SC Cleared Job Trends in Berkshire

Security Check (SC) Clearance
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 48 20
Rank change year-on-year +23 -28 -7
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 156 106 190
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 4.45% 5.70% 7.90%
As % of the Qualifications category 22.61% 14.36% 19.87%
Number of salaries quoted 100 74 125
10th Percentile £39,000 £42,000 £39,125
25th Percentile £60,000 £46,250 £49,999
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £55,000 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -2.70% +5.65%
75th Percentile £85,000 £73,438 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,375 £82,000
South East median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +27.27% -1.79% +2.26%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Berkshire

SC 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 Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 690 738 956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 19.67% 39.70% 39.75%
Number of salaries quoted 364 252 467
10th Percentile £34,475 £29,775 £38,952
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,998 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +11.47%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,813 £78,580
90th Percentile £92,500 £82,375 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £51,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -7.27% +4.76%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SC Cleared relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

SC Cleared job vacancy trend in Berkshire

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing SC Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing SC Cleared

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Berkshire over the 6 months to 25 September 2026.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in Berkshire

SC Cleared
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 25 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading 0 102 £80,000 +16.36% 88
Maidenhead +43 11 £70,000 -9.68% 16
Wokingham -5 11 £76,250 +52.50% 19
Slough - 2 £96,250 - 15
Bracknell -36 1 £75,000 +57.07% 3
SC Cleared
South East

