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 4 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 5 1
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 0
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 291 151 637
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 27.25% 32.26% 39.61%
As % of the Qualifications category 69.45% 45.07% 77.40%
Number of salaries quoted 204 85 435
10th Percentile £43,250 £35,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +23.81% -16.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £70,625
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £82,500
South West median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +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 419 335 823
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 39.23% 71.58% 51.18%
Number of salaries quoted 249 135 589
10th Percentile £37,500 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,125 £67,500
90th Percentile £91,000 £96,500 £80,250
South West median annual salary £55,000 £52,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.77% -0.95% +1.94%

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 4 April 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 4 April 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 0 102 £67,500 - 40
Gloucester 0 99 £65,000 - 28
Tewkesbury -1 14 £62,500 +47.06% 4
Filton +10 6 £28,000 -11.11% 33
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 13 (4.47%) Apache
2 8 (2.75%) Confluence
3 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 71 (24.40%) AWS
2 56 (19.24%) Azure
3 13 (4.47%) GCP
4 11 (3.78%) OpenShift
5 5 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (1.37%) Amazon S3
6 4 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (1.37%) Serverless
7 3 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (1.03%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (0.69%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (0.69%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.34%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.34%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (0.34%) Dagster
9 1 (0.34%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.34%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.78%) DNS
2 10 (3.44%) DHCP
3 8 (2.75%) Firewall
4 7 (2.41%) TCP/IP
5 6 (2.06%) VPN
6 5 (1.72%) LAN
6 5 (1.72%) WAN
7 3 (1.03%) Structured Cabling
7 3 (1.03%) VSAN
8 2 (0.69%) NAS
8 2 (0.69%) Network Security
8 2 (0.69%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (0.69%) SAN
8 2 (0.69%) VLAN
9 1 (0.34%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.34%) HTTP
9 1 (0.34%) ICMP
9 1 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.34%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.34%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.15%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (3.44%) NoSQL
3 8 (2.75%) Neo4j
4 7 (2.41%) MongoDB
5 6 (2.06%) InfluxDB
6 3 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.03%) Big Data
6 3 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.69%) Metadata
7 2 (0.69%) MySQL
8 1 (0.34%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.34%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.34%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.34%) Power BI
8 1 (0.34%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.34%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (5.15%) Git
2 13 (4.47%) GitLab
2 13 (4.47%) Jenkins
3 11 (3.78%) JIRA
4 8 (2.75%) Cucumber
4 8 (2.75%) Cypress.io
5 6 (2.06%) Subversion
6 5 (1.72%) Robot Framework
6 5 (1.72%) TestRail
7 4 (1.37%) Selenium
7 4 (1.37%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.03%) Balsamiq
8 3 (1.03%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.69%) Gradle
9 2 (0.69%) IDA Disassembler
9 2 (0.69%) Maven
9 2 (0.69%) MLflow
10 1 (0.34%) JMeter
10 1 (0.34%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.34%) SoapUI
General
1 37 (12.71%) Social Skills
2 33 (11.34%) Public Sector
3 24 (8.25%) Finance
4 17 (5.84%) Aerospace
5 13 (4.47%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.75%) Manufacturing
7 8 (2.75%) Military
8 5 (1.72%) Advertising
8 5 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.37%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.03%) Law
10 3 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.69%) Electronics
11 2 (0.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 50 (17.18%) Software Engineer
2 31 (10.65%) Consultant
3 28 (9.62%) Security Consultant
4 26 (8.93%) Senior
5 22 (7.56%) Analyst
6 21 (7.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 20 (6.87%) DevOps Engineer
8 19 (6.53%) Business Analyst
9 14 (4.81%) Cybersecurity Consultant
9 14 (4.81%) Data Scientist
10 11 (3.78%) Administrator
10 11 (3.78%) Architect
10 11 (3.78%) Test Engineer
11 10 (3.44%) Data Engineer
12 8 (2.75%) AWS Engineer
