Security Cleared Jobs 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 13 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 182 644 515
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 29.40% 37.29% 42.74%
As % of the Qualifications category 55.15% 77.40% 73.05%
Number of salaries quoted 98 413 176
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,428 £42,250
25th Percentile £51,563 £47,500 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £58,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.22% -10.77% +18.18%
75th Percentile £95,000 £72,500 £78,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £82,500 £86,875
South West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +9.09%

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 330 832 705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 53.31% 48.18% 58.51%
Number of salaries quoted 188 566 267
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,750 £34,050
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.84% +16.19%
75th Percentile £75,563 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £81,500 £84,000
South West median annual salary £51,058 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.17% - +10.00%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Gloucestershire

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in Gloucestershire.

Salary trend for Security Cleared in Gloucestershire

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 13 July 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 13 July 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 56 £87,500 +34.62% 77
Gloucester 0 36 £77,500 +40.91% 53
Filton - 18 £55,000 - 6
Tewkesbury 0 9 £42,500 -19.05% 2
Wotton-under-Edge - 2 - -
Security Cleared
South West

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 20 (10.99%) Jupyter
2 10 (5.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (3.30%) Confluence
3 6 (3.30%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.55%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.55%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (2.20%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 28 (15.38%) AWS
2 23 (12.64%) Azure
3 11 (6.04%) Serverless
4 9 (4.95%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (4.40%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (4.40%) Amazon S3
5 8 (4.40%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (2.75%) Azure Stack
6 5 (2.75%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.20%) GitHub
7 4 (2.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (1.65%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.65%) GCP
8 3 (1.65%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.55%) AWS CloudTrail
10 1 (0.55%) AWS Control Tower
10 1 (0.55%) NuGet
10 1 (0.55%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.85%) LAN
1 7 (3.85%) WAN
2 6 (3.30%) VPN
3 5 (2.75%) OSPF
3 5 (2.75%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (2.20%) Software-Defined Radio
5 3 (1.65%) BGP
5 3 (1.65%) Firewall
5 3 (1.65%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.10%) DNS
6 2 (1.10%) IPv4
6 2 (1.10%) MPLS
6 2 (1.10%) VLAN
7 1 (0.55%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (0.55%) Internet
7 1 (0.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (21.98%) Big Data
2 6 (3.30%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (3.30%) MongoDB
3 5 (2.75%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.65%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.65%) Redis
6 1 (0.55%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.55%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 18 (9.89%) GitLab
2 9 (4.95%) Git
2 9 (4.95%) JIRA
3 3 (1.65%) Cypress.io
3 3 (1.65%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.65%) Rational DOORS
3 3 (1.65%) Rational Rhapsody
3 3 (1.65%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.10%) JUnit
5 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.55%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.55%) GDB
General
1 48 (26.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 47 (25.82%) Finance
3 39 (21.43%) Social Skills
4 19 (10.44%) Public Sector
5 16 (8.79%) Aerospace
6 9 (4.95%) Automotive
6 9 (4.95%) Manufacturing
7 8 (4.40%) Electronics
8 5 (2.75%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.20%) Legal
9 4 (2.20%) Marketing
9 4 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.20%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.10%) Law
11 1 (0.55%) Aeronautics
11 1 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.55%) Military
11 1 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.55%) Publishing
11 1 (0.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (22.53%) Data Scientist
2 38 (20.88%) Senior
3 21 (11.54%) Software Engineer
4 20 (10.99%) Senior Data Scientist
5 19 (10.44%) Lead
6 15 (8.24%) Architect
7 13 (7.14%) Developer
8 9 (4.95%) Cloud Architect
8 9 (4.95%) Test Engineer
9 8 (4.40%) Administrator
9 8 (4.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (4.40%) Senior Developer
9 8 (4.40%) Systems Administrator
10 7 (3.85%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
10 7 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
10 7 (3.85%) Software Developer
