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 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 4 1
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 184 192 437
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 28.66% 27.23% 50.40%
As % of the Qualifications category 65.95% 45.50% 80.33%
Number of salaries quoted 120 121 243
10th Percentile £36,125 £41,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £52,073
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +15.22% -9.44%
75th Percentile £82,500 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £86,000
South West median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 279 422 544
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 43.46% 59.86% 62.75%
Number of salaries quoted 176 190 326
10th Percentile £35,625 £41,250 £29,875
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.22% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £69,875 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £81,600 £80,000
South West median annual salary £52,500 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.19% +5.20% -

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 59 £72,500 +7.41% 48
Gloucester 0 57 £80,000 +23.08% 24
Filton +19 25 £42,500 -19.05% 13
Tewkesbury 0 12 £67,500 +58.82% 10
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 6 (3.26%) Apache
2 5 (2.72%) Confluence
3 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.17%) Simulink
2 3 (1.63%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.54%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 37 (20.11%) AWS
2 33 (17.93%) Azure
3 9 (4.89%) OpenShift
4 6 (3.26%) Amazon S3
4 6 (3.26%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (3.26%) Azure Stack
4 6 (3.26%) Entra ID
4 6 (3.26%) Serverless
5 5 (2.72%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.63%) GCP
6 3 (1.63%) Google Workspace
7 2 (1.09%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.54%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.54%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.54%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.54%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.72%) DNS
1 5 (2.72%) Firewall
1 5 (2.72%) LAN
1 5 (2.72%) TCP/IP
1 5 (2.72%) WAN
2 4 (2.17%) DHCP
2 4 (2.17%) VSAN
3 3 (1.63%) Network Security
3 3 (1.63%) Structured Cabling
3 3 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (1.09%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (1.09%) Software-Defined Radio
4 2 (1.09%) VPN
5 1 (0.54%) HTTP
5 1 (0.54%) ICMP
5 1 (0.54%) Internet
5 1 (0.54%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.54%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.89%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (3.26%) Neo4j
3 5 (2.72%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.17%) Big Data
4 4 (2.17%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.63%) InfluxDB
6 2 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.09%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.54%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.54%) Metadata
7 1 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (5.98%) JIRA
2 9 (4.89%) Git
2 9 (4.89%) GitLab
3 6 (3.26%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.17%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.63%) Balsamiq
5 3 (1.63%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.63%) Subversion
6 2 (1.09%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.09%) IDA Disassembler
6 2 (1.09%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.09%) TestRail
7 1 (0.54%) JUnit
7 1 (0.54%) SonarQube
General
1 45 (24.46%) Social Skills
2 23 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 19 (10.33%) Aerospace
4 13 (7.07%) Manufacturing
5 12 (6.52%) Military
6 9 (4.89%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (3.80%) Electronics
8 7 (3.80%) Finance
9 6 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.72%) Automotive
11 4 (2.17%) Aviation
11 4 (2.17%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.63%) Avionics
12 3 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.09%) Advertising
13 2 (1.09%) Marketing
14 1 (0.54%) Games
14 1 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.54%) Law
Job Titles
1 25 (13.59%) Software Engineer
2 18 (9.78%) Consultant
3 16 (8.70%) Analyst
4 14 (7.61%) Business Analyst
4 14 (7.61%) Senior
5 13 (7.07%) Lead
6 12 (6.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (5.98%) Architect
7 11 (5.98%) Integration Engineer
8 10 (5.43%) Administrator
9 9 (4.89%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (4.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 9 (4.89%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 9 (4.89%) Security Consultant
10 8 (4.35%) Junior
10 8 (4.35%) Technical Consultant
11 7 (3.80%) Cybersecurity Consultant
11 7 (3.80%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (3.80%) Splunk Engineer
