Security Cleared Jobs in Bristol

Security Clearance
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Bristol with a requirement for Security 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 45 3 12
Rank change year-on-year -42 +9 -4
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 70 591 403
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 5.65% 19.06% 15.51%
As % of the Qualifications category 11.93% 56.56% 44.04%
Number of salaries quoted 55 403 167
10th Percentile £50,500 £45,000 £32,650
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +13.04% -8.59%
75th Percentile £82,500 £71,875 £73,650
90th Percentile £91,250 £89,500 £81,750
South West median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 587 1,045 915
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 47.38% 33.70% 35.22%
Number of salaries quoted 366 752 462
10th Percentile £36,875 £36,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £47,603 £47,500 £40,644
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £60,000 £55,250
Median % change year-on-year -12.33% +8.60% +4.03%
75th Percentile £61,250 £70,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £84,456
South West median annual salary £52,600 £53,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.68% +1.90% +5.00%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Bristol

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Salary Trend in Bristol

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

Salary trend for Security Cleared in Bristol

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Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Bristol over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in Bristol

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 1 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Windchill
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 22 (31.43%) Azure
2 21 (30.00%) AWS
3 3 (4.29%) GCP
3 3 (4.29%) Serverless
4 2 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (2.86%) Amazon S3
4 2 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.86%) Pulumi
5 1 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.43%) Dagster
5 1 (1.43%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.43%) OCI
5 1 (1.43%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.43%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.43%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.14%) VPN
2 4 (5.71%) Firewall
2 4 (5.71%) LAN
2 4 (5.71%) Network Security
2 4 (5.71%) WAN
3 2 (2.86%) BGP
3 2 (2.86%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (2.86%) DHCP
3 2 (2.86%) DNS
3 2 (2.86%) EIGRP
3 2 (2.86%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (2.86%) MPLS
3 2 (2.86%) OSPF
3 2 (2.86%) SD-WAN
3 2 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.43%) Broadband
4 1 (1.43%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.43%) Intranet
4 1 (1.43%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 3 (4.29%) NoSQL
2 3 (4.29%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.86%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.43%) MySQL
4 1 (1.43%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (1.43%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (4.29%) GitLab
2 2 (2.86%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.86%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (1.43%) Git
3 1 (1.43%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 15 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 12 (17.14%) Public Sector
3 7 (10.00%) Aerospace
3 7 (10.00%) Finance
3 7 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 7 (10.00%) Military
4 5 (7.14%) Electronics
4 5 (7.14%) Marketing
5 4 (5.71%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.29%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.86%) Local Government
8 1 (1.43%) Back Office
8 1 (1.43%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (17.14%) Software Engineer
2 10 (14.29%) Architect
3 9 (12.86%) Lead
4 8 (11.43%) Consultant
4 8 (11.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 8 (11.43%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 6 (8.57%) Systems Engineer
6 5 (7.14%) Developer
6 5 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (5.71%) Data Consultant
7 4 (5.71%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 4 (5.71%) Java Developer
7 4 (5.71%) Lead Systems Engineer
7 4 (5.71%) Project Engineer
7 4 (5.71%) Project Leader
7 4 (5.71%) Senior
8 3 (4.29%) Coordinator
8 3 (4.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Security Assurance Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (18.57%) React
2 7 (10.00%) AngularJS
2 7 (10.00%) Vue
3 6 (8.57%) Kafka
3 6 (8.57%) Spring
3 6 (8.57%) Spring Boot
4 3 (4.29%) Node.js
4 3 (4.29%) RESTful
5 2 (2.86%) .NET
6 1 (1.43%) CSS
6 1 (1.43%) CSS3
6 1 (1.43%) HTML
6 1 (1.43%) HTML5
6 1 (1.43%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.43%) Cloud Native
1 8 (11.43%) Private Cloud
2 5 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.29%) e-Learning
4 2 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.86%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.43%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.43%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.43%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.57%) Linux
2 4 (5.71%) Windows
3 2 (2.86%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.43%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (1.43%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (31.43%) Agile
2 19 (27.14%) Software Engineering
3 13 (18.57%) Full-Stack Development
4 12 (17.14%) Analytics
5 11 (15.71%) Business Intelligence
5 11 (15.71%) Cybersecurity
5 11 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (15.71%) Roadmaps
6 8 (11.43%) Business Case
7 7 (10.00%) Mentoring
8 6 (8.57%) Systems Engineering
8 6 (8.57%) TOGAF
9 5 (7.14%) API Integration
9 5 (7.14%) Change Management
9 5 (7.14%) CI/CD
9 5 (7.14%) Data Analytics
9 5 (7.14%) DevOps
9 5 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 4 (5.71%) Data Governance
10 4 (5.71%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (22.86%) Java
2 9 (12.86%) JavaScript
3 8 (11.43%) Python
4 3 (4.29%) SQL
5 2 (2.86%) C#
5 2 (2.86%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.43%) Ada
6 1 (1.43%) C++
6 1 (1.43%) Go
6 1 (1.43%) Rust
Qualifications
1 48 (68.57%) SC Cleared
2 10 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 9 (12.86%) Degree
4 4 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (4.29%) PhD
6 2 (2.86%) CCNA
6 2 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.86%) CISSP
7 1 (1.43%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.43%) CESG Certified Professional
7 1 (1.43%) CISM
7 1 (1.43%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (1.43%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.43%) MCSA
7 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.43%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.43%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.43%) PMP
7 1 (1.43%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 1 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.43%) Def Stans
2 5 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (7.14%) NIST
3 3 (4.29%) RMADS
3 3 (4.29%) SLA
4 2 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (2.86%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.86%) GDPR
4 2 (2.86%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.43%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.43%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.43%) JSP 440
5 1 (1.43%) MISRA
5 1 (1.43%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.86%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.43%) Docker
2 1 (1.43%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (5.71%) Terraform
2 3 (4.29%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.86%) Ansible
4 1 (1.43%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.43%) QRadar
Vendors
1 8 (11.43%) VMware
2 5 (7.14%) Cisco
2 5 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.71%) SAP
4 3 (4.29%) Juniper
4 3 (4.29%) Oracle
4 3 (4.29%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.86%) F5
5 2 (2.86%) Fortinet
5 2 (2.86%) PTC
5 2 (2.86%) SolarWinds
5 2 (2.86%) Sparx
6 1 (1.43%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.43%) Google
6 1 (1.43%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.43%) Splunk