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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 322 154 642
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 27.47% 38.99% 38.40%
As % of the Qualifications category 69.70% 63.64% 76.52%
Number of salaries quoted 230 85 439
10th Percentile £45,000 £32,750 £31,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +11.11% -13.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,500 £100,000 £82,500
South West median annual salary £65,000 £59,700 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.88% +8.55% -

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 462 242 839
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 39.42% 61.27% 50.18%
Number of salaries quoted 275 138 601
10th Percentile £40,000 £27,425 £30,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £42,813 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,750 £80,000
South West median annual salary £57,500 £51,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +12.75% -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 14 April 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 April 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 0 115 £63,750 -5.56% 62
Gloucester 0 108 £65,000 - 26
Tewkesbury -1 13 £62,500 +63.19% 1
Filton +8 7 £28,000 -37.78% 29
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 13 (4.04%) Apache
2 8 (2.48%) Confluence
3 1 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.55%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.31%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 79 (24.53%) AWS
2 63 (19.57%) Azure
3 17 (5.28%) GCP
4 11 (3.42%) OpenShift
5 8 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (1.24%) Amazon S3
6 4 (1.24%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (1.24%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (1.24%) Serverless
7 3 (0.93%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (0.93%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.62%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (0.62%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (0.62%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (0.62%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.31%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.31%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (0.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.42%) DNS
2 10 (3.11%) DHCP
3 7 (2.17%) Firewall
3 7 (2.17%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.55%) LAN
4 5 (1.55%) VPN
4 5 (1.55%) WAN
5 3 (0.93%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (0.62%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.62%) NAS
6 2 (0.62%) Network Security
6 2 (0.62%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.62%) SAN
6 2 (0.62%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (0.62%) VSAN
6 2 (0.62%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.31%) HTTP
7 1 (0.31%) ICMP
7 1 (0.31%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.31%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.97%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (3.42%) NoSQL
3 8 (2.48%) MongoDB
3 8 (2.48%) Neo4j
4 6 (1.86%) InfluxDB
5 4 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.93%) Big Data
6 3 (0.93%) MySQL
7 2 (0.62%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.62%) Metadata
8 1 (0.31%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.31%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.31%) Power BI
8 1 (0.31%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.31%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (6.52%) Git
2 13 (4.04%) GitLab
2 13 (4.04%) JIRA
3 12 (3.73%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.48%) Cucumber
4 8 (2.48%) Cypress.io
5 7 (2.17%) Subversion
6 5 (1.55%) Robot Framework
6 5 (1.55%) TestRail
7 4 (1.24%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.24%) Selenium
7 4 (1.24%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.93%) Balsamiq
8 3 (0.93%) Gradle
9 2 (0.62%) IDA Disassembler
9 2 (0.62%) Maven
9 2 (0.62%) MLflow
9 2 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.31%) JMeter
10 1 (0.31%) JUnit
General
1 41 (12.73%) Social Skills
2 39 (12.11%) Public Sector
3 24 (7.45%) Finance
4 21 (6.52%) Aerospace
5 14 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.48%) Manufacturing
7 8 (2.48%) Military
8 6 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.55%) Advertising
10 4 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.24%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.93%) Law
11 3 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.62%) Electronics
12 2 (0.62%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 60 (18.63%) Software Engineer
2 34 (10.56%) Consultant
3 31 (9.63%) Security Consultant
4 27 (8.39%) Senior
5 23 (7.14%) Analyst
6 21 (6.52%) DevOps Engineer
6 21 (6.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 19 (5.90%) Business Analyst
8 17 (5.28%) Cybersecurity Consultant
9 14 (4.35%) Data Scientist
10 12 (3.73%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (3.42%) Administrator
