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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 27 16
Rank change year-on-year +20 -11 -9
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 161 35 221
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 11.85% 8.31% 13.50%
As % of the Qualifications category 31.88% 14.83% 29.35%
Number of salaries quoted 141 29 191
10th Percentile £41,250 £27,375 £27,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £35,000 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +20.00% -23.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £60,625
90th Percentile £80,000 £98,000 £71,250
South West median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £53,250
% change year-on-year +8.33% +12.68% -4.05%

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 505 236 753
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 37.16% 56.06% 46.00%
Number of salaries quoted 305 129 586
10th Percentile £41,250 £27,175 £30,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -13.65%
75th Percentile £78,800 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £80,000
South West median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -7.41% +2.86%

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 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 17 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 65 £57,500 -13.21% 17
Gloucester -7 28 £60,000 - 14
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 (0.62%) Apache
1 1 (0.62%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.62%) Confluence
1 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (0.62%) OpenStack
1 1 (0.62%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 38 (23.60%) Azure
2 22 (13.66%) AWS
3 13 (8.07%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (6.83%) GCP
5 5 (3.11%) Entra ID
6 4 (2.48%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (1.24%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.62%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.62%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.62%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.62%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.62%) Miro
8 1 (0.62%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.11%) DHCP
1 5 (3.11%) DNS
2 3 (1.86%) Firewall
2 3 (1.86%) LoRaWAN
2 3 (1.86%) LTE
2 3 (1.86%) Network Security
2 3 (1.86%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.24%) VPN
4 1 (0.62%) AMQP
4 1 (0.62%) NGN
4 1 (0.62%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.62%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.24%) Big Data
3 1 (0.62%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.62%) Cloudera CDH
3 1 (0.62%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.62%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.62%) MySQL
3 1 (0.62%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (3.11%) Git
2 2 (1.24%) Gradle
2 2 (1.24%) JUnit
2 2 (1.24%) Mockito
3 1 (0.62%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.62%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.62%) GitLab
3 1 (0.62%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.62%) JIRA
3 1 (0.62%) JMeter
3 1 (0.62%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.62%) Postman
3 1 (0.62%) Selenium
3 1 (0.62%) SoapUI
General
1 24 (14.91%) Public Sector
2 19 (11.80%) Social Skills
3 7 (4.35%) Manufacturing
4 5 (3.11%) Advertising
4 5 (3.11%) Finance
5 4 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.48%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.86%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.62%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.62%) Electronics
7 1 (0.62%) Marketing
7 1 (0.62%) Military
Job Titles
1 37 (22.98%) Software Engineer
2 25 (15.53%) Consultant
2 25 (15.53%) Security Consultant
3 17 (10.56%) Senior
4 15 (9.32%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 14 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
6 12 (7.45%) Analyst
6 12 (7.45%) Security Engineer
7 10 (6.21%) Cloud Security Engineer
8 9 (5.59%) Business Analyst
8 9 (5.59%) Penetration Tester
8 9 (5.59%) Tester
9 8 (4.97%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (3.73%) Developer
10 6 (3.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (3.73%) Java Developer
10 6 (3.73%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
10 6 (3.73%) Vulnerability Researcher
11 5 (3.11%) Support Engineer
11 5 (3.11%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.11%) REST
2 4 (2.48%) Node.js
3 3 (1.86%) gRPC
4 2 (1.24%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.24%) Protocol Buffers
4 2 (1.24%) React
4 2 (1.24%) RESTful
5 1 (0.62%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.62%) Material-UI
5 1 (0.62%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.62%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.62%) Spring
5 1 (0.62%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.62%) Swagger
5 1 (0.62%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.11%) Blog
2 5 (3.11%) Security Posture
3 4 (2.48%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.86%) Data Centre
4 3 (1.86%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (1.86%) IoT
4 3 (1.86%) NB-IoT
4 3 (1.86%) Operational Technology
4 3 (1.86%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.24%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.24%) Blockchain
5 2 (1.24%) CMDB
5 2 (1.24%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.24%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.24%) PKI
5 2 (1.24%) Smartphone
6 1 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 23 (14.29%) Linux
2 10 (6.21%) Windows
3 2 (1.24%) Android
3 2 (1.24%) VMS
4 1 (0.62%) CentOS
4 1 (0.62%) Debian
4 1 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.62%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.62%) Unix
4 1 (0.62%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (28.57%) Software Engineering
2 36 (22.36%) Cybersecurity
3 26 (16.15%) Penetration Testing
4 21 (13.04%) DevOps
5 17 (10.56%) Security Testing
6 15 (9.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 13 (8.07%) Cloud Security
8 12 (7.45%) Agile
8 12 (7.45%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (6.83%) CI/CD
9 11 (6.83%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (6.83%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (5.59%) Containerisation
10 9 (5.59%) Software Testing
10 9 (5.59%) Vulnerability Research
10 9 (5.59%) Zero Trust
11 7 (4.35%) OWASP
11 7 (4.35%) Platform Engineering
11 7 (4.35%) Root Cause Analysis
11 7 (4.35%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 22 (13.66%) Python
2 19 (11.80%) Java
3 15 (9.32%) C++
4 9 (5.59%) Bash
5 5 (3.11%) C
5 5 (3.11%) PowerShell
5 5 (3.11%) Rust
6 4 (2.48%) Go
6 4 (2.48%) Kotlin
7 3 (1.86%) Elixir
7 3 (1.86%) Erlang
7 3 (1.86%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.62%) C#
Qualifications
1 161 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 61 (37.89%) DV Cleared
3 7 (4.35%) Degree
4 6 (3.73%) CREST Certified
5 5 (3.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.48%) OSCP
7 3 (1.86%) CCIE
7 3 (1.86%) CEH
7 3 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.86%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.24%) CHECK Team Member
9 1 (0.62%) CCNP
9 1 (0.62%) CISA
9 1 (0.62%) CISM
9 1 (0.62%) CISSP
9 1 (0.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.35%) QA
2 6 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.11%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.48%) SLA
5 2 (1.24%) GDPR
5 2 (1.24%) NIST
6 1 (0.62%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.62%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.62%) NCSC
6 1 (0.62%) NIST 800
System Software
1 8 (4.97%) Docker
2 7 (4.35%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.86%) Firmware
4 2 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.62%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.62%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (8.07%) Kubernetes
2 12 (7.45%) Terraform
3 10 (6.21%) Ansible
4 7 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (3.11%) Puppet
6 4 (2.48%) Grafana
6 4 (2.48%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.24%) Nagios
8 1 (0.62%) Nessus
8 1 (0.62%) Nmap
8 1 (0.62%) Podman
8 1 (0.62%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 17 (10.56%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.35%) Cisco
3 4 (2.48%) Red Hat
3 4 (2.48%) VMware
4 3 (1.86%) Dell
4 3 (1.86%) Splunk
5 2 (1.24%) CheckPoint
5 2 (1.24%) F5
5 2 (1.24%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.62%) Google
6 1 (0.62%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.62%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.62%) SAP