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 10 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 666 141 318
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 28.49% 25.73% 28.47%
As % of the Qualifications category 78.54% 65.28% 66.81%
Number of salaries quoted 463 95 209
10th Percentile £50,000 £35,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £86,500
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 848 216 476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 36.27% 39.42% 42.61%
Number of salaries quoted 557 155 308
10th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,000 £50,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £80,375
South West median annual salary £63,813 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +27.63% -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 10 September 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 10 September 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 0 298 £80,000 -8.57% 82
Gloucester 0 215 £75,000 -6.25% 43
Filton -1 13 £57,000 +16.33% 5
Tewkesbury -7 13 £55,000 -12.00% 7
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 37 (5.56%) Apache
2 10 (1.50%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.35%) Confluence
4 6 (0.90%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.30%) MS Visio
1 2 (0.30%) Simulink
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 112 (16.82%) AWS
2 81 (12.16%) Azure
3 43 (6.46%) OpenShift
4 32 (4.80%) GCP
5 17 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (2.10%) Entra ID
6 14 (2.10%) OCI
7 13 (1.95%) Azure AKS
7 13 (1.95%) Serverless
8 12 (1.80%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (1.50%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (1.35%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (1.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 9 (1.35%) GitHub
11 8 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (1.20%) Azure Machine Learning
12 6 (0.90%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (0.90%) Amazon S3
12 6 (0.90%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.55%) Network Security
2 13 (1.95%) VPN
3 12 (1.80%) Firewall
4 10 (1.50%) Software-Defined Radio
5 7 (1.05%) DHCP
5 7 (1.05%) DNS
6 4 (0.60%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (0.60%) VXLAN
7 3 (0.45%) AMQP
7 3 (0.45%) LAN
7 3 (0.45%) LoRaWAN
7 3 (0.45%) LTE
7 3 (0.45%) NGN
7 3 (0.45%) WAN
8 2 (0.30%) NAS
8 2 (0.30%) SAN
9 1 (0.15%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.15%) HSRP
9 1 (0.15%) Multicast
9 1 (0.15%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
2 22 (3.30%) NoSQL
3 16 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (2.25%) Big Data
5 11 (1.65%) MongoDB
6 9 (1.35%) InfluxDB
7 8 (1.20%) Hadoop
8 6 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.75%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.60%) MySQL
11 3 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (0.45%) Cloudera CDH
11 3 (0.45%) Flink
11 3 (0.45%) Redis
12 2 (0.30%) DynamoDB
13 1 (0.15%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.15%) Metadata
13 1 (0.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 39 (5.86%) Git
2 37 (5.56%) GitLab
3 32 (4.80%) Jenkins
4 17 (2.55%) JIRA
5 12 (1.80%) Cypress.io
6 11 (1.65%) TestRail
7 9 (1.35%) Cucumber
7 9 (1.35%) Robot Framework
7 9 (1.35%) Selenium
7 9 (1.35%) SonarQube
8 7 (1.05%) Subversion
9 4 (0.60%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.45%) MLflow
10 3 (0.45%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.45%) Rational Rhapsody
11 2 (0.30%) Burp Suite
11 2 (0.30%) Gradle
11 2 (0.30%) Mockito
11 2 (0.30%) Valgrind
11 2 (0.30%) Zephyr
General
1 82 (12.31%) Finance
2 65 (9.76%) Social Skills
3 51 (7.66%) Public Sector
4 43 (6.46%) Aerospace
5 34 (5.11%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (0.90%) Games
6 6 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (0.75%) Military
8 4 (0.60%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.30%) Electronics
10 1 (0.15%) Automotive
10 1 (0.15%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.15%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 128 (19.22%) Software Engineer
2 76 (11.41%) DevOps Engineer
3 61 (9.16%) Cloud Engineer
4 55 (8.26%) Senior
5 54 (8.11%) Developer
6 48 (7.21%) Data Engineer
6 48 (7.21%) Lead
7 40 (6.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 39 (5.86%) Software Developer
9 35 (5.26%) Architect
10 26 (3.90%) Consultant
11 25 (3.75%) Analyst
11 25 (3.75%) Lead DevOps
12 24 (3.60%) Python Engineer
13 23 (3.45%) Lead DevOps Engineer
14 21 (3.15%) Business Analyst
15 20 (3.00%) Tester
16 18 (2.70%) Administrator
16 18 (2.70%) Network Engineer
16 18 (2.70%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (15.47%) Terraform
2 24 (3.60%) Elastic Stack
3 23 (3.45%) Kafka
3 23 (3.45%) Spring
3 23 (3.45%) Spring Boot
4 18 (2.70%) Apache NiFi
5 12 (1.80%) Node.js
6 11 (1.65%) REST
6 11 (1.65%) Vue
7 10 (1.50%) Keycloak
7 10 (1.50%) Playwright
