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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 147 316 381
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 26.87% 28.78% 42.52%
As % of the Qualifications category 67.43% 67.38% 71.62%
Number of salaries quoted 93 207 193
10th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £95,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,500 £87,500
South West median annual salary £57,347 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -4.42% +3.45% +5.45%

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 218 469 532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 39.85% 42.71% 59.38%
Number of salaries quoted 151 299 298
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,400 £29,440
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £41,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -1.79% +1.82%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £80,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 49 £87,500 +29.63% 57
Filton +19 34 £43,000 -18.10% 16
Gloucester +1 29 £80,000 +45.45% 47
Tewkesbury 0 8 £65,000 +52.94% 7
Security Cleared
South West

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (6.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.40%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.04%) Confluence
4 2 (1.36%) Apache
5 1 (0.68%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 6 (4.08%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 24 (16.33%) AWS
2 23 (15.65%) Azure
3 8 (5.44%) Azure Stack
3 8 (5.44%) Entra ID
4 7 (4.76%) Serverless
5 5 (3.40%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (3.40%) OpenShift
6 4 (2.72%) Amazon S3
6 4 (2.72%) GCP
7 3 (2.04%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (2.04%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.68%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.68%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Control Tower
8 1 (0.68%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.08%) LAN
1 6 (4.08%) WAN
2 5 (3.40%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.72%) Software-Defined Radio
4 3 (2.04%) Firewall
5 2 (1.36%) Internet
5 2 (1.36%) OSPF
5 2 (1.36%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.36%) VPN
6 1 (0.68%) BGP
6 1 (0.68%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (0.68%) DHCP
6 1 (0.68%) DNS
6 1 (0.68%) IPv4
6 1 (0.68%) Network Security
6 1 (0.68%) VLAN
6 1 (0.68%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.08%) Elasticsearch
1 6 (4.08%) MongoDB
2 5 (3.40%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.04%) Big Data
4 2 (1.36%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.68%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 12 (8.16%) GitLab
2 7 (4.76%) Git
3 6 (4.08%) JIRA
4 3 (2.04%) Cypress.io
4 3 (2.04%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (2.04%) Rational Rhapsody
5 2 (1.36%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.36%) JUnit
6 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.68%) Cucumber
General
1 36 (24.49%) Social Skills
2 19 (12.93%) Aerospace
3 17 (11.56%) Public Sector
4 11 (7.48%) Manufacturing
5 10 (6.80%) Automotive
6 9 (6.12%) Electronics
7 8 (5.44%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.72%) Finance
9 4 (2.72%) Legal
9 4 (2.72%) Military
10 3 (2.04%) Aviation
10 3 (2.04%) Avionics
11 1 (0.68%) Games
11 1 (0.68%) Law
11 1 (0.68%) Marketing
11 1 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (15.65%) Lead
1 23 (15.65%) Software Engineer
2 13 (8.84%) Integration Engineer
3 12 (8.16%) Architect
3 12 (8.16%) Senior
4 11 (7.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (6.80%) Test Engineer
6 9 (6.12%) Consultant
6 9 (6.12%) Technical Consultant
7 8 (5.44%) IT Engineer
7 8 (5.44%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (5.44%) Junior
8 7 (4.76%) Administrator
8 7 (4.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 7 (4.76%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 6 (4.08%) Junior Consultant
9 6 (4.08%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (4.08%) Software Architect
9 6 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (4.08%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.80%) React
2 5 (3.40%) .NET
2 5 (3.40%) Spring Boot
3 4 (2.72%) Spring
4 3 (2.04%) Hibernate
4 3 (2.04%) JSF
5 2 (1.36%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (1.36%) Kafka
6 1 (0.68%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.68%) Blazor
6 1 (0.68%) HTML
6 1 (0.68%) OAuth
6 1 (0.68%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.68%) OpenCV
6 1 (0.68%) Pandas
6 1 (0.68%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.68%) REST
6 1 (0.68%) RESTful
6 1 (0.68%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.68%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.48%) Onboarding
2 10 (6.80%) Data Centre
3 9 (6.12%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (4.76%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.72%) e-Learning
5 4 (2.72%) FPGA
5 4 (2.72%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.72%) PKI
5 4 (2.72%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.72%) Verilog
5 4 (2.72%) VHDL
6 3 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.04%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.04%) Driving Licence
6 3 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.36%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.68%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.68%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (27.89%) Linux
2 26 (17.69%) Windows
3 24 (16.33%) Windows Server
4 9 (6.12%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (5.44%) Rocky
6 5 (3.40%) Mac OS
7 3 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (2.04%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.36%) CentOS
8 2 (1.36%) CoreOS
8 2 (1.36%) Debian
9 1 (0.68%) Unix
9 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (18.37%) Software Engineering
3 24 (16.33%) Agile
4 23 (15.65%) Artificial Intelligence
5 19 (12.93%) Containerisation
6 17 (11.56%) Cybersecurity
6 17 (11.56%) Machine Learning
7 15 (10.20%) DevOps
8 14 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (8.84%) CI/CD
9 13 (8.84%) Innovative Thinking
10 11 (7.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 9 (6.12%) Analytics
11 9 (6.12%) ITIL
11 9 (6.12%) Systems Engineering
12 8 (5.44%) Data Analysis
12 8 (5.44%) Full-Stack Development
13 7 (4.76%) Data Science
13 7 (4.76%) Infrastructure as Code
13 7 (4.76%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 36 (24.49%) Python
2 16 (10.88%) Java
3 11 (7.48%) JavaScript
4 8 (5.44%) C++
4 8 (5.44%) TypeScript
5 7 (4.76%) Bash
5 7 (4.76%) C
5 7 (4.76%) PowerShell
6 5 (3.40%) MATLAB
7 4 (2.72%) Perl
7 4 (2.72%) PHP
8 3 (2.04%) Google Apps Script
8 3 (2.04%) Tcl
9 2 (1.36%) SQL
10 1 (0.68%) C#
10 1 (0.68%) Go
10 1 (0.68%) Groovy
10 1 (0.68%) R
10 1 (0.68%) Rust
Qualifications
1 73 (49.66%) DV Cleared
2 72 (48.98%) SC Cleared
3 21 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
3 21 (14.29%) Degree
4 8 (5.44%) Azure Certification
4 8 (5.44%) Network+ Certification
5 4 (2.72%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.04%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.36%) MCAD
7 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.68%) CCIE
8 1 (0.68%) CCNA
8 1 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.72%) ISO 9001
1 4 (2.72%) QA
2 3 (2.04%) GDPR
3 2 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.68%) ISO 14001
4 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 15 (10.20%) Active Directory
1 15 (10.20%) Docker
2 11 (7.48%) Hyper-V
3 5 (3.40%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.68%) KVM
5 1 (0.68%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (13.61%) Kubernetes
2 11 (7.48%) Ansible
2 11 (7.48%) Terraform
3 5 (3.40%) Kibana
4 2 (1.36%) Nagios
4 2 (1.36%) Puppet
5 1 (0.68%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (0.68%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.68%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (0.68%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 8 (5.44%) Dell
2 6 (4.08%) Red Hat
3 5 (3.40%) Cognizant
3 5 (3.40%) IBM
3 5 (3.40%) Oracle
3 5 (3.40%) VMware
4 4 (2.72%) Atlassian
4 4 (2.72%) Google
5 3 (2.04%) Cisco
6 2 (1.36%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.68%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.68%) F5
7 1 (0.68%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.68%) McAfee
7 1 (0.68%) Salesforce