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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 59 133
Rank change year-on-year +9 +74 -20
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 3,949 4,237 4,316
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.19% 5.13% 3.00%
As % of the Qualifications category 15.51% 15.19% 11.17%
Number of salaries quoted 2,452 2,299 2,070
10th Percentile £33,750 £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 £56,325
% change year-on-year -8.00% +10.96% +2.41%

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 25,469 27,896 38,643
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.04% 33.75% 26.88%
Number of salaries quoted 15,718 12,868 17,018
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,000 £30,750
25th Percentile £38,691 £42,500 £40,500
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 £53,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.83% +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 9 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 9 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 1,237 £55,000 - 254
South West -3 930 £55,000 -8.33% 230
London -32 632 £70,000 +3.70% 252
North of England +14 600 £56,754 -9.19% 174
North West +5 419 £55,000 -13.39% 116
Midlands -15 411 £55,000 -8.33% 125
West Midlands -3 280 £55,000 -8.33% 98
Yorkshire +51 151 £60,000 -10.78% 47
East Midlands -34 131 £47,250 -10.00% 27
East of England -25 122 £52,500 -4.98% 93
North East -31 30 £56,900 +19.79% 12
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
1 200 (5.06%) ArcGIS
2 189 (4.79%) GeoServer
3 96 (2.43%) Confluence
4 94 (2.38%) SharePoint
5 81 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
6 62 (1.57%) WebLogic
7 50 (1.27%) Apache
8 37 (0.94%) Apache Spark
9 32 (0.81%) OpenStack
10 24 (0.61%) IIS
11 18 (0.46%) Exchange Server 2010
12 13 (0.33%) Oracle Service Bus
13 11 (0.28%) CMS
13 11 (0.28%) SharePoint 2010
13 11 (0.28%) SharePoint 2013
14 9 (0.23%) Red Hat Fuse
15 8 (0.20%) JBoss
16 7 (0.18%) Appian
17 6 (0.15%) Drupal
18 4 (0.10%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 145 (3.67%) Microsoft Office
2 53 (1.34%) Simulink
3 49 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
4 35 (0.89%) MS Visio
5 30 (0.76%) Sketch
6 25 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
7 17 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 9 (0.23%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.10%) EPLAN
9 4 (0.10%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.076%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.051%) Abaqus
11 2 (0.051%) Fireworks
11 2 (0.051%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.051%) InDesign
11 2 (0.051%) InVision
11 2 (0.051%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.025%) Blender
12 1 (0.025%) Revit
Business Applications
1 64 (1.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 43 (1.09%) Remedy ITSM
3 40 (1.01%) Siebel CRM
4 23 (0.58%) Maximo
5 8 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
7 6 (0.15%) Primavera
8 5 (0.13%) Elite 3E
8 5 (0.13%) SAP HR
8 5 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
8 5 (0.13%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.10%) Oracle Cash Management
9 4 (0.10%) Q-Pulse
9 4 (0.10%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.10%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.10%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.076%) SAP ERP
10 3 (0.076%) SAP WM
11 2 (0.051%) Oracle General Ledger
11 2 (0.051%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 976 (24.72%) Azure
2 777 (19.68%) AWS
3 198 (5.01%) Microsoft 365
4 116 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
4 116 (2.94%) GCP
5 108 (2.73%) Amazon EKS
6 104 (2.63%) Power Platform
7 97 (2.46%) Serverless
8 82 (2.08%) SaaS
9 79 (2.00%) OpenShift
10 78 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
11 73 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
12 53 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
13 49 (1.24%) Miro
14 46 (1.16%) Amazon ECS
15 43 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
15 43 (1.09%) Entra ID
16 42 (1.06%) PowerApps
17 40 (1.01%) PaaS
17 40 (1.01%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 237 (6.00%) Firewall
2 142 (3.60%) DNS
3 98 (2.48%) WAN
4 95 (2.41%) TCP/IP
5 80 (2.03%) DHCP
