Security Cleared Jobs in Scotland

Security Clearance
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 80 27 38
Rank change year-on-year -53 +11 +40
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 314 386 420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.65% 8.49% 7.01%
As % of the Qualifications category 26.21% 27.49% 26.07%
Number of salaries quoted 95 38 136
10th Percentile £25,200 £32,500 £24,250
25th Percentile £28,975 £39,065 £31,221
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% +11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,649 £48,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,875 £60,125
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,198 1,404 1,611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 17.76% 30.86% 26.89%
Number of salaries quoted 535 418 509
10th Percentile £26,700 £28,750 £26,200
25th Percentile £34,000 £38,250 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,990 £50,939 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +10.74% +2.22%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,715 £81,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Scotland

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Security Cleared in Scotland

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in Scotland

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

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in Scotland

Security Cleared
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Cleared within the Scotland 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
Glasgow -74 177 £58,000 +16.00% 41
Edinburgh +23 102 £58,800 +4.53% 49
Argyll and Bute -2 13 £27,400 -57.85% 2
Aberdeen - 8 £24,240 - 5
South Lanarkshire +6 5 £105,000 - 1
Scottish Borders +1 4 - -
Fife -10 1 - - 2
Lanarkshire -10 1 - - 18
Dunbartonshire - 1 - - 1
Security Cleared
UK

