Security Cleared Jobs in the UK excluding London

Security Clearance
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 16 23 32
Rank change year-on-year +7 +9 +18
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 6,344 5,588 5,491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.86% 9.48% 7.65%
As % of the Qualifications category 32.51% 25.77% 23.99%
Number of salaries quoted 3,774 2,283 2,478
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,932 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% -2.78%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £66,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 19,516 21,687 22,889
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.25% 36.78% 31.88%
Number of salaries quoted 12,220 8,051 10,349
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,350 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% +4.70% +1.01%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £79,000 £80,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the UK excluding London

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Security Cleared in the UK excluding London

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in the UK excluding London

Security Cleared
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Cleared within the UK excluding 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
South East +7 1,976 £55,000 +11.11% 587
South West +3 1,891 £56,000 +1.82% 460
North of England +10 804 £55,000 -4.76% 264
Midlands -7 630 £55,000 - 206
North West -1 579 £55,000 -4.35% 196
West Midlands +12 438 £55,000 -2.22% 148
East of England +23 421 £55,000 - 135
Scotland -51 313 £58,000 +16.00% 117
Wales +4 230 £57,291 +105.01% 28
East Midlands -22 192 £44,225 -15.76% 57
Yorkshire +23 186 £60,000 -9.09% 43
Northern Ireland +15 109 £60,000 +80.45% 36
North East -35 39 £43,072 -4.28% 25
Security Cleared
UK

