Security Cleared Job Trends in Glasgow

Security Clearance
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 64 49
Rank change year-on-year +12 -15 -14
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 25 19 45
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 1.69% 2.41% 3.96%
As % of the Qualifications category 16.67% 8.96% 19.40%
Number of salaries quoted 12 17 20
10th Percentile £65,500 £43,050 £31,301
25th Percentile - £58,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% +30.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £90,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £75,023 £99,850 £85,600
Scotland median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £59,115
% change year-on-year +7.69% +9.96% +12.60%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 150 212 232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 10.13% 26.84% 20.40%
Number of salaries quoted 63 74 95
10th Percentile £25,375 £28,250 £36,000
25th Percentile £32,750 £29,438 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £36,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% -34.55% +3.29%
75th Percentile £67,293 £60,938 £76,125
90th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £33,500 £50,309
% change year-on-year +64.18% -33.41% -4.17%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Security Cleared job vacancy trend in Glasgow

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Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Security Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Security Cleared

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Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Glasgow over the 6 months to 8 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in Glasgow

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (8.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (8.00%) AWS
1 2 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (8.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 2 (8.00%) Azure
1 2 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (8.00%) Azure Functions
1 2 (8.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (8.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 2 (8.00%) GitHub
1 2 (8.00%) Serverless
2 1 (4.00%) Google Play
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (8.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (8.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (8.00%) Parquet
1 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Git
2 2 (8.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (8.00%) IntelliJ
2 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.00%) JUnit
2 2 (8.00%) Maven
2 2 (8.00%) Mockito
2 2 (8.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (4.00%) Browser DevTools
General
1 8 (32.00%) Finance
2 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (8.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Aviation
5 1 (4.00%) Law
5 1 (4.00%) Military
5 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Systems Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Administrator
3 2 (8.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Developer
3 2 (8.00%) Java Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Android Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Data Scientist
4 1 (4.00%) Deskside Technician
4 1 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Head of IT
4 1 (4.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Oracle Consultant
4 1 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Risk Manager
4 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) RESTful
2 2 (8.00%) Apache Avro
2 2 (8.00%) CSS
2 2 (8.00%) CSS3
2 2 (8.00%) HTML
2 2 (8.00%) HTML5
2 2 (8.00%) JSON
2 2 (8.00%) PySpark
2 2 (8.00%) React
2 2 (8.00%) Spring
2 2 (8.00%) Spring Batch
2 2 (8.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (8.00%) Spring Cloud
2 2 (8.00%) WireMock
3 1 (4.00%) Android SDK
3 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (4.00%) REST
3 1 (4.00%) Sass
3 1 (4.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (8.00%) PMI
3 1 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.00%) IoT
3 1 (4.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Android
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) Validation
2 8 (32.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 8 (32.00%) Verification and Validation
3 7 (28.00%) Agile
3 7 (28.00%) Software Engineering
4 5 (20.00%) Clean Code
4 5 (20.00%) DevOps
4 5 (20.00%) User Experience
5 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (16.00%) Risk Management
6 3 (12.00%) Analytics
6 3 (12.00%) Code Quality
6 3 (12.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (12.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (12.00%) SDLC
6 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (12.00%) Test Automation
7 2 (8.00%) Customer Experience
7 2 (8.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) Java
2 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (8.00%) Python
2 2 (8.00%) SQL
3 1 (4.00%) Kotlin
3 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (56.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) PMI Certification
3 1 (4.00%) A+ Certification
3 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (12.00%) QA
3 2 (8.00%) Data Quality
4 1 (4.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.00%) Computacenter
2 1 (4.00%) Dell
2 1 (4.00%) Google
2 1 (4.00%) HP
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle