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 24 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 4 1
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 181 183 431
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 27.89% 26.95% 49.54%
As % of the Qualifications category 65.82% 44.42% 80.41%
Number of salaries quoted 117 112 237
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +17.65% -11.30%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,563 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,250 £90,000 £85,500
South West median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +11.11% -1.82%

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 275 412 536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 42.37% 60.68% 61.61%
Number of salaries quoted 172 181 317
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,250 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £81,500 £80,000
South West median annual salary £52,500 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.19% +5.20% -

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 24 December 2025.

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 24 December 2025. 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
Gloucester 0 57 £75,000 +15.38% 47
Cheltenham 0 56 £70,000 +3.70% 70
Filton +19 24 £42,500 -19.05% 10
Tewkesbury 0 13 £70,000 +64.71% 9
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 7 (3.87%) Apache
2 6 (3.31%) Confluence
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (1.66%) Simulink
2 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.55%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 37 (20.44%) AWS
2 31 (17.13%) Azure
3 9 (4.97%) OpenShift
4 6 (3.31%) Amazon S3
4 6 (3.31%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (3.31%) Serverless
5 5 (2.76%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (2.76%) Azure Stack
5 5 (2.76%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.66%) GCP
6 3 (1.66%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.55%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.55%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.55%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.55%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.76%) DNS
1 5 (2.76%) Firewall
1 5 (2.76%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.21%) DHCP
2 4 (2.21%) LAN
2 4 (2.21%) VSAN
2 4 (2.21%) WAN
3 3 (1.66%) Network Security
3 3 (1.66%) Structured Cabling
4 2 (1.10%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (1.10%) VPN
4 2 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.55%) HTTP
5 1 (0.55%) ICMP
5 1 (0.55%) Internet
5 1 (0.55%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.55%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.55%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.97%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (3.31%) Neo4j
2 6 (3.31%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.76%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.21%) Big Data
5 3 (1.66%) InfluxDB
6 2 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.10%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.55%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.55%) Metadata
7 1 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (6.08%) JIRA
2 9 (4.97%) Git
3 8 (4.42%) GitLab
4 6 (3.31%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.21%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.66%) Balsamiq
6 3 (1.66%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.66%) Subversion
7 2 (1.10%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.10%) IDA Disassembler
7 2 (1.10%) Robot Framework
7 2 (1.10%) TestRail
8 1 (0.55%) JUnit
8 1 (0.55%) SonarQube
General
1 43 (23.76%) Social Skills
2 22 (12.15%) Public Sector
3 18 (9.94%) Aerospace
4 13 (7.18%) Manufacturing
5 12 (6.63%) Military
6 9 (4.97%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (4.42%) Finance
7 8 (4.42%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.31%) Electronics
8 6 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.21%) Aviation
9 4 (2.21%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.66%) Advertising
10 3 (1.66%) Automotive
10 3 (1.66%) Avionics
10 3 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.10%) Marketing
12 1 (0.55%) Games
12 1 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.55%) Law
Job Titles
1 24 (13.26%) Software Engineer
2 19 (10.50%) Consultant
3 17 (9.39%) Analyst
4 15 (8.29%) Business Analyst
5 13 (7.18%) Senior
6 12 (6.63%) Lead
7 11 (6.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (5.52%) Administrator
8 10 (5.52%) Architect
8 10 (5.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 10 (5.52%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 10 (5.52%) Integration Engineer
8 10 (5.52%) Security Consultant
9 9 (4.97%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (4.42%) Junior
10 8 (4.42%) Technical Consultant
