SC Cleared Jobs 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 10 22
Rank change year-on-year -30 +12 +89
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 112 391 290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 6.57% 11.69% 10.37%
As % of the Qualifications category 14.51% 28.50% 21.80%
Number of salaries quoted 77 246 148
10th Percentile £40,000 £30,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £35,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £59,750 £74,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £83,750
South East median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +2.09%

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 772 1,372 1,330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 45.28% 41.00% 47.57%
Number of salaries quoted 251 844 571
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £29,735
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £36,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £73,125 £72,500 £73,125
90th Percentile £87,250 £85,700 £95,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £51,000 £51,573
% change year-on-year +17.65% -1.11% +2.12%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Berkshire

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Salary Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in Berkshire.

Salary trend for SC Cleared in Berkshire

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Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Berkshire over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in Berkshire

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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 2 July 2025. 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 -10 58 £70,000 +27.27% 75
Bracknell +23 39 £60,000 +49.07% 30
Wokingham +7 4 £50,000 +25.00% 9
Maidenhead -28 1 £77,500 +34.78% 1
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South East

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (10.71%) JBoss
1 12 (10.71%) Red Hat Fuse
2 3 (2.68%) Confluence
3 1 (0.89%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (2.68%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 34 (30.36%) AWS
2 23 (20.54%) Serverless
3 22 (19.64%) Amazon ECS
4 19 (16.96%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (10.71%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (8.93%) Azure
7 8 (7.14%) Amazon S3
7 8 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (5.36%) AWS KMS
9 4 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (2.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (2.68%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 3 (2.68%) Route 53
11 2 (1.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (1.79%) GCP
11 2 (1.79%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.89%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.89%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (18.75%) WAN
2 12 (10.71%) Firewall
3 10 (8.93%) DNS
4 9 (8.04%) BGP
4 9 (8.04%) IPsec
5 7 (6.25%) Junos
5 7 (6.25%) LAN
5 7 (6.25%) SD-WAN
5 7 (6.25%) VPN
6 5 (4.46%) DHCP
6 5 (4.46%) MPLS
7 4 (3.57%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (3.57%) Cisco Firepower
7 4 (3.57%) Cisco IOS
7 4 (3.57%) Cisco ISE
7 4 (3.57%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (3.57%) HSRP
7 4 (3.57%) OSPF
7 4 (3.57%) Spanning Tree
7 4 (3.57%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (16.96%) Relational Database
3 7 (6.25%) RDBMS
4 5 (4.46%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (2.68%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.68%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.79%) Power BI
8 1 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.89%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.89%) MySQL
8 1 (0.89%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (23.21%) Jenkins
2 23 (20.54%) JUnit
3 16 (14.29%) Git
4 11 (9.82%) Mockito
5 7 (6.25%) JMeter
6 6 (5.36%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (3.57%) Maven
7 4 (3.57%) SonarQube
8 3 (2.68%) DbUnit
8 3 (2.68%) JIRA
8 3 (2.68%) jMock
General
1 26 (23.21%) Public Sector
2 12 (10.71%) Social Skills
3 7 (6.25%) Advertising
3 7 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (6.25%) Finance
4 6 (5.36%) Manufacturing
5 2 (1.79%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.89%) Law
6 1 (0.89%) Military
6 1 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 30 (26.79%) Developer
2 25 (22.32%) Architect
