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

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 26 10
Rank change year-on-year -31 -16 +86
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 87 174 286
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 4.61% 7.88% 14.53%
As % of the Qualifications category 12.91% 20.69% 28.86%
Number of salaries quoted 63 109 230
10th Percentile £42,000 £39,125 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,525 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +4.68% +9.15%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £56,525
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,250 £74,250
South East median annual salary £57,500 £56,525 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.72% +2.77% +4.76%

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 674 841 991
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 35.72% 38.07% 50.36%
Number of salaries quoted 230 402 611
10th Percentile £29,450 £38,167 £31,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £47,500 £38,130
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £61,500 £53,825
Median % change year-on-year -14.63% +14.26% -
75th Percentile £69,801 £80,000 £65,625
90th Percentile £83,875 £87,950 £83,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £52,550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.42% +0.10%

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 October 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 October 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 -1 38 £62,500 +10.57% 30
Bracknell +23 36 £47,500 -13.64% 3
Wokingham +8 7 £50,000 +33.33% 10
Maidenhead -41 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 (5.75%) JBoss
1 5 (5.75%) Red Hat Fuse
2 4 (4.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.45%) Confluence
3 3 (3.45%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.15%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 22 (25.29%) AWS
2 11 (12.64%) Azure
3 10 (11.49%) Serverless
4 9 (10.34%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (9.20%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (9.20%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (6.90%) Amazon S3
7 5 (5.75%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (4.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (4.60%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (3.45%) AWS KMS
9 3 (3.45%) Route 53
10 2 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.30%) Entra ID
10 2 (2.30%) GCP
11 1 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (1.15%) GitHub
11 1 (1.15%) IaaS
11 1 (1.15%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (1.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.49%) DNS
2 7 (8.05%) Firewall
2 7 (8.05%) WAN
3 5 (5.75%) DHCP
3 5 (5.75%) VPN
4 4 (4.60%) SD-WAN
5 2 (2.30%) BGP
5 2 (2.30%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (2.30%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (2.30%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (2.30%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (2.30%) HSRP
5 2 (2.30%) IPsec
5 2 (2.30%) Junos
5 2 (2.30%) LAN
5 2 (2.30%) OSPF
5 2 (2.30%) Spanning Tree
5 2 (2.30%) VLAN
5 2 (2.30%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.15%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (9.20%) Relational Database
3 5 (5.75%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (4.60%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (3.45%) DynamoDB
5 3 (3.45%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.15%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.15%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.15%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (13.79%) Jenkins
1 12 (13.79%) JUnit
2 9 (10.34%) Git
3 7 (8.05%) Mockito
4 4 (4.60%) Maven
4 4 (4.60%) SonarQube
5 3 (3.45%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (3.45%) DbUnit
5 3 (3.45%) JIRA
5 3 (3.45%) JMeter
5 3 (3.45%) jMock
6 1 (1.15%) Selenium
General
1 14 (16.09%) Public Sector
2 12 (13.79%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (6.90%) Manufacturing
4 3 (3.45%) Advertising
4 3 (3.45%) Finance
5 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.15%) Games
5 1 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.15%) Law
5 1 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 16 (18.39%) Technical Manager
2 15 (17.24%) Developer
3 12 (13.79%) Java Developer
4 11 (12.64%) Lead
5 10 (11.49%) Architect
6 6 (6.90%) Analyst
6 6 (6.90%) Network Architect
7 5 (5.75%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) Senior
8 4 (4.60%) Coordinator
8 4 (4.60%) Integration Manager
8 4 (4.60%) Lead Developer
8 4 (4.60%) Lead Java Developer
8 4 (4.60%) Network Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) WAN Engineer
9 3 (3.45%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 3 (3.45%) Project Coordinator
9 3 (3.45%) Support Engineer
9 3 (3.45%) Technical Coordinator
9 3 (3.45%) Technical Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.94%) Spring
1 13 (14.94%) Spring Boot
2 11 (12.64%) Web Services
3 9 (10.34%) REST
3 9 (10.34%) SOAP
4 8 (9.20%) Apache Camel
4 8 (9.20%) RESTful
5 7 (8.05%) ActiveMQ
6 6 (6.90%) Hibernate
7 5 (5.75%) J2EE
8 4 (4.60%) AngularJS
8 4 (4.60%) Bootstrap
8 4 (4.60%) JPA
9 3 (3.45%) HTML
9 3 (3.45%) jQuery
9 3 (3.45%) PowerMock
9 3 (3.45%) Spring Batch
9 3 (3.45%) Spring Integration
9 3 (3.45%) WireMock
10 2 (2.30%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.49%) Management Information System
2 8 (9.20%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.75%) PKI
4 4 (4.60%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.45%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.30%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.15%) Biopharmaceutical
7 1 (1.15%) CESG
7 1 (1.15%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.15%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.15%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.15%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (18.39%) Windows
2 12 (13.79%) Linux
3 7 (8.05%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.60%) Windows 10
5 3 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (20.69%) Agile
2 13 (14.94%) Microservices
2 13 (14.94%) Project Delivery
2 13 (14.94%) TDD
3 12 (13.79%) BDD
3 12 (13.79%) Scrum
4 11 (12.64%) Kanban
5 9 (10.34%) DevOps
5 9 (10.34%) Mentoring
5 9 (10.34%) Systems Engineering
6 8 (9.20%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (9.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 7 (8.05%) CI/CD
7 7 (8.05%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (6.90%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (6.90%) ITIL
8 6 (6.90%) Validation
9 5 (5.75%) Mathematics
9 5 (5.75%) Physics
9 5 (5.75%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (18.39%) Java
2 5 (5.75%) Python
3 4 (4.60%) SQL
4 3 (3.45%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.45%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.30%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.15%) Bash
6 1 (1.15%) C#
6 1 (1.15%) PL/1
6 1 (1.15%) X++
Qualifications
1 87 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.79%) DV Cleared
3 7 (8.05%) Degree
4 5 (5.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (4.60%) CCNP
5 4 (4.60%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (3.45%) CCNA
7 2 (2.30%) JNCIA
8 1 (1.15%) CESG Certified Professional
8 1 (1.15%) CISSP
8 1 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.15%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 1 (1.15%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.15%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.75%) ISO/IEC 15288
1 5 (5.75%) SLA
2 2 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.30%) QA
3 1 (1.15%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.15%) GDPR
3 1 (1.15%) JSP 440
3 1 (1.15%) NCSC
3 1 (1.15%) RMADS
System Software
1 13 (14.94%) Docker
2 10 (11.49%) Active Directory
2 10 (11.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.75%) Firmware
3 5 (5.75%) Hyper-V
3 5 (5.75%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (2.30%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (1.15%) NFS
5 1 (1.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (11.49%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.05%) Ansible
3 3 (3.45%) Kibana
3 3 (3.45%) SCOM
3 3 (3.45%) Terraform
4 2 (2.30%) Grafana
4 2 (2.30%) SCCM
4 2 (2.30%) SCSM
5 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.15%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (19.54%) Microsoft
2 16 (18.39%) Cisco
3 10 (11.49%) Juniper
3 10 (11.49%) VMware
4 3 (3.45%) Atlassian
4 3 (3.45%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.45%) Splunk
5 2 (2.30%) F5
5 2 (2.30%) Meraki
6 1 (1.15%) Databricks
6 1 (1.15%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.15%) Google
6 1 (1.15%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.15%) Trend Micro
6 1 (1.15%) Veeam
6 1 (1.15%) Workday