SC Cleared Jobs in the South West

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South 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 14 12 18
Rank change year-on-year -2 +6 +12
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 921 885 1,094
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.24% 13.45% 12.98%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.45% 31.02% 33.38%
Number of salaries quoted 611 419 529
10th Percentile £30,385 £36,250 £35,274
25th Percentile £43,000 £43,125 £43,023
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +7.48% +7.00%
75th Percentile £65,875 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £70,250 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South 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 South West with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,355 2,853 3,277
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 33.67% 43.36% 38.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,186 1,264 1,651
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,932 £30,241
25th Percentile £40,250 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,143 £82,500 £76,250
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the South West

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for SC Cleared in the South West

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in the South West

SC Cleared
Job Locations in the South 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 South 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
Bristol +4 296 £68,500 +14.17% 99
Gloucestershire -13 234 £50,000 -25.93% 30
Wiltshire +6 203 £50,000 -4.76% 44
Dorset +2 106 £46,536 -11.36% 19
Somerset +15 56 £30,385 -34.30% 20
Devon -24 9 £50,000 -9.50% 28
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 76 (8.25%) Confluence
2 34 (3.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 33 (3.58%) ArcGIS
4 28 (3.04%) SharePoint
5 27 (2.93%) GeoServer
6 25 (2.71%) Apache
7 21 (2.28%) Apache Spark
8 10 (1.09%) SharePoint 2010
8 10 (1.09%) SharePoint 2013
9 4 (0.43%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.22%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.22%) WildFly
11 1 (0.11%) IIS
Applications
1 45 (4.89%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.30%) Simulink
3 7 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.43%) Sketch
5 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.22%) GNU Octave
6 2 (0.22%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.11%) Revit
Business Applications
1 41 (4.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 21 (2.28%) Maximo
3 4 (0.43%) Primavera
3 4 (0.43%) Q-Pulse
4 3 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 200 (21.72%) Azure
2 175 (19.00%) AWS
3 70 (7.60%) Microsoft 365
4 62 (6.73%) OpenShift
5 40 (4.34%) GCP
6 33 (3.58%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
7 24 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
7 24 (2.61%) Serverless
8 23 (2.50%) SaaS
9 22 (2.39%) Amazon EKS
10 15 (1.63%) Power Platform
11 8 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (0.87%) Miro
11 8 (0.87%) Power Automate
12 7 (0.76%) PaaS
13 6 (0.65%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (0.65%) IaaS
13 6 (0.65%) PowerApps
14 5 (0.54%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.80%) Firewall
2 33 (3.58%) TCP/IP
3 29 (3.15%) DNS
4 23 (2.50%) AMQP
4 23 (2.50%) DHCP
5 21 (2.28%) Wireless
6 19 (2.06%) HTTP
7 18 (1.95%) LAN
7 18 (1.95%) WAN
8 14 (1.52%) SAN
9 10 (1.09%) iSCSI
9 10 (1.09%) Network Security
10 9 (0.98%) Cisco IPT
10 9 (0.98%) Ethernet
10 9 (0.98%) Fibre Channel
11 7 (0.76%) VLAN
12 6 (0.65%) BGP
12 6 (0.65%) RS-232
13 5 (0.54%) IPv4
13 5 (0.54%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (4.02%) GIS
2 34 (3.69%) Big Data
3 27 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (2.93%) QGIS
4 21 (2.28%) Hadoop
