SC Cleared Jobs in the North West

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 57 42
Rank change year-on-year +8 -15 +32
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 409 432 696
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.83% 5.84% 7.23%
As % of the Qualifications category 16.76% 16.01% 23.91%
Number of salaries quoted 203 152 353
10th Percentile £37,500 £28,750 £28,300
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,250 £38,037
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,063 £53,112
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% +13.09% +1.17%
75th Percentile £65,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,906 £82,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,441 2,698 2,911
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 22.88% 36.50% 30.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,654 891 1,304
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +21.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,125 £62,995
90th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £54,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.17% +9.09% -

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the North West

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in the North West.

Salary trend for SC Cleared in the North West

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in the North West over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in the North West

SC Cleared
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Manchester -7 186 £60,000 -11.11% 63
Merseyside +9 104 £60,000 +84.62% 3
Cheshire +30 66 £55,000 +112.85% 12
Cumbria -1 29 £40,000 -37.01% 14
Lancashire -23 23 £50,000 +0.50% 28
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 61 (14.91%) ArcGIS
2 57 (13.94%) GeoServer
3 11 (2.69%) Apache
3 11 (2.69%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.96%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.96%) WebLogic
5 6 (1.47%) Confluence
5 6 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.24%) IIS
6 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (1.96%) MS Visio
1 8 (1.96%) Sketch
2 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.98%) AutoCAD
3 4 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (1.96%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (1.47%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.24%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 114 (27.87%) Azure
2 95 (23.23%) AWS
3 19 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
4 13 (3.18%) AWS CloudFormation
4 13 (3.18%) GCP
5 12 (2.93%) Miro
5 12 (2.93%) OpenShift
6 11 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (2.69%) Serverless
7 10 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (1.96%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (1.96%) Figma
8 8 (1.96%) Heroku
9 7 (1.71%) SaaS
10 6 (1.47%) IaaS
10 6 (1.47%) PaaS
11 5 (1.22%) dbt
11 5 (1.22%) Power Platform
12 4 (0.98%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.93%) DNS
2 11 (2.69%) AMQP
3 9 (2.20%) BGP
3 9 (2.20%) TCP/IP
4 8 (1.96%) Software-Defined Radio
4 8 (1.96%) SSL
5 7 (1.71%) Wireless
6 4 (0.98%) DHCP
6 4 (0.98%) Firewall
6 4 (0.98%) Internet
6 4 (0.98%) SAN
6 4 (0.98%) TETRA
7 3 (0.73%) LAN
7 3 (0.73%) Network Security
8 2 (0.49%) Cisco Firepower
8 2 (0.49%) PPP
9 1 (0.24%) Intranet
9 1 (0.24%) MPLS
9 1 (0.24%) OSPF
9 1 (0.24%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (14.18%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (13.94%) GIS
2 57 (13.94%) QGIS
3 11 (2.69%) Big Data
3 11 (2.69%) Cloudera CDH
3 11 (2.69%) Hadoop
3 11 (2.69%) SQL Server
4 10 (2.44%) RDBMS
4 10 (2.44%) Relational Database
5 8 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (1.96%) Oracle Database
6 5 (1.22%) Power BI
7 2 (0.49%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (3.42%) JIRA
2 6 (1.47%) GitLab
3 4 (0.98%) Git
4 3 (0.73%) Burp Suite
4 3 (0.73%) Metasploit
5 2 (0.49%) Appium
5 2 (0.49%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.49%) Eclipse
5 2 (0.49%) GDB
5 2 (0.49%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.49%) JUnit
5 2 (0.49%) Postman
5 2 (0.49%) REST Assured
5 2 (0.49%) Selenium
5 2 (0.49%) SoapUI
5 2 (0.49%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.49%) Subversion
5 2 (0.49%) TestNG
5 2 (0.49%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.49%) WebDriver
General
1 98 (23.96%) Social Skills
2 31 (7.58%) Public Sector
3 29 (7.09%) Finance
4 26 (6.36%) Aerospace
5 18 (4.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (3.42%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (2.44%) Military
8 8 (1.96%) Avionics
9 6 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.47%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.22%) Polish Language
11 4 (0.98%) Local Government
11 4 (0.98%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.49%) Banking
12 2 (0.49%) Games
12 2 (0.49%) Law
13 1 (0.24%) Electronics
13 1 (0.24%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.24%) Legal
13 1 (0.24%) Retail
Job Titles
1 95 (23.23%) Senior
2 75 (18.34%) Software Engineer
