Security Cleared Jobs 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 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 144 650 472
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 27.27% 37.53% 38.66%
As % of the Qualifications category 42.48% 76.74% 71.62%
Number of salaries quoted 74 426 151
10th Percentile £30,750 £31,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £43,813 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +18.18%
75th Percentile £76,250 £71,250 £79,375
90th Percentile £99,250 £81,500 £86,500
South West median annual salary £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 339 847 659
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 64.20% 48.90% 53.97%
Number of salaries quoted 201 589 208
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £36,025
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £45,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £52,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +0.19% -13.65% +19.22%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £77,250 £80,000 £85,000
South West median annual salary £52,600 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.59% +2.86% +5.00%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Gloucestershire

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in Gloucestershire.

Salary trend for Security Cleared in Gloucestershire

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 17 May 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 17 May 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 44 £66,250 +10.42% 73
Gloucester 0 31 £65,000 +23.81% 57
Filton -9 10 £50,000 +23.51% 4
Tewkesbury 0 8 £35,750 -31.90% 11
Wotton-under-Edge - 2 - -
Security Cleared
South West

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 20 (13.89%) Jupyter
2 7 (4.86%) Confluence
3 5 (3.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.69%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 29 (20.14%) AWS
2 17 (11.81%) Azure
3 11 (7.64%) Serverless
4 8 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (5.56%) Amazon S3
4 8 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (3.47%) GitHub
5 5 (3.47%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.39%) GCP
9 1 (0.69%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.69%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (0.69%) AWS Control Tower
9 1 (0.69%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (0.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.47%) VPN
2 4 (2.78%) Firewall
2 4 (2.78%) OSPF
3 2 (1.39%) BGP
3 2 (1.39%) DNS
3 2 (1.39%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (1.39%) IPv4
3 2 (1.39%) LAN
3 2 (1.39%) MPLS
3 2 (1.39%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.39%) VLAN
3 2 (1.39%) WAN
4 1 (0.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (27.78%) Big Data
2 7 (4.86%) MongoDB
3 6 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.47%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.78%) Redis
6 3 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.08%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.69%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.69%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 16 (11.11%) GitLab
2 11 (7.64%) Git
3 9 (6.25%) JIRA
4 4 (2.78%) Rational DOORS
4 4 (2.78%) Rational Rhapsody
4 4 (2.78%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.08%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.08%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.08%) JUnit
6 2 (1.39%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.69%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.69%) GDB
General
1 48 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 47 (32.64%) Finance
3 26 (18.06%) Social Skills
4 13 (9.03%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.56%) Aerospace
6 5 (3.47%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.47%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.78%) Electronics
7 4 (2.78%) Legal
7 4 (2.78%) Marketing
7 4 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.39%) Law
9 1 (0.69%) Aeronautics
9 1 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.69%) Publishing
9 1 (0.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (28.47%) Data Scientist
2 34 (23.61%) Senior
3 20 (13.89%) Senior Data Scientist
4 16 (11.11%) Software Engineer
5 14 (9.72%) Developer
6 12 (8.33%) Lead
7 8 (5.56%) Administrator
7 8 (5.56%) Senior Developer
7 8 (5.56%) Test Engineer
8 7 (4.86%) Systems Administrator
9 6 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (4.17%) Test Automation Engineer
10 5 (3.47%) Architect
10 5 (3.47%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.47%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 5 (3.47%) Software Developer
