Security Cleared Jobs in Berkshire

Security Clearance
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 7 53
Rank change year-on-year +6 +46 +5
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 759 558 170
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 24.67% 17.50% 4.98%
As % of the Qualifications category 54.60% 38.17% 18.26%
Number of salaries quoted 519 302 109
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,875 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,638
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £45,600 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.24% -29.85% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,250 £84,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £48,313 £55,500
% change year-on-year +13.84% -12.95% +0.91%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Berkshire

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 Berkshire with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,390 1,462 931
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 45.19% 45.86% 27.28%
Number of salaries quoted 980 599 398
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,800 £29,925
25th Percentile £38,603 £36,713 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% -5.12% -6.52%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,919 £72,188
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £51,350 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.70% -4.76% +5.00%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Berkshire

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in Berkshire

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

Salary trend for Security Cleared in Berkshire

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Berkshire over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in Berkshire

Security Cleared
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Cleared within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 3 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
Reading +4 556 £54,000 +18.42% 104
Bracknell +17 88 £38,000 -23.23% 10
Newbury -15 10 £77,500 +72.22% 1
Maidenhead +15 5 £62,500 +8.70%
Wokingham - 4 £42,500 - 2
Slough +27 2 £55,000 -20.86%
Security Cleared
South East

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 41 (5.40%) WebLogic
2 29 (3.82%) ArcGIS
2 29 (3.82%) GeoServer
3 24 (3.16%) OpenStack
4 15 (1.98%) Oracle Service Bus
5 14 (1.84%) IIS
5 14 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (1.71%) CMS
7 11 (1.45%) Confluence
7 11 (1.45%) Red Hat Fuse
8 10 (1.32%) JBoss
9 6 (0.79%) Apache
10 5 (0.66%) nginx
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Spatial
11 1 (0.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 54 (7.11%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (2.90%) MS Visio
3 20 (2.64%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.53%) Siemens NX
5 4 (0.53%) Sketch
6 3 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 18 (2.37%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.53%) Oracle Applications
3 4 (0.53%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.26%) C-CURE
4 2 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.26%) Primavera
5 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 130 (17.13%) Azure
2 89 (11.73%) AWS
3 31 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
4 27 (3.56%) Amazon ECS
4 27 (3.56%) Serverless
5 20 (2.64%) Azure Monitor
5 20 (2.64%) Entra ID
5 20 (2.64%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (2.11%) OCI
7 14 (1.84%) Azure Storage
8 11 (1.45%) SaaS
9 7 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (0.92%) GitHub
10 6 (0.79%) Miro
11 5 (0.66%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (0.66%) PaaS
12 4 (0.53%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (0.53%) Figma
12 4 (0.53%) Heroku
13 2 (0.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 76 (10.01%) Firewall
2 55 (7.25%) DNS
3 50 (6.59%) DHCP
4 19 (2.50%) LAN
