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

6 months to
20 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 333 153 615
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 27.41% 37.05% 37.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 69.67% 63.22% 75.83%
Number of salaries quoted 237 82 445
10th Percentile £45,000 £31,625 £31,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - +20.37% -13.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £82,500
South West median annual salary £65,000 £59,400 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.43% +8.00% -

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 478 242 811
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 39.34% 58.60% 48.97%
Number of salaries quoted 281 136 606
10th Percentile £40,000 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £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 £72,813 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £96,250 £80,000
South West median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% -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 20 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 20 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 0 121 £63,750 -5.56% 53
Gloucester 0 112 £65,000 -3.70% 31
Tewkesbury -1 12 £58,750 +64.34% 1
Filton +7 7 £28,000 -44.00% 30
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 (4.50%) Apache
2 7 (2.10%) Confluence
3 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 85 (25.53%) AWS
2 66 (19.82%) Azure
3 18 (5.41%) GCP
4 13 (3.90%) OpenShift
5 10 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.20%) Amazon S3
7 4 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (1.20%) Entra ID
7 4 (1.20%) Serverless
8 3 (0.90%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (0.90%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (0.60%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (0.60%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (0.60%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.30%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.30%) Dagster
10 1 (0.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.00%) DHCP
1 10 (3.00%) DNS
2 8 (2.40%) Firewall
3 6 (1.80%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.50%) LAN
4 5 (1.50%) VPN
4 5 (1.50%) WAN
5 3 (0.90%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (0.60%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.60%) NAS
6 2 (0.60%) Network Security
6 2 (0.60%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.60%) SAN
6 2 (0.60%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (0.60%) VSAN
6 2 (0.60%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.30%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.30%) VLAN
7 1 (0.30%) WebEx
7 1 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.41%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (3.30%) NoSQL
3 8 (2.40%) InfluxDB
3 8 (2.40%) MongoDB
3 8 (2.40%) Neo4j
4 4 (1.20%) Big Data
4 4 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.90%) MySQL
6 2 (0.60%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.60%) Metadata
7 1 (0.30%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.30%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.30%) Power BI
7 1 (0.30%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (7.51%) Git
2 17 (5.11%) GitLab
2 17 (5.11%) Jenkins
3 13 (3.90%) JIRA
4 10 (3.00%) Cucumber
5 9 (2.70%) Cypress.io
6 7 (2.10%) Robot Framework
6 7 (2.10%) Subversion
6 7 (2.10%) TestRail
7 6 (1.80%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.50%) Selenium
9 4 (1.20%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.20%) Gradle
10 3 (0.90%) Balsamiq
11 2 (0.60%) JUnit
11 2 (0.60%) Maven
11 2 (0.60%) MLflow
11 2 (0.60%) Mockito
11 2 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.30%) Postman
General
1 42 (12.61%) Social Skills
2 41 (12.31%) Public Sector
3 25 (7.51%) Finance
4 22 (6.61%) Aerospace
5 12 (3.60%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (2.40%) Manufacturing
6 8 (2.40%) Military
7 6 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (1.50%) Advertising
9 4 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.20%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.90%) Law
10 3 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.60%) Electronics
11 2 (0.60%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 67 (20.12%) Software Engineer
2 36 (10.81%) Consultant
3 33 (9.91%) Security Consultant
4 28 (8.41%) Senior
5 22 (6.61%) Analyst
5 22 (6.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 21 (6.31%) DevOps Engineer
7 18 (5.41%) Business Analyst
7 18 (5.41%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 14 (4.20%) Cloud Engineer
8 14 (4.20%) Data Scientist
9 13 (3.90%) Tester
10 12 (3.60%) Administrator
10 12 (3.60%) Test Engineer
11 11 (3.30%) Architect
11 11 (3.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 11 (3.30%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 10 (3.00%) AWS Engineer
