Security Cleared Jobs in Scotland

Security Clearance
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 36 37
Rank change year-on-year -47 +1 +53
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 320 344 409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.77% 7.45% 7.09%
As % of the Qualifications category 26.36% 25.31% 27.18%
Number of salaries quoted 99 45 129
10th Percentile £25,200 £32,600 £20,880
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £31,133
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £55,000 £42,368
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +29.82% -2.04%
75th Percentile £63,940 £69,649 £48,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £60,050
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,214 1,359 1,505
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 18.11% 29.42% 26.10%
Number of salaries quoted 545 419 494
10th Percentile £26,700 £28,750 £25,738
25th Percentile £34,000 £38,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £45,607
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +16.21% +1.35%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,177 £61,000
90th Percentile £79,260 £77,715 £82,125
UK median annual salary £54,000 £59,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.24% +8.18% -

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Scotland

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Security Cleared in Scotland

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Scotland over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in Scotland

Security Cleared
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Cleared within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 9 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
Glasgow -66 183 £58,000 -3.33% 34
Edinburgh +28 101 £58,800 +2.26% 39
Argyll and Bute -2 13 £27,400 -57.85% 5
Aberdeen - 8 £24,240 - 6
South Lanarkshire +6 5 £105,000 -
Scottish Borders +1 5 - -
Fife -10 1 - - 1
Lanarkshire -11 1 - - 10
Dunbartonshire - 1 - - 1
Security Cleared
UK

