Security Cleared Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Security Clearance
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 28 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 436 169 574
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 27.23% 33.67% 33.28%
As % of the Qualifications category 73.15% 66.27% 74.45%
Number of salaries quoted 303 88 422
10th Percentile £45,000 £33,875 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +13.04% -13.86%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £82,500
South West median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% +4.35% -3.36%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Gloucestershire

Security 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 596 255 771
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 37.23% 50.80% 44.70%
Number of salaries quoted 377 144 579
10th Percentile £40,300 £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% -

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Security Cleared relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Security Cleared job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Security Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Security Cleared

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 28 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in Gloucestershire

Security 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 Security Cleared within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 28 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 0 182 £76,250 -7.58% 56
Gloucester 0 147 £67,500 -10.00% 20
Filton +1 10 £59,250 +7.73% 27
Tewkesbury -11 5 £55,000 +29.41% 4
Security Cleared
South West

Security 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 18 (4.13%) Apache
2 8 (1.83%) Confluence
3 3 (0.69%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.69%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (0.46%) Simulink
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 90 (20.64%) AWS
2 74 (16.97%) Azure
3 29 (6.65%) GCP
4 20 (4.59%) OpenShift
5 14 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (2.29%) OCI
7 8 (1.83%) Serverless
8 7 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (1.61%) Entra ID
9 6 (1.38%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (1.38%) Azure AKS
9 6 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (1.15%) Azure Machine Learning
11 4 (0.92%) Amazon S3
11 4 (0.92%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (0.69%) GitHub
12 3 (0.69%) Miro
13 2 (0.46%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.75%) Firewall
2 9 (2.06%) DHCP
2 9 (2.06%) DNS
2 9 (2.06%) Network Security
3 8 (1.83%) Software-Defined Radio
4 7 (1.61%) VPN
5 5 (1.15%) LAN
5 5 (1.15%) WAN
6 4 (0.92%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (0.92%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.92%) VXLAN
7 3 (0.69%) LoRaWAN
7 3 (0.69%) LTE
7 3 (0.69%) NAS
7 3 (0.69%) SAN
8 2 (0.46%) AMQP
8 2 (0.46%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.46%) NGN
9 1 (0.23%) VSAN
9 1 (0.23%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.90%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (2.52%) NoSQL
3 9 (2.06%) Big Data
4 8 (1.83%) MongoDB
5 7 (1.61%) InfluxDB
6 6 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.15%) MySQL
8 3 (0.69%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (0.69%) Flink
9 2 (0.46%) Cloudera CDH
9 2 (0.46%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.46%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.46%) Metadata
9 2 (0.46%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.23%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.23%) Power BI
10 1 (0.23%) Redis
10 1 (0.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (6.65%) GitLab
2 28 (6.42%) Git
3 25 (5.73%) Jenkins
4 12 (2.75%) JIRA
5 10 (2.29%) Cucumber
6 9 (2.06%) SonarQube
7 8 (1.83%) Cypress.io
8 7 (1.61%) Robot Framework
8 7 (1.61%) Selenium
8 7 (1.61%) Subversion
8 7 (1.61%) TestRail
9 5 (1.15%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.92%) Gradle
11 3 (0.69%) MLflow
12 2 (0.46%) Burp Suite
12 2 (0.46%) JUnit
12 2 (0.46%) Maven
12 2 (0.46%) Metasploit
12 2 (0.46%) Mockito
12 2 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 49 (11.24%) Finance
2 45 (10.32%) Public Sector
2 45 (10.32%) Social Skills
3 38 (8.72%) Aerospace
4 15 (3.44%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (2.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (1.15%) Games
7 4 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (0.69%) Military
8 3 (0.69%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.46%) Law
9 2 (0.46%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.23%) Advertising
10 1 (0.23%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 81 (18.58%) Software Engineer
2 36 (8.26%) Senior
3 34 (7.80%) Cloud Engineer
4 33 (7.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 29 (6.65%) Consultant
6 28 (6.42%) DevOps Engineer
6 28 (6.42%) Lead
7 26 (5.96%) Analyst
7 26 (5.96%) Architect
7 26 (5.96%) Security Consultant
8 21 (4.82%) Business Analyst
9 19 (4.36%) Tester
10 17 (3.90%) Developer
11 16 (3.67%) Data Engineer
12 14 (3.21%) Data Scientist
13 13 (2.98%) Cybersecurity Consultant
13 13 (2.98%) Penetration Tester
13 13 (2.98%) Security Engineer
13 13 (2.98%) Test Engineer
