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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 5 1
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 0
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 307 151 647
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 27.31% 31.92% 39.40%
As % of the Qualifications category 69.77% 44.94% 77.76%
Number of salaries quoted 220 85 439
10th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £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 £70,625
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £82,500
South West median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -

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 440 336 832
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 39.15% 71.04% 50.67%
Number of salaries quoted 264 136 592
10th Percentile £38,383 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £43,750 £42,410
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 £81,125
South West median annual salary £55,000 £51,461 £52,500
% change year-on-year +6.88% -1.98% +1.12%

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 9 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 9 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 0 110 £63,750 -5.56% 40
Gloucester 0 102 £65,000 - 28
Tewkesbury -1 13 £62,500 +47.06% 4
Filton +9 7 £28,000 -26.80% 33
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 (4.23%) Apache
2 8 (2.61%) Confluence
3 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.63%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 75 (24.43%) AWS
2 61 (19.87%) Azure
3 15 (4.89%) GCP
4 11 (3.58%) OpenShift
5 8 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.30%) Amazon S3
7 4 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (1.30%) Serverless
8 3 (0.98%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (0.98%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (0.98%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.65%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (0.65%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (0.65%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.33%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.33%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (0.33%) Dagster
10 1 (0.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.58%) DNS
2 10 (3.26%) DHCP
3 8 (2.61%) Firewall
4 7 (2.28%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.95%) VPN
6 5 (1.63%) LAN
6 5 (1.63%) WAN
7 3 (0.98%) Structured Cabling
7 3 (0.98%) VSAN
8 2 (0.65%) NAS
8 2 (0.65%) Network Security
8 2 (0.65%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (0.65%) SAN
8 2 (0.65%) VLAN
9 1 (0.33%) HTTP
9 1 (0.33%) ICMP
9 1 (0.33%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.33%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.33%) WebEx
9 1 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.89%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (3.26%) NoSQL
3 8 (2.61%) Neo4j
4 7 (2.28%) MongoDB
5 6 (1.95%) InfluxDB
6 3 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.98%) Big Data
6 3 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.65%) Metadata
7 2 (0.65%) MySQL
8 1 (0.33%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.33%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.33%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.33%) Power BI
8 1 (0.33%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (5.54%) Git
2 13 (4.23%) GitLab
2 13 (4.23%) Jenkins
2 13 (4.23%) JIRA
3 8 (2.61%) Cucumber
3 8 (2.61%) Cypress.io
4 6 (1.95%) Subversion
5 5 (1.63%) Robot Framework
5 5 (1.63%) TestRail
6 4 (1.30%) Selenium
6 4 (1.30%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.98%) Balsamiq
7 3 (0.98%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.65%) Gradle
8 2 (0.65%) IDA Disassembler
8 2 (0.65%) Maven
8 2 (0.65%) MLflow
9 1 (0.33%) JMeter
9 1 (0.33%) Postman
9 1 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 38 (12.38%) Social Skills
2 37 (12.05%) Public Sector
3 24 (7.82%) Finance
4 19 (6.19%) Aerospace
5 13 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.61%) Manufacturing
7 8 (2.61%) Military
8 5 (1.63%) Advertising
8 5 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.30%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.98%) Law
10 3 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.65%) Electronics
11 2 (0.65%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 55 (17.92%) Software Engineer
2 33 (10.75%) Consultant
3 30 (9.77%) Security Consultant
4 26 (8.47%) Senior
5 22 (7.17%) Analyst
6 21 (6.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 20 (6.51%) DevOps Engineer
8 19 (6.19%) Business Analyst
9 16 (5.21%) Cybersecurity Consultant
10 14 (4.56%) Data Scientist
11 11 (3.58%) Architect
11 11 (3.58%) Test Engineer
12 10 (3.26%) Administrator
12 10 (3.26%) Data Engineer
12 10 (3.26%) Tester
13 9 (2.93%) AWS Engineer
13 9 (2.93%) Cloud Engineer
14 8 (2.61%) Developer
14 8 (2.61%) Security Engineer
