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 19 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 39 12
Rank change year-on-year +11 -27 +20
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 112 112 327
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 4.15% 6.86% 10.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 18.27% 14.45% 25.67%
Number of salaries quoted 77 75 260
10th Percentile £39,280 £40,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £52,625 £47,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £52,750
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +23.22% +0.48%
75th Percentile £83,750 £73,750 £59,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,250 £78,750
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 613 775 1,274
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 22.69% 47.46% 39.52%
Number of salaries quoted 324 248 867
10th Percentile £38,500 £31,250 £30,225
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £38,603
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £54,995
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +0.01% +9.99%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £89,125 £86,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £51,020
% change year-on-year +14.29% +2.90% -2.54%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 +1 79 £75,000 +7.14% 34
Wokingham -3 9 £75,000 +50.00% 14
Bracknell -33 4 £75,000 +21.95% 2
Slough - 2 £65,000 -
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 1 (0.89%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (8.04%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.89%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 12 (10.71%) AWS
2 11 (9.82%) Serverless
3 10 (8.93%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (5.36%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (5.36%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (5.36%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (5.36%) OpenShift
5 5 (4.46%) Azure
6 4 (3.57%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.89%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.89%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.71%) Structured Cabling
2 8 (7.14%) DNS
2 8 (7.14%) Firewall
2 8 (7.14%) HTTP
2 8 (7.14%) TCP/IP
2 8 (7.14%) VPN
3 2 (1.79%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (4.46%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.89%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.89%) MySQL
3 1 (0.89%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.89%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.89%) Redis
3 1 (0.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (8.93%) Jenkins
2 9 (8.04%) Git
3 5 (4.46%) GitLab
4 4 (3.57%) JIRA
4 4 (3.57%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.68%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.79%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.79%) JMeter
6 2 (1.79%) JUnit
6 2 (1.79%) Mockito
7 1 (0.89%) Mocha
7 1 (0.89%) Selenium
General
1 22 (19.64%) Social Skills
2 14 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 11 (9.82%) Organisational Skills
4 10 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (8.04%) Manufacturing
6 6 (5.36%) Finance
7 5 (4.46%) French Language
8 4 (3.57%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 27 (24.11%) Developer
2 17 (15.18%) Java Developer
3 15 (13.39%) Senior
4 8 (7.14%) Analyst
4 8 (7.14%) Auditor
4 8 (7.14%) Security Auditor
5 7 (6.25%) .NET Developer
5 7 (6.25%) Backend Developer
5 7 (6.25%) Cyber Threat Analyst
5 7 (6.25%) Senior .NET Developer
5 7 (6.25%) Senior Developer
6 6 (5.36%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (5.36%) Lead
6 6 (5.36%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 6 (5.36%) Technical Leader
7 5 (4.46%) Architect
8 4 (3.57%) IT Assistant
8 4 (3.57%) Network Architect
8 4 (3.57%) Product Owner
8 4 (3.57%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.71%) Spring
2 9 (8.04%) REST
3 7 (6.25%) .NET
3 7 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (5.36%) Java EE
4 6 (5.36%) JPA
4 6 (5.36%) Spring Boot
5 5 (4.46%) AngularJS
5 5 (4.46%) Loki
5 5 (4.46%) React
6 4 (3.57%) JMS
6 4 (3.57%) RESTful
6 4 (3.57%) Web Services
7 3 (2.68%) HTML
7 3 (2.68%) JSON
7 3 (2.68%) YAML
8 2 (1.79%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (1.79%) jQuery
8 2 (1.79%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.82%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.14%) Cyber Defence
2 8 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
2 8 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.36%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (5.36%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.46%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.57%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.68%) Arduino
6 3 (2.68%) Hackathon
6 3 (2.68%) Raspberry Pi
7 2 (1.79%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (13.39%) Linux
2 8 (7.14%) Windows
3 1 (0.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
2 15 (13.39%) Agile
3 13 (11.61%) CI/CD
3 13 (11.61%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (11.61%) DevOps
3 13 (11.61%) Mentoring
4 12 (10.71%) Asset Management
4 12 (10.71%) Change Control
5 11 (9.82%) Microservices
6 10 (8.93%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (8.93%) Service Delivery
6 10 (8.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 10 (8.93%) Validation
7 9 (8.04%) Incident Management
7 9 (8.04%) Incident Response
8 8 (7.14%) Cyber Assurance
8 8 (7.14%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 8 (7.14%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 8 (7.14%) Threat Detection
8 8 (7.14%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 19 (16.96%) Java
2 12 (10.71%) Python
3 7 (6.25%) Search Processing Language
4 5 (4.46%) SQL
5 4 (3.57%) Bash
5 4 (3.57%) Groovy
5 4 (3.57%) Ladder Logic
5 4 (3.57%) PL/SQL
5 4 (3.57%) Shell Script
6 3 (2.68%) C
6 3 (2.68%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.68%) Pascal
7 2 (1.79%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.79%) Perl
8 1 (0.89%) Korn
8 1 (0.89%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 112 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 46 (41.07%) DV Cleared
3 15 (13.39%) Degree
4 13 (11.61%) HNC
5 8 (7.14%) CREST Certified
5 8 (7.14%) GCIA
5 8 (7.14%) GCIH
5 8 (7.14%) GIAC
6 7 (6.25%) GCED
6 7 (6.25%) SANS
7 6 (5.36%) OSCP
8 1 (0.89%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (0.89%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.89%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.71%) GDPR
2 6 (5.36%) PMO
3 5 (4.46%) NEBOSH
4 3 (2.68%) QA
5 1 (0.89%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (7.14%) Docker
2 1 (0.89%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 17 (15.18%) Kubernetes
2 14 (12.50%) Kibana
3 8 (7.14%) Ansible
3 8 (7.14%) Terraform
4 5 (4.46%) Argo
4 5 (4.46%) Grafana
4 5 (4.46%) Kustomize
4 5 (4.46%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.68%) Istio
5 3 (2.68%) Packer
6 1 (0.89%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.89%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 16 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.93%) Splunk
3 8 (7.14%) AppDynamics
3 8 (7.14%) CrowdStrike
4 7 (6.25%) Carbon Black
4 7 (6.25%) IBM
4 7 (6.25%) Oracle
5 5 (4.46%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.68%) Motorola
7 2 (1.79%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.89%) SAP