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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 700 139 314
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 28.07% 26.03% 30.52%
As % of the Qualifications category 80.09% 66.83% 67.82%
Number of salaries quoted 480 87 194
10th Percentile £50,000 £35,750 £41,625
25th Percentile £60,000 £51,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £70,938
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £87,125
South West median annual salary £75,000 £55,985 £60,000
% change year-on-year +33.96% -6.69% -

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 874 208 463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 35.04% 38.95% 45.00%
Number of salaries quoted 577 143 278
10th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,125 £45,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £62,500 £56,750
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +10.13% -1.30%
75th Percentile £88,000 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £81,500
South West median annual salary £65,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +30.00% -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 2 October 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 2 October 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 0 314 £80,000 -5.88% 187
Gloucester 0 234 £70,000 -12.50% 96
Tewkesbury -5 19 £55,000 -15.38% 10
Filton -1 11 £57,000 +32.56% 10
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 42 (6.00%) Apache
2 12 (1.71%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.57%) Confluence
4 7 (1.00%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.29%) Simulink
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 107 (15.29%) AWS
2 84 (12.00%) Azure
3 45 (6.43%) OpenShift
4 33 (4.71%) GCP
5 20 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
6 16 (2.29%) Serverless
7 14 (2.00%) Azure AKS
7 14 (2.00%) OCI
8 13 (1.86%) Azure Data Factory
8 13 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (1.86%) Entra ID
9 12 (1.71%) Microsoft 365
10 11 (1.57%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (1.43%) GitHub
12 9 (1.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 7 (1.00%) Amazon S3
14 6 (0.86%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (0.86%) PaaS
15 5 (0.71%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.43%) Network Security
2 13 (1.86%) Firewall
3 12 (1.71%) VPN
4 10 (1.43%) Software-Defined Radio
5 7 (1.00%) DHCP
5 7 (1.00%) DNS
6 4 (0.57%) AMQP
6 4 (0.57%) LAN
6 4 (0.57%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (0.57%) VXLAN
6 4 (0.57%) WAN
7 3 (0.43%) LoRaWAN
7 3 (0.43%) LTE
7 3 (0.43%) NGN
8 2 (0.29%) NAS
8 2 (0.29%) SAN
8 2 (0.29%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.14%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.14%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (0.14%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (4.14%) NoSQL
2 27 (3.86%) Elasticsearch
3 21 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (2.43%) Big Data
5 10 (1.43%) MongoDB
6 9 (1.29%) Hadoop
7 8 (1.14%) InfluxDB
8 6 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (0.86%) MySQL
9 5 (0.71%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.57%) Cloudera CDH
10 4 (0.57%) Flink
10 4 (0.57%) Redis
11 3 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (0.43%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.29%) Metadata
13 1 (0.14%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.14%) Relational Database
13 1 (0.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 47 (6.71%) Git
2 43 (6.14%) GitLab
3 37 (5.29%) Jenkins
4 19 (2.71%) JIRA
5 12 (1.71%) Cypress.io
6 10 (1.43%) TestRail
7 9 (1.29%) Cucumber
7 9 (1.29%) Selenium
7 9 (1.29%) SonarQube
8 8 (1.14%) Robot Framework
8 8 (1.14%) Subversion
9 6 (0.86%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.43%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.29%) Gradle
11 2 (0.29%) Metasploit
11 2 (0.29%) Mockito
11 2 (0.29%) Rational DOORS
11 2 (0.29%) Rational Rhapsody
11 2 (0.29%) Valgrind
11 2 (0.29%) Zephyr
General
1 88 (12.57%) Finance
2 64 (9.14%) Social Skills
3 45 (6.43%) Aerospace
4 42 (6.00%) Public Sector
5 35 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (0.86%) Games
8 5 (0.71%) Military
9 4 (0.57%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.29%) Electronics
10 2 (0.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.14%) Automotive
11 1 (0.14%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.14%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 128 (18.29%) Software Engineer
2 83 (11.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 65 (9.29%) Developer
3 65 (9.29%) Senior
4 64 (9.14%) Cloud Engineer
5 52 (7.43%) Data Engineer
6 50 (7.14%) Lead
7 49 (7.00%) Software Developer
8 43 (6.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 40 (5.71%) Architect
10 29 (4.14%) Python Engineer
11 26 (3.71%) Lead DevOps
12 25 (3.57%) Analyst
12 25 (3.57%) Network Engineer
13 24 (3.43%) Lead DevOps Engineer
14 21 (3.00%) Business Analyst
14 21 (3.00%) Consultant
15 20 (2.86%) C++ Developer
15 20 (2.86%) C++ Software Developer
16 19 (2.71%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (15.86%) Terraform
2 27 (3.86%) Spring
2 27 (3.86%) Spring Boot
