Security Cleared Jobs in Cheltenham

Security Clearance
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cheltenham with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +13
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 44 153 83
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 48.35% 39.84% 26.77%
As % of the Qualifications category 84.62% 77.66% 63.36%
Number of salaries quoted 32 125 58
10th Percentile £50,000 £45,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £51,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% -11.11% +23.77%
75th Percentile £96,250 £81,500 £80,938
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £84,675
Gloucestershire median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +18.18%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 52 197 131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 57.14% 51.30% 42.26%
Number of salaries quoted 37 158 78
10th Percentile £49,000 £37,500 £43,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,375 £50,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -8.40% +24.76%
75th Percentile £91,250 £80,625 £78,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,875 £82,950
Gloucestershire median annual salary £52,600 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +0.19% -13.65% +19.22%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Cheltenham

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Salary Trend in Cheltenham

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

Salary trend for Security Cleared in Cheltenham

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Salary Histogram in Cheltenham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in Cheltenham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 (2.27%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 22 (50.00%) AWS
2 7 (15.91%) Azure
2 7 (15.91%) Serverless
3 4 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (6.82%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (6.82%) Amazon S3
5 2 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.27%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.27%) GCP
6 1 (2.27%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.82%) OSPF
1 3 (6.82%) VPN
2 2 (4.55%) IPv4
2 2 (4.55%) VLAN
3 1 (2.27%) BGP
3 1 (2.27%) LAN
3 1 (2.27%) MPLS
3 1 (2.27%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (4.55%) Big Data
1 2 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.27%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.27%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.27%) Neo4j
2 1 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (9.09%) GitLab
2 3 (6.82%) Cypress.io
3 2 (4.55%) Git
4 1 (2.27%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.27%) JUnit
General
1 10 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.64%) Public Sector
3 4 (9.09%) Finance
3 4 (9.09%) Marketing
3 4 (9.09%) Telecoms
4 2 (4.55%) Electronics
4 2 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.55%) Law
4 2 (4.55%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (20.45%) Senior
2 8 (18.18%) Developer
3 6 (13.64%) Cloud Engineer
3 6 (13.64%) Lead
3 6 (13.64%) Software Engineer
4 5 (11.36%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Software Developer
6 3 (6.82%) Data Scientist
6 3 (6.82%) Senior Developer
6 3 (6.82%) Senior Software Developer
6 3 (6.82%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Test Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Vulnerability Researcher
7 2 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Business Development Executive
7 2 (4.55%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (4.55%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.45%) React
2 4 (9.09%) Spring Boot
3 3 (6.82%) AngularJS
4 2 (4.55%) Kafka
4 2 (4.55%) Spring
4 2 (4.55%) Vue
5 1 (2.27%) Android Jetpack
5 1 (2.27%) AWS CDK
5 1 (2.27%) HTML
5 1 (2.27%) Jetpack Compose
5 1 (2.27%) MERN Stack
5 1 (2.27%) Node.js
5 1 (2.27%) NumPy
5 1 (2.27%) OAuth
5 1 (2.27%) OAuth2
5 1 (2.27%) OpenAPI
5 1 (2.27%) Pandas
5 1 (2.27%) REST
5 1 (2.27%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.09%) Private Cloud
2 3 (6.82%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.55%) Cyberattack
3 2 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.55%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.55%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.27%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.27%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.27%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.91%) Linux
2 2 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (4.55%) Windows
3 1 (2.27%) Android
3 1 (2.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (36.36%) DevOps
2 11 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 10 (22.73%) Agile
3 10 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 7 (15.91%) Containerisation
5 7 (15.91%) Full-Stack Development
6 6 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (11.36%) Mentoring
7 5 (11.36%) Microservices
7 5 (11.36%) Test Automation
8 4 (9.09%) Mathematics
9 3 (6.82%) Artificial Intelligence
9 3 (6.82%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (6.82%) Computer Science
9 3 (6.82%) Configuration Management
9 3 (6.82%) Machine Learning
9 3 (6.82%) Scrum
9 3 (6.82%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 17 (38.64%) Python
2 16 (36.36%) Java
3 12 (27.27%) JavaScript
4 10 (22.73%) TypeScript
5 5 (11.36%) C++
6 3 (6.82%) R
7 2 (4.55%) Bash
7 2 (4.55%) Go
7 2 (4.55%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.27%) C
8 1 (2.27%) Kotlin
8 1 (2.27%) MATLAB
8 1 (2.27%) Rust
8 1 (2.27%) Scala
8 1 (2.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (72.73%) DV Cleared
2 14 (31.82%) SC Cleared
3 7 (15.91%) Degree
4 4 (9.09%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.27%) CCIE
6 1 (2.27%) CCNP
6 1 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.27%) CISM
6 1 (2.27%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (2.27%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.27%) ISO 14001
2 1 (2.27%) ISO 9001
2 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (2.27%) NIST
2 1 (2.27%) QA
System Software
1 17 (38.64%) Docker
2 1 (2.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 14 (31.82%) Kubernetes
2 8 (18.18%) Terraform
3 6 (13.64%) Ansible
4 3 (6.82%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (4.55%) Puppet
6 1 (2.27%) Kibana
6 1 (2.27%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (4.55%) Oracle
1 2 (4.55%) Red Hat
1 2 (4.55%) SAP
2 1 (2.27%) CheckPoint
2 1 (2.27%) Cisco
2 1 (2.27%) Citrix
2 1 (2.27%) F5
2 1 (2.27%) Fortinet
2 1 (2.27%) IBM
2 1 (2.27%) Palo Alto