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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 407 163 580
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 26.33% 33.89% 32.57%
As % of the Qualifications category 72.29% 65.73% 74.45%
Number of salaries quoted 289 84 427
10th Percentile £45,000 £32,375 £41,783
25th Percentile £50,000 £49,413 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £63,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.80% +10.87% -13.86%
75th Percentile £82,500 £93,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £82,500
South West median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% +4.35% -0.86%

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 563 248 779
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 36.42% 51.56% 43.74%
Number of salaries quoted 359 139 584
10th Percentile £40,000 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,125 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -11.93%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £81,500
South West median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% -

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 0 171 £75,000 +3.45% 54
Gloucester 0 133 £67,500 -3.57% 19
Tewkesbury -7 8 £58,750 +64.34% 2
Filton +1 7 £59,250 +7.73% 29
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 18 (4.42%) Apache
2 7 (1.72%) Confluence
3 3 (0.74%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.74%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.25%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 86 (21.13%) AWS
2 73 (17.94%) Azure
3 29 (7.13%) GCP
4 18 (4.42%) OpenShift
5 14 (3.44%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (1.97%) OCI
7 7 (1.72%) Entra ID
8 6 (1.47%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (1.47%) Azure AKS
8 6 (1.47%) Serverless
9 5 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.23%) Azure Machine Learning
10 4 (0.98%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (0.98%) Amazon S3
10 4 (0.98%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (0.74%) GitHub
12 2 (0.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 2 (0.49%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.70%) Firewall
2 9 (2.21%) DHCP
2 9 (2.21%) DNS
2 9 (2.21%) Network Security
3 8 (1.97%) Software-Defined Radio
4 7 (1.72%) VPN
5 5 (1.23%) LAN
5 5 (1.23%) WAN
6 4 (0.98%) Software-Defined Networking
6 4 (0.98%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.98%) VXLAN
7 3 (0.74%) LoRaWAN
7 3 (0.74%) LTE
7 3 (0.74%) NAS
7 3 (0.74%) SAN
8 2 (0.49%) AMQP
8 2 (0.49%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.49%) NGN
9 1 (0.25%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.25%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.18%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (2.46%) NoSQL
3 8 (1.97%) Big Data
3 8 (1.97%) MongoDB
4 7 (1.72%) InfluxDB
5 6 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (0.98%) MySQL
7 3 (0.74%) Flink
8 2 (0.49%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.49%) Cloudera CDH
8 2 (0.49%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.49%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.49%) Metadata
8 2 (0.49%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.25%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.25%) Power BI
9 1 (0.25%) Redis
9 1 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (6.88%) GitLab
2 26 (6.39%) Git
3 22 (5.41%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.70%) JIRA
5 10 (2.46%) Cucumber
6 9 (2.21%) SonarQube
7 8 (1.97%) Cypress.io
8 7 (1.72%) Robot Framework
8 7 (1.72%) Selenium
8 7 (1.72%) TestRail
9 6 (1.47%) Subversion
10 4 (0.98%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.98%) Gradle
11 3 (0.74%) MLflow
12 2 (0.49%) Burp Suite
12 2 (0.49%) JUnit
12 2 (0.49%) Maven
12 2 (0.49%) Metasploit
12 2 (0.49%) Mockito
12 2 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 43 (10.57%) Public Sector
2 42 (10.32%) Finance
3 41 (10.07%) Social Skills
4 36 (8.85%) Aerospace
5 15 (3.69%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (0.98%) Games
7 4 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (0.74%) Manufacturing
8 3 (0.74%) Military
8 3 (0.74%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.49%) Advertising
9 2 (0.49%) Law
9 2 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.25%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 76 (18.67%) Software Engineer
2 32 (7.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 31 (7.62%) Senior
4 30 (7.37%) Cloud Engineer
4 30 (7.37%) Consultant
5 28 (6.88%) Security Consultant
6 24 (5.90%) Analyst
6 24 (5.90%) Lead
7 22 (5.41%) Architect
7 22 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
8 20 (4.91%) Business Analyst
9 18 (4.42%) Tester
10 15 (3.69%) Data Scientist
11 14 (3.44%) Data Engineer
11 14 (3.44%) Developer
12 13 (3.19%) Cybersecurity Consultant
12 13 (3.19%) Penetration Tester
12 13 (3.19%) Test Engineer
13 12 (2.95%) Network Engineer
13 12 (2.95%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.91%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (3.44%) Apache NiFi
