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

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 26 77
Rank change year-on-year +4 +51 -9
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 7,135 6,831 6,584
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.62% 8.21% 4.59%
As % of the Qualifications category 28.35% 24.29% 17.15%
Number of salaries quoted 4,460 3,292 3,230
10th Percentile £34,000 £34,452 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,519 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -1.79%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,000 £87,500 £87,500
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 25,165 28,120 38,388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.88% 33.78% 26.77%
Number of salaries quoted 15,781 12,905 17,053
10th Percentile £28,850 £32,000 £30,750
25th Percentile £38,603 £42,500 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.83% +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 7 June 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 7 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 +5 2,066 £55,000 +10.00% 488
South West +3 1,981 £57,000 +2.70% 469
London +6 1,106 £70,000 +7.69% 403
North of England -2 845 £55,000 -8.33% 242
Midlands -10 679 £55,000 -1.35% 208
North West -6 614 £53,000 -11.67% 166
West Midlands +6 483 £55,000 -4.35% 162
East of England +17 432 £54,000 -1.82% 144
East Midlands -33 196 £42,786 -22.21% 45
Yorkshire +3 190 £60,000 -9.77% 55
North East -34 41 £56,250 +25.00% 21
South Coast - 1 £35,000 -
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
1 208 (2.92%) ArcGIS
2 196 (2.75%) GeoServer
3 135 (1.89%) SharePoint
4 116 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 113 (1.58%) Confluence
6 97 (1.36%) Apache
7 76 (1.07%) IIS
8 64 (0.90%) WebLogic
9 56 (0.78%) Apache Spark
10 33 (0.46%) OpenStack
11 27 (0.38%) Tomcat
12 25 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2010
12 25 (0.35%) nginx
13 16 (0.22%) Jupyter
13 16 (0.22%) SharePoint 2010
13 16 (0.22%) SharePoint 2013
14 14 (0.20%) Oracle Service Bus
15 13 (0.18%) CMS
15 13 (0.18%) JBoss
16 11 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 246 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
2 135 (1.89%) Simulink
3 120 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
4 73 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 41 (0.57%) MS Visio
6 35 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
7 32 (0.45%) Sketch
8 10 (0.14%) AutoCAD
9 6 (0.084%) Trello
10 5 (0.070%) Adobe XD
10 5 (0.070%) Windchill
11 4 (0.056%) EPLAN
11 4 (0.056%) InVision
11 4 (0.056%) Photoshop
11 4 (0.056%) Siemens NX
11 4 (0.056%) Stateflow
12 3 (0.042%) Revit
12 3 (0.042%) Spreadsheet
13 2 (0.028%) Abaqus
13 2 (0.028%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 74 (1.04%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 55 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
3 53 (0.74%) NEC Housing
4 41 (0.57%) Siebel CRM
5 39 (0.55%) Primavera
6 27 (0.38%) Maximo
7 25 (0.35%) Workday HCM
8 16 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
9 13 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
9 13 (0.18%) SAP HR
10 12 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
11 10 (0.14%) SAP CO
11 10 (0.14%) SAP FI
11 10 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
12 9 (0.13%) SAP SCM
12 9 (0.13%) Teamcenter
13 8 (0.11%) SAP EWM
14 6 (0.084%) Oracle Applications
14 6 (0.084%) Oracle ERP
14 6 (0.084%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 1,384 (19.40%) Azure
2 1,143 (16.02%) AWS
3 284 (3.98%) Microsoft 365
4 161 (2.26%) GCP
5 154 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
6 149 (2.09%) Power Platform
7 146 (2.05%) SaaS
8 122 (1.71%) OpenShift
9 120 (1.68%) Serverless
10 112 (1.57%) Amazon EKS
11 103 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
12 92 (1.29%) Entra ID
13 85 (1.19%) PaaS
14 75 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
15 62 (0.87%) AWS Lambda
15 62 (0.87%) Cloud Computing
16 60 (0.84%) Azure Monitor
17 58 (0.81%) IaaS
18 55 (0.77%) OCI
19 53 (0.74%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 444 (6.22%) Firewall
2 237 (3.32%) DNS
3 210 (2.94%) WAN
4 151 (2.12%) TCP/IP
5 150 (2.10%) Network Security
6 140 (1.96%) LAN
7 138 (1.93%) DHCP
8 134 (1.88%) BGP
9 128 (1.79%) VPN
10 77 (1.08%) SAN
10 77 (1.08%) Wireless
11 69 (0.97%) Internet
