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

6 months to
11 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 668 144 319
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 28.41% 26.33% 28.48%
As % of the Qualifications category 78.40% 66.06% 66.88%
Number of salaries quoted 466 95 210
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 £91,875 £95,000 £70,938
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £86,375
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 852 218 477
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 36.24% 39.85% 42.59%
Number of salaries quoted 562 154 309
10th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +13.64% -3.51%
75th Percentile £86,250 £82,813 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £80,250
South West median annual salary £64,407 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +28.81% -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 11 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 11 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 0 299 £80,000 -8.57% 97
Gloucester 0 215 £75,000 -6.25% 44
Tewkesbury -6 14 £55,000 -12.00% 6
Filton -1 13 £57,000 +16.33% 5
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 (5.54%) 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
1 110 (16.47%) AWS
2 80 (11.98%) Azure
3 42 (6.29%) OpenShift
4 32 (4.79%) GCP
5 17 (2.54%) 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 (2.54%) 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 (3.44%) Elasticsearch
2 22 (3.29%) NoSQL
3 16 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (2.25%) Big Data
5 11 (1.65%) MongoDB
6 8 (1.20%) Hadoop
6 8 (1.20%) InfluxDB
7 6 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (0.75%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.60%) MySQL
10 3 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.45%) Cloudera CDH
10 3 (0.45%) Flink
10 3 (0.45%) Redis
11 2 (0.30%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.15%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.15%) Metadata
12 1 (0.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 38 (5.69%) Git
2 36 (5.39%) GitLab
3 31 (4.64%) Jenkins
4 17 (2.54%) JIRA
5 11 (1.65%) Cypress.io
6 10 (1.50%) TestRail
7 9 (1.35%) Cucumber
7 9 (1.35%) SonarQube
8 8 (1.20%) Robot Framework
8 8 (1.20%) Selenium
9 7 (1.05%) Subversion
10 4 (0.60%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.45%) MLflow
11 3 (0.45%) Rational DOORS
11 3 (0.45%) Rational Rhapsody
12 2 (0.30%) Burp Suite
12 2 (0.30%) Gradle
12 2 (0.30%) Mockito
12 2 (0.30%) Valgrind
12 2 (0.30%) Zephyr
General
1 82 (12.28%) Finance
2 64 (9.58%) Social Skills
3 50 (7.49%) Public Sector
4 43 (6.44%) Aerospace
5 34 (5.09%) 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 (19.16%) Software Engineer
2 76 (11.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 61 (9.13%) Cloud Engineer
4 55 (8.23%) Developer
4 55 (8.23%) Senior
5 48 (7.19%) Data Engineer
5 48 (7.19%) Lead
6 40 (5.99%) Software Developer
7 39 (5.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 35 (5.24%) Architect
9 25 (3.74%) Analyst
9 25 (3.74%) Consultant
9 25 (3.74%) Lead DevOps
10 24 (3.59%) Python Engineer
11 23 (3.44%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 21 (3.14%) Business Analyst
13 20 (2.99%) Tester
14 19 (2.84%) Network Engineer
15 18 (2.69%) Administrator
15 18 (2.69%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (15.27%) Terraform
2 23 (3.44%) Elastic Stack
2 23 (3.44%) Kafka
2 23 (3.44%) Spring
2 23 (3.44%) Spring Boot
3 18 (2.69%) Apache NiFi
4 12 (1.80%) Node.js
5 11 (1.65%) REST
5 11 (1.65%) Vue
6 10 (1.50%) Keycloak
6 10 (1.50%) RESTful
7 9 (1.35%) Playwright
7 9 (1.35%) React
8 7 (1.05%) pytest
9 6 (0.90%) AngularJS
10 5 (0.75%) gRPC
10 5 (0.75%) OpenAPI
10 5 (0.75%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (0.60%) Swagger
12 3 (0.45%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 51 (7.63%) Cloud Native
2 24 (3.59%) Hybrid Cloud
2 24 (3.59%) Product Ownership
3 14 (2.10%) Embedded Systems
4 12 (1.80%) Public Cloud
5 10 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (1.20%) FPGA
