Security Cleared Jobs in the North West

Security Clearance
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 30 15
Rank change year-on-year +1 -15 +46
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 573 670 1,150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 5.82% 8.53% 12.18%
As % of the Qualifications category 24.04% 24.68% 40.28%
Number of salaries quoted 292 206 583
10th Percentile £36,351 £26,050 £28,250
25th Percentile £39,930 £42,500 £38,037
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £53,104
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +8.28% +1.15%
75th Percentile £66,250 £75,938 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £76,520
England median annual salary £57,500 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.86% +5.45% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North West

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

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,384 2,715 2,855
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 24.22% 34.56% 30.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,621 925 1,306
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,825
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £49,275
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +11.62% -1.45%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £64,106
90th Percentile £79,600 £85,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the North West

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Security Cleared in the North West

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the North West over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in the North West

Security 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 Security Cleared within the North West region over the 6 months to 13 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
Manchester -10 270 £60,000 -7.69% 85
Merseyside +4 119 £60,000 +84.62% 7
Cheshire +23 79 £50,000 +93.50% 32
Cumbria +7 62 £38,734 -39.00% 42
Lancashire -3 40 £50,000 +11.11% 37
Security Cleared
England

Security 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 (10.65%) ArcGIS
2 57 (9.95%) GeoServer
3 18 (3.14%) Apache
4 11 (1.92%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.75%) SharePoint
6 8 (1.40%) Confluence
6 8 (1.40%) IIS
6 8 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (1.40%) WebLogic
7 7 (1.22%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.35%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 2 (0.35%) JBoss
8 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (1.40%) MS Visio
1 8 (1.40%) Sketch
2 7 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.87%) AutoCAD
5 4 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
6 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.35%) Revit
Business Applications
1 29 (5.06%) Primavera
2 13 (2.27%) NEC Housing
3 10 (1.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 6 (1.05%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.35%) SAP PLM
5 2 (0.35%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.17%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle Payroll
6 1 (0.17%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 147 (25.65%) Azure
2 129 (22.51%) AWS
3 19 (3.32%) Amazon EKS
4 16 (2.79%) GCP
5 14 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
5 14 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (2.44%) SaaS
5 14 (2.44%) Serverless
6 13 (2.27%) OpenShift
7 12 (2.09%) Miro
8 11 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (1.92%) PaaS
9 10 (1.75%) Power Platform
10 8 (1.40%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (1.40%) Figma
10 8 (1.40%) Heroku
11 7 (1.22%) IaaS
12 6 (1.05%) Power Automate
12 6 (1.05%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.09%) TCP/IP
2 11 (1.92%) AMQP
2 11 (1.92%) BGP
2 11 (1.92%) DNS
2 11 (1.92%) SAN
3 8 (1.40%) Software-Defined Radio
3 8 (1.40%) SSL
3 8 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (1.40%) Wireless
4 7 (1.22%) Firewall
5 5 (0.87%) Network Security
6 4 (0.70%) TETRA
6 4 (0.70%) VLAN
7 3 (0.52%) DHCP
7 3 (0.52%) Internet
7 3 (0.52%) IPsec
7 3 (0.52%) LAN
7 3 (0.52%) MPLS
7 3 (0.52%) OSPF
7 3 (0.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (10.99%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (10.65%) GIS
3 57 (9.95%) QGIS
4 21 (3.66%) Oracle Database
5 20 (3.49%) SQL Server
6 11 (1.92%) Big Data
6 11 (1.92%) Cloudera CDH
6 11 (1.92%) Hadoop
7 10 (1.75%) RDBMS
7 10 (1.75%) Relational Database
8 8 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (1.40%) Power BI
9 6 (1.05%) Oracle Database 12c
10 4 (0.70%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (0.35%) MySQL
11 2 (0.35%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.17%) Data Mining
12 1 (0.17%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.17%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.17%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 32 (5.58%) JIRA
2 11 (1.92%) Git
3 9 (1.57%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.40%) GitLab
5 3 (0.52%) Burp Suite
5 3 (0.52%) Cucumber
5 3 (0.52%) Metasploit
5 3 (0.52%) Postman
5 3 (0.52%) Selenium
5 3 (0.52%) SoapUI
6 2 (0.35%) Appium
6 2 (0.35%) Eclipse
6 2 (0.35%) GDB
6 2 (0.35%) IntelliJ
6 2 (0.35%) JUnit
6 2 (0.35%) REST Assured
6 2 (0.35%) Subversion
6 2 (0.35%) TestNG
6 2 (0.35%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.35%) WebDriver
General
1 121 (21.12%) Social Skills
2 60 (10.47%) Public Sector
3 52 (9.08%) Aerospace
4 47 (8.20%) Finance
5 29 (5.06%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (2.97%) Local Government
8 16 (2.79%) Manufacturing
9 15 (2.62%) Police
10 13 (2.27%) Military
11 8 (1.40%) Avionics
12 7 (1.22%) Law
