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 15 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 4 1
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 260 171 631
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 28.23% 34.55% 42.01%
As % of the Qualifications category 72.42% 48.31% 77.61%
Number of salaries quoted 184 92 414
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,580 £31,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,938 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - +20.37% -13.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,250 £82,500
South West median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +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 359 354 813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 38.98% 71.52% 54.13%
Number of salaries quoted 222 136 561
10th Percentile £37,500 £29,625 £30,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,438 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +10.48% -12.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,563 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,250 £81,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.94% +2.00%

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 15 March 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 15 March 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 94 £67,500 - 32
Gloucester 0 87 £65,000 - 33
Tewkesbury -1 13 £62,500 +47.06% 5
Filton +11 8 £28,000 -11.11% 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 11 (4.23%) Apache
2 8 (3.08%) Confluence
3 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.38%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (1.92%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 63 (24.23%) AWS
2 51 (19.62%) Azure
3 10 (3.85%) GCP
4 9 (3.46%) OpenShift
5 5 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (1.54%) Amazon S3
6 4 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (1.54%) Serverless
7 3 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (0.77%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (0.77%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (0.77%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.38%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.38%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (0.38%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (0.38%) Dagster
9 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.38%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.46%) DNS
1 9 (3.46%) Firewall
2 8 (3.08%) DHCP
3 7 (2.69%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.92%) LAN
4 5 (1.92%) WAN
5 4 (1.54%) Network Security
5 4 (1.54%) VPN
6 3 (1.15%) Structured Cabling
6 3 (1.15%) VSAN
7 2 (0.77%) NAS
7 2 (0.77%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (0.77%) SAN
7 2 (0.77%) VLAN
8 1 (0.38%) HTTP
8 1 (0.38%) ICMP
8 1 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.38%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.38%) WebEx
8 1 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.38%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (3.46%) NoSQL
3 8 (3.08%) Neo4j
4 6 (2.31%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.92%) InfluxDB
6 3 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.15%) Big Data
6 3 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.77%) Metadata
7 2 (0.77%) MySQL
8 1 (0.38%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.38%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.38%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.38%) Power BI
8 1 (0.38%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (5.38%) Git
2 11 (4.23%) GitLab
2 11 (4.23%) Jenkins
2 11 (4.23%) JIRA
3 7 (2.69%) Cucumber
4 6 (2.31%) Cypress.io
4 6 (2.31%) Subversion
5 4 (1.54%) Robot Framework
5 4 (1.54%) TestRail
6 3 (1.15%) Balsamiq
6 3 (1.15%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.15%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.77%) Gradle
7 2 (0.77%) IDA Disassembler
7 2 (0.77%) Maven
7 2 (0.77%) Selenium
8 1 (0.38%) MLflow
8 1 (0.38%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.38%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 37 (14.23%) Social Skills
2 25 (9.62%) Public Sector
3 20 (7.69%) Finance
4 16 (6.15%) Aerospace
5 12 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (3.85%) Manufacturing
7 10 (3.85%) Military
8 5 (1.92%) Advertising
8 5 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.54%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.15%) Law
11 2 (0.77%) Aviation
11 2 (0.77%) Electronics
11 2 (0.77%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 39 (15.00%) Software Engineer
2 29 (11.15%) Consultant
3 26 (10.00%) Security Consultant
3 26 (10.00%) Senior
4 21 (8.08%) Analyst
5 19 (7.31%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (6.92%) Business Analyst
7 17 (6.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (4.62%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 12 (4.62%) Data Scientist
9 11 (4.23%) Administrator
9 11 (4.23%) Architect
