Security Cleared Jobs in the North of England

Security Clearance
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Security 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 43 53 28
Rank change year-on-year +10 -25 +74
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 804 1,040 1,439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.55% 6.17% 7.95%
As % of the Qualifications category 20.51% 20.33% 27.98%
Number of salaries quoted 388 324 693
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,037
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +15.50% -7.41%
75th Percentile £67,625 £75,313 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £76,520
England median annual salary £57,500 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.54% +7.27% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of England

Security 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 the North of England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,920 5,116 5,143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 22.16% 30.37% 28.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2,705 1,747 2,443
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,750 £36,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £54,882 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +15.54% -5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £54,700 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.83% +9.09% -

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the North of England

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in the North of England.

Salary trend for Security Cleared in the North of England

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in the North of England

Security Cleared
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Cleared within the North of England 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
North West -1 579 £55,000 -4.35% 196
Yorkshire +23 186 £60,000 -9.09% 43
North East -35 39 £43,072 -4.28% 25
Security Cleared
England

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 89 (11.07%) ArcGIS
2 85 (10.57%) GeoServer
3 19 (2.36%) Apache
4 12 (1.49%) Confluence
4 12 (1.49%) WebLogic
5 11 (1.37%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (1.24%) SharePoint
7 9 (1.12%) IIS
8 8 (1.00%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.37%) JBoss
9 3 (0.37%) Red Hat Fuse
10 2 (0.25%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.25%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.12%) CMS
11 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 22 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (1.49%) Sketch
4 10 (1.24%) MS Visio
5 9 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.62%) AutoCAD
7 4 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.25%) Revit
Business Applications
1 29 (3.61%) Primavera
2 22 (2.74%) NEC Housing
3 15 (1.87%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 9 (1.12%) Remedy ITSM
5 7 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.25%) SAP PLM
7 2 (0.25%) SAP PM
8 1 (0.12%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payroll
8 1 (0.12%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 208 (25.87%) Azure
2 190 (23.63%) AWS
3 24 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
3 24 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
4 18 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (2.24%) Miro
5 17 (2.11%) GCP
5 17 (2.11%) SaaS
6 15 (1.87%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (1.87%) Serverless
7 13 (1.62%) Amazon SQS
7 13 (1.62%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (1.62%) OpenShift
8 12 (1.49%) Figma
8 12 (1.49%) Heroku
9 11 (1.37%) PaaS
10 10 (1.24%) Power Platform
11 7 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (0.87%) IaaS
12 6 (0.75%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.98%) Firewall
2 23 (2.86%) TCP/IP
3 21 (2.61%) DNS
4 18 (2.24%) Wireless
5 15 (1.87%) BGP
6 14 (1.74%) SAN
6 14 (1.74%) Software-Defined Radio
7 12 (1.49%) SSL
7 12 (1.49%) WAN
8 11 (1.37%) AMQP
8 11 (1.37%) Network Security
9 10 (1.24%) SD-WAN
