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 2 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 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 119 382 242
As % of all permanent jobs in Basingstoke 34.90% 80.08% 45.49%
As % of the Qualifications category 97.54% 88.63% 75.63%
Number of salaries quoted 98 344 214
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £42,200
25th Percentile £54,000 £47,500 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £56,750
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -3.08% -5.42%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £72,125
Hampshire median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +21.74% - +5.50%

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 122 431 320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Basingstoke 35.78% 90.36% 60.15%
Number of salaries quoted 100 356 269
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £37,400
25th Percentile £53,438 £47,500 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £55,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.91% +0.92% +0.93%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £72,500
Hampshire median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% +7.84% +7.37%

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 2 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 22 (18.49%) Exchange Server 2003
1 22 (18.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.84%) Apache
2 1 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.84%) Appian
2 1 (0.84%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 25 (21.01%) Azure
1 25 (21.01%) Azure DevOps
2 14 (11.76%) AWS
3 6 (5.04%) GitHub
3 6 (5.04%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (1.68%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (0.84%) Amazon S3
5 1 (0.84%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.84%) MinIO
5 1 (0.84%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 33 (27.73%) DNS
2 21 (17.65%) DHCP
3 14 (11.76%) Cisco Firepower
4 13 (10.92%) Firewall
5 12 (10.08%) WAN
6 10 (8.40%) Junos
6 10 (8.40%) VPN
7 9 (7.56%) Cisco IOS
7 9 (7.56%) Cisco ISE
7 9 (7.56%) NX-OS
8 5 (4.20%) BGP
8 5 (4.20%) HTTP
8 5 (4.20%) LAN
8 5 (4.20%) MPLS
8 5 (4.20%) SNMP
9 2 (1.68%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (1.68%) Network Security
10 1 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.84%) X.400
10 1 (0.84%) X.500
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (19.33%) Oracle Database
1 23 (19.33%) Oracle Database 10g
2 1 (0.84%) Airbyte
2 1 (0.84%) Big Data
2 1 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.84%) Pinecone
2 1 (0.84%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 17 (14.29%) Robot Framework
1 17 (14.29%) Selenium
2 15 (12.61%) Git
2 15 (12.61%) Snyk
3 8 (6.72%) GitLab
3 8 (6.72%) Jenkins
4 6 (5.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.68%) JIRA
5 2 (1.68%) TestRail
6 1 (0.84%) MSI
General
1 17 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 15 (12.61%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (8.40%) Finance
4 4 (3.36%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.52%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.84%) Advertising
6 1 (0.84%) Banking
6 1 (0.84%) Games
6 1 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (21.01%) Lead
2 23 (19.33%) Architect
3 22 (18.49%) 3rd Line Support
3 22 (18.49%) Systems Support
4 15 (12.61%) Network Engineer
5 13 (10.92%) Cloud Engineer
6 8 (6.72%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 7 (5.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 7 (5.88%) Software Engineer
8 6 (5.04%) Software Architect
8 6 (5.04%) Systems Engineer
9 5 (4.20%) Enterprise Architect
9 5 (4.20%) Enterprise Management Architect
10 4 (3.36%) Support Engineer
11 3 (2.52%) Monitoring Engineer
11 3 (2.52%) Network Architect
12 2 (1.68%) Lead DevOps
12 2 (1.68%) Security Architect
12 2 (1.68%) Senior Design Engineer
12 2 (1.68%) Systems Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.68%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (1.68%) Kafka
2 1 (0.84%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (0.84%) FastAPI
2 1 (0.84%) Flask
2 1 (0.84%) ModSecurity
2 1 (0.84%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.61%) PKI
2 12 (10.08%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.68%) Data Centre
3 2 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.84%) AI Agents
4 1 (0.84%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.84%) Device Driver
4 1 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (0.84%) IVR
4 1 (0.84%) Low-Code
4 1 (0.84%) Replication
4 1 (0.84%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 47 (39.50%) Windows
2 23 (19.33%) HPUX
2 23 (19.33%) Solaris
2 23 (19.33%) Unix
3 22 (18.49%) Windows Server 2003
4 21 (17.65%) Windows 7
4 21 (17.65%) Windows Server 2008
5 18 (15.13%) Linux
6 6 (5.04%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (23.53%) Agile
2 27 (22.69%) DevOps
3 26 (21.85%) CI/CD
4 24 (20.17%) Incident Management
5 23 (19.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 22 (18.49%) Scrum
7 19 (15.97%) Test Management
8 18 (15.13%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (15.13%) Test Automation
9 17 (14.29%) DevSecOps
9 17 (14.29%) Service Management
10 16 (13.45%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
10 16 (13.45%) Interactive Application Security Testing
10 16 (13.45%) Secrets Management
10 16 (13.45%) Technical Leadership
11 14 (11.76%) ITSM
12 13 (10.92%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (10.08%) Build Automation
13 12 (10.08%) Roadmaps
13 12 (10.08%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (20.17%) PowerShell
2 21 (17.65%) Perl
3 6 (5.04%) SQL
4 4 (3.36%) Python
5 3 (2.52%) Bash
6 1 (0.84%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 99 (83.19%) DV Cleared
2 58 (48.74%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.52%) CCNA
3 3 (2.52%) CCNP
3 3 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (2.52%) ISTQB
3 3 (2.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (1.68%) JNCIS
5 1 (0.84%) CISA
5 1 (0.84%) CISM
5 1 (0.84%) CISSP
5 1 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.84%) Degree
5 1 (0.84%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (19.33%) SLA
2 1 (0.84%) GRC
2 1 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.84%) NIST
System Software
1 28 (23.53%) Active Directory
2 9 (7.56%) Firmware
2 9 (7.56%) VMware NSX
3 3 (2.52%) Docker
4 1 (0.84%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (14.29%) Terraform
2 16 (13.45%) Ansible
3 13 (10.92%) vCenter Server
4 7 (5.88%) Endace
5 4 (3.36%) Kubernetes
5 4 (3.36%) SCCM
5 4 (3.36%) SCOM
6 3 (2.52%) ZABBIX
7 2 (1.68%) Grafana
7 2 (1.68%) Nessus
7 2 (1.68%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.84%) WMI
Vendors
1 28 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 26 (21.85%) VMware
3 23 (19.33%) Cisco
3 23 (19.33%) Juniper
3 23 (19.33%) Oracle
4 15 (12.61%) Black Duck
4 15 (12.61%) Coverity
5 13 (10.92%) SolarWinds
6 9 (7.56%) Broadcom
7 7 (5.88%) F5
8 4 (3.36%) McAfee
9 3 (2.52%) HP
9 3 (2.52%) Splunk
10 2 (1.68%) BiZZdesign
11 1 (0.84%) ArcSight
11 1 (0.84%) Blue Prism
11 1 (0.84%) UiPath