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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 12 19
Rank change year-on-year -3 +7 +11
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 934 888 1,086
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.15% 13.56% 12.66%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.51% 31.04% 32.35%
Number of salaries quoted 611 426 517
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £34,325
25th Percentile £43,750 £43,125 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,755
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.62% +7.51%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £70,250 £84,375 £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 3,395 2,861 3,357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 33.27% 43.69% 39.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,189 1,285 1,660
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,932 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,294 £37,376
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,175 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £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 6 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 6 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 +4 305 £67,750 +12.92% 89
Gloucestershire -13 230 £50,000 -25.93% 21
Wiltshire +6 210 £50,000 -4.76% 41
Dorset 0 107 £40,000 -23.81% 18
Somerset +11 56 £30,385 -36.03% 15
Devon -25 10 £49,515 -10.78% 32
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 68 (7.28%) Confluence
2 35 (3.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 34 (3.64%) ArcGIS
4 31 (3.32%) SharePoint
5 27 (2.89%) GeoServer
6 25 (2.68%) Apache
7 21 (2.25%) Apache Spark
8 11 (1.18%) SharePoint 2010
8 11 (1.18%) SharePoint 2013
9 4 (0.43%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.21%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.21%) WildFly
11 1 (0.11%) IIS
Applications
1 47 (5.03%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.39%) Simulink
3 7 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.43%) Sketch
5 2 (0.21%) GNU Octave
5 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.11%) Revit
Business Applications
1 39 (4.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 21 (2.25%) Maximo
3 4 (0.43%) Primavera
3 4 (0.43%) Q-Pulse
4 3 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 202 (21.63%) Azure
2 178 (19.06%) AWS
3 71 (7.60%) Microsoft 365
4 62 (6.64%) OpenShift
5 41 (4.39%) GCP
6 32 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (2.57%) AWS CloudFormation
7 24 (2.57%) AWS Lambda
7 24 (2.57%) Serverless
8 23 (2.46%) SaaS
9 22 (2.36%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (1.50%) Power Platform
11 9 (0.96%) Miro
12 8 (0.86%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (0.86%) Power Automate
13 7 (0.75%) PaaS
14 6 (0.64%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (0.64%) IaaS
14 6 (0.64%) PowerApps
15 5 (0.54%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 37 (3.96%) Firewall
2 34 (3.64%) TCP/IP
3 30 (3.21%) DNS
4 23 (2.46%) AMQP
4 23 (2.46%) DHCP
5 21 (2.25%) Wireless
6 19 (2.03%) HTTP
6 19 (2.03%) LAN
6 19 (2.03%) WAN
7 14 (1.50%) SAN
8 10 (1.07%) iSCSI
9 9 (0.96%) Cisco IPT
9 9 (0.96%) Ethernet
9 9 (0.96%) Fibre Channel
9 9 (0.96%) Network Security
10 8 (0.86%) VLAN
11 6 (0.64%) BGP
11 6 (0.64%) RS-232
12 5 (0.54%) IPv4
12 5 (0.54%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (3.85%) GIS
2 34 (3.64%) Big Data
3 27 (2.89%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (2.89%) QGIS
4 21 (2.25%) Hadoop
5 20 (2.14%) SQL Server
6 18 (1.93%) Cloudera CDH
