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 28 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +18
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 173 313 82
As % of all permanent jobs in Basingstoke 54.23% 63.10% 26.89%
As % of the Qualifications category 91.53% 93.43% 52.23%
Number of salaries quoted 162 226 39
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,375 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,406 £51,250 £42,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £70,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% +40.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £62,725
90th Percentile £92,050 £85,000 £73,000
Hampshire median annual salary £60,000 £61,000 £59,250
% change year-on-year -1.64% +2.95% +7.73%

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 189 335 157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Basingstoke 59.25% 67.54% 51.48%
Number of salaries quoted 174 231 82
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £31,025
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,625 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £70,000 £42,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% +66.67% -23.64%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £54,500
90th Percentile £91,150 £85,000 £63,750
Hampshire median annual salary £58,000 £57,500 £50,750
% change year-on-year +0.87% +13.30% +1.50%

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 28 October 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 29 (16.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (12.14%) Exchange Server 2003
3 16 (9.25%) Apache
4 9 (5.20%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (5.20%) Appian
5 6 (3.47%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.73%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.73%) Exchange Server 2007
6 3 (1.73%) Exchange Server 2010
6 3 (1.73%) Exchange Server 2013
6 3 (1.73%) IIS
6 3 (1.73%) Office Communications Server
6 3 (1.73%) SharePoint Server
6 3 (1.73%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 9 (5.20%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 41 (23.70%) Azure
2 39 (22.54%) AWS
3 21 (12.14%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (5.20%) Amazon S3
4 9 (5.20%) GCP
4 9 (5.20%) MinIO
4 9 (5.20%) Power Platform
5 7 (4.05%) IaaS
5 7 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (4.05%) OCI
5 7 (4.05%) PaaS
5 7 (4.05%) SaaS
6 2 (1.16%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.58%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 34 (19.65%) DNS
2 26 (15.03%) Junos
2 26 (15.03%) LAN
3 22 (12.72%) DHCP
4 21 (12.14%) VPN
5 20 (11.56%) Firewall
6 19 (10.98%) WAN
7 15 (8.67%) Cisco IOS
7 15 (8.67%) Cisco ISE
8 11 (6.36%) Cisco Firepower
8 11 (6.36%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (5.78%) Intrusion Detection
10 8 (4.62%) NX-OS
10 8 (4.62%) SMTP
11 7 (4.05%) Network Security
12 5 (2.89%) BGP
12 5 (2.89%) IPsec
12 5 (2.89%) MPLS
12 5 (2.89%) SSL
13 4 (2.31%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (12.72%) Oracle Database
1 22 (12.72%) Oracle Database 10g
2 7 (4.05%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.47%) Airbyte
4 2 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.58%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 20 (11.56%) Robot Framework
1 20 (11.56%) Selenium
2 19 (10.98%) MSI
2 19 (10.98%) Snyk
3 10 (5.78%) Git
4 3 (1.73%) JIRA
5 2 (1.16%) Subversion
6 1 (0.58%) GitLab
6 1 (0.58%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.58%) TestRail
General
1 37 (21.39%) Social Skills
2 17 (9.83%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (6.94%) Advertising
4 11 (6.36%) Finance
5 5 (2.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.16%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (35.26%) Architect
2 23 (13.29%) Network Engineer
3 19 (10.98%) 3rd Line Support
3 19 (10.98%) Systems Support
4 17 (9.83%) Infrastructure Architect
5 14 (8.09%) Senior
6 13 (7.51%) Lead
6 13 (7.51%) Network Architect
7 11 (6.36%) Support Engineer
8 10 (5.78%) Applications Architect
