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 11 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 1 4 1
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 182 177 448
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 28.00% 27.83% 45.95%
As % of the Qualifications category 67.16% 44.58% 79.15%
Number of salaries quoted 122 105 249
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £46,875 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,750 £86,250
South West median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -1.82%

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 271 397 566
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 41.69% 62.42% 58.05%
Number of salaries quoted 175 164 336
10th Percentile £35,500 £41,250 £29,440
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £50,300
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +14.31% -8.55%
75th Percentile £76,250 £69,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,050 £81,875
South West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 11 January 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 11 January 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
Gloucester 0 57 £65,000 - 25
Cheltenham 0 56 £67,500 - 30
Filton +18 23 £42,500 -12.82% 9
Tewkesbury 0 18 £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 (3.85%) Apache
2 6 (3.30%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.10%) Simulink
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.55%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 39 (21.43%) AWS
2 30 (16.48%) Azure
3 9 (4.95%) OpenShift
4 6 (3.30%) Amazon S3
4 6 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (3.30%) Serverless
5 5 (2.75%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (2.75%) GCP
6 3 (1.65%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.65%) Azure Stack
6 3 (1.65%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.65%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.55%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.55%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.55%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.30%) Firewall
2 5 (2.75%) DNS
2 5 (2.75%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.20%) DHCP
3 4 (2.20%) Network Security
3 4 (2.20%) VSAN
4 3 (1.65%) LAN
4 3 (1.65%) Structured Cabling
4 3 (1.65%) WAN
5 2 (1.10%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (1.10%) VPN
6 1 (0.55%) HTTP
6 1 (0.55%) ICMP
6 1 (0.55%) Internet
6 1 (0.55%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.55%) VLAN
6 1 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.95%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (3.30%) Neo4j
2 6 (3.30%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.75%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.20%) Big Data
5 3 (1.65%) InfluxDB
6 2 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.10%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.55%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.55%) Metadata
7 1 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (5.49%) JIRA
2 9 (4.95%) Git
3 7 (3.85%) GitLab
4 6 (3.30%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.20%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.65%) Balsamiq
6 3 (1.65%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.65%) Subversion
7 2 (1.10%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.10%) IDA Disassembler
7 2 (1.10%) Robot Framework
7 2 (1.10%) TestRail
8 1 (0.55%) JUnit
8 1 (0.55%) SonarQube
General
1 39 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 20 (10.99%) Public Sector
3 16 (8.79%) Aerospace
4 14 (7.69%) Manufacturing
5 12 (6.59%) Military
6 8 (4.40%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.40%) Finance
6 8 (4.40%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.75%) Electronics
9 4 (2.20%) Advertising
9 4 (2.20%) Aviation
9 4 (2.20%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.65%) Avionics
10 3 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.10%) Marketing
12 1 (0.55%) Automotive
12 1 (0.55%) Games
12 1 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.55%) Law
Job Titles
1 22 (12.09%) Consultant
2 21 (11.54%) Analyst
3 19 (10.44%) Business Analyst
3 19 (10.44%) Software Engineer
4 14 (7.69%) Senior
5 13 (7.14%) Security Consultant
6 10 (5.49%) Administrator
7 9 (4.95%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (4.95%) Lead
8 8 (4.40%) Cybersecurity Consultant
8 8 (4.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 8 (4.40%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 8 (4.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (4.40%) Integration Engineer
8 8 (4.40%) Junior
8 8 (4.40%) Technical Consultant
9 7 (3.85%) Splunk Engineer
9 7 (3.85%) Virtualisation Administrator
10 6 (3.30%) Junior Consultant
10 6 (3.30%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.69%) React
