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 22 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 2 1
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 169 267 434
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 28.40% 28.77% 48.28%
As % of the Qualifications category 65.25% 53.72% 77.09%
Number of salaries quoted 111 168 214
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £54,375 £50,000 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +10.09% -5.22%
75th Percentile £84,375 £76,563 £72,375
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £87,300
South West median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -

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 259 497 563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 43.53% 53.56% 62.63%
Number of salaries quoted 171 237 315
10th Percentile £38,000 £41,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £46,875 £47,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £58,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.38% +10.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £70,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £87,500 £80,000
South West median annual salary £51,058 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.17% +10.00% -

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 22 November 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 22 November 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
Cheltenham 0 54 £77,500 +14.81% 52
Gloucester 0 41 £80,000 +33.33% 32
Filton +20 29 £43,000 -18.10% 11
Tewkesbury 0 10 £67,500 +58.82% 6
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 5 (2.96%) Apache
1 5 (2.96%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (2.96%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.37%) Confluence
3 1 (0.59%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 6 (3.55%) Simulink
2 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.59%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 36 (21.30%) AWS
2 34 (20.12%) Azure
3 8 (4.73%) Azure Stack
3 8 (4.73%) Entra ID
3 8 (4.73%) OpenShift
4 5 (2.96%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (2.96%) Amazon S3
4 5 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (2.96%) GCP
4 5 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (2.96%) Serverless
5 3 (1.78%) Google Workspace
6 1 (0.59%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.59%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.59%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.59%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.14%) LAN
1 7 (4.14%) WAN
2 5 (2.96%) Firewall
2 5 (2.96%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.37%) Software-Defined Radio
3 4 (2.37%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.37%) VSAN
4 3 (1.78%) DNS
4 3 (1.78%) Network Security
5 2 (1.18%) DHCP
5 2 (1.18%) Internet
5 2 (1.18%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.59%) HTTP
6 1 (0.59%) ICMP
6 1 (0.59%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (0.59%) VLAN
6 1 (0.59%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.73%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (2.37%) Big Data
2 4 (2.37%) MongoDB
2 4 (2.37%) Neo4j
3 3 (1.78%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.78%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.18%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.59%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (6.51%) GitLab
2 7 (4.14%) Git
2 7 (4.14%) JIRA
3 5 (2.96%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.78%) Balsamiq
4 3 (1.78%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.18%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.18%) IDA Disassembler
5 2 (1.18%) Robot Framework
5 2 (1.18%) TestRail
6 1 (0.59%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.59%) JUnit
6 1 (0.59%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.59%) Subversion
General
1 47 (27.81%) Social Skills
2 22 (13.02%) Public Sector
3 20 (11.83%) Aerospace
4 12 (7.10%) Military
5 11 (6.51%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.51%) Manufacturing
6 10 (5.92%) Automotive
7 7 (4.14%) Electronics
7 7 (4.14%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.55%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.37%) Aviation
10 3 (1.78%) Avionics
10 3 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.78%) Finance
11 2 (1.18%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.59%) Games
12 1 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.59%) Law
Job Titles
1 27 (15.98%) Software Engineer
2 18 (10.65%) Lead
3 16 (9.47%) Consultant
4 15 (8.88%) Senior
5 14 (8.28%) Integration Engineer
6 12 (7.10%) Architect
6 12 (7.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (5.33%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
7 9 (5.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 9 (5.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 8 (4.73%) Administrator
