Security Cleared Jobs in England

Security Clearance
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 27 74
Rank change year-on-year +5 +47 -7
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 6,798 6,899 6,430
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.86% 7.80% 4.69%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.77% 23.72% 17.70%
Number of salaries quoted 4,336 3,350 3,194
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,950 £31,275
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,184 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.54% +7.27% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £86,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 24,484 29,082 36,331
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.31% 32.87% 26.52%
Number of salaries quoted 15,742 13,274 16,890
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,712 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in England

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Security Cleared in England

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in England

Security 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 Security Cleared within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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 +7 1,979 £55,000 +11.11% 631
South West +3 1,896 £56,250 +2.27% 484
London +11 1,054 £70,000 +7.69% 423
North of England +11 807 £55,000 -5.17% 285
Midlands -7 627 £55,000 - 222
North West -3 582 £55,000 -4.35% 212
West Midlands +12 436 £55,000 -2.22% 158
East of England +22 421 £55,000 - 139
East Midlands -25 191 £44,225 -15.76% 63
Yorkshire +20 186 £60,000 -9.09% 47
North East -29 39 £43,072 -4.28% 26
Security Cleared
UK

Security 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
1 205 (3.02%) ArcGIS
2 196 (2.88%) GeoServer
3 133 (1.96%) Confluence
4 126 (1.85%) SharePoint
5 110 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
6 97 (1.43%) Apache
7 81 (1.19%) IIS
8 64 (0.94%) WebLogic
9 57 (0.84%) Apache Spark
10 40 (0.59%) OpenStack
11 28 (0.41%) nginx
12 27 (0.40%) Tomcat
13 25 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2010
14 20 (0.29%) JBoss
15 18 (0.26%) Jupyter
15 18 (0.26%) Red Hat Fuse
16 16 (0.24%) CMS
17 15 (0.22%) SharePoint 2010
17 15 (0.22%) SharePoint 2013
18 14 (0.21%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 233 (3.43%) Microsoft Office
2 125 (1.84%) Simulink
3 116 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
4 71 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 41 (0.60%) MS Visio
6 31 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
7 30 (0.44%) Sketch
8 10 (0.15%) AutoCAD
9 6 (0.088%) Trello
10 4 (0.059%) EPLAN
10 4 (0.059%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.059%) Siemens NX
10 4 (0.059%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.059%) Stateflow
10 4 (0.059%) Windchill
11 3 (0.044%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.044%) Revit
12 2 (0.029%) Abaqus
12 2 (0.029%) GNU Octave
12 2 (0.029%) InVision
Business Applications
1 77 (1.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 53 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
3 52 (0.76%) NEC Housing
4 41 (0.60%) Siebel CRM
5 37 (0.54%) Primavera
6 28 (0.41%) Workday HCM
7 24 (0.35%) Maximo
8 20 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
9 13 (0.19%) SAP HR
10 10 (0.15%) SAP CO
10 10 (0.15%) SAP FI
10 10 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
11 9 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
11 9 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
11 9 (0.13%) SAP SCM
11 9 (0.13%) Teamcenter
12 8 (0.12%) SAP EWM
13 6 (0.088%) Elite 3E
13 6 (0.088%) Oracle Applications
14 5 (0.074%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1,323 (19.46%) Azure
2 1,112 (16.36%) AWS
3 263 (3.87%) Microsoft 365
4 154 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
5 146 (2.15%) SaaS
6 140 (2.06%) GCP
7 138 (2.03%) Power Platform
8 125 (1.84%) Serverless
9 121 (1.78%) Amazon EKS
10 118 (1.74%) OpenShift
11 98 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
12 91 (1.34%) PaaS
13 81 (1.19%) Entra ID
14 64 (0.94%) Amazon ECS
14 64 (0.94%) IaaS
15 63 (0.93%) AWS CloudFormation
16 60 (0.88%) AWS Lambda
17 57 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
18 52 (0.76%) Azure Monitor
18 52 (0.76%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 429 (6.31%) Firewall
2 227 (3.34%) DNS
3 202 (2.97%) WAN
4 143 (2.10%) TCP/IP
