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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 451 175 567
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 27.22% 33.59% 33.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 73.10% 66.54% 74.21%
Number of salaries quoted 315 93 416
10th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £42,320
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £57,750
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +12.55% -13.48%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £82,500
South West median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% +4.35% -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 617 263 764
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 37.24% 50.48% 44.60%
Number of salaries quoted 392 151 573
10th Percentile £40,050 £27,500 £30,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,875 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -11.93%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £81,450
South West median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% +0.73%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 0 189 £77,500 -10.14% 78
Gloucester 0 150 £70,000 -12.50% 34
Filton +1 13 £57,000 +3.64% 30
Tewkesbury -12 3 £52,500 +23.53% 4
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 19 (4.21%) Apache
2 8 (1.77%) Confluence
3 4 (0.89%) OpenStack
4 3 (0.67%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (0.44%) Simulink
2 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 90 (19.96%) AWS
2 76 (16.85%) Azure
3 28 (6.21%) GCP
4 21 (4.66%) OpenShift
5 14 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (2.22%) OCI
7 8 (1.77%) Entra ID
7 8 (1.77%) Serverless
8 7 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (1.55%) Azure AKS
9 6 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.11%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (1.11%) Azure Machine Learning
11 4 (0.89%) Amazon S3
11 4 (0.89%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (0.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 3 (0.67%) Miro
12 3 (0.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.44%) Firewall
2 9 (2.00%) DHCP
2 9 (2.00%) DNS
2 9 (2.00%) Network Security
2 9 (2.00%) Software-Defined Radio
3 8 (1.77%) VPN
4 5 (1.11%) LAN
4 5 (1.11%) WAN
5 4 (0.89%) Software-Defined Networking
5 4 (0.89%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.89%) VXLAN
6 3 (0.67%) LoRaWAN
6 3 (0.67%) LTE
6 3 (0.67%) NAS
6 3 (0.67%) SAN
7 2 (0.44%) AMQP
7 2 (0.44%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.44%) NGN
8 1 (0.22%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.22%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (4.21%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (2.66%) NoSQL
3 9 (2.00%) Big Data
3 9 (2.00%) MongoDB
4 7 (1.55%) InfluxDB
4 7 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.11%) MySQL
6 3 (0.67%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.67%) Flink
7 2 (0.44%) Cloudera CDH
7 2 (0.44%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.44%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.44%) Metadata
7 2 (0.44%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.22%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.22%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.22%) Redis
8 1 (0.22%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (6.43%) GitLab
2 28 (6.21%) Git
3 25 (5.54%) Jenkins
4 12 (2.66%) JIRA
5 10 (2.22%) Cucumber
6 9 (2.00%) SonarQube
7 8 (1.77%) Cypress.io
8 7 (1.55%) Robot Framework
8 7 (1.55%) Selenium
8 7 (1.55%) Subversion
8 7 (1.55%) TestRail
9 5 (1.11%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.89%) Gradle
11 3 (0.67%) MLflow
11 3 (0.67%) Rational DOORS
11 3 (0.67%) Rational Rhapsody
12 2 (0.44%) Burp Suite
12 2 (0.44%) Maven
12 2 (0.44%) Mockito
12 2 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 50 (11.09%) Finance
2 45 (9.98%) Public Sector
2 45 (9.98%) Social Skills
3 39 (8.65%) Aerospace
4 15 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (1.33%) Games
7 4 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (0.67%) Military
8 3 (0.67%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.44%) Law
9 2 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.22%) Advertising
10 1 (0.22%) Electronics
10 1 (0.22%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 85 (18.85%) Software Engineer
2 37 (8.20%) Senior
3 35 (7.76%) Cloud Engineer
4 33 (7.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 30 (6.65%) DevOps Engineer
5 30 (6.65%) Lead
6 28 (6.21%) Consultant
7 27 (5.99%) Architect
8 26 (5.76%) Analyst
9 25 (5.54%) Security Consultant
10 21 (4.66%) Business Analyst
11 19 (4.21%) Tester
12 18 (3.99%) Data Engineer
13 17 (3.77%) Developer
14 14 (3.10%) Data Scientist
15 13 (2.88%) Cybersecurity Consultant
15 13 (2.88%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
15 13 (2.88%) Penetration Tester
15 13 (2.88%) Security Engineer
15 13 (2.88%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (4.88%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (3.10%) Apache NiFi
