SC Cleared Job Trends in Bristol

Security Check (SC) Clearance
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Bristol with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 28 17
Rank change year-on-year +14 -11 +13
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 202 64 213
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 7.19% 5.86% 8.21%
As % of the Qualifications category 39.30% 21.19% 30.60%
Number of salaries quoted 145 53 167
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £51,250 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £61,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -5.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £70,250
90th Percentile £99,500 £94,500 £80,000
South West median annual salary £70,000 £57,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +22.81% - -7.51%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 514 302 696
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 18.30% 27.66% 26.83%
Number of salaries quoted 283 227 493
10th Percentile £29,500 £29,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,125 £40,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,973 £52,600 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.03% -15.84% +4.17%
75th Percentile £82,500 £72,100 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,149 £90,000 £87,500
South West median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% +1.85%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SC Cleared relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

SC Cleared job vacancy trend in Bristol

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SC Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SC Cleared

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Bristol over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in Bristol

SC Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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 10 (4.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.48%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.49%) Confluence
4 2 (0.99%) nginx
4 2 (0.99%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.50%) Apache
5 1 (0.50%) Site Server
Applications
1 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.50%) InDesign
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 59 (29.21%) Azure
2 28 (13.86%) AWS
3 18 (8.91%) GCP
4 10 (4.95%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (2.97%) Serverless
5 6 (2.97%) Slack
6 5 (2.48%) PaaS
7 4 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (1.98%) IaaS
7 4 (1.98%) SaaS
8 3 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (0.99%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (0.99%) Amazon ECR
9 2 (0.99%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (0.99%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.99%) Route 53
9 2 (0.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.50%) GitHub
10 1 (0.50%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.45%) DHCP
1 11 (5.45%) DNS
2 4 (1.98%) Wireless
3 2 (0.99%) 3GPP
3 2 (0.99%) Firewall
3 2 (0.99%) Network Security
3 2 (0.99%) SNMP
3 2 (0.99%) TETRA
3 2 (0.99%) VPN
3 2 (0.99%) WebEx
4 1 (0.50%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (0.50%) Cisco Wireless
4 1 (0.50%) MQTT
4 1 (0.50%) NAS
4 1 (0.50%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.50%) Skype
4 1 (0.50%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.50%) Tactical Data Link
4 1 (0.50%) VoIP
4 1 (0.50%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.94%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (2.48%) Hadoop
3 4 (1.98%) Big Data
4 3 (1.49%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.99%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.50%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.50%) DataStage
6 1 (0.50%) GIS
6 1 (0.50%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (3.47%) Git
2 6 (2.97%) JIRA
3 3 (1.49%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (0.99%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.99%) git-flow
5 1 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 52 (25.74%) Social Skills
2 29 (14.36%) Public Sector
3 26 (12.87%) Finance
4 22 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (6.93%) Legal
5 14 (6.93%) Telecoms
6 11 (5.45%) Aerospace
7 5 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.49%) Local Government
8 3 (1.49%) Marketing
9 1 (0.50%) Automotive
9 1 (0.50%) Avionics
9 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.50%) Law
9 1 (0.50%) Military
9 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 64 (31.68%) Architect
2 36 (17.82%) Senior
3 33 (16.34%) Solutions Architect
4 26 (12.87%) Consultant
5 22 (10.89%) Security Architect
6 21 (10.40%) Systems Engineer
7 20 (9.90%) Digital Architect
7 20 (9.90%) Digital Solutions Architect
8 19 (9.41%) Security Consultant
9 16 (7.92%) Developer
10 11 (5.45%) Auditor
10 11 (5.45%) Security Auditor
11 9 (4.46%) Azure Architect
11 9 (4.46%) Senior Architect
11 9 (4.46%) Senior Consultant
11 9 (4.46%) Senior Security Consultant
