SC Cleared Jobs in England

Security Check (SC) Clearance
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 64 122
Rank change year-on-year +14 +58 -20
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 3,792 4,260 4,172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.42% 4.74% 3.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 15.51% 14.56% 11.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,356 2,353 2,090
10th Percentile £31,500 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £43,688 £46,214 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +8.11% +0.91%
75th Percentile £70,250 £76,250 £72,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,063 £57,267
% change year-on-year -4.27% +4.88% +4.12%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 24,441 29,265 35,160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.46% 32.53% 26.45%
Number of salaries quoted 15,778 13,348 16,634
10th Percentile £28,418 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,600 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.72% +8.36% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £59,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.86% +7.73% -

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in England

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for SC Cleared in England

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in England

SC 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 SC Cleared within the England region over the 6 months to 10 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 +23 1,212 £55,000 - 266
South West 0 882 £52,500 -5.41% 252
London -13 603 £70,000 +3.70% 193
North of England +27 565 £57,500 -4.17% 170
North West +8 385 £55,000 -4.35% 125
Midlands -5 383 £52,500 -12.50% 92
West Midlands +1 245 £55,000 -8.33% 65
Yorkshire +89 153 £60,000 -10.45% 30
East Midlands -5 138 £50,000 -4.76% 27
East of England -2 127 £55,000 -0.90% 75
North East -31 27 £55,000 +15.79% 15
SC Cleared
UK

