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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 688 145 311
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 28.24% 26.61% 29.34%
As % of the Qualifications category 79.26% 67.13% 67.46%
Number of salaries quoted 471 93 197
10th Percentile £50,000 £35,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £85,500
South West median annual salary £75,000 £57,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +31.58% -5.00% -

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 868 216 461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 35.63% 39.63% 43.49%
Number of salaries quoted 565 152 285
10th Percentile £47,350 £35,000 £40,800
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,438 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £88,000 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £80,750
South West median annual salary £65,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +30.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 0 306 £80,000 -8.57% 183
Gloucester 0 227 £75,000 -6.25% 103
Tewkesbury -6 17 £55,000 -15.38% 10
Filton -1 12 £57,000 +32.56% 9
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 39 (5.67%) Apache
2 11 (1.60%) Apache Spark
2 11 (1.60%) Confluence
3 6 (0.87%) OpenStack
4 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.29%) Simulink
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 109 (15.84%) AWS
2 82 (11.92%) Azure
3 44 (6.40%) OpenShift
4 33 (4.80%) GCP
5 20 (2.91%) AWS CloudFormation
6 15 (2.18%) Serverless
7 14 (2.03%) Azure AKS
7 14 (2.03%) Entra ID
7 14 (2.03%) OCI
8 13 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (1.60%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (1.60%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (1.31%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (1.31%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 9 (1.31%) GitHub
11 6 (0.87%) PaaS
12 5 (0.73%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (0.73%) Amazon S3
12 5 (0.73%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.47%) Network Security
2 13 (1.89%) Firewall
2 13 (1.89%) VPN
3 10 (1.45%) Software-Defined Radio
4 8 (1.16%) DHCP
4 8 (1.16%) DNS
5 4 (0.58%) AMQP
5 4 (0.58%) LAN
5 4 (0.58%) Software-Defined Networking
5 4 (0.58%) VXLAN
5 4 (0.58%) WAN
6 3 (0.44%) LoRaWAN
6 3 (0.44%) LTE
6 3 (0.44%) NGN
7 2 (0.29%) NAS
7 2 (0.29%) SAN
7 2 (0.29%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.15%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.15%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (0.15%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (3.63%) Elasticsearch
1 25 (3.63%) NoSQL
2 18 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (2.33%) Big Data
4 11 (1.60%) MongoDB
5 9 (1.31%) Hadoop
6 8 (1.16%) InfluxDB
7 6 (0.87%) MySQL
8 5 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (0.73%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.58%) Cloudera CDH
10 3 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.44%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.44%) Flink
10 3 (0.44%) Redis
11 1 (0.15%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.15%) Metadata
11 1 (0.15%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.15%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 45 (6.54%) Git
2 40 (5.81%) GitLab
3 35 (5.09%) Jenkins
4 19 (2.76%) JIRA
5 12 (1.74%) Cypress.io
6 10 (1.45%) TestRail
7 9 (1.31%) Cucumber
7 9 (1.31%) Selenium
7 9 (1.31%) SonarQube
8 8 (1.16%) Robot Framework
8 8 (1.16%) Subversion
9 6 (0.87%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.44%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.29%) Burp Suite
11 2 (0.29%) Gradle
11 2 (0.29%) Mockito
11 2 (0.29%) Rational DOORS
11 2 (0.29%) Rational Rhapsody
11 2 (0.29%) Valgrind
11 2 (0.29%) Zephyr
General
1 87 (12.65%) Finance
2 65 (9.45%) Social Skills
3 45 (6.54%) Aerospace
4 44 (6.40%) Public Sector
5 34 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (0.87%) Games
8 5 (0.73%) Military
9 4 (0.58%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.29%) Electronics
11 1 (0.15%) Automotive
11 1 (0.15%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.15%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 130 (18.90%) Software Engineer
2 82 (11.92%) DevOps Engineer
3 64 (9.30%) Cloud Engineer
4 59 (8.58%) Senior
5 58 (8.43%) Developer
6 49 (7.12%) Lead
7 48 (6.98%) Data Engineer
8 43 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 43 (6.25%) Software Developer
9 37 (5.38%) Architect
10 26 (3.78%) Lead DevOps
10 26 (3.78%) Python Engineer
11 25 (3.63%) Analyst
12 24 (3.49%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 23 (3.34%) Consultant
13 23 (3.34%) Network Engineer
14 21 (3.05%) Business Analyst
15 19 (2.76%) Administrator
15 19 (2.76%) Systems Administrator
15 19 (2.76%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (16.13%) Terraform
2 27 (3.92%) Spring
2 27 (3.92%) Spring Boot
3 24 (3.49%) Elastic Stack
4 23 (3.34%) Kafka
5 18 (2.62%) Apache NiFi
6 14 (2.03%) REST
7 13 (1.89%) Node.js
