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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 363 139 564
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 26.23% 33.82% 33.85%
As % of the Qualifications category 71.32% 62.61% 74.50%
Number of salaries quoted 266 68 419
10th Percentile £45,000 £30,750 £31,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,438 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,750 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,188 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,250 £81,700
South West median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +5.26% +3.64%

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 509 222 757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 36.78% 54.01% 45.44%
Number of salaries quoted 321 120 579
10th Percentile £40,000 £27,213 £30,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £37,188 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -13.79%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,563 £68,750
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £80,000
South West median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% +2.77%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 0 154 £67,500 +3.85% 36
Gloucester 0 117 £65,000 -1.89% 11
Tewkesbury -2 9 £62,500 +74.83%
Filton +3 8 £28,000 -49.09% 31
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 14 (3.86%) Apache
2 8 (2.20%) Confluence
3 2 (0.55%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.55%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 78 (21.49%) AWS
2 71 (19.56%) Azure
3 25 (6.89%) GCP
4 14 (3.86%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (3.31%) OpenShift
6 6 (1.65%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.38%) Azure Machine Learning
7 5 (1.38%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (1.10%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (1.10%) OCI
9 3 (0.83%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (0.83%) Amazon S3
9 3 (0.83%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (0.83%) Serverless
10 2 (0.55%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.55%) Azure AKS
10 2 (0.55%) GitHub
10 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.28%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.03%) DHCP
1 11 (3.03%) DNS
1 11 (3.03%) Firewall
2 6 (1.65%) LAN
2 6 (1.65%) Network Security
2 6 (1.65%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.65%) VPN
2 6 (1.65%) WAN
3 4 (1.10%) Software-Defined Radio
4 3 (0.83%) LoRaWAN
4 3 (0.83%) LTE
4 3 (0.83%) NAS
4 3 (0.83%) SAN
4 3 (0.83%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (0.83%) VXLAN
5 2 (0.55%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.28%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (0.28%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.28%) VSAN
6 1 (0.28%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.86%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (2.48%) NoSQL
3 8 (2.20%) MongoDB
4 7 (1.93%) Big Data
5 5 (1.38%) InfluxDB
5 5 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.10%) Neo4j
7 3 (0.83%) Metadata
7 3 (0.83%) MySQL
8 2 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.55%) Flink
9 1 (0.28%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.28%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.28%) Cloudera CDH
9 1 (0.28%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.28%) Power BI
9 1 (0.28%) Redis
9 1 (0.28%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (6.61%) Git
2 21 (5.79%) GitLab
3 15 (4.13%) Jenkins
4 14 (3.86%) JIRA
5 8 (2.20%) Cucumber
6 7 (1.93%) Cypress.io
7 6 (1.65%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.65%) Subversion
8 5 (1.38%) Robot Framework
8 5 (1.38%) Selenium
8 5 (1.38%) TestRail
9 4 (1.10%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.10%) Gradle
10 3 (0.83%) MLflow
11 2 (0.55%) Burp Suite
11 2 (0.55%) JUnit
11 2 (0.55%) Maven
11 2 (0.55%) Metasploit
11 2 (0.55%) Mockito
11 2 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 44 (12.12%) Public Sector
2 38 (10.47%) Social Skills
3 33 (9.09%) Finance
4 32 (8.82%) Aerospace
5 15 (4.13%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.20%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.38%) Advertising
8 5 (1.38%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.83%) Electronics
11 2 (0.55%) Law
11 2 (0.55%) Marketing
11 2 (0.55%) Military
11 2 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.28%) Games
Job Titles
1 71 (19.56%) Software Engineer
2 32 (8.82%) Analyst
3 29 (7.99%) Senior
4 28 (7.71%) Business Analyst
4 28 (7.71%) Consultant
4 28 (7.71%) Security Consultant
5 27 (7.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 25 (6.89%) Cloud Engineer
7 18 (4.96%) DevOps Engineer
8 16 (4.41%) Data Scientist
8 16 (4.41%) Lead
8 16 (4.41%) Tester
9 14 (3.86%) Architect
9 14 (3.86%) Security Engineer
10 13 (3.58%) Cybersecurity Consultant
11 12 (3.31%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
11 12 (3.31%) Penetration Tester