7 14 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (1.39%) Relational Database
9 12 (1.28%) Power BI
10 11 (1.18%) MySQL
11 10 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (0.64%) MongoDB
12 6 (0.64%) NoSQL
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 79 (8.46%) JIRA
2 76 (8.14%) Git
3 72 (7.71%) Visual Studio
4 66 (7.07%) Bitbucket
5 59 (6.32%) Sourcetree
6 18 (1.93%) GitLab
7 16 (1.71%) Jenkins
7 16 (1.71%) LabVIEW
7 16 (1.71%) Rational DOORS
8 9 (0.96%) NetBeans
9 6 (0.64%) Eclipse
10 5 (0.54%) 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 (0.32%) JMeter
12 3 (0.32%) Robot Framework
13 2 (0.21%) PetaLinux
13 2 (0.21%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 147 (15.74%) Social Skills
2 117 (12.53%) Aerospace
3 96 (10.28%) Games
4 95 (10.17%) Finance
5 85 (9.10%) Presentation Skills
6 49 (5.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 46 (4.93%) Military
8 35 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
9 34 (3.64%) Public Sector
10 28 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
11 20 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
12 16 (1.71%) Telecoms
13 14 (1.50%) Manufacturing
14 12 (1.28%) Electronics
15 9 (0.96%) Retail
16 7 (0.75%) Publishing
17 6 (0.64%) Back Office
18 5 (0.54%) Marketing
19 4 (0.43%) Law
19 4 (0.43%) Legal
Job Titles
1 167 (17.88%) Senior
2 128 (13.70%) Developer
3 91 (9.74%) Architect
4 77 (8.24%) Software Engineer
5 76 (8.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 66 (7.07%) Solutions Architect
7 65 (6.96%) Support Engineer
8 64 (6.85%) Consultant
9 63 (6.75%) 3D Developer
9 63 (6.75%) Games Developer
9 63 (6.75%) Project Manager
9 63 (6.75%) Unity 3D Developer
10 56 (6.00%) Systems Engineer
11 54 (5.78%) Lead
12 43 (4.60%) Senior Developer
13 41 (4.39%) Security Consultant
14 40 (4.28%) Information Assurance Manager
14 40 (4.28%) Information Manager
15 37 (3.96%) Analyst
16 35 (3.75%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (7.28%) React
2 67 (7.17%) .NET
3 63 (6.75%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 32 (3.43%) CSS
5 28 (3.00%) .NET Core
6 27 (2.89%) AngularJS
6 27 (2.89%) Leaflet
6 27 (2.89%) OpenLayers
6 27 (2.89%) PostGIS
6 27 (2.89%) RabbitMQ
7 26 (2.78%) Node.js
7 26 (2.78%) REST
8 23 (2.46%) Spring Boot
9 21 (2.25%) Spring
10 18 (1.93%) gRPC
10 18 (1.93%) Material-UI
10 18 (1.93%) OpenAPI
10 18 (1.93%) Swagger
11 12 (1.28%) HTML
12 9 (0.96%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 63 (6.75%) Virtual Reality
2 56 (6.00%) Driving Licence
3 40 (4.28%) Management Information System
4 32 (3.43%) Cyberattack
5 20 (2.14%) Cloud Native
6 19 (2.03%) Private Cloud
7 18 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (1.61%) EMC VNX
9 14 (1.50%) Clustering
10 13 (1.39%) Cyber Defence
11 12 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
11 12 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
11 12 (1.28%) Smartphone
12 10 (1.07%) Algorithms
12 10 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (1.07%) Public Cloud
12 10 (1.07%) Replication
13 9 (0.96%) Data Centre
13 9 (0.96%) PMI
13 9 (0.96%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 160 (17.13%) Windows
2 144 (15.42%) Linux
3 52 (5.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 49 (5.25%) Windows Server
5 47 (5.03%) Windows 10
6 28 (3.00%) CentOS
7 22 (2.36%) Ubuntu
8 18 (1.93%) Debian
9 17 (1.82%) Unix
10 13 (1.39%) AIX
11 12 (1.28%) Windows 7
12 11 (1.18%) Android
13 9 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
14 8 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
14 8 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
15 7 (0.75%) CoreOS
16 5 (0.54%) Solaris
17 3 (0.32%) zOS
