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

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 22 32
Rank change year-on-year +6 +10 +18
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 6,417 5,744 5,558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.80% 9.82% 7.63%
As % of the Qualifications category 32.73% 26.60% 23.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,809 2,280 2,498
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,999 £38,991 £38,664
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,121 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% +3.09% -2.78%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £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 19,604 21,597 23,474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.89% 36.91% 32.23%
Number of salaries quoted 12,231 8,030 10,453
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,500 £27,875
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £79,600 £80,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -

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 24 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 24 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 +6 1,993 £55,000 +10.55% 669
South West +3 1,916 £57,000 +3.64% 467
North of England +5 821 £55,000 -8.33% 278
Midlands -9 646 £55,000 - 200
North West -2 591 £55,000 -8.33% 204
West Midlands +12 454 £55,000 - 140
East of England +20 420 £55,000 - 163
Scotland -55 314 £58,000 +16.00% 119
Wales +4 228 £58,800 +102.23% 30
East Midlands -27 192 £44,225 -15.76% 58
Yorkshire +15 190 £60,000 -9.77% 49
Northern Ireland +14 113 £60,000 +76.47% 36
North East -34 40 £56,250 +25.00% 25
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
1 294 (4.58%) ArcGIS
2 284 (4.43%) GeoServer
3 127 (1.98%) Confluence
4 112 (1.75%) WebLogic
5 92 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
6 82 (1.28%) SharePoint
7 80 (1.25%) IIS
8 77 (1.20%) Apache
9 49 (0.76%) Apache Spark
10 44 (0.69%) Oracle Service Bus
11 35 (0.55%) OpenStack
12 22 (0.34%) nginx
13 20 (0.31%) JBoss
13 20 (0.31%) Red Hat Fuse
14 19 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2010
15 18 (0.28%) Tomcat
16 17 (0.26%) Jupyter
17 15 (0.23%) CMS
17 15 (0.23%) SharePoint 2010
17 15 (0.23%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 253 (3.94%) Microsoft Office
2 141 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 125 (1.95%) Simulink
4 76 (1.18%) MS Visio
5 75 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 40 (0.62%) Sketch
7 30 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
8 10 (0.16%) AutoCAD
9 6 (0.094%) Trello
9 6 (0.094%) Windchill
10 4 (0.062%) EPLAN
10 4 (0.062%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.062%) Siemens NX
10 4 (0.062%) Stateflow
11 3 (0.047%) Revit
11 3 (0.047%) Spreadsheet
12 2 (0.031%) Abaqus
12 2 (0.031%) Fireworks
12 2 (0.031%) InDesign
12 2 (0.031%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 88 (1.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 73 (1.14%) Remedy ITSM
3 49 (0.76%) Primavera
4 41 (0.64%) Siebel CRM
5 37 (0.58%) NEC Housing
6 21 (0.33%) Maximo
7 12 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
8 9 (0.14%) Teamcenter
9 7 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
10 6 (0.094%) Oracle Applications
10 6 (0.094%) Oracle ERP
11 4 (0.062%) Q-Pulse
12 3 (0.047%) SAP CO
12 3 (0.047%) SAP ERP
12 3 (0.047%) SAP FI
12 3 (0.047%) SAP FI/CO
12 3 (0.047%) Workday HCM
13 2 (0.031%) Dynamics CRM
13 2 (0.031%) Oracle EBS R12
13 2 (0.031%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 1,275 (19.87%) Azure
2 1,079 (16.81%) AWS
3 211 (3.29%) Microsoft 365
4 126 (1.96%) SaaS
5 114 (1.78%) OpenShift
6 108 (1.68%) Amazon EKS
7 99 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
8 97 (1.51%) GCP
9 93 (1.45%) Serverless
10 70 (1.09%) Power Platform
11 67 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
12 66 (1.03%) Entra ID
13 62 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
14 61 (0.95%) Miro
15 59 (0.92%) PaaS
16 57 (0.89%) AWS CloudFormation
17 52 (0.81%) AWS Lambda
18 46 (0.72%) IaaS
18 46 (0.72%) OCI
19 42 (0.65%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 387 (6.03%) Firewall
2 243 (3.79%) DNS
3 189 (2.95%) WAN
4 159 (2.48%) TCP/IP
5 141 (2.20%) BGP
6 131 (2.04%) DHCP
7 121 (1.89%) Network Security
8 109 (1.70%) LAN