5 16 (2.11%) WAN
6 14 (1.84%) SNMP
7 13 (1.71%) BGP
7 13 (1.71%) OSPF
7 13 (1.71%) SAN
7 13 (1.71%) Wireless
8 12 (1.58%) SSL
9 11 (1.45%) SD-WAN
10 10 (1.32%) VPN
11 8 (1.05%) Cisco Firepower
11 8 (1.05%) IPsec
11 8 (1.05%) Network Security
12 7 (0.92%) TCP/IP
12 7 (0.92%) VLAN
13 6 (0.79%) Cisco ASA
13 6 (0.79%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (7.91%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (4.48%) GIS
2 34 (4.48%) Relational Database
3 29 (3.82%) QGIS
4 25 (3.29%) Oracle Database
5 22 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
6 19 (2.50%) NoSQL
7 17 (2.24%) SQL Server
8 16 (2.11%) Oracle Database 11g
9 15 (1.98%) Oracle Database 10g
9 15 (1.98%) VLDB
10 5 (0.66%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.26%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.26%) MySQL
12 2 (0.26%) NonStop SQL
13 1 (0.13%) Spatial Data
13 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 47 (6.19%) Jenkins
2 34 (4.48%) Git
3 19 (2.50%) GitLab
4 18 (2.37%) JIRA
5 14 (1.84%) JUnit
5 14 (1.84%) Visual Studio
6 12 (1.58%) Selenium
7 10 (1.32%) Cucumber
8 9 (1.19%) TestRail
9 7 (0.92%) REST Assured
9 7 (0.92%) WebDriver
10 6 (0.79%) Rational DOORS
10 6 (0.79%) TestNG
11 5 (0.66%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.66%) Oracle APEX
12 4 (0.53%) AdminStudio
12 4 (0.53%) InstallShield
12 4 (0.53%) JMeter
12 4 (0.53%) MSI
12 4 (0.53%) Subversion
General
1 188 (24.77%) Social Skills
2 62 (8.17%) Analytical Skills
3 54 (7.11%) Public Sector
4 48 (6.32%) Organisational Skills
5 25 (3.29%) Police
6 17 (2.24%) Finance
7 15 (1.98%) Back Office
8 8 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (0.79%) Aerospace
9 6 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (0.79%) Manufacturing
10 5 (0.66%) Law
10 5 (0.66%) Local Government
11 4 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.53%) Legal
11 4 (0.53%) Publishing
11 4 (0.53%) Retail
11 4 (0.53%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.26%) Advertising
12 2 (0.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 133 (17.52%) Senior
2 89 (11.73%) Analyst
3 86 (11.33%) Architect
4 68 (8.96%) Systems Engineer
5 55 (7.25%) Developer
6 50 (6.59%) Software Engineer
7 44 (5.80%) Applications Support
8 40 (5.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 40 (5.27%) Support Analyst
9 39 (5.14%) Lead
10 38 (5.01%) Support Specialist
11 37 (4.87%) Applications Support Analyst
12 35 (4.61%) Network Engineer
12 35 (4.61%) Senior Software Engineer
13 32 (4.22%) Administrator
14 29 (3.82%) Java Developer
15 28 (3.69%) Support Engineer
16 26 (3.43%) Infrastructure Support
16 26 (3.43%) Senior Analyst
16 26 (3.43%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (6.98%) Spring
2 42 (5.53%) .NET
2 42 (5.53%) REST
3 35 (4.61%) React
3 35 (4.61%) Web Services
4 34 (4.48%) AngularJS
5 32 (4.22%) Node.js
5 32 (4.22%) OpenLayers
5 32 (4.22%) Spring Boot
6 31 (4.08%) Leaflet
7 30 (3.95%) CSS
8 29 (3.82%) Elastic Stack
8 29 (3.82%) PostGIS
9 28 (3.69%) J2EE
10 27 (3.56%) .NET Core
11 26 (3.43%) XML
12 25 (3.29%) JSON
13 24 (3.16%) Apache Camel
13 24 (3.16%) Java EE
14 19 (2.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 34 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
2 30 (3.95%) CMDB
3 28 (3.69%) Management Information System
4 25 (3.29%) PKI
5 23 (3.03%) Algorithms
5 23 (3.03%) Data Centre
5 23 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
6 19 (2.50%) Product Ownership
7 14 (1.84%) Driving Licence
8 13 (1.71%) Digital Signage
9 11 (1.45%) Private Cloud
10 9 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (0.92%) Virtual Team
13 6 (0.79%) CUDA
13 6 (0.79%) Cyber Defence
14 5 (0.66%) Public Cloud
15 4 (0.53%) Shadow IT
16 2 (0.26%) Client/Server
16 2 (0.26%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 152 (20.03%) Windows
2 145 (19.10%) Linux
3 85 (11.20%) Windows Server
4 71 (9.35%) Windows 10
5 58 (7.64%) Unix
6 56 (7.38%) Windows Server 2016
7 55 (7.25%) Windows Server 2019