10 9 (1.12%) VPN
11 8 (1.00%) Internet
11 8 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (0.87%) DHCP
13 6 (0.75%) LAN
14 5 (0.62%) VLAN
15 4 (0.50%) TETRA
16 3 (0.37%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (11.82%) PostgreSQL
2 91 (11.32%) GIS
3 85 (10.57%) QGIS
4 28 (3.48%) Oracle Database
5 23 (2.86%) SQL Server
6 16 (1.99%) RDBMS
6 16 (1.99%) Relational Database
7 13 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (1.37%) Big Data
8 11 (1.37%) Cloudera CDH
8 11 (1.37%) Hadoop
9 8 (1.00%) Power BI
10 7 (0.87%) Oracle Database 12c
11 6 (0.75%) Geospatial Data
12 4 (0.50%) MySQL
12 4 (0.50%) NoSQL
12 4 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (0.50%) Tableau
13 3 (0.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 2 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 42 (5.22%) JIRA
2 16 (1.99%) GitLab
3 10 (1.24%) Git
3 10 (1.24%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.00%) Selenium
5 6 (0.75%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.50%) HP UFT
6 4 (0.50%) JMeter
6 4 (0.50%) LoadRunner
6 4 (0.50%) MSTest
6 4 (0.50%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.37%) Burp Suite
7 3 (0.37%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.37%) IntelliJ
7 3 (0.37%) JUnit
7 3 (0.37%) Metasploit
7 3 (0.37%) Postman
7 3 (0.37%) REST Assured
7 3 (0.37%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.25%) SOAtest
General
1 182 (22.64%) Social Skills
2 94 (11.69%) Public Sector
3 74 (9.20%) Finance
4 55 (6.84%) Aerospace
5 43 (5.35%) Analytical Skills
6 36 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 34 (4.23%) Police
8 27 (3.36%) Local Government
9 18 (2.24%) Law
9 18 (2.24%) Manufacturing
10 14 (1.74%) Military
11 13 (1.62%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.12%) Retail
13 8 (1.00%) Avionics
13 8 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (0.87%) Back Office
14 7 (0.87%) Legal
15 6 (0.75%) Polish Language
16 5 (0.62%) Electronics
16 5 (0.62%) Games
Job Titles
1 158 (19.65%) Senior
2 119 (14.80%) Software Engineer
3 103 (12.81%) Architect
4 95 (11.82%) Lead
5 76 (9.45%) Developer
6 66 (8.21%) Senior Software Engineer
7 55 (6.84%) Analyst
7 55 (6.84%) Solutions Architect
8 45 (5.60%) Systems Engineer
9 28 (3.48%) Project Manager
10 27 (3.36%) Project Planner
11 24 (2.99%) DevOps Engineer
12 23 (2.86%) Designer
13 21 (2.61%) Presales Solution Architect
14 20 (2.49%) Senior Developer
15 17 (2.11%) Business Analyst
15 17 (2.11%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
15 17 (2.11%) ERP Developer
15 17 (2.11%) Product Manager
15 17 (2.11%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (14.68%) React
2 89 (11.07%) .NET
3 85 (10.57%) Leaflet
3 85 (10.57%) OpenLayers
3 85 (10.57%) PostGIS
4 74 (9.20%) CSS
5 73 (9.08%) .NET Core
6 34 (4.23%) Spring Boot
7 32 (3.98%) AngularJS
8 29 (3.61%) Node.js
9 28 (3.48%) Spring
10 23 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
11 18 (2.24%) HTML
12 17 (2.11%) Django
13 14 (1.74%) REST
14 13 (1.62%) Swagger
15 12 (1.49%) OpenAPI
15 12 (1.49%) RESTful
16 11 (1.37%) gRPC
16 11 (1.37%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 25 (3.11%) Operational Technology
2 21 (2.61%) Cloud Native
2 21 (2.61%) Driving Licence
2 21 (2.61%) Public Cloud
3 18 (2.24%) Private Cloud
3 18 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (2.24%) Virtual Team
4 15 (1.87%) Product Ownership
5 13 (1.62%) Data Centre
5 13 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (1.49%) Management Information System
6 12 (1.49%) SCADA
7 9 (1.12%) Industrial Internet of Things
8 8 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
8 8 (1.00%) Onboarding
9 7 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (0.75%) Cyber Defence
10 6 (0.75%) IoT
11 4 (0.50%) Cyberattack
11 4 (0.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 98 (12.19%) Linux
2 50 (6.22%) Windows
3 31 (3.86%) Unix
4 26 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (2.99%) Ubuntu
6 11 (1.37%) CentOS
6 11 (1.37%) Debian
7 10 (1.24%) Windows Server
8 9 (1.12%) Solaris
9 6 (0.75%) VMS
10 5 (0.62%) Mac OS X
