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 20 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 617 150 350
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 28.76% 26.50% 28.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 78.10% 61.48% 67.96%
Number of salaries quoted 432 103 241
10th Percentile £50,000 £35,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,575 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% -3.85%
75th Percentile £93,125 £94,375 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £87,500
South West median annual salary £75,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +30.43% -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 790 244 515
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 36.83% 43.11% 41.40%
Number of salaries quoted 514 175 357
10th Percentile £45,000 £28,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £41,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £87,563 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £82,500
South West median annual salary £62,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -9.09% +1.85%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 0 285 £80,000 -11.11% 77
Gloucester 0 188 £70,000 -9.68% 34
Filton -1 13 £57,000 +3.64% 4
Tewkesbury -6 10 £52,500 -12.50% 4
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 33 (5.35%) Apache
2 9 (1.46%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.13%) Confluence
4 5 (0.81%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.32%) MS Visio
1 2 (0.32%) Simulink
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 107 (17.34%) AWS
2 74 (11.99%) Azure
3 36 (5.83%) OpenShift
4 29 (4.70%) GCP
5 16 (2.59%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (2.11%) Entra ID
6 13 (2.11%) OCI
6 13 (2.11%) Serverless
7 12 (1.94%) Azure AKS
7 12 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (1.46%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (1.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 8 (1.30%) Azure Machine Learning
9 8 (1.30%) GitHub
10 7 (1.13%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (0.97%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (0.97%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (0.97%) PaaS
12 5 (0.81%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.27%) Network Security
2 12 (1.94%) VPN
3 11 (1.78%) Firewall
4 10 (1.62%) Software-Defined Radio
5 7 (1.13%) DHCP
5 7 (1.13%) DNS
6 3 (0.49%) AMQP
6 3 (0.49%) LAN
6 3 (0.49%) LoRaWAN
6 3 (0.49%) LTE
6 3 (0.49%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.49%) VXLAN
6 3 (0.49%) WAN
7 2 (0.32%) NAS
7 2 (0.32%) NGN
7 2 (0.32%) SAN
8 1 (0.16%) BGP
8 1 (0.16%) IPv4
8 1 (0.16%) OSPF
8 1 (0.16%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.24%) NoSQL
2 19 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
3 15 (2.43%) Big Data
4 13 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (1.78%) MongoDB
6 8 (1.30%) Hadoop
7 7 (1.13%) InfluxDB
8 6 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.81%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.65%) MySQL
11 3 (0.49%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (0.49%) Cloudera CDH
11 3 (0.49%) Flink
11 3 (0.49%) Redis
12 2 (0.32%) DynamoDB
13 1 (0.16%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.16%) Metadata
13 1 (0.16%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 36 (5.83%) Git
2 32 (5.19%) GitLab
3 27 (4.38%) Jenkins
4 15 (2.43%) JIRA
5 10 (1.62%) Cypress.io
6 9 (1.46%) TestRail
7 8 (1.30%) Cucumber
7 8 (1.30%) SonarQube
8 7 (1.13%) Robot Framework
8 7 (1.13%) Selenium
9 5 (0.81%) Subversion
10 4 (0.65%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.49%) MLflow
11 3 (0.49%) Rational DOORS
11 3 (0.49%) Rational Rhapsody
12 2 (0.32%) Burp Suite
12 2 (0.32%) Gradle
12 2 (0.32%) Mockito
12 2 (0.32%) Valgrind
12 2 (0.32%) Zephyr
General
1 73 (11.83%) Finance
2 63 (10.21%) Social Skills
3 54 (8.75%) Public Sector
4 42 (6.81%) Aerospace
5 31 (5.02%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (0.97%) Games
7 5 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (0.81%) Military
7 5 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (0.49%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.32%) Electronics
9 2 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.16%) Automotive
10 1 (0.16%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.16%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 124 (20.10%) Software Engineer
2 71 (11.51%) DevOps Engineer
3 55 (8.91%) Cloud Engineer
4 51 (8.27%) Senior
5 48 (7.78%) Lead
6 44 (7.13%) Data Engineer
7 38 (6.16%) Developer
8 35 (5.67%) Architect
9 34 (5.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 27 (4.38%) Consultant
11 26 (4.21%) Software Developer
12 25 (4.05%) Lead DevOps
13 24 (3.89%) Analyst
14 23 (3.73%) Lead DevOps Engineer
15 20 (3.24%) Business Analyst
15 20 (3.24%) Data Scientist
16 19 (3.08%) Administrator