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 60 (19.11%) ArcGIS
1 60 (19.11%) GeoServer
2 14 (4.46%) IIS
3 10 (3.18%) WebLogic
4 6 (1.91%) Confluence
5 2 (0.64%) JBoss
5 2 (0.64%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 12 (3.82%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.55%) Sketch
3 4 (1.27%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.64%) Windchill
5 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (3.82%) Primavera
2 10 (3.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 6 (1.91%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.64%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.64%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 99 (31.53%) Azure
2 88 (28.03%) AWS
3 14 (4.46%) Power Platform
4 12 (3.82%) Cloud Computing
4 12 (3.82%) Miro
5 8 (2.55%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (2.55%) Amazon SQS
5 8 (2.55%) Figma
5 8 (2.55%) Heroku
6 6 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (1.91%) OCI
6 6 (1.91%) SaaS
7 4 (1.27%) dbt
8 3 (0.96%) Serverless
9 2 (0.64%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (0.64%) AWS CodeStar
9 2 (0.64%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.64%) GCP
9 2 (0.64%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.32%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.46%) WAN
2 10 (3.18%) BGP
3 8 (2.55%) DNS
3 8 (2.55%) SSL
3 8 (2.55%) TCP/IP
3 8 (2.55%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (1.59%) Firewall
5 3 (0.96%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (0.96%) Software-Defined Radio
6 2 (0.64%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (0.64%) Cisco Firepower
6 2 (0.64%) HSRP
6 2 (0.64%) MPLS
6 2 (0.64%) Network Security
6 2 (0.64%) OSPF
6 2 (0.64%) VLAN
6 2 (0.64%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (20.38%) GIS
2 62 (19.75%) PostgreSQL
3 60 (19.11%) QGIS
4 16 (5.10%) SQL Server
5 12 (3.82%) Power BI
6 11 (3.50%) NoSQL
6 11 (3.50%) Tableau
7 10 (3.18%) Oracle Database
7 10 (3.18%) RDBMS
7 10 (3.18%) Relational Database
8 8 (2.55%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.27%) Geospatial Data
9 4 (1.27%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.96%) MySQL
11 1 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.32%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 18 (5.73%) JIRA
2 5 (1.59%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.27%) Git
4 3 (0.96%) GitLab
5 2 (0.64%) IntelliJ
5 2 (0.64%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.64%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.32%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.32%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.32%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.32%) JUnit
6 1 (0.32%) Mockito
6 1 (0.32%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.32%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (0.32%) Selenium
General
1 68 (21.66%) Social Skills
2 23 (7.32%) Public Sector
3 20 (6.37%) Finance
4 18 (5.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (2.23%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (1.91%) Police
7 4 (1.27%) Aerospace
8 2 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.64%) Games
8 2 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.64%) Law
8 2 (0.64%) Local Government
8 2 (0.64%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.32%) Electronics
9 1 (0.32%) Military
9 1 (0.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 98 (31.21%) Senior
2 71 (22.61%) Software Engineer
3 47 (14.97%) Architect
4 45 (14.33%) Senior Software Engineer
5 29 (9.24%) Lead
6 24 (7.64%) Solutions Architect
7 23 (7.32%) Systems Engineer
8 17 (5.41%) 2nd Line Support
8 17 (5.41%) Analyst
9 15 (4.78%) Designer
9 15 (4.78%) Developer
9 15 (4.78%) Infrastructure Support
10 13 (4.14%) Business Analyst
10 13 (4.14%) Presales Solution Architect
11 11 (3.50%) Product Manager
12 10 (3.18%) Senior Developer
12 10 (3.18%) UI Designer
12 10 (3.18%) UI/UX Designer
12 10 (3.18%) UX Designer
13 9 (2.87%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (20.70%) React
2 60 (19.11%) Leaflet
2 60 (19.11%) OpenLayers
2 60 (19.11%) PostGIS
3 57 (18.15%) .NET
4 52 (16.56%) .NET Core
4 52 (16.56%) CSS
5 16 (5.10%) AngularJS
5 16 (5.10%) Node.js
6 10 (3.18%) Django
6 10 (3.18%) HTML
7 9 (2.87%) Spring
7 9 (2.87%) Spring Boot
8 8 (2.55%) Express.js
8 8 (2.55%) Hibernate
8 8 (2.55%) RabbitMQ
8 8 (2.55%) RESTful
9 6 (1.91%) REST
10 4 (1.27%) JPA
10 4 (1.27%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.73%) Public Cloud
2 14 (4.46%) Clustering
3 12 (3.82%) Virtual Team
4 10 (3.18%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.18%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.87%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.55%) Driving Licence
6 8 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.59%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.96%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.96%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.64%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.64%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.64%) Video\Live Streaming
11 1 (0.32%) CESG
11 1 (0.32%) Cyberattack
11 1 (0.32%) IoT
11 1 (0.32%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 33 (10.51%) Windows
2 20 (6.37%) Linux
3 17 (5.41%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.55%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.27%) Unix
6 2 (0.64%) VMS
6 2 (0.64%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (60.19%) Actionable Insight
2 147 (46.82%) Agile
3 89 (28.34%) DevOps
4 76 (24.20%) Software Engineering
5 65 (20.70%) Problem-Solving
6 60 (19.11%) Web Development
7 43 (13.69%) Stakeholder Management
8 42 (13.38%) Project Management
9 31 (9.87%) Prototyping
9 31 (9.87%) Workshop Facilitation
10 30 (9.55%) Risk Management
11 28 (8.92%) User Research
12 26 (8.28%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 24 (7.64%) Business Case
13 24 (7.64%) Coaching
13 24 (7.64%) Decision-Making
14 21 (6.69%) CI/CD
14 21 (6.69%) Presales
14 21 (6.69%) Scrum
15 20 (6.37%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 74 (23.57%) Python
2 63 (20.06%) JavaScript
3 40 (12.74%) C#
4 24 (7.64%) SQL
5 19 (6.05%) Java
6 2 (0.64%) C++
6 2 (0.64%) Ruby
7 1 (0.32%) Bash
7 1 (0.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 236 (75.16%) SC Cleared
2 32 (10.19%) Degree
3 22 (7.01%) DV Cleared
4 11 (3.50%) AWS Certification
4 11 (3.50%) Azure Certification
5 10 (3.18%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (2.55%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 5 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.27%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.27%) PhD
9 3 (0.96%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.96%) HNC
10 2 (0.64%) CCIE
10 2 (0.64%) CCNA
10 2 (0.64%) CCNP
10 2 (0.64%) CISSP
10 2 (0.64%) MCSE
10 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.64%) Accessibility
2 10 (3.18%) SLA
2 10 (3.18%) WCAG
3 8 (2.55%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.91%) COBIT
5 4 (1.27%) PMO
6 3 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 3 (0.96%) NIST
6 3 (0.96%) QA
7 2 (0.64%) GDPR
7 2 (0.64%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.64%) NCSC
7 2 (0.64%) TickIT
8 1 (0.32%) IEC 61508
8 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 20 (6.37%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.46%) VMware NSX
3 8 (2.55%) KVM
4 6 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.27%) Docker
6 2 (0.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (1.91%) OpenView
2 2 (0.64%) Ansible
2 2 (0.64%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.64%) McAfee ePO
2 2 (0.64%) SCCM
2 2 (0.64%) Terraform
2 2 (0.64%) WSUS
3 1 (0.32%) BMC PATROL
Vendors
1 60 (19.11%) ESRI
2 44 (14.01%) Microsoft
3 20 (6.37%) VMware
4 18 (5.73%) Oracle
5 10 (3.18%) Sparx
6 9 (2.87%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.55%) Dell
8 6 (1.91%) BMC
8 6 (1.91%) HP
8 6 (1.91%) Remedy
9 4 (1.27%) Cisco
10 3 (0.96%) Thales
11 2 (0.64%) Apple
11 2 (0.64%) Black Duck
11 2 (0.64%) Cadence
11 2 (0.64%) Juniper
11 2 (0.64%) McAfee
11 2 (0.64%) Palo Alto
12 1 (0.32%) Atlassian
12 1 (0.32%) NEC