Security Check (SC) Clearance
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 58 112
Rank change year-on-year +11 +54 -9
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 4,638 5,155 5,093
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.67% 5.09% 3.23%
As % of the Qualifications category 16.86% 15.50% 11.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,627 2,617 2,420
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,450
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,214 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £61,700 £57,467
Median % change year-on-year -6.81% +7.37% +4.49%
75th Percentile £70,250 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,112
% change year-on-year - +3.55% +1.17%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,507 33,255 42,531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.71% 32.82% 26.96%
Number of salaries quoted 17,306 15,034 18,884
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £59,526 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.28% +8.23% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,603 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.11% +3.21% +1.42%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the UK

SC Cleared
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SC Cleared in the UK

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in the UK

SC Cleared
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 12 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
England +13 3,786 £55,000 -8.33% 1,080
UK excluding London +15 3,681 £55,000 - 919
Work from Home +2 1,873 £60,000 -4.00% 513
South East +22 1,212 £55,000 - 271
South West -1 880 £52,500 -4.55% 254
London -18 602 £70,000 +3.70% 205
North of England +29 562 £57,500 -4.17% 167
North West +9 383 £55,000 -6.38% 124
Midlands 0 383 £52,500 -12.50% 90
West Midlands +9 246 £55,000 -8.33% 60
Scotland -38 237 £60,000 +2.13% 72
Wales +15 203 £50,750 +68.02% 11
Yorkshire +72 152 £60,000 -10.45% 28
East Midlands -4 137 £50,000 -4.76% 30
East of England -8 127 £55,000 -0.90% 69
Northern Ireland +28 100 £60,000 +75.18% 9
North East -29 27 £55,000 +15.79% 15

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 338 (7.29%) ArcGIS
2 330 (7.12%) GeoServer
3 153 (3.30%) Confluence
4 116 (2.50%) WebLogic
5 92 (1.98%) SharePoint
6 77 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
7 47 (1.01%) Apache
8 44 (0.95%) Oracle Service Bus
9 39 (0.84%) OpenStack
10 37 (0.80%) IIS
11 35 (0.75%) Apache Spark
12 21 (0.45%) Red Hat Fuse
13 20 (0.43%) JBoss
14 18 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2010
15 15 (0.32%) CMS
16 14 (0.30%) Skype for Business
17 10 (0.22%) SharePoint 2010
17 10 (0.22%) SharePoint 2013
18 7 (0.15%) Drupal
19 6 (0.13%) nginx
Applications
1 168 (3.62%) Microsoft Office
2 83 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 77 (1.66%) MS Visio
4 46 (0.99%) Sketch
5 43 (0.93%) Simulink
6 24 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
7 19 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 9 (0.19%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.086%) EPLAN
9 4 (0.086%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.065%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.043%) Abaqus
11 2 (0.043%) Fireworks
11 2 (0.043%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.043%) InDesign
12 1 (0.022%) Acrobat
12 1 (0.022%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.022%) Blender
12 1 (0.022%) Revit
Business Applications
1 89 (1.92%) Remedy ITSM
1 89 (1.92%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 40 (0.86%) Siebel CRM
3 20 (0.43%) Maximo
4 12 (0.26%) Oracle Cash Management
5 11 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
6 10 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
6 10 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
6 10 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
7 9 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
8 7 (0.15%) Elite 3E
9 6 (0.13%) Primavera
9 6 (0.13%) SAP ERP
9 6 (0.13%) SAP WM
10 5 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
10 5 (0.11%) Teamcenter
11 4 (0.086%) SAP CO
11 4 (0.086%) SAP FI
11 4 (0.086%) SAP FI/CO
11 4 (0.086%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 1,221 (26.33%) Azure
2 989 (21.32%) AWS
3 196 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
4 139 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
5 138 (2.98%) Amazon EKS
6 126 (2.72%) GCP
6 126 (2.72%) Power Platform
7 121 (2.61%) Serverless
8 114 (2.46%) SaaS
9 99 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
10 71 (1.53%) Miro