11 11 (3.42%) Architect
11 11 (3.42%) Test Engineer
11 11 (3.42%) Tester
12 10 (3.11%) AWS Engineer
12 10 (3.11%) Data Engineer
12 10 (3.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 10 (3.11%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 9 (2.80%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.28%) React
2 14 (4.35%) AngularJS
3 10 (3.11%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (2.80%) Vue
5 8 (2.48%) Apache NiFi
5 8 (2.48%) MERN Stack
5 8 (2.48%) REST
5 8 (2.48%) Spring
5 8 (2.48%) Spring Boot
6 4 (1.24%) Kafka
6 4 (1.24%) Node.js
6 4 (1.24%) RESTful
7 3 (0.93%) Playwright
7 3 (0.93%) pytest
8 2 (0.62%) Hibernate
8 2 (0.62%) JPA
8 2 (0.62%) PyTorch
8 2 (0.62%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.62%) TensorFlow
9 1 (0.31%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.97%) Product Ownership
2 11 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (3.11%) Cloud Native
4 9 (2.80%) Data Centre
5 5 (1.55%) Blog
5 5 (1.55%) PKI
5 5 (1.55%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.24%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.24%) Security Posture
7 3 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (0.93%) Driving Licence
7 3 (0.93%) Management Information System
7 3 (0.93%) PMI
7 3 (0.93%) Replication
8 2 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.62%) CMDB
8 2 (0.62%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (0.62%) Fat Client
8 2 (0.62%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.62%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 57 (17.70%) Linux
2 27 (8.39%) Windows
3 9 (2.80%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.86%) CentOS
5 3 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.62%) Unix
6 2 (0.62%) VMS
6 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.31%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (24.84%) Software Engineering
2 78 (24.22%) Agile
3 73 (22.67%) DevOps
4 48 (14.91%) Cybersecurity
5 41 (12.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 38 (11.80%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (11.18%) Infrastructure as Code
8 31 (9.63%) CI/CD
9 28 (8.70%) AI
9 28 (8.70%) Collaborative Culture
10 26 (8.07%) Containerisation
10 26 (8.07%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (7.45%) Collaborative Working
11 24 (7.45%) Data Science
11 24 (7.45%) Penetration Testing
12 23 (7.14%) Software Testing
13 21 (6.52%) Full-Stack Development
14 20 (6.21%) Scrum
14 20 (6.21%) Test Automation
15 17 (5.28%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 86 (26.71%) Python
2 57 (17.70%) Java
3 32 (9.94%) Bash
4 25 (7.76%) JavaScript
5 23 (7.14%) PowerShell
6 17 (5.28%) C++
7 16 (4.97%) Go
8 15 (4.66%) C
9 13 (4.04%) TypeScript
10 10 (3.11%) SQL
11 7 (2.17%) Kotlin
12 6 (1.86%) C#
13 4 (1.24%) Groovy
13 4 (1.24%) Rust
14 3 (0.93%) Elixir
14 3 (0.93%) Erlang
14 3 (0.93%) VBScript
15 2 (0.62%) R
16 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 188 (58.39%) DV Cleared
2 141 (43.79%) SC Cleared
3 26 (8.07%) Degree
4 8 (2.48%) CREST Certified
5 5 (1.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (1.24%) CCIE
6 4 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.24%) PhD
6 4 (1.24%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.93%) BC Cleared
7 3 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.93%) CITP
7 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.62%) CBAP
8 2 (0.62%) CCIE Data Center
8 2 (0.62%) CCNP
8 2 (0.62%) CHECK Team Member
8 2 (0.62%) CISSP
8 2 (0.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.04%) QA
2 10 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.55%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.24%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.24%) SLA
5 3 (0.93%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.93%) RMADS
6 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.31%) GDPR
6 1 (0.31%) NIST
System Software
1 32 (9.94%) Docker
2 14 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.55%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.24%) Firmware
5 3 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.62%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 53 (16.46%) Kubernetes
2 32 (9.94%) Ansible
3 31 (9.63%) Terraform
4 17 (5.28%) Grafana
5 8 (2.48%) Argo
5 8 (2.48%) Rancher
6 7 (2.17%) Kibana
6 7 (2.17%) logstash
6 7 (2.17%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.17%) Puppet
6 7 (2.17%) yum
7 5 (1.55%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (1.24%) Nagios
8 4 (1.24%) SCCM
9 2 (0.62%) McAfee ePO
9 2 (0.62%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.62%) SCOM
9 2 (0.62%) SCVMM
9 2 (0.62%) vRealize
Vendors
1 23 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.66%) VMware
3 13 (4.04%) Cisco
3 13 (4.04%) Red Hat
3 13 (4.04%) Splunk
4 7 (2.17%) Atlassian
5 6 (1.86%) Dell
6 4 (1.24%) Fortinet
7 2 (0.62%) CheckPoint
7 2 (0.62%) F5
7 2 (0.62%) Google
7 2 (0.62%) HP
7 2 (0.62%) Juniper
7 2 (0.62%) McAfee
7 2 (0.62%) Oracle
7 2 (0.62%) Palo Alto
7 2 (0.62%) SAP
7 2 (0.62%) Veeam
8 1 (0.31%) Databricks
8 1 (0.31%) NetApp