Security Check (SC) Clearance
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 60 114
Rank change year-on-year +14 +54 -12
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 4,709 5,269 4,939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.80% 5.03% 3.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.26% 15.37% 11.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,661 2,647 2,443
10th Percentile £31,750 £34,110 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,275 £43,023
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,250 £76,250 £73,675
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,700 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,350
% change year-on-year - +3.09% -1.20%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,286 34,290 41,595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.83% 32.76% 26.99%
Number of salaries quoted 17,237 15,306 18,961
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +5.45% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,296 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.59% +0.59% -

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the UK

SC Cleared
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SC Cleared in the UK

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in the UK

SC Cleared
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +13 3,826 £55,000 -8.33% 1,028
UK excluding London +11 3,731 £55,000 - 888
Work from Home +6 1,918 £60,000 -4.00% 463
South East +22 1,217 £55,000 +1.85% 270
South West -1 872 £52,500 -4.55% 238
London -12 613 £72,500 +7.41% 189
North of England +39 580 £57,500 -4.17% 152
North West +13 399 £56,504 -1.73% 120
Midlands +6 387 £52,500 -12.50% 86
Scotland -33 247 £60,000 +8.67% 71
West Midlands +7 242 £55,000 -10.93% 67
Wales +16 215 £50,000 +65.54% 13
Yorkshire +86 156 £60,000 -10.45% 16
East Midlands +1 145 £50,000 -4.76% 19
East of England -12 130 £55,000 - 71
Northern Ireland +34 106 £60,000 +75.18% 12
North East -29 27 £55,000 +15.79% 16

