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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +2
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 138 445 198
As % of all permanent jobs in Basingstoke 40.83% 78.76% 45.31%
As % of the Qualifications category 93.88% 90.08% 73.33%
Number of salaries quoted 117 374 169
10th Percentile £45,450 £42,845 £42,200
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +0.92% -2.68%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £91,000 £85,000 £72,500
Hampshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% +4.55%

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 147 494 270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Basingstoke 43.49% 87.43% 61.78%
Number of salaries quoted 126 384 225
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £42,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% +10.00% -6.32%
75th Percentile £78,563 £77,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £72,500
Hampshire median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -

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 March 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 23 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2003
1 23 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.17%) Apache
2 3 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.17%) Appian
2 3 (2.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 28 (20.29%) Azure
2 27 (19.57%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (12.32%) AWS
4 6 (4.35%) GitHub
4 6 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (2.17%) Amazon S3
5 3 (2.17%) MinIO
5 3 (2.17%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 34 (24.64%) DNS
2 22 (15.94%) DHCP
3 16 (11.59%) Junos
3 16 (11.59%) VPN
4 15 (10.87%) Cisco Firepower
4 15 (10.87%) Firewall
5 14 (10.14%) Cisco IOS
5 14 (10.14%) WAN
6 11 (7.97%) LAN
7 10 (7.25%) Cisco ISE
7 10 (7.25%) NX-OS
8 9 (6.52%) BGP
8 9 (6.52%) MPLS
9 5 (3.62%) HTTP
9 5 (3.62%) SNMP
10 4 (2.90%) IPsec
10 4 (2.90%) Network Security
11 3 (2.17%) Intrusion Detection
12 2 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
13 1 (0.72%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (17.39%) Oracle Database
1 24 (17.39%) Oracle Database 10g
2 3 (2.17%) Airbyte
3 1 (0.72%) Big Data
3 1 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.72%) Pinecone
3 1 (0.72%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 19 (13.77%) Robot Framework
1 19 (13.77%) Selenium
2 17 (12.32%) Snyk
3 15 (10.87%) Git
4 8 (5.80%) GitLab
4 8 (5.80%) Jenkins
5 6 (4.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.45%) JIRA
6 2 (1.45%) TestRail
7 1 (0.72%) MSI
General
1 17 (12.32%) Social Skills
2 15 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (7.25%) Finance
4 4 (2.90%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.17%) Advertising
5 3 (2.17%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (19.57%) Architect
2 25 (18.12%) Lead
3 24 (17.39%) 3rd Line Support
4 23 (16.67%) Systems Support
5 22 (15.94%) Network Engineer
6 15 (10.87%) Cloud Engineer
7 8 (5.80%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 8 (5.80%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 7 (5.07%) Design Engineer
8 7 (5.07%) Enterprise Architect
8 7 (5.07%) Enterprise Management Architect
8 7 (5.07%) Network Design Engineer
8 7 (5.07%) Software Engineer
9 6 (4.35%) Senior
9 6 (4.35%) Senior Design Engineer
9 6 (4.35%) Senior Network Design Engineer
9 6 (4.35%) Senior Network Engineer
9 6 (4.35%) Software Architect
9 6 (4.35%) Systems Engineer
10 5 (3.62%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.90%) Kafka
2 3 (2.17%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.72%) FastAPI
4 1 (0.72%) Flask
4 1 (0.72%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.72%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.04%) PKI
2 12 (8.70%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.17%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.17%) Low-Code
4 2 (1.45%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.72%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.72%) Device Driver
5 1 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.72%) IVR
5 1 (0.72%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.72%) Replication
5 1 (0.72%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 56 (40.58%) Windows
2 24 (17.39%) HPUX
2 24 (17.39%) Solaris
2 24 (17.39%) Unix
3 23 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
4 22 (15.94%) Windows 7
4 22 (15.94%) Windows Server 2008
5 20 (14.49%) Linux
6 10 (7.25%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (23.91%) Agile
2 30 (21.74%) DevOps
3 28 (20.29%) CI/CD
4 26 (18.84%) Incident Management
5 25 (18.12%) Infrastructure as Code
6 22 (15.94%) Scrum
7 21 (15.22%) Test Management
8 20 (14.49%) Test Automation
9 19 (13.77%) DevSecOps
9 19 (13.77%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (13.77%) Technical Leadership
10 18 (13.04%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
10 18 (13.04%) Interactive Application Security Testing
10 18 (13.04%) Secrets Management
10 18 (13.04%) Service Management
11 17 (12.32%) ITSM
12 14 (10.14%) Network Design
12 14 (10.14%) Requirements Gathering
13 13 (9.42%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (9.42%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 25 (18.12%) PowerShell
2 22 (15.94%) Perl
3 6 (4.35%) Python
3 6 (4.35%) SQL
4 3 (2.17%) Bash
5 1 (0.72%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 115 (83.33%) DV Cleared
2 75 (54.35%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.52%) CCNA
3 9 (6.52%) CCNP
3 9 (6.52%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (5.07%) JNCIS
5 3 (2.17%) ISTQB
5 3 (2.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.45%) JNCIA
7 1 (0.72%) CISA
7 1 (0.72%) CISM
7 1 (0.72%) CISSP
7 1 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.72%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (17.39%) SLA
2 1 (0.72%) GRC
2 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.72%) NIST
System Software
1 34 (24.64%) Active Directory
2 10 (7.25%) Firmware
2 10 (7.25%) VMware NSX
3 3 (2.17%) Docker
3 3 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.72%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 19 (13.77%) Terraform
2 18 (13.04%) Ansible
2 18 (13.04%) vCenter Server
3 7 (5.07%) Endace
4 5 (3.62%) SCCM
4 5 (3.62%) SCOM
4 5 (3.62%) ZABBIX
5 4 (2.90%) Kubernetes
6 2 (1.45%) Grafana
6 2 (1.45%) Nessus
6 2 (1.45%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.72%) Avamar
7 1 (0.72%) WMI
Vendors
1 33 (23.91%) Microsoft
2 32 (23.19%) VMware
3 31 (22.46%) Cisco
3 31 (22.46%) Juniper
4 24 (17.39%) Oracle
5 17 (12.32%) Black Duck
5 17 (12.32%) Coverity
6 14 (10.14%) SolarWinds
7 10 (7.25%) Broadcom
8 8 (5.80%) F5
9 5 (3.62%) Splunk
10 4 (2.90%) BiZZdesign
10 4 (2.90%) HP
10 4 (2.90%) McAfee
11 3 (2.17%) Blue Prism
11 3 (2.17%) UiPath
12 2 (1.45%) NetApp
13 1 (0.72%) ArcSight
13 1 (0.72%) EMC