SC Cleared Jobs in the UK excluding London

Security Check (SC) Clearance
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 39 47 59
Rank change year-on-year +8 +12 +16
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 3,838 3,375 3,715
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.94% 6.02% 4.94%
As % of the Qualifications category 19.06% 15.89% 15.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2,092 1,515 1,612
10th Percentile £31,750 £31,850 £30,051
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,250 £39,449
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £53,056
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +8.38% +0.11%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £57,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +9.65% +3.64%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 20,139 21,243 24,598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.92% 37.89% 32.72%
Number of salaries quoted 12,319 7,953 10,632
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,800 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £76,500
UK median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.83% +9.09% -

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for SC Cleared in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in the UK excluding London

SC Cleared
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the UK excluding London 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
South East +17 1,251 £55,000 - 263
South West -3 934 £55,000 -8.33% 220
North of England +15 596 £57,500 -8.00% 165
North West +4 415 £55,000 -12.00% 111
Midlands -3 412 £55,000 -8.33% 131
West Midlands -1 275 £55,000 -8.33% 105
Scotland -45 243 £60,000 +8.26% 62
Wales +8 204 £58,800 +94.67% 25
Yorkshire +56 152 £60,000 -11.11% 42
East Midlands -20 137 £47,250 -10.00% 26
East of England -33 122 £52,000 -6.31% 76
Northern Ireland +14 103 £60,000 +66.67% 21
North East -34 29 £56,900 +19.79% 12
SC Cleared
UK

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 295 (7.69%) ArcGIS
2 284 (7.40%) GeoServer
3 110 (2.87%) WebLogic
4 105 (2.74%) Confluence
5 77 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
6 57 (1.49%) SharePoint
7 44 (1.15%) Oracle Service Bus
8 42 (1.09%) Apache
9 32 (0.83%) Apache Spark
10 30 (0.78%) OpenStack
11 29 (0.76%) IIS
12 18 (0.47%) Exchange Server 2010
13 14 (0.36%) Skype for Business
14 11 (0.29%) CMS
14 11 (0.29%) SharePoint 2010
14 11 (0.29%) SharePoint 2013
15 9 (0.23%) Red Hat Fuse
16 8 (0.21%) JBoss
17 6 (0.16%) Appian
18 4 (0.10%) TWiki
Applications
1 164 (4.27%) Microsoft Office
2 76 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 72 (1.88%) MS Visio
4 52 (1.35%) Simulink
5 40 (1.04%) Sketch
6 24 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
7 16 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 9 (0.23%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.10%) EPLAN
9 4 (0.10%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.052%) Abaqus
10 2 (0.052%) Fireworks
10 2 (0.052%) GNU Octave
10 2 (0.052%) InDesign
10 2 (0.052%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.026%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.026%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.026%) Revit
Business Applications
1 75 (1.95%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 73 (1.90%) Remedy ITSM
3 41 (1.07%) Siebel CRM
4 21 (0.55%) Maximo
5 8 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.18%) Primavera
7 4 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.10%) Q-Pulse
8 3 (0.078%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.078%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.078%) SAP FI
8 3 (0.078%) SAP FI/CO
8 3 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (0.078%) Teamcenter
9 2 (0.052%) Oracle Applications
9 2 (0.052%) Oracle Cash Management
9 2 (0.052%) Oracle EBS R12
9 2 (0.052%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.052%) SAP HR
10 1 (0.026%) CA PPM
Cloud Services
1 957 (24.93%) Azure
2 777 (20.24%) AWS
3 167 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
4 100 (2.61%) Amazon EKS
5 83 (2.16%) Serverless
6 81 (2.11%) GCP
7 78 (2.03%) OpenShift
8 67 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
9 63 (1.64%) Miro
10 62 (1.62%) SaaS
11 58 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
12 56 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
13 49 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
14 42 (1.09%) Power Platform
15 41 (1.07%) Amazon SQS
