Security Cleared Jobs in England

Security Clearance
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 27 75
Rank change year-on-year +5 +48 -7
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 6,851 6,942 6,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.84% 7.93% 4.70%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.92% 24.04% 17.62%
Number of salaries quoted 4,357 3,345 3,191
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,970 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £86,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 24,542 28,874 36,682
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.09% 32.97% 26.65%
Number of salaries quoted 15,735 13,169 16,825
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,995 £30,875
25th Percentile £38,501 £42,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,995 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.34% +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% -

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in England

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Security Cleared in England

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in England

Security 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 Security Cleared within the England region over the 6 months to 23 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 +6 1,989 £55,000 +11.11% 552
South West +3 1,913 £57,000 +3.64% 466
London +12 1,061 £70,000 +7.69% 367
North of England +6 824 £55,000 -8.33% 274
Midlands -10 637 £55,000 - 204
North West -3 594 £55,000 -8.33% 204
West Midlands +12 446 £55,000 -2.22% 144
East of England +19 419 £55,000 - 129
East Midlands -24 191 £44,225 -15.76% 59
Yorkshire +12 189 £60,000 -9.77% 46
North East -32 41 £55,000 +22.22% 24
Security Cleared
UK

Security 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
1 206 (3.01%) ArcGIS
2 196 (2.86%) GeoServer
3 125 (1.82%) Confluence
4 124 (1.81%) SharePoint
5 110 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
6 97 (1.42%) Apache
7 80 (1.17%) IIS
8 64 (0.93%) WebLogic
9 57 (0.83%) Apache Spark
10 40 (0.58%) OpenStack
11 27 (0.39%) Tomcat
12 26 (0.38%) nginx
13 25 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2010
14 20 (0.29%) JBoss
15 18 (0.26%) Red Hat Fuse
16 17 (0.25%) Jupyter
17 16 (0.23%) CMS
18 15 (0.22%) SharePoint 2010
18 15 (0.22%) SharePoint 2013
19 14 (0.20%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 233 (3.40%) Microsoft Office
2 125 (1.82%) Simulink
3 119 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
4 75 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 40 (0.58%) MS Visio
6 30 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
6 30 (0.44%) Sketch
7 10 (0.15%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.088%) Trello
9 4 (0.058%) EPLAN
9 4 (0.058%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.058%) Siemens NX
9 4 (0.058%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.058%) Stateflow
9 4 (0.058%) Windchill
10 3 (0.044%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.044%) Revit
11 2 (0.029%) Abaqus
11 2 (0.029%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.029%) InVision
Business Applications
1 76 (1.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 53 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
3 52 (0.76%) NEC Housing
4 41 (0.60%) Siebel CRM
5 37 (0.54%) Primavera
6 28 (0.41%) Workday HCM
7 23 (0.34%) Maximo
8 16 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
9 13 (0.19%) SAP HR
10 10 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
11 9 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
11 9 (0.13%) SAP CO
11 9 (0.13%) SAP FI
11 9 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
11 9 (0.13%) SAP SCM
11 9 (0.13%) Teamcenter
12 8 (0.12%) SAP EWM
13 6 (0.088%) Elite 3E
13 6 (0.088%) Oracle Applications
14 5 (0.073%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 1,349 (19.69%) Azure
2 1,132 (16.52%) AWS
3 262 (3.82%) Microsoft 365
4 152 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
5 149 (2.17%) SaaS
6 147 (2.15%) GCP
7 136 (1.99%) Power Platform
8 126 (1.84%) Serverless
9 122 (1.78%) Amazon EKS
10 121 (1.77%) OpenShift
11 99 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
12 88 (1.28%) PaaS
13 84 (1.23%) Entra ID
14 72 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
15 64 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
16 63 (0.92%) Amazon ECS
17 62 (0.90%) IaaS
18 61 (0.89%) AWS Lambda
19 53 (0.77%) Azure Monitor
