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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 2
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 708 133 286
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 28.07% 25.98% 27.74%
As % of the Qualifications category 80.91% 67.17% 54.58%
Number of salaries quoted 484 83 177
10th Percentile £50,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,125 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £86,750
South West median annual salary £75,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +36.36% -8.33% -

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 875 198 524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 34.69% 38.67% 50.82%
Number of salaries quoted 579 136 250
10th Percentile £45,000 £38,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +13.04% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £81,600
South West median annual salary £65,843 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +31.69% -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 12 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 12 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 0 330 £80,000 -5.88% 122
Gloucester 0 232 £70,000 -12.50% 48
Tewkesbury -5 20 £55,000 -21.43% 6
Filton -1 11 £55,000 +27.91% 7
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 48 (6.78%) Apache
2 15 (2.12%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.55%) Confluence
4 7 (0.99%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.28%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.28%) Simulink
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 110 (15.54%) AWS
2 84 (11.86%) Azure
3 44 (6.21%) OpenShift
4 34 (4.80%) GCP
5 21 (2.97%) Serverless
6 20 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 15 (2.12%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (1.98%) Azure AKS
8 14 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (1.98%) OCI
9 13 (1.84%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (1.69%) GitHub
11 11 (1.55%) Amazon S3
11 11 (1.55%) Entra ID
12 10 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (1.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 7 (0.99%) Microsoft 365
15 6 (0.85%) PaaS
16 5 (0.71%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.54%) Network Security
2 13 (1.84%) Firewall
3 11 (1.55%) VPN
4 10 (1.41%) Software-Defined Radio
5 6 (0.85%) DHCP
5 6 (0.85%) DNS
6 5 (0.71%) AMQP
7 4 (0.56%) LAN
7 4 (0.56%) NGN
7 4 (0.56%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (0.56%) VXLAN
7 4 (0.56%) WAN
8 3 (0.42%) LoRaWAN
8 3 (0.42%) LTE
9 2 (0.28%) NAS
9 2 (0.28%) SAN
9 2 (0.28%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.14%) BGP
10 1 (0.14%) MPLS
10 1 (0.14%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (4.24%) NoSQL
2 27 (3.81%) Elasticsearch
3 21 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (2.68%) Big Data
5 10 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (1.41%) Hadoop
6 9 (1.27%) MongoDB
7 8 (1.13%) InfluxDB
8 7 (0.99%) Flink
9 6 (0.85%) Redis
10 5 (0.71%) Cloudera CDH
10 5 (0.71%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.71%) MySQL
11 4 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.56%) Metadata
12 3 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.28%) DynamoDB
14 1 (0.14%) Relational Database
14 1 (0.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 47 (6.64%) GitLab
2 43 (6.07%) Git
3 41 (5.79%) Jenkins
4 17 (2.40%) JIRA
5 14 (1.98%) Cypress.io
6 11 (1.55%) Selenium
7 10 (1.41%) Cucumber
7 10 (1.41%) SonarQube
7 10 (1.41%) TestRail
8 8 (1.13%) Robot Framework
8 8 (1.13%) Subversion
9 5 (0.71%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.71%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.42%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.42%) Rational Rhapsody
11 2 (0.28%) Burp Suite
11 2 (0.28%) Metasploit
11 2 (0.28%) Valgrind
11 2 (0.28%) Zephyr
12 1 (0.14%) MLflow
General
1 89 (12.57%) Finance
2 63 (8.90%) Social Skills
3 42 (5.93%) Aerospace
4 39 (5.51%) Public Sector
5 38 (5.37%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (0.85%) Games
8 5 (0.71%) Military
9 4 (0.56%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.42%) Electronics
11 2 (0.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.14%) Automotive
12 1 (0.14%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.14%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 128 (18.08%) Software Engineer
2 89 (12.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 69 (9.75%) Senior
4 67 (9.46%) Developer
5 64 (9.04%) Lead
6 56 (7.91%) Cloud Engineer
7 55 (7.77%) Data Engineer
8 51 (7.20%) Software Developer
9 47 (6.64%) Architect
10 43 (6.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 31 (4.38%) Lead DevOps
12 29 (4.10%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 29 (4.10%) Python Engineer
13 27 (3.81%) Network Engineer
14 25 (3.53%) Analyst
14 25 (3.53%) Principal Engineer
15 21 (2.97%) Business Analyst
15 21 (2.97%) C++ Developer
15 21 (2.97%) C++ Software Developer
