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 28 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 46 17
Rank change year-on-year +17 -29 0
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 120 114 220
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 3.67% 5.76% 8.58%
As % of the Qualifications category 18.69% 14.16% 21.83%
Number of salaries quoted 91 80 160
10th Percentile £39,000 £42,000 £38,988
25th Percentile £60,000 £47,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £57,500 £56,252
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% +2.22% +3.21%
75th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £72,813
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,750 £81,375
South East median annual salary £70,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.69% +5.45% -

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 642 805 1,008
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 19.63% 40.66% 39.31%
Number of salaries quoted 367 265 549
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £42,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -13.04% +9.47%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,203 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,000 £82,500 £86,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £53,050
% change year-on-year +20.00% -5.75% +1.05%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 78 £80,000 +14.29% 78
Wokingham -4 11 £75,000 +50.00% 11
Maidenhead +40 8 £70,000 -9.68% 8
Bracknell -38 2 £75,000 +42.86%
Slough - 2 £96,250 - 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 1 (0.83%) Confluence
1 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 16 (13.33%) AWS
2 11 (9.17%) Serverless
3 10 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
3 10 (8.33%) OpenShift
4 9 (7.50%) Azure
5 6 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (3.33%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.83%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.83%) Copilot Studio
8 1 (0.83%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.83%) GCP
8 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.83%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.83%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.83%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.00%) DNS
2 8 (6.67%) Firewall
2 8 (6.67%) HTTP
2 8 (6.67%) TCP/IP
2 8 (6.67%) VPN
3 2 (1.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.83%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (4.17%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.83%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.83%) MySQL
3 1 (0.83%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.83%) Power BI
3 1 (0.83%) Redis
3 1 (0.83%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 9 (7.50%) Git
3 5 (4.17%) GitLab
4 4 (3.33%) JIRA
4 4 (3.33%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.50%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.67%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.67%) JMeter
6 2 (1.67%) JUnit
6 2 (1.67%) Mockito
7 1 (0.83%) Mocha
7 1 (0.83%) Selenium
General
1 20 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 9 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (7.50%) Organisational Skills
4 7 (5.83%) Aerospace
4 7 (5.83%) Finance
5 6 (5.00%) Manufacturing
6 5 (4.17%) French Language
7 4 (3.33%) Law
8 3 (2.50%) Electronics
9 1 (0.83%) Advertising
9 1 (0.83%) Legal
Job Titles
1 27 (22.50%) Developer
2 17 (14.17%) Java Developer
3 13 (10.83%) Architect
4 12 (10.00%) Lead
4 12 (10.00%) Senior
5 11 (9.17%) Technical Leader
6 10 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
7 8 (6.67%) Analyst
7 8 (6.67%) Auditor
7 8 (6.67%) Security Auditor
8 7 (5.83%) .NET Developer
8 7 (5.83%) Backend Developer
8 7 (5.83%) Cyber Threat Analyst
8 7 (5.83%) Senior .NET Developer
8 7 (5.83%) Senior Developer
9 6 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (5.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 6 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (4.17%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.00%) Spring
2 9 (7.50%) REST
2 9 (7.50%) Terraform
3 7 (5.83%) .NET
3 7 (5.83%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (5.83%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (5.00%) Jakarta EE
4 6 (5.00%) JPA
4 6 (5.00%) Loki
4 6 (5.00%) Spring Boot
5 5 (4.17%) AngularJS
5 5 (4.17%) React
6 4 (3.33%) JMS
6 4 (3.33%) RESTful
6 4 (3.33%) Web Services
7 3 (2.50%) HTML
7 3 (2.50%) JSON
7 3 (2.50%) YAML
8 2 (1.67%) jQuery
8 2 (1.67%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.17%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.67%) Cyber Defence
2 8 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
2 8 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.33%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.50%) Arduino
6 3 (2.50%) Driving Licence
6 3 (2.50%) Hackathon
6 3 (2.50%) IoT
6 3 (2.50%) Raspberry Pi
7 2 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.83%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.83%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 15 (12.50%) Linux
2 14 (11.67%) Windows
3 1 (0.83%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (16.67%) Validation
2 17 (14.17%) Cybersecurity
3 16 (13.33%) Agile
3 16 (13.33%) CI/CD
4 15 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 15 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 13 (10.83%) DevOps
5 13 (10.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (10.83%) Microservices
6 10 (8.33%) Incident Response
6 10 (8.33%) Mentoring
6 10 (8.33%) Verification and Validation
7 9 (7.50%) Incident Management
7 9 (7.50%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (6.67%) BDD
8 8 (6.67%) Kanban
8 8 (6.67%) Scrum
8 8 (6.67%) SIEM
8 8 (6.67%) TDD
8 8 (6.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 19 (15.83%) Java
2 12 (10.00%) Python
3 7 (5.83%) Search Processing Language
4 5 (4.17%) SQL
5 4 (3.33%) Bash
5 4 (3.33%) Groovy
5 4 (3.33%) PL/SQL
5 4 (3.33%) Shell Script
6 3 (2.50%) C
6 3 (2.50%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.50%) Pascal
7 2 (1.67%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.67%) Perl
7 2 (1.67%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.83%) Korn
Qualifications
1 120 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 23 (19.17%) DV Cleared
3 9 (7.50%) Degree
4 8 (6.67%) CREST Certified
4 8 (6.67%) GCIA
4 8 (6.67%) GCIH
4 8 (6.67%) GIAC
5 7 (5.83%) GCED
5 7 (5.83%) SANS
6 6 (5.00%) OSCP
7 1 (0.83%) CISSP
7 1 (0.83%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (0.83%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.17%) NEBOSH
2 4 (3.33%) PMO
3 3 (2.50%) GDPR
3 3 (2.50%) QA
4 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.83%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.83%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (6.67%) Docker
2 6 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.67%) vSphere
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 21 (17.50%) Kubernetes
2 14 (11.67%) Kibana
3 8 (6.67%) Ansible
4 6 (5.00%) Argo
4 6 (5.00%) Grafana
4 6 (5.00%) Kustomize
4 6 (5.00%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.50%) Istio
5 3 (2.50%) Packer
5 3 (2.50%) SCCM
6 2 (1.67%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.83%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.83%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 18 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.33%) Splunk
3 8 (6.67%) AppDynamics
3 8 (6.67%) CrowdStrike
4 7 (5.83%) Carbon Black
4 7 (5.83%) IBM
4 7 (5.83%) Oracle
5 6 (5.00%) Red Hat
5 6 (5.00%) VMware
6 3 (2.50%) Motorola
7 2 (1.67%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.83%) SAP