SC 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
1 204 (5.38%) ArcGIS
2 196 (5.17%) GeoServer
3 129 (3.40%) Confluence
4 89 (2.35%) SharePoint
5 73 (1.93%) Microsoft Exchange
6 64 (1.69%) WebLogic
7 47 (1.24%) Apache
8 39 (1.03%) OpenStack
9 34 (0.90%) Apache Spark
10 31 (0.82%) IIS
11 18 (0.47%) Exchange Server 2010
12 16 (0.42%) Red Hat Fuse
13 15 (0.40%) CMS
13 15 (0.40%) JBoss
14 14 (0.37%) Oracle Service Bus
15 10 (0.26%) SharePoint 2010
15 10 (0.26%) SharePoint 2013
16 7 (0.18%) Drupal
17 6 (0.16%) nginx
18 4 (0.11%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 128 (3.38%) Microsoft Office
2 52 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 43 (1.13%) Simulink
4 36 (0.95%) MS Visio
5 28 (0.74%) Sketch
6 23 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
7 16 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 9 (0.24%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.11%) EPLAN
9 4 (0.11%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.079%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.053%) Abaqus
11 2 (0.053%) Fireworks
11 2 (0.053%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.053%) InDesign
12 1 (0.026%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.026%) Blender
12 1 (0.026%) Revit
Business Applications
1 69 (1.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 48 (1.27%) Remedy ITSM
3 40 (1.05%) Siebel CRM
4 20 (0.53%) Maximo
5 9 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
6 7 (0.18%) Elite 3E
7 6 (0.16%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.13%) Primavera
8 5 (0.13%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.11%) Oracle Cash Management
9 4 (0.11%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.11%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
9 4 (0.11%) SAP HR
9 4 (0.11%) SAP WM
10 3 (0.079%) Dynamics CRM
10 3 (0.079%) SAP CRM
10 3 (0.079%) SAP CX
10 3 (0.079%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 936 (24.68%) Azure
2 757 (19.96%) AWS
3 189 (4.98%) Microsoft 365
4 116 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
5 113 (2.98%) Amazon EKS
6 104 (2.74%) Serverless
7 102 (2.69%) Power Platform
8 97 (2.56%) GCP
9 94 (2.48%) SaaS
10 78 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
11 69 (1.82%) OpenShift
12 63 (1.66%) AWS CloudFormation
13 54 (1.42%) Amazon ECS
14 51 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
15 49 (1.29%) PaaS
16 44 (1.16%) Miro
17 39 (1.03%) Entra ID
18 38 (1.00%) Cloud Computing
18 38 (1.00%) GitHub
19 37 (0.98%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 226 (5.96%) Firewall
2 131 (3.45%) DNS
3 95 (2.51%) WAN
4 86 (2.27%) TCP/IP
5 73 (1.93%) VPN
6 71 (1.87%) DHCP
7 69 (1.82%) Network Security
8 60 (1.58%) SAN
9 59 (1.56%) Wireless
10 58 (1.53%) LAN
11 56 (1.48%) BGP
12 52 (1.37%) SSL
13 39 (1.03%) SD-WAN
14 38 (1.00%) IPsec
15 34 (0.90%) MPLS
16 31 (0.82%) AMQP
16 31 (0.82%) Cisco Firepower
17 27 (0.71%) Software-Defined Radio
18 26 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
19 22 (0.58%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 286 (7.54%) PostgreSQL
2 213 (5.62%) GIS
3 196 (5.17%) QGIS
4 111 (2.93%) Relational Database
5 103 (2.72%) SQL Server
6 85 (2.24%) NoSQL
7 63 (1.66%) Hadoop
8 61 (1.61%) Big Data
8 61 (1.61%) Power BI
9 56 (1.48%) Oracle Database
10 50 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
11 45 (1.19%) MongoDB
12 42 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
13 36 (0.95%) RDBMS
14 35 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
14 35 (0.92%) Oracle BI EE
15 32 (0.84%) Siebel EIM
16 29 (0.76%) MySQL
17 26 (0.69%) Cloudera CDH
18 20 (0.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 219 (5.78%) Git
2 194 (5.12%) JIRA
3 186 (4.91%) Jenkins
4 110 (2.90%) Visual Studio
5 104 (2.74%) Bitbucket
6 80 (2.11%) GitLab
7 59 (1.56%) Sourcetree
8 35 (0.92%) Rational DOORS
9 33 (0.87%) Cucumber
9 33 (0.87%) Selenium
10 29 (0.76%) JUnit
11 25 (0.66%) Ant
12 23 (0.61%) Subversion
13 17 (0.45%) REST Assured
13 17 (0.45%) TestNG
14 15 (0.40%) CMake
14 15 (0.40%) LabVIEW
14 15 (0.40%) Vagrant
15 14 (0.37%) JMeter
15 14 (0.37%) WebDriver
General
1 816 (21.52%) Social Skills
2 372 (9.81%) Public Sector
3 268 (7.07%) Aerospace
4 253 (6.67%) Finance
5 227 (5.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 179 (4.72%) Analytical Skills
7 174 (4.59%) Presentation Skills
8 130 (3.43%) Games
9 100 (2.64%) Military
10 96 (2.53%) Telecoms
11 83 (2.19%) Police
12 73 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
13 51 (1.34%) Electronics
13 51 (1.34%) Manufacturing
14 47 (1.24%) Law
15 46 (1.21%) Retail
16 44 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
17 37 (0.98%) Marketing
18 22 (0.58%) Legal
19 15 (0.40%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 714 (18.83%) Senior
2 507 (13.37%) Architect
3 451 (11.89%) Developer
4 402 (10.60%) Software Engineer
5 270 (7.12%) Lead
6 245 (6.46%) Analyst
7 213 (5.62%) Solutions Architect
8 192 (5.06%) Senior Software Engineer
9 190 (5.01%) Consultant
10 166 (4.38%) Systems Engineer
11 162 (4.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 162 (4.27%) Project Manager
12 141 (3.72%) Network Engineer
13 124 (3.27%) Senior Developer
14 123 (3.24%) DevOps Engineer
15 95 (2.51%) Security Consultant
16 87 (2.29%) 3D Developer
16 87 (2.29%) Games Developer
16 87 (2.29%) Unity 3D Developer
17 86 (2.27%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 324 (8.54%) .NET
2 301 (7.94%) React
3 199 (5.25%) Leaflet
4 198 (5.22%) OpenLayers
5 196 (5.17%) PostGIS
6 195 (5.14%) CSS
7 185 (4.88%) .NET Core
8 147 (3.88%) REST
9 138 (3.64%) Spring
10 129 (3.40%) Node.js
11 117 (3.09%) AngularJS
12 113 (2.98%) Spring Boot
13 87 (2.29%) Unity (Game Engine)
