Security Cleared Jobs in the South West

Security Clearance
England > South West

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 5 5
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 +11
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,942 1,398 1,624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 19.44% 21.14% 19.26%
As % of the Qualifications category 57.92% 48.56% 49.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,265 631 812
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,605 £32,000
25th Percentile £46,500 £42,500 £40,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £55,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% +0.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,250 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -1.18%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South West

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 West with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,353 2,879 3,281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 33.56% 43.54% 38.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2,185 1,287 1,654
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,973 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,250 £39,294 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,175 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,215 £82,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £54,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.17% +9.09% -

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the South West

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Security Cleared in the South West

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the South West over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in the South West

Security Cleared
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Gloucestershire 0 664 £55,000 -15.38% 123
Bristol +6 621 £63,750 +9.91% 166
Wiltshire +5 400 £51,000 -7.27% 94
Dorset -1 145 £43,072 -17.96% 29
Somerset +12 71 £30,385 -32.76% 37
Devon -53 22 £49,000 +28.01% 42
Security Cleared
England

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 82 (4.22%) Confluence
2 44 (2.27%) Apache
3 38 (1.96%) Apache Spark
3 38 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 37 (1.91%) SharePoint
5 33 (1.70%) ArcGIS
6 27 (1.39%) GeoServer
7 17 (0.88%) nginx
8 16 (0.82%) Jupyter
9 15 (0.77%) SharePoint 2010
9 15 (0.77%) SharePoint 2013
10 14 (0.72%) IIS
11 4 (0.21%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.10%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.10%) WildFly
13 1 (0.051%) JBoss
13 1 (0.051%) Moodle
Applications
1 54 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
2 53 (2.73%) Simulink
3 15 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.31%) Trello
6 4 (0.21%) Sketch
6 4 (0.21%) Stateflow
6 4 (0.21%) Windchill
7 2 (0.10%) GNU Octave
7 2 (0.10%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.10%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.051%) 1Password
8 1 (0.051%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.051%) Revit
Business Applications
1 43 (2.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 21 (1.08%) Maximo
3 4 (0.21%) Primavera
3 4 (0.21%) Q-Pulse
4 3 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.051%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.051%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.051%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 368 (18.95%) AWS
2 353 (18.18%) Azure
3 100 (5.15%) OpenShift
4 79 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
5 55 (2.83%) GCP
6 43 (2.21%) SaaS
7 34 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
8 26 (1.34%) Serverless
9 25 (1.29%) Power Platform
10 24 (1.24%) AWS CloudFormation
10 24 (1.24%) IaaS
11 23 (1.18%) PaaS
12 22 (1.13%) Amazon EKS
13 21 (1.08%) Amazon S3
14 16 (0.82%) MinIO
15 9 (0.46%) Dynamics 365
16 8 (0.41%) Miro
16 8 (0.41%) OCI
16 8 (0.41%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 91 (4.69%) Firewall
2 57 (2.94%) TCP/IP
3 50 (2.57%) WAN
4 45 (2.32%) DNS
4 45 (2.32%) Network Security
5 39 (2.01%) DHCP
6 36 (1.85%) LAN
7 35 (1.80%) HTTP
8 28 (1.44%) VSAN
9 26 (1.34%) Software-Defined Networking
9 26 (1.34%) Wireless
