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 21 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +13
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 189 375 92
As % of all permanent jobs in Basingstoke 52.94% 66.61% 31.29%
As % of the Qualifications category 92.20% 92.59% 55.09%
Number of salaries quoted 171 289 48
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £31,600
25th Percentile £51,563 £51,250 £42,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £64,000 £45,950
Median % change year-on-year -5.47% +39.28% -17.21%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £61,381
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £72,650
Hampshire median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -

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 205 405 167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Basingstoke 57.42% 71.94% 56.80%
Number of salaries quoted 183 296 91
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,625 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £39,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £64,000 £44,400
Median % change year-on-year -5.47% +44.14% -19.27%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £52,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,125 £63,750
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 21 November 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 31 (16.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (13.76%) Exchange Server 2003
3 15 (7.94%) Apache
4 7 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (3.70%) Appian
5 5 (2.65%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.59%) IIS
7 2 (1.06%) Apache Spark
7 2 (1.06%) Exchange Server 2007
7 2 (1.06%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (1.06%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (1.06%) Office Communications Server
7 2 (1.06%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (1.06%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 8 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 39 (20.63%) Azure
2 34 (17.99%) AWS
3 23 (12.17%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (3.70%) Amazon S3
4 7 (3.70%) GCP
4 7 (3.70%) IaaS
4 7 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (3.70%) MinIO
4 7 (3.70%) OCI
4 7 (3.70%) PaaS
4 7 (3.70%) Power Platform
4 7 (3.70%) SaaS
5 2 (1.06%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (1.06%) GitHub
5 2 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 35 (18.52%) DNS
2 29 (15.34%) Junos
2 29 (15.34%) LAN
3 24 (12.70%) VPN
4 22 (11.64%) DHCP
4 22 (11.64%) Firewall
4 22 (11.64%) WAN
5 17 (8.99%) Cisco IOS
5 17 (8.99%) Cisco ISE
6 13 (6.88%) Cisco Firepower
7 12 (6.35%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (5.82%) Intrusion Detection
9 10 (5.29%) NX-OS
10 7 (3.70%) SMTP
11 6 (3.17%) Network Security
12 5 (2.65%) BGP
12 5 (2.65%) IPsec
12 5 (2.65%) MPLS
12 5 (2.65%) SSL
13 4 (2.12%) X.400
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (14.29%) Oracle Database
1 27 (14.29%) Oracle Database 10g
2 6 (3.17%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.65%) Airbyte
4 1 (0.53%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 20 (10.58%) Robot Framework
1 20 (10.58%) Selenium
2 18 (9.52%) Snyk
3 12 (6.35%) MSI
4 11 (5.82%) Git
5 4 (2.12%) GitLab
5 4 (2.12%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.12%) JIRA
6 2 (1.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.06%) Subversion
6 2 (1.06%) TestRail
General
1 34 (17.99%) Social Skills
2 18 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (6.35%) Finance
4 9 (4.76%) Advertising
5 3 (1.59%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (29.10%) Architect
2 28 (14.81%) Network Engineer
3 24 (12.70%) 3rd Line Support
4 23 (12.17%) Systems Support
5 18 (9.52%) Lead
6 15 (7.94%) Senior
7 14 (7.41%) Network Architect
8 13 (6.88%) Cloud Engineer
9 9 (4.76%) Infrastructure Architect
10 8 (4.23%) Applications Architect