15 41 (1.07%) Figma
16 40 (1.04%) Heroku
17 39 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
17 39 (1.02%) Entra ID
18 32 (0.83%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 253 (6.59%) Firewall
2 162 (4.22%) DNS
3 116 (3.02%) TCP/IP
4 115 (3.00%) WAN
5 79 (2.06%) DHCP
6 74 (1.93%) BGP
7 73 (1.90%) Wireless
8 72 (1.88%) LAN
8 72 (1.88%) VPN
9 66 (1.72%) Network Security
10 65 (1.69%) SAN
10 65 (1.69%) SSL
11 43 (1.12%) Cisco Firepower
12 42 (1.09%) IPsec
13 39 (1.02%) SD-WAN
14 38 (0.99%) MPLS
15 36 (0.94%) Software-Defined Radio
16 34 (0.89%) AMQP
17 27 (0.70%) Cisco ASA
17 27 (0.70%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 371 (9.67%) PostgreSQL
2 295 (7.69%) GIS
3 284 (7.40%) QGIS
4 97 (2.53%) Relational Database
5 93 (2.42%) Oracle Database
6 84 (2.19%) SQL Server
7 76 (1.98%) Hadoop
8 75 (1.95%) NoSQL
9 58 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
10 57 (1.49%) Big Data
11 55 (1.43%) RDBMS
12 53 (1.38%) MongoDB
13 45 (1.17%) Oracle Database 11g
14 44 (1.15%) Oracle Database 10g
14 44 (1.15%) VLDB
15 38 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
16 36 (0.94%) Oracle BI EE
16 36 (0.94%) Siebel EIM
17 33 (0.86%) MySQL
18 29 (0.76%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 181 (4.72%) JIRA
2 160 (4.17%) Git
3 119 (3.10%) Jenkins
4 88 (2.29%) Visual Studio
5 70 (1.82%) Bitbucket
6 59 (1.54%) Sourcetree
7 57 (1.49%) GitLab
8 36 (0.94%) Rational DOORS
9 21 (0.55%) Ant
9 21 (0.55%) Cucumber
9 21 (0.55%) JUnit
9 21 (0.55%) Subversion
10 20 (0.52%) Selenium
10 20 (0.52%) Vagrant
11 16 (0.42%) LabVIEW
11 16 (0.42%) SonarQube
12 14 (0.36%) CMake
13 11 (0.29%) JMeter
13 11 (0.29%) MSI
14 10 (0.26%) Trac
General
1 805 (20.97%) Social Skills
2 292 (7.61%) Aerospace
3 266 (6.93%) Finance
4 221 (5.76%) Public Sector
5 196 (5.11%) Analytical Skills
6 190 (4.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 125 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
8 111 (2.89%) Military
9 106 (2.76%) Games
10 97 (2.53%) Telecoms
11 69 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
12 63 (1.64%) Police
13 48 (1.25%) Electronics
14 41 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
15 40 (1.04%) Retail
16 37 (0.96%) Manufacturing
17 21 (0.55%) Law
18 18 (0.47%) Marketing
19 17 (0.44%) Back Office
20 13 (0.34%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 830 (21.63%) Senior
2 504 (13.13%) Software Engineer
3 464 (12.09%) Architect
4 383 (9.98%) Developer
5 302 (7.87%) Lead
6 266 (6.93%) Analyst
7 260 (6.77%) Senior Software Engineer
8 200 (5.21%) Solutions Architect
9 190 (4.95%) Systems Engineer
10 170 (4.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 170 (4.43%) Project Manager
11 168 (4.38%) Network Engineer
12 143 (3.73%) Consultant
13 133 (3.47%) Senior Developer
14 98 (2.55%) Designer
15 95 (2.48%) Business Analyst
16 90 (2.34%) DevOps Engineer
17 87 (2.27%) Support Engineer
18 79 (2.06%) Applications Support
18 79 (2.06%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 401 (10.45%) React
2 368 (9.59%) .NET
3 287 (7.48%) Leaflet
4 286 (7.45%) OpenLayers
5 284 (7.40%) PostGIS
6 264 (6.88%) CSS
7 251 (6.54%) .NET Core
8 172 (4.48%) Node.js
9 115 (3.00%) AngularJS
10 110 (2.87%) REST
10 110 (2.87%) Spring Boot
11 108 (2.81%) Spring
12 77 (2.01%) HTML
13 74 (1.93%) RabbitMQ
14 63 (1.64%) Unity (Game Engine)
15 59 (1.54%) Django
16 52 (1.35%) Kafka
17 44 (1.15%) XML
18 43 (1.12%) Web Services
19 42 (1.09%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 122 (3.18%) Data Centre
2 116 (3.02%) Management Information System
3 88 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
4 87 (2.27%) Driving Licence
5 79 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
5 79 (2.06%) Product Ownership
6 73 (1.90%) Virtual Team
7 65 (1.69%) Virtual Reality
8 58 (1.51%) Algorithms
9 56 (1.46%) Private Cloud
10 52 (1.35%) Cloud Native
10 52 (1.35%) Public Cloud
11 46 (1.20%) Operational Technology
12 43 (1.12%) CMDB
13 39 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
14 37 (0.96%) Cyberattack
15 32 (0.83%) Clustering
15 32 (0.83%) PKI
16 29 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
17 26 (0.68%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 592 (15.42%) Linux
2 535 (13.94%) Windows
3 234 (6.10%) Windows Server
4 129 (3.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 129 (3.36%) Unix
5 106 (2.76%) Ubuntu
6 95 (2.48%) Windows 10
7 86 (2.24%) CentOS
8 69 (1.80%) Windows Server 2016
9 60 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
