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

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 29 75
Rank change year-on-year +6 +46 -10
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 6,802 6,705 6,307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.92% 7.46% 4.74%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.83% 22.85% 17.90%
Number of salaries quoted 4,333 3,361 3,140
10th Percentile £31,500 £33,750 £31,275
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% +5.45% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £86,525
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 24,443 29,349 35,239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.46% 32.67% 26.47%
Number of salaries quoted 15,785 13,406 16,670
10th Percentile £28,453 £31,322 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £59,526 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.28% +8.23% -

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 11 May 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 11 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 +8 1,962 £55,000 +11.11% 517
South West +4 1,910 £55,000 - 472
London +11 1,046 £70,000 +7.69% 337
North of England +12 809 £55,000 -4.35% 260
Midlands -2 636 £52,500 -4.55% 173
North West +2 582 £55,000 -4.35% 193
West Midlands +11 443 £55,000 -2.22% 122
East of England +23 421 £55,000 - 153
East Midlands -21 193 £44,225 -15.76% 50
Yorkshire +31 188 £60,000 -9.09% 45
North East -33 39 £55,000 +22.22% 22
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
1 205 (3.01%) ArcGIS
2 196 (2.88%) GeoServer
3 141 (2.07%) Confluence
4 127 (1.87%) SharePoint
5 106 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
6 92 (1.35%) Apache
7 84 (1.23%) IIS
8 64 (0.94%) WebLogic
9 55 (0.81%) Apache Spark
10 39 (0.57%) OpenStack
11 29 (0.43%) nginx
12 25 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2010
13 24 (0.35%) Tomcat
14 19 (0.28%) JBoss
15 17 (0.25%) CMS
15 17 (0.25%) Jupyter
15 17 (0.25%) Red Hat Fuse
16 15 (0.22%) SharePoint 2010
16 15 (0.22%) SharePoint 2013
17 14 (0.21%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 236 (3.47%) Microsoft Office
2 127 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 120 (1.76%) Simulink
4 82 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 41 (0.60%) MS Visio
6 32 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
7 29 (0.43%) Sketch
8 10 (0.15%) AutoCAD
9 6 (0.088%) Trello
10 4 (0.059%) EPLAN
10 4 (0.059%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.059%) Siemens NX
10 4 (0.059%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.059%) Stateflow
10 4 (0.059%) Windchill
11 3 (0.044%) Revit
12 2 (0.029%) Abaqus
12 2 (0.029%) GNU Octave
12 2 (0.029%) InDesign
12 2 (0.029%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 79 (1.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 55 (0.81%) Remedy ITSM
3 46 (0.68%) NEC Housing
4 40 (0.59%) Siebel CRM
5 37 (0.54%) Primavera
6 28 (0.41%) Workday HCM
7 25 (0.37%) Maximo
8 22 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
9 14 (0.21%) SAP HR
10 10 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
10 10 (0.15%) SAP CO
10 10 (0.15%) SAP FI
10 10 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
11 9 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
11 9 (0.13%) SAP SCM
11 9 (0.13%) Teamcenter
12 8 (0.12%) SAP EWM
13 7 (0.10%) Elite 3E
14 6 (0.088%) Oracle Applications
14 6 (0.088%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,316 (19.35%) Azure
2 1,135 (16.69%) AWS
3 265 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
4 158 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
5 146 (2.15%) Power Platform
5 146 (2.15%) SaaS
6 139 (2.04%) GCP
7 129 (1.90%) Serverless
8 118 (1.73%) Amazon EKS
9 113 (1.66%) OpenShift
10 103 (1.51%) Dynamics 365
11 92 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
12 91 (1.34%) PaaS
13 80 (1.18%) Entra ID
14 64 (0.94%) IaaS
15 63 (0.93%) Amazon ECS
16 62 (0.91%) AWS Lambda
17 60 (0.88%) Cloud Computing
18 58 (0.85%) GitHub
19 54 (0.79%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 435 (6.40%) Firewall
2 253 (3.72%) DNS
3 210 (3.09%) WAN
4 172 (2.53%) TCP/IP
5 158 (2.32%) DHCP
6 147 (2.16%) LAN
7 142 (2.09%) Network Security
8 131 (1.93%) BGP
9 127 (1.87%) VPN
10 79 (1.16%) SAN
11 74 (1.09%) Wireless
12 68 (1.00%) HTTP
