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

6 months to
8 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 465 179 566
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 27.43% 33.52% 33.75%
As % of the Qualifications category 73.34% 67.04% 74.87%
Number of salaries quoted 328 95 415
10th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £42,283
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,625 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +12.07% -12.12%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £82,500
South West median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% +4.35% -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 634 267 756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 37.40% 50.00% 45.08%
Number of salaries quoted 407 153 566
10th Percentile £40,300 £27,500 £30,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.84%
75th Percentile £80,625 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £81,500
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 8 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 8 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 0 195 £77,500 -11.43% 76
Gloucester 0 154 £70,000 -12.50% 33
Filton +1 13 £57,000 +3.64% 33
Tewkesbury -13 2 £52,500 +23.53% 3
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 22 (4.73%) Apache
2 8 (1.72%) Confluence
3 4 (0.86%) OpenStack
4 3 (0.65%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (0.43%) Simulink
2 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 92 (19.78%) AWS
2 76 (16.34%) Azure
3 28 (6.02%) GCP
4 22 (4.73%) OpenShift
5 14 (3.01%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (2.15%) OCI
7 9 (1.94%) Serverless
8 8 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (1.72%) Entra ID
9 7 (1.51%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (1.51%) Azure AKS
10 6 (1.29%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (1.29%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (1.08%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.08%) Azure Machine Learning
12 4 (0.86%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (0.86%) GitHub
13 3 (0.65%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 3 (0.65%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.37%) Firewall
2 9 (1.94%) DHCP
2 9 (1.94%) DNS
2 9 (1.94%) Network Security
2 9 (1.94%) Software-Defined Radio
3 8 (1.72%) VPN
4 5 (1.08%) LAN
4 5 (1.08%) WAN
5 4 (0.86%) Software-Defined Networking
5 4 (0.86%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.86%) VXLAN
6 3 (0.65%) LoRaWAN
6 3 (0.65%) LTE
6 3 (0.65%) NAS
6 3 (0.65%) SAN
7 2 (0.43%) AMQP
7 2 (0.43%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.43%) NGN
8 1 (0.22%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.22%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (4.09%) Elasticsearch
2 15 (3.23%) NoSQL
3 11 (2.37%) Big Data
3 11 (2.37%) MongoDB
4 9 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (1.51%) InfluxDB
6 5 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.08%) MySQL
7 3 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (0.65%) Flink
7 3 (0.65%) Redis
8 2 (0.43%) Cloudera CDH
8 2 (0.43%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.43%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.43%) Metadata
8 2 (0.43%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.22%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.22%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.22%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (6.67%) GitLab
2 29 (6.24%) Git
3 25 (5.38%) Jenkins
4 12 (2.58%) JIRA
5 10 (2.15%) Cucumber
6 9 (1.94%) SonarQube
7 8 (1.72%) Cypress.io
8 7 (1.51%) Robot Framework
8 7 (1.51%) Selenium
8 7 (1.51%) Subversion
8 7 (1.51%) TestRail
9 5 (1.08%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.86%) Gradle
11 3 (0.65%) MLflow
11 3 (0.65%) Rational DOORS
11 3 (0.65%) Rational Rhapsody
12 2 (0.43%) Burp Suite
12 2 (0.43%) Maven
12 2 (0.43%) Mockito
12 2 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 50 (10.75%) Finance
2 46 (9.89%) Public Sector
3 45 (9.68%) Social Skills
4 39 (8.39%) Aerospace
5 15 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (1.29%) Games
8 4 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.65%) Military
9 3 (0.65%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.43%) Law
10 2 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.22%) Advertising
11 1 (0.22%) Electronics
11 1 (0.22%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 90 (19.35%) Software Engineer
2 39 (8.39%) Senior
3 37 (7.96%) Cloud Engineer
4 35 (7.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 35 (7.53%) Lead
5 33 (7.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 29 (6.24%) Architect
7 28 (6.02%) Consultant
8 25 (5.38%) Analyst
9 24 (5.16%) Security Consultant
10 21 (4.52%) Data Engineer
11 20 (4.30%) Business Analyst
12 19 (4.09%) Tester
13 17 (3.66%) Developer
14 14 (3.01%) Data Scientist
15 13 (2.80%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
15 13 (2.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 13 (2.80%) Penetration Tester
