Security Cleared Job Trends in Reading

Security Clearance
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 +25
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 59 231 374
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 11.75% 20.23% 36.96%
As % of the Qualifications category 36.88% 58.33% 67.03%
Number of salaries quoted 27 87 268
10th Percentile £46,000 £41,263 £34,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,188 £38,790
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,525 £53,760
Median % change year-on-year +1.72% +5.14% +9.38%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £61,912
90th Percentile £91,000 £81,250 £78,863
Berkshire median annual salary £55,000 £56,525 £53,760
% change year-on-year -2.70% +5.14% +8.66%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 160 396 558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 31.87% 34.68% 55.14%
Number of salaries quoted 72 130 359
10th Percentile £28,000 £40,013 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,438 £49,491 £38,460
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,125 £54,763
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% +7.97% +6.65%
75th Percentile £67,813 £75,000 £64,580
90th Percentile £88,375 £90,250 £82,500
Berkshire median annual salary £53,065 £63,750 £54,500
% change year-on-year -16.76% +16.97% +6.13%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Security Cleared job vacancy trend in Reading

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Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Security Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Security Cleared

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Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Reading over the 6 months to 18 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in Reading

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 3 (5.08%) JBoss
1 3 (5.08%) Red Hat Fuse
2 2 (3.39%) Confluence
2 2 (3.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.69%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 27 (45.76%) AWS
2 21 (35.59%) Serverless
3 20 (33.90%) Amazon ECS
4 19 (32.20%) Amazon EC2
4 19 (32.20%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (6.78%) Amazon S3
5 4 (6.78%) Azure
6 3 (5.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (5.08%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (3.39%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (3.39%) AWS KMS
7 2 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.39%) Route 53
8 1 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.69%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.69%) Smartsheet
8 1 (1.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.78%) DNS
1 4 (6.78%) Firewall
2 3 (5.08%) DHCP
3 1 (1.69%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (1.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (35.59%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (32.20%) Relational Database
3 16 (27.12%) RDBMS
4 3 (5.08%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (3.39%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (3.39%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 21 (35.59%) Jenkins
1 21 (35.59%) JUnit
2 18 (30.51%) Mockito
3 16 (27.12%) JMeter
4 5 (8.47%) Git
5 2 (3.39%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (3.39%) DbUnit
5 2 (3.39%) JIRA
5 2 (3.39%) jMock
5 2 (3.39%) Maven
5 2 (3.39%) Selenium
5 2 (3.39%) SonarQube
General
1 26 (44.07%) Public Sector
2 12 (20.34%) Social Skills
3 8 (13.56%) Finance
4 3 (5.08%) Banking
4 3 (5.08%) Games
4 3 (5.08%) Manufacturing
4 3 (5.08%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.39%) Aerospace
5 2 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.39%) Back Office
5 2 (3.39%) Electronics
5 2 (3.39%) Marketing
5 2 (3.39%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.69%) Billing
6 1 (1.69%) Legal
6 1 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 21 (35.59%) Developer
1 21 (35.59%) Java Developer
2 15 (25.42%) Full-Stack Developer
2 15 (25.42%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 15 (25.42%) Mid-Level Java Developer
3 7 (11.86%) Architect
3 7 (11.86%) Senior
4 5 (8.47%) Lead
5 4 (6.78%) Integration Manager
6 3 (5.08%) Coordinator
6 3 (5.08%) Lead Architect
6 3 (5.08%) Project Coordinator
6 3 (5.08%) Software Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) Analyst
7 2 (3.39%) Business Analyst
7 2 (3.39%) Consultant
7 2 (3.39%) Lead Developer
7 2 (3.39%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) Technical Architect
7 2 (3.39%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (37.29%) Spring
1 22 (37.29%) Spring Boot
2 21 (35.59%) Web Services
3 19 (32.20%) Apache Camel
3 19 (32.20%) REST
4 18 (30.51%) ActiveMQ
4 18 (30.51%) Hibernate
5 16 (27.12%) HTML
5 16 (27.12%) jQuery
5 16 (27.12%) WireMock
6 15 (25.42%) JSON
6 15 (25.42%) XML
7 5 (8.47%) RESTful
7 5 (8.47%) SOAP
8 3 (5.08%) J2EE
9 2 (3.39%) AngularJS
9 2 (3.39%) Bootstrap
9 2 (3.39%) JPA
9 2 (3.39%) Spring Batch
9 2 (3.39%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 21 (35.59%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (11.86%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.08%) PKI
4 2 (3.39%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.39%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (3.39%) Driving Licence
4 2 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.69%) Biopharmaceutical
5 1 (1.69%) CESG
5 1 (1.69%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.69%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.47%) Windows
1 5 (8.47%) Windows Server
2 2 (3.39%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (45.76%) Agile
2 23 (38.98%) BDD
2 23 (38.98%) TDD
3 22 (37.29%) Microservices
4 20 (33.90%) CI/CD
5 16 (27.12%) Full-Stack Development
5 16 (27.12%) Process Management
5 16 (27.12%) Workflow
6 15 (25.42%) SDLC
7 8 (13.56%) Software Engineering
8 7 (11.86%) Project Delivery
9 6 (10.17%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (10.17%) Kanban
9 6 (10.17%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (10.17%) Scrum
9 6 (10.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 5 (8.47%) DevOps
11 4 (6.78%) Coaching
11 4 (6.78%) Mentoring
11 4 (6.78%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 28 (47.46%) Java
2 17 (28.81%) Python
3 16 (27.12%) JavaScript
3 16 (27.12%) Shell Script
4 2 (3.39%) C++
4 2 (3.39%) SQL
5 1 (1.69%) Bash
5 1 (1.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 28 (47.46%) SC Cleared
2 8 (13.56%) DV Cleared
3 4 (6.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (5.08%) Degree
5 2 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.69%) CESG Certified Professional
6 1 (1.69%) CHECK Team Leader
6 1 (1.69%) CHECK Team Member
6 1 (1.69%) CISSP
6 1 (1.69%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (1.69%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (5.08%) GDPR
2 3 (5.08%) QA
2 3 (5.08%) SLA
3 2 (3.39%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.39%) HIPAA
3 2 (3.39%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.69%) GRC
System Software
1 22 (37.29%) Docker
2 4 (6.78%) Active Directory
3 3 (5.08%) Hyper-V
3 3 (5.08%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (5.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.69%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.69%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 21 (35.59%) Kubernetes
2 16 (27.12%) Kibana
3 4 (6.78%) Ansible
4 2 (3.39%) Terraform
5 1 (1.69%) Grafana
5 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.69%) vRealize
Vendors
1 16 (27.12%) Dynatrace
1 16 (27.12%) Splunk
2 11 (18.64%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.78%) VMware
4 3 (5.08%) SAP
5 2 (3.39%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.69%) Oracle