11 7 (3.87%) Cybersecurity Consultant
11 7 (3.87%) Splunk Engineer
11 7 (3.87%) Virtualisation Administrator
12 6 (3.31%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.73%) React
2 8 (4.42%) AngularJS
3 6 (3.31%) MERN Stack
3 6 (3.31%) Spring
3 6 (3.31%) Spring Boot
4 4 (2.21%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (1.66%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.10%) Kafka
6 2 (1.10%) REST
6 2 (1.10%) Vue
7 1 (0.55%) Express.js
7 1 (0.55%) Flash
7 1 (0.55%) Hibernate
7 1 (0.55%) HTML
7 1 (0.55%) JSF
7 1 (0.55%) NestJS
7 1 (0.55%) Node.js
7 1 (0.55%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.52%) Data Centre
2 9 (4.97%) Onboarding
3 7 (3.87%) Driving Licence
4 6 (3.31%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.31%) PKI
5 5 (2.76%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.76%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.76%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.21%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.66%) CMDB
7 3 (1.66%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.10%) PMI
9 1 (0.55%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.55%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.55%) Raspberry Pi
9 1 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 35 (19.34%) Linux
2 21 (11.60%) Windows
3 15 (8.29%) Windows Server
4 8 (4.42%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (3.31%) CentOS
6 5 (2.76%) Rocky
7 4 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.66%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.66%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (1.10%) CoreOS
9 2 (1.10%) Debian
9 2 (1.10%) Unix
10 1 (0.55%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (24.31%) Agile
2 34 (18.78%) Software Engineering
3 29 (16.02%) DevOps
4 27 (14.92%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (13.26%) Cybersecurity
6 19 (10.50%) AI
7 18 (9.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 17 (9.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (8.84%) Collaborative Working
10 13 (7.18%) Collaborative Culture
10 13 (7.18%) Full-Stack Development
11 12 (6.63%) Machine Learning
12 11 (6.08%) CI/CD
12 11 (6.08%) Containerisation
12 11 (6.08%) Infrastructure as Code
12 11 (6.08%) ITIL
13 10 (5.52%) Data Analysis
13 10 (5.52%) Penetration Testing
13 10 (5.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 10 (5.52%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 45 (24.86%) Python
2 26 (14.36%) Java
3 17 (9.39%) PowerShell
4 16 (8.84%) Bash
5 14 (7.73%) JavaScript
6 13 (7.18%) C
7 10 (5.52%) TypeScript
8 7 (3.87%) Go
9 5 (2.76%) SQL
10 4 (2.21%) C++
10 4 (2.21%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.66%) C#
11 3 (1.66%) Google Apps Script
11 3 (1.66%) MATLAB
11 3 (1.66%) Tcl
11 3 (1.66%) VBScript
12 2 (1.10%) Groovy
13 1 (0.55%) R
Qualifications
1 107 (59.12%) DV Cleared
2 93 (51.38%) SC Cleared
3 22 (12.15%) Degree
4 15 (8.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.76%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.76%) Network+ Certification
6 4 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.66%) CCIE
7 3 (1.66%) CITP
7 3 (1.66%) CREST Certified
7 3 (1.66%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.66%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (1.10%) BC Cleared
8 2 (1.10%) CBAP
8 2 (1.10%) CHECK Team Member
9 1 (0.55%) APMP
9 1 (0.55%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.42%) QA
2 4 (2.21%) GDPR
3 3 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.66%) RMADS
4 1 (0.55%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.55%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 13 (7.18%) Active Directory
2 11 (6.08%) Docker
2 11 (6.08%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.66%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.10%) vSphere
5 1 (0.55%) KVM
5 1 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.55%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 31 (17.13%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.08%) Ansible
3 9 (4.97%) Terraform
4 4 (2.21%) Grafana
5 3 (1.66%) Argo
5 3 (1.66%) Kibana
5 3 (1.66%) McAfee ePO
5 3 (1.66%) Nagios
5 3 (1.66%) Rancher
5 3 (1.66%) SCVMM
5 3 (1.66%) yum
6 2 (1.10%) SCCM
7 1 (0.55%) logstash
7 1 (0.55%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.55%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.55%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.55%) Puppet
7 1 (0.55%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (4.97%) Splunk
2 8 (4.42%) Cisco
2 8 (4.42%) Red Hat
3 7 (3.87%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.31%) Dell
4 6 (3.31%) Google
5 5 (2.76%) Fortinet
5 5 (2.76%) VMware
6 4 (2.21%) Atlassian
6 4 (2.21%) F5
7 3 (1.66%) CheckPoint
7 3 (1.66%) IBM
7 3 (1.66%) McAfee
8 2 (1.10%) Oracle
8 2 (1.10%) SAP
9 1 (0.55%) Cognizant
9 1 (0.55%) HP
9 1 (0.55%) Juniper
9 1 (0.55%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.55%) Veeam