SC Cleared Jobs in the Thames Valley

Security Check (SC) Clearance
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 27 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 48 98
Rank change year-on-year +27 +50 +34
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 530 346 228
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.65% 5.89% 3.16%
As % of the Qualifications category 20.31% 14.14% 9.57%
Number of salaries quoted 346 182 119
10th Percentile £30,000 £23,650 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,100 £31,375 £34,639
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £49,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% +10.00% -30.77%
75th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £78,125
90th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year - -0.90% +0.91%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,610 2,447 2,382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 37.68% 41.69% 33.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,562 1,009 956
10th Percentile £31,025 £26,250 £28,432
25th Percentile £38,000 £36,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% -3.74%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £51,000 £52,106
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.12% +4.21%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the Thames Valley

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Salary trend for SC Cleared in the Thames Valley

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in the Thames Valley

SC Cleared
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 27 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
Berkshire +21 470 £53,263 +1.45% 74
Buckinghamshire -33 45 £50,000 -4.76% 25
Oxfordshire -27 15 £51,000 +7.37% 13
SC Cleared
South East

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (7.55%) WebLogic
2 29 (5.47%) ArcGIS
2 29 (5.47%) GeoServer
3 27 (5.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (4.34%) OpenStack
5 18 (3.40%) Exchange Server 2010
6 14 (2.64%) Oracle Service Bus
7 13 (2.45%) CMS
8 11 (2.08%) IIS
9 10 (1.89%) Red Hat Fuse
10 9 (1.70%) JBoss
11 8 (1.51%) Confluence
12 6 (1.13%) Apache
12 6 (1.13%) SharePoint
13 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 38 (7.17%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (4.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (3.77%) MS Visio
4 10 (1.89%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.75%) Sketch
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (3.21%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 130 (24.53%) Azure
2 75 (14.15%) AWS
3 41 (7.74%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (5.28%) Amazon EKS
5 26 (4.91%) Azure Monitor
6 24 (4.53%) Serverless
7 23 (4.34%) Amazon ECS
8 13 (2.45%) OCI
9 11 (2.08%) Entra ID
10 8 (1.51%) Azure Storage
11 7 (1.32%) SaaS
12 6 (1.13%) Miro
13 5 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (0.94%) Azure Sentinel
13 5 (0.94%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (0.94%) GitHub
13 5 (0.94%) PaaS
14 4 (0.75%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (0.75%) Heroku
14 4 (0.75%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 65 (12.26%) Firewall
2 36 (6.79%) DNS
3 32 (6.04%) DHCP
4 27 (5.09%) VPN
5 18 (3.40%) SSL
6 17 (3.21%) WAN
7 15 (2.83%) Cisco Firepower
7 15 (2.83%) Network Security
8 14 (2.64%) Wireless
9 13 (2.45%) SAN
10 12 (2.26%) BGP
11 11 (2.08%) SD-WAN
11 11 (2.08%) SNMP
12 8 (1.51%) OSPF
13 7 (1.32%) IPsec
13 7 (1.32%) LAN
13 7 (1.32%) TCP/IP
13 7 (1.32%) VLAN
13 7 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
14 6 (1.13%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (10.57%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (5.85%) GIS
