Security Cleared Jobs in the UK excluding London

Security 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 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 15 23 32
Rank change year-on-year +8 +9 +18
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 6,375 5,403 5,426
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.98% 9.02% 7.64%
As % of the Qualifications category 32.67% 24.75% 24.07%
Number of salaries quoted 3,790 2,297 2,451
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,859 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,357 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,550 £52,839
Median % change year-on-year +4.66% -0.55% -2.15%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £66,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 19,512 21,832 22,544
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.48% 36.46% 31.73%
Number of salaries quoted 12,241 8,153 10,285
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £59,526 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.28% +8.23% -

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the UK excluding London

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Security Cleared in the UK excluding London

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in the UK excluding London

Security 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 Security Cleared within the UK excluding London 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% 515
South West +4 1,910 £55,000 - 463
North of England +12 809 £55,000 -4.35% 258
Midlands -2 636 £52,500 -4.55% 171
North West +2 582 £55,000 -4.35% 192
West Midlands +11 443 £55,000 -2.22% 121
East of England +23 421 £55,000 - 151
Scotland -42 321 £54,000 +2.86% 99
Wales +8 233 £54,395 +87.08% 16
East Midlands -21 193 £44,225 -15.76% 49
Yorkshire +31 188 £60,000 -9.09% 43
Northern Ireland +23 110 £60,000 +80.45% 21
North East -33 39 £55,000 +22.22% 23
Security Cleared
UK

