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 16 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 672 147 316
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 28.33% 26.92% 28.78%
As % of the Qualifications category 78.78% 67.43% 67.09%
Number of salaries quoted 466 93 207
10th Percentile £50,000 £35,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,813 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £91,875 £95,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £83,500
South West median annual salary £75,000 £57,194 £60,000
% change year-on-year +31.13% -4.68% +3.45%

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 853 218 471
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 35.96% 39.93% 42.90%
Number of salaries quoted 560 151 300
10th Percentile £46,575 £35,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% +13.64% -1.79%
75th Percentile £86,688 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £80,000
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 16 September 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 16 September 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 0 300 £80,000 -8.57% 173
Gloucester 0 220 £75,000 -6.25% 123
Tewkesbury -7 14 £55,000 -15.38% 12
Filton -1 12 £57,000 +32.56% 5
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 39 (5.80%) Apache
2 11 (1.64%) Apache Spark
3 10 (1.49%) Confluence
4 6 (0.89%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.30%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.30%) Simulink
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 108 (16.07%) AWS
2 81 (12.05%) Azure
3 44 (6.55%) OpenShift
4 34 (5.06%) GCP
5 19 (2.83%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (2.08%) Azure AKS
6 14 (2.08%) Entra ID
6 14 (2.08%) OCI
6 14 (2.08%) Serverless
7 12 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
8 11 (1.64%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (1.34%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 9 (1.34%) GitHub
10 7 (1.04%) Azure Machine Learning
11 6 (0.89%) PaaS
12 5 (0.74%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (0.74%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.53%) Network Security
2 13 (1.93%) VPN
3 12 (1.79%) Firewall
4 10 (1.49%) Software-Defined Radio
5 7 (1.04%) DHCP
5 7 (1.04%) DNS
6 4 (0.60%) AMQP
6 4 (0.60%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (0.60%) VXLAN
7 3 (0.45%) LAN
7 3 (0.45%) LoRaWAN
7 3 (0.45%) LTE
7 3 (0.45%) NGN
7 3 (0.45%) WAN
8 2 (0.30%) NAS
8 2 (0.30%) SAN
9 1 (0.15%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.15%) HSRP
9 1 (0.15%) Multicast
9 1 (0.15%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.72%) Elasticsearch
2 24 (3.57%) NoSQL
3 18 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (2.38%) Big Data
5 11 (1.64%) MongoDB
6 9 (1.34%) Hadoop
7 8 (1.19%) InfluxDB
8 5 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (0.74%) Data Lake
8 5 (0.74%) MySQL
9 4 (0.60%) Cloudera CDH
10 3 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.45%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.45%) Flink
10 3 (0.45%) Redis
11 1 (0.15%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.15%) Metadata
11 1 (0.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 41 (6.10%) Git
2 38 (5.65%) GitLab
3 32 (4.76%) Jenkins
4 18 (2.68%) JIRA
5 10 (1.49%) Cypress.io
5 10 (1.49%) TestRail
6 9 (1.34%) Cucumber
6 9 (1.34%) SonarQube
7 8 (1.19%) Robot Framework
8 7 (1.04%) Selenium
8 7 (1.04%) Subversion
9 5 (0.74%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.30%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.30%) Gradle
10 2 (0.30%) Metasploit
10 2 (0.30%) Mockito
10 2 (0.30%) Rational DOORS
10 2 (0.30%) Rational Rhapsody
10 2 (0.30%) Valgrind
10 2 (0.30%) Zephyr
General
1 84 (12.50%) Finance
2 65 (9.67%) Social Skills
3 47 (6.99%) Public Sector
4 45 (6.70%) Aerospace
5 33 (4.91%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (0.89%) Games
8 5 (0.74%) Military
9 4 (0.60%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.30%) Electronics
11 1 (0.15%) Automotive
11 1 (0.15%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.15%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 130 (19.35%) Software Engineer
2 76 (11.31%) DevOps Engineer
3 63 (9.38%) Cloud Engineer
4 56 (8.33%) Developer
4 56 (8.33%) Senior
5 49 (7.29%) Data Engineer
6 46 (6.85%) Lead
7 41 (6.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 41 (6.10%) Software Developer
8 35 (5.21%) Architect
9 25 (3.72%) Analyst
9 25 (3.72%) Lead DevOps
9 25 (3.72%) Python Engineer
10 23 (3.42%) Consultant
10 23 (3.42%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 21 (3.13%) Business Analyst
12 20 (2.98%) Network Engineer
12 20 (2.98%) Tester
13 18 (2.68%) Administrator
13 18 (2.68%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (15.48%) Terraform
2 24 (3.57%) Spring
2 24 (3.57%) Spring Boot
3 23 (3.42%) Elastic Stack
3 23 (3.42%) Kafka
4 18 (2.68%) Apache NiFi
5 13 (1.93%) Node.js
6 12 (1.79%) REST
