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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 358 144 560
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 26.34% 34.20% 34.21%
As % of the Qualifications category 70.89% 61.02% 74.37%
Number of salaries quoted 256 74 426
10th Percentile £45,000 £30,750 £31,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,813 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £99,250 £81,500
South West median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +7.14% +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 505 236 753
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 37.16% 56.06% 46.00%
Number of salaries quoted 305 129 586
10th Percentile £41,250 £27,175 £30,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -13.65%
75th Percentile £78,800 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £80,000
South West median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -7.41% +2.86%

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 May 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 May 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 0 143 £60,000 -9.43% 51
Gloucester 0 121 £65,000 - 31
Tewkesbury 0 12 £58,750 +64.34%
Filton +4 8 £28,000 -44.00% 27
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 15 (4.19%) Apache
2 9 (2.51%) Confluence
3 2 (0.56%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.40%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 75 (20.95%) AWS
2 69 (19.27%) Azure
3 21 (5.87%) GCP
4 14 (3.91%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (3.63%) OpenShift
6 6 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.40%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.12%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (1.12%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (1.12%) OCI
9 3 (0.84%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (0.84%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (0.84%) Serverless
10 2 (0.56%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.56%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (0.56%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.28%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (0.28%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.28%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.07%) DHCP
1 11 (3.07%) DNS
1 11 (3.07%) Firewall
2 6 (1.68%) LAN
2 6 (1.68%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.68%) VPN
2 6 (1.68%) WAN
3 5 (1.40%) Network Security
4 3 (0.84%) LoRaWAN
4 3 (0.84%) LTE
4 3 (0.84%) NAS
4 3 (0.84%) SAN
4 3 (0.84%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (0.84%) VXLAN
5 2 (0.56%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.56%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (0.28%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.28%) VSAN
6 1 (0.28%) WebEx
6 1 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.47%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (3.07%) NoSQL
3 8 (2.23%) MongoDB
4 6 (1.68%) InfluxDB
4 6 (1.68%) Neo4j
5 5 (1.40%) Big Data
6 4 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.84%) Metadata
7 3 (0.84%) MySQL
8 2 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.28%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.28%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.28%) Cloudera CDH
9 1 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.28%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.28%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.28%) Power BI
9 1 (0.28%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (6.98%) Git
2 19 (5.31%) GitLab
3 16 (4.47%) Jenkins
4 15 (4.19%) JIRA
5 9 (2.51%) Cucumber
6 8 (2.23%) Cypress.io
7 7 (1.96%) Subversion
8 6 (1.68%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.40%) Robot Framework
9 5 (1.40%) Selenium
9 5 (1.40%) TestRail
10 4 (1.12%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.12%) Gradle
11 2 (0.56%) JUnit
11 2 (0.56%) Maven
11 2 (0.56%) MLflow
11 2 (0.56%) Mockito
11 2 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.28%) JMeter
12 1 (0.28%) Postman
General
1 43 (12.01%) Public Sector
2 36 (10.06%) Social Skills
3 32 (8.94%) Aerospace
3 32 (8.94%) Finance
4 14 (3.91%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (2.23%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.40%) Advertising
7 5 (1.40%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.84%) Electronics
9 3 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.56%) Law
10 2 (0.56%) Marketing
11 1 (0.28%) Military
Job Titles
1 68 (18.99%) Software Engineer
2 30 (8.38%) Analyst
2 30 (8.38%) Consultant
2 30 (8.38%) Security Consultant
3 28 (7.82%) Senior
4 27 (7.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 26 (7.26%) Business Analyst
6 24 (6.70%) Cloud Engineer
7 18 (5.03%) DevOps Engineer
8 15 (4.19%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 15 (4.19%) Tester
9 14 (3.91%) Data Scientist
9 14 (3.91%) Security Engineer
10 12 (3.35%) Architect