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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
1 293 (4.62%) ArcGIS
2 284 (4.48%) GeoServer
3 140 (2.21%) Confluence
4 112 (1.77%) WebLogic
5 92 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 85 (1.34%) SharePoint
7 81 (1.28%) IIS
8 76 (1.20%) Apache
9 48 (0.76%) Apache Spark
10 44 (0.69%) Oracle Service Bus
11 34 (0.54%) OpenStack
12 24 (0.38%) nginx
13 19 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2010
13 19 (0.30%) JBoss
13 19 (0.30%) Red Hat Fuse
14 18 (0.28%) Tomcat
15 17 (0.27%) Jupyter
16 15 (0.24%) CMS
16 15 (0.24%) SharePoint 2010
16 15 (0.24%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 256 (4.04%) Microsoft Office
2 141 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 125 (1.97%) Simulink
4 77 (1.21%) MS Visio
5 74 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 40 (0.63%) Sketch
7 30 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
8 10 (0.16%) AutoCAD
9 6 (0.095%) Trello
9 6 (0.095%) Windchill
10 4 (0.063%) EPLAN
10 4 (0.063%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.063%) Siemens NX
10 4 (0.063%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.063%) Stateflow
11 3 (0.047%) Revit
12 2 (0.032%) Abaqus
12 2 (0.032%) Fireworks
12 2 (0.032%) InDesign
12 2 (0.032%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 89 (1.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 73 (1.15%) Remedy ITSM
3 49 (0.77%) Primavera
4 41 (0.65%) Siebel CRM
5 37 (0.58%) NEC Housing
6 22 (0.35%) Maximo
7 11 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
8 9 (0.14%) Teamcenter
9 8 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
10 6 (0.095%) Oracle Applications
11 5 (0.079%) Oracle ERP
12 4 (0.063%) SAP CO
12 4 (0.063%) SAP ERP
12 4 (0.063%) SAP FI
12 4 (0.063%) SAP FI/CO
13 3 (0.047%) Q-Pulse
13 3 (0.047%) Workday HCM
14 2 (0.032%) C-CURE
14 2 (0.032%) Oracle Cash Management
14 2 (0.032%) SAP Business ByDesign
Cloud Services
1 1,251 (19.72%) Azure
2 1,058 (16.68%) AWS
3 214 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
4 122 (1.92%) SaaS
5 111 (1.75%) OpenShift
6 106 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
7 101 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
8 94 (1.48%) Serverless
9 88 (1.39%) GCP
10 72 (1.13%) Power Platform
11 66 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
12 63 (0.99%) Entra ID
13 60 (0.95%) Miro
14 59 (0.93%) PaaS
15 54 (0.85%) AWS Lambda
16 52 (0.82%) Cloud Computing
17 46 (0.73%) AWS CloudFormation
17 46 (0.73%) IaaS
18 41 (0.65%) Amazon SQS
18 41 (0.65%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 389 (6.13%) Firewall
2 240 (3.78%) DNS
3 190 (2.99%) WAN
4 156 (2.46%) TCP/IP
5 142 (2.24%) BGP
6 129 (2.03%) DHCP
7 121 (1.91%) Network Security
8 114 (1.80%) LAN
9 87 (1.37%) VPN
10 85 (1.34%) Wireless
11 82 (1.29%) SAN
12 68 (1.07%) Cisco ASA
12 68 (1.07%) SSL
13 66 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
14 61 (0.96%) MPLS
15 52 (0.82%) SD-WAN
16 50 (0.79%) OSPF
17 46 (0.73%) IPsec
18 44 (0.69%) Software-Defined Radio
19 41 (0.65%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 393 (6.19%) PostgreSQL
2 320 (5.04%) GIS
3 284 (4.48%) QGIS
4 161 (2.54%) SQL Server
5 130 (2.05%) Oracle Database
6 125 (1.97%) Relational Database
7 96 (1.51%) NoSQL
8 83 (1.31%) Hadoop
9 81 (1.28%) Big Data
10 78 (1.23%) MongoDB
11 59 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
12 55 (0.87%) RDBMS
13 53 (0.84%) Power BI
14 45 (0.71%) Oracle Database 11g
15 44 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
15 44 (0.69%) Oracle Database 10g
15 44 (0.69%) VLDB
16 38 (0.60%) MySQL
17 33 (0.52%) Oracle BI EE
17 33 (0.52%) Siebel EIM
Development Applications
1 260 (4.10%) JIRA
2 225 (3.55%) Git
3 170 (2.68%) Jenkins
4 134 (2.11%) Visual Studio
5 127 (2.00%) GitLab
6 92 (1.45%) Bitbucket
6 92 (1.45%) Rational DOORS
7 59 (0.93%) Sourcetree
8 52 (0.82%) Selenium
9 39 (0.61%) Rational Rhapsody
10 28 (0.44%) Subversion
11 26 (0.41%) Cucumber
12 24 (0.38%) Ant
13 23 (0.36%) LabVIEW
13 23 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
14 21 (0.33%) JUnit
15 17 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 17 (0.27%) Vagrant
16 16 (0.25%) SonarQube
17 15 (0.24%) CMake
General
1 1,244 (19.61%) Social Skills
2 548 (8.64%) Aerospace
3 453 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 436 (6.87%) Finance
5 320 (5.04%) Analytical Skills
6 255 (4.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 229 (3.61%) Military
8 184 (2.90%) Games
9 159 (2.51%) Telecoms
10 146 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
11 135 (2.13%) Police
12 128 (2.02%) Manufacturing
13 113 (1.78%) Electronics
14 111 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
15 87 (1.37%) Retail
16 83 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
17 55 (0.87%) Local Government
18 43 (0.68%) Law
19 36 (0.57%) Legal
20 29 (0.46%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1,114 (17.56%) Senior
2 770 (12.14%) Software Engineer
3 727 (11.46%) Architect
4 540 (8.51%) Developer
5 491 (7.74%) Lead
6 441 (6.95%) Systems Engineer
7 440 (6.94%) Analyst
8 324 (5.11%) Senior Software Engineer
9 299 (4.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 289 (4.56%) Network Engineer
11 283 (4.46%) Consultant
12 245 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
13 243 (3.83%) Project Manager
14 177 (2.79%) DevOps Engineer
15 172 (2.71%) Administrator
16 159 (2.51%) Senior Developer
17 154 (2.43%) Support Engineer
18 130 (2.05%) Security Consultant
19 113 (1.78%) Business Analyst
20 108 (1.70%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 436 (6.87%) React
2 415 (6.54%) .NET
3 287 (4.52%) CSS
3 287 (4.52%) Leaflet
3 287 (4.52%) OpenLayers
