Security Cleared Jobs in Berkshire

Security Clearance
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 1 6
Rank change year-on-year -25 +5 +49
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 128 758 601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 7.93% 23.82% 19.60%
As % of the Qualifications category 15.27% 54.53% 41.91%
Number of salaries quoted 86 494 309
10th Percentile £38,500 £30,375 £30,160
25th Percentile £46,250 £36,375 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,550 £45,600
Median % change year-on-year +14.18% +15.24% -28.47%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £81,875 £77,125 £77,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £49,875
% change year-on-year +4.55% +10.28% -9.32%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Berkshire

Security 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 838 1,390 1,434
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 51.89% 43.68% 46.77%
Number of salaries quoted 236 931 579
10th Percentile £31,500 £31,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £36,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £51,350
Median % change year-on-year - +7.11% -3.11%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £73,963
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £52,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% +1.96% -2.12%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Berkshire

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in Berkshire

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

Salary trend for Security Cleared in Berkshire

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Berkshire over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in Berkshire

Security 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 Security Cleared within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 29 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 -9 64 £70,000 +31.42% 82
Bracknell +12 46 £60,000 +54.84% 16
Wokingham +5 3 £50,000 +17.65% 1
Security Cleared
South East

Security 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 (10.16%) JBoss
1 13 (10.16%) Red Hat Fuse
2 3 (2.34%) Confluence
3 1 (0.78%) Apache
3 1 (0.78%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (3.13%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 38 (29.69%) AWS
2 28 (21.88%) Serverless
3 25 (19.53%) Amazon ECS
4 22 (17.19%) Amazon EKS
5 14 (10.94%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (7.81%) Amazon S3
6 10 (7.81%) Azure
7 7 (5.47%) AWS KMS
7 7 (5.47%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (4.69%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (3.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (3.13%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 4 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (2.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (2.34%) Route 53
12 2 (1.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (1.56%) GCP
12 2 (1.56%) Power Platform
13 1 (0.78%) Azure Data Factory
13 1 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 19 (14.84%) WAN
2 14 (10.94%) Cisco ISE
3 12 (9.38%) Firewall
4 11 (8.59%) DNS
5 9 (7.03%) BGP
5 9 (7.03%) IPsec
6 7 (5.47%) SD-WAN
7 6 (4.69%) MPLS
8 5 (3.91%) DHCP
8 5 (3.91%) Junos
8 5 (3.91%) LAN
8 5 (3.91%) VLAN
8 5 (3.91%) VPN
9 4 (3.13%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (3.13%) Cisco Firepower
9 4 (3.13%) Cisco IOS
9 4 (3.13%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (3.13%) HSRP
9 4 (3.13%) OSPF
9 4 (3.13%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (20.31%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (16.41%) Relational Database
3 8 (6.25%) RDBMS
4 5 (3.91%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (2.34%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.34%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.56%) Power BI
8 1 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.78%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.78%) MySQL
8 1 (0.78%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 30 (23.44%) Jenkins
2 25 (19.53%) JUnit
3 18 (14.06%) Git
4 12 (9.38%) Mockito
5 8 (6.25%) JMeter
6 7 (5.47%) Bitbucket Server
7 5 (3.91%) SonarQube
8 4 (3.13%) JIRA
8 4 (3.13%) Maven
9 3 (2.34%) DbUnit
9 3 (2.34%) jMock
10 1 (0.78%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.78%) Cucumber
General
1 28 (21.88%) Public Sector
2 12 (9.38%) Social Skills
3 7 (5.47%) Advertising
3 7 (5.47%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.91%) Finance
5 2 (1.56%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.78%) Law
6 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.78%) Military
Job Titles
1 32 (25.00%) Developer
2 25 (19.53%) Java Developer
3 24 (18.75%) Architect
4 19 (14.84%) Network Architect
5 11 (8.59%) Senior
6 9 (7.03%) Designer
