Security Clearance
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 27 75
Rank change year-on-year +6 +48 -8
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 7,865 7,991 7,513
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.94% 7.89% 4.79%
As % of the Qualifications category 28.66% 24.12% 17.78%
Number of salaries quoted 4,722 3,662 3,617
10th Percentile £31,500 £33,275 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,162 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -0.94% -1.85%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,444 33,124 42,253
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.69% 32.69% 26.93%
Number of salaries quoted 17,288 14,907 18,785
10th Percentile £28,374 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £59,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.24% +8.18% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,350 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.63% +2.70% +1.01%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the UK

Security Cleared
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Security Cleared in the UK

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in the UK

Security Cleared
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 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
England +6 6,797 £57,500 -0.65% 1,871
UK excluding London +8 6,372 £55,000 +4.76% 1,594
Work from Home +3 3,140 £60,000 - 819
South East +8 1,962 £55,000 +11.68% 489
South West +3 1,910 £55,000 - 450
London +11 1,045 £70,000 +7.69% 334
North of England +11 806 £55,000 -4.35% 249
Midlands -3 637 £53,750 -2.27% 160
North West +3 579 £55,000 -4.35% 189
West Midlands +11 443 £55,000 - 116
East of England +21 419 £55,000 - 142
Scotland -47 320 £53,000 -3.64% 100
Wales +5 235 £54,395 +80.09% 13
East Midlands -20 194 £44,362 -15.50% 43
Yorkshire +33 188 £60,000 -9.77% 38
Northern Ireland +22 110 £60,000 +84.62% 25
North East -34 39 £55,000 +22.22% 22

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 339 (4.31%) ArcGIS
2 330 (4.20%) GeoServer
3 168 (2.14%) Confluence
4 130 (1.65%) SharePoint
5 119 (1.51%) WebLogic
6 110 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
7 103 (1.31%) IIS
8 92 (1.17%) Apache
9 56 (0.71%) Apache Spark
10 44 (0.56%) Oracle Service Bus
11 40 (0.51%) OpenStack
12 29 (0.37%) nginx
13 25 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2010
14 24 (0.31%) JBoss
14 24 (0.31%) Tomcat
15 22 (0.28%) Red Hat Fuse
16 17 (0.22%) CMS
16 17 (0.22%) Jupyter
17 15 (0.19%) SharePoint 2010
17 15 (0.19%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 286 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
2 160 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 119 (1.51%) Simulink
4 92 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 82 (1.04%) MS Visio
6 47 (0.60%) Sketch
7 33 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
8 10 (0.13%) AutoCAD
9 6 (0.076%) Trello
9 6 (0.076%) Windchill
10 4 (0.051%) EPLAN
10 4 (0.051%) Photoshop
10 4 (0.051%) Siemens NX
10 4 (0.051%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.051%) Stateflow
11 3 (0.038%) InDesign
11 3 (0.038%) Revit
12 2 (0.025%) Abaqus
12 2 (0.025%) GNU Octave
12 2 (0.025%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 105 (1.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 95 (1.21%) Remedy ITSM
3 48 (0.61%) Primavera
4 47 (0.60%) NEC Housing
5 40 (0.51%) Siebel CRM
6 28 (0.36%) Workday HCM
7 23 (0.29%) Maximo
7 23 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
8 14 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
8 14 (0.18%) SAP HR
9 12 (0.15%) Oracle Cash Management
10 11 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
10 11 (0.14%) Teamcenter
11 10 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
11 10 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
11 10 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
11 10 (0.13%) SAP CO
11 10 (0.13%) SAP FI
11 10 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
12 9 (0.11%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 1,649 (20.97%) Azure
2 1,402 (17.83%) AWS
3 273 (3.47%) Microsoft 365
4 186 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
5 185 (2.35%) Power Platform
6 176 (2.24%) SaaS
7 169 (2.15%) GCP
8 147 (1.87%) Serverless
9 144 (1.83%) Amazon EKS
10 138 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
11 117 (1.49%) OpenShift
12 107 (1.36%) PaaS
13 98 (1.25%) AWS CloudFormation
14 91 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
15 82 (1.04%) Entra ID
