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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 6 20
Rank change year-on-year -1 +14 -12
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 284 69 91
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 11.36% 12.64% 9.02%
As % of the Qualifications category 32.83% 33.01% 20.00%
Number of salaries quoted 206 39 63
10th Percentile £50,000 £35,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,063 £41,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £64,375
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £71,000
South West median annual salary £75,000 £55,971 £57,500
% change year-on-year +34.00% -2.66% -4.17%

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 865 209 455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 34.61% 38.28% 45.09%
Number of salaries quoted 576 144 270
10th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £62,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +9.65% -0.87%
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £81,600
South West median annual salary £65,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +30.00% -9.09% +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 5 October 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 5 October 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 +5 125 £75,000 +20.00% 44
Gloucester -9 84 £85,000 +6.25% 30
Tewkesbury -8 10 - - 4
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 7 (2.46%) OpenStack
2 5 (1.76%) Apache
2 5 (1.76%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 56 (19.72%) Azure
2 29 (10.21%) AWS
3 24 (8.45%) OpenShift
4 13 (4.58%) Azure Data Factory
4 13 (4.58%) Entra ID
4 13 (4.58%) GCP
5 12 (4.23%) Serverless
6 11 (3.87%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (3.52%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (3.17%) Azure AKS
8 9 (3.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 8 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (2.11%) PaaS
11 4 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (1.41%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (1.41%) Miro
12 3 (1.06%) Amazon S3
12 3 (1.06%) GitHub
13 2 (0.70%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.87%) Network Security
2 10 (3.52%) Software-Defined Radio
3 9 (3.17%) VPN
4 4 (1.41%) AMQP
5 3 (1.06%) LoRaWAN
5 3 (1.06%) LTE
6 2 (0.70%) Firewall
7 1 (0.35%) NGN
7 1 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.35%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (5.28%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (2.11%) Big Data
3 6 (2.11%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.41%) Cloudera CDH
4 4 (1.41%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.70%) Redis
6 1 (0.35%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.35%) Flink
6 1 (0.35%) Metadata
6 1 (0.35%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (4.23%) GitLab
2 10 (3.52%) Git
3 9 (3.17%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.76%) JIRA
5 2 (0.70%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.70%) Gradle
5 2 (0.70%) JUnit
5 2 (0.70%) Metasploit
5 2 (0.70%) Mockito
6 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.35%) Mocha
General
1 24 (8.45%) Social Skills
2 21 (7.39%) Finance
3 17 (5.99%) Public Sector
4 11 (3.87%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.11%) Aerospace
6 3 (1.06%) Games
6 3 (1.06%) Military
6 3 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (1.06%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.35%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 50 (17.61%) Software Engineer
2 37 (13.03%) Cloud Engineer
3 36 (12.68%) DevOps Engineer
3 36 (12.68%) Senior
4 32 (11.27%) Developer
5 22 (7.75%) Software Developer
6 21 (7.39%) Python Engineer
7 18 (6.34%) Administrator
7 18 (6.34%) Cloud Native Engineer
7 18 (6.34%) Data Engineer
7 18 (6.34%) Senior Data Engineer
7 18 (6.34%) Systems Administrator
8 14 (4.93%) Architect
9 13 (4.58%) Azure Data Engineer
9 13 (4.58%) Azure Engineer
9 13 (4.58%) Consultant
9 13 (4.58%) Elasticsearch Engineer
9 13 (4.58%) Kafka Engineer
9 13 (4.58%) Python Data Engineer
9 13 (4.58%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (14.08%) Terraform
2 16 (5.63%) Kafka
3 13 (4.58%) Keycloak
4 11 (3.87%) Node.js
5 7 (2.46%) REST
5 7 (2.46%) RESTful
6 6 (2.11%) gRPC
6 6 (2.11%) OpenAPI
7 5 (1.76%) React
7 5 (1.76%) Swagger
8 4 (1.41%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.41%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (1.41%) Material-UI
8 4 (1.41%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (1.41%) Spring
8 4 (1.41%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.70%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (0.70%) Protocol Buffers
10 1 (0.35%) Flask
10 1 (0.35%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 32 (11.27%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.10%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (3.87%) Embedded Systems
4 7 (2.46%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.11%) Operational Technology
6 5 (1.76%) Distributed Applications
6 5 (1.76%) FPGA
6 5 (1.76%) Mobile App
6 5 (1.76%) Security Posture
6 5 (1.76%) Verilog
6 5 (1.76%) VHDL
7 4 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.41%) Cloud Security Posture
7 4 (1.41%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.41%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.06%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.06%) NB-IoT
8 3 (1.06%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.06%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 39 (13.73%) Linux
2 15 (5.28%) Unix
3 11 (3.87%) Android
4 5 (1.76%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (1.41%) CentOS
5 4 (1.41%) Debian
5 4 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.41%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.70%) Rocky
6 2 (0.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (28.17%) DevOps
2 59 (20.77%) Software Engineering
3 42 (14.79%) CI/CD
4 40 (14.08%) Agile
5 34 (11.97%) Infrastructure as Code
6 33 (11.62%) Containerisation
7 27 (9.51%) Cybersecurity
8 24 (8.45%) Cloud Security
9 22 (7.75%) Microservices
10 21 (7.39%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (7.04%) DevSecOps
12 19 (6.69%) Analytics
12 19 (6.69%) Decision-Making
12 19 (6.69%) Validation
13 17 (5.99%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 17 (5.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 16 (5.63%) Platform Engineering
14 16 (5.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 15 (5.28%) Problem-Solving
16 14 (4.93%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 50 (17.61%) Python
2 38 (13.38%) C++
3 34 (11.97%) Java
4 20 (7.04%) Go
5 16 (5.63%) Bash
6 13 (4.58%) JavaScript
7 9 (3.17%) Bicep
7 9 (3.17%) Rust
8 6 (2.11%) Scala
9 5 (1.76%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.06%) C
11 2 (0.70%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 284 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 125 (44.01%) DV Cleared
3 15 (5.28%) Degree
4 13 (4.58%) Azure Certification
5 10 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.46%) OSCP
8 5 (1.76%) CEH
9 4 (1.41%) CREST Certified
9 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.06%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.70%) CISSP
12 1 (0.35%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.35%) CCIE
12 1 (0.35%) CCNP
12 1 (0.35%) CISA
12 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.35%) CISM
12 1 (0.35%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.41%) GDPR
1 4 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.06%) QA
3 2 (0.70%) NCSC
3 2 (0.70%) NIST
3 2 (0.70%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.35%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
System Software
1 22 (7.75%) Docker
2 13 (4.58%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.76%) Firmware
5 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 44 (15.49%) Kubernetes
2 30 (10.56%) Ansible
3 8 (2.82%) Puppet
4 6 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.06%) Grafana
5 3 (1.06%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.70%) Nessus
6 2 (0.70%) Nmap
7 1 (0.35%) Packer
7 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (8.45%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.58%) VMware
3 6 (2.11%) Red Hat
4 5 (1.76%) Google
5 4 (1.41%) SaltStack
6 3 (1.06%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.06%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.70%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.35%) Cisco
8 1 (0.35%) Foundry
8 1 (0.35%) Splunk