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 22 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 +25
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 58 227 378
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 11.39% 19.72% 37.57%
As % of the Qualifications category 37.66% 58.06% 67.62%
Number of salaries quoted 25 84 272
10th Percentile £45,250 £41,263 £34,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,188 £38,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,563 £53,760
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% +8.93% +9.38%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £61,300
90th Percentile £91,500 £81,250 £78,375
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 154 391 559
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 30.26% 33.97% 55.57%
Number of salaries quoted 66 128 362
10th Percentile £28,000 £40,013 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,188 £38,130
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,759 £54,130
Median % change year-on-year -3.78% +10.40% +5.41%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £64,313
90th Percentile £89,375 £92,875 £82,500
Berkshire median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +19.27% +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

Security Cleared
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 22 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 (5.17%) JBoss
1 3 (5.17%) Red Hat Fuse
2 2 (3.45%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.72%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.72%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 25 (43.10%) AWS
2 21 (36.21%) Serverless
3 20 (34.48%) Amazon ECS
4 19 (32.76%) Amazon EKS
5 18 (31.03%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (5.17%) Amazon S3
6 3 (5.17%) Azure
6 3 (5.17%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.72%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.72%) AWS KMS
8 1 (1.72%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.72%) Route 53
8 1 (1.72%) Smartsheet
8 1 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.90%) Firewall
2 3 (5.17%) DNS
3 2 (3.45%) DHCP
3 2 (3.45%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (1.72%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (34.48%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (32.76%) Relational Database
3 16 (27.59%) RDBMS
4 2 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.72%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 20 (34.48%) Jenkins
1 20 (34.48%) JUnit
2 17 (29.31%) Mockito
3 16 (27.59%) JMeter
4 4 (6.90%) Git
5 2 (3.45%) Selenium
6 1 (1.72%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (1.72%) DbUnit
6 1 (1.72%) JIRA
6 1 (1.72%) jMock
6 1 (1.72%) Maven
6 1 (1.72%) SonarQube
General
1 25 (43.10%) Public Sector
2 12 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 8 (13.79%) Finance
4 3 (5.17%) Banking
4 3 (5.17%) Games
4 3 (5.17%) Manufacturing
4 3 (5.17%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.45%) Aerospace
5 2 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.45%) Back Office
5 2 (3.45%) Electronics
5 2 (3.45%) Marketing
5 2 (3.45%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.72%) Billing
6 1 (1.72%) Legal
6 1 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 20 (34.48%) Developer
1 20 (34.48%) Java Developer
2 15 (25.86%) Full-Stack Developer
2 15 (25.86%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 15 (25.86%) Mid-Level Java Developer
3 7 (12.07%) Architect
3 7 (12.07%) Senior
4 4 (6.90%) Integration Manager
4 4 (6.90%) Lead
5 3 (5.17%) Coordinator
5 3 (5.17%) Lead Architect
5 3 (5.17%) Project Coordinator
5 3 (5.17%) Software Engineer
6 2 (3.45%) Analyst
6 2 (3.45%) Business Analyst
6 2 (3.45%) Consultant
6 2 (3.45%) Integration Architect
6 2 (3.45%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (3.45%) Technical Architect
6 2 (3.45%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (36.21%) Spring
1 21 (36.21%) Spring Boot
2 20 (34.48%) Web Services
3 19 (32.76%) Apache Camel
3 19 (32.76%) REST
4 17 (29.31%) ActiveMQ
4 17 (29.31%) Hibernate
5 16 (27.59%) HTML
5 16 (27.59%) jQuery
5 16 (27.59%) WireMock
6 15 (25.86%) JSON
6 15 (25.86%) XML
7 4 (6.90%) RESTful
7 4 (6.90%) SOAP
8 3 (5.17%) J2EE
9 1 (1.72%) JPA
9 1 (1.72%) Oracle Fusion
9 1 (1.72%) PowerMock
9 1 (1.72%) Spring Batch
9 1 (1.72%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 21 (36.21%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (12.07%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.45%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.45%) Driving Licence
3 2 (3.45%) PKI
3 2 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.72%) Biopharmaceutical
4 1 (1.72%) CESG
4 1 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.72%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.72%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.90%) Windows
1 4 (6.90%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.72%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (44.83%) Agile
2 22 (37.93%) BDD
2 22 (37.93%) TDD
3 21 (36.21%) Microservices
4 20 (34.48%) CI/CD
5 16 (27.59%) Full-Stack Development
5 16 (27.59%) Process Management
5 16 (27.59%) Workflow
6 15 (25.86%) SDLC
7 8 (13.79%) Software Engineering
8 6 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (10.34%) Project Delivery
9 5 (8.62%) DevOps
9 5 (8.62%) Kanban
9 5 (8.62%) Scrum
9 5 (8.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 4 (6.90%) Coaching
10 4 (6.90%) Configuration Management
10 4 (6.90%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 27 (46.55%) Java
2 17 (29.31%) Python
3 16 (27.59%) JavaScript
3 16 (27.59%) Shell Script
4 2 (3.45%) C++
4 2 (3.45%) SQL
5 1 (1.72%) Bash
5 1 (1.72%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 27 (46.55%) SC Cleared
2 9 (15.52%) DV Cleared
3 4 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (5.17%) Degree
5 2 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.72%) CESG Certified Professional
6 1 (1.72%) CHECK Team Leader
6 1 (1.72%) CHECK Team Member
6 1 (1.72%) CISSP
6 1 (1.72%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (1.72%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (5.17%) GDPR
2 3 (5.17%) QA
2 3 (5.17%) SLA
3 2 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.45%) HIPAA
3 2 (3.45%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.72%) GRC
System Software
1 21 (36.21%) Docker
2 3 (5.17%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.45%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.72%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 21 (36.21%) Kubernetes
2 16 (27.59%) Kibana
3 4 (6.90%) Ansible
4 2 (3.45%) Terraform
5 1 (1.72%) Grafana
5 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.72%) vRealize
Vendors
1 16 (27.59%) Dynatrace
1 16 (27.59%) Splunk
2 10 (17.24%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.17%) SAP
3 3 (5.17%) VMware
4 1 (1.72%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle