Security Cleared Jobs in the Thames Valley

Security Clearance
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 14 60
Rank change year-on-year +6 +46 +23
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 925 720 327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.86% 11.95% 4.68%
As % of the Qualifications category 36.10% 28.58% 14.42%
Number of salaries quoted 609 362 165
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,463 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £45,600 £55,075
Median % change year-on-year +16.23% -17.20% -15.27%
75th Percentile £61,700 £62,188 £77,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £84,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £49,250 £55,500
% change year-on-year +11.68% -11.26% +0.91%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,562 2,519 2,268
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 38.38% 41.82% 32.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,576 1,043 945
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £34,990 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,850 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.47% -6.06% -4.59%
75th Percentile £68,500 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
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 the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the Thames Valley

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Salary trend for Security Cleared in the Thames Valley

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in the Thames Valley

Security Cleared
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Cleared within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 7 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
Berkshire +6 748 £52,550 +15.24% 128
Buckinghamshire -4 126 £55,000 +21.69% 65
Oxfordshire 0 51 £51,020 +20.05% 31
Security Cleared
South East

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (4.43%) WebLogic
2 34 (3.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 29 (3.14%) ArcGIS
3 29 (3.14%) GeoServer
4 24 (2.59%) OpenStack
5 19 (2.05%) Exchange Server 2010
6 15 (1.62%) Oracle Service Bus
7 13 (1.41%) CMS
7 13 (1.41%) IIS
8 11 (1.19%) JBoss
9 10 (1.08%) Confluence
9 10 (1.08%) Red Hat Fuse
10 6 (0.65%) Apache
10 6 (0.65%) SharePoint
11 5 (0.54%) nginx
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 59 (6.38%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (2.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (2.27%) MS Visio
4 10 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.43%) Siemens NX
6 4 (0.43%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 18 (1.95%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.43%) Oracle Applications
3 4 (0.43%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.22%) C-CURE
4 2 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.22%) Primavera
5 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 189 (20.43%) Azure
2 99 (10.70%) AWS
3 48 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
4 39 (4.22%) Azure Monitor
5 31 (3.35%) Amazon EKS
6 28 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (2.92%) Amazon ECS
7 27 (2.92%) Serverless
8 22 (2.38%) Entra ID
9 16 (1.73%) OCI
10 14 (1.51%) Azure Storage
11 10 (1.08%) SaaS
12 6 (0.65%) GitHub
12 6 (0.65%) Miro
13 5 (0.54%) Azure Sentinel
13 5 (0.54%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (0.54%) PaaS
14 4 (0.43%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (0.43%) Cloud Computing
14 4 (0.43%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 79 (8.54%) Firewall
2 58 (6.27%) DNS
3 49 (5.30%) DHCP
4 32 (3.46%) VPN
5 18 (1.95%) LAN
6 15 (1.62%) WAN
7 14 (1.51%) BGP
7 14 (1.51%) OSPF
8 13 (1.41%) SAN
8 13 (1.41%) SNMP
8 13 (1.41%) SSL
9 12 (1.30%) Wireless
10 11 (1.19%) TCP/IP
11 10 (1.08%) SD-WAN
