SC Cleared Jobs in London

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 121 101 319
Rank change year-on-year -20 +218 -138
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 598 1,128 900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.53% 3.36% 1.30%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.85% 12.82% 6.15%
Number of salaries quoted 403 757 464
10th Percentile £41,275 £42,631 £41,302
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% - +8.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £95,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £61,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.20% +11.36% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
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 London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 6,755 8,801 14,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 28.55% 26.18% 21.16%
Number of salaries quoted 4,237 5,541 6,761
10th Percentile £35,750 £40,000 £37,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £103,750 £112,500 £103,750
England median annual salary £54,700 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.83% +9.09% -

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in London

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for SC Cleared in London

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in London

SC Cleared
Job Locations in 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 London region 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
Central London +5 118 £63,750 -6.25% 24
South London +31 62 £82,500 +13.79% 13
West London -37 9 £37,500 -53.13% 13
East London 0 1 £28,000 -51.30% 21
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 30 (5.02%) SharePoint
2 27 (4.52%) ArcGIS
2 27 (4.52%) GeoServer
3 23 (3.85%) OpenStack
4 10 (1.67%) Red Hat Fuse
5 9 (1.51%) JBoss
6 8 (1.34%) Apache
7 7 (1.17%) Confluence
7 7 (1.17%) Drupal
8 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.67%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.50%) nginx
9 3 (0.50%) WordPress
10 2 (0.33%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.17%) CMS
11 1 (0.17%) Documentum
11 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.67%) Sketch
4 2 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.17%) Blender
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (2.34%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (1.00%) Elite 3E
3 5 (0.84%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.50%) SAP CRM
4 3 (0.50%) SAP CX
4 3 (0.50%) SAP GTS
4 3 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.50%) SAP SD
4 3 (0.50%) SAP WM
5 2 (0.33%) SAP HR
5 2 (0.33%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 168 (28.09%) AWS
1 168 (28.09%) Azure
2 47 (7.86%) Amazon EKS
3 45 (7.53%) Power Platform
4 41 (6.86%) Azure DevOps
5 38 (6.35%) Amazon ECS
5 38 (6.35%) Serverless
6 26 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
6 26 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
7 23 (3.85%) GCP
8 21 (3.51%) Power Automate
8 21 (3.51%) PowerApps
8 21 (3.51%) SaaS
9 16 (2.68%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (2.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 13 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
12 12 (2.01%) GitHub
12 12 (2.01%) PaaS
13 10 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (1.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.01%) Firewall
2 12 (2.01%) DNS
3 9 (1.51%) SSL
4 8 (1.34%) Structured Cabling
5 7 (1.17%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.00%) BGP
7 5 (0.84%) Network Security
7 5 (0.84%) VPN
8 4 (0.67%) IPv4
8 4 (0.67%) IPv6
8 4 (0.67%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (0.50%) Wireless
10 2 (0.33%) Cisco IPT
10 2 (0.33%) DHCP
10 2 (0.33%) HTTP
10 2 (0.33%) IPsec
10 2 (0.33%) OSPF
10 2 (0.33%) SAN
10 2 (0.33%) VRRP
10 2 (0.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (10.03%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (8.53%) Relational Database
3 31 (5.18%) Power BI
4 28 (4.68%) GIS
5 27 (4.52%) QGIS
6 26 (4.35%) NoSQL
7 19 (3.18%) SQL Server
8 12 (2.01%) MongoDB
9 11 (1.84%) Big Data
10 9 (1.51%) Metadata
11 8 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (1.17%) MySQL
12 7 (1.17%) Tableau
13 6 (1.00%) Oracle Database
13 6 (1.00%) Oracle Reports
14 5 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (0.84%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 5 (0.84%) RDBMS
15 4 (0.67%) Looker
Development Applications
1 73 (12.21%) Jenkins
2 49 (8.19%) Git
3 21 (3.51%) JIRA
4 18 (3.01%) GitLab
5 16 (2.68%) JUnit
6 10 (1.67%) Cucumber
6 10 (1.67%) Selenium
7 9 (1.51%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.17%) TestNG
9 6 (1.00%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.84%) WebDriver
11 4 (0.67%) Maven
11 4 (0.67%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.50%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.50%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.33%) Postman
13 2 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
14 1 (0.17%) CircleCI
14 1 (0.17%) Serenity BDD
General
1 168 (28.09%) Public Sector
2 165 (27.59%) Social Skills
3 70 (11.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 44 (7.36%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (6.69%) Finance
6 24 (4.01%) Law
6 24 (4.01%) Police
6 24 (4.01%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (2.17%) Marketing
8 10 (1.67%) Legal
9 9 (1.51%) Manufacturing
9 9 (1.51%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.00%) Electronics
10 6 (1.00%) Retail
11 5 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.67%) Banking
12 4 (0.67%) Military
12 4 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.50%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 123 (20.57%) Architect
