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 1 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +16
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 178 416 99
As % of all permanent jobs in Basingstoke 50.14% 69.92% 33.79%
As % of the Qualifications category 92.71% 92.86% 57.23%
Number of salaries quoted 159 334 54
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £31,400
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £42,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £47,200
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +27.12% -14.95%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £61,594
90th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £72,850
Hampshire median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -

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 192 448 173
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Basingstoke 54.08% 75.29% 59.04%
Number of salaries quoted 171 341 96
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £38,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £44,400
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +35.14% -15.02%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £55,625
90th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £64,375
Hampshire median annual salary £58,000 £57,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year +0.87% +17.35% -2.00%

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 1 December 2025.

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 26 (14.61%) Exchange Server 2003
1 26 (14.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.93%) Apache
3 6 (3.37%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (3.37%) Appian
4 3 (1.69%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (3.37%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 38 (21.35%) Azure
2 33 (18.54%) AWS
3 22 (12.36%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (3.93%) GCP
4 7 (3.93%) IaaS
4 7 (3.93%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (3.93%) OCI
4 7 (3.93%) PaaS
4 7 (3.93%) SaaS
5 6 (3.37%) Amazon S3
5 6 (3.37%) MinIO
5 6 (3.37%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.12%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.12%) GitHub
6 2 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 32 (17.98%) DNS
2 27 (15.17%) LAN
3 25 (14.04%) Junos
4 22 (12.36%) DHCP
4 22 (12.36%) VPN
5 21 (11.80%) WAN
6 20 (11.24%) Firewall
7 16 (8.99%) Cisco IOS
8 15 (8.43%) Cisco ISE
9 12 (6.74%) Cisco Firepower
10 9 (5.06%) NX-OS
10 9 (5.06%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (3.37%) Intrusion Detection
11 6 (3.37%) Network Security
12 5 (2.81%) BGP
12 5 (2.81%) IPsec
12 5 (2.81%) MPLS
12 5 (2.81%) SSL
13 4 (2.25%) X.400
13 4 (2.25%) X.500
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (15.17%) Oracle Database
1 27 (15.17%) Oracle Database 10g
2 5 (2.81%) Airbyte
2 5 (2.81%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.56%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 19 (10.67%) Robot Framework
1 19 (10.67%) Selenium
2 17 (9.55%) Snyk
3 11 (6.18%) Git
3 11 (6.18%) MSI
4 4 (2.25%) GitLab
4 4 (2.25%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.69%) JIRA
6 2 (1.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.12%) TestRail
7 1 (0.56%) Subversion
General
1 30 (16.85%) Social Skills
2 17 (9.55%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (5.06%) Finance
4 8 (4.49%) Advertising
5 3 (1.69%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.56%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (29.78%) Architect
2 28 (15.73%) Network Engineer
3 24 (13.48%) 3rd Line Support
4 23 (12.92%) Systems Support
5 19 (10.67%) Lead
6 13 (7.30%) Cloud Engineer
6 13 (7.30%) Network Architect
7 12 (6.74%) Senior
8 8 (4.49%) Design Engineer
8 8 (4.49%) Infrastructure Architect
8 8 (4.49%) Network Design Engineer
9 7 (3.93%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 7 (3.93%) Applications Architect
9 7 (3.93%) Cloud Architect
9 7 (3.93%) IT Support
9 7 (3.93%) Senior Design Engineer
9 7 (3.93%) Senior Network Design Engineer
9 7 (3.93%) Senior Network Engineer
10 6 (3.37%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 6 (3.37%) Junior IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.93%) Kafka
2 6 (3.37%) Apache NiFi
3 5 (2.81%) Web Services
4 2 (1.12%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.56%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.92%) PKI
2 7 (3.93%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.37%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.37%) Low-Code
3 6 (3.37%) Onboarding
3 6 (3.37%) Private Cloud
4 5 (2.81%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.81%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.25%) Replication
6 1 (0.56%) Device Driver
6 1 (0.56%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.56%) IVR
6 1 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.56%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 69 (38.76%) Windows
2 27 (15.17%) Solaris
2 27 (15.17%) Unix
3 26 (14.61%) HPUX
3 26 (14.61%) Windows Server 2003
4 25 (14.04%) Linux
5 22 (12.36%) Windows 7
5 22 (12.36%) Windows Server 2008
6 8 (4.49%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.12%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (31.46%) Agile
2 32 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (15.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (15.17%) Incident Management
5 26 (14.61%) DevOps
6 23 (12.92%) Technical Leadership
7 22 (12.36%) Test Automation
8 21 (11.80%) CI/CD
9 20 (11.24%) Test Management
10 18 (10.11%) DevSecOps
11 17 (9.55%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
11 17 (9.55%) Interactive Application Security Testing
11 17 (9.55%) ITSM
11 17 (9.55%) Secrets Management
12 16 (8.99%) Network Design
12 16 (8.99%) Requirements Gathering
13 13 (7.30%) Scrum
14 12 (6.74%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (6.74%) Cryptography
14 12 (6.74%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 41 (23.03%) PowerShell
2 22 (12.36%) Perl
3 11 (6.18%) Python
4 8 (4.49%) SQL
5 3 (1.69%) Bash
5 3 (1.69%) VB
6 2 (1.12%) PHP
Qualifications
1 145 (81.46%) DV Cleared
2 93 (52.25%) SC Cleared
3 19 (10.67%) Cisco Certification
4 18 (10.11%) CCNA
4 18 (10.11%) CCNP
5 9 (5.06%) JNCIA
6 8 (4.49%) JNCIS
7 5 (2.81%) Degree
7 5 (2.81%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.12%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.12%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.12%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (15.17%) SLA
2 1 (0.56%) NIST
System Software
1 47 (26.40%) Active Directory
2 10 (5.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (5.06%) Firmware
3 9 (5.06%) VMware NSX
4 4 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.69%) Terminal Server
5 3 (1.69%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.12%) Docker
7 1 (0.56%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 25 (14.04%) Ansible
2 24 (13.48%) Terraform
3 13 (7.30%) vCenter Server
4 11 (6.18%) WMI
5 5 (2.81%) Endace
5 5 (2.81%) ZABBIX
6 4 (2.25%) FortiGate
6 4 (2.25%) SCCM
6 4 (2.25%) SCOM
7 3 (1.69%) Kubernetes
8 2 (1.12%) Grafana
8 2 (1.12%) Nessus
8 2 (1.12%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.56%) Avamar
Vendors
1 54 (30.34%) Microsoft
2 46 (25.84%) Cisco
3 43 (24.16%) Juniper
4 40 (22.47%) VMware
5 27 (15.17%) Oracle
6 17 (9.55%) Black Duck
7 16 (8.99%) Coverity
8 9 (5.06%) Broadcom
8 9 (5.06%) SolarWinds
9 7 (3.93%) F5
10 6 (3.37%) BiZZdesign
10 6 (3.37%) UiPath
11 5 (2.81%) Blue Prism
11 5 (2.81%) Splunk
11 5 (2.81%) Thales
12 4 (2.25%) HP
12 4 (2.25%) McAfee
13 3 (1.69%) Citrix
13 3 (1.69%) Fortinet
13 3 (1.69%) Fujitsu