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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 321 154 643
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 27.58% 38.99% 38.85%
As % of the Qualifications category 69.63% 63.64% 77.01%
Number of salaries quoted 229 85 439
10th Percentile £45,000 £32,750 £31,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +11.11% -13.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,000 £100,000 £82,500
South West median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +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 461 242 835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 39.60% 61.27% 50.45%
Number of salaries quoted 274 138 599
10th Percentile £40,000 £27,425 £30,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £42,813 £41,695
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,750 £81,250
South West median annual salary £57,500 £51,058 £52,500
% change year-on-year +12.62% -2.75% -

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 April 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 April 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 0 116 £65,000 -3.70% 52
Gloucester 0 108 £65,000 - 25
Tewkesbury -1 13 £62,500 +63.19% 1
Filton +8 7 £28,000 -37.78% 28
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 13 (4.05%) Apache
2 8 (2.49%) Confluence
3 1 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.31%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 80 (24.92%) AWS
2 64 (19.94%) Azure
3 17 (5.30%) GCP
4 12 (3.74%) OpenShift
5 8 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.25%) Amazon S3
7 4 (1.25%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (1.25%) Serverless
8 3 (0.93%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (0.93%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.62%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (0.62%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (0.62%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (0.62%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.31%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.31%) Dagster
10 1 (0.31%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.43%) DNS
2 10 (3.12%) DHCP
3 8 (2.49%) Firewall
4 7 (2.18%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.87%) VPN
6 5 (1.56%) LAN
6 5 (1.56%) WAN
7 3 (0.93%) Structured Cabling
7 3 (0.93%) VSAN
8 2 (0.62%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.62%) NAS
8 2 (0.62%) Network Security
8 2 (0.62%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (0.62%) SAN
8 2 (0.62%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.62%) VLAN
8 2 (0.62%) VXLAN
9 1 (0.31%) HTTP
9 1 (0.31%) ICMP
9 1 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.98%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (3.43%) NoSQL
3 8 (2.49%) MongoDB
3 8 (2.49%) Neo4j
4 6 (1.87%) InfluxDB
5 4 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (0.93%) Big Data
6 3 (0.93%) MySQL
7 2 (0.62%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.62%) Metadata
8 1 (0.31%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.31%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.31%) Power BI
8 1 (0.31%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.31%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (6.54%) Git
2 14 (4.36%) GitLab
3 13 (4.05%) Jenkins
3 13 (4.05%) JIRA
4 8 (2.49%) Cucumber
4 8 (2.49%) Cypress.io
5 7 (2.18%) Subversion
6 5 (1.56%) Robot Framework
6 5 (1.56%) TestRail
7 4 (1.25%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.25%) Selenium
7 4 (1.25%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.93%) Balsamiq
8 3 (0.93%) Gradle
9 2 (0.62%) IDA Disassembler
9 2 (0.62%) Maven
9 2 (0.62%) MLflow
9 2 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.31%) JUnit
10 1 (0.31%) Postman
General
1 41 (12.77%) Social Skills
2 38 (11.84%) Public Sector
3 24 (7.48%) Finance
4 21 (6.54%) Aerospace
5 14 (4.36%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.49%) Manufacturing
7 8 (2.49%) Military
8 6 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.56%) Advertising
10 4 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.25%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.93%) Law
11 3 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.62%) Electronics
12 2 (0.62%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 59 (18.38%) Software Engineer
2 34 (10.59%) Consultant
3 31 (9.66%) Security Consultant
4 27 (8.41%) Senior
5 23 (7.17%) Analyst
6 22 (6.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 21 (6.54%) DevOps Engineer
8 19 (5.92%) Business Analyst
9 17 (5.30%) Cybersecurity Consultant
10 14 (4.36%) Data Scientist
11 12 (3.74%) Cloud Engineer
12 11 (3.43%) Administrator
12 11 (3.43%) Architect
12 11 (3.43%) Test Engineer
13 10 (3.12%) AWS Engineer
13 10 (3.12%) Data Engineer
13 10 (3.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 10 (3.12%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 10 (3.12%) Tester