2 119 (19.90%) Senior
3 89 (14.88%) Developer
4 59 (9.87%) Analyst
5 49 (8.19%) Consultant
5 49 (8.19%) Technical Architect
6 48 (8.03%) DevOps Engineer
7 45 (7.53%) Software Engineer
8 41 (6.86%) Solutions Architect
9 40 (6.69%) Lead
10 38 (6.35%) Java Developer
11 23 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
11 23 (3.85%) Full Stack Developer
12 22 (3.68%) Senior Software Engineer
13 21 (3.51%) Business Analyst
13 21 (3.51%) Full Stack Java Developer
14 20 (3.34%) Platform Architect
15 19 (3.18%) Power Platform Architect
15 19 (3.18%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 19 (3.18%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (7.53%) Spring
2 42 (7.02%) REST
3 41 (6.86%) Web Services
4 40 (6.69%) Spring Boot
5 39 (6.52%) .NET
5 39 (6.52%) React
6 33 (5.52%) Elastic Stack
7 32 (5.35%) Node.js
8 30 (5.02%) CSS
9 29 (4.85%) XML
10 28 (4.68%) AngularJS
11 27 (4.52%) .NET Core
11 27 (4.52%) Leaflet
11 27 (4.52%) OpenLayers
11 27 (4.52%) PostGIS
12 26 (4.35%) JSON
13 23 (3.85%) Apache Camel
14 22 (3.68%) SOAP
15 20 (3.34%) HTML
15 20 (3.34%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 34 (5.69%) Product Ownership
2 24 (4.01%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (3.68%) Management Information System
4 13 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (2.01%) Data Centre
6 11 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (1.67%) Public Cloud
8 8 (1.34%) Operational Technology
8 8 (1.34%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.17%) CMDB
9 7 (1.17%) Cyberattack
9 7 (1.17%) PKI
10 6 (1.00%) CCTV
10 6 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.00%) Onboarding
11 5 (0.84%) Cyber Threat
12 4 (0.67%) CUDA
12 4 (0.67%) Cyber Security Posture
12 4 (0.67%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 60 (10.03%) Windows
2 59 (9.87%) Linux
3 30 (5.02%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.34%) Unix
5 7 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.17%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.50%) VMS
7 2 (0.33%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.17%) Debian
8 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (42.14%) Agile
2 177 (29.60%) DevOps
3 95 (15.89%) CI/CD
4 85 (14.21%) Actionable Insight
5 84 (14.05%) Scrum
6 83 (13.88%) Cybersecurity
7 82 (13.71%) Software Engineering
8 73 (12.21%) Problem-Solving
9 61 (10.20%) Microservices
10 54 (9.03%) Project Management
11 53 (8.86%) Project Delivery
12 52 (8.70%) Mentoring
13 48 (8.03%) Kanban
14 45 (7.53%) Infrastructure as Code
14 45 (7.53%) Technical Leadership
15 44 (7.36%) Containerisation
16 41 (6.86%) Business Intelligence
17 40 (6.69%) Computer Science
18 39 (6.52%) Coaching
19 37 (6.19%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 93 (15.55%) JavaScript
2 92 (15.38%) Python
3 83 (13.88%) Java
4 62 (10.37%) SQL
5 53 (8.86%) C#
6 25 (4.18%) Bash
7 17 (2.84%) PowerShell
8 10 (1.67%) Perl
8 10 (1.67%) Shell Script
9 9 (1.51%) C++
10 8 (1.34%) Groovy
11 7 (1.17%) PHP
11 7 (1.17%) TypeScript
12 6 (1.00%) Bicep
13 5 (0.84%) C
13 5 (0.84%) VBA
14 4 (0.67%) Scala
15 2 (0.33%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.33%) Ruby
15 2 (0.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 598 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 97 (16.22%) DV Cleared
3 86 (14.38%) Degree
4 34 (5.69%) AWS Certification
4 34 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (4.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 28 (4.68%) Azure Certification
7 25 (4.18%) BPSS Clearance
8 21 (3.51%) CISSP
9 18 (3.01%) CISM
10 17 (2.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 10 (1.67%) Master's Degree
12 9 (1.51%) AWS Certified Developer
13 8 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
14 7 (1.17%) CREST Certified
14 7 (1.17%) HNC
14 7 (1.17%) HND
15 6 (1.00%) PMI Certification
15 6 (1.00%) Postgraduate
16 5 (0.84%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (2.34%) GDPR
2 14 (2.34%) QA
3 13 (2.17%) Accessibility
3 13 (2.17%) NIST
3 13 (2.17%) PMO
4 12 (2.01%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.17%) NCSC
6 5 (0.84%) WCAG
7 4 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.67%) GRC
8 3 (0.50%) COBIT
8 3 (0.50%) Def Stans
8 3 (0.50%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.50%) SLA
9 2 (0.33%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.33%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.17%) ISO 31000
10 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 95 (15.89%) Docker
2 16 (2.68%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.17%) Hyper-V
4 12 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (1.34%) KVM
6 2 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.33%) vSphere
6 2 (0.33%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 90 (15.05%) Kubernetes
2 82 (13.71%) Terraform
3 54 (9.03%) Ansible
4 13 (2.17%) Prometheus
4 13 (2.17%) Puppet
5 10 (1.67%) Progress Chef
6 9 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (1.34%) Grafana
7 8 (1.34%) Kibana
8 5 (0.84%) HP UCMDB
9 4 (0.67%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 4 (0.67%) Packer
9 4 (0.67%) QRadar
10 3 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.50%) OpenView
10 3 (0.50%) SCCM
11 2 (0.33%) Consul
11 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.33%) NetBackup
12 1 (0.17%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 84 (14.05%) Microsoft
2 36 (6.02%) Oracle
3 32 (5.35%) ServiceNow
4 28 (4.68%) ESRI
5 23 (3.85%) Juniper
5 23 (3.85%) WSO2
6 16 (2.68%) HP
7 14 (2.34%) BMC
7 14 (2.34%) Remedy
7 14 (2.34%) VMware
8 13 (2.17%) Google
9 11 (1.84%) Cisco
10 10 (1.67%) Splunk
11 6 (1.00%) ForgeRock
11 6 (1.00%) IBM
11 6 (1.00%) SAP
11 6 (1.00%) Zscaler
12 5 (0.84%) Databricks
12 5 (0.84%) Sparx
13 4 (0.67%) Dynatrace