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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 5 1
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 0
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 277 152 628
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 27.21% 32.83% 40.44%
As % of the Qualifications category 70.84% 45.78% 77.44%
Number of salaries quoted 200 86 423
10th Percentile £42,500 £35,625 £31,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +23.81% -16.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £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 391 332 811
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 38.41% 71.71% 52.22%
Number of salaries quoted 240 132 576
10th Percentile £37,500 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £47,360 £43,938 £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 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £94,750 £80,625
South West median annual salary £55,000 £52,600 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.56% +0.19% +2.85%

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 28 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 28 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 99 £67,500 - 40
Gloucester 0 91 £65,000 - 28
Tewkesbury -1 13 £62,500 +47.06% 4
Filton +10 6 £28,000 -11.11% 33
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 12 (4.33%) Apache
2 8 (2.89%) Confluence
3 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (1.81%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 69 (24.91%) AWS
2 55 (19.86%) Azure
3 13 (4.69%) GCP
4 9 (3.25%) OpenShift
5 5 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (1.44%) Amazon S3
6 4 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (1.44%) Serverless
7 3 (1.08%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (1.08%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (0.72%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (0.72%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (0.72%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.36%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.36%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (0.36%) Dagster
9 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.36%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.25%) DNS
2 8 (2.89%) DHCP
3 7 (2.53%) Firewall
3 7 (2.53%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.81%) LAN
4 5 (1.81%) WAN
5 4 (1.44%) VPN
6 3 (1.08%) Structured Cabling
6 3 (1.08%) VSAN
7 2 (0.72%) NAS
7 2 (0.72%) Network Security
7 2 (0.72%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (0.72%) SAN
7 2 (0.72%) VLAN
8 1 (0.36%) HTTP
8 1 (0.36%) ICMP
8 1 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.36%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.36%) WebEx
8 1 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.05%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (3.61%) NoSQL
3 8 (2.89%) Neo4j
4 7 (2.53%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.81%) InfluxDB
6 3 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.08%) Big Data
6 3 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.72%) Metadata
7 2 (0.72%) MySQL
8 1 (0.36%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.36%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.36%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.36%) Power BI
8 1 (0.36%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (5.05%) Git
2 11 (3.97%) GitLab
2 11 (3.97%) Jenkins
2 11 (3.97%) JIRA
3 7 (2.53%) Cucumber
3 7 (2.53%) Cypress.io
4 6 (2.17%) Subversion
5 4 (1.44%) Robot Framework
5 4 (1.44%) TestRail
6 3 (1.08%) Balsamiq
6 3 (1.08%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.08%) Selenium
6 3 (1.08%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.72%) Gradle
7 2 (0.72%) IDA Disassembler
7 2 (0.72%) Maven
7 2 (0.72%) MLflow
8 1 (0.36%) Postman
8 1 (0.36%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 36 (13.00%) Social Skills
2 32 (11.55%) Public Sector
3 21 (7.58%) Finance
4 16 (5.78%) Aerospace
5 12 (4.33%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (2.89%) Manufacturing
6 8 (2.89%) Military
7 5 (1.81%) Advertising
7 5 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.44%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.08%) Law
9 3 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.72%) Electronics
10 2 (0.72%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 46 (16.61%) Software Engineer
2 31 (11.19%) Consultant
3 28 (10.11%) Security Consultant
4 25 (9.03%) Senior
5 22 (7.94%) Analyst
6 19 (6.86%) Business Analyst
6 19 (6.86%) DevOps Engineer
7 18 (6.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (5.05%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 14 (5.05%) Data Scientist
9 11 (3.97%) Administrator
9 11 (3.97%) Architect
10 10 (3.61%) Data Engineer
11 9 (3.25%) Test Engineer
12 8 (2.89%) AWS Engineer
12 8 (2.89%) Senior Software Engineer
