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 1 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 550 188 385
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 27.92% 31.65% 29.21%
As % of the Qualifications category 75.55% 65.28% 70.38%
Number of salaries quoted 387 101 266
10th Percentile £48,750 £35,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £78,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £87,500
South West median annual salary £75,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +30.43% -4.17% -

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 728 288 547
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 36.95% 48.48% 41.50%
Number of salaries quoted 468 170 393
10th Percentile £43,200 £27,950 £33,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £41,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,250 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.08% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £82,500
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 1 August 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 1 August 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 0 252 £77,500 -11.43% 71
Gloucester 0 170 £70,000 -6.67% 42
Filton -1 13 £57,000 +3.64% 2
Tewkesbury -10 6 £52,500 -8.70% 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 30 (5.45%) Apache
2 8 (1.45%) Confluence
3 6 (1.09%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.73%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.36%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Simulink
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 103 (18.73%) AWS
2 75 (13.64%) Azure
3 30 (5.45%) GCP
4 27 (4.91%) OpenShift
5 14 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (2.36%) OCI
7 12 (2.18%) AWS CloudFormation
7 12 (2.18%) Serverless
8 11 (2.00%) Entra ID
9 10 (1.82%) Azure AKS
10 8 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (1.45%) Azure Machine Learning
11 6 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (1.09%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (1.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 6 (1.09%) GitHub
11 6 (1.09%) PaaS
12 5 (0.91%) Amazon S3
12 5 (0.91%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.18%) Network Security
2 11 (2.00%) Firewall
3 10 (1.82%) Software-Defined Radio
3 10 (1.82%) VPN
4 7 (1.27%) DHCP
4 7 (1.27%) DNS
5 4 (0.73%) LAN
5 4 (0.73%) WAN
6 3 (0.55%) LoRaWAN
6 3 (0.55%) LTE
6 3 (0.55%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.55%) VXLAN
7 2 (0.36%) AMQP
7 2 (0.36%) NAS
7 2 (0.36%) NGN
7 2 (0.36%) SAN
7 2 (0.36%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.18%) VLAN
8 1 (0.18%) VSAN
8 1 (0.18%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.45%) NoSQL
2 16 (2.91%) Elasticsearch
3 13 (2.36%) Big Data
3 13 (2.36%) MongoDB
4 12 (2.18%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (1.27%) InfluxDB
6 6 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (0.91%) Hadoop
8 4 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (0.73%) MySQL
9 3 (0.55%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.55%) Flink
9 3 (0.55%) Redis
10 2 (0.36%) Cloudera CDH
10 2 (0.36%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.18%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.18%) Power BI
11 1 (0.18%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (6.18%) Git
2 32 (5.82%) GitLab
3 25 (4.55%) Jenkins
4 13 (2.36%) JIRA
5 8 (1.45%) Cucumber
5 8 (1.45%) SonarQube
6 7 (1.27%) Cypress.io
6 7 (1.27%) Robot Framework
6 7 (1.27%) Selenium
6 7 (1.27%) TestRail
7 6 (1.09%) Subversion
8 3 (0.55%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.55%) MLflow
8 3 (0.55%) Rational DOORS
8 3 (0.55%) Rational Rhapsody
9 2 (0.36%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.36%) Gradle
9 2 (0.36%) Metasploit
9 2 (0.36%) Mockito
9 2 (0.36%) Valgrind
General
1 64 (11.64%) Finance
2 59 (10.73%) Social Skills
3 54 (9.82%) Public Sector
4 40 (7.27%) Aerospace
5 25 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (1.09%) Games
8 5 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (0.73%) Military
10 3 (0.55%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.18%) Electronics
11 1 (0.18%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 108 (19.64%) Software Engineer
2 57 (10.36%) DevOps Engineer
3 51 (9.27%) Cloud Engineer
4 48 (8.73%) Senior
5 44 (8.00%) Lead
6 39 (7.09%) Data Engineer
7 35 (6.36%) Architect
8 31 (5.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 28 (5.09%) Consultant
10 24 (4.36%) Developer
11 23 (4.18%) Analyst
12 21 (3.82%) Administrator
12 21 (3.82%) Lead DevOps
12 21 (3.82%) Systems Administrator
13 20 (3.64%) Data Scientist
13 20 (3.64%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 20 (3.64%) Security Consultant
14 19 (3.45%) Tester
15 18 (3.27%) Business Analyst
15 18 (3.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.64%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (3.27%) Kafka
2 18 (3.27%) Spring
2 18 (3.27%) Spring Boot
3 17 (3.09%) Apache NiFi
4 11 (2.00%) Vue
5 9 (1.64%) RESTful
6 8 (1.45%) REST
7 7 (1.27%) pytest
