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

6 months to
16 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 611 152 352
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 28.96% 26.62% 28.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 77.93% 60.32% 68.48%
Number of salaries quoted 425 103 241
10th Percentile £50,000 £35,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,825 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% -3.92%
75th Percentile £90,000 £94,375 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £87,500
South West median annual salary £75,000 £59,400 £60,000
% change year-on-year +26.26% -1.00% -

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 784 252 514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 37.16% 44.13% 41.25%
Number of salaries quoted 506 175 356
10th Percentile £45,000 £28,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £42,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £85,938 £80,000 £70,313
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £82,500
South West median annual salary £60,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +21.00% -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 16 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 16 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 0 280 £80,000 -8.57% 67
Gloucester 0 187 £70,000 -3.45% 29
Filton -1 13 £57,000 +3.64% 2
Tewkesbury -7 8 £52,500 -10.64% 3
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 33 (5.40%) Apache
2 9 (1.47%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.15%) Confluence
4 5 (0.82%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.49%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
1 2 (0.33%) Simulink
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 109 (17.84%) AWS
2 75 (12.27%) Azure
3 36 (5.89%) OpenShift
4 29 (4.75%) GCP
5 16 (2.62%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (2.29%) Serverless
7 13 (2.13%) Entra ID
7 13 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (2.13%) OCI
8 12 (1.96%) Azure AKS
9 9 (1.47%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (1.31%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 8 (1.31%) Azure Machine Learning
11 7 (1.15%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (1.15%) GitHub
12 6 (0.98%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (0.98%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (0.98%) PaaS
13 5 (0.82%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.29%) Network Security
2 12 (1.96%) Firewall
2 12 (1.96%) VPN
3 10 (1.64%) Software-Defined Radio
4 8 (1.31%) DHCP
4 8 (1.31%) DNS
5 4 (0.65%) LAN
5 4 (0.65%) WAN
6 3 (0.49%) AMQP
6 3 (0.49%) LoRaWAN
6 3 (0.49%) LTE
6 3 (0.49%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.49%) VXLAN
7 2 (0.33%) NAS
7 2 (0.33%) NGN
7 2 (0.33%) SAN
7 2 (0.33%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.16%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.16%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.16%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.11%) Elasticsearch
1 19 (3.11%) NoSQL
2 15 (2.45%) Big Data
3 14 (2.29%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (1.96%) MongoDB
5 8 (1.31%) Hadoop
6 7 (1.15%) InfluxDB
7 6 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (0.82%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (0.65%) MySQL
10 3 (0.49%) Cloudera CDH
10 3 (0.49%) Flink
10 3 (0.49%) Redis
11 2 (0.33%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.33%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.16%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.16%) Power BI
12 1 (0.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 36 (5.89%) Git
2 32 (5.24%) GitLab
3 27 (4.42%) Jenkins
4 15 (2.45%) JIRA
5 10 (1.64%) Cypress.io
6 9 (1.47%) TestRail
7 8 (1.31%) Cucumber
7 8 (1.31%) SonarQube
8 7 (1.15%) Robot Framework
8 7 (1.15%) Selenium
9 5 (0.82%) Subversion
10 4 (0.65%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.49%) MLflow
11 3 (0.49%) Rational DOORS
11 3 (0.49%) Rational Rhapsody
12 2 (0.33%) Burp Suite
12 2 (0.33%) Gradle
12 2 (0.33%) Metasploit
12 2 (0.33%) Valgrind
12 2 (0.33%) Zephyr
General
1 73 (11.95%) Finance
2 63 (10.31%) Social Skills
3 54 (8.84%) Public Sector
4 42 (6.87%) Aerospace
5 33 (5.40%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (0.98%) Games
8 5 (0.82%) Military
8 5 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (0.49%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.33%) Electronics
11 1 (0.16%) Automotive
11 1 (0.16%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.16%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.16%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 123 (20.13%) Software Engineer
2 69 (11.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 55 (9.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 52 (8.51%) Senior
5 47 (7.69%) Lead
6 44 (7.20%) Data Engineer
7 36 (5.89%) Developer
8 35 (5.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 34 (5.56%) Architect
10 26 (4.26%) Consultant
11 25 (4.09%) Analyst
12 24 (3.93%) Lead DevOps
12 24 (3.93%) Software Developer
13 22 (3.60%) Lead DevOps Engineer
14 21 (3.44%) Data Scientist
15 20 (3.27%) Administrator
15 20 (3.27%) Business Analyst
