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 29 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 536 190 402
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 27.92% 32.09% 30.04%
As % of the Qualifications category 75.18% 65.74% 71.02%
Number of salaries quoted 376 103 282
10th Percentile £48,125 £35,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,438 £50,000 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £94,375 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £87,375
South West median annual salary £75,000 £59,400 £59,000
% change year-on-year +26.26% +0.68% -1.67%

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 713 289 566
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 37.14% 48.82% 42.30%
Number of salaries quoted 456 171 412
10th Percentile £41,250 £28,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -8.94%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £82,500
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 29 July 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 29 July 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 0 240 £78,750 -10.00% 53
Gloucester 0 169 £70,000 -9.68% 26
Filton -1 13 £57,000 +3.64% 9
Tewkesbury -11 5 £52,500 -8.70% 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 29 (5.41%) Apache
2 8 (1.49%) Confluence
3 5 (0.93%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.75%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.37%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (0.37%) Simulink
2 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 102 (19.03%) AWS
2 77 (14.37%) Azure
3 30 (5.60%) GCP
4 26 (4.85%) OpenShift
5 14 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (2.43%) OCI
7 12 (2.24%) AWS CloudFormation
7 12 (2.24%) Serverless
8 11 (2.05%) Entra ID
9 10 (1.87%) Azure AKS
10 8 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (1.49%) Azure Machine Learning
11 6 (1.12%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (1.12%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (1.12%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 6 (1.12%) PaaS
12 5 (0.93%) Amazon S3
12 5 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (0.75%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.24%) Network Security
2 10 (1.87%) Firewall
2 10 (1.87%) Software-Defined Radio
2 10 (1.87%) VPN
3 7 (1.31%) DHCP
3 7 (1.31%) DNS
4 4 (0.75%) LAN
4 4 (0.75%) WAN
5 3 (0.56%) LoRaWAN
5 3 (0.56%) LTE
5 3 (0.56%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (0.56%) VXLAN
6 2 (0.37%) AMQP
6 2 (0.37%) NAS
6 2 (0.37%) NGN
6 2 (0.37%) SAN
6 2 (0.37%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.19%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.19%) VLAN
7 1 (0.19%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.54%) NoSQL
2 16 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
3 13 (2.43%) MongoDB
4 12 (2.24%) Big Data
4 12 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (1.31%) InfluxDB
6 6 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (0.75%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (0.75%) Hadoop
7 4 (0.75%) MySQL
8 3 (0.56%) Flink
8 3 (0.56%) Redis
9 2 (0.37%) Cloudera CDH
9 2 (0.37%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.37%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.19%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.19%) Power BI
10 1 (0.19%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (6.16%) Git
2 30 (5.60%) GitLab
3 25 (4.66%) Jenkins
4 13 (2.43%) JIRA
5 8 (1.49%) Cucumber
5 8 (1.49%) SonarQube
6 7 (1.31%) Cypress.io
6 7 (1.31%) Robot Framework
6 7 (1.31%) Selenium
6 7 (1.31%) TestRail
7 6 (1.12%) Subversion
8 3 (0.56%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.56%) MLflow
8 3 (0.56%) Rational DOORS
8 3 (0.56%) Rational Rhapsody
9 2 (0.37%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.37%) Gradle
9 2 (0.37%) Metasploit
9 2 (0.37%) Mockito
9 2 (0.37%) Valgrind
General
1 62 (11.57%) Finance
2 55 (10.26%) Social Skills
3 53 (9.89%) Public Sector
4 40 (7.46%) Aerospace
5 23 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (1.12%) Games
8 5 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (0.75%) Military
10 3 (0.56%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.19%) Electronics
11 1 (0.19%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 106 (19.78%) Software Engineer
2 52 (9.70%) DevOps Engineer
3 49 (9.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 46 (8.58%) Senior
5 40 (7.46%) Lead
6 36 (6.72%) Architect
6 36 (6.72%) Data Engineer
7 31 (5.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 27 (5.04%) Consultant
9 23 (4.29%) Analyst
9 23 (4.29%) Developer
10 21 (3.92%) Administrator
10 21 (3.92%) Systems Administrator
11 20 (3.73%) Data Scientist
11 20 (3.73%) Security Consultant
12 19 (3.54%) Tester
13 18 (3.36%) Business Analyst
14 17 (3.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 17 (3.17%) Lead DevOps
14 17 (3.17%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.73%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (3.36%) Kafka
3 17 (3.17%) Apache NiFi
3 17 (3.17%) Spring
3 17 (3.17%) Spring Boot
