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

6 months to
17 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 376 157 579
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 25.42% 33.62% 32.51%
As % of the Qualifications category 71.48% 64.61% 74.23%
Number of salaries quoted 274 79 422
10th Percentile £45,000 £31,150 £41,339
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,825 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% -14.81%
75th Percentile £80,938 £90,625 £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% +0.70%

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 526 243 780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 35.56% 52.03% 43.80%
Number of salaries quoted 339 135 582
10th Percentile £40,000 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,125 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -11.93%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,125 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £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 17 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 17 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 0 160 £75,000 +3.45% 74
Gloucester 0 115 £65,000 -5.45% 33
Filton +2 8 £57,000 +3.64% 31
Tewkesbury -6 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 15 (3.99%) Apache
2 7 (1.86%) Confluence
3 3 (0.80%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.53%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.27%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 79 (21.01%) AWS
2 67 (17.82%) Azure
3 26 (6.91%) GCP
4 14 (3.72%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (3.72%) OpenShift
5 6 (1.60%) OCI
6 5 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (1.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (1.33%) Azure Machine Learning
6 5 (1.33%) Entra ID
6 5 (1.33%) Serverless
7 4 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.06%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (0.80%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (0.80%) Amazon S3
8 3 (0.80%) Azure AKS
8 3 (0.80%) GitHub
9 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.93%) Firewall
2 9 (2.39%) DHCP
2 9 (2.39%) DNS
3 6 (1.60%) Network Security
3 6 (1.60%) Software-Defined Radio
4 5 (1.33%) LAN
4 5 (1.33%) VPN
4 5 (1.33%) WAN
5 4 (1.06%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.80%) LoRaWAN
6 3 (0.80%) LTE
6 3 (0.80%) NAS
6 3 (0.80%) SAN
6 3 (0.80%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.80%) VXLAN
7 2 (0.53%) AMQP
7 2 (0.53%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.27%) NGN
8 1 (0.27%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.19%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (2.39%) NoSQL
3 8 (2.13%) Big Data
4 7 (1.86%) MongoDB
5 6 (1.60%) InfluxDB
6 4 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.80%) Flink
7 3 (0.80%) MySQL
8 2 (0.53%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.53%) Cloudera CDH
8 2 (0.53%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.53%) Metadata
8 2 (0.53%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.27%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.27%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.27%) Power BI
9 1 (0.27%) Redis
9 1 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (6.12%) Git
2 22 (5.85%) GitLab
3 17 (4.52%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.93%) JIRA
5 7 (1.86%) Cucumber
5 7 (1.86%) Cypress.io
6 6 (1.60%) Robot Framework
6 6 (1.60%) Selenium
6 6 (1.60%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.60%) TestRail
7 5 (1.33%) Subversion
8 4 (1.06%) Gradle
9 3 (0.80%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.80%) MLflow
10 2 (0.53%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.53%) JUnit
10 2 (0.53%) Maven
10 2 (0.53%) Metasploit
10 2 (0.53%) Mockito
10 2 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 42 (11.17%) Public Sector
2 38 (10.11%) Social Skills
3 33 (8.78%) Aerospace
3 33 (8.78%) Finance
4 14 (3.72%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (1.06%) Games
6 4 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (1.06%) Manufacturing
6 4 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (0.80%) Advertising
7 3 (0.80%) Military
7 3 (0.80%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.53%) Law
8 2 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.27%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 73 (19.41%) Software Engineer
2 29 (7.71%) Consultant
3 28 (7.45%) Security Consultant
3 28 (7.45%) Senior
4 27 (7.18%) Cloud Engineer
4 27 (7.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 24 (6.38%) Analyst
6 22 (5.85%) Lead
7 21 (5.59%) DevOps Engineer
8 20 (5.32%) Business Analyst
9 18 (4.79%) Architect
10 16 (4.26%) Data Scientist
10 16 (4.26%) Tester
11 13 (3.46%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 12 (3.19%) Data Engineer
12 12 (3.19%) Developer
12 12 (3.19%) Penetration Tester
12 12 (3.19%) Security Engineer
13 11 (2.93%) Network Engineer