11 4 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.37%) Kali Linux
12 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.37%) zOS
13 2 (0.25%) FreeBSD
13 2 (0.25%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.12%) Android
14 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 299 (37.19%) Agile
2 295 (36.69%) Actionable Insight
3 184 (22.89%) DevOps
4 170 (21.14%) Software Engineering
5 101 (12.56%) Problem-Solving
6 88 (10.95%) Stakeholder Management
7 85 (10.57%) Web Development
8 80 (9.95%) Mentoring
9 77 (9.58%) Scrum
10 76 (9.45%) Project Management
11 71 (8.83%) Coaching
12 61 (7.59%) Cybersecurity
13 60 (7.46%) ITIL
14 59 (7.34%) Collaborative Working
15 58 (7.21%) Kanban
16 57 (7.09%) CI/CD
17 55 (6.84%) Open Source
18 51 (6.34%) Continuous Integration
19 44 (5.47%) Change Management
19 44 (5.47%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 138 (17.16%) Python
2 134 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 65 (8.08%) C#
4 61 (7.59%) Java
5 21 (2.61%) TypeScript
6 15 (1.87%) C++
7 14 (1.74%) PowerShell
8 10 (1.24%) SQL
9 8 (1.00%) Shell Script
10 7 (0.87%) MATLAB
11 5 (0.62%) VB.NET
11 5 (0.62%) VBA
12 4 (0.50%) Bicep
12 4 (0.50%) C
13 3 (0.37%) Bash
14 2 (0.25%) Perl
15 1 (0.12%) Go
15 1 (0.12%) R
15 1 (0.12%) REXX
15 1 (0.12%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 567 (70.52%) SC Cleared
2 92 (11.44%) Degree
3 64 (7.96%) DV Cleared
4 20 (2.49%) Azure Certification
4 20 (2.49%) DBS Check
5 16 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (1.74%) AWS Certification
6 14 (1.74%) CISA
6 14 (1.74%) CISM
6 14 (1.74%) CRISC
7 12 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (1.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 11 (1.37%) CESG Certified Professional
9 10 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (1.12%) BC Cleared
10 9 (1.12%) CCNP
11 7 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (0.87%) CREST Certified
11 7 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
11 7 (0.87%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (6.97%) Accessibility
2 36 (4.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (3.61%) SLA
4 15 (1.87%) WCAG
5 14 (1.74%) GDPR
5 14 (1.74%) GRC
6 10 (1.24%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.12%) COBIT
8 8 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (1.00%) QA
9 7 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 6 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (0.75%) NIST
11 5 (0.62%) PMO
12 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.12%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.12%) NCSC
System Software
1 29 (3.61%) Docker
2 17 (2.11%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.87%) KVM
5 6 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.62%) SRDF
7 4 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.37%) Firmware
8 3 (0.37%) vSphere
9 2 (0.25%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.25%) VMware Server
10 1 (0.12%) Lustre
10 1 (0.12%) NFS
10 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.12%) Snort
10 1 (0.12%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 41 (5.10%) Kubernetes
2 38 (4.73%) Terraform
3 34 (4.23%) Ansible
4 12 (1.49%) SCCM
5 11 (1.37%) Puppet
6 9 (1.12%) OpenView
7 5 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.62%) WSUS
8 4 (0.50%) Grafana
8 4 (0.50%) SCOM
9 3 (0.37%) Nessus
9 3 (0.37%) Nmap
10 2 (0.25%) Host Intrusion Detection System
10 2 (0.25%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.25%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.12%) Icinga
11 1 (0.12%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.12%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 109 (13.56%) Microsoft
2 85 (10.57%) ESRI
3 46 (5.72%) Oracle
4 27 (3.36%) VMware
5 25 (3.11%) Cisco
6 22 (2.74%) NEC
7 17 (2.11%) ServiceNow
8 15 (1.87%) Sparx
9 14 (1.74%) Red Hat
10 13 (1.62%) Fortinet
10 13 (1.62%) Juniper
11 11 (1.37%) Google
11 11 (1.37%) HP
11 11 (1.37%) SaltStack
12 10 (1.24%) BMC
13 9 (1.12%) Remedy
14 8 (1.00%) Dell
14 8 (1.00%) Splunk
15 7 (0.87%) Thales
16 6 (0.75%) Brocade