10 7 (3.85%) Support Engineer
11 6 (3.30%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (3.30%) Cloud Solutions Architect
11 6 (3.30%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.49%) React
2 5 (2.75%) .NET
3 4 (2.20%) AWS CDK
3 4 (2.20%) Hibernate
3 4 (2.20%) JSF
3 4 (2.20%) OAuth
3 4 (2.20%) RESTful
4 3 (1.65%) Django
4 3 (1.65%) FastAPI
4 3 (1.65%) Flask
4 3 (1.65%) GraphQL
4 3 (1.65%) HTML
4 3 (1.65%) Keycloak
4 3 (1.65%) pytest
4 3 (1.65%) Spring Boot
4 3 (1.65%) SQLAlchemy
4 3 (1.65%) WebSockets
5 2 (1.10%) Pandas
6 1 (0.55%) boto
6 1 (0.55%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 44 (24.18%) Algorithms
2 40 (21.98%) Cyberattack
3 10 (5.49%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.95%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (3.85%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.20%) e-Learning
6 4 (2.20%) FPGA
6 4 (2.20%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.20%) Verilog
6 4 (2.20%) VHDL
7 3 (1.65%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.65%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.10%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.10%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.55%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.55%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.55%) PKI
9 1 (0.55%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 41 (22.53%) Linux
2 23 (12.64%) Windows
3 19 (10.44%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.30%) Mac OS
4 6 (3.30%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (2.75%) Rocky
6 2 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.55%) Android
7 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.55%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.55%) Unix
7 1 (0.55%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (37.91%) Problem-Solving
2 54 (29.67%) Machine Learning
3 52 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
4 47 (25.82%) Software Engineering
5 46 (25.27%) Mathematics
6 44 (24.18%) DevOps
7 42 (23.08%) Computer Science
7 42 (23.08%) Data Science
8 41 (22.53%) Data Analysis
8 41 (22.53%) Statistics
8 41 (22.53%) Visualisation
9 40 (21.98%) Exploratory Data Analysis
9 40 (21.98%) OpenUP
10 30 (16.48%) Mentoring
11 27 (14.84%) Containerisation
12 26 (14.29%) Agile
13 23 (12.64%) Analytics
13 23 (12.64%) Decision-Making
13 23 (12.64%) Microservices
14 22 (12.09%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 66 (36.26%) Python
2 39 (21.43%) Java
3 37 (20.33%) JavaScript
4 13 (7.14%) TypeScript
5 12 (6.59%) C++
6 8 (4.40%) Bash
6 8 (4.40%) PowerShell
6 8 (4.40%) SQL
7 7 (3.85%) C
8 4 (2.20%) Perl
8 4 (2.20%) PHP
9 3 (1.65%) MATLAB
9 3 (1.65%) R
9 3 (1.65%) Rust
10 2 (1.10%) Go
11 1 (0.55%) C#
11 1 (0.55%) Scala
11 1 (0.55%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.55%) VB
11 1 (0.55%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 120 (65.93%) DV Cleared
2 56 (30.77%) Degree
3 47 (25.82%) SC Cleared
4 20 (10.99%) Computer Science Degree
4 20 (10.99%) Numerate Degree
5 13 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.75%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.75%) Network+ Certification
7 4 (2.20%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.10%) CCIE
9 2 (1.10%) CCNP
9 2 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.10%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.10%) MCAD
9 2 (1.10%) PhD
10 1 (0.55%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.55%) MCP
10 1 (0.55%) MCSA
10 1 (0.55%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.65%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.55%) ISO 14001
2 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.55%) NCSC
2 1 (0.55%) QA
System Software
1 51 (28.02%) Docker
2 11 (6.04%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.30%) Hyper-V
3 6 (3.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.20%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.55%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.55%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.55%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.55%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 45 (24.73%) Kubernetes
2 18 (9.89%) Terraform
3 16 (8.79%) Ansible
4 5 (2.75%) Kibana
5 4 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.65%) Grafana
6 3 (1.65%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.65%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.10%) EMC NetWorker
7 2 (1.10%) Puppet
8 1 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.55%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.55%) Nagios
8 1 (0.55%) Packer
8 1 (0.55%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (5.49%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.85%) Oracle
2 7 (3.85%) VMware
3 6 (3.30%) Atlassian
4 5 (2.75%) Cognizant
4 5 (2.75%) Dell
5 3 (1.65%) Cisco
5 3 (1.65%) IBM
5 3 (1.65%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.10%) CheckPoint
6 2 (1.10%) Citrix
6 2 (1.10%) F5
6 2 (1.10%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.10%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.10%) SAP
7 1 (0.55%) McAfee
7 1 (0.55%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.55%) Symantec