10 25 (1.29%) Cisco ASA
11 24 (1.24%) AMQP
12 19 (0.98%) SAN
13 14 (0.72%) SD-WAN
14 13 (0.67%) BGP
14 13 (0.67%) Ethernet
15 11 (0.57%) Internet
16 10 (0.51%) iSCSI
17 9 (0.46%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (3.14%) Big Data
2 43 (2.21%) MongoDB
3 39 (2.01%) GIS
3 39 (2.01%) Hadoop
4 38 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
5 29 (1.49%) SQL Server
6 27 (1.39%) QGIS
7 22 (1.13%) Power BI
8 20 (1.03%) Relational Database
9 18 (0.93%) Cloudera CDH
10 16 (0.82%) Presto
11 14 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
12 13 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (0.57%) MySQL
14 10 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
14 10 (0.51%) Tableau
15 7 (0.36%) Geospatial Data
15 7 (0.36%) NoSQL
16 6 (0.31%) Oracle Database
16 6 (0.31%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 136 (7.00%) JIRA
2 101 (5.20%) Git
3 79 (4.07%) Visual Studio
4 77 (3.96%) Bitbucket
5 59 (3.04%) Sourcetree
6 51 (2.63%) Rational DOORS
7 46 (2.37%) Jenkins
8 35 (1.80%) GitLab
9 20 (1.03%) LabVIEW
9 20 (1.03%) Rational Rhapsody
10 16 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 8 (0.41%) Cypress.io
11 8 (0.41%) NetBeans
12 7 (0.36%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.36%) Eclipse
12 7 (0.36%) IDA Disassembler
12 7 (0.36%) Selenium
12 7 (0.36%) SonarQube
12 7 (0.36%) Subversion
13 6 (0.31%) Rational Team Concert
General
1 293 (15.09%) Aerospace
2 281 (14.47%) Social Skills
3 172 (8.86%) Finance
4 123 (6.33%) Games
5 117 (6.02%) Military
6 92 (4.74%) Presentation Skills
7 90 (4.63%) Analytical Skills
8 89 (4.58%) Public Sector
9 88 (4.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 49 (2.52%) Telecoms
11 43 (2.21%) Retail
12 38 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
13 33 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
14 24 (1.24%) Manufacturing
15 21 (1.08%) Electronics
16 13 (0.67%) Legal
17 10 (0.51%) Aviation
18 8 (0.41%) French Language
19 7 (0.36%) Marketing
19 7 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 325 (16.74%) Senior
2 257 (13.23%) Software Engineer
3 184 (9.47%) Architect
4 163 (8.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 161 (8.29%) Developer
6 148 (7.62%) Consultant
6 148 (7.62%) Systems Engineer
7 143 (7.36%) Lead
8 99 (5.10%) Project Manager
9 89 (4.58%) DevOps Engineer
9 89 (4.58%) Security Consultant
10 83 (4.27%) Analyst
10 83 (4.27%) Support Engineer
11 81 (4.17%) Administrator
12 74 (3.81%) Solutions Architect
13 73 (3.76%) Senior Software Engineer
14 69 (3.55%) 3D Developer
14 69 (3.55%) Games Developer
14 69 (3.55%) Unity 3D Developer
15 60 (3.09%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (5.10%) React
2 82 (4.22%) .NET
3 69 (3.55%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 52 (2.68%) AngularJS
5 43 (2.21%) RabbitMQ
6 38 (1.96%) CSS
7 36 (1.85%) Node.js
8 35 (1.80%) Spring
9 34 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
9 34 (1.75%) REST
10 32 (1.65%) .NET Core
11 29 (1.49%) Spring Boot
12 27 (1.39%) Leaflet
12 27 (1.39%) OpenLayers
12 27 (1.39%) PostGIS
13 25 (1.29%) Apache NiFi
13 25 (1.29%) JSON
13 25 (1.29%) XML
14 22 (1.13%) Swagger
14 22 (1.13%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 88 (4.53%) Management Information System
2 72 (3.71%) Driving Licence
3 69 (3.55%) Virtual Reality
4 59 (3.04%) Algorithms
5 49 (2.52%) Cloud Native
6 38 (1.96%) Private Cloud
6 38 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
7 37 (1.91%) Cyber Defence
8 35 (1.80%) Data Centre
8 35 (1.80%) PKI
9 34 (1.75%) Cyberattack
10 33 (1.70%) Public Cloud
10 33 (1.70%) Security Operations Centre
11 30 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
12 27 (1.39%) Product Ownership
13 20 (1.03%) Robotics
14 17 (0.88%) Cyber Kill Chain
15 16 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
16 15 (0.77%) FPGA
16 15 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 458 (23.58%) Linux
2 281 (14.47%) Windows
3 99 (5.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 71 (3.66%) CentOS
5 68 (3.50%) Windows Server
6 53 (2.73%) Embedded Linux
7 52 (2.68%) Windows 10
8 45 (2.32%) Windows Server 2012
9 44 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
9 44 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
