Security Check (SC) Clearance
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 60 115
Rank change year-on-year +13 +55 -11
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 4,714 5,197 4,983
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.78% 5.01% 3.18%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.18% 15.37% 11.83%
Number of salaries quoted 2,655 2,639 2,446
10th Percentile £31,850 £34,452 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,300 £42,999
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,250 £76,250 £73,413
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,112
% change year-on-year - +3.55% -1.64%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,433 33,803 42,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.82% 32.57% 26.91%
Number of salaries quoted 17,326 15,201 19,033
10th Percentile £28,290 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £59,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.24% +8.18% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the UK

SC Cleared
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SC Cleared in the UK

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in the UK

SC Cleared
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 3 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
England +13 3,835 £55,000 -8.33% 1,035
UK excluding London +15 3,729 £55,000 - 886
Work from Home +6 1,911 £60,000 -4.00% 479
South East +23 1,215 £55,000 +1.38% 272
South West -1 880 £52,500 -4.55% 225
London -5 622 £70,000 +3.70% 201
North of England +30 573 £57,500 -1.71% 158
North West +8 392 £55,000 -4.35% 118
Midlands +8 390 £52,500 -12.50% 90
West Midlands +2 247 £55,000 -8.33% 64
Scotland -36 245 £60,000 +6.27% 78
Wales +16 215 £50,750 +68.02% 12
Yorkshire +79 156 £60,000 -10.45% 22
East Midlands +3 143 £50,000 -4.76% 25
East of England -8 130 £55,000 - 64
Northern Ireland +32 105 £60,000 +75.18% 10
North East -28 27 £55,000 +15.79% 18

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 338 (7.17%) ArcGIS
2 330 (7.00%) GeoServer
3 159 (3.37%) Confluence
4 120 (2.55%) WebLogic
5 92 (1.95%) SharePoint
6 77 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 46 (0.98%) Apache
8 45 (0.95%) Oracle Service Bus
9 40 (0.85%) IIS
10 39 (0.83%) OpenStack
11 37 (0.78%) Red Hat Fuse
12 36 (0.76%) JBoss
13 34 (0.72%) Apache Spark
14 17 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2010
15 16 (0.34%) CMS
16 14 (0.30%) Skype for Business
17 9 (0.19%) SharePoint 2010
17 9 (0.19%) SharePoint 2013
18 8 (0.17%) Drupal
19 6 (0.13%) nginx
Applications
1 171 (3.63%) Microsoft Office
2 85 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 79 (1.68%) MS Visio
4 46 (0.98%) Sketch
5 40 (0.85%) Simulink
6 24 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
7 19 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 9 (0.19%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.085%) EPLAN
9 4 (0.085%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.064%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.042%) Abaqus
11 2 (0.042%) Fireworks
11 2 (0.042%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.042%) InDesign
12 1 (0.021%) Acrobat
12 1 (0.021%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.021%) Blender
12 1 (0.021%) Revit
Business Applications
1 92 (1.95%) Remedy ITSM
2 90 (1.91%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 39 (0.83%) Siebel CRM
4 18 (0.38%) Maximo
5 12 (0.25%) Oracle Cash Management
6 11 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
7 10 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
7 10 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
7 10 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
8 9 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
9 8 (0.17%) Elite 3E
10 6 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
10 6 (0.13%) Primavera
10 6 (0.13%) SAP ERP
10 6 (0.13%) SAP WM
11 5 (0.11%) Teamcenter
12 4 (0.085%) SAP CO
12 4 (0.085%) SAP FI
12 4 (0.085%) SAP FI/CO
12 4 (0.085%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 1,226 (26.01%) Azure
2 988 (20.96%) AWS
3 202 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
4 143 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
5 138 (2.93%) Amazon EKS
6 127 (2.69%) GCP
6 127 (2.69%) Power Platform
7 121 (2.57%) Serverless
8 116 (2.46%) SaaS
9 100 (2.12%) Dynamics 365
10 71 (1.51%) Miro
11 68 (1.44%) OpenShift
12 65 (1.38%) AWS CloudFormation
13 61 (1.29%) PaaS
14 58 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
15 57 (1.21%) OCI
16 54 (1.15%) Amazon ECS