19 53 (0.77%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 434 (6.33%) Firewall
2 231 (3.37%) DNS
3 205 (2.99%) WAN
4 146 (2.13%) TCP/IP
5 140 (2.04%) Network Security
6 138 (2.01%) LAN
7 133 (1.94%) DHCP
8 127 (1.85%) BGP
9 124 (1.81%) VPN
10 80 (1.17%) SAN
11 77 (1.12%) Wireless
12 64 (0.93%) SSL
13 62 (0.90%) Internet
14 60 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
15 58 (0.85%) MPLS
16 57 (0.83%) Cisco ASA
16 57 (0.83%) SD-WAN
17 48 (0.70%) IPsec
17 48 (0.70%) OSPF
18 44 (0.64%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 327 (4.77%) PostgreSQL
2 225 (3.28%) GIS
3 196 (2.86%) QGIS
4 177 (2.58%) SQL Server
5 138 (2.01%) Relational Database
6 102 (1.49%) Oracle Database
7 101 (1.47%) NoSQL
8 97 (1.42%) Power BI
9 96 (1.40%) Big Data
10 94 (1.37%) Hadoop
11 92 (1.34%) MongoDB
12 47 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
13 45 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
14 36 (0.53%) RDBMS
15 34 (0.50%) Oracle BI EE
15 34 (0.50%) Siebel EIM
16 33 (0.48%) MySQL
17 32 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
18 30 (0.44%) Tableau
19 28 (0.41%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 254 (3.71%) JIRA
2 253 (3.69%) Git
3 235 (3.43%) Jenkins
4 146 (2.13%) GitLab
5 132 (1.93%) Visual Studio
6 102 (1.49%) Bitbucket
7 93 (1.36%) Rational DOORS
8 59 (0.86%) Sourcetree
9 55 (0.80%) Selenium
10 38 (0.55%) Rational Rhapsody
11 32 (0.47%) Cucumber
12 29 (0.42%) JUnit
12 29 (0.42%) SonarQube
13 28 (0.41%) Subversion
14 23 (0.34%) Ant
14 23 (0.34%) LabVIEW
15 21 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 21 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
16 18 (0.26%) Vagrant
17 15 (0.22%) CMake
General
1 1,416 (20.67%) Social Skills
2 669 (9.76%) Public Sector
3 583 (8.51%) Aerospace
4 522 (7.62%) Finance
5 347 (5.06%) Analytical Skills
6 327 (4.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 257 (3.75%) Military
8 190 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
9 170 (2.48%) Games
10 161 (2.35%) Telecoms
11 155 (2.26%) Police
12 153 (2.23%) Manufacturing
13 131 (1.91%) Retail
14 119 (1.74%) Electronics
15 116 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
16 108 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
17 89 (1.30%) Law
18 69 (1.01%) Local Government
19 53 (0.77%) Legal
20 46 (0.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1,113 (16.25%) Senior
2 819 (11.95%) Architect
3 717 (10.47%) Software Engineer
4 591 (8.63%) Developer
5 501 (7.31%) Lead
6 445 (6.50%) Systems Engineer
7 440 (6.42%) Consultant
8 435 (6.35%) Analyst
9 336 (4.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 275 (4.01%) Network Engineer
11 271 (3.96%) Senior Software Engineer
12 262 (3.82%) Project Manager
13 255 (3.72%) Solutions Architect
14 252 (3.68%) DevOps Engineer
15 198 (2.89%) Administrator
16 167 (2.44%) Security Consultant
17 163 (2.38%) Support Engineer
18 140 (2.04%) Senior Developer
19 118 (1.72%) Technical Architect
20 110 (1.61%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 373 (5.44%) .NET
2 359 (5.24%) React
3 224 (3.27%) CSS
4 199 (2.90%) Leaflet
4 199 (2.90%) OpenLayers
5 196 (2.86%) PostGIS
6 194 (2.83%) .NET Core
7 166 (2.42%) Node.js
8 160 (2.34%) REST
8 160 (2.34%) Spring
9 150 (2.19%) AngularJS
10 130 (1.90%) HTML
10 130 (1.90%) Spring Boot
11 101 (1.47%) Web Services
11 101 (1.47%) XML
12 98 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
13 88 (1.28%) JSON
14 80 (1.17%) RabbitMQ
15 76 (1.11%) Unity (Game Engine)
16 62 (0.90%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 283 (4.13%) Management Information System
2 209 (3.05%) Driving Licence
3 202 (2.95%) Self-Motivation
4 189 (2.76%) Algorithms
5 152 (2.22%) Product Ownership
6 146 (2.13%) Data Centre
7 132 (1.93%) PKI
8 130 (1.90%) Public Cloud
9 101 (1.47%) Private Cloud
10 95 (1.39%) Cloud Native
11 86 (1.26%) Security Operations Centre
12 84 (1.23%) Virtual Reality
13 79 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
14 78 (1.14%) Operational Technology
15 70 (1.02%) Virtual Team
16 69 (1.01%) Cyberattack
17 64 (0.93%) Cyber Defence
18 63 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
19 59 (0.86%) Onboarding
20 51 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1,112 (16.23%) Linux
2 1,012 (14.77%) Windows
3 342 (4.99%) Windows Server
4 186 (2.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 157 (2.29%) Unix
6 147 (2.15%) Windows 10
7 137 (2.00%) CentOS
8 136 (1.99%) Ubuntu
9 125 (1.82%) Windows Server 2016
10 124 (1.81%) Windows Server 2019
