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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 70 334 254
As % of all permanent jobs in Basingstoke 22.51% 78.04% 47.21%
As % of the Qualifications category 92.11% 86.53% 78.88%
Number of salaries quoted 54 305 215
10th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £42,750
25th Percentile £54,875 £47,500 £46,550
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -4.35% +2.68%
75th Percentile £89,875 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £72,500
Hampshire median annual salary £75,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +30.43% - +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 76 386 322
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Basingstoke 24.44% 90.19% 59.85%
Number of salaries quoted 59 318 270
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £33,850
25th Percentile £54,000 £47,500 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% - +8.91%
75th Percentile £87,250 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £72,500
Hampshire median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% +7.84% +7.37%

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 3 May 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:

Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Lectora
Cloud Services
1 11 (15.71%) Azure
1 11 (15.71%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (8.57%) GitHub
2 6 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (2.86%) AWS
4 1 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 12 (17.14%) Cisco Firepower
2 8 (11.43%) Firewall
2 8 (11.43%) WAN
3 7 (10.00%) Cisco IOS
3 7 (10.00%) Cisco ISE
3 7 (10.00%) Junos
3 7 (10.00%) NX-OS
4 6 (8.57%) VPN
5 5 (7.14%) BGP
5 5 (7.14%) HTTP
5 5 (7.14%) MPLS
5 5 (7.14%) SNMP
6 3 (4.29%) DNS
7 1 (1.43%) DHCP
7 1 (1.43%) LAN
7 1 (1.43%) SD-WAN
7 1 (1.43%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (1.43%) Pinecone
1 1 (1.43%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 7 (10.00%) GitLab
1 7 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (8.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 4 (5.71%) Git
3 4 (5.71%) Robot Framework
3 4 (5.71%) Selenium
4 3 (4.29%) Snyk
5 1 (1.43%) JIRA
5 1 (1.43%) TestRail
General
1 13 (18.57%) Finance
2 8 (11.43%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.71%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.86%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.86%) Banking
5 2 (2.86%) Games
Job Titles
1 20 (28.57%) Lead
2 17 (24.29%) Architect
3 11 (15.71%) Cloud Engineer
3 11 (15.71%) Network Engineer
4 7 (10.00%) Software Engineer
5 5 (7.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) Software Architect
7 3 (4.29%) Consultant
7 3 (4.29%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (4.29%) Enterprise Management Architect
8 2 (2.86%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 2 (2.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (2.86%) Monitoring Engineer
8 2 (2.86%) Network Architect
8 2 (2.86%) Security Architect
8 2 (2.86%) Systems Engineer
8 2 (2.86%) Technical Leader
8 2 (2.86%) Training Consultant
9 1 (1.43%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
9 1 (1.43%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (1.43%) FastAPI
1 1 (1.43%) Flask
1 1 (1.43%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.14%) PKI
2 6 (8.57%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.86%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.86%) e-Learning
4 1 (1.43%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 11 (15.71%) Windows
2 6 (8.57%) Windows Server
3 5 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (24.29%) Agile
2 16 (22.86%) Service Management
3 15 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 13 (18.57%) CI/CD
4 13 (18.57%) DevOps
5 11 (15.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (15.71%) ITSM
5 11 (15.71%) Scrum
6 10 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 10 (14.29%) Software Engineering
7 9 (12.86%) Technical Leadership
8 8 (11.43%) Continuous Integration
8 8 (11.43%) Sprint Planning
8 8 (11.43%) Sprint Retrospective
9 7 (10.00%) Change Management
9 7 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
9 7 (10.00%) Software Testing
10 6 (8.57%) Continuous Deployment
10 6 (8.57%) Customer Requirements
10 6 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (7.14%) SQL
2 2 (2.86%) Python
3 1 (1.43%) Bash
3 1 (1.43%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 57 (81.43%) DV Cleared
2 27 (38.57%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.86%) ISTQB
3 2 (2.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (1.43%) CISA
4 1 (1.43%) CISM
4 1 (1.43%) CISSP
4 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.43%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.43%) GRC
1 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.43%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 7 (10.00%) Firmware
1 7 (10.00%) VMware NSX
2 2 (2.86%) Docker
2 2 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (15.71%) vCenter Server
2 6 (8.57%) Endace
3 5 (7.14%) Terraform
4 4 (5.71%) Ansible
4 4 (5.71%) SCCM
4 4 (5.71%) SCOM
5 2 (2.86%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.43%) Grafana
6 1 (1.43%) Nessus
6 1 (1.43%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.43%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (24.29%) Cisco
1 17 (24.29%) Juniper
2 11 (15.71%) SolarWinds
3 7 (10.00%) Broadcom
4 5 (7.14%) F5
5 4 (5.71%) McAfee
6 3 (4.29%) Black Duck
6 3 (4.29%) Coverity
6 3 (4.29%) VMware
7 2 (2.86%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.43%) BiZZdesign
8 1 (1.43%) Splunk