13 60 (0.88%) SSL
14 59 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
15 58 (0.85%) MPLS
16 57 (0.84%) Internet
17 53 (0.78%) Cisco ASA
18 50 (0.74%) OSPF
19 49 (0.72%) SD-WAN
20 48 (0.71%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 318 (4.68%) PostgreSQL
2 229 (3.37%) GIS
3 196 (2.88%) QGIS
4 177 (2.60%) SQL Server
5 139 (2.04%) Relational Database
6 103 (1.51%) NoSQL
7 99 (1.46%) Power BI
8 98 (1.44%) Oracle Database
9 93 (1.37%) Big Data
10 84 (1.23%) Hadoop
11 78 (1.15%) MongoDB
12 50 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
13 47 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
14 38 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
15 36 (0.53%) RDBMS
16 35 (0.51%) MySQL
16 35 (0.51%) Oracle BI EE
17 32 (0.47%) Siebel EIM
18 30 (0.44%) Tableau
19 26 (0.38%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 269 (3.95%) Git
2 264 (3.88%) JIRA
3 235 (3.45%) Jenkins
4 142 (2.09%) GitLab
5 137 (2.01%) Visual Studio
6 112 (1.65%) Bitbucket
7 93 (1.37%) Rational DOORS
8 60 (0.88%) Selenium
9 59 (0.87%) Sourcetree
10 38 (0.56%) Rational Rhapsody
11 37 (0.54%) Cucumber
12 30 (0.44%) JUnit
13 29 (0.43%) Subversion
14 25 (0.37%) Ant
14 25 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
15 23 (0.34%) LabVIEW
16 21 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 19 (0.28%) SonarQube
18 17 (0.25%) REST Assured
18 17 (0.25%) TestNG
General
1 1,451 (21.33%) Social Skills
2 676 (9.94%) Public Sector
3 542 (7.97%) Finance
4 538 (7.91%) Aerospace
5 365 (5.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 341 (5.01%) Analytical Skills
7 246 (3.62%) Military
8 204 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
9 183 (2.69%) Games
10 163 (2.40%) Telecoms
11 158 (2.32%) Police
12 151 (2.22%) Manufacturing
13 127 (1.87%) Retail
14 119 (1.75%) Electronics
15 117 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
16 109 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
17 94 (1.38%) Law
18 63 (0.93%) Local Government
19 53 (0.78%) Legal
20 52 (0.76%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1,113 (16.36%) Senior
2 851 (12.51%) Architect
3 686 (10.09%) Software Engineer
4 608 (8.94%) Developer
5 502 (7.38%) Lead
6 449 (6.60%) Consultant
7 435 (6.40%) Analyst
8 431 (6.34%) Systems Engineer
9 326 (4.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 277 (4.07%) Network Engineer
11 274 (4.03%) Solutions Architect
12 260 (3.82%) Project Manager
13 258 (3.79%) Senior Software Engineer
14 241 (3.54%) DevOps Engineer
15 180 (2.65%) Administrator
16 176 (2.59%) Security Consultant
17 167 (2.46%) Support Engineer
18 144 (2.12%) Senior Developer
19 118 (1.73%) Technical Architect
20 107 (1.57%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 381 (5.60%) .NET
2 355 (5.22%) React
3 224 (3.29%) CSS
4 199 (2.93%) Leaflet
4 199 (2.93%) OpenLayers
5 196 (2.88%) .NET Core
5 196 (2.88%) PostGIS
6 164 (2.41%) REST
7 161 (2.37%) Spring
8 160 (2.35%) HTML
9 150 (2.21%) AngularJS
10 148 (2.18%) Node.js
11 126 (1.85%) Spring Boot
12 105 (1.54%) Web Services
13 104 (1.53%) XML
14 95 (1.40%) Elastic Stack
15 89 (1.31%) JSON
16 86 (1.26%) Unity (Game Engine)
17 78 (1.15%) RabbitMQ
18 72 (1.06%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 279 (4.10%) Management Information System
2 211 (3.10%) Driving Licence
3 198 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
4 185 (2.72%) Algorithms
5 146 (2.15%) Data Centre
6 143 (2.10%) Product Ownership
7 131 (1.93%) Public Cloud
8 122 (1.79%) PKI
9 120 (1.76%) Cloud Native
10 105 (1.54%) Cyberattack
11 98 (1.44%) Private Cloud
12 95 (1.40%) Virtual Reality
13 86 (1.26%) Security Operations Centre
14 82 (1.21%) Operational Technology
15 76 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
16 73 (1.07%) Virtual Team
17 64 (0.94%) Onboarding
18 63 (0.93%) Cyber Defence
19 62 (0.91%) Cyber Threat
20 53 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1,077 (15.83%) Linux
2 983 (14.45%) Windows
3 341 (5.01%) Windows Server
4 179 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 146 (2.15%) Windows 10
6 142 (2.09%) Unix
7 132 (1.94%) CentOS
8 130 (1.91%) Ubuntu
9 121 (1.78%) Windows Server 2016
9 121 (1.78%) Windows Server 2019
10 92 (1.35%) Windows Server 2012
11 68 (1.00%) Embedded Linux
12 63 (0.93%) Windows 7
13 54 (0.79%) VMS
14 35 (0.51%) Solaris
15 33 (0.49%) Debian
