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 15 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 20 14
Rank change year-on-year -39 -6 +94
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 109 196 250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 5.35% 8.15% 12.31%
As % of the Qualifications category 13.04% 20.83% 26.91%
Number of salaries quoted 77 132 200
10th Percentile £42,000 £39,125 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,925 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,525 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +7.67% +6.11%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £56,525
90th Percentile £83,000 £81,250 £74,250
South East median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,763
% change year-on-year +4.55% +0.43% +4.31%

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 836 941 929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 41.02% 39.11% 45.74%
Number of salaries quoted 256 471 563
10th Percentile £29,875 £39,000 £31,800
25th Percentile £41,813 £45,000 £38,790
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £58,000 £53,760
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% +7.89% -2.25%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £66,875
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £83,750
South East median annual salary £51,300 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.73% +4.76% +0.96%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared 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 15 September 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 15 September 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
Reading -2 53 £70,000 +23.84% 13
Bracknell +19 46 £48,000 -8.57% 1
Wokingham +1 4 £50,000 +25.00% 7
Maidenhead -50 1 £77,500 +34.78%
SC Cleared
South East

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (6.42%) JBoss
1 7 (6.42%) Red Hat Fuse
2 3 (2.75%) Confluence
2 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.83%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.92%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 27 (24.77%) AWS
2 16 (14.68%) Serverless
3 15 (13.76%) Amazon ECS
4 14 (12.84%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (11.01%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (9.17%) Azure
7 8 (7.34%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (5.50%) Amazon S3
9 4 (3.67%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (2.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (2.75%) AWS KMS
10 3 (2.75%) Route 53
11 2 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (1.83%) GCP
12 1 (0.92%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.92%) Entra ID
12 1 (0.92%) IaaS
12 1 (0.92%) Microsoft 365
12 1 (0.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.17%) DNS
1 10 (9.17%) WAN
2 9 (8.26%) Firewall
3 7 (6.42%) SD-WAN
3 7 (6.42%) VPN
4 5 (4.59%) DHCP
5 4 (3.67%) BGP
5 4 (3.67%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (3.67%) Cisco Firepower
5 4 (3.67%) Cisco ISE
5 4 (3.67%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (3.67%) HSRP
5 4 (3.67%) IPsec
5 4 (3.67%) OSPF
5 4 (3.67%) Spanning Tree
5 4 (3.67%) VLAN
6 2 (1.83%) Junos
6 2 (1.83%) LAN
6 2 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.92%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (17.43%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (12.84%) Relational Database
3 7 (6.42%) RDBMS
4 5 (4.59%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (3.67%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (2.75%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.75%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.92%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.92%) MySQL
7 1 (0.92%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.92%) Power BI
7 1 (0.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (16.51%) Jenkins
1 18 (16.51%) JUnit
2 11 (10.09%) Git
2 11 (10.09%) Mockito
3 7 (6.42%) JMeter
4 4 (3.67%) Maven
4 4 (3.67%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.75%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (2.75%) DbUnit
5 3 (2.75%) JIRA
5 3 (2.75%) jMock
6 1 (0.92%) Selenium
General
1 22 (20.18%) Public Sector
2 11 (10.09%) Social Skills
3 7 (6.42%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.50%) Advertising
4 6 (5.50%) Manufacturing
5 3 (2.75%) Finance
6 2 (1.83%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.92%) Games
7 1 (0.92%) Law
