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 24 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 39 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -31 +42
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 92 95 411
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 3.74% 6.40% 14.19%
As % of the Qualifications category 15.54% 11.56% 31.42%
Number of salaries quoted 61 60 353
10th Percentile £39,280 £40,000 £29,800
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,563 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +17.92% +0.95%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,625 £78,750
South East median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% - +1.85%

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 592 822 1,308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 24.06% 55.35% 45.17%
Number of salaries quoted 262 232 1,019
10th Percentile £36,375 £37,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £38,603
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,250 £95,000 £92,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +7.84% +2.00%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 -3 64 £75,000 +7.14% 20
Bracknell -21 5 £75,000 +15.38% 3
Wokingham - 5 £62,500 - 7
Slough - 2 £65,000 - 3
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 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (10.87%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) SAP MM
1 1 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.09%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 9 (9.78%) AWS
2 8 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
2 8 (8.70%) Serverless
3 6 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (6.52%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (5.43%) Azure
5 4 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (4.35%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.17%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.09%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 14 (15.22%) Structured Cabling
2 2 (2.17%) DNS
2 2 (2.17%) Firewall
2 2 (2.17%) HTTP
2 2 (2.17%) Network Security
2 2 (2.17%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.17%) VPN
3 1 (1.09%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.26%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.09%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.09%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (8.70%) Git
1 8 (8.70%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.35%) GitLab
2 4 (4.35%) JIRA
2 4 (4.35%) SonarQube
3 3 (3.26%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.17%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.09%) Subversion
General
1 19 (20.65%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.04%) Public Sector
3 10 (10.87%) Manufacturing
4 9 (9.78%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (6.52%) Finance
6 5 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (4.35%) French Language
8 1 (1.09%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.09%) Law
8 1 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (25.00%) Developer
2 20 (21.74%) Senior
3 14 (15.22%) Java Developer
4 7 (7.61%) Backend Developer
5 6 (6.52%) .NET Developer
5 6 (6.52%) Consultant
5 6 (6.52%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (6.52%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 6 (6.52%) Functional Consultant
5 6 (6.52%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 6 (6.52%) Senior .NET Developer
5 6 (6.52%) Senior Consultant
5 6 (6.52%) Senior Developer
5 6 (6.52%) Senior Functional Consultant
6 5 (5.43%) Architect
7 4 (4.35%) Network Architect
8 3 (3.26%) Design Engineer
8 3 (3.26%) Electronics Design Engineer
8 3 (3.26%) Electronics Engineer
8 3 (3.26%) IT Assistant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.87%) Spring
2 9 (9.78%) REST
3 7 (7.61%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (7.61%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (6.52%) .NET
4 6 (6.52%) Java EE
5 5 (5.43%) AngularJS
5 5 (5.43%) React
6 4 (4.35%) JMS
6 4 (4.35%) JPA
6 4 (4.35%) Spring Boot
6 4 (4.35%) Web Services
7 3 (3.26%) JSON
7 3 (3.26%) YAML
8 2 (2.17%) Loki
8 2 (2.17%) Middleware
8 2 (2.17%) RESTful
8 2 (2.17%) SOAP
8 2 (2.17%) Spring MVC
9 1 (1.09%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.61%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (5.43%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.26%) Arduino
3 3 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.26%) Raspberry Pi
4 2 (2.17%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.17%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.17%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.87%) Linux
2 4 (4.35%) Windows
3 2 (2.17%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.09%) Unix
4 1 (1.09%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (15.22%) Agile
2 12 (13.04%) Change Control
2 12 (13.04%) Service Delivery
3 11 (11.96%) Asset Management
3 11 (11.96%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (10.87%) DevOps
4 10 (10.87%) Mentoring
5 8 (8.70%) Microservices
6 7 (7.61%) CI/CD
6 7 (7.61%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (6.52%) BDD
7 6 (6.52%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (6.52%) Kanban
7 6 (6.52%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (6.52%) Scrum
7 6 (6.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (6.52%) TDD
8 5 (5.43%) Domain-Driven Design
8 5 (5.43%) Logistics
8 5 (5.43%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (16.30%) Java
2 7 (7.61%) Python
3 5 (5.43%) Ladder Logic
3 5 (5.43%) SQL
4 4 (4.35%) Groovy
4 4 (4.35%) PL/SQL
5 3 (3.26%) C
5 3 (3.26%) Pascal
6 2 (2.17%) Bash
6 2 (2.17%) Perl
6 2 (2.17%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.17%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.09%) Korn
7 1 (1.09%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.09%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 92 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 44 (47.83%) DV Cleared
3 15 (16.30%) Degree
4 14 (15.22%) HNC
5 2 (2.17%) CHECK Team Member
5 2 (2.17%) CREST Certified
5 2 (2.17%) GCIA
5 2 (2.17%) GCIH
5 2 (2.17%) GIAC
6 1 (1.09%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (1.09%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.09%) GCED
6 1 (1.09%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.09%) OSCP
6 1 (1.09%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.04%) GDPR
2 5 (5.43%) PMO
3 4 (4.35%) NEBOSH
4 3 (3.26%) QA
System Software
1 5 (5.43%) Docker
2 2 (2.17%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.09%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.09%) Terminal Server
3 1 (1.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (10.87%) Kubernetes
2 8 (8.70%) Ansible
2 8 (8.70%) Terraform
3 6 (6.52%) Kibana
4 3 (3.26%) Packer
5 2 (2.17%) Argo
5 2 (2.17%) Grafana
5 2 (2.17%) Istio
5 2 (2.17%) Kustomize
5 2 (2.17%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.17%) SCCM
5 2 (2.17%) SCOM
6 1 (1.09%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (1.09%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (1.09%) SCSM
Vendors
1 14 (15.22%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.70%) AppDynamics
2 8 (8.70%) Oracle
3 7 (7.61%) IBM
4 3 (3.26%) Motorola
4 3 (3.26%) SAP
5 2 (2.17%) Carbon Black
5 2 (2.17%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (2.17%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.17%) Splunk
5 2 (2.17%) VMware
6 1 (1.09%) Cisco
6 1 (1.09%) Juniper
6 1 (1.09%) McAfee
6 1 (1.09%) Trend Micro
6 1 (1.09%) Veeam