9 9 (5.20%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (4.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (4.62%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 8 (4.62%) Test Specialist
11 7 (4.05%) Cloud Architect
11 7 (4.05%) Design Engineer
11 7 (4.05%) Integration Engineer
11 7 (4.05%) IT Support
11 7 (4.05%) Network Design Engineer
12 6 (3.47%) Junior IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.78%) Kafka
2 9 (5.20%) Apache NiFi
3 5 (2.89%) Web Services
4 3 (1.73%) YAML
5 1 (0.58%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.58%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 29 (16.76%) PKI
2 9 (5.20%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.20%) Low-Code
3 6 (3.47%) Onboarding
3 6 (3.47%) Private Cloud
3 6 (3.47%) Replication
4 5 (2.89%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.89%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.31%) Clustering
6 3 (1.73%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.58%) Device Driver
7 1 (0.58%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.58%) IVR
7 1 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.58%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 81 (46.82%) Windows
2 30 (17.34%) Linux
3 24 (13.87%) Windows Server 2003
4 22 (12.72%) Solaris
4 22 (12.72%) Unix
5 21 (12.14%) HPUX
6 18 (10.40%) Windows 7
6 18 (10.40%) Windows Server 2008
7 13 (7.51%) Windows Server
8 8 (4.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (4.05%) CentOS
10 5 (2.89%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (40.46%) Agile
2 32 (18.50%) DevOps
2 32 (18.50%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (15.61%) Infrastructure as Code
3 27 (15.61%) Test Automation
4 26 (15.03%) Incident Management
5 25 (14.45%) Technical Leadership
6 21 (12.14%) Test Management
7 20 (11.56%) CI/CD
8 19 (10.98%) DevSecOps
8 19 (10.98%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 19 (10.98%) Interactive Application Security Testing
8 19 (10.98%) Secrets Management
9 17 (9.83%) Requirements Gathering
10 16 (9.25%) ITSM
11 14 (8.09%) Cryptography
11 14 (8.09%) Network Design
12 12 (6.94%) Customer Requirements
12 12 (6.94%) Presales
12 12 (6.94%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 55 (31.79%) PowerShell
2 18 (10.40%) Perl
3 13 (7.51%) Python
4 12 (6.94%) SQL
5 7 (4.05%) PHP
6 3 (1.73%) VB
7 2 (1.16%) Bash
Qualifications
1 151 (87.28%) DV Cleared
2 81 (46.82%) SC Cleared
3 20 (11.56%) Cisco Certification
4 19 (10.98%) CCNA
4 19 (10.98%) CCNP
5 11 (6.36%) JNCIA
6 7 (4.05%) JNCIS
7 6 (3.47%) ISTQB
8 5 (2.89%) Degree
9 2 (1.16%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.16%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (1.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (13.29%) SLA
2 1 (0.58%) NIST
System Software
1 55 (31.79%) Active Directory
2 18 (10.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (4.62%) Firmware
3 8 (4.62%) VMware NSX
4 7 (4.05%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (2.89%) Docker
6 4 (2.31%) Hyper-V
6 4 (2.31%) Terminal Server
6 4 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (2.31%) vSphere
7 3 (1.73%) ISA Server
8 2 (1.16%) BitLocker
8 2 (1.16%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (1.16%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.58%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 39 (22.54%) Ansible
2 26 (15.03%) Terraform
3 19 (10.98%) WMI
4 16 (9.25%) vCenter Server
5 6 (3.47%) Kubernetes
5 6 (3.47%) SCCM
5 6 (3.47%) SCOM
6 4 (2.31%) FortiGate
6 4 (2.31%) Puppet
6 4 (2.31%) vMotion
6 4 (2.31%) ZABBIX
7 3 (1.73%) Endace
8 2 (1.16%) Nagios
8 2 (1.16%) PowerCLI
8 2 (1.16%) vRealize
9 1 (0.58%) Avamar
9 1 (0.58%) Grafana
9 1 (0.58%) Nessus
9 1 (0.58%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 64 (36.99%) Microsoft
2 48 (27.75%) VMware
3 42 (24.28%) Cisco
4 39 (22.54%) Juniper
5 22 (12.72%) Oracle
6 19 (10.98%) Black Duck
7 16 (9.25%) Coverity
8 9 (5.20%) BiZZdesign
8 9 (5.20%) UiPath
9 8 (4.62%) Broadcom
9 8 (4.62%) HP
9 8 (4.62%) SolarWinds
10 7 (4.05%) Citrix
11 6 (3.47%) Blue Prism
11 6 (3.47%) F5
12 5 (2.89%) McAfee
12 5 (2.89%) Thales
13 4 (2.31%) Splunk
14 3 (1.73%) Fortinet
14 3 (1.73%) Fujitsu