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 2 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 10 1
Rank change year-on-year +4 -9 0
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 163 68 300
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 9.93% 13.05% 23.46%
As % of the Qualifications category 48.66% 31.48% 62.50%
Number of salaries quoted 68 35 134
10th Percentile £39,000 £47,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £59,688 £51,875 £44,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £67,500 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% +19.42% +5.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £81,250
Berkshire median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £56,252
% change year-on-year +27.27% -2.23% +4.64%

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 335 216 480
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 20.40% 41.46% 37.53%
Number of salaries quoted 189 101 189
10th Percentile £39,000 £28,000 £38,426
25th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,565 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year +7.98% -1.70% +5.14%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,500 £92,500 £81,250
Berkshire median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +11.47%

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 2 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in Reading

Security Cleared
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 2 (1.23%) Apache Spark
1 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.23%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.61%) Confluence
2 1 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (2.45%) Mathematica
1 4 (2.45%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.61%) OrCAD
2 1 (0.61%) Solid Edge
2 1 (0.61%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) SAP MDG
1 1 (0.61%) SAP MM
1 1 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (10.43%) Azure
2 13 (7.98%) AWS
3 7 (4.29%) Entra ID
3 7 (4.29%) OpenShift
4 6 (3.68%) Serverless
5 5 (3.07%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (2.45%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (1.84%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.23%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.23%) GCP
8 2 (1.23%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.61%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.61%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.29%) DNS
2 5 (3.07%) Firewall
3 3 (1.84%) HTTP
3 3 (1.84%) LAN
3 3 (1.84%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.23%) FTP
4 2 (1.23%) Internet
4 2 (1.23%) SMTP
4 2 (1.23%) Software-Defined Radio
4 2 (1.23%) WAN
5 1 (0.61%) VPN
5 1 (0.61%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (2.45%) Big Data
2 4 (2.45%) Oracle Database
3 3 (1.84%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.23%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.23%) Oracle Database 11g
4 2 (1.23%) Oracle Database 12c
4 2 (1.23%) Power BI
4 2 (1.23%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.61%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.61%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.61%) Metadata
5 1 (0.61%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.61%) MySQL
5 1 (0.61%) Redis
5 1 (0.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (3.07%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.45%) Git
2 4 (2.45%) GitLab
3 3 (1.84%) JMeter
4 2 (1.23%) JIRA
4 2 (1.23%) JUnit
4 2 (1.23%) MLflow
4 2 (1.23%) Mockito
4 2 (1.23%) Selenium
5 1 (0.61%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.61%) Mocha
5 1 (0.61%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.61%) Rational Rhapsody
5 1 (0.61%) SonarQube
General
1 28 (17.18%) Social Skills
2 27 (16.56%) Aerospace
2 27 (16.56%) Finance
3 20 (12.27%) Public Sector
4 18 (11.04%) Retail
5 14 (8.59%) Organisational Skills
6 12 (7.36%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (4.91%) Electronics
8 6 (3.68%) Banking
9 5 (3.07%) French Language
9 5 (3.07%) Legal
10 4 (2.45%) Games
10 4 (2.45%) Law
11 3 (1.84%) Military
12 2 (1.23%) Aviation
13 1 (0.61%) Automotive
13 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (15.34%) Support Specialist
2 20 (12.27%) Developer
2 20 (12.27%) Senior
3 17 (10.43%) Architect
4 13 (7.98%) Infrastructure Support
4 13 (7.98%) Java Developer
5 9 (5.52%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 9 (5.52%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
6 8 (4.91%) Analyst
6 8 (4.91%) Auditor
6 8 (4.91%) Security Auditor
6 8 (4.91%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (4.29%) .NET Developer
7 7 (4.29%) Active Directory Specialist
7 7 (4.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (4.29%) Lead
7 7 (4.29%) Senior .NET Developer
7 7 (4.29%) Senior Developer
