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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 7 1
Rank change year-on-year +1 -6 0
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 161 65 255
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 9.66% 13.05% 21.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 48.79% 32.34% 60.14%
Number of salaries quoted 60 35 105
10th Percentile £38,850 £46,750 £38,880
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £62,500 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year +24.00% +10.57% +5.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile - £92,500 £81,250
Berkshire median annual salary £73,750 £55,000 £56,252
% change year-on-year +34.09% -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 330 201 424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 19.81% 40.36% 35.33%
Number of salaries quoted 184 96 152
10th Percentile £39,300 £28,000 £36,400
25th Percentile £43,750 £43,438 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,250 £57,500 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year -3.91% +1.72% +5.14%
75th Percentile £74,063 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £81,250
Berkshire median annual salary £58,250 £52,500 £60,500
% change year-on-year +10.95% -13.22% +12.40%

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

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Reading over the 6 months to 14 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 (1.24%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.62%) Confluence
2 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.62%) Palantir Foundry
2 1 (0.62%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (3.11%) Mathematica
2 3 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.62%) OrCAD
3 1 (0.62%) Solid Edge
3 1 (0.62%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) SAP MDG
1 1 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (12.42%) Azure
2 13 (8.07%) AWS
3 10 (6.21%) OpenShift
4 7 (4.35%) Entra ID
5 5 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.48%) Serverless
7 3 (1.86%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (1.86%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.24%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.24%) GCP
8 2 (1.24%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.62%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.62%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.35%) DNS
2 4 (2.48%) Firewall
3 2 (1.24%) HTTP
3 2 (1.24%) LAN
3 2 (1.24%) Software-Defined Radio
3 2 (1.24%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.62%) FTP
4 1 (0.62%) Internet
4 1 (0.62%) SMTP
4 1 (0.62%) VPN
4 1 (0.62%) WAN
4 1 (0.62%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.97%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (3.73%) Big Data
3 3 (1.86%) Oracle Database
3 3 (1.86%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.24%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.24%) Oracle Database 11g
4 2 (1.24%) Oracle Database 12c
4 2 (1.24%) Power BI
4 2 (1.24%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.62%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.62%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.62%) Metadata
5 1 (0.62%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.62%) MySQL
5 1 (0.62%) Redis
5 1 (0.62%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (1.86%) GitLab
1 3 (1.86%) Jenkins
1 3 (1.86%) JMeter
2 2 (1.24%) Git
2 2 (1.24%) JIRA
2 2 (1.24%) JUnit
2 2 (1.24%) MLflow
2 2 (1.24%) Mockito
2 2 (1.24%) Selenium
3 1 (0.62%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.62%) Mocha
3 1 (0.62%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.62%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 33 (20.50%) Aerospace
2 29 (18.01%) Social Skills
3 24 (14.91%) Finance
4 20 (12.42%) Retail
5 14 (8.70%) Public Sector
6 12 (7.45%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (6.83%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (5.59%) Electronics
9 6 (3.73%) Legal
10 5 (3.11%) Banking
11 4 (2.48%) French Language
11 4 (2.48%) Games
11 4 (2.48%) Law
12 3 (1.86%) Military
13 2 (1.24%) Aviation
13 2 (1.24%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.62%) Automotive
14 1 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (15.53%) Support Specialist
2 19 (11.80%) Architect
3 18 (11.18%) Senior
4 13 (8.07%) Infrastructure Support
4 13 (8.07%) Lead
5 10 (6.21%) Developer
6 9 (5.59%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 9 (5.59%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
7 8 (4.97%) Auditor
7 8 (4.97%) Security Auditor
8 7 (4.35%) Active Directory Specialist
8 7 (4.35%) Administrator
8 7 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (4.35%) Linux Administrator
8 7 (4.35%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 7 (4.35%) Senior Linux Administrator
8 7 (4.35%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
