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 3 months leading up to 9 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

3 months to
9 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 295 80 163
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 29.12% 25.89% 29.37%
As % of the Qualifications category 76.82% 72.07% 76.53%
Number of salaries quoted 199 52 116
10th Percentile £49,750 £53,875 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £58,438 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +33.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £110,000 - £88,750
South West median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% +1.69% -5.56%

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 384 111 213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 37.91% 35.92% 38.38%
Number of salaries quoted 254 74 150
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,225 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -1.32%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £100,000 £86,375
South West median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% -

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 3 months to 9 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 3 months to 9 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 3 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cheltenham 0 127 £80,000 -15.79% 117
Gloucester 0 108 £70,000 -12.50% 59
Filton 0 10 £56,000 +1.82% 32
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 24 (5.01%) Apache
2 9 (1.88%) Confluence
3 4 (0.84%) OpenStack
4 3 (0.63%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (0.42%) Simulink
2 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 95 (19.83%) AWS
2 78 (16.28%) Azure
3 28 (5.85%) GCP
4 24 (5.01%) OpenShift
5 14 (2.92%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (2.51%) OCI
7 9 (1.88%) Entra ID
7 9 (1.88%) Serverless
8 8 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (1.67%) Azure AKS
9 7 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.04%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (1.04%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.04%) Azure Machine Learning
12 4 (0.84%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 4 (0.84%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (0.84%) GitHub
12 4 (0.84%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.71%) Firewall
2 11 (2.30%) Network Security
3 10 (2.09%) DHCP
3 10 (2.09%) DNS
3 10 (2.09%) VPN
4 9 (1.88%) Software-Defined Radio
5 6 (1.25%) LAN
5 6 (1.25%) WAN
6 4 (0.84%) NAS
6 4 (0.84%) SAN
6 4 (0.84%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (0.84%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.84%) VXLAN
7 3 (0.63%) LoRaWAN
7 3 (0.63%) LTE
8 2 (0.42%) AMQP
8 2 (0.42%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.42%) NGN
9 1 (0.21%) VSAN
9 1 (0.21%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.38%) Elasticsearch
2 16 (3.34%) NoSQL
3 12 (2.51%) MongoDB
4 11 (2.30%) Big Data
5 10 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (1.67%) InfluxDB
7 5 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.04%) MySQL
8 3 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (0.63%) Flink
8 3 (0.63%) Redis
9 2 (0.42%) Cloudera CDH
9 2 (0.42%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.42%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.42%) Metadata
9 2 (0.42%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.21%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.21%) Power BI
10 1 (0.21%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (6.89%) GitLab
2 31 (6.47%) Git
3 27 (5.64%) Jenkins
4 13 (2.71%) JIRA
5 11 (2.30%) Cucumber
6 10 (2.09%) SonarQube
7 9 (1.88%) Cypress.io
8 8 (1.67%) Robot Framework
8 8 (1.67%) Selenium
8 8 (1.67%) TestRail
9 7 (1.46%) Subversion
10 5 (1.04%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.84%) Gradle
12 3 (0.63%) MLflow
12 3 (0.63%) Rational DOORS
12 3 (0.63%) Rational Rhapsody
13 2 (0.42%) Burp Suite
13 2 (0.42%) Maven
13 2 (0.42%) Mockito
13 2 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 57 (11.90%) Finance
2 48 (10.02%) Social Skills
3 46 (9.60%) Public Sector
4 41 (8.56%) Aerospace
5 16 (3.34%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (2.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (1.25%) Games
8 4 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.63%) Military
9 3 (0.63%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.42%) Law
10 2 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.21%) Advertising
11 1 (0.21%) Electronics
11 1 (0.21%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 92 (19.21%) Software Engineer
2 39 (8.14%) Senior
3 38 (7.93%) Cloud Engineer
4 36 (7.52%) DevOps Engineer
5 35 (7.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 35 (7.31%) Lead
6 31 (6.47%) Architect
7 28 (5.85%) Consultant
8 24 (5.01%) Analyst
8 24 (5.01%) Security Consultant
9 23 (4.80%) Data Engineer
10 20 (4.18%) Tester
11 19 (3.97%) Business Analyst
12 17 (3.55%) Developer
13 14 (2.92%) Data Scientist
13 14 (2.92%) Test Engineer
14 13 (2.71%) Administrator
14 13 (2.71%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