10 12 (3.35%) Test Engineer
11 11 (3.07%) AWS Engineer
11 11 (3.07%) Data Engineer
11 11 (3.07%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
11 11 (3.07%) Network Engineer
11 11 (3.07%) Penetration Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.19%) React
2 14 (3.91%) Elastic Stack
3 13 (3.63%) AngularJS
4 12 (3.35%) Vue
5 10 (2.79%) Apache NiFi
5 10 (2.79%) REST
6 9 (2.51%) Spring
6 9 (2.51%) Spring Boot
7 6 (1.68%) MERN Stack
8 5 (1.40%) RESTful
9 4 (1.12%) Kafka
9 4 (1.12%) Node.js
9 4 (1.12%) Playwright
9 4 (1.12%) pytest
10 3 (0.84%) gRPC
10 3 (0.84%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (0.56%) Hibernate
11 2 (0.56%) JPA
11 2 (0.56%) Protocol Buffers
11 2 (0.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 20 (5.59%) Product Ownership
2 12 (3.35%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (3.07%) Cloud Native
3 11 (3.07%) Data Centre
4 7 (1.96%) Security Posture
5 5 (1.40%) Blog
6 4 (1.12%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.12%) Cloud Security Posture
6 4 (1.12%) Replication
7 3 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (0.84%) Embedded Systems
7 3 (0.84%) Fat Client
7 3 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (0.84%) IoT
7 3 (0.84%) NB-IoT
7 3 (0.84%) Operational Technology
7 3 (0.84%) PMI
7 3 (0.84%) Public Cloud
7 3 (0.84%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 60 (16.76%) Linux
2 27 (7.54%) Windows
3 8 (2.23%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.96%) CentOS
5 3 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.84%) Unix
6 2 (0.56%) Android
6 2 (0.56%) VMS
6 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.28%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.28%) Debian
7 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (23.74%) Software Engineering
2 79 (22.07%) Agile
3 76 (21.23%) DevOps
4 52 (14.53%) Cybersecurity
5 46 (12.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 41 (11.45%) Infrastructure as Code
7 39 (10.89%) CI/CD
8 37 (10.34%) Collaborative Culture
9 34 (9.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 32 (8.94%) Problem-Solving
11 30 (8.38%) Test Automation
12 27 (7.54%) AI
12 27 (7.54%) Containerisation
12 27 (7.54%) Scrum
13 26 (7.26%) Data Science
13 26 (7.26%) Penetration Testing
14 25 (6.98%) Collaborative Working
15 23 (6.42%) Software Testing
16 22 (6.15%) Platform Engineering
17 21 (5.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 87 (24.30%) Python
2 61 (17.04%) Java
3 34 (9.50%) Bash
4 29 (8.10%) C++
5 23 (6.42%) JavaScript
6 16 (4.47%) Go
6 16 (4.47%) PowerShell
7 13 (3.63%) C
8 12 (3.35%) TypeScript
9 10 (2.79%) Rust
9 10 (2.79%) SQL
10 5 (1.40%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.12%) Groovy
12 3 (0.84%) C#
12 3 (0.84%) Elixir
12 3 (0.84%) Erlang
13 2 (0.56%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.28%) R
Qualifications
1 197 (55.03%) DV Cleared
2 161 (44.97%) SC Cleared
3 28 (7.82%) Degree
4 6 (1.68%) CREST Certified
5 5 (1.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 5 (1.40%) CCIE
5 5 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.12%) OSCP
6 4 (1.12%) PhD
6 4 (1.12%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.84%) BC Cleared
7 3 (0.84%) CCNP
7 3 (0.84%) CEH
7 3 (0.84%) CISSP
7 3 (0.84%) ISTQB
7 3 (0.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (0.56%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.91%) QA
2 11 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.40%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.12%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.12%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.12%) SLA
5 2 (0.56%) GDPR
5 2 (0.56%) NIST
6 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.28%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.28%) NCSC
6 1 (0.28%) NIST 800
System Software
1 33 (9.22%) Docker
2 18 (5.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (3.91%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.40%) Firmware
5 4 (1.12%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.84%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 50 (13.97%) Kubernetes
2 39 (10.89%) Ansible
3 37 (10.34%) Terraform
4 21 (5.87%) Grafana
5 11 (3.07%) Puppet
6 10 (2.79%) Kibana
6 10 (2.79%) logstash
7 9 (2.51%) Prometheus
8 8 (2.23%) Argo
8 8 (2.23%) Rancher
9 7 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (1.96%) vCenter Server
9 7 (1.96%) yum
10 4 (1.12%) Nagios
11 3 (0.84%) SCCM
11 3 (0.84%) SCOM
11 3 (0.84%) SCOrch
12 2 (0.56%) Check_MK
12 2 (0.56%) NetBackup
12 2 (0.56%) vRealize
Vendors
1 30 (8.38%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.59%) VMware
3 14 (3.91%) Cisco
4 13 (3.63%) Red Hat
5 9 (2.51%) Splunk
6 6 (1.68%) Atlassian
6 6 (1.68%) Dell
6 6 (1.68%) Oracle
7 4 (1.12%) Fortinet
8 2 (0.56%) CheckPoint
8 2 (0.56%) F5
8 2 (0.56%) HP
8 2 (0.56%) Juniper
8 2 (0.56%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.56%) SAP
8 2 (0.56%) Veeam
9 1 (0.28%) Databricks
9 1 (0.28%) McAfee
9 1 (0.28%) NetApp
9 1 (0.28%) SaltStack