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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 700 138 301
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 28.00% 25.27% 30.65%
As % of the Qualifications category 80.83% 66.99% 67.49%
Number of salaries quoted 486 86 183
10th Percentile £50,000 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £70,625
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £87,250
South West median annual salary £75,000 £55,971 £60,000
% change year-on-year +34.00% -6.72% -

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 866 206 446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 34.64% 37.73% 45.42%
Number of salaries quoted 582 140 264
10th Percentile £45,000 £35,450 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +14.04% -0.87%
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £81,500
South West median annual salary £67,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +35.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 October 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 October 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 0 327 £80,000 -4.48% 177
Gloucester 0 227 £70,000 -12.50% 85
Tewkesbury -5 19 £55,000 -18.52% 8
Filton -1 11 £55,000 +27.91% 9
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 44 (6.29%) Apache
2 14 (2.00%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.57%) Confluence
4 7 (1.00%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.29%) Simulink
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 108 (15.43%) AWS
2 85 (12.14%) Azure
3 43 (6.14%) OpenShift
4 34 (4.86%) GCP
5 20 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
6 19 (2.71%) Serverless
7 15 (2.14%) Azure AKS
8 14 (2.00%) OCI
9 13 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (1.86%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (1.71%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (1.71%) Entra ID
10 12 (1.71%) GitHub
11 10 (1.43%) Amazon S3
12 9 (1.29%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (1.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 9 (1.29%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (0.86%) PaaS
14 5 (0.71%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.43%) Network Security
2 12 (1.71%) Firewall
3 11 (1.57%) VPN
4 10 (1.43%) Software-Defined Radio
5 6 (0.86%) DHCP
5 6 (0.86%) DNS
6 4 (0.57%) AMQP
6 4 (0.57%) LAN
6 4 (0.57%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (0.57%) VXLAN
6 4 (0.57%) WAN
7 3 (0.43%) LoRaWAN
7 3 (0.43%) LTE
7 3 (0.43%) NGN
8 2 (0.29%) NAS
8 2 (0.29%) SAN
8 2 (0.29%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.14%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.14%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (0.14%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (4.29%) NoSQL
2 26 (3.71%) Elasticsearch
3 22 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (2.57%) Big Data
5 10 (1.43%) MongoDB
6 9 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (1.29%) Hadoop
7 7 (1.00%) Flink
7 7 (1.00%) InfluxDB
8 6 (0.86%) MySQL
9 5 (0.71%) Data Lake
9 5 (0.71%) Redis
10 4 (0.57%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.57%) Cloudera CDH
10 4 (0.57%) Metadata
11 3 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.43%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.14%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 45 (6.43%) Git
2 43 (6.14%) GitLab
3 37 (5.29%) Jenkins
4 18 (2.57%) JIRA
5 12 (1.71%) Cypress.io
6 9 (1.29%) Selenium
6 9 (1.29%) TestRail
7 8 (1.14%) Cucumber
7 8 (1.14%) SonarQube
7 8 (1.14%) Subversion
8 7 (1.00%) Robot Framework
9 6 (0.86%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.57%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.43%) Rational DOORS
11 3 (0.43%) Rational Rhapsody
12 2 (0.29%) Gradle
12 2 (0.29%) Metasploit
12 2 (0.29%) Mockito
12 2 (0.29%) Valgrind
12 2 (0.29%) Zephyr
General
1 84 (12.00%) Finance
2 65 (9.29%) Social Skills
3 43 (6.14%) Aerospace
4 40 (5.71%) Public Sector
5 37 (5.29%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (0.86%) Games
8 5 (0.71%) Military
9 4 (0.57%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.43%) Electronics
11 2 (0.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.14%) Automotive
12 1 (0.14%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.14%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 125 (17.86%) Software Engineer
2 85 (12.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 66 (9.43%) Senior
4 65 (9.29%) Developer
5 61 (8.71%) Cloud Engineer
6 58 (8.29%) Lead
7 54 (7.71%) Data Engineer
8 50 (7.14%) Software Developer
9 45 (6.43%) Architect
10 42 (6.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 29 (4.14%) Lead DevOps
11 29 (4.14%) Python Engineer
12 27 (3.86%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 27 (3.86%) Network Engineer
13 25 (3.57%) Analyst
14 21 (3.00%) Business Analyst
15 20 (2.86%) C++ Developer
15 20 (2.86%) C++ Software Developer
15 20 (2.86%) Principal Engineer
16 19 (2.71%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (16.00%) Terraform
2 28 (4.00%) Kafka
