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 12 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 6 32
Rank change year-on-year -1 +26 -24
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 286 69 75
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 11.34% 13.48% 7.27%
As % of the Qualifications category 32.69% 34.85% 14.31%
Number of salaries quoted 208 39 51
10th Percentile £50,000 £35,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,188 £41,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £64,375
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £71,250
South West median annual salary £75,000 £55,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +36.36% -3.51% -5.00%

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 875 198 524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 34.69% 38.67% 50.82%
Number of salaries quoted 579 136 250
10th Percentile £45,000 £38,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +13.04% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £81,600
South West median annual salary £65,843 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +31.69% -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 12 October 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 12 October 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 +3 131 £77,500 +24.00% 34
Gloucester -8 85 £85,000 +6.25% 25
Tewkesbury -9 11 - - 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 9 (3.15%) Apache
2 8 (2.80%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.45%) OpenStack
4 5 (1.75%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 55 (19.23%) Azure
2 31 (10.84%) AWS
3 25 (8.74%) OpenShift
4 16 (5.59%) Serverless
5 14 (4.90%) GCP
6 13 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (4.20%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (3.85%) Entra ID
9 10 (3.50%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (3.50%) Azure AKS
10 9 (3.15%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 8 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (2.10%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.10%) Amazon S3
12 6 (2.10%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (2.10%) PaaS
13 5 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (1.75%) GitHub
14 4 (1.40%) Miro
15 2 (0.70%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.85%) Network Security
2 10 (3.50%) Software-Defined Radio
3 9 (3.15%) VPN
4 5 (1.75%) AMQP
5 3 (1.05%) LoRaWAN
5 3 (1.05%) LTE
6 2 (0.70%) Firewall
7 1 (0.35%) NGN
7 1 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.35%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.94%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (5.24%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (2.80%) Big Data
4 7 (2.45%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.75%) Cloudera CDH
5 5 (1.75%) Hadoop
6 4 (1.40%) Flink
7 3 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.05%) Metadata
7 3 (1.05%) Redis
8 2 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.35%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (4.90%) GitLab
2 10 (3.50%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.80%) Git
4 5 (1.75%) JIRA
5 2 (0.70%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.70%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.35%) Gradle
6 1 (0.35%) JUnit
6 1 (0.35%) Mocha
6 1 (0.35%) Mockito
General
1 24 (8.39%) Social Skills
2 21 (7.34%) Finance
3 15 (5.24%) Public Sector
4 12 (4.20%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (2.45%) Aerospace
6 3 (1.05%) Games
6 3 (1.05%) Military
6 3 (1.05%) Telecoms
7 2 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.35%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 53 (18.53%) Software Engineer
2 40 (13.99%) DevOps Engineer
3 35 (12.24%) Senior
4 33 (11.54%) Cloud Engineer
5 31 (10.84%) Developer
6 23 (8.04%) Software Developer
7 22 (7.69%) Lead
8 21 (7.34%) Python Engineer
9 20 (6.99%) Data Engineer
10 18 (6.29%) Architect
10 18 (6.29%) Cloud Native Engineer
10 18 (6.29%) Senior Data Engineer
11 17 (5.94%) Administrator
11 17 (5.94%) Systems Administrator
12 15 (5.24%) Principal Engineer
13 13 (4.55%) Azure Data Engineer
13 13 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
13 13 (4.55%) Elasticsearch Engineer
13 13 (4.55%) Python Data Engineer
13 13 (4.55%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (14.69%) Terraform
2 18 (6.29%) Kafka
3 13 (4.55%) Keycloak
4 12 (4.20%) Node.js
5 7 (2.45%) OpenAPI
5 7 (2.45%) REST
6 6 (2.10%) gRPC
6 6 (2.10%) React
6 6 (2.10%) RESTful
6 6 (2.10%) Swagger
7 5 (1.75%) AngularJS
7 5 (1.75%) Material-UI
7 5 (1.75%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (1.75%) Spring
7 5 (1.75%) Spring Boot
8 4 (1.40%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.70%) Apache NiFi
10 1 (0.35%) Android Jetpack
10 1 (0.35%) FastAPI
10 1 (0.35%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 38 (13.29%) Cloud Native
2 24 (8.39%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (3.50%) Embedded Systems
4 7 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.10%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.75%) Distributed Applications
6 5 (1.75%) FPGA
6 5 (1.75%) Operational Technology
6 5 (1.75%) Verilog
6 5 (1.75%) VHDL
7 4 (1.40%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.40%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.40%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.40%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.05%) IoT
8 3 (1.05%) NB-IoT
8 3 (1.05%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.05%) Virtual Reality
9 2 (0.70%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 40 (13.99%) Linux
2 15 (5.24%) Unix
3 10 (3.50%) Android
4 5 (1.75%) CentOS
4 5 (1.75%) Debian
4 5 (1.75%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.75%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.70%) Rocky
5 2 (0.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (29.37%) DevOps
2 60 (20.98%) Software Engineering
3 43 (15.03%) CI/CD
4 42 (14.69%) Agile
5 36 (12.59%) Infrastructure as Code
6 35 (12.24%) Containerisation
7 24 (8.39%) Microservices
8 22 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
9 21 (7.34%) Cloud Security
10 20 (6.99%) Analytics
10 20 (6.99%) Continuous Improvement
10 20 (6.99%) Decision-Making
10 20 (6.99%) DevSecOps
11 18 (6.29%) Validation
12 17 (5.94%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 17 (5.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 16 (5.59%) ETL
13 16 (5.59%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (5.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 15 (5.24%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 50 (17.48%) Python
2 35 (12.24%) C++
2 35 (12.24%) Java
3 19 (6.64%) Go
4 16 (5.59%) Bash
5 14 (4.90%) JavaScript
6 9 (3.15%) Bicep
6 9 (3.15%) Scala
7 7 (2.45%) Rust
8 5 (1.75%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.70%) C
9 2 (0.70%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 286 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 122 (42.66%) DV Cleared
3 15 (5.24%) Degree
4 14 (4.90%) Azure Certification
5 9 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.10%) OSCP
8 4 (1.40%) CEH
9 3 (1.05%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.70%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.70%) CISSP
10 2 (0.70%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.35%) CCIE
11 1 (0.35%) CCNP
11 1 (0.35%) CISA
11 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.35%) CISM
11 1 (0.35%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.40%) GDPR
1 4 (1.40%) QA
2 3 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.70%) NCSC
3 2 (0.70%) NIST
4 1 (0.35%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (8.04%) Docker
2 12 (4.20%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.75%) Firmware
5 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 46 (16.08%) Kubernetes
2 33 (11.54%) Ansible
3 9 (3.15%) Puppet
4 3 (1.05%) Grafana
4 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.05%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.70%) Nessus
5 2 (0.70%) Nmap
5 2 (0.70%) Packer
6 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.20%) VMware
3 8 (2.80%) Google
4 7 (2.45%) Red Hat
5 5 (1.75%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.40%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.05%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.05%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.35%) Cisco
8 1 (0.35%) Foundry
8 1 (0.35%) Splunk