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 10 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 27 17
Rank change year-on-year +20 -10 -11
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 155 36 228
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 11.61% 8.55% 13.60%
As % of the Qualifications category 30.94% 15.13% 28.64%
Number of salaries quoted 138 30 197
10th Percentile £40,875 £27,438 £27,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £35,313 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +15.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £73,750 £78,125 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £97,750 £70,500
South West median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +14.29% -5.41%

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 501 238 796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 37.53% 56.53% 47.49%
Number of salaries quoted 297 131 596
10th Percentile £41,250 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £40,000 £40,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -13.65%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,625 £66,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £80,000
South West median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% -

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 -1 63 £58,750 -16.07% 15
Gloucester -6 24 £60,000 - 10
Tewkesbury +2 10 £67,500 +58.82%
Filton - 4 £28,000 - 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 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (0.65%) OpenStack
1 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 32 (20.65%) Azure
2 19 (12.26%) AWS
3 12 (7.74%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (5.81%) GCP
5 5 (3.23%) Entra ID
6 4 (2.58%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.65%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.23%) DHCP
1 5 (3.23%) DNS
2 3 (1.94%) Firewall
2 3 (1.94%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.29%) LoRaWAN
3 2 (1.29%) LTE
3 2 (1.29%) Network Security
3 2 (1.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.65%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (0.65%) Big Data
2 1 (0.65%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.65%) MySQL
2 1 (0.65%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (3.23%) Git
2 2 (1.29%) Gradle
2 2 (1.29%) JUnit
2 2 (1.29%) Mockito
3 1 (0.65%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.65%) GitLab
3 1 (0.65%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.65%) JMeter
3 1 (0.65%) Postman
3 1 (0.65%) Selenium
3 1 (0.65%) SoapUI
General
1 26 (16.77%) Public Sector
2 16 (10.32%) Social Skills
3 7 (4.52%) Manufacturing
4 5 (3.23%) Advertising
5 4 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.58%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.94%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.94%) Finance
6 3 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.65%) Electronics
7 1 (0.65%) Marketing
7 1 (0.65%) Military
Job Titles
1 36 (23.23%) Software Engineer
2 26 (16.77%) Consultant
2 26 (16.77%) Security Consultant
3 17 (10.97%) Senior
4 16 (10.32%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 12 (7.74%) Analyst
5 12 (7.74%) Cloud Engineer
6 11 (7.10%) Security Engineer
7 9 (5.81%) Business Analyst
7 9 (5.81%) Cloud Security Engineer
8 8 (5.16%) Penetration Tester
8 8 (5.16%) Senior Software Engineer
8 8 (5.16%) Tester
9 6 (3.87%) Administrator
9 6 (3.87%) Developer
9 6 (3.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (3.87%) Java Developer
9 6 (3.87%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
9 6 (3.87%) Systems Administrator
9 6 (3.87%) Vulnerability Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.58%) REST
2 3 (1.94%) Node.js
3 2 (1.29%) gRPC
3 2 (1.29%) Protocol Buffers
3 2 (1.29%) RESTful
4 1 (0.65%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.65%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.65%) React
4 1 (0.65%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.87%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.23%) Blog
2 5 (3.23%) Security Posture
3 4 (2.58%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.94%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (1.94%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.29%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.29%) Blockchain
5 2 (1.29%) CMDB
5 2 (1.29%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.29%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.29%) IoT
5 2 (1.29%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.29%) NB-IoT
5 2 (1.29%) PKI
5 2 (1.29%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.29%) Smartphone
6 1 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 21 (13.55%) Linux
2 10 (6.45%) Windows
3 2 (1.29%) Android
3 2 (1.29%) Unix
3 2 (1.29%) VMS
4 1 (0.65%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (29.03%) Software Engineering
2 36 (23.23%) Cybersecurity
3 25 (16.13%) Penetration Testing
4 20 (12.90%) DevOps
5 17 (10.97%) Security Testing
6 15 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 11 (7.10%) CI/CD
7 11 (7.10%) Cloud Security
7 11 (7.10%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (7.10%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (6.45%) Agile
8 10 (6.45%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (5.81%) Software Testing
9 9 (5.81%) Vulnerability Research
10 8 (5.16%) Containerisation
10 8 (5.16%) Zero Trust
11 7 (4.52%) Full-Stack Development
11 7 (4.52%) Platform Engineering
11 7 (4.52%) Red Team
11 7 (4.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 21 (13.55%) Python
2 18 (11.61%) Java
3 15 (9.68%) C++
4 9 (5.81%) Bash
5 5 (3.23%) C
5 5 (3.23%) PowerShell
5 5 (3.23%) Rust
6 4 (2.58%) Go
6 4 (2.58%) Kotlin
7 3 (1.94%) Elixir
7 3 (1.94%) Erlang
8 2 (1.29%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.65%) C#
Qualifications
1 155 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 61 (39.35%) DV Cleared
3 6 (3.87%) Degree
4 5 (3.23%) CREST Certified
4 5 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.94%) CEH
5 3 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.94%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.94%) OSCP
6 2 (1.29%) CCIE
6 2 (1.29%) CHECK Team Member
6 2 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.65%) CISA
7 1 (0.65%) CISM
7 1 (0.65%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.52%) QA
2 6 (3.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.23%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.58%) SLA
5 2 (1.29%) GDPR
5 2 (1.29%) NIST
6 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.65%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.65%) NCSC
6 1 (0.65%) NIST 800
System Software
1 8 (5.16%) Docker
2 6 (3.87%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.94%) Firmware
4 1 (0.65%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (7.74%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.45%) Terraform
3 8 (5.16%) Ansible
4 7 (4.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (2.58%) Grafana
5 4 (2.58%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.58%) Puppet
6 2 (1.29%) Nagios
7 1 (0.65%) Podman
7 1 (0.65%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 15 (9.68%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.87%) Cisco
3 4 (2.58%) Splunk
4 3 (1.94%) Dell
4 3 (1.94%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.94%) VMware
5 2 (1.29%) CheckPoint
5 2 (1.29%) F5
5 2 (1.29%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.65%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.65%) SAP