13 7 (2.53%) Project Manager
13 7 (2.53%) Splunk Engineer
13 7 (2.53%) Vulnerability Researcher
14 6 (2.17%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.42%) React
2 12 (4.33%) AngularJS
3 8 (2.89%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (2.89%) MERN Stack
4 7 (2.53%) Apache NiFi
5 6 (2.17%) Spring
5 6 (2.17%) Spring Boot
5 6 (2.17%) Vue
6 5 (1.81%) REST
7 4 (1.44%) Kafka
7 4 (1.44%) Node.js
8 2 (0.72%) Hibernate
8 2 (0.72%) JPA
8 2 (0.72%) Playwright
8 2 (0.72%) pytest
8 2 (0.72%) PyTorch
8 2 (0.72%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.72%) RESTful
8 2 (0.72%) TensorFlow
9 1 (0.36%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.33%) Product Ownership
2 10 (3.61%) Cloud Native
2 10 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (2.89%) Data Centre
4 4 (1.44%) Blog
4 4 (1.44%) PKI
5 3 (1.08%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.08%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.08%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.08%) PMI
5 3 (1.08%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.08%) Replication
6 2 (0.72%) Blockchain
6 2 (0.72%) CMDB
6 2 (0.72%) Cyber Security Posture
6 2 (0.72%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (0.72%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (0.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 47 (16.97%) Linux
2 22 (7.94%) Windows
3 7 (2.53%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.17%) CentOS
5 3 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.72%) Unix
6 2 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (24.19%) Agile
2 62 (22.38%) Software Engineering
3 59 (21.30%) DevOps
4 38 (13.72%) Cybersecurity
5 36 (13.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 34 (12.27%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (11.19%) Infrastructure as Code
8 26 (9.39%) AI
9 23 (8.30%) CI/CD
9 23 (8.30%) Collaborative Culture
10 22 (7.94%) Data Science
11 21 (7.58%) Containerisation
12 20 (7.22%) Collaborative Working
13 19 (6.86%) Penetration Testing
14 18 (6.50%) Continuous Improvement
14 18 (6.50%) Scrum
14 18 (6.50%) Software Testing
15 16 (5.78%) Full-Stack Development
16 15 (5.42%) Machine Learning
17 13 (4.69%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 78 (28.16%) Python
2 49 (17.69%) Java
3 30 (10.83%) Bash
4 23 (8.30%) JavaScript
5 20 (7.22%) PowerShell
6 14 (5.05%) C
7 12 (4.33%) Go
7 12 (4.33%) TypeScript
8 11 (3.97%) C++
9 9 (3.25%) SQL
10 6 (2.17%) C#
10 6 (2.17%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.44%) Groovy
12 3 (1.08%) Elixir
12 3 (1.08%) Erlang
12 3 (1.08%) VBScript
13 2 (0.72%) R
14 1 (0.36%) Rust
14 1 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 169 (61.01%) DV Cleared
2 119 (42.96%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.66%) Degree
4 7 (2.53%) CREST Certified
5 4 (1.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 4 (1.44%) PhD
5 4 (1.44%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.08%) BC Cleared
6 3 (1.08%) CCIE
6 3 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.08%) CITP
6 3 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.72%) CBAP
7 2 (0.72%) CHECK Team Member
7 2 (0.72%) CISSP
7 2 (0.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.36%) APMP
8 1 (0.36%) CCNP
8 1 (0.36%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.33%) QA
2 9 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.44%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.44%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.44%) SLA
4 3 (1.08%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.08%) RMADS
5 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.36%) GDPR
5 1 (0.36%) NIST
System Software
1 29 (10.47%) Docker
2 13 (4.69%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.44%) Firmware
4 4 (1.44%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.72%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 47 (16.97%) Kubernetes
2 25 (9.03%) Ansible
2 25 (9.03%) Terraform
3 15 (5.42%) Grafana
4 7 (2.53%) Argo
4 7 (2.53%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.17%) Puppet
5 6 (2.17%) Rancher
5 6 (2.17%) yum
6 5 (1.81%) Kibana
6 5 (1.81%) logstash
6 5 (1.81%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.08%) Nagios
8 2 (0.72%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.72%) McAfee ePO
8 2 (0.72%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.72%) SCCM
8 2 (0.72%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.36%) Istio
Vendors
1 15 (5.42%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.69%) Cisco
3 12 (4.33%) Red Hat
3 12 (4.33%) Splunk
3 12 (4.33%) VMware
4 6 (2.17%) Atlassian
4 6 (2.17%) Dell
5 5 (1.81%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.08%) F5
7 2 (0.72%) CheckPoint
7 2 (0.72%) Google
7 2 (0.72%) HP
7 2 (0.72%) Juniper
7 2 (0.72%) McAfee
7 2 (0.72%) Oracle
7 2 (0.72%) Palo Alto
7 2 (0.72%) SAP
7 2 (0.72%) Veeam
8 1 (0.36%) Databricks
8 1 (0.36%) NetApp