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

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 2 1
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 142 276 415
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 27.52% 29.08% 45.40%
As % of the Qualifications category 66.05% 54.65% 74.37%
Number of salaries quoted 86 170 194
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £39,125
25th Percentile £52,813 £50,000 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £89,688 £70,938 £75,188
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £87,750
South West median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% +5.45%

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 215 505 558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 41.67% 53.21% 61.05%
Number of salaries quoted 145 237 306
10th Percentile £37,576 £41,250 £29,440
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,560 £55,250
Median % change year-on-year +8.58% +4.18% +0.45%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £98,500 £82,500 £80,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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 October 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 29 October 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 45 £82,500 +22.22% 49
Gloucester 0 33 £80,000 +40.35% 45
Filton +19 31 £43,000 -18.10% 6
Tewkesbury 0 8 £67,500 +58.82% 3
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 7 (4.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.52%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.82%) Confluence
4 3 (2.11%) Apache
5 1 (0.70%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 6 (4.23%) Simulink
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.70%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 26 (18.31%) Azure
2 23 (16.20%) AWS
3 8 (5.63%) Azure Stack
3 8 (5.63%) Entra ID
4 7 (4.93%) OpenShift
5 5 (3.52%) GCP
5 5 (3.52%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.11%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (2.11%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.11%) Google Workspace
6 3 (2.11%) Serverless
7 1 (0.70%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.70%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.93%) LAN
1 7 (4.93%) WAN
2 6 (4.23%) Firewall
3 5 (3.52%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (2.82%) Software-Defined Radio
4 4 (2.82%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.11%) DNS
5 3 (2.11%) Network Security
5 3 (2.11%) VSAN
6 2 (1.41%) DHCP
6 2 (1.41%) Internet
6 2 (1.41%) VPN
7 1 (0.70%) BGP
7 1 (0.70%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (0.70%) HTTP
7 1 (0.70%) ICMP
7 1 (0.70%) OSPF
7 1 (0.70%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.70%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (0.70%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.52%) MongoDB
2 4 (2.82%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (2.82%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.11%) Big Data
4 2 (1.41%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.70%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 11 (7.75%) GitLab
2 8 (5.63%) Git
3 7 (4.93%) JIRA
4 3 (2.11%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.41%) IDA Disassembler
5 2 (1.41%) JUnit
6 1 (0.70%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.70%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.70%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.70%) Subversion
6 1 (0.70%) TestRail
General
1 43 (30.28%) Social Skills
2 20 (14.08%) Aerospace
3 18 (12.68%) Public Sector
4 11 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.75%) Manufacturing
5 10 (7.04%) Automotive
6 8 (5.63%) Military
7 7 (4.93%) Electronics
7 7 (4.93%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.82%) Aviation
8 4 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.11%) Avionics
9 3 (2.11%) Finance
10 2 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.41%) Legal
11 1 (0.70%) Games
11 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.70%) Law
Job Titles
1 22 (15.49%) Software Engineer
2 18 (12.68%) Lead
3 15 (10.56%) Senior
4 14 (9.86%) Integration Engineer
5 13 (9.15%) Architect
6 12 (8.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (7.04%) Consultant
8 8 (5.63%) IT Engineer
8 8 (5.63%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (5.63%) Technical Consultant
9 7 (4.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 7 (4.93%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 7 (4.93%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (4.23%) Junior
10 6 (4.23%) Junior Consultant
10 6 (4.23%) Junior Technical Consultant
10 6 (4.23%) Principal Architect
