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

6 months to
27 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 427 167 574
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 26.94% 34.22% 33.16%
As % of the Qualifications category 72.74% 66.53% 74.06%
Number of salaries quoted 301 86 422
10th Percentile £45,000 £33,125 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £63,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.80% +10.87% -13.86%
75th Percentile £82,500 £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% -4.17%

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 587 251 775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 37.03% 51.43% 44.77%
Number of salaries quoted 375 141 583
10th Percentile £40,000 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -10.90%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £81,450
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 27 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 27 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 0 182 £76,250 +5.17% 58
Gloucester 0 139 £66,250 -11.67% 21
Filton +1 11 £57,000 +3.64% 27
Tewkesbury -11 5 £55,000 +29.41% 3
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 18 (4.22%) Apache
2 8 (1.87%) Confluence
3 3 (0.70%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.70%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (0.47%) Simulink
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 88 (20.61%) AWS
2 73 (17.10%) Azure
3 28 (6.56%) GCP
4 19 (4.45%) OpenShift
5 14 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (1.87%) OCI
7 7 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (1.64%) Entra ID
7 7 (1.64%) Serverless
8 6 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (1.41%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (1.41%) Azure AKS
9 5 (1.17%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.17%) Azure Machine Learning
10 4 (0.94%) Amazon S3
10 4 (0.94%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (0.70%) GitHub
11 3 (0.70%) Miro
12 2 (0.47%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.58%) Firewall
2 9 (2.11%) DHCP
2 9 (2.11%) DNS
2 9 (2.11%) Network Security
3 8 (1.87%) Software-Defined Radio
4 7 (1.64%) VPN
5 5 (1.17%) LAN
5 5 (1.17%) WAN
6 4 (0.94%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (0.94%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.94%) VXLAN
7 3 (0.70%) LoRaWAN
7 3 (0.70%) LTE
7 3 (0.70%) NAS
7 3 (0.70%) SAN
8 2 (0.47%) AMQP
8 2 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.47%) NGN
9 1 (0.23%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.23%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.98%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (2.58%) NoSQL
3 9 (2.11%) Big Data
4 8 (1.87%) MongoDB
5 7 (1.64%) InfluxDB
6 6 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.17%) MySQL
8 3 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (0.70%) Flink
9 2 (0.47%) Cloudera CDH
9 2 (0.47%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.47%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.47%) Metadata
9 2 (0.47%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.23%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.23%) Redis
10 1 (0.23%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (6.56%) GitLab
2 27 (6.32%) Git
3 24 (5.62%) Jenkins
4 12 (2.81%) JIRA
5 10 (2.34%) Cucumber
6 9 (2.11%) SonarQube
7 8 (1.87%) Cypress.io
8 7 (1.64%) Robot Framework
8 7 (1.64%) Selenium
8 7 (1.64%) TestRail
9 6 (1.41%) Subversion
10 5 (1.17%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.94%) Gradle
12 3 (0.70%) MLflow
13 2 (0.47%) Burp Suite
13 2 (0.47%) Maven
13 2 (0.47%) Mockito
13 2 (0.47%) Rational DOORS
13 2 (0.47%) Rational Rhapsody
13 2 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 44 (10.30%) Finance
2 43 (10.07%) Public Sector
2 43 (10.07%) Social Skills
3 36 (8.43%) Aerospace
4 15 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (1.17%) Games
7 4 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (0.70%) Manufacturing
8 3 (0.70%) Military
8 3 (0.70%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.47%) Advertising
9 2 (0.47%) Law
9 2 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.23%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 81 (18.97%) Software Engineer
2 36 (8.43%) Senior
3 32 (7.49%) Cloud Engineer
3 32 (7.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 29 (6.79%) Consultant
5 27 (6.32%) Lead
6 26 (6.09%) Security Consultant
7 25 (5.85%) Analyst
7 25 (5.85%) Architect
7 25 (5.85%) DevOps Engineer
8 20 (4.68%) Business Analyst
9 18 (4.22%) Tester
10 17 (3.98%) Developer
11 16 (3.75%) Data Engineer
12 14 (3.28%) Data Scientist
13 13 (3.04%) Cybersecurity Consultant
13 13 (3.04%) Penetration Tester
13 13 (3.04%) Security Engineer
13 13 (3.04%) Test Engineer
14 12 (2.81%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.68%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (3.28%) Apache NiFi
3 13 (3.04%) Vue
4 12 (2.81%) Spring
4 12 (2.81%) Spring Boot