6 9 (7.03%) Network Designer
6 9 (7.03%) Network Engineer
6 9 (7.03%) Support Engineer
7 8 (6.25%) Lead
7 8 (6.25%) Software Engineer
8 7 (5.47%) WAN Engineer
9 6 (4.69%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 6 (4.69%) Consultant
9 6 (4.69%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 5 (3.91%) Mechanical Engineer
10 5 (3.91%) Microsoft Developer
10 5 (3.91%) Technical Engineer
10 5 (3.91%) Technical Support
10 5 (3.91%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (19.53%) Spring
1 25 (19.53%) Spring Boot
2 24 (18.75%) Web Services
3 23 (17.97%) REST
4 21 (16.41%) Apache Camel
5 17 (13.28%) SOAP
6 16 (12.50%) RESTful
7 13 (10.16%) J2EE
8 12 (9.38%) ActiveMQ
9 11 (8.59%) Hibernate
10 8 (6.25%) HTML
10 8 (6.25%) jQuery
10 8 (6.25%) WireMock
11 5 (3.91%) AngularJS
12 4 (3.13%) 802.1X
12 4 (3.13%) Bootstrap
12 4 (3.13%) JPA
13 3 (2.34%) PowerMock
13 3 (2.34%) Spring Batch
13 3 (2.34%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 23 (17.97%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (6.25%) Algorithms
3 7 (5.47%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.91%) CESG
4 5 (3.91%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.13%) PKI
6 3 (2.34%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.56%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.78%) CCTV
8 1 (0.78%) Fibre Optics
8 1 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (18.75%) Linux
2 15 (11.72%) Windows
3 9 (7.03%) Unix
4 6 (4.69%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.13%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.56%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (23.44%) Agile
2 27 (21.09%) Microservices
3 25 (19.53%) Scrum
3 25 (19.53%) TDD
4 24 (18.75%) BDD
4 24 (18.75%) Kanban
5 21 (16.41%) DevOps
6 16 (12.50%) Network Management
7 12 (9.38%) CI/CD
7 12 (9.38%) Computer Science
7 12 (9.38%) Software Engineering
8 11 (8.59%) Collaborative Working
8 11 (8.59%) Open Source
9 9 (7.03%) Full-Stack Development
9 9 (7.03%) Mathematics
9 9 (7.03%) Mentoring
9 9 (7.03%) Physics
9 9 (7.03%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (7.03%) Technical Leadership
10 8 (6.25%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (21.09%) Java
2 22 (17.19%) Python
3 13 (10.16%) Shell Script
4 9 (7.03%) Bash
5 8 (6.25%) C
5 8 (6.25%) C++
5 8 (6.25%) Fortran
5 8 (6.25%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.34%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.34%) SQL
7 1 (0.78%) C#
7 1 (0.78%) Groovy
7 1 (0.78%) Perl
7 1 (0.78%) PL/1
7 1 (0.78%) X++
Qualifications
1 106 (82.81%) SC Cleared
2 18 (14.06%) DV Cleared
3 15 (11.72%) Degree
4 10 (7.81%) CCNP
4 10 (7.81%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (6.25%) Master's Degree
5 8 (6.25%) PhD
6 7 (5.47%) CCNA
6 7 (5.47%) CISSP
7 6 (4.69%) JNCIS
8 5 (3.91%) CESG Certified Professional
9 4 (3.13%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 3 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.56%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (1.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.78%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (13.28%) SLA
2 6 (4.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.91%) COSHH
4 3 (2.34%) GDPR
5 2 (1.56%) Def Stans
5 2 (1.56%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.56%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.78%) ISO 9000
6 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 1 (0.78%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.78%) QA
6 1 (0.78%) RMADS
System Software
1 31 (24.22%) Docker
2 12 (9.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (7.81%) Active Directory
4 5 (3.91%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (3.91%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (3.13%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.56%) NFS
6 2 (1.56%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (1.56%) vSphere
7 1 (0.78%) Firmware
7 1 (0.78%) vCloud
7 1 (0.78%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (19.53%) Kubernetes
2 19 (14.84%) Ansible
3 8 (6.25%) Kibana
4 6 (4.69%) Terraform
5 4 (3.13%) Nessus
5 4 (3.13%) Proxmox
6 2 (1.56%) Grafana
6 2 (1.56%) PowerCLI
6 2 (1.56%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.56%) SCCM
6 2 (1.56%) SCOM
6 2 (1.56%) SCSM
6 2 (1.56%) vRealize
7 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.78%) Packer
7 1 (0.78%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.78%) VxRail
Vendors
1 37 (28.91%) Cisco
2 36 (28.13%) Juniper
3 23 (17.97%) VMware
4 14 (10.94%) Microsoft
5 10 (7.81%) SevOne
6 8 (6.25%) Dynatrace
6 8 (6.25%) Splunk
7 4 (3.13%) Atlassian
7 4 (3.13%) BMC
7 4 (3.13%) F5
8 3 (2.34%) ADVA
9 2 (1.56%) Meraki
10 1 (0.78%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.78%) Cognos
10 1 (0.78%) Databricks
10 1 (0.78%) Dell
10 1 (0.78%) IBM
10 1 (0.78%) Red Hat