18 2 (0.21%) FreeRTOS
19 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (25.37%) Agile
2 220 (23.55%) DevOps
3 184 (19.70%) Software Engineering
4 144 (15.42%) Actionable Insight
5 127 (13.60%) Scrum
6 123 (13.17%) Cybersecurity
7 115 (12.31%) UML
8 102 (10.92%) Problem-Solving
9 101 (10.81%) ITIL
10 91 (9.74%) Information Assurance
11 90 (9.64%) Project Management
12 81 (8.67%) Risk Management
13 77 (8.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 76 (8.14%) Collaborative Working
15 71 (7.60%) Design Patterns
16 67 (7.17%) Stakeholder Management
16 67 (7.17%) TOGAF
17 63 (6.75%) Use Case
18 60 (6.42%) ArchiMate
18 60 (6.42%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 137 (14.67%) Python
2 101 (10.81%) Java
3 91 (9.74%) C#
4 75 (8.03%) JavaScript
5 60 (6.42%) PowerShell
6 47 (5.03%) SQL
7 39 (4.18%) Bash
8 27 (2.89%) C++
8 27 (2.89%) TypeScript
9 21 (2.25%) MATLAB
10 18 (1.93%) C
11 13 (1.39%) Go
12 7 (0.75%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.64%) Fortran
13 6 (0.64%) VBA
14 4 (0.43%) R
15 3 (0.32%) Scala
16 2 (0.21%) Perl
16 2 (0.21%) Ruby
17 1 (0.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 934 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 228 (24.41%) Degree
3 159 (17.02%) DV Cleared
4 115 (12.31%) BPSS Clearance
5 53 (5.67%) TOGAF Certification
6 49 (5.25%) CISM
6 49 (5.25%) CISSP
7 48 (5.14%) CESG Certified Professional
8 33 (3.53%) CRISC
9 20 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (1.61%) A+ Certification
11 13 (1.39%) ITIL Certification
12 11 (1.18%) Azure Certification
12 11 (1.18%) MCSE
13 10 (1.07%) CISA
14 9 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
14 9 (0.96%) PMI Certification
15 8 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
15 8 (0.86%) MCITP
16 7 (0.75%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (7.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 50 (5.35%) NCSC
3 18 (1.93%) SLA
4 14 (1.50%) IEC 61508
5 11 (1.18%) ISO 9001
6 10 (1.07%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 10 (1.07%) Def Stans
6 10 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 9 (0.96%) JSP 440
8 8 (0.86%) NIST
9 7 (0.75%) GDPR
9 7 (0.75%) QA
9 7 (0.75%) TickIT
10 5 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 5 (0.54%) RMADS
10 5 (0.54%) WCAG
11 3 (0.32%) COBIT
11 3 (0.32%) Data Quality
System Software
1 105 (11.24%) Active Directory
2 86 (9.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 66 (7.07%) Hyper-V
4 57 (6.10%) Docker
5 16 (1.71%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (0.86%) XenDesktop
7 6 (0.64%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (0.54%) XenApp
9 3 (0.32%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.32%) Firmware
9 3 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 98 (10.49%) Ansible
2 69 (7.39%) Kubernetes
3 60 (6.42%) SCCM
4 49 (5.25%) Puppet
5 42 (4.50%) Terraform
6 15 (1.61%) EMC NetWorker
6 15 (1.61%) Nagios
6 15 (1.61%) vCenter Server
7 12 (1.28%) Backup Exec
7 12 (1.28%) NetBackup
8 10 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.96%) ZABBIX
10 7 (0.75%) Icinga
10 7 (0.75%) Kibana
11 6 (0.64%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
12 5 (0.54%) Grafana
12 5 (0.54%) Prometheus
12 5 (0.54%) SCOM
13 3 (0.32%) WSUS
Vendors
1 250 (26.77%) Microsoft
2 99 (10.60%) VMware
3 57 (6.10%) Red Hat
4 40 (4.28%) Google
5 39 (4.18%) Sparx
6 35 (3.75%) ESRI
7 28 (3.00%) IBM
8 26 (2.78%) Oracle
9 23 (2.46%) SolarWinds
10 22 (2.36%) NetApp
11 21 (2.25%) Cisco
12 18 (1.93%) SaltStack
13 16 (1.71%) Veeam
14 15 (1.61%) EMC
15 14 (1.50%) Citrix
16 13 (1.39%) Hitachi
16 13 (1.39%) HP
17 12 (1.28%) Atlassian
17 12 (1.28%) McAfee
17 12 (1.28%) Veritas