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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 692 139 309
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 27.82% 26.03% 30.50%
As % of the Qualifications category 80.28% 66.83% 67.76%
Number of salaries quoted 480 87 189
10th Percentile £50,000 £35,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £51,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £87,500
South West median annual salary £75,000 £55,971 £60,000
% change year-on-year +34.00% -6.72% -

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 862 208 456
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 34.66% 38.95% 45.01%
Number of salaries quoted 575 143 271
10th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,125 £45,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £62,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +9.65% -0.87%
75th Percentile £88,000 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £81,500
South West median annual salary £65,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +30.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 0 314 £80,000 -5.88% 190
Gloucester 0 228 £70,000 -12.50% 94
Tewkesbury -6 18 £55,000 -15.38% 9
Filton -1 12 £56,000 +30.23% 9
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 41 (5.92%) Apache
2 12 (1.73%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.59%) Confluence
4 7 (1.01%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.29%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.29%) Simulink
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 105 (15.17%) AWS
2 84 (12.14%) Azure
3 43 (6.21%) OpenShift
4 33 (4.77%) GCP
5 20 (2.89%) AWS CloudFormation
6 16 (2.31%) Serverless
7 14 (2.02%) Azure AKS
7 14 (2.02%) OCI
8 13 (1.88%) Azure Data Factory
8 13 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (1.88%) Entra ID
9 11 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (1.45%) GitHub
11 9 (1.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 7 (1.01%) Amazon S3
13 6 (0.87%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (0.87%) PaaS
14 5 (0.72%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.46%) Network Security
2 12 (1.73%) Firewall
3 11 (1.59%) VPN
4 10 (1.45%) Software-Defined Radio
5 6 (0.87%) DHCP
5 6 (0.87%) DNS
6 4 (0.58%) AMQP
6 4 (0.58%) LAN
6 4 (0.58%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (0.58%) VXLAN
6 4 (0.58%) WAN
7 3 (0.43%) LoRaWAN
7 3 (0.43%) LTE
7 3 (0.43%) NGN
8 2 (0.29%) NAS
8 2 (0.29%) SAN
8 2 (0.29%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.14%) BGP
9 1 (0.14%) MPLS
9 1 (0.14%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (4.19%) NoSQL
2 26 (3.76%) Elasticsearch
3 21 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (2.46%) Big Data
5 10 (1.45%) MongoDB
6 9 (1.30%) Hadoop
7 7 (1.01%) InfluxDB
8 6 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (0.87%) MySQL
9 5 (0.72%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.58%) Cloudera CDH
10 4 (0.58%) Flink
10 4 (0.58%) Redis
11 3 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (0.43%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.29%) Metadata
13 1 (0.14%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.14%) Relational Database
13 1 (0.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 46 (6.65%) Git
2 41 (5.92%) GitLab
3 35 (5.06%) Jenkins
4 19 (2.75%) JIRA
5 11 (1.59%) Cypress.io
6 9 (1.30%) TestRail
7 8 (1.16%) Cucumber
7 8 (1.16%) Selenium
7 8 (1.16%) SonarQube
7 8 (1.16%) Subversion
8 7 (1.01%) Robot Framework
9 6 (0.87%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.43%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.43%) Rational Rhapsody
10 3 (0.43%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.29%) Burp Suite
11 2 (0.29%) Gradle
11 2 (0.29%) Metasploit
11 2 (0.29%) Mockito
11 2 (0.29%) Zephyr
General
1 84 (12.14%) Finance
2 63 (9.10%) Social Skills
3 44 (6.36%) Aerospace
4 42 (6.07%) Public Sector
5 35 (5.06%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (0.87%) Games
8 5 (0.72%) Military
9 4 (0.58%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.29%) Electronics
10 2 (0.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.14%) Automotive
11 1 (0.14%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.14%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 125 (18.06%) Software Engineer
2 83 (11.99%) DevOps Engineer
3 65 (9.39%) Developer
4 64 (9.25%) Cloud Engineer
4 64 (9.25%) Senior
5 52 (7.51%) Data Engineer
6 50 (7.23%) Lead
7 49 (7.08%) Software Developer
8 40 (5.78%) Architect
8 40 (5.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 29 (4.19%) Python Engineer
10 26 (3.76%) Lead DevOps
11 25 (3.61%) Analyst
11 25 (3.61%) Network Engineer
12 24 (3.47%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 21 (3.03%) Business Analyst
13 21 (3.03%) Consultant
14 20 (2.89%) C++ Developer
14 20 (2.89%) C++ Software Developer
15 19 (2.75%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (15.61%) Terraform
2 26 (3.76%) Kafka
