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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 242 193 589
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 30.91% 34.16% 44.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 74.92% 50.66% 78.95%
Number of salaries quoted 158 90 387
10th Percentile £39,825 £41,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £49,063 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £62,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% +19.05% -12.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,938 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £82,500
South West median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -

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 323 381 746
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 41.25% 67.43% 56.05%
Number of salaries quoted 192 137 510
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £29,440
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £39,002
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,560 £52,286
Median % change year-on-year +8.58% +10.09% -9.07%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £67,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,750 £80,125
South West median annual salary £55,000 £52,600 £50,550
% change year-on-year +4.56% +4.06% +1.10%

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 February 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 February 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 0 83 £65,000 - 33
Cheltenham 0 75 £67,500 - 48
Filton +14 23 £42,500 +11.11% 28
Tewkesbury -1 14 £62,500 +47.06% 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 10 (4.13%) Apache
2 8 (3.31%) Confluence
3 1 (0.41%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.83%) Simulink
3 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 54 (22.31%) AWS
2 47 (19.42%) Azure
3 10 (4.13%) OpenShift
4 9 (3.72%) GCP
5 6 (2.48%) Amazon S3
5 6 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (2.48%) Serverless
6 5 (2.07%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.24%) Google Workspace
8 2 (0.83%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.41%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.41%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.41%) Azure Stack
9 1 (0.41%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.41%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.13%) Firewall
2 9 (3.72%) DNS
3 8 (3.31%) DHCP
4 7 (2.89%) TCP/IP
5 5 (2.07%) LAN
5 5 (2.07%) Network Security
5 5 (2.07%) WAN
6 4 (1.65%) VPN
6 4 (1.65%) VSAN
7 3 (1.24%) Structured Cabling
8 2 (0.83%) NAS
8 2 (0.83%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (0.83%) SAN
9 1 (0.41%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.41%) HTTP
9 1 (0.41%) ICMP
9 1 (0.41%) Internet
9 1 (0.41%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.41%) VLAN
9 1 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.79%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (3.72%) NoSQL
3 8 (3.31%) Neo4j
4 6 (2.48%) Big Data
5 5 (2.07%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.65%) InfluxDB
7 2 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.83%) Metadata
7 2 (0.83%) MySQL
7 2 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.41%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (5.37%) JIRA
2 12 (4.96%) Git
3 10 (4.13%) GitLab
3 10 (4.13%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.89%) Cucumber
5 6 (2.48%) Subversion
6 5 (2.07%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.24%) Balsamiq
7 3 (1.24%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.24%) Robot Framework
7 3 (1.24%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.24%) TestRail
8 2 (0.83%) Gradle
8 2 (0.83%) IDA Disassembler
8 2 (0.83%) Maven
9 1 (0.41%) Selenium
9 1 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 40 (16.53%) Social Skills
2 22 (9.09%) Aerospace
3 21 (8.68%) Public Sector
4 20 (8.26%) Finance
5 15 (6.20%) Manufacturing
6 12 (4.96%) Military
7 10 (4.13%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (3.72%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.07%) Advertising
10 5 (2.07%) Electronics
11 4 (1.65%) Aviation
11 4 (1.65%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.24%) Avionics
12 3 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.24%) Law
13 2 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.83%) Marketing
14 1 (0.41%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 33 (13.64%) Software Engineer
2 23 (9.50%) Analyst
2 23 (9.50%) Consultant
3 22 (9.09%) Senior
4 21 (8.68%) Business Analyst
5 20 (8.26%) Security Consultant
6 15 (6.20%) DevOps Engineer
6 15 (6.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (3.72%) Administrator
7 9 (3.72%) Architect
7 9 (3.72%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 8 (3.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 8 (3.31%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 8 (3.31%) Test Engineer
9 7 (2.89%) Data Engineer
9 7 (2.89%) Project Manager
9 7 (2.89%) Splunk Engineer
