SC Cleared Jobs in England

Security Check (SC) Clearance
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 63 121
Rank change year-on-year +13 +58 -18
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 3,802 4,286 4,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.40% 4.85% 3.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 15.54% 14.77% 11.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,355 2,336 2,113
10th Percentile £31,500 £35,388 £32,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,214 £41,939
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,032 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.38% +9.15% -
75th Percentile £70,250 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,000 £57,100
% change year-on-year -7.26% +8.58% +3.82%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 24,459 29,017 35,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.31% 32.86% 26.49%
Number of salaries quoted 15,748 13,231 16,717
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,228 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,700 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.83% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in England

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for SC Cleared in England

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in England

SC Cleared
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the England region over the 6 months to 17 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 +23 1,227 £55,000 - 320
South West -1 887 £53,250 -4.05% 243
London -16 597 £70,000 +3.70% 239
North of England +24 567 £57,500 -4.17% 182
North West +8 389 £55,000 -8.33% 127
Midlands -2 386 £55,000 -8.33% 124
West Midlands +2 249 £55,000 -8.33% 85
Yorkshire +62 151 £60,000 -10.45% 34
East Midlands -8 137 £50,000 -4.76% 39
East of England -16 121 £52,000 -6.31% 64
North East -27 27 £43,072 -9.32% 21
SC Cleared
UK

