SC Cleared Jobs in the South East

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for SC 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 24 45 87
Rank change year-on-year +21 +42 -8
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 1,215 839 790
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.23% 5.76% 4.01%
As % of the Qualifications category 20.97% 14.62% 12.19%
Number of salaries quoted 814 489 390
10th Percentile £31,625 £25,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £56,325
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.52% +2.41%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 5,794 5,738 6,479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 34.47% 39.42% 32.85%
Number of salaries quoted 3,644 2,558 3,120
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,938 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £54,995 £59,600 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.73% +8.36% -

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the South East

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for SC Cleared in the South East

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in the South East over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in the South East

SC Cleared
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the South East 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
Thames Valley +32 543 £52,500 +10.53% 99
Berkshire +32 483 £53,000 -0.93% 63
Hampshire -2 385 £55,000 - 93
Surrey +25 231 £50,000 -6.98% 22
Buckinghamshire -34 45 £50,000 -4.76% 18
West Sussex +39 22 £67,500 -1.82% 10
Oxfordshire -22 15 £50,000 +21.21% 18
Kent 0 11 £91,250 +114.71% 2
Middlesex - 6 £35,000 -
Sussex - 4 £51,250 - 1
East Sussex +20 1 £92,500 +66.67% 1
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 40 (3.29%) WebLogic
2 31 (2.55%) OpenStack
3 29 (2.39%) ArcGIS
3 29 (2.39%) GeoServer
4 26 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
5 18 (1.48%) Exchange Server 2010
6 14 (1.15%) Oracle Service Bus
7 13 (1.07%) CMS
7 13 (1.07%) Confluence
7 13 (1.07%) IIS
8 12 (0.99%) SharePoint
9 10 (0.82%) Red Hat Fuse
10 9 (0.74%) JBoss
11 6 (0.49%) Apache
12 4 (0.33%) TWiki
13 2 (0.16%) nginx
13 2 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.082%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 53 (4.36%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (2.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (1.65%) MS Visio
4 18 (1.48%) Simulink
5 11 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.33%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.33%) Sketch
8 2 (0.16%) Fireworks
8 2 (0.16%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 40 (3.29%) Siebel CRM
2 17 (1.40%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.33%) SAP CO
3 4 (0.33%) SAP FI
3 4 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
3 4 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.16%) Q-Pulse
4 2 (0.16%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.16%) SAP HR
4 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.082%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.082%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 272 (22.39%) Azure
2 207 (17.04%) AWS
3 56 (4.61%) Microsoft 365
4 46 (3.79%) Serverless
5 40 (3.29%) Amazon EKS
6 32 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
7 31 (2.55%) SaaS
8 25 (2.06%) Azure Monitor
9 22 (1.81%) Cloud Computing
10 19 (1.56%) OCI
11 18 (1.48%) GitHub
12 15 (1.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (1.07%) Entra ID
14 12 (0.99%) AWS Lambda
15 11 (0.91%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (0.91%) Amazon S3
15 11 (0.91%) CloudFront
15 11 (0.91%) Power Platform
15 11 (0.91%) Route 53
15 11 (0.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 108 (8.89%) Firewall
2 65 (5.35%) DNS
3 53 (4.36%) VPN
4 45 (3.70%) DHCP
5 24 (1.98%) Cisco Firepower
6 23 (1.89%) Network Security
7 21 (1.73%) SSL
8 19 (1.56%) BGP
8 19 (1.56%) WAN
9 17 (1.40%) SAN
9 17 (1.40%) Wireless
10 16 (1.32%) 5G
11 14 (1.15%) SD-WAN
11 14 (1.15%) SNMP
11 14 (1.15%) TCP/IP
12 11 (0.91%) LAN