10 8 (3.08%) Data Engineer
10 8 (3.08%) Senior Software Engineer
11 7 (2.69%) Project Manager
11 7 (2.69%) Splunk Engineer
11 7 (2.69%) Test Engineer
11 7 (2.69%) Vulnerability Researcher
12 6 (2.31%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
12 6 (2.31%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.77%) React
2 12 (4.62%) AngularJS
3 8 (3.08%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (3.08%) MERN Stack
4 6 (2.31%) Apache NiFi
4 6 (2.31%) Spring
4 6 (2.31%) Spring Boot
4 6 (2.31%) Vue
5 5 (1.92%) REST
6 4 (1.54%) Node.js
7 3 (1.15%) Kafka
8 2 (0.77%) Hibernate
8 2 (0.77%) JPA
8 2 (0.77%) Playwright
8 2 (0.77%) pytest
8 2 (0.77%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.77%) RESTful
9 1 (0.38%) Flash
9 1 (0.38%) Middleware
9 1 (0.38%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.62%) Product Ownership
2 10 (3.85%) Cloud Native
2 10 (3.85%) Data Centre
2 10 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (1.92%) Driving Licence
4 4 (1.54%) CMDB
4 4 (1.54%) PKI
5 3 (1.15%) Blog
5 3 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.15%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.15%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.15%) PMI
5 3 (1.15%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.15%) Replication
6 2 (0.77%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.77%) Blockchain
6 2 (0.77%) Cyber Security Posture
6 2 (0.77%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (0.77%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 45 (17.31%) Linux
2 21 (8.08%) Windows
3 7 (2.69%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.31%) CentOS
5 3 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.77%) Unix
6 2 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (23.46%) Agile
2 54 (20.77%) Software Engineering
3 53 (20.38%) DevOps
4 35 (13.46%) Cybersecurity
5 33 (12.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 32 (12.31%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
8 23 (8.85%) Collaborative Culture
9 21 (8.08%) AI
9 21 (8.08%) Collaborative Working
10 20 (7.69%) CI/CD
10 20 (7.69%) Containerisation
11 19 (7.31%) Data Science
12 18 (6.92%) Scrum
13 17 (6.54%) Continuous Improvement
14 16 (6.15%) Software Testing
15 15 (5.77%) Full-Stack Development
16 14 (5.38%) ITIL
16 14 (5.38%) Penetration Testing
17 13 (5.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 74 (28.46%) Python
2 48 (18.46%) Java
3 30 (11.54%) Bash
4 23 (8.85%) JavaScript
5 20 (7.69%) PowerShell
6 12 (4.62%) C
6 12 (4.62%) Go
6 12 (4.62%) TypeScript
7 9 (3.46%) C++
8 8 (3.08%) SQL
9 6 (2.31%) C#
9 6 (2.31%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.15%) Elixir
10 3 (1.15%) Erlang
10 3 (1.15%) Groovy
10 3 (1.15%) VBScript
11 2 (0.77%) R
12 1 (0.38%) Rust
12 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 154 (59.23%) DV Cleared
2 113 (43.46%) SC Cleared
3 23 (8.85%) Degree
4 6 (2.31%) CREST Certified
5 5 (1.92%) CCIE
5 5 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (1.54%) PhD
6 4 (1.54%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.15%) BC Cleared
7 3 (1.15%) CITP
7 3 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.77%) CBAP
8 2 (0.77%) CHECK Team Member
8 2 (0.77%) CISSP
8 2 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.38%) CCNP
9 1 (0.38%) IIBA
9 1 (0.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.62%) QA
2 8 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.54%) SLA
4 3 (1.15%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.15%) GDPR
4 3 (1.15%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.15%) RMADS
5 2 (0.77%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.38%) NIST
System Software
1 27 (10.38%) Docker
2 12 (4.62%) Active Directory
3 11 (4.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.54%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.15%) Firmware
5 3 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.77%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.77%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 45 (17.31%) Kubernetes
2 24 (9.23%) Ansible
3 23 (8.85%) Terraform
4 15 (5.77%) Grafana
5 7 (2.69%) Argo
5 7 (2.69%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.31%) Rancher
6 6 (2.31%) yum
7 5 (1.92%) Kibana
7 5 (1.92%) logstash
7 5 (1.92%) Nagios
7 5 (1.92%) Puppet
7 5 (1.92%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.77%) McAfee ePO
8 2 (0.77%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.77%) SCCM
8 2 (0.77%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.38%) Check_MK
9 1 (0.38%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 15 (5.77%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.38%) Cisco
3 12 (4.62%) Splunk
3 12 (4.62%) VMware
4 11 (4.23%) Red Hat
5 7 (2.69%) Fortinet
6 6 (2.31%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.92%) Dell
7 5 (1.92%) F5
8 4 (1.54%) CheckPoint
9 2 (0.77%) Google
9 2 (0.77%) HP
9 2 (0.77%) Juniper
9 2 (0.77%) McAfee
9 2 (0.77%) Oracle
9 2 (0.77%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.77%) SAP
9 2 (0.77%) Veeam
10 1 (0.38%) NetApp