3 26 (3.71%) Spring
3 26 (3.71%) Spring Boot
4 22 (3.14%) Elastic Stack
5 16 (2.29%) Apache NiFi
6 15 (2.14%) RESTful
7 14 (2.00%) REST
8 13 (1.86%) Keycloak
8 13 (1.86%) Node.js
9 11 (1.57%) Playwright
10 9 (1.29%) React
10 9 (1.29%) Vue
11 7 (1.00%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (0.86%) AngularJS
12 6 (0.86%) gRPC
12 6 (0.86%) OpenAPI
12 6 (0.86%) pytest
13 5 (0.71%) Swagger
14 4 (0.57%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 63 (9.00%) Cloud Native
2 29 (4.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 22 (3.14%) Product Ownership
4 16 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (2.29%) Public Cloud
5 15 (2.14%) Embedded Systems
6 8 (1.14%) FPGA
6 8 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.14%) VHDL
7 7 (1.00%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.00%) PKI
7 7 (1.00%) Verilog
8 6 (0.86%) Data Structures
8 6 (0.86%) Distributed Applications
8 6 (0.86%) Operational Technology
9 5 (0.71%) Algorithms
9 5 (0.71%) Mobile App
10 4 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.57%) Replication
10 4 (0.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 113 (16.14%) Linux
2 26 (3.71%) Windows
3 18 (2.57%) Unix
4 13 (1.86%) Android
5 12 (1.71%) CentOS
6 5 (0.71%) Embedded Linux
6 5 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.71%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.57%) Debian
7 4 (0.57%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.29%) Rocky
9 1 (0.14%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (26.14%) DevOps
2 156 (22.29%) Software Engineering
3 144 (20.57%) Agile
4 139 (19.86%) CI/CD
5 103 (14.71%) Containerisation
5 103 (14.71%) Infrastructure as Code
6 78 (11.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 76 (10.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 60 (8.57%) Collaborative Culture
9 59 (8.43%) Problem-Solving
10 57 (8.14%) Test Automation
11 56 (8.00%) AI
12 45 (6.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 44 (6.29%) Analytics
13 44 (6.29%) Stakeholder Management
14 42 (6.00%) DevSecOps
14 42 (6.00%) Platform Engineering
15 40 (5.71%) Data Pipeline
16 39 (5.57%) ETL
17 38 (5.43%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 159 (22.71%) Python
2 124 (17.71%) Java
3 94 (13.43%) C++
4 55 (7.86%) Bash
5 41 (5.86%) Go
5 41 (5.86%) JavaScript
6 28 (4.00%) SQL
7 27 (3.86%) Rust
8 18 (2.57%) Scala
9 17 (2.43%) C
9 17 (2.43%) PowerShell
10 16 (2.29%) TypeScript
11 9 (1.29%) Bicep
12 8 (1.14%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.86%) Groovy
14 5 (0.71%) C#
15 3 (0.43%) GLSL
15 3 (0.43%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.29%) SystemVerilog
17 1 (0.14%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 414 (59.14%) DV Cleared
2 287 (41.00%) SC Cleared
3 37 (5.29%) Degree
4 17 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (2.00%) Azure Certification
6 11 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 7 (1.00%) OSCP
8 5 (0.71%) CEH
8 5 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.57%) CCIE
9 4 (0.57%) CCNP
9 4 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (0.57%) PMI Certification
9 4 (0.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (0.43%) CREST Certified
10 3 (0.43%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.43%) PMP
11 2 (0.29%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.29%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.29%) QA
2 10 (1.43%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.14%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.57%) GDPR
4 4 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.29%) NCSC
5 2 (0.29%) NIST
6 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.14%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.14%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.14%) PMO
System Software
1 77 (11.00%) Docker
2 27 (3.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (2.71%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.00%) VMware NSX
5 6 (0.86%) Firmware
6 5 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.14%) vSphere
8 1 (0.14%) XenApp
8 1 (0.14%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 128 (18.29%) Kubernetes
2 97 (13.86%) Ansible
3 25 (3.57%) Grafana
4 24 (3.43%) Puppet
5 13 (1.86%) Kibana
5 13 (1.86%) logstash
6 12 (1.71%) Argo
7 11 (1.57%) Rancher
8 10 (1.43%) Prometheus
9 9 (1.29%) vCenter Server
10 8 (1.14%) yum
11 5 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.57%) Istio
12 4 (0.57%) linkerd
12 4 (0.57%) Mesos
12 4 (0.57%) Packer
13 2 (0.29%) Check_MK
13 2 (0.29%) Nagios
13 2 (0.29%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 43 (6.14%) Microsoft
2 35 (5.00%) VMware
3 14 (2.00%) Oracle
3 14 (2.00%) Red Hat
4 12 (1.71%) Atlassian
5 8 (1.14%) Splunk
6 7 (1.00%) Google
7 6 (0.86%) Cisco
8 4 (0.57%) Databricks
8 4 (0.57%) SaltStack
9 3 (0.43%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.43%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.29%) Citrix
10 2 (0.29%) Intel
10 2 (0.29%) Microsemi
10 2 (0.29%) Xilinx
11 1 (0.14%) Dell
11 1 (0.14%) McAfee
11 1 (0.14%) NetApp
11 1 (0.14%) SolarWinds