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 17 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 10 19
Rank change year-on-year +4 +9 -13
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 240 62 111
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 11.35% 10.84% 8.93%
As % of the Qualifications category 30.65% 24.51% 21.47%
Number of salaries quoted 167 44 84
10th Percentile £49,200 - £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £35,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +18.18% -11.93%
75th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,000 £83,750 £79,375
South West median annual salary £70,000 £57,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +22.81% -0.87% -7.85%

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 783 253 517
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 37.02% 44.23% 41.59%
Number of salaries quoted 505 176 359
10th Percentile £45,000 £28,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £41,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £82,500
South West median annual salary £60,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +21.00% -9.09% +1.85%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 +5 101 £63,500 -5.93% 26
Gloucester -11 61 £85,000 +54.55% 23
Tewkesbury -2 8 £52,500 -25.00%
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 (2.08%) Confluence
1 5 (2.08%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.25%) Apache
2 3 (1.25%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 46 (19.17%) Azure
2 31 (12.92%) AWS
3 17 (7.08%) OpenShift
4 13 (5.42%) Entra ID
5 12 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (4.17%) GCP
7 9 (3.75%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (3.75%) Serverless
8 8 (3.33%) Azure AKS
8 8 (3.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 7 (2.92%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (2.50%) PaaS
11 4 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.67%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (1.67%) Miro
12 3 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
13 2 (0.83%) Azure DevOps
13 2 (0.83%) GitHub
14 1 (0.42%) Amazon ECS
14 1 (0.42%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.17%) Network Security
1 10 (4.17%) Software-Defined Radio
1 10 (4.17%) VPN
2 3 (1.25%) AMQP
2 3 (1.25%) DHCP
2 3 (1.25%) DNS
2 3 (1.25%) Firewall
2 3 (1.25%) LoRaWAN
2 3 (1.25%) LTE
3 1 (0.42%) NGN
3 1 (0.42%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.42%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.75%) Elasticsearch
1 9 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (1.67%) Big Data
3 3 (1.25%) Cloudera CDH
3 3 (1.25%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.42%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.42%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.42%) Redis
4 1 (0.42%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (2.50%) Git
2 5 (2.08%) GitLab
2 5 (2.08%) JIRA
3 3 (1.25%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.83%) Burp Suite
4 2 (0.83%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.83%) Gradle
4 2 (0.83%) JUnit
4 2 (0.83%) Metasploit
4 2 (0.83%) Mockito
5 1 (0.42%) JMeter
5 1 (0.42%) Mocha
5 1 (0.42%) Postman
5 1 (0.42%) Selenium
5 1 (0.42%) SoapUI
General
1 29 (12.08%) Social Skills
2 24 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 17 (7.08%) Finance
4 8 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (1.67%) Aerospace
6 3 (1.25%) Games
6 3 (1.25%) Military
6 3 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (1.25%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (20.42%) Software Engineer
2 29 (12.08%) Cloud Engineer
3 27 (11.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 25 (10.42%) Senior
5 19 (7.92%) Administrator
5 19 (7.92%) Systems Administrator
6 16 (6.67%) Consultant
7 14 (5.83%) Python Engineer
8 13 (5.42%) Security Consultant
9 12 (5.00%) Data Engineer
9 12 (5.00%) Developer
9 12 (5.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
9 12 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
10 11 (4.58%) Cloud Native Engineer
10 11 (4.58%) Cybersecurity Consultant
10 11 (4.58%) Penetration Tester
10 11 (4.58%) Tester
11 10 (4.17%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 10 (4.17%) Security Engineer
12 8 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.33%) Kafka
2 7 (2.92%) Keycloak
3 6 (2.50%) Node.js
3 6 (2.50%) REST
4 5 (2.08%) gRPC
4 5 (2.08%) OpenAPI
5 4 (1.67%) React
5 4 (1.67%) Swagger
6 3 (1.25%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.25%) Material-UI
6 3 (1.25%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (1.25%) Spring
6 3 (1.25%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.83%) Protocol Buffers
7 2 (0.83%) RESTful
8 1 (0.42%) Android Jetpack
8 1 (0.42%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (0.42%) Jest
8 1 (0.42%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (4.17%) Embedded Systems
4 7 (2.92%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.08%) Blog
5 5 (2.08%) FPGA
5 5 (2.08%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.08%) Operational Technology
5 5 (2.08%) Security Posture
5 5 (2.08%) Verilog
5 5 (2.08%) VHDL
6 4 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.67%) Cloud Security Posture
6 4 (1.67%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.67%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.25%) IoT
7 3 (1.25%) NB-IoT
7 3 (1.25%) Virtual Reality
8 2 (0.83%) PKI
8 2 (0.83%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 35 (14.58%) Linux
2 14 (5.83%) Unix
3 11 (4.58%) Android
4 9 (3.75%) Windows
5 5 (2.08%) Embedded Linux
6 3 (1.25%) CentOS
6 3 (1.25%) Debian
6 3 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.25%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.83%) VMS
8 1 (0.42%) Rocky
8 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (25.83%) DevOps
2 55 (22.92%) Software Engineering
3 33 (13.75%) Cybersecurity
4 32 (13.33%) Agile
5 30 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 29 (12.08%) CI/CD
7 24 (10.00%) Containerisation
8 23 (9.58%) Cloud Security
8 23 (9.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 21 (8.75%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (8.75%) Penetration Testing
10 17 (7.08%) Platform Engineering
11 14 (5.83%) Security Testing
11 14 (5.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 14 (5.83%) Test Automation
12 13 (5.42%) Analytics
12 13 (5.42%) Decision-Making
12 13 (5.42%) DevSecOps
13 12 (5.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 11 (4.58%) Android Development
Programming Languages
1 41 (17.08%) Python
2 24 (10.00%) C++
3 19 (7.92%) Java
4 14 (5.83%) Go
5 13 (5.42%) Bash
6 9 (3.75%) JavaScript
6 9 (3.75%) Rust
7 8 (3.33%) Bicep
8 5 (2.08%) C
9 4 (1.67%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.67%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.67%) Scala
10 2 (0.83%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.42%) C#
Qualifications
1 240 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 120 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 10 (4.17%) Degree
4 8 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (3.33%) CREST Certified
5 7 (2.92%) Azure Certification
5 7 (2.92%) OSCP
6 5 (2.08%) CEH
6 5 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.25%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.83%) CISSP
10 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.42%) CBAP
10 1 (0.42%) CHECK Team Member
10 1 (0.42%) CISA
10 1 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.42%) CISM
10 1 (0.42%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.50%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.25%) QA
4 2 (0.83%) GDPR
4 2 (0.83%) NCSC
4 2 (0.83%) NIST
5 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.42%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.42%) NIST 800
System Software
1 17 (7.08%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.58%) Docker
3 10 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.50%) Firmware
5 1 (0.42%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.42%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 34 (14.17%) Kubernetes
1 34 (14.17%) Terraform
2 25 (10.42%) Ansible
3 7 (2.92%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (2.92%) Puppet
4 2 (0.83%) Grafana
4 2 (0.83%) Nessus
4 2 (0.83%) Nmap
4 2 (0.83%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.42%) Packer
5 1 (0.42%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.42%) Proxmox
5 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.42%) VMware
3 5 (2.08%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.25%) Cisco
4 3 (1.25%) Google
4 3 (1.25%) SaltStack
5 1 (0.42%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.42%) Dell
5 1 (0.42%) Palo Alto