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

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 14 60
Rank change year-on-year +6 +46 +19
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 927 711 330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.85% 11.96% 4.69%
As % of the Qualifications category 35.97% 28.62% 14.49%
Number of salaries quoted 607 363 166
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,750 £35,794 £34,833
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,818 £45,600 £55,075
Median % change year-on-year +18.02% -17.20% -15.27%
75th Percentile £63,500 £62,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £86,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £49,500 £55,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.81% +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 2,577 2,484 2,278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 38.51% 41.77% 32.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,574 1,029 952
10th Percentile £31,000 £26,250 £28,525
25th Percentile £38,000 £35,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £49,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -5.71% -3.67%
75th Percentile £68,688 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,500 £87,500
South East median annual salary £51,500 £50,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% +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 14 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 14 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 +6 752 £52,550 +15.24% 154
Buckinghamshire +4 125 £55,000 +21.69% 45
Oxfordshire +4 50 £51,760 +21.79% 26
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 40 (4.31%) WebLogic
2 34 (3.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 29 (3.13%) ArcGIS
3 29 (3.13%) GeoServer
4 24 (2.59%) OpenStack
5 19 (2.05%) Exchange Server 2010
6 14 (1.51%) Oracle Service Bus
7 13 (1.40%) CMS
7 13 (1.40%) IIS
8 10 (1.08%) Red Hat Fuse
9 9 (0.97%) Confluence
9 9 (0.97%) JBoss
10 6 (0.65%) Apache
10 6 (0.65%) SharePoint
11 5 (0.54%) nginx
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 54 (5.83%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (2.16%) 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 17 (1.83%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.43%) Oracle Applications
3 4 (0.43%) Teamcenter
4 3 (0.32%) Primavera
4 3 (0.32%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.22%) C-CURE
5 2 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 188 (20.28%) Azure
2 101 (10.90%) AWS
3 48 (5.18%) Microsoft 365
4 39 (4.21%) Azure Monitor
5 32 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
6 28 (3.02%) Serverless
7 27 (2.91%) Amazon ECS
8 26 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (2.37%) Entra ID
10 16 (1.73%) OCI
11 14 (1.51%) Azure Storage
12 10 (1.08%) SaaS
13 6 (0.65%) GitHub
13 6 (0.65%) Miro
14 5 (0.54%) Azure Sentinel
14 5 (0.54%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (0.54%) PaaS
15 4 (0.43%) Amazon SQS
15 4 (0.43%) Cloud Computing
15 4 (0.43%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 79 (8.52%) Firewall
2 58 (6.26%) DNS
3 49 (5.29%) DHCP
4 32 (3.45%) VPN
5 17 (1.83%) LAN
6 15 (1.62%) SSL
6 15 (1.62%) WAN
7 14 (1.51%) BGP
7 14 (1.51%) OSPF
8 13 (1.40%) SAN
8 13 (1.40%) SNMP
9 12 (1.29%) Cisco Firepower
9 12 (1.29%) Wireless
10 11 (1.19%) Network Security
11 10 (1.08%) SD-WAN
11 10 (1.08%) TCP/IP
12 8 (0.86%) IPsec
13 7 (0.76%) VLAN
13 7 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
14 6 (0.65%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (6.47%) PostgreSQL