17 51 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
18 48 (1.02%) Amazon SQS
19 47 (1.00%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 297 (6.30%) Firewall
2 167 (3.54%) DNS
3 131 (2.78%) WAN
4 118 (2.50%) TCP/IP
5 94 (1.99%) LAN
6 87 (1.85%) Network Security
6 87 (1.85%) VPN
7 84 (1.78%) Wireless
8 80 (1.70%) BGP
9 73 (1.55%) SSL
10 72 (1.53%) DHCP
10 72 (1.53%) SAN
11 52 (1.10%) SD-WAN
12 41 (0.87%) IPsec
13 40 (0.85%) Software-Defined Radio
14 37 (0.78%) MPLS
15 33 (0.70%) Cisco Firepower
16 32 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
17 30 (0.64%) AMQP
18 29 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 418 (8.87%) PostgreSQL
2 348 (7.38%) GIS
3 330 (7.00%) QGIS
4 155 (3.29%) Relational Database
5 118 (2.50%) SQL Server
6 109 (2.31%) Oracle Database
7 87 (1.85%) NoSQL
8 69 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
9 64 (1.36%) Power BI
10 63 (1.34%) RDBMS
11 62 (1.32%) Big Data
12 57 (1.21%) Hadoop
13 50 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
14 47 (1.00%) Oracle Database 11g
15 46 (0.98%) MongoDB
16 45 (0.95%) Oracle Database 10g
16 45 (0.95%) VLDB
17 43 (0.91%) MySQL
18 39 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
19 34 (0.72%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 249 (5.28%) JIRA
2 247 (5.24%) Git
3 206 (4.37%) Jenkins
4 112 (2.38%) Visual Studio
5 106 (2.25%) Bitbucket
6 89 (1.89%) GitLab
7 59 (1.25%) Sourcetree
8 37 (0.78%) Selenium
9 36 (0.76%) Cucumber
9 36 (0.76%) Rational DOORS
10 30 (0.64%) JUnit
11 29 (0.62%) IntelliJ
12 25 (0.53%) Ant
13 24 (0.51%) Subversion
14 17 (0.36%) REST Assured
14 17 (0.36%) TestNG
15 16 (0.34%) CMake
15 16 (0.34%) JMeter
16 15 (0.32%) LabVIEW
17 14 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,076 (22.83%) Social Skills
2 534 (11.33%) Public Sector
3 332 (7.04%) Finance
4 319 (6.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 270 (5.73%) Aerospace
6 255 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
7 220 (4.67%) Presentation Skills
8 139 (2.95%) Games
9 131 (2.78%) Police
10 106 (2.25%) Telecoms
11 105 (2.23%) Military
12 77 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
13 65 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
14 56 (1.19%) Manufacturing
15 53 (1.12%) Retail
16 52 (1.10%) Electronics
16 52 (1.10%) Law
17 41 (0.87%) Marketing
18 34 (0.72%) Legal
19 17 (0.36%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,031 (21.87%) Senior
2 695 (14.74%) Architect
3 559 (11.86%) Software Engineer
4 538 (11.41%) Developer
5 352 (7.47%) Analyst
6 350 (7.42%) Lead
7 324 (6.87%) Solutions Architect
8 297 (6.30%) Senior Software Engineer
9 228 (4.84%) Consultant
10 197 (4.18%) Systems Engineer
11 194 (4.12%) Project Manager
12 180 (3.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 174 (3.69%) Senior Developer
14 161 (3.42%) Network Engineer
15 126 (2.67%) DevOps Engineer
16 121 (2.57%) Designer
17 119 (2.52%) Business Analyst
18 116 (2.46%) Presales Solution Architect
19 112 (2.38%) Technical Architect
20 100 (2.12%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 468 (9.93%) .NET
2 443 (9.40%) React
3 333 (7.06%) Leaflet
4 332 (7.04%) OpenLayers
5 331 (7.02%) CSS
6 330 (7.00%) PostGIS
7 305 (6.47%) .NET Core
8 188 (3.99%) Spring
9 183 (3.88%) REST
10 167 (3.54%) Node.js
11 163 (3.46%) AngularJS
12 133 (2.82%) Spring Boot
13 131 (2.78%) HTML
14 130 (2.76%) Web Services
15 119 (2.52%) RESTful
16 109 (2.31%) XML
17 92 (1.95%) SOAP
18 88 (1.87%) Unity (Game Engine)
19 82 (1.74%) JSON
20 78 (1.65%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 165 (3.50%) Management Information System
2 152 (3.22%) Data Centre
3 114 (2.42%) Product Ownership
4 101 (2.14%) Virtual Team
5 98 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
6 90 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
6 90 (1.91%) Virtual Reality
7 83 (1.76%) Driving Licence
8 75 (1.59%) Onboarding
9 68 (1.44%) Public Cloud
10 64 (1.36%) Operational Technology
11 61 (1.29%) Cyberattack
12 58 (1.23%) Private Cloud
13 55 (1.17%) Algorithms
13 55 (1.17%) Cloud Native
13 55 (1.17%) CMDB
14 43 (0.91%) PKI
15 42 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
16 40 (0.85%) Clustering
17 38 (0.81%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 633 (13.43%) Linux
2 614 (13.03%) Windows
3 274 (5.81%) Windows Server
4 129 (2.74%) Unix
5 128 (2.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 104 (2.21%) Ubuntu
7 90 (1.91%) Windows 10
8 79 (1.68%) CentOS
9 62 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
10 52 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