12 65 (0.91%) Cisco ASA
12 65 (0.91%) SSL
13 61 (0.85%) SD-WAN
14 60 (0.84%) MPLS
15 59 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
16 56 (0.78%) OSPF
17 52 (0.73%) IPsec
18 51 (0.71%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 331 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
2 224 (3.14%) GIS
3 196 (2.75%) QGIS
4 173 (2.42%) SQL Server
5 133 (1.86%) Relational Database
6 107 (1.50%) Power BI
7 102 (1.43%) Hadoop
8 101 (1.42%) MongoDB
9 100 (1.40%) NoSQL
10 99 (1.39%) Big Data
11 98 (1.37%) Oracle Database
12 49 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
13 43 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
14 36 (0.50%) Oracle BI EE
14 36 (0.50%) RDBMS
14 36 (0.50%) Siebel EIM
15 35 (0.49%) MySQL
15 35 (0.49%) Tableau
16 32 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
17 29 (0.41%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 249 (3.49%) JIRA
2 232 (3.25%) Git
3 217 (3.04%) Jenkins
4 151 (2.12%) GitLab
5 119 (1.67%) Visual Studio
6 99 (1.39%) Rational DOORS
7 84 (1.18%) Bitbucket
8 59 (0.83%) Sourcetree
9 56 (0.78%) Selenium
10 38 (0.53%) Rational Rhapsody
11 31 (0.43%) JUnit
11 31 (0.43%) SonarQube
12 30 (0.42%) Cucumber
13 27 (0.38%) Subversion
14 24 (0.34%) LabVIEW
15 22 (0.31%) Vagrant
16 21 (0.29%) Ant
16 21 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 21 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
17 16 (0.22%) MSI
General
1 1,469 (20.59%) Social Skills
2 662 (9.28%) Public Sector
3 604 (8.47%) Aerospace
4 564 (7.90%) Finance
5 371 (5.20%) Analytical Skills
6 331 (4.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 269 (3.77%) Military
8 166 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
9 165 (2.31%) Telecoms
10 163 (2.28%) Manufacturing
11 158 (2.21%) Police
12 151 (2.12%) Games
13 134 (1.88%) Electronics
14 132 (1.85%) Retail
15 116 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
16 108 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
17 98 (1.37%) Law
18 65 (0.91%) Local Government
19 53 (0.74%) Legal
20 44 (0.62%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1,152 (16.15%) Senior
2 829 (11.62%) Architect
3 750 (10.51%) Software Engineer
4 597 (8.37%) Developer
5 519 (7.27%) Lead
6 480 (6.73%) Systems Engineer
7 465 (6.52%) Consultant
8 451 (6.32%) Analyst
9 352 (4.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 286 (4.01%) Senior Software Engineer
11 280 (3.92%) Network Engineer
12 273 (3.83%) Project Manager
13 259 (3.63%) DevOps Engineer
14 250 (3.50%) Solutions Architect
15 207 (2.90%) Administrator
16 177 (2.48%) Security Consultant
17 170 (2.38%) Support Engineer
18 146 (2.05%) Senior Developer
19 131 (1.84%) Technical Architect
20 112 (1.57%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 379 (5.31%) .NET
2 374 (5.24%) React
3 226 (3.17%) CSS
4 199 (2.79%) Leaflet
4 199 (2.79%) OpenLayers
5 196 (2.75%) PostGIS
6 194 (2.72%) .NET Core
7 172 (2.41%) Node.js
8 145 (2.03%) Spring
9 138 (1.93%) REST
10 135 (1.89%) AngularJS
11 129 (1.81%) HTML
12 120 (1.68%) Spring Boot
13 97 (1.36%) Elastic Stack
14 85 (1.19%) Web Services
15 83 (1.16%) XML
16 80 (1.12%) RabbitMQ
17 74 (1.04%) Kafka
18 69 (0.97%) JSON
19 64 (0.90%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 304 (4.26%) Management Information System
2 217 (3.04%) Driving Licence
3 213 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
4 205 (2.87%) Algorithms
5 151 (2.12%) Product Ownership
6 149 (2.09%) Data Centre
7 137 (1.92%) PKI
8 130 (1.82%) Public Cloud
9 99 (1.39%) Private Cloud
10 89 (1.25%) Cloud Native
11 88 (1.23%) Security Operations Centre
12 83 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
13 76 (1.07%) Operational Technology
14 71 (1.00%) Cyberattack
15 70 (0.98%) Virtual Team
16 66 (0.93%) Cyber Defence
16 66 (0.93%) Virtual Reality
17 63 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
18 58 (0.81%) Onboarding
19 46 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1,161 (16.27%) Linux
2 1,041 (14.59%) Windows
3 347 (4.86%) Windows Server
4 184 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 177 (2.48%) Unix
6 156 (2.19%) Windows 10
7 143 (2.00%) Ubuntu
8 139 (1.95%) CentOS
9 134 (1.88%) Windows Server 2016
10 132 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
11 105 (1.47%) Windows Server 2012
12 74 (1.04%) Embedded Linux
13 62 (0.87%) Windows 7
14 55 (0.77%) VMS
15 54 (0.76%) Solaris
