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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 707 138 291
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 28.18% 25.60% 30.44%
As % of the Qualifications category 80.89% 66.99% 66.74%
Number of salaries quoted 483 85 182
10th Percentile £50,000 £38,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £70,938
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £87,375
South West median annual salary £75,000 £55,485 £60,000
% change year-on-year +35.17% -7.52% -

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 874 206 436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 34.83% 38.22% 45.61%
Number of salaries quoted 579 139 263
10th Percentile £45,000 £35,400 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +14.04% -0.87%
75th Percentile £90,500 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £81,500
South West median annual salary £65,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +30.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 9 October 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 9 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 0 326 £80,000 -5.88% 177
Gloucester 0 235 £72,500 -9.38% 82
Tewkesbury -5 20 £55,000 -18.52% 9
Filton -1 11 £55,000 +27.91% 9
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 47 (6.65%) Apache
2 15 (2.12%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.56%) Confluence
4 7 (0.99%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.28%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.28%) Simulink
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 113 (15.98%) AWS
2 86 (12.16%) Azure
3 45 (6.36%) OpenShift
4 36 (5.09%) GCP
5 21 (2.97%) AWS CloudFormation
5 21 (2.97%) Serverless
6 15 (2.12%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (2.12%) Azure AKS
7 14 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (1.98%) OCI
8 13 (1.84%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (1.84%) Azure Data Factory
9 12 (1.70%) GitHub
10 11 (1.56%) Amazon S3
10 11 (1.56%) Entra ID
11 10 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (1.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 7 (0.99%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (0.85%) PaaS
15 5 (0.71%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.55%) Network Security
2 13 (1.84%) Firewall
3 11 (1.56%) VPN
4 10 (1.41%) Software-Defined Radio
5 6 (0.85%) DHCP
5 6 (0.85%) DNS
6 5 (0.71%) AMQP
6 5 (0.71%) Software-Defined Networking
6 5 (0.71%) VXLAN
7 4 (0.57%) LAN
7 4 (0.57%) NGN
7 4 (0.57%) WAN
8 3 (0.42%) LoRaWAN
8 3 (0.42%) LTE
9 2 (0.28%) NAS
9 2 (0.28%) SAN
9 2 (0.28%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.14%) BGP
10 1 (0.14%) MPLS
10 1 (0.14%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (4.24%) NoSQL
2 28 (3.96%) Elasticsearch
3 22 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (2.69%) Big Data
5 10 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (1.41%) Hadoop
5 10 (1.41%) MongoDB
6 8 (1.13%) InfluxDB
7 7 (0.99%) Flink
8 6 (0.85%) MySQL
8 6 (0.85%) Redis
9 5 (0.71%) Cloudera CDH
9 5 (0.71%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.57%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.57%) Metadata
11 3 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.42%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.14%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 48 (6.79%) GitLab
2 47 (6.65%) Git
3 41 (5.80%) Jenkins
4 17 (2.40%) JIRA
5 13 (1.84%) Cypress.io
6 10 (1.41%) Cucumber
6 10 (1.41%) Selenium
6 10 (1.41%) SonarQube
6 10 (1.41%) TestRail
7 9 (1.27%) Subversion
8 8 (1.13%) Robot Framework
9 6 (0.85%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.57%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.42%) Rational DOORS
11 3 (0.42%) Rational Rhapsody
12 2 (0.28%) Gradle
12 2 (0.28%) Metasploit
12 2 (0.28%) Mockito
12 2 (0.28%) Valgrind
12 2 (0.28%) Zephyr
General
1 89 (12.59%) Finance
2 65 (9.19%) Social Skills
3 43 (6.08%) Aerospace
4 40 (5.66%) Public Sector
5 38 (5.37%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (0.85%) Games
8 5 (0.71%) Military
9 4 (0.57%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.42%) Electronics
11 2 (0.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.14%) Automotive
12 1 (0.14%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.14%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 128 (18.10%) Software Engineer
2 87 (12.31%) DevOps Engineer
3 68 (9.62%) Senior
4 65 (9.19%) Developer
5 60 (8.49%) Lead
6 59 (8.35%) Cloud Engineer
7 54 (7.64%) Data Engineer
8 50 (7.07%) Software Developer
9 46 (6.51%) Architect
10 43 (6.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 30 (4.24%) Lead DevOps
12 29 (4.10%) Python Engineer
13 28 (3.96%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 28 (3.96%) Network Engineer
14 25 (3.54%) Analyst
15 21 (2.97%) Business Analyst
15 21 (2.97%) Principal Engineer
16 20 (2.83%) C++ Developer
16 20 (2.83%) C++ Software Developer
17 19 (2.69%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (16.69%) Terraform