11 4 (2.78%) Automation Test Lead
11 4 (2.78%) Backend Developer
11 4 (2.78%) IAM Specialist
11 4 (2.78%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (11.11%) React
2 5 (3.47%) OAuth
3 4 (2.78%) .NET
3 4 (2.78%) AWS CDK
3 4 (2.78%) Django
3 4 (2.78%) FastAPI
3 4 (2.78%) Flask
3 4 (2.78%) GraphQL
3 4 (2.78%) Hibernate
3 4 (2.78%) JSF
3 4 (2.78%) Keycloak
3 4 (2.78%) pytest
3 4 (2.78%) RESTful
3 4 (2.78%) Spring Boot
3 4 (2.78%) SQLAlchemy
3 4 (2.78%) WebSockets
4 3 (2.08%) AngularJS
4 3 (2.08%) HTML
5 2 (1.39%) Kafka
5 2 (1.39%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 41 (28.47%) Algorithms
2 40 (27.78%) Cyberattack
3 7 (4.86%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.78%) e-Learning
4 4 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (2.78%) Private Cloud
4 4 (2.78%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.08%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.39%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.69%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.69%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.69%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.69%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.69%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 30 (20.83%) Linux
2 14 (9.72%) Windows
3 9 (6.25%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.08%) Android
5 2 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.69%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.69%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.69%) Unix
6 1 (0.69%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (40.28%) Problem-Solving
2 53 (36.81%) Machine Learning
3 49 (34.03%) Artificial Intelligence
4 47 (32.64%) DevOps
5 44 (30.56%) Mathematics
6 43 (29.86%) Computer Science
7 42 (29.17%) Software Engineering
8 41 (28.47%) Data Science
8 41 (28.47%) Statistics
8 41 (28.47%) Visualisation
9 40 (27.78%) Data Analysis
9 40 (27.78%) Exploratory Data Analysis
9 40 (27.78%) OpenUP
10 32 (22.22%) Mentoring
11 26 (18.06%) Agile
12 24 (16.67%) CI/CD
12 24 (16.67%) Microservices
13 22 (15.28%) Decision-Making
14 21 (14.58%) Analytics
14 21 (14.58%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 66 (45.83%) Python
2 47 (32.64%) Java
3 42 (29.17%) JavaScript
4 17 (11.81%) TypeScript
5 9 (6.25%) SQL
6 8 (5.56%) Bash
6 8 (5.56%) PowerShell
7 7 (4.86%) C++
8 4 (2.78%) Perl
8 4 (2.78%) PHP
9 3 (2.08%) C
9 3 (2.08%) R
10 2 (1.39%) Go
10 2 (1.39%) Rust
11 1 (0.69%) C#
11 1 (0.69%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.69%) Scala
11 1 (0.69%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.69%) VB
11 1 (0.69%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 94 (65.28%) DV Cleared
2 53 (36.81%) Degree
3 35 (24.31%) SC Cleared
4 21 (14.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (13.89%) Numerate Degree
6 9 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.78%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.39%) CCIE
8 2 (1.39%) CCNP
8 2 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.39%) PhD
9 1 (0.69%) APMP
9 1 (0.69%) CISM
9 1 (0.69%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.69%) MCP
9 1 (0.69%) MCSA
9 1 (0.69%) MCSE
9 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.69%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.08%) ISO 9001
2 2 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.69%) ISO 14001
3 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (0.69%) NCSC
3 1 (0.69%) NIST
3 1 (0.69%) QA
System Software
1 53 (36.81%) Docker
2 6 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.69%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.69%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.69%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 42 (29.17%) Kubernetes
2 18 (12.50%) Terraform
3 15 (10.42%) Ansible
4 5 (3.47%) Kibana
5 4 (2.78%) Grafana
5 4 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (2.78%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.08%) EMC NetWorker
6 3 (2.08%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.39%) Puppet
8 1 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.69%) Packer
8 1 (0.69%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (6.94%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.56%) Oracle
3 7 (4.86%) Atlassian
4 6 (4.17%) VMware
5 4 (2.78%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.39%) CheckPoint
6 2 (1.39%) Cisco
6 2 (1.39%) Citrix
6 2 (1.39%) F5
6 2 (1.39%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.39%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.39%) SAP
7 1 (0.69%) Google
7 1 (0.69%) IBM
7 1 (0.69%) McAfee
7 1 (0.69%) Symantec