SC Cleared Jobs in the South East

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 47 87
Rank change year-on-year +23 +40 -4
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 1,206 835 799
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.19% 5.75% 4.02%
As % of the Qualifications category 20.87% 14.55% 12.22%
Number of salaries quoted 805 496 399
10th Percentile £32,500 £25,563 £32,400
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,250 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £84,375 £79,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +8.11% +0.91%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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 South East with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 5,778 5,740 6,536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 34.45% 39.52% 32.86%
Number of salaries quoted 3,630 2,566 3,145
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,000 £29,138
25th Percentile £38,000 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.97% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £65,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the South East

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for SC Cleared in the South East

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in the South East over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in the South East

SC Cleared
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the South East region over the 6 months to 13 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
Thames Valley +33 535 £52,500 +10.53% 102
Berkshire +34 476 £54,000 +0.93% 66
Hampshire -2 385 £55,000 -4.35% 99
Surrey +32 231 £50,000 -9.09% 25
Buckinghamshire -24 45 £50,000 -4.76% 20
West Sussex +39 21 £67,500 +3.85% 9
Oxfordshire -15 14 £50,500 +6.32% 16
Kent -2 11 £91,250 +114.71% 2
Middlesex - 6 £35,000 -
Sussex - 4 £51,250 - 1
East Sussex +19 1 £92,500 +66.67% 1
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 40 (3.32%) WebLogic
2 31 (2.57%) OpenStack
3 29 (2.40%) ArcGIS
3 29 (2.40%) GeoServer
4 26 (2.16%) Microsoft Exchange
5 18 (1.49%) Exchange Server 2010
6 14 (1.16%) Oracle Service Bus
7 13 (1.08%) CMS
7 13 (1.08%) IIS
8 12 (1.00%) Confluence
8 12 (1.00%) SharePoint
9 10 (0.83%) Red Hat Fuse
10 9 (0.75%) JBoss
11 6 (0.50%) Apache
12 4 (0.33%) TWiki
13 2 (0.17%) nginx
13 2 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.083%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 52 (4.31%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (2.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (1.66%) MS Visio
4 18 (1.49%) Simulink
5 10 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.33%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.33%) Sketch
8 2 (0.17%) Fireworks
8 2 (0.17%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 40 (3.32%) Siebel CRM
2 17 (1.41%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.33%) SAP CO
3 4 (0.33%) SAP FI
3 4 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
3 4 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.17%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.17%) Q-Pulse
4 2 (0.17%) SAP HR
4 2 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.083%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.083%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.083%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 273 (22.64%) Azure
2 206 (17.08%) AWS
3 56 (4.64%) Microsoft 365
4 46 (3.81%) Serverless
5 40 (3.32%) Amazon EKS
6 32 (2.65%) Amazon ECS
7 31 (2.57%) SaaS
8 25 (2.07%) Azure Monitor
9 21 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
10 19 (1.58%) OCI
11 18 (1.49%) GitHub
12 15 (1.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (1.08%) Entra ID
14 12 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
15 11 (0.91%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
15 11 (0.91%) CloudFront
15 11 (0.91%) Power Platform
15 11 (0.91%) Route 53
15 11 (0.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 108 (8.96%) Firewall
2 65 (5.39%) DNS
3 53 (4.39%) VPN
4 45 (3.73%) DHCP
5 24 (1.99%) Cisco Firepower
6 23 (1.91%) Network Security