13 11 (2.93%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.99%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (2.93%) React
2 11 (2.93%) Vue
3 10 (2.66%) Apache NiFi
3 10 (2.66%) REST
3 10 (2.66%) Spring
3 10 (2.66%) Spring Boot
4 9 (2.39%) AngularJS
5 7 (1.86%) Kafka
6 5 (1.33%) Node.js
6 5 (1.33%) Playwright
6 5 (1.33%) pytest
6 5 (1.33%) RESTful
7 4 (1.06%) gRPC
8 3 (0.80%) PyTorch
8 3 (0.80%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (0.80%) TensorFlow
9 2 (0.53%) Hibernate
9 2 (0.53%) JPA
9 2 (0.53%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 19 (5.05%) Product Ownership
2 14 (3.72%) Cloud Native
3 10 (2.66%) Data Centre
4 9 (2.39%) Embedded Systems
4 9 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (2.13%) Public Cloud
6 7 (1.86%) FPGA
6 7 (1.86%) Security Posture
6 7 (1.86%) VHDL
7 6 (1.60%) Verilog
8 5 (1.33%) Blog
8 5 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.06%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.06%) Cloud Security Posture
9 4 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.06%) Replication
10 3 (0.80%) Operational Technology
10 3 (0.80%) PKI
10 3 (0.80%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 65 (17.29%) Linux
2 30 (7.98%) Windows
3 9 (2.39%) CentOS
4 8 (2.13%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.33%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (1.06%) Android
6 4 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.80%) Unix
8 2 (0.53%) Debian
8 2 (0.53%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.53%) VMS
8 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.27%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (23.40%) Software Engineering
2 80 (21.28%) Agile
3 77 (20.48%) DevOps
4 49 (13.03%) Cybersecurity
5 46 (12.23%) CI/CD
5 46 (12.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 42 (11.17%) Infrastructure as Code
7 39 (10.37%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (9.04%) Collaborative Culture
9 33 (8.78%) AI
9 33 (8.78%) Containerisation
10 31 (8.24%) Test Automation
11 30 (7.98%) Problem-Solving
12 27 (7.18%) Data Science
13 25 (6.65%) Scrum
14 24 (6.38%) Software Testing
15 23 (6.12%) Penetration Testing
15 23 (6.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 22 (5.85%) Collaborative Working
16 22 (5.85%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 89 (23.67%) Python
2 57 (15.16%) Java
3 34 (9.04%) C++
4 31 (8.24%) Bash
5 21 (5.59%) JavaScript
6 15 (3.99%) PowerShell
7 13 (3.46%) Go
8 12 (3.19%) C
9 10 (2.66%) Rust
10 8 (2.13%) TypeScript
11 7 (1.86%) SQL
12 5 (1.33%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.06%) Groovy
14 3 (0.80%) C#
14 3 (0.80%) Elixir
14 3 (0.80%) Erlang
14 3 (0.80%) Scala
15 2 (0.53%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.27%) GLSL
16 1 (0.27%) R
Qualifications
1 205 (54.52%) DV Cleared
2 171 (45.48%) SC Cleared
3 26 (6.91%) Degree
4 7 (1.86%) CREST Certified
5 6 (1.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 6 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.33%) CCIE
6 5 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.33%) OSCP
7 4 (1.06%) CISSP
7 4 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.06%) PhD
8 3 (0.80%) CCNP
8 3 (0.80%) CEH
8 3 (0.80%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.80%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.53%) CCIE Data Center
10 1 (0.27%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.93%) QA
2 10 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.60%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.33%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.06%) SLA
6 3 (0.80%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.80%) GDPR
6 3 (0.80%) NIST
7 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.27%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.27%) NCSC
7 1 (0.27%) NIST 800
System Software
1 33 (8.78%) Docker
2 18 (4.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (3.99%) Active Directory
4 10 (2.66%) Firmware
5 5 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.80%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.80%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 49 (13.03%) Kubernetes
2 44 (11.70%) Terraform
3 43 (11.44%) Ansible
4 21 (5.59%) Grafana
5 12 (3.19%) Puppet
6 11 (2.93%) Kibana
6 11 (2.93%) logstash
7 8 (2.13%) Prometheus
7 8 (2.13%) vCenter Server
8 7 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (1.60%) Argo
9 6 (1.60%) Rancher
10 5 (1.33%) yum
11 4 (1.06%) Nagios
12 3 (0.80%) Kubeflow
12 3 (0.80%) SCCM
12 3 (0.80%) SCOM
12 3 (0.80%) SCOrch
13 2 (0.53%) Check_MK
13 2 (0.53%) vRealize
Vendors
1 26 (6.91%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.32%) VMware
3 15 (3.99%) Red Hat
4 12 (3.19%) Cisco
5 10 (2.66%) Atlassian
6 8 (2.13%) Oracle
7 7 (1.86%) Splunk
8 5 (1.33%) Dell
9 3 (0.80%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.53%) CheckPoint
10 2 (0.53%) Databricks
10 2 (0.53%) F5
10 2 (0.53%) Google
10 2 (0.53%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.53%) SaltStack
11 1 (0.27%) HP
11 1 (0.27%) McAfee
11 1 (0.27%) Microsemi
11 1 (0.27%) Veeam
11 1 (0.27%) Xilinx