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 60 (18.75%) ArcGIS
1 60 (18.75%) GeoServer
2 19 (5.94%) IIS
3 10 (3.13%) WebLogic
4 8 (2.50%) Confluence
5 2 (0.63%) JBoss
5 2 (0.63%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 12 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.50%) Sketch
3 4 (1.25%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.63%) Windchill
5 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (3.75%) Primavera
2 10 (3.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 6 (1.88%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.63%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 104 (32.50%) Azure
2 90 (28.13%) AWS
3 14 (4.38%) Power Platform
4 13 (4.06%) Cloud Computing
5 12 (3.75%) Miro
6 8 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (2.50%) Amazon SQS
6 8 (2.50%) Figma
6 8 (2.50%) Heroku
7 6 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (1.88%) SaaS
8 5 (1.56%) OCI
9 3 (0.94%) dbt
9 3 (0.94%) Serverless
10 2 (0.63%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.63%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (0.31%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.31%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.94%) WAN
2 11 (3.44%) BGP
3 8 (2.50%) DNS
3 8 (2.50%) SSL
3 8 (2.50%) TCP/IP
3 8 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (1.88%) Firewall
5 3 (0.94%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (0.94%) Cisco Firepower
5 3 (0.94%) HSRP
5 3 (0.94%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (0.94%) MPLS
5 3 (0.94%) OSPF
5 3 (0.94%) Software-Defined Radio
5 3 (0.94%) VLAN
5 3 (0.94%) VRRP
6 2 (0.63%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (20.00%) GIS
2 62 (19.38%) PostgreSQL
3 60 (18.75%) QGIS
4 21 (6.56%) SQL Server
5 14 (4.38%) NoSQL
6 12 (3.75%) Power BI
7 11 (3.44%) Oracle Database
7 11 (3.44%) Tableau
8 10 (3.13%) RDBMS
8 10 (3.13%) Relational Database
9 8 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.56%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.25%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (0.94%) MySQL
13 1 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
13 1 (0.31%) NonStop SQL
13 1 (0.31%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 18 (5.63%) JIRA
2 6 (1.88%) Git
3 5 (1.56%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.94%) GitLab
5 2 (0.63%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.31%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.31%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.31%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.31%) JUnit
6 1 (0.31%) Mockito
6 1 (0.31%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.31%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (0.31%) Selenium
General
1 66 (20.63%) Social Skills
2 25 (7.81%) Public Sector
3 18 (5.63%) Finance
4 16 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (2.50%) Police
6 7 (2.19%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.25%) Aerospace
8 2 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.63%) Games
8 2 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.63%) Local Government
8 2 (0.63%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.31%) Electronics
9 1 (0.31%) Law
9 1 (0.31%) Military
9 1 (0.31%) Retail
Job Titles
1 102 (31.88%) Senior
2 72 (22.50%) Software Engineer
3 49 (15.31%) Architect
4 45 (14.06%) Senior Software Engineer
5 28 (8.75%) Lead
5 28 (8.75%) Systems Engineer
6 26 (8.13%) Solutions Architect
7 17 (5.31%) 2nd Line Support
7 17 (5.31%) Analyst
7 17 (5.31%) Developer
8 15 (4.69%) Designer
8 15 (4.69%) Infrastructure Support
8 15 (4.69%) Presales Solution Architect
9 13 (4.06%) Business Analyst
10 12 (3.75%) Senior Developer
11 11 (3.44%) Product Manager
12 10 (3.13%) UI Designer
12 10 (3.13%) UI/UX Designer
12 10 (3.13%) UX Designer
13 9 (2.81%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (20.31%) React
2 60 (18.75%) Leaflet
2 60 (18.75%) OpenLayers
2 60 (18.75%) PostGIS
3 58 (18.13%) .NET
4 52 (16.25%) .NET Core
4 52 (16.25%) CSS
5 17 (5.31%) AngularJS
6 15 (4.69%) Node.js
7 12 (3.75%) Spring
8 10 (3.13%) Django
8 10 (3.13%) HTML
8 10 (3.13%) RESTful
9 9 (2.81%) Hibernate
9 9 (2.81%) Spring Boot
10 8 (2.50%) Express.js
10 8 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
10 8 (2.50%) REST
11 6 (1.88%) WebRTC
12 4 (1.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.56%) Public Cloud
2 19 (5.94%) Clustering
3 13 (4.06%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (3.75%) Virtual Team
5 8 (2.50%) Driving Licence
5 8 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (2.50%) Management Information System
5 8 (2.50%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.56%) Operational Technology
7 4 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (0.94%) Algorithms
8 3 (0.94%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (0.94%) Data Centre
8 3 (0.94%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.63%) Video\Live Streaming
10 1 (0.31%) CESG
10 1 (0.31%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.31%) Cyberattack
10 1 (0.31%) Replication
10 1 (0.31%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 34 (10.63%) Windows
2 20 (6.25%) Linux
3 17 (5.31%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.50%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.56%) Unix
6 2 (0.63%) VMS
6 2 (0.63%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (60.63%) Actionable Insight
2 145 (45.31%) Agile
3 87 (27.19%) DevOps
4 77 (24.06%) Software Engineering
5 75 (23.44%) Problem-Solving
6 60 (18.75%) Web Development
7 42 (13.13%) Project Management
7 42 (13.13%) Stakeholder Management
8 36 (11.25%) Prototyping
9 31 (9.69%) Workshop Facilitation
10 30 (9.38%) Risk Management
11 28 (8.75%) User Research
12 26 (8.13%) Business Case
13 25 (7.81%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 24 (7.50%) Decision-Making
15 23 (7.19%) Presales
16 22 (6.88%) Coaching
16 22 (6.88%) Continuous Integration
17 21 (6.56%) CI/CD
18 20 (6.25%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 74 (23.13%) Python
2 61 (19.06%) JavaScript
3 41 (12.81%) C#
4 30 (9.38%) SQL
5 25 (7.81%) Java
6 3 (0.94%) Ruby
7 2 (0.63%) Bash
7 2 (0.63%) C++
8 1 (0.31%) Perl
8 1 (0.31%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 239 (74.69%) SC Cleared
2 31 (9.69%) Degree
3 23 (7.19%) DV Cleared
4 10 (3.13%) Azure Certification
5 9 (2.81%) AWS Certification
5 9 (2.81%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (2.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 5 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.25%) CCIE
8 4 (1.25%) CCNP
8 4 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.25%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.25%) PhD
9 3 (0.94%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.94%) HNC
9 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.94%) OCA
9 3 (0.94%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.63%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.50%) Accessibility
2 10 (3.13%) SLA
2 10 (3.13%) WCAG
3 8 (2.50%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.88%) COBIT
5 4 (1.25%) PMO
6 3 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 3 (0.94%) NIST
6 3 (0.94%) QA
7 2 (0.63%) GDPR
7 2 (0.63%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.63%) NCSC
7 2 (0.63%) TickIT
8 1 (0.31%) IEC 61508
8 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 20 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 19 (5.94%) VMware NSX
3 8 (2.50%) KVM
3 8 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.63%) Docker
4 2 (0.63%) vSphere
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 6 (1.88%) OpenView
2 2 (0.63%) McAfee ePO
2 2 (0.63%) SCCM
2 2 (0.63%) WSUS
3 1 (0.31%) BMC PATROL
3 1 (0.31%) Data Guard
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 60 (18.75%) ESRI
2 51 (15.94%) Microsoft
3 25 (7.81%) VMware
4 19 (5.94%) Oracle
5 10 (3.13%) Sparx
6 8 (2.50%) Dell
7 6 (1.88%) BMC
7 6 (1.88%) HP
7 6 (1.88%) Remedy
7 6 (1.88%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.56%) Cisco
9 3 (0.94%) Thales
10 2 (0.63%) Apple
10 2 (0.63%) Cadence
10 2 (0.63%) McAfee
11 1 (0.31%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.31%) Coverity
11 1 (0.31%) Juniper
11 1 (0.31%) Klocwork
11 1 (0.31%) NEC