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 338 (7.18%) ArcGIS
2 330 (7.01%) GeoServer
3 159 (3.38%) Confluence
4 120 (2.55%) WebLogic
5 89 (1.89%) SharePoint
6 70 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
7 45 (0.96%) Apache
7 45 (0.96%) Oracle Service Bus
8 43 (0.91%) IIS
9 39 (0.83%) OpenStack
10 37 (0.79%) Red Hat Fuse
11 36 (0.76%) JBoss
12 33 (0.70%) Apache Spark
13 16 (0.34%) CMS
14 14 (0.30%) Skype for Business
15 13 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2010
16 8 (0.17%) Drupal
16 8 (0.17%) SharePoint 2010
16 8 (0.17%) SharePoint 2013
17 6 (0.13%) nginx
Applications
1 174 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
2 85 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 79 (1.68%) MS Visio
4 46 (0.98%) Sketch
5 39 (0.83%) Simulink
6 24 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
7 19 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 9 (0.19%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.085%) EPLAN
9 4 (0.085%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.064%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.042%) Abaqus
11 2 (0.042%) Fireworks
11 2 (0.042%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.042%) InDesign
12 1 (0.021%) Acrobat
12 1 (0.021%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.021%) Blender
12 1 (0.021%) Revit
Business Applications
1 94 (2.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 89 (1.89%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 38 (0.81%) Siebel CRM
4 17 (0.36%) Maximo
5 12 (0.25%) Oracle Cash Management
6 11 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
7 10 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
7 10 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
7 10 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
8 9 (0.19%) Elite 3E
9 8 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
10 6 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
10 6 (0.13%) Primavera
10 6 (0.13%) SAP WM
11 5 (0.11%) SAP ERP
11 5 (0.11%) Teamcenter
12 4 (0.085%) SAP CO
12 4 (0.085%) SAP FI
12 4 (0.085%) SAP FI/CO
12 4 (0.085%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 1,209 (25.67%) Azure
2 979 (20.79%) AWS
3 195 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
4 144 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
5 138 (2.93%) Amazon EKS
6 127 (2.70%) GCP
6 127 (2.70%) Power Platform
7 120 (2.55%) Serverless
8 117 (2.48%) SaaS
9 101 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
10 71 (1.51%) Miro
11 66 (1.40%) OpenShift
12 64 (1.36%) AWS CloudFormation
13 61 (1.30%) PaaS
14 58 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
14 58 (1.23%) OCI
15 54 (1.15%) Amazon ECS
16 49 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
17 48 (1.02%) Amazon SQS
17 48 (1.02%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 295 (6.26%) Firewall
2 166 (3.53%) DNS
3 130 (2.76%) WAN
4 117 (2.48%) TCP/IP
5 93 (1.97%) LAN
6 87 (1.85%) VPN
7 85 (1.81%) Network Security
8 84 (1.78%) Wireless
9 79 (1.68%) BGP
10 73 (1.55%) SSL
11 72 (1.53%) DHCP
12 68 (1.44%) SAN
13 50 (1.06%) SD-WAN
14 41 (0.87%) IPsec
15 40 (0.85%) Software-Defined Radio
16 37 (0.79%) MPLS
17 32 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
18 30 (0.64%) Cisco Firepower
19 29 (0.62%) AMQP
19 29 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 414 (8.79%) PostgreSQL
2 348 (7.39%) GIS
3 330 (7.01%) QGIS
4 154 (3.27%) Relational Database
5 119 (2.53%) SQL Server
6 108 (2.29%) Oracle Database
7 82 (1.74%) NoSQL
8 69 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
9 63 (1.34%) RDBMS
10 61 (1.30%) Power BI
11 59 (1.25%) Big Data
12 51 (1.08%) Hadoop
13 50 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
14 47 (1.00%) Oracle Database 11g
15 45 (0.96%) Oracle Database 10g
15 45 (0.96%) VLDB
16 44 (0.93%) MySQL
17 42 (0.89%) MongoDB
18 38 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
19 33 (0.70%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 249 (5.29%) JIRA
2 241 (5.12%) Git
3 206 (4.37%) Jenkins
4 112 (2.38%) Visual Studio
5 107 (2.27%) Bitbucket
6 88 (1.87%) GitLab
7 59 (1.25%) Sourcetree
8 40 (0.85%) Selenium
9 37 (0.79%) Rational DOORS
10 36 (0.76%) Cucumber
11 29 (0.62%) IntelliJ
11 29 (0.62%) JUnit
12 25 (0.53%) Ant
13 23 (0.49%) Subversion
14 18 (0.38%) JMeter
15 17 (0.36%) REST Assured
15 17 (0.36%) TestNG
16 16 (0.34%) CMake
17 15 (0.32%) LabVIEW
18 14 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,079 (22.91%) Social Skills
2 544 (11.55%) Public Sector
3 329 (6.99%) Finance
4 322 (6.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 266 (5.65%) Aerospace
6 254 (5.39%) Analytical Skills
7 220 (4.67%) Presentation Skills
8 139 (2.95%) Games
9 130 (2.76%) Police
10 105 (2.23%) Telecoms
11 104 (2.21%) Military
12 78 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
13 65 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
14 57 (1.21%) Retail
15 56 (1.19%) Manufacturing
16 53 (1.13%) Electronics
17 52 (1.10%) Law
18 41 (0.87%) Marketing
19 36 (0.76%) Legal
20 18 (0.38%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,032 (21.92%) Senior
2 689 (14.63%) Architect
3 558 (11.85%) Software Engineer
4 531 (11.28%) Developer
5 349 (7.41%) Lead
6 346 (7.35%) Analyst
7 320 (6.80%) Solutions Architect
8 296 (6.29%) Senior Software Engineer
9 234 (4.97%) Consultant
10 199 (4.23%) Systems Engineer
11 197 (4.18%) Project Manager
12 175 (3.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 173 (3.67%) Senior Developer
14 158 (3.36%) Network Engineer
15 126 (2.68%) Designer
16 121 (2.57%) DevOps Engineer
17 119 (2.53%) Business Analyst
18 116 (2.46%) Presales Solution Architect
19 110 (2.34%) Technical Architect
20 103 (2.19%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 465 (9.87%) .NET
2 442 (9.39%) React
3 334 (7.09%) CSS
4 333 (7.07%) Leaflet