2 53 (5.72%) Relational Database
3 34 (3.67%) GIS
4 29 (3.13%) QGIS
5 26 (2.80%) SQL Server
6 25 (2.70%) Oracle Database
7 22 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
8 19 (2.05%) NoSQL
9 15 (1.62%) Oracle Database 11g
10 14 (1.51%) Oracle Database 10g
10 14 (1.51%) VLDB
11 5 (0.54%) MySQL
11 5 (0.54%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.22%) Geospatial Data
13 2 (0.22%) NonStop SQL
14 1 (0.11%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 47 (5.07%) Jenkins
2 34 (3.67%) Git
3 25 (2.70%) GitLab
4 17 (1.83%) Visual Studio
5 15 (1.62%) JIRA
6 14 (1.51%) JUnit
7 9 (0.97%) Cucumber
7 9 (0.97%) Selenium
8 8 (0.86%) TestRail
9 7 (0.76%) Rational DOORS
9 7 (0.76%) REST Assured
9 7 (0.76%) WebDriver
10 6 (0.65%) TestNG
11 5 (0.54%) Oracle APEX
12 4 (0.43%) AdminStudio
12 4 (0.43%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.43%) InstallShield
12 4 (0.43%) MSI
12 4 (0.43%) Subversion
13 3 (0.32%) SoapUI
General
1 197 (21.25%) Social Skills
2 71 (7.66%) Public Sector
3 66 (7.12%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (5.07%) Organisational Skills
5 25 (2.70%) Police
6 20 (2.16%) Finance
7 14 (1.51%) Back Office
8 9 (0.97%) Manufacturing
8 9 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (0.86%) Aerospace
10 6 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (0.65%) Telecoms
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
1 169 (18.23%) Senior
2 129 (13.92%) Analyst
3 101 (10.90%) Developer
4 84 (9.06%) Architect
4 84 (9.06%) Systems Engineer
5 57 (6.15%) Software Engineer
6 50 (5.39%) Support Analyst
7 44 (4.75%) Applications Support
8 43 (4.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 42 (4.53%) Network Engineer
10 41 (4.42%) Lead
11 40 (4.31%) Support Specialist
12 38 (4.10%) Senior Analyst
13 36 (3.88%) Applications Support Analyst
14 35 (3.78%) Administrator
15 34 (3.67%) Senior Software Engineer
16 29 (3.13%) Java Developer
17 27 (2.91%) Senior Systems Engineer
18 25 (2.70%) Infrastructure Support
19 24 (2.59%) Azure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (6.15%) Spring
2 50 (5.39%) CSS
3 49 (5.29%) .NET
4 47 (5.07%) React
5 40 (4.31%) REST
6 33 (3.56%) AngularJS
6 33 (3.56%) Web Services
7 32 (3.45%) HTML
7 32 (3.45%) Leaflet
7 32 (3.45%) Node.js
7 32 (3.45%) OpenLayers
7 32 (3.45%) Spring Boot
8 29 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
8 29 (3.13%) PostGIS
9 28 (3.02%) J2EE
10 27 (2.91%) .NET Core
11 24 (2.59%) Apache Camel
11 24 (2.59%) JSON
11 24 (2.59%) XML
12 23 (2.48%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 45 (4.85%) Management Information System
2 34 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
3 30 (3.24%) Algorithms
3 30 (3.24%) CMDB
4 24 (2.59%) Data Centre
5 23 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
6 21 (2.27%) PKI
6 21 (2.27%) Product Ownership
7 19 (2.05%) Mainframe
8 17 (1.83%) Driving Licence
9 14 (1.51%) Private Cloud
10 13 (1.40%) Digital Signage
11 10 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (0.97%) Cyber Threat
12 9 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (0.76%) Security Operations Centre
13 7 (0.76%) Virtual Team
14 6 (0.65%) CUDA
14 6 (0.65%) Cyber Defence
15 5 (0.54%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 157 (16.94%) Windows
2 142 (15.32%) Linux
3 80 (8.63%) Windows Server
4 72 (7.77%) Windows 10
5 58 (6.26%) Windows Server 2016
6 57 (6.15%) Unix
6 57 (6.15%) Windows Server 2019
7 44 (4.75%) Windows 7
8 42 (4.53%) Windows Server 2012
9 18 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 15 (1.62%) CentOS