14 83 (2.19%) Web Services
15 81 (2.14%) HTML
16 75 (1.98%) XML
17 64 (1.69%) RESTful
18 61 (1.61%) RabbitMQ
18 61 (1.61%) SOAP
19 54 (1.42%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 125 (3.30%) Management Information System
2 100 (2.64%) Data Centre
3 92 (2.43%) Product Ownership
4 91 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
5 89 (2.35%) Virtual Reality
6 74 (1.95%) Driving Licence
7 67 (1.77%) Virtual Team
8 66 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
9 56 (1.48%) Private Cloud
10 54 (1.42%) Algorithms
11 52 (1.37%) Operational Technology
12 48 (1.27%) Cloud Native
13 47 (1.24%) CMDB
13 47 (1.24%) Public Cloud
14 42 (1.11%) Cyberattack
15 40 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
16 37 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
17 36 (0.95%) PKI
18 30 (0.79%) Clustering
19 29 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 559 (14.74%) Windows
2 538 (14.19%) Linux
3 253 (6.67%) Windows Server
4 110 (2.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 87 (2.29%) Windows 10
6 86 (2.27%) Ubuntu
7 82 (2.16%) CentOS
8 77 (2.03%) Unix
9 59 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
10 51 (1.34%) Windows Server 2019
11 30 (0.79%) Windows 7
12 28 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
13 27 (0.71%) Debian
14 22 (0.58%) Android
15 16 (0.42%) AIX
16 14 (0.37%) Solaris
16 14 (0.37%) VMS
17 12 (0.32%) Windows XP
18 9 (0.24%) zOS
19 8 (0.21%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,188 (31.33%) Agile
2 864 (22.78%) Actionable Insight
3 833 (21.97%) DevOps
4 681 (17.96%) Software Engineering
5 625 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
6 391 (10.31%) Scrum
7 383 (10.10%) Cybersecurity
8 355 (9.36%) Project Management
9 297 (7.83%) ITIL
10 242 (6.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 239 (6.30%) Stakeholder Management
12 237 (6.25%) CI/CD
12 237 (6.25%) Collaborative Working
12 237 (6.25%) Mentoring
13 216 (5.70%) Service Management
14 202 (5.33%) Web Development
15 196 (5.17%) Project Delivery
16 189 (4.98%) Microservices
17 179 (4.72%) Kanban
18 177 (4.67%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 591 (15.59%) Python
2 452 (11.92%) JavaScript
3 451 (11.89%) Java
4 349 (9.20%) SQL
5 330 (8.70%) C#
6 292 (7.70%) PowerShell
7 152 (4.01%) C++
8 93 (2.45%) Bash
9 82 (2.16%) C
10 67 (1.77%) TypeScript
11 57 (1.50%) MATLAB
12 44 (1.16%) Shell Script
13 34 (0.90%) PL/SQL
14 24 (0.63%) Kotlin
15 23 (0.61%) Go
16 22 (0.58%) Bicep
17 18 (0.47%) Groovy
17 18 (0.47%) Perl
17 18 (0.47%) VB
18 17 (0.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3,792 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 651 (17.17%) Degree
3 607 (16.01%) DV Cleared
4 220 (5.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 122 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 101 (2.66%) CISM
7 100 (2.64%) AWS Certification
8 96 (2.53%) CISSP
9 91 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
10 85 (2.24%) Azure Certification
11 83 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
12 64 (1.69%) CESG Certified Professional
12 64 (1.69%) CRISC
13 63 (1.66%) CCNP
14 61 (1.61%) CCNA
15 59 (1.56%) TOGAF Certification
16 51 (1.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 37 (0.98%) A+ Certification
18 33 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 30 (0.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 97 (2.56%) SLA
3 83 (2.19%) NCSC
4 82 (2.16%) Accessibility
5 71 (1.87%) QA
6 54 (1.42%) NIST
7 41 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 37 (0.98%) GDPR
9 35 (0.92%) WCAG
10 31 (0.82%) PMO
11 26 (0.69%) Def Stans
12 24 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
12 24 (0.63%) Data Quality
12 24 (0.63%) GRC
13 21 (0.55%) COBIT
13 21 (0.55%) Software Quality Assurance
14 19 (0.50%) JSP 440
15 16 (0.42%) ISO 9001
15 16 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 15 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 292 (7.70%) Active Directory
2 240 (6.33%) Docker
3 176 (4.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 123 (3.24%) Hyper-V
5 45 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
6 36 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
7 32 (0.84%) vSphere
8 31 (0.82%) Firmware
9 22 (0.58%) KVM
9 22 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
10 16 (0.42%) pfSense
11 14 (0.37%) Oracle RAC
12 10 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
12 10 (0.26%) NFS
12 10 (0.26%) XenDesktop
13 9 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
14 8 (0.21%) VMware NSX
15 4 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
15 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.11%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 265 (6.99%) Kubernetes
2 254 (6.70%) Ansible
3 218 (5.75%) Terraform
4 149 (3.93%) SCCM
5 69 (1.82%) Puppet
6 61 (1.61%) SCOM
7 59 (1.56%) vCenter Server
8 45 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
8 45 (1.19%) WSUS
9 35 (0.92%) Grafana
10 34 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
11 32 (0.84%) NetBackup
12 29 (0.76%) EMC NetWorker
13 24 (0.63%) ZABBIX
14 22 (0.58%) OpenSSO
15 21 (0.55%) OpenView
16 19 (0.50%) Prometheus
17 18 (0.47%) Nagios
18 17 (0.45%) Kibana
18 17 (0.45%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 719 (18.96%) Microsoft
2 269 (7.09%) VMware
3 229 (6.04%) Oracle
4 202 (5.33%) ESRI
5 201 (5.30%) Cisco
6 192 (5.06%) Juniper
7 100 (2.64%) ServiceNow
8 80 (2.11%) Red Hat
9 76 (2.00%) HP
10 75 (1.98%) Google
11 70 (1.85%) Remedy
12 69 (1.82%) Sparx
13 50 (1.32%) NetApp
14 47 (1.24%) IBM
15 42 (1.11%) Splunk
16 41 (1.08%) Veeam
17 40 (1.05%) Siebel
18 39 (1.03%) Citrix
19 37 (0.98%) EMC
20 36 (0.95%) BMC