2 26 (3.76%) Spring
2 26 (3.76%) Spring Boot
3 22 (3.18%) Elastic Stack
4 16 (2.31%) Apache NiFi
5 15 (2.17%) RESTful
6 13 (1.88%) Keycloak
6 13 (1.88%) Node.js
6 13 (1.88%) REST
7 10 (1.45%) Playwright
8 9 (1.30%) React
8 9 (1.30%) Vue
9 7 (1.01%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (0.87%) AngularJS
10 6 (0.87%) gRPC
10 6 (0.87%) OpenAPI
10 6 (0.87%) pytest
11 5 (0.72%) Swagger
12 4 (0.58%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 58 (8.38%) Cloud Native
2 27 (3.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 22 (3.18%) Product Ownership
4 15 (2.17%) Embedded Systems
4 15 (2.17%) Public Cloud
5 13 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (1.16%) FPGA
6 8 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.16%) VHDL
7 7 (1.01%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.01%) PKI
7 7 (1.01%) Verilog
8 6 (0.87%) Distributed Applications
8 6 (0.87%) Operational Technology
9 5 (0.72%) Algorithms
9 5 (0.72%) Data Structures
9 5 (0.72%) Mobile App
9 5 (0.72%) Security Posture
10 4 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.58%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 112 (16.18%) Linux
2 26 (3.76%) Windows
3 18 (2.60%) Unix
4 13 (1.88%) Android
5 12 (1.73%) CentOS
6 6 (0.87%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.72%) Embedded Linux
7 5 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.58%) Debian
8 4 (0.58%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.29%) Rocky
10 1 (0.14%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (25.87%) DevOps
2 158 (22.83%) Software Engineering
3 141 (20.38%) Agile
4 135 (19.51%) CI/CD
5 101 (14.60%) Containerisation
6 99 (14.31%) Infrastructure as Code
7 75 (10.84%) Continuous Improvement
8 71 (10.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 59 (8.53%) Collaborative Culture
10 56 (8.09%) AI
10 56 (8.09%) Problem-Solving
11 55 (7.95%) Test Automation
12 46 (6.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 43 (6.21%) Analytics
13 43 (6.21%) Platform Engineering
13 43 (6.21%) Stakeholder Management
14 39 (5.64%) Cybersecurity
14 39 (5.64%) Data Pipeline
14 39 (5.64%) DevSecOps
15 38 (5.49%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 159 (22.98%) Python
2 123 (17.77%) Java
3 95 (13.73%) C++
4 53 (7.66%) Bash
5 41 (5.92%) Go
5 41 (5.92%) JavaScript
6 28 (4.05%) SQL
7 26 (3.76%) Rust
8 17 (2.46%) C
9 16 (2.31%) PowerShell
9 16 (2.31%) TypeScript
10 15 (2.17%) Scala
11 9 (1.30%) Bicep
12 7 (1.01%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.87%) Groovy
14 5 (0.72%) C#
15 3 (0.43%) GLSL
15 3 (0.43%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.29%) SystemVerilog
17 1 (0.14%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 411 (59.39%) DV Cleared
2 282 (40.75%) SC Cleared
3 36 (5.20%) Degree
4 18 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (1.88%) Azure Certification
6 11 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 7 (1.01%) OSCP
8 6 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.72%) CEH
10 4 (0.58%) CCIE
10 4 (0.58%) CCNP
10 4 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.58%) CREST Certified
10 4 (0.58%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.43%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.43%) PMP
12 2 (0.29%) CISSP
12 2 (0.29%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.03%) QA
2 10 (1.45%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.16%) Data Quality
4 5 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.58%) GDPR
6 2 (0.29%) NCSC
6 2 (0.29%) NIST
6 2 (0.29%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.14%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.14%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.14%) PMO
System Software
1 74 (10.69%) Docker
2 25 (3.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (2.89%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.87%) Firmware
4 6 (0.87%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.14%) vSphere
7 1 (0.14%) XenApp
7 1 (0.14%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 124 (17.92%) Kubernetes
2 94 (13.58%) Ansible
3 25 (3.61%) Grafana
4 23 (3.32%) Puppet
5 13 (1.88%) Kibana
5 13 (1.88%) logstash
6 12 (1.73%) Argo
7 11 (1.59%) Rancher
8 10 (1.45%) Prometheus
9 8 (1.16%) vCenter Server
9 8 (1.16%) yum
10 6 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (0.58%) Istio
11 4 (0.58%) linkerd
11 4 (0.58%) Mesos
12 3 (0.43%) Packer
12 3 (0.43%) SCCM
12 3 (0.43%) SCOM
12 3 (0.43%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 42 (6.07%) Microsoft
2 33 (4.77%) VMware
3 14 (2.02%) Oracle
3 14 (2.02%) Red Hat
4 10 (1.45%) Atlassian
5 8 (1.16%) Splunk
6 6 (0.87%) Cisco
7 5 (0.72%) Google
8 4 (0.58%) Databricks
8 4 (0.58%) SaltStack
9 3 (0.43%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.43%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.29%) Citrix
10 2 (0.29%) Intel
10 2 (0.29%) Microsemi
10 2 (0.29%) Xilinx
11 1 (0.14%) Dell
11 1 (0.14%) McAfee
11 1 (0.14%) NetApp
11 1 (0.14%) SolarWinds