2 28 (3.96%) Kafka
3 27 (3.82%) Spring
3 27 (3.82%) Spring Boot
4 26 (3.68%) Elastic Stack
5 18 (2.55%) Apache NiFi
6 16 (2.26%) REST
6 16 (2.26%) RESTful
7 14 (1.98%) Node.js
8 13 (1.84%) Keycloak
9 12 (1.70%) Playwright
10 11 (1.56%) React
11 10 (1.41%) Vue
12 9 (1.27%) pytest
12 9 (1.27%) RabbitMQ
13 7 (0.99%) AngularJS
13 7 (0.99%) gRPC
13 7 (0.99%) OpenAPI
14 6 (0.85%) Swagger
15 5 (0.71%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 65 (9.19%) Cloud Native
2 30 (4.24%) Hybrid Cloud
3 23 (3.25%) Product Ownership
4 16 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (2.26%) Public Cloud
5 14 (1.98%) Embedded Systems
6 8 (1.13%) FPGA
6 8 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.13%) VHDL
7 7 (0.99%) Data Centre
7 7 (0.99%) PKI
7 7 (0.99%) Verilog
8 6 (0.85%) Data Structures
8 6 (0.85%) Distributed Applications
9 5 (0.71%) Algorithms
9 5 (0.71%) Mobile App
9 5 (0.71%) Operational Technology
10 4 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.57%) Replication
11 3 (0.42%) 3D Graphics
Operating Systems
1 117 (16.55%) Linux
2 26 (3.68%) Windows
3 19 (2.69%) Unix
4 14 (1.98%) CentOS
5 13 (1.84%) Android
6 6 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.71%) Debian
7 5 (0.71%) Embedded Linux
7 5 (0.71%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.57%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.28%) Rocky
10 1 (0.14%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (26.59%) DevOps
2 159 (22.49%) Software Engineering
3 148 (20.93%) Agile
4 144 (20.37%) CI/CD
5 109 (15.42%) Infrastructure as Code
6 108 (15.28%) Containerisation
7 80 (11.32%) Continuous Improvement
8 79 (11.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 65 (9.19%) Collaborative Culture
10 62 (8.77%) AI
10 62 (8.77%) Problem-Solving
11 61 (8.63%) Test Automation
12 46 (6.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 45 (6.36%) Analytics
14 44 (6.22%) Stakeholder Management
15 43 (6.08%) Platform Engineering
16 42 (5.94%) DevSecOps
17 41 (5.80%) Data Pipeline
18 40 (5.66%) Microservices
19 39 (5.52%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 166 (23.48%) Python
2 128 (18.10%) Java
3 94 (13.30%) C++
4 60 (8.49%) Bash
5 44 (6.22%) JavaScript
6 43 (6.08%) Go
7 28 (3.96%) SQL
8 27 (3.82%) Rust
9 18 (2.55%) Scala
10 17 (2.40%) C
10 17 (2.40%) PowerShell
10 17 (2.40%) TypeScript
11 9 (1.27%) Bicep
12 8 (1.13%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.85%) Groovy
14 5 (0.71%) C#
15 4 (0.57%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.42%) GLSL
17 2 (0.28%) SystemVerilog
18 1 (0.14%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 415 (58.70%) DV Cleared
2 288 (40.74%) SC Cleared
3 37 (5.23%) Degree
4 17 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (1.98%) Azure Certification
6 11 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (0.85%) OSCP
9 5 (0.71%) CCIE
9 5 (0.71%) CCNP
9 5 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (0.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (0.57%) CEH
10 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.57%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.42%) CREST Certified
11 3 (0.42%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.42%) PMP
12 2 (0.28%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.28%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.39%) QA
2 10 (1.41%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.13%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.57%) GDPR
4 4 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.28%) NCSC
5 2 (0.28%) NIST
6 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.14%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.14%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.14%) PMO
System Software
1 80 (11.32%) Docker
2 29 (4.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (2.69%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.13%) VMware NSX
5 6 (0.85%) Firmware
5 6 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.14%) vSphere
7 1 (0.14%) XenApp
7 1 (0.14%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 134 (18.95%) Kubernetes
2 102 (14.43%) Ansible
3 29 (4.10%) Grafana
4 27 (3.82%) Puppet
5 16 (2.26%) Kibana
5 16 (2.26%) logstash
6 13 (1.84%) Argo
7 12 (1.70%) Rancher
8 11 (1.56%) Prometheus
9 10 (1.41%) vCenter Server
10 9 (1.27%) yum
11 4 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (0.57%) Istio
11 4 (0.57%) linkerd
11 4 (0.57%) Mesos
11 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.57%) Packer
12 2 (0.28%) Check_MK
12 2 (0.28%) Nagios
12 2 (0.28%) Nessus
Vendors
1 41 (5.80%) Microsoft
2 37 (5.23%) VMware
3 16 (2.26%) Red Hat
4 14 (1.98%) Oracle
5 13 (1.84%) Atlassian
6 9 (1.27%) Splunk
7 8 (1.13%) Google
8 7 (0.99%) Cisco
9 5 (0.71%) SaltStack
10 4 (0.57%) Databricks
11 3 (0.42%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.42%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.28%) Citrix
12 2 (0.28%) Intel
12 2 (0.28%) Microsemi
12 2 (0.28%) Xilinx
13 1 (0.14%) Dell
13 1 (0.14%) McAfee
13 1 (0.14%) NetApp
13 1 (0.14%) SolarWinds