11 70 (1.51%) OpenShift
12 66 (1.42%) AWS CloudFormation
13 62 (1.34%) PaaS
14 59 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
15 58 (1.25%) OCI
16 54 (1.16%) Amazon ECS
17 50 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
18 48 (1.03%) Amazon SQS
19 47 (1.01%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 288 (6.21%) Firewall
2 165 (3.56%) DNS
3 123 (2.65%) WAN
4 116 (2.50%) TCP/IP
5 87 (1.88%) LAN
6 84 (1.81%) Network Security
7 83 (1.79%) Wireless
8 79 (1.70%) VPN
9 77 (1.66%) BGP
10 73 (1.57%) SSL
11 71 (1.53%) DHCP
11 71 (1.53%) SAN
12 49 (1.06%) SD-WAN
13 40 (0.86%) Software-Defined Radio
14 38 (0.82%) IPsec
15 37 (0.80%) MPLS
16 34 (0.73%) Cisco Firepower
17 31 (0.67%) AMQP
18 30 (0.65%) Cisco ASA
19 27 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 421 (9.08%) PostgreSQL
2 347 (7.48%) GIS
3 330 (7.12%) QGIS
4 156 (3.36%) Relational Database
5 116 (2.50%) SQL Server
6 108 (2.33%) Oracle Database
7 90 (1.94%) NoSQL
8 69 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
9 66 (1.42%) Big Data
9 66 (1.42%) Power BI
10 63 (1.36%) Hadoop
10 63 (1.36%) RDBMS
11 51 (1.10%) MongoDB
12 47 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
13 46 (0.99%) Oracle Database 11g
14 44 (0.95%) Oracle Database 10g
14 44 (0.95%) VLDB
15 42 (0.91%) MySQL
16 38 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
17 35 (0.75%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 247 (5.33%) Git
2 240 (5.17%) JIRA
3 204 (4.40%) Jenkins
4 111 (2.39%) Visual Studio
5 103 (2.22%) Bitbucket
6 85 (1.83%) GitLab
7 59 (1.27%) Sourcetree
8 36 (0.78%) Selenium
9 35 (0.75%) Cucumber
9 35 (0.75%) Rational DOORS
10 30 (0.65%) JUnit
11 25 (0.54%) Ant
12 23 (0.50%) Subversion
13 17 (0.37%) REST Assured
13 17 (0.37%) TestNG
14 16 (0.34%) JMeter
15 15 (0.32%) CMake
15 15 (0.32%) LabVIEW
15 15 (0.32%) Vagrant
16 14 (0.30%) WebDriver
General
1 1,032 (22.25%) Social Skills
2 501 (10.80%) Public Sector
3 334 (7.20%) Finance
4 309 (6.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 285 (6.14%) Aerospace
6 246 (5.30%) Analytical Skills
7 213 (4.59%) Presentation Skills
8 134 (2.89%) Games
9 128 (2.76%) Police
10 107 (2.31%) Telecoms
11 100 (2.16%) Military
12 75 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
13 62 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
14 56 (1.21%) Manufacturing
15 51 (1.10%) Electronics
15 51 (1.10%) Law
16 49 (1.06%) Retail
17 40 (0.86%) Marketing
18 33 (0.71%) Legal
19 17 (0.37%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,014 (21.86%) Senior
2 665 (14.34%) Architect
3 556 (11.99%) Software Engineer
4 542 (11.69%) Developer
5 345 (7.44%) Analyst
5 345 (7.44%) Lead
6 299 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
7 289 (6.23%) Senior Software Engineer
8 220 (4.74%) Consultant
9 194 (4.18%) Systems Engineer
10 191 (4.12%) Project Manager
11 178 (3.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 176 (3.79%) Senior Developer
13 160 (3.45%) Network Engineer
14 131 (2.82%) DevOps Engineer
15 118 (2.54%) Business Analyst
16 115 (2.48%) Designer
17 108 (2.33%) Technical Architect
18 96 (2.07%) Security Consultant
19 94 (2.03%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 467 (10.07%) .NET
2 444 (9.57%) React
3 333 (7.18%) Leaflet
4 332 (7.16%) OpenLayers
5 330 (7.12%) CSS
5 330 (7.12%) PostGIS
6 305 (6.58%) .NET Core
7 174 (3.75%) Node.js
8 169 (3.64%) Spring
9 163 (3.51%) REST
10 147 (3.17%) AngularJS
11 133 (2.87%) Spring Boot
12 126 (2.72%) HTML
13 110 (2.37%) Web Services
14 100 (2.16%) RESTful
15 88 (1.90%) XML
16 85 (1.83%) Unity (Game Engine)
17 79 (1.70%) RabbitMQ
18 71 (1.53%) SOAP
19 64 (1.38%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 163 (3.51%) Management Information System
2 146 (3.15%) Data Centre
3 114 (2.46%) Product Ownership
4 99 (2.13%) Virtual Team
5 98 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
6 91 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
7 87 (1.88%) Virtual Reality
8 83 (1.79%) Driving Licence
9 69 (1.49%) Onboarding
10 65 (1.40%) Public Cloud
11 63 (1.36%) Operational Technology
12 59 (1.27%) Cyberattack
13 57 (1.23%) Private Cloud
14 56 (1.21%) Cloud Native
15 54 (1.16%) Algorithms
16 52 (1.12%) CMDB
17 40 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
18 37 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
19 36 (0.78%) Cyber Threat
19 36 (0.78%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 632 (13.63%) Linux
2 600 (12.94%) Windows
3 266 (5.74%) Windows Server
4 130 (2.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 127 (2.74%) Unix
6 106 (2.29%) Ubuntu
7 87 (1.88%) Windows 10
8 82 (1.77%) CentOS
