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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 56 19
Rank change year-on-year +33 -37 -5
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 147 111 204
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 4.33% 5.39% 8.39%
As % of the Qualifications category 21.71% 13.28% 21.47%
Number of salaries quoted 98 79 138
10th Percentile £39,000 £42,000 £39,125
25th Percentile £60,000 £46,750 £48,925
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 £73,125 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,750 £81,250
South East median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +21.74% +4.55% -

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 677 836 950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 19.94% 40.62% 39.06%
Number of salaries quoted 368 259 477
10th Percentile £34,100 £29,950 £38,880
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -9.48% +7.89%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £82,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £51,300 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.96% -6.73% +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 11 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 11 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 97 £80,000 +14.29% 76
Wokingham -4 12 £76,250 +52.50% 7
Maidenhead +47 11 £70,000 -9.68% 7
Slough - 2 £96,250 - 13
Bracknell -35 1 £75,000 +56.25%
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 (1.36%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.68%) Confluence
2 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (3.40%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.36%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 17 (11.56%) AWS
2 11 (7.48%) OpenShift
2 11 (7.48%) Serverless
3 10 (6.80%) Amazon EKS
4 9 (6.12%) Azure
5 6 (4.08%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (4.08%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (3.40%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.36%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.36%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.68%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.68%) Copilot Studio
8 1 (0.68%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.68%) GCP
8 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.68%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.68%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.16%) DNS
2 8 (5.44%) Firewall
2 8 (5.44%) HTTP
2 8 (5.44%) TCP/IP
2 8 (5.44%) VPN
3 2 (1.36%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.44%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (3.40%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.36%) Power BI
4 1 (0.68%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.68%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.68%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.68%) MySQL
4 1 (0.68%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.68%) Redis
4 1 (0.68%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (6.80%) Jenkins
2 9 (6.12%) Git
3 5 (3.40%) GitLab
4 4 (2.72%) JIRA
4 4 (2.72%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.04%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.36%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.36%) JMeter
6 2 (1.36%) JUnit
6 2 (1.36%) MLflow
6 2 (1.36%) Mockito
7 1 (0.68%) Mocha
7 1 (0.68%) Selenium
General
1 26 (17.69%) Social Skills
2 21 (14.29%) Aerospace
3 13 (8.84%) Organisational Skills
4 12 (8.16%) Public Sector
5 11 (7.48%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (7.48%) Finance
5 11 (7.48%) Retail
6 9 (6.12%) Electronics
7 6 (4.08%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.40%) French Language
8 5 (3.40%) Legal
9 4 (2.72%) Law
10 2 (1.36%) Aviation
11 1 (0.68%) Advertising
11 1 (0.68%) Military
Job Titles
1 27 (18.37%) Developer
2 17 (11.56%) Java Developer
2 17 (11.56%) Senior
3 15 (10.20%) Lead
3 15 (10.20%) Systems Engineer
4 12 (8.16%) Architect
4 12 (8.16%) Technical Leader
5 9 (6.12%) Analyst
5 9 (6.12%) Designer
6 8 (5.44%) Auditor
6 8 (5.44%) Security Auditor
6 8 (5.44%) Senior Manager
7 7 (4.76%) .NET Developer
7 7 (4.76%) Backend Developer
7 7 (4.76%) Cyber Threat Analyst
7 7 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (4.76%) Senior .NET Developer
7 7 (4.76%) Senior Developer
8 6 (4.08%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 6 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.16%) Spring
2 9 (6.12%) REST
2 9 (6.12%) Terraform
3 7 (4.76%) .NET
3 7 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (4.76%) Loki
3 7 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (4.08%) Jakarta EE
4 6 (4.08%) JPA
4 6 (4.08%) Spring Boot
5 5 (3.40%) AngularJS
5 5 (3.40%) React
6 4 (2.72%) JMS
6 4 (2.72%) RESTful
6 4 (2.72%) Web Services
7 3 (2.04%) HTML
7 3 (2.04%) JSON
7 3 (2.04%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (2.04%) YAML
8 2 (1.36%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.24%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.44%) Cyber Defence
2 8 (5.44%) Cyber Threat
2 8 (5.44%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.08%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (4.08%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.72%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.72%) Arduino
5 4 (2.72%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.72%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.72%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.72%) Raspberry Pi
5 4 (2.72%) Synthetic Data
6 3 (2.04%) Hackathon
6 3 (2.04%) IoT
7 2 (1.36%) CUDA
7 2 (1.36%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.68%) 3D Printing
8 1 (0.68%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 15 (10.20%) Linux
1 15 (10.20%) Windows
2 1 (0.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (20.41%) Validation
2 19 (12.93%) Cybersecurity
3 18 (12.24%) CI/CD
3 18 (12.24%) Mentoring
4 17 (11.56%) Agile
5 16 (10.88%) Continuous Improvement
5 16 (10.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 15 (10.20%) Stakeholder Management
6 15 (10.20%) Verification and Validation
7 14 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (8.84%) DevOps
8 13 (8.84%) Microservices
9 12 (8.16%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (7.48%) Incident Response
11 9 (6.12%) Collaborative Working
11 9 (6.12%) Incident Management
11 9 (6.12%) Observability
11 9 (6.12%) Presales
12 8 (5.44%) AI
12 8 (5.44%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 19 (12.93%) Java
2 16 (10.88%) Python
3 8 (5.44%) SQL
4 7 (4.76%) Search Processing Language
5 4 (2.72%) Bash
5 4 (2.72%) C
5 4 (2.72%) Groovy
5 4 (2.72%) PL/SQL
5 4 (2.72%) Shell Script
6 3 (2.04%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.04%) Pascal
7 2 (1.36%) C++
7 2 (1.36%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.36%) MATLAB
7 2 (1.36%) Perl
7 2 (1.36%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.68%) Embedded C
8 1 (0.68%) Korn
8 1 (0.68%) R
Qualifications
1 147 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 26 (17.69%) DV Cleared
3 14 (9.52%) Degree
4 8 (5.44%) CREST Certified
4 8 (5.44%) GCIA
4 8 (5.44%) GCIH
4 8 (5.44%) GIAC
5 7 (4.76%) GCED
5 7 (4.76%) SANS
6 6 (4.08%) Master's Degree
6 6 (4.08%) OSCP
7 5 (3.40%) PhD
8 1 (0.68%) CISSP
8 1 (0.68%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.68%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.40%) NEBOSH
2 4 (2.72%) PMO
3 3 (2.04%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.04%) GDPR
3 3 (2.04%) QA
4 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.68%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.68%) MISRA
4 1 (0.68%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (5.44%) Docker
2 7 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.04%) vSphere
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 22 (14.97%) Kubernetes
2 14 (9.52%) Kibana
3 8 (5.44%) Ansible
4 7 (4.76%) Argo
4 7 (4.76%) Grafana
4 7 (4.76%) Kustomize
4 7 (4.76%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.72%) Istio
5 4 (2.72%) SCCM
6 3 (2.04%) Packer
6 3 (2.04%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 19 (12.93%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.52%) Thales
3 10 (6.80%) Splunk
4 8 (5.44%) AppDynamics
4 8 (5.44%) CrowdStrike
5 7 (4.76%) Carbon Black
5 7 (4.76%) IBM
5 7 (4.76%) Oracle
5 7 (4.76%) Red Hat
5 7 (4.76%) VMware
6 5 (3.40%) EMC
7 4 (2.72%) Mentor Graphics
8 3 (2.04%) Motorola
9 2 (1.36%) Cadence
9 2 (1.36%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.68%) SAP