9 86 (1.34%) Wireless
10 85 (1.32%) VPN
11 83 (1.29%) SAN
12 70 (1.09%) SSL
13 68 (1.06%) Cisco ASA
14 66 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
15 60 (0.94%) MPLS
16 55 (0.86%) SD-WAN
17 50 (0.78%) OSPF
18 46 (0.72%) IPsec
19 44 (0.69%) Software-Defined Radio
20 43 (0.67%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 397 (6.19%) PostgreSQL
2 318 (4.96%) GIS
3 284 (4.43%) QGIS
4 160 (2.49%) SQL Server
5 129 (2.01%) Oracle Database
6 124 (1.93%) Relational Database
7 96 (1.50%) NoSQL
8 88 (1.37%) Hadoop
9 83 (1.29%) MongoDB
10 82 (1.28%) Big Data
11 57 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
12 55 (0.86%) RDBMS
13 53 (0.83%) Power BI
14 45 (0.70%) Oracle Database 11g
15 44 (0.69%) Oracle Database 10g
15 44 (0.69%) VLDB
16 42 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
17 37 (0.58%) MySQL
18 34 (0.53%) Oracle BI EE
18 34 (0.53%) Siebel EIM
Development Applications
1 261 (4.07%) JIRA
2 213 (3.32%) Git
3 172 (2.68%) Jenkins
4 132 (2.06%) Visual Studio
5 131 (2.04%) GitLab
6 92 (1.43%) Rational DOORS
7 90 (1.40%) Bitbucket
8 59 (0.92%) Sourcetree
9 50 (0.78%) Selenium
10 39 (0.61%) Rational Rhapsody
11 28 (0.44%) SonarQube
11 28 (0.44%) Subversion
12 25 (0.39%) Cucumber
13 23 (0.36%) Ant
13 23 (0.36%) LabVIEW
14 22 (0.34%) JUnit
15 21 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
16 17 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 17 (0.26%) Vagrant
17 16 (0.25%) JMeter
General
1 1,251 (19.50%) Social Skills
2 565 (8.80%) Aerospace
3 456 (7.11%) Finance
4 444 (6.92%) Public Sector
5 321 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 265 (4.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 229 (3.57%) Military
8 177 (2.76%) Games
9 159 (2.48%) Telecoms
10 143 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
11 130 (2.03%) Manufacturing
12 123 (1.92%) Police
13 113 (1.76%) Electronics
14 110 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
15 89 (1.39%) Retail
16 83 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
17 55 (0.86%) Local Government
18 44 (0.69%) Law
19 36 (0.56%) Legal
20 30 (0.47%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 1,126 (17.55%) Senior
2 786 (12.25%) Software Engineer
3 730 (11.38%) Architect
4 530 (8.26%) Developer
5 495 (7.71%) Lead
6 447 (6.97%) Systems Engineer
7 433 (6.75%) Analyst
8 336 (5.24%) Senior Software Engineer
9 301 (4.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 287 (4.47%) Network Engineer
11 286 (4.46%) Consultant
12 246 (3.83%) Solutions Architect
13 245 (3.82%) Project Manager
14 193 (3.01%) DevOps Engineer
15 176 (2.74%) Administrator
16 153 (2.38%) Support Engineer
17 149 (2.32%) Senior Developer
18 130 (2.03%) Security Consultant
19 113 (1.76%) Business Analyst
20 108 (1.68%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 438 (6.83%) React
2 413 (6.44%) .NET
3 287 (4.47%) CSS
3 287 (4.47%) Leaflet
3 287 (4.47%) OpenLayers
4 284 (4.43%) PostGIS
5 262 (4.08%) .NET Core
6 181 (2.82%) Node.js
7 161 (2.51%) AngularJS
8 140 (2.18%) Spring
9 138 (2.15%) REST
10 124 (1.93%) Spring Boot
11 102 (1.59%) HTML
12 90 (1.40%) RabbitMQ
13 87 (1.36%) XML
14 76 (1.18%) Unity (Game Engine)
14 76 (1.18%) Web Services
15 69 (1.08%) Elastic Stack
16 68 (1.06%) JSON
17 59 (0.92%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 266 (4.15%) Management Information System
2 205 (3.19%) Driving Licence
3 192 (2.99%) Algorithms
4 182 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
5 157 (2.45%) Data Centre
6 122 (1.90%) Public Cloud
7 106 (1.65%) Product Ownership
8 104 (1.62%) Private Cloud
9 94 (1.46%) Cloud Native
9 94 (1.46%) PKI
10 88 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
11 82 (1.28%) Virtual Reality
12 81 (1.26%) Virtual Team
13 68 (1.06%) Operational Technology
14 67 (1.04%) Security Operations Centre
15 56 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
15 56 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
16 55 (0.86%) Clustering
17 48 (0.75%) Cyber Defence
18 45 (0.70%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 1,042 (16.24%) Linux
2 897 (13.98%) Windows
3 316 (4.92%) Windows Server
4 183 (2.85%) Unix
5 182 (2.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 148 (2.31%) Windows 10
7 133 (2.07%) CentOS
8 125 (1.95%) Windows Server 2016
9 121 (1.89%) Windows Server 2019
10 109 (1.70%) Ubuntu
11 90 (1.40%) Windows Server 2012