14 9 (2.80%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.30%) React
2 14 (4.36%) AngularJS
3 10 (3.12%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (2.80%) Vue
5 8 (2.49%) Apache NiFi
5 8 (2.49%) MERN Stack
5 8 (2.49%) REST
5 8 (2.49%) Spring
5 8 (2.49%) Spring Boot
6 4 (1.25%) Kafka
6 4 (1.25%) Node.js
6 4 (1.25%) RESTful
7 3 (0.93%) Playwright
7 3 (0.93%) pytest
8 2 (0.62%) Hibernate
8 2 (0.62%) JPA
8 2 (0.62%) PyTorch
8 2 (0.62%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.62%) TensorFlow
9 1 (0.31%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.98%) Product Ownership
2 11 (3.43%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (3.12%) Cloud Native
4 9 (2.80%) Data Centre
5 5 (1.56%) Blog
5 5 (1.56%) PKI
5 5 (1.56%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.25%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.25%) Security Posture
7 3 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (0.93%) Driving Licence
7 3 (0.93%) Management Information System
7 3 (0.93%) PMI
7 3 (0.93%) Replication
8 2 (0.62%) Blockchain
8 2 (0.62%) CMDB
8 2 (0.62%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.62%) Fat Client
8 2 (0.62%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.62%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 58 (18.07%) Linux
2 28 (8.72%) Windows
3 10 (3.12%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.18%) CentOS
5 3 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.62%) Unix
6 2 (0.62%) VMS
6 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.31%) Android
7 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (24.61%) Software Engineering
2 78 (24.30%) Agile
3 73 (22.74%) DevOps
4 47 (14.64%) Cybersecurity
5 42 (13.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 38 (11.84%) Problem-Solving
7 37 (11.53%) Infrastructure as Code
8 32 (9.97%) CI/CD
9 28 (8.72%) AI
9 28 (8.72%) Collaborative Culture
10 27 (8.41%) Containerisation
11 26 (8.10%) Continuous Improvement
12 24 (7.48%) Collaborative Working
12 24 (7.48%) Data Science
13 23 (7.17%) Penetration Testing
13 23 (7.17%) Software Testing
14 21 (6.54%) Full-Stack Development
15 20 (6.23%) Scrum
15 20 (6.23%) Test Automation
16 16 (4.98%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 87 (27.10%) Python
2 57 (17.76%) Java
3 33 (10.28%) Bash
4 25 (7.79%) JavaScript
5 24 (7.48%) PowerShell
6 17 (5.30%) C++
7 16 (4.98%) Go
8 15 (4.67%) C
9 13 (4.05%) TypeScript
10 10 (3.12%) SQL
11 7 (2.18%) Kotlin
12 6 (1.87%) C#
13 4 (1.25%) Groovy
13 4 (1.25%) Rust
14 3 (0.93%) Elixir
14 3 (0.93%) Erlang
14 3 (0.93%) VBScript
15 2 (0.62%) R
16 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 188 (58.57%) DV Cleared
2 139 (43.30%) SC Cleared
3 26 (8.10%) Degree
4 8 (2.49%) CREST Certified
5 5 (1.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (1.25%) CCIE
6 4 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.25%) PhD
6 4 (1.25%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.93%) BC Cleared
7 3 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.93%) CITP
7 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (0.62%) CBAP
8 2 (0.62%) CCIE Data Center
8 2 (0.62%) CCNP
8 2 (0.62%) CHECK Team Member
8 2 (0.62%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.05%) QA
2 10 (3.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.56%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.25%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.25%) SLA
5 3 (0.93%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.93%) RMADS
6 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.31%) GDPR
6 1 (0.31%) NIST
System Software
1 33 (10.28%) Docker
2 15 (4.67%) Active Directory
2 15 (4.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.56%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.25%) Firmware
5 3 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.93%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.62%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 54 (16.82%) Kubernetes
2 33 (10.28%) Ansible
3 32 (9.97%) Terraform
4 17 (5.30%) Grafana
5 8 (2.49%) Argo
5 8 (2.49%) Rancher
6 7 (2.18%) Kibana
6 7 (2.18%) logstash
6 7 (2.18%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.18%) Puppet
6 7 (2.18%) yum
7 6 (1.87%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (1.25%) Nagios
8 4 (1.25%) SCCM
9 2 (0.62%) McAfee ePO
9 2 (0.62%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.62%) SCOM
9 2 (0.62%) SCOrch
9 2 (0.62%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 23 (7.17%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.98%) VMware
3 14 (4.36%) Cisco
4 13 (4.05%) Red Hat
4 13 (4.05%) Splunk
5 7 (2.18%) Atlassian
6 6 (1.87%) Dell
7 5 (1.56%) Fortinet
8 3 (0.93%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.62%) CheckPoint
9 2 (0.62%) F5
9 2 (0.62%) Google
9 2 (0.62%) HP
9 2 (0.62%) Juniper
9 2 (0.62%) McAfee
9 2 (0.62%) Oracle
9 2 (0.62%) SAP
9 2 (0.62%) Veeam
10 1 (0.31%) Databricks
10 1 (0.31%) NetApp