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 18 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +8
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 144 477 126
As % of all permanent jobs in Basingstoke 44.86% 77.18% 37.84%
As % of the Qualifications category 92.31% 90.68% 60.29%
Number of salaries quoted 124 400 86
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 -
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £42,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £58,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year - +13.73% -7.27%
75th Percentile £75,063 £77,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £72,500
Hampshire median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +6.48%

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 156 526 209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Basingstoke 48.60% 85.11% 62.76%
Number of salaries quoted 135 409 135
10th Percentile £39,350 £45,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £49,250 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £57,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% +21.05% -13.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £72,500
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 18 January 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 26 (18.06%) Exchange Server 2003
1 26 (18.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.08%) Apache
2 3 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.08%) Appian
2 3 (2.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (16.67%) Azure
2 23 (15.97%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (11.81%) AWS
4 7 (4.86%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.08%) Amazon S3
5 3 (2.08%) MinIO
5 3 (2.08%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.39%) GitHub
6 2 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 34 (23.61%) DNS
2 22 (15.28%) DHCP
3 20 (13.89%) Junos
4 19 (13.19%) Firewall
4 19 (13.19%) LAN
4 19 (13.19%) VPN
5 16 (11.11%) WAN
6 14 (9.72%) Cisco IOS
7 10 (6.94%) Cisco Firepower
7 10 (6.94%) Cisco ISE
7 10 (6.94%) NX-OS
8 6 (4.17%) Network Security
8 6 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (2.78%) BGP
9 4 (2.78%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (2.78%) IPsec
9 4 (2.78%) MPLS
9 4 (2.78%) SMTP
9 4 (2.78%) X.400
9 4 (2.78%) X.500
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (18.75%) Oracle Database
1 27 (18.75%) Oracle Database 10g
2 3 (2.08%) Airbyte
3 1 (0.69%) Big Data
3 1 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.69%) Pinecone
3 1 (0.69%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 19 (13.19%) Robot Framework
1 19 (13.19%) Selenium
2 17 (11.81%) Snyk
3 15 (10.42%) Git
4 4 (2.78%) GitLab
4 4 (2.78%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.39%) JIRA
5 2 (1.39%) TestRail
6 1 (0.69%) MSI
General
1 23 (15.97%) Social Skills
2 15 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (5.56%) Finance
4 4 (2.78%) Advertising
5 3 (2.08%) Aerospace
5 3 (2.08%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (17.36%) Architect
2 24 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support
3 23 (15.97%) Network Engineer
3 23 (15.97%) Systems Support
4 21 (14.58%) Lead
5 15 (10.42%) Cloud Engineer
6 11 (7.64%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 8 (5.56%) Design Engineer
7 8 (5.56%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 8 (5.56%) Network Design Engineer
8 7 (4.86%) Consultant
8 7 (4.86%) Enterprise Architect
8 7 (4.86%) Enterprise Management Architect
8 7 (4.86%) IT Support
8 7 (4.86%) Network Architect
8 7 (4.86%) Senior
8 7 (4.86%) Senior Design Engineer
8 7 (4.86%) Senior Network Design Engineer
8 7 (4.86%) Senior Network Engineer
8 7 (4.86%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.78%) Kafka
2 3 (2.08%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (1.39%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.69%) FastAPI
4 1 (0.69%) Flask
4 1 (0.69%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.69%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.03%) PKI
2 11 (7.64%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.47%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.78%) Replication
6 3 (2.08%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.08%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.69%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.69%) Device Driver
8 1 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.69%) IVR
8 1 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.69%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 64 (44.44%) Windows
2 27 (18.75%) Solaris
2 27 (18.75%) Unix
3 26 (18.06%) HPUX
3 26 (18.06%) Windows Server 2003
4 22 (15.28%) Windows 7
4 22 (15.28%) Windows Server 2008
5 20 (13.89%) Linux
6 10 (6.94%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (20.83%) Agile
2 28 (19.44%) Incident Management
3 26 (18.06%) DevOps
4 24 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 24 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (15.28%) ITSM
6 21 (14.58%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (14.58%) Test Management
7 20 (13.89%) Test Automation
8 19 (13.19%) DevSecOps
9 18 (12.50%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
9 18 (12.50%) Interactive Application Security Testing
9 18 (12.50%) Secrets Management
9 18 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
10 17 (11.81%) Scrum
11 14 (9.72%) Network Design
11 14 (9.72%) Service Management
12 13 (9.03%) Requirements Gathering
13 12 (8.33%) Build Automation
13 12 (8.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 25 (17.36%) PowerShell
2 22 (15.28%) Perl
3 6 (4.17%) Python
3 6 (4.17%) SQL
4 3 (2.08%) Bash
5 1 (0.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 116 (80.56%) DV Cleared
2 85 (59.03%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.72%) CCNA
3 14 (9.72%) CCNP
3 14 (9.72%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (5.56%) JNCIS
5 6 (4.17%) JNCIA
6 3 (2.08%) ISTQB
6 3 (2.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.69%) CISA
7 1 (0.69%) CISM
7 1 (0.69%) CISSP
7 1 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (16.67%) SLA
2 1 (0.69%) GRC
2 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.69%) NIST
System Software
1 42 (29.17%) Active Directory
2 10 (6.94%) Firmware
2 10 (6.94%) VMware NSX
3 4 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.08%) Docker
4 3 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 19 (13.19%) Terraform
2 18 (12.50%) Ansible
2 18 (12.50%) vCenter Server
3 5 (3.47%) Endace
3 5 (3.47%) SCCM
3 5 (3.47%) SCOM
3 5 (3.47%) ZABBIX
4 4 (2.78%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.39%) Grafana
5 2 (1.39%) Nessus
5 2 (1.39%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.69%) Avamar
6 1 (0.69%) WMI
Vendors
1 40 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 36 (25.00%) Cisco
2 36 (25.00%) Juniper
3 35 (24.31%) VMware
4 27 (18.75%) Oracle
5 17 (11.81%) Black Duck
5 17 (11.81%) Coverity
6 14 (9.72%) SolarWinds
7 10 (6.94%) Broadcom
8 5 (3.47%) Splunk
9 4 (2.78%) BiZZdesign
9 4 (2.78%) F5
9 4 (2.78%) HP
9 4 (2.78%) McAfee
10 3 (2.08%) Blue Prism
10 3 (2.08%) UiPath
11 2 (1.39%) NetApp
12 1 (0.69%) ArcSight
12 1 (0.69%) EMC
12 1 (0.69%) Fortinet