15 20 (3.27%) Systems Administrator
16 19 (3.11%) Python Engineer
16 19 (3.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.44%) Spring
1 21 (3.44%) Spring Boot
2 20 (3.27%) Elastic Stack
2 20 (3.27%) Kafka
3 17 (2.78%) Apache NiFi
4 10 (1.64%) REST
4 10 (1.64%) Vue
5 9 (1.47%) React
5 9 (1.47%) RESTful
6 8 (1.31%) Node.js
6 8 (1.31%) Playwright
7 7 (1.15%) Keycloak
7 7 (1.15%) pytest
8 6 (0.98%) AngularJS
9 5 (0.82%) gRPC
9 5 (0.82%) OpenAPI
9 5 (0.82%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (0.65%) Swagger
11 3 (0.49%) TensorFlow
11 3 (0.49%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 46 (7.53%) Cloud Native
2 24 (3.93%) Product Ownership
3 21 (3.44%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (2.29%) Embedded Systems
5 12 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (1.96%) Public Cloud
6 8 (1.31%) FPGA
6 8 (1.31%) VHDL
7 7 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.15%) Verilog
8 6 (0.98%) Data Centre
8 6 (0.98%) PKI
9 5 (0.82%) Algorithms
9 5 (0.82%) Blog
9 5 (0.82%) Data Structures
9 5 (0.82%) Mobile App
9 5 (0.82%) Operational Technology
9 5 (0.82%) Replication
9 5 (0.82%) Security Posture
10 4 (0.65%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 100 (16.37%) Linux
2 34 (5.56%) Windows
3 16 (2.62%) Unix
4 13 (2.13%) Android
5 11 (1.80%) CentOS
6 7 (1.15%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.82%) Embedded Linux
7 5 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.49%) Debian
8 3 (0.49%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.33%) VMS
9 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.16%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.16%) Rocky
10 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (24.71%) DevOps
1 151 (24.71%) Software Engineering
2 126 (20.62%) Agile
3 110 (18.00%) CI/CD
4 87 (14.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 83 (13.58%) Containerisation
6 71 (11.62%) Continuous Improvement
7 62 (10.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 55 (9.00%) AI
9 53 (8.67%) Collaborative Culture
10 51 (8.35%) Test Automation
11 48 (7.86%) Cybersecurity
12 46 (7.53%) Problem-Solving
13 44 (7.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 40 (6.55%) Analytics
14 40 (6.55%) Platform Engineering
15 39 (6.38%) Data Science
16 34 (5.56%) Stakeholder Management
17 32 (5.24%) DevSecOps
18 30 (4.91%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 142 (23.24%) Python
2 95 (15.55%) Java
3 74 (12.11%) C++
4 42 (6.87%) Bash
5 39 (6.38%) JavaScript
6 29 (4.75%) Go
7 24 (3.93%) SQL
8 23 (3.76%) Rust
9 19 (3.11%) C
10 17 (2.78%) PowerShell
11 16 (2.62%) TypeScript
12 12 (1.96%) Scala
13 8 (1.31%) Bicep
13 8 (1.31%) Groovy
14 6 (0.98%) C#
14 6 (0.98%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.49%) GLSL
16 2 (0.33%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.33%) SystemVerilog
17 1 (0.16%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 374 (61.21%) DV Cleared
2 241 (39.44%) SC Cleared
3 36 (5.89%) Degree
4 19 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (1.31%) CREST Certified
6 7 (1.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 7 (1.15%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (1.15%) OSCP
7 5 (0.82%) CEH
7 5 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.49%) CCIE
8 3 (0.49%) CCNP
8 3 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.49%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.49%) PhD
8 3 (0.49%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.33%) CISSP
9 2 (0.33%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (1.96%) QA
2 11 (1.80%) Accessibility
2 11 (1.80%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (0.98%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.33%) GDPR
5 2 (0.33%) NCSC
5 2 (0.33%) NIST
6 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.16%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.16%) PMO
System Software
1 59 (9.66%) Docker
2 26 (4.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (3.76%) Active Directory
4 9 (1.47%) Firmware
5 6 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.65%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.33%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 103 (16.86%) Kubernetes
2 93 (15.22%) Terraform
3 79 (12.93%) Ansible
4 23 (3.76%) Grafana
5 18 (2.95%) Puppet
6 14 (2.29%) Kibana
6 14 (2.29%) logstash
7 8 (1.31%) vCenter Server
8 7 (1.15%) Argo
8 7 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (1.15%) Prometheus
8 7 (1.15%) Rancher
9 5 (0.82%) yum
10 3 (0.49%) Check_MK
10 3 (0.49%) Kubeflow
10 3 (0.49%) Nagios
10 3 (0.49%) Packer
10 3 (0.49%) SCCM
10 3 (0.49%) SCOM
10 3 (0.49%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 36 (5.89%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.24%) VMware
3 16 (2.62%) Red Hat
4 15 (2.45%) Oracle
5 10 (1.64%) Atlassian
6 9 (1.47%) Cisco
7 8 (1.31%) Splunk
8 5 (0.82%) Databricks
9 3 (0.49%) Dell
9 3 (0.49%) Google
9 3 (0.49%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.33%) Intel
10 2 (0.33%) Microsemi
10 2 (0.33%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.33%) Xilinx
11 1 (0.16%) Citrix
11 1 (0.16%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.16%) McAfee
11 1 (0.16%) NetApp