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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 24 17
Rank change year-on-year +17 -7 -10
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 207 47 198
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 11.72% 8.51% 12.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 31.03% 17.34% 26.76%
Number of salaries quoted 154 34 163
10th Percentile £45,000 £32,375 £27,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £36,563 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +23.81% -25.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £61,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £97,500 £71,000
South West median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -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 667 271 740
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 37.77% 49.09% 45.26%
Number of salaries quoted 418 156 563
10th Percentile £41,025 £27,500 £30,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,625 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £58,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.83% +6.82% -9.84%
75th Percentile £81,250 £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% +0.73%

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 13 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 13 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 81 £57,500 -11.54% 36
Gloucester -10 50 £65,000 -16.13% 23
Tewkesbury -9 2 £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 (2.42%) Confluence
2 3 (1.45%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.97%) Apache
3 2 (0.97%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 46 (22.22%) Azure
2 26 (12.56%) AWS
3 13 (6.28%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (4.83%) GCP
5 9 (4.35%) Entra ID
6 8 (3.86%) OpenShift
7 5 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (2.42%) Serverless
8 4 (1.93%) Azure AKS
8 4 (1.93%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 4 (1.93%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (1.93%) Miro
8 4 (1.93%) PaaS
9 3 (1.45%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.97%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (0.97%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.97%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.48%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.48%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.83%) Software-Defined Radio
2 7 (3.38%) Network Security
3 6 (2.90%) VPN
4 4 (1.93%) DHCP
4 4 (1.93%) DNS
5 3 (1.45%) LoRaWAN
5 3 (1.45%) LTE
6 2 (0.97%) AMQP
6 2 (0.97%) Firewall
6 2 (0.97%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.48%) NGN
7 1 (0.48%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.48%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.38%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.93%) Big Data
4 2 (0.97%) Cloudera CDH
4 2 (0.97%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.97%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.48%) MySQL
5 1 (0.48%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (2.42%) Git
1 5 (2.42%) JIRA
2 3 (1.45%) GitLab
3 2 (0.97%) Burp Suite
3 2 (0.97%) Gradle
3 2 (0.97%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.97%) JUnit
3 2 (0.97%) Metasploit
3 2 (0.97%) Mockito
4 1 (0.48%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.48%) JMeter
4 1 (0.48%) Postman
4 1 (0.48%) Selenium
4 1 (0.48%) SoapUI
General
1 26 (12.56%) Social Skills
2 22 (10.63%) Public Sector
3 16 (7.73%) Finance
4 4 (1.93%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (1.45%) Aerospace
5 3 (1.45%) Games
5 3 (1.45%) Military
5 3 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (1.45%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.48%) Advertising
6 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 48 (23.19%) Software Engineer
2 22 (10.63%) Cloud Engineer
3 20 (9.66%) Consultant
4 19 (9.18%) Senior
5 17 (8.21%) Security Consultant
6 15 (7.25%) Administrator
6 15 (7.25%) Systems Administrator
7 12 (5.80%) Security Engineer
8 11 (5.31%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 11 (5.31%) Developer
8 11 (5.31%) Penetration Tester
8 11 (5.31%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 11 (5.31%) Tester
9 10 (4.83%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 10 (4.83%) Python Engineer
10 9 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
11 8 (3.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (3.86%) Vulnerability Researcher
12 6 (2.90%) Java Developer
13 5 (2.42%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.90%) REST
2 5 (2.42%) Node.js
3 4 (1.93%) gRPC
3 4 (1.93%) Kafka
4 3 (1.45%) AngularJS
4 3 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (1.45%) Keycloak
4 3 (1.45%) React
5 2 (0.97%) Material-UI
5 2 (0.97%) OpenAPI
5 2 (0.97%) Protocol Buffers
5 2 (0.97%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (0.97%) RESTful
5 2 (0.97%) Spring
5 2 (0.97%) Spring Boot
5 2 (0.97%) Swagger
6 1 (0.48%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (0.48%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.28%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.83%) Embedded Systems
3 9 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (3.38%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.42%) Blog
5 5 (2.42%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.42%) FPGA
5 5 (2.42%) Operational Technology
5 5 (2.42%) Security Posture
5 5 (2.42%) Verilog
5 5 (2.42%) VHDL
6 4 (1.93%) Cloud Security Posture
6 4 (1.93%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.45%) IoT
7 3 (1.45%) NB-IoT
7 3 (1.45%) Virtual Reality
8 2 (0.97%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.97%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 30 (14.49%) Linux
2 9 (4.35%) Windows
3 8 (3.86%) Android
3 8 (3.86%) Unix
4 5 (2.42%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.97%) CentOS
5 2 (0.97%) Debian
5 2 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.97%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.97%) VMS
6 1 (0.48%) Rocky
6 1 (0.48%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (26.09%) Software Engineering
2 35 (16.91%) Cybersecurity
3 32 (15.46%) DevOps
4 28 (13.53%) Agile
5 22 (10.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 21 (10.14%) Penetration Testing
7 20 (9.66%) Cloud Security
8 18 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
8 18 (8.70%) Security Testing
9 16 (7.73%) CI/CD
9 16 (7.73%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (6.28%) Containerisation
10 13 (6.28%) Test Automation
10 13 (6.28%) Vulnerability Research
11 12 (5.80%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (5.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 10 (4.83%) Zero Trust
13 9 (4.35%) DevSecOps
13 9 (4.35%) Platform Engineering
13 9 (4.35%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 34 (16.43%) Python
2 25 (12.08%) C++
3 23 (11.11%) Java
4 9 (4.35%) Go
5 8 (3.86%) Bash
6 7 (3.38%) Rust
7 5 (2.42%) C
7 5 (2.42%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.93%) Bicep
8 4 (1.93%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.93%) Scala
9 3 (1.45%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.48%) C#
10 1 (0.48%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 207 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 91 (43.96%) DV Cleared
3 8 (3.86%) CREST Certified
3 8 (3.86%) Degree
4 7 (3.38%) OSCP
5 5 (2.42%) CEH
5 5 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.45%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.45%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.97%) CCIE
7 2 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.97%) CISSP
8 1 (0.48%) CBAP
8 1 (0.48%) CCNP
8 1 (0.48%) CHECK Team Member
8 1 (0.48%) CISA
8 1 (0.48%) CISM
8 1 (0.48%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (3.38%) QA
2 6 (2.90%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.93%) SLA
4 3 (1.45%) GDPR
4 3 (1.45%) NIST
5 2 (0.97%) NCSC
6 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.48%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.48%) NIST 800
System Software
1 13 (6.28%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.86%) Firmware
3 7 (3.38%) Docker
4 6 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.48%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.48%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 21 (10.14%) Kubernetes
2 19 (9.18%) Terraform
3 13 (6.28%) Ansible
4 7 (3.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (3.38%) Puppet
5 2 (0.97%) Grafana
5 2 (0.97%) Nessus
5 2 (0.97%) Nmap
5 2 (0.97%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.48%) Nagios
6 1 (0.48%) Podman
6 1 (0.48%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (9.66%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.86%) VMware
3 6 (2.90%) Cisco
3 6 (2.90%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.45%) Dell
5 2 (0.97%) Google
5 2 (0.97%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.48%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.48%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.48%) F5
6 1 (0.48%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.48%) Palo Alto