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

6 months to
7 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 576 189 370
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 28.47% 31.40% 29.02%
As % of the Qualifications category 76.60% 64.51% 70.34%
Number of salaries quoted 404 101 250
10th Percentile £50,000 £35,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,650 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% -3.96%
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £87,500
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 752 293 526
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 37.17% 48.67% 41.25%
Number of salaries quoted 485 174 367
10th Percentile £43,750 £28,000 £34,200
25th Percentile £51,250 £42,875 £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 £88,000 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £82,500
South West median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% +1.85%

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 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 7 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 0 266 £80,000 -8.57% 88
Gloucester 0 177 £70,000 -3.45% 42
Filton -1 13 £57,000 +3.64% 7
Tewkesbury -8 7 £52,500 -8.70% 6
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 31 (5.38%) Apache
2 8 (1.39%) Confluence
3 6 (1.04%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.69%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.35%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Simulink
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 105 (18.23%) AWS
2 76 (13.19%) Azure
3 29 (5.03%) GCP
4 28 (4.86%) OpenShift
5 14 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (2.26%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (2.26%) OCI
7 12 (2.08%) Entra ID
7 12 (2.08%) Serverless
8 11 (1.91%) Azure AKS
9 8 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (1.39%) Azure Machine Learning
10 7 (1.22%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (1.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 6 (1.04%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (1.04%) GitHub
11 6 (1.04%) PaaS
12 5 (0.87%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.26%) Network Security
2 11 (1.91%) Firewall
2 11 (1.91%) VPN
3 10 (1.74%) Software-Defined Radio
4 7 (1.22%) DHCP
4 7 (1.22%) DNS
5 4 (0.69%) LAN
5 4 (0.69%) WAN
6 3 (0.52%) LoRaWAN
6 3 (0.52%) LTE
6 3 (0.52%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.52%) VXLAN
7 2 (0.35%) AMQP
7 2 (0.35%) NAS
7 2 (0.35%) NGN
7 2 (0.35%) SAN
7 2 (0.35%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.17%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.17%) VLAN
8 1 (0.17%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.30%) NoSQL
2 17 (2.95%) Elasticsearch
3 12 (2.08%) Big Data
3 12 (2.08%) MongoDB
3 12 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (1.22%) InfluxDB
5 6 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (0.87%) Hadoop
7 4 (0.69%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (0.52%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.52%) Flink
8 3 (0.52%) MySQL
8 3 (0.52%) Redis
9 2 (0.35%) Cloudera CDH
9 2 (0.35%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.17%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.17%) Metadata
10 1 (0.17%) Power BI
10 1 (0.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 36 (6.25%) Git
2 32 (5.56%) GitLab
3 26 (4.51%) Jenkins
4 15 (2.60%) JIRA
5 8 (1.39%) Cucumber
5 8 (1.39%) Cypress.io
5 8 (1.39%) SonarQube
5 8 (1.39%) TestRail
6 7 (1.22%) Robot Framework
6 7 (1.22%) Selenium
7 6 (1.04%) Subversion
8 3 (0.52%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.52%) MLflow
8 3 (0.52%) Rational DOORS
8 3 (0.52%) Rational Rhapsody
9 2 (0.35%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.35%) Gradle
9 2 (0.35%) Metasploit
9 2 (0.35%) Mockito
9 2 (0.35%) Valgrind
General
1 67 (11.63%) Finance
2 61 (10.59%) Social Skills
3 54 (9.38%) Public Sector
4 42 (7.29%) Aerospace
5 26 (4.51%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (1.04%) Games
8 5 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (0.69%) Military
10 3 (0.52%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.35%) Electronics
12 1 (0.17%) Automotive
12 1 (0.17%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 113 (19.62%) Software Engineer
2 60 (10.42%) DevOps Engineer
3 52 (9.03%) Cloud Engineer
4 51 (8.85%) Senior
5 45 (7.81%) Lead
6 41 (7.12%) Data Engineer
7 36 (6.25%) Architect
8 35 (6.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 28 (4.86%) Developer
10 26 (4.51%) Consultant
11 24 (4.17%) Analyst
12 22 (3.82%) Lead DevOps
13 21 (3.65%) Administrator
13 21 (3.65%) Data Scientist
13 21 (3.65%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 21 (3.65%) Systems Administrator
14 19 (3.30%) Business Analyst
14 19 (3.30%) Tester
15 18 (3.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 18 (3.13%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.47%) Elastic Stack
2 19 (3.30%) Kafka
3 18 (3.13%) Spring
3 18 (3.13%) Spring Boot
