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

6 months to
14 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 665 148 315
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 28.13% 26.91% 28.64%
As % of the Qualifications category 78.51% 66.67% 67.02%
Number of salaries quoted 462 94 207
10th Percentile £50,000 £35,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £83,500
South West median annual salary £75,000 £57,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +31.58% -5.00% -

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 847 222 470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 35.83% 40.36% 42.73%
Number of salaries quoted 556 153 303
10th Percentile £45,875 £35,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +13.64% -2.65%
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 14 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 14 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 0 298 £80,000 -8.57% 124
Gloucester 0 215 £75,000 -6.25% 88
Tewkesbury -7 14 £55,000 -12.00% 9
Filton -1 12 £57,000 +16.33% 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 37 (5.56%) Apache
2 10 (1.50%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.35%) Confluence
4 6 (0.90%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.30%) MS Visio
1 2 (0.30%) Simulink
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 106 (15.94%) AWS
2 76 (11.43%) Azure
3 42 (6.32%) OpenShift
4 31 (4.66%) GCP
5 16 (2.41%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (2.11%) Entra ID
6 14 (2.11%) OCI
7 13 (1.95%) Azure AKS
7 13 (1.95%) Serverless
8 12 (1.80%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (1.50%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (1.35%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (1.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 9 (1.35%) GitHub
11 8 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (1.05%) Azure Machine Learning
13 6 (0.90%) PaaS
14 5 (0.75%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (0.75%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.56%) Network Security
2 13 (1.95%) VPN
3 12 (1.80%) Firewall
4 10 (1.50%) Software-Defined Radio
5 7 (1.05%) DHCP
5 7 (1.05%) DNS
6 4 (0.60%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (0.60%) VXLAN
7 3 (0.45%) AMQP
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 23 (3.46%) Elasticsearch
2 22 (3.31%) NoSQL
3 16 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (2.26%) Big Data
5 10 (1.50%) MongoDB
6 8 (1.20%) Hadoop
6 8 (1.20%) InfluxDB
7 5 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (0.75%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.60%) MySQL
9 3 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (0.45%) Cloudera CDH
9 3 (0.45%) Flink
9 3 (0.45%) Redis
10 2 (0.30%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.15%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.15%) Metadata
11 1 (0.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 38 (5.71%) Git
2 36 (5.41%) GitLab
3 31 (4.66%) Jenkins
4 17 (2.56%) JIRA
5 11 (1.65%) Cypress.io
6 10 (1.50%) TestRail
7 9 (1.35%) Cucumber
7 9 (1.35%) SonarQube
8 8 (1.20%) Robot Framework
8 8 (1.20%) Selenium
9 7 (1.05%) Subversion
10 4 (0.60%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.30%) Burp Suite
11 2 (0.30%) Gradle
11 2 (0.30%) Metasploit
11 2 (0.30%) MLflow
11 2 (0.30%) Rational DOORS
11 2 (0.30%) Rational Rhapsody
11 2 (0.30%) Valgrind
11 2 (0.30%) Zephyr
General
1 82 (12.33%) Finance
2 62 (9.32%) Social Skills
3 47 (7.07%) Public Sector
4 43 (6.47%) Aerospace
5 33 (4.96%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (0.90%) Games
6 6 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (0.75%) Military
8 4 (0.60%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.30%) Electronics
10 1 (0.15%) Automotive
10 1 (0.15%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.15%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 128 (19.25%) Software Engineer
2 76 (11.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 62 (9.32%) Cloud Engineer
4 55 (8.27%) Developer
4 55 (8.27%) Senior
5 48 (7.22%) Data Engineer
6 46 (6.92%) Lead
7 40 (6.02%) Software Developer
8 39 (5.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 35 (5.26%) Architect
10 25 (3.76%) Analyst
10 25 (3.76%) Lead DevOps
11 24 (3.61%) Python Engineer
12 23 (3.46%) Consultant
12 23 (3.46%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 21 (3.16%) Business Analyst
14 20 (3.01%) Network Engineer
14 20 (3.01%) Tester
15 18 (2.71%) Administrator
15 18 (2.71%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (15.19%) Terraform
2 23 (3.46%) Elastic Stack
2 23 (3.46%) Spring
2 23 (3.46%) Spring Boot
3 22 (3.31%) Kafka
