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 9 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 58 22
Rank change year-on-year +27 -36 -10
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 146 95 181
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 4.08% 4.88% 7.91%
As % of the Qualifications category 20.86% 13.23% 20.09%
Number of salaries quoted 88 70 113
10th Percentile £39,000 £42,000 £39,125
25th Percentile £60,000 £46,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £55,000 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year +29.55% -2.70% +5.65%
75th Percentile £100,000 £73,750 £73,750
90th Percentile - £83,750 £81,250
South East median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £56,525
% change year-on-year +27.27% -2.70% +3.22%

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 700 718 901
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 19.57% 36.92% 39.40%
Number of salaries quoted 364 238 426
10th Percentile £33,900 £29,500 £38,690
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,250 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.95% -12.50% +11.47%
75th Percentile £72,500 £69,090 £80,000
90th Percentile £99,250 £82,875 £87,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -12.28% +8.47%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 +4 93 £71,250 +9.62% 93
Maidenhead +43 11 £70,000 -9.68% 22
Wokingham -8 11 £76,250 +52.50% 17
Slough - 2 £96,250 - 15
Bracknell -36 1 £75,000 +57.07% 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 2 (1.37%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.68%) Confluence
2 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.74%) Mathematica
1 4 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.68%) OrCAD
Cloud Services
1 14 (9.59%) OpenShift
2 11 (7.53%) AWS
3 6 (4.11%) Azure
4 5 (3.42%) Serverless
5 4 (2.74%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (2.74%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (2.05%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.68%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (0.68%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.68%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.68%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.68%) BrowserStack
8 1 (0.68%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.68%) GCP
8 1 (0.68%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.68%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.22%) DNS
2 8 (5.48%) Firewall
2 8 (5.48%) HTTP
2 8 (5.48%) TCP/IP
2 8 (5.48%) VPN
3 2 (1.37%) Network Security
3 2 (1.37%) Software-Defined Radio
4 1 (0.68%) LAN
4 1 (0.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.05%) Power BI
2 3 (2.05%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.37%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.68%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.68%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.68%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.68%) MySQL
4 1 (0.68%) Redis
4 1 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (2.05%) Jenkins
1 3 (2.05%) JMeter
2 2 (1.37%) Git
2 2 (1.37%) JIRA
2 2 (1.37%) JUnit
2 2 (1.37%) MLflow
2 2 (1.37%) Mockito
2 2 (1.37%) Selenium
3 1 (0.68%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.68%) GitLab
3 1 (0.68%) Mocha
3 1 (0.68%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.68%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 29 (19.86%) Aerospace
2 24 (16.44%) Social Skills
3 18 (12.33%) Retail
4 14 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (8.22%) Electronics
5 12 (8.22%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (6.16%) Finance
7 6 (4.11%) Legal
8 5 (3.42%) French Language
9 4 (2.74%) Law
9 4 (2.74%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.74%) Public Sector
10 3 (2.05%) Military
11 2 (1.37%) Aviation
12 1 (0.68%) Advertising
12 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (13.70%) Lead
2 16 (10.96%) Senior
3 15 (10.27%) Architect
3 15 (10.27%) Systems Engineer
4 14 (9.59%) Technical Leader
5 13 (8.90%) Developer
6 11 (7.53%) Analyst
6 11 (7.53%) Designer
7 8 (5.48%) Auditor
7 8 (5.48%) Security Auditor
7 8 (5.48%) Senior Manager
8 7 (4.79%) .NET Developer
8 7 (4.79%) Cyber Threat Analyst
