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

6 months to
17 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 493 188 545
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 27.65% 33.45% 34.45%
As % of the Qualifications category 74.58% 68.12% 75.59%
Number of salaries quoted 348 102 405
10th Percentile £46,939 £35,000 £41,606
25th Percentile £52,188 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £90,000 £94,688 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £82,500
South West median annual salary £71,325 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +18.88% +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 661 276 721
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 37.07% 49.11% 45.58%
Number of salaries quoted 428 159 549
10th Percentile £41,250 £27,500 £30,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £41,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,409 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.54% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £83,125 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £81,500
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 17 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 17 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 0 213 £77,500 -11.43% 55
Gloucester 0 160 £70,000 - 23
Filton +1 13 £57,000 +3.64% 27
Tewkesbury -11 2 £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 24 (4.87%) Apache
2 8 (1.62%) Confluence
3 4 (0.81%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.61%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (0.41%) Simulink
2 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 95 (19.27%) AWS
2 78 (15.82%) Azure
3 27 (5.48%) GCP
4 24 (4.87%) OpenShift
5 14 (2.84%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (2.64%) OCI
7 11 (2.23%) Serverless
8 10 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (2.03%) Entra ID
9 9 (1.83%) Azure AKS
10 8 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (1.22%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (1.22%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (1.22%) Azure Machine Learning
12 5 (1.01%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (1.01%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 5 (1.01%) PaaS
13 4 (0.81%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (0.81%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.43%) Network Security
2 10 (2.03%) Firewall
2 10 (2.03%) Software-Defined Radio
3 9 (1.83%) VPN
4 7 (1.42%) DHCP
4 7 (1.42%) DNS
5 4 (0.81%) LAN
5 4 (0.81%) WAN
6 3 (0.61%) LoRaWAN
6 3 (0.61%) LTE
6 3 (0.61%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.61%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.61%) VXLAN
7 2 (0.41%) AMQP
7 2 (0.41%) NAS
7 2 (0.41%) NGN
7 2 (0.41%) SAN
8 1 (0.20%) VLAN
8 1 (0.20%) VSAN
8 1 (0.20%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.06%) Elasticsearch
2 16 (3.25%) NoSQL
3 11 (2.23%) Big Data
3 11 (2.23%) MongoDB
3 11 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (1.42%) InfluxDB
5 6 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (0.81%) MySQL
7 3 (0.61%) Flink
7 3 (0.61%) Hadoop
7 3 (0.61%) Redis
8 2 (0.41%) Cloudera CDH
8 2 (0.41%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.41%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.20%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.20%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.20%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.20%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (6.29%) Git
2 28 (5.68%) GitLab
3 24 (4.87%) Jenkins
4 12 (2.43%) JIRA
5 9 (1.83%) Cucumber
6 8 (1.62%) Cypress.io
6 8 (1.62%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.42%) Robot Framework
7 7 (1.42%) Selenium
7 7 (1.42%) TestRail
8 6 (1.22%) Subversion
9 3 (0.61%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.61%) MLflow
9 3 (0.61%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (0.61%) Rational Rhapsody
10 2 (0.41%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.41%) Gradle
10 2 (0.41%) JUnit
10 2 (0.41%) Metasploit
10 2 (0.41%) Mockito
General
1 62 (12.58%) Finance
2 51 (10.34%) Social Skills
3 48 (9.74%) Public Sector
4 37 (7.51%) Aerospace
5 17 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (1.22%) Games
8 4 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.61%) Military
9 3 (0.61%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.20%) Advertising
11 1 (0.20%) Electronics
11 1 (0.20%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 95 (19.27%) Software Engineer
2 43 (8.72%) Cloud Engineer
3 41 (8.32%) DevOps Engineer
4 40 (8.11%) Senior
5 36 (7.30%) Lead
6 33 (6.69%) Architect
7 31 (6.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 29 (5.88%) Consultant
9 27 (5.48%) Data Engineer
10 23 (4.67%) Analyst
10 23 (4.67%) Security Consultant
11 20 (4.06%) Developer
12 19 (3.85%) Tester
13 18 (3.65%) Administrator
13 18 (3.65%) Business Analyst
13 18 (3.65%) Systems Administrator
14 17 (3.45%) Data Scientist
15 15 (3.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 15 (3.04%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
16 14 (2.84%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.06%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (3.04%) Apache NiFi
