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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +9
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 177 460 103
As % of all permanent jobs in Basingstoke 49.58% 75.16% 35.76%
As % of the Qualifications category 93.65% 91.63% 57.87%
Number of salaries quoted 158 379 58
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £31,600
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £42,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £58,000 £47,750
Median % change year-on-year +7.76% +21.47% -13.57%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £63,238
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £73,000
Hampshire median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +1.85%

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 189 502 178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Basingstoke 52.94% 82.03% 61.81%
Number of salaries quoted 169 388 101
10th Percentile £44,250 £45,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,750 £44,400
Median % change year-on-year +8.23% +30.07% -15.02%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £71,000
Hampshire median annual salary £58,000 £55,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year +5.45% +12.24% -2.00%

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 17 December 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 26 (14.69%) Exchange Server 2003
1 26 (14.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.39%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.39%) Appian
3 5 (2.82%) Apache
4 3 (1.69%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 34 (19.21%) Azure
2 28 (15.82%) AWS
3 25 (14.12%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (3.39%) Amazon S3
5 6 (3.39%) MinIO
5 6 (3.39%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.13%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.13%) GCP
6 2 (1.13%) GitHub
6 2 (1.13%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (1.13%) IaaS
6 2 (1.13%) OCI
6 2 (1.13%) PaaS
6 2 (1.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (19.21%) DNS
2 25 (14.12%) LAN
3 23 (12.99%) Junos
4 22 (12.43%) DHCP
5 20 (11.30%) VPN
6 18 (10.17%) Firewall
6 18 (10.17%) WAN
7 16 (9.04%) Cisco IOS
8 15 (8.47%) Cisco ISE
9 12 (6.78%) Cisco Firepower
10 9 (5.08%) NX-OS
11 7 (3.95%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (3.39%) Network Security
13 5 (2.82%) IPsec
13 5 (2.82%) MPLS
14 4 (2.26%) BGP
14 4 (2.26%) Intrusion Detection
14 4 (2.26%) SMTP
14 4 (2.26%) X.400
14 4 (2.26%) X.500
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (15.25%) Oracle Database
1 27 (15.25%) Oracle Database 10g
2 5 (2.82%) Airbyte
2 5 (2.82%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.56%) Big Data
3 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.56%) Pinecone
3 1 (0.56%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 22 (12.43%) Robot Framework
1 22 (12.43%) Selenium
2 20 (11.30%) Snyk
3 15 (8.47%) Git
4 11 (6.21%) MSI
5 4 (2.26%) GitLab
5 4 (2.26%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.69%) JIRA
7 2 (1.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.13%) TestRail
8 1 (0.56%) Subversion
General
1 31 (17.51%) Social Skills
2 17 (9.60%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (3.95%) Finance
4 6 (3.39%) Advertising
5 3 (1.69%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.13%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 45 (25.42%) Architect
2 28 (15.82%) Network Engineer
3 24 (13.56%) 3rd Line Support
4 23 (12.99%) Systems Support
5 21 (11.86%) Lead
6 14 (7.91%) Cloud Engineer
7 12 (6.78%) Network Architect
8 11 (6.21%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 10 (5.65%) Senior
10 8 (4.52%) Design Engineer
10 8 (4.52%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 8 (4.52%) Infrastructure Architect
10 8 (4.52%) Network Design Engineer
11 7 (3.95%) Applications Architect
11 7 (3.95%) Consultant
11 7 (3.95%) Enterprise Architect
11 7 (3.95%) Senior Design Engineer
11 7 (3.95%) Senior Network Design Engineer
11 7 (3.95%) Senior Network Engineer
11 7 (3.95%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.95%) Kafka
2 6 (3.39%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (1.69%) Web Services
4 2 (1.13%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.56%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.56%) Flask
5 1 (0.56%) ModSecurity
5 1 (0.56%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.17%) PKI
2 11 (6.21%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.39%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.39%) Low-Code
3 6 (3.39%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.82%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.26%) Private Cloud
5 4 (2.26%) Replication
6 2 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.13%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.56%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.56%) Device Driver
7 1 (0.56%) IVR
7 1 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.56%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 75 (42.37%) Windows
2 27 (15.25%) Solaris
2 27 (15.25%) Unix
3 26 (14.69%) HPUX
3 26 (14.69%) Windows Server 2003
4 24 (13.56%) Linux
5 22 (12.43%) Windows 7
5 22 (12.43%) Windows Server 2008
6 12 (6.78%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (30.51%) Agile
2 29 (16.38%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (15.82%) Incident Management
4 27 (15.25%) DevOps
5 26 (14.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (14.69%) Test Automation
6 25 (14.12%) CI/CD
7 22 (12.43%) DevSecOps
7 22 (12.43%) Test Management
8 21 (11.86%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 21 (11.86%) Interactive Application Security Testing
8 21 (11.86%) ITSM
8 21 (11.86%) Secrets Management
8 21 (11.86%) Technical Leadership
9 17 (9.60%) Scrum
10 15 (8.47%) Mentoring
10 15 (8.47%) Network Design
11 14 (7.91%) Requirements Gathering
11 14 (7.91%) Service Management
12 13 (7.34%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 38 (21.47%) PowerShell
2 22 (12.43%) Perl
3 13 (7.34%) SQL
4 12 (6.78%) Python
5 3 (1.69%) Bash
5 3 (1.69%) VB
6 1 (0.56%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 144 (81.36%) DV Cleared
2 95 (53.67%) SC Cleared
3 17 (9.60%) Cisco Certification
4 16 (9.04%) CCNA
4 16 (9.04%) CCNP
5 8 (4.52%) JNCIS
6 7 (3.95%) JNCIA
7 5 (2.82%) ISTQB
8 4 (2.26%) Degree
9 2 (1.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.56%) CISA
10 1 (0.56%) CISM
10 1 (0.56%) CISSP
10 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (15.25%) SLA
2 2 (1.13%) NIST
3 1 (0.56%) GRC
3 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 47 (26.55%) Active Directory
2 10 (5.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (5.08%) Firmware
3 9 (5.08%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.69%) Docker
4 3 (1.69%) Terminal Server
4 3 (1.69%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.56%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 25 (14.12%) Terraform
2 24 (13.56%) Ansible
3 17 (9.60%) vCenter Server
4 11 (6.21%) WMI
5 8 (4.52%) SCCM
5 8 (4.52%) SCOM
6 5 (2.82%) Endace
6 5 (2.82%) ZABBIX
7 4 (2.26%) Kubernetes
8 3 (1.69%) FortiGate
9 2 (1.13%) Grafana
9 2 (1.13%) Nessus
9 2 (1.13%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.56%) Avamar
Vendors
1 53 (29.94%) Microsoft
2 44 (24.86%) Cisco
3 43 (24.29%) VMware
4 41 (23.16%) Juniper
5 27 (15.25%) Oracle
6 20 (11.30%) Black Duck
7 19 (10.73%) Coverity
8 13 (7.34%) SolarWinds
9 9 (5.08%) Broadcom
10 7 (3.95%) F5
10 7 (3.95%) McAfee
11 6 (3.39%) BiZZdesign
11 6 (3.39%) UiPath
12 5 (2.82%) Blue Prism
12 5 (2.82%) Splunk
13 4 (2.26%) HP
14 3 (1.69%) Citrix
14 3 (1.69%) Fujitsu
14 3 (1.69%) Thales
15 2 (1.13%) Fortinet