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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 37 10
Rank change year-on-year +8 -27 +28
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 105 110 358
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 4.05% 6.82% 11.70%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.62% 13.48% 28.01%
Number of salaries quoted 72 74 295
10th Percentile £39,280 £40,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £50,719 £47,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% +14.81% +2.86%
75th Percentile £83,750 £72,813 £64,375
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,125 £78,750
South East median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +27.27% - -

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 596 816 1,278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 23.00% 50.59% 41.75%
Number of salaries quoted 309 242 919
10th Percentile £36,000 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £44,463 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% - +7.11%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £92,250 £87,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £51,926
% change year-on-year +14.29% +1.11% +1.12%

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 5 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 5 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 -7 72 £75,000 +7.14% 57
Wokingham -1 11 £75,000 +50.00% 10
Bracknell -29 4 £75,000 +26.05% 5
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 (0.95%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (8.57%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.95%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 12 (11.43%) AWS
2 11 (10.48%) Serverless
3 10 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (5.71%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (4.76%) Azure
5 5 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (4.76%) OpenShift
6 4 (3.81%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.95%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.95%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.43%) Structured Cabling
2 7 (6.67%) DNS
2 7 (6.67%) Firewall
2 7 (6.67%) HTTP
2 7 (6.67%) TCP/IP
2 7 (6.67%) VPN
3 2 (1.90%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (4.76%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.95%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.95%) MySQL
3 1 (0.95%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.95%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.95%) Redis
3 1 (0.95%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (9.52%) Jenkins
2 9 (8.57%) Git
3 5 (4.76%) GitLab
4 4 (3.81%) JIRA
4 4 (3.81%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.86%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.90%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.90%) JMeter
6 2 (1.90%) JUnit
6 2 (1.90%) Mockito
7 1 (0.95%) Mocha
7 1 (0.95%) Selenium
General
1 22 (20.95%) Social Skills
2 14 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 11 (10.48%) Organisational Skills
4 10 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (8.57%) Manufacturing
6 6 (5.71%) Finance
7 5 (4.76%) French Language
Job Titles
1 27 (25.71%) Developer
2 18 (17.14%) Senior
3 17 (16.19%) Java Developer
4 7 (6.67%) .NET Developer
4 7 (6.67%) Analyst
4 7 (6.67%) Backend Developer
4 7 (6.67%) Cyber Threat Analyst
4 7 (6.67%) Senior .NET Developer
4 7 (6.67%) Senior Developer
5 6 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (5.71%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 5 (4.76%) Architect
6 5 (4.76%) Consultant
6 5 (4.76%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
6 5 (4.76%) Functional Consultant
6 5 (4.76%) Senior Consultant
6 5 (4.76%) Senior Functional Consultant
7 4 (3.81%) Auditor
7 4 (3.81%) IT Assistant
7 4 (3.81%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.43%) Spring
2 9 (8.57%) REST
3 7 (6.67%) .NET
3 7 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (5.71%) Java EE
4 6 (5.71%) JPA
4 6 (5.71%) Spring Boot
5 5 (4.76%) AngularJS
5 5 (4.76%) React
6 4 (3.81%) JMS
6 4 (3.81%) Loki
6 4 (3.81%) RESTful
6 4 (3.81%) Web Services
7 3 (2.86%) HTML
7 3 (2.86%) JSON
7 3 (2.86%) YAML
8 2 (1.90%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (1.90%) jQuery
8 2 (1.90%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.57%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.62%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.67%) Cyber Defence
3 7 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (5.71%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (5.71%) Onboarding
5 5 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.86%) Arduino
6 3 (2.86%) Hackathon
6 3 (2.86%) Raspberry Pi
7 2 (1.90%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 14 (13.33%) Linux
2 7 (6.67%) Windows
3 1 (0.95%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (14.29%) Agile
2 13 (12.38%) DevOps
3 12 (11.43%) Asset Management
3 12 (11.43%) Change Control
3 12 (11.43%) CI/CD
3 12 (11.43%) Mentoring
4 11 (10.48%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (10.48%) Cybersecurity
4 11 (10.48%) Microservices
5 10 (9.52%) Service Delivery
6 9 (8.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (8.57%) Validation
7 8 (7.62%) BDD
7 8 (7.62%) Incident Management
7 8 (7.62%) Kanban
7 8 (7.62%) Scrum
7 8 (7.62%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (7.62%) TDD
8 7 (6.67%) SIEM
8 7 (6.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 19 (18.10%) Java
2 12 (11.43%) Python
3 6 (5.71%) Search Processing Language
4 5 (4.76%) SQL
5 4 (3.81%) Bash
5 4 (3.81%) Groovy
5 4 (3.81%) Ladder Logic
5 4 (3.81%) PL/SQL
5 4 (3.81%) Shell Script
6 3 (2.86%) C
6 3 (2.86%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.86%) Pascal
7 2 (1.90%) Perl
8 1 (0.95%) Korn
8 1 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.95%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 105 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 42 (40.00%) DV Cleared
3 15 (14.29%) Degree
4 13 (12.38%) HNC
5 7 (6.67%) CREST Certified
5 7 (6.67%) GCIA
5 7 (6.67%) GCIH
5 7 (6.67%) GIAC
6 6 (5.71%) GCED
6 6 (5.71%) OSCP
6 6 (5.71%) SANS
7 2 (1.90%) CHECK Team Member
8 1 (0.95%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.95%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.43%) GDPR
2 6 (5.71%) PMO
3 5 (4.76%) NEBOSH
4 3 (2.86%) QA
5 1 (0.95%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (7.62%) Docker
2 1 (0.95%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 16 (15.24%) Kubernetes
2 13 (12.38%) Kibana
3 8 (7.62%) Ansible
3 8 (7.62%) Terraform
4 4 (3.81%) Argo
4 4 (3.81%) Grafana
4 4 (3.81%) Kustomize
4 4 (3.81%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.86%) Istio
5 3 (2.86%) Packer
6 1 (0.95%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.95%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 18 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.57%) Splunk
3 8 (7.62%) AppDynamics
4 7 (6.67%) Carbon Black
4 7 (6.67%) CrowdStrike
4 7 (6.67%) IBM
4 7 (6.67%) Oracle
5 5 (4.76%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.86%) Motorola
7 2 (1.90%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.95%) SAP