3 23 (20.54%) Java Developer
4 20 (17.86%) Network Architect
5 12 (10.71%) Lead
6 10 (8.93%) Network Engineer
7 8 (7.14%) Senior
8 7 (6.25%) WAN Engineer
9 6 (5.36%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 6 (5.36%) Consultant
9 6 (5.36%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 6 (5.36%) Software Engineer
10 5 (4.46%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 5 (4.46%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
10 5 (4.46%) Microsoft Developer
11 4 (3.57%) Analyst
11 4 (3.57%) Coordinator
11 4 (3.57%) Lead Developer
11 4 (3.57%) Lead Java Developer
11 4 (3.57%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (20.54%) Spring
1 23 (20.54%) Spring Boot
2 22 (19.64%) Web Services
3 20 (17.86%) REST
4 19 (16.96%) Apache Camel
5 16 (14.29%) SOAP
6 15 (13.39%) RESTful
7 12 (10.71%) J2EE
8 11 (9.82%) ActiveMQ
9 10 (8.93%) Hibernate
10 7 (6.25%) HTML
10 7 (6.25%) jQuery
10 7 (6.25%) WireMock
11 5 (4.46%) AngularJS
12 4 (3.57%) 802.1X
12 4 (3.57%) Bootstrap
12 4 (3.57%) JPA
13 3 (2.68%) PowerMock
13 3 (2.68%) Spring Batch
13 3 (2.68%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 19 (16.96%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.36%) Algorithms
4 5 (4.46%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.46%) PKI
5 3 (2.68%) CESG
5 3 (2.68%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.89%) Biopharmaceutical
6 1 (0.89%) CCTV
6 1 (0.89%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.89%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.89%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (16.07%) Linux
2 14 (12.50%) Windows
3 6 (5.36%) Unix
3 6 (5.36%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.68%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.79%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (23.21%) Agile
2 23 (20.54%) Microservices
2 23 (20.54%) Scrum
2 23 (20.54%) TDD
3 22 (19.64%) BDD
3 22 (19.64%) Kanban
4 18 (16.07%) DevOps
5 11 (9.82%) Mathematics
5 11 (9.82%) Physics
6 10 (8.93%) Project Delivery
7 9 (8.04%) CI/CD
7 9 (8.04%) Collaborative Working
7 9 (8.04%) Open Source
8 8 (7.14%) Computer Science
8 8 (7.14%) Key Management
8 8 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (7.14%) Requirements Gathering
8 8 (7.14%) Software Engineering
9 7 (6.25%) Process Management
9 7 (6.25%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 23 (20.54%) Java
2 17 (15.18%) Python
3 10 (8.93%) Shell Script
4 7 (6.25%) Bash
4 7 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 6 (5.36%) C
5 6 (5.36%) C++
5 6 (5.36%) Fortran
6 3 (2.68%) SQL
7 1 (0.89%) C#
7 1 (0.89%) PL/1
7 1 (0.89%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.89%) X++
Qualifications
1 112 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (16.96%) DV Cleared
3 15 (13.39%) Degree
4 12 (10.71%) CCNP
4 12 (10.71%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (8.04%) CCNA
6 6 (5.36%) JNCIS
6 6 (5.36%) Master's Degree
6 6 (5.36%) PhD
7 5 (4.46%) CISSP
8 3 (2.68%) CESG Certified Professional
9 2 (1.79%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 2 (1.79%) JNCIA
9 2 (1.79%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.29%) SLA
2 5 (4.46%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 3 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.79%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.89%) GDPR
5 1 (0.89%) ISO 9000
5 1 (0.89%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.89%) NCSC
5 1 (0.89%) QA
5 1 (0.89%) RMADS
System Software
1 27 (24.11%) Docker
2 10 (8.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (8.04%) Active Directory
4 5 (4.46%) Firmware
4 5 (4.46%) Hyper-V
4 5 (4.46%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (2.68%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (2.68%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.79%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.89%) NFS
Systems Management
1 20 (17.86%) Kubernetes
2 17 (15.18%) Ansible
3 7 (6.25%) Kibana
4 5 (4.46%) Terraform
5 3 (2.68%) Nessus
5 3 (2.68%) Proxmox
6 2 (1.79%) SCCM
6 2 (1.79%) SCOM
6 2 (1.79%) SCSM
7 1 (0.89%) Grafana
7 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.89%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (25.00%) Cisco
2 27 (24.11%) Juniper
3 17 (15.18%) Microsoft
4 12 (10.71%) VMware
5 7 (6.25%) Dynatrace
5 7 (6.25%) Splunk
6 4 (3.57%) BMC
6 4 (3.57%) F5
7 3 (2.68%) ADVA
7 3 (2.68%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.79%) Meraki
9 1 (0.89%) Cognos
9 1 (0.89%) Databricks