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 24 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 0
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 690 148 321
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 28.16% 26.91% 29.75%
As % of the Qualifications category 79.31% 67.58% 67.72%
Number of salaries quoted 474 94 199
10th Percentile £50,000 £35,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £49,375 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £93,750 £70,625
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £85,250
South West median annual salary £75,000 £57,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +31.58% -5.00% -

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 870 219 474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 35.51% 39.82% 43.93%
Number of salaries quoted 567 153 287
10th Percentile £47,400 £35,000 £40,950
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £88,000 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £80,500
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 24 September 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 24 September 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 0 307 £80,000 -8.57% 182
Gloucester 0 228 £75,000 -6.25% 99
Tewkesbury -6 17 £55,000 -15.38% 10
Filton -1 12 £57,000 +32.56% 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 39 (5.65%) Apache
2 11 (1.59%) Apache Spark
2 11 (1.59%) Confluence
3 6 (0.87%) OpenStack
4 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.43%) 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
1 108 (15.65%) AWS
2 83 (12.03%) Azure
3 44 (6.38%) OpenShift
4 32 (4.64%) GCP
5 20 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
6 15 (2.17%) Serverless
7 14 (2.03%) Azure AKS
7 14 (2.03%) Entra ID
7 14 (2.03%) OCI
8 13 (1.88%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (1.74%) Azure Data Factory
9 12 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (1.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 9 (1.30%) GitHub
12 6 (0.87%) PaaS
13 5 (0.72%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (0.72%) Amazon S3
13 5 (0.72%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.46%) Network Security
2 13 (1.88%) Firewall
2 13 (1.88%) VPN
3 10 (1.45%) Software-Defined Radio
4 8 (1.16%) DHCP
4 8 (1.16%) DNS
5 4 (0.58%) AMQP
5 4 (0.58%) LAN
5 4 (0.58%) Software-Defined Networking
5 4 (0.58%) VXLAN
5 4 (0.58%) WAN
6 3 (0.43%) LoRaWAN
6 3 (0.43%) LTE
6 3 (0.43%) NGN
7 2 (0.29%) NAS
7 2 (0.29%) SAN
7 2 (0.29%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.14%) BGP
8 1 (0.14%) MPLS
8 1 (0.14%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
1 26 (3.77%) NoSQL
2 19 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (2.32%) Big Data
4 10 (1.45%) MongoDB
5 9 (1.30%) Hadoop
6 8 (1.16%) InfluxDB
7 6 (0.87%) MySQL
8 5 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (0.72%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.58%) Cloudera CDH
10 3 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.43%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.43%) Flink
10 3 (0.43%) Redis
11 1 (0.14%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.14%) Metadata
11 1 (0.14%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 46 (6.67%) Git
2 41 (5.94%) GitLab
3 36 (5.22%) Jenkins
4 19 (2.75%) JIRA
5 12 (1.74%) Cypress.io
6 10 (1.45%) TestRail
7 9 (1.30%) Cucumber
7 9 (1.30%) Selenium
7 9 (1.30%) SonarQube
8 8 (1.16%) Robot Framework
8 8 (1.16%) Subversion
9 6 (0.87%) Bitbucket
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%) Rational DOORS
11 2 (0.29%) Rational Rhapsody
11 2 (0.29%) Zephyr
General
1 87 (12.61%) Finance
2 65 (9.42%) Social Skills
3 45 (6.52%) Aerospace
4 44 (6.38%) Public Sector
5 35 (5.07%) 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
11 1 (0.14%) Automotive
11 1 (0.14%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.14%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 130 (18.84%) Software Engineer
2 82 (11.88%) DevOps Engineer
3 64 (9.28%) Cloud Engineer
4 61 (8.84%) Senior
5 59 (8.55%) Developer
6 49 (7.10%) Data Engineer
7 48 (6.96%) Lead
8 44 (6.38%) Software Developer
9 42 (6.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 37 (5.36%) Architect
11 27 (3.91%) Python Engineer
12 26 (3.77%) Lead DevOps
13 25 (3.62%) Analyst
14 24 (3.48%) Lead DevOps Engineer
15 23 (3.33%) Consultant
15 23 (3.33%) Network Engineer
16 21 (3.04%) Business Analyst
17 19 (2.75%) Administrator
17 19 (2.75%) Systems Administrator
17 19 (2.75%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (15.94%) Terraform
2 27 (3.91%) Spring
2 27 (3.91%) Spring Boot
3 24 (3.48%) Elastic Stack
4 23 (3.33%) Kafka
5 17 (2.46%) Apache NiFi
6 14 (2.03%) REST
6 14 (2.03%) RESTful
7 13 (1.88%) Node.js
8 12 (1.74%) Keycloak
9 11 (1.59%) Playwright