15 82 (1.04%) OCI
16 73 (0.93%) IaaS
17 72 (0.92%) Miro
18 70 (0.89%) AWS Lambda
19 68 (0.86%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 505 (6.42%) Firewall
2 288 (3.66%) DNS
3 265 (3.37%) WAN
4 213 (2.71%) TCP/IP
5 183 (2.33%) LAN
6 161 (2.05%) Network Security
7 159 (2.02%) DHCP
8 153 (1.95%) BGP
9 137 (1.74%) VPN
10 106 (1.35%) Wireless
11 92 (1.17%) SAN
12 81 (1.03%) SSL
13 72 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
14 71 (0.90%) HTTP
15 69 (0.88%) Cisco ASA
16 64 (0.81%) MPLS
17 62 (0.79%) SD-WAN
18 60 (0.76%) Internet
19 54 (0.69%) OSPF
20 49 (0.62%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 456 (5.80%) PostgreSQL
2 371 (4.72%) GIS
3 330 (4.20%) QGIS
4 209 (2.66%) SQL Server
5 189 (2.40%) Relational Database
6 153 (1.95%) Oracle Database
7 122 (1.55%) NoSQL
8 118 (1.50%) Power BI
9 97 (1.23%) Big Data
10 84 (1.07%) Hadoop
10 84 (1.07%) MongoDB
11 69 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
12 63 (0.80%) RDBMS
13 53 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
14 49 (0.62%) MySQL
15 46 (0.58%) Oracle Database 11g
16 45 (0.57%) Oracle Database 10g
17 44 (0.56%) VLDB
18 41 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
18 41 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 316 (4.02%) JIRA
2 302 (3.84%) Git
3 259 (3.29%) Jenkins
4 160 (2.03%) GitLab
5 141 (1.79%) Visual Studio
6 114 (1.45%) Bitbucket
7 93 (1.18%) Rational DOORS
8 64 (0.81%) Selenium
9 59 (0.75%) Sourcetree
10 39 (0.50%) Cucumber
10 39 (0.50%) Rational Rhapsody
11 31 (0.39%) JUnit
12 29 (0.37%) Subversion
13 25 (0.32%) Ant
13 25 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
14 23 (0.29%) LabVIEW
15 21 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 20 (0.25%) SonarQube
17 19 (0.24%) JMeter
18 17 (0.22%) TestNG
General
1 1,714 (21.79%) Social Skills
2 828 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 656 (8.34%) Finance
4 563 (7.16%) Aerospace
5 460 (5.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 417 (5.30%) Analytical Skills
7 255 (3.24%) Presentation Skills
8 245 (3.12%) Military
9 206 (2.62%) Police
10 203 (2.58%) Games
11 176 (2.24%) Telecoms
12 162 (2.06%) Manufacturing
13 131 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
14 130 (1.65%) Retail
15 121 (1.54%) Electronics
16 119 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
17 102 (1.30%) Law
18 69 (0.88%) Local Government
19 64 (0.81%) Legal
20 56 (0.71%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1,427 (18.14%) Senior
2 1,051 (13.36%) Architect
3 849 (10.79%) Software Engineer
4 710 (9.03%) Developer
5 596 (7.58%) Lead
6 538 (6.84%) Analyst
7 508 (6.46%) Consultant
8 487 (6.19%) Systems Engineer
9 379 (4.82%) Solutions Architect
10 356 (4.53%) Senior Software Engineer
11 345 (4.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 297 (3.78%) Network Engineer
13 291 (3.70%) Project Manager
14 250 (3.18%) DevOps Engineer
15 196 (2.49%) Senior Developer
16 186 (2.36%) Administrator
17 178 (2.26%) Security Consultant
18 177 (2.25%) Support Engineer
19 148 (1.88%) Technical Architect
20 145 (1.84%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 529 (6.73%) .NET
2 502 (6.38%) React
3 363 (4.62%) CSS
4 333 (4.23%) Leaflet
4 333 (4.23%) OpenLayers
5 330 (4.20%) PostGIS
6 316 (4.02%) .NET Core
7 217 (2.76%) HTML
8 202 (2.57%) Node.js
9 194 (2.47%) Spring
10 181 (2.30%) AngularJS
10 181 (2.30%) REST
11 147 (1.87%) Spring Boot
12 137 (1.74%) Web Services
13 118 (1.50%) XML
14 115 (1.46%) RESTful
15 103 (1.31%) Elastic Stack
16 100 (1.27%) JSON
17 96 (1.22%) RabbitMQ
18 88 (1.12%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 338 (4.30%) Management Information System
2 230 (2.92%) Driving Licence
3 207 (2.63%) Data Centre
3 207 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
4 189 (2.40%) Algorithms
5 167 (2.12%) Product Ownership
6 161 (2.05%) Public Cloud
7 131 (1.67%) Cloud Native
8 126 (1.60%) PKI
9 125 (1.59%) Onboarding
10 123 (1.56%) Cyberattack
11 108 (1.37%) Virtual Team
12 107 (1.36%) Private Cloud
13 101 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
14 97 (1.23%) Virtual Reality
15 94 (1.20%) Operational Technology
16 87 (1.11%) Security Operations Centre
17 74 (0.94%) Cyber Threat
18 68 (0.86%) Cyber Defence
18 68 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1,180 (15.00%) Linux
2 1,058 (13.45%) Windows
3 370 (4.70%) Windows Server
4 201 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 194 (2.47%) Unix
6 149 (1.89%) Ubuntu
7 147 (1.87%) Windows 10
8 132 (1.68%) CentOS
9 122 (1.55%) Windows Server 2019
