Security Cleared Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Security Clearance
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 36 23
Rank change year-on-year -4 -13 +20
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 15 42 44
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxfordshire 2.13% 5.19% 6.90%
As % of the Qualifications category 12.20% 16.09% 25.88%
Number of salaries quoted 6 17 44
10th Percentile £46,750 £27,900 £25,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £43,911 £29,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £45,096 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +52.45% +6.11% -10.53%
75th Percentile £78,438 £57,854 £48,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £67,000 £59,625
South East median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +10.09% +6.92%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 123 261 170
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 17.47% 32.22% 26.65%
Number of salaries quoted 60 88 139
10th Percentile £27,250 £25,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,854 £40,000 £40,644
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,609 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.71% +5.22% +17.32%
75th Percentile £66,875 £65,000 £62,750
90th Percentile £80,375 £77,500 £73,750
South East median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £53,260
% change year-on-year -12.50% +12.65% +2.42%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Security Cleared relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

Security Cleared job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Security Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Security Cleared

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Salary Histogram in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in Oxfordshire

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Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Cleared within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 30 December 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
Oxford +11 2 £95,000 +26.67% 56
Carterton 0 1 - - 4
Kidlington - 1 - -
Security Cleared
South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 2 (13.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (13.33%) Adobe After Effects
2 2 (13.33%) Adobe Captivate
2 2 (13.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (13.33%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (13.33%) Adobe Premiere
2 2 (13.33%) Elementor
2 2 (13.33%) Photoshop
3 1 (6.67%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) C-CURE
2 1 (6.67%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Google Workspace
2 2 (13.33%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 2 (13.33%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) GitHub
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) DHCP
1 3 (20.00%) DNS
1 3 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (6.67%) Ethernet
2 1 (6.67%) Firewall
2 1 (6.67%) RS-232
2 1 (6.67%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) DynamoDB
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Aerospace
2 3 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Electronics
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Legal
3 2 (13.33%) Manufacturing
3 2 (13.33%) Marketing
3 2 (13.33%) Multimedia
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Automotive
4 1 (6.67%) Aviation
4 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Analyst
1 4 (26.67%) Senior
1 4 (26.67%) Support Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Technical Support
2 3 (20.00%) Technical Support Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Digital Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Installations Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) IT Support
4 1 (6.67%) Network Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Principal Hardware Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Bootstrap
1 2 (13.33%) HTML
2 1 (6.67%) LangGraph
2 1 (6.67%) ModSecurity
2 1 (6.67%) React
2 1 (6.67%) RESTful
2 1 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) e-Learning
1 3 (20.00%) Fibre Optics
2 2 (13.33%) CCTV
2 2 (13.33%) Driving Licence
2 2 (13.33%) Graphic Design
2 2 (13.33%) Learning Management System
2 2 (13.33%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (13.33%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (6.67%) Acoustics
3 1 (6.67%) AI Agents
3 1 (6.67%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Reference Data
3 1 (6.67%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (6.67%) Robotics
3 1 (6.67%) Self-Driving Car
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.67%) Android
3 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
3 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (20.00%) Content Development
2 3 (20.00%) Storyboarding
2 3 (20.00%) Validation
3 2 (13.33%) Copywriting
3 2 (13.33%) Creative Thinking
3 2 (13.33%) Customer-Centric Approach
3 2 (13.33%) Customer-Centricity
3 2 (13.33%) Functional Testing
3 2 (13.33%) Inclusive Design
3 2 (13.33%) Instructional Design
3 2 (13.33%) ITIL
3 2 (13.33%) PRINCE2
3 2 (13.33%) Process Improvement
3 2 (13.33%) Project Delivery
3 2 (13.33%) Project Management
3 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
3 2 (13.33%) User Experience
3 2 (13.33%) UX Design
4 1 (6.67%) Software Licensing
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Bash
1 1 (6.67%) Go
1 1 (6.67%) PL/SQL
1 1 (6.67%) Python
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 6 (40.00%) Degree
3 3 (20.00%) DBS Check
4 2 (13.33%) A+ Certification
4 2 (13.33%) City & Guilds
4 2 (13.33%) MCSE
4 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
1 2 (13.33%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Argo
2 1 (6.67%) Kubeflow
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Adobe
1 2 (13.33%) Google
2 1 (6.67%) CheckPoint
2 1 (6.67%) EMC
2 1 (6.67%) Palo Alto
2 1 (6.67%) VMware