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 204 (5.37%) ArcGIS
2 196 (5.16%) GeoServer
3 122 (3.21%) Confluence
4 89 (2.34%) SharePoint
5 77 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
6 64 (1.68%) WebLogic
7 48 (1.26%) Apache
8 39 (1.03%) OpenStack
9 35 (0.92%) Apache Spark
10 28 (0.74%) IIS
11 18 (0.47%) Exchange Server 2010
12 16 (0.42%) Red Hat Fuse
13 15 (0.39%) CMS
13 15 (0.39%) JBoss
14 14 (0.37%) Oracle Service Bus
15 10 (0.26%) SharePoint 2010
15 10 (0.26%) SharePoint 2013
16 7 (0.18%) Drupal
17 5 (0.13%) nginx
18 4 (0.11%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 137 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
2 52 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 46 (1.21%) Simulink
4 36 (0.95%) MS Visio
5 28 (0.74%) Sketch
6 22 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
7 16 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 9 (0.24%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.11%) EPLAN
9 4 (0.11%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.079%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.053%) Abaqus
11 2 (0.053%) Fireworks
11 2 (0.053%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.053%) InDesign
12 1 (0.026%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.026%) Blender
12 1 (0.026%) Revit
Business Applications
1 67 (1.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 46 (1.21%) Remedy ITSM
3 41 (1.08%) Siebel CRM
4 19 (0.50%) Maximo
5 8 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
7 6 (0.16%) Elite 3E
8 5 (0.13%) Primavera
8 5 (0.13%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.11%) Oracle Cash Management
9 4 (0.11%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.11%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.11%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
9 4 (0.11%) SAP HR
9 4 (0.11%) SAP WM
10 3 (0.079%) Q-Pulse
10 3 (0.079%) SAP CX
10 3 (0.079%) SAP GTS
10 3 (0.079%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 943 (24.80%) Azure
2 758 (19.94%) AWS
3 188 (4.94%) Microsoft 365
4 116 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
5 115 (3.02%) Amazon EKS
6 105 (2.76%) Serverless
7 99 (2.60%) GCP
8 96 (2.52%) Power Platform
9 93 (2.45%) SaaS
10 75 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
11 72 (1.89%) OpenShift
12 65 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
13 55 (1.45%) Amazon ECS
14 52 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
15 50 (1.32%) PaaS
16 44 (1.16%) Miro
17 39 (1.03%) Entra ID
18 37 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
18 37 (0.97%) PowerApps
19 36 (0.95%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 226 (5.94%) Firewall
2 135 (3.55%) DNS
3 94 (2.47%) WAN
4 87 (2.29%) TCP/IP
5 74 (1.95%) DHCP
6 72 (1.89%) VPN
7 69 (1.81%) Network Security
8 62 (1.63%) Wireless
9 61 (1.60%) SAN
10 57 (1.50%) LAN
11 56 (1.47%) BGP
12 53 (1.39%) SSL
13 40 (1.05%) SD-WAN
14 38 (1.00%) IPsec
15 34 (0.89%) MPLS
16 33 (0.87%) Cisco Firepower
17 32 (0.84%) AMQP
18 27 (0.71%) Software-Defined Radio
18 27 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
19 22 (0.58%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 290 (7.63%) PostgreSQL
2 211 (5.55%) GIS
3 196 (5.16%) QGIS
4 111 (2.92%) Relational Database
5 104 (2.74%) SQL Server
6 87 (2.29%) NoSQL
7 68 (1.79%) Hadoop
8 63 (1.66%) Big Data
9 60 (1.58%) Power BI
10 55 (1.45%) Oracle Database
11 50 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
11 50 (1.32%) MongoDB
12 42 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
13 36 (0.95%) RDBMS
14 33 (0.87%) Oracle BI EE
14 33 (0.87%) Siebel EIM
15 31 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
16 29 (0.76%) MySQL
17 27 (0.71%) Cloudera CDH
18 19 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 213 (5.60%) Git
2 186 (4.89%) Jenkins
3 183 (4.81%) JIRA
4 105 (2.76%) Visual Studio
5 96 (2.52%) Bitbucket
6 80 (2.10%) GitLab
7 59 (1.55%) Sourcetree
8 35 (0.92%) Rational DOORS
9 30 (0.79%) Cucumber
9 30 (0.79%) Selenium
10 28 (0.74%) JUnit
11 24 (0.63%) Ant
12 23 (0.60%) Subversion
13 17 (0.45%) Vagrant
14 16 (0.42%) REST Assured
14 16 (0.42%) TestNG
15 15 (0.39%) CMake
15 15 (0.39%) LabVIEW
16 14 (0.37%) WebDriver
17 12 (0.32%) JMeter
General
1 810 (21.30%) Social Skills
2 374 (9.84%) Public Sector
3 280 (7.36%) Aerospace
4 246 (6.47%) Finance
5 224 (5.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 181 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
7 162 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
8 123 (3.24%) Games
9 106 (2.79%) Military
10 95 (2.50%) Telecoms
11 84 (2.21%) Police
12 75 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
13 50 (1.32%) Electronics
13 50 (1.32%) Manufacturing
14 47 (1.24%) Retail
15 45 (1.18%) Law
16 43 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
17 33 (0.87%) Marketing
18 21 (0.55%) Legal
19 16 (0.42%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 724 (19.04%) Senior
2 493 (12.97%) Architect
3 443 (11.65%) Developer
4 415 (10.92%) Software Engineer
5 270 (7.10%) Lead
6 247 (6.50%) Analyst
7 204 (5.37%) Solutions Architect
8 201 (5.29%) Senior Software Engineer
9 185 (4.87%) Consultant
10 170 (4.47%) Systems Engineer
11 166 (4.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 160 (4.21%) Project Manager
13 144 (3.79%) Network Engineer
14 125 (3.29%) Senior Developer
15 124 (3.26%) DevOps Engineer
16 87 (2.29%) Security Consultant
17 86 (2.26%) Support Engineer
18 84 (2.21%) Business Analyst
19 81 (2.13%) Designer
20 80 (2.10%) 3D Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 319 (8.39%) .NET
2 302 (7.94%) React
3 199 (5.23%) Leaflet
4 198 (5.21%) OpenLayers
5 196 (5.16%) PostGIS
6 195 (5.13%) CSS
7 183 (4.81%) .NET Core
8 143 (3.76%) REST
9 140 (3.68%) Spring
10 134 (3.52%) Node.js