9 59 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
10 51 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
11 44 (0.95%) Solaris
12 30 (0.65%) Windows 7
13 28 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
14 27 (0.58%) Android
14 27 (0.58%) Debian
15 19 (0.41%) VMS
16 18 (0.39%) AIX
17 12 (0.26%) Windows XP
18 10 (0.22%) zOS
19 8 (0.17%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,558 (33.59%) Agile
2 1,339 (28.87%) Actionable Insight
3 1,065 (22.96%) DevOps
4 881 (19.00%) Software Engineering
5 777 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
6 460 (9.92%) Scrum
7 438 (9.44%) Cybersecurity
8 425 (9.16%) Project Management
9 342 (7.37%) Web Development
10 338 (7.29%) Stakeholder Management
11 337 (7.27%) ITIL
12 295 (6.36%) Collaborative Working
13 289 (6.23%) Mentoring
14 281 (6.06%) CI/CD
15 258 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 249 (5.37%) Service Management
17 224 (4.83%) Presales
18 218 (4.70%) Kanban
19 217 (4.68%) Artificial Intelligence
20 210 (4.53%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 769 (16.58%) Python
2 619 (13.35%) JavaScript
3 511 (11.02%) Java
4 446 (9.62%) C#
5 422 (9.10%) SQL
6 296 (6.38%) PowerShell
7 155 (3.34%) C++
8 95 (2.05%) Bash
9 82 (1.77%) C
10 76 (1.64%) TypeScript
11 68 (1.47%) PL/SQL
12 57 (1.23%) MATLAB
13 54 (1.16%) Shell Script
14 37 (0.80%) Go
15 25 (0.54%) Bicep
16 24 (0.52%) Kotlin
17 20 (0.43%) Ruby
17 20 (0.43%) VB
18 19 (0.41%) VBA
19 18 (0.39%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4,638 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 754 (16.26%) Degree
3 624 (13.45%) DV Cleared
4 275 (5.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 139 (3.00%) AWS Certification
6 127 (2.74%) Azure Certification
7 126 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 118 (2.54%) CISM
9 117 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
10 114 (2.46%) CISSP
11 89 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
12 74 (1.60%) CCNA
13 72 (1.55%) CCNP
14 70 (1.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 64 (1.38%) CESG Certified Professional
15 64 (1.38%) CRISC
16 60 (1.29%) TOGAF Certification
17 53 (1.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 37 (0.80%) A+ Certification
19 33 (0.71%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 145 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 134 (2.89%) SLA
4 90 (1.94%) NCSC
5 87 (1.88%) QA
6 59 (1.27%) NIST
7 58 (1.25%) WCAG
8 42 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 39 (0.84%) PMO
10 38 (0.82%) GDPR
11 32 (0.69%) COBIT
11 32 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
12 26 (0.56%) Def Stans
13 24 (0.52%) Data Quality
13 24 (0.52%) GRC
14 23 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 21 (0.45%) JSP 440
15 21 (0.45%) Software Quality Assurance
16 16 (0.34%) ISO 9001
16 16 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 331 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 252 (5.43%) Docker
3 191 (4.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 128 (2.76%) Hyper-V
5 46 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
6 44 (0.95%) Oracle RAC
7 36 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
8 33 (0.71%) vSphere
9 31 (0.67%) Firmware
10 22 (0.47%) KVM
10 22 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
11 16 (0.34%) pfSense
12 14 (0.30%) VMware NSX
13 10 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
13 10 (0.22%) NFS
13 10 (0.22%) XenDesktop
14 9 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
15 4 (0.086%) Embedded Firmware
15 4 (0.086%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.086%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 278 (5.99%) Kubernetes
2 272 (5.86%) Ansible
3 240 (5.17%) Terraform
4 155 (3.34%) SCCM
5 69 (1.49%) Puppet
6 61 (1.32%) SCOM
7 60 (1.29%) vCenter Server
8 50 (1.08%) WSUS
9 47 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
10 44 (0.95%) Data Guard
10 44 (0.95%) Oracle RMAN
11 38 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
12 36 (0.78%) Grafana
13 32 (0.69%) NetBackup
13 32 (0.69%) OpenView
14 29 (0.63%) EMC NetWorker
15 26 (0.56%) OpenSSO
16 24 (0.52%) ZABBIX
17 20 (0.43%) Prometheus
18 18 (0.39%) Nagios
Vendors
1 801 (17.27%) Microsoft
2 345 (7.44%) Oracle
3 337 (7.27%) ESRI
4 302 (6.51%) VMware
5 255 (5.50%) Cisco
6 204 (4.40%) Juniper
7 115 (2.48%) Remedy
8 113 (2.44%) ServiceNow
9 94 (2.03%) Google
10 89 (1.92%) Sparx
11 87 (1.88%) HP
12 82 (1.77%) Red Hat
13 54 (1.16%) Fortinet
14 52 (1.12%) Palo Alto
15 50 (1.08%) NetApp
15 50 (1.08%) Splunk
16 49 (1.06%) IBM
17 47 (1.01%) BMC
18 46 (0.99%) CheckPoint
19 45 (0.97%) Sun