11 14 (1.51%) Solaris
12 12 (1.29%) Windows NT
12 12 (1.29%) 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
1 232 (25.03%) Agile
2 202 (21.79%) ITIL
3 199 (21.47%) Problem-Solving
4 150 (16.18%) DevOps
5 145 (15.64%) Actionable Insight
6 96 (10.36%) Customer Service
7 94 (10.14%) Service Management
8 68 (7.34%) Software Engineering
9 66 (7.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 65 (7.01%) Project Management
10 65 (7.01%) Service Delivery
11 63 (6.80%) Decision-Making
12 62 (6.69%) Cybersecurity
12 62 (6.69%) Scrum
13 58 (6.26%) CI/CD
13 58 (6.26%) Software Testing
14 51 (5.50%) Analytics
15 50 (5.39%) ITSM
15 50 (5.39%) Release Management
16 49 (5.29%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 122 (13.16%) JavaScript
2 115 (12.41%) Python
3 92 (9.92%) Java
4 74 (7.98%) C#
5 72 (7.77%) SQL
6 70 (7.55%) PowerShell
7 43 (4.64%) C++
8 37 (3.99%) Fortran
9 29 (3.13%) Shell Script
10 24 (2.59%) VB
11 22 (2.37%) Bash
11 22 (2.37%) VBScript
12 21 (2.27%) PL/SQL
13 19 (2.05%) C
13 19 (2.05%) COBOL
14 14 (1.51%) Bicep
15 13 (1.40%) TypeScript
16 12 (1.29%) MATLAB
17 10 (1.08%) Groovy
18 7 (0.76%) Perl
Qualifications
1 535 (57.71%) SC Cleared
2 301 (32.47%) DV Cleared
3 185 (19.96%) Degree
4 49 (5.29%) Cisco Certification
5 42 (4.53%) CCNA
6 39 (4.21%) CTC Cleared
7 29 (3.13%) CCNP
7 29 (3.13%) NVQ Level 3
8 28 (3.02%) BPSS Clearance
9 23 (2.48%) HNC
9 23 (2.48%) Master's Degree
9 23 (2.48%) PhD
10 21 (2.27%) AWS Certification
11 19 (2.05%) A+ Certification
12 15 (1.62%) Azure Certification
12 15 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
13 14 (1.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 14 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
14 13 (1.40%) MCP
15 9 (0.97%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (6.69%) SLA
2 16 (1.73%) NIST
2 16 (1.73%) QA
3 15 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (1.19%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.08%) PMO
6 8 (0.86%) JSP 440
6 8 (0.86%) RMADS
7 6 (0.65%) GRC
7 6 (0.65%) NCSC
7 6 (0.65%) NIST 800
8 5 (0.54%) WCAG
9 4 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 3 (0.32%) COBIT
11 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 1 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.11%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 121 (13.05%) Active Directory
2 51 (5.50%) Docker
3 39 (4.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (4.10%) Firmware
4 38 (4.10%) Hyper-V
5 19 (2.05%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
7 14 (1.51%) KVM
7 14 (1.51%) Oracle RAC
7 14 (1.51%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.43%) Microsoft App-V
8 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 102 (11.00%) SCCM
2 70 (7.55%) Kubernetes
3 63 (6.80%) SCOM
4 59 (6.36%) Ansible
5 46 (4.96%) WSUS
6 40 (4.31%) Terraform
7 33 (3.56%) Microsoft Intune
8 22 (2.37%) OpenSSO
8 22 (2.37%) Single Sign-On
9 20 (2.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 20 (2.16%) vCenter Server
10 19 (2.05%) NetBackup
11 15 (1.62%) EMC NetWorker
12 14 (1.51%) Data Guard
12 14 (1.51%) Oracle RMAN
13 13 (1.40%) Rancher
14 12 (1.29%) Sysprep
15 5 (0.54%) Kibana
16 3 (0.32%) Grafana
16 3 (0.32%) OpenView
Vendors
1 261 (28.16%) Microsoft
2 86 (9.28%) Oracle
3 85 (9.17%) Cisco
4 55 (5.93%) VMware
5 54 (5.83%) Juniper
6 43 (4.64%) ServiceNow
7 42 (4.53%) HP
8 39 (4.21%) Remedy
9 29 (3.13%) ESRI
10 26 (2.80%) 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%) Veeam
15 14 (1.51%) Sun
16 13 (1.40%) Dell
16 13 (1.40%) Riverbed
17 12 (1.29%) 3PAR
17 12 (1.29%) F5