11 45 (0.95%) Solaris
12 32 (0.68%) Windows 7
13 30 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
14 26 (0.55%) Debian
15 23 (0.49%) Android
16 19 (0.40%) VMS
17 18 (0.38%) AIX
18 12 (0.25%) Windows XP
19 10 (0.21%) zOS
20 8 (0.17%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,582 (33.56%) Agile
2 1,393 (29.55%) Actionable Insight
3 1,060 (22.49%) DevOps
4 891 (18.90%) Software Engineering
5 823 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
6 460 (9.76%) Scrum
7 444 (9.42%) Cybersecurity
8 431 (9.14%) Project Management
9 354 (7.51%) ITIL
10 344 (7.30%) Stakeholder Management
11 342 (7.25%) Web Development
12 316 (6.70%) Mentoring
13 298 (6.32%) Collaborative Working
14 283 (6.00%) CI/CD
15 261 (5.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 259 (5.49%) Service Management
17 248 (5.26%) Presales
18 224 (4.75%) Business Case
19 219 (4.65%) Analytics
20 218 (4.62%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 767 (16.27%) Python
2 618 (13.11%) JavaScript
3 524 (11.12%) Java
4 447 (9.48%) C#
5 419 (8.89%) SQL
6 308 (6.53%) PowerShell
7 153 (3.25%) C++
8 95 (2.02%) Bash
9 83 (1.76%) C
10 71 (1.51%) TypeScript
11 70 (1.48%) PL/SQL
12 58 (1.23%) Shell Script
13 56 (1.19%) MATLAB
14 37 (0.78%) Go
15 25 (0.53%) Bicep
16 20 (0.42%) Kotlin
16 20 (0.42%) Ruby
16 20 (0.42%) VB
16 20 (0.42%) VBA
17 19 (0.40%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4,714 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 759 (16.10%) Degree
3 630 (13.36%) DV Cleared
4 284 (6.02%) BPSS Clearance
5 138 (2.93%) AWS Certification
6 127 (2.69%) Azure Certification
7 122 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 121 (2.57%) CISM
9 119 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
10 117 (2.48%) CISSP
11 88 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
12 76 (1.61%) CCNA
13 74 (1.57%) CCNP
14 70 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 66 (1.40%) CRISC
16 65 (1.38%) CESG Certified Professional
17 62 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
18 53 (1.12%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 37 (0.78%) A+ Certification
20 32 (0.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (3.16%) Accessibility
1 149 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 141 (2.99%) SLA
3 95 (2.02%) QA
4 91 (1.93%) NCSC
5 59 (1.25%) NIST
6 58 (1.23%) WCAG
7 45 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 39 (0.83%) GDPR
8 39 (0.83%) PMO
9 34 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
10 32 (0.68%) COBIT
11 28 (0.59%) Data Quality
12 26 (0.55%) Def Stans
13 24 (0.51%) GRC
14 23 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 21 (0.45%) JSP 440
15 21 (0.45%) Software Quality Assurance
16 16 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 15 (0.32%) RMADS
System Software
1 353 (7.49%) Active Directory
2 254 (5.39%) Docker
3 208 (4.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 132 (2.80%) Hyper-V
5 50 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
6 45 (0.95%) Oracle RAC
7 36 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
8 34 (0.72%) vSphere
9 33 (0.70%) Firmware
10 23 (0.49%) KVM
10 23 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
11 18 (0.38%) VMware NSX
12 16 (0.34%) pfSense
13 10 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
13 10 (0.21%) NFS
14 9 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
14 9 (0.19%) XenDesktop
15 4 (0.085%) Embedded Firmware
15 4 (0.085%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 3 (0.064%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 272 (5.77%) Kubernetes
2 264 (5.60%) Ansible
3 238 (5.05%) Terraform
4 159 (3.37%) SCCM
5 68 (1.44%) Puppet
6 64 (1.36%) vCenter Server
7 63 (1.34%) SCOM
8 50 (1.06%) WSUS
9 46 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
10 45 (0.95%) Data Guard
10 45 (0.95%) Oracle RMAN
11 41 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
12 35 (0.74%) Grafana
13 32 (0.68%) OpenView
14 31 (0.66%) NetBackup
15 30 (0.64%) EMC NetWorker
16 29 (0.62%) OpenSSO
17 25 (0.53%) ZABBIX
18 19 (0.40%) Nagios
18 19 (0.40%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 824 (17.48%) Microsoft
2 350 (7.42%) Oracle
3 337 (7.15%) ESRI
4 316 (6.70%) VMware
5 259 (5.49%) Cisco
6 206 (4.37%) Juniper
7 121 (2.57%) Remedy
8 117 (2.48%) ServiceNow
9 96 (2.04%) Google
10 90 (1.91%) Sparx
11 89 (1.89%) HP
12 83 (1.76%) Red Hat
13 57 (1.21%) Fortinet
14 53 (1.12%) Palo Alto
15 52 (1.10%) CheckPoint
16 51 (1.08%) Splunk
17 50 (1.06%) BMC
17 50 (1.06%) NetApp
18 49 (1.04%) IBM
19 46 (0.98%) Sun