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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 52 54
Rank change year-on-year +12 +2 +23
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 3,699 3,279 3,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.17% 5.56% 5.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 18.96% 15.11% 16.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,011 1,518 1,642
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,039 £30,775
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £39,449
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £53,112
Median % change year-on-year - +3.55% +1.17%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,000 £57,100
% change year-on-year -7.26% +8.58% +3.82%

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 19,508 21,700 22,860
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.28% 36.77% 31.87%
Number of salaries quoted 12,216 8,056 10,336
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,063 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,090 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.01% +4.18% +1.83%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £79,000 £80,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +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 17 May 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 17 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
South East +23 1,227 £55,000 - 319
South West -1 887 £53,250 -4.05% 236
North of England +24 567 £57,500 -4.17% 187
North West +8 389 £55,000 -8.33% 132
Midlands -2 386 £55,000 -8.33% 124
West Midlands +2 249 £55,000 -8.33% 85
Scotland -41 235 £60,000 +8.26% 78
Wales +11 202 £51,500 +70.50% 26
Yorkshire +62 151 £60,000 -10.45% 34
East Midlands -8 137 £50,000 -4.76% 39
East of England -16 121 £52,000 -6.31% 65
Northern Ireland +27 100 £60,000 +75.18% 20
North East -27 27 £43,072 -9.32% 21
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
1 292 (7.89%) ArcGIS
2 284 (7.68%) GeoServer
3 131 (3.54%) Confluence
4 110 (2.97%) WebLogic
5 73 (1.97%) Microsoft Exchange
6 56 (1.51%) SharePoint
7 44 (1.19%) Oracle Service Bus
8 40 (1.08%) Apache
9 34 (0.92%) OpenStack
10 32 (0.87%) IIS
11 30 (0.81%) Apache Spark
12 19 (0.51%) Red Hat Fuse
13 18 (0.49%) Exchange Server 2010
13 18 (0.49%) JBoss
14 14 (0.38%) Skype for Business
15 13 (0.35%) CMS
16 10 (0.27%) SharePoint 2010
16 10 (0.27%) SharePoint 2013
17 4 (0.11%) Appian
17 4 (0.11%) TWiki
Applications
1 157 (4.24%) Microsoft Office
2 78 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 72 (1.95%) MS Visio
4 46 (1.24%) Simulink
5 40 (1.08%) Sketch
6 22 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
7 17 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 9 (0.24%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.11%) EPLAN
9 4 (0.11%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.081%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.054%) Abaqus
11 2 (0.054%) Fireworks
11 2 (0.054%) GNU Octave
11 2 (0.054%) InDesign
12 1 (0.027%) Acrobat
12 1 (0.027%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.027%) Revit
Business Applications
1 78 (2.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 73 (1.97%) Remedy ITSM
3 41 (1.11%) Siebel CRM
4 19 (0.51%) Maximo
5 8 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.16%) Primavera
7 4 (0.11%) SAP CO
7 4 (0.11%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.11%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
7 4 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (0.081%) Q-Pulse
8 3 (0.081%) Teamcenter
9 2 (0.054%) Dynamics CRM
9 2 (0.054%) Oracle Applications
9 2 (0.054%) Oracle Cash Management
9 2 (0.054%) Oracle EBS R12
9 2 (0.054%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.054%) SAP HR
10 1 (0.027%) CA PPM
Cloud Services
1 921 (24.90%) Azure
2 739 (19.98%) AWS
3 161 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
4 104 (2.81%) Amazon EKS
5 86 (2.32%) Serverless
6 71 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
6 71 (1.92%) OpenShift
7 67 (1.81%) SaaS
8 63 (1.70%) GCP
9 60 (1.62%) Miro
10 54 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
11 48 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
12 46 (1.24%) AWS CloudFormation
12 46 (1.24%) Power Platform
13 41 (1.11%) Amazon SQS
13 41 (1.11%) Figma
14 40 (1.08%) Heroku
15 36 (0.97%) Amazon ECS
16 32 (0.87%) Entra ID
