SC Cleared Jobs in England

Security Check (SC) Clearance
UK > England

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 59 132
Rank change year-on-year +9 +73 -20
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 3,921 4,309 4,261
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.30% 5.11% 3.01%
As % of the Qualifications category 15.75% 15.18% 11.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,439 2,321 2,067
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £41,939
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -
75th Percentile £70,250 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £57,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +9.65% +3.64%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 24,893 28,380 37,594
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.28% 33.68% 26.58%
Number of salaries quoted 15,751 13,033 16,892
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,000 £30,825
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £40,750
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 £53,818 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.30% +9.09% -

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in England

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for SC Cleared in England

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in England

SC 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 SC Cleared within the England region over the 6 months to 2 June 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 +16 1,246 £55,000 - 276
South West -3 921 £55,000 -8.33% 239
London -29 618 £70,000 +4.47% 247
North of England +17 593 £57,500 -4.27% 166
North West +10 409 £55,000 -8.43% 123
Midlands -7 405 £55,000 -8.33% 146
West Midlands +3 268 £55,000 -8.33% 116
Yorkshire +57 155 £60,000 -10.78% 32
East Midlands -20 137 £47,250 -10.00% 30
East of England -23 121 £52,000 -6.31% 76
North East -30 29 £56,900 +19.79% 11
SC Cleared
UK