3 26 (3.71%) Kafka
4 24 (3.43%) Elastic Stack
5 17 (2.43%) Apache NiFi
6 15 (2.14%) RESTful
7 14 (2.00%) REST
8 13 (1.86%) Keycloak
8 13 (1.86%) Node.js
9 11 (1.57%) Playwright
9 11 (1.57%) Vue
10 10 (1.43%) React
11 7 (1.00%) AngularJS
11 7 (1.00%) pytest
11 7 (1.00%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (0.86%) gRPC
12 6 (0.86%) OpenAPI
13 5 (0.71%) Swagger
14 4 (0.57%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 58 (8.29%) Cloud Native
2 27 (3.86%) Hybrid Cloud
3 25 (3.57%) Product Ownership
4 15 (2.14%) Embedded Systems
4 15 (2.14%) Public Cloud
5 13 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.14%) FPGA
7 8 (1.14%) VHDL
8 7 (1.00%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.00%) PKI
8 7 (1.00%) Verilog
9 6 (0.86%) Distributed Applications
9 6 (0.86%) Operational Technology
10 5 (0.71%) Algorithms
10 5 (0.71%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.71%) Mobile App
10 5 (0.71%) Security Posture
11 4 (0.57%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (0.57%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 116 (16.57%) Linux
2 28 (4.00%) Windows
3 18 (2.57%) Unix
4 13 (1.86%) Android
4 13 (1.86%) CentOS
5 7 (1.00%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.71%) Embedded Linux
6 5 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.57%) Debian
7 4 (0.57%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.29%) Rocky
8 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.14%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.14%) VMS
9 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (26.14%) DevOps
2 161 (23.00%) Software Engineering
3 145 (20.71%) Agile
4 138 (19.71%) CI/CD
5 104 (14.86%) Containerisation
6 101 (14.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 78 (11.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 74 (10.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 62 (8.86%) Collaborative Culture
10 58 (8.29%) Test Automation
11 56 (8.00%) AI
11 56 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
12 47 (6.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 44 (6.29%) Analytics
13 44 (6.29%) Platform Engineering
13 44 (6.29%) Stakeholder Management
14 39 (5.57%) Cybersecurity
14 39 (5.57%) Data Pipeline
14 39 (5.57%) DevSecOps
15 38 (5.43%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 160 (22.86%) Python
2 125 (17.86%) Java
3 96 (13.71%) C++
4 55 (7.86%) Bash
5 43 (6.14%) JavaScript
6 42 (6.00%) Go
7 28 (4.00%) SQL
8 27 (3.86%) Rust
9 17 (2.43%) C
9 17 (2.43%) PowerShell
9 17 (2.43%) TypeScript
10 15 (2.14%) Scala
11 9 (1.29%) Bicep
12 7 (1.00%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.86%) Groovy
14 5 (0.71%) C#
15 3 (0.43%) GLSL
15 3 (0.43%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.29%) SystemVerilog
17 1 (0.14%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 414 (59.14%) DV Cleared
2 283 (40.43%) SC Cleared
3 36 (5.14%) Degree
4 18 (2.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (1.86%) Azure Certification
6 11 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 7 (1.00%) OSCP
9 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.71%) CEH
11 4 (0.57%) CCIE
11 4 (0.57%) CCNP
11 4 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.57%) CREST Certified
11 4 (0.57%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.43%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.43%) PMP
13 2 (0.29%) CISSP
13 2 (0.29%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.00%) QA
2 10 (1.43%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.14%) Data Quality
4 5 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.57%) GDPR
6 2 (0.29%) NCSC
6 2 (0.29%) NIST
6 2 (0.29%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.14%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.14%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.14%) PMO
System Software
1 76 (10.86%) Docker
2 28 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (3.00%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.86%) Firmware
4 6 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.86%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.29%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.14%) vSphere
7 1 (0.14%) XenApp
7 1 (0.14%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 127 (18.14%) Kubernetes
2 97 (13.86%) Ansible
3 27 (3.86%) Grafana
4 23 (3.29%) Puppet
5 15 (2.14%) Kibana
5 15 (2.14%) logstash
6 12 (1.71%) Argo
7 11 (1.57%) Rancher
8 10 (1.43%) Prometheus
9 9 (1.29%) vCenter Server
10 8 (1.14%) yum
11 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.57%) Istio
12 4 (0.57%) linkerd
12 4 (0.57%) Mesos
13 3 (0.43%) Check_MK
13 3 (0.43%) Nagios
13 3 (0.43%) Packer
13 3 (0.43%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 43 (6.14%) Microsoft
2 36 (5.14%) VMware
3 15 (2.14%) Red Hat
4 14 (2.00%) Oracle
5 11 (1.57%) Atlassian
6 9 (1.29%) Splunk
7 7 (1.00%) Cisco
8 5 (0.71%) Google
9 4 (0.57%) Databricks
9 4 (0.57%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.29%) Citrix
10 2 (0.29%) Intel
10 2 (0.29%) Microsemi
10 2 (0.29%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.29%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.29%) Xilinx
11 1 (0.14%) Dell
11 1 (0.14%) McAfee
11 1 (0.14%) NetApp
11 1 (0.14%) SolarWinds