Security Cleared Job Trends in Basingstoke

Security Clearance
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Basingstoke with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 16 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 106 349 250
As % of all permanent jobs in Basingstoke 30.64% 78.43% 47.35%
As % of the Qualifications category 94.64% 87.03% 78.37%
Number of salaries quoted 84 316 214
10th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £42,200
25th Percentile £55,875 £47,500 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £80,313 £77,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £91,750 £87,500 £71,000
Hampshire median annual salary £75,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +36.36% -4.35% +6.48%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Basingstoke

Security Cleared falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Basingstoke.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 112 401 319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Basingstoke 32.37% 90.11% 60.42%
Number of salaries quoted 89 329 270
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £33,850
25th Percentile £54,000 £47,500 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +4.76% -1.18%
75th Percentile £81,250 £77,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £90,500 £87,500 £71,375
Hampshire median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% +10.00% +5.26%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Security Cleared relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke.

Security Cleared job vacancy trend in Basingstoke

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in Basingstoke

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Security Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Security Cleared

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in Basingstoke

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Basingstoke over the 6 months to 16 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in Basingstoke

Security Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basingstoke by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (16.98%) Exchange Server 2003
1 18 (16.98%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Lectora
Cloud Services
1 18 (16.98%) Azure
1 18 (16.98%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (6.60%) AWS
3 6 (5.66%) GitHub
3 6 (5.66%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 24 (22.64%) DNS
2 17 (16.04%) DHCP
3 14 (13.21%) Cisco Firepower
4 12 (11.32%) Firewall
5 11 (10.38%) WAN
6 10 (9.43%) Junos
7 9 (8.49%) Cisco IOS
7 9 (8.49%) Cisco ISE
7 9 (8.49%) NX-OS
7 9 (8.49%) VPN
8 5 (4.72%) BGP
8 5 (4.72%) HTTP
8 5 (4.72%) MPLS
8 5 (4.72%) SNMP
9 4 (3.77%) LAN
10 1 (0.94%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.94%) SMTP
10 1 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.94%) X.400
10 1 (0.94%) X.500
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (17.92%) Oracle Database
1 19 (17.92%) Oracle Database 10g
2 1 (0.94%) Big Data
2 1 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.94%) Pinecone
2 1 (0.94%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 10 (9.43%) Robot Framework
1 10 (9.43%) Selenium
2 9 (8.49%) Git
3 8 (7.55%) GitLab
3 8 (7.55%) Jenkins
3 8 (7.55%) Snyk
4 6 (5.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.89%) JIRA
5 2 (1.89%) TestRail
General
1 13 (12.26%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.38%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (10.38%) Finance
3 4 (3.77%) Public Sector
4 3 (2.83%) Aerospace
5 2 (1.89%) Banking
5 2 (1.89%) Games
Job Titles
1 22 (20.75%) Architect
1 22 (20.75%) Lead
2 19 (17.92%) 3rd Line Support
3 18 (16.98%) Systems Support
4 14 (13.21%) Network Engineer
5 13 (12.26%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (6.60%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 7 (6.60%) Software Engineer
7 6 (5.66%) Software Architect
8 5 (4.72%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 5 (4.72%) Enterprise Architect
8 5 (4.72%) Enterprise Management Architect
8 5 (4.72%) Systems Engineer
9 3 (2.83%) Consultant
9 3 (2.83%) Monitoring Engineer
9 3 (2.83%) Network Architect
9 3 (2.83%) Security Architect
10 2 (1.89%) Manual Tester
10 2 (1.89%) Support Engineer
10 2 (1.89%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.94%) FastAPI
2 1 (0.94%) Flask
2 1 (0.94%) Kafka
2 1 (0.94%) ModSecurity
2 1 (0.94%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.21%) PKI
2 9 (8.49%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.89%) Data Centre
3 2 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.94%) AI Agents
4 1 (0.94%) e-Learning
4 1 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (0.94%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 36 (33.96%) Windows
2 19 (17.92%) HPUX
2 19 (17.92%) Solaris
2 19 (17.92%) Unix
3 18 (16.98%) Windows Server 2003
4 17 (16.04%) Windows 7
4 17 (16.04%) Windows Server 2008
5 12 (11.32%) Linux
6 6 (5.66%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (20.75%) Agile
2 20 (18.87%) DevOps
2 20 (18.87%) Incident Management
3 19 (17.92%) CI/CD
4 17 (16.04%) Service Management
5 16 (15.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (15.09%) Scrum
6 14 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (12.26%) ITSM
8 12 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (11.32%) Software Engineering
8 12 (11.32%) Technical Leadership
8 12 (11.32%) Test Management
9 11 (10.38%) Test Automation
10 10 (9.43%) DevSecOps
10 10 (9.43%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 9 (8.49%) Interactive Application Security Testing
11 9 (8.49%) Secrets Management
11 9 (8.49%) Sprint Planning
11 9 (8.49%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 18 (16.98%) PowerShell
2 17 (16.04%) Perl
3 6 (5.66%) SQL
4 3 (2.83%) Bash
4 3 (2.83%) Python
5 1 (0.94%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 87 (82.08%) DV Cleared
2 51 (48.11%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.83%) ISTQB
3 3 (2.83%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (1.89%) CCNA
4 2 (1.89%) CCNP
4 2 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.94%) CISA
5 1 (0.94%) CISM
5 1 (0.94%) CISSP
5 1 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.94%) Degree
5 1 (0.94%) JNCIA
5 1 (0.94%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (16.98%) SLA
2 1 (0.94%) GRC
2 1 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.94%) NIST
System Software
1 24 (22.64%) Active Directory
2 9 (8.49%) Firmware
2 9 (8.49%) VMware NSX
3 3 (2.83%) Docker
4 2 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.94%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 13 (12.26%) vCenter Server
2 10 (9.43%) Terraform
3 9 (8.49%) Ansible
4 7 (6.60%) Endace
5 4 (3.77%) Kubernetes
5 4 (3.77%) SCCM
5 4 (3.77%) SCOM
6 3 (2.83%) ZABBIX
7 2 (1.89%) Grafana
7 2 (1.89%) Nessus
7 2 (1.89%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (20.75%) Cisco
1 22 (20.75%) Juniper
1 22 (20.75%) Microsoft
2 21 (19.81%) VMware
3 19 (17.92%) Oracle
4 13 (12.26%) SolarWinds
5 9 (8.49%) Broadcom
6 8 (7.55%) Black Duck
6 8 (7.55%) Coverity
7 6 (5.66%) F5
8 4 (3.77%) McAfee
9 3 (2.83%) Splunk
10 1 (0.94%) ArcSight
10 1 (0.94%) BiZZdesign
10 1 (0.94%) HP