14 12 (2.75%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (4.82%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (3.21%) Apache NiFi
3 13 (2.98%) Vue
4 12 (2.75%) Spring
4 12 (2.75%) Spring Boot
5 11 (2.52%) React
6 10 (2.29%) REST
7 9 (2.06%) AngularJS
8 8 (1.83%) Kafka
9 7 (1.61%) pytest
9 7 (1.61%) RESTful
10 6 (1.38%) Playwright
11 5 (1.15%) Node.js
12 4 (0.92%) gRPC
12 4 (0.92%) RabbitMQ
13 3 (0.69%) PyTorch
13 3 (0.69%) TensorFlow
14 2 (0.46%) Material-UI
14 2 (0.46%) MERN Stack
14 2 (0.46%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 23 (5.28%) Product Ownership
2 17 (3.90%) Cloud Native
3 11 (2.52%) Data Centre
3 11 (2.52%) Public Cloud
3 11 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (2.29%) Embedded Systems
5 9 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (1.83%) FPGA
6 8 (1.83%) VHDL
7 7 (1.61%) Security Posture
7 7 (1.61%) Verilog
8 5 (1.15%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.15%) Blog
9 4 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (0.92%) Cloud Security Posture
9 4 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (0.92%) Mobile App
9 4 (0.92%) PKI
9 4 (0.92%) Replication
10 3 (0.69%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 76 (17.43%) Linux
2 33 (7.57%) Windows
3 10 (2.29%) CentOS
4 9 (2.06%) Unix
5 8 (1.83%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.15%) Android
6 5 (1.15%) Embedded Linux
7 4 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.46%) Debian
8 2 (0.46%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.46%) VMS
8 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.23%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.23%) Rocky
9 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (22.71%) Agile
1 99 (22.71%) Software Engineering
2 94 (21.56%) DevOps
3 61 (13.99%) CI/CD
4 56 (12.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 56 (12.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 50 (11.47%) Cybersecurity
6 49 (11.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 48 (11.01%) Collaborative Culture
8 44 (10.09%) Containerisation
9 38 (8.72%) Test Automation
10 35 (8.03%) AI
11 33 (7.57%) Problem-Solving
12 29 (6.65%) Scrum
13 28 (6.42%) Collaborative Working
13 28 (6.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 27 (6.19%) Software Testing
15 25 (5.73%) Data Science
15 25 (5.73%) Platform Engineering
16 23 (5.28%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 108 (24.77%) Python
2 68 (15.60%) Java
3 42 (9.63%) C++
4 40 (9.17%) Bash
5 24 (5.50%) JavaScript
6 19 (4.36%) Go
7 16 (3.67%) PowerShell
8 15 (3.44%) C
9 12 (2.75%) Rust
10 10 (2.29%) TypeScript
11 8 (1.83%) SQL
12 5 (1.15%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.15%) Scala
13 4 (0.92%) C#
13 4 (0.92%) Groovy
14 3 (0.69%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.46%) Bicep
15 2 (0.46%) Erlang
15 2 (0.46%) GLSL
15 2 (0.46%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 237 (54.36%) DV Cleared
2 191 (43.81%) SC Cleared
3 29 (6.65%) Degree
4 10 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (1.83%) CREST Certified
6 7 (1.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (1.38%) CCIE
7 6 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.15%) OSCP
9 4 (0.92%) CCNP
9 4 (0.92%) CISSP
9 4 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.92%) PhD
9 4 (0.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (0.69%) CEH
10 3 (0.69%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.46%) CCIE Data Center
11 2 (0.46%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.23%) CHECK Team Member
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.21%) QA
2 10 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.38%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.15%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.92%) SLA
6 3 (0.69%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.69%) GDPR
6 3 (0.69%) NIST
7 2 (0.46%) NCSC
8 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.23%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.23%) NIST 800
System Software
1 38 (8.72%) Docker
2 23 (5.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (4.13%) Active Directory
4 10 (2.29%) Firmware
5 6 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.92%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.69%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 63 (14.45%) Kubernetes
2 59 (13.53%) Terraform
3 57 (13.07%) Ansible
4 26 (5.96%) Grafana
5 16 (3.67%) Puppet
6 15 (3.44%) Kibana
6 15 (3.44%) logstash
7 9 (2.06%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.06%) Rancher
7 9 (2.06%) vCenter Server
8 8 (1.83%) Argo
9 7 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (1.61%) yum
10 5 (1.15%) Nagios
11 3 (0.69%) Check_MK
11 3 (0.69%) Kubeflow
11 3 (0.69%) SCCM
11 3 (0.69%) SCOM
11 3 (0.69%) SCOrch
12 2 (0.46%) vRealize
Vendors
1 28 (6.42%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.73%) VMware
3 17 (3.90%) Red Hat
4 13 (2.98%) Cisco
5 12 (2.75%) Oracle
6 11 (2.52%) Atlassian
7 8 (1.83%) Splunk
8 5 (1.15%) Dell
9 3 (0.69%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.46%) CheckPoint
10 2 (0.46%) Databricks
10 2 (0.46%) F5
10 2 (0.46%) Google
10 2 (0.46%) Intel
10 2 (0.46%) Microsemi
10 2 (0.46%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.46%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.46%) Xilinx
11 1 (0.23%) Juniper
11 1 (0.23%) Veeam