SC Cleared Jobs in the UK excluding London

Security Check (SC) Clearance
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 40 56 54
Rank change year-on-year +16 -2 +24
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 3,693 3,203 3,613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.20% 5.34% 5.09%
As % of the Qualifications category 18.92% 14.72% 16.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,010 1,530 1,628
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,475 £30,505
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £39,449
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £53,112
Median % change year-on-year - +3.55% +1.17%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £77,500
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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 19,521 21,762 22,506
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.50% 36.31% 31.74%
Number of salaries quoted 12,237 8,104 10,275
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,276 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.49% +2.55% +0.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £59,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.86% +7.73% -

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for SC Cleared in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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 - 273
South West 0 882 £52,500 -5.41% 247
North of England +27 565 £57,500 -4.17% 167
North West +8 385 £55,000 -4.35% 123
Midlands -5 383 £52,500 -12.50% 92
West Midlands +1 245 £55,000 -8.33% 65
Scotland -33 239 £60,000 +2.13% 71
Wales +15 207 £50,750 +68.02% 9
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% 71
Northern Ireland +27 101 £60,000 +75.18% 11
North East -31 27 £55,000 +15.79% 14
SC Cleared
UK

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 292 (7.91%) ArcGIS
2 284 (7.69%) GeoServer
3 138 (3.74%) Confluence
4 111 (3.01%) WebLogic
5 69 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
6 58 (1.57%) SharePoint
7 44 (1.19%) Oracle Service Bus
8 39 (1.06%) Apache
9 37 (1.00%) IIS
10 34 (0.92%) OpenStack
11 29 (0.79%) Apache Spark
12 19 (0.51%) Red Hat Fuse
13 18 (0.49%) Exchange Server 2010
13 18 (0.49%) JBoss
14 14 (0.38%) Skype for Business
15 13 (0.35%) CMS
16 10 (0.27%) SharePoint 2010
16 10 (0.27%) SharePoint 2013
17 4 (0.11%) Appian
17 4 (0.11%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 148 (4.01%) Microsoft Office
2 78 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 72 (1.95%) MS Visio
4 43 (1.16%) Simulink
5 40 (1.08%) Sketch
6 23 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
7 17 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 9 (0.24%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.11%) EPLAN
9 4 (0.11%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.081%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.054%) Abaqus
11 2 (0.054%) Fireworks
11 2 (0.054%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.054%) InDesign
12 1 (0.027%) Acrobat
12 1 (0.027%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.027%) Revit
Business Applications
1 80 (2.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 73 (1.98%) Remedy ITSM
3 40 (1.08%) Siebel CRM
4 20 (0.54%) Maximo
5 8 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.16%) Primavera
6 6 (0.16%) SAP ERP
6 6 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
7 4 (0.11%) SAP CO
7 4 (0.11%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
8 3 (0.081%) Teamcenter
9 2 (0.054%) Dynamics CRM
9 2 (0.054%) Oracle Applications
9 2 (0.054%) Oracle Cash Management
9 2 (0.054%) Oracle EBS R12
9 2 (0.054%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.054%) Q-Pulse
9 2 (0.054%) SAP HR
10 1 (0.027%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 918 (24.86%) Azure
2 734 (19.88%) AWS
3 164 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
4 103 (2.79%) Amazon EKS
5 85 (2.30%) Serverless
6 72 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
7 68 (1.84%) OpenShift
8 66 (1.79%) SaaS
9 62 (1.68%) GCP
10 60 (1.62%) Miro
11 54 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
12 49 (1.33%) Power Platform
13 47 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
14 44 (1.19%) AWS CloudFormation
15 41 (1.11%) Amazon SQS
15 41 (1.11%) Figma
16 40 (1.08%) Heroku
17 36 (0.97%) Amazon ECS
18 32 (0.87%) Entra ID
19 29 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 239 (6.47%) Firewall
