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 30 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 23 5
Rank change year-on-year -54 -18 +85
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 57 162 346
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 2.93% 7.88% 18.92%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.61% 19.38% 33.76%
Number of salaries quoted 36 94 290
10th Percentile £44,250 £39,125 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,438 £48,925 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,509 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +11.45% -
75th Percentile £72,813 £73,750 £57,875
90th Percentile £81,250 £79,250 £74,250
South East median annual salary £58,000 £56,525 £54,250
% change year-on-year +2.61% +4.19% +3.33%

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 593 836 1,025
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 30.52% 40.68% 56.04%
Number of salaries quoted 170 375 712
10th Percentile £31,970 £39,125 £29,735
25th Percentile £42,000 £47,500 £38,130
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,065 £65,000 £54,763
Median % change year-on-year -18.36% +18.69% +5.31%
75th Percentile £67,500 £81,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £95,000 £87,950
South East median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +0.96%

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 30 November 2025.

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 30 November 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
Bracknell +26 26 £48,000 -33.79% 1
Reading -15 21 £56,250 -6.25% 38
Wokingham +7 6 £50,000 +33.33% 5
Maidenhead -41 1 £77,500 +34.78% 2
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 5 (8.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (7.02%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.75%) JBoss
3 1 (1.75%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.75%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 7 (12.28%) AWS
2 6 (10.53%) Azure
3 3 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (3.51%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (3.51%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.51%) GCP
4 2 (3.51%) IaaS
4 2 (3.51%) Serverless
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.75%) GitHub
5 1 (1.75%) OCI
5 1 (1.75%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.75%) PaaS
5 1 (1.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.26%) WAN
2 2 (3.51%) DNS
2 2 (3.51%) Junos
2 2 (3.51%) LAN
2 2 (3.51%) Structured Cabling
2 2 (3.51%) VPN
2 2 (3.51%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.75%) DHCP
3 1 (1.75%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.51%) Data Mining
2 1 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.75%) Git
2 1 (1.75%) JUnit
2 1 (1.75%) Selenium
General
1 8 (14.04%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.77%) Manufacturing
3 4 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.26%) Finance
4 3 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.51%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Advertising
6 1 (1.75%) Games
6 1 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (24.56%) Technical Manager
2 8 (14.04%) Architect
3 6 (10.53%) Lead
4 4 (7.02%) Integration Manager
4 4 (7.02%) Network Architect
4 4 (7.02%) Senior
5 3 (5.26%) Analyst
6 2 (3.51%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Business Analyst
6 2 (3.51%) Cisco Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Consultant
6 2 (3.51%) Dynamics 365 Architect
6 2 (3.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Network Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Network Manager
6 2 (3.51%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Technical Analyst
6 2 (3.51%) Technical Business Analyst
6 2 (3.51%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.51%) Spring
1 2 (3.51%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.75%) Apache Camel
2 1 (1.75%) J2EE
2 1 (1.75%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.75%) React
2 1 (1.75%) REST
2 1 (1.75%) RESTful
2 1 (1.75%) SOAP
2 1 (1.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.79%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.51%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.75%) Biopharmaceutical
3 1 (1.75%) CESG
3 1 (1.75%) Cyberattack
3 1 (1.75%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.75%) PKI
3 1 (1.75%) Private Cloud
3 1 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.77%) Linux
1 5 (8.77%) Windows
2 4 (7.02%) Windows 10
3 3 (5.26%) Windows Server
3 3 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (15.79%) Agile
2 8 (14.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 8 (14.04%) Systems Engineering
3 7 (12.28%) ITIL
3 7 (12.28%) Project Delivery
4 6 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (10.53%) Validation
5 5 (8.77%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (7.02%) CI/CD
6 4 (7.02%) Configuration Management
6 4 (7.02%) Decision-Making
6 4 (7.02%) DevOps
6 4 (7.02%) Incident Management
6 4 (7.02%) ITSM
6 4 (7.02%) Key Management
6 4 (7.02%) Mathematics
6 4 (7.02%) Physics
6 4 (7.02%) Service Management
6 4 (7.02%) Verification and Validation
7 3 (5.26%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.77%) Java
2 3 (5.26%) SQL
3 2 (3.51%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.51%) Python
4 1 (1.75%) Bash
Qualifications
1 57 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (21.05%) DV Cleared
3 4 (7.02%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (7.02%) Degree
4 2 (3.51%) CCNA
4 2 (3.51%) CCNP
4 2 (3.51%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.51%) ISTQB
4 2 (3.51%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 2 (3.51%) JNCIA
5 1 (1.75%) CESG Certified Professional
5 1 (1.75%) CISSP
5 1 (1.75%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.02%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 2 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.51%) QA
3 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.75%) NCSC
3 1 (1.75%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (12.28%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (10.53%) Active Directory
3 4 (7.02%) Firmware
4 3 (5.26%) Docker
4 3 (5.26%) vSphere
5 1 (1.75%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.75%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.75%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (7.02%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.26%) Ansible
2 3 (5.26%) SCOM
2 3 (5.26%) Terraform
3 2 (3.51%) SCCM
3 2 (3.51%) SCSM
4 1 (1.75%) Argo
4 1 (1.75%) Grafana
4 1 (1.75%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (17.54%) Microsoft
2 8 (14.04%) Cisco
2 8 (14.04%) Juniper
3 7 (12.28%) VMware
4 2 (3.51%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.51%) Trend Micro
4 2 (3.51%) Veeam
4 2 (3.51%) Workday
5 1 (1.75%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.75%) Google
5 1 (1.75%) Oracle
5 1 (1.75%) Pure Storage
5 1 (1.75%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.75%) SAP