12 11 (0.91%) VLAN
13 10 (0.82%) IPsec
13 10 (0.82%) OSPF
14 8 (0.66%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (8.31%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (4.44%) NoSQL
3 39 (3.21%) Relational Database
4 32 (2.63%) Oracle BI EE
4 32 (2.63%) Siebel EIM
5 31 (2.55%) GIS
6 29 (2.39%) QGIS
7 28 (2.30%) Hadoop
7 28 (2.30%) MongoDB
8 24 (1.98%) Oracle Database
8 24 (1.98%) SQL Server
9 22 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
10 15 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
10 15 (1.23%) Oracle Database 11g
11 14 (1.15%) Oracle Database 10g
11 14 (1.15%) VLDB
12 9 (0.74%) Oracle Reports
13 8 (0.66%) Big Data
13 8 (0.66%) Power BI
14 7 (0.58%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 100 (8.23%) Jenkins
2 69 (5.68%) Git
3 30 (2.47%) JIRA
4 24 (1.98%) Ant
5 20 (1.65%) GitLab
6 19 (1.56%) Subversion
7 16 (1.32%) JUnit
8 15 (1.23%) CMake
9 14 (1.15%) Vagrant
10 11 (0.91%) Cucumber
10 11 (0.91%) Visual Studio
11 10 (0.82%) Trac
12 9 (0.74%) Selenium
13 7 (0.58%) JMeter
13 7 (0.58%) REST Assured
13 7 (0.58%) WebDriver
14 6 (0.49%) MSI
14 6 (0.49%) TestNG
15 5 (0.41%) GDB
15 5 (0.41%) Oracle APEX
General
1 259 (21.32%) Social Skills
2 106 (8.72%) Aerospace
3 83 (6.83%) Public Sector
4 78 (6.42%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
6 36 (2.96%) Military
7 28 (2.30%) Police
8 26 (2.14%) Finance
9 25 (2.06%) Telecoms
10 22 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
11 20 (1.65%) Electronics
12 15 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 14 (1.15%) Back Office
14 8 (0.66%) Manufacturing
14 8 (0.66%) Retail
15 7 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (0.49%) Marketing
17 5 (0.41%) Law
17 5 (0.41%) Local Government
18 4 (0.33%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 191 (15.72%) Senior
2 163 (13.42%) Architect
3 144 (11.85%) Software Engineer
4 128 (10.53%) Developer
5 97 (7.98%) Analyst
6 67 (5.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 58 (4.77%) Senior Software Engineer
8 55 (4.53%) Lead
9 52 (4.28%) DevOps Engineer
10 49 (4.03%) Senior Developer
11 47 (3.87%) Integration Engineer
12 45 (3.70%) Network Engineer
13 44 (3.62%) Network Architect
14 43 (3.54%) Applications Support
14 43 (3.54%) Consultant
15 42 (3.46%) Systems Engineer
16 41 (3.37%) C++ Software Engineer
16 41 (3.37%) Support Analyst
17 37 (3.05%) Senior Analyst
18 36 (2.96%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (5.60%) .NET
2 65 (5.35%) Node.js
3 64 (5.27%) REST
4 62 (5.10%) Spring
5 50 (4.12%) React
6 46 (3.79%) XML
7 45 (3.70%) Web Services
8 44 (3.62%) AngularJS
9 37 (3.05%) Spring Boot
10 36 (2.96%) CSS
11 33 (2.72%) Elastic Stack
12 32 (2.63%) Leaflet
13 31 (2.55%) Apache Camel
13 31 (2.55%) OpenLayers
14 29 (2.39%) Hibernate
14 29 (2.39%) J2EE
14 29 (2.39%) JSON
14 29 (2.39%) PostGIS
15 28 (2.30%) Kafka
16 25 (2.06%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 38 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
2 37 (3.05%) Data Centre
3 36 (2.96%) Product Ownership
4 35 (2.88%) Algorithms
5 31 (2.55%) CMDB
6 30 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
7 27 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
8 23 (1.89%) Management Information System
9 21 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
9 21 (1.73%) Satnav
10 17 (1.40%) Client/Server
11 16 (1.32%) FPGA
12 15 (1.23%) PKI
12 15 (1.23%) Private Cloud
12 15 (1.23%) VHDL
13 13 (1.07%) Analogue Electronics
13 13 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (1.07%) Digital Signage
14 8 (0.66%) Driving Licence
14 8 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 267 (21.98%) Windows
2 242 (19.92%) Linux
3 127 (10.45%) Windows Server
4 47 (3.87%) Windows 10
4 47 (3.87%) Windows Server 2016
5 45 (3.70%) CentOS
6 41 (3.37%) Unix
7 38 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
8 31 (2.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 31 (2.55%) Ubuntu
9 21 (1.73%) Windows 7
9 21 (1.73%) Windows Server 2012
10 16 (1.32%) Android
11 14 (1.15%) Solaris
12 12 (0.99%) Windows XP
13 8 (0.66%) Windows NT
14 5 (0.41%) Rocky