17 28 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 238 (6.43%) Firewall
2 152 (4.11%) DNS
3 108 (2.92%) TCP/IP
4 107 (2.89%) WAN
5 72 (1.95%) DHCP
6 71 (1.92%) Wireless
7 69 (1.87%) BGP
7 69 (1.87%) VPN
8 67 (1.81%) LAN
9 64 (1.73%) SAN
10 63 (1.70%) Network Security
11 61 (1.65%) SSL
12 38 (1.03%) SD-WAN
13 37 (1.00%) MPLS
14 36 (0.97%) IPsec
14 36 (0.97%) Software-Defined Radio
15 35 (0.95%) Cisco Firepower
16 32 (0.87%) AMQP
17 26 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
18 25 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 365 (9.87%) PostgreSQL
2 298 (8.06%) GIS
3 284 (7.68%) QGIS
4 97 (2.62%) Relational Database
5 96 (2.60%) Oracle Database
6 86 (2.32%) SQL Server
7 71 (1.92%) NoSQL
8 64 (1.73%) Hadoop
9 59 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
10 55 (1.49%) RDBMS
11 53 (1.43%) Big Data
12 45 (1.22%) Oracle Database 11g
13 44 (1.19%) Oracle Database 10g
13 44 (1.19%) VLDB
14 43 (1.16%) MongoDB
15 39 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
16 33 (0.89%) Oracle BI EE
16 33 (0.89%) Siebel EIM
17 32 (0.87%) MySQL
18 27 (0.73%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 193 (5.22%) JIRA
2 189 (5.11%) Git
3 125 (3.38%) Jenkins
4 105 (2.84%) Visual Studio
5 87 (2.35%) Bitbucket
6 59 (1.60%) Sourcetree
7 56 (1.51%) GitLab
8 35 (0.95%) Rational DOORS
9 24 (0.65%) Ant
10 23 (0.62%) Selenium
11 22 (0.59%) Cucumber
11 22 (0.59%) Subversion
12 21 (0.57%) JUnit
13 16 (0.43%) Vagrant
14 15 (0.41%) CMake
14 15 (0.41%) LabVIEW
15 12 (0.32%) JMeter
16 11 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
17 10 (0.27%) IntelliJ
17 10 (0.27%) Trac
General
1 765 (20.68%) Social Skills
2 278 (7.52%) Aerospace
3 240 (6.49%) Finance
4 231 (6.24%) Public Sector
5 190 (5.14%) Analytical Skills
6 175 (4.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 141 (3.81%) Presentation Skills
8 125 (3.38%) Games
9 101 (2.73%) Military
10 95 (2.57%) Telecoms
11 72 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
11 72 (1.95%) Police
12 44 (1.19%) Electronics
13 40 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
14 39 (1.05%) Retail
15 34 (0.92%) Manufacturing
16 22 (0.59%) Law
17 16 (0.43%) Marketing
18 15 (0.41%) Back Office
19 14 (0.38%) Legal
Job Titles
1 815 (22.03%) Senior
2 495 (13.38%) Software Engineer
3 444 (12.00%) Architect
4 405 (10.95%) Developer
5 286 (7.73%) Lead
6 263 (7.11%) Analyst
7 258 (6.97%) Senior Software Engineer
8 203 (5.49%) Solutions Architect
9 179 (4.84%) Systems Engineer
10 164 (4.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 163 (4.41%) Project Manager
12 158 (4.27%) Network Engineer
13 141 (3.81%) Senior Developer
14 135 (3.65%) Consultant
15 98 (2.65%) Designer
16 92 (2.49%) Business Analyst
17 83 (2.24%) Support Engineer
18 80 (2.16%) 3D Developer
18 80 (2.16%) Games Developer
18 80 (2.16%) Unity 3D Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 387 (10.46%) React
2 373 (10.08%) .NET
3 287 (7.76%) Leaflet
4 286 (7.73%) OpenLayers
5 284 (7.68%) PostGIS
6 263 (7.11%) CSS
7 251 (6.79%) .NET Core
8 148 (4.00%) Node.js
9 133 (3.60%) AngularJS
10 131 (3.54%) Spring
11 127 (3.43%) REST
12 112 (3.03%) Spring Boot
13 80 (2.16%) Unity (Game Engine)
14 77 (2.08%) HTML
15 72 (1.95%) RabbitMQ
16 60 (1.62%) XML
17 59 (1.60%) RESTful
17 59 (1.60%) Web Services
18 53 (1.43%) Django
19 47 (1.27%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 119 (3.22%) Data Centre
2 107 (2.89%) Management Information System
3 82 (2.22%) Virtual Reality
4 81 (2.19%) Driving Licence
4 81 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
5 77 (2.08%) Virtual Team
6 76 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
7 69 (1.87%) Product Ownership
8 54 (1.46%) Private Cloud
9 53 (1.43%) Algorithms
9 53 (1.43%) Public Cloud
10 44 (1.19%) CMDB
10 44 (1.19%) Operational Technology
11 43 (1.16%) Cloud Native
12 37 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
13 36 (0.97%) Cyberattack
14 32 (0.87%) Clustering
15 31 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
16 29 (0.78%) PKI
17 26 (0.70%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 562 (15.19%) Linux
2 523 (14.14%) Windows
3 230 (6.22%) Windows Server
4 124 (3.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 117 (3.16%) Unix
6 98 (2.65%) Ubuntu
7 88 (2.38%) Windows 10
8 83 (2.24%) CentOS
9 58 (1.57%) Windows Server 2016
10 50 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
11 46 (1.24%) Solaris
12 32 (0.87%) Windows 7