SC 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
1 206 (5.25%) ArcGIS
2 196 (5.00%) GeoServer
3 106 (2.70%) Confluence
4 90 (2.30%) SharePoint
5 78 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
6 64 (1.63%) WebLogic
7 50 (1.28%) Apache
8 37 (0.94%) Apache Spark
9 34 (0.87%) OpenStack
10 26 (0.66%) IIS
11 18 (0.46%) Exchange Server 2010
12 14 (0.36%) CMS
12 14 (0.36%) Oracle Service Bus
13 10 (0.26%) SharePoint 2010
13 10 (0.26%) SharePoint 2013
14 9 (0.23%) Red Hat Fuse
15 8 (0.20%) JBoss
16 7 (0.18%) Drupal
17 6 (0.15%) Appian
18 4 (0.10%) TWiki
Applications
1 141 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
2 52 (1.33%) Simulink
3 50 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
4 36 (0.92%) MS Visio
5 29 (0.74%) Sketch
6 23 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
7 16 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 9 (0.23%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.10%) EPLAN
9 4 (0.10%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.051%) Abaqus
10 2 (0.051%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.051%) Fireworks
10 2 (0.051%) GNU Octave
10 2 (0.051%) InDesign
10 2 (0.051%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.026%) Blender
11 1 (0.026%) InVision
11 1 (0.026%) Revit
Business Applications
1 66 (1.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 44 (1.12%) Remedy ITSM
3 41 (1.05%) Siebel CRM
4 22 (0.56%) Maximo
5 8 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.13%) Elite 3E
6 5 (0.13%) Primavera
6 5 (0.13%) SAP HR
6 5 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (0.13%) Teamcenter
7 4 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.10%) Oracle Cash Management
7 4 (0.10%) Q-Pulse
7 4 (0.10%) SAP CO
7 4 (0.10%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.10%) SAP FI/CO
8 3 (0.077%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.077%) SAP WM
9 2 (0.051%) Oracle EBS R12
9 2 (0.051%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 975 (24.87%) Azure
2 783 (19.97%) AWS
3 191 (4.87%) Microsoft 365
4 117 (2.98%) Azure DevOps
5 115 (2.93%) GCP
6 111 (2.83%) Amazon EKS
7 99 (2.52%) Serverless
8 96 (2.45%) Power Platform
9 88 (2.24%) SaaS
10 79 (2.01%) OpenShift
11 76 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
12 72 (1.84%) AWS CloudFormation
13 52 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
14 49 (1.25%) Amazon ECS
15 47 (1.20%) Miro
16 44 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
16 44 (1.12%) PaaS
17 42 (1.07%) Entra ID
18 38 (0.97%) Power Automate
18 38 (0.97%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 235 (5.99%) Firewall
2 141 (3.60%) DNS
3 99 (2.52%) WAN
4 94 (2.40%) TCP/IP
5 79 (2.01%) DHCP
6 72 (1.84%) Network Security
7 71 (1.81%) VPN
8 64 (1.63%) Wireless
9 62 (1.58%) SAN
10 57 (1.45%) LAN
11 56 (1.43%) BGP
12 55 (1.40%) SSL
13 43 (1.10%) SD-WAN
14 39 (0.99%) Cisco Firepower
14 39 (0.99%) IPsec
15 35 (0.89%) MPLS
16 34 (0.87%) AMQP
17 27 (0.69%) Software-Defined Radio
18 26 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
19 24 (0.61%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 291 (7.42%) PostgreSQL
2 209 (5.33%) GIS
3 196 (5.00%) QGIS
4 108 (2.75%) Relational Database
5 105 (2.68%) SQL Server
6 88 (2.24%) NoSQL
7 77 (1.96%) Hadoop
8 66 (1.68%) Big Data
9 62 (1.58%) Power BI
10 58 (1.48%) MongoDB
11 53 (1.35%) Oracle Database
12 48 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
13 40 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
14 36 (0.92%) Oracle BI EE
14 36 (0.92%) RDBMS
14 36 (0.92%) Siebel EIM
15 30 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
15 30 (0.77%) MySQL
16 29 (0.74%) Cloudera CDH
17 21 (0.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 194 (4.95%) Git
2 179 (4.57%) Jenkins
3 177 (4.51%) JIRA
4 94 (2.40%) Visual Studio
5 85 (2.17%) Bitbucket
6 80 (2.04%) GitLab
7 59 (1.50%) Sourcetree
8 35 (0.89%) Rational DOORS
9 29 (0.74%) JUnit
10 28 (0.71%) Cucumber
11 27 (0.69%) Selenium
12 21 (0.54%) Ant
12 21 (0.54%) Subversion
12 21 (0.54%) Vagrant
13 17 (0.43%) SonarQube
14 15 (0.38%) LabVIEW
14 15 (0.38%) REST Assured
15 14 (0.36%) CMake
15 14 (0.36%) TestNG
15 14 (0.36%) WebDriver
General
1 832 (21.22%) Social Skills
2 361 (9.21%) Public Sector
3 298 (7.60%) Aerospace
4 270 (6.89%) Finance
5 225 (5.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 189 (4.82%) Analytical Skills
7 144 (3.67%) Presentation Skills
8 110 (2.81%) Games
8 110 (2.81%) Military
9 92 (2.35%) Telecoms
10 76 (1.94%) Police
11 73 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
12 50 (1.28%) Electronics
12 50 (1.28%) Manufacturing
13 47 (1.20%) Retail
14 43 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
15 39 (0.99%) Law
16 27 (0.69%) Marketing
17 18 (0.46%) Back Office
18 17 (0.43%) Legal
Job Titles
1 747 (19.05%) Senior
2 507 (12.93%) Architect
3 439 (11.20%) Developer
4 425 (10.84%) Software Engineer
5 281 (7.17%) Lead
6 246 (6.27%) Analyst
7 206 (5.25%) Senior Software Engineer
8 201 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
9 191 (4.87%) Consultant
10 187 (4.77%) Systems Engineer
11 172 (4.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 164 (4.18%) Project Manager
13 149 (3.80%) Network Engineer
14 133 (3.39%) DevOps Engineer
15 125 (3.19%) Senior Developer
16 90 (2.30%) Technical Architect
17 88 (2.24%) Security Consultant
17 88 (2.24%) Support Engineer
18 85 (2.17%) Business Analyst
19 83 (2.12%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 317 (8.08%) .NET
2 311 (7.93%) React
3 199 (5.08%) Leaflet
4 198 (5.05%) OpenLayers
5 197 (5.02%) CSS
6 196 (5.00%) PostGIS
7 183 (4.67%) .NET Core
8 149 (3.80%) Node.js
9 128 (3.26%) REST
10 122 (3.11%) Spring
11 111 (2.83%) Spring Boot
12 104 (2.65%) AngularJS
13 81 (2.07%) HTML