12 8 (2.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 8 (2.75%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 8 (2.75%) Senior Software Engineer
12 8 (2.75%) Tester
13 7 (2.41%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.50%) React
2 13 (4.47%) AngularJS
3 10 (3.44%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (2.75%) Apache NiFi
4 8 (2.75%) MERN Stack
4 8 (2.75%) Vue
5 7 (2.41%) Spring
5 7 (2.41%) Spring Boot
6 6 (2.06%) REST
7 4 (1.37%) Kafka
7 4 (1.37%) Node.js
8 3 (1.03%) Playwright
8 3 (1.03%) pytest
9 2 (0.69%) Hibernate
9 2 (0.69%) JPA
9 2 (0.69%) PyTorch
9 2 (0.69%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (0.69%) RESTful
9 2 (0.69%) TensorFlow
10 1 (0.34%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.15%) Product Ownership
2 11 (3.78%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (3.44%) Cloud Native
4 8 (2.75%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.37%) Blog
5 4 (1.37%) PKI
6 3 (1.03%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.03%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.03%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.03%) PMI
6 3 (1.03%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.03%) Replication
7 2 (0.69%) Blockchain
7 2 (0.69%) CMDB
7 2 (0.69%) Cyber Security Posture
7 2 (0.69%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 51 (17.53%) Linux
2 24 (8.25%) Windows
3 8 (2.75%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.41%) CentOS
5 3 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.69%) Unix
6 2 (0.69%) VMS
6 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (24.05%) Agile
2 67 (23.02%) Software Engineering
3 66 (22.68%) DevOps
4 40 (13.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 38 (13.06%) Cybersecurity
6 36 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (11.34%) Infrastructure as Code
8 27 (9.28%) AI
9 26 (8.93%) CI/CD
9 26 (8.93%) Collaborative Culture
10 24 (8.25%) Containerisation
11 23 (7.90%) Data Science
12 22 (7.56%) Collaborative Working
13 21 (7.22%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (6.53%) Full-Stack Development
14 19 (6.53%) Penetration Testing
14 19 (6.53%) Scrum
14 19 (6.53%) Software Testing
15 15 (5.15%) Test Automation
16 14 (4.81%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 81 (27.84%) Python
2 52 (17.87%) Java
3 32 (11.00%) Bash
4 25 (8.59%) JavaScript
5 22 (7.56%) PowerShell
6 14 (4.81%) C
7 13 (4.47%) C++
7 13 (4.47%) Go
7 13 (4.47%) TypeScript
8 9 (3.09%) SQL
9 6 (2.06%) C#
9 6 (2.06%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.37%) Groovy
11 3 (1.03%) Elixir
11 3 (1.03%) Erlang
11 3 (1.03%) VBScript
12 2 (0.69%) R
12 2 (0.69%) Rust
13 1 (0.34%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 172 (59.11%) DV Cleared
2 123 (42.27%) SC Cleared
3 25 (8.59%) Degree
4 7 (2.41%) CREST Certified
5 5 (1.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (1.37%) PhD
6 4 (1.37%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.03%) BC Cleared
7 3 (1.03%) CCIE
7 3 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.03%) CITP
7 3 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.69%) CBAP
8 2 (0.69%) CHECK Team Member
8 2 (0.69%) CISSP
8 2 (0.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.34%) CCNP
9 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.34%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.12%) QA
2 9 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.37%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.37%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.37%) SLA
4 3 (1.03%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.03%) RMADS
5 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.34%) GDPR
5 1 (0.34%) NIST
System Software
1 31 (10.65%) Docker
2 14 (4.81%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.72%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.37%) Firmware
5 3 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.69%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 50 (17.18%) Kubernetes
2 28 (9.62%) Ansible
2 28 (9.62%) Terraform
3 17 (5.84%) Grafana
4 7 (2.41%) Argo
4 7 (2.41%) Kibana
4 7 (2.41%) logstash
4 7 (2.41%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.06%) Puppet
5 6 (2.06%) Rancher
5 6 (2.06%) vCenter Server
5 6 (2.06%) yum
6 4 (1.37%) Nagios
7 2 (0.69%) Check_MK
7 2 (0.69%) Kubeflow
7 2 (0.69%) McAfee ePO
7 2 (0.69%) NetBackup
7 2 (0.69%) SCCM
7 2 (0.69%) SCVMM
8 1 (0.34%) Mesos
Vendors
1 17 (5.84%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.15%) VMware
3 14 (4.81%) Cisco
4 13 (4.47%) Red Hat
4 13 (4.47%) Splunk
5 7 (2.41%) Atlassian
6 6 (2.06%) Dell
7 5 (1.72%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.03%) F5
8 3 (1.03%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.69%) CheckPoint
9 2 (0.69%) Google
9 2 (0.69%) HP
9 2 (0.69%) Juniper
9 2 (0.69%) McAfee
9 2 (0.69%) Oracle
9 2 (0.69%) SAP
9 2 (0.69%) Veeam
10 1 (0.34%) Databricks
10 1 (0.34%) NetApp