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

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 1 7
Rank change year-on-year -35 +6 +51
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 111 751 566
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 6.90% 24.57% 18.24%
As % of the Qualifications category 13.14% 54.66% 39.64%
Number of salaries quoted 72 505 299
10th Percentile £38,500 £30,000 £28,615
25th Percentile £47,188 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,550 £45,600
Median % change year-on-year +14.18% +15.24% -29.85%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £77,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £49,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +11.11% -10.12%

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 845 1,374 1,428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 52.52% 44.95% 46.02%
Number of salaries quoted 234 948 571
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 £51,350
Median % change year-on-year +3.04% +7.11% -4.02%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £73,919
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,375 £95,000
South East median annual salary £58,000 £52,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +11.54% +2.97% -3.81%

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 16 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 16 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 -12 57 £70,000 +33.21% 96
Bracknell +13 43 £60,000 +54.84% 20
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 (11.71%) JBoss
1 13 (11.71%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (0.90%) Confluence
2 1 (0.90%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (3.60%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 33 (29.73%) AWS
2 26 (23.42%) Serverless
3 24 (21.62%) Amazon ECS
4 21 (18.92%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (9.01%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (6.31%) Amazon S3
6 7 (6.31%) Azure
7 6 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (5.41%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (4.50%) AWS KMS
9 4 (3.60%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 4 (3.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.80%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (1.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.80%) GCP
10 2 (1.80%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.90%) IaaS
11 1 (0.90%) PaaS
11 1 (0.90%) Route 53
11 1 (0.90%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (16.22%) WAN
2 14 (12.61%) Cisco ISE
3 9 (8.11%) BGP
3 9 (8.11%) IPsec
4 8 (7.21%) Firewall
5 6 (5.41%) MPLS
5 6 (5.41%) SD-WAN
6 5 (4.50%) DNS
6 5 (4.50%) Junos
6 5 (4.50%) LAN
6 5 (4.50%) VLAN
7 4 (3.60%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (3.60%) Cisco Firepower
7 4 (3.60%) Cisco IOS
7 4 (3.60%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (3.60%) HSRP
7 4 (3.60%) OSPF
7 4 (3.60%) Spanning Tree
7 4 (3.60%) SSL
7 4 (3.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (21.62%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (18.02%) Relational Database
3 7 (6.31%) RDBMS
4 3 (2.70%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.80%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.80%) Power BI
6 1 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.90%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.90%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.90%) MySQL
6 1 (0.90%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.90%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 27 (24.32%) Jenkins
2 22 (19.82%) JUnit
3 16 (14.41%) Git
4 9 (8.11%) Mockito
5 7 (6.31%) JMeter
6 5 (4.50%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (2.70%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.80%) JIRA
8 2 (1.80%) Maven
9 1 (0.90%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.90%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.90%) DbUnit
9 1 (0.90%) jMock
General
1 25 (22.52%) Public Sector
2 7 (6.31%) Advertising
3 5 (4.50%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (4.50%) Finance
3 5 (4.50%) Social Skills
4 2 (1.80%) Aerospace
5 1 (0.90%) Law
5 1 (0.90%) Military
Job Titles
1 29 (26.13%) Developer
2 23 (20.72%) Architect
3 22 (19.82%) Java Developer
4 18 (16.22%) Network Architect
5 9 (8.11%) Designer
5 9 (8.11%) Network Designer
5 9 (8.11%) Network Engineer
5 9 (8.11%) Senior
6 8 (7.21%) Software Engineer
7 6 (5.41%) Consultant
7 6 (5.41%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 6 (5.41%) Support Engineer
7 6 (5.41%) WAN Engineer
