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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 22 6
Rank change year-on-year -45 -16 +90
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 72 181 326
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 3.81% 8.33% 17.44%
As % of the Qualifications category 11.48% 21.12% 31.56%
Number of salaries quoted 48 108 271
10th Percentile £43,675 £39,125 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,438 £48,925 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,525 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +7.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £56,525
90th Percentile £82,000 £76,500 £74,250
South East median annual salary £58,000 £56,525 £54,500
% change year-on-year +2.61% +3.72% +3.81%

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 627 857 1,033
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 33.21% 39.44% 55.27%
Number of salaries quoted 195 382 697
10th Percentile £29,900 £39,125 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £38,130
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,065 £63,750 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.76% +16.97% +6.13%
75th Percentile £67,500 £80,938 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £94,875 £86,550
South East median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +1.94%

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 18 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 18 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 +24 30 £48,000 -20.00% 2
Reading -13 28 £56,250 -2.22% 43
Wokingham +9 7 £50,000 +33.33% 18
Maidenhead -44 1 £77,500 +34.78%
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 (6.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.56%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.17%) JBoss
3 3 (4.17%) Red Hat Fuse
4 2 (2.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Maximo
1 1 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.39%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 15 (20.83%) AWS
2 9 (12.50%) Azure
3 6 (8.33%) Serverless
4 5 (6.94%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (5.56%) Amazon S3
6 3 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (4.17%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.78%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (2.78%) AWS KMS
7 2 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.78%) GCP
7 2 (2.78%) IaaS
7 2 (2.78%) Route 53
8 1 (1.39%) GitHub
8 1 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.39%) PaaS
8 1 (1.39%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.33%) DNS
2 4 (5.56%) Firewall
2 4 (5.56%) WAN
3 3 (4.17%) DHCP
3 3 (4.17%) VPN
4 2 (2.78%) Junos
4 2 (2.78%) LAN
4 2 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.39%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.56%) Relational Database
3 3 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (2.78%) Data Mining
4 2 (2.78%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.39%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (9.72%) Jenkins
2 6 (8.33%) JUnit
3 5 (6.94%) Git
4 3 (4.17%) Mockito
5 2 (2.78%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (2.78%) DbUnit
5 2 (2.78%) JIRA
5 2 (2.78%) jMock
5 2 (2.78%) Maven
5 2 (2.78%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.39%) JMeter
6 1 (1.39%) Selenium
General
1 13 (18.06%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 6 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 3 (4.17%) Finance
5 2 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.39%) Advertising
6 1 (1.39%) Games
6 1 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (20.83%) Technical Manager
2 9 (12.50%) Architect
2 9 (12.50%) Lead
3 6 (8.33%) Analyst
3 6 (8.33%) Developer
3 6 (8.33%) Java Developer
3 6 (8.33%) Senior
4 5 (6.94%) Network Architect
5 4 (5.56%) Integration Manager
6 3 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.17%) Network Engineer
7 2 (2.78%) Business Analyst
7 2 (2.78%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 2 (2.78%) Consultant
7 2 (2.78%) Coordinator
7 2 (2.78%) Lead Developer
7 2 (2.78%) Project Coordinator
7 2 (2.78%) Technical Analyst
7 2 (2.78%) Technical Business Analyst
7 2 (2.78%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.72%) Spring
1 7 (9.72%) Spring Boot
2 6 (8.33%) Web Services
3 5 (6.94%) RESTful
3 5 (6.94%) SOAP
4 4 (5.56%) Apache Camel
4 4 (5.56%) REST
5 3 (4.17%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (4.17%) Hibernate
5 3 (4.17%) J2EE
6 2 (2.78%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.78%) Bootstrap
6 2 (2.78%) JPA
6 2 (2.78%) PowerMock
6 2 (2.78%) Spring Batch
6 2 (2.78%) Spring Integration
7 1 (1.39%) jQuery
7 1 (1.39%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (1.39%) React
7 1 (1.39%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.89%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.17%) PKI
4 2 (2.78%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.78%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.78%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.39%) Biopharmaceutical
5 1 (1.39%) CESG
5 1 (1.39%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.39%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.39%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.39%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (13.89%) Windows
2 9 (12.50%) Linux
3 6 (8.33%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.56%) Windows 10
5 3 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (19.44%) Agile
2 9 (12.50%) Project Delivery
2 9 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 9 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
3 8 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (9.72%) BDD
4 7 (9.72%) ITIL
4 7 (9.72%) Microservices
4 7 (9.72%) TDD
4 7 (9.72%) Validation
5 6 (8.33%) DevOps
5 6 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (8.33%) Kanban
5 6 (8.33%) Scrum
6 5 (6.94%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (6.94%) Mathematics
6 5 (6.94%) Mentoring
6 5 (6.94%) Physics
6 5 (6.94%) Service Management
6 5 (6.94%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (13.89%) Java
2 4 (5.56%) Python
3 3 (4.17%) PowerShell
3 3 (4.17%) SQL
4 2 (2.78%) Bash
5 1 (1.39%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.39%) PL/1
5 1 (1.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 72 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 6 (8.33%) Degree
4 5 (6.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.78%) CCNA
5 2 (2.78%) CCNP
5 2 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.78%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.78%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 2 (2.78%) JNCIA
6 1 (1.39%) CESG Certified Professional
6 1 (1.39%) CISSP
6 1 (1.39%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.94%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 3 (4.17%) SLA
3 2 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.78%) QA
4 1 (1.39%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.39%) GDPR
4 1 (1.39%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 9 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (11.11%) Docker
3 5 (6.94%) Firmware
4 3 (4.17%) Hyper-V
4 3 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (4.17%) vSphere
5 1 (1.39%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.39%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 7 (9.72%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.33%) Ansible
3 4 (5.56%) Terraform
4 3 (4.17%) SCOM
5 2 (2.78%) SCCM
5 2 (2.78%) SCSM
6 1 (1.39%) Argo
6 1 (1.39%) Grafana
6 1 (1.39%) Kibana
6 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.39%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (18.06%) Microsoft
2 11 (15.28%) Cisco
3 9 (12.50%) Juniper
3 9 (12.50%) VMware
4 2 (2.78%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.78%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.78%) Trend Micro
4 2 (2.78%) Veeam
4 2 (2.78%) Workday
5 1 (1.39%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.39%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.39%) Google
5 1 (1.39%) Meraki
5 1 (1.39%) Oracle
5 1 (1.39%) Pure Storage
5 1 (1.39%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.39%) SAP
5 1 (1.39%) Splunk
68 SC Cleared jobs in Berkshire