 80 (1.24%) Virtual Team
13 69 (1.07%) Operational Technology
14 68 (1.05%) Security Operations Centre
15 56 (0.87%) Clustering
15 56 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
16 55 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
17 49 (0.76%) Cyber Defence
18 46 (0.71%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 1,062 (16.42%) Linux
2 902 (13.95%) Windows
3 317 (4.90%) Windows Server
4 190 (2.94%) Unix
5 181 (2.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 149 (2.30%) Windows 10
7 135 (2.09%) CentOS
8 129 (1.99%) Windows Server 2016
9 125 (1.93%) Windows Server 2019
10 111 (1.72%) Ubuntu
11 93 (1.44%) Windows Server 2012
12 72 (1.11%) Embedded Linux
13 69 (1.07%) Solaris
14 59 (0.91%) Windows 7
15 38 (0.59%) Android
16 33 (0.51%) Debian
17 16 (0.25%) AIX
18 13 (0.20%) VMS
19 12 (0.19%) Windows NT
19 12 (0.19%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,880 (29.07%) Agile
2 1,449 (22.41%) Actionable Insight
3 1,166 (18.03%) Software Engineering
4 1,124 (17.38%) DevOps
5 1,015 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
6 653 (10.10%) Cybersecurity
7 581 (8.98%) Project Management
8 529 (8.18%) ITIL
9 498 (7.70%) Scrum
10 478 (7.39%) Collaborative Working
11 450 (6.96%) Mentoring
12 422 (6.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 387 (5.98%) Systems Engineering
14 373 (5.77%) Stakeholder Management
15 328 (5.07%) CI/CD
16 306 (4.73%) Web Development
17 296 (4.58%) Validation
18 283 (4.38%) Customer Service
19 279 (4.31%) Service Management
20 266 (4.11%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,107 (17.12%) Python
2 658 (10.17%) JavaScript
3 644 (9.96%) Java
4 489 (7.56%) C#
5 461 (7.13%) SQL
6 410 (6.34%) PowerShell
7 302 (4.67%) C++
8 275 (4.25%) C
9 259 (4.00%) Bash
10 145 (2.24%) MATLAB
11 112 (1.73%) TypeScript
12 87 (1.35%) Shell Script
13 59 (0.91%) Rust
14 55 (0.85%) Fortran
14 55 (0.85%) PL/SQL
15 52 (0.80%) Embedded C
16 43 (0.66%) Ada
17 36 (0.56%) VB
18 35 (0.54%) Kotlin
19 26 (0.40%) Go
Qualifications
1 3,771 (58.31%) SC Cleared
2 1,407 (21.76%) DV Cleared
3 1,094 (16.92%) Degree
4 542 (8.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 196 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
6 138 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 128 (1.98%) CCNP
8 125 (1.93%) CCNA
9 101 (1.56%) AWS Certification
10 97 (1.50%) CISSP
11 92 (1.42%) Azure Certification
12 88 (1.36%) CISM
13 73 (1.13%) CESG Certified Professional
14 72 (1.11%) DBS Check
15 67 (1.04%) Master's Degree
16 66 (1.02%) PhD
17 61 (0.94%) CRISC
18 57 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
19 55 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
20 50 (0.77%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 222 (3.43%) SLA
2 173 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 155 (2.40%) Accessibility
4 131 (2.03%) QA
5 99 (1.53%) NIST
6 98 (1.52%) NCSC
7 64 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
8 51 (0.79%) WCAG
9 47 (0.73%) PCI DSS
10 46 (0.71%) ISO 9001
10 46 (0.71%) NIST 800
11 40 (0.62%) GDPR
12 38 (0.59%) Def Stans
13 36 (0.56%) GRC
14 35 (0.54%) JSP 440
15 34 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 15288
16 31 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 17025
16 31 (0.48%) PMO
17 29 (0.45%) COBIT
18 28 (0.43%) RMADS
System Software
1 435 (6.73%) Active Directory
2 317 (4.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 309 (4.78%) Docker
4 177 (2.74%) Hyper-V
5 100 (1.55%) Firmware
6 76 (1.18%) vSphere
7 74 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
8 60 (0.93%) VMware NSX
9 51 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
10 50 (0.77%) KVM
11 44 (0.68%) Oracle RAC
12 24 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
12 24 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
13 16 (0.25%) pfSense
14 15 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
14 15 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
15 11 (0.17%) NFS
16 8 (0.12%) XenDesktop
17 5 (0.077%) SRDF
18 4 (0.062%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 436 (6.74%) Ansible
2 377 (5.83%) Kubernetes
3 277 (4.28%) Terraform
4 211 (3.26%) SCCM
5 135 (2.09%) Puppet
6 89 (1.38%) SCOM
6 89 (1.38%) WSUS
7 83 (1.28%) vCenter Server
8 71 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
9 48 (0.74%) Grafana
10 44 (0.68%) Data Guard
10 44 (0.68%) Oracle RMAN
11 39 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
12 36 (0.56%) FortiGate
13 31 (0.48%) EMC NetWorker
13 31 (0.48%) EnCase
13 31 (0.48%) NetBackup
14 29 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 29 (0.45%) OpenView
15 27 (0.42%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1,091 (16.87%) Microsoft
2 485 (7.50%) VMware
3 426 (6.59%) Cisco
4 365 (5.64%) Oracle
5 291 (4.50%) ESRI
6 265 (4.10%) Juniper
7 187 (2.89%) Red Hat
8 114 (1.76%) ServiceNow
9 102 (1.58%) Remedy
10 91 (1.41%) HP
11 88 (1.36%) Sparx
12 83 (1.28%) IBM
13 77 (1.19%) Dell
14 70 (1.08%) Fortinet
15 61 (0.94%) Google
16 59 (0.91%) McAfee
17 54 (0.84%) CheckPoint
18 53 (0.82%) NEC
18 53 (0.82%) Veeam
19 52 (0.80%) Palo Alto