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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 4 1
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 223 159 582
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 30.46% 28.96% 44.36%
As % of the Qualifications category 73.84% 44.66% 78.97%
Number of salaries quoted 142 97 373
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,500 £81,500
South West median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 302 356 737
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 41.26% 64.85% 56.17%
Number of salaries quoted 178 148 493
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £29,440
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,188 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,560 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.58% +15.12% -11.89%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £91,500 £80,375 £80,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.56% +5.20% -2.91%

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 6 February 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 6 February 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
Gloucester 0 76 £65,000 - 46
Cheltenham 0 66 £67,500 +3.85% 63
Filton +13 23 £42,500 -12.82% 33
Tewkesbury 0 16 £66,250 +55.88% 4
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 9 (4.04%) Apache
2 8 (3.59%) Confluence
3 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.90%) Simulink
3 1 (0.45%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 51 (22.87%) AWS
2 41 (18.39%) Azure
3 12 (5.38%) OpenShift
4 8 (3.59%) GCP
5 6 (2.69%) Amazon S3
5 6 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (2.69%) Serverless
6 5 (2.24%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.35%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.45%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.45%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.45%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.45%) Azure Stack
9 1 (0.45%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.48%) Firewall
2 9 (4.04%) DNS
3 8 (3.59%) DHCP
4 7 (3.14%) TCP/IP
5 5 (2.24%) LAN
5 5 (2.24%) Network Security
5 5 (2.24%) WAN
6 4 (1.79%) VPN
6 4 (1.79%) VSAN
7 3 (1.35%) Structured Cabling
8 2 (0.90%) NAS
8 2 (0.90%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (0.90%) SAN
9 1 (0.45%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.45%) HTTP
9 1 (0.45%) ICMP
9 1 (0.45%) Internet
9 1 (0.45%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.45%) VLAN
9 1 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.28%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (4.04%) NoSQL
3 8 (3.59%) Neo4j
4 6 (2.69%) Big Data
5 5 (2.24%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.79%) InfluxDB
7 2 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.90%) Metadata
7 2 (0.90%) MySQL
7 2 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.45%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (5.38%) JIRA
2 11 (4.93%) Git
3 10 (4.48%) GitLab
3 10 (4.48%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.14%) Cucumber
5 5 (2.24%) Cypress.io
5 5 (2.24%) Subversion
6 3 (1.35%) Balsamiq
6 3 (1.35%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.35%) Robot Framework
6 3 (1.35%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.35%) TestRail
7 2 (0.90%) Gradle
7 2 (0.90%) IDA Disassembler
7 2 (0.90%) Maven
8 1 (0.45%) Selenium
8 1 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 39 (17.49%) Social Skills
2 21 (9.42%) Aerospace
3 20 (8.97%) Public Sector
4 17 (7.62%) Finance
5 15 (6.73%) Manufacturing
6 12 (5.38%) Military
7 10 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (4.04%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.24%) Advertising
10 5 (2.24%) Electronics
11 4 (1.79%) Aviation
11 4 (1.79%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.35%) Avionics
12 3 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.35%) Law
13 2 (0.90%) Marketing
14 1 (0.45%) Automotive
14 1 (0.45%) Games
Job Titles
1 28 (12.56%) Software Engineer
2 22 (9.87%) Analyst
2 22 (9.87%) Consultant
3 20 (8.97%) Business Analyst
4 19 (8.52%) Security Consultant
4 19 (8.52%) Senior
5 14 (6.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (5.38%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (4.04%) Administrator
7 9 (4.04%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 8 (3.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 8 (3.59%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 8 (3.59%) Test Engineer
9 7 (3.14%) Architect
9 7 (3.14%) Data Engineer
9 7 (3.14%) Splunk Engineer
10 6 (2.69%) Network Engineer
10 6 (2.69%) Project Manager
10 6 (2.69%) Virtualisation Administrator