3 51 (12.47%) Architect
4 50 (12.22%) Lead
5 40 (9.78%) Senior Software Engineer
6 39 (9.54%) Systems Engineer
7 38 (9.29%) Developer
8 27 (6.60%) Solutions Architect
9 18 (4.40%) Project Manager
10 17 (4.16%) Analyst
11 15 (3.67%) Designer
11 15 (3.67%) Presales Solution Architect
12 12 (2.93%) Product Manager
13 11 (2.69%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
13 11 (2.69%) Information Assurance Manager
13 11 (2.69%) Information Manager
14 10 (2.44%) UI Designer
14 10 (2.44%) UI/UX Designer
14 10 (2.44%) UX Designer
15 9 (2.20%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (20.05%) React
2 57 (13.94%) Leaflet
2 57 (13.94%) OpenLayers
2 57 (13.94%) PostGIS
3 55 (13.45%) .NET
4 50 (12.22%) CSS
5 49 (11.98%) .NET Core
6 23 (5.62%) Node.js
6 23 (5.62%) Spring Boot
7 21 (5.13%) AngularJS
8 19 (4.65%) RabbitMQ
9 15 (3.67%) Spring
10 13 (3.18%) HTML
11 11 (2.69%) Django
11 11 (2.69%) gRPC
11 11 (2.69%) Material-UI
11 11 (2.69%) OpenAPI
11 11 (2.69%) REST
11 11 (2.69%) Swagger
12 7 (1.71%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 15 (3.67%) Cloud Native
1 15 (3.67%) Operational Technology
2 12 (2.93%) SCADA
2 12 (2.93%) Virtual Team
3 9 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (2.20%) Product Ownership
3 9 (2.20%) Public Cloud
4 8 (1.96%) Private Cloud
5 7 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (1.22%) Data Centre
7 4 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (0.73%) Embedded Systems
8 3 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (0.73%) IoT
8 3 (0.73%) Mobile App
8 3 (0.73%) PKI
8 3 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.49%) Acoustics
9 2 (0.49%) FPGA
9 2 (0.49%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 53 (12.96%) Linux
2 19 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 19 (4.65%) Ubuntu
2 19 (4.65%) Windows
3 11 (2.69%) CentOS
3 11 (2.69%) Debian
4 10 (2.44%) Unix
5 6 (1.47%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.98%) Solaris
7 3 (0.73%) Kali Linux
7 3 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.49%) FreeBSD
8 2 (0.49%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.49%) VMS
9 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.24%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (43.28%) Actionable Insight
2 152 (37.16%) Agile
3 99 (24.21%) DevOps
4 98 (23.96%) Software Engineering
5 57 (13.94%) Web Development
6 45 (11.00%) Project Management
7 42 (10.27%) Problem-Solving
8 40 (9.78%) Stakeholder Management
9 36 (8.80%) Scrum
10 35 (8.56%) Open Source
11 30 (7.33%) Business Case
11 30 (7.33%) Mentoring
12 29 (7.09%) Cybersecurity
12 29 (7.09%) User Research
13 27 (6.60%) Kanban
14 26 (6.36%) Collaborative Working
14 26 (6.36%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 25 (6.11%) Contract Negotiation
16 24 (5.87%) Business Strategy
16 24 (5.87%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 87 (21.27%) Python
2 82 (20.05%) JavaScript
3 36 (8.80%) C#
4 30 (7.33%) Java
5 12 (2.93%) C++
6 9 (2.20%) TypeScript
7 8 (1.96%) PowerShell
8 4 (0.98%) Bicep
9 3 (0.73%) C
10 2 (0.49%) Perl
11 1 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.24%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 409 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 41 (10.02%) Degree
3 28 (6.85%) DV Cleared
4 16 (3.91%) Azure Certification
5 14 (3.42%) CISA
5 14 (3.42%) CISM
5 14 (3.42%) CRISC
6 11 (2.69%) CESG Certified Professional
7 10 (2.44%) AWS Certification
8 9 (2.20%) DBS Check
9 8 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (1.96%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.73%) CCNP
11 3 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.73%) CREST Certified
11 3 (0.73%) OSCE
11 3 (0.73%) OSCP
12 2 (0.49%) CHECK Team Leader
13 1 (0.24%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (5.13%) Accessibility
3 14 (3.42%) GDPR
3 14 (3.42%) GRC
4 10 (2.44%) WCAG
5 8 (1.96%) SLA
6 7 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 6 (1.47%) COBIT
8 3 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.49%) PMO
9 2 (0.49%) QA
10 1 (0.24%) NIST
10 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (1.96%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.47%) Docker
3 3 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.73%) vSphere
4 1 (0.24%) Firmware
4 1 (0.24%) Lustre
4 1 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.24%) Snort
4 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (4.16%) Kubernetes
1 17 (4.16%) Terraform
2 14 (3.42%) Ansible
3 11 (2.69%) Puppet
4 6 (1.47%) OpenView
5 4 (0.98%) SCCM
6 3 (0.73%) Nessus
6 3 (0.73%) Nmap
7 2 (0.49%) SCOM
7 2 (0.49%) WSUS
8 1 (0.24%) Icinga
8 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.24%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 57 (13.94%) ESRI
2 37 (9.05%) Microsoft
3 15 (3.67%) Red Hat
4 12 (2.93%) Oracle
5 11 (2.69%) Cisco
5 11 (2.69%) Google
5 11 (2.69%) SaltStack
6 10 (2.44%) ServiceNow
7 8 (1.96%) Sparx
8 7 (1.71%) HP
8 7 (1.71%) VMware
9 6 (1.47%) BMC
9 6 (1.47%) Remedy
10 4 (0.98%) Juniper
11 3 (0.73%) IBM
11 3 (0.73%) NetApp
11 3 (0.73%) Qualys
12 2 (0.49%) Apple
12 2 (0.49%) Cadence
12 2 (0.49%) F5