12 8 (3.96%) Senior Digital Architect
12 8 (3.96%) Senior Solutions Architect
13 7 (3.47%) Data Engineer
13 7 (3.47%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.98%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (1.49%) .NET
3 2 (0.99%) AngularJS
3 2 (0.99%) AWS CDK
3 2 (0.99%) Kafka
3 2 (0.99%) Node.js
3 2 (0.99%) OAuth
3 2 (0.99%) OpenID
3 2 (0.99%) React
4 1 (0.50%) Apache Beam
4 1 (0.50%) Bootstrap
4 1 (0.50%) CSS3
4 1 (0.50%) Express.js
4 1 (0.50%) hapi
4 1 (0.50%) HTML5
4 1 (0.50%) HTML5 Boilerplate
4 1 (0.50%) NestJS
4 1 (0.50%) REST
4 1 (0.50%) RESTful
4 1 (0.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.95%) Blog
1 10 (4.95%) Cloud Native
1 10 (4.95%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (4.46%) Onboarding
3 7 (3.47%) Security Posture
4 6 (2.97%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.98%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.98%) PKI
6 3 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.49%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.99%) Raspberry Pi
8 1 (0.50%) ARM Cortex
8 1 (0.50%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.50%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.50%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.50%) IoT
8 1 (0.50%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.50%) NHS
8 1 (0.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 22 (10.89%) Linux
2 18 (8.91%) Windows
3 11 (5.45%) Windows Server
4 10 (4.95%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (1.49%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.50%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (22.77%) Cybersecurity
2 38 (18.81%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (15.35%) Agile
4 26 (12.87%) DevOps
5 21 (10.40%) CI/CD
5 21 (10.40%) Risk Management
6 19 (9.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 17 (8.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (6.93%) Mentoring
8 14 (6.93%) Systems Engineering
9 13 (6.44%) Customer Experience
9 13 (6.44%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (6.44%) Migration
9 13 (6.44%) Observability
9 13 (6.44%) Software Engineering
10 12 (5.94%) TOGAF
11 11 (5.45%) Configuration Management
11 11 (5.45%) Security Architecture
11 11 (5.45%) Technical Leadership
11 11 (5.45%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 18 (8.91%) Python
2 9 (4.46%) JavaScript
3 6 (2.97%) SQL
4 5 (2.48%) Bash
4 5 (2.48%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.98%) C#
5 4 (1.98%) Java
6 3 (1.49%) C++
6 3 (1.49%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.99%) Go
7 2 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.99%) Objective-C
7 2 (0.99%) Scala
8 1 (0.50%) C
8 1 (0.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 202 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 60 (29.70%) DV Cleared
3 14 (6.93%) CISSP
3 14 (6.93%) Degree
4 13 (6.44%) CISM
5 9 (4.46%) AWS Certification
5 9 (4.46%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (3.47%) TOGAF Certification
7 4 (1.98%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.98%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 2 (0.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (0.99%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.99%) CASP
8 2 (0.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.50%) CIPD
9 1 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.50%) CRISC
9 1 (0.50%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (10.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (8.42%) NIST
3 14 (6.93%) Cyber Essentials
3 14 (6.93%) PCI DSS
4 12 (5.94%) NCSC
5 7 (3.47%) Accessibility
6 6 (2.97%) GRC
7 5 (2.48%) SLA
8 4 (1.98%) Def Stans
8 4 (1.98%) GDPR
8 4 (1.98%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.99%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.99%) JSP 440
9 2 (0.99%) PMO
10 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.50%) HAZOP
10 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.50%) JTAG
10 1 (0.50%) QA
System Software
1 15 (7.43%) Active Directory
2 10 (4.95%) Hyper-V
2 10 (4.95%) Terminal Server
3 9 (4.46%) Docker
4 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (7.43%) Terraform
2 12 (5.94%) Ansible
3 5 (2.48%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.99%) Nagios
4 2 (0.99%) Netcool
4 2 (0.99%) Puppet
4 2 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.99%) Tivoli
4 2 (0.99%) ZABBIX
5 1 (0.50%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.50%) Proxmox
5 1 (0.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 31 (15.35%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.94%) SolarWinds
3 11 (5.45%) Splunk
3 11 (5.45%) VMware
4 10 (4.95%) Brocade
4 10 (4.95%) Nimble Storage
4 10 (4.95%) Tanium
4 10 (4.95%) Veeam
5 4 (1.98%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.49%) Google
7 2 (0.99%) Aruba
7 2 (0.99%) BMC
7 2 (0.99%) Cisco
7 2 (0.99%) Databricks
7 2 (0.99%) Fortinet
7 2 (0.99%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.50%) Adobe
8 1 (0.50%) EMC
8 1 (0.50%) HP
8 1 (0.50%) Juniper