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

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +15
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 184 340 92
As % of all permanent jobs in Basingstoke 53.18% 64.76% 30.16%
As % of the Qualifications category 92.00% 92.90% 55.09%
Number of salaries quoted 167 256 47
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,188 £42,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £70,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% +45.83% -12.73%
75th Percentile £78,125 £77,500 £61,488
90th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £73,000
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 200 366 167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Basingstoke 57.80% 69.71% 54.75%
Number of salaries quoted 179 261 90
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £44,400
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +57.66% -19.27%
75th Percentile £78,125 £77,500 £54,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £63,750
Hampshire median annual salary £58,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.87% +15.00% -

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 11 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 (16.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (14.13%) Exchange Server 2003
3 16 (8.70%) Apache
4 9 (4.89%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (4.89%) Appian
5 5 (2.72%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.63%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.63%) IIS
7 2 (1.09%) Exchange Server 2007
7 2 (1.09%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (1.09%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (1.09%) Office Communications Server
7 2 (1.09%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (1.09%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 8 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 39 (21.20%) Azure
2 36 (19.57%) AWS
3 23 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (4.89%) Amazon S3
4 9 (4.89%) MinIO
4 9 (4.89%) Power Platform
5 7 (3.80%) GCP
5 7 (3.80%) IaaS
5 7 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (3.80%) OCI
5 7 (3.80%) PaaS
5 7 (3.80%) SaaS
6 2 (1.09%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 35 (19.02%) DNS
2 29 (15.76%) Junos
2 29 (15.76%) LAN
3 24 (13.04%) VPN
4 22 (11.96%) DHCP
4 22 (11.96%) Firewall
4 22 (11.96%) WAN
5 17 (9.24%) Cisco IOS
5 17 (9.24%) Cisco ISE
6 13 (7.07%) Cisco Firepower
7 12 (6.52%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (5.98%) Intrusion Detection
9 10 (5.43%) NX-OS
10 7 (3.80%) SMTP
11 6 (3.26%) Network Security
12 5 (2.72%) BGP
12 5 (2.72%) IPsec
12 5 (2.72%) MPLS
12 5 (2.72%) SSL
13 4 (2.17%) X.400
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (14.67%) Oracle Database
1 27 (14.67%) Oracle Database 10g
2 6 (3.26%) Airbyte
2 6 (3.26%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.54%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 22 (11.96%) Robot Framework
1 22 (11.96%) Selenium
2 20 (10.87%) Snyk
3 14 (7.61%) MSI
4 11 (5.98%) Git
5 4 (2.17%) JIRA
6 2 (1.09%) GitLab
6 2 (1.09%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.09%) Subversion
6 2 (1.09%) TestRail
General
1 35 (19.02%) Social Skills
2 18 (9.78%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (6.52%) Finance
4 10 (5.43%) Advertising
5 3 (1.63%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 58 (31.52%) Architect
2 26 (14.13%) Network Engineer
3 24 (13.04%) 3rd Line Support
4 23 (12.50%) Systems Support
5 15 (8.15%) Lead
5 15 (8.15%) Senior
6 14 (7.61%) Network Architect
7 11 (5.98%) Cloud Engineer
7 11 (5.98%) Infrastructure Architect
8 10 (5.43%) Applications Architect
9 8 (4.35%) Design Engineer
9 8 (4.35%) Network Design Engineer
9 8 (4.35%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
9 8 (4.35%) Test Specialist
10 7 (3.80%) Cloud Architect
10 7 (3.80%) Integration Engineer
10 7 (3.80%) Senior Design Engineer
10 7 (3.80%) Senior Network Design Engineer
10 7 (3.80%) Senior Network Engineer
10 7 (3.80%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.43%) Kafka
2 9 (4.89%) Apache NiFi
3 5 (2.72%) Web Services
4 3 (1.63%) YAML
5 2 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.54%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 29 (15.76%) PKI
2 9 (4.89%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.89%) Low-Code
3 7 (3.80%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.26%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.26%) Private Cloud
4 6 (3.26%) Replication
5 5 (2.72%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.17%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.54%) Device Driver
7 1 (0.54%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.54%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.54%) IVR
7 1 (0.54%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.54%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 76 (41.30%) Windows
2 30 (16.30%) Linux
3 28 (15.22%) Windows Server 2003
4 27 (14.67%) Solaris
4 27 (14.67%) Unix
5 26 (14.13%) HPUX
6 22 (11.96%) Windows 7
6 22 (11.96%) Windows Server 2008
7 9 (4.89%) Windows Server
8 8 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (3.80%) CentOS
10 5 (2.72%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (34.78%) Agile
2 35 (19.02%) DevOps
3 33 (17.93%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (15.76%) Infrastructure as Code
5 28 (15.22%) Test Automation
6 27 (14.67%) Incident Management
6 27 (14.67%) Technical Leadership
7 23 (12.50%) Test Management
8 22 (11.96%) CI/CD
9 21 (11.41%) DevSecOps
10 20 (10.87%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
10 20 (10.87%) Interactive Application Security Testing
10 20 (10.87%) Secrets Management
11 19 (10.33%) Requirements Gathering
12 18 (9.78%) ITSM
13 16 (8.70%) Network Design
14 14 (7.61%) Cryptography
15 13 (7.07%) Mentoring
15 13 (7.07%) Project Delivery
16 12 (6.52%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 48 (26.09%) PowerShell
2 22 (11.96%) Perl
3 14 (7.61%) Python
4 11 (5.98%) SQL
5 7 (3.80%) PHP
6 3 (1.63%) Bash
6 3 (1.63%) VB
Qualifications
1 154 (83.70%) DV Cleared
2 94 (51.09%) SC Cleared
3 22 (11.96%) Cisco Certification
4 21 (11.41%) CCNA
4 21 (11.41%) CCNP
5 12 (6.52%) JNCIA
6 8 (4.35%) JNCIS
7 7 (3.80%) ISTQB
8 5 (2.72%) Degree
9 3 (1.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (1.09%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.09%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (14.67%) SLA
2 1 (0.54%) NIST
System Software
1 55 (29.89%) Active Directory
2 14 (7.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (5.43%) Firmware
3 10 (5.43%) VMware NSX
4 4 (2.17%) Terminal Server
4 4 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.63%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.09%) Docker
6 2 (1.09%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.54%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 36 (19.57%) Ansible
2 28 (15.22%) Terraform
3 14 (7.61%) vCenter Server
3 14 (7.61%) WMI
4 6 (3.26%) SCCM
4 6 (3.26%) SCOM
5 5 (2.72%) ZABBIX
6 4 (2.17%) Endace
6 4 (2.17%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.63%) Kubernetes
8 2 (1.09%) Grafana
8 2 (1.09%) Nessus
8 2 (1.09%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.54%) Avamar
Vendors
1 59 (32.07%) Microsoft
2 49 (26.63%) VMware
3 47 (25.54%) Cisco
4 44 (23.91%) Juniper
5 27 (14.67%) Oracle
6 20 (10.87%) Black Duck
7 17 (9.24%) Coverity
8 10 (5.43%) Broadcom
8 10 (5.43%) SolarWinds
9 9 (4.89%) BiZZdesign
9 9 (4.89%) UiPath
10 7 (3.80%) F5
11 6 (3.26%) Blue Prism
12 5 (2.72%) McAfee
12 5 (2.72%) Splunk
12 5 (2.72%) Thales
13 4 (2.17%) HP
14 3 (1.63%) Citrix
14 3 (1.63%) Fortinet
14 3 (1.63%) Fujitsu