15 4 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
16 3 (0.25%) AIX
17 2 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (28.89%) Agile
2 300 (24.69%) Problem-Solving
3 284 (23.37%) Actionable Insight
4 223 (18.35%) DevOps
5 171 (14.07%) Software Engineering
6 123 (10.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 106 (8.72%) ITIL
7 106 (8.72%) Service Management
8 105 (8.64%) Collaborative Working
9 104 (8.56%) Test Automation
10 101 (8.31%) Scrum
11 92 (7.57%) Project Management
12 73 (6.01%) Customer Service
13 70 (5.76%) Computer Science
14 67 (5.51%) Microservices
15 66 (5.43%) Kanban
16 64 (5.27%) Containerisation
17 62 (5.10%) Configuration Management
18 61 (5.02%) CI/CD
19 60 (4.94%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 227 (18.68%) Java
2 214 (17.61%) SQL
3 180 (14.81%) Python
4 153 (12.59%) PowerShell
5 127 (10.45%) JavaScript
6 111 (9.14%) C++
7 76 (6.26%) C#
8 54 (4.44%) C
9 28 (2.30%) Shell Script
10 24 (1.98%) Kotlin
11 23 (1.89%) PL/SQL
12 13 (1.07%) Ruby
13 11 (0.91%) Groovy
13 11 (0.91%) VB
14 9 (0.74%) Bash
15 8 (0.66%) Go
16 7 (0.58%) Bicep
16 7 (0.58%) MATLAB
16 7 (0.58%) TypeScript
16 7 (0.58%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1,215 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 298 (24.53%) DV Cleared
3 179 (14.73%) Degree
4 64 (5.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (3.21%) Cisco Certification
6 36 (2.96%) AWS Certification
6 36 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 33 (2.72%) CCNP
8 30 (2.47%) CCNA
9 24 (1.98%) Azure Certification
10 18 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
11 17 (1.40%) JNCIS
11 17 (1.40%) PhD
12 16 (1.32%) A+ Certification
12 16 (1.32%) DBS Check
13 14 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 13 (1.07%) MCP
15 11 (0.91%) CISSP
16 10 (0.82%) Master's Degree
17 9 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (4.61%) SLA
2 36 (2.96%) QA
3 21 (1.73%) Software Quality Assurance
4 17 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (1.32%) NIST
6 12 (0.99%) Accessibility
7 9 (0.74%) JSP 440
8 8 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 8 (0.66%) RMADS
9 6 (0.49%) PMO
10 5 (0.41%) NCSC
10 5 (0.41%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.41%) WCAG
11 3 (0.25%) COBIT
11 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.25%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.25%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.16%) Data Quality
12 2 (0.16%) GDPR
System Software
1 117 (9.63%) Active Directory
2 95 (7.82%) Docker
3 58 (4.77%) Hyper-V
4 54 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 23 (1.89%) Firmware
5 23 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (1.73%) VMware ESXi
7 20 (1.65%) Virtual Servers
8 16 (1.32%) pfSense
9 14 (1.15%) KVM
9 14 (1.15%) Oracle RAC
10 13 (1.07%) vSphere
11 10 (0.82%) NFS
12 9 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
13 4 (0.33%) Microsoft App-V
13 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.16%) Embedded Firmware
15 1 (0.082%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 112 (9.22%) Ansible
2 111 (9.14%) Kubernetes
3 80 (6.58%) Terraform
4 74 (6.09%) SCCM
5 56 (4.61%) SCOM
6 39 (3.21%) vCenter Server
7 38 (3.13%) WSUS
8 27 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
9 25 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
10 22 (1.81%) OpenSSO
11 19 (1.56%) Grafana
11 19 (1.56%) NetBackup
12 16 (1.32%) ZABBIX
13 15 (1.23%) EMC NetWorker
14 14 (1.15%) Data Guard
14 14 (1.15%) Oracle RMAN
15 11 (0.91%) Rancher
16 10 (0.82%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
16 10 (0.82%) SCDPM
17 8 (0.66%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 194 (15.97%) Microsoft
2 120 (9.88%) Oracle
3 109 (8.97%) Juniper
4 98 (8.07%) VMware
5 92 (7.57%) Cisco
6 44 (3.62%) ServiceNow
7 40 (3.29%) Siebel
8 39 (3.21%) Remedy
9 31 (2.55%) HP
9 31 (2.55%) WSO2
10 29 (2.39%) ESRI
11 28 (2.30%) Dynatrace
12 25 (2.06%) Fortinet
12 25 (2.06%) Veeam
13 22 (1.81%) F5
14 19 (1.56%) Red Hat
15 17 (1.40%) McAfee
15 17 (1.40%) Xilinx
16 16 (1.32%) EMC
17 14 (1.15%) Sun