16 27 (0.40%) Android
17 16 (0.24%) AIX
18 13 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
19 12 (0.18%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,943 (28.57%) Agile
2 1,201 (17.66%) Actionable Insight
3 1,123 (16.51%) DevOps
4 1,111 (16.33%) Software Engineering
5 1,086 (15.97%) Problem-Solving
6 799 (11.75%) Cybersecurity
7 621 (9.13%) Project Management
8 567 (8.34%) Scrum
9 537 (7.89%) ITIL
10 505 (7.42%) Mentoring
11 464 (6.82%) Collaborative Working
12 449 (6.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 417 (6.13%) CI/CD
14 395 (5.81%) Systems Engineering
15 383 (5.63%) Project Delivery
16 371 (5.45%) Stakeholder Management
17 312 (4.59%) Customer Service
18 302 (4.44%) Validation
19 300 (4.41%) Coaching
20 295 (4.34%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1,060 (15.58%) Python
2 690 (10.14%) Java
3 627 (9.22%) JavaScript
4 480 (7.06%) C#
5 469 (6.90%) SQL
6 450 (6.62%) PowerShell
7 295 (4.34%) C++
8 289 (4.25%) Bash
9 268 (3.94%) C
10 145 (2.13%) MATLAB
11 105 (1.54%) TypeScript
12 99 (1.46%) Shell Script
13 60 (0.88%) Rust
14 53 (0.78%) Embedded C
15 44 (0.65%) Ada
16 42 (0.62%) Fortran
17 34 (0.50%) PL/SQL
18 33 (0.49%) VB
19 32 (0.47%) Perl
20 30 (0.44%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3,790 (55.72%) SC Cleared
2 1,610 (23.67%) DV Cleared
3 1,127 (16.57%) Degree
4 595 (8.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 202 (2.97%) Cisco Certification
6 164 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 143 (2.10%) CISSP
8 134 (1.97%) AWS Certification
9 129 (1.90%) CCNP
10 126 (1.85%) CCNA
11 115 (1.69%) CISM
12 100 (1.47%) Azure Certification
13 95 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
14 86 (1.26%) CESG Certified Professional
15 83 (1.22%) Master's Degree
16 81 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 69 (1.01%) CRISC
18 66 (0.97%) DBS Check
19 61 (0.90%) CTC Cleared
20 58 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 232 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 186 (2.73%) SLA
3 145 (2.13%) QA
4 138 (2.03%) Accessibility
5 134 (1.97%) NIST
6 110 (1.62%) NCSC
7 85 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
8 60 (0.88%) ISO 9001
9 55 (0.81%) GDPR
10 47 (0.69%) NIST 800
11 43 (0.63%) GRC
11 43 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 43 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 17025
12 42 (0.62%) Def Stans
12 42 (0.62%) PCI DSS
13 41 (0.60%) PMO
14 40 (0.59%) JSP 440
15 39 (0.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 36 (0.53%) WCAG
17 34 (0.50%) RMADS
System Software
1 509 (7.48%) Active Directory
2 404 (5.94%) Docker
3 343 (5.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 185 (2.72%) Hyper-V
5 103 (1.51%) Firmware
6 88 (1.29%) vSphere
7 75 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
8 53 (0.78%) KVM
8 53 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
9 41 (0.60%) VMware NSX
10 22 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
10 22 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
11 16 (0.24%) pfSense
12 15 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
13 14 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
14 12 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
15 11 (0.16%) NFS
16 10 (0.15%) XenDesktop
17 9 (0.13%) Forefront TMG
17 9 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 501 (7.37%) Ansible
2 449 (6.60%) Kubernetes
3 421 (6.19%) Terraform
4 202 (2.97%) SCCM
5 151 (2.22%) Puppet
6 86 (1.26%) WSUS
7 85 (1.25%) vCenter Server
8 83 (1.22%) SCOM
9 66 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
10 55 (0.81%) Grafana
11 45 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
12 43 (0.63%) EnCase
13 38 (0.56%) Prometheus
14 36 (0.53%) Progress Chef
15 35 (0.51%) NetBackup
16 32 (0.47%) FortiGate
17 29 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 29 (0.43%) EMC NetWorker
18 24 (0.35%) ZABBIX
19 22 (0.32%) OpenSSO
Vendors
1 1,176 (17.29%) Microsoft
2 502 (7.38%) VMware
3 415 (6.10%) Cisco
4 343 (5.04%) Oracle
5 284 (4.18%) Juniper
6 202 (2.97%) ESRI
7 187 (2.75%) Red Hat
8 125 (1.84%) ServiceNow
9 98 (1.44%) HP
10 89 (1.31%) IBM
11 85 (1.25%) Google
12 84 (1.23%) SAP
13 80 (1.18%) Remedy
14 79 (1.16%) Sparx
15 76 (1.12%) Dell
16 65 (0.96%) Splunk
17 61 (0.90%) NEC
18 57 (0.84%) Fortinet
19 53 (0.78%) SolarWinds
19 53 (0.78%) Veeam