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

6 months to
25 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 633 147 354
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 29.08% 25.97% 28.27%
As % of the Qualifications category 78.54% 61.00% 67.82%
Number of salaries quoted 444 100 241
10th Percentile £50,000 £35,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,938 £50,938 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% -1.64%
75th Percentile £93,125 £95,000 £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 806 241 522
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 37.02% 42.58% 41.69%
Number of salaries quoted 528 172 357
10th Percentile £45,000 £28,050 £36,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £43,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £88,000 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £82,500
South West median annual salary £62,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -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 25 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 25 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 0 288 £80,000 -11.11% 65
Gloucester 0 194 £72,500 -9.38% 36
Filton -1 13 £57,000 +3.64% 2
Tewkesbury -7 12 £55,000 -8.33% 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 33 (5.21%) Apache
2 9 (1.42%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.42%) Confluence
3 6 (0.95%) OpenStack
4 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.32%) MS Visio
1 2 (0.32%) Simulink
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 106 (16.75%) AWS
2 75 (11.85%) Azure
3 39 (6.16%) OpenShift
4 29 (4.58%) GCP
5 16 (2.53%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (2.21%) Entra ID
7 13 (2.05%) Azure AKS
7 13 (2.05%) OCI
7 13 (2.05%) Serverless
8 12 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (1.42%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (1.42%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 8 (1.26%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (1.26%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (1.26%) Azure Machine Learning
10 8 (1.26%) GitHub
11 6 (0.95%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (0.95%) PaaS
12 5 (0.79%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.37%) Network Security
2 13 (2.05%) VPN
3 11 (1.74%) Firewall
4 10 (1.58%) Software-Defined Radio
5 7 (1.11%) DHCP
5 7 (1.11%) DNS
6 3 (0.47%) AMQP
6 3 (0.47%) LAN
6 3 (0.47%) LoRaWAN
6 3 (0.47%) LTE
6 3 (0.47%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (0.47%) VXLAN
6 3 (0.47%) WAN
7 2 (0.32%) NAS
7 2 (0.32%) NGN
7 2 (0.32%) SAN
8 1 (0.16%) BGP
8 1 (0.16%) IPv4
8 1 (0.16%) OSPF
8 1 (0.16%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.16%) Elasticsearch
1 20 (3.16%) NoSQL
2 15 (2.37%) Big Data
3 14 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (1.74%) MongoDB
5 8 (1.26%) Hadoop
5 8 (1.26%) InfluxDB
6 6 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (0.79%) Data Lake
8 4 (0.63%) MySQL
9 3 (0.47%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (0.47%) Cloudera CDH
9 3 (0.47%) Flink
9 3 (0.47%) Redis
10 2 (0.32%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.16%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.16%) Metadata
11 1 (0.16%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (5.37%) Git
2 32 (5.06%) GitLab
3 28 (4.42%) Jenkins
4 17 (2.69%) JIRA
5 11 (1.74%) Cypress.io
6 10 (1.58%) TestRail
7 8 (1.26%) Cucumber
7 8 (1.26%) Robot Framework
7 8 (1.26%) Selenium
7 8 (1.26%) SonarQube
8 5 (0.79%) Subversion
9 4 (0.63%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.47%) MLflow
10 3 (0.47%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.47%) Rational Rhapsody
11 2 (0.32%) Burp Suite
11 2 (0.32%) Gradle
11 2 (0.32%) Mockito
11 2 (0.32%) Valgrind
11 2 (0.32%) Zephyr
General
1 75 (11.85%) Finance
2 62 (9.79%) Social Skills
3 52 (8.21%) Public Sector
4 42 (6.64%) Aerospace
5 32 (5.06%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (0.95%) Games
6 6 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (0.79%) Military
8 3 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (0.47%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.32%) Electronics
10 1 (0.16%) Automotive
10 1 (0.16%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.16%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.16%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 127 (20.06%) Software Engineer
2 73 (11.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 57 (9.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 52 (8.21%) Senior
5 48 (7.58%) Lead
6 45 (7.11%) Data Engineer
7 43 (6.79%) Developer
8 35 (5.53%) Architect
8 35 (5.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 31 (4.90%) Software Developer
10 26 (4.11%) Consultant
11 25 (3.95%) Lead DevOps
12 24 (3.79%) Analyst
13 23 (3.63%) Lead DevOps Engineer
14 22 (3.48%) Python Engineer
15 20 (3.16%) Business Analyst
15 20 (3.16%) Tester
16 18 (2.84%) Administrator
