Security Cleared Jobs in the South East

Security Clearance
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 26 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 17 48
Rank change year-on-year +6 +31 +11
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 2,007 1,532 1,196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 11.63% 10.81% 5.90%
As % of the Qualifications category 34.23% 27.23% 17.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,358 815 586
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,400 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,713 £41,939
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.55% -9.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £70,375
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £78,150
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 5,864 5,626 6,883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 33.99% 39.69% 33.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3,642 2,525 3,136
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £29,138
25th Percentile £38,125 £36,713 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,147 £51,000 £52,303
Median % change year-on-year +2.25% -2.49% +4.61%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £54,700 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.83% +9.09% -

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the South East

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Security Cleared in the South East

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the South East over the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in the South East

Security 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 Security Cleared within the South East region over the 6 months to 26 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 +4 935 £53,540 +17.41% 231
Berkshire +5 761 £52,550 +15.24% 175
Hampshire +2 688 £57,500 +4.55% 213
Surrey +4 289 £52,500 +5.00% 45
Buckinghamshire -3 125 £55,000 +17.55% 38
Oxfordshire +2 49 £52,500 +23.53% 18
Kent +20 37 £45,250 +6.47% 8
West Sussex +28 24 £67,500 +28.57% 15
Middlesex - 11 £35,000 - 1
Sussex - 5 £60,000 - 1
East Sussex +13 3 £92,500 +66.67% 2
Security Cleared
England