3 30 (5.66%) Relational Database
4 29 (5.47%) QGIS
5 24 (4.53%) Oracle Database
6 22 (4.15%) Elasticsearch
7 15 (2.83%) NoSQL
7 15 (2.83%) Oracle Database 11g
7 15 (2.83%) SQL Server
8 14 (2.64%) Oracle Database 10g
8 14 (2.64%) VLDB
9 5 (0.94%) MySQL
9 5 (0.94%) RDBMS
10 4 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 42 (7.92%) Jenkins
2 29 (5.47%) Git
3 14 (2.64%) JIRA
3 14 (2.64%) JUnit
4 8 (1.51%) Cucumber
4 8 (1.51%) Selenium
5 7 (1.32%) REST Assured
5 7 (1.32%) WebDriver
6 6 (1.13%) AdminStudio
6 6 (1.13%) InstallShield
6 6 (1.13%) MSI
6 6 (1.13%) TestNG
7 5 (0.94%) Oracle APEX
7 5 (0.94%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.75%) Subversion
9 3 (0.57%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.38%) Bitbucket Server
10 2 (0.38%) JMeter
10 2 (0.38%) Serenity BDD
10 2 (0.38%) SoapUI
General
1 144 (27.17%) Social Skills
2 55 (10.38%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (7.92%) Public Sector
4 36 (6.79%) Organisational Skills
5 22 (4.15%) Police
6 16 (3.02%) Finance
7 12 (2.26%) Back Office
8 11 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.13%) Aerospace
10 5 (0.94%) Law
10 5 (0.94%) Local Government
10 5 (0.94%) Military
11 4 (0.75%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.75%) Retail
12 2 (0.38%) Electronics
13 1 (0.19%) Advertising
13 1 (0.19%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.19%) Games
13 1 (0.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.19%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 95 (17.92%) Senior
2 69 (13.02%) Analyst
3 48 (9.06%) Architect
3 48 (9.06%) Developer
4 43 (8.11%) Applications Support
4 43 (8.11%) Software Engineer
5 40 (7.55%) Support Analyst
6 36 (6.79%) Applications Support Analyst
6 36 (6.79%) Senior Analyst
7 34 (6.42%) Network Engineer
8 29 (5.47%) Lead
9 27 (5.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 26 (4.91%) Support Specialist
11 25 (4.72%) Senior Software Engineer
12 24 (4.53%) Java Developer
12 24 (4.53%) Windows Engineer
13 23 (4.34%) Administrator
13 23 (4.34%) ServiceNow Administrator
14 22 (4.15%) Senior Support Analyst
14 22 (4.15%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (9.81%) Spring
2 40 (7.55%) React
3 39 (7.36%) .NET
4 36 (6.79%) REST
5 32 (6.04%) Leaflet
6 31 (5.85%) OpenLayers
6 31 (5.85%) Web Services
7 30 (5.66%) CSS
8 29 (5.47%) AngularJS
8 29 (5.47%) Node.js
8 29 (5.47%) PostGIS
9 28 (5.28%) J2EE
9 28 (5.28%) Spring Boot
10 25 (4.72%) .NET Core
11 23 (4.34%) Apache Camel
11 23 (4.34%) Elastic Stack
11 23 (4.34%) Java EE
12 20 (3.77%) JSON
12 20 (3.77%) XML
13 15 (2.83%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (5.28%) CMDB
2 22 (4.15%) Distributed Systems
2 22 (4.15%) Product Ownership
2 22 (4.15%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (3.21%) Data Centre
4 13 (2.45%) Digital Signage
5 10 (1.89%) Management Information System
6 9 (1.70%) PKI
7 7 (1.32%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.13%) Shadow IT
9 5 (0.94%) Client/Server
9 5 (0.94%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (0.94%) Public Cloud
9 5 (0.94%) Security Operations Centre
10 4 (0.75%) Driving Licence
10 4 (0.75%) EMC VNX
10 4 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.75%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.57%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 93 (17.55%) Windows
2 90 (16.98%) Linux
3 61 (11.51%) Windows Server
4 45 (8.49%) Windows 10
5 38 (7.17%) Unix
6 33 (6.23%) Windows Server 2016
7 32 (6.04%) Windows Server 2019
8 24 (4.53%) Windows Server 2012
9 18 (3.40%) Windows 7
10 16 (3.02%) CentOS
10 16 (3.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 14 (2.64%) Solaris
12 12 (2.26%) Windows XP
