SC Cleared Jobs in Reading

Security Check (SC) Clearance
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 4 18
Rank change year-on-year -16 +14 +36
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 50 351 195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 9.77% 20.44% 12.44%
As % of the Qualifications category 20.00% 44.49% 27.39%
Number of salaries quoted 19 198 98
10th Percentile £47,250 £29,753 £23,500
25th Percentile - £34,000 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £45,600
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +20.61% -24.00%
75th Percentile £78,125 £64,688 £74,250
90th Percentile £89,500 £82,875 £84,125
Berkshire median annual salary £65,000 £53,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year +21.50% - +4.90%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Reading

SC 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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 250 789 712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 48.83% 45.95% 45.41%
Number of salaries quoted 108 476 283
10th Percentile £31,600 £30,000 £25,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,550 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.66% +5.10% -10.37%
75th Percentile £79,063 £65,063 £72,500
90th Percentile £120,750 £80,625 £87,000
Berkshire median annual salary £56,673 £55,000 £51,350
% change year-on-year +3.04% +7.11% -4.02%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Reading

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Salary Trend in Reading

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in Reading.

Salary trend for SC Cleared in Reading

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Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Reading over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 13 (26.00%) JBoss
1 13 (26.00%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (2.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 29 (58.00%) AWS
2 23 (46.00%) Amazon ECS
2 23 (46.00%) Serverless
3 20 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
4 9 (18.00%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (12.00%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (10.00%) Amazon S3
6 5 (10.00%) Azure
7 4 (8.00%) AWS KMS
8 3 (6.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 3 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (6.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (4.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (4.00%) Power Platform
10 1 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (2.00%) GCP
10 1 (2.00%) PaaS
10 1 (2.00%) Route 53
10 1 (2.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.00%) Firewall
1 3 (6.00%) SSL
2 1 (2.00%) DHCP
2 1 (2.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (48.00%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (40.00%) Relational Database
3 7 (14.00%) RDBMS
4 3 (6.00%) MongoDB
5 2 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (4.00%) Power BI
6 1 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.00%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.00%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.00%) MySQL
6 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 22 (44.00%) JUnit
3 15 (30.00%) Git
4 9 (18.00%) Mockito
5 7 (14.00%) JMeter
6 4 (8.00%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (4.00%) Maven
7 2 (4.00%) SonarQube
8 1 (2.00%) DbUnit
8 1 (2.00%) JIRA
8 1 (2.00%) jMock
General
1 22 (44.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (4.00%) Aerospace
3 1 (2.00%) Finance
3 1 (2.00%) Law
3 1 (2.00%) Military
3 1 (2.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (58.00%) Developer
2 22 (44.00%) Java Developer
3 6 (12.00%) Consultant
3 6 (12.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 5 (10.00%) Microsoft Developer
5 4 (8.00%) Lead
5 4 (8.00%) Support Consultant
6 3 (6.00%) Architect
6 3 (6.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Information Security Specialist
7 2 (4.00%) Information Specialist
7 2 (4.00%) Lead Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Lead Java Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Project Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Project Leader
7 2 (4.00%) Security Specialist
7 2 (4.00%) Senior
7 2 (4.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 2 (4.00%) Senior Information Security Specialist
7 2 (4.00%) Senior Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (44.00%) Spring
1 22 (44.00%) Spring Boot
2 21 (42.00%) REST
2 21 (42.00%) Web Services
3 20 (40.00%) Apache Camel
4 15 (30.00%) SOAP
5 14 (28.00%) RESTful
6 13 (26.00%) J2EE
7 9 (18.00%) ActiveMQ
8 8 (16.00%) Hibernate
9 7 (14.00%) HTML
9 7 (14.00%) jQuery
9 7 (14.00%) WireMock
10 3 (6.00%) AngularJS
11 2 (4.00%) Bootstrap
11 2 (4.00%) JPA
11 2 (4.00%) Kafka
12 1 (2.00%) Node.js
12 1 (2.00%) Spring Batch
12 1 (2.00%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 20 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (6.00%) CESG
3 2 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.00%) CCTV
4 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.00%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.00%) PKI
4 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.00%) Linux
2 3 (6.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.00%) Windows
3 1 (2.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (52.00%) Agile
2 23 (46.00%) Scrum
3 22 (44.00%) Kanban
3 22 (44.00%) Microservices
3 22 (44.00%) TDD
4 21 (42.00%) BDD
5 20 (40.00%) DevOps
6 12 (24.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 10 (20.00%) CI/CD
8 7 (14.00%) Architectural Design
8 7 (14.00%) Collaborative Working
8 7 (14.00%) Process Management
8 7 (14.00%) Workflow
9 4 (8.00%) Containerisation
10 3 (6.00%) Capacity Management
10 3 (6.00%) Cybersecurity
10 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 3 (6.00%) Key Management
10 3 (6.00%) Patch Management
10 3 (6.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (44.00%) Java
2 10 (20.00%) Python
2 10 (20.00%) Shell Script
3 7 (14.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (8.00%) SQL
5 1 (2.00%) C#
5 1 (2.00%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.00%) X++
Qualifications
1 50 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.00%) CISSP
3 4 (8.00%) DV Cleared
4 3 (6.00%) CESG Certified Professional
4 3 (6.00%) Degree
5 2 (4.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 2 (4.00%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.00%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (26.00%) SLA
2 2 (4.00%) Def Stans
2 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.00%) JSP 440
3 1 (2.00%) RMADS
System Software
1 26 (52.00%) Docker
2 4 (8.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (6.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (6.00%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (2.00%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.00%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 21 (42.00%) Kubernetes
2 16 (32.00%) Ansible
3 7 (14.00%) Kibana
4 3 (6.00%) Nessus
4 3 (6.00%) Proxmox
4 3 (6.00%) Terraform
5 1 (2.00%) Grafana
5 1 (2.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (14.00%) Dynatrace
1 7 (14.00%) Microsoft
1 7 (14.00%) Splunk
2 4 (8.00%) BMC
2 4 (8.00%) VMware
3 3 (6.00%) Juniper
4 1 (2.00%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.00%) Cognos
4 1 (2.00%) Databricks
4 1 (2.00%) Oracle