6 72 (1.82%) Network Security
6 72 (1.82%) VPN
7 62 (1.57%) Wireless
8 60 (1.52%) BGP
9 59 (1.49%) SAN
10 57 (1.44%) LAN
11 56 (1.42%) SSL
12 43 (1.09%) Cisco Firepower
13 42 (1.06%) IPsec
13 42 (1.06%) SD-WAN
14 36 (0.91%) MPLS
15 34 (0.86%) AMQP
16 27 (0.68%) Software-Defined Radio
17 26 (0.66%) VLAN
17 26 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 288 (7.29%) PostgreSQL
2 201 (5.09%) GIS
3 189 (4.79%) QGIS
4 111 (2.81%) Relational Database
5 105 (2.66%) SQL Server
6 88 (2.23%) NoSQL
7 83 (2.10%) Hadoop
8 68 (1.72%) Big Data
8 68 (1.72%) Power BI
9 64 (1.62%) MongoDB
10 50 (1.27%) Oracle Database
11 49 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
12 39 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
13 36 (0.91%) Oracle BI EE
13 36 (0.91%) RDBMS
13 36 (0.91%) Siebel EIM
14 30 (0.76%) MySQL
15 29 (0.73%) Cloudera CDH
15 29 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
16 25 (0.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 181 (4.58%) Git
2 169 (4.28%) Jenkins
2 169 (4.28%) JIRA
3 85 (2.15%) Visual Studio
4 79 (2.00%) GitLab
5 74 (1.87%) Bitbucket
6 59 (1.49%) Sourcetree
7 36 (0.91%) Rational DOORS
8 29 (0.73%) JUnit
9 27 (0.68%) Cucumber
10 26 (0.66%) Selenium
11 21 (0.53%) Vagrant
12 20 (0.51%) Ant
12 20 (0.51%) Subversion
13 17 (0.43%) SonarQube
14 16 (0.41%) LabVIEW
15 15 (0.38%) REST Assured
16 14 (0.35%) CMake
16 14 (0.35%) TestNG
16 14 (0.35%) WebDriver
General
1 842 (21.32%) Social Skills
2 358 (9.07%) Public Sector
3 297 (7.52%) Aerospace
4 279 (7.07%) Finance
5 223 (5.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 191 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
7 136 (3.44%) Presentation Skills
8 121 (3.06%) Military
9 101 (2.56%) Games
10 91 (2.30%) Telecoms
11 75 (1.90%) Police
12 73 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
13 54 (1.37%) Electronics
14 50 (1.27%) Manufacturing
15 46 (1.16%) Retail
16 42 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
17 39 (0.99%) Law
18 27 (0.68%) Marketing
19 19 (0.48%) Back Office
20 17 (0.43%) Legal
Job Titles
1 742 (18.79%) Senior
2 504 (12.76%) Architect
3 433 (10.96%) Developer
4 429 (10.86%) Software Engineer
5 281 (7.12%) Lead
6 246 (6.23%) Analyst
7 204 (5.17%) Senior Software Engineer
8 200 (5.06%) Solutions Architect
9 197 (4.99%) Systems Engineer
10 193 (4.89%) Consultant
11 172 (4.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 165 (4.18%) Project Manager
13 150 (3.80%) Network Engineer
14 132 (3.34%) DevOps Engineer
15 128 (3.24%) Senior Developer
16 94 (2.38%) Technical Architect
17 93 (2.36%) Support Engineer
18 86 (2.18%) Business Analyst
18 86 (2.18%) Security Consultant
19 84 (2.13%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 317 (8.03%) .NET
2 309 (7.82%) React
3 200 (5.06%) CSS
4 192 (4.86%) Leaflet
5 191 (4.84%) OpenLayers
6 189 (4.79%) PostGIS
7 183 (4.63%) .NET Core
8 153 (3.87%) Node.js
9 122 (3.09%) REST
10 120 (3.04%) Spring
11 109 (2.76%) Spring Boot
12 100 (2.53%) AngularJS
13 82 (2.08%) HTML
14 64 (1.62%) RabbitMQ
15 63 (1.60%) Kafka
16 61 (1.54%) Web Services
17 59 (1.49%) Unity (Game Engine)
18 57 (1.44%) XML
19 46 (1.16%) RESTful
20 43 (1.09%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 132 (3.34%) Management Information System
2 103 (2.61%) Data Centre
3 96 (2.43%) Product Ownership
3 96 (2.43%) Self-Motivation
4 88 (2.23%) Driving Licence
5 70 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
6 63 (1.60%) Virtual Team
7 62 (1.57%) Algorithms
8 61 (1.54%) Virtual Reality
9 58 (1.47%) Private Cloud
10 51 (1.29%) Cloud Native
10 51 (1.29%) Operational Technology
11 48 (1.22%) Public Cloud
12 44 (1.11%) Cyberattack
13 43 (1.09%) CMDB
14 41 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
15 37 (0.94%) PKI
16 33 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
17 32 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
18 28 (0.71%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 580 (14.69%) Windows
2 562 (14.23%) Linux
3 256 (6.48%) Windows Server
4 118 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 98 (2.48%) Windows 10
6 92 (2.33%) Unix
7 89 (2.25%) Ubuntu
8 84 (2.13%) CentOS
9 69 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
10 60 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
11 40 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
12 39 (0.99%) Android
13 30 (0.76%) Windows 7
