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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 59 114
Rank change year-on-year +12 +55 -9
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 4,646 5,125 5,191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.65% 5.17% 3.23%
As % of the Qualifications category 16.90% 15.66% 11.96%
Number of salaries quoted 2,620 2,559 2,454
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,350 £32,150
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,214 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,000 £57,100
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% +8.58% +3.82%
75th Percentile £70,250 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,425 £53,112
% change year-on-year -0.77% +4.35% +1.17%

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 27,486 32,730 43,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.51% 33.01% 27.01%
Number of salaries quoted 17,243 14,736 18,996
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,483 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,350 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.49% +4.70% +1.01%

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 18 May 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 18 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
England +11 3,803 £55,000 -10.20% 1,185
UK excluding London +13 3,699 £55,000 -0.77% 1,037
Work from Home +2 1,871 £60,000 -4.00% 547
South East +23 1,227 £55,000 - 322
South West -1 887 £54,000 -4.26% 242
London -20 598 £70,000 +3.70% 234
North of England +20 567 £57,500 -4.17% 180
North West +12 389 £55,000 -8.33% 127
Midlands -4 386 £55,000 -8.33% 129
West Midlands -1 249 £55,000 -8.33% 89
Scotland -43 235 £60,000 +8.26% 80
Wales +11 202 £51,500 +84.29% 26
Yorkshire +69 151 £60,000 -10.45% 35
East Midlands -3 137 £50,000 -4.76% 40
East of England -17 121 £52,000 -6.31% 65
Northern Ireland +25 100 £60,000 +75.18% 20
North East -30 27 £43,072 -9.32% 18

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 (7.28%) ArcGIS
2 330 (7.10%) GeoServer
3 147 (3.16%) Confluence
4 116 (2.50%) WebLogic
5 92 (1.98%) SharePoint
6 81 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
7 48 (1.03%) Apache
8 44 (0.95%) Oracle Service Bus
9 39 (0.84%) OpenStack
10 36 (0.77%) Apache Spark
11 32 (0.69%) IIS
12 21 (0.45%) Red Hat Fuse
13 20 (0.43%) JBoss
14 18 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2010
15 15 (0.32%) CMS
16 14 (0.30%) Skype for Business
17 10 (0.22%) SharePoint 2010
17 10 (0.22%) SharePoint 2013
18 7 (0.15%) Drupal
19 5 (0.11%) nginx
Applications
1 176 (3.79%) Microsoft Office
2 83 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 77 (1.66%) MS Visio
4 46 (0.99%) Simulink
4 46 (0.99%) Sketch
5 23 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
6 19 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 9 (0.19%) AutoCAD
8 4 (0.086%) EPLAN
8 4 (0.086%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.065%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.043%) Abaqus
10 2 (0.043%) Fireworks
10 2 (0.043%) GNU Octave
10 2 (0.043%) InDesign
11 1 (0.022%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.022%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.022%) Blender
11 1 (0.022%) Revit
Business Applications
1 87 (1.87%) Remedy ITSM
1 87 (1.87%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 41 (0.88%) Siebel CRM
3 19 (0.41%) Maximo
4 12 (0.26%) Oracle Cash Management
5 10 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
5 10 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
5 10 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
7 6 (0.13%) Elite 3E
7 6 (0.13%) Primavera
7 6 (0.13%) SAP WM
8 5 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
8 5 (0.11%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.086%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.086%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.086%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.086%) SAP FI/CO
9 4 (0.086%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 1,225 (26.37%) Azure
2 989 (21.29%) AWS
3 195 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
4 139 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
5 137 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
6 127 (2.73%) GCP
7 121 (2.60%) Serverless
8 119 (2.56%) Power Platform
9 113 (2.43%) SaaS
10 96 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
11 73 (1.57%) OpenShift
12 71 (1.53%) Miro
13 68 (1.46%) AWS CloudFormation
14 63 (1.36%) PaaS
15 59 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