6 8 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.20%) VHDL
7 7 (1.05%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.05%) Verilog
8 6 (0.90%) Operational Technology
8 6 (0.90%) PKI
9 5 (0.75%) Algorithms
9 5 (0.75%) Data Structures
9 5 (0.75%) Mobile App
9 5 (0.75%) Security Posture
10 4 (0.60%) Blog
10 4 (0.60%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (0.60%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 104 (15.57%) Linux
2 32 (4.79%) Windows
3 17 (2.54%) Unix
4 13 (1.95%) Android
5 12 (1.80%) CentOS
6 7 (1.05%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.75%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.45%) Debian
9 3 (0.45%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.30%) VMS
10 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.15%) CoreOS
11 1 (0.15%) Rocky
11 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (25.45%) DevOps
2 158 (23.65%) Software Engineering
3 138 (20.66%) Agile
4 125 (18.71%) CI/CD
5 91 (13.62%) Containerisation
5 91 (13.62%) Infrastructure as Code
6 74 (11.08%) Continuous Improvement
7 67 (10.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 59 (8.83%) Collaborative Culture
9 53 (7.93%) AI
9 53 (7.93%) Test Automation
10 51 (7.63%) Problem-Solving
11 47 (7.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 46 (6.89%) Cybersecurity
13 45 (6.74%) Platform Engineering
14 44 (6.59%) Analytics
15 40 (5.99%) Stakeholder Management
16 35 (5.24%) Data Science
16 35 (5.24%) Validation
17 34 (5.09%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 145 (21.71%) Python
2 105 (15.72%) Java
3 85 (12.72%) C++
4 49 (7.34%) Bash
5 42 (6.29%) JavaScript
6 37 (5.54%) Go
7 26 (3.89%) Rust
8 24 (3.59%) SQL
9 19 (2.84%) C
10 17 (2.54%) PowerShell
10 17 (2.54%) TypeScript
11 13 (1.95%) Scala
12 9 (1.35%) Bicep
13 8 (1.20%) Groovy
14 6 (0.90%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.60%) C#
16 3 (0.45%) GLSL
17 2 (0.30%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.30%) SystemVerilog
18 1 (0.15%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 397 (59.43%) DV Cleared
2 268 (40.12%) SC Cleared
3 32 (4.79%) Degree
4 19 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (1.50%) Azure Certification
6 8 (1.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 7 (1.05%) CREST Certified
7 7 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.05%) OSCP
8 6 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (0.75%) CEH
10 4 (0.60%) CCIE
10 4 (0.60%) CCNP
10 4 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.60%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.45%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.45%) PMP
12 2 (0.30%) CISSP
12 2 (0.30%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (2.69%) QA
2 11 (1.65%) Accessibility
3 10 (1.50%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.75%) 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 67 (10.03%) Docker
2 26 (3.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (3.44%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.05%) Firmware
5 6 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.75%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.30%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 116 (17.37%) Kubernetes
2 84 (12.57%) Ansible
3 26 (3.89%) Grafana
4 19 (2.84%) Puppet
5 15 (2.25%) Kibana
5 15 (2.25%) logstash
6 10 (1.50%) Argo
7 9 (1.35%) Prometheus
7 9 (1.35%) Rancher
8 8 (1.20%) vCenter Server
9 7 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (1.05%) yum
10 3 (0.45%) Check_MK
10 3 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.45%) Mesos
10 3 (0.45%) Nagios
10 3 (0.45%) Packer
10 3 (0.45%) SCCM
10 3 (0.45%) SCOM
10 3 (0.45%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 39 (5.84%) Microsoft
2 34 (5.09%) VMware
3 14 (2.10%) Oracle
3 14 (2.10%) Red Hat
4 10 (1.50%) Atlassian
5 9 (1.35%) Splunk
6 7 (1.05%) Cisco
7 5 (0.75%) Databricks
8 3 (0.45%) Google
8 3 (0.45%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.30%) Intel
9 2 (0.30%) Microsemi
9 2 (0.30%) Xilinx
10 1 (0.15%) Citrix
10 1 (0.15%) Dell
10 1 (0.15%) McAfee
10 1 (0.15%) Palo Alto