14 69 (1.76%) Unity (Game Engine)
15 64 (1.63%) RabbitMQ
15 64 (1.63%) Web Services
16 60 (1.53%) XML
17 57 (1.45%) Kafka
18 47 (1.20%) RESTful
19 45 (1.15%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 129 (3.29%) Management Information System
2 105 (2.68%) Data Centre
3 100 (2.55%) Product Ownership
4 98 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
5 83 (2.12%) Driving Licence
6 71 (1.81%) Virtual Reality
7 70 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
8 64 (1.63%) Virtual Team
9 57 (1.45%) Algorithms
9 57 (1.45%) Private Cloud
10 53 (1.35%) Cloud Native
11 50 (1.28%) Operational Technology
12 48 (1.22%) Public Cloud
13 44 (1.12%) Cyberattack
14 43 (1.10%) CMDB
15 40 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
16 39 (0.99%) PKI
17 34 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
18 30 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
19 29 (0.74%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 581 (14.82%) Windows
2 574 (14.64%) Linux
3 261 (6.66%) Windows Server
4 122 (3.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 95 (2.42%) Ubuntu
6 94 (2.40%) Windows 10
7 88 (2.24%) CentOS
7 88 (2.24%) Unix
8 65 (1.66%) Windows Server 2016
9 57 (1.45%) Windows Server 2019
10 38 (0.97%) Android
11 37 (0.94%) Windows Server 2012
12 30 (0.77%) Windows 7
13 29 (0.74%) Debian
14 23 (0.59%) Solaris
15 16 (0.41%) AIX
16 13 (0.33%) VMS
17 12 (0.31%) Windows XP
18 11 (0.28%) Windows NT
19 10 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,233 (31.45%) Agile
2 867 (22.11%) DevOps
3 827 (21.09%) Actionable Insight
4 694 (17.70%) Software Engineering
5 609 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
6 393 (10.02%) Scrum
7 377 (9.61%) Cybersecurity
8 353 (9.00%) Project Management
9 305 (7.78%) ITIL
10 263 (6.71%) Collaborative Working
11 258 (6.58%) CI/CD
12 254 (6.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 248 (6.32%) Mentoring
14 247 (6.30%) Stakeholder Management
15 221 (5.64%) Service Management
16 202 (5.15%) Web Development
17 195 (4.97%) Infrastructure as Code
18 193 (4.92%) Artificial Intelligence
19 187 (4.77%) Microservices
20 186 (4.74%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 632 (16.12%) Python
2 469 (11.96%) JavaScript
3 461 (11.76%) Java
4 355 (9.05%) SQL
5 320 (8.16%) C#
6 294 (7.50%) PowerShell
7 154 (3.93%) C++
8 94 (2.40%) Bash
9 85 (2.17%) TypeScript
10 80 (2.04%) C
11 60 (1.53%) MATLAB
12 42 (1.07%) Shell Script
13 36 (0.92%) Kotlin
14 25 (0.64%) Bicep
14 25 (0.64%) PL/SQL
15 23 (0.59%) VB
16 22 (0.56%) Go
17 17 (0.43%) Groovy
18 16 (0.41%) VBA
19 15 (0.38%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3,921 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 690 (17.60%) DV Cleared
3 665 (16.96%) Degree
4 195 (4.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 136 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 116 (2.96%) AWS Certification
7 99 (2.52%) CISM
8 96 (2.45%) Azure Certification
9 94 (2.40%) CISSP
10 89 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
11 80 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
12 64 (1.63%) CESG Certified Professional
13 63 (1.61%) CCNP
13 63 (1.61%) CRISC
14 58 (1.48%) CCNA
15 56 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
16 54 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 36 (0.92%) A+ Certification
18 33 (0.84%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 30 (0.77%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 98 (2.50%) SLA
3 84 (2.14%) Accessibility
4 82 (2.09%) NCSC
5 74 (1.89%) QA
6 46 (1.17%) NIST
7 38 (0.97%) GDPR
8 35 (0.89%) WCAG
9 31 (0.79%) PMO
10 26 (0.66%) Def Stans
11 23 (0.59%) Data Quality
11 23 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 21 (0.54%) COBIT
12 21 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
13 20 (0.51%) GRC
14 18 (0.46%) Software Quality Assurance
15 17 (0.43%) JSP 440
16 16 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 16 (0.41%) ISO 9001
17 14 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 291 (7.42%) Active Directory
2 250 (6.38%) Docker
3 170 (4.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 125 (3.19%) Hyper-V
5 43 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
6 38 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
7 34 (0.87%) vSphere
8 31 (0.79%) Firmware
9 24 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
10 20 (0.51%) KVM
11 16 (0.41%) pfSense
12 14 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
13 13 (0.33%) Microsoft App-V
14 12 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
15 10 (0.26%) NFS
15 10 (0.26%) VMware NSX
15 10 (0.26%) XenDesktop
16 4 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
16 4 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 4 (0.10%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 295 (7.52%) Kubernetes
2 269 (6.86%) Ansible
3 231 (5.89%) Terraform
4 165 (4.21%) SCCM
5 78 (1.99%) Puppet
6 72 (1.84%) SCOM
7 55 (1.40%) vCenter Server
7 55 (1.40%) WSUS
8 49 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
9 35 (0.89%) Grafana
10 34 (0.87%) NetBackup
11 33 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
12 31 (0.79%) EMC NetWorker
13 25 (0.64%) ZABBIX
14 22 (0.56%) OpenSSO
15 21 (0.54%) OpenView
16 20 (0.51%) Nagios
16 20 (0.51%) Prometheus
17 19 (0.48%) Progress Chef
18 16 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 697 (17.78%) Microsoft
2 274 (6.99%) VMware
3 224 (5.71%) Oracle
4 209 (5.33%) Cisco
5 204 (5.20%) ESRI
6 198 (5.05%) Juniper
7 111 (2.83%) ServiceNow
8 95 (2.42%) Red Hat
9 79 (2.01%) Google
10 72 (1.84%) HP
11 66 (1.68%) Remedy
11 66 (1.68%) Sparx
12 50 (1.28%) NetApp
13 47 (1.20%) IBM
14 44 (1.12%) Veeam
15 41 (1.05%) Siebel
16 40 (1.02%) Citrix
17 39 (0.99%) EMC
17 39 (0.99%) Splunk
18 37 (0.94%) F5