8 7 (4.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (4.79%) Senior .NET Developer
8 7 (4.79%) Senior Developer
9 6 (4.11%) Java Developer
9 6 (4.11%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (3.42%) Platform Architect
11 4 (2.74%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.48%) Loki
2 7 (4.79%) .NET
3 5 (3.42%) Spring
4 4 (2.74%) OpenTelemetry
5 3 (2.05%) Hibernate
5 3 (2.05%) HTML
5 3 (2.05%) PyTorch
5 3 (2.05%) RESTful
5 3 (2.05%) Spring Boot
5 3 (2.05%) TensorFlow
5 3 (2.05%) Terraform
6 2 (1.37%) Apache Camel
6 2 (1.37%) gRPC
6 2 (1.37%) Mustache
6 2 (1.37%) NumPy
6 2 (1.37%) OpenCV
6 2 (1.37%) Pandas
6 2 (1.37%) REST
6 2 (1.37%) scikit-learn
6 2 (1.37%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 22 (15.07%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.48%) Cyber Defence
2 8 (5.48%) Cyber Threat
2 8 (5.48%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.11%) Algorithms
3 6 (4.11%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (4.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (4.11%) Synthetic Data
4 5 (3.42%) Driving Licence
5 3 (2.05%) 3D Printing
5 3 (2.05%) Arduino
5 3 (2.05%) Hackathon
5 3 (2.05%) IoT
5 3 (2.05%) Raspberry Pi
5 3 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.37%) BeagleBone
6 2 (1.37%) CUDA
6 2 (1.37%) Device Driver
6 2 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.37%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 15 (10.27%) Windows
2 8 (5.48%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (19.86%) Validation
2 21 (14.38%) Cybersecurity
3 19 (13.01%) CI/CD
3 19 (13.01%) Mentoring
4 18 (12.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 17 (11.64%) Stakeholder Management
6 16 (10.96%) Verification and Validation
7 14 (9.59%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (8.90%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (8.90%) Infrastructure as Code
9 12 (8.22%) Agile
9 12 (8.22%) AI
9 12 (8.22%) Incident Response
9 12 (8.22%) Technical Leadership
10 11 (7.53%) Presales
11 10 (6.85%) Incident Management
11 10 (6.85%) Observability
12 9 (6.16%) GitOps
12 9 (6.16%) Microservices
12 9 (6.16%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 21 (14.38%) Python
2 10 (6.85%) Java
3 7 (4.79%) Search Processing Language
4 6 (4.11%) C++
4 6 (4.11%) MATLAB
5 4 (2.74%) Bash
5 4 (2.74%) C
5 4 (2.74%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.74%) R
5 4 (2.74%) SQL
6 2 (1.37%) C#
6 2 (1.37%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (1.37%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.37%) Rust
6 2 (1.37%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.68%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 146 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 27 (18.49%) DV Cleared
3 14 (9.59%) Degree
4 9 (6.16%) Master's Degree
5 8 (5.48%) CREST Certified
5 8 (5.48%) GCIA
5 8 (5.48%) GCIH
5 8 (5.48%) GIAC
6 7 (4.79%) GCED
6 7 (4.79%) PhD
6 7 (4.79%) SANS
7 6 (4.11%) OSCP
8 2 (1.37%) CISSP
9 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.68%) HNC
9 1 (0.68%) HND
9 1 (0.68%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.42%) NEBOSH
2 3 (2.05%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.37%) PMO
4 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.68%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.68%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.68%) MISRA
4 1 (0.68%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (4.79%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.74%) Docker
2 4 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.05%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (13.01%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.85%) Kibana
3 9 (6.16%) Grafana
4 8 (5.48%) Argo
4 8 (5.48%) Kustomize
4 8 (5.48%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.42%) Istio
6 4 (2.74%) SCCM
7 3 (2.05%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.68%) Ansible
Vendors
1 21 (14.38%) Thales
2 19 (13.01%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.85%) Red Hat
3 10 (6.85%) Splunk
4 8 (5.48%) CrowdStrike
5 7 (4.79%) Carbon Black
5 7 (4.79%) VMware
6 5 (3.42%) EMC
7 4 (2.74%) Mentor Graphics
8 3 (2.05%) Cadence
8 3 (2.05%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.37%) Oracle
10 1 (0.68%) IBM
10 1 (0.68%) ServiceNow