10 6 (2.69%) Vulnerability Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.07%) React
2 12 (5.38%) AngularJS
3 9 (4.04%) Spring
3 9 (4.04%) Spring Boot
4 8 (3.59%) MERN Stack
5 7 (3.14%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (2.69%) Apache NiFi
6 6 (2.69%) Vue
7 5 (2.24%) REST
8 4 (1.79%) Node.js
9 3 (1.35%) Kafka
10 2 (0.90%) Hibernate
10 2 (0.90%) JPA
10 2 (0.90%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (0.90%) RESTful
11 1 (0.45%) ActiveMQ
11 1 (0.45%) Express.js
11 1 (0.45%) Flash
11 1 (0.45%) HTML
11 1 (0.45%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.93%) Data Centre
2 9 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (3.59%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.14%) Driving Licence
4 7 (3.14%) PKI
5 6 (2.69%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.24%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.24%) CMDB
6 5 (2.24%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.24%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.35%) PMI
8 3 (1.35%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.90%) Blockchain
9 2 (0.90%) Cyber Security Posture
9 2 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.90%) Replication
9 2 (0.90%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.45%) Culture of Ownership
Operating Systems
1 39 (17.49%) Linux
2 20 (8.97%) Windows
3 11 (4.93%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.14%) CentOS
5 4 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (1.35%) Unix
6 3 (1.35%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.90%) CoreOS
7 2 (0.90%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.45%) Debian
8 1 (0.45%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (26.46%) Agile
2 49 (21.97%) DevOps
3 43 (19.28%) Software Engineering
4 33 (14.80%) Cybersecurity
5 29 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (11.21%) AI
7 23 (10.31%) Collaborative Culture
7 23 (10.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 22 (9.87%) Collaborative Working
9 19 (8.52%) CI/CD
9 19 (8.52%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (8.07%) Infrastructure as Code
11 16 (7.17%) Full-Stack Development
12 15 (6.73%) Containerisation
12 15 (6.73%) ITIL
12 15 (6.73%) Machine Learning
13 14 (6.28%) Data Science
14 13 (5.83%) Analytics
14 13 (5.83%) Scrum
14 13 (5.83%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 65 (29.15%) Python
2 43 (19.28%) Java
3 30 (13.45%) Bash
4 20 (8.97%) JavaScript
4 20 (8.97%) PowerShell
5 15 (6.73%) C
6 12 (5.38%) TypeScript
7 11 (4.93%) Go
8 7 (3.14%) C++
9 6 (2.69%) Kotlin
9 6 (2.69%) SQL
10 4 (1.79%) C#
11 3 (1.35%) Elixir
11 3 (1.35%) Erlang
11 3 (1.35%) Google Apps Script
11 3 (1.35%) Groovy
11 3 (1.35%) MATLAB
11 3 (1.35%) Tcl
11 3 (1.35%) VBScript
12 2 (0.90%) R
Qualifications
1 119 (53.36%) DV Cleared
2 107 (47.98%) SC Cleared
3 23 (10.31%) Degree
4 11 (4.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.69%) CCIE
5 6 (2.69%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.79%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 3 (1.35%) CITP
7 3 (1.35%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.90%) BC Cleared
8 2 (0.90%) CBAP
8 2 (0.90%) CHECK Team Member
8 2 (0.90%) CISSP
8 2 (0.90%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.45%) CCNP
9 1 (0.45%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.83%) QA
2 5 (2.24%) GDPR
2 5 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.35%) RMADS
3 3 (1.35%) SLA
4 2 (0.90%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.45%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.45%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (9.42%) Docker
2 10 (4.48%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.69%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.90%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 43 (19.28%) Kubernetes
2 23 (10.31%) Ansible
3 20 (8.97%) Terraform
4 11 (4.93%) Grafana
5 6 (2.69%) Nagios
6 5 (2.24%) Argo
6 5 (2.24%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.24%) Rancher
6 5 (2.24%) yum
7 4 (1.79%) Kibana
7 4 (1.79%) logstash
8 3 (1.35%) McAfee ePO
8 3 (1.35%) Puppet
8 3 (1.35%) SCVMM
8 3 (1.35%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.90%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.90%) SCCM
10 1 (0.45%) Podman
10 1 (0.45%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.45%) vRealize
Vendors
1 11 (4.93%) Cisco
2 10 (4.48%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.48%) Splunk
3 9 (4.04%) Red Hat
4 8 (3.59%) VMware
5 7 (3.14%) Fortinet
6 6 (2.69%) F5
7 5 (2.24%) Atlassian
7 5 (2.24%) CheckPoint
7 5 (2.24%) Google
8 3 (1.35%) Dell
8 3 (1.35%) McAfee
9 2 (0.90%) HP
9 2 (0.90%) IBM
9 2 (0.90%) Juniper
9 2 (0.90%) SAP
9 2 (0.90%) Veeam
10 1 (0.45%) Palo Alto