16 18 (2.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 18 (2.84%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (15.32%) Terraform
2 23 (3.63%) Spring
2 23 (3.63%) Spring Boot
3 21 (3.32%) Elastic Stack
3 21 (3.32%) Kafka
4 17 (2.69%) Apache NiFi
5 11 (1.74%) REST
6 10 (1.58%) Vue
7 9 (1.42%) Node.js
7 9 (1.42%) Playwright
7 9 (1.42%) React
7 9 (1.42%) RESTful
8 8 (1.26%) Keycloak
9 7 (1.11%) pytest
10 6 (0.95%) AngularJS
11 5 (0.79%) gRPC
11 5 (0.79%) OpenAPI
11 5 (0.79%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (0.63%) Swagger
13 3 (0.47%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 49 (7.74%) Cloud Native
2 23 (3.63%) Product Ownership
3 21 (3.32%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (2.21%) Embedded Systems
5 12 (1.90%) Public Cloud
6 10 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (1.26%) FPGA
7 8 (1.26%) VHDL
8 7 (1.11%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.11%) Verilog
9 6 (0.95%) Operational Technology
9 6 (0.95%) PKI
10 5 (0.79%) Algorithms
10 5 (0.79%) Blog
10 5 (0.79%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.79%) Mobile App
10 5 (0.79%) Security Posture
11 4 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.63%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 100 (15.80%) Linux
2 33 (5.21%) Windows
3 16 (2.53%) Unix
4 13 (2.05%) Android
5 12 (1.90%) CentOS
6 7 (1.11%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.79%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.47%) Debian
9 3 (0.47%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.32%) VMS
10 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.16%) CoreOS
11 1 (0.16%) Rocky
11 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (25.12%) DevOps
2 155 (24.49%) Software Engineering
3 128 (20.22%) Agile
4 116 (18.33%) CI/CD
5 87 (13.74%) Containerisation
5 87 (13.74%) Infrastructure as Code
6 70 (11.06%) Continuous Improvement
7 63 (9.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 54 (8.53%) Collaborative Culture
9 52 (8.21%) AI
9 52 (8.21%) Test Automation
10 48 (7.58%) Cybersecurity
11 46 (7.27%) Problem-Solving
11 46 (7.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 42 (6.64%) Platform Engineering
13 40 (6.32%) Analytics
14 38 (6.00%) Stakeholder Management
15 35 (5.53%) Data Science
16 33 (5.21%) DevSecOps
17 31 (4.90%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 139 (21.96%) Python
2 98 (15.48%) Java
3 78 (12.32%) C++
4 44 (6.95%) Bash
5 38 (6.00%) JavaScript
6 31 (4.90%) Go
7 24 (3.79%) Rust
8 23 (3.63%) SQL
9 19 (3.00%) C
10 17 (2.69%) PowerShell
11 16 (2.53%) TypeScript
12 12 (1.90%) Scala
13 9 (1.42%) Bicep
14 8 (1.26%) Groovy
15 6 (0.95%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.63%) C#
17 3 (0.47%) GLSL
18 2 (0.32%) Shell Script
18 2 (0.32%) SystemVerilog
19 1 (0.16%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 388 (61.30%) DV Cleared
2 248 (39.18%) SC Cleared
3 32 (5.06%) Degree
4 19 (3.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (1.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 8 (1.26%) Azure Certification
5 8 (1.26%) CREST Certified
6 7 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (1.11%) OSCP
7 5 (0.79%) CEH
7 5 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (0.63%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.47%) CCIE
9 3 (0.47%) CCNP
9 3 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.47%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.47%) PMP
9 3 (0.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.32%) CISSP
10 2 (0.32%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.05%) QA
2 11 (1.74%) Accessibility
3 10 (1.58%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.95%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.32%) GDPR
6 2 (0.32%) NCSC
6 2 (0.32%) NIST
7 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.16%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.16%) PMO
System Software
1 60 (9.48%) Docker
2 25 (3.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (3.79%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.11%) Firmware
5 6 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.63%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 107 (16.90%) Kubernetes
2 80 (12.64%) Ansible
3 23 (3.63%) Grafana
4 16 (2.53%) Puppet
5 14 (2.21%) Kibana
5 14 (2.21%) logstash
6 8 (1.26%) vCenter Server
7 7 (1.11%) Argo
7 7 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (1.11%) Prometheus
7 7 (1.11%) Rancher
8 5 (0.79%) yum
9 3 (0.47%) Check_MK
9 3 (0.47%) Kubeflow
9 3 (0.47%) Nagios
9 3 (0.47%) Packer
9 3 (0.47%) SCCM
9 3 (0.47%) SCOM
9 3 (0.47%) SCOrch
10 2 (0.32%) linkerd
Vendors
1 37 (5.85%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.06%) VMware
3 14 (2.21%) Red Hat
4 13 (2.05%) Oracle
5 10 (1.58%) Atlassian
6 9 (1.42%) Splunk
7 6 (0.95%) Cisco
8 5 (0.79%) Databricks
9 3 (0.47%) Google
9 3 (0.47%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.32%) Intel
10 2 (0.32%) Microsemi
10 2 (0.32%) Xilinx
11 1 (0.16%) Citrix
11 1 (0.16%) Dell
11 1 (0.16%) McAfee
11 1 (0.16%) Palo Alto