5 142 (2.09%) Network Security
6 138 (2.03%) LAN
7 131 (1.93%) DHCP
8 127 (1.87%) BGP
9 123 (1.81%) VPN
10 79 (1.16%) SAN
11 76 (1.12%) Wireless
12 63 (0.93%) SSL
13 60 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
14 58 (0.85%) Internet
14 58 (0.85%) MPLS
15 55 (0.81%) Cisco ASA
16 54 (0.79%) SD-WAN
17 48 (0.71%) IPsec
18 47 (0.69%) OSPF
19 44 (0.65%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 327 (4.81%) PostgreSQL
2 227 (3.34%) GIS
3 196 (2.88%) QGIS
4 177 (2.60%) SQL Server
5 140 (2.06%) Relational Database
6 103 (1.52%) NoSQL
7 102 (1.50%) Oracle Database
8 97 (1.43%) Power BI
9 96 (1.41%) Big Data
10 92 (1.35%) Hadoop
11 87 (1.28%) MongoDB
12 48 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
13 46 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
14 36 (0.53%) RDBMS
15 34 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
15 34 (0.50%) MySQL
16 33 (0.49%) Oracle BI EE
16 33 (0.49%) Siebel EIM
17 29 (0.43%) Tableau
18 27 (0.40%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 259 (3.81%) Git
2 252 (3.71%) JIRA
3 234 (3.44%) Jenkins
4 143 (2.10%) GitLab
5 132 (1.94%) Visual Studio
6 103 (1.52%) Bitbucket
7 93 (1.37%) Rational DOORS
8 59 (0.87%) Sourcetree
9 57 (0.84%) Selenium
10 38 (0.56%) Rational Rhapsody
11 33 (0.49%) Cucumber
12 30 (0.44%) JUnit
13 28 (0.41%) Subversion
14 24 (0.35%) Ant
15 23 (0.34%) LabVIEW
15 23 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
16 22 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 21 (0.31%) SonarQube
18 18 (0.26%) Vagrant
19 16 (0.24%) REST Assured
General
1 1,401 (20.61%) Social Skills
2 673 (9.90%) Public Sector
3 567 (8.34%) Aerospace
4 507 (7.46%) Finance
5 346 (5.09%) Analytical Skills
6 323 (4.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 255 (3.75%) Military
8 191 (2.81%) Presentation Skills
9 174 (2.56%) Games
10 164 (2.41%) Telecoms
11 162 (2.38%) Police
12 151 (2.22%) Manufacturing
13 127 (1.87%) Retail
14 118 (1.74%) Electronics
15 117 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
16 109 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
17 87 (1.28%) Law
18 69 (1.02%) Local Government
19 52 (0.76%) Legal
20 47 (0.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1,100 (16.18%) Senior
2 822 (12.09%) Architect
3 704 (10.36%) Software Engineer
4 599 (8.81%) Developer
5 498 (7.33%) Lead
6 442 (6.50%) Consultant
7 440 (6.47%) Systems Engineer
8 437 (6.43%) Analyst
9 329 (4.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 277 (4.07%) Network Engineer
11 267 (3.93%) Senior Software Engineer
12 258 (3.80%) Project Manager
13 256 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
14 241 (3.55%) DevOps Engineer
15 193 (2.84%) Administrator
16 168 (2.47%) Security Consultant
17 163 (2.40%) Support Engineer
18 144 (2.12%) Senior Developer
19 117 (1.72%) Technical Architect
20 110 (1.62%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 374 (5.50%) .NET
2 358 (5.27%) React
3 223 (3.28%) CSS
4 199 (2.93%) Leaflet
4 199 (2.93%) OpenLayers
5 196 (2.88%) PostGIS
6 194 (2.85%) .NET Core
7 165 (2.43%) Spring
8 160 (2.35%) REST
9 156 (2.29%) Node.js
10 150 (2.21%) AngularJS
11 129 (1.90%) HTML
11 129 (1.90%) Spring Boot
12 102 (1.50%) Web Services
13 101 (1.49%) XML
14 97 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
15 88 (1.29%) JSON
16 80 (1.18%) RabbitMQ
17 77 (1.13%) Unity (Game Engine)
18 69 (1.02%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 283 (4.16%) Management Information System
2 208 (3.06%) Driving Licence
3 202 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
4 186 (2.74%) Algorithms
5 147 (2.16%) Data Centre
6 144 (2.12%) Product Ownership
7 132 (1.94%) Public Cloud
8 128 (1.88%) PKI
9 99 (1.46%) Private Cloud
10 91 (1.34%) Cloud Native
11 86 (1.27%) Virtual Reality
12 85 (1.25%) Security Operations Centre
13 78 (1.15%) Operational Technology
14 77 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
15 72 (1.06%) Virtual Team
16 69 (1.02%) Cyberattack
17 64 (0.94%) Cyber Defence
18 61 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
18 61 (0.90%) Onboarding
19 51 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1,099 (16.17%) Linux
2 1,005 (14.78%) Windows
3 345 (5.08%) Windows Server
4 184 (2.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 154 (2.27%) Unix
6 148 (2.18%) Windows 10
7 134 (1.97%) CentOS
8 133 (1.96%) Ubuntu
9 123 (1.81%) Windows Server 2016
10 122 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
11 99 (1.46%) Windows Server 2012