12 7 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.05%) Back Office
13 6 (1.05%) Polish Language
13 6 (1.05%) Retail
13 6 (1.05%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.87%) Electronics
15 2 (0.35%) Games
15 2 (0.35%) Legal
Job Titles
1 104 (18.15%) Senior
2 84 (14.66%) Software Engineer
3 72 (12.57%) Architect
4 69 (12.04%) Lead
5 45 (7.85%) Senior Software Engineer
6 41 (7.16%) Developer
7 38 (6.63%) Systems Engineer
8 35 (6.11%) Solutions Architect
9 27 (4.71%) Project Planner
10 25 (4.36%) Analyst
10 25 (4.36%) DevOps Engineer
11 20 (3.49%) Project Manager
12 15 (2.62%) Designer
12 15 (2.62%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
12 15 (2.62%) Presales Solution Architect
13 12 (2.09%) Product Manager
13 12 (2.09%) Senior Developer
14 11 (1.92%) Business Analyst
14 11 (1.92%) Consultant
14 11 (1.92%) Information Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (14.49%) React
2 57 (9.95%) .NET
2 57 (9.95%) Leaflet
2 57 (9.95%) OpenLayers
2 57 (9.95%) PostGIS
3 49 (8.55%) .NET Core
3 49 (8.55%) CSS
4 26 (4.54%) AngularJS
5 25 (4.36%) Spring Boot
6 24 (4.19%) Node.js
7 21 (3.66%) Spring
8 19 (3.32%) RabbitMQ
9 13 (2.27%) REST
10 12 (2.09%) Django
10 12 (2.09%) HTML
10 12 (2.09%) Swagger
11 11 (1.92%) gRPC
11 11 (1.92%) Material-UI
11 11 (1.92%) OpenAPI
12 9 (1.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (4.19%) Operational Technology
2 20 (3.49%) Cloud Native
3 16 (2.79%) Public Cloud
4 15 (2.62%) Driving Licence
4 15 (2.62%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (2.09%) SCADA
5 12 (2.09%) Virtual Team
6 10 (1.75%) Private Cloud
7 9 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.57%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 9 (1.57%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.40%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (1.05%) Onboarding
11 5 (0.87%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.70%) Cyber Defence
12 4 (0.70%) IoT
12 4 (0.70%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 73 (12.74%) Linux
2 34 (5.93%) Windows
3 22 (3.84%) Unix
4 21 (3.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (3.32%) Ubuntu
6 11 (1.92%) CentOS
6 11 (1.92%) Debian
7 7 (1.22%) Solaris
8 6 (1.05%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.87%) VMS
10 3 (0.52%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.35%) FreeBSD
11 2 (0.35%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.17%) Android
12 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (36.30%) Actionable Insight
2 198 (34.55%) Agile
3 130 (22.69%) DevOps
4 113 (19.72%) Software Engineering
5 72 (12.57%) Mentoring
6 70 (12.22%) Stakeholder Management
7 64 (11.17%) Coaching
8 57 (9.95%) Web Development
9 56 (9.77%) Problem-Solving
9 56 (9.77%) Scrum
10 55 (9.60%) Project Management
11 50 (8.73%) Collaborative Working
11 50 (8.73%) Cybersecurity
12 43 (7.50%) Kanban
13 41 (7.16%) CI/CD
14 40 (6.98%) Continuous Integration
15 38 (6.63%) Open Source
16 34 (5.93%) Business Case
17 30 (5.24%) SDLC
18 29 (5.06%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 95 (16.58%) Python
2 90 (15.71%) JavaScript
3 45 (7.85%) Java
4 39 (6.81%) C#
5 12 (2.09%) C++
6 11 (1.92%) TypeScript
7 9 (1.57%) PowerShell
8 7 (1.22%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.70%) Bicep
9 4 (0.70%) C
9 4 (0.70%) SQL
10 2 (0.35%) Bash
10 2 (0.35%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.35%) Perl
11 1 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.17%) R
Qualifications
1 383 (66.84%) SC Cleared
2 69 (12.04%) Degree
3 53 (9.25%) DV Cleared
4 19 (3.32%) DBS Check
5 14 (2.44%) Azure Certification
5 14 (2.44%) CISA
5 14 (2.44%) CISM
5 14 (2.44%) CRISC
6 11 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (1.92%) CESG Certified Professional
7 8 (1.40%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (1.40%) BC Cleared
7 8 (1.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 6 (1.05%) Oracle Certification
9 5 (0.87%) CCNP
9 5 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (0.87%) CREST Certified
9 5 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.70%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (6.11%) Accessibility
2 32 (5.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (3.14%) SLA
4 14 (2.44%) GDPR
4 14 (2.44%) GRC
5 10 (1.75%) PCI DSS
5 10 (1.75%) WCAG
6 8 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 7 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 6 (1.05%) COBIT
9 5 (0.87%) QA
10 3 (0.52%) NIST
11 2 (0.35%) PMO
12 1 (0.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 27 (4.71%) Docker
2 8 (1.40%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.22%) KVM
3 7 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.87%) SRDF
4 5 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.52%) Firmware
5 3 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.52%) vSphere
6 2 (0.35%) VMware Server
7 1 (0.17%) Lustre
7 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.17%) Snort
7 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 39 (6.81%) Kubernetes
1 39 (6.81%) Terraform
2 32 (5.58%) Ansible
3 11 (1.92%) Puppet
4 6 (1.05%) OpenView
5 4 (0.70%) WSUS
6 3 (0.52%) Nessus
6 3 (0.52%) Nmap
7 2 (0.35%) SCCM
8 1 (0.17%) Grafana
8 1 (0.17%) Icinga
8 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.17%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.17%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 63 (10.99%) Microsoft
2 57 (9.95%) ESRI
3 26 (4.54%) Oracle
4 13 (2.27%) NEC
4 13 (2.27%) Red Hat
5 12 (2.09%) Cisco
5 12 (2.09%) VMware
6 11 (1.92%) Google
6 11 (1.92%) SaltStack
7 10 (1.75%) ServiceNow
7 10 (1.75%) Sparx
8 7 (1.22%) BMC
8 7 (1.22%) Dell
8 7 (1.22%) HP
8 7 (1.22%) Thales
9 6 (1.05%) Remedy
10 5 (0.87%) Brocade
10 5 (0.87%) EMC
11 4 (0.70%) Juniper
12 3 (0.52%) NetApp