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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 42 8
Rank change year-on-year +7 -34 +43
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 96 97 387
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 3.76% 6.08% 13.50%
As % of the Qualifications category 15.84% 11.45% 30.52%
Number of salaries quoted 63 62 330
10th Percentile £39,280 £40,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,500 £34,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,750 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +20.28% -0.93%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,625 £78,750
South East median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -

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 606 847 1,268
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 23.76% 53.07% 44.23%
Number of salaries quoted 276 236 974
10th Percentile £35,625 £32,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £38,603
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £58,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.83% +6.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £95,000 £92,125
South East median annual salary £58,614 £55,000 £51,020
% change year-on-year +6.57% +7.80% +2.04%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 67 £75,000 +7.14% 31
Wokingham - 7 £62,500 - 8
Bracknell -29 4 £75,000 +15.38% 3
Slough - 2 £65,000 - 1
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:

Applications
1 10 (10.42%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 9 (9.38%) AWS
2 8 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
2 8 (8.33%) Serverless
3 6 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (5.21%) Azure
5 4 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (4.17%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.08%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.04%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.04%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 14 (14.58%) Structured Cabling
2 4 (4.17%) DNS
2 4 (4.17%) Firewall
2 4 (4.17%) HTTP
2 4 (4.17%) TCP/IP
2 4 (4.17%) VPN
3 2 (2.08%) Network Security
4 1 (1.04%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.13%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.04%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (8.33%) Git
1 8 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.17%) GitLab
2 4 (4.17%) JIRA
2 4 (4.17%) SonarQube
3 3 (3.13%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.08%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.04%) Subversion
General
1 21 (21.88%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 11 (11.46%) Organisational Skills
4 10 (10.42%) Manufacturing
5 7 (7.29%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (6.25%) Finance
7 5 (5.21%) French Language
8 1 (1.04%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.04%) Law
Job Titles
1 25 (26.04%) Developer
2 21 (21.88%) Senior
3 15 (15.63%) Java Developer
4 7 (7.29%) .NET Developer
4 7 (7.29%) Backend Developer
4 7 (7.29%) Senior .NET Developer
4 7 (7.29%) Senior Developer
5 6 (6.25%) Consultant
5 6 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (6.25%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 6 (6.25%) Functional Consultant
5 6 (6.25%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 6 (6.25%) Senior Consultant
5 6 (6.25%) Senior Functional Consultant
6 5 (5.21%) Architect
7 4 (4.17%) Analyst
7 4 (4.17%) Cyber Threat Analyst
7 4 (4.17%) IT Assistant
7 4 (4.17%) Network Architect
8 3 (3.13%) Electronics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.42%) Spring
2 9 (9.38%) REST
3 7 (7.29%) .NET
3 7 (7.29%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (7.29%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (6.25%) Java EE
5 5 (5.21%) AngularJS
5 5 (5.21%) React
6 4 (4.17%) JMS
6 4 (4.17%) JPA
6 4 (4.17%) Spring Boot
6 4 (4.17%) Web Services
7 3 (3.13%) JSON
7 3 (3.13%) YAML
8 2 (2.08%) Loki
8 2 (2.08%) Middleware
8 2 (2.08%) RESTful
8 2 (2.08%) SOAP
8 2 (2.08%) Spring MVC
9 1 (1.04%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.29%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.17%) Cyber Defence
3 4 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.13%) Arduino
4 3 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.13%) Raspberry Pi
5 2 (2.08%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.08%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (11.46%) Linux
2 5 (5.21%) Windows
3 1 (1.04%) Unix
3 1 (1.04%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (13.54%) Agile
1 13 (13.54%) Change Control
2 12 (12.50%) Asset Management
2 12 (12.50%) Service Delivery
3 11 (11.46%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (10.42%) DevOps
4 10 (10.42%) Mentoring
5 8 (8.33%) Microservices
5 8 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (7.29%) CI/CD
7 6 (6.25%) Change Management
7 6 (6.25%) Collaborative Working
7 6 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (6.25%) Kanban
7 6 (6.25%) Logistics
7 6 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (6.25%) Scrum
7 6 (6.25%) Service Management
7 6 (6.25%) TDD
7 6 (6.25%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (16.67%) Java
2 7 (7.29%) Python
3 5 (5.21%) Ladder Logic
3 5 (5.21%) SQL
4 4 (4.17%) Groovy
4 4 (4.17%) PL/SQL
5 3 (3.13%) C
5 3 (3.13%) Pascal
5 3 (3.13%) Search Processing Language
6 2 (2.08%) Bash
6 2 (2.08%) Perl
6 2 (2.08%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.04%) Korn
7 1 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.04%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 96 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 43 (44.79%) DV Cleared
3 15 (15.63%) Degree
4 14 (14.58%) HNC
5 4 (4.17%) CREST Certified
5 4 (4.17%) GCIA
5 4 (4.17%) GCIH
5 4 (4.17%) GIAC
6 3 (3.13%) GCED
6 3 (3.13%) OSCP
6 3 (3.13%) SANS
7 2 (2.08%) CHECK Team Member
8 1 (1.04%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (1.04%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.04%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.04%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.50%) GDPR
2 6 (6.25%) PMO
3 5 (5.21%) NEBOSH
4 3 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 5 (5.21%) Docker
2 1 (1.04%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.04%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.04%) Terminal Server
2 1 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (10.42%) Kubernetes
2 8 (8.33%) Ansible
2 8 (8.33%) Kibana
2 8 (8.33%) Terraform
3 3 (3.13%) Packer
4 2 (2.08%) Argo
4 2 (2.08%) Grafana
4 2 (2.08%) Istio
4 2 (2.08%) Kustomize
4 2 (2.08%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.04%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (1.04%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (1.04%) SCCM
5 1 (1.04%) SCOM
Vendors
1 16 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.33%) AppDynamics
3 7 (7.29%) IBM
3 7 (7.29%) Oracle
4 4 (4.17%) Carbon Black
4 4 (4.17%) CrowdStrike
4 4 (4.17%) Splunk
5 3 (3.13%) Motorola
6 2 (2.08%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.08%) SAP
7 1 (1.04%) Cisco
7 1 (1.04%) Juniper
7 1 (1.04%) McAfee
7 1 (1.04%) VMware