8 46 (6.06%) Windows 7
9 42 (5.53%) Windows Server 2012
10 21 (2.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 15 (1.98%) Solaris
12 13 (1.71%) CentOS
12 13 (1.71%) Windows NT
13 12 (1.58%) Windows XP
14 5 (0.66%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.13%) Debian
15 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (28.19%) Agile
2 155 (20.42%) Problem-Solving
3 154 (20.29%) Actionable Insight
4 139 (18.31%) ITIL
5 125 (16.47%) DevOps
6 91 (11.99%) Service Management
7 70 (9.22%) Customer Service
8 64 (8.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 59 (7.77%) Scrum
10 54 (7.11%) Release Management
10 54 (7.11%) Software Engineering
11 53 (6.98%) Incident Management
12 52 (6.85%) CI/CD
12 52 (6.85%) Decision-Making
12 52 (6.85%) Project Management
12 52 (6.85%) Software Testing
13 51 (6.72%) ITSM
14 46 (6.06%) Configuration Management
15 45 (5.93%) Change Management
16 43 (5.67%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 95 (12.52%) Python
2 88 (11.59%) JavaScript
3 79 (10.41%) Java
4 74 (9.75%) PowerShell
5 71 (9.35%) SQL
6 64 (8.43%) C#
7 34 (4.48%) Fortran
8 33 (4.35%) C++
9 29 (3.82%) Shell Script
10 25 (3.29%) VBScript
11 24 (3.16%) VB
12 22 (2.90%) Bash
12 22 (2.90%) PL/SQL
13 17 (2.24%) C
14 14 (1.84%) Bicep
15 9 (1.19%) Groovy
16 7 (0.92%) Perl
17 6 (0.79%) MATLAB
18 5 (0.66%) Ruby
18 5 (0.66%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 493 (64.95%) SC Cleared
2 267 (35.18%) DV Cleared
3 145 (19.10%) Degree
4 48 (6.32%) Cisco Certification
5 42 (5.53%) CCNA
6 28 (3.69%) CCNP
7 21 (2.77%) HNC
8 20 (2.64%) AWS Certification
9 19 (2.50%) A+ Certification
10 18 (2.37%) PhD
11 15 (1.98%) Azure Certification
11 15 (1.98%) Master's Degree
12 14 (1.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 14 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (1.71%) MCP
14 10 (1.32%) ISTQB
15 9 (1.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 8 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
16 8 (1.05%) Network+ Certification
17 7 (0.92%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (8.17%) SLA
2 17 (2.24%) QA
3 16 (2.11%) NIST
4 15 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.45%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.05%) JSP 440
6 8 (1.05%) PMO
6 8 (1.05%) RMADS
7 7 (0.92%) NCSC
8 6 (0.79%) GRC
8 6 (0.79%) NIST 800
9 5 (0.66%) WCAG
10 4 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 3 (0.40%) COBIT
12 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 15288
13 1 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
13 1 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 126 (16.60%) Active Directory
2 46 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (5.93%) Docker
4 40 (5.27%) Firmware
5 37 (4.87%) Hyper-V
6 20 (2.64%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (1.98%) KVM
7 15 (1.98%) Oracle RAC
8 14 (1.84%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.53%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 102 (13.44%) SCCM
2 68 (8.96%) Kubernetes
3 64 (8.43%) SCOM
4 58 (7.64%) Ansible
5 47 (6.19%) WSUS
6 39 (5.14%) Terraform
7 22 (2.90%) OpenSSO
7 22 (2.90%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (2.77%) vCenter Server
9 20 (2.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 19 (2.50%) NetBackup
11 15 (1.98%) Data Guard
11 15 (1.98%) Oracle RMAN
12 14 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
12 14 (1.84%) Rancher
13 13 (1.71%) Sysprep
14 12 (1.58%) EMC NetWorker
15 5 (0.66%) Kibana
16 3 (0.40%) OpenView
17 2 (0.26%) Nessus
Vendors
1 200 (26.35%) Microsoft
2 81 (10.67%) Cisco
3 69 (9.09%) Oracle
4 60 (7.91%) VMware
5 54 (7.11%) Juniper
6 47 (6.19%) ServiceNow
7 44 (5.80%) HP
8 40 (5.27%) Remedy
9 29 (3.82%) ESRI
10 27 (3.56%) Dynatrace
11 24 (3.16%) WSO2
12 16 (2.11%) Extreme Networks
13 15 (1.98%) Sun
14 13 (1.71%) Dell
14 13 (1.71%) EMC
14 13 (1.71%) Riverbed
15 12 (1.58%) 3PAR
15 12 (1.58%) Palo Alto
15 12 (1.58%) Symantec
15 12 (1.58%) Veeam