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 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 35 29
Rank change year-on-year +22 -6 -2
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 140 82 142
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 6.74% 5.92% 8.00%
As % of the Qualifications category 22.22% 18.39% 29.71%
Number of salaries quoted 103 46 111
10th Percentile £47,500 £30,750 £41,619
25th Percentile £51,500 £52,500 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,938 £68,750
90th Percentile £86,200 £90,625 £75,000
South West median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £51,716
% change year-on-year - +16.02% -3.33%

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 630 446 478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 30.35% 32.20% 26.91%
Number of salaries quoted 419 234 359
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,750 £36,220
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,843 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £81,500 £83,750 £85,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -0.79%

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 14 January 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 12 (8.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.14%) Tomcat
2 3 (2.14%) WebLogic
2 3 (2.14%) WebLogic Portal
3 2 (1.43%) Apache
3 2 (1.43%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.43%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.71%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 5 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (6.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.86%) Primavera
3 3 (2.14%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.71%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 34 (24.29%) Azure
2 20 (14.29%) AWS
3 16 (11.43%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (2.86%) Serverless
6 3 (2.14%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (2.14%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.14%) GCP
6 3 (2.14%) OCI
6 3 (2.14%) OpenShift
6 3 (2.14%) SaaS
7 2 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.43%) IaaS
7 2 (1.43%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.43%) PaaS
8 1 (0.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.71%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.71%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.71%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.57%) DHCP
1 12 (8.57%) DNS
2 8 (5.71%) Firewall
3 5 (3.57%) Structured Cabling
3 5 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (2.86%) Network Security
5 3 (2.14%) AMQP
5 3 (2.14%) BGP
5 3 (2.14%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (2.14%) Cisco Firepower
5 3 (2.14%) EIGRP
5 3 (2.14%) HSRP
5 3 (2.14%) IPsec
5 3 (2.14%) OSPF
5 3 (2.14%) VPN
6 1 (0.71%) DMZ
6 1 (0.71%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.71%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.14%) InfluxDB
2 3 (2.14%) Oracle Database
2 3 (2.14%) Oracle Discoverer
2 3 (2.14%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (2.14%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.43%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.43%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.43%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.71%) Big Data
4 1 (0.71%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.71%) GIS
4 1 (0.71%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.71%) Metadata
4 1 (0.71%) Neo4j
4 1 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.71%) Power BI
4 1 (0.71%) Spark SQL
4 1 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (3.57%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.14%) Git
2 3 (2.14%) GitLab
2 3 (2.14%) Oracle APEX
2 3 (2.14%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (1.43%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.71%) Postman
4 1 (0.71%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.71%) Selenium
General
1 34 (24.29%) Social Skills
2 22 (15.71%) Telecoms
3 20 (14.29%) Manufacturing
4 19 (13.57%) Public Sector
5 18 (12.86%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (11.43%) Finance
6 16 (11.43%) Marketing
7 15 (10.71%) Electronics
8 4 (2.86%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.14%) Aeronautics
9 3 (2.14%) Aviation
9 3 (2.14%) Back Office
10 2 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.71%) Automotive
11 1 (0.71%) Games
11 1 (0.71%) Law
11 1 (0.71%) Legal
11 1 (0.71%) Military
11 1 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (21.43%) Consultant
2 18 (12.86%) Architect
3 17 (12.14%) Systems Engineer
4 13 (9.29%) Security Consultant
5 11 (7.86%) Senior
5 11 (7.86%) Software Engineer
6 7 (5.00%) .NET Software Engineer
6 7 (5.00%) Data Engineer
6 7 (5.00%) Developer
6 7 (5.00%) Senior Consultant
6 7 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (4.29%) Security Architect