12 10 (3.00%) Developer
12 10 (3.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.41%) React
2 15 (4.50%) AngularJS
2 15 (4.50%) Elastic Stack
3 12 (3.60%) Vue
4 10 (3.00%) Apache NiFi
4 10 (3.00%) REST
5 9 (2.70%) Spring
5 9 (2.70%) Spring Boot
6 8 (2.40%) MERN Stack
7 5 (1.50%) RESTful
8 4 (1.20%) Kafka
8 4 (1.20%) Node.js
8 4 (1.20%) Playwright
8 4 (1.20%) pytest
9 2 (0.60%) gRPC
9 2 (0.60%) JPA
9 2 (0.60%) Protocol Buffers
9 2 (0.60%) PyTorch
9 2 (0.60%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (0.60%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.41%) Product Ownership
2 11 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (3.00%) Cloud Native
4 9 (2.70%) Data Centre
5 6 (1.80%) PKI
5 6 (1.80%) Security Posture
6 5 (1.50%) Blog
7 4 (1.20%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.20%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.90%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (0.90%) Driving Licence
8 3 (0.90%) Fat Client
8 3 (0.90%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.90%) PMI
8 3 (0.90%) Replication
8 3 (0.90%) Thin Client
9 2 (0.60%) CMDB
9 2 (0.60%) Cyber Security Posture
9 2 (0.60%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 59 (17.72%) Linux
2 30 (9.01%) Windows
3 10 (3.00%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.40%) CentOS
5 3 (0.90%) Unix
5 3 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.60%) Android
6 2 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.60%) VMS
6 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (26.43%) Software Engineering
2 83 (24.92%) Agile
3 79 (23.72%) DevOps
4 51 (15.32%) Cybersecurity
5 44 (13.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 39 (11.71%) Infrastructure as Code
7 38 (11.41%) CI/CD
8 37 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
9 33 (9.91%) Collaborative Culture
10 29 (8.71%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (8.41%) Containerisation
12 27 (8.11%) AI
13 26 (7.81%) Test Automation
14 25 (7.51%) Data Science
14 25 (7.51%) Software Testing
15 24 (7.21%) Collaborative Working
15 24 (7.21%) Penetration Testing
16 23 (6.91%) Full-Stack Development
17 20 (6.01%) Platform Engineering
17 20 (6.01%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 88 (26.43%) Python
2 61 (18.32%) Java
3 37 (11.11%) Bash
4 28 (8.41%) JavaScript
5 25 (7.51%) PowerShell
6 19 (5.71%) C++
7 17 (5.11%) Go
8 15 (4.50%) TypeScript
9 14 (4.20%) C
10 10 (3.00%) SQL
11 8 (2.40%) Kotlin
12 7 (2.10%) Rust
13 6 (1.80%) C#
14 4 (1.20%) Groovy
15 3 (0.90%) Elixir
15 3 (0.90%) Erlang
15 3 (0.90%) VBScript
16 2 (0.60%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.30%) R
Qualifications
1 189 (56.76%) DV Cleared
2 150 (45.05%) SC Cleared
3 25 (7.51%) Degree
4 8 (2.40%) CREST Certified
5 7 (2.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (1.20%) CCIE
6 4 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.20%) PhD
6 4 (1.20%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.90%) BC Cleared
7 3 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.90%) CISSP
7 3 (0.90%) CITP
7 3 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.60%) CBAP
8 2 (0.60%) CCIE Data Center
8 2 (0.60%) CCNP
8 2 (0.60%) CHECK Team Member
8 2 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.90%) QA
2 11 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.50%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.20%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.20%) SLA
5 3 (0.90%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.90%) RMADS
6 2 (0.60%) GDPR
6 2 (0.60%) NIST
7 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.30%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.30%) NCSC
7 1 (0.30%) NIST 800
System Software
1 36 (10.81%) Docker
2 15 (4.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (4.20%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.50%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.20%) Firmware
5 4 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.60%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 56 (16.82%) Kubernetes
2 36 (10.81%) Ansible
3 35 (10.51%) Terraform
4 22 (6.61%) Grafana
5 10 (3.00%) Kibana
5 10 (3.00%) logstash
6 8 (2.40%) Argo
6 8 (2.40%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.40%) Puppet
6 8 (2.40%) Rancher
7 7 (2.10%) yum
8 6 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (1.80%) vCenter Server
9 5 (1.50%) SCCM
10 4 (1.20%) Nagios
11 3 (0.90%) SCOM
11 3 (0.90%) SCOrch
12 2 (0.60%) Check_MK
12 2 (0.60%) McAfee ePO
12 2 (0.60%) vRealize
Vendors
1 27 (8.11%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.11%) VMware
3 15 (4.50%) Red Hat
3 15 (4.50%) Splunk
4 13 (3.90%) Cisco
5 7 (2.10%) Atlassian
6 6 (1.80%) Dell
7 4 (1.20%) Fortinet
8 2 (0.60%) CheckPoint
8 2 (0.60%) F5
8 2 (0.60%) HP
8 2 (0.60%) Juniper
8 2 (0.60%) McAfee
8 2 (0.60%) Oracle
8 2 (0.60%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.60%) SAP
8 2 (0.60%) Veeam
9 1 (0.30%) Databricks
9 1 (0.30%) Google
9 1 (0.30%) NetApp