12 9 (0.97%) Cisco Firepower
12 9 (0.97%) Network Security
13 8 (0.86%) IPsec
14 7 (0.76%) VLAN
14 7 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
15 6 (0.65%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (6.49%) PostgreSQL
2 53 (5.73%) Relational Database
3 34 (3.68%) GIS
4 29 (3.14%) QGIS
5 26 (2.81%) Oracle Database
5 26 (2.81%) SQL Server
6 22 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
7 19 (2.05%) NoSQL
8 16 (1.73%) Oracle Database 11g
9 15 (1.62%) Oracle Database 10g
9 15 (1.62%) VLDB
10 5 (0.54%) MySQL
10 5 (0.54%) RDBMS
11 4 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.22%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.22%) NonStop SQL
13 1 (0.11%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 45 (4.86%) Jenkins
2 34 (3.68%) Git
3 22 (2.38%) GitLab
4 16 (1.73%) JIRA
5 14 (1.51%) JUnit
5 14 (1.51%) Visual Studio
6 11 (1.19%) Selenium
7 9 (0.97%) Cucumber
7 9 (0.97%) TestRail
8 7 (0.76%) Rational DOORS
8 7 (0.76%) REST Assured
8 7 (0.76%) WebDriver
9 6 (0.65%) TestNG
10 5 (0.54%) Oracle APEX
11 4 (0.43%) AdminStudio
11 4 (0.43%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.43%) InstallShield
11 4 (0.43%) MSI
11 4 (0.43%) Subversion
12 3 (0.32%) SoapUI
General
1 202 (21.84%) Social Skills
2 72 (7.78%) Public Sector
3 68 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (5.30%) Organisational Skills
5 25 (2.70%) Police
6 20 (2.16%) Finance
7 15 (1.62%) Back Office
8 9 (0.97%) Manufacturing
8 9 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (0.86%) Aerospace
10 6 (0.65%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.54%) Law
11 5 (0.54%) Local Government
11 5 (0.54%) Military
11 5 (0.54%) Publishing
12 4 (0.43%) Aeronautics
12 4 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.43%) Legal
12 4 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 164 (17.73%) Senior
2 132 (14.27%) Analyst
3 102 (11.03%) Developer
4 83 (8.97%) Architect
5 80 (8.65%) Systems Engineer
6 58 (6.27%) Software Engineer
7 51 (5.51%) Support Analyst
8 45 (4.86%) Applications Support
9 43 (4.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 42 (4.54%) Lead
11 41 (4.43%) Support Specialist
12 39 (4.22%) Network Engineer
13 38 (4.11%) Senior Analyst
14 37 (4.00%) Applications Support Analyst
15 35 (3.78%) Senior Software Engineer
16 33 (3.57%) Administrator
17 30 (3.24%) Java Developer
18 25 (2.70%) Infrastructure Support
18 25 (2.70%) Senior Systems Engineer
18 25 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (6.27%) Spring
2 51 (5.51%) CSS
3 49 (5.30%) .NET
4 47 (5.08%) React
5 41 (4.43%) REST
6 35 (3.78%) AngularJS
6 35 (3.78%) Web Services
7 33 (3.57%) HTML
8 32 (3.46%) Leaflet
8 32 (3.46%) Node.js
8 32 (3.46%) OpenLayers
8 32 (3.46%) Spring Boot
9 29 (3.14%) Elastic Stack
9 29 (3.14%) J2EE
9 29 (3.14%) PostGIS
10 27 (2.92%) .NET Core
11 26 (2.81%) XML
12 25 (2.70%) JSON
13 24 (2.59%) Apache Camel
13 24 (2.59%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 41 (4.43%) Management Information System
2 34 (3.68%) Self-Motivation
3 30 (3.24%) Algorithms
3 30 (3.24%) CMDB
4 24 (2.59%) Data Centre
5 23 (2.49%) Distributed Systems
6 22 (2.38%) PKI
7 19 (2.05%) Mainframe
7 19 (2.05%) Product Ownership
8 17 (1.84%) Driving Licence
9 14 (1.51%) Private Cloud
10 13 (1.41%) Digital Signage
11 9 (0.97%) Cyber Threat
11 9 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (0.76%) Client/Server
13 7 (0.76%) Virtual Team
14 6 (0.65%) CUDA
14 6 (0.65%) Cyber Defence
15 5 (0.54%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 166 (17.95%) Windows
2 149 (16.11%) Linux
3 85 (9.19%) Windows Server
4 75 (8.11%) Windows 10
5 58 (6.27%) Unix
5 58 (6.27%) Windows Server 2016
6 57 (6.16%) Windows Server 2019
7 45 (4.86%) Windows 7
8 41 (4.43%) Windows Server 2012
9 21 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 16 (1.73%) CentOS