13 11 (2.08%) Windows NT
14 4 (0.75%) Rocky
14 4 (0.75%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (32.08%) Agile
2 129 (24.34%) Actionable Insight
3 108 (20.38%) DevOps
4 106 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 88 (16.60%) ITIL
6 87 (16.42%) Service Management
7 54 (10.19%) Scrum
8 52 (9.81%) Project Management
9 51 (9.62%) ITSM
10 46 (8.68%) Containerisation
10 46 (8.68%) Customer Service
10 46 (8.68%) Software Engineering
11 43 (8.11%) Incident Management
12 41 (7.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 39 (7.36%) CI/CD
14 38 (7.17%) Release Management
15 31 (5.85%) Analytics
15 31 (5.85%) Kanban
16 30 (5.66%) BDD
17 29 (5.47%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 84 (15.85%) JavaScript
2 69 (13.02%) Java
3 52 (9.81%) Python
3 52 (9.81%) SQL
4 42 (7.92%) C#
5 38 (7.17%) PowerShell
6 27 (5.09%) Shell Script
7 21 (3.96%) PL/SQL
8 14 (2.64%) VB
9 10 (1.89%) Groovy
10 8 (1.51%) Bicep
10 8 (1.51%) VBScript
11 6 (1.13%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.94%) Ruby
13 4 (0.75%) C
13 4 (0.75%) C++
13 4 (0.75%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.19%) Bash
14 1 (0.19%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 530 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 179 (33.77%) DV Cleared
3 84 (15.85%) Degree
4 25 (4.72%) Cisco Certification
5 23 (4.34%) BPSS Clearance
6 22 (4.15%) CCNP
7 21 (3.96%) AWS Certification
8 19 (3.58%) CCNA
9 14 (2.64%) A+ Certification
9 14 (2.64%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (2.45%) Azure Certification
10 13 (2.45%) MCP
11 9 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (1.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 6 (1.13%) CISSP
14 5 (0.94%) CompTIA Security+
15 4 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (0.75%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 2 (0.38%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (9.25%) SLA
2 11 (2.08%) QA
3 10 (1.89%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.51%) NIST
5 7 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.13%) JSP 440
6 6 (1.13%) RMADS
7 5 (0.94%) PMO
7 5 (0.94%) WCAG
8 4 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 3 (0.57%) COBIT
10 1 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.19%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 83 (15.66%) Active Directory
2 52 (9.81%) Docker
3 34 (6.42%) Hyper-V
4 19 (3.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 18 (3.40%) Firmware
6 16 (3.02%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (2.64%) Oracle RAC
8 12 (2.26%) KVM
9 8 (1.51%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
10 6 (1.13%) Microsoft App-V
11 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 4 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 72 (13.58%) SCCM
2 58 (10.94%) Kubernetes
3 55 (10.38%) SCOM
4 49 (9.25%) Ansible
5 38 (7.17%) WSUS
6 33 (6.23%) Terraform
7 26 (4.91%) Microsoft Intune
8 22 (4.15%) OpenSSO
8 22 (4.15%) Single Sign-On
9 19 (3.58%) NetBackup
10 17 (3.21%) vCenter Server
11 16 (3.02%) EMC NetWorker
12 14 (2.64%) Data Guard
12 14 (2.64%) Oracle RMAN
13 11 (2.08%) Sysprep
14 8 (1.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 6 (1.13%) Rancher
16 3 (0.57%) Nagios
16 3 (0.57%) OpenView
17 2 (0.38%) Grafana
Vendors
1 131 (24.72%) Microsoft
2 68 (12.83%) Oracle
3 63 (11.89%) Cisco
4 48 (9.06%) Juniper
5 41 (7.74%) ServiceNow
6 39 (7.36%) Remedy
7 31 (5.85%) VMware
8 29 (5.47%) ESRI
9 28 (5.28%) HP
10 24 (4.53%) Dynatrace
11 23 (4.34%) WSO2
12 17 (3.21%) EMC
13 16 (3.02%) Veeam
14 15 (2.83%) F5
15 14 (2.64%) Sun
16 13 (2.45%) Dell
16 13 (2.45%) Riverbed
17 12 (2.26%) 3PAR
17 12 (2.26%) Palo Alto
17 12 (2.26%) Symantec