8 8 (4.73%) IT Engineer
8 8 (4.73%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (4.73%) Technical Consultant
9 7 (4.14%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (4.14%) Security Consultant
9 7 (4.14%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (3.55%) Cloud Architect
10 6 (3.55%) Cloud Solutions Architect
10 6 (3.55%) Cybersecurity Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.10%) React
2 5 (2.96%) AngularJS
3 4 (2.37%) MERN Stack
3 4 (2.37%) Spring
3 4 (2.37%) Spring Boot
4 3 (1.78%) Apache NiFi
4 3 (1.78%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.18%) Hibernate
5 2 (1.18%) JSF
6 1 (0.59%) .NET
6 1 (0.59%) Express.js
6 1 (0.59%) Flash
6 1 (0.59%) HTML
6 1 (0.59%) Kafka
6 1 (0.59%) Node.js
6 1 (0.59%) OpenCV
6 1 (0.59%) REST
6 1 (0.59%) RESTful
6 1 (0.59%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.59%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.10%) Onboarding
2 11 (6.51%) Data Centre
3 8 (4.73%) Algorithms
3 8 (4.73%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (4.14%) Management Information System
4 7 (4.14%) PKI
5 6 (3.55%) Driving Licence
6 5 (2.96%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (2.37%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.37%) FPGA
7 4 (2.37%) Verilog
7 4 (2.37%) VHDL
8 3 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.78%) CMDB
8 3 (1.78%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.59%) Raspberry Pi
10 1 (0.59%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 40 (23.67%) Linux
2 27 (15.98%) Windows
3 22 (13.02%) Windows Server
4 11 (6.51%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (4.73%) Rocky
6 6 (3.55%) CentOS
7 5 (2.96%) Mac OS
8 4 (2.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (2.37%) Ubuntu
9 3 (1.78%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (1.18%) CoreOS
10 2 (1.18%) Debian
10 2 (1.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (20.71%) Agile
1 35 (20.71%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (20.12%) Software Engineering
3 25 (14.79%) Cybersecurity
4 22 (13.02%) DevOps
5 21 (12.43%) AI
6 18 (10.65%) Containerisation
6 18 (10.65%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (8.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 13 (7.69%) ITIL
8 13 (7.69%) Machine Learning
8 13 (7.69%) Systems Engineering
9 12 (7.10%) CI/CD
10 10 (5.92%) Data Analysis
10 10 (5.92%) Full-Stack Development
11 9 (5.33%) Analytics
11 9 (5.33%) Business Development
11 9 (5.33%) Collaborative Working
11 9 (5.33%) Innovative Thinking
12 8 (4.73%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 44 (26.04%) Python
2 19 (11.24%) Java
3 15 (8.88%) PowerShell
4 14 (8.28%) C
5 13 (7.69%) JavaScript
6 12 (7.10%) Bash
7 9 (5.33%) C++
7 9 (5.33%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.96%) Go
8 5 (2.96%) MATLAB
9 4 (2.37%) C#
9 4 (2.37%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.78%) Google Apps Script
10 3 (1.78%) SQL
10 3 (1.78%) Tcl
10 3 (1.78%) VBScript
11 1 (0.59%) Groovy
11 1 (0.59%) R
11 1 (0.59%) Rust
Qualifications
1 94 (55.62%) DV Cleared
2 85 (50.30%) SC Cleared
3 20 (11.83%) Degree
4 17 (10.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (4.73%) Azure Certification
5 8 (4.73%) Network+ Certification
6 4 (2.37%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.37%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.78%) CCIE
7 3 (1.78%) CITP
7 3 (1.78%) CREST Certified
8 2 (1.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (1.18%) MCAD
8 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.59%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.59%) CHECK Team Member
9 1 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.59%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.96%) QA
2 4 (2.37%) GDPR
3 3 (1.78%) RMADS
4 1 (0.59%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 20 (11.83%) Active Directory
2 13 (7.69%) Hyper-V
3 9 (5.33%) Docker
4 3 (1.78%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.18%) vSphere
6 1 (0.59%) KVM
6 1 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.59%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 30 (17.75%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.33%) Ansible
2 9 (5.33%) Terraform
3 4 (2.37%) Kibana
4 3 (1.78%) Grafana
4 3 (1.78%) McAfee ePO
4 3 (1.78%) Nagios
4 3 (1.78%) SCVMM
5 2 (1.18%) SCCM
6 1 (0.59%) Argo
6 1 (0.59%) logstash
6 1 (0.59%) Puppet
6 1 (0.59%) Rancher
6 1 (0.59%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.59%) yum
Vendors
1 9 (5.33%) Red Hat
2 8 (4.73%) Dell
3 7 (4.14%) Splunk
4 6 (3.55%) Cisco
4 6 (3.55%) Google
5 5 (2.96%) Atlassian
5 5 (2.96%) Cognizant
6 4 (2.37%) F5
6 4 (2.37%) Fortinet
6 4 (2.37%) IBM
6 4 (2.37%) Microsoft
6 4 (2.37%) VMware
7 3 (1.78%) CheckPoint
7 3 (1.78%) McAfee
7 3 (1.78%) Oracle
8 1 (0.59%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.59%) Salesforce