Security Cleared Jobs in the South East

Security Clearance
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 11 18 48
Rank change year-on-year +7 +30 +12
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,976 1,505 1,174
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 11.70% 10.53% 5.89%
As % of the Qualifications category 34.03% 26.55% 17.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,349 807 580
10th Percentile £33,250 £29,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,713 £41,939
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £70,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,500 £77,505
England median annual salary £57,500 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.54% +7.27% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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 South East with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 5,807 5,669 6,611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 34.38% 39.68% 33.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3,632 2,521 3,144
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £29,288
25th Percentile £38,000 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £65,063
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £78,750
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the South East

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in the South East.

Salary trend for Security Cleared in the South East

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the South East over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in the South East

Security Cleared
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Cleared within the South East 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
Thames Valley +5 920 £53,000 +16.23% 247
Berkshire +5 749 £52,550 +15.24% 171
Hampshire +2 676 £57,500 +4.55% 201
Surrey +6 285 £52,500 +5.00% 39
Buckinghamshire -2 122 £55,000 +19.59% 51
Oxfordshire -1 49 £52,500 +23.53% 25
Kent +25 37 £45,250 +6.47% 4
West Sussex +33 25 £67,500 +28.57% 20
Middlesex - 11 £35,000 -
Sussex - 5 £60,000 -
East Sussex +17 2 £92,500 +66.67% 1
Security Cleared
England