Security 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
1 293 (4.60%) ArcGIS
2 284 (4.45%) GeoServer
3 147 (2.31%) Confluence
4 113 (1.77%) WebLogic
5 90 (1.41%) IIS
6 88 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
7 87 (1.36%) SharePoint
8 73 (1.15%) Apache
9 47 (0.74%) Apache Spark
10 44 (0.69%) Oracle Service Bus
11 34 (0.53%) OpenStack
12 24 (0.38%) nginx
13 19 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2010
13 19 (0.30%) JBoss
13 19 (0.30%) Red Hat Fuse
14 17 (0.27%) Jupyter
15 16 (0.25%) Tomcat
16 15 (0.24%) CMS
16 15 (0.24%) SharePoint 2010
16 15 (0.24%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 256 (4.02%) Microsoft Office
2 150 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 120 (1.88%) Simulink
4 83 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 77 (1.21%) MS Visio
6 40 (0.63%) Sketch
7 31 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
8 10 (0.16%) AutoCAD
9 6 (0.094%) Trello
9 6 (0.094%) Windchill
10 4 (0.063%) EPLAN
10 4 (0.063%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.063%) Siemens NX
10 4 (0.063%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.063%) Stateflow
11 3 (0.047%) Revit
12 2 (0.031%) Abaqus
12 2 (0.031%) Fireworks
12 2 (0.031%) InDesign
12 2 (0.031%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 91 (1.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 73 (1.15%) Remedy ITSM
3 49 (0.77%) Primavera
4 40 (0.63%) Siebel CRM
5 33 (0.52%) NEC Housing
6 23 (0.36%) Maximo
7 11 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
8 10 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
9 9 (0.14%) Teamcenter
10 6 (0.094%) Oracle Applications
10 6 (0.094%) SAP ERP
11 5 (0.078%) Oracle ERP
12 4 (0.063%) SAP CO
12 4 (0.063%) SAP FI
12 4 (0.063%) SAP FI/CO
13 3 (0.047%) SAP HR
13 3 (0.047%) SAP PM
13 3 (0.047%) Workday HCM
14 2 (0.031%) Oracle Cash Management
14 2 (0.031%) SAP Business ByDesign
Cloud Services
1 1,254 (19.67%) Azure
2 1,088 (17.07%) AWS
3 215 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
4 121 (1.90%) SaaS
5 107 (1.68%) OpenShift
6 106 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
7 105 (1.65%) Amazon EKS
8 95 (1.49%) Serverless
9 88 (1.38%) GCP
10 75 (1.18%) Power Platform
11 73 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
12 66 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
13 61 (0.96%) Entra ID
14 60 (0.94%) Miro
14 60 (0.94%) PaaS
15 59 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
16 54 (0.85%) AWS Lambda
17 47 (0.74%) IaaS
18 42 (0.66%) GitHub
19 41 (0.64%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 391 (6.13%) Firewall
2 267 (4.19%) DNS
3 200 (3.14%) WAN
4 185 (2.90%) TCP/IP
5 156 (2.45%) DHCP
6 144 (2.26%) BGP
7 119 (1.87%) LAN
7 119 (1.87%) Network Security
8 90 (1.41%) VPN
9 82 (1.29%) SAN
9 82 (1.29%) Wireless
10 67 (1.05%) HTTP
11 66 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
12 65 (1.02%) SSL
13 64 (1.00%) Cisco ASA
14 61 (0.96%) MPLS
15 51 (0.80%) OSPF
16 47 (0.74%) SD-WAN
17 46 (0.72%) IPsec
18 44 (0.69%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 386 (6.05%) PostgreSQL
2 322 (5.05%) GIS
3 284 (4.45%) QGIS
4 167 (2.62%) SQL Server
5 128 (2.01%) Oracle Database
6 125 (1.96%) Relational Database
7 100 (1.57%) NoSQL
8 79 (1.24%) Big Data
9 78 (1.22%) Hadoop
10 71 (1.11%) MongoDB
11 59 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
12 55 (0.86%) RDBMS
13 54 (0.85%) Power BI
14 45 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
14 45 (0.71%) Oracle Database 10g
14 45 (0.71%) Oracle Database 11g
15 44 (0.69%) VLDB
16 38 (0.60%) MySQL
17 32 (0.50%) Oracle BI EE
17 32 (0.50%) Siebel EIM
Development Applications
1 269 (4.22%) JIRA
2 232 (3.64%) Git
3 170 (2.67%) Jenkins
4 137 (2.15%) Visual Studio
5 126 (1.98%) GitLab
6 98 (1.54%) Bitbucket
7 92 (1.44%) Rational DOORS
8 59 (0.93%) Sourcetree
9 51 (0.80%) Selenium
10 39 (0.61%) Rational Rhapsody
11 28 (0.44%) Subversion
12 27 (0.42%) Cucumber
13 25 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
14 24 (0.38%) Ant
15 23 (0.36%) LabVIEW
16 21 (0.33%) JUnit
17 17 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 15 (0.24%) CMake
18 15 (0.24%) JMeter
18 15 (0.24%) Vagrant
General
1 1,294 (20.30%) Social Skills
2 520 (8.16%) Aerospace
3 470 (7.37%) Finance
4 459 (7.20%) Public Sector
5 320 (5.02%) Analytical Skills
6 292 (4.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 218 (3.42%) Military
8 191 (3.00%) Games
9 158 (2.48%) Telecoms
10 154 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
11 130 (2.04%) Police
12 128 (2.01%) Manufacturing
13 114 (1.79%) Electronics
14 110 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
15 86 (1.35%) Retail
16 83 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
17 51 (0.80%) Local Government
18 50 (0.78%) Law
19 37 (0.58%) Legal
20 28 (0.44%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1,130 (17.73%) Senior
2 756 (11.86%) Architect
2 756 (11.86%) Software Engineer
3 546 (8.56%) Developer
4 494 (7.75%) Lead
5 444 (6.96%) Systems Engineer
6 440 (6.90%) Analyst
7 316 (4.96%) Senior Software Engineer
8 296 (4.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 288 (4.52%) Network Engineer
10 287 (4.50%) Consultant
11 266 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
12 246 (3.86%) Project Manager
13 178 (2.79%) DevOps Engineer
14 164 (2.57%) Administrator
15 159 (2.49%) Senior Developer
16 157 (2.46%) Support Engineer
17 134 (2.10%) Security Consultant
18 115 (1.80%) Designer
19 110 (1.73%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 435 (6.82%) React
2 420 (6.59%) .NET
3 288 (4.52%) CSS
4 287 (4.50%) Leaflet
4 287 (4.50%) OpenLayers
5 284 (4.45%) PostGIS
6 264 (4.14%) .NET Core