12 11 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
12 11 (3.03%) Network Engineer
12 11 (3.03%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.86%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (3.58%) React
3 12 (3.31%) Vue
4 11 (3.03%) AngularJS
4 11 (3.03%) Spring
4 11 (3.03%) Spring Boot
5 10 (2.75%) Apache NiFi
5 10 (2.75%) REST
6 6 (1.65%) Kafka
7 5 (1.38%) RESTful
8 4 (1.10%) MERN Stack
8 4 (1.10%) Node.js
8 4 (1.10%) Playwright
8 4 (1.10%) pytest
9 3 (0.83%) gRPC
9 3 (0.83%) PyTorch
9 3 (0.83%) TensorFlow
10 2 (0.55%) JPA
10 2 (0.55%) Protocol Buffers
10 2 (0.55%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 19 (5.23%) Product Ownership
2 13 (3.58%) Cloud Native
3 11 (3.03%) Data Centre
4 10 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (1.93%) Public Cloud
5 7 (1.93%) Security Posture
6 6 (1.65%) Embedded Systems
7 5 (1.38%) Blog
7 5 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.10%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.10%) Cloud Security Posture
8 4 (1.10%) FPGA
8 4 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.10%) Replication
8 4 (1.10%) VHDL
9 3 (0.83%) IoT
9 3 (0.83%) PMI
9 3 (0.83%) Thin Client
9 3 (0.83%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 62 (17.08%) Linux
2 28 (7.71%) Windows
3 8 (2.20%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.93%) CentOS
5 3 (0.83%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.83%) Unix
6 2 (0.55%) Android
6 2 (0.55%) VMS
6 2 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.28%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.28%) Debian
7 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (23.97%) Software Engineering
2 79 (21.76%) Agile
3 78 (21.49%) DevOps
4 51 (14.05%) Cybersecurity
5 45 (12.40%) CI/CD
5 45 (12.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 42 (11.57%) Infrastructure as Code
7 37 (10.19%) Continuous Improvement
8 35 (9.64%) Collaborative Culture
9 33 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
10 31 (8.54%) AI
10 31 (8.54%) Containerisation
10 31 (8.54%) Test Automation
11 28 (7.71%) Data Science
12 25 (6.89%) Scrum
13 24 (6.61%) Penetration Testing
13 24 (6.61%) Software Testing
14 23 (6.34%) Platform Engineering
14 23 (6.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 22 (6.06%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 86 (23.69%) Python
2 60 (16.53%) Java
3 33 (9.09%) Bash
4 32 (8.82%) C++
5 21 (5.79%) JavaScript
6 16 (4.41%) PowerShell
7 14 (3.86%) Go
8 12 (3.31%) C
9 10 (2.75%) Rust
9 10 (2.75%) TypeScript
10 8 (2.20%) SQL
11 5 (1.38%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.10%) Groovy
13 3 (0.83%) C#
13 3 (0.83%) Elixir
13 3 (0.83%) Erlang
14 2 (0.55%) Scala
14 2 (0.55%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.28%) R
Qualifications
1 200 (55.10%) DV Cleared
2 163 (44.90%) SC Cleared
3 27 (7.44%) Degree
4 7 (1.93%) CREST Certified
5 5 (1.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 5 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.38%) CCIE
5 5 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (1.38%) OSCP
6 4 (1.10%) CISSP
6 4 (1.10%) PhD
6 4 (1.10%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.83%) BC Cleared
7 3 (0.83%) CCNP
7 3 (0.83%) CEH
7 3 (0.83%) ISTQB
7 3 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (0.55%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.58%) QA
2 12 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.65%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.10%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.10%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.10%) SLA
5 3 (0.83%) GDPR
5 3 (0.83%) NIST
6 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.28%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.28%) NCSC
6 1 (0.28%) NIST 800
System Software
1 34 (9.37%) Docker
2 18 (4.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (4.13%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.20%) Firmware
5 4 (1.10%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.83%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 50 (13.77%) Kubernetes
2 41 (11.29%) Ansible
3 40 (11.02%) Terraform
4 20 (5.51%) Grafana
5 11 (3.03%) Puppet
6 10 (2.75%) Kibana
6 10 (2.75%) logstash
7 8 (2.20%) Prometheus
8 7 (1.93%) Argo
8 7 (1.93%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (1.93%) Rancher
8 7 (1.93%) vCenter Server
9 6 (1.65%) yum
10 4 (1.10%) Nagios
11 3 (0.83%) Kubeflow
11 3 (0.83%) SCCM
11 3 (0.83%) SCOM
11 3 (0.83%) SCOrch
12 2 (0.55%) Check_MK
12 2 (0.55%) vRealize
Vendors
1 29 (7.99%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.51%) VMware
3 14 (3.86%) Cisco
4 13 (3.58%) Red Hat
5 8 (2.20%) Atlassian
6 7 (1.93%) Splunk
7 6 (1.65%) Dell
7 6 (1.65%) Oracle
8 4 (1.10%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.55%) CheckPoint
9 2 (0.55%) Databricks
9 2 (0.55%) F5
9 2 (0.55%) HP
9 2 (0.55%) Juniper
9 2 (0.55%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.55%) SAP
9 2 (0.55%) Veeam
10 1 (0.28%) McAfee
10 1 (0.28%) NetApp
10 1 (0.28%) SaltStack