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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 392 161 577
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 25.84% 34.18% 32.43%
As % of the Qualifications category 72.06% 65.71% 74.07%
Number of salaries quoted 283 83 424
10th Percentile £45,000 £32,000 £41,517
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% +13.04% -14.81%
75th Percentile £81,250 £93,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £82,500
South West median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% +4.35% -

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 544 245 779
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 35.86% 52.02% 43.79%
Number of salaries quoted 349 137 584
10th Percentile £40,000 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -11.93%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £81,500
South West median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% -

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 June 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 June 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 0 167 £75,000 +3.45% 62
Gloucester 0 123 £65,000 -7.14% 20
Filton +1 8 £57,000 +3.64% 29
Tewkesbury -8 8 £58,750 +64.34% 1
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 17 (4.34%) Apache
2 7 (1.79%) Confluence
3 3 (0.77%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.77%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.26%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 82 (20.92%) AWS
2 69 (17.60%) Azure
3 27 (6.89%) GCP
4 16 (4.08%) OpenShift
5 14 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (2.04%) OCI
7 6 (1.53%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (1.53%) Entra ID
7 6 (1.53%) Serverless
8 5 (1.28%) Azure AKS
8 5 (1.28%) Azure Machine Learning
9 4 (1.02%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (1.02%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.02%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (0.77%) GitHub
11 2 (0.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (0.51%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.81%) Firewall
2 9 (2.30%) DHCP
2 9 (2.30%) DNS
3 8 (2.04%) Software-Defined Radio
4 7 (1.79%) Network Security
5 6 (1.53%) VPN
6 5 (1.28%) LAN
6 5 (1.28%) WAN
7 4 (1.02%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.77%) LoRaWAN
8 3 (0.77%) LTE
8 3 (0.77%) NAS
8 3 (0.77%) SAN
8 3 (0.77%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (0.77%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.51%) AMQP
9 2 (0.51%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (0.26%) NGN
10 1 (0.26%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.83%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (2.55%) NoSQL
3 8 (2.04%) Big Data
3 8 (2.04%) MongoDB
4 6 (1.53%) InfluxDB
5 5 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.02%) MySQL
7 3 (0.77%) Flink
8 2 (0.51%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.51%) Cloudera CDH
8 2 (0.51%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.51%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.51%) Metadata
8 2 (0.51%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.26%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.26%) Redis
9 1 (0.26%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (6.38%) GitLab
2 24 (6.12%) Git
3 19 (4.85%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.81%) JIRA
5 9 (2.30%) Cucumber
6 8 (2.04%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.79%) Cypress.io
8 6 (1.53%) Robot Framework
8 6 (1.53%) Selenium
8 6 (1.53%) TestRail
9 5 (1.28%) Subversion
10 4 (1.02%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.02%) Gradle
11 3 (0.77%) MLflow
12 2 (0.51%) Burp Suite
12 2 (0.51%) JUnit
12 2 (0.51%) Maven
12 2 (0.51%) Metasploit
12 2 (0.51%) Mockito
12 2 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 43 (10.97%) Public Sector
2 41 (10.46%) Social Skills
3 39 (9.95%) Finance
4 34 (8.67%) Aerospace
5 14 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.02%) Games
7 4 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.02%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (0.77%) Advertising
8 3 (0.77%) Military
8 3 (0.77%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.51%) Law
9 2 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.26%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 75 (19.13%) Software Engineer
2 30 (7.65%) Consultant
3 29 (7.40%) Cloud Engineer
3 29 (7.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 29 (7.40%) Senior
4 28 (7.14%) Security Consultant
5 24 (6.12%) Lead
6 23 (5.87%) Analyst
7 21 (5.36%) Architect
7 21 (5.36%) DevOps Engineer
8 19 (4.85%) Business Analyst
9 18 (4.59%) Tester
10 15 (3.83%) Data Scientist
11 14 (3.57%) Developer
12 13 (3.32%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 13 (3.32%) Data Engineer
12 13 (3.32%) Penetration Tester
13 12 (3.06%) Security Engineer
14 11 (2.81%) Network Engineer
14 11 (2.81%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (4.34%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (3.06%) Apache NiFi