2 15 (3.04%) Kafka
2 15 (3.04%) Spring
2 15 (3.04%) Spring Boot
3 12 (2.43%) Vue
4 11 (2.23%) React
5 9 (1.83%) AngularJS
6 8 (1.62%) REST
7 7 (1.42%) pytest
7 7 (1.42%) RESTful
8 6 (1.22%) Playwright
9 5 (1.01%) Node.js
10 4 (0.81%) gRPC
10 4 (0.81%) Keycloak
11 3 (0.61%) OpenGL
11 3 (0.61%) PyTorch
11 3 (0.61%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (0.61%) TensorFlow
11 3 (0.61%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 28 (5.68%) Cloud Native
2 24 (4.87%) Product Ownership
3 15 (3.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (2.43%) Embedded Systems
4 12 (2.43%) Public Cloud
5 9 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.62%) Data Centre
6 8 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (1.62%) FPGA
6 8 (1.62%) VHDL
7 7 (1.42%) Security Posture
7 7 (1.42%) Verilog
8 5 (1.01%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.01%) Blog
8 5 (1.01%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.01%) Operational Technology
9 4 (0.81%) Cloud Security Posture
9 4 (0.81%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.61%) NB-IoT
10 3 (0.61%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 76 (15.42%) Linux
2 33 (6.69%) Windows
3 12 (2.43%) Unix
4 10 (2.03%) CentOS
5 9 (1.83%) Android
6 7 (1.42%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.01%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.41%) Debian
9 2 (0.41%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.41%) VMS
9 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.20%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.20%) Rocky
10 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (22.72%) Software Engineering
2 108 (21.91%) Agile
3 106 (21.50%) DevOps
4 73 (14.81%) CI/CD
5 65 (13.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 54 (10.95%) Containerisation
6 54 (10.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 53 (10.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 51 (10.34%) Collaborative Culture
9 49 (9.94%) Cybersecurity
10 43 (8.72%) AI
11 39 (7.91%) Test Automation
12 35 (7.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 32 (6.49%) Problem-Solving
14 30 (6.09%) Data Science
14 30 (6.09%) Scrum
15 27 (5.48%) Collaborative Working
15 27 (5.48%) Software Testing
16 26 (5.27%) Platform Engineering
17 25 (5.07%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 116 (23.53%) Python
2 76 (15.42%) Java
3 51 (10.34%) C++
4 33 (6.69%) Bash
5 26 (5.27%) JavaScript
6 24 (4.87%) Go
7 17 (3.45%) C
8 15 (3.04%) PowerShell
9 14 (2.84%) Rust
9 14 (2.84%) SQL
10 10 (2.03%) TypeScript
11 8 (1.62%) Scala
12 6 (1.22%) Groovy
13 5 (1.01%) Bicep
13 5 (1.01%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.61%) C#
14 3 (0.61%) GLSL
15 2 (0.41%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.41%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 283 (57.40%) DV Cleared
2 212 (43.00%) SC Cleared
3 31 (6.29%) Degree
4 13 (2.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (1.62%) CREST Certified
6 7 (1.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 7 (1.42%) OSCP
7 5 (1.01%) CEH
7 5 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.81%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.81%) CCIE
8 4 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (0.81%) CISSP
8 4 (0.81%) PhD
9 3 (0.61%) CCNP
9 3 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.61%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.41%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.43%) QA
2 10 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.22%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.22%) PCI DSS
4 3 (0.61%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.61%) GDPR
4 3 (0.61%) NIST
4 3 (0.61%) SLA
5 2 (0.41%) NCSC
6 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.20%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.20%) NIST 800
System Software
1 44 (8.92%) Docker
2 23 (4.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (3.85%) Active Directory
4 10 (2.03%) Firmware
5 6 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.61%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.41%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 73 (14.81%) Kubernetes
2 66 (13.39%) Terraform
3 58 (11.76%) Ansible
4 23 (4.67%) Grafana
5 16 (3.25%) Puppet
6 14 (2.84%) Kibana
6 14 (2.84%) logstash
7 8 (1.62%) Argo
7 8 (1.62%) Rancher
7 8 (1.62%) vCenter Server
8 7 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (1.42%) Prometheus
9 6 (1.22%) yum
10 4 (0.81%) Nagios
11 3 (0.61%) Check_MK
11 3 (0.61%) Kubeflow
11 3 (0.61%) Packer
11 3 (0.61%) SCCM
11 3 (0.61%) SCOM
11 3 (0.61%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 29 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.07%) VMware
3 16 (3.25%) Red Hat
4 15 (3.04%) Oracle
5 12 (2.43%) Atlassian
6 10 (2.03%) Cisco
7 8 (1.62%) Splunk
8 4 (0.81%) Dell
9 3 (0.61%) Databricks
10 2 (0.41%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.41%) Google
10 2 (0.41%) Intel
10 2 (0.41%) Microsemi
10 2 (0.41%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.41%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.41%) Xilinx
11 1 (0.20%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.20%) F5
11 1 (0.20%) McAfee
11 1 (0.20%) NetApp