12 32 (0.87%) Windows Server 2012
13 27 (0.73%) Android
13 27 (0.73%) Debian
14 16 (0.43%) AIX
15 12 (0.32%) Windows XP
16 10 (0.27%) VMS
17 9 (0.24%) zOS
18 8 (0.22%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,214 (32.82%) Agile
2 1,185 (32.04%) Actionable Insight
3 840 (22.71%) DevOps
4 733 (19.82%) Software Engineering
5 655 (17.71%) Problem-Solving
6 352 (9.52%) Scrum
7 344 (9.30%) Project Management
8 306 (8.27%) Cybersecurity
9 298 (8.06%) ITIL
10 290 (7.84%) Web Development
11 261 (7.06%) Stakeholder Management
12 253 (6.84%) Collaborative Working
13 236 (6.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 218 (5.89%) Mentoring
15 216 (5.84%) Service Management
16 182 (4.92%) Open Source
17 179 (4.84%) Change Management
18 174 (4.70%) Artificial Intelligence
19 172 (4.65%) ITSM
19 172 (4.65%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 634 (17.14%) Python
2 494 (13.35%) JavaScript
3 410 (11.08%) Java
4 342 (9.25%) SQL
5 340 (9.19%) C#
6 266 (7.19%) PowerShell
7 148 (4.00%) C++
8 78 (2.11%) C
9 63 (1.70%) TypeScript
10 62 (1.68%) Bash
11 57 (1.54%) PL/SQL
12 56 (1.51%) MATLAB
13 41 (1.11%) Shell Script
14 28 (0.76%) Kotlin
15 22 (0.59%) Go
16 18 (0.49%) Ruby
16 18 (0.49%) VB
17 13 (0.35%) VBA
18 11 (0.30%) Bicep
19 10 (0.27%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3,699 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 643 (17.38%) Degree
3 525 (14.19%) DV Cleared
4 184 (4.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 96 (2.60%) Cisco Certification
6 92 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 88 (2.38%) AWS Certification
8 81 (2.19%) CISM
9 78 (2.11%) Azure Certification
10 73 (1.97%) CISSP
11 67 (1.81%) CCNA
12 63 (1.70%) CCNP
12 63 (1.70%) CESG Certified Professional
13 59 (1.60%) CRISC
14 56 (1.51%) TOGAF Certification
15 50 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 50 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
16 44 (1.19%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 35 (0.95%) A+ Certification
18 28 (0.76%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (3.54%) SLA
2 123 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 113 (3.05%) Accessibility
4 74 (2.00%) NCSC
5 68 (1.84%) QA
6 50 (1.35%) WCAG
7 39 (1.05%) NIST
8 37 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 29 (0.78%) COBIT
10 24 (0.65%) GDPR
11 23 (0.62%) Def Stans
12 21 (0.57%) Software Quality Assurance
13 19 (0.51%) JSP 440
13 19 (0.51%) PMO
14 18 (0.49%) GRC
15 16 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
15 16 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 15 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 14 (0.38%) RMADS
18 13 (0.35%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 274 (7.41%) Active Directory
2 161 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 156 (4.22%) Docker
4 121 (3.27%) Hyper-V
5 44 (1.19%) Oracle RAC
6 42 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
7 31 (0.84%) Firmware
8 29 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
8 29 (0.78%) vSphere
9 22 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
10 16 (0.43%) pfSense
11 14 (0.38%) KVM
12 12 (0.32%) VMware NSX
13 10 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
13 10 (0.27%) NFS
14 9 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
15 8 (0.22%) XenDesktop
16 4 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
16 4 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 4 (0.11%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 223 (6.03%) Ansible
2 191 (5.16%) Kubernetes
3 151 (4.08%) SCCM
4 142 (3.84%) Terraform
5 62 (1.68%) SCOM
6 59 (1.60%) Puppet
7 57 (1.54%) vCenter Server
8 49 (1.32%) WSUS
9 44 (1.19%) Data Guard
9 44 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
9 44 (1.19%) Oracle RMAN
10 31 (0.84%) NetBackup
11 30 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
12 29 (0.78%) EMC NetWorker
12 29 (0.78%) OpenView
13 28 (0.76%) Grafana
14 26 (0.70%) OpenSSO
15 24 (0.65%) ZABBIX
16 19 (0.51%) Nagios
17 12 (0.32%) logstash
Vendors
1 654 (17.68%) Microsoft
2 289 (7.81%) ESRI
3 266 (7.19%) Oracle
3 266 (7.19%) VMware
4 221 (5.97%) Cisco
5 174 (4.70%) Juniper
6 99 (2.68%) Remedy
7 81 (2.19%) Red Hat
8 78 (2.11%) Sparx
9 76 (2.05%) ServiceNow
10 69 (1.87%) HP
11 51 (1.38%) Google
12 47 (1.27%) NetApp
13 45 (1.22%) Sun
14 43 (1.16%) Fortinet
15 41 (1.11%) IBM
15 41 (1.11%) Siebel
16 40 (1.08%) McAfee
17 39 (1.05%) CheckPoint
17 39 (1.05%) Veeam