6 12 (1.79%) RESTful
7 11 (1.64%) Keycloak
7 11 (1.64%) Vue
8 10 (1.49%) React
9 9 (1.34%) Playwright
10 7 (1.04%) AngularJS
10 7 (1.04%) pytest
11 6 (0.89%) gRPC
11 6 (0.89%) OpenAPI
11 6 (0.89%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (0.74%) Swagger
13 4 (0.60%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 54 (8.04%) Cloud Native
2 25 (3.72%) Hybrid Cloud
3 24 (3.57%) Product Ownership
4 14 (2.08%) Embedded Systems
5 13 (1.93%) Public Cloud
6 11 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (1.19%) FPGA
7 8 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.19%) VHDL
8 7 (1.04%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.04%) Verilog
9 6 (0.89%) Operational Technology
9 6 (0.89%) PKI
10 5 (0.74%) Algorithms
10 5 (0.74%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.74%) Mobile App
10 5 (0.74%) Security Posture
11 4 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.60%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (0.60%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 106 (15.77%) Linux
2 30 (4.46%) Windows
3 17 (2.53%) Unix
4 13 (1.93%) Android
4 13 (1.93%) CentOS
5 7 (1.04%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.74%) Embedded Linux
6 5 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.60%) Debian
7 4 (0.60%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.30%) Rocky
8 2 (0.30%) VMS
8 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.15%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (25.60%) DevOps
2 161 (23.96%) Software Engineering
3 141 (20.98%) Agile
4 126 (18.75%) CI/CD
5 95 (14.14%) Containerisation
6 94 (13.99%) Infrastructure as Code
7 76 (11.31%) Continuous Improvement
8 70 (10.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 60 (8.93%) Collaborative Culture
10 53 (7.89%) AI
10 53 (7.89%) Test Automation
11 51 (7.59%) Problem-Solving
12 46 (6.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 45 (6.70%) Platform Engineering
14 44 (6.55%) Analytics
14 44 (6.55%) Cybersecurity
15 41 (6.10%) Stakeholder Management
16 36 (5.36%) Validation
17 35 (5.21%) Data Pipeline
17 35 (5.21%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 148 (22.02%) Python
2 108 (16.07%) Java
3 87 (12.95%) C++
4 50 (7.44%) Bash
5 43 (6.40%) JavaScript
6 39 (5.80%) Go
7 26 (3.87%) Rust
8 25 (3.72%) SQL
9 19 (2.83%) C
10 17 (2.53%) PowerShell
10 17 (2.53%) TypeScript
11 13 (1.93%) Scala
12 9 (1.34%) Bicep
13 7 (1.04%) Groovy
14 6 (0.89%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.60%) C#
16 3 (0.45%) GLSL
17 2 (0.30%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.30%) SystemVerilog
18 1 (0.15%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 395 (58.78%) DV Cleared
2 271 (40.33%) SC Cleared
3 32 (4.76%) Degree
4 18 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (1.64%) Azure Certification
6 8 (1.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 7 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.04%) OSCP
8 5 (0.74%) CEH
8 5 (0.74%) CREST Certified
9 4 (0.60%) CCIE
9 4 (0.60%) CCNP
9 4 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (0.60%) PMI Certification
9 4 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (0.45%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.45%) PMP
11 2 (0.30%) CISSP
11 2 (0.30%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (2.53%) QA
2 10 (1.49%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.34%) Data Quality
4 5 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.45%) GDPR
5 3 (0.45%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.30%) NCSC
6 2 (0.30%) NIST
7 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.15%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.15%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.15%) PMO
System Software
1 68 (10.12%) Docker
2 26 (3.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (3.13%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.04%) Firmware
5 6 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.74%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.30%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 119 (17.71%) Kubernetes
2 88 (13.10%) Ansible
3 26 (3.87%) Grafana
4 20 (2.98%) Puppet
5 15 (2.23%) Kibana
5 15 (2.23%) logstash
6 11 (1.64%) Argo
7 10 (1.49%) Rancher
8 9 (1.34%) Prometheus
9 8 (1.19%) vCenter Server
10 7 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (1.04%) yum
11 4 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (0.60%) Istio
11 4 (0.60%) linkerd
11 4 (0.60%) Mesos
12 3 (0.45%) Check_MK
12 3 (0.45%) Nagios
12 3 (0.45%) Packer
12 3 (0.45%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 40 (5.95%) Microsoft
2 34 (5.06%) VMware
3 16 (2.38%) Red Hat
4 14 (2.08%) Oracle
5 10 (1.49%) Atlassian
6 9 (1.34%) Splunk
7 7 (1.04%) Cisco
8 5 (0.74%) Databricks
9 4 (0.60%) Google
9 4 (0.60%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.30%) Intel
10 2 (0.30%) Microsemi
10 2 (0.30%) Xilinx
11 1 (0.15%) Citrix
11 1 (0.15%) Dell
11 1 (0.15%) McAfee
11 1 (0.15%) Palo Alto