7 1 (0.92%) Military
7 1 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 25 (22.94%) Developer
2 18 (16.51%) Java Developer
3 16 (14.68%) Technical Manager
4 14 (12.84%) Architect
5 12 (11.01%) Lead
6 10 (9.17%) Network Architect
6 10 (9.17%) Network Engineer
7 7 (6.42%) WAN Engineer
8 6 (5.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 6 (5.50%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 5 (4.59%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 5 (4.59%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
9 5 (4.59%) Analyst
9 5 (4.59%) Microsoft Developer
9 5 (4.59%) Senior
10 4 (3.67%) Consultant
10 4 (3.67%) Coordinator
10 4 (3.67%) Lead Developer
10 4 (3.67%) Support Consultant
10 4 (3.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (17.43%) Spring
1 19 (17.43%) Spring Boot
2 17 (15.60%) Web Services
3 15 (13.76%) REST
4 14 (12.84%) Apache Camel
5 11 (10.09%) ActiveMQ
5 11 (10.09%) SOAP
6 10 (9.17%) Hibernate
6 10 (9.17%) RESTful
7 7 (6.42%) HTML
7 7 (6.42%) J2EE
7 7 (6.42%) jQuery
7 7 (6.42%) WireMock
8 5 (4.59%) AngularJS
9 4 (3.67%) 802.1X
9 4 (3.67%) Bootstrap
9 4 (3.67%) JPA
10 3 (2.75%) PowerMock
10 3 (2.75%) Spring Batch
10 3 (2.75%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.84%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (9.17%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.59%) Data Centre
3 5 (4.59%) PKI
4 3 (2.75%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.92%) Biopharmaceutical
6 1 (0.92%) CCTV
6 1 (0.92%) CESG
6 1 (0.92%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.92%) Cyberattack
6 1 (0.92%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.92%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.92%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (14.68%) Windows
2 11 (10.09%) Linux
3 6 (5.50%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.67%) Windows 10
5 3 (2.75%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (21.10%) Agile
2 19 (17.43%) Microservices
2 19 (17.43%) TDD
3 18 (16.51%) BDD
3 18 (16.51%) Scrum
4 17 (15.60%) Kanban
5 14 (12.84%) Project Delivery
6 11 (10.09%) CI/CD
6 11 (10.09%) DevOps
6 11 (10.09%) Systems Engineering
7 10 (9.17%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (8.26%) Collaborative Working
8 9 (8.26%) Cybersecurity
8 9 (8.26%) Mentoring
9 7 (6.42%) Architectural Design
9 7 (6.42%) Process Management
9 7 (6.42%) Workflow
10 6 (5.50%) Customer Requirements
10 6 (5.50%) Decision-Making
10 6 (5.50%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 22 (20.18%) Java
2 9 (8.26%) Python
3 7 (6.42%) JavaScript
3 7 (6.42%) Shell Script
4 5 (4.59%) SQL
5 1 (0.92%) Bash
5 1 (0.92%) C#
5 1 (0.92%) PL/1
5 1 (0.92%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.92%) X++
Qualifications
1 109 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (11.01%) DV Cleared
3 9 (8.26%) Degree
4 6 (5.50%) CCNP
4 6 (5.50%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (4.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.75%) CCNA
6 3 (2.75%) CISSP
7 2 (1.83%) JNCIA
7 2 (1.83%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.92%) CESG Certified Professional
8 1 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.92%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.42%) SLA
2 5 (4.59%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 2 (1.83%) Def Stans
3 2 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.83%) QA
4 1 (0.92%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.92%) GDPR
4 1 (0.92%) ISO 9000
4 1 (0.92%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.92%) NCSC
4 1 (0.92%) RMADS
System Software
1 19 (17.43%) Docker
2 13 (11.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (8.26%) Active Directory
4 5 (4.59%) Firmware
4 5 (4.59%) Hyper-V
4 5 (4.59%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.83%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.92%) NFS
Systems Management
1 16 (14.68%) Kubernetes
2 9 (8.26%) Ansible
3 7 (6.42%) Kibana
4 3 (2.75%) SCOM
5 2 (1.83%) SCCM
5 2 (1.83%) SCSM
5 2 (1.83%) Terraform
6 1 (0.92%) Grafana
6 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.92%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (18.35%) Cisco
1 20 (18.35%) Microsoft
2 16 (14.68%) Juniper
3 15 (13.76%) VMware
4 7 (6.42%) Dynatrace
4 7 (6.42%) Splunk
5 4 (3.67%) BMC
5 4 (3.67%) F5
6 3 (2.75%) ADVA
6 3 (2.75%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.83%) Meraki
8 1 (0.92%) Databricks
8 1 (0.92%) Fortinet