11 15 (1.62%) Solaris
12 12 (1.30%) Windows NT
12 12 (1.30%) Windows XP
13 4 (0.43%) Ubuntu
14 3 (0.32%) Rocky
15 1 (0.11%) Debian
15 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (25.19%) Agile
2 203 (21.95%) ITIL
3 202 (21.84%) Problem-Solving
4 154 (16.65%) Actionable Insight
5 151 (16.32%) DevOps
6 101 (10.92%) Customer Service
7 96 (10.38%) Service Management
8 69 (7.46%) Software Engineering
9 67 (7.24%) Service Delivery
10 66 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 64 (6.92%) Project Management
11 64 (6.92%) Scrum
12 59 (6.38%) Cybersecurity
13 58 (6.27%) Decision-Making
14 57 (6.16%) CI/CD
15 54 (5.84%) Release Management
16 53 (5.73%) Analytics
16 53 (5.73%) Software Testing
17 52 (5.62%) ITSM
18 51 (5.51%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 123 (13.30%) JavaScript
2 116 (12.54%) Python
3 94 (10.16%) Java
4 73 (7.89%) PowerShell
5 71 (7.68%) C#
6 69 (7.46%) SQL
7 41 (4.43%) C++
8 34 (3.68%) Fortran
9 29 (3.14%) Shell Script
10 25 (2.70%) VBScript
11 24 (2.59%) VB
12 22 (2.38%) Bash
12 22 (2.38%) PL/SQL
13 19 (2.05%) C
13 19 (2.05%) COBOL
14 14 (1.51%) Bicep
15 13 (1.41%) TypeScript
16 12 (1.30%) MATLAB
17 8 (0.86%) Groovy
18 7 (0.76%) Perl
Qualifications
1 544 (58.81%) SC Cleared
2 300 (32.43%) DV Cleared
3 179 (19.35%) Degree
4 48 (5.19%) Cisco Certification
5 42 (4.54%) CCNA
6 40 (4.32%) CTC Cleared
7 29 (3.14%) NVQ Level 3
8 28 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 28 (3.03%) CCNP
9 23 (2.49%) PhD
10 21 (2.27%) HNC
10 21 (2.27%) Master's Degree
11 20 (2.16%) AWS Certification
12 19 (2.05%) A+ Certification
13 15 (1.62%) Azure Certification
13 15 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
14 14 (1.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 14 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
15 13 (1.41%) MCP
16 10 (1.08%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (6.81%) SLA
2 17 (1.84%) QA
3 16 (1.73%) NIST
4 15 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.19%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.08%) PMO
7 8 (0.86%) JSP 440
7 8 (0.86%) RMADS
8 6 (0.65%) GRC
8 6 (0.65%) NCSC
8 6 (0.65%) NIST 800
9 5 (0.54%) WCAG
10 4 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 3 (0.32%) COBIT
12 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 15288
13 1 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.11%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 126 (13.62%) Active Directory
2 50 (5.41%) Docker
3 44 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 39 (4.22%) Firmware
5 38 (4.11%) Hyper-V
6 21 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (1.62%) KVM
7 15 (1.62%) Oracle RAC
8 14 (1.51%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.43%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 4 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 102 (11.03%) SCCM
2 69 (7.46%) Kubernetes
3 63 (6.81%) SCOM
4 59 (6.38%) Ansible
5 46 (4.97%) WSUS
6 38 (4.11%) Terraform
7 33 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
8 22 (2.38%) OpenSSO
8 22 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (2.38%) vCenter Server
9 20 (2.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 19 (2.05%) NetBackup
11 15 (1.62%) Data Guard
11 15 (1.62%) EMC NetWorker
11 15 (1.62%) Oracle RMAN
12 14 (1.51%) Rancher
13 12 (1.30%) Sysprep
14 5 (0.54%) Kibana
15 3 (0.32%) OpenView
16 2 (0.22%) Nagios
Vendors
1 262 (28.32%) Microsoft
2 86 (9.30%) Oracle
3 82 (8.86%) Cisco
4 61 (6.59%) VMware
5 54 (5.84%) Juniper
6 45 (4.86%) ServiceNow
7 43 (4.65%) HP
8 40 (4.32%) Remedy
9 29 (3.14%) ESRI
10 26 (2.81%) Dynatrace
11 24 (2.59%) WSO2
12 19 (2.05%) Unisys
13 16 (1.73%) EMC
13 16 (1.73%) Extreme Networks
14 15 (1.62%) Sun
14 15 (1.62%) Veeam
15 13 (1.41%) Dell
15 13 (1.41%) Riverbed
16 12 (1.30%) 3PAR
16 12 (1.30%) Symantec