4 11 (2.05%) Vue
5 8 (1.49%) REST
5 8 (1.49%) RESTful
6 7 (1.31%) pytest
6 7 (1.31%) React
7 6 (1.12%) AngularJS
7 6 (1.12%) Playwright
8 5 (0.93%) Keycloak
9 4 (0.75%) gRPC
10 3 (0.56%) Node.js
10 3 (0.56%) OpenGL
10 3 (0.56%) PyTorch
10 3 (0.56%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (0.56%) TensorFlow
10 3 (0.56%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 36 (6.72%) Cloud Native
2 24 (4.48%) Product Ownership
3 17 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (2.43%) Embedded Systems
5 12 (2.24%) Public Cloud
6 10 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (1.49%) FPGA
7 8 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.49%) VHDL
8 7 (1.31%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.31%) Verilog
9 5 (0.93%) Algorithms
9 5 (0.93%) Blog
9 5 (0.93%) Mobile App
9 5 (0.93%) Operational Technology
9 5 (0.93%) Security Posture
10 4 (0.75%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (0.75%) Data Structures
10 4 (0.75%) PKI
10 4 (0.75%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 84 (15.67%) Linux
2 33 (6.16%) Windows
3 14 (2.61%) Unix
4 11 (2.05%) Android
5 10 (1.87%) CentOS
6 7 (1.31%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.93%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.37%) Debian
9 2 (0.37%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.37%) VMS
9 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.19%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.19%) Rocky
10 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (23.32%) Software Engineering
2 122 (22.76%) DevOps
3 115 (21.46%) Agile
4 86 (16.04%) CI/CD
5 71 (13.25%) Infrastructure as Code
6 64 (11.94%) Containerisation
7 58 (10.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 55 (10.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 51 (9.51%) Collaborative Culture
10 49 (9.14%) AI
11 46 (8.58%) Cybersecurity
12 42 (7.84%) Test Automation
13 39 (7.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 38 (7.09%) Problem-Solving
15 35 (6.53%) Data Science
16 32 (5.97%) Analytics
17 31 (5.78%) Platform Engineering
17 31 (5.78%) Scrum
18 27 (5.04%) Collaborative Working
18 27 (5.04%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 121 (22.57%) Python
2 81 (15.11%) Java
3 62 (11.57%) C++
4 34 (6.34%) Bash
5 27 (5.04%) JavaScript
6 25 (4.66%) Go
7 19 (3.54%) SQL
8 17 (3.17%) C
9 16 (2.99%) Rust
10 15 (2.80%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.87%) TypeScript
12 9 (1.68%) Scala
13 8 (1.49%) Groovy
14 6 (1.12%) Bicep
15 5 (0.93%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.75%) C#
17 3 (0.56%) GLSL
18 2 (0.37%) Shell Script
18 2 (0.37%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 323 (60.26%) DV Cleared
2 216 (40.30%) SC Cleared
3 33 (6.16%) Degree
4 16 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (1.49%) CREST Certified
6 7 (1.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 7 (1.31%) OSCP
7 6 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (0.93%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.93%) CEH
9 4 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.75%) PhD
10 3 (0.56%) CCIE
10 3 (0.56%) CCNP
10 3 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.56%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.37%) CISSP
11 2 (0.37%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.19%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.24%) QA
2 8 (1.49%) Data Quality
2 8 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.12%) PCI DSS
4 5 (0.93%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.37%) GDPR
5 2 (0.37%) NCSC
5 2 (0.37%) NIST
5 2 (0.37%) SLA
6 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.19%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.19%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.19%) PMO
System Software
1 49 (9.14%) Docker
2 24 (4.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (3.92%) Active Directory
4 10 (1.87%) Firmware
5 6 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.56%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.37%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 80 (14.93%) Kubernetes
2 72 (13.43%) Terraform
3 63 (11.75%) Ansible
4 24 (4.48%) Grafana
5 16 (2.99%) Puppet
6 14 (2.61%) Kibana
6 14 (2.61%) logstash
7 9 (1.68%) Argo
8 8 (1.49%) Prometheus
8 8 (1.49%) Rancher
8 8 (1.49%) vCenter Server
9 7 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (1.12%) yum
11 3 (0.56%) Check_MK
11 3 (0.56%) Kubeflow
11 3 (0.56%) linkerd
11 3 (0.56%) Nagios
11 3 (0.56%) SCCM
11 3 (0.56%) SCOM
11 3 (0.56%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 32 (5.97%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.04%) VMware
3 16 (2.99%) Red Hat
4 15 (2.80%) Oracle
5 10 (1.87%) Atlassian
5 10 (1.87%) Cisco
6 8 (1.49%) Splunk
7 5 (0.93%) Databricks
8 4 (0.75%) Dell
9 2 (0.37%) Google
9 2 (0.37%) Intel
9 2 (0.37%) Microsemi
9 2 (0.37%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.37%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.37%) Xilinx
10 1 (0.19%) Citrix
10 1 (0.19%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.19%) McAfee
10 1 (0.19%) NetApp