Security 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 (1.99%) WebLogic
2 35 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 32 (1.59%) OpenStack
4 29 (1.44%) ArcGIS
4 29 (1.44%) GeoServer
5 27 (1.35%) SharePoint
6 19 (0.95%) Exchange Server 2010
7 14 (0.70%) CMS
7 14 (0.70%) Oracle Service Bus
8 11 (0.55%) Confluence
8 11 (0.55%) IIS
8 11 (0.55%) Red Hat Fuse
9 10 (0.50%) JBoss
10 6 (0.30%) Apache
11 4 (0.20%) nginx
11 4 (0.20%) TWiki
12 2 (0.100%) Documentum
12 2 (0.100%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.050%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.050%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 89 (4.43%) Microsoft Office
2 42 (2.09%) Simulink
3 40 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
4 20 (1.00%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.20%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.20%) Siemens NX
7 4 (0.20%) Sketch
8 2 (0.100%) Fireworks
8 2 (0.100%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 41 (2.04%) Siebel CRM
2 17 (0.85%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
4 5 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.20%) Q-Pulse
5 4 (0.20%) Teamcenter
6 3 (0.15%) Primavera
6 3 (0.15%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.15%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.15%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.100%) C-CURE
7 2 (0.100%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.100%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.100%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.100%) SAP HR
7 2 (0.100%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.050%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 364 (18.14%) Azure
2 243 (12.11%) AWS
3 84 (4.19%) Microsoft 365
4 48 (2.39%) Serverless
5 43 (2.14%) Amazon EKS
6 40 (1.99%) Azure Monitor
7 37 (1.84%) Entra ID
7 37 (1.84%) SaaS
8 35 (1.74%) Amazon ECS
9 34 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
10 24 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
10 24 (1.20%) OCI
11 17 (0.85%) Azure Storage
11 17 (0.85%) GitHub
12 15 (0.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (0.55%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (0.55%) Power Platform
14 10 (0.50%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (0.50%) Dynamics 365
14 10 (0.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 156 (7.77%) Firewall
2 108 (5.38%) DNS
3 79 (3.94%) BGP
4 69 (3.44%) DHCP
5 63 (3.14%) VPN
6 40 (1.99%) OSPF
7 35 (1.74%) Cisco Firepower
7 35 (1.74%) WAN
8 31 (1.54%) SSL
9 28 (1.40%) Network Security
10 26 (1.30%) 5G
10 26 (1.30%) Cisco ASA
11 23 (1.15%) Wireless
12 21 (1.05%) DMVPN
12 21 (1.05%) EIGRP
13 20 (1.00%) LAN
14 18 (0.90%) SAN
14 18 (0.90%) SD-WAN
15 17 (0.85%) MPLS
15 17 (0.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (5.58%) PostgreSQL
2 65 (3.24%) NoSQL
3 59 (2.94%) Relational Database
4 45 (2.24%) SQL Server
5 36 (1.79%) Hadoop
5 36 (1.79%) MongoDB
6 34 (1.69%) GIS
6 34 (1.69%) Oracle BI EE
6 34 (1.69%) Siebel EIM
7 29 (1.44%) QGIS
8 25 (1.25%) Oracle Database
9 22 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
10 15 (0.75%) Oracle Database 11g
11 14 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
11 14 (0.70%) Oracle Database 10g
11 14 (0.70%) VLDB
12 9 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
13 8 (0.40%) Big Data
13 8 (0.40%) Power BI
14 7 (0.35%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 104 (5.18%) Jenkins
2 91 (4.53%) Git
3 44 (2.19%) GitLab
4 40 (1.99%) Visual Studio
5 31 (1.54%) Selenium
6 27 (1.35%) JIRA
7 23 (1.15%) Ant
8 19 (0.95%) Subversion
8 19 (0.95%) Vagrant
9 17 (0.85%) JUnit
10 15 (0.75%) CMake
11 12 (0.60%) TestRail
12 11 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
13 10 (0.50%) Cucumber
13 10 (0.50%) MSI
13 10 (0.50%) Rational DOORS
13 10 (0.50%) Trac
14 9 (0.45%) eggPlant
15 7 (0.35%) Robot Framework
15 7 (0.35%) WebDriver
General
1 364 (18.14%) Social Skills
2 162 (8.07%) Aerospace
3 130 (6.48%) Public Sector
4 89 (4.43%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (2.84%) Military
6 52 (2.59%) Finance
7 46 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
8 44 (2.19%) Telecoms
9 40 (1.99%) Police
10 33 (1.64%) Manufacturing
11 29 (1.44%) Electronics
12 23 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 23 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
13 13 (0.65%) Back Office
13 13 (0.65%) Retail
14 12 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
14 12 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
14 12 (0.60%) Marketing
15 11 (0.55%) Law
16 9 (0.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 301 (15.00%) Senior
2 261 (13.00%) Architect
3 217 (10.81%) Developer
4 189 (9.42%) Software Engineer
5 180 (8.97%) Analyst
6 134 (6.68%) Systems Engineer
7 111 (5.53%) Network Engineer
8 100 (4.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 99 (4.93%) Lead
10 80 (3.99%) Senior Software Engineer
11 69 (3.44%) Integration Engineer
12 63 (3.14%) Support Analyst
13 62 (3.09%) DevOps Engineer
14 58 (2.89%) Consultant
15 57 (2.84%) Senior Developer
16 49 (2.44%) Administrator
16 49 (2.44%) Network Architect
17 47 (2.34%) Software Developer
18 44 (2.19%) Applications Support
18 44 (2.19%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (4.73%) .NET
2 77 (3.84%) Node.js
3 67 (3.34%) REST
4 64 (3.19%) Spring
5 57 (2.84%) React
6 54 (2.69%) CSS
7 48 (2.39%) XML
8 47 (2.34%) AngularJS
9 45 (2.24%) Web Services
10 40 (1.99%) HTML
10 40 (1.99%) Spring Boot