5 11 (2.58%) React
6 10 (2.34%) REST
7 9 (2.11%) AngularJS
8 8 (1.87%) Kafka
9 7 (1.64%) pytest
9 7 (1.64%) RESTful
10 6 (1.41%) Playwright
11 5 (1.17%) Node.js
12 4 (0.94%) gRPC
12 4 (0.94%) RabbitMQ
13 3 (0.70%) PyTorch
13 3 (0.70%) TensorFlow
14 2 (0.47%) Material-UI
14 2 (0.47%) MERN Stack
14 2 (0.47%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 22 (5.15%) Product Ownership
2 16 (3.75%) Cloud Native
3 11 (2.58%) Data Centre
3 11 (2.58%) Public Cloud
4 10 (2.34%) Embedded Systems
5 9 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.87%) FPGA
6 8 (1.87%) VHDL
7 7 (1.64%) Security Posture
7 7 (1.64%) Verilog
8 5 (1.17%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.17%) Blog
9 4 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (0.94%) Cloud Security Posture
9 4 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (0.94%) Mobile App
9 4 (0.94%) PKI
9 4 (0.94%) Replication
10 3 (0.70%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 73 (17.10%) Linux
2 33 (7.73%) Windows
3 10 (2.34%) CentOS
4 8 (1.87%) Unix
4 8 (1.87%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.17%) Android
5 5 (1.17%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.47%) Debian
7 2 (0.47%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.47%) VMS
7 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.23%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.23%) Rocky
8 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (23.19%) Software Engineering
2 93 (21.78%) Agile
3 90 (21.08%) DevOps
4 59 (13.82%) CI/CD
5 54 (12.65%) Infrastructure as Code
6 53 (12.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 50 (11.71%) Cybersecurity
8 45 (10.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 44 (10.30%) Collaborative Culture
10 42 (9.84%) Containerisation
11 37 (8.67%) Test Automation
12 35 (8.20%) AI
13 33 (7.73%) Problem-Solving
14 27 (6.32%) Scrum
14 27 (6.32%) Software Testing
15 26 (6.09%) Collaborative Working
15 26 (6.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 25 (5.85%) Data Science
17 24 (5.62%) Platform Engineering
18 23 (5.39%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 106 (24.82%) Python
2 67 (15.69%) Java
3 42 (9.84%) C++
4 38 (8.90%) Bash
5 24 (5.62%) JavaScript
6 18 (4.22%) Go
7 16 (3.75%) PowerShell
8 15 (3.51%) C
9 12 (2.81%) Rust
10 10 (2.34%) TypeScript
11 8 (1.87%) SQL
12 5 (1.17%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.17%) Scala
13 4 (0.94%) C#
13 4 (0.94%) Groovy
14 2 (0.47%) Bicep
14 2 (0.47%) Elixir
14 2 (0.47%) Erlang
14 2 (0.47%) GLSL
14 2 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 230 (53.86%) DV Cleared
2 191 (44.73%) SC Cleared
3 28 (6.56%) Degree
4 10 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (1.87%) CREST Certified
6 7 (1.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (1.41%) CCIE
7 6 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.17%) OSCP
9 4 (0.94%) CCNP
9 4 (0.94%) CISSP
9 4 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.94%) PhD
9 4 (0.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (0.70%) CEH
10 3 (0.70%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.47%) CCIE Data Center
11 2 (0.47%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.23%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.04%) QA
2 10 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.41%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.17%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.94%) SLA
6 3 (0.70%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.70%) GDPR
6 3 (0.70%) NIST
7 2 (0.47%) NCSC
8 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.23%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.23%) NIST 800
System Software
1 37 (8.67%) Docker
2 22 (5.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (4.22%) Active Directory
4 10 (2.34%) Firmware
5 6 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.94%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.70%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 59 (13.82%) Kubernetes
2 57 (13.35%) Terraform
3 55 (12.88%) Ansible
4 25 (5.85%) Grafana
5 15 (3.51%) Kibana
5 15 (3.51%) logstash
6 14 (3.28%) Puppet
7 9 (2.11%) vCenter Server
8 8 (1.87%) Prometheus
8 8 (1.87%) Rancher
9 7 (1.64%) Argo
9 7 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (1.41%) yum
11 4 (0.94%) Nagios
12 3 (0.70%) Kubeflow
12 3 (0.70%) SCCM
12 3 (0.70%) SCOM
12 3 (0.70%) SCOrch
13 2 (0.47%) Check_MK
13 2 (0.47%) vRealize
Vendors
1 28 (6.56%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.62%) VMware
3 17 (3.98%) Red Hat
4 13 (3.04%) Cisco
5 11 (2.58%) Atlassian
6 10 (2.34%) Oracle
7 8 (1.87%) Splunk
8 5 (1.17%) Dell
9 3 (0.70%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.47%) CheckPoint
10 2 (0.47%) Databricks
10 2 (0.47%) F5
10 2 (0.47%) Google
10 2 (0.47%) Intel
10 2 (0.47%) Microsemi
10 2 (0.47%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.47%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.47%) Xilinx
11 1 (0.23%) NetApp
11 1 (0.23%) Veeam