2 149 (4.03%) DNS
3 111 (3.01%) WAN
4 108 (2.92%) TCP/IP
5 72 (1.95%) VPN
6 69 (1.87%) BGP
6 69 (1.87%) DHCP
6 69 (1.87%) LAN
7 68 (1.84%) Wireless
8 64 (1.73%) Network Security
9 63 (1.71%) SAN
10 59 (1.60%) SSL
11 37 (1.00%) IPsec
11 37 (1.00%) MPLS
11 37 (1.00%) SD-WAN
12 36 (0.97%) Software-Defined Radio
13 33 (0.89%) Cisco Firepower
14 31 (0.84%) AMQP
15 27 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
16 25 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 360 (9.75%) PostgreSQL
2 300 (8.12%) GIS
3 284 (7.69%) QGIS
4 97 (2.63%) Relational Database
5 96 (2.60%) Oracle Database
6 87 (2.36%) SQL Server
7 69 (1.87%) NoSQL
8 59 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
8 59 (1.60%) Hadoop
9 55 (1.49%) RDBMS
10 51 (1.38%) Big Data
11 45 (1.22%) Oracle Database 11g
12 44 (1.19%) Oracle Database 10g
12 44 (1.19%) VLDB
13 40 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
14 38 (1.03%) MongoDB
15 32 (0.87%) Oracle BI EE
15 32 (0.87%) Siebel EIM
16 31 (0.84%) MySQL
17 28 (0.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 202 (5.47%) JIRA
2 195 (5.28%) Git
3 125 (3.38%) Jenkins
4 110 (2.98%) Visual Studio
5 94 (2.55%) Bitbucket
6 59 (1.60%) Sourcetree
7 58 (1.57%) GitLab
8 35 (0.95%) Rational DOORS
9 24 (0.65%) Ant
9 24 (0.65%) Selenium
10 23 (0.62%) Cucumber
11 22 (0.60%) Subversion
12 21 (0.57%) JUnit
13 15 (0.41%) CMake
13 15 (0.41%) LabVIEW
14 14 (0.38%) Vagrant
15 13 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
16 12 (0.32%) JMeter
17 10 (0.27%) IntelliJ
17 10 (0.27%) Trac
General
1 773 (20.93%) Social Skills
2 266 (7.20%) Aerospace
3 244 (6.61%) Finance
4 229 (6.20%) Public Sector
5 191 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
6 176 (4.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 149 (4.03%) Presentation Skills
8 133 (3.60%) Games
9 96 (2.60%) Telecoms
10 95 (2.57%) Military
11 71 (1.92%) Police
12 70 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
13 45 (1.22%) Electronics
14 41 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
15 38 (1.03%) Retail
16 35 (0.95%) Manufacturing
17 23 (0.62%) Law
18 16 (0.43%) Marketing
19 15 (0.41%) Legal
20 14 (0.38%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 807 (21.85%) Senior
2 484 (13.11%) Software Engineer
3 456 (12.35%) Architect
4 409 (11.08%) Developer
5 285 (7.72%) Lead
6 264 (7.15%) Analyst
7 250 (6.77%) Senior Software Engineer
8 215 (5.82%) Solutions Architect
9 179 (4.85%) Systems Engineer
10 165 (4.47%) Project Manager
11 160 (4.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 155 (4.20%) Network Engineer
13 140 (3.79%) Senior Developer
14 138 (3.74%) Consultant
15 98 (2.65%) Designer
16 90 (2.44%) Business Analyst
17 87 (2.36%) 3D Developer
17 87 (2.36%) Games Developer
17 87 (2.36%) Unity 3D Developer
18 84 (2.27%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 386 (10.45%) React
2 377 (10.21%) .NET
3 287 (7.77%) Leaflet
4 286 (7.74%) OpenLayers
5 284 (7.69%) PostGIS
6 262 (7.09%) CSS
7 253 (6.85%) .NET Core
8 143 (3.87%) Node.js
9 134 (3.63%) AngularJS
10 132 (3.57%) REST
11 130 (3.52%) Spring
12 110 (2.98%) Spring Boot
13 87 (2.36%) Unity (Game Engine)
14 76 (2.06%) HTML
15 71 (1.92%) RabbitMQ
16 61 (1.65%) RESTful
17 60 (1.62%) Web Services
17 60 (1.62%) XML
18 53 (1.44%) Django
19 45 (1.22%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 118 (3.20%) Data Centre
2 106 (2.87%) Management Information System
3 89 (2.41%) Virtual Reality
4 82 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
5 78 (2.11%) Driving Licence
5 78 (2.11%) Virtual Team
6 75 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
7 70 (1.90%) Product Ownership
8 55 (1.49%) Private Cloud
9 53 (1.44%) Algorithms
9 53 (1.44%) Public Cloud
10 47 (1.27%) Operational Technology
11 44 (1.19%) CMDB
12 42 (1.14%) Cloud Native
13 38 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
14 36 (0.97%) Clustering
15 35 (0.95%) Cyberattack
16 31 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
17 29 (0.79%) PKI
18 27 (0.73%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 555 (15.03%) Linux
2 514 (13.92%) Windows
3 226 (6.12%) Windows Server
4 119 (3.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 117 (3.17%) Unix
6 95 (2.57%) Ubuntu
7 84 (2.27%) Windows 10
8 82 (2.22%) CentOS
9 58 (1.57%) Windows Server 2016
10 51 (1.38%) Windows Server 2019
11 44 (1.19%) Solaris
12 30 (0.81%) Windows 7
13 28 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