11 36 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
11 36 (1.79%) Kafka
12 34 (1.69%) Middleware
13 32 (1.59%) .NET Core
13 32 (1.59%) Apache Camel
13 32 (1.59%) Leaflet
13 32 (1.59%) OpenLayers
14 31 (1.54%) JSON
15 30 (1.49%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 91 (4.53%) Algorithms
2 81 (4.04%) Management Information System
3 64 (3.19%) Self-Motivation
4 46 (2.29%) Data Centre
4 46 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
4 46 (2.29%) PKI
5 40 (1.99%) Product Ownership
6 32 (1.59%) Driving Licence
7 31 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
8 29 (1.44%) CMDB
9 24 (1.20%) Private Cloud
10 23 (1.15%) Client/Server
11 20 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
11 20 (1.00%) Satnav
12 19 (0.95%) Mainframe
13 17 (0.85%) FPGA
13 17 (0.85%) IoT
14 15 (0.75%) VHDL
15 13 (0.65%) Digital Signage
15 13 (0.65%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 371 (18.49%) Windows
2 328 (16.34%) Linux
3 157 (7.82%) Windows Server
4 84 (4.19%) Windows 10
5 78 (3.89%) Windows Server 2016
6 70 (3.49%) Windows Server 2019
7 67 (3.34%) Unix
8 55 (2.74%) CentOS
9 43 (2.14%) Windows 7
10 42 (2.09%) Windows Server 2012
11 41 (2.04%) Ubuntu
12 39 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 21 (1.05%) Android
14 18 (0.90%) Embedded Linux
15 14 (0.70%) Solaris
16 12 (0.60%) Windows XP
17 11 (0.55%) Windows NT
18 9 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
19 5 (0.25%) Rocky
20 3 (0.15%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 520 (25.91%) Agile
2 446 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 313 (15.60%) Actionable Insight
4 301 (15.00%) DevOps
5 280 (13.95%) Software Engineering
6 212 (10.56%) ITIL
7 179 (8.92%) Collaborative Working
8 164 (8.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 155 (7.72%) Test Automation
10 146 (7.27%) Computer Science
11 139 (6.93%) Customer Service
12 132 (6.58%) Project Delivery
13 127 (6.33%) Service Management
14 126 (6.28%) Project Management
15 122 (6.08%) Cybersecurity
16 121 (6.03%) Scrum
17 108 (5.38%) Mentoring
18 99 (4.93%) Mathematics
19 97 (4.83%) Artificial Intelligence
20 89 (4.43%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 289 (14.40%) Python
2 283 (14.10%) Java
3 253 (12.61%) SQL
4 197 (9.82%) C++
4 197 (9.82%) PowerShell
5 172 (8.57%) JavaScript
6 137 (6.83%) C#
7 97 (4.83%) C
8 48 (2.39%) Fortran
9 34 (1.69%) Bash
10 33 (1.64%) Kotlin
11 32 (1.59%) Shell Script
12 26 (1.30%) VB
13 23 (1.15%) PL/SQL
14 21 (1.05%) MATLAB
14 21 (1.05%) VBScript
15 17 (0.85%) COBOL
16 16 (0.80%) TypeScript
17 15 (0.75%) Bicep
18 12 (0.60%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,237 (61.63%) SC Cleared
2 555 (27.65%) DV Cleared
3 343 (17.09%) Degree
4 103 (5.13%) Cisco Certification
5 97 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 77 (3.84%) CCNP
7 57 (2.84%) CCNA
8 52 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 48 (2.39%) PhD
10 47 (2.34%) CTC Cleared
11 41 (2.04%) AWS Certification
12 38 (1.89%) Master's Degree
13 29 (1.44%) NVQ Level 3
14 27 (1.35%) Azure Certification
15 23 (1.15%) HNC
16 22 (1.10%) DBS Check
17 21 (1.05%) A+ Certification
18 19 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
19 18 (0.90%) CISSP
20 17 (0.85%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (4.14%) SLA
2 80 (3.99%) QA
3 31 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
5 21 (1.05%) NIST
6 20 (1.00%) Software Quality Assurance
7 14 (0.70%) GDPR
8 13 (0.65%) Accessibility
8 13 (0.65%) GRC
9 11 (0.55%) NCSC
9 11 (0.55%) PMO
10 10 (0.50%) COSHH
11 9 (0.45%) NIST 800
12 8 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 8 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 8 (0.40%) JSP 440
13 7 (0.35%) RMADS
14 5 (0.25%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.25%) WCAG
15 3 (0.15%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 181 (9.02%) Active Directory
2 103 (5.13%) Docker
3 80 (3.99%) Hyper-V
4 70 (3.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 41 (2.04%) Firmware
6 33 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
7 20 (1.00%) Virtual Servers
8 19 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
9 17 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
10 16 (0.80%) pfSense
11 15 (0.75%) vSphere
12 14 (0.70%) Oracle RAC
13 13 (0.65%) KVM
14 10 (0.50%) NFS
15 5 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
16 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 2 (0.100%) Embedded Firmware
17 2 (0.100%) VMware NSX
18 1 (0.050%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 132 (6.58%) Ansible
2 124 (6.18%) Kubernetes
3 111 (5.53%) SCCM
4 95 (4.73%) Terraform
5 67 (3.34%) WSUS
6 65 (3.24%) SCOM
7 44 (2.19%) Microsoft Intune
8 40 (1.99%) vCenter Server
9 33 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
10 30 (1.49%) FortiGate
11 22 (1.10%) OpenSSO
12 21 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 19 (0.95%) Grafana
13 19 (0.95%) NetBackup
14 16 (0.80%) ZABBIX
15 15 (0.75%) EMC NetWorker
16 14 (0.70%) Data Guard
16 14 (0.70%) Oracle RMAN
17 11 (0.55%) Sysprep
18 10 (0.50%) SCDPM
Vendors
1 379 (18.88%) Microsoft
2 201 (10.01%) Cisco
3 177 (8.82%) Juniper
4 139 (6.93%) Oracle
5 126 (6.28%) VMware
6 50 (2.49%) HP
7 48 (2.39%) Fortinet
7 48 (2.39%) ServiceNow
8 42 (2.09%) Remedy
9 41 (2.04%) Siebel
9 41 (2.04%) Xilinx
10 33 (1.64%) McAfee
11 32 (1.59%) F5
11 32 (1.59%) WSO2
12 29 (1.44%) ESRI
13 26 (1.30%) Dynatrace
14 25 (1.25%) Veeam
15 24 (1.20%) Red Hat
16 17 (0.85%) Unisys
17 16 (0.80%) EMC