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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 28 19
Rank change year-on-year +22 -9 -12
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 192 40 199
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 11.90% 7.97% 11.54%
As % of the Qualifications category 32.05% 15.69% 25.81%
Number of salaries quoted 150 30 164
10th Percentile £45,000 £30,875 £27,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £36,563 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +25.00% -25.71%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £62,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £97,750 £70,875
South West median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -11.96%

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 599 255 771
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 37.11% 50.80% 44.70%
Number of salaries quoted 379 144 579
10th Percentile £40,400 £27,325 £30,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,438 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -11.93%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,250 £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% -

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 29 June 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 29 June 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 +4 78 £57,500 -11.54% 26
Gloucester -6 42 £65,000 -13.33% 6
Tewkesbury -6 3 £55,000 +29.41% 1
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 3 (1.56%) Confluence
2 2 (1.04%) Apache
2 2 (1.04%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.04%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 43 (22.40%) Azure
2 25 (13.02%) AWS
3 13 (6.77%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (6.25%) GCP
5 7 (3.65%) Entra ID
6 6 (3.13%) OpenShift
7 4 (2.08%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.56%) Miro
8 3 (1.56%) Serverless
9 2 (1.04%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.04%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.04%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.04%) PaaS
10 1 (0.52%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.17%) Software-Defined Radio
2 6 (3.13%) Network Security
3 4 (2.08%) DHCP
3 4 (2.08%) DNS
3 4 (2.08%) VPN
4 3 (1.56%) Firewall
4 3 (1.56%) LoRaWAN
4 3 (1.56%) LTE
5 2 (1.04%) AMQP
5 2 (1.04%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.52%) NGN
6 1 (0.52%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.52%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (1.56%) Big Data
3 2 (1.04%) Cloudera CDH
3 2 (1.04%) Hadoop
3 2 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.52%) MySQL
4 1 (0.52%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (2.60%) Git
2 3 (1.56%) JIRA
3 2 (1.04%) Burp Suite
3 2 (1.04%) GitLab
3 2 (1.04%) Gradle
3 2 (1.04%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.04%) JUnit
3 2 (1.04%) Metasploit
3 2 (1.04%) Mockito
4 1 (0.52%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.52%) JMeter
4 1 (0.52%) Postman
4 1 (0.52%) Selenium
4 1 (0.52%) SoapUI
General
1 25 (13.02%) Social Skills
2 22 (11.46%) Public Sector
3 12 (6.25%) Finance
4 4 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (1.56%) Aerospace
5 3 (1.56%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (1.56%) Games
5 3 (1.56%) Military
5 3 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (1.56%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.04%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.52%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 40 (20.83%) Software Engineer
2 23 (11.98%) Consultant
3 20 (10.42%) Cloud Engineer
3 20 (10.42%) Security Consultant
4 19 (9.90%) Senior
5 13 (6.77%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 12 (6.25%) Security Engineer
7 11 (5.73%) Administrator
7 11 (5.73%) Developer
7 11 (5.73%) Penetration Tester
7 11 (5.73%) Systems Administrator
7 11 (5.73%) Tester
8 10 (5.21%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 8 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (4.17%) Python Engineer
9 8 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
9 8 (4.17%) Vulnerability Researcher
10 7 (3.65%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
11 6 (3.13%) Java Developer
12 5 (2.60%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.13%) REST
2 5 (2.60%) Node.js
3 4 (2.08%) gRPC
4 3 (1.56%) AngularJS
4 3 (1.56%) React
5 2 (1.04%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.04%) Material-UI
5 2 (1.04%) OpenAPI
5 2 (1.04%) Protocol Buffers
5 2 (1.04%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (1.04%) RESTful
5 2 (1.04%) Spring
5 2 (1.04%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.04%) Swagger
6 1 (0.52%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (0.52%) Kafka
6 1 (0.52%) Keycloak
6 1 (0.52%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.73%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.17%) Embedded Systems
3 5 (2.60%) Blog
3 5 (2.60%) Data Centre
3 5 (2.60%) FPGA
3 5 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (2.60%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.60%) Security Posture
3 5 (2.60%) Verilog
3 5 (2.60%) VHDL
4 4 (2.08%) Cloud Security Posture
4 4 (2.08%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.56%) IoT
5 3 (1.56%) NB-IoT
5 3 (1.56%) Operational Technology
5 3 (1.56%) Virtual Reality
6 2 (1.04%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.04%) Blockchain
6 2 (1.04%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 30 (15.63%) Linux
2 10 (5.21%) Windows
3 6 (3.13%) Unix
4 5 (2.60%) Android
4 5 (2.60%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (1.04%) CentOS
5 2 (1.04%) Debian
5 2 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.04%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.04%) VMS
6 1 (0.52%) Rocky
6 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 36 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
3 27 (14.06%) DevOps
4 22 (11.46%) Agile
4 22 (11.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 22 (11.46%) Penetration Testing
5 18 (9.38%) Cloud Security
5 18 (9.38%) Security Testing
6 16 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (7.81%) CI/CD
8 14 (7.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (6.77%) Containerisation
10 11 (5.73%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (5.73%) Vulnerability Research
11 10 (5.21%) Test Automation
12 9 (4.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 9 (4.69%) Software Testing
12 9 (4.69%) Zero Trust
13 8 (4.17%) OWASP
13 8 (4.17%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 32 (16.67%) Python
2 23 (11.98%) Java
3 20 (10.42%) C++
4 10 (5.21%) Bash
5 5 (2.60%) C
5 5 (2.60%) Go
5 5 (2.60%) Rust
6 4 (2.08%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.08%) Kotlin
6 4 (2.08%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.56%) Scala
8 2 (1.04%) Bicep
8 2 (1.04%) Elixir
8 2 (1.04%) Erlang
9 1 (0.52%) C#
Qualifications
1 192 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 81 (42.19%) DV Cleared
3 8 (4.17%) CREST Certified
4 7 (3.65%) Degree
5 5 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.60%) OSCP
6 3 (1.56%) CCIE
6 3 (1.56%) CEH
6 3 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.56%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.04%) CISSP
8 1 (0.52%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.52%) CCNP
8 1 (0.52%) CHECK Team Member
8 1 (0.52%) CISA
8 1 (0.52%) CISM
8 1 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (3.65%) QA
2 6 (3.13%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.08%) SLA
4 3 (1.56%) GDPR
4 3 (1.56%) NIST
5 2 (1.04%) NCSC
6 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.52%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.52%) NIST 800
System Software
1 11 (5.73%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.17%) Docker
2 8 (4.17%) Firmware
3 4 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.52%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.52%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (9.90%) Kubernetes
2 17 (8.85%) Terraform
3 13 (6.77%) Ansible
4 7 (3.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (3.65%) Puppet
5 4 (2.08%) Grafana
5 4 (2.08%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.04%) Nagios
6 2 (1.04%) Nessus
6 2 (1.04%) Nmap
7 1 (0.52%) Podman
7 1 (0.52%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (9.38%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.65%) Cisco
3 6 (3.13%) Red Hat
3 6 (3.13%) VMware
4 3 (1.56%) Dell
5 2 (1.04%) CheckPoint
5 2 (1.04%) F5
5 2 (1.04%) Fortinet
5 2 (1.04%) Google
5 2 (1.04%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.52%) Palo Alto