10 8 (4.23%) Design Engineer
10 8 (4.23%) Network Design Engineer
10 8 (4.23%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 8 (4.23%) Test Specialist
11 7 (3.70%) Cloud Architect
11 7 (3.70%) Integration Engineer
11 7 (3.70%) Senior Design Engineer
11 7 (3.70%) Senior Network Design Engineer
11 7 (3.70%) Senior Network Engineer
11 7 (3.70%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.23%) Kafka
2 7 (3.70%) Apache NiFi
3 5 (2.65%) Web Services
4 3 (1.59%) YAML
5 2 (1.06%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.53%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 29 (15.34%) PKI
2 7 (3.70%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.70%) Low-Code
2 7 (3.70%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.17%) Onboarding
3 6 (3.17%) Private Cloud
3 6 (3.17%) Replication
4 5 (2.65%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.12%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.53%) Device Driver
6 1 (0.53%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.53%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.53%) IVR
6 1 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.53%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 74 (39.15%) Windows
2 30 (15.87%) Linux
3 28 (14.81%) Windows Server 2003
4 27 (14.29%) Solaris
4 27 (14.29%) Unix
5 26 (13.76%) HPUX
6 22 (11.64%) Windows 7
6 22 (11.64%) Windows Server 2008
7 9 (4.76%) Windows Server
8 8 (4.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (3.70%) CentOS
10 5 (2.65%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (32.80%) Agile
2 35 (18.52%) DevOps
3 33 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (15.34%) Infrastructure as Code
5 27 (14.29%) Incident Management
6 26 (13.76%) Test Automation
7 25 (13.23%) Technical Leadership
8 22 (11.64%) CI/CD
8 22 (11.64%) Test Management
9 19 (10.05%) DevSecOps
9 19 (10.05%) Requirements Gathering
10 18 (9.52%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
10 18 (9.52%) Interactive Application Security Testing
10 18 (9.52%) ITSM
10 18 (9.52%) Secrets Management
11 16 (8.47%) Network Design
12 14 (7.41%) Cryptography
13 13 (6.88%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (6.88%) Mentoring
13 13 (6.88%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 46 (24.34%) PowerShell
2 22 (11.64%) Perl
3 12 (6.35%) Python
4 11 (5.82%) SQL
5 7 (3.70%) PHP
6 3 (1.59%) Bash
6 3 (1.59%) VB
Qualifications
1 157 (83.07%) DV Cleared
2 96 (50.79%) SC Cleared
3 22 (11.64%) Cisco Certification
4 21 (11.11%) CCNA
4 21 (11.11%) CCNP
5 12 (6.35%) JNCIA
6 8 (4.23%) JNCIS
7 7 (3.70%) ISTQB
8 5 (2.65%) Degree
9 3 (1.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (1.06%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.06%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (14.29%) SLA
2 1 (0.53%) NIST
System Software
1 55 (29.10%) Active Directory
2 13 (6.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (5.29%) Firmware
3 10 (5.29%) VMware NSX
4 4 (2.12%) Terminal Server
4 4 (2.12%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.06%) Docker
6 2 (1.06%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.53%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 34 (17.99%) Ansible
2 26 (13.76%) Terraform
3 14 (7.41%) vCenter Server
4 12 (6.35%) WMI
5 6 (3.17%) SCCM
5 6 (3.17%) SCOM
6 5 (2.65%) ZABBIX
7 4 (2.12%) Endace
7 4 (2.12%) FortiGate
8 3 (1.59%) Kubernetes
9 2 (1.06%) Grafana
9 2 (1.06%) Nessus
9 2 (1.06%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.53%) Avamar
Vendors
1 57 (30.16%) Microsoft
2 49 (25.93%) Cisco
3 47 (24.87%) VMware
4 46 (24.34%) Juniper
5 27 (14.29%) Oracle
6 18 (9.52%) Black Duck
7 16 (8.47%) Coverity
8 10 (5.29%) Broadcom
8 10 (5.29%) SolarWinds
9 7 (3.70%) BiZZdesign
9 7 (3.70%) F5
9 7 (3.70%) UiPath
10 5 (2.65%) Blue Prism
10 5 (2.65%) McAfee
10 5 (2.65%) Splunk
10 5 (2.65%) Thales
11 4 (2.12%) HP
12 3 (1.59%) Citrix
12 3 (1.59%) Fortinet
12 3 (1.59%) Fujitsu