16 19 (2.68%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (16.67%) Terraform
2 30 (4.24%) Spring
2 30 (4.24%) Spring Boot
3 28 (3.95%) Kafka
4 26 (3.67%) Elastic Stack
5 18 (2.54%) Apache NiFi
6 15 (2.12%) REST
6 15 (2.12%) RESTful
7 14 (1.98%) Node.js
8 13 (1.84%) Keycloak
8 13 (1.84%) Playwright
9 10 (1.41%) React
10 9 (1.27%) pytest
10 9 (1.27%) RabbitMQ
10 9 (1.27%) Vue
11 7 (0.99%) OpenAPI
12 6 (0.85%) AngularJS
12 6 (0.85%) gRPC
12 6 (0.85%) Swagger
13 5 (0.71%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 66 (9.32%) Cloud Native
2 30 (4.24%) Hybrid Cloud
3 22 (3.11%) Product Ownership
4 16 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (1.98%) Embedded Systems
5 14 (1.98%) Public Cloud
6 8 (1.13%) FPGA
6 8 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.13%) VHDL
7 7 (0.99%) Verilog
8 6 (0.85%) Data Centre
8 6 (0.85%) Distributed Applications
8 6 (0.85%) PKI
9 5 (0.71%) Data Structures
9 5 (0.71%) Operational Technology
10 4 (0.56%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.56%) Mobile App
10 4 (0.56%) Replication
11 3 (0.42%) 3D Graphics
11 3 (0.42%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 115 (16.24%) Linux
2 27 (3.81%) Windows
3 19 (2.68%) Unix
4 14 (1.98%) CentOS
5 12 (1.69%) Android
6 6 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.71%) Debian
7 5 (0.71%) Embedded Linux
7 5 (0.71%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.56%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.28%) Rocky
10 1 (0.14%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (26.41%) DevOps
2 158 (22.32%) Software Engineering
3 146 (20.62%) CI/CD
4 143 (20.20%) Agile
5 109 (15.40%) Containerisation
5 109 (15.40%) Infrastructure as Code
6 78 (11.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 77 (10.88%) Continuous Improvement
8 63 (8.90%) Collaborative Culture
9 62 (8.76%) Problem-Solving
10 61 (8.62%) AI
11 59 (8.33%) Test Automation
12 48 (6.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 47 (6.64%) Stakeholder Management
14 43 (6.07%) Analytics
15 42 (5.93%) Data Pipeline
15 42 (5.93%) Platform Engineering
16 41 (5.79%) Microservices
17 40 (5.65%) DevSecOps
17 40 (5.65%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 167 (23.59%) Python
2 130 (18.36%) Java
3 93 (13.14%) C++
4 60 (8.47%) Bash
5 44 (6.21%) JavaScript
6 41 (5.79%) Go
7 28 (3.95%) SQL
8 27 (3.81%) Rust
9 18 (2.54%) PowerShell
9 18 (2.54%) Scala
10 17 (2.40%) TypeScript
11 16 (2.26%) C
12 9 (1.27%) Bicep
13 7 (0.99%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.85%) Groovy
15 5 (0.71%) C#
16 4 (0.56%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.42%) GLSL
18 2 (0.28%) SystemVerilog
19 1 (0.14%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 419 (59.18%) DV Cleared
2 286 (40.40%) SC Cleared
3 36 (5.08%) Degree
4 17 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (1.98%) Azure Certification
6 10 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (0.85%) OSCP
9 4 (0.56%) CCIE
9 4 (0.56%) CCNP
9 4 (0.56%) CEH
9 4 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.56%) PMI Certification
9 4 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (0.42%) CREST Certified
10 3 (0.42%) PMP
11 2 (0.28%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.28%) CISSP
11 2 (0.28%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.39%) QA
2 10 (1.41%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.13%) Data Quality
4 5 (0.71%) GDPR
5 4 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.28%) NCSC
6 2 (0.28%) NIST
7 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.14%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.14%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.14%) PMO
7 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 82 (11.58%) Docker
2 29 (4.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (2.68%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.13%) VMware NSX
5 6 (0.85%) Firmware
5 6 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.14%) vSphere
7 1 (0.14%) XenApp
7 1 (0.14%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 135 (19.07%) Kubernetes
2 103 (14.55%) Ansible
3 29 (4.10%) Grafana
4 27 (3.81%) Puppet
5 16 (2.26%) Kibana
5 16 (2.26%) logstash
6 12 (1.69%) Argo
7 11 (1.55%) Prometheus
7 11 (1.55%) vCenter Server
8 10 (1.41%) Rancher
9 8 (1.13%) yum
10 4 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (0.56%) Istio
10 4 (0.56%) linkerd
10 4 (0.56%) Mesos
10 4 (0.56%) Packer
11 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.28%) Check_MK
12 2 (0.28%) Nagios
12 2 (0.28%) Nessus
Vendors
1 40 (5.65%) Microsoft
2 36 (5.08%) VMware
3 16 (2.26%) Red Hat
4 14 (1.98%) Oracle
5 13 (1.84%) Atlassian
6 9 (1.27%) Splunk
7 8 (1.13%) Google
8 6 (0.85%) Cisco
9 5 (0.71%) SaltStack
10 4 (0.56%) Databricks
11 3 (0.42%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.42%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.28%) Citrix
12 2 (0.28%) Intel
12 2 (0.28%) Microsemi
12 2 (0.28%) Xilinx
13 1 (0.14%) Dell
13 1 (0.14%) McAfee
13 1 (0.14%) NetApp
13 1 (0.14%) SolarWinds