Security Cleared Jobs in Northern Ireland

Security Clearance
UK > Northern Ireland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 23 46
Rank change year-on-year +14 +23 +3
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 111 115 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 15.61% 13.08% 4.89%
As % of the Qualifications category 46.25% 42.28% 14.80%
Number of salaries quoted 13 7 2
10th Percentile - £25,650 £40,475
25th Percentile £55,400 £29,875 £44,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £34,000 £54,750
Median % change year-on-year +76.47% -37.90% +68.46%
75th Percentile £79,600 £45,500 £64,438
90th Percentile £95,920 £56,200 £68,825
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 240 272 223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 33.76% 30.94% 33.04%
Number of salaries quoted 73 77 86
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,050 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,063 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £44,000 £44,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -1.12% +27.14%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £62,250
90th Percentile £68,500 £75,750 £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 Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Northern Ireland

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Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in Northern Ireland.

Salary trend for Security Cleared in Northern Ireland

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Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in Northern Ireland

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Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Cleared within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 21 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
County Antrim +14 111 £60,000 +76.47% 35
Security Cleared
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 28 (25.23%) ArcGIS
1 28 (25.23%) GeoServer
2 4 (3.60%) Confluence
2 4 (3.60%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.90%) JBoss
3 1 (0.90%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 4 (3.60%) Sketch
2 2 (1.80%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (4.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (1.80%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 37 (33.33%) Azure
2 36 (32.43%) AWS
3 6 (5.41%) Miro
4 5 (4.50%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (3.60%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (3.60%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (3.60%) dbt
5 4 (3.60%) Figma
5 4 (3.60%) Heroku
6 2 (1.80%) SaaS
7 1 (0.90%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.90%) AWS CodeStar
7 1 (0.90%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.90%) GCP
7 1 (0.90%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.60%) BGP
1 4 (3.60%) DNS
1 4 (3.60%) SSL
1 4 (3.60%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.70%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (0.90%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (27.03%) GIS
2 28 (25.23%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (25.23%) QGIS
3 5 (4.50%) RDBMS
3 5 (4.50%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.60%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.60%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.80%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.90%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (8.11%) JIRA
2 2 (1.80%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.90%) Git
3 1 (0.90%) IntelliJ
3 1 (0.90%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.90%) Terragrunt
General
1 28 (25.23%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.11%) Finance
3 7 (6.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (3.60%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.80%) Aerospace
5 2 (1.80%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.80%) Manufacturing
5 2 (1.80%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.90%) Games
6 1 (0.90%) Police
6 1 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.90%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (35.14%) Senior
2 30 (27.03%) Software Engineer
3 23 (20.72%) Architect
4 19 (17.12%) Senior Software Engineer
5 18 (16.22%) Lead
6 14 (12.61%) Solutions Architect
7 10 (9.01%) Developer
8 9 (8.11%) Presales Solution Architect
9 8 (7.21%) Analyst
9 8 (7.21%) Designer
10 7 (6.31%) Business Analyst
11 6 (5.41%) Senior Developer
12 5 (4.50%) Product Manager
12 5 (4.50%) UI Designer
12 5 (4.50%) UI/UX Designer
12 5 (4.50%) User Researcher
12 5 (4.50%) UX Designer
13 4 (3.60%) ERP Developer
13 4 (3.60%) Senior Designer
13 4 (3.60%) Senior UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (27.03%) React
2 28 (25.23%) Leaflet
2 28 (25.23%) OpenLayers
2 28 (25.23%) PostGIS
3 24 (21.62%) .NET
3 24 (21.62%) .NET Core
3 24 (21.62%) CSS
4 7 (6.31%) Node.js
5 6 (5.41%) Django
6 5 (4.50%) AngularJS
6 5 (4.50%) HTML
7 4 (3.60%) Express.js
7 4 (3.60%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (3.60%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.80%) RESTful
8 2 (1.80%) Spring
9 1 (0.90%) Java EE
9 1 (0.90%) JPA
9 1 (0.90%) JSON
9 1 (0.90%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.50%) Virtual Team
2 4 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (3.60%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.60%) Public Cloud
3 2 (1.80%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.90%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.90%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.11%) Linux
2 4 (3.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (3.60%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.80%) Unix
3 2 (1.80%) Windows
4 1 (0.90%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (81.08%) Actionable Insight
2 68 (61.26%) Agile
3 42 (37.84%) DevOps
4 34 (30.63%) Software Engineering
5 28 (25.23%) Web Development
6 24 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (13.51%) Stakeholder Management
7 15 (13.51%) User Research
8 14 (12.61%) Business Case
8 14 (12.61%) Project Management
8 14 (12.61%) Workshop Facilitation
9 13 (11.71%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 11 (9.91%) Commercial Awareness
10 11 (9.91%) Presales
11 10 (9.01%) Service Design
12 9 (8.11%) Contract Negotiation
12 9 (8.11%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 9 (8.11%) IT Strategy
12 9 (8.11%) Prototyping
12 9 (8.11%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 31 (27.93%) Python
2 29 (26.13%) JavaScript
3 16 (14.41%) C#
4 2 (1.80%) Java
Qualifications
1 102 (91.89%) SC Cleared
2 12 (10.81%) Degree
3 5 (4.50%) AWS Certification
3 5 (4.50%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (3.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 2 (1.80%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.90%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.91%) Accessibility
2 5 (4.50%) WCAG
3 2 (1.80%) COBIT
3 2 (1.80%) PMO
3 2 (1.80%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.80%) OpenView
2 1 (0.90%) Ansible
2 1 (0.90%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.90%) SCCM
2 1 (0.90%) Terraform
2 1 (0.90%) WSUS
Vendors
1 28 (25.23%) ESRI
2 6 (5.41%) Oracle
3 5 (4.50%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.50%) Sparx
4 4 (3.60%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.80%) BMC
5 2 (1.80%) HP
5 2 (1.80%) Remedy
5 2 (1.80%) Thales
6 1 (0.90%) Apple
6 1 (0.90%) Black Duck
6 1 (0.90%) Cadence
6 1 (0.90%) VMware