10 57 (1.49%) Solaris
11 40 (1.04%) Windows Server 2012
12 39 (1.02%) Android
13 30 (0.78%) Windows 7
14 29 (0.76%) Debian
15 16 (0.42%) AIX
16 12 (0.31%) Windows NT
16 12 (0.31%) Windows XP
17 11 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
18 10 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,257 (32.75%) Agile
2 1,149 (29.94%) Actionable Insight
3 866 (22.56%) DevOps
4 740 (19.28%) Software Engineering
5 639 (16.65%) Problem-Solving
6 352 (9.17%) Scrum
7 348 (9.07%) Project Management
8 319 (8.31%) ITIL
9 312 (8.13%) Cybersecurity
10 291 (7.58%) Web Development
11 270 (7.03%) Stakeholder Management
12 260 (6.77%) Collaborative Working
13 243 (6.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 231 (6.02%) Mentoring
15 227 (5.91%) Service Management
16 193 (5.03%) Open Source
17 189 (4.92%) Artificial Intelligence
18 180 (4.69%) ITSM
19 175 (4.56%) Kanban
20 172 (4.48%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 681 (17.74%) Python
2 511 (13.31%) JavaScript
3 409 (10.66%) Java
4 343 (8.94%) SQL
5 329 (8.57%) C#
6 271 (7.06%) PowerShell
7 149 (3.88%) C++
8 79 (2.06%) TypeScript
9 77 (2.01%) C
10 62 (1.62%) Bash
11 61 (1.59%) MATLAB
12 54 (1.41%) PL/SQL
13 39 (1.02%) Shell Script
14 37 (0.96%) Kotlin
15 25 (0.65%) VB
16 21 (0.55%) Go
17 16 (0.42%) Bicep
17 16 (0.42%) Ruby
18 13 (0.34%) VBA
19 12 (0.31%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3,838 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 664 (17.30%) Degree
3 591 (15.40%) DV Cleared
4 173 (4.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 101 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 98 (2.55%) Cisco Certification
7 97 (2.53%) AWS Certification
8 89 (2.32%) Azure Certification
9 81 (2.11%) CISM
10 74 (1.93%) CISSP
11 68 (1.77%) CCNA
12 62 (1.62%) CCNP
12 62 (1.62%) CESG Certified Professional
13 59 (1.54%) CRISC
14 54 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
14 54 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
15 50 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 44 (1.15%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 35 (0.91%) A+ Certification
18 31 (0.81%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (3.39%) SLA
2 119 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 113 (2.94%) Accessibility
4 74 (1.93%) NCSC
5 69 (1.80%) QA
6 50 (1.30%) WCAG
7 34 (0.89%) NIST
8 29 (0.76%) COBIT
9 24 (0.63%) Def Stans
9 24 (0.63%) GDPR
10 20 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 20 (0.52%) PMO
11 18 (0.47%) Software Quality Assurance
12 17 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
13 16 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 16 (0.42%) GRC
14 15 (0.39%) JSP 440
15 14 (0.36%) IEC 61508
15 14 (0.36%) ISO 9001
16 13 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 286 (7.45%) Active Directory
2 165 (4.30%) Docker
2 165 (4.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 124 (3.23%) Hyper-V
4 44 (1.15%) Oracle RAC
5 42 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
6 33 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
6 33 (0.86%) vSphere
7 32 (0.83%) Firmware
8 25 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
9 16 (0.42%) pfSense
10 15 (0.39%) VMware NSX
11 14 (0.36%) Microsoft App-V
11 14 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
12 11 (0.29%) KVM
13 10 (0.26%) NFS
14 9 (0.23%) XenDesktop
15 5 (0.13%) XenApp
16 4 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
16 4 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 232 (6.04%) Ansible
2 214 (5.58%) Kubernetes
3 175 (4.56%) SCCM
4 151 (3.93%) Terraform
5 75 (1.95%) SCOM
6 64 (1.67%) Puppet
7 61 (1.59%) WSUS
8 57 (1.49%) vCenter Server
9 51 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
10 44 (1.15%) Data Guard
10 44 (1.15%) Oracle RMAN
11 31 (0.81%) EMC NetWorker
11 31 (0.81%) NetBackup
12 30 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
13 29 (0.76%) OpenView
14 28 (0.73%) Grafana
15 26 (0.68%) OpenSSO
16 25 (0.65%) ZABBIX
17 21 (0.55%) Nagios
18 16 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 642 (16.73%) Microsoft
2 292 (7.61%) ESRI
3 277 (7.22%) VMware
4 265 (6.90%) Oracle
5 234 (6.10%) Cisco
6 177 (4.61%) Juniper
7 99 (2.58%) Remedy
8 97 (2.53%) Red Hat
9 93 (2.42%) ServiceNow
10 75 (1.95%) Sparx
11 68 (1.77%) HP
12 54 (1.41%) Google
13 47 (1.22%) NetApp
14 45 (1.17%) Sun
15 43 (1.12%) IBM
15 43 (1.12%) Veeam
16 42 (1.09%) Fortinet
17 41 (1.07%) McAfee
17 41 (1.07%) Palo Alto
17 41 (1.07%) Siebel