10 26 (1.34%) Ubuntu
11 22 (1.13%) Debian
12 20 (1.03%) Unix
13 17 (0.88%) Windows 7
14 13 (0.67%) AIX
14 13 (0.67%) Android
15 10 (0.51%) CoreOS
16 7 (0.36%) Kali Linux
17 4 (0.21%) Solaris
18 3 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 557 (28.68%) Agile
2 389 (20.03%) Software Engineering
3 355 (18.28%) DevOps
4 330 (16.99%) Actionable Insight
5 286 (14.73%) Cybersecurity
6 217 (11.17%) Scrum
7 201 (10.35%) Problem-Solving
8 193 (9.94%) Collaborative Working
9 187 (9.63%) Project Management
10 182 (9.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 148 (7.62%) Systems Engineering
12 145 (7.47%) ITIL
13 138 (7.11%) UML
14 125 (6.44%) Validation
15 117 (6.02%) Mentoring
16 114 (5.87%) Information Assurance
16 114 (5.87%) Risk Management
17 104 (5.36%) CI/CD
18 103 (5.30%) Full Stack Development
19 96 (4.94%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 432 (22.25%) Python
2 230 (11.84%) Java
3 196 (10.09%) Bash
4 161 (8.29%) JavaScript
5 138 (7.11%) PowerShell
6 132 (6.80%) C#
7 115 (5.92%) C
8 99 (5.10%) SQL
9 71 (3.66%) MATLAB
10 61 (3.14%) C++
11 56 (2.88%) Rust
12 50 (2.57%) Embedded C
13 43 (2.21%) TypeScript
14 29 (1.49%) Shell Script
15 24 (1.24%) Ada
16 14 (0.72%) R
17 13 (0.67%) Go
18 8 (0.41%) Perl
19 7 (0.36%) T-SQL
20 6 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 921 (47.43%) SC Cleared
2 625 (32.18%) DV Cleared
3 365 (18.80%) Degree
4 261 (13.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 54 (2.78%) TOGAF Certification
6 52 (2.68%) CISSP
7 51 (2.63%) CESG Certified Professional
8 50 (2.57%) CISM
9 35 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
10 33 (1.70%) CRISC
11 24 (1.24%) CCNA
12 22 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
13 19 (0.98%) A+ Certification
13 19 (0.98%) CCNP
14 16 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
14 16 (0.82%) HNC
15 14 (0.72%) DBS Check
15 14 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
15 14 (0.72%) Master's Degree
16 13 (0.67%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 60 (3.09%) NIST
3 57 (2.94%) NCSC
4 34 (1.75%) SLA
5 30 (1.54%) NIST 800
6 23 (1.18%) JSP 440
7 21 (1.08%) RMADS
8 20 (1.03%) QA
9 19 (0.98%) Def Stans
10 17 (0.88%) IEC 61508
10 17 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 14 (0.72%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 12 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
13 11 (0.57%) Accessibility
14 10 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 10 (0.51%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.41%) GDPR
15 8 (0.41%) GRC
16 7 (0.36%) MISRA
16 7 (0.36%) TickIT
System Software
1 192 (9.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 155 (7.98%) Docker
3 137 (7.05%) Active Directory
4 87 (4.48%) Hyper-V
5 43 (2.21%) vSphere
6 41 (2.11%) VMware ESXi
7 27 (1.39%) VMware NSX
8 22 (1.13%) Firmware
9 8 (0.41%) Microsoft App-V
10 7 (0.36%) XenDesktop
11 4 (0.21%) XenApp
12 3 (0.15%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.15%) Forefront TMG
12 3 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
13 2 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
13 2 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
13 2 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.051%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 244 (12.56%) Ansible
2 186 (9.58%) Kubernetes
3 119 (6.13%) Terraform
4 115 (5.92%) Puppet
5 60 (3.09%) SCCM
6 37 (1.91%) vCenter Server
7 23 (1.18%) Grafana
7 23 (1.18%) Prometheus
8 17 (0.88%) Nagios
9 16 (0.82%) EMC NetWorker
9 16 (0.82%) HAProxy
10 15 (0.77%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.62%) Backup Exec
11 12 (0.62%) NetBackup
12 9 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
12 9 (0.46%) ZABBIX
13 7 (0.36%) Icinga
13 7 (0.36%) Kibana
13 7 (0.36%) SCOM
13 7 (0.36%) WSUS
Vendors
1 335 (17.25%) Microsoft
2 225 (11.59%) VMware
3 137 (7.05%) Red Hat
4 91 (4.69%) Cisco
5 68 (3.50%) Oracle
6 48 (2.47%) Google
7 45 (2.32%) IBM
8 43 (2.21%) Sparx
9 37 (1.91%) SolarWinds
10 34 (1.75%) ESRI
11 22 (1.13%) NetApp
11 22 (1.13%) SaltStack
12 19 (0.98%) Veeam
13 18 (0.93%) Citrix
13 18 (0.93%) EMC
14 16 (0.82%) Atlassian
15 14 (0.72%) Splunk
16 13 (0.67%) Hitachi
16 13 (0.67%) ServiceNow
16 13 (0.67%) Tripwire