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 40 (2.02%) WebLogic
2 34 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 31 (1.57%) OpenStack
4 29 (1.47%) ArcGIS
4 29 (1.47%) GeoServer
5 28 (1.42%) SharePoint
6 19 (0.96%) Exchange Server 2010
7 14 (0.71%) CMS
7 14 (0.71%) Oracle Service Bus
8 12 (0.61%) Confluence
8 12 (0.61%) IIS
9 10 (0.51%) Red Hat Fuse
10 9 (0.46%) JBoss
11 6 (0.30%) Apache
12 5 (0.25%) nginx
13 4 (0.20%) TWiki
14 2 (0.10%) Documentum
14 2 (0.10%) Oracle Workflow
15 1 (0.051%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 1 (0.051%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 89 (4.50%) Microsoft Office
2 38 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (1.92%) Simulink
3 20 (1.01%) MS Visio
4 16 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.20%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.20%) Siemens NX
6 4 (0.20%) Sketch
7 2 (0.10%) Fireworks
7 2 (0.10%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 41 (2.07%) Siebel CRM
2 17 (0.86%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
4 5 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.20%) SAP CO
5 4 (0.20%) SAP FI
5 4 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
5 4 (0.20%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.15%) Primavera
6 3 (0.15%) Q-Pulse
6 3 (0.15%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.10%) C-CURE
7 2 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.10%) SAP HR
7 2 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.051%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 355 (17.97%) Azure
2 237 (11.99%) AWS
3 84 (4.25%) Microsoft 365
4 48 (2.43%) Serverless
5 42 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
6 39 (1.97%) Azure Monitor
7 37 (1.87%) SaaS
8 36 (1.82%) Entra ID
9 34 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
10 33 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
11 23 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
11 23 (1.16%) OCI
12 17 (0.86%) GitHub
13 16 (0.81%) Azure Storage
14 15 (0.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 12 (0.61%) AWS Lambda
16 11 (0.56%) Amazon EC2
16 11 (0.56%) Power Platform
16 11 (0.56%) Route 53
16 11 (0.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 156 (7.89%) Firewall
2 109 (5.52%) DNS
3 77 (3.90%) BGP
4 70 (3.54%) DHCP
5 63 (3.19%) VPN
6 38 (1.92%) OSPF
7 33 (1.67%) WAN
8 32 (1.62%) Cisco Firepower
9 29 (1.47%) SSL
10 28 (1.42%) Network Security
11 26 (1.32%) 5G
12 25 (1.27%) Cisco ASA
13 22 (1.11%) Wireless
14 20 (1.01%) LAN
15 19 (0.96%) DMVPN
15 19 (0.96%) EIGRP
16 18 (0.91%) SAN
17 17 (0.86%) MPLS
17 17 (0.86%) TCP/IP
17 17 (0.86%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (3.09%) NoSQL
3 60 (3.04%) Relational Database
4 44 (2.23%) SQL Server
5 34 (1.72%) GIS
6 33 (1.67%) Oracle BI EE
6 33 (1.67%) Siebel EIM
7 32 (1.62%) Hadoop
7 32 (1.62%) MongoDB
8 29 (1.47%) QGIS
9 25 (1.27%) Oracle Database
10 22 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
11 15 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
11 15 (0.76%) Oracle Database 11g
12 14 (0.71%) Oracle Database 10g
12 14 (0.71%) VLDB
13 9 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
14 8 (0.40%) Big Data
14 8 (0.40%) Power BI
15 7 (0.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 101 (5.11%) Jenkins
2 88 (4.45%) Git
3 43 (2.18%) GitLab
4 38 (1.92%) Visual Studio
5 31 (1.57%) Selenium
6 27 (1.37%) JIRA
7 24 (1.21%) Ant
8 19 (0.96%) Subversion
9 17 (0.86%) Vagrant
10 16 (0.81%) JUnit
11 15 (0.76%) CMake
12 12 (0.61%) TestRail
13 11 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
14 10 (0.51%) Cucumber
14 10 (0.51%) Rational DOORS
14 10 (0.51%) Trac
15 9 (0.46%) MSI
16 8 (0.40%) eggPlant
17 7 (0.35%) REST Assured
17 7 (0.35%) Robot Framework
General
1 361 (18.27%) Social Skills
2 156 (7.89%) Aerospace
3 131 (6.63%) Public Sector
4 89 (4.50%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (2.88%) Military
6 48 (2.43%) Finance
7 47 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
8 44 (2.23%) Telecoms
9 41 (2.07%) Police
10 32 (1.62%) Manufacturing
11 30 (1.52%) Electronics
12 23 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 23 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (0.71%) Back Office
14 12 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
14 12 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
14 12 (0.61%) Marketing
14 12 (0.61%) Retail
15 10 (0.51%) Law
16 9 (0.46%) Legal
Job Titles
1 294 (14.88%) Senior
2 256 (12.96%) Architect
3 214 (10.83%) Developer
4 182 (9.21%) Analyst
5 179 (9.06%) Software Engineer
6 129 (6.53%) Systems Engineer
7 107 (5.41%) Network Engineer
8 101 (5.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 98 (4.96%) Lead
10 75 (3.80%) Senior Software Engineer
11 67 (3.39%) Integration Engineer
12 63 (3.19%) Support Analyst
13 59 (2.99%) Consultant
14 58 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
15 57 (2.88%) Senior Developer
16 49 (2.48%) Administrator
16 49 (2.48%) Network Architect
17 44 (2.23%) Applications Support
17 44 (2.23%) C++ Software Engineer
18 42 (2.13%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (4.76%) .NET
2 71 (3.59%) Node.js
3 66 (3.34%) REST
4 64 (3.24%) Spring
5 57 (2.88%) React
6 54 (2.73%) CSS
7 48 (2.43%) XML
8 46 (2.33%) AngularJS
9 44 (2.23%) Web Services
10 40 (2.02%) HTML
11 39 (1.97%) Spring Boot
12 36 (1.82%) Elastic Stack
13 32 (1.62%) .NET Core
13 32 (1.62%) Kafka