16 58 (1.25%) OCI
17 55 (1.18%) Amazon ECS
18 50 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
19 48 (1.03%) Amazon SQS
20 47 (1.01%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 286 (6.16%) Firewall
2 169 (3.64%) DNS
3 120 (2.58%) WAN
4 117 (2.52%) TCP/IP
5 86 (1.85%) Wireless
6 85 (1.83%) LAN
7 84 (1.81%) Network Security
8 77 (1.66%) BGP
8 77 (1.66%) VPN
9 74 (1.59%) DHCP
9 74 (1.59%) SSL
10 71 (1.53%) SAN
11 50 (1.08%) SD-WAN
12 40 (0.86%) Software-Defined Radio
13 38 (0.82%) IPsec
14 37 (0.80%) MPLS
15 36 (0.77%) Cisco Firepower
16 32 (0.69%) AMQP
17 30 (0.65%) Cisco ASA
18 28 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 425 (9.15%) PostgreSQL
2 345 (7.43%) GIS
3 330 (7.10%) QGIS
4 157 (3.38%) Relational Database
5 114 (2.45%) SQL Server
6 107 (2.30%) Oracle Database
7 92 (1.98%) NoSQL
8 69 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
9 68 (1.46%) Hadoop
10 67 (1.44%) Big Data
11 65 (1.40%) Power BI
12 63 (1.36%) RDBMS
13 56 (1.21%) MongoDB
14 47 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
15 45 (0.97%) Oracle Database 11g
16 44 (0.95%) Oracle Database 10g
16 44 (0.95%) VLDB
17 42 (0.90%) MySQL
18 34 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
19 33 (0.71%) Siebel EIM
Development Applications
1 241 (5.19%) Git
2 230 (4.95%) JIRA
3 204 (4.39%) Jenkins
4 107 (2.30%) Visual Studio
5 96 (2.07%) Bitbucket
6 85 (1.83%) GitLab
7 59 (1.27%) Sourcetree
8 35 (0.75%) Rational DOORS
9 33 (0.71%) Selenium
10 32 (0.69%) Cucumber
11 29 (0.62%) JUnit
12 24 (0.52%) Ant
13 23 (0.50%) Subversion
14 17 (0.37%) Vagrant
15 16 (0.34%) REST Assured
15 16 (0.34%) TestNG
16 15 (0.32%) CMake
16 15 (0.32%) LabVIEW
17 14 (0.30%) JMeter
17 14 (0.30%) WebDriver
General
1 1,031 (22.19%) Social Skills
2 499 (10.74%) Public Sector
3 326 (7.02%) Finance
4 306 (6.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 292 (6.28%) Aerospace
6 247 (5.32%) Analytical Skills
7 202 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
8 130 (2.80%) Police
9 128 (2.76%) Games
10 106 (2.28%) Military
10 106 (2.28%) Telecoms
11 77 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
12 62 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
13 55 (1.18%) Manufacturing
14 50 (1.08%) Electronics
14 50 (1.08%) Retail
15 49 (1.05%) Law
16 34 (0.73%) Marketing
17 31 (0.67%) Legal
18 17 (0.37%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,020 (21.95%) Senior
2 658 (14.16%) Architect
3 569 (12.25%) Software Engineer
4 537 (11.56%) Developer
5 348 (7.49%) Analyst
6 345 (7.43%) Lead
7 298 (6.41%) Senior Software Engineer
7 298 (6.41%) Solutions Architect
8 212 (4.56%) Consultant
9 195 (4.20%) Systems Engineer
10 189 (4.07%) Project Manager
11 180 (3.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 178 (3.83%) Senior Developer
13 163 (3.51%) Network Engineer
14 131 (2.82%) DevOps Engineer
15 121 (2.60%) Business Analyst
16 115 (2.48%) Designer
17 105 (2.26%) Technical Architect
18 94 (2.02%) Senior Analyst
19 92 (1.98%) Presales Solution Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 464 (9.99%) .NET
2 445 (9.58%) React
3 333 (7.17%) Leaflet
4 332 (7.15%) OpenLayers
5 331 (7.12%) CSS
6 330 (7.10%) PostGIS
7 303 (6.52%) .NET Core
8 180 (3.87%) Node.js
9 171 (3.68%) Spring
10 157 (3.38%) REST
11 146 (3.14%) AngularJS
12 135 (2.91%) Spring Boot
13 126 (2.71%) HTML
14 106 (2.28%) Web Services
15 98 (2.11%) RESTful
16 86 (1.85%) XML
17 80 (1.72%) RabbitMQ
18 79 (1.70%) Unity (Game Engine)
19 65 (1.40%) SOAP
20 63 (1.36%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 162 (3.49%) Management Information System
2 147 (3.16%) Data Centre
3 114 (2.45%) Product Ownership
4 98 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
5 97 (2.09%) Virtual Team
6 92 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
7 86 (1.85%) Driving Licence
8 81 (1.74%) Virtual Reality
9 66 (1.42%) Public Cloud
10 65 (1.40%) Onboarding
11 60 (1.29%) Operational Technology
12 59 (1.27%) Cyberattack
13 57 (1.23%) Cloud Native
13 57 (1.23%) Private Cloud
14 54 (1.16%) Algorithms
15 51 (1.10%) CMDB
16 39 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
17 37 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
17 37 (0.80%) PKI
18 36 (0.77%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 636 (13.69%) Linux
2 609 (13.11%) Windows
3 270 (5.81%) Windows Server
4 135 (2.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 129 (2.78%) Unix
6 109 (2.35%) Ubuntu
7 91 (1.96%) Windows 10
8 83 (1.79%) CentOS
9 59 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