4 21 (2.28%) SQL Server
5 18 (1.95%) Cloudera CDH
6 14 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (1.41%) Relational Database
8 12 (1.30%) Power BI
9 11 (1.19%) MySQL
10 10 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (0.76%) NoSQL
12 6 (0.65%) MongoDB
13 5 (0.54%) Geospatial Data
13 5 (0.54%) InfluxDB
13 5 (0.54%) Oracle Database
13 5 (0.54%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 86 (9.34%) JIRA
2 84 (9.12%) Git
3 79 (8.58%) Visual Studio
4 74 (8.03%) Bitbucket
5 59 (6.41%) Sourcetree
6 18 (1.95%) GitLab
7 16 (1.74%) Jenkins
8 15 (1.63%) LabVIEW
8 15 (1.63%) Rational DOORS
9 8 (0.87%) NetBeans
10 6 (0.65%) Eclipse
10 6 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (0.43%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.43%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.43%) Selenium
11 4 (0.43%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.33%) JMeter
12 3 (0.33%) Robot Framework
13 2 (0.22%) PetaLinux
13 2 (0.22%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 142 (15.42%) Social Skills
2 119 (12.92%) Aerospace
3 104 (11.29%) Games
4 94 (10.21%) Finance
5 92 (9.99%) Presentation Skills
6 49 (5.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 42 (4.56%) Military
8 34 (3.69%) Public Sector
9 33 (3.58%) Analytical Skills
10 28 (3.04%) Organisational Skills
11 20 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
12 15 (1.63%) Telecoms
13 13 (1.41%) Manufacturing
14 11 (1.19%) Electronics
15 9 (0.98%) Retail
16 7 (0.76%) Publishing
17 5 (0.54%) Back Office
18 4 (0.43%) Legal
18 4 (0.43%) Marketing
19 3 (0.33%) Billing
Job Titles
1 165 (17.92%) Senior
2 135 (14.66%) Developer
3 90 (9.77%) Architect
4 76 (8.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 75 (8.14%) Software Engineer
6 71 (7.71%) 3D Developer
6 71 (7.71%) Games Developer
6 71 (7.71%) Unity 3D Developer
7 66 (7.17%) Solutions Architect
8 64 (6.95%) Consultant
8 64 (6.95%) Support Engineer
9 62 (6.73%) Project Manager
10 54 (5.86%) Lead
11 53 (5.75%) Systems Engineer
12 43 (4.67%) Senior Developer
13 42 (4.56%) Security Consultant
14 40 (4.34%) Information Assurance Manager
14 40 (4.34%) Information Manager
15 35 (3.80%) Analyst
16 34 (3.69%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (7.71%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 69 (7.49%) .NET
3 66 (7.17%) React
4 31 (3.37%) CSS
5 28 (3.04%) .NET Core
5 28 (3.04%) AngularJS
6 27 (2.93%) Leaflet
6 27 (2.93%) OpenLayers
6 27 (2.93%) PostGIS
6 27 (2.93%) RabbitMQ
7 26 (2.82%) REST
8 25 (2.71%) Node.js
9 23 (2.50%) Spring Boot
10 21 (2.28%) Spring
11 18 (1.95%) gRPC
11 18 (1.95%) Material-UI
11 18 (1.95%) OpenAPI
11 18 (1.95%) Swagger
12 12 (1.30%) HTML
13 9 (0.98%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 71 (7.71%) Virtual Reality
2 54 (5.86%) Driving Licence
3 36 (3.91%) Management Information System
4 32 (3.47%) Cyberattack
5 20 (2.17%) Cloud Native
6 19 (2.06%) Private Cloud
7 18 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (1.63%) EMC VNX
9 14 (1.52%) Clustering
10 13 (1.41%) Cyber Defence
11 12 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
11 12 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
11 12 (1.30%) Smartphone
12 10 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (1.09%) Public Cloud
12 10 (1.09%) Replication
13 9 (0.98%) Algorithms
13 9 (0.98%) Data Centre
13 9 (0.98%) Security Operations Centre
14 8 (0.87%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 158 (17.16%) Windows
2 142 (15.42%) Linux
3 52 (5.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 50 (5.43%) Windows Server
5 46 (4.99%) Windows 10
6 28 (3.04%) CentOS
7 22 (2.39%) Ubuntu
8 18 (1.95%) Debian
9 16 (1.74%) Unix
10 13 (1.41%) AIX
11 12 (1.30%) Windows 7
12 11 (1.19%) Android
13 9 (0.98%) Windows Server 2016
14 8 (0.87%) Windows Server 2012
14 8 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
