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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 18 8
Rank change year-on-year +12 -10 +12
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 72 104 185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 13.16% 9.47% 20.65%
As % of the Qualifications category 33.03% 22.17% 34.77%
Number of salaries quoted 44 76 109
10th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £32,950
25th Percentile £40,000 £51,875 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £60,938 £73,750
90th Percentile £82,625 £71,250 £78,750
South West median annual salary £57,500 £59,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.54% -1.67% +14.29%

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 218 469 532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 39.85% 42.71% 59.38%
Number of salaries quoted 151 299 298
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,400 £29,440
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £41,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -1.79% +1.82%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £80,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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
Gloucester +3 21 £75,000 +36.36% 21
Cheltenham +13 19 £63,750 -5.56% 27
Filton - 16 £42,500 - 12
Tewkesbury +7 3 £70,000 +7.69% 1
SC Cleared
South West

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.78%) Confluence
2 1 (1.39%) Apache
2 1 (1.39%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 16 (22.22%) AWS
2 15 (20.83%) Azure
3 8 (11.11%) Azure Stack
3 8 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 6 (8.33%) Serverless
5 4 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (5.56%) GCP
6 3 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (4.17%) Amazon S3
6 3 (4.17%) Google Workspace
6 3 (4.17%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.39%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.17%) Firewall
2 2 (2.78%) OSPF
2 2 (2.78%) VPN
3 1 (1.39%) BGP
3 1 (1.39%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (1.39%) Internet
3 1 (1.39%) IPv4
3 1 (1.39%) Network Security
3 1 (1.39%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.39%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.17%) Big Data
2 2 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (2.78%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.78%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.39%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Git
2 2 (2.78%) GitLab
2 2 (2.78%) JUnit
3 1 (1.39%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.39%) JIRA
General
1 19 (26.39%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.83%) Public Sector
3 6 (8.33%) Aerospace
3 6 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (6.94%) Manufacturing
5 4 (5.56%) Military
6 3 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.17%) Aviation
6 3 (4.17%) Avionics
6 3 (4.17%) Electronics
7 1 (1.39%) Automotive
7 1 (1.39%) Games
7 1 (1.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (23.61%) Lead
2 13 (18.06%) Integration Engineer
3 10 (13.89%) Software Engineer
4 9 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (11.11%) IT Engineer
5 8 (11.11%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (11.11%) Junior
6 7 (9.72%) Consultant
6 7 (9.72%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 7 (9.72%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 7 (9.72%) Technical Consultant
7 6 (8.33%) Junior Consultant
7 6 (8.33%) Junior Technical Consultant
8 4 (5.56%) Administrator
8 4 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Lead Cloud Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Lead Software Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Test Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Quality Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.94%) React
2 3 (4.17%) Spring
2 3 (4.17%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.39%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.28%) Onboarding
2 10 (13.89%) Data Centre
3 9 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.17%) Algorithms
4 3 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.17%) Driving Licence
4 3 (4.17%) PKI
5 2 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.78%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.39%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 16 (22.22%) Linux
2 12 (16.67%) Windows
3 10 (13.89%) Windows Server
4 8 (11.11%) Rocky
4 8 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.39%) CentOS
6 1 (1.39%) CoreOS
6 1 (1.39%) Debian
6 1 (1.39%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (20.83%) Agile
1 15 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (18.06%) Artificial Intelligence
2 13 (18.06%) Continuous Improvement
3 12 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 11 (15.28%) DevOps
5 10 (13.89%) Containerisation
6 9 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 9 (12.50%) Innovative Thinking
7 7 (9.72%) Analytics
7 7 (9.72%) Computer Science
7 7 (9.72%) Data Analysis
7 7 (9.72%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (8.33%) Data Analytics
8 6 (8.33%) Data Science
8 6 (8.33%) Machine Learning
8 6 (8.33%) Project Management
9 5 (6.94%) CI/CD
10 4 (5.56%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 9 (12.50%) Python
2 5 (6.94%) Java
3 3 (4.17%) Bash
3 3 (4.17%) C
3 3 (4.17%) Google Apps Script
3 3 (4.17%) MATLAB
3 3 (4.17%) PowerShell
3 3 (4.17%) Tcl
4 2 (2.78%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.78%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.39%) C++
5 1 (1.39%) R
Qualifications
1 72 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 23 (31.94%) DV Cleared
3 17 (23.61%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (13.89%) Degree
5 8 (11.11%) Azure Certification
5 8 (11.11%) Network+ Certification
6 3 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.78%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.39%) CCIE
8 1 (1.39%) CCNA
8 1 (1.39%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.56%) QA
2 3 (4.17%) GDPR
3 1 (1.39%) ISO 14001
3 1 (1.39%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 9 (12.50%) Hyper-V
2 5 (6.94%) Docker
3 1 (1.39%) KVM
3 1 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (20.83%) Kubernetes
2 8 (11.11%) Ansible
3 7 (9.72%) Terraform
4 2 (2.78%) Kibana
4 2 (2.78%) Nagios
4 2 (2.78%) Puppet
5 1 (1.39%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 8 (11.11%) Dell
2 4 (5.56%) Google
3 3 (4.17%) Cisco
3 3 (4.17%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.78%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.78%) Oracle
5 1 (1.39%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.39%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.39%) F5
5 1 (1.39%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.39%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.39%) VMware