11 7 (3.80%) Virtualisation Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.07%) React
2 7 (3.80%) AngularJS
3 6 (3.26%) MERN Stack
4 5 (2.72%) Spring
4 5 (2.72%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.63%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (1.63%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.54%) .NET
6 1 (0.54%) Blazor
6 1 (0.54%) Express.js
6 1 (0.54%) Flash
6 1 (0.54%) HTML
6 1 (0.54%) JSF
6 1 (0.54%) Kafka
6 1 (0.54%) NestJS
6 1 (0.54%) Node.js
6 1 (0.54%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.54%) REST
6 1 (0.54%) RESTful
6 1 (0.54%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.43%) Data Centre
1 10 (5.43%) Onboarding
2 7 (3.80%) Driving Licence
2 7 (3.80%) Management Information System
2 7 (3.80%) PKI
3 6 (3.26%) Algorithms
3 6 (3.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (2.72%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.72%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.63%) CMDB
5 3 (1.63%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.63%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.09%) FPGA
6 2 (1.09%) Verilog
6 2 (1.09%) VHDL
7 1 (0.54%) Raspberry Pi
7 1 (0.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (20.11%) Linux
2 23 (12.50%) Windows
3 17 (9.24%) Windows Server
4 9 (4.89%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (3.26%) CentOS
5 6 (3.26%) Rocky
6 4 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.63%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.63%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.09%) CoreOS
8 2 (1.09%) Debian
8 2 (1.09%) Mac OS
8 2 (1.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (23.37%) Agile
2 35 (19.02%) Software Engineering
3 28 (15.22%) DevOps
4 27 (14.67%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (13.59%) Cybersecurity
6 18 (9.78%) AI
6 18 (9.78%) Continuous Improvement
6 18 (9.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 15 (8.15%) Collaborative Working
8 13 (7.07%) Collaborative Culture
9 12 (6.52%) CI/CD
9 12 (6.52%) Containerisation
9 12 (6.52%) Full-Stack Development
9 12 (6.52%) ITIL
9 12 (6.52%) Machine Learning
10 11 (5.98%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (5.98%) Systems Engineering
11 10 (5.43%) Business Development
11 10 (5.43%) Data Analysis
12 9 (4.89%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 45 (24.46%) Python
2 24 (13.04%) Java
3 17 (9.24%) PowerShell
4 16 (8.70%) Bash
5 14 (7.61%) C
5 14 (7.61%) JavaScript
6 10 (5.43%) TypeScript
7 7 (3.80%) Go
8 5 (2.72%) C++
8 5 (2.72%) SQL
9 4 (2.17%) C#
9 4 (2.17%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.63%) Google Apps Script
10 3 (1.63%) MATLAB
10 3 (1.63%) Tcl
10 3 (1.63%) VBScript
11 1 (0.54%) Groovy
11 1 (0.54%) R
Qualifications
1 109 (59.24%) DV Cleared
2 94 (51.09%) SC Cleared
3 22 (11.96%) Degree
4 16 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.26%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.26%) Network+ Certification
6 5 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.17%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.63%) CCIE
8 3 (1.63%) CITP
8 3 (1.63%) CREST Certified
9 2 (1.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (1.09%) BC Cleared
9 2 (1.09%) CHECK Team Member
9 2 (1.09%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.54%) CBAP
10 1 (0.54%) CCNA
10 1 (0.54%) PMP
10 1 (0.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.35%) QA
2 4 (2.17%) GDPR
3 3 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.63%) RMADS
4 1 (0.54%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.54%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 15 (8.15%) Active Directory
2 12 (6.52%) Hyper-V
3 11 (5.98%) Docker
4 3 (1.63%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.09%) vSphere
6 1 (0.54%) KVM
6 1 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.54%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 32 (17.39%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.98%) Ansible
3 9 (4.89%) Terraform
4 4 (2.17%) Grafana
5 3 (1.63%) Argo
5 3 (1.63%) Kibana
5 3 (1.63%) McAfee ePO
5 3 (1.63%) Nagios
5 3 (1.63%) Rancher
5 3 (1.63%) SCVMM
5 3 (1.63%) yum
6 2 (1.09%) SCCM
7 1 (0.54%) logstash
7 1 (0.54%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.54%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.54%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.54%) Puppet
7 1 (0.54%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (4.89%) Splunk
2 8 (4.35%) Cisco
2 8 (4.35%) Red Hat
3 7 (3.80%) Dell
3 7 (3.80%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.26%) Google
5 5 (2.72%) Fortinet
5 5 (2.72%) VMware
6 4 (2.17%) Atlassian
6 4 (2.17%) F5
6 4 (2.17%) IBM
7 3 (1.63%) CheckPoint
7 3 (1.63%) McAfee
8 2 (1.09%) Cognizant
8 2 (1.09%) Oracle
8 2 (1.09%) SAP
9 1 (0.54%) HP
9 1 (0.54%) Juniper
9 1 (0.54%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.54%) Veeam