8 7 (4.35%) Senior Systems Administrator
8 7 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (4.35%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.73%) .NET
1 6 (3.73%) Loki
2 5 (3.11%) Spring
3 4 (2.48%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (1.86%) Hibernate
4 3 (1.86%) HTML
4 3 (1.86%) RESTful
4 3 (1.86%) Spring Boot
4 3 (1.86%) Terraform
5 2 (1.24%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (1.24%) ASP.NET
5 2 (1.24%) Jakarta EE
5 2 (1.24%) JPA
5 2 (1.24%) jQuery
5 2 (1.24%) Middleware
5 2 (1.24%) NumPy
5 2 (1.24%) REST
5 2 (1.24%) scikit-learn
5 2 (1.24%) SOAP
5 2 (1.24%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.07%) Product Ownership
2 10 (6.21%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.35%) Algorithms
3 7 (4.35%) Synthetic Data
4 6 (3.73%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.11%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.48%) Cyber Defence
6 4 (2.48%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.24%) 3D Printing
8 2 (1.24%) Arduino
8 2 (1.24%) BeagleBone
8 2 (1.24%) CUDA
8 2 (1.24%) Device Driver
8 2 (1.24%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.24%) Hackathon
8 2 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.24%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.24%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.24%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.83%) Linux
1 11 (6.83%) Windows
2 3 (1.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (1.86%) Rocky
2 3 (1.86%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (14.91%) Cybersecurity
2 22 (13.66%) CI/CD
2 22 (13.66%) Continuous Improvement
2 22 (13.66%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (12.42%) Mentoring
4 19 (11.80%) Service Delivery
5 14 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
5 14 (8.70%) Validation
6 13 (8.07%) Agile
6 13 (8.07%) DevOps
6 13 (8.07%) Mathematics
7 12 (7.45%) Containerisation
8 11 (6.83%) Identity Access Management
9 10 (6.21%) Computer Science
9 10 (6.21%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (6.21%) Software Engineering
10 9 (5.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 9 (5.59%) Observability
10 9 (5.59%) Technical Leadership
11 8 (4.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (12.42%) Python
2 8 (4.97%) Java
3 7 (4.35%) C++
3 7 (4.35%) MATLAB
4 5 (3.11%) Bash
4 5 (3.11%) C
4 5 (3.11%) R
4 5 (3.11%) Shell Script
4 5 (3.11%) SQL
5 4 (2.48%) C#
5 4 (2.48%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.24%) Embedded C
6 2 (1.24%) Rust
7 1 (0.62%) ABAP
7 1 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.62%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 99 (61.49%) SC Cleared
2 68 (42.24%) DV Cleared
3 17 (10.56%) Degree
4 10 (6.21%) Master's Degree
5 9 (5.59%) PhD
6 6 (3.73%) CISSP
7 5 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.48%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.48%) CTC Cleared
9 3 (1.86%) OSCP
10 2 (1.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (1.24%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.24%) CISA
10 2 (1.24%) CREST Certified
10 2 (1.24%) CRISC
10 2 (1.24%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 2 (1.24%) Postgraduate
10 2 (1.24%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.62%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.11%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.48%) NEBOSH
3 3 (1.86%) QA
4 2 (1.24%) COBIT
4 2 (1.24%) COSO
4 2 (1.24%) GDPR
4 2 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.24%) JSP 440
4 2 (1.24%) MISRA
4 2 (1.24%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.62%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.62%) NCSC
5 1 (0.62%) PMO
5 1 (0.62%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (8.70%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.73%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (3.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (3.73%) vSphere
3 4 (2.48%) Docker
4 3 (1.86%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.62%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (10.56%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.35%) Grafana
3 6 (3.73%) Argo
3 6 (3.73%) Kustomize
3 6 (3.73%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.48%) Ansible
5 3 (1.86%) Istio
5 3 (1.86%) Kibana
5 3 (1.86%) SCCM
5 3 (1.86%) vCenter Server
6 2 (1.24%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.62%) QRadar
7 1 (0.62%) vRealize
Vendors
1 23 (14.29%) Thales
2 15 (9.32%) Microsoft
3 11 (6.83%) VMware
4 7 (4.35%) Red Hat
5 5 (3.11%) Oracle
6 4 (2.48%) CA Agile Central
6 4 (2.48%) EMC
6 4 (2.48%) Mentor Graphics
6 4 (2.48%) Splunk
7 3 (1.86%) Cadence
7 3 (1.86%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.24%) SAP
9 1 (0.62%) ArcSight
9 1 (0.62%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.62%) Foundry
9 1 (0.62%) IBM
9 1 (0.62%) Palantir
9 1 (0.62%) ServiceNow