7 6 (4.29%) Site Engineer
8 5 (3.57%) Cabling Engineer
8 5 (3.57%) Linux Engineer
9 4 (2.86%) Cybersecurity Consultant
9 4 (2.86%) Functional Consultant
9 4 (2.86%) Remedy Consultant
9 4 (2.86%) Risk Consultant
9 4 (2.86%) Senior Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.43%) SAP CAF
2 7 (5.00%) .NET
2 7 (5.00%) ASP.NET
2 7 (5.00%) React
3 3 (2.14%) Kafka
3 3 (2.14%) ModSecurity
3 3 (2.14%) Oracle ADF
3 3 (2.14%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (2.14%) REST
3 3 (2.14%) WebCenter
4 2 (1.43%) PySpark
5 1 (0.71%) Jest
5 1 (0.71%) NumPy
5 1 (0.71%) Pandas
5 1 (0.71%) Redux
5 1 (0.71%) RESTful
5 1 (0.71%) Spring
5 1 (0.71%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.29%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (3.57%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.57%) Data Centre
2 5 (3.57%) Fibre Optics
3 4 (2.86%) Algorithms
3 4 (2.86%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.14%) Augmented Reality
4 3 (2.14%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.14%) PKI
4 3 (2.14%) Virtual Reality
5 2 (1.43%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.43%) YubiKey
6 1 (0.71%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (0.71%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (0.71%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.71%) Cyberattack
6 1 (0.71%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.71%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.71%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (16.43%) Linux
1 23 (16.43%) Windows
2 16 (11.43%) Windows Server
3 12 (8.57%) Windows Server 2016
4 8 (5.71%) Unix
5 3 (2.14%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.43%) Solaris
7 1 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (17.86%) Cybersecurity
2 22 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (15.71%) Software Engineering
3 21 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
4 17 (12.14%) AI
4 17 (12.14%) Customer Service
4 17 (12.14%) Programme Management
5 15 (10.71%) Agile
5 15 (10.71%) Customer Experience
5 15 (10.71%) Digital Marketing
6 13 (9.29%) Kalman Filter
6 13 (9.29%) Risk Management
7 12 (8.57%) Collaborative Culture
7 12 (8.57%) Containerisation
7 12 (8.57%) Email Filtering
7 12 (8.57%) Migration
7 12 (8.57%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 12 (8.57%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 12 (8.57%) Web Filtering
8 10 (7.14%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (15.71%) Python
2 11 (7.86%) Java
3 9 (6.43%) SQL
4 8 (5.71%) JavaScript
5 7 (5.00%) C#
6 4 (2.86%) Bash
7 3 (2.14%) C++
7 3 (2.14%) Go
7 3 (2.14%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.14%) Shell Script
7 3 (2.14%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.71%) Bicep
8 1 (0.71%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 140 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 24 (17.14%) DV Cleared
3 22 (15.71%) Degree
4 12 (8.57%) CISSP
5 11 (7.86%) CISM
6 9 (6.43%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 6 (4.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (2.86%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (2.14%) AWS Certification
9 3 (2.14%) Azure Certification
9 3 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.14%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.71%) CAPM
10 1 (0.71%) CHECK Team Member
10 1 (0.71%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.71%) MAPM
10 1 (0.71%) OSCP
10 1 (0.71%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.71%) Cyber Essentials
1 15 (10.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 15 (10.71%) PCI DSS
2 14 (10.00%) NIST
3 9 (6.43%) GRC
4 4 (2.86%) NCSC
5 3 (2.14%) GDPR
5 3 (2.14%) SLA
6 2 (1.43%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.43%) QA
7 1 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.71%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.71%) JSP 440
System Software
1 17 (12.14%) Active Directory
2 12 (8.57%) Hyper-V
2 12 (8.57%) Terminal Server
3 11 (7.86%) Docker
4 4 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (6.43%) Kubernetes
1 9 (6.43%) Terraform
2 5 (3.57%) Ansible
3 3 (2.14%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (2.14%) Grafana
3 3 (2.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (2.14%) Progress Chef
3 3 (2.14%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.43%) WSUS
5 1 (0.71%) Kibana
5 1 (0.71%) Podman
5 1 (0.71%) Puppet
Vendors
1 37 (26.43%) Microsoft
2 18 (12.86%) VMware
3 15 (10.71%) SAP
4 12 (8.57%) Brocade
4 12 (8.57%) Nimble Storage
4 12 (8.57%) SolarWinds
4 12 (8.57%) Splunk
4 12 (8.57%) Tanium
4 12 (8.57%) Veeam
5 9 (6.43%) Salesforce
6 7 (5.00%) Remedy
7 6 (4.29%) Cisco
8 5 (3.57%) Oracle
9 3 (2.14%) CheckPoint
9 3 (2.14%) Google
9 3 (2.14%) IFS
9 3 (2.14%) Palo Alto
9 3 (2.14%) Riverbed
10 2 (1.43%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.43%) Tenable