12 70 (1.03%) Embedded Linux
13 64 (0.94%) Windows 7
14 52 (0.76%) VMS
15 43 (0.63%) Solaris
16 35 (0.51%) Debian
17 32 (0.47%) Android
18 18 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
19 16 (0.24%) AIX
20 12 (0.18%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,941 (28.55%) Agile
2 1,176 (17.30%) Actionable Insight
3 1,135 (16.70%) DevOps
4 1,120 (16.48%) Software Engineering
5 1,061 (15.61%) Problem-Solving
6 781 (11.49%) Cybersecurity
7 622 (9.15%) Project Management
8 565 (8.31%) Scrum
9 536 (7.88%) ITIL
10 510 (7.50%) Mentoring
11 496 (7.30%) Collaborative Working
12 453 (6.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 409 (6.02%) CI/CD
14 407 (5.99%) Systems Engineering
15 376 (5.53%) Project Delivery
16 370 (5.44%) Stakeholder Management
17 312 (4.59%) Customer Service
18 302 (4.44%) Validation
19 301 (4.43%) Coaching
20 287 (4.22%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,074 (15.80%) Python
2 705 (10.37%) Java
3 630 (9.27%) JavaScript
4 478 (7.03%) SQL
5 474 (6.97%) C#
6 447 (6.58%) PowerShell
7 308 (4.53%) C++
8 290 (4.27%) Bash
9 273 (4.02%) C
10 146 (2.15%) MATLAB
11 108 (1.59%) TypeScript
12 103 (1.52%) Shell Script
13 60 (0.88%) Rust
14 53 (0.78%) Embedded C
15 44 (0.65%) Ada
15 44 (0.65%) Fortran
16 34 (0.50%) VB
17 31 (0.46%) Perl
18 30 (0.44%) Kotlin
19 29 (0.43%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3,809 (56.03%) SC Cleared
2 1,618 (23.80%) DV Cleared
3 1,130 (16.62%) Degree
4 582 (8.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 198 (2.91%) Cisco Certification
6 171 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 141 (2.07%) CISSP
8 128 (1.88%) CCNP
9 123 (1.81%) CCNA
10 114 (1.68%) CISM
11 110 (1.62%) AWS Certification
12 100 (1.47%) Azure Certification
13 94 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
14 86 (1.27%) CESG Certified Professional
15 83 (1.22%) Master's Degree
16 68 (1.00%) CRISC
17 67 (0.99%) DBS Check
18 58 (0.85%) CTC Cleared
19 56 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
20 54 (0.79%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 219 (3.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 188 (2.77%) SLA
3 154 (2.27%) QA
4 137 (2.02%) Accessibility
5 132 (1.94%) NIST
6 108 (1.59%) NCSC
7 70 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
8 54 (0.79%) GDPR
9 49 (0.72%) ISO 9001
10 48 (0.71%) NIST 800
11 42 (0.62%) Def Stans
11 42 (0.62%) PCI DSS
12 41 (0.60%) GRC
12 41 (0.60%) JSP 440
13 39 (0.57%) PMO
14 38 (0.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 36 (0.53%) WCAG
16 34 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 15288
16 34 (0.50%) RMADS
17 32 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 502 (7.38%) Active Directory
2 406 (5.97%) Docker
3 341 (5.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 186 (2.74%) Hyper-V
5 102 (1.50%) Firmware
6 89 (1.31%) vSphere
7 77 (1.13%) VMware ESXi
8 52 (0.76%) KVM
9 51 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
10 43 (0.63%) VMware NSX
11 23 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
12 22 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
13 16 (0.24%) pfSense
14 15 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
15 14 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
16 13 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
17 11 (0.16%) NFS
18 10 (0.15%) XenDesktop
19 9 (0.13%) Forefront TMG
19 9 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 510 (7.50%) Ansible
2 457 (6.72%) Kubernetes
3 392 (5.77%) Terraform
4 203 (2.99%) SCCM
5 155 (2.28%) Puppet
6 88 (1.29%) WSUS
7 86 (1.27%) SCOM
8 83 (1.22%) vCenter Server
9 68 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
10 55 (0.81%) Grafana
11 47 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
12 40 (0.59%) Prometheus
13 39 (0.57%) Progress Chef
14 36 (0.53%) NetBackup
15 32 (0.47%) EnCase
15 32 (0.47%) FortiGate
16 30 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 29 (0.43%) EMC NetWorker
18 24 (0.35%) Nagios
18 24 (0.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1,150 (16.92%) Microsoft
2 498 (7.33%) VMware
3 413 (6.08%) Cisco
4 347 (5.10%) Oracle
5 287 (4.22%) Juniper
6 202 (2.97%) ESRI
7 196 (2.88%) Red Hat
8 123 (1.81%) ServiceNow
9 96 (1.41%) HP
10 88 (1.29%) IBM
11 85 (1.25%) Google
12 79 (1.16%) Dell
13 78 (1.15%) Remedy
14 77 (1.13%) SAP
14 77 (1.13%) Sparx
15 67 (0.99%) NEC
16 62 (0.91%) Splunk
17 56 (0.82%) Fortinet
18 53 (0.78%) SolarWinds
18 53 (0.78%) Veeam