4 284 (4.48%) PostGIS
5 262 (4.13%) .NET Core
6 166 (2.62%) Node.js
7 162 (2.55%) AngularJS
8 151 (2.38%) Spring
9 137 (2.16%) REST
10 124 (1.95%) Spring Boot
11 102 (1.61%) HTML
12 89 (1.40%) RabbitMQ
13 87 (1.37%) XML
14 79 (1.25%) Unity (Game Engine)
15 75 (1.18%) Web Services
16 70 (1.10%) RESTful
17 68 (1.07%) JSON
18 66 (1.04%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 263 (4.15%) Management Information System
2 206 (3.25%) Driving Licence
3 186 (2.93%) Algorithms
4 181 (2.85%) Self-Motivation
5 160 (2.52%) Data Centre
6 123 (1.94%) Public Cloud
7 102 (1.61%) Private Cloud
8 95 (1.50%) Product Ownership
9 92 (1.45%) PKI
10 86 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
10 86 (1.36%) Virtual Reality
11 85 (1.34%) Cloud Native
12 83 (1.31%) Virtual Team
13 68 (1.07%) Operational Technology
14 67 (1.06%) Security Operations Centre
15 56 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
16 55 (0.87%) Clustering
16 55 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
17 48 (0.76%) Cyber Defence
18 46 (0.73%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 1,022 (16.11%) Linux
2 890 (14.03%) Windows
3 319 (5.03%) Windows Server
4 181 (2.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 173 (2.73%) Unix
6 148 (2.33%) Windows 10
7 130 (2.05%) CentOS
8 121 (1.91%) Windows Server 2016
9 118 (1.86%) Windows Server 2019
10 108 (1.70%) Ubuntu
11 88 (1.39%) Windows Server 2012
12 70 (1.10%) Embedded Linux
13 62 (0.98%) Solaris
14 61 (0.96%) Windows 7
15 32 (0.50%) Android
15 32 (0.50%) Debian
16 16 (0.25%) AIX
17 13 (0.20%) VMS
18 12 (0.19%) Windows XP
19 11 (0.17%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,828 (28.81%) Agile
2 1,491 (23.50%) Actionable Insight
3 1,145 (18.05%) Software Engineering
4 1,097 (17.29%) DevOps
5 1,037 (16.35%) Problem-Solving
6 664 (10.47%) Cybersecurity
7 575 (9.06%) Project Management
8 523 (8.24%) ITIL
9 480 (7.57%) Scrum
10 455 (7.17%) Collaborative Working
11 443 (6.98%) Mentoring
12 420 (6.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 376 (5.93%) Systems Engineering
14 362 (5.71%) Stakeholder Management
15 308 (4.85%) Web Development
16 302 (4.76%) CI/CD
17 295 (4.65%) Validation
18 284 (4.48%) Customer Service
19 272 (4.29%) Service Management
20 260 (4.10%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 1,071 (16.88%) Python
2 646 (10.18%) Java
3 640 (10.09%) JavaScript
4 485 (7.65%) C#
5 450 (7.09%) SQL
6 409 (6.45%) PowerShell
7 295 (4.65%) C++
8 265 (4.18%) C
9 247 (3.89%) Bash
10 144 (2.27%) MATLAB
11 103 (1.62%) TypeScript
12 88 (1.39%) Shell Script
13 60 (0.95%) Rust
14 57 (0.90%) PL/SQL
15 53 (0.84%) Embedded C
16 44 (0.69%) Ada
16 44 (0.69%) Fortran
17 31 (0.49%) VB
18 29 (0.46%) Kotlin
19 26 (0.41%) Go
Qualifications
1 3,699 (58.31%) SC Cleared
2 1,329 (20.95%) DV Cleared
3 1,068 (16.83%) Degree
4 536 (8.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 204 (3.22%) Cisco Certification
6 134 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 131 (2.06%) CCNP
8 130 (2.05%) CCNA
9 96 (1.51%) CISSP
10 91 (1.43%) AWS Certification
11 87 (1.37%) CISM
12 82 (1.29%) Azure Certification
13 73 (1.15%) CESG Certified Professional
14 71 (1.12%) DBS Check
15 61 (0.96%) CRISC
16 58 (0.91%) Master's Degree
17 57 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
17 57 (0.90%) PhD
18 56 (0.88%) CTC Cleared
18 56 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 224 (3.53%) SLA
2 177 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 155 (2.44%) Accessibility
4 131 (2.06%) QA
5 97 (1.53%) NIST
6 96 (1.51%) NCSC
7 67 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
8 51 (0.80%) WCAG
9 50 (0.79%) ISO 9001
10 47 (0.74%) PCI DSS
11 45 (0.71%) NIST 800
12 39 (0.61%) GDPR
12 39 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 15288
13 38 (0.60%) Def Stans
14 36 (0.57%) GRC
14 36 (0.57%) JSP 440
15 34 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 17025
16 30 (0.47%) PMO
16 30 (0.47%) RMADS
17 29 (0.46%) COBIT
System Software
1 432 (6.81%) Active Directory
2 315 (4.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 293 (4.62%) Docker
4 175 (2.76%) Hyper-V
5 102 (1.61%) Firmware
6 74 (1.17%) vSphere
7 73 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
8 57 (0.90%) VMware NSX
9 53 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
10 52 (0.82%) KVM
11 44 (0.69%) Oracle RAC
12 22 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
13 21 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
14 16 (0.25%) pfSense
15 15 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
16 12 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
17 11 (0.17%) NFS
18 8 (0.13%) XenDesktop
19 5 (0.079%) SRDF
20 4 (0.063%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 420 (6.62%) Ansible
2 352 (5.55%) Kubernetes
3 268 (4.22%) Terraform
4 202 (3.18%) SCCM
5 132 (2.08%) Puppet
6 83 (1.31%) vCenter Server
7 82 (1.29%) WSUS
8 78 (1.23%) SCOM
9 66 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
10 47 (0.74%) Grafana
11 44 (0.69%) Data Guard
11 44 (0.69%) Oracle RMAN
12 39 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
13 34 (0.54%) EnCase
14 32 (0.50%) FortiGate
15 31 (0.49%) NetBackup
16 29 (0.46%) EMC NetWorker
16 29 (0.46%) OpenView
17 26 (0.41%) OpenSSO
17 26 (0.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1,088 (17.15%) Microsoft
2 479 (7.55%) VMware
3 429 (6.76%) Cisco
4 362 (5.71%) Oracle
5 289 (4.56%) ESRI
6 262 (4.13%) Juniper
7 175 (2.76%) Red Hat
8 102 (1.61%) Remedy
9 97 (1.53%) ServiceNow
10 91 (1.43%) HP
11 89 (1.40%) Sparx
12 82 (1.29%) IBM
13 74 (1.17%) Dell
14 67 (1.06%) Fortinet
15 60 (0.95%) Google
16 57 (0.90%) McAfee
17 53 (0.84%) CheckPoint
17 53 (0.84%) NEC
18 51 (0.80%) Palo Alto
19 50 (0.79%) Veeam