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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 4 1
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 205 171 443
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 30.51% 27.06% 45.39%
As % of the Qualifications category 69.97% 43.40% 78.97%
Number of salaries quoted 125 100 243
10th Percentile £38,400 £41,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £43,438 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,563 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,750 £86,250
South West median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -1.82%

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 293 394 561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 43.60% 62.34% 57.48%
Number of salaries quoted 177 161 329
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £29,440
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,250 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £76,250 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,500 £81,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -1.77%

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 16 January 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 16 January 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
Gloucester +1 73 £67,500 +3.85% 30
Cheltenham 0 60 £67,500 - 35
Filton +18 23 £42,500 -12.82% 2
Tewkesbury 0 18 £67,500 +58.82% 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 10 (4.88%) Apache
2 8 (3.90%) Confluence
3 1 (0.49%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.98%) Simulink
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.49%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 45 (21.95%) AWS
2 33 (16.10%) Azure
3 12 (5.85%) OpenShift
4 8 (3.90%) GCP
5 6 (2.93%) Amazon S3
5 6 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (2.93%) Serverless
6 5 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.46%) Google Workspace
9 2 (0.98%) Azure Stack
9 2 (0.98%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.49%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.49%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.49%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.39%) Firewall
2 7 (3.41%) DNS
3 6 (2.93%) DHCP
4 5 (2.44%) LAN
4 5 (2.44%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.44%) WAN
5 4 (1.95%) Network Security
5 4 (1.95%) VPN
5 4 (1.95%) VSAN
6 3 (1.46%) Structured Cabling
7 2 (0.98%) NAS
7 2 (0.98%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (0.98%) SAN
8 1 (0.49%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.49%) HTTP
8 1 (0.49%) ICMP
8 1 (0.49%) Internet
8 1 (0.49%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.49%) VLAN
8 1 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.37%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (4.39%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.93%) MongoDB
3 6 (2.93%) Neo4j
4 5 (2.44%) Big Data
5 4 (1.95%) InfluxDB
6 2 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.98%) Metadata
6 2 (0.98%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.49%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.49%) MySQL
7 1 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (6.34%) Git
2 12 (5.85%) GitLab
2 12 (5.85%) JIRA
3 11 (5.37%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.93%) Cucumber
5 5 (2.44%) Subversion
6 4 (1.95%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.46%) Balsamiq
7 3 (1.46%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.46%) Robot Framework
7 3 (1.46%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.46%) TestRail
8 2 (0.98%) Gradle
8 2 (0.98%) IDA Disassembler
8 2 (0.98%) Maven
9 1 (0.49%) JUnit
9 1 (0.49%) Selenium
9 1 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 41 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 21 (10.24%) Aerospace
3 19 (9.27%) Public Sector
4 14 (6.83%) Manufacturing
5 12 (5.85%) Finance
5 12 (5.85%) Military
6 10 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (3.90%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.93%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.44%) Electronics
10 4 (1.95%) Advertising
10 4 (1.95%) Aviation
10 4 (1.95%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.46%) Avionics
11 3 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.46%) Law
12 2 (0.98%) Marketing
13 1 (0.49%) Automotive
13 1 (0.49%) Games
13 1 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (11.22%) Software Engineer
2 22 (10.73%) Analyst
3 20 (9.76%) Business Analyst
4 19 (9.27%) Consultant
5 16 (7.80%) Senior
6 14 (6.83%) Security Consultant
7 13 (6.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (5.85%) DevOps Engineer
9 10 (4.88%) Administrator
10 9 (4.39%) Cybersecurity Consultant
10 9 (4.39%) Lead
11 8 (3.90%) Integration Engineer
12 7 (3.41%) Data Engineer
12 7 (3.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 7 (3.41%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 7 (3.41%) Splunk Engineer
12 7 (3.41%) Test Engineer
12 7 (3.41%) Virtualisation Administrator
