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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 29 20
Rank change year-on-year +23 -9 -13
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 182 40 203
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 11.90% 8.32% 11.39%
As % of the Qualifications category 33.09% 16.13% 26.03%
Number of salaries quoted 147 30 168
10th Percentile £45,000 £30,875 £27,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £36,563 £43,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +25.00% -25.71%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £62,000
90th Percentile £80,500 £97,750 £71,250
South West median annual salary £70,000 £61,873 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.14% +12.50% -9.09%

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 550 248 780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 35.95% 51.56% 43.77%
Number of salaries quoted 353 139 585
10th Percentile £40,000 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,125 £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 £97,500 £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 22 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 22 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 +2 74 £55,000 -15.38% 29
Gloucester -6 35 £65,000 -13.33% 10
Tewkesbury -3 6 £67,500 +58.82%
Filton +6 1 £28,000 -56.92% 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 2 (1.10%) Apache
1 2 (1.10%) Apache Spark
1 2 (1.10%) Confluence
1 2 (1.10%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.55%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 41 (22.53%) Azure
2 24 (13.19%) AWS
3 13 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (6.59%) GCP
5 6 (3.30%) Entra ID
6 5 (2.75%) OpenShift
7 4 (2.20%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (1.10%) Miro
8 2 (1.10%) Serverless
9 1 (0.55%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.55%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (0.55%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.40%) Software-Defined Radio
2 5 (2.75%) Network Security
3 4 (2.20%) DHCP
3 4 (2.20%) DNS
4 3 (1.65%) Firewall
4 3 (1.65%) LoRaWAN
4 3 (1.65%) LTE
4 3 (1.65%) VPN
5 2 (1.10%) AMQP
5 2 (1.10%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.55%) NGN
6 1 (0.55%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.55%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.65%) Big Data
1 3 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.10%) Cloudera CDH
2 2 (1.10%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.55%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.55%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.55%) MySQL
3 1 (0.55%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (2.75%) Git
2 2 (1.10%) Burp Suite
2 2 (1.10%) Gradle
2 2 (1.10%) JIRA
2 2 (1.10%) JUnit
2 2 (1.10%) Metasploit
2 2 (1.10%) Mockito
3 1 (0.55%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.55%) GitLab
3 1 (0.55%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.55%) JMeter
3 1 (0.55%) Postman
3 1 (0.55%) Selenium
3 1 (0.55%) SoapUI
General
1 24 (13.19%) Social Skills
2 22 (12.09%) Public Sector
3 9 (4.95%) Finance
4 4 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (1.65%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (1.65%) Games
5 3 (1.65%) Manufacturing
5 3 (1.65%) Military
5 3 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (1.65%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.10%) Advertising
6 2 (1.10%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 40 (21.98%) Software Engineer
2 24 (13.19%) Consultant
3 22 (12.09%) Security Consultant
4 18 (9.89%) Cloud Engineer
5 17 (9.34%) Senior
6 13 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Consultant
7 12 (6.59%) Security Engineer
8 11 (6.04%) Penetration Tester
8 11 (6.04%) Tester
9 10 (5.49%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 9 (4.95%) Developer
11 8 (4.40%) Administrator
11 8 (4.40%) Senior Software Engineer
11 8 (4.40%) Systems Administrator
12 7 (3.85%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
12 7 (3.85%) Vulnerability Researcher
13 6 (3.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (3.30%) Java Developer
13 6 (3.30%) Python Engineer
14 5 (2.75%) FPGA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.30%) REST
2 5 (2.75%) Node.js
3 4 (2.20%) gRPC
4 3 (1.65%) AngularJS
4 3 (1.65%) React
5 2 (1.10%) Material-UI
5 2 (1.10%) OpenAPI
5 2 (1.10%) Protocol Buffers
5 2 (1.10%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (1.10%) RESTful
5 2 (1.10%) Spring
5 2 (1.10%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.10%) Swagger
6 1 (0.55%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.49%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.40%) Embedded Systems
3 5 (2.75%) Blog
3 5 (2.75%) FPGA
3 5 (2.75%) Security Posture
3 5 (2.75%) Verilog
3 5 (2.75%) VHDL
4 4 (2.20%) Cloud Security Posture
4 4 (2.20%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.20%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.65%) IoT
5 3 (1.65%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.65%) NB-IoT
5 3 (1.65%) Operational Technology
5 3 (1.65%) Virtual Reality
6 2 (1.10%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.10%) Blockchain
6 2 (1.10%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 28 (15.38%) Linux
2 10 (5.49%) Windows
3 5 (2.75%) Embedded Linux
4 4 (2.20%) Android
5 3 (1.65%) Unix
6 2 (1.10%) CentOS
6 2 (1.10%) Debian
6 2 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.10%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.10%) VMS
7 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (26.37%) Software Engineering
2 36 (19.78%) Cybersecurity
3 24 (13.19%) DevOps
3 24 (13.19%) Penetration Testing
4 19 (10.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 18 (9.89%) Security Testing
6 17 (9.34%) Agile
6 17 (9.34%) Cloud Security
7 13 (7.14%) CI/CD
7 13 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (6.59%) Containerisation
8 12 (6.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (6.04%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (5.49%) Vulnerability Research
11 9 (4.95%) Software Testing
11 9 (4.95%) Test Automation
11 9 (4.95%) Zero Trust
12 8 (4.40%) DevSecOps
12 8 (4.40%) OWASP
12 8 (4.40%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 29 (15.93%) Python
2 22 (12.09%) Java
3 19 (10.44%) C++
4 9 (4.95%) Bash
5 6 (3.30%) C
6 5 (2.75%) Rust
7 4 (2.20%) Go
7 4 (2.20%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.20%) Kotlin
7 4 (2.20%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.65%) Elixir
8 3 (1.65%) Erlang
9 2 (1.10%) Scala
10 1 (0.55%) Bicep
10 1 (0.55%) C#
Qualifications
1 182 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 74 (40.66%) DV Cleared
3 8 (4.40%) CREST Certified
4 7 (3.85%) Degree
5 5 (2.75%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.75%) OSCP
6 3 (1.65%) CCIE
6 3 (1.65%) CEH
6 3 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.65%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.10%) CISSP
8 1 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.55%) CCNP
8 1 (0.55%) CHECK Team Member
8 1 (0.55%) CISA
8 1 (0.55%) CISM
8 1 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (3.30%) PCI DSS
2 6 (3.30%) QA
3 4 (2.20%) SLA
4 3 (1.65%) GDPR
4 3 (1.65%) NIST
5 2 (1.10%) NCSC
6 1 (0.55%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.55%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.55%) NIST 800
System Software
1 10 (5.49%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.40%) Docker
2 8 (4.40%) Firmware
3 3 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.55%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.55%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (8.79%) Kubernetes
2 15 (8.24%) Terraform
3 11 (6.04%) Ansible
4 7 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (3.30%) Puppet
6 4 (2.20%) Grafana
6 4 (2.20%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.10%) Nagios
7 2 (1.10%) Nessus
7 2 (1.10%) Nmap
8 1 (0.55%) Podman
8 1 (0.55%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (9.34%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.85%) Cisco
3 5 (2.75%) Red Hat
3 5 (2.75%) VMware
4 3 (1.65%) Dell
5 2 (1.10%) CheckPoint
5 2 (1.10%) F5
5 2 (1.10%) Fortinet
5 2 (1.10%) Google
5 2 (1.10%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.55%) Palo Alto