14 29 (0.73%) Debian
15 28 (0.71%) Solaris
16 16 (0.41%) AIX
17 12 (0.30%) VMS
17 12 (0.30%) Windows NT
17 12 (0.30%) Windows XP
18 11 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,231 (31.17%) Agile
2 858 (21.73%) DevOps
3 812 (20.56%) Actionable Insight
4 693 (17.55%) Software Engineering
5 614 (15.55%) Problem-Solving
6 382 (9.67%) Cybersecurity
7 380 (9.62%) Scrum
8 355 (8.99%) Project Management
9 309 (7.82%) ITIL
10 260 (6.58%) Collaborative Working
11 254 (6.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 253 (6.41%) CI/CD
12 253 (6.41%) Stakeholder Management
13 248 (6.28%) Mentoring
14 223 (5.65%) Service Management
15 200 (5.06%) Artificial Intelligence
16 196 (4.96%) Web Development
17 194 (4.91%) Infrastructure as Code
18 189 (4.79%) Kanban
19 186 (4.71%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 643 (16.28%) Python
2 466 (11.80%) Java
2 466 (11.80%) JavaScript
3 355 (8.99%) SQL
4 318 (8.05%) C#
5 289 (7.32%) PowerShell
6 157 (3.98%) C++
7 94 (2.38%) TypeScript
8 91 (2.30%) Bash
9 81 (2.05%) C
10 63 (1.60%) MATLAB
11 40 (1.01%) Shell Script
12 38 (0.96%) Kotlin
13 25 (0.63%) Bicep
13 25 (0.63%) VB
14 22 (0.56%) Go
14 22 (0.56%) PL/SQL
15 16 (0.41%) VBA
16 15 (0.38%) Groovy
16 15 (0.38%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3,949 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 699 (17.70%) DV Cleared
3 673 (17.04%) Degree
4 189 (4.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 142 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 114 (2.89%) AWS Certification
7 98 (2.48%) CISM
8 95 (2.41%) Azure Certification
9 94 (2.38%) CISSP
10 89 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
11 82 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
12 63 (1.60%) CCNP
12 63 (1.60%) CESG Certified Professional
12 63 (1.60%) CRISC
13 58 (1.47%) CCNA
14 54 (1.37%) TOGAF Certification
15 53 (1.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 36 (0.91%) A+ Certification
17 33 (0.84%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 31 (0.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (3.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 95 (2.41%) SLA
3 85 (2.15%) Accessibility
4 81 (2.05%) NCSC
5 75 (1.90%) QA
6 41 (1.04%) NIST
7 37 (0.94%) GDPR
8 35 (0.89%) WCAG
9 31 (0.79%) PMO
10 27 (0.68%) Def Stans
11 22 (0.56%) Data Quality
12 21 (0.53%) COBIT
12 21 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
13 18 (0.46%) GRC
14 17 (0.43%) ISO 9001
14 17 (0.43%) Software Quality Assurance
15 16 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 14 (0.35%) IEC 61508
17 13 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 15288
17 13 (0.33%) JSP 440
System Software
1 289 (7.32%) Active Directory
2 243 (6.15%) Docker
3 170 (4.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 121 (3.06%) Hyper-V
5 44 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
6 38 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
7 35 (0.89%) vSphere
8 32 (0.81%) Firmware
9 25 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
10 19 (0.48%) KVM
11 16 (0.41%) pfSense
12 14 (0.35%) Microsoft App-V
12 14 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
13 13 (0.33%) Oracle RAC
14 11 (0.28%) VMware NSX
14 11 (0.28%) XenDesktop
15 10 (0.25%) NFS
16 5 (0.13%) XenApp
17 4 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
17 4 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 291 (7.37%) Kubernetes
2 258 (6.53%) Ansible
3 221 (5.60%) Terraform
4 174 (4.41%) SCCM
5 78 (1.98%) Puppet
6 76 (1.92%) SCOM
7 58 (1.47%) WSUS
8 57 (1.44%) vCenter Server
9 52 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
10 35 (0.89%) Grafana
11 34 (0.86%) NetBackup
12 31 (0.79%) EMC NetWorker
12 31 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
13 25 (0.63%) ZABBIX
14 21 (0.53%) Nagios
14 21 (0.53%) OpenSSO
14 21 (0.53%) OpenView
15 20 (0.51%) Prometheus
16 19 (0.48%) Progress Chef
17 16 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 685 (17.35%) Microsoft
2 271 (6.86%) VMware
3 218 (5.52%) Oracle
4 210 (5.32%) Cisco
5 198 (5.01%) ESRI
6 197 (4.99%) Juniper
7 112 (2.84%) ServiceNow
8 100 (2.53%) Red Hat
9 79 (2.00%) Google
10 71 (1.80%) HP
11 64 (1.62%) Remedy
11 64 (1.62%) Sparx
12 49 (1.24%) IBM
13 46 (1.16%) NetApp
14 45 (1.14%) Veeam
15 40 (1.01%) EMC
15 40 (1.01%) Siebel
16 39 (0.99%) Citrix
16 39 (0.99%) F5
17 37 (0.94%) Dell