3 13 (3.19%) Vue
4 11 (2.70%) React
5 10 (2.46%) REST
5 10 (2.46%) Spring
5 10 (2.46%) Spring Boot
6 9 (2.21%) AngularJS
7 8 (1.97%) Kafka
8 7 (1.72%) pytest
8 7 (1.72%) RESTful
9 6 (1.47%) Playwright
10 5 (1.23%) Node.js
11 4 (0.98%) gRPC
12 3 (0.74%) PyTorch
12 3 (0.74%) RabbitMQ
12 3 (0.74%) TensorFlow
13 2 (0.49%) JPA
13 2 (0.49%) Protocol Buffers
13 2 (0.49%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.16%) Product Ownership
2 15 (3.69%) Cloud Native
3 10 (2.46%) Data Centre
3 10 (2.46%) Public Cloud
4 9 (2.21%) Embedded Systems
4 9 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (1.72%) FPGA
5 7 (1.72%) Security Posture
5 7 (1.72%) VHDL
6 6 (1.47%) Verilog
7 5 (1.23%) Blog
8 4 (0.98%) Algorithms
8 4 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (0.98%) Cloud Security Posture
8 4 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (0.98%) Replication
9 3 (0.74%) Operational Technology
9 3 (0.74%) PKI
9 3 (0.74%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 70 (17.20%) Linux
2 31 (7.62%) Windows
3 10 (2.46%) CentOS
4 8 (1.97%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.72%) Unix
6 5 (1.23%) Embedded Linux
7 4 (0.98%) Android
7 4 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.49%) Debian
8 2 (0.49%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.49%) VMS
8 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.25%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.25%) Rocky
9 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (22.60%) Software Engineering
2 87 (21.38%) Agile
3 86 (21.13%) DevOps
4 56 (13.76%) CI/CD
5 52 (12.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 51 (12.53%) Infrastructure as Code
7 50 (12.29%) Cybersecurity
8 43 (10.57%) Collaborative Culture
8 43 (10.57%) Continuous Improvement
9 39 (9.58%) Containerisation
10 37 (9.09%) Test Automation
11 33 (8.11%) AI
11 33 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
12 26 (6.39%) Collaborative Working
12 26 (6.39%) Data Science
12 26 (6.39%) Scrum
12 26 (6.39%) Software Testing
13 24 (5.90%) Penetration Testing
13 24 (5.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 23 (5.65%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 102 (25.06%) Python
2 62 (15.23%) Java
3 39 (9.58%) Bash
3 39 (9.58%) C++
4 24 (5.90%) JavaScript
5 18 (4.42%) Go
6 16 (3.93%) PowerShell
7 13 (3.19%) C
8 12 (2.95%) Rust
9 10 (2.46%) TypeScript
10 8 (1.97%) SQL
11 5 (1.23%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.98%) Groovy
12 4 (0.98%) Scala
13 3 (0.74%) C#
13 3 (0.74%) Elixir
13 3 (0.74%) Erlang
14 2 (0.49%) Bicep
14 2 (0.49%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.25%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 219 (53.81%) DV Cleared
2 190 (46.68%) SC Cleared
3 25 (6.14%) Degree
4 8 (1.97%) CREST Certified
5 7 (1.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 6 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.47%) CCIE
6 6 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.23%) OSCP
8 4 (0.98%) CCNP
8 4 (0.98%) CISSP
8 4 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (0.98%) PhD
8 4 (0.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (0.74%) CEH
9 3 (0.74%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.49%) CCIE Data Center
10 2 (0.49%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.25%) CHECK Team Member
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.19%) QA
2 10 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.47%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.23%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.98%) SLA
6 3 (0.74%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.74%) GDPR
6 3 (0.74%) NIST
7 2 (0.49%) NCSC
8 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.25%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.25%) NIST 800
System Software
1 35 (8.60%) Docker
2 22 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (4.42%) Active Directory
4 10 (2.46%) Firmware
5 6 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.98%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.74%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (14.00%) Kubernetes
2 54 (13.27%) Terraform
3 52 (12.78%) Ansible
4 26 (6.39%) Grafana
5 15 (3.69%) Kibana
5 15 (3.69%) logstash
6 14 (3.44%) Puppet
7 9 (2.21%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.21%) vCenter Server
8 8 (1.97%) Rancher
9 7 (1.72%) Argo
9 7 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (1.47%) yum
11 4 (0.98%) Nagios
12 3 (0.74%) Kubeflow
12 3 (0.74%) SCCM
12 3 (0.74%) SCOM
12 3 (0.74%) SCOrch
13 2 (0.49%) Nessus
13 2 (0.49%) vRealize
Vendors
1 28 (6.88%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.90%) VMware
3 17 (4.18%) Red Hat
4 13 (3.19%) Cisco
5 11 (2.70%) Atlassian
6 10 (2.46%) Oracle
7 8 (1.97%) Splunk
8 5 (1.23%) Dell
9 3 (0.74%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.49%) CheckPoint
10 2 (0.49%) Databricks
10 2 (0.49%) F5
10 2 (0.49%) Google
10 2 (0.49%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.49%) SaltStack
11 1 (0.25%) HP
11 1 (0.25%) McAfee
11 1 (0.25%) Microsemi
11 1 (0.25%) Veeam
11 1 (0.25%) Xilinx