15 7 (0.76%) CoreOS
16 4 (0.43%) Solaris
17 3 (0.33%) zOS
18 2 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
19 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (25.08%) Agile
2 222 (24.10%) DevOps
3 189 (20.52%) Software Engineering
4 144 (15.64%) Actionable Insight
5 134 (14.55%) Scrum
6 121 (13.14%) UML
7 120 (13.03%) Cybersecurity
8 99 (10.75%) ITIL
9 96 (10.42%) Problem-Solving
10 93 (10.10%) Information Assurance
11 90 (9.77%) Project Management
12 81 (8.79%) Risk Management
13 79 (8.58%) Design Patterns
14 77 (8.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 76 (8.25%) Collaborative Working
16 71 (7.71%) Use Case
17 67 (7.27%) TOGAF
18 64 (6.95%) Stakeholder Management
19 60 (6.51%) ArchiMate
20 59 (6.41%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 134 (14.55%) Python
2 99 (10.75%) C#
3 98 (10.64%) Java
4 75 (8.14%) JavaScript
5 61 (6.62%) PowerShell
6 46 (4.99%) SQL
7 39 (4.23%) Bash
8 26 (2.82%) TypeScript
9 24 (2.61%) C++
10 19 (2.06%) MATLAB
11 17 (1.85%) C
12 13 (1.41%) Go
13 7 (0.76%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.65%) VBA
15 5 (0.54%) Fortran
16 4 (0.43%) R
17 3 (0.33%) Scala
18 2 (0.22%) Perl
18 2 (0.22%) Ruby
19 1 (0.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 921 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 232 (25.19%) Degree
3 157 (17.05%) DV Cleared
4 120 (13.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 54 (5.86%) TOGAF Certification
6 50 (5.43%) CISM
6 50 (5.43%) CISSP
7 49 (5.32%) CESG Certified Professional
8 33 (3.58%) CRISC
9 18 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (1.63%) A+ Certification
11 13 (1.41%) ITIL Certification
12 10 (1.09%) Azure Certification
12 10 (1.09%) CISA
12 10 (1.09%) MCSE
13 9 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
14 8 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (0.87%) PMI Certification
15 7 (0.76%) AWS Certification
15 7 (0.76%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (7.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 51 (5.54%) NCSC
3 18 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 18 (1.95%) SLA
4 13 (1.41%) IEC 61508
5 10 (1.09%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
5 10 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 10 (1.09%) ISO 9001
5 10 (1.09%) JSP 440
5 10 (1.09%) NIST
6 9 (0.98%) Def Stans
7 7 (0.76%) GDPR
8 6 (0.65%) QA
8 6 (0.65%) RMADS
8 6 (0.65%) TickIT
9 5 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 5 (0.54%) WCAG
10 3 (0.33%) COBIT
10 3 (0.33%) GRC
System Software
1 104 (11.29%) Active Directory
2 86 (9.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 65 (7.06%) Hyper-V
4 57 (6.19%) Docker
5 16 (1.74%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (0.76%) XenDesktop
7 6 (0.65%) Microsoft App-V
8 4 (0.43%) XenApp
9 3 (0.33%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.33%) Firmware
10 2 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 98 (10.64%) Ansible
2 69 (7.49%) Kubernetes
3 57 (6.19%) SCCM
4 49 (5.32%) Puppet
5 42 (4.56%) Terraform
6 15 (1.63%) EMC NetWorker
6 15 (1.63%) Nagios
6 15 (1.63%) vCenter Server
7 12 (1.30%) Backup Exec
7 12 (1.30%) NetBackup
8 9 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (0.98%) ZABBIX
9 7 (0.76%) Icinga
9 7 (0.76%) Kibana
10 6 (0.65%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
11 5 (0.54%) Grafana
11 5 (0.54%) Prometheus
12 4 (0.43%) SCOM
13 3 (0.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 256 (27.80%) Microsoft
2 98 (10.64%) VMware
3 56 (6.08%) Red Hat
4 41 (4.45%) Sparx
5 39 (4.23%) Google
6 34 (3.69%) ESRI
7 27 (2.93%) IBM
8 26 (2.82%) Oracle
9 23 (2.50%) SolarWinds
10 22 (2.39%) NetApp
11 21 (2.28%) Cisco
12 18 (1.95%) SaltStack
13 16 (1.74%) Veeam
14 15 (1.63%) EMC
15 13 (1.41%) Citrix
15 13 (1.41%) Hitachi
16 12 (1.30%) HP
16 12 (1.30%) McAfee
16 12 (1.30%) MobileIron
16 12 (1.30%) Veritas