15 13 (2.80%) Security Engineer
15 13 (2.80%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (4.73%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (3.44%) Apache NiFi
3 15 (3.23%) Spring
3 15 (3.23%) Spring Boot
4 13 (2.80%) Kafka
4 13 (2.80%) Vue
5 11 (2.37%) React
6 10 (2.15%) REST
7 9 (1.94%) AngularJS
8 8 (1.72%) RESTful
9 7 (1.51%) pytest
10 6 (1.29%) Playwright
11 5 (1.08%) Node.js
12 4 (0.86%) gRPC
12 4 (0.86%) RabbitMQ
13 3 (0.65%) OpenGL
13 3 (0.65%) PyTorch
13 3 (0.65%) TensorFlow
13 3 (0.65%) Vulkan
14 2 (0.43%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 23 (4.95%) Product Ownership
2 20 (4.30%) Cloud Native
3 13 (2.80%) Public Cloud
4 12 (2.58%) Embedded Systems
5 11 (2.37%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (2.15%) Data Centre
7 8 (1.72%) FPGA
7 8 (1.72%) VHDL
8 7 (1.51%) Security Posture
8 7 (1.51%) Verilog
9 6 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.08%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.08%) Blog
10 5 (1.08%) Operational Technology
11 4 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.86%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (0.86%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.86%) PKI
11 4 (0.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 77 (16.56%) Linux
2 33 (7.10%) Windows
3 10 (2.15%) CentOS
4 9 (1.94%) Unix
5 8 (1.72%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.29%) Android
7 5 (1.08%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.43%) Debian
9 2 (0.43%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.43%) VMS
9 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.22%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.22%) Rocky
10 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (23.23%) Software Engineering
2 105 (22.58%) DevOps
3 104 (22.37%) Agile
4 67 (14.41%) CI/CD
5 60 (12.90%) Infrastructure as Code
6 57 (12.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 50 (10.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 50 (10.75%) Cybersecurity
8 49 (10.54%) Collaborative Culture
9 48 (10.32%) Containerisation
10 40 (8.60%) Test Automation
11 36 (7.74%) AI
12 35 (7.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 34 (7.31%) Problem-Solving
14 30 (6.45%) Scrum
15 28 (6.02%) Collaborative Working
16 27 (5.81%) Data Science
16 27 (5.81%) Platform Engineering
16 27 (5.81%) Software Testing
17 24 (5.16%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 113 (24.30%) Python
2 75 (16.13%) Java
3 47 (10.11%) C++
4 39 (8.39%) Bash
5 26 (5.59%) JavaScript
6 22 (4.73%) Go
7 17 (3.66%) C
8 16 (3.44%) PowerShell
9 14 (3.01%) Rust
10 12 (2.58%) SQL
11 11 (2.37%) TypeScript
12 7 (1.51%) Scala
13 6 (1.29%) Groovy
13 6 (1.29%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.86%) C#
15 3 (0.65%) Bicep
15 3 (0.65%) GLSL
15 3 (0.65%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.43%) SystemVerilog
17 1 (0.22%) Elixir
Qualifications
1 260 (55.91%) DV Cleared
2 199 (42.80%) SC Cleared
3 29 (6.24%) Degree
4 12 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (1.72%) CREST Certified
6 7 (1.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 7 (1.51%) OSCP
7 5 (1.08%) CCIE
7 5 (1.08%) CEH
7 5 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.86%) CCNP
8 4 (0.86%) CISSP
8 4 (0.86%) PhD
8 4 (0.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.65%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.43%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.43%) CCIE Data Center
11 1 (0.22%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.01%) QA
2 10 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.29%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.29%) PCI DSS
4 4 (0.86%) SLA
5 3 (0.65%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.65%) GDPR
5 3 (0.65%) NIST
6 2 (0.43%) NCSC
7 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.22%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.22%) NIST 800
System Software
1 41 (8.82%) Docker
2 24 (5.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (4.09%) Active Directory
4 10 (2.15%) Firmware
5 6 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.86%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.65%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 68 (14.62%) Kubernetes
2 63 (13.55%) Terraform
3 60 (12.90%) Ansible
4 25 (5.38%) Grafana
5 16 (3.44%) Puppet
6 15 (3.23%) Kibana
6 15 (3.23%) logstash
7 9 (1.94%) Rancher
7 9 (1.94%) vCenter Server
8 8 (1.72%) Argo
8 8 (1.72%) Prometheus
9 7 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (1.51%) yum
10 4 (0.86%) Nagios
11 3 (0.65%) Check_MK
11 3 (0.65%) Kubeflow
11 3 (0.65%) SCCM
11 3 (0.65%) SCOM
11 3 (0.65%) SCOrch
12 2 (0.43%) vRealize
Vendors
1 29 (6.24%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.59%) VMware
3 17 (3.66%) Red Hat
4 12 (2.58%) Atlassian
4 12 (2.58%) Cisco
4 12 (2.58%) Oracle
5 8 (1.72%) Splunk
6 5 (1.08%) Dell
7 2 (0.43%) Databricks
7 2 (0.43%) Fortinet
7 2 (0.43%) Google
7 2 (0.43%) Intel
7 2 (0.43%) Microsemi
7 2 (0.43%) Palo Alto
7 2 (0.43%) SaltStack
7 2 (0.43%) Xilinx
8 1 (0.22%) F5
8 1 (0.22%) HP
8 1 (0.22%) Juniper
8 1 (0.22%) Veeam