8 5 (3.07%) Linux Administrator
8 5 (3.07%) Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.13%) Spring
2 9 (5.52%) .NET
3 4 (2.45%) Loki
3 4 (2.45%) Spring Boot
3 4 (2.45%) Terraform
4 3 (1.84%) Hibernate
4 3 (1.84%) HTML
4 3 (1.84%) Jakarta EE
4 3 (1.84%) JPA
4 3 (1.84%) REST
4 3 (1.84%) RESTful
5 2 (1.23%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (1.23%) ASP.NET
5 2 (1.23%) jQuery
5 2 (1.23%) LDAP
5 2 (1.23%) Middleware
5 2 (1.23%) NumPy
5 2 (1.23%) SOAP
5 2 (1.23%) Spring MVC
5 2 (1.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.52%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.91%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.68%) Algorithms
3 6 (3.68%) Synthetic Data
4 5 (3.07%) Cyber Defence
4 5 (3.07%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (3.07%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.84%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.23%) 3D Printing
6 2 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.23%) BeagleBone
6 2 (1.23%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.23%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.23%) Hackathon
6 2 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.23%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.23%) Raspberry Pi
6 2 (1.23%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.36%) Windows
2 9 (5.52%) Linux
3 4 (2.45%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.84%) Rocky
5 2 (1.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (15.95%) Cybersecurity
2 20 (12.27%) Mentoring
3 19 (11.66%) Continuous Improvement
3 19 (11.66%) Service Delivery
4 18 (11.04%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (9.82%) CI/CD
6 15 (9.20%) DevOps
7 14 (8.59%) Containerisation
7 14 (8.59%) Stakeholder Management
7 14 (8.59%) Validation
8 13 (7.98%) Agile
9 11 (6.75%) Identity Access Management
10 9 (5.52%) Microservices
11 8 (4.91%) Collaborative Working
11 8 (4.91%) Cyber Assurance
11 8 (4.91%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (4.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 8 (4.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 8 (4.91%) Vulnerability Management
12 7 (4.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (12.27%) Python
2 15 (9.20%) Java
3 6 (3.68%) C++
3 6 (3.68%) MATLAB
3 6 (3.68%) Shell Script
3 6 (3.68%) SQL
4 5 (3.07%) Bash
5 4 (2.45%) C
5 4 (2.45%) C#
5 4 (2.45%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.45%) R
6 2 (1.23%) Rust
7 1 (0.61%) ABAP
7 1 (0.61%) Embedded C
7 1 (0.61%) Groovy
7 1 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.61%) Perl
7 1 (0.61%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.61%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 101 (61.96%) SC Cleared
2 64 (39.26%) DV Cleared
3 12 (7.36%) Degree
4 8 (4.91%) Master's Degree
5 7 (4.29%) PhD
6 4 (2.45%) CISSP
6 4 (2.45%) CTC Cleared
6 4 (2.45%) OSCP
7 3 (1.84%) CREST Certified
8 2 (1.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.23%) CHECK Team Leader
8 2 (1.23%) CHECK Team Member
8 2 (1.23%) CISA
8 2 (1.23%) CRISC
8 2 (1.23%) Cyber Scheme
8 2 (1.23%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 1 (0.61%) GCIA
9 1 (0.61%) GIAC
9 1 (0.61%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.07%) Data Quality
1 5 (3.07%) NEBOSH
2 2 (1.23%) COBIT
2 2 (1.23%) COSO
2 2 (1.23%) GDPR
2 2 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.23%) NCSC
2 2 (1.23%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.23%) PMO
2 2 (1.23%) QA
3 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.61%) JSP 440
3 1 (0.61%) MISRA
System Software
1 14 (8.59%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.68%) Docker
2 6 (3.68%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (3.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (3.68%) vSphere
3 3 (1.84%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (9.82%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.68%) Ansible
3 5 (3.07%) Grafana
4 4 (2.45%) Argo
4 4 (2.45%) Kibana
4 4 (2.45%) Kustomize
4 4 (2.45%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.84%) SCCM
5 3 (1.84%) vCenter Server
6 2 (1.23%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (1.23%) QRadar
6 2 (1.23%) vRealize
7 1 (0.61%) Istio
Vendors
1 21 (12.88%) Thales
2 12 (7.36%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.36%) VMware
3 6 (3.68%) Oracle
4 5 (3.07%) Splunk
5 4 (2.45%) CA Agile Central
5 4 (2.45%) EMC
5 4 (2.45%) Mentor Graphics
5 4 (2.45%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.84%) Cadence
6 3 (1.84%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.84%) SAP
7 2 (1.23%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.23%) ArcSight
7 2 (1.23%) IBM
8 1 (0.61%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.61%) Foundry
8 1 (0.61%) Palantir
8 1 (0.61%) ServiceNow