7 10 (1.50%) RESTful
8 9 (1.35%) React
9 8 (1.20%) pytest
10 6 (0.90%) AngularJS
11 5 (0.75%) gRPC
11 5 (0.75%) OpenAPI
11 5 (0.75%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (0.60%) Swagger
13 3 (0.45%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 52 (7.81%) Cloud Native
2 25 (3.75%) Product Ownership
3 24 (3.60%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (2.10%) Embedded Systems
5 12 (1.80%) Public Cloud
6 10 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (1.20%) FPGA
7 8 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.20%) VHDL
8 7 (1.05%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.05%) Verilog
9 6 (0.90%) Operational Technology
9 6 (0.90%) PKI
10 5 (0.75%) Algorithms
10 5 (0.75%) Blog
10 5 (0.75%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.75%) Mobile App
10 5 (0.75%) Security Posture
11 4 (0.60%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (0.60%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 106 (15.92%) Linux
2 34 (5.11%) Windows
3 17 (2.55%) Unix
4 13 (1.95%) Android
4 13 (1.95%) CentOS
5 7 (1.05%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.75%) Embedded Linux
7 4 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.45%) Debian
8 3 (0.45%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.30%) VMS
9 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.15%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.15%) Rocky
10 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (25.53%) DevOps
2 158 (23.72%) Software Engineering
3 139 (20.87%) Agile
4 126 (18.92%) CI/CD
5 92 (13.81%) Containerisation
5 92 (13.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 74 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 68 (10.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 60 (9.01%) Collaborative Culture
9 54 (8.11%) Test Automation
10 53 (7.96%) AI
11 51 (7.66%) Problem-Solving
12 47 (7.06%) Cybersecurity
12 47 (7.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 45 (6.76%) Platform Engineering
14 44 (6.61%) Analytics
15 40 (6.01%) Stakeholder Management
16 35 (5.26%) Data Science
17 34 (5.11%) Data Pipeline
17 34 (5.11%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 146 (21.92%) Python
2 105 (15.77%) Java
3 84 (12.61%) C++
4 50 (7.51%) Bash
5 43 (6.46%) JavaScript
6 37 (5.56%) Go
7 26 (3.90%) Rust
8 24 (3.60%) SQL
9 19 (2.85%) C
10 18 (2.70%) PowerShell
11 17 (2.55%) TypeScript
12 13 (1.95%) Scala
13 9 (1.35%) Bicep
14 8 (1.20%) Groovy
15 6 (0.90%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.60%) C#
17 3 (0.45%) GLSL
18 2 (0.30%) Shell Script
18 2 (0.30%) SystemVerilog
19 1 (0.15%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 396 (59.46%) DV Cleared
2 266 (39.94%) SC Cleared
3 32 (4.80%) Degree
4 19 (2.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (1.50%) Azure Certification
6 9 (1.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 8 (1.20%) CREST Certified
8 7 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (1.05%) OSCP
9 6 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (0.75%) CEH
11 4 (0.60%) CCIE
11 4 (0.60%) CCNP
11 4 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.60%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.45%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.45%) PMP
13 2 (0.30%) CISSP
13 2 (0.30%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (2.70%) QA
2 11 (1.65%) Accessibility
3 10 (1.50%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.90%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.30%) GDPR
6 2 (0.30%) NCSC
6 2 (0.30%) NIST
7 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.15%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.15%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.15%) PMO
System Software
1 68 (10.21%) Docker
2 27 (4.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (3.60%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.05%) Firmware
4 7 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.75%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.30%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 117 (17.57%) Kubernetes
2 85 (12.76%) Ansible
3 27 (4.05%) Grafana
4 19 (2.85%) Puppet
5 16 (2.40%) Kibana
5 16 (2.40%) logstash
6 10 (1.50%) Argo
7 9 (1.35%) Prometheus
7 9 (1.35%) Rancher
7 9 (1.35%) vCenter Server
8 7 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (1.05%) yum
9 3 (0.45%) Check_MK
9 3 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.45%) Mesos
9 3 (0.45%) Nagios
9 3 (0.45%) Packer
9 3 (0.45%) SCCM
9 3 (0.45%) SCOM
9 3 (0.45%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 39 (5.86%) Microsoft
2 35 (5.26%) VMware
3 15 (2.25%) Red Hat
4 14 (2.10%) Oracle
5 11 (1.65%) Atlassian
6 10 (1.50%) Splunk
7 7 (1.05%) Cisco
8 5 (0.75%) Databricks
9 3 (0.45%) Google
9 3 (0.45%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.30%) Intel
10 2 (0.30%) Microsemi
10 2 (0.30%) Xilinx
11 1 (0.15%) Citrix
11 1 (0.15%) Dell
11 1 (0.15%) McAfee
11 1 (0.15%) Palo Alto