11 116 (3.05%) AngularJS
12 115 (3.02%) Spring Boot
13 80 (2.10%) HTML
13 80 (2.10%) Unity (Game Engine)
14 78 (2.05%) Web Services
15 73 (1.92%) XML
16 62 (1.63%) RabbitMQ
17 61 (1.60%) RESTful
18 55 (1.45%) SOAP
19 53 (1.39%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 126 (3.31%) Management Information System
2 102 (2.68%) Data Centre
3 92 (2.42%) Product Ownership
4 91 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
5 82 (2.16%) Virtual Reality
6 78 (2.05%) Driving Licence
7 67 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
8 66 (1.74%) Virtual Team
9 55 (1.45%) Private Cloud
10 54 (1.42%) Algorithms
11 49 (1.29%) Cloud Native
11 49 (1.29%) Operational Technology
12 48 (1.26%) Public Cloud
13 46 (1.21%) CMDB
14 43 (1.13%) Cyberattack
15 39 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
16 37 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
16 37 (0.97%) PKI
17 28 (0.74%) Clustering
17 28 (0.74%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 572 (15.04%) Windows
2 546 (14.36%) Linux
3 259 (6.81%) Windows Server
4 115 (3.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 91 (2.39%) Windows 10
6 89 (2.34%) Ubuntu
7 83 (2.18%) CentOS
8 79 (2.08%) Unix
9 59 (1.55%) Windows Server 2016
10 50 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
11 32 (0.84%) Windows 7
11 32 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
12 28 (0.74%) Debian
13 27 (0.71%) Android
14 16 (0.42%) AIX
14 16 (0.42%) Solaris
15 14 (0.37%) VMS
16 12 (0.32%) Windows XP
17 9 (0.24%) zOS
18 8 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,196 (31.46%) Agile
2 854 (22.46%) Actionable Insight
3 841 (22.12%) DevOps
4 685 (18.02%) Software Engineering
5 620 (16.31%) Problem-Solving
6 387 (10.18%) Scrum
7 377 (9.92%) Cybersecurity
8 350 (9.21%) Project Management
9 293 (7.71%) ITIL
10 255 (6.71%) Collaborative Working
11 248 (6.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 237 (6.23%) Stakeholder Management
13 236 (6.21%) Mentoring
14 235 (6.18%) CI/CD
15 216 (5.68%) Service Management
16 202 (5.31%) Web Development
17 190 (5.00%) Project Delivery
18 189 (4.97%) Microservices
19 183 (4.81%) Kanban
20 179 (4.71%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 596 (15.68%) Python
2 463 (12.18%) Java
3 453 (11.91%) JavaScript
4 354 (9.31%) SQL
5 325 (8.55%) C#
6 291 (7.65%) PowerShell
7 157 (4.13%) C++
8 93 (2.45%) Bash
9 83 (2.18%) C
10 70 (1.84%) TypeScript
11 58 (1.53%) MATLAB
12 44 (1.16%) Shell Script
13 29 (0.76%) PL/SQL
14 28 (0.74%) Kotlin
15 23 (0.60%) Go
16 22 (0.58%) Bicep
17 18 (0.47%) VB
18 17 (0.45%) Groovy
18 17 (0.45%) Perl
18 17 (0.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3,802 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 648 (17.04%) Degree
3 628 (16.52%) DV Cleared
4 206 (5.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 128 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 103 (2.71%) AWS Certification
7 100 (2.63%) CISM
8 94 (2.47%) CISSP
9 91 (2.39%) Cisco Certification
10 86 (2.26%) Azure Certification
11 83 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
12 64 (1.68%) CESG Certified Professional
13 63 (1.66%) CCNP
13 63 (1.66%) CRISC
14 61 (1.60%) CCNA
15 56 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
16 51 (1.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 36 (0.95%) A+ Certification
18 33 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 30 (0.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (3.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 98 (2.58%) SLA
3 82 (2.16%) Accessibility
4 80 (2.10%) NCSC
5 74 (1.95%) QA
6 51 (1.34%) NIST
7 37 (0.97%) GDPR
8 35 (0.92%) WCAG
9 34 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 30 (0.79%) PMO
11 26 (0.68%) Def Stans
12 23 (0.60%) GRC
13 22 (0.58%) Data Quality
14 21 (0.55%) COBIT
14 21 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
14 21 (0.55%) Software Quality Assurance
15 19 (0.50%) JSP 440
16 16 (0.42%) ISO 9001
16 16 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 15 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 286 (7.52%) Active Directory
2 243 (6.39%) Docker
3 169 (4.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 124 (3.26%) Hyper-V
5 45 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
6 36 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
7 32 (0.84%) vSphere
8 31 (0.82%) Firmware
9 22 (0.58%) KVM
9 22 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
10 16 (0.42%) pfSense
11 14 (0.37%) Oracle RAC
12 10 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
12 10 (0.26%) NFS
12 10 (0.26%) XenDesktop
13 9 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
14 8 (0.21%) VMware NSX
15 4 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
15 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.11%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 272 (7.15%) Kubernetes
2 260 (6.84%) Ansible
3 222 (5.84%) Terraform
4 150 (3.95%) SCCM
5 73 (1.92%) Puppet
6 62 (1.63%) SCOM
7 58 (1.53%) vCenter Server
8 47 (1.24%) WSUS
9 45 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
10 35 (0.92%) Grafana
10 35 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
11 33 (0.87%) NetBackup
12 29 (0.76%) EMC NetWorker
13 24 (0.63%) ZABBIX
14 22 (0.58%) OpenSSO
15 21 (0.55%) OpenView
16 20 (0.53%) Prometheus
17 19 (0.50%) Nagios
17 19 (0.50%) Progress Chef
18 16 (0.42%) Kibana
Vendors
1 708 (18.62%) Microsoft
2 267 (7.02%) VMware
3 227 (5.97%) Oracle
4 205 (5.39%) Cisco
5 202 (5.31%) ESRI
6 195 (5.13%) Juniper
7 96 (2.52%) ServiceNow
8 84 (2.21%) Red Hat
9 76 (2.00%) Google
10 74 (1.95%) HP
11 68 (1.79%) Remedy
12 67 (1.76%) Sparx
13 50 (1.32%) NetApp
14 45 (1.18%) IBM
15 41 (1.08%) Siebel
15 41 (1.08%) Veeam
16 40 (1.05%) Splunk
17 39 (1.03%) Citrix
18 37 (0.97%) EMC
19 36 (0.95%) WSO2