10 121 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
11 92 (1.17%) Windows Server 2012
12 67 (0.85%) Embedded Linux
13 65 (0.83%) Solaris
14 62 (0.79%) Windows 7
15 58 (0.74%) VMS
16 33 (0.42%) Debian
17 30 (0.38%) Android
18 18 (0.23%) AIX
19 13 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
20 12 (0.15%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,353 (29.92%) Agile
2 1,736 (22.07%) Actionable Insight
3 1,375 (17.48%) DevOps
4 1,335 (16.97%) Software Engineering
5 1,294 (16.45%) Problem-Solving
6 871 (11.07%) Cybersecurity
7 713 (9.07%) Project Management
8 646 (8.21%) Scrum
9 590 (7.50%) ITIL
10 562 (7.15%) Mentoring
11 523 (6.65%) Collaborative Working
12 485 (6.17%) CI/CD
13 484 (6.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 482 (6.13%) Stakeholder Management
15 433 (5.51%) Systems Engineering
16 398 (5.06%) Project Delivery
17 363 (4.62%) Web Development
18 358 (4.55%) Coaching
19 346 (4.40%) Analytics
20 335 (4.26%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 1,262 (16.05%) Python
2 808 (10.27%) JavaScript
3 780 (9.92%) Java
4 609 (7.74%) C#
5 561 (7.13%) SQL
6 457 (5.81%) PowerShell
7 299 (3.80%) C++
8 294 (3.74%) Bash
9 268 (3.41%) C
10 143 (1.82%) MATLAB
11 119 (1.51%) TypeScript
12 111 (1.41%) Shell Script
13 69 (0.88%) PL/SQL
14 60 (0.76%) Rust
15 53 (0.67%) Embedded C
16 47 (0.60%) Go
17 44 (0.56%) Ada
18 41 (0.52%) Fortran
19 38 (0.48%) VB
20 33 (0.42%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4,654 (59.17%) SC Cleared
2 1,668 (21.21%) DV Cleared
3 1,262 (16.05%) Degree
4 677 (8.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 230 (2.92%) Cisco Certification
6 176 (2.24%) AWS Certification
7 171 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 163 (2.07%) CISSP
9 142 (1.81%) Azure Certification
10 140 (1.78%) CCNA
10 140 (1.78%) CCNP
11 133 (1.69%) CISM
12 106 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
13 102 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 90 (1.14%) Master's Degree
15 87 (1.11%) CESG Certified Professional
16 72 (0.92%) DBS Check
17 69 (0.88%) CRISC
18 62 (0.79%) CTC Cleared
19 61 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 238 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 238 (3.03%) SLA
2 208 (2.64%) Accessibility
3 164 (2.09%) QA
4 139 (1.77%) NIST
5 118 (1.50%) NCSC
6 99 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
7 64 (0.81%) ISO 9001
8 59 (0.75%) WCAG
9 58 (0.74%) GDPR
10 53 (0.67%) PCI DSS
11 52 (0.66%) PMO
12 50 (0.64%) NIST 800
13 48 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 15288
14 45 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 17025
15 43 (0.55%) GRC
16 42 (0.53%) Def Stans
16 42 (0.53%) JSP 440
17 39 (0.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
18 34 (0.43%) RMADS
System Software
1 565 (7.18%) Active Directory
2 429 (5.45%) Docker
3 371 (4.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 196 (2.49%) Hyper-V
5 103 (1.31%) Firmware
6 88 (1.12%) vSphere
7 77 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
8 64 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
9 61 (0.78%) KVM
10 60 (0.76%) VMware NSX
11 45 (0.57%) Oracle RAC
12 22 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
12 22 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
13 16 (0.20%) pfSense
14 15 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
15 12 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
16 11 (0.14%) NFS
17 10 (0.13%) XenDesktop
18 9 (0.11%) Forefront TMG
18 9 (0.11%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 527 (6.70%) Ansible
2 469 (5.96%) Kubernetes
3 447 (5.68%) Terraform
4 208 (2.64%) SCCM
5 152 (1.93%) Puppet
6 91 (1.16%) WSUS
7 87 (1.11%) vCenter Server
8 83 (1.06%) SCOM
9 68 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
10 60 (0.76%) Grafana
11 50 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
12 45 (0.57%) Data Guard
12 45 (0.57%) EnCase
13 44 (0.56%) Oracle RMAN
14 39 (0.50%) Prometheus
15 36 (0.46%) Progress Chef
16 34 (0.43%) NetBackup
17 32 (0.41%) FortiGate
17 32 (0.41%) OpenView
18 29 (0.37%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 1,330 (16.91%) Microsoft
2 566 (7.20%) VMware
3 476 (6.05%) Cisco
4 467 (5.94%) Oracle
5 337 (4.28%) ESRI
6 299 (3.80%) Juniper
7 190 (2.42%) Red Hat
8 146 (1.86%) ServiceNow
9 125 (1.59%) Remedy
10 110 (1.40%) HP
11 106 (1.35%) Google
12 105 (1.34%) Sparx
13 92 (1.17%) IBM
14 87 (1.11%) SAP
15 83 (1.06%) Dell
16 80 (1.02%) Fortinet
17 78 (0.99%) Splunk
18 70 (0.89%) Palo Alto
19 62 (0.79%) CheckPoint
19 62 (0.79%) NEC