14 8 (2.61%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.21%) React
2 13 (4.23%) AngularJS
3 10 (3.26%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (2.61%) Apache NiFi
4 8 (2.61%) MERN Stack
4 8 (2.61%) Vue
5 7 (2.28%) Spring
5 7 (2.28%) Spring Boot
6 6 (1.95%) REST
7 4 (1.30%) Kafka
7 4 (1.30%) Node.js
8 3 (0.98%) Playwright
8 3 (0.98%) pytest
9 2 (0.65%) Hibernate
9 2 (0.65%) JPA
9 2 (0.65%) PyTorch
9 2 (0.65%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (0.65%) RESTful
9 2 (0.65%) TensorFlow
10 1 (0.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 15 (4.89%) Product Ownership
2 11 (3.58%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (3.26%) Cloud Native
4 8 (2.61%) Data Centre
5 5 (1.63%) Blog
6 4 (1.30%) PKI
6 4 (1.30%) Security Posture
7 3 (0.98%) Algorithms
7 3 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (0.98%) Driving Licence
7 3 (0.98%) Management Information System
7 3 (0.98%) PMI
7 3 (0.98%) Public Cloud
7 3 (0.98%) Replication
8 2 (0.65%) Blockchain
8 2 (0.65%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.65%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (0.65%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.65%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 54 (17.59%) Linux
2 28 (9.12%) Windows
3 10 (3.26%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.28%) CentOS
5 3 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.98%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.65%) Unix
6 2 (0.65%) VMS
6 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (23.78%) Software Engineering
2 72 (23.45%) Agile
3 68 (22.15%) DevOps
4 46 (14.98%) Cybersecurity
5 40 (13.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 36 (11.73%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (10.75%) Infrastructure as Code
8 28 (9.12%) CI/CD
9 27 (8.79%) AI
10 26 (8.47%) Collaborative Culture
11 24 (7.82%) Containerisation
12 23 (7.49%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (7.49%) Data Science
13 22 (7.17%) Collaborative Working
13 22 (7.17%) Penetration Testing
14 21 (6.84%) Software Testing
15 19 (6.19%) Full-Stack Development
15 19 (6.19%) Scrum
16 17 (5.54%) Test Automation
17 15 (4.89%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 84 (27.36%) Python
2 53 (17.26%) Java
3 32 (10.42%) Bash
4 25 (8.14%) JavaScript
5 24 (7.82%) PowerShell
6 15 (4.89%) C++
7 14 (4.56%) C
7 14 (4.56%) Go
8 13 (4.23%) TypeScript
9 9 (2.93%) SQL
10 6 (1.95%) C#
10 6 (1.95%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.30%) Groovy
12 3 (0.98%) Elixir
12 3 (0.98%) Erlang
12 3 (0.98%) Rust
12 3 (0.98%) VBScript
13 2 (0.65%) R
14 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 181 (58.96%) DV Cleared
2 133 (43.32%) SC Cleared
3 25 (8.14%) Degree
4 8 (2.61%) CREST Certified
5 5 (1.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (1.30%) PhD
6 4 (1.30%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.98%) BC Cleared
7 3 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.98%) CCIE
7 3 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (0.98%) CITP
7 3 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.65%) CBAP
8 2 (0.65%) CHECK Team Member
8 2 (0.65%) CISSP
8 2 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.33%) CCNP
9 1 (0.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.91%) QA
2 10 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.63%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.30%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.30%) SLA
5 3 (0.98%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.98%) RMADS
6 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.33%) GDPR
6 1 (0.33%) NIST
System Software
1 31 (10.10%) Docker
2 15 (4.89%) Active Directory
3 14 (4.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.63%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.30%) Firmware
6 3 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.65%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.65%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 50 (16.29%) Kubernetes
2 30 (9.77%) Ansible
3 28 (9.12%) Terraform
4 17 (5.54%) Grafana
5 7 (2.28%) Argo
5 7 (2.28%) Kibana
5 7 (2.28%) logstash
5 7 (2.28%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.95%) Puppet
6 6 (1.95%) Rancher
6 6 (1.95%) vCenter Server
6 6 (1.95%) yum
7 4 (1.30%) Nagios
7 4 (1.30%) SCCM
8 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.65%) Check_MK
9 2 (0.65%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.65%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.65%) SCOM
9 2 (0.65%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 21 (6.84%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.56%) VMware
3 13 (4.23%) Cisco
3 13 (4.23%) Red Hat
3 13 (4.23%) Splunk
4 7 (2.28%) Atlassian
5 6 (1.95%) Dell
6 5 (1.63%) Fortinet
7 3 (0.98%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.65%) CheckPoint
8 2 (0.65%) F5
8 2 (0.65%) Google
8 2 (0.65%) HP
8 2 (0.65%) Juniper
8 2 (0.65%) McAfee
8 2 (0.65%) Oracle
8 2 (0.65%) SAP
8 2 (0.65%) Veeam
9 1 (0.33%) Databricks
9 1 (0.33%) NetApp