7 21 (1.74%) SSL
8 19 (1.58%) BGP
8 19 (1.58%) WAN
9 17 (1.41%) SAN
9 17 (1.41%) Wireless
10 16 (1.33%) 5G
11 14 (1.16%) SD-WAN
11 14 (1.16%) SNMP
12 13 (1.08%) TCP/IP
13 11 (0.91%) VLAN
14 10 (0.83%) IPsec
14 10 (0.83%) LAN
14 10 (0.83%) OSPF
15 8 (0.66%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (8.37%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (4.48%) NoSQL
3 39 (3.23%) Relational Database
4 32 (2.65%) Oracle BI EE
4 32 (2.65%) Siebel EIM
5 31 (2.57%) GIS
6 29 (2.40%) QGIS
7 28 (2.32%) Hadoop
7 28 (2.32%) MongoDB
8 25 (2.07%) SQL Server
9 24 (1.99%) Oracle Database
10 22 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
11 15 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
11 15 (1.24%) Oracle Database 11g
12 14 (1.16%) Oracle Database 10g
12 14 (1.16%) VLDB
13 9 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
14 8 (0.66%) Big Data
14 8 (0.66%) Power BI
15 7 (0.58%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 99 (8.21%) Jenkins
2 69 (5.72%) Git
3 28 (2.32%) JIRA
4 24 (1.99%) Ant
5 19 (1.58%) GitLab
5 19 (1.58%) Subversion
6 16 (1.33%) JUnit
7 15 (1.24%) CMake
8 14 (1.16%) Vagrant
9 11 (0.91%) Cucumber
9 11 (0.91%) Visual Studio
10 10 (0.83%) Trac
11 9 (0.75%) Selenium
12 7 (0.58%) JMeter
12 7 (0.58%) REST Assured
12 7 (0.58%) WebDriver
13 6 (0.50%) MSI
13 6 (0.50%) TestNG
14 5 (0.41%) Bitbucket
14 5 (0.41%) Oracle APEX
General
1 256 (21.23%) Social Skills
2 108 (8.96%) Aerospace
3 83 (6.88%) Public Sector
4 77 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
6 36 (2.99%) Military
7 28 (2.32%) Police
8 25 (2.07%) Finance
8 25 (2.07%) Telecoms
9 22 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
10 19 (1.58%) Electronics
11 15 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (1.16%) Back Office
13 8 (0.66%) Manufacturing
13 8 (0.66%) Retail
14 7 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (0.50%) Marketing
16 5 (0.41%) Advertising
16 5 (0.41%) Law
16 5 (0.41%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 191 (15.84%) Senior
2 162 (13.43%) Architect
3 144 (11.94%) Software Engineer
4 128 (10.61%) Developer
5 96 (7.96%) Analyst
6 67 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 58 (4.81%) Senior Software Engineer
8 56 (4.64%) Lead
9 51 (4.23%) DevOps Engineer
10 49 (4.06%) Senior Developer
11 46 (3.81%) Integration Engineer
12 45 (3.73%) Network Engineer
13 44 (3.65%) Network Architect
14 43 (3.57%) Applications Support
14 43 (3.57%) Consultant
15 42 (3.48%) Systems Engineer
16 41 (3.40%) C++ Software Engineer
16 41 (3.40%) Support Analyst
17 37 (3.07%) Senior Analyst
18 36 (2.99%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (5.64%) .NET
2 65 (5.39%) Node.js
3 64 (5.31%) REST
4 62 (5.14%) Spring
5 50 (4.15%) React
6 46 (3.81%) XML
7 45 (3.73%) Web Services
8 44 (3.65%) AngularJS
9 37 (3.07%) Spring Boot
10 36 (2.99%) CSS
11 33 (2.74%) Elastic Stack
12 32 (2.65%) Leaflet
13 31 (2.57%) Apache Camel
13 31 (2.57%) OpenLayers
14 29 (2.40%) Hibernate
14 29 (2.40%) J2EE
14 29 (2.40%) JSON
14 29 (2.40%) PostGIS
15 28 (2.32%) Kafka
16 25 (2.07%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 38 (3.15%) Enterprise Software
2 37 (3.07%) Data Centre
3 36 (2.99%) Product Ownership
4 34 (2.82%) Algorithms
5 31 (2.57%) CMDB
6 30 (2.49%) Distributed Systems
7 26 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
8 23 (1.91%) Management Information System
9 21 (1.74%) Satnav
10 20 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
11 18 (1.49%) Client/Server
12 15 (1.24%) FPGA
13 14 (1.16%) Private Cloud
13 14 (1.16%) VHDL
14 13 (1.08%) Digital Signage
14 13 (1.08%) PKI
15 12 (1.00%) Analogue Electronics
15 12 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
16 8 (0.66%) Virtual Team
17 7 (0.58%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 261 (21.64%) Windows
2 239 (19.82%) Linux
3 125 (10.36%) Windows Server
4 46 (3.81%) Windows Server 2016
5 45 (3.73%) Windows 10
6 44 (3.65%) CentOS
7 41 (3.40%) Unix
8 37 (3.07%) Windows Server 2019
9 31 (2.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 31 (2.57%) Ubuntu
10 21 (1.74%) Windows Server 2012
11 20 (1.66%) Windows 7
12 16 (1.33%) Android
