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 15 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 1 2
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 +38
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 73 332 342
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 13.90% 24.56% 29.69%
As % of the Qualifications category 33.18% 64.59% 61.73%
Number of salaries quoted 35 163 234
10th Percentile £47,500 £39,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £44,750 £38,130
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £52,550
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +4.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,250 £61,300
90th Percentile £92,500 £81,250 £74,250
Berkshire median annual salary £55,000 £54,995 £53,260
% change year-on-year +0.01% +3.26% +6.52%

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 220 514 554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 41.90% 38.02% 48.09%
Number of salaries quoted 109 227 327
10th Percentile £29,600 £38,952 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,750 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,525 £53,760
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +5.14% -6.50%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,250 £64,125
90th Percentile £92,500 £80,000 £77,500
Berkshire median annual salary £52,500 £58,000 £53,760
% change year-on-year -9.48% +7.89% -2.25%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared 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 15 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Security 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 7 (9.59%) JBoss
1 7 (9.59%) Red Hat Fuse
2 3 (4.11%) Confluence
3 1 (1.37%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.37%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 36 (49.32%) AWS
2 27 (36.99%) Serverless
3 25 (34.25%) Amazon ECS
4 23 (31.51%) Amazon EKS
5 21 (28.77%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (12.33%) Azure
7 8 (10.96%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (9.59%) Amazon S3
9 4 (5.48%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (5.48%) AWS KMS
9 4 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (4.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (4.11%) Route 53
11 2 (2.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (2.74%) GCP
11 2 (2.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 1 (1.37%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 1 (1.37%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (1.37%) Azure Data Factory
12 1 (1.37%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.22%) DNS
2 4 (5.48%) DHCP
2 4 (5.48%) Firewall
3 2 (2.74%) SCCP
4 1 (1.37%) SMTP
4 1 (1.37%) SSL
4 1 (1.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (38.36%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (31.51%) Relational Database
3 16 (21.92%) RDBMS
4 5 (6.85%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (5.48%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (4.11%) DynamoDB
6 3 (4.11%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.37%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.37%) MySQL
7 1 (1.37%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.37%) Power BI
7 1 (1.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (38.36%) Jenkins
2 27 (36.99%) JUnit
3 20 (27.40%) Mockito
4 16 (21.92%) JMeter
5 11 (15.07%) Git
6 4 (5.48%) Bitbucket Server
6 4 (5.48%) Maven
6 4 (5.48%) SonarQube
7 3 (4.11%) DbUnit
7 3 (4.11%) JIRA
7 3 (4.11%) jMock
8 2 (2.74%) Selenium
General
1 30 (41.10%) Public Sector
2 7 (9.59%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.48%) Aerospace
4 3 (4.11%) Finance
4 3 (4.11%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.74%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.74%) Back Office
5 2 (2.74%) Electronics
5 2 (2.74%) Marketing
5 2 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.74%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.37%) Games
6 1 (1.37%) Law
6 1 (1.37%) Military
6 1 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 34 (46.58%) Developer
2 27 (36.99%) Java Developer
3 10 (13.70%) Full-Stack Developer
4 9 (12.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 9 (12.33%) Mid-Level Java Developer
5 8 (10.96%) Lead
6 7 (9.59%) Senior
7 6 (8.22%) Architect
7 6 (8.22%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 5 (6.85%) Microsoft Developer
9 4 (5.48%) Consultant
9 4 (5.48%) Integration Manager
9 4 (5.48%) Lead Developer
9 4 (5.48%) Lead Java Developer
9 4 (5.48%) Support Consultant
10 3 (4.11%) Coordinator
10 3 (4.11%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 3 (4.11%) Technical Architect
11 2 (2.74%) Senior Security Specialist
11 2 (2.74%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (38.36%) Spring
1 28 (38.36%) Spring Boot
2 26 (35.62%) Web Services
3 24 (32.88%) REST
4 23 (31.51%) Apache Camel
5 20 (27.40%) ActiveMQ
6 19 (26.03%) Hibernate
7 16 (21.92%) HTML
7 16 (21.92%) jQuery
7 16 (21.92%) WireMock
8 11 (15.07%) SOAP
9 10 (13.70%) RESTful
10 9 (12.33%) JSON
10 9 (12.33%) XML
11 7 (9.59%) J2EE
12 5 (6.85%) AngularJS
13 4 (5.48%) Bootstrap
13 4 (5.48%) JPA
14 3 (4.11%) Kafka
14 3 (4.11%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 25 (34.25%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (13.70%) Management Information System
3 4 (5.48%) PKI
4 3 (4.11%) CESG
4 3 (4.11%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.74%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.37%) Biopharmaceutical
6 1 (1.37%) CCTV
6 1 (1.37%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.22%) Windows
2 5 (6.85%) Linux
2 5 (6.85%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (45.21%) Agile
2 29 (39.73%) Microservices
2 29 (39.73%) TDD
3 28 (38.36%) BDD
4 22 (30.14%) CI/CD
5 18 (24.66%) Scrum
6 17 (23.29%) Kanban
7 16 (21.92%) Process Management
7 16 (21.92%) Workflow
8 12 (16.44%) DevOps
9 11 (15.07%) Full-Stack Development
10 9 (12.33%) SDLC
11 8 (10.96%) Project Delivery
12 7 (9.59%) Architectural Design
12 7 (9.59%) Collaborative Working
12 7 (9.59%) Software Engineering
12 7 (9.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 6 (8.22%) Continuous Improvement
13 6 (8.22%) Problem-Solving
13 6 (8.22%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 33 (45.21%) Java
2 18 (24.66%) Python
3 17 (23.29%) Shell Script
4 16 (21.92%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.48%) SQL
6 1 (1.37%) Bash
6 1 (1.37%) C#
6 1 (1.37%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.37%) X++
Qualifications
1 53 (72.60%) SC Cleared
2 6 (8.22%) Degree
3 5 (6.85%) CISSP
4 4 (5.48%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.11%) CESG Certified Professional
5 3 (4.11%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.11%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 2 (2.74%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.37%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.59%) SLA
2 6 (8.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.11%) GDPR
3 3 (4.11%) HIPAA
3 3 (4.11%) QA
3 3 (4.11%) SOC 2
4 2 (2.74%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.74%) Def Stans
5 1 (1.37%) JSP 440
5 1 (1.37%) RMADS
System Software
1 30 (41.10%) Docker
2 6 (8.22%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.48%) Hyper-V
3 4 (5.48%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (5.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.74%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (1.37%) NFS
5 1 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (35.62%) Kubernetes
2 16 (21.92%) Kibana
3 9 (12.33%) Ansible
4 2 (2.74%) Grafana
4 2 (2.74%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.74%) Terraform
5 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.37%) Nessus
5 1 (1.37%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 16 (21.92%) Dynatrace
1 16 (21.92%) Microsoft
1 16 (21.92%) Splunk
2 6 (8.22%) VMware
3 4 (5.48%) BMC
4 3 (4.11%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.74%) SAP
6 1 (1.37%) Databricks
6 1 (1.37%) Juniper