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 7 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 352 148 610
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 26.53% 34.82% 36.40%
As % of the Qualifications category 70.40% 62.45% 75.87%
Number of salaries quoted 251 79 441
10th Percentile £45,000 £30,750 £31,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £44,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £81,500
South West median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -

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 500 237 804
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 37.68% 55.76% 47.97%
Number of salaries quoted 293 132 602
10th Percentile £41,443 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -13.08%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £80,000
South West median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% -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 7 May 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 7 May 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 0 138 £67,500 - 47
Gloucester 0 115 £65,000 - 31
Tewkesbury 0 12 £58,750 +64.34%
Filton +6 8 £28,000 -44.00% 31
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 14 (3.98%) Apache
2 8 (2.27%) Confluence
3 2 (0.57%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 78 (22.16%) AWS
2 66 (18.75%) Azure
3 20 (5.68%) GCP
4 13 (3.69%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (3.41%) OpenShift
6 6 (1.70%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.42%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.14%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (0.85%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (0.85%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (0.57%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.57%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.57%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (0.57%) Serverless
11 1 (0.28%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.28%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (0.28%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.28%) Dagster
11 1 (0.28%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.84%) DHCP
1 10 (2.84%) DNS
1 10 (2.84%) Firewall
2 6 (1.70%) VPN
3 5 (1.42%) LAN
3 5 (1.42%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.42%) WAN
4 3 (0.85%) NAS
4 3 (0.85%) Network Security
4 3 (0.85%) SAN
5 2 (0.57%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.57%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.57%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (0.57%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.28%) LTE
6 1 (0.28%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.28%) VLAN
6 1 (0.28%) VSAN
6 1 (0.28%) WebEx
6 1 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (3.13%) NoSQL
3 8 (2.27%) MongoDB
4 7 (1.99%) InfluxDB
5 6 (1.70%) Neo4j
6 4 (1.14%) Big Data
6 4 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.85%) Metadata
7 3 (0.85%) MySQL
8 2 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.28%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.28%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.28%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.28%) Power BI
9 1 (0.28%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (6.82%) Git
2 19 (5.40%) GitLab
3 17 (4.83%) Jenkins
4 14 (3.98%) JIRA
5 9 (2.56%) Cucumber
6 8 (2.27%) Cypress.io
7 7 (1.99%) Subversion
8 6 (1.70%) Robot Framework
8 6 (1.70%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.70%) TestRail
9 5 (1.42%) Selenium
10 4 (1.14%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.14%) Gradle
11 2 (0.57%) JUnit
11 2 (0.57%) Maven
11 2 (0.57%) MLflow
11 2 (0.57%) Mockito
11 2 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.28%) JMeter
12 1 (0.28%) Postman
General
1 46 (13.07%) Public Sector
2 34 (9.66%) Social Skills
3 29 (8.24%) Finance
4 26 (7.39%) Aerospace
5 13 (3.69%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.27%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.42%) Advertising
8 5 (1.42%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.85%) Electronics
10 3 (0.85%) Military
10 3 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.57%) Law
11 2 (0.57%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 67 (19.03%) Software Engineer
2 34 (9.66%) Consultant
3 33 (9.38%) Security Consultant
4 29 (8.24%) Senior
5 27 (7.67%) Analyst
6 26 (7.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 24 (6.82%) Business Analyst
8 21 (5.97%) Cloud Engineer
9 19 (5.40%) DevOps Engineer
10 18 (5.11%) Cybersecurity Consultant
11 15 (4.26%) Tester
12 14 (3.98%) Data Scientist
13 13 (3.69%) Security Engineer
14 12 (3.41%) Architect
14 12 (3.41%) Test Engineer
15 11 (3.13%) AWS Engineer
15 11 (3.13%) Data Engineer
15 11 (3.13%) Developer
