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

6 months to
28 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 182 408 96
As % of all permanent jobs in Basingstoke 51.41% 68.69% 32.88%
As % of the Qualifications category 92.86% 92.73% 56.14%
Number of salaries quoted 163 327 52
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £31,300
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,625 £42,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £62,000 £45,950
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +34.93% -17.21%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £61,381
90th Percentile £92,000 £85,000 £72,950
Hampshire median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -

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 196 440 171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Basingstoke 55.37% 74.07% 58.56%
Number of salaries quoted 175 334 95
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,375 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £61,000 £44,400
Median % change year-on-year -0.82% +37.39% -17.20%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £91,500 £83,875 £63,750
Hampshire median annual salary £58,000 £57,500 £48,000
% change year-on-year +0.87% +19.79% -4.00%

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 28 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 27 (14.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2003
3 8 (4.40%) Apache
4 6 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (3.30%) Appian
5 4 (2.20%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.55%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.55%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.55%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.55%) Office Communications Server
6 1 (0.55%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.55%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 7 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 38 (20.88%) Azure
2 33 (18.13%) AWS
3 22 (12.09%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (3.85%) GCP
4 7 (3.85%) IaaS
4 7 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (3.85%) OCI
4 7 (3.85%) PaaS
4 7 (3.85%) SaaS
5 6 (3.30%) Amazon S3
5 6 (3.30%) MinIO
5 6 (3.30%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.10%) GitHub
6 2 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 32 (17.58%) DNS
2 29 (15.93%) Junos
2 29 (15.93%) LAN
3 24 (13.19%) VPN
4 23 (12.64%) Firewall
4 23 (12.64%) WAN
5 22 (12.09%) DHCP
6 18 (9.89%) Cisco IOS
7 17 (9.34%) Cisco ISE
8 14 (7.69%) Cisco Firepower
9 11 (6.04%) NX-OS
9 11 (6.04%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (3.85%) Intrusion Detection
11 6 (3.30%) Network Security
12 5 (2.75%) BGP
12 5 (2.75%) IPsec
12 5 (2.75%) MPLS
12 5 (2.75%) SSL
13 4 (2.20%) X.400
13 4 (2.20%) X.500
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (14.84%) Oracle Database
1 27 (14.84%) Oracle Database 10g
2 5 (2.75%) Airbyte
2 5 (2.75%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.55%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 19 (10.44%) Robot Framework
1 19 (10.44%) Selenium
2 17 (9.34%) Snyk
3 11 (6.04%) Git
3 11 (6.04%) MSI
4 4 (2.20%) GitLab
4 4 (2.20%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.65%) JIRA
6 2 (1.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.10%) TestRail
7 1 (0.55%) Subversion
General
1 30 (16.48%) Social Skills
2 17 (9.34%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (6.04%) Finance
4 8 (4.40%) Advertising
5 3 (1.65%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.55%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (29.67%) Architect
2 30 (16.48%) Network Engineer
3 24 (13.19%) 3rd Line Support
4 23 (12.64%) Systems Support
5 18 (9.89%) Lead
6 15 (8.24%) Cloud Engineer
6 15 (8.24%) Network Architect
7 13 (7.14%) Senior
8 8 (4.40%) Design Engineer
8 8 (4.40%) Infrastructure Architect
8 8 (4.40%) Network Design Engineer
9 7 (3.85%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 7 (3.85%) Applications Architect
9 7 (3.85%) Cloud Architect
9 7 (3.85%) IT Support
9 7 (3.85%) Senior Design Engineer
9 7 (3.85%) Senior Network Design Engineer
9 7 (3.85%) Senior Network Engineer
10 6 (3.30%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 6 (3.30%) Junior IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.85%) Kafka
2 6 (3.30%) Apache NiFi
3 5 (2.75%) Web Services
4 2 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.55%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 26 (14.29%) PKI
2 7 (3.85%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.30%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.30%) Low-Code
3 6 (3.30%) Onboarding
3 6 (3.30%) Private Cloud
4 5 (2.75%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.75%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.75%) Replication
5 1 (0.55%) Device Driver
5 1 (0.55%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.55%) IVR
5 1 (0.55%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.55%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 70 (38.46%) Windows
2 27 (14.84%) Solaris
2 27 (14.84%) Unix
2 27 (14.84%) Windows Server 2003
3 26 (14.29%) HPUX
3 26 (14.29%) Linux
4 22 (12.09%) Windows 7
4 22 (12.09%) Windows Server 2008
5 8 (4.40%) Windows Server
6 4 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.65%) CentOS
7 3 (1.65%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (30.77%) Agile
2 32 (17.58%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (14.84%) DevOps
4 27 (14.84%) Incident Management
5 25 (13.74%) Technical Leadership
6 22 (12.09%) Test Automation
7 21 (11.54%) CI/CD
7 21 (11.54%) Test Management
8 19 (10.44%) ITSM
9 18 (9.89%) DevSecOps
9 18 (9.89%) Requirements Gathering
10 17 (9.34%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
10 17 (9.34%) Interactive Application Security Testing
10 17 (9.34%) Secrets Management
11 16 (8.79%) Network Design
12 13 (7.14%) Cryptography
12 13 (7.14%) Scrum
12 13 (7.14%) Service Management
13 12 (6.59%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (22.53%) PowerShell
2 22 (12.09%) Perl
3 11 (6.04%) Python
4 8 (4.40%) SQL
5 3 (1.65%) Bash
5 3 (1.65%) PHP
5 3 (1.65%) VB
Qualifications
1 147 (80.77%) DV Cleared
2 95 (52.20%) SC Cleared
3 21 (11.54%) Cisco Certification
4 20 (10.99%) CCNA
4 20 (10.99%) CCNP
5 11 (6.04%) JNCIA
6 8 (4.40%) JNCIS
7 5 (2.75%) Degree
7 5 (2.75%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.10%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.10%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.10%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (14.84%) SLA
2 1 (0.55%) NIST
System Software
1 49 (26.92%) Active Directory
2 11 (6.04%) Firmware
2 11 (6.04%) VMware NSX
3 10 (5.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.20%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.65%) Terminal Server
5 3 (1.65%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.10%) Docker
7 1 (0.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.55%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 26 (14.29%) Ansible
2 24 (13.19%) Terraform
3 15 (8.24%) vCenter Server
4 11 (6.04%) WMI
5 5 (2.75%) Endace
5 5 (2.75%) ZABBIX
6 4 (2.20%) FortiGate
6 4 (2.20%) SCCM
6 4 (2.20%) SCOM
7 3 (1.65%) Kubernetes
8 2 (1.10%) Grafana
8 2 (1.10%) Nessus
8 2 (1.10%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.55%) Avamar
Vendors
1 55 (30.22%) Microsoft
2 50 (27.47%) Cisco
3 47 (25.82%) Juniper
4 40 (21.98%) VMware
5 27 (14.84%) Oracle
6 17 (9.34%) Black Duck
7 16 (8.79%) Coverity
8 11 (6.04%) Broadcom
8 11 (6.04%) SolarWinds
9 7 (3.85%) F5
10 6 (3.30%) BiZZdesign
10 6 (3.30%) UiPath
11 5 (2.75%) Blue Prism
11 5 (2.75%) Splunk
11 5 (2.75%) Thales
12 4 (2.20%) HP
12 4 (2.20%) McAfee
13 3 (1.65%) Citrix
13 3 (1.65%) Fortinet
13 3 (1.65%) Fujitsu