5 332 (7.05%) OpenLayers
6 330 (7.01%) PostGIS
7 305 (6.48%) .NET Core
8 188 (3.99%) Spring
9 184 (3.91%) REST
10 162 (3.44%) AngularJS
10 162 (3.44%) Node.js
11 136 (2.89%) HTML
12 135 (2.87%) Web Services
13 133 (2.82%) Spring Boot
14 122 (2.59%) RESTful
15 110 (2.34%) XML
16 95 (2.02%) SOAP
17 88 (1.87%) Unity (Game Engine)
18 83 (1.76%) JSON
19 77 (1.64%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 167 (3.55%) Management Information System
2 148 (3.14%) Data Centre
3 115 (2.44%) Product Ownership
4 103 (2.19%) Virtual Team
5 98 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
6 90 (1.91%) Virtual Reality
7 89 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
8 84 (1.78%) Driving Licence
9 81 (1.72%) Onboarding
10 69 (1.47%) Public Cloud
11 62 (1.32%) Cyberattack
11 62 (1.32%) Operational Technology
12 58 (1.23%) Private Cloud
13 57 (1.21%) CMDB
14 55 (1.17%) Algorithms
15 53 (1.13%) Cloud Native
16 46 (0.98%) PKI
17 43 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
18 42 (0.89%) Clustering
19 39 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 619 (13.15%) Linux
2 618 (13.12%) Windows
3 279 (5.92%) Windows Server
4 126 (2.68%) Unix
5 124 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 100 (2.12%) Ubuntu
7 91 (1.93%) Windows 10
8 76 (1.61%) CentOS
9 63 (1.34%) Windows Server 2016
10 53 (1.13%) Windows Server 2019
11 45 (0.96%) Solaris
12 33 (0.70%) Windows 7
13 30 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
14 25 (0.53%) Debian
15 20 (0.42%) Android
16 18 (0.38%) AIX
16 18 (0.38%) VMS
17 12 (0.25%) Windows XP
18 10 (0.21%) zOS
19 8 (0.17%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,574 (33.43%) Agile
2 1,391 (29.54%) Actionable Insight
3 1,053 (22.36%) DevOps
4 892 (18.94%) Software Engineering
5 825 (17.52%) Problem-Solving
6 452 (9.60%) Scrum
7 442 (9.39%) Cybersecurity
8 435 (9.24%) Project Management
9 355 (7.54%) ITIL
10 350 (7.43%) Stakeholder Management
11 342 (7.26%) Web Development
12 311 (6.60%) Mentoring
13 293 (6.22%) Collaborative Working
14 281 (5.97%) CI/CD
15 263 (5.59%) Service Management
16 255 (5.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 250 (5.31%) Presales
18 224 (4.76%) Business Case
19 214 (4.54%) Analytics
19 214 (4.54%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 760 (16.14%) Python
2 616 (13.08%) JavaScript
3 513 (10.89%) Java
4 442 (9.39%) C#
5 407 (8.64%) SQL
6 317 (6.73%) PowerShell
7 148 (3.14%) C++
8 92 (1.95%) Bash
9 82 (1.74%) C
10 70 (1.49%) TypeScript
11 69 (1.47%) PL/SQL
12 59 (1.25%) Shell Script
13 56 (1.19%) MATLAB
14 38 (0.81%) Go
15 25 (0.53%) Bicep
16 20 (0.42%) VB
17 19 (0.40%) Perl
17 19 (0.40%) VBA
18 18 (0.38%) Ruby
19 17 (0.36%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 4,709 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 757 (16.08%) Degree
3 633 (13.44%) DV Cleared
4 285 (6.05%) BPSS Clearance
5 138 (2.93%) AWS Certification
6 125 (2.65%) Azure Certification
7 123 (2.61%) CISM
8 119 (2.53%) CISSP
9 118 (2.51%) Cisco Certification
10 117 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
11 84 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
12 78 (1.66%) CCNA
13 71 (1.51%) CCNP
14 70 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 69 (1.47%) CRISC
16 67 (1.42%) CESG Certified Professional
17 61 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
18 54 (1.15%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 37 (0.79%) A+ Certification
20 32 (0.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (3.19%) Accessibility
2 146 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 144 (3.06%) SLA
4 96 (2.04%) QA
5 91 (1.93%) NCSC
6 58 (1.23%) NIST
6 58 (1.23%) WCAG
7 45 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 39 (0.83%) GDPR
8 39 (0.83%) PMO
9 33 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
10 32 (0.68%) COBIT
11 26 (0.55%) Data Quality
11 26 (0.55%) Def Stans
12 24 (0.51%) GRC
13 22 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 21 (0.45%) JSP 440
14 21 (0.45%) Software Quality Assurance
15 18 (0.38%) RMADS
16 16 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 368 (7.81%) Active Directory
2 254 (5.39%) Docker
3 217 (4.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 136 (2.89%) Hyper-V
5 52 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
6 45 (0.96%) Oracle RAC
7 35 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
8 33 (0.70%) Firmware
8 33 (0.70%) vSphere
9 23 (0.49%) KVM
9 23 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
10 19 (0.40%) VMware NSX
11 16 (0.34%) pfSense
12 10 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
12 10 (0.21%) NFS
13 8 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
14 5 (0.11%) XenDesktop
15 4 (0.085%) Embedded Firmware
15 4 (0.085%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 3 (0.064%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 271 (5.75%) Kubernetes
2 257 (5.46%) Ansible
3 233 (4.95%) Terraform
4 165 (3.50%) SCCM
5 66 (1.40%) SCOM
5 66 (1.40%) vCenter Server
6 64 (1.36%) Puppet
7 50 (1.06%) WSUS
8 45 (0.96%) Data Guard
8 45 (0.96%) Oracle RMAN
9 41 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
9 41 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
10 34 (0.72%) Grafana
11 32 (0.68%) OpenView
12 31 (0.66%) NetBackup
13 30 (0.64%) EMC NetWorker
14 29 (0.62%) OpenSSO
15 25 (0.53%) ZABBIX
16 19 (0.40%) Nagios
16 19 (0.40%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 830 (17.63%) Microsoft
2 351 (7.45%) Oracle
3 337 (7.16%) ESRI
4 323 (6.86%) VMware
5 255 (5.42%) Cisco
6 203 (4.31%) Juniper
7 123 (2.61%) Remedy
8 120 (2.55%) ServiceNow
9 94 (2.00%) Google
10 90 (1.91%) HP
11 89 (1.89%) Sparx
12 81 (1.72%) Red Hat
13 55 (1.17%) Fortinet
14 54 (1.15%) BMC
15 51 (1.08%) CheckPoint
15 51 (1.08%) Palo Alto
15 51 (1.08%) Splunk
16 50 (1.06%) NetApp
17 48 (1.02%) IBM
18 47 (1.00%) McAfee