11 99 (1.45%) Windows Server 2012
12 70 (1.02%) Embedded Linux
13 64 (0.93%) Windows 7
14 54 (0.79%) VMS
15 45 (0.66%) Solaris
16 37 (0.54%) Debian
17 35 (0.51%) Android
18 19 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
19 16 (0.23%) AIX
20 12 (0.18%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,983 (28.94%) Agile
2 1,157 (16.89%) Actionable Insight
3 1,155 (16.86%) DevOps
4 1,135 (16.57%) Software Engineering
5 1,057 (15.43%) Problem-Solving
6 774 (11.30%) Cybersecurity
7 620 (9.05%) Project Management
8 579 (8.45%) Scrum
9 536 (7.82%) ITIL
10 522 (7.62%) Mentoring
11 517 (7.55%) Collaborative Working
12 455 (6.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 428 (6.25%) CI/CD
14 411 (6.00%) Systems Engineering
15 375 (5.47%) Stakeholder Management
16 373 (5.44%) Project Delivery
17 308 (4.50%) Customer Service
18 305 (4.45%) Coaching
19 303 (4.42%) Validation
20 289 (4.22%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1,089 (15.90%) Python
2 710 (10.36%) Java
3 640 (9.34%) JavaScript
4 480 (7.01%) SQL
5 476 (6.95%) C#
6 447 (6.52%) PowerShell
7 308 (4.50%) C++
8 292 (4.26%) Bash
9 274 (4.00%) C
10 147 (2.15%) MATLAB
11 108 (1.58%) TypeScript
12 102 (1.49%) Shell Script
13 59 (0.86%) Rust
14 52 (0.76%) Embedded C
15 46 (0.67%) Fortran
16 43 (0.63%) Ada
17 34 (0.50%) VB
18 31 (0.45%) Kotlin
19 30 (0.44%) Bicep
19 30 (0.44%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3,838 (56.02%) SC Cleared
2 1,649 (24.07%) DV Cleared
3 1,137 (16.60%) Degree
4 586 (8.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 196 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
6 172 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 142 (2.07%) CISSP
8 128 (1.87%) CCNP
9 121 (1.77%) CCNA
10 119 (1.74%) AWS Certification
11 114 (1.66%) CISM
12 109 (1.59%) Azure Certification
13 94 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
14 86 (1.26%) CESG Certified Professional
15 85 (1.24%) Master's Degree
16 68 (0.99%) CRISC
16 68 (0.99%) DBS Check
17 56 (0.82%) CTC Cleared
17 56 (0.82%) PhD
18 55 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 216 (3.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 187 (2.73%) SLA
3 153 (2.23%) QA
4 137 (2.00%) Accessibility
5 131 (1.91%) NIST
6 109 (1.59%) NCSC
7 69 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
8 54 (0.79%) GDPR
9 48 (0.70%) NIST 800
10 47 (0.69%) ISO 9001
11 42 (0.61%) Def Stans
11 42 (0.61%) PCI DSS
12 40 (0.58%) GRC
13 39 (0.57%) JSP 440
13 39 (0.57%) PMO
14 38 (0.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 36 (0.53%) WCAG
16 33 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 15288
17 32 (0.47%) RMADS
18 31 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 502 (7.33%) Active Directory
2 417 (6.09%) Docker
3 341 (4.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 187 (2.73%) Hyper-V
5 99 (1.45%) Firmware
6 90 (1.31%) vSphere
7 77 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
8 52 (0.76%) KVM
9 50 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
10 45 (0.66%) VMware NSX
11 24 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
12 23 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
13 16 (0.23%) pfSense
14 15 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
15 14 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
16 13 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
17 11 (0.16%) NFS
18 10 (0.15%) XenDesktop
19 9 (0.13%) Forefront TMG
19 9 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 522 (7.62%) Ansible
2 470 (6.86%) Kubernetes
3 403 (5.88%) Terraform
4 201 (2.93%) SCCM
5 156 (2.28%) Puppet
6 88 (1.28%) SCOM
6 88 (1.28%) WSUS
7 84 (1.23%) vCenter Server
8 71 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
9 55 (0.80%) Grafana
10 46 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
11 40 (0.58%) Prometheus
12 39 (0.57%) Progress Chef
13 36 (0.53%) NetBackup
14 32 (0.47%) FortiGate
15 31 (0.45%) EnCase
16 30 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 29 (0.42%) EMC NetWorker
18 24 (0.35%) Nagios
18 24 (0.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1,148 (16.76%) Microsoft
2 502 (7.33%) VMware
3 413 (6.03%) Cisco
4 349 (5.09%) Oracle
5 288 (4.20%) Juniper
6 203 (2.96%) ESRI
6 203 (2.96%) Red Hat
7 133 (1.94%) ServiceNow
8 96 (1.40%) HP
9 87 (1.27%) IBM
10 86 (1.26%) Google
11 80 (1.17%) Dell
12 78 (1.14%) Remedy
13 76 (1.11%) Sparx
14 74 (1.08%) SAP
15 67 (0.98%) NEC
16 63 (0.92%) Splunk
17 57 (0.83%) Fortinet
18 53 (0.77%) SolarWinds
18 53 (0.77%) Veeam