10 50 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
11 46 (0.99%) Solaris
12 32 (0.69%) Android
12 32 (0.69%) Windows 7
12 32 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
13 28 (0.60%) Debian
14 19 (0.41%) VMS
15 18 (0.39%) AIX
16 12 (0.26%) Windows XP
17 10 (0.22%) zOS
18 8 (0.17%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,561 (33.60%) Agile
2 1,339 (28.82%) Actionable Insight
3 1,074 (23.12%) DevOps
4 886 (19.07%) Software Engineering
5 778 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
6 455 (9.79%) Scrum
7 431 (9.28%) Cybersecurity
8 418 (9.00%) Project Management
9 342 (7.36%) Web Development
10 334 (7.19%) Stakeholder Management
11 333 (7.17%) ITIL
12 306 (6.59%) Collaborative Working
13 287 (6.18%) Mentoring
14 279 (6.01%) CI/CD
15 262 (5.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 249 (5.36%) Service Management
17 226 (4.86%) Artificial Intelligence
18 223 (4.80%) Presales
19 221 (4.76%) Kanban
20 206 (4.43%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 774 (16.66%) Python
2 621 (13.37%) JavaScript
3 523 (11.26%) Java
4 443 (9.54%) C#
5 425 (9.15%) SQL
6 295 (6.35%) PowerShell
7 160 (3.44%) C++
8 95 (2.04%) Bash
9 83 (1.79%) C
10 79 (1.70%) TypeScript
11 63 (1.36%) PL/SQL
12 58 (1.25%) MATLAB
13 53 (1.14%) Shell Script
14 37 (0.80%) Go
15 28 (0.60%) Kotlin
16 25 (0.54%) Bicep
17 20 (0.43%) Ruby
17 20 (0.43%) VB
18 19 (0.41%) VBA
19 17 (0.37%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 4,646 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 752 (16.19%) Degree
3 643 (13.84%) DV Cleared
4 259 (5.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 141 (3.03%) AWS Certification
6 132 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 127 (2.73%) Azure Certification
8 116 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
8 116 (2.50%) CISM
9 111 (2.39%) CISSP
10 89 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
11 74 (1.59%) CCNA
12 71 (1.53%) CCNP
13 70 (1.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 64 (1.38%) CESG Certified Professional
15 63 (1.36%) CRISC
16 58 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
17 53 (1.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 36 (0.77%) A+ Certification
19 33 (0.71%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 145 (3.12%) Accessibility
3 134 (2.88%) SLA
4 87 (1.87%) NCSC
4 87 (1.87%) QA
5 58 (1.25%) WCAG
6 56 (1.21%) NIST
7 38 (0.82%) GDPR
7 38 (0.82%) PMO
8 36 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 32 (0.69%) COBIT
10 29 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
11 26 (0.56%) Def Stans
12 23 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 23 (0.50%) GRC
13 22 (0.47%) Data Quality
14 21 (0.45%) JSP 440
14 21 (0.45%) Software Quality Assurance
15 16 (0.34%) ISO 9001
15 16 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 322 (6.93%) Active Directory
2 255 (5.49%) Docker
3 181 (3.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 129 (2.78%) Hyper-V
5 45 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
6 44 (0.95%) Oracle RAC
7 36 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
8 32 (0.69%) vSphere
9 31 (0.67%) Firmware
10 22 (0.47%) KVM
10 22 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
11 16 (0.34%) pfSense
12 12 (0.26%) VMware NSX
13 10 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
13 10 (0.22%) NFS
13 10 (0.22%) XenDesktop
14 9 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
15 4 (0.086%) Embedded Firmware
15 4 (0.086%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.086%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 285 (6.13%) Kubernetes
2 276 (5.94%) Ansible
3 243 (5.23%) Terraform
4 156 (3.36%) SCCM
5 73 (1.57%) Puppet
6 62 (1.33%) SCOM
7 58 (1.25%) vCenter Server
8 52 (1.12%) WSUS
9 47 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
10 44 (0.95%) Data Guard
10 44 (0.95%) Oracle RMAN
11 39 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
12 36 (0.77%) Grafana
13 33 (0.71%) NetBackup
14 32 (0.69%) OpenView
15 29 (0.62%) EMC NetWorker
16 26 (0.56%) OpenSSO
17 24 (0.52%) ZABBIX
18 21 (0.45%) Prometheus
19 19 (0.41%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 788 (16.96%) Microsoft
2 343 (7.38%) Oracle
3 337 (7.25%) ESRI
4 295 (6.35%) VMware
5 258 (5.55%) Cisco
6 207 (4.46%) Juniper
7 113 (2.43%) Remedy
8 110 (2.37%) ServiceNow
9 94 (2.02%) Google
10 87 (1.87%) Sparx
11 86 (1.85%) Red Hat
12 85 (1.83%) HP
13 55 (1.18%) Fortinet
14 50 (1.08%) NetApp
14 50 (1.08%) Palo Alto
15 48 (1.03%) Splunk
16 47 (1.01%) IBM
17 45 (0.97%) BMC
17 45 (0.97%) McAfee
17 45 (0.97%) Sun