9 11 (1.59%) Vue
10 10 (1.45%) React
11 7 (1.01%) AngularJS
11 7 (1.01%) pytest
11 7 (1.01%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (0.87%) gRPC
12 6 (0.87%) OpenAPI
13 5 (0.72%) Swagger
14 4 (0.58%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 55 (7.97%) Cloud Native
2 26 (3.77%) Hybrid Cloud
3 25 (3.62%) Product Ownership
4 15 (2.17%) Embedded Systems
5 13 (1.88%) Public Cloud
6 12 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.16%) FPGA
8 8 (1.16%) VHDL
9 7 (1.01%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.01%) PKI
9 7 (1.01%) Verilog
10 6 (0.87%) Operational Technology
11 5 (0.72%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.72%) Data Structures
11 5 (0.72%) Distributed Applications
11 5 (0.72%) Mobile App
11 5 (0.72%) Security Posture
12 4 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.58%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 112 (16.23%) Linux
2 29 (4.20%) Windows
3 18 (2.61%) Unix
4 13 (1.88%) Android
4 13 (1.88%) CentOS
5 7 (1.01%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.72%) Embedded Linux
6 5 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.58%) Debian
7 4 (0.58%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.29%) Rocky
8 2 (0.29%) VMS
8 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.14%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (25.94%) DevOps
2 161 (23.33%) Software Engineering
3 143 (20.72%) Agile
4 135 (19.57%) CI/CD
5 102 (14.78%) Containerisation
6 100 (14.49%) Infrastructure as Code
7 78 (11.30%) Continuous Improvement
8 74 (10.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 62 (8.99%) Collaborative Culture
10 56 (8.12%) Problem-Solving
10 56 (8.12%) Test Automation
11 54 (7.83%) AI
12 48 (6.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 44 (6.38%) Platform Engineering
14 43 (6.23%) Analytics
14 43 (6.23%) Stakeholder Management
15 42 (6.09%) Cybersecurity
16 38 (5.51%) Validation
17 37 (5.36%) DevSecOps
18 36 (5.22%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 154 (22.32%) Python
2 117 (16.96%) Java
3 90 (13.04%) C++
4 54 (7.83%) Bash
5 43 (6.23%) JavaScript
6 41 (5.94%) Go
7 26 (3.77%) Rust
7 26 (3.77%) SQL
8 18 (2.61%) PowerShell
9 17 (2.46%) C
9 17 (2.46%) TypeScript
10 13 (1.88%) Scala
11 9 (1.30%) Bicep
12 6 (0.87%) Groovy
12 6 (0.87%) Kotlin
13 5 (0.72%) C#
14 3 (0.43%) GLSL
14 3 (0.43%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.29%) SystemVerilog
16 1 (0.14%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 405 (58.70%) DV Cleared
2 277 (40.14%) SC Cleared
3 36 (5.22%) Degree
4 18 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (1.74%) Azure Certification
6 9 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 7 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (1.01%) OSCP
9 5 (0.72%) CEH
9 5 (0.72%) CREST Certified
10 4 (0.58%) CCIE
10 4 (0.58%) CCNP
10 4 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
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 20 (2.90%) QA
2 10 (1.45%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.16%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.58%) GDPR
6 3 (0.43%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.29%) NCSC
7 2 (0.29%) NIST
8 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.14%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.14%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.14%) PMO
System Software
1 73 (10.58%) Docker
2 28 (4.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (3.19%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.87%) Firmware
4 6 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.87%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.29%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.14%) vSphere
7 1 (0.14%) XenApp
7 1 (0.14%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 126 (18.26%) Kubernetes
2 96 (13.91%) Ansible
3 27 (3.91%) Grafana
4 23 (3.33%) Puppet
5 15 (2.17%) Kibana
5 15 (2.17%) logstash
6 12 (1.74%) Argo
7 11 (1.59%) Rancher
8 10 (1.45%) Prometheus
9 9 (1.30%) vCenter Server
10 8 (1.16%) yum
11 7 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (0.58%) Istio
12 4 (0.58%) linkerd
12 4 (0.58%) Mesos
13 3 (0.43%) Check_MK
13 3 (0.43%) Nagios
13 3 (0.43%) Packer
13 3 (0.43%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 44 (6.38%) Microsoft
2 36 (5.22%) VMware
3 15 (2.17%) Red Hat
4 14 (2.03%) Oracle
5 10 (1.45%) Atlassian
6 9 (1.30%) Splunk
7 7 (1.01%) Cisco
8 4 (0.58%) Databricks
8 4 (0.58%) Google
8 4 (0.58%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.29%) Citrix
9 2 (0.29%) Intel
9 2 (0.29%) Microsemi
9 2 (0.29%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.29%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.29%) Xilinx
10 1 (0.14%) Dell
10 1 (0.14%) McAfee
10 1 (0.14%) NetApp
10 1 (0.14%) SolarWinds