13 32 (1.62%) Leaflet
13 32 (1.62%) OpenLayers
14 31 (1.57%) Apache Camel
14 31 (1.57%) Hibernate
14 31 (1.57%) JSON
15 30 (1.52%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 84 (4.25%) Algorithms
2 80 (4.05%) Management Information System
3 62 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
4 46 (2.33%) Data Centre
4 46 (2.33%) PKI
5 45 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
6 38 (1.92%) Product Ownership
7 31 (1.57%) Driving Licence
8 30 (1.52%) CMDB
8 30 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
9 24 (1.21%) Private Cloud
10 21 (1.06%) Mainframe
10 21 (1.06%) Satnav
11 20 (1.01%) Client/Server
12 19 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
13 17 (0.86%) FPGA
13 17 (0.86%) IoT
14 15 (0.76%) VHDL
15 13 (0.66%) Digital Signage
16 12 (0.61%) Analogue Electronics
Operating Systems
1 375 (18.98%) Windows
2 320 (16.19%) Linux
3 156 (7.89%) Windows Server
4 85 (4.30%) Windows 10
5 77 (3.90%) Windows Server 2016
6 70 (3.54%) Windows Server 2019
7 60 (3.04%) Unix
8 53 (2.68%) CentOS
9 44 (2.23%) Windows 7
10 42 (2.13%) Windows Server 2012
11 39 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 39 (1.97%) Ubuntu
12 19 (0.96%) Android
13 16 (0.81%) Embedded Linux
14 14 (0.71%) Solaris
15 12 (0.61%) Windows XP
16 11 (0.56%) Windows NT
17 8 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
18 5 (0.25%) Rocky
19 3 (0.15%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 508 (25.71%) Agile
2 453 (22.93%) Problem-Solving
3 320 (16.19%) Actionable Insight
4 290 (14.68%) DevOps
5 265 (13.41%) Software Engineering
6 214 (10.83%) ITIL
7 167 (8.45%) Collaborative Working
8 166 (8.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 155 (7.84%) Test Automation
10 142 (7.19%) Customer Service
11 135 (6.83%) Computer Science
12 129 (6.53%) Project Delivery
13 126 (6.38%) Project Management
13 126 (6.38%) Service Management
14 124 (6.28%) Cybersecurity
15 115 (5.82%) Scrum
16 107 (5.41%) Mentoring
17 93 (4.71%) Artificial Intelligence
18 92 (4.66%) Mathematics
19 89 (4.50%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 275 (13.92%) Java
1 275 (13.92%) Python
2 246 (12.45%) SQL
3 200 (10.12%) PowerShell
4 193 (9.77%) C++
5 168 (8.50%) JavaScript
6 133 (6.73%) C#
7 89 (4.50%) C
8 39 (1.97%) Fortran
9 32 (1.62%) Shell Script
10 29 (1.47%) Bash
10 29 (1.47%) Kotlin
11 24 (1.21%) VB
12 23 (1.16%) PL/SQL
13 22 (1.11%) VBScript
14 21 (1.06%) MATLAB
15 19 (0.96%) COBOL
16 15 (0.76%) TypeScript
17 14 (0.71%) Bicep
18 13 (0.66%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,227 (62.10%) SC Cleared
2 538 (27.23%) DV Cleared
3 328 (16.60%) Degree
4 103 (5.21%) Cisco Certification
5 93 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 76 (3.85%) CCNP
7 58 (2.94%) CCNA
8 51 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
9 49 (2.48%) CTC Cleared
10 41 (2.07%) PhD
11 39 (1.97%) AWS Certification
12 31 (1.57%) Master's Degree
13 29 (1.47%) NVQ Level 3
14 26 (1.32%) Azure Certification
15 23 (1.16%) HNC
16 22 (1.11%) DBS Check
17 21 (1.06%) A+ Certification
18 19 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
19 18 (0.91%) CISSP
20 17 (0.86%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (4.25%) SLA
2 79 (4.00%) QA
3 32 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
4 22 (1.11%) NIST
5 21 (1.06%) Software Quality Assurance
6 14 (0.71%) GDPR
7 13 (0.66%) Accessibility
7 13 (0.66%) GRC
8 11 (0.56%) NCSC
9 10 (0.51%) COSHH
9 10 (0.51%) PMO
10 9 (0.46%) JSP 440
10 9 (0.46%) NIST 800
11 8 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 8 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 8 (0.40%) RMADS
12 5 (0.25%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.25%) WCAG
13 3 (0.15%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 182 (9.21%) Active Directory
2 101 (5.11%) Docker
3 80 (4.05%) Hyper-V
4 71 (3.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 43 (2.18%) Firmware
6 32 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
7 20 (1.01%) Virtual Servers
8 19 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
9 16 (0.81%) pfSense
9 16 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
10 15 (0.76%) vSphere
11 14 (0.71%) KVM
11 14 (0.71%) Oracle RAC
12 10 (0.51%) NFS
13 4 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
13 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
14 2 (0.10%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.051%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 131 (6.63%) Ansible
2 122 (6.17%) Kubernetes
3 110 (5.57%) SCCM
4 96 (4.86%) Terraform
5 65 (3.29%) SCOM
5 65 (3.29%) WSUS
6 43 (2.18%) Microsoft Intune
7 40 (2.02%) vCenter Server
8 33 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
9 28 (1.42%) FortiGate
10 22 (1.11%) OpenSSO
11 20 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 19 (0.96%) Grafana
12 19 (0.96%) NetBackup
13 16 (0.81%) ZABBIX
14 15 (0.76%) EMC NetWorker
15 14 (0.71%) Data Guard
15 14 (0.71%) Oracle RMAN
16 12 (0.61%) Rancher
17 11 (0.56%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 371 (18.78%) Microsoft
2 195 (9.87%) Cisco
3 175 (8.86%) Juniper
4 139 (7.03%) Oracle
5 125 (6.33%) VMware
6 51 (2.58%) HP
7 47 (2.38%) ServiceNow
8 45 (2.28%) Fortinet
9 42 (2.13%) Remedy
10 41 (2.07%) Siebel
11 37 (1.87%) Xilinx
12 32 (1.62%) McAfee
13 31 (1.57%) WSO2
14 29 (1.47%) ESRI
14 29 (1.47%) F5
15 27 (1.37%) Dynatrace
16 25 (1.27%) Veeam
17 24 (1.21%) Red Hat
18 19 (0.96%) Unisys
19 16 (0.81%) EMC