7 165 (2.59%) AngularJS
8 161 (2.53%) Node.js
9 151 (2.37%) Spring
10 142 (2.23%) REST
11 132 (2.07%) HTML
12 122 (1.91%) Spring Boot
13 88 (1.38%) RabbitMQ
13 88 (1.38%) XML
14 86 (1.35%) Unity (Game Engine)
15 75 (1.18%) Web Services
16 72 (1.13%) RESTful
17 68 (1.07%) JSON
18 65 (1.02%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 261 (4.09%) Management Information System
2 209 (3.28%) Driving Licence
3 186 (2.92%) Algorithms
4 180 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
5 159 (2.49%) Data Centre
6 128 (2.01%) Public Cloud
7 114 (1.79%) Cloud Native
8 102 (1.60%) Private Cloud
9 96 (1.51%) Product Ownership
10 93 (1.46%) Virtual Reality
11 89 (1.40%) PKI
12 85 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
13 84 (1.32%) Virtual Team
14 76 (1.19%) Cyberattack
15 72 (1.13%) Operational Technology
16 67 (1.05%) Security Operations Centre
17 65 (1.02%) Clustering
18 61 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
19 57 (0.89%) Cyber Threat
20 47 (0.74%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 1,012 (15.87%) Linux
2 877 (13.76%) Windows
3 317 (4.97%) Windows Server
4 177 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 170 (2.67%) Unix
6 145 (2.27%) Windows 10
7 128 (2.01%) CentOS
8 120 (1.88%) Windows Server 2016
9 118 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
10 105 (1.65%) Ubuntu
11 83 (1.30%) Windows Server 2012
12 68 (1.07%) Embedded Linux
13 59 (0.93%) Windows 7
14 58 (0.91%) Solaris
15 31 (0.49%) Debian
16 27 (0.42%) Android
17 16 (0.25%) AIX
18 13 (0.20%) VMS
19 12 (0.19%) Windows NT
19 12 (0.19%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,835 (28.78%) Agile
2 1,519 (23.83%) Actionable Insight
3 1,135 (17.80%) Software Engineering
4 1,094 (17.16%) DevOps
5 1,071 (16.80%) Problem-Solving
6 678 (10.64%) Cybersecurity
7 579 (9.08%) Project Management
8 529 (8.30%) ITIL
9 480 (7.53%) Scrum
10 441 (6.92%) Mentoring
11 423 (6.64%) Collaborative Working
12 417 (6.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 367 (5.76%) Systems Engineering
14 362 (5.68%) Stakeholder Management
15 312 (4.89%) CI/CD
16 311 (4.88%) Web Development
17 297 (4.66%) Validation
18 287 (4.50%) Customer Service
19 273 (4.28%) Service Management
20 264 (4.14%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 1,061 (16.64%) Python
2 639 (10.02%) Java
3 637 (9.99%) JavaScript
4 489 (7.67%) C#
5 446 (7.00%) SQL
6 409 (6.42%) PowerShell
7 283 (4.44%) C++
8 260 (4.08%) C
9 247 (3.87%) Bash
10 143 (2.24%) MATLAB
11 101 (1.58%) TypeScript
12 87 (1.36%) Shell Script
13 60 (0.94%) Rust
14 58 (0.91%) PL/SQL
15 53 (0.83%) Embedded C
16 44 (0.69%) Ada
17 42 (0.66%) Fortran
18 31 (0.49%) VB
19 26 (0.41%) Go
20 25 (0.39%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 3,689 (57.87%) SC Cleared
2 1,345 (21.10%) DV Cleared
3 1,066 (16.72%) Degree
4 547 (8.58%) BPSS Clearance
5 205 (3.22%) Cisco Certification
6 132 (2.07%) CCNA
7 130 (2.04%) CCNP
8 128 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
9 120 (1.88%) AWS Certification
10 98 (1.54%) CISSP
11 88 (1.38%) CISM
12 82 (1.29%) Azure Certification
13 80 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 73 (1.15%) CESG Certified Professional
15 70 (1.10%) DBS Check
16 62 (0.97%) CRISC
17 59 (0.93%) CTC Cleared
18 58 (0.91%) PhD
18 58 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
19 57 (0.89%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 224 (3.51%) SLA
2 186 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 158 (2.48%) Accessibility
4 126 (1.98%) QA
5 100 (1.57%) NIST
6 99 (1.55%) NCSC
7 77 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials
8 59 (0.93%) ISO 9001
9 51 (0.80%) WCAG
10 47 (0.74%) PCI DSS
11 46 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 44 (0.69%) NIST 800
13 43 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 17025
14 40 (0.63%) GDPR
15 38 (0.60%) Def Stans
16 37 (0.58%) GRC
17 36 (0.56%) JSP 440
18 32 (0.50%) PMO
19 30 (0.47%) RMADS
20 29 (0.45%) COBIT
System Software
1 439 (6.89%) Active Directory
2 321 (5.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 293 (4.60%) Docker
4 176 (2.76%) Hyper-V
5 103 (1.62%) Firmware
6 72 (1.13%) VMware ESXi
6 72 (1.13%) vSphere
7 60 (0.94%) VMware NSX
8 53 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
9 52 (0.82%) KVM
10 45 (0.71%) Oracle RAC
11 22 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
12 20 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
13 16 (0.25%) pfSense
14 15 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
15 12 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
16 11 (0.17%) NFS
17 8 (0.13%) XenDesktop
18 5 (0.078%) SRDF
19 4 (0.063%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 416 (6.53%) Ansible
2 350 (5.49%) Kubernetes
3 298 (4.67%) Terraform
4 203 (3.18%) SCCM
5 131 (2.05%) Puppet
6 84 (1.32%) vCenter Server
7 81 (1.27%) WSUS
8 77 (1.21%) SCOM
9 64 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
10 48 (0.75%) Grafana
11 45 (0.71%) Data Guard
12 44 (0.69%) Oracle RMAN
13 43 (0.67%) EnCase
14 39 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
15 32 (0.50%) FortiGate
16 31 (0.49%) NetBackup
17 29 (0.45%) EMC NetWorker
17 29 (0.45%) OpenView
18 27 (0.42%) OpenSSO
19 26 (0.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1,108 (17.38%) Microsoft
2 487 (7.64%) VMware
3 428 (6.71%) Cisco
4 359 (5.63%) Oracle
5 289 (4.53%) ESRI
6 262 (4.11%) Juniper
7 169 (2.65%) Red Hat
8 103 (1.62%) Remedy
9 100 (1.57%) ServiceNow
10 91 (1.43%) HP
10 91 (1.43%) Sparx
11 84 (1.32%) IBM
12 72 (1.13%) Dell
13 67 (1.05%) Fortinet
14 59 (0.93%) Google
15 55 (0.86%) CheckPoint
15 55 (0.86%) McAfee
16 51 (0.80%) Palo Alto
17 50 (0.78%) Veeam
18 49 (0.77%) NEC