SC Cleared Jobs 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 7 37
Rank change year-on-year -37 +30 +46
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 90 476 227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 5.59% 15.55% 7.30%
As % of the Qualifications category 10.59% 34.52% 15.92%
Number of salaries quoted 57 317 127
10th Percentile £40,000 £30,000 £24,400
25th Percentile £50,250 £35,000 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £53,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.64% -0.93% +2.88%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,500 £74,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%

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 850 1,379 1,426
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 52.83% 45.04% 45.85%
Number of salaries quoted 229 957 576
10th Percentile £31,750 £30,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,603 £36,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,673 £55,000 £50,675
Median % change year-on-year +3.04% +8.53% -7.61%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £73,963
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,750 £95,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £51,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year +11.65% +1.98% -3.81%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in Berkshire.

Salary trend for SC Cleared in Berkshire

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Berkshire over the 6 months to 15 May 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 May 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 -14 49 £70,000 +27.27% 74
Bracknell +20 33 £65,000 +73.33% 15
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 13 (14.44%) JBoss
1 13 (14.44%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (1.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 29 (32.22%) AWS
2 23 (25.56%) Amazon ECS
2 23 (25.56%) Serverless
3 20 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
4 9 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (5.56%) Amazon S3
7 4 (4.44%) AWS KMS
7 4 (4.44%) Azure
8 3 (3.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 3 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (2.22%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (1.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.11%) GCP
10 1 (1.11%) IaaS
10 1 (1.11%) PaaS
10 1 (1.11%) Route 53
10 1 (1.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (18.89%) WAN
2 9 (10.00%) BGP
2 9 (10.00%) IPsec
3 7 (7.78%) Firewall
4 6 (6.67%) MPLS
5 5 (5.56%) Cisco ISE
5 5 (5.56%) Junos
5 5 (5.56%) LAN
5 5 (5.56%) SD-WAN
6 4 (4.44%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (4.44%) Cisco Firepower
6 4 (4.44%) Cisco IOS
6 4 (4.44%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (4.44%) HSRP
6 4 (4.44%) OSPF
6 4 (4.44%) Spanning Tree
6 4 (4.44%) VLAN
6 4 (4.44%) VPN
7 3 (3.33%) SSL
8 2 (2.22%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (22.22%) Relational Database
3 7 (7.78%) RDBMS
4 3 (3.33%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.11%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.11%) MySQL
6 1 (1.11%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.11%) Power BI
6 1 (1.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (27.78%) Jenkins
2 22 (24.44%) JUnit
3 15 (16.67%) Git
4 9 (10.00%) Mockito
5 7 (7.78%) JMeter
6 4 (4.44%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (2.22%) Maven
7 2 (2.22%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.11%) DbUnit
8 1 (1.11%) JIRA
8 1 (1.11%) jMock
General
1 24 (26.67%) Public Sector
2 7 (7.78%) Advertising
3 5 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (5.56%) Finance
4 4 (4.44%) Social Skills
5 2 (2.22%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.11%) Law
6 1 (1.11%) Military
Job Titles
1 29 (32.22%) Developer
2 22 (24.44%) Java Developer
3 21 (23.33%) Architect
4 18 (20.00%) Network Architect
5 9 (10.00%) Network Engineer
6 8 (8.89%) Software Engineer
7 7 (7.78%) Senior
8 6 (6.67%) Consultant
8 6 (6.67%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 5 (5.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 5 (5.56%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
9 5 (5.56%) Microsoft Developer
9 5 (5.56%) WAN Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) Lead
10 4 (4.44%) Senior Software Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) Support Consultant
11 3 (3.33%) 2nd Line Support
11 3 (3.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 3 (3.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (24.44%) Spring
1 22 (24.44%) Spring Boot
2 21 (23.33%) REST
2 21 (23.33%) Web Services
3 20 (22.22%) Apache Camel
4 15 (16.67%) SOAP
5 14 (15.56%) RESTful
6 13 (14.44%) J2EE
7 9 (10.00%) ActiveMQ
8 8 (8.89%) Hibernate
9 7 (7.78%) HTML
9 7 (7.78%) jQuery
9 7 (7.78%) WireMock
10 4 (4.44%) 802.1X
11 3 (3.33%) AngularJS
12 2 (2.22%) Bootstrap
12 2 (2.22%) JPA
12 2 (2.22%) Kafka
13 1 (1.11%) PowerMock
13 1 (1.11%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 20 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (8.89%) Algorithms
3 4 (4.44%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.33%) CESG
5 2 (2.22%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.11%) CCTV
6 1 (1.11%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.11%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.11%) PKI
6 1 (1.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (16.67%) Linux
2 8 (8.89%) Unix
3 5 (5.56%) Windows
4 3 (3.33%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.22%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (28.89%) Agile
2 23 (25.56%) Scrum
3 22 (24.44%) Kanban
3 22 (24.44%) Microservices
3 22 (24.44%) TDD
4 21 (23.33%) BDD
5 20 (22.22%) DevOps
6 12 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
7 10 (11.11%) CI/CD
7 10 (11.11%) Software Engineering
8 9 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
8 9 (10.00%) Computer Science
8 9 (10.00%) Open Source
9 8 (8.89%) Mathematics
9 8 (8.89%) Parallel Programming
9 8 (8.89%) Performance Analysis
9 8 (8.89%) Physics
9 8 (8.89%) SDLC
9 8 (8.89%) Software Testing
10 7 (7.78%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 22 (24.44%) Java
2 18 (20.00%) Python
3 10 (11.11%) Shell Script
4 8 (8.89%) Bash
4 8 (8.89%) C
4 8 (8.89%) C++
4 8 (8.89%) Fortran
5 7 (7.78%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.33%) SQL
7 1 (1.11%) C#
7 1 (1.11%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.11%) X++
Qualifications
1 90 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 11 (12.22%) Degree
4 10 (11.11%) CCNP
4 10 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (8.89%) Master's Degree
5 8 (8.89%) PhD
6 7 (7.78%) CCNA
7 6 (6.67%) JNCIS
8 5 (5.56%) CISSP
9 3 (3.33%) CESG Certified Professional
10 2 (2.22%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 2 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (18.89%) SLA
2 2 (2.22%) Def Stans
2 2 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.11%) ISO 9000
3 1 (1.11%) JSP 440
3 1 (1.11%) RMADS
System Software
1 26 (28.89%) Docker
2 8 (8.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.44%) Active Directory
4 3 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.11%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.11%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 21 (23.33%) Kubernetes
2 16 (17.78%) Ansible
3 7 (7.78%) Kibana
4 3 (3.33%) Nessus
4 3 (3.33%) Proxmox
4 3 (3.33%) Terraform
5 2 (2.22%) SCCM
5 2 (2.22%) SCOM
5 2 (2.22%) SCSM
6 1 (1.11%) Grafana
6 1 (1.11%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 25 (27.78%) Juniper
2 23 (25.56%) Cisco
3 10 (11.11%) VMware
4 9 (10.00%) Microsoft
5 7 (7.78%) Dynatrace
5 7 (7.78%) Splunk
6 4 (4.44%) BMC
6 4 (4.44%) F5
7 3 (3.33%) ADVA
8 1 (1.11%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.11%) Cognos
8 1 (1.11%) Meraki
8 1 (1.11%) Oracle
8 1 (1.11%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.11%) SevOne