7 7 (1.27%) React
8 6 (1.09%) AngularJS
8 6 (1.09%) Playwright
9 5 (0.91%) Keycloak
10 4 (0.73%) gRPC
11 3 (0.55%) Node.js
11 3 (0.55%) OpenGL
11 3 (0.55%) PyTorch
11 3 (0.55%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (0.55%) TensorFlow
11 3 (0.55%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 39 (7.09%) Cloud Native
2 24 (4.36%) Product Ownership
3 17 (3.09%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (2.36%) Embedded Systems
5 12 (2.18%) Public Cloud
6 11 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (1.45%) FPGA
7 8 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.45%) VHDL
8 7 (1.27%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.27%) Verilog
9 5 (0.91%) Algorithms
9 5 (0.91%) Blog
9 5 (0.91%) Data Structures
9 5 (0.91%) Mobile App
9 5 (0.91%) Operational Technology
9 5 (0.91%) Security Posture
10 4 (0.73%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (0.73%) PKI
10 4 (0.73%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 90 (16.36%) Linux
2 33 (6.00%) Windows
3 15 (2.73%) Unix
4 12 (2.18%) Android
5 10 (1.82%) CentOS
6 7 (1.27%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.91%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.36%) Debian
9 2 (0.36%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.36%) VMS
9 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.18%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.18%) Rocky
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (23.82%) DevOps
2 128 (23.27%) Software Engineering
3 117 (21.27%) Agile
4 93 (16.91%) CI/CD
5 76 (13.82%) Infrastructure as Code
6 70 (12.73%) Containerisation
7 60 (10.91%) Continuous Improvement
8 57 (10.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 53 (9.64%) Collaborative Culture
10 52 (9.45%) AI
11 46 (8.36%) Cybersecurity
12 43 (7.82%) Test Automation
13 42 (7.64%) Problem-Solving
14 40 (7.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 36 (6.55%) Data Science
16 35 (6.36%) Analytics
17 34 (6.18%) Platform Engineering
18 31 (5.64%) Scrum
19 30 (5.45%) Stakeholder Management
20 27 (4.91%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 126 (22.91%) Python
2 84 (15.27%) Java
3 64 (11.64%) C++
4 38 (6.91%) Bash
5 29 (5.27%) JavaScript
6 27 (4.91%) Go
7 20 (3.64%) Rust
7 20 (3.64%) SQL
8 17 (3.09%) C
9 16 (2.91%) PowerShell
10 11 (2.00%) TypeScript
11 10 (1.82%) Scala
12 8 (1.45%) Groovy
13 6 (1.09%) Bicep
13 6 (1.09%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.73%) C#
15 3 (0.55%) GLSL
16 2 (0.36%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.36%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 331 (60.18%) DV Cleared
2 222 (40.36%) SC Cleared
3 35 (6.36%) Degree
4 17 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (1.45%) CREST Certified
6 7 (1.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 7 (1.27%) OSCP
7 6 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (0.91%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.91%) CEH
8 5 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.73%) PhD
10 3 (0.55%) CCIE
10 3 (0.55%) CCNP
10 3 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.55%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.36%) CISSP
11 2 (0.36%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.18%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.00%) QA
2 9 (1.64%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.09%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.09%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.36%) GDPR
5 2 (0.36%) NCSC
5 2 (0.36%) NIST
6 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.18%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.18%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.18%) PMO
6 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 52 (9.45%) Docker
2 24 (4.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (3.82%) Active Directory
4 10 (1.82%) Firmware
5 6 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.55%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.36%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 86 (15.64%) Kubernetes
2 78 (14.18%) Terraform
3 67 (12.18%) Ansible
4 24 (4.36%) Grafana
5 16 (2.91%) Puppet
6 14 (2.55%) Kibana
6 14 (2.55%) logstash
7 9 (1.64%) Argo
8 8 (1.45%) Prometheus
8 8 (1.45%) Rancher
8 8 (1.45%) vCenter Server
9 7 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (1.09%) yum
11 3 (0.55%) Check_MK
11 3 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.55%) Mesos
11 3 (0.55%) Packer
11 3 (0.55%) SCCM
11 3 (0.55%) SCOM
11 3 (0.55%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 33 (6.00%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.27%) VMware
3 16 (2.91%) Red Hat
4 15 (2.73%) Oracle
5 10 (1.82%) Atlassian
5 10 (1.82%) Cisco
6 8 (1.45%) Splunk
7 5 (0.91%) Databricks
8 4 (0.73%) Dell
9 2 (0.36%) Google
9 2 (0.36%) Intel
9 2 (0.36%) Microsemi
9 2 (0.36%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.36%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.36%) Xilinx
10 1 (0.18%) Citrix
10 1 (0.18%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.18%) McAfee
10 1 (0.18%) NetApp