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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 6 20
Rank change year-on-year -1 +14 -12
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 272 71 105
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 11.25% 13.08% 9.59%
As % of the Qualifications category 31.37% 33.18% 22.11%
Number of salaries quoted 195 44 76
10th Percentile £50,000 £35,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £40,000 £51,875
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 £80,000 £60,938
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,625 £71,250
South West median annual salary £73,000 £57,000 £58,119
% change year-on-year +28.07% -1.93% -3.14%

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 867 214 475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 35.86% 39.41% 43.38%
Number of salaries quoted 566 152 299
10th Percentile £45,875 £35,000 £40,400
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,438 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.40% +13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £88,000 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £80,000
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 21 September 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 21 September 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 +4 115 £70,000 +9.80% 33
Gloucester -11 77 £85,000 +13.33% 42
Tewkesbury -9 9 £52,500 -25.00% 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 6 (2.21%) OpenStack
2 5 (1.84%) Confluence
3 4 (1.47%) Apache
3 4 (1.47%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 52 (19.12%) Azure
2 29 (10.66%) AWS
3 23 (8.46%) OpenShift
4 14 (5.15%) Entra ID
5 12 (4.41%) GCP
5 12 (4.41%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (4.04%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (4.04%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (4.04%) Serverless
7 9 (3.31%) Azure AKS
7 9 (3.31%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 6 (2.21%) PaaS
9 5 (1.84%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.47%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.47%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (1.47%) Miro
11 2 (0.74%) GitHub
12 1 (0.37%) Amazon EC2
12 1 (0.37%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.04%) Network Security
1 11 (4.04%) VPN
2 10 (3.68%) Software-Defined Radio
3 4 (1.47%) AMQP
4 3 (1.10%) Firewall
4 3 (1.10%) LoRaWAN
4 3 (1.10%) LTE
5 2 (0.74%) DHCP
5 2 (0.74%) DNS
6 1 (0.37%) NGN
6 1 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.37%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.78%) Elasticsearch
1 13 (4.78%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (1.84%) Big Data
3 4 (1.47%) Cloudera CDH
3 4 (1.47%) Hadoop
4 3 (1.10%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.37%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.37%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.37%) Redis
5 1 (0.37%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (2.94%) GitLab
2 7 (2.57%) Git
3 6 (2.21%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.84%) JIRA
5 2 (0.74%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.74%) Gradle
5 2 (0.74%) JUnit
5 2 (0.74%) Metasploit
5 2 (0.74%) Mockito
6 1 (0.37%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.37%) Mocha
General
1 25 (9.19%) Social Skills
2 20 (7.35%) Finance
3 19 (6.99%) Public Sector
4 9 (3.31%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.21%) Aerospace
6 3 (1.10%) Games
6 3 (1.10%) Military
6 3 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (1.10%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (18.38%) Software Engineer
2 36 (13.24%) Cloud Engineer
3 35 (12.87%) DevOps Engineer
4 31 (11.40%) Senior
5 25 (9.19%) Developer
6 19 (6.99%) Python Engineer
7 18 (6.62%) Administrator
7 18 (6.62%) Systems Administrator
8 17 (6.25%) Cloud Native Engineer
9 16 (5.88%) Data Engineer
9 16 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
10 15 (5.51%) Consultant
11 14 (5.15%) Software Developer
12 13 (4.78%) Systems Engineer
13 11 (4.04%) Azure Data Engineer
13 11 (4.04%) Azure Engineer
13 11 (4.04%) Elasticsearch Engineer
13 11 (4.04%) Kafka Engineer
13 11 (4.04%) Python Data Engineer
13 11 (4.04%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (14.34%) Terraform
2 12 (4.41%) Kafka
3 11 (4.04%) Keycloak
3 11 (4.04%) Node.js
4 7 (2.57%) REST
5 6 (2.21%) gRPC
5 6 (2.21%) OpenAPI
6 5 (1.84%) React
6 5 (1.84%) Swagger
7 4 (1.47%) AngularJS
7 4 (1.47%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (1.47%) Material-UI
7 4 (1.47%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (1.47%) RESTful
7 4 (1.47%) Spring
7 4 (1.47%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.74%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (0.74%) Protocol Buffers
9 1 (0.37%) Jest
9 1 (0.37%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 29 (10.66%) Cloud Native
2 21 (7.72%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (4.04%) Embedded Systems
4 7 (2.57%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.21%) Operational Technology
6 5 (1.84%) FPGA
6 5 (1.84%) Mobile App
6 5 (1.84%) Security Posture
6 5 (1.84%) Verilog
6 5 (1.84%) VHDL
7 4 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.47%) Cloud Security Posture
7 4 (1.47%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.47%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.10%) IoT
8 3 (1.10%) NB-IoT
8 3 (1.10%) Virtual Reality
9 2 (0.74%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.74%) Blog
9 2 (0.74%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 34 (12.50%) Linux
2 15 (5.51%) Unix
3 11 (4.04%) Android
4 5 (1.84%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (1.47%) CentOS
5 4 (1.47%) Debian
5 4 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.47%) Ubuntu
5 4 (1.47%) Windows
6 2 (0.74%) Rocky
6 2 (0.74%) VMS
7 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (27.57%) DevOps
2 57 (20.96%) Software Engineering
3 37 (13.60%) CI/CD
4 36 (13.24%) Agile
5 33 (12.13%) Infrastructure as Code
6 30 (11.03%) Cybersecurity
7 29 (10.66%) Containerisation
8 24 (8.82%) Cloud Security
9 21 (7.72%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (6.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 19 (6.99%) Validation
11 17 (6.25%) Analytics
11 17 (6.25%) Decision-Making
11 17 (6.25%) Penetration Testing
12 16 (5.88%) DevSecOps
12 16 (5.88%) Microservices
12 16 (5.88%) Platform Engineering
13 14 (5.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 14 (5.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 13 (4.78%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 46 (16.91%) Python
2 30 (11.03%) C++
3 25 (9.19%) Java
4 18 (6.62%) Go
5 15 (5.51%) Bash
6 13 (4.78%) JavaScript
7 9 (3.31%) Bicep
7 9 (3.31%) Rust
8 4 (1.47%) Kotlin
8 4 (1.47%) Scala
9 3 (1.10%) C
9 3 (1.10%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.74%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 272 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 119 (43.75%) DV Cleared
3 12 (4.41%) Degree
4 11 (4.04%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (2.57%) OSCP
7 6 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.84%) CEH
8 5 (1.84%) CREST Certified
8 5 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.10%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.74%) CISSP
11 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.37%) CCIE
11 1 (0.37%) CCNP
11 1 (0.37%) CISA
11 1 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.37%) CISM
11 1 (0.37%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.10%) GDPR
2 3 (1.10%) PCI DSS
2 3 (1.10%) QA
3 2 (0.74%) NCSC
3 2 (0.74%) NIST
4 1 (0.37%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.37%) NIST 800
System Software
1 17 (6.25%) Docker
2 15 (5.51%) Active Directory
3 11 (4.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.84%) Firmware
5 1 (0.37%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 43 (15.81%) Kubernetes
2 29 (10.66%) Ansible
3 8 (2.94%) Puppet
4 7 (2.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.10%) Grafana
5 3 (1.10%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.74%) Nessus
6 2 (0.74%) Nmap
7 1 (0.37%) Packer
7 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.37%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (9.56%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.15%) VMware
3 6 (2.21%) Red Hat
4 4 (1.47%) Google
4 4 (1.47%) SaltStack
5 2 (0.74%) Cisco
6 1 (0.37%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.37%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.37%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.37%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.37%) Splunk