12 70 (1.09%) Embedded Linux
13 67 (1.04%) Solaris
14 60 (0.94%) Windows 7
15 35 (0.55%) Android
16 33 (0.51%) Debian
17 16 (0.25%) AIX
18 13 (0.20%) VMS
19 12 (0.19%) Windows XP
20 11 (0.17%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,876 (29.23%) Agile
2 1,467 (22.86%) Actionable Insight
3 1,164 (18.14%) Software Engineering
4 1,123 (17.50%) DevOps
5 1,021 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
6 655 (10.21%) Cybersecurity
7 574 (8.94%) Project Management
8 531 (8.27%) ITIL
9 495 (7.71%) Scrum
10 476 (7.42%) Collaborative Working
11 460 (7.17%) Mentoring
12 419 (6.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 381 (5.94%) Systems Engineering
14 369 (5.75%) Stakeholder Management
15 326 (5.08%) CI/CD
16 308 (4.80%) Web Development
17 296 (4.61%) Validation
18 281 (4.38%) Customer Service
19 275 (4.29%) Service Management
20 266 (4.15%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,093 (17.03%) Python
2 657 (10.24%) JavaScript
3 647 (10.08%) Java
4 485 (7.56%) C#
5 454 (7.07%) SQL
6 409 (6.37%) PowerShell
7 294 (4.58%) C++
8 268 (4.18%) C
9 253 (3.94%) Bash
10 145 (2.26%) MATLAB
11 107 (1.67%) TypeScript
12 88 (1.37%) Shell Script
13 59 (0.92%) Rust
14 56 (0.87%) PL/SQL
15 52 (0.81%) Embedded C
16 49 (0.76%) Fortran
17 43 (0.67%) Ada
18 33 (0.51%) VB
19 31 (0.48%) Kotlin
20 26 (0.41%) Go
Qualifications
1 3,747 (58.39%) SC Cleared
2 1,371 (21.37%) DV Cleared
3 1,076 (16.77%) Degree
4 543 (8.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 198 (3.09%) Cisco Certification
6 135 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 128 (1.99%) CCNA
8 127 (1.98%) CCNP
9 102 (1.59%) AWS Certification
10 97 (1.51%) CISSP
11 91 (1.42%) Azure Certification
12 88 (1.37%) CISM
13 73 (1.14%) CESG Certified Professional
14 72 (1.12%) DBS Check
15 62 (0.97%) Master's Degree
16 61 (0.95%) CRISC
16 61 (0.95%) PhD
17 57 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
18 55 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
19 54 (0.84%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 221 (3.44%) SLA
2 174 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 155 (2.42%) Accessibility
4 130 (2.03%) QA
5 99 (1.54%) NIST
6 98 (1.53%) NCSC
7 65 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
8 51 (0.79%) WCAG
9 47 (0.73%) PCI DSS
10 46 (0.72%) ISO 9001
11 45 (0.70%) NIST 800
12 39 (0.61%) GDPR
13 38 (0.59%) Def Stans
14 36 (0.56%) GRC
14 36 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 15288
14 36 (0.56%) JSP 440
15 31 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 17025
15 31 (0.48%) PMO
16 29 (0.45%) COBIT
16 29 (0.45%) RMADS
System Software
1 432 (6.73%) Active Directory
2 317 (4.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 306 (4.77%) Docker
4 178 (2.77%) Hyper-V
5 99 (1.54%) Firmware
6 76 (1.18%) vSphere
7 75 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
8 59 (0.92%) VMware NSX
9 51 (0.79%) KVM
9 51 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
10 44 (0.69%) Oracle RAC
11 23 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
12 22 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
13 16 (0.25%) pfSense
14 15 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
15 13 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
16 11 (0.17%) NFS
17 8 (0.12%) XenDesktop
18 5 (0.078%) SRDF
19 4 (0.062%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 435 (6.78%) Ansible
2 372 (5.80%) Kubernetes
3 274 (4.27%) Terraform
4 204 (3.18%) SCCM
5 134 (2.09%) Puppet
6 84 (1.31%) vCenter Server
6 84 (1.31%) WSUS
7 83 (1.29%) SCOM
8 69 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
9 48 (0.75%) Grafana
10 44 (0.69%) Data Guard
10 44 (0.69%) Oracle RMAN
11 39 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
12 34 (0.53%) FortiGate
13 31 (0.48%) EnCase
13 31 (0.48%) NetBackup
14 29 (0.45%) EMC NetWorker
14 29 (0.45%) OpenView
15 27 (0.42%) Prometheus
16 26 (0.41%) OpenSSO
Vendors
1 1,082 (16.86%) Microsoft
2 484 (7.54%) VMware
3 427 (6.65%) Cisco
4 365 (5.69%) Oracle
5 290 (4.52%) ESRI
6 265 (4.13%) Juniper
7 184 (2.87%) Red Hat
8 113 (1.76%) ServiceNow
9 102 (1.59%) Remedy
10 91 (1.42%) HP
11 88 (1.37%) Sparx
12 82 (1.28%) IBM
13 76 (1.18%) Dell
14 69 (1.08%) Fortinet
15 61 (0.95%) Google
16 59 (0.92%) McAfee
17 53 (0.83%) CheckPoint
17 53 (0.83%) NEC
18 51 (0.79%) Palo Alto
19 50 (0.78%) Veeam