16 45 (0.63%) Android
17 38 (0.53%) Debian
18 20 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
19 16 (0.22%) AIX
20 12 (0.17%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,025 (28.38%) Agile
2 1,176 (16.48%) Software Engineering
3 1,175 (16.47%) DevOps
4 1,134 (15.89%) Actionable Insight
5 1,070 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
6 796 (11.16%) Cybersecurity
7 643 (9.01%) Project Management
8 561 (7.86%) Scrum
9 537 (7.53%) Mentoring
10 532 (7.46%) ITIL
11 530 (7.43%) Collaborative Working
12 473 (6.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 437 (6.12%) Systems Engineering
14 435 (6.10%) CI/CD
15 391 (5.48%) Stakeholder Management
16 380 (5.33%) Project Delivery
17 324 (4.54%) Computer Science
18 317 (4.44%) Customer Service
19 316 (4.43%) Coaching
20 307 (4.30%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1,152 (16.15%) Python
2 717 (10.05%) Java
3 656 (9.19%) JavaScript
4 491 (6.88%) SQL
5 487 (6.83%) C#
6 453 (6.35%) PowerShell
7 330 (4.63%) C++
8 306 (4.29%) Bash
9 291 (4.08%) C
10 152 (2.13%) MATLAB
11 131 (1.84%) TypeScript
12 98 (1.37%) Shell Script
13 59 (0.83%) Rust
14 58 (0.81%) Fortran
15 56 (0.78%) Embedded C
16 43 (0.60%) Ada
17 39 (0.55%) Kotlin
18 38 (0.53%) VB
19 33 (0.46%) Bicep
20 30 (0.42%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3,974 (55.70%) SC Cleared
2 1,772 (24.84%) DV Cleared
3 1,201 (16.83%) Degree
4 573 (8.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 191 (2.68%) Cisco Certification
6 190 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 141 (1.98%) CISSP
8 130 (1.82%) CCNP
9 117 (1.64%) AWS Certification
10 113 (1.58%) CCNA
11 112 (1.57%) Azure Certification
12 111 (1.56%) CISM
13 96 (1.35%) Master's Degree
14 95 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
15 85 (1.19%) CESG Certified Professional
16 71 (1.00%) DBS Check
17 68 (0.95%) CRISC
18 65 (0.91%) PhD
19 55 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
20 54 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 207 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 190 (2.66%) SLA
3 157 (2.20%) QA
4 143 (2.00%) Accessibility
5 133 (1.86%) NIST
6 111 (1.56%) NCSC
7 66 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
8 57 (0.80%) GDPR
9 51 (0.71%) NIST 800
10 44 (0.62%) ISO 9001
11 42 (0.59%) Def Stans
11 42 (0.59%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 42 (0.59%) PCI DSS
12 40 (0.56%) PMO
13 36 (0.50%) GRC
13 36 (0.50%) JSP 440
13 36 (0.50%) WCAG
14 30 (0.42%) RMADS
15 28 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 17025
16 23 (0.32%) Data Quality
System Software
1 517 (7.25%) Active Directory
2 413 (5.79%) Docker
3 351 (4.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 181 (2.54%) Hyper-V
5 103 (1.44%) Firmware
6 98 (1.37%) vSphere
7 80 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
8 53 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
9 50 (0.70%) KVM
10 48 (0.67%) VMware NSX
11 28 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
12 25 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
13 16 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
13 16 (0.22%) pfSense
14 15 (0.21%) Embedded Firmware
15 14 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
16 11 (0.15%) NFS
16 11 (0.15%) XenDesktop
17 9 (0.13%) Forefront TMG
17 9 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 520 (7.29%) Ansible
2 482 (6.76%) Kubernetes
3 397 (5.56%) Terraform
4 221 (3.10%) SCCM
5 157 (2.20%) Puppet
6 99 (1.39%) SCOM
7 97 (1.36%) WSUS
8 86 (1.21%) vCenter Server
9 76 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
10 56 (0.78%) Grafana
11 44 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
12 41 (0.57%) Prometheus
13 39 (0.55%) FortiGate
13 39 (0.55%) Progress Chef
14 37 (0.52%) NetBackup
15 32 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 32 (0.45%) EMC NetWorker
16 28 (0.39%) EnCase
17 26 (0.36%) Nagios
18 25 (0.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1,164 (16.31%) Microsoft
2 512 (7.18%) VMware
3 415 (5.82%) Cisco
4 346 (4.85%) Oracle
5 290 (4.06%) Juniper
6 212 (2.97%) Red Hat
7 205 (2.87%) ESRI
8 138 (1.93%) ServiceNow
9 92 (1.29%) HP
10 90 (1.26%) IBM
11 89 (1.25%) Google
12 82 (1.15%) Dell
13 80 (1.12%) Remedy
14 77 (1.08%) SAP
15 74 (1.04%) Sparx
16 70 (0.98%) NEC
17 61 (0.85%) Fortinet
17 61 (0.85%) SolarWinds
18 60 (0.84%) Splunk
19 57 (0.80%) Veeam