9 7 (2.89%) Vulnerability Researcher
10 6 (2.48%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
10 6 (2.48%) Virtualisation Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.44%) React
2 12 (4.96%) AngularJS
3 9 (3.72%) Spring
3 9 (3.72%) Spring Boot
4 8 (3.31%) MERN Stack
5 7 (2.89%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (2.48%) Apache NiFi
6 6 (2.48%) Vue
7 5 (2.07%) REST
8 4 (1.65%) Node.js
9 3 (1.24%) Kafka
10 2 (0.83%) Hibernate
10 2 (0.83%) JPA
10 2 (0.83%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (0.83%) RESTful
11 1 (0.41%) ActiveMQ
11 1 (0.41%) Express.js
11 1 (0.41%) Flash
11 1 (0.41%) Middleware
11 1 (0.41%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.96%) Data Centre
2 10 (4.13%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.13%) Product Ownership
2 10 (4.13%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (2.89%) Driving Licence
3 7 (2.89%) PKI
4 5 (2.07%) Algorithms
4 5 (2.07%) CMDB
4 5 (2.07%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.07%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.24%) PMI
6 3 (1.24%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.83%) Blockchain
7 2 (0.83%) Cyber Security Posture
7 2 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.83%) Replication
7 2 (0.83%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.41%) Culture of Ownership
Operating Systems
1 39 (16.12%) Linux
2 19 (7.85%) Windows
3 10 (4.13%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.48%) CentOS
5 4 (1.65%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.24%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.83%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.83%) Unix
8 1 (0.41%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.41%) Debian
8 1 (0.41%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (26.03%) Agile
2 52 (21.49%) DevOps
3 48 (19.83%) Software Engineering
4 35 (14.46%) Cybersecurity
5 31 (12.81%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (11.16%) AI
7 26 (10.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 25 (10.33%) Collaborative Culture
9 23 (9.50%) Collaborative Working
9 23 (9.50%) Infrastructure as Code
10 20 (8.26%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (7.85%) CI/CD
12 17 (7.02%) Full-Stack Development
13 16 (6.61%) Containerisation
13 16 (6.61%) Data Science
13 16 (6.61%) ITIL
13 16 (6.61%) Machine Learning
14 15 (6.20%) Scrum
15 14 (5.79%) Software Testing
15 14 (5.79%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 66 (27.27%) Python
2 46 (19.01%) Java
3 29 (11.98%) Bash
4 20 (8.26%) JavaScript
5 19 (7.85%) PowerShell
6 15 (6.20%) C
7 12 (4.96%) Go
7 12 (4.96%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.89%) C++
9 6 (2.48%) Kotlin
9 6 (2.48%) SQL
10 4 (1.65%) C#
11 3 (1.24%) Elixir
11 3 (1.24%) Erlang
11 3 (1.24%) Google Apps Script
11 3 (1.24%) Groovy
11 3 (1.24%) MATLAB
11 3 (1.24%) Tcl
11 3 (1.24%) VBScript
12 2 (0.83%) R
Qualifications
1 128 (52.89%) DV Cleared
2 115 (47.52%) SC Cleared
3 26 (10.74%) Degree
4 11 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.48%) CCIE
5 6 (2.48%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.65%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 3 (1.24%) BC Cleared
7 3 (1.24%) CITP
7 3 (1.24%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.83%) CBAP
8 2 (0.83%) CHECK Team Member
8 2 (0.83%) CISSP
8 2 (0.83%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.41%) CCNP
9 1 (0.41%) PhD
9 1 (0.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.20%) QA
2 5 (2.07%) GDPR
2 5 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.65%) SLA
4 3 (1.24%) RMADS
5 2 (0.83%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.41%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.41%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (9.09%) Docker
2 11 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.48%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.65%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.83%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.41%) Firmware
8 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 44 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 22 (9.09%) Ansible
3 21 (8.68%) Terraform
4 12 (4.96%) Grafana
5 7 (2.89%) Argo
6 6 (2.48%) Nagios
6 6 (2.48%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.48%) Rancher
6 6 (2.48%) yum
7 4 (1.65%) Kibana
7 4 (1.65%) logstash
7 4 (1.65%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.24%) McAfee ePO
8 3 (1.24%) Puppet
8 3 (1.24%) SCVMM
9 2 (0.83%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.83%) SCCM
10 1 (0.41%) Check_MK
10 1 (0.41%) Mesos
10 1 (0.41%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 13 (5.37%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.96%) Cisco
3 10 (4.13%) Splunk
4 9 (3.72%) Red Hat
4 9 (3.72%) VMware
5 7 (2.89%) Fortinet
6 6 (2.48%) F5
7 5 (2.07%) Atlassian
7 5 (2.07%) CheckPoint
7 5 (2.07%) Google
8 4 (1.65%) Dell
9 3 (1.24%) McAfee
10 2 (0.83%) HP
10 2 (0.83%) IBM
10 2 (0.83%) Juniper
10 2 (0.83%) SAP
10 2 (0.83%) Veeam
11 1 (0.41%) Palo Alto