3 13 (2.88%) Vue
4 12 (2.66%) Spring
4 12 (2.66%) Spring Boot
5 11 (2.44%) React
6 10 (2.22%) REST
7 9 (2.00%) AngularJS
7 9 (2.00%) Kafka
8 7 (1.55%) pytest
8 7 (1.55%) RESTful
9 6 (1.33%) Playwright
10 5 (1.11%) Node.js
11 4 (0.89%) gRPC
11 4 (0.89%) RabbitMQ
12 3 (0.67%) OpenGL
12 3 (0.67%) PyTorch
12 3 (0.67%) TensorFlow
12 3 (0.67%) Vulkan
13 2 (0.44%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 23 (5.10%) Product Ownership
2 17 (3.77%) Cloud Native
3 11 (2.44%) Embedded Systems
3 11 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (2.44%) Public Cloud
3 11 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (2.22%) Data Centre
5 8 (1.77%) FPGA
5 8 (1.77%) VHDL
6 7 (1.55%) Security Posture
6 7 (1.55%) Verilog
7 6 (1.33%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.11%) Blog
8 5 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (0.89%) Cloud Security Posture
9 4 (0.89%) Mobile App
9 4 (0.89%) Operational Technology
9 4 (0.89%) PKI
9 4 (0.89%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 77 (17.07%) Linux
2 33 (7.32%) Windows
3 10 (2.22%) CentOS
4 9 (2.00%) Unix
5 8 (1.77%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.33%) Android
7 5 (1.11%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.44%) Debian
9 2 (0.44%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.44%) VMS
9 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.22%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.22%) Rocky
10 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (22.84%) Software Engineering
2 100 (22.17%) Agile
3 97 (21.51%) DevOps
4 62 (13.75%) CI/CD
5 57 (12.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 57 (12.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 50 (11.09%) Cybersecurity
7 49 (10.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 48 (10.64%) Collaborative Culture
9 44 (9.76%) Containerisation
10 39 (8.65%) Test Automation
11 35 (7.76%) AI
12 34 (7.54%) Problem-Solving
13 30 (6.65%) Scrum
14 29 (6.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 28 (6.21%) Collaborative Working
16 27 (5.99%) Software Testing
17 25 (5.54%) Data Science
17 25 (5.54%) Platform Engineering
18 23 (5.10%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 110 (24.39%) Python
2 68 (15.08%) Java
3 46 (10.20%) C++
4 39 (8.65%) Bash
5 25 (5.54%) JavaScript
6 21 (4.66%) Go
7 17 (3.77%) C
8 16 (3.55%) PowerShell
9 13 (2.88%) Rust
10 11 (2.44%) TypeScript
11 9 (2.00%) SQL
12 5 (1.11%) Scala
13 4 (0.89%) C#
13 4 (0.89%) Groovy
13 4 (0.89%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.67%) Bicep
14 3 (0.67%) GLSL
14 3 (0.67%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.44%) SystemVerilog
16 1 (0.22%) R
Qualifications
1 248 (54.99%) DV Cleared
2 196 (43.46%) SC Cleared
3 30 (6.65%) Degree
4 12 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (1.77%) CREST Certified
6 7 (1.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (1.33%) OSCP
8 5 (1.11%) CCIE
8 5 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.89%) CCNP
9 4 (0.89%) CEH
9 4 (0.89%) CISSP
9 4 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.89%) PhD
9 4 (0.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (0.67%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.44%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.44%) CCIE Data Center
12 1 (0.22%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.10%) QA
2 10 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.33%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.11%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.89%) SLA
6 3 (0.67%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.67%) GDPR
6 3 (0.67%) NIST
7 2 (0.44%) NCSC
8 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.22%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.22%) NIST 800
System Software
1 38 (8.43%) Docker
2 24 (5.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (4.21%) Active Directory
4 10 (2.22%) Firmware
5 6 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.89%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.67%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 63 (13.97%) Kubernetes
2 59 (13.08%) Terraform
3 56 (12.42%) Ansible
4 25 (5.54%) Grafana
5 16 (3.55%) Puppet
6 15 (3.33%) Kibana
6 15 (3.33%) logstash
7 9 (2.00%) Rancher
7 9 (2.00%) vCenter Server
8 8 (1.77%) Argo
8 8 (1.77%) Prometheus
9 7 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (1.55%) yum
10 4 (0.89%) Nagios
11 3 (0.67%) Check_MK
11 3 (0.67%) Kubeflow
11 3 (0.67%) SCCM
11 3 (0.67%) SCOM
11 3 (0.67%) SCOrch
12 2 (0.44%) vRealize
Vendors
1 29 (6.43%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.76%) VMware
3 17 (3.77%) Red Hat
4 12 (2.66%) Cisco
4 12 (2.66%) Oracle
5 11 (2.44%) Atlassian
6 8 (1.77%) Splunk
7 5 (1.11%) Dell
8 2 (0.44%) Databricks
8 2 (0.44%) Fortinet
8 2 (0.44%) Google
8 2 (0.44%) Intel
8 2 (0.44%) Microsemi
8 2 (0.44%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.44%) SaltStack
8 2 (0.44%) Xilinx
9 1 (0.22%) F5
9 1 (0.22%) HP
9 1 (0.22%) Juniper
9 1 (0.22%) Veeam