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 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 78 26 38
Rank change year-on-year -52 +12 +24
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 317 389 434
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.59% 8.98% 7.02%
As % of the Qualifications category 25.71% 28.17% 25.16%
Number of salaries quoted 91 36 140
10th Percentile £25,200 £32,500 £25,950
25th Percentile £28,975 £39,688 £35,556
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £50,000 £45,607
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% +9.63% +7.31%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,624 £52,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £84,375 £62,750
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 1,233 1,381 1,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 17.84% 31.89% 27.89%
Number of salaries quoted 558 414 533
10th Percentile £26,735 £28,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,772 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £50,070 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.13% +5.41% +5.56%
75th Percentile £63,500 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £79,600 £77,650 £80,000
UK median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.83% +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 6 June 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 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
Glasgow -80 174 £58,000 +10.03% 32
Edinburgh +15 102 £58,800 +2.26% 39
Argyll and Bute -2 13 £27,400 -57.85% 3
Aberdeen - 8 £24,240 -
Fife -6 6 £50,000 +10.62% 2
Scottish Borders 0 4 - -
South Lanarkshire - 4 £105,000 - 1
West Lothian - 2 - - 2
Lanarkshire -13 1 - - 13
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 (18.93%) ArcGIS
1 60 (18.93%) GeoServer
2 12 (3.79%) IIS
3 10 (3.15%) WebLogic
4 6 (1.89%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (3.79%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.52%) Sketch
3 4 (1.26%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.95%) Windchill
5 2 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (3.79%) Primavera
2 10 (3.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 6 (1.89%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.63%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 97 (30.60%) Azure
2 87 (27.44%) AWS
3 14 (4.42%) Power Platform
4 12 (3.79%) Miro
5 10 (3.15%) Cloud Computing
6 8 (2.52%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (2.52%) Amazon SQS
6 8 (2.52%) Figma
6 8 (2.52%) Heroku
7 6 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (1.89%) OCI
8 5 (1.58%) dbt
8 5 (1.58%) SaaS
9 3 (0.95%) Serverless
10 2 (0.63%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.63%) AWS CodeStar
10 2 (0.63%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.63%) GCP
10 2 (0.63%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (0.32%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.42%) WAN
2 12 (3.79%) BGP
3 10 (3.15%) DNS
4 8 (2.52%) SSL
4 8 (2.52%) TCP/IP
4 8 (2.52%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (2.21%) Firewall
6 4 (1.26%) OSPF
7 3 (0.95%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (0.95%) Software-Defined Radio
8 2 (0.63%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (0.63%) Cisco Firepower
8 2 (0.63%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.63%) HSRP
8 2 (0.63%) IPsec
8 2 (0.63%) Network Security
8 2 (0.63%) NX-OS
8 2 (0.63%) VLAN
8 2 (0.63%) VRRP
8 2 (0.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (20.19%) GIS
2 62 (19.56%) PostgreSQL
3 60 (18.93%) QGIS
4 14 (4.42%) SQL Server
5 12 (3.79%) Power BI
6 11 (3.47%) Tableau
7 10 (3.15%) Oracle Database
7 10 (3.15%) RDBMS
7 10 (3.15%) Relational Database
8 9 (2.84%) NoSQL
9 8 (2.52%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.26%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (1.26%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.95%) MySQL
12 1 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.32%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 18 (5.68%) JIRA
2 5 (1.58%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.26%) Git
4 3 (0.95%) GitLab
5 2 (0.63%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.63%) 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 72 (22.71%) Social Skills
2 21 (6.62%) Public Sector
3 19 (5.99%) Finance
3 19 (5.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (2.21%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (1.89%) Police
6 5 (1.58%) Aerospace
7 3 (0.95%) Law
8 2 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.63%) Games
8 2 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.63%) Local Government