4 17 (2.95%) Apache NiFi
5 10 (1.74%) Vue
6 9 (1.56%) RESTful
7 8 (1.39%) REST
8 7 (1.22%) Playwright
8 7 (1.22%) pytest
9 6 (1.04%) Keycloak
9 6 (1.04%) React
10 5 (0.87%) AngularJS
11 4 (0.69%) gRPC
12 3 (0.52%) Node.js
12 3 (0.52%) OpenAPI
12 3 (0.52%) PyTorch
12 3 (0.52%) RabbitMQ
12 3 (0.52%) TensorFlow
12 3 (0.52%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 40 (6.94%) Cloud Native
2 25 (4.34%) Product Ownership
3 19 (3.30%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (2.43%) Embedded Systems
5 12 (2.08%) Public Cloud
6 11 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (1.39%) FPGA
7 8 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.39%) VHDL
8 7 (1.22%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.22%) Verilog
9 5 (0.87%) Algorithms
9 5 (0.87%) Blog
9 5 (0.87%) Data Structures
9 5 (0.87%) Mobile App
9 5 (0.87%) Operational Technology
9 5 (0.87%) Security Posture
10 4 (0.69%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (0.69%) PKI
10 4 (0.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 93 (16.15%) Linux
2 34 (5.90%) Windows
3 15 (2.60%) Unix
4 13 (2.26%) Android
5 10 (1.74%) CentOS
6 7 (1.22%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.87%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.35%) Debian
9 2 (0.35%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.35%) VMS
9 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.17%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.17%) Rocky
10 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (23.61%) Software Engineering
2 135 (23.44%) DevOps
3 121 (21.01%) Agile
4 95 (16.49%) CI/CD
5 79 (13.72%) Infrastructure as Code
6 71 (12.33%) Containerisation
7 64 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 61 (10.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 53 (9.20%) Collaborative Culture
10 52 (9.03%) AI
11 48 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
12 46 (7.99%) Test Automation
13 42 (7.29%) Problem-Solving
14 41 (7.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 37 (6.42%) Data Science
16 36 (6.25%) Analytics
16 36 (6.25%) Platform Engineering
17 31 (5.38%) Stakeholder Management
18 29 (5.03%) Scrum
19 28 (4.86%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 132 (22.92%) Python
2 89 (15.45%) Java
3 66 (11.46%) C++
4 38 (6.60%) Bash
5 31 (5.38%) JavaScript
6 27 (4.69%) Go
7 21 (3.65%) Rust
7 21 (3.65%) SQL
8 19 (3.30%) C
9 16 (2.78%) PowerShell
10 12 (2.08%) TypeScript
11 10 (1.74%) Scala
12 8 (1.39%) Groovy
13 7 (1.22%) Bicep
14 6 (1.04%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.87%) C#
16 3 (0.52%) GLSL
17 2 (0.35%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.35%) SystemVerilog
18 1 (0.17%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 351 (60.94%) DV Cleared
2 224 (38.89%) SC Cleared
3 38 (6.60%) Degree
4 18 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (1.39%) CREST Certified
6 7 (1.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 7 (1.22%) OSCP
7 6 (1.04%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (0.87%) CEH
8 5 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.69%) PhD
10 3 (0.52%) CCIE
10 3 (0.52%) CCNP
10 3 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.52%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.35%) CISSP
11 2 (0.35%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.17%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.08%) QA
2 9 (1.56%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.22%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.04%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.35%) GDPR
6 2 (0.35%) NCSC
6 2 (0.35%) NIST
7 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.17%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.17%) PMO
System Software
1 52 (9.03%) Docker
2 26 (4.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (3.82%) Active Directory
4 10 (1.74%) Firmware
5 6 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.69%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.35%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 89 (15.45%) Kubernetes
2 81 (14.06%) Terraform
3 69 (11.98%) Ansible
4 24 (4.17%) Grafana
5 17 (2.95%) Puppet
6 14 (2.43%) Kibana
6 14 (2.43%) logstash
7 9 (1.56%) Argo
7 9 (1.56%) vCenter Server
8 8 (1.39%) Prometheus
8 8 (1.39%) Rancher
9 7 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (1.04%) yum
11 3 (0.52%) Check_MK
11 3 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.52%) Istio
11 3 (0.52%) Kubeflow
11 3 (0.52%) Mesos
11 3 (0.52%) Packer
11 3 (0.52%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 35 (6.08%) Microsoft
2 31 (5.38%) VMware
3 16 (2.78%) Red Hat
4 15 (2.60%) Oracle
5 10 (1.74%) Atlassian
5 10 (1.74%) Cisco
6 8 (1.39%) Splunk
7 5 (0.87%) Databricks
8 4 (0.69%) Dell
9 2 (0.35%) Google
9 2 (0.35%) Intel
9 2 (0.35%) Microsemi
9 2 (0.35%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.35%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.35%) Xilinx
10 1 (0.17%) Citrix
10 1 (0.17%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.17%) McAfee
10 1 (0.17%) NetApp