7 13 (1.89%) RESTful
8 11 (1.60%) Keycloak
8 11 (1.60%) Playwright
8 11 (1.60%) Vue
9 10 (1.45%) React
10 7 (1.02%) AngularJS
10 7 (1.02%) pytest
10 7 (1.02%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (0.87%) gRPC
11 6 (0.87%) OpenAPI
12 5 (0.73%) Swagger
13 4 (0.58%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 55 (7.99%) Cloud Native
2 25 (3.63%) Hybrid Cloud
2 25 (3.63%) Product Ownership
3 15 (2.18%) Embedded Systems
4 13 (1.89%) Public Cloud
5 12 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.16%) FPGA
7 8 (1.16%) VHDL
8 7 (1.02%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.02%) PKI
8 7 (1.02%) Verilog
9 6 (0.87%) Operational Technology
10 5 (0.73%) Algorithms
10 5 (0.73%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.73%) Mobile App
10 5 (0.73%) Security Posture
11 4 (0.58%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (0.58%) Distributed Applications
11 4 (0.58%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 112 (16.28%) Linux
2 29 (4.22%) Windows
3 18 (2.62%) Unix
4 13 (1.89%) Android
4 13 (1.89%) CentOS
5 7 (1.02%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.73%) Embedded Linux
6 5 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.58%) Debian
7 4 (0.58%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.29%) Rocky
8 2 (0.29%) VMS
8 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.15%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (26.02%) DevOps
2 160 (23.26%) Software Engineering
3 143 (20.78%) Agile
4 135 (19.62%) CI/CD
5 102 (14.83%) Containerisation
6 101 (14.68%) Infrastructure as Code
7 78 (11.34%) Continuous Improvement
8 75 (10.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 62 (9.01%) Collaborative Culture
10 56 (8.14%) Test Automation
11 55 (7.99%) Problem-Solving
12 54 (7.85%) AI
13 49 (7.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 45 (6.54%) Platform Engineering
15 43 (6.25%) Analytics
16 42 (6.10%) Cybersecurity
16 42 (6.10%) Stakeholder Management
17 38 (5.52%) Validation
18 36 (5.23%) DevSecOps
19 35 (5.09%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 154 (22.38%) Python
2 117 (17.01%) Java
3 89 (12.94%) C++
4 54 (7.85%) Bash
5 43 (6.25%) JavaScript
6 40 (5.81%) Go
7 26 (3.78%) Rust
7 26 (3.78%) SQL
8 18 (2.62%) PowerShell
9 17 (2.47%) C
9 17 (2.47%) TypeScript
10 13 (1.89%) Scala
11 9 (1.31%) Bicep
12 7 (1.02%) Groovy
13 6 (0.87%) Kotlin
14 5 (0.73%) C#
15 3 (0.44%) GLSL
15 3 (0.44%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.29%) SystemVerilog
17 1 (0.15%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 404 (58.72%) DV Cleared
2 274 (39.83%) SC Cleared
3 35 (5.09%) Degree
4 18 (2.62%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (1.60%) Azure Certification
6 8 (1.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 8 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.02%) OSCP
8 5 (0.73%) CEH
8 5 (0.73%) CREST Certified
9 4 (0.58%) CCIE
9 4 (0.58%) CCNP
9 4 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (0.58%) PMI Certification
9 4 (0.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (0.44%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.44%) PMP
11 2 (0.29%) CISSP
11 2 (0.29%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (2.91%) QA
2 10 (1.45%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.31%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.58%) GDPR
6 3 (0.44%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.29%) NCSC
7 2 (0.29%) NIST
8 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.15%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.15%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.15%) PMO
System Software
1 73 (10.61%) Docker
2 28 (4.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (3.20%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.02%) Firmware
5 6 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.87%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.29%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.15%) vSphere
8 1 (0.15%) XenApp
8 1 (0.15%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 127 (18.46%) Kubernetes
2 97 (14.10%) Ansible
3 27 (3.92%) Grafana
4 24 (3.49%) Puppet
5 15 (2.18%) Kibana
5 15 (2.18%) logstash
6 12 (1.74%) Argo
7 11 (1.60%) Rancher
8 10 (1.45%) Prometheus
9 9 (1.31%) vCenter Server
10 8 (1.16%) yum
11 7 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.58%) Istio
12 4 (0.58%) linkerd
12 4 (0.58%) Mesos
13 3 (0.44%) Check_MK
13 3 (0.44%) Nagios
13 3 (0.44%) Packer
13 3 (0.44%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 44 (6.40%) Microsoft
2 36 (5.23%) VMware
3 16 (2.33%) Red Hat
4 14 (2.03%) Oracle
5 10 (1.45%) Atlassian
6 9 (1.31%) Splunk
7 8 (1.16%) Cisco
8 4 (0.58%) Databricks
8 4 (0.58%) Google
8 4 (0.58%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.29%) Citrix
9 2 (0.29%) Dell
9 2 (0.29%) Intel
9 2 (0.29%) Microsemi
9 2 (0.29%) Xilinx
10 1 (0.15%) McAfee
10 1 (0.15%) NetApp
10 1 (0.15%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.15%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.15%) ServiceNow