2 8 (4.40%) AngularJS
3 6 (3.30%) MERN Stack
3 6 (3.30%) Spring
3 6 (3.30%) Spring Boot
4 4 (2.20%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (1.65%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.10%) Kafka
6 2 (1.10%) REST
6 2 (1.10%) Vue
7 1 (0.55%) Express.js
7 1 (0.55%) Flash
7 1 (0.55%) Hibernate
7 1 (0.55%) HTML
7 1 (0.55%) JSF
7 1 (0.55%) NestJS
7 1 (0.55%) Node.js
7 1 (0.55%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.95%) Data Centre
2 7 (3.85%) Driving Licence
2 7 (3.85%) Onboarding
3 6 (3.30%) PKI
4 5 (2.75%) Algorithms
4 5 (2.75%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.75%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (2.75%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.20%) CMDB
5 4 (2.20%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.65%) PMI
6 3 (1.65%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.55%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.55%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.55%) Raspberry Pi
8 1 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (18.13%) Linux
2 19 (10.44%) Windows
3 12 (6.59%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.30%) CentOS
4 6 (3.30%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.65%) Rocky
6 3 (1.65%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.65%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.10%) CoreOS
7 2 (1.10%) Debian
7 2 (1.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (23.63%) Agile
2 32 (17.58%) DevOps
3 30 (16.48%) Software Engineering
4 25 (13.74%) Cybersecurity
4 25 (13.74%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (10.99%) AI
6 16 (8.79%) Collaborative Working
6 16 (8.79%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (8.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 13 (7.14%) CI/CD
8 13 (7.14%) Collaborative Culture
8 13 (7.14%) Machine Learning
9 12 (6.59%) Penetration Testing
10 11 (6.04%) Data Analysis
10 11 (6.04%) Data Science
10 11 (6.04%) Full-Stack Development
10 11 (6.04%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (6.04%) ITIL
11 10 (5.49%) Computer Science
11 10 (5.49%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 49 (26.92%) Python
2 28 (15.38%) Java
3 19 (10.44%) Bash
4 17 (9.34%) PowerShell
5 14 (7.69%) JavaScript
6 13 (7.14%) C
7 10 (5.49%) TypeScript
8 7 (3.85%) Go
9 5 (2.75%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.75%) SQL
10 4 (2.20%) C++
11 3 (1.65%) C#
11 3 (1.65%) Google Apps Script
11 3 (1.65%) MATLAB
11 3 (1.65%) Tcl
11 3 (1.65%) VBScript
12 2 (1.10%) Elixir
12 2 (1.10%) Erlang
12 2 (1.10%) Groovy
12 2 (1.10%) R
Qualifications
1 101 (55.49%) DV Cleared
2 100 (54.95%) SC Cleared
3 23 (12.64%) Degree
4 13 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.75%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.20%) CCIE
7 4 (2.20%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.65%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.65%) CITP
8 3 (1.65%) CREST Certified
8 3 (1.65%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (1.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (1.10%) BC Cleared
9 2 (1.10%) CBAP
9 2 (1.10%) CHECK Team Member
9 2 (1.10%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.55%) APMP
10 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.55%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.40%) QA
2 4 (2.20%) GDPR
3 3 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.65%) RMADS
4 1 (0.55%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.55%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 13 (7.14%) Docker
2 10 (5.49%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.40%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.65%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.10%) vSphere
6 1 (0.55%) KVM
6 1 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.55%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 31 (17.03%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.14%) Ansible
3 11 (6.04%) Terraform
4 6 (3.30%) Grafana
5 4 (2.20%) Nagios
6 3 (1.65%) Argo
6 3 (1.65%) Kibana
6 3 (1.65%) McAfee ePO
6 3 (1.65%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.65%) Rancher
6 3 (1.65%) SCVMM
6 3 (1.65%) yum
7 2 (1.10%) SCCM
8 1 (0.55%) logstash
8 1 (0.55%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.55%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.55%) Puppet
8 1 (0.55%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (4.95%) Cisco
1 9 (4.95%) Splunk
2 8 (4.40%) Red Hat
3 7 (3.85%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.30%) Fortinet
4 6 (3.30%) Google
5 5 (2.75%) F5
6 4 (2.20%) Atlassian
6 4 (2.20%) CheckPoint
6 4 (2.20%) Dell
6 4 (2.20%) VMware
7 3 (1.65%) McAfee
8 2 (1.10%) IBM
8 2 (1.10%) Oracle
8 2 (1.10%) SAP
9 1 (0.55%) HP
9 1 (0.55%) Juniper
9 1 (0.55%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.55%) Veeam