14 13 (2.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 13 (2.71%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (5.01%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (3.76%) Apache NiFi
3 16 (3.34%) Spring
3 16 (3.34%) Spring Boot
4 15 (3.13%) Kafka
5 14 (2.92%) Vue
6 11 (2.30%) React
7 10 (2.09%) REST
8 9 (1.88%) AngularJS
9 8 (1.67%) pytest
9 8 (1.67%) RESTful
10 7 (1.46%) Playwright
11 5 (1.04%) Node.js
12 4 (0.84%) gRPC
12 4 (0.84%) RabbitMQ
13 3 (0.63%) Keycloak
13 3 (0.63%) OpenGL
13 3 (0.63%) PyTorch
13 3 (0.63%) TensorFlow
13 3 (0.63%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 27 (5.64%) Product Ownership
2 22 (4.59%) Cloud Native
3 13 (2.71%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (2.71%) Public Cloud
4 12 (2.51%) Embedded Systems
4 12 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (2.30%) Data Centre
6 8 (1.67%) FPGA
6 8 (1.67%) VHDL
7 7 (1.46%) Security Posture
7 7 (1.46%) Verilog
8 6 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.04%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.04%) Blog
9 5 (1.04%) Operational Technology
9 5 (1.04%) Replication
10 4 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.84%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (0.84%) Mobile App
10 4 (0.84%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 80 (16.70%) Linux
2 35 (7.31%) Windows
3 11 (2.30%) CentOS
4 10 (2.09%) Unix
5 9 (1.88%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.25%) Android
7 5 (1.04%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.42%) Debian
9 2 (0.42%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.42%) VMS
9 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.21%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.21%) Rocky
10 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (23.17%) DevOps
2 110 (22.96%) Agile
2 110 (22.96%) Software Engineering
3 73 (15.24%) CI/CD
4 64 (13.36%) Infrastructure as Code
5 59 (12.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 56 (11.69%) Collaborative Culture
7 54 (11.27%) Containerisation
7 54 (11.27%) Continuous Improvement
8 50 (10.44%) Cybersecurity
9 43 (8.98%) Test Automation
10 39 (8.14%) AI
11 37 (7.72%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 36 (7.52%) Problem-Solving
13 33 (6.89%) Scrum
14 31 (6.47%) Collaborative Working
15 29 (6.05%) Software Testing
16 28 (5.85%) Data Science
16 28 (5.85%) Platform Engineering
17 25 (5.22%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 119 (24.84%) Python
2 79 (16.49%) Java
3 48 (10.02%) C++
4 41 (8.56%) Bash
5 28 (5.85%) JavaScript
6 25 (5.22%) Go
7 17 (3.55%) C
7 17 (3.55%) PowerShell
8 15 (3.13%) Rust
9 13 (2.71%) SQL
10 12 (2.51%) TypeScript
11 7 (1.46%) Groovy
11 7 (1.46%) Scala
12 6 (1.25%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.84%) Bicep
13 4 (0.84%) C#
14 3 (0.63%) GLSL
14 3 (0.63%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.42%) SystemVerilog
16 1 (0.21%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 268 (55.95%) DV Cleared
2 201 (41.96%) SC Cleared
3 29 (6.05%) Degree
4 12 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (1.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 8 (1.67%) CREST Certified
6 7 (1.46%) OSCP
7 5 (1.04%) CCIE
7 5 (1.04%) CEH
7 5 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.84%) CCNP
8 4 (0.84%) CISSP
8 4 (0.84%) PhD
8 4 (0.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (0.63%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.63%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.42%) CCIE Data Center
11 1 (0.21%) CHECK Team Member
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.92%) QA
2 10 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.25%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.25%) PCI DSS
4 4 (0.84%) SLA
5 3 (0.63%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.63%) GDPR
5 3 (0.63%) NIST
6 2 (0.42%) NCSC
7 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.21%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.21%) NIST 800
System Software
1 43 (8.98%) Docker
2 27 (5.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (4.38%) Active Directory
4 10 (2.09%) Firmware
5 7 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.84%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.63%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 73 (15.24%) Kubernetes
2 67 (13.99%) Terraform
3 63 (13.15%) Ansible
4 27 (5.64%) Grafana
5 17 (3.55%) Kibana
5 17 (3.55%) logstash
6 16 (3.34%) Puppet
7 10 (2.09%) vCenter Server
8 9 (1.88%) Rancher
9 8 (1.67%) Argo
9 8 (1.67%) Prometheus
10 7 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (1.46%) yum
11 5 (1.04%) Nagios
12 4 (0.84%) Check_MK
13 3 (0.63%) Kubeflow
13 3 (0.63%) SCCM
13 3 (0.63%) SCOM
13 3 (0.63%) SCOrch
14 2 (0.42%) Packer
Vendors
1 30 (6.26%) Microsoft
2 29 (6.05%) VMware
3 18 (3.76%) Red Hat
4 14 (2.92%) Oracle
5 13 (2.71%) Atlassian
6 12 (2.51%) Cisco
7 9 (1.88%) Splunk
8 5 (1.04%) Dell
9 2 (0.42%) Databricks
9 2 (0.42%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.42%) Google
9 2 (0.42%) Intel
9 2 (0.42%) Microsemi
9 2 (0.42%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.42%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.42%) Xilinx
10 1 (0.21%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.21%) F5
10 1 (0.21%) McAfee
10 1 (0.21%) Veeam