10 6 (4.23%) Principal Solutions Architect
10 6 (4.23%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (4.23%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.63%) React
2 4 (2.82%) Spring Boot
3 3 (2.11%) .NET
3 3 (2.11%) Spring
4 2 (1.41%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (1.41%) Hibernate
4 2 (1.41%) JSF
5 1 (0.70%) Blazor
5 1 (0.70%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.70%) Flash
5 1 (0.70%) HTML
5 1 (0.70%) Kafka
5 1 (0.70%) OpenCV
5 1 (0.70%) Pandas
5 1 (0.70%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.70%) RESTful
5 1 (0.70%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.45%) Data Centre
1 12 (8.45%) Onboarding
2 8 (5.63%) Algorithms
2 8 (5.63%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (3.52%) Driving Licence
3 5 (3.52%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (3.52%) Management Information System
3 5 (3.52%) PKI
4 4 (2.82%) FPGA
4 4 (2.82%) Verilog
4 4 (2.82%) VHDL
5 3 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.11%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.11%) CMDB
6 2 (1.41%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.41%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.41%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.41%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.70%) Arduino
7 1 (0.70%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 41 (28.87%) Linux
2 26 (18.31%) Windows
3 22 (15.49%) Windows Server
4 10 (7.04%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (5.63%) Rocky
6 5 (3.52%) CentOS
6 5 (3.52%) Mac OS
7 4 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (2.82%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.41%) CoreOS
8 2 (1.41%) Debian
8 2 (1.41%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (22.54%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (20.42%) Agile
3 25 (17.61%) Software Engineering
4 20 (14.08%) AI
5 18 (12.68%) Containerisation
5 18 (12.68%) Cybersecurity
6 15 (10.56%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (10.56%) DevOps
7 14 (9.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 13 (9.15%) ITIL
9 12 (8.45%) Machine Learning
10 11 (7.75%) CI/CD
10 11 (7.75%) Innovative Thinking
11 10 (7.04%) Data Analysis
11 10 (7.04%) Systems Engineering
12 9 (6.34%) Analytics
13 8 (5.63%) Asset Management
13 8 (5.63%) Computer Science
13 8 (5.63%) Full-Stack Development
14 7 (4.93%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 35 (24.65%) Python
2 11 (7.75%) C++
2 11 (7.75%) Java
3 10 (7.04%) C
4 9 (6.34%) PowerShell
5 8 (5.63%) Bash
6 5 (3.52%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.52%) MATLAB
6 5 (3.52%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.11%) Go
7 3 (2.11%) Google Apps Script
7 3 (2.11%) Tcl
8 2 (1.41%) C#
8 2 (1.41%) Perl
8 2 (1.41%) PHP
8 2 (1.41%) SQL
9 1 (0.70%) Groovy
9 1 (0.70%) R
9 1 (0.70%) Rust
9 1 (0.70%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 77 (54.23%) DV Cleared
2 71 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 20 (14.08%) Degree
4 19 (13.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (5.63%) Azure Certification
5 8 (5.63%) Network+ Certification
6 4 (2.82%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.82%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.11%) CCIE
8 2 (1.41%) MCAD
8 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.70%) APMP
9 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.70%) CCNA
9 1 (0.70%) CITP
9 1 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.70%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.52%) QA
2 4 (2.82%) GDPR
3 1 (0.70%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.70%) RMADS
System Software
1 18 (12.68%) Active Directory
2 12 (8.45%) Hyper-V
3 6 (4.23%) Docker
4 3 (2.11%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.41%) vSphere
6 1 (0.70%) KVM
6 1 (0.70%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 21 (14.79%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.63%) Ansible
3 7 (4.93%) Terraform
4 4 (2.82%) Kibana
4 4 (2.82%) Nagios
5 2 (1.41%) McAfee ePO
5 2 (1.41%) SCVMM
6 1 (0.70%) Argo
6 1 (0.70%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.70%) Grafana
6 1 (0.70%) Puppet
6 1 (0.70%) Rancher
6 1 (0.70%) SCCM
6 1 (0.70%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.70%) yum
Vendors
1 8 (5.63%) Dell
2 7 (4.93%) Cisco
2 7 (4.93%) Red Hat
3 5 (3.52%) Cognizant
3 5 (3.52%) Google
4 4 (2.82%) Atlassian
4 4 (2.82%) F5
4 4 (2.82%) Fortinet
4 4 (2.82%) IBM
4 4 (2.82%) Oracle
4 4 (2.82%) VMware
5 3 (2.11%) CheckPoint
5 3 (2.11%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.41%) McAfee
6 2 (1.41%) Splunk
7 1 (0.70%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.70%) Salesforce