8 2 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.63%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.32%) Electronics
9 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.32%) Military
9 1 (0.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 97 (30.60%) Senior
2 69 (21.77%) Software Engineer
3 48 (15.14%) Architect
4 43 (13.56%) Senior Software Engineer
5 30 (9.46%) Lead
6 24 (7.57%) Solutions Architect
7 21 (6.62%) Systems Engineer
8 17 (5.36%) Analyst
9 16 (5.05%) 2nd Line Support
10 15 (4.73%) Designer
10 15 (4.73%) Developer
11 14 (4.42%) Infrastructure Support
12 13 (4.10%) Business Analyst
12 13 (4.10%) Presales Solution Architect
12 13 (4.10%) Project Manager
13 11 (3.47%) Product Manager
14 10 (3.15%) Senior Developer
14 10 (3.15%) UI Designer
14 10 (3.15%) UI/UX Designer
14 10 (3.15%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (20.82%) React
2 60 (18.93%) Leaflet
2 60 (18.93%) OpenLayers
2 60 (18.93%) PostGIS
3 57 (17.98%) .NET
4 52 (16.40%) .NET Core
4 52 (16.40%) CSS
5 17 (5.36%) Node.js
6 14 (4.42%) AngularJS
7 11 (3.47%) Django
8 10 (3.15%) HTML
9 9 (2.84%) Spring Boot
10 8 (2.52%) Express.js
10 8 (2.52%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (2.21%) Spring
12 6 (1.89%) Hibernate
12 6 (1.89%) RESTful
13 4 (1.26%) REST
13 4 (1.26%) WebRTC
14 3 (0.95%) OpenCV
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.05%) Public Cloud
2 12 (3.79%) Clustering
3 11 (3.47%) Virtual Team
4 10 (3.15%) Management Information System
5 9 (2.84%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (2.52%) Driving Licence
6 8 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.58%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.95%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.95%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.63%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.63%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.63%) 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 (10.41%) Windows
2 21 (6.62%) Linux
3 16 (5.05%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.52%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.26%) Unix
6 2 (0.63%) VMS
6 2 (0.63%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (58.99%) Actionable Insight
2 147 (46.37%) Agile
3 91 (28.71%) DevOps
4 74 (23.34%) Software Engineering
5 62 (19.56%) Problem-Solving
6 60 (18.93%) Web Development
7 43 (13.56%) Project Management
7 43 (13.56%) Stakeholder Management
8 31 (9.78%) Risk Management
8 31 (9.78%) Workshop Facilitation
9 29 (9.15%) Prototyping
10 28 (8.83%) User Research
11 26 (8.20%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 25 (7.89%) Coaching
13 24 (7.57%) Business Case
14 23 (7.26%) Decision-Making
15 21 (6.62%) Presales
15 21 (6.62%) Scrum
16 20 (6.31%) CI/CD
16 20 (6.31%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 75 (23.66%) Python
2 63 (19.87%) JavaScript
3 40 (12.62%) C#
4 22 (6.94%) SQL
5 15 (4.73%) Java
6 2 (0.63%) C++
6 2 (0.63%) Ruby
7 1 (0.32%) Bash
7 1 (0.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 243 (76.66%) SC Cleared
2 33 (10.41%) Degree
3 21 (6.62%) DV Cleared
4 11 (3.47%) AWS Certification
4 11 (3.47%) Azure Certification
5 10 (3.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (2.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 7 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.26%) CCIE
9 4 (1.26%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.26%) PhD
10 3 (0.95%) CCNA
10 3 (0.95%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.95%) HNC
11 2 (0.63%) CCNP
11 2 (0.63%) CISSP
11 2 (0.63%) MCSE
11 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.26%) Accessibility
2 10 (3.15%) SLA
2 10 (3.15%) WCAG
3 8 (2.52%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.89%) COBIT
5 4 (1.26%) PMO
6 3 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 3 (0.95%) NIST
6 3 (0.95%) QA
7 2 (0.63%) GDPR
7 2 (0.63%) NCSC
8 1 (0.32%) IEC 61508
8 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 19 (5.99%) Active Directory
2 12 (3.79%) VMware NSX
3 8 (2.52%) KVM
4 6 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.26%) Docker
6 2 (0.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (1.89%) OpenView
2 2 (0.63%) Ansible
2 2 (0.63%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.63%) McAfee ePO
2 2 (0.63%) SCCM
2 2 (0.63%) Terraform
2 2 (0.63%) WSUS
3 1 (0.32%) BMC PATROL
Vendors
1 60 (18.93%) ESRI
2 42 (13.25%) Microsoft
3 18 (5.68%) VMware
4 17 (5.36%) Oracle
5 10 (3.15%) Sparx
6 9 (2.84%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.52%) Dell
8 7 (2.21%) Cisco
9 6 (1.89%) BMC
9 6 (1.89%) HP
9 6 (1.89%) Remedy
10 3 (0.95%) Juniper
10 3 (0.95%) Palo Alto
10 3 (0.95%) Thales
11 2 (0.63%) Apple
11 2 (0.63%) Black Duck
11 2 (0.63%) Cadence
11 2 (0.63%) McAfee
12 1 (0.32%) NEC
12 1 (0.32%) PTC