16 19 (3.08%) Python Engineer
16 19 (3.08%) Systems Administrator
16 19 (3.08%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (15.40%) Terraform
2 23 (3.73%) Spring
2 23 (3.73%) Spring Boot
3 20 (3.24%) Elastic Stack
3 20 (3.24%) Kafka
4 17 (2.76%) Apache NiFi
5 10 (1.62%) REST
5 10 (1.62%) Vue
6 9 (1.46%) React
6 9 (1.46%) RESTful
7 8 (1.30%) Node.js
7 8 (1.30%) Playwright
8 7 (1.13%) Keycloak
8 7 (1.13%) pytest
9 6 (0.97%) AngularJS
10 5 (0.81%) gRPC
10 5 (0.81%) OpenAPI
10 5 (0.81%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (0.65%) Swagger
12 3 (0.49%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 47 (7.62%) Cloud Native
2 23 (3.73%) Product Ownership
3 20 (3.24%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (2.27%) Embedded Systems
5 12 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (1.94%) Public Cloud
6 8 (1.30%) FPGA
6 8 (1.30%) VHDL
7 7 (1.13%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.13%) Verilog
8 6 (0.97%) Operational Technology
8 6 (0.97%) PKI
9 5 (0.81%) Algorithms
9 5 (0.81%) Blog
9 5 (0.81%) Data Structures
9 5 (0.81%) Mobile App
9 5 (0.81%) Security Posture
10 4 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.65%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 98 (15.88%) Linux
2 32 (5.19%) Windows
3 16 (2.59%) Unix
4 13 (2.11%) Android
5 11 (1.78%) CentOS
6 7 (1.13%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.81%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.49%) Debian
9 3 (0.49%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.32%) VMS
10 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.16%) CoreOS
11 1 (0.16%) Rocky
11 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (25.12%) DevOps
2 152 (24.64%) Software Engineering
3 126 (20.42%) Agile
4 114 (18.48%) CI/CD
5 88 (14.26%) Infrastructure as Code
6 86 (13.94%) Containerisation
7 70 (11.35%) Continuous Improvement
8 61 (9.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 54 (8.75%) AI
10 53 (8.59%) Collaborative Culture
11 51 (8.27%) Test Automation
12 49 (7.94%) Cybersecurity
13 46 (7.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 45 (7.29%) Problem-Solving
15 41 (6.65%) Platform Engineering
16 39 (6.32%) Analytics
17 37 (6.00%) Data Science
18 36 (5.83%) Stakeholder Management
19 32 (5.19%) DevSecOps
20 30 (4.86%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 139 (22.53%) Python
2 98 (15.88%) Java
3 77 (12.48%) C++
4 42 (6.81%) Bash
5 39 (6.32%) JavaScript
6 30 (4.86%) Go
7 24 (3.89%) Rust
8 23 (3.73%) SQL
9 19 (3.08%) C
10 16 (2.59%) PowerShell
10 16 (2.59%) TypeScript
11 12 (1.94%) Scala
12 8 (1.30%) Bicep
12 8 (1.30%) Groovy
13 6 (0.97%) C#
13 6 (0.97%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.49%) GLSL
15 2 (0.32%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.32%) SystemVerilog
16 1 (0.16%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 378 (61.26%) DV Cleared
2 240 (38.90%) SC Cleared
3 34 (5.51%) Degree
4 19 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (1.30%) CREST Certified
6 7 (1.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 7 (1.13%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (1.13%) OSCP
7 5 (0.81%) CEH
7 5 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.49%) CCIE
8 3 (0.49%) CCNP
8 3 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.49%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.49%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.32%) CISSP
9 2 (0.32%) PhD
9 2 (0.32%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (1.94%) QA
2 11 (1.78%) Accessibility
3 10 (1.62%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.97%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.32%) GDPR
6 2 (0.32%) NCSC
6 2 (0.32%) NIST
7 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.16%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.16%) PMO
System Software
1 60 (9.72%) Docker
2 24 (3.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (3.73%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.30%) Firmware
5 6 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.65%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 105 (17.02%) Kubernetes
2 79 (12.80%) Ansible
3 22 (3.57%) Grafana
4 17 (2.76%) Puppet
5 14 (2.27%) Kibana
5 14 (2.27%) logstash
6 8 (1.30%) vCenter Server
7 7 (1.13%) Argo
7 7 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (1.13%) Prometheus
7 7 (1.13%) Rancher
8 5 (0.81%) yum
9 3 (0.49%) Check_MK
9 3 (0.49%) Kubeflow
9 3 (0.49%) Nagios
9 3 (0.49%) Packer
9 3 (0.49%) SCCM
9 3 (0.49%) SCOM
9 3 (0.49%) SCOrch
10 2 (0.32%) linkerd
Vendors
1 34 (5.51%) Microsoft
2 31 (5.02%) VMware
3 14 (2.27%) Red Hat
4 13 (2.11%) Oracle
5 10 (1.62%) Atlassian
6 8 (1.30%) Splunk
7 7 (1.13%) Cisco
8 5 (0.81%) Databricks
9 3 (0.49%) Google
9 3 (0.49%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.32%) Dell
10 2 (0.32%) Intel
10 2 (0.32%) Microsemi
10 2 (0.32%) Xilinx
11 1 (0.16%) Citrix
11 1 (0.16%) McAfee
11 1 (0.16%) Palo Alto