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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +9
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 151 473 105
As % of all permanent jobs in Basingstoke 46.32% 76.41% 34.77%
As % of the Qualifications category 92.64% 90.96% 57.69%
Number of salaries quoted 133 394 61
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £42,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £58,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year - +18.37% -11.31%
75th Percentile £75,250 £77,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £73,000
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 163 520 182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Basingstoke 50.00% 84.01% 60.26%
Number of salaries quoted 144 404 106
10th Percentile £41,075 £45,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,813 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £57,500 £44,400
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% +29.50% -19.27%
75th Percentile £75,250 £77,500 £61,206
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 1 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 (17.22%) Exchange Server 2003
1 26 (17.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.97%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.97%) Appian
3 5 (3.31%) Apache
4 3 (1.99%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.66%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (3.97%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 27 (17.88%) Azure
2 25 (16.56%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (13.91%) AWS
4 7 (4.64%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (3.97%) Amazon S3
5 6 (3.97%) MinIO
5 6 (3.97%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.32%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.32%) GitHub
6 2 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 34 (22.52%) DNS
2 22 (14.57%) DHCP
3 21 (13.91%) Junos
3 21 (13.91%) LAN
4 20 (13.25%) VPN
5 18 (11.92%) Firewall
5 18 (11.92%) WAN
6 14 (9.27%) Cisco IOS
7 11 (7.28%) Cisco ISE
8 10 (6.62%) Cisco Firepower
9 9 (5.96%) NX-OS
10 7 (4.64%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (3.97%) Network Security
12 5 (3.31%) IPsec
12 5 (3.31%) MPLS
13 4 (2.65%) BGP
13 4 (2.65%) Intrusion Detection
13 4 (2.65%) SMTP
13 4 (2.65%) X.400
13 4 (2.65%) X.500
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (17.88%) Oracle Database
1 27 (17.88%) Oracle Database 10g
2 5 (3.31%) Airbyte
3 1 (0.66%) Big Data
3 1 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.66%) Pinecone
3 1 (0.66%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 22 (14.57%) Robot Framework
1 22 (14.57%) Selenium
2 20 (13.25%) Snyk
3 15 (9.93%) Git
4 4 (2.65%) GitLab
4 4 (2.65%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.99%) MSI
6 2 (1.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.32%) JIRA
6 2 (1.32%) TestRail
General
1 26 (17.22%) Social Skills
2 14 (9.27%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (4.64%) Finance
4 6 (3.97%) Advertising
5 3 (1.99%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.32%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (19.87%) Architect
2 25 (16.56%) Network Engineer
3 24 (15.89%) 3rd Line Support
4 23 (15.23%) Systems Support
5 20 (13.25%) Lead
6 14 (9.27%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (6.62%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 8 (5.30%) Design Engineer
8 8 (5.30%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 8 (5.30%) Network Design Engineer
8 8 (5.30%) Senior
9 7 (4.64%) Applications Architect
9 7 (4.64%) Consultant
9 7 (4.64%) Enterprise Architect
9 7 (4.64%) Enterprise Management Architect
9 7 (4.64%) Network Architect
9 7 (4.64%) Senior Design Engineer
9 7 (4.64%) Senior Network Design Engineer
9 7 (4.64%) Senior Network Engineer
9 7 (4.64%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.64%) Kafka
2 6 (3.97%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (1.32%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.66%) FastAPI
4 1 (0.66%) Flask
4 1 (0.66%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.66%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.61%) PKI
2 11 (7.28%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.97%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.97%) Low-Code
3 6 (3.97%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.31%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.65%) Replication
6 2 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.66%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.66%) Device Driver
7 1 (0.66%) IVR
7 1 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.66%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 65 (43.05%) Windows
2 27 (17.88%) Solaris
2 27 (17.88%) Unix
3 26 (17.22%) HPUX
3 26 (17.22%) Windows Server 2003
4 22 (14.57%) Windows 7
4 22 (14.57%) Windows Server 2008
5 20 (13.25%) Linux
6 10 (6.62%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (23.18%) Agile
2 28 (18.54%) Incident Management
3 27 (17.88%) DevOps
4 25 (16.56%) CI/CD
5 24 (15.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (15.89%) Test Automation
6 23 (15.23%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (14.57%) DevSecOps
7 22 (14.57%) Test Management
8 21 (13.91%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 21 (13.91%) Interactive Application Security Testing
8 21 (13.91%) ITSM
8 21 (13.91%) Secrets Management
8 21 (13.91%) Technical Leadership
9 17 (11.26%) Scrum
10 15 (9.93%) Network Design
11 14 (9.27%) Requirements Gathering
11 14 (9.27%) Service Management
12 13 (8.61%) Roadmaps
12 13 (8.61%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 28 (18.54%) PowerShell
2 22 (14.57%) Perl
3 10 (6.62%) Python
4 7 (4.64%) SQL
5 3 (1.99%) Bash
6 1 (0.66%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.66%) VB
Qualifications
1 119 (78.81%) DV Cleared
2 90 (59.60%) SC Cleared
3 15 (9.93%) CCNA
3 15 (9.93%) CCNP
3 15 (9.93%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (5.30%) JNCIS
5 7 (4.64%) JNCIA
6 3 (1.99%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.66%) CISA
8 1 (0.66%) CISM
8 1 (0.66%) CISSP
8 1 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.66%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (15.89%) SLA
2 1 (0.66%) GRC
2 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.66%) NIST
System Software
1 42 (27.81%) Active Directory
2 9 (5.96%) Firmware
2 9 (5.96%) VMware NSX
3 6 (3.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.99%) Docker
4 3 (1.99%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.66%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.66%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 23 (15.23%) Terraform
2 22 (14.57%) Ansible
3 17 (11.26%) vCenter Server
4 6 (3.97%) SCCM
4 6 (3.97%) SCOM
5 5 (3.31%) Endace
5 5 (3.31%) ZABBIX
6 4 (2.65%) Kubernetes
7 3 (1.99%) WMI
8 2 (1.32%) Grafana
8 2 (1.32%) Nessus
8 2 (1.32%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.66%) Avamar
9 1 (0.66%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 43 (28.48%) Microsoft
2 39 (25.83%) VMware
3 38 (25.17%) Cisco
4 37 (24.50%) Juniper
5 27 (17.88%) Oracle
6 20 (13.25%) Black Duck
7 19 (12.58%) Coverity
8 13 (8.61%) SolarWinds
9 9 (5.96%) Broadcom
10 6 (3.97%) BiZZdesign
10 6 (3.97%) UiPath
11 5 (3.31%) Blue Prism
11 5 (3.31%) F5
11 5 (3.31%) McAfee
11 5 (3.31%) Splunk
12 4 (2.65%) HP
13 2 (1.32%) Fortinet
13 2 (1.32%) NetApp
14 1 (0.66%) EMC
14 1 (0.66%) Fujitsu