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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 592 191 356
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 28.46% 31.31% 28.43%
As % of the Qualifications category 77.49% 64.75% 69.40%
Number of salaries quoted 412 102 244
10th Percentile £50,000 £35,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,238 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% -3.92%
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £87,500
South West median annual salary £75,000 £59,400 £60,000
% change year-on-year +26.26% -1.00% -

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 764 295 513
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 36.73% 48.36% 40.97%
Number of salaries quoted 491 175 359
10th Percentile £45,000 £28,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £42,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £88,000 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £82,500
South West median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% +1.85%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 0 275 £80,000 -8.57% 81
Gloucester 0 180 £70,000 -3.45% 41
Filton -1 13 £57,000 +3.64% 7
Tewkesbury -7 8 £52,500 -10.64% 5
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 33 (5.57%) Apache
2 9 (1.52%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.18%) Confluence
4 5 (0.84%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.34%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
1 2 (0.34%) Simulink
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 109 (18.41%) AWS
2 75 (12.67%) Azure
3 33 (5.57%) OpenShift
4 29 (4.90%) GCP
5 15 (2.53%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (2.20%) OCI
6 13 (2.20%) Serverless
7 12 (2.03%) Entra ID
8 11 (1.86%) Azure AKS
9 9 (1.52%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (1.35%) Azure Machine Learning
11 7 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.18%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 7 (1.18%) GitHub
12 6 (1.01%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (1.01%) PaaS
13 5 (0.84%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.20%) Network Security
2 11 (1.86%) Firewall
2 11 (1.86%) VPN
3 10 (1.69%) Software-Defined Radio
4 7 (1.18%) DHCP
4 7 (1.18%) DNS
5 4 (0.68%) LAN
5 4 (0.68%) WAN
6 3 (0.51%) AMQP
6 3 (0.51%) LoRaWAN
6 3 (0.51%) LTE
6 3 (0.51%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.51%) VXLAN
7 2 (0.34%) NAS
7 2 (0.34%) NGN
7 2 (0.34%) SAN
7 2 (0.34%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.17%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.17%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.21%) NoSQL
2 17 (2.87%) Elasticsearch
3 15 (2.53%) Big Data
4 12 (2.03%) MongoDB
4 12 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (1.35%) Hadoop
6 7 (1.18%) InfluxDB
7 6 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (0.84%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.68%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (0.68%) MySQL
10 3 (0.51%) Cloudera CDH
10 3 (0.51%) Flink
10 3 (0.51%) Redis
11 2 (0.34%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.17%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.17%) Power BI
12 1 (0.17%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (5.91%) Git
2 31 (5.24%) GitLab
3 27 (4.56%) Jenkins
4 15 (2.53%) JIRA
5 8 (1.35%) Cucumber
5 8 (1.35%) Cypress.io
5 8 (1.35%) SonarQube
5 8 (1.35%) TestRail
6 7 (1.18%) Robot Framework
6 7 (1.18%) Selenium
7 5 (0.84%) Subversion
8 4 (0.68%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.51%) MLflow
9 3 (0.51%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (0.51%) Rational Rhapsody
10 2 (0.34%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.34%) Gradle
10 2 (0.34%) Metasploit
10 2 (0.34%) Mockito
10 2 (0.34%) Valgrind
General
1 72 (12.16%) Finance
2 62 (10.47%) Social Skills
3 54 (9.12%) Public Sector
4 42 (7.09%) Aerospace
5 29 (4.90%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (1.01%) Games
8 5 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (0.68%) Military
10 3 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.51%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.34%) Electronics
12 1 (0.17%) Automotive
12 1 (0.17%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.17%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 119 (20.10%) Software Engineer
2 64 (10.81%) DevOps Engineer
3 54 (9.12%) Cloud Engineer
4 51 (8.61%) Senior
5 45 (7.60%) Lead
6 43 (7.26%) Data Engineer
7 35 (5.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 34 (5.74%) Architect
9 32 (5.41%) Developer
10 26 (4.39%) Consultant
11 25 (4.22%) Analyst
12 22 (3.72%) Lead DevOps
13 21 (3.55%) Lead DevOps Engineer
14 20 (3.38%) Administrator
14 20 (3.38%) Business Analyst
14 20 (3.38%) Data Scientist
14 20 (3.38%) Software Developer
14 20 (3.38%) Systems Administrator
15 19 (3.21%) Tester
16 18 (3.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.38%) Elastic Stack
1 20 (3.38%) Spring
1 20 (3.38%) Spring Boot
2 19 (3.21%) Kafka