2 12 (3.06%) Vue
3 11 (2.81%) React
4 10 (2.55%) REST
4 10 (2.55%) Spring
4 10 (2.55%) Spring Boot
5 9 (2.30%) AngularJS
6 7 (1.79%) Kafka
6 7 (1.79%) RESTful
7 6 (1.53%) pytest
8 5 (1.28%) Node.js
8 5 (1.28%) Playwright
9 4 (1.02%) gRPC
10 3 (0.77%) PyTorch
10 3 (0.77%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (0.77%) TensorFlow
11 2 (0.51%) Material-UI
11 2 (0.51%) MERN Stack
11 2 (0.51%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 20 (5.10%) Product Ownership
2 15 (3.83%) Cloud Native
3 10 (2.55%) Data Centre
3 10 (2.55%) Public Cloud
4 9 (2.30%) Embedded Systems
4 9 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (1.79%) FPGA
5 7 (1.79%) Security Posture
5 7 (1.79%) VHDL
6 6 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (1.53%) Verilog
7 5 (1.28%) Blog
8 4 (1.02%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.02%) Cloud Security Posture
8 4 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.02%) Replication
9 3 (0.77%) NB-IoT
9 3 (0.77%) Operational Technology
9 3 (0.77%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 66 (16.84%) Linux
2 30 (7.65%) Windows
3 9 (2.30%) CentOS
4 8 (2.04%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.28%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (1.02%) Android
6 4 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.02%) Unix
7 2 (0.51%) Debian
7 2 (0.51%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.51%) VMS
7 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.26%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (23.21%) Software Engineering
2 85 (21.68%) Agile
3 82 (20.92%) DevOps
4 51 (13.01%) CI/CD
5 50 (12.76%) Cybersecurity
6 48 (12.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 46 (11.73%) Infrastructure as Code
8 42 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
9 40 (10.20%) Collaborative Culture
10 36 (9.18%) Containerisation
11 35 (8.93%) Test Automation
12 33 (8.42%) AI
13 32 (8.16%) Problem-Solving
14 26 (6.63%) Data Science
15 25 (6.38%) Scrum
15 25 (6.38%) Software Testing
16 24 (6.12%) Collaborative Working
16 24 (6.12%) Penetration Testing
17 23 (5.87%) Platform Engineering
17 23 (5.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 95 (24.23%) Python
2 60 (15.31%) Java
3 37 (9.44%) C++
4 34 (8.67%) Bash
5 22 (5.61%) JavaScript
6 15 (3.83%) Go
6 15 (3.83%) PowerShell
7 13 (3.32%) C
8 11 (2.81%) Rust
9 9 (2.30%) TypeScript
10 8 (2.04%) SQL
11 5 (1.28%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.02%) Groovy
12 4 (1.02%) Scala
13 3 (0.77%) C#
13 3 (0.77%) Elixir
13 3 (0.77%) Erlang
14 2 (0.51%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.26%) GLSL
15 1 (0.26%) R
Qualifications
1 211 (53.83%) DV Cleared
2 180 (45.92%) SC Cleared
3 25 (6.38%) Degree
4 8 (2.04%) CREST Certified
5 6 (1.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 6 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.28%) CCIE
6 5 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.28%) OSCP
7 4 (1.02%) CISSP
7 4 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.02%) PhD
8 3 (0.77%) CCNP
8 3 (0.77%) CEH
8 3 (0.77%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.51%) CCIE Data Center
9 2 (0.51%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.26%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.81%) QA
2 10 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.53%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.28%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.02%) SLA
6 3 (0.77%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.77%) GDPR
6 3 (0.77%) NIST
7 2 (0.51%) NCSC
8 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.26%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.26%) NIST 800
System Software
1 33 (8.42%) Docker
2 19 (4.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (4.34%) Active Directory
4 10 (2.55%) Firmware
5 5 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.77%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.77%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 52 (13.27%) Kubernetes
2 49 (12.50%) Terraform
3 47 (11.99%) Ansible
4 23 (5.87%) Grafana
5 13 (3.32%) Kibana
5 13 (3.32%) logstash
6 12 (3.06%) Puppet
7 8 (2.04%) Prometheus
7 8 (2.04%) vCenter Server
8 7 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (1.79%) Rancher
9 6 (1.53%) Argo
10 5 (1.28%) yum
11 4 (1.02%) Nagios
12 3 (0.77%) Kubeflow
12 3 (0.77%) SCCM
12 3 (0.77%) SCOM
12 3 (0.77%) SCOrch
13 2 (0.51%) Check_MK
13 2 (0.51%) vRealize
Vendors
1 27 (6.89%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.36%) VMware
3 15 (3.83%) Red Hat
4 12 (3.06%) Cisco
5 10 (2.55%) Atlassian
5 10 (2.55%) Oracle
6 7 (1.79%) Splunk
7 5 (1.28%) Dell
8 3 (0.77%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.51%) CheckPoint
9 2 (0.51%) Databricks
9 2 (0.51%) F5
9 2 (0.51%) Google
9 2 (0.51%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.51%) SaltStack
10 1 (0.26%) HP
10 1 (0.26%) Intel
10 1 (0.26%) McAfee
10 1 (0.26%) NetApp
10 1 (0.26%) Veeam