SC Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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 2 (1.28%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.64%) Confluence
2 1 (0.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (3.21%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.56%) Mathematica
3 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 18 (11.54%) AWS
2 12 (7.69%) Serverless
3 11 (7.05%) Amazon EKS
3 11 (7.05%) OpenShift
4 10 (6.41%) Azure
5 7 (4.49%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (4.49%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (3.21%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.92%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.28%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.64%) Amazon Bedrock
10 1 (0.64%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (0.64%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.64%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.64%) BrowserStack
10 1 (0.64%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.64%) GCP
10 1 (0.64%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.64%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.69%) DNS
2 8 (5.13%) Firewall
2 8 (5.13%) HTTP
2 8 (5.13%) TCP/IP
2 8 (5.13%) VPN
3 2 (1.28%) Network Security
4 1 (0.64%) LAN
4 1 (0.64%) Software-Defined Radio
4 1 (0.64%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (3.21%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.92%) Power BI
4 1 (0.64%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.64%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.64%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.64%) MySQL
4 1 (0.64%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.64%) Redis
4 1 (0.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (6.41%) Jenkins
2 9 (5.77%) Git
3 5 (3.21%) GitLab
3 5 (3.21%) JIRA
4 4 (2.56%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.92%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.92%) JMeter
6 2 (1.28%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.28%) JUnit
6 2 (1.28%) MLflow
6 2 (1.28%) Mockito
6 2 (1.28%) Selenium
7 1 (0.64%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.64%) Mocha
7 1 (0.64%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.64%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 27 (17.31%) Aerospace
2 26 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 16 (10.26%) Retail
4 13 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
5 12 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 11 (7.05%) Electronics
7 10 (6.41%) Finance
8 6 (3.85%) Legal
9 5 (3.21%) French Language
10 4 (2.56%) Law
10 4 (2.56%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.28%) Aviation
11 2 (1.28%) Military
12 1 (0.64%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 24 (15.38%) Developer
2 18 (11.54%) Senior
3 17 (10.90%) Java Developer
4 16 (10.26%) Lead
5 15 (9.62%) Systems Engineer
6 13 (8.33%) Architect
7 12 (7.69%) Technical Leader
8 11 (7.05%) Analyst
9 10 (6.41%) Designer
10 8 (5.13%) Auditor
10 8 (5.13%) Security Auditor
10 8 (5.13%) Senior Manager
11 7 (4.49%) .NET Developer
11 7 (4.49%) Backend Developer
11 7 (4.49%) Cyber Threat Analyst
11 7 (4.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (4.49%) Senior .NET Developer
11 7 (4.49%) Senior Developer
12 6 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
12 6 (3.85%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.69%) Spring
2 9 (5.77%) REST
2 9 (5.77%) Terraform
3 7 (4.49%) .NET
3 7 (4.49%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (4.49%) Loki
3 7 (4.49%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (3.85%) Jakarta EE
4 6 (3.85%) JPA
4 6 (3.85%) Spring Boot
5 5 (3.21%) AngularJS
5 5 (3.21%) React
6 4 (2.56%) JMS
6 4 (2.56%) RESTful
6 4 (2.56%) Web Services
7 3 (1.92%) JSON
7 3 (1.92%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (1.92%) PyTorch
7 3 (1.92%) TensorFlow
7 3 (1.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.82%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.13%) Cyber Defence
2 8 (5.13%) Cyber Threat
2 8 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (5.13%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.85%) Algorithms
3 6 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (3.85%) Synthetic Data
4 5 (3.21%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.92%) Hackathon
6 3 (1.92%) IoT
6 3 (1.92%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.28%) 3D Printing
7 2 (1.28%) Arduino
7 2 (1.28%) CUDA
7 2 (1.28%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.28%) Raspberry Pi
7 2 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (9.62%) Windows
2 12 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (18.59%) Validation
2 20 (12.82%) CI/CD
2 20 (12.82%) Cybersecurity
3 19 (12.18%) Agile
3 19 (12.18%) Mentoring
4 17 (10.90%) Stakeholder Management
5 16 (10.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 16 (10.26%) Verification and Validation
6 15 (9.62%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (9.62%) Microservices
7 14 (8.97%) DevOps
7 14 (8.97%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (7.69%) AI
8 12 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (7.05%) Incident Response
9 11 (7.05%) Technical Leadership
10 10 (6.41%) Presales
11 9 (5.77%) Containerisation
11 9 (5.77%) Incident Management
11 9 (5.77%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 22 (14.10%) Java
1 22 (14.10%) Python
2 8 (5.13%) SQL
3 7 (4.49%) Search Processing Language
4 5 (3.21%) C++
4 5 (3.21%) MATLAB
5 4 (2.56%) Bash
5 4 (2.56%) Groovy
5 4 (2.56%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.56%) PL/SQL
6 3 (1.92%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.28%) C
7 2 (1.28%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.28%) Perl
7 2 (1.28%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.28%) R
8 1 (0.64%) C#
8 1 (0.64%) Embedded C
8 1 (0.64%) Rust
Qualifications
1 156 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 25 (16.03%) DV Cleared
3 14 (8.97%) Degree
4 9 (5.77%) Master's Degree
5 8 (5.13%) CREST Certified
5 8 (5.13%) GCIA
5 8 (5.13%) GCIH
5 8 (5.13%) GIAC
6 7 (4.49%) GCED
6 7 (4.49%) PhD
6 7 (4.49%) SANS
7 6 (3.85%) OSCP
8 2 (1.28%) CISSP
9 1 (0.64%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.64%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.64%) HNC
9 1 (0.64%) HND
9 1 (0.64%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.21%) NEBOSH
2 3 (1.92%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.92%) PMO
2 3 (1.92%) QA
3 1 (0.64%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.64%) ISO 22301
3 1 (0.64%) MISRA
3 1 (0.64%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (5.13%) Docker
2 7 (4.49%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.92%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (14.74%) Kubernetes
2 14 (8.97%) Kibana
3 8 (5.13%) Ansible
4 7 (4.49%) Argo
4 7 (4.49%) Grafana
4 7 (4.49%) Kustomize
4 7 (4.49%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.56%) Istio
5 4 (2.56%) SCCM
6 3 (1.92%) Packer
6 3 (1.92%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 19 (12.18%) Microsoft
1 19 (12.18%) Thales
2 10 (6.41%) Splunk
3 8 (5.13%) AppDynamics
3 8 (5.13%) CrowdStrike
3 8 (5.13%) IBM
4 7 (4.49%) Carbon Black
4 7 (4.49%) Red Hat
4 7 (4.49%) VMware
5 6 (3.85%) Oracle
6 5 (3.21%) EMC
7 4 (2.56%) Mentor Graphics
8 2 (1.28%) Cadence
8 2 (1.28%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.64%) SAP