3 17 (2.87%) Apache NiFi
4 10 (1.69%) Vue
5 9 (1.52%) REST
5 9 (1.52%) RESTful
6 8 (1.35%) React
7 7 (1.18%) Playwright
7 7 (1.18%) pytest
8 6 (1.01%) AngularJS
8 6 (1.01%) Keycloak
8 6 (1.01%) Node.js
9 5 (0.84%) gRPC
9 5 (0.84%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (0.68%) OpenAPI
11 3 (0.51%) Material-UI
11 3 (0.51%) PyTorch
11 3 (0.51%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 46 (7.77%) Cloud Native
2 24 (4.05%) Product Ownership
3 19 (3.21%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (2.36%) Embedded Systems
5 12 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (2.03%) Public Cloud
6 8 (1.35%) FPGA
6 8 (1.35%) VHDL
7 7 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.18%) Verilog
8 6 (1.01%) Data Centre
9 5 (0.84%) Algorithms
9 5 (0.84%) Blog
9 5 (0.84%) Data Structures
9 5 (0.84%) Mobile App
9 5 (0.84%) Operational Technology
9 5 (0.84%) PKI
9 5 (0.84%) Security Posture
10 4 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.68%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 96 (16.22%) Linux
2 34 (5.74%) Windows
3 15 (2.53%) Unix
4 13 (2.20%) Android
5 11 (1.86%) CentOS
6 7 (1.18%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.84%) Embedded Linux
7 5 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.51%) Debian
8 3 (0.51%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.34%) VMS
9 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.17%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.17%) Rocky
10 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (24.66%) Software Engineering
2 145 (24.49%) DevOps
3 125 (21.11%) Agile
4 103 (17.40%) CI/CD
5 82 (13.85%) Infrastructure as Code
6 78 (13.18%) Containerisation
7 65 (10.98%) Continuous Improvement
8 62 (10.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 54 (9.12%) AI
10 52 (8.78%) Collaborative Culture
11 49 (8.28%) Test Automation
12 48 (8.11%) Cybersecurity
13 42 (7.09%) Problem-Solving
13 42 (7.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 40 (6.76%) Platform Engineering
15 39 (6.59%) Analytics
16 38 (6.42%) Data Science
17 33 (5.57%) Stakeholder Management
18 31 (5.24%) DevSecOps
19 29 (4.90%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 136 (22.97%) Python
2 93 (15.71%) Java
3 73 (12.33%) C++
4 40 (6.76%) Bash
5 35 (5.91%) JavaScript
6 28 (4.73%) Go
7 23 (3.89%) Rust
7 23 (3.89%) SQL
8 19 (3.21%) C
9 16 (2.70%) PowerShell
10 14 (2.36%) TypeScript
11 12 (2.03%) Scala
12 8 (1.35%) Groovy
13 7 (1.18%) Bicep
14 6 (1.01%) C#
14 6 (1.01%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.51%) GLSL
16 2 (0.34%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.34%) SystemVerilog
17 1 (0.17%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 358 (60.47%) DV Cleared
2 231 (39.02%) SC Cleared
3 36 (6.08%) Degree
4 19 (3.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (1.35%) CREST Certified
6 7 (1.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 7 (1.18%) OSCP
7 6 (1.01%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (0.84%) CEH
8 5 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.51%) CCIE
9 3 (0.51%) CCNP
9 3 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.51%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.51%) PhD
9 3 (0.51%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.34%) CISSP
10 2 (0.34%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (1.86%) Accessibility
1 11 (1.86%) Data Quality
1 11 (1.86%) QA
2 9 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.01%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.34%) GDPR
4 2 (0.34%) NCSC
4 2 (0.34%) NIST
5 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.17%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.17%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.17%) PMO
System Software
1 55 (9.29%) Docker
2 25 (4.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (3.55%) Active Directory
4 9 (1.52%) Firmware
5 6 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.68%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.34%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 96 (16.22%) Kubernetes
2 86 (14.53%) Terraform
3 73 (12.33%) Ansible
4 23 (3.89%) Grafana
5 18 (3.04%) Puppet
6 14 (2.36%) Kibana
6 14 (2.36%) logstash
7 8 (1.35%) vCenter Server
8 7 (1.18%) Argo
8 7 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (1.18%) Prometheus
8 7 (1.18%) Rancher
9 5 (0.84%) yum
10 3 (0.51%) Check_MK
10 3 (0.51%) Kubeflow
10 3 (0.51%) Nagios
10 3 (0.51%) Packer
10 3 (0.51%) SCCM
10 3 (0.51%) SCOM
10 3 (0.51%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 33 (5.57%) Microsoft
2 31 (5.24%) VMware
3 16 (2.70%) Red Hat
4 15 (2.53%) Oracle
5 10 (1.69%) Atlassian
6 9 (1.52%) Cisco
7 8 (1.35%) Splunk
8 5 (0.84%) Databricks
9 3 (0.51%) Dell
9 3 (0.51%) Google
9 3 (0.51%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.34%) Intel
10 2 (0.34%) Microsemi
10 2 (0.34%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.34%) Xilinx
11 1 (0.17%) Citrix
11 1 (0.17%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.17%) McAfee
11 1 (0.17%) NetApp