16 10 (2.84%) Administrator
16 10 (2.84%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.26%) Elastic Stack
1 15 (4.26%) React
2 12 (3.41%) AngularJS
2 12 (3.41%) Vue
3 10 (2.84%) Apache NiFi
4 9 (2.56%) REST
5 8 (2.27%) Spring
5 8 (2.27%) Spring Boot
6 6 (1.70%) MERN Stack
7 5 (1.42%) RESTful
8 4 (1.14%) Kafka
8 4 (1.14%) Playwright
8 4 (1.14%) pytest
9 3 (0.85%) Node.js
10 2 (0.57%) gRPC
10 2 (0.57%) Hibernate
10 2 (0.57%) JPA
10 2 (0.57%) Protocol Buffers
10 2 (0.57%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (0.57%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 19 (5.40%) Product Ownership
2 12 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (2.84%) Cloud Native
3 10 (2.84%) Data Centre
4 7 (1.99%) Security Posture
5 5 (1.42%) Blog
6 4 (1.14%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.14%) Cloud Security Posture
6 4 (1.14%) PKI
6 4 (1.14%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.14%) Replication
7 3 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (0.85%) Fat Client
7 3 (0.85%) PMI
7 3 (0.85%) Thin Client
8 2 (0.57%) Blockchain
8 2 (0.57%) CMDB
8 2 (0.57%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.57%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 59 (16.76%) Linux
2 28 (7.95%) Windows
3 8 (2.27%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.70%) CentOS
5 4 (1.14%) Unix
6 2 (0.57%) Android
6 2 (0.57%) VMS
6 2 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (24.43%) Software Engineering
2 78 (22.16%) Agile
3 77 (21.88%) DevOps
4 53 (15.06%) Cybersecurity
5 46 (13.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 40 (11.36%) Infrastructure as Code
7 39 (11.08%) CI/CD
8 35 (9.94%) Collaborative Culture
9 32 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
10 29 (8.24%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (7.95%) Containerisation
11 28 (7.95%) Test Automation
12 27 (7.67%) AI
13 26 (7.39%) Data Science
13 26 (7.39%) Penetration Testing
14 24 (6.82%) Software Testing
15 22 (6.25%) Collaborative Working
15 22 (6.25%) Platform Engineering
15 22 (6.25%) Scrum
16 21 (5.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 87 (24.72%) Python
2 60 (17.05%) Java
3 35 (9.94%) Bash
4 25 (7.10%) JavaScript
5 24 (6.82%) C++
6 19 (5.40%) PowerShell
7 16 (4.55%) Go
8 13 (3.69%) C
9 12 (3.41%) TypeScript
10 10 (2.84%) SQL
11 8 (2.27%) Rust
12 7 (1.99%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.14%) C#
13 4 (1.14%) Groovy
14 3 (0.85%) Elixir
14 3 (0.85%) Erlang
15 2 (0.57%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.28%) R
16 1 (0.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 197 (55.97%) DV Cleared
2 155 (44.03%) SC Cleared
3 26 (7.39%) Degree
4 6 (1.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 6 (1.70%) CREST Certified
5 5 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.14%) CCIE
6 4 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.14%) PhD
6 4 (1.14%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.85%) BC Cleared
7 3 (0.85%) CISSP
8 2 (0.57%) CBAP
8 2 (0.57%) CCIE Data Center
8 2 (0.57%) CCNP
8 2 (0.57%) CEH
8 2 (0.57%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.98%) QA
2 11 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.42%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.14%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.14%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.14%) SLA
5 2 (0.57%) GDPR
5 2 (0.57%) NIST
6 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.28%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.28%) NCSC
6 1 (0.28%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.28%) RMADS
System Software
1 34 (9.66%) Docker
2 16 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (3.69%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.42%) Firmware
5 4 (1.14%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.57%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 53 (15.06%) Kubernetes
2 38 (10.80%) Ansible
3 36 (10.23%) Terraform
4 22 (6.25%) Grafana
5 10 (2.84%) Kibana
5 10 (2.84%) logstash
5 10 (2.84%) Puppet
6 9 (2.56%) Prometheus
7 8 (2.27%) Argo
7 8 (2.27%) Rancher
8 7 (1.99%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (1.99%) vCenter Server
8 7 (1.99%) yum
9 4 (1.14%) Nagios
10 3 (0.85%) SCCM
10 3 (0.85%) SCOM
10 3 (0.85%) SCOrch
11 2 (0.57%) Check_MK
11 2 (0.57%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.57%) vRealize
Vendors
1 28 (7.95%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.11%) VMware
3 13 (3.69%) Cisco
3 13 (3.69%) Red Hat
4 11 (3.13%) Splunk
5 7 (1.99%) Atlassian
6 6 (1.70%) Dell
7 4 (1.14%) Fortinet
8 3 (0.85%) Oracle
9 2 (0.57%) CheckPoint
9 2 (0.57%) F5
9 2 (0.57%) HP
9 2 (0.57%) Juniper
9 2 (0.57%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.57%) SAP
9 2 (0.57%) Veeam
10 1 (0.28%) Databricks
10 1 (0.28%) Google
10 1 (0.28%) McAfee
10 1 (0.28%) NetApp