13 14 (1.16%) Solaris
14 12 (1.00%) Windows XP
15 8 (0.66%) Windows NT
16 5 (0.41%) Rocky
16 5 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
17 3 (0.25%) AIX
18 2 (0.17%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (29.10%) Agile
2 296 (24.54%) Problem-Solving
3 282 (23.38%) Actionable Insight
4 222 (18.41%) DevOps
5 171 (14.18%) Software Engineering
6 123 (10.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 107 (8.87%) Collaborative Working
8 106 (8.79%) Service Management
9 104 (8.62%) ITIL
9 104 (8.62%) Test Automation
10 102 (8.46%) Scrum
11 91 (7.55%) Project Management
12 71 (5.89%) Customer Service
13 70 (5.80%) Computer Science
14 67 (5.56%) Microservices
15 66 (5.47%) Kanban
16 64 (5.31%) Containerisation
17 61 (5.06%) Configuration Management
18 60 (4.98%) Artificial Intelligence
18 60 (4.98%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 226 (18.74%) Java
2 214 (17.74%) SQL
3 176 (14.59%) Python
4 149 (12.35%) PowerShell
5 127 (10.53%) JavaScript
6 110 (9.12%) C++
7 76 (6.30%) C#
8 53 (4.39%) C
9 28 (2.32%) Shell Script
10 24 (1.99%) Kotlin
11 23 (1.91%) PL/SQL
12 13 (1.08%) Ruby
13 11 (0.91%) Groovy
13 11 (0.91%) VB
14 9 (0.75%) Bash
15 8 (0.66%) Go
16 7 (0.58%) Bicep
16 7 (0.58%) MATLAB
16 7 (0.58%) TypeScript
16 7 (0.58%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1,206 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 299 (24.79%) DV Cleared
3 178 (14.76%) Degree
4 64 (5.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
6 36 (2.99%) AWS Certification
6 36 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 33 (2.74%) CCNP
8 30 (2.49%) CCNA
9 24 (1.99%) Azure Certification
10 18 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
11 17 (1.41%) JNCIS
12 16 (1.33%) A+ Certification
12 16 (1.33%) DBS Check
12 16 (1.33%) PhD
13 14 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 13 (1.08%) MCP
15 11 (0.91%) CISSP
16 10 (0.83%) Master's Degree
17 9 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (4.64%) SLA
2 37 (3.07%) QA
3 21 (1.74%) Software Quality Assurance
4 17 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (1.33%) NIST
6 12 (1.00%) Accessibility
7 9 (0.75%) JSP 440
8 8 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 8 (0.66%) RMADS
9 5 (0.41%) NCSC
9 5 (0.41%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.41%) PMO
9 5 (0.41%) WCAG
10 3 (0.25%) COBIT
10 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.25%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.25%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.17%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.17%) GDPR
System Software
1 110 (9.12%) Active Directory
2 93 (7.71%) Docker
3 58 (4.81%) Hyper-V
4 48 (3.98%) VMware Infrastructure
5 23 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (1.82%) Firmware
7 20 (1.66%) Virtual Servers
8 19 (1.58%) VMware ESXi
9 16 (1.33%) pfSense
10 14 (1.16%) KVM
10 14 (1.16%) Oracle RAC
11 12 (1.00%) vSphere
12 10 (0.83%) NFS
13 9 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
14 4 (0.33%) Microsoft App-V
14 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
16 1 (0.083%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 112 (9.29%) Ansible
2 109 (9.04%) Kubernetes
3 80 (6.63%) Terraform
4 73 (6.05%) SCCM
5 56 (4.64%) SCOM
6 38 (3.15%) WSUS
7 37 (3.07%) vCenter Server
8 27 (2.24%) Microsoft Intune
9 25 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
10 22 (1.82%) OpenSSO
11 19 (1.58%) Grafana
11 19 (1.58%) NetBackup
12 16 (1.33%) ZABBIX
13 15 (1.24%) EMC NetWorker
14 14 (1.16%) Data Guard
14 14 (1.16%) Oracle RMAN
15 10 (0.83%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
15 10 (0.83%) Rancher
15 10 (0.83%) SCDPM
16 8 (0.66%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 189 (15.67%) Microsoft
2 120 (9.95%) Oracle
3 109 (9.04%) Juniper
4 92 (7.63%) Cisco
4 92 (7.63%) VMware
5 43 (3.57%) ServiceNow
6 40 (3.32%) Siebel
7 39 (3.23%) Remedy
8 31 (2.57%) WSO2
9 30 (2.49%) HP
10 29 (2.40%) ESRI
11 28 (2.32%) Dynatrace
12 25 (2.07%) Fortinet
12 25 (2.07%) Veeam
13 22 (1.82%) F5
14 19 (1.58%) Red Hat
15 17 (1.41%) McAfee
15 17 (1.41%) Xilinx
16 16 (1.33%) EMC
17 14 (1.16%) Sun