13 5 (2.44%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
13 5 (2.44%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.83%) React
2 8 (3.90%) AngularJS
2 8 (3.90%) Spring
2 8 (3.90%) Spring Boot
3 7 (3.41%) Apache NiFi
3 7 (3.41%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (2.93%) MERN Stack
5 4 (1.95%) REST
5 4 (1.95%) Vue
6 3 (1.46%) Hibernate
6 3 (1.46%) Kafka
7 2 (0.98%) JPA
7 2 (0.98%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (0.98%) RESTful
8 1 (0.49%) Express.js
8 1 (0.49%) JSF
8 1 (0.49%) NestJS
8 1 (0.49%) Node.js
8 1 (0.49%) Playwright
8 1 (0.49%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.37%) Data Centre
2 8 (3.90%) Product Ownership
2 8 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (3.41%) Driving Licence
3 7 (3.41%) PKI
4 6 (2.93%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.93%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.44%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (2.44%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.95%) CMDB
6 4 (1.95%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.46%) PMI
8 2 (0.98%) Blockchain
8 2 (0.98%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.98%) Replication
9 1 (0.49%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.49%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 40 (19.51%) Linux
2 21 (10.24%) Windows
3 13 (6.34%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.41%) CentOS
5 5 (2.44%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.46%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.46%) Unix
7 3 (1.46%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.98%) CoreOS
8 2 (0.98%) Debian
8 2 (0.98%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (28.29%) Agile
2 46 (22.44%) DevOps
3 37 (18.05%) Software Engineering
4 31 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (12.68%) Cybersecurity
6 23 (11.22%) AI
7 22 (10.73%) CI/CD
7 22 (10.73%) Collaborative Culture
7 22 (10.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 22 (10.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 21 (10.24%) Collaborative Working
9 16 (7.80%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (7.32%) Containerisation
10 15 (7.32%) Machine Learning
11 13 (6.34%) Analytics
11 13 (6.34%) Data Science
11 13 (6.34%) Full-Stack Development
11 13 (6.34%) Scrum
12 12 (5.85%) ITIL
12 12 (5.85%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 59 (28.78%) Python
2 37 (18.05%) Java
3 27 (13.17%) Bash
4 18 (8.78%) PowerShell
5 17 (8.29%) JavaScript
6 13 (6.34%) C
7 12 (5.85%) TypeScript
8 10 (4.88%) Go
9 6 (2.93%) C++
9 6 (2.93%) Kotlin
9 6 (2.93%) SQL
10 4 (1.95%) C#
11 3 (1.46%) Elixir
11 3 (1.46%) Erlang
11 3 (1.46%) Google Apps Script
11 3 (1.46%) Groovy
11 3 (1.46%) MATLAB
11 3 (1.46%) Tcl
11 3 (1.46%) VBScript
12 2 (0.98%) R
Qualifications
1 114 (55.61%) DV Cleared
2 100 (48.78%) SC Cleared
3 24 (11.71%) Degree
4 12 (5.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.93%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.44%) CCIE
7 4 (1.95%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (1.46%) CITP
8 3 (1.46%) CREST Certified
9 2 (0.98%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.98%) BC Cleared
9 2 (0.98%) CBAP
9 2 (0.98%) CHECK Team Member
9 2 (0.98%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.98%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (0.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.49%) CCNP
10 1 (0.49%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.37%) QA
2 4 (1.95%) GDPR
3 3 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.46%) RMADS
4 2 (0.98%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.49%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.49%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (8.78%) Docker
2 12 (5.85%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.41%) Hyper-V
3 7 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.95%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.98%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.98%) vSphere
6 1 (0.49%) KVM
6 1 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 39 (19.02%) Kubernetes
2 22 (10.73%) Ansible
3 19 (9.27%) Terraform
4 11 (5.37%) Grafana
5 6 (2.93%) Kibana
6 5 (2.44%) Argo
6 5 (2.44%) Nagios
6 5 (2.44%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.44%) Rancher
6 5 (2.44%) yum
7 4 (1.95%) logstash
8 3 (1.46%) McAfee ePO
8 3 (1.46%) Puppet
8 3 (1.46%) SCVMM
8 3 (1.46%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.98%) SCCM
10 1 (0.49%) Check_MK
10 1 (0.49%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.49%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.49%) vRealize
Vendors
1 10 (4.88%) Cisco
1 10 (4.88%) Red Hat
1 10 (4.88%) Splunk
2 8 (3.90%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.90%) VMware
3 6 (2.93%) Fortinet
3 6 (2.93%) Google
4 5 (2.44%) Atlassian
4 5 (2.44%) F5
5 4 (1.95%) CheckPoint
6 3 (1.46%) Dell
6 3 (1.46%) McAfee
7 2 (0.98%) IBM
7 2 (0.98%) Oracle
7 2 (0.98%) SAP
8 1 (0.49%) HP
8 1 (0.49%) Juniper
8 1 (0.49%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.49%) Veeam