SC Cleared Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Security Check (SC) Clearance
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 18 16
Rank change year-on-year +11 -2 -10
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 214 54 194
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 11.73% 9.47% 12.65%
As % of the Qualifications category 31.61% 19.49% 27.87%
Number of salaries quoted 154 39 158
10th Percentile £45,000 £34,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £35,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,750 £65,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +25.00% -21.51%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,500 £70,375
South West median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +21.74% +4.55% -12.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 677 277 696
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 37.12% 48.60% 45.40%
Number of salaries quoted 437 160 530
10th Percentile £41,250 £27,500 £30,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £41,438 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.45% - -9.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £81,500
South West median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% +1.29%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

SC Cleared job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing SC Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing SC Cleared

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 20 July 2026.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in Gloucestershire

SC Cleared
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 20 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cheltenham +5 83 £58,750 -12.96% 9
Gloucester -9 51 £70,000 +1.82% 13
Tewkesbury -3 4 £52,500 +23.53% 2
SC Cleared
South West

SC Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 5 (2.34%) Confluence
2 3 (1.40%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.93%) Apache
3 2 (0.93%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 47 (21.96%) Azure
2 27 (12.62%) AWS
3 13 (6.07%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (4.67%) Entra ID
4 10 (4.67%) GCP
5 9 (4.21%) OpenShift
6 6 (2.80%) Serverless
7 5 (2.34%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (2.34%) Azure AKS
7 5 (2.34%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 5 (2.34%) PaaS
8 4 (1.87%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (1.87%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (1.87%) Miro
9 3 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.93%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.47%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.47%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.67%) Software-Defined Radio
2 8 (3.74%) Network Security
3 7 (3.27%) VPN
4 4 (1.87%) DHCP
4 4 (1.87%) DNS
5 3 (1.40%) LoRaWAN
5 3 (1.40%) LTE
6 2 (0.93%) AMQP
6 2 (0.93%) Firewall
6 2 (0.93%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.47%) NGN
7 1 (0.47%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.47%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.74%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.87%) Big Data
4 2 (0.93%) Cloudera CDH
4 2 (0.93%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.93%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.93%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.47%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.47%) MySQL
5 1 (0.47%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (2.34%) Git
1 5 (2.34%) JIRA
2 3 (1.40%) GitLab
2 3 (1.40%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.93%) Burp Suite
3 2 (0.93%) Gradle
3 2 (0.93%) JUnit
3 2 (0.93%) Metasploit
3 2 (0.93%) Mockito
4 1 (0.47%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.47%) JMeter
4 1 (0.47%) Postman
4 1 (0.47%) Selenium
4 1 (0.47%) SoapUI
General
1 26 (12.15%) Social Skills
2 22 (10.28%) Public Sector
3 16 (7.48%) Finance
4 4 (1.87%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (1.40%) Aerospace
5 3 (1.40%) Games
5 3 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (1.40%) Military
5 3 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (1.40%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.47%) Advertising
6 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 46 (21.50%) Software Engineer
2 24 (11.21%) Cloud Engineer
3 21 (9.81%) Senior
4 19 (8.88%) Consultant
5 18 (8.41%) Administrator
5 18 (8.41%) Systems Administrator
6 16 (7.48%) Security Consultant
7 12 (5.61%) Developer
7 12 (5.61%) Security Engineer
8 11 (5.14%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 11 (5.14%) Penetration Tester
8 11 (5.14%) Python Engineer
8 11 (5.14%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 11 (5.14%) Tester
9 10 (4.67%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 10 (4.67%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (4.21%) Senior Software Engineer
11 8 (3.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (3.27%) Cloud Native Engineer
12 7 (3.27%) Vulnerability Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.34%) Kafka
1 5 (2.34%) Node.js
2 4 (1.87%) gRPC
2 4 (1.87%) Keycloak
2 4 (1.87%) REST
3 3 (1.40%) AngularJS
3 3 (1.40%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (1.40%) React
4 2 (0.93%) Material-UI
4 2 (0.93%) OpenAPI
4 2 (0.93%) Protocol Buffers
4 2 (0.93%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (0.93%) RESTful
4 2 (0.93%) Spring
4 2 (0.93%) Spring Boot
4 2 (0.93%) Swagger
5 1 (0.47%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (0.47%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.48%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (4.67%) Embedded Systems
4 7 (3.27%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.34%) Blog
5 5 (2.34%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.34%) FPGA
5 5 (2.34%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.34%) Operational Technology
5 5 (2.34%) Security Posture
5 5 (2.34%) Verilog
5 5 (2.34%) VHDL
6 4 (1.87%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.40%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.40%) IoT
7 3 (1.40%) NB-IoT
7 3 (1.40%) Virtual Reality
8 2 (0.93%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.93%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 31 (14.49%) Linux
2 10 (4.67%) Unix
2 10 (4.67%) Windows
3 9 (4.21%) Android
4 5 (2.34%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.93%) CentOS
5 2 (0.93%) Debian
5 2 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.93%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.93%) VMS
6 1 (0.47%) Rocky
6 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (24.30%) Software Engineering
2 38 (17.76%) DevOps
3 35 (16.36%) Cybersecurity
4 28 (13.08%) Agile
5 22 (10.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 21 (9.81%) Cloud Security
6 21 (9.81%) Penetration Testing
7 20 (9.35%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (7.94%) CI/CD
8 17 (7.94%) Security Testing
9 16 (7.48%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (6.54%) Containerisation
11 13 (6.07%) Test Automation
12 12 (5.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 12 (5.61%) Vulnerability Research
13 11 (5.14%) Platform Engineering
13 11 (5.14%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (4.67%) DevSecOps
14 10 (4.67%) Zero Trust
15 9 (4.21%) Android Development
Programming Languages
1 36 (16.82%) Python
2 25 (11.68%) C++
3 23 (10.75%) Java
4 10 (4.67%) Go
5 8 (3.74%) Bash
6 7 (3.27%) Rust
7 5 (2.34%) Bicep
7 5 (2.34%) C
7 5 (2.34%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.87%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.87%) Scala
9 3 (1.40%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.47%) C#
10 1 (0.47%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 214 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 97 (45.33%) DV Cleared
3 9 (4.21%) Degree
4 8 (3.74%) CREST Certified
5 7 (3.27%) OSCP
6 5 (2.34%) CEH
6 5 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.87%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.40%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.93%) CCIE
9 2 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.93%) CISSP
10 1 (0.47%) CCNP
10 1 (0.47%) CHECK Team Member
10 1 (0.47%) CISA
10 1 (0.47%) CISM
10 1 (0.47%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.80%) PCI DSS
2 6 (2.80%) QA
3 3 (1.40%) GDPR
3 3 (1.40%) NIST
3 3 (1.40%) SLA
4 2 (0.93%) NCSC
5 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.47%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.47%) NIST 800
System Software
1 14 (6.54%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.74%) Firmware
3 7 (3.27%) Docker
3 7 (3.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.47%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.47%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (10.28%) Kubernetes
2 21 (9.81%) Terraform
3 14 (6.54%) Ansible
4 7 (3.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (3.27%) Puppet
5 2 (0.93%) Grafana
5 2 (0.93%) Nessus
5 2 (0.93%) Nmap
5 2 (0.93%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.47%) Nagios
6 1 (0.47%) Packer
6 1 (0.47%) Podman
6 1 (0.47%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (9.81%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.21%) VMware
3 6 (2.80%) Cisco
3 6 (2.80%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.40%) Dell
5 2 (0.93%) Google
5 2 (0.93%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.47%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.47%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.47%) F5
6 1 (0.47%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.47%) Palo Alto