14 26 (0.70%) Debian
15 22 (0.60%) Android
16 16 (0.43%) AIX
17 12 (0.32%) Windows XP
18 10 (0.27%) VMS
19 9 (0.24%) zOS
20 8 (0.22%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,201 (32.52%) Actionable Insight
2 1,199 (32.47%) Agile
3 835 (22.61%) DevOps
4 728 (19.71%) Software Engineering
5 667 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
6 353 (9.56%) Scrum
7 347 (9.40%) Project Management
8 311 (8.42%) Cybersecurity
9 304 (8.23%) ITIL
10 290 (7.85%) Web Development
11 260 (7.04%) Stakeholder Management
12 235 (6.36%) Collaborative Working
13 230 (6.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 219 (5.93%) Mentoring
15 216 (5.85%) Service Management
16 182 (4.93%) Open Source
17 181 (4.90%) Change Management
18 172 (4.66%) ITSM
19 170 (4.60%) Business Case
19 170 (4.60%) UML
Programming Languages
1 628 (17.01%) Python
2 490 (13.27%) JavaScript
3 398 (10.78%) Java
4 346 (9.37%) C#
5 335 (9.07%) SQL
6 266 (7.20%) PowerShell
7 143 (3.87%) C++
8 77 (2.09%) C
9 63 (1.71%) Bash
10 61 (1.65%) TypeScript
11 58 (1.57%) PL/SQL
12 55 (1.49%) MATLAB
13 42 (1.14%) Shell Script
14 24 (0.65%) Kotlin
15 22 (0.60%) Go
16 18 (0.49%) Ruby
16 18 (0.49%) VB
17 13 (0.35%) VBA
18 11 (0.30%) Bicep
18 11 (0.30%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3,693 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 646 (17.49%) Degree
3 508 (13.76%) DV Cleared
4 198 (5.36%) BPSS Clearance
5 97 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
6 88 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 87 (2.36%) AWS Certification
8 82 (2.22%) CISM
9 78 (2.11%) Azure Certification
10 75 (2.03%) CISSP
11 68 (1.84%) CCNA
12 64 (1.73%) CCNP
13 63 (1.71%) CESG Certified Professional
14 60 (1.62%) CRISC
15 59 (1.60%) TOGAF Certification
16 50 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 47 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
18 44 (1.19%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 36 (0.97%) A+ Certification
20 27 (0.73%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (3.57%) SLA
2 122 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 113 (3.06%) Accessibility
4 77 (2.09%) NCSC
5 64 (1.73%) QA
6 50 (1.35%) WCAG
7 44 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 42 (1.14%) NIST
9 29 (0.79%) COBIT
10 24 (0.65%) GDPR
11 23 (0.62%) Def Stans
12 21 (0.57%) Software Quality Assurance
13 20 (0.54%) PMO
14 19 (0.51%) GRC
14 19 (0.51%) JSP 440
15 16 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
15 16 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 15 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 14 (0.38%) RMADS
18 13 (0.35%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 281 (7.61%) Active Directory
2 170 (4.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 156 (4.22%) Docker
4 120 (3.25%) Hyper-V
5 44 (1.19%) Oracle RAC
6 42 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
7 31 (0.84%) Firmware
8 29 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
8 29 (0.79%) vSphere
9 22 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
10 16 (0.43%) pfSense
11 14 (0.38%) KVM
11 14 (0.38%) VMware NSX
12 10 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
12 10 (0.27%) NFS
13 9 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
14 8 (0.22%) XenDesktop
15 4 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
15 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.11%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 217 (5.88%) Ansible
2 188 (5.09%) Kubernetes
3 150 (4.06%) SCCM
4 141 (3.82%) Terraform
5 61 (1.65%) SCOM
6 58 (1.57%) vCenter Server
7 57 (1.54%) Puppet
8 47 (1.27%) WSUS
9 44 (1.19%) Data Guard
9 44 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
9 44 (1.19%) Oracle RMAN
10 31 (0.84%) NetBackup
10 31 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
11 29 (0.79%) EMC NetWorker
11 29 (0.79%) OpenView
12 28 (0.76%) Grafana
13 27 (0.73%) OpenSSO
14 24 (0.65%) ZABBIX
15 18 (0.49%) Nagios
16 13 (0.35%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 665 (18.01%) Microsoft
2 289 (7.83%) ESRI
3 270 (7.31%) VMware
4 267 (7.23%) Oracle
5 219 (5.93%) Cisco
6 175 (4.74%) Juniper
7 100 (2.71%) Remedy
8 80 (2.17%) Sparx
9 79 (2.14%) ServiceNow
10 77 (2.09%) Red Hat
11 69 (1.87%) HP
12 50 (1.35%) Google
13 47 (1.27%) NetApp
14 45 (1.22%) Sun
15 44 (1.19%) IBM
16 43 (1.16%) CheckPoint
17 42 (1.14%) Fortinet
18 40 (1.08%) Siebel
19 39 (1.06%) McAfee
19 39 (1.06%) Veeam