8 5 (4.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 5 (4.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 5 (4.50%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
8 5 (4.50%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.50%) Microsoft Developer
9 4 (3.60%) Information Specialist
9 4 (3.60%) Senior Information Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (19.82%) REST
1 22 (19.82%) Spring
1 22 (19.82%) Spring Boot
2 21 (18.92%) Web Services
3 20 (18.02%) Apache Camel
4 15 (13.51%) SOAP
5 14 (12.61%) RESTful
6 13 (11.71%) J2EE
7 9 (8.11%) ActiveMQ
8 8 (7.21%) Hibernate
9 7 (6.31%) HTML
9 7 (6.31%) jQuery
9 7 (6.31%) WireMock
10 4 (3.60%) 802.1X
11 3 (2.70%) AngularJS
11 3 (2.70%) Kafka
12 2 (1.80%) Bootstrap
12 2 (1.80%) JPA
13 1 (0.90%) .NET Framework
13 1 (0.90%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 21 (18.92%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (7.21%) Algorithms
3 5 (4.50%) CESG
3 5 (4.50%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.60%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.70%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.90%) CCTV
6 1 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.90%) PKI
6 1 (0.90%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (17.12%) Linux
2 9 (8.11%) Unix
3 8 (7.21%) Windows
4 4 (3.60%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.80%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.80%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (25.23%) Agile
2 24 (21.62%) Microservices
3 23 (20.72%) Scrum
4 22 (19.82%) DevOps
4 22 (19.82%) Kanban
4 22 (19.82%) TDD
5 21 (18.92%) BDD
6 16 (14.41%) Network Management
7 12 (10.81%) CI/CD
7 12 (10.81%) Full-Stack Development
8 11 (9.91%) Software Engineering
9 10 (9.01%) Collaborative Working
9 10 (9.01%) Computer Science
10 9 (8.11%) Open Source
11 8 (7.21%) Mathematics
11 8 (7.21%) Parallel Programming
11 8 (7.21%) Performance Analysis
11 8 (7.21%) Physics
11 8 (7.21%) SDLC
11 8 (7.21%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (21.62%) Java
2 20 (18.02%) Python
3 12 (10.81%) Shell Script
4 8 (7.21%) Bash
4 8 (7.21%) C
4 8 (7.21%) C++
4 8 (7.21%) Fortran
5 7 (6.31%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.60%) SQL
7 2 (1.80%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.90%) C#
8 1 (0.90%) Groovy
8 1 (0.90%) Perl
8 1 (0.90%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.90%) X++
Qualifications
1 92 (82.88%) SC Cleared
2 16 (14.41%) DV Cleared
3 12 (10.81%) Degree
4 10 (9.01%) CCNP
4 10 (9.01%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (7.21%) Master's Degree
5 8 (7.21%) PhD
6 7 (6.31%) CCNA
6 7 (6.31%) CISSP
7 6 (5.41%) JNCIS
8 5 (4.50%) CESG Certified Professional
9 4 (3.60%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 2 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.80%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (1.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.90%) MCSA
11 1 (0.90%) MCSE
11 1 (0.90%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (15.32%) SLA
2 5 (4.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.70%) COSHH
4 2 (1.80%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.90%) GDPR
5 1 (0.90%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.90%) ISO 9000
5 1 (0.90%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.90%) QA
5 1 (0.90%) RMADS
5 1 (0.90%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (25.23%) Docker
2 10 (9.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (5.41%) Active Directory
4 5 (4.50%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (3.60%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.80%) vSphere
8 1 (0.90%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.90%) NFS
8 1 (0.90%) vCloud
8 1 (0.90%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.90%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 24 (21.62%) Kubernetes
2 18 (16.22%) Ansible
3 7 (6.31%) Kibana
4 5 (4.50%) Terraform
5 4 (3.60%) Nessus
5 4 (3.60%) Proxmox
6 2 (1.80%) Grafana
6 2 (1.80%) PowerCLI
6 2 (1.80%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.80%) SCCM
6 2 (1.80%) SCOM
6 2 (1.80%) SCSM
6 2 (1.80%) vCenter Server
6 2 (1.80%) vRealize
7 1 (0.90%) Packer
7 1 (0.90%) VxRail
Vendors
1 36 (32.43%) Juniper
2 34 (30.63%) Cisco
3 21 (18.92%) VMware
4 10 (9.01%) Microsoft
4 10 (9.01%) SevOne
5 7 (6.31%) Dynatrace
5 7 (6.31%) Splunk
6 4 (3.60%) BMC
6 4 (3.60%) F5
7 3 (2.70%) ADVA
8 2 (1.80%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.90%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.90%) Cognos
9 1 (0.90%) Databricks
9 1 (0.90%) Dell
9 1 (0.90%) IBM
9 1 (0.90%) Meraki
9 1 (0.90%) Oracle
9 1 (0.90%) Red Hat