4 17 (2.56%) Apache NiFi
5 12 (1.80%) Node.js
6 11 (1.65%) REST
6 11 (1.65%) Vue
7 10 (1.50%) Keycloak
7 10 (1.50%) RESTful
8 9 (1.35%) Playwright
8 9 (1.35%) React
9 7 (1.05%) pytest
10 6 (0.90%) AngularJS
11 5 (0.75%) gRPC
11 5 (0.75%) OpenAPI
11 5 (0.75%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (0.60%) Swagger
13 3 (0.45%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 52 (7.82%) Cloud Native
2 24 (3.61%) Hybrid Cloud
2 24 (3.61%) Product Ownership
3 14 (2.11%) Embedded Systems
4 12 (1.80%) Public Cloud
5 10 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (1.20%) FPGA
6 8 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.20%) VHDL
7 7 (1.05%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.05%) Verilog
8 6 (0.90%) Operational Technology
8 6 (0.90%) PKI
9 5 (0.75%) Algorithms
9 5 (0.75%) Data Structures
9 5 (0.75%) Mobile App
9 5 (0.75%) Security Posture
10 4 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.60%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (0.60%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 102 (15.34%) Linux
2 30 (4.51%) Windows
3 17 (2.56%) Unix
4 13 (1.95%) Android
5 12 (1.80%) CentOS
6 7 (1.05%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.75%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.45%) Debian
9 3 (0.45%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.30%) VMS
10 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.15%) CoreOS
11 1 (0.15%) Rocky
11 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (25.56%) DevOps
2 158 (23.76%) Software Engineering
3 137 (20.60%) Agile
4 124 (18.65%) CI/CD
5 90 (13.53%) Containerisation
5 90 (13.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 74 (11.13%) Continuous Improvement
7 67 (10.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 59 (8.87%) Collaborative Culture
9 53 (7.97%) Test Automation
10 51 (7.67%) AI
11 49 (7.37%) Problem-Solving
12 46 (6.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 44 (6.62%) Cybersecurity
13 44 (6.62%) Platform Engineering
14 43 (6.47%) Analytics
15 40 (6.02%) Stakeholder Management
16 36 (5.41%) Validation
17 34 (5.11%) Data Pipeline
17 34 (5.11%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 143 (21.50%) Python
2 104 (15.64%) Java
3 85 (12.78%) C++
4 49 (7.37%) Bash
5 42 (6.32%) JavaScript
6 37 (5.56%) Go
7 26 (3.91%) Rust
8 24 (3.61%) SQL
9 19 (2.86%) C
10 17 (2.56%) PowerShell
10 17 (2.56%) TypeScript
11 13 (1.95%) Scala
12 9 (1.35%) Bicep
13 7 (1.05%) Groovy
14 6 (0.90%) 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
1 393 (59.10%) DV Cleared
2 267 (40.15%) SC Cleared
3 30 (4.51%) Degree
4 18 (2.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (1.50%) Azure Certification
6 8 (1.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 7 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.05%) OSCP
8 6 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (0.75%) CEH
9 5 (0.75%) CREST Certified
10 4 (0.60%) CCIE
10 4 (0.60%) CCNP
10 4 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.60%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.45%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.45%) PMP
12 2 (0.30%) CISSP
12 2 (0.30%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (2.71%) QA
2 11 (1.65%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.35%) Data Quality
4 5 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.45%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.30%) GDPR
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 66 (9.92%) Docker
2 26 (3.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (3.16%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.05%) Firmware
5 6 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.75%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.30%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 115 (17.29%) Kubernetes
2 84 (12.63%) Ansible
3 25 (3.76%) Grafana
4 19 (2.86%) Puppet
5 15 (2.26%) Kibana
5 15 (2.26%) logstash
6 10 (1.50%) Argo
7 9 (1.35%) Rancher
8 8 (1.20%) Prometheus
8 8 (1.20%) vCenter Server
9 7 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (1.05%) yum
10 3 (0.45%) Check_MK
10 3 (0.45%) linkerd
10 3 (0.45%) Mesos
10 3 (0.45%) Nagios
10 3 (0.45%) Packer
10 3 (0.45%) SCCM
10 3 (0.45%) SCOM
10 3 (0.45%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 39 (5.86%) Microsoft
2 34 (5.11%) VMware
3 14 (2.11%) Oracle
3 14 (2.11%) Red Hat
4 10 (1.50%) Atlassian
5 9 (1.35%) Splunk
6 7 (1.05%) Cisco
7 5 (0.75%) Databricks
8 3 (0.45%) Google
8 3 (0.45%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.30%) Intel
9 2 (0.30%) Microsemi
9 2 (0.30%) Xilinx
10 1 (0.15%) Citrix
10 1 (0.15%) Dell
10 1 (0.15%) McAfee
10 1 (0.15%) Palo Alto