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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 9 1
Rank change year-on-year +1 -8 0
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 154 65 286
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 9.35% 12.85% 22.99%
As % of the Qualifications category 47.38% 31.40% 62.17%
Number of salaries quoted 62 35 125
10th Percentile £39,000 £46,750 £38,928
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £62,500 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year +18.00% +10.57% +5.14%
75th Percentile £92,500 £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 325 207 460
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 19.73% 40.91% 36.98%
Number of salaries quoted 184 96 176
10th Percentile £39,000 £28,000 £37,940
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £55,000 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% -2.70% +5.14%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,375 £92,500 £81,250
Berkshire median annual salary £59,500 £51,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year +14.98% -13.75% +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

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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 8 October 2026.

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 2 (1.30%) Apache Spark
1 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.30%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.65%) Confluence
2 1 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (2.60%) Mathematica
1 4 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.65%) OrCAD
2 1 (0.65%) Solid Edge
2 1 (0.65%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) SAP MDG
1 1 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (10.39%) Azure
2 11 (7.14%) AWS
3 8 (5.19%) OpenShift
4 7 (4.55%) Entra ID
5 4 (2.60%) Serverless
6 3 (1.95%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (1.95%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.30%) GCP
7 2 (1.30%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.65%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.65%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.55%) DNS
2 5 (3.25%) Firewall
3 2 (1.30%) HTTP
3 2 (1.30%) LAN
3 2 (1.30%) Software-Defined Radio
3 2 (1.30%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.65%) FTP
4 1 (0.65%) Internet
4 1 (0.65%) SMTP
4 1 (0.65%) VPN
4 1 (0.65%) WAN
4 1 (0.65%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (3.25%) Big Data
3 3 (1.95%) Oracle Database
3 3 (1.95%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.30%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.30%) Oracle Database 11g
4 2 (1.30%) Oracle Database 12c
4 2 (1.30%) Power BI
4 2 (1.30%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.65%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.65%) Metadata
5 1 (0.65%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.65%) MySQL
5 1 (0.65%) Redis
5 1 (0.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (1.95%) GitLab
1 3 (1.95%) Jenkins
1 3 (1.95%) JMeter
2 2 (1.30%) Git
2 2 (1.30%) JIRA
2 2 (1.30%) JUnit
2 2 (1.30%) MLflow
2 2 (1.30%) Mockito
2 2 (1.30%) Selenium
3 1 (0.65%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.65%) Mocha
3 1 (0.65%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.65%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 28 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 27 (17.53%) Aerospace
3 25 (16.23%) Finance
4 18 (11.69%) Retail
5 14 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
5 14 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 11 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (5.19%) Electronics
8 5 (3.25%) Banking
8 5 (3.25%) French Language
8 5 (3.25%) Legal
9 4 (2.60%) Games
9 4 (2.60%) Law
10 3 (1.95%) Military
11 2 (1.30%) Aviation
12 1 (0.65%) Automotive
12 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (16.23%) Support Specialist
2 20 (12.99%) Senior
3 17 (11.04%) Architect
4 14 (9.09%) Developer
5 13 (8.44%) Infrastructure Support
6 9 (5.84%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 9 (5.84%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
7 8 (5.19%) Auditor
7 8 (5.19%) Lead
7 8 (5.19%) Security Auditor
7 8 (5.19%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (4.55%) .NET Developer
8 7 (4.55%) Active Directory Specialist
8 7 (4.55%) Analyst
8 7 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (4.55%) Java Developer
8 7 (4.55%) Senior .NET Developer
8 7 (4.55%) Senior Developer
9 6 (3.90%) Linux Administrator
9 6 (3.90%) Senior Linux Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.84%) .NET
2 6 (3.90%) Spring
3 5 (3.25%) Loki
4 3 (1.95%) Hibernate
4 3 (1.95%) HTML
4 3 (1.95%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (1.95%) RESTful
4 3 (1.95%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.30%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (1.30%) ASP.NET
5 2 (1.30%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.30%) Jakarta EE
5 2 (1.30%) JPA
5 2 (1.30%) jQuery
5 2 (1.30%) Middleware
5 2 (1.30%) NumPy
5 2 (1.30%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.30%) REST
5 2 (1.30%) SOAP
5 2 (1.30%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.84%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.19%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.90%) Algorithms
3 6 (3.90%) Synthetic Data
4 5 (3.25%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.60%) Cyber Defence
5 4 (2.60%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.95%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.30%) 3D Printing
7 2 (1.30%) Arduino
7 2 (1.30%) BeagleBone
7 2 (1.30%) CUDA
7 2 (1.30%) Device Driver
7 2 (1.30%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.30%) Hackathon
7 2 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.30%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.30%) Raspberry Pi
7 2 (1.30%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.79%) Windows
2 9 (5.84%) Linux
3 4 (2.60%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.95%) Rocky
5 2 (1.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (15.58%) Cybersecurity
2 19 (12.34%) Continuous Improvement
2 19 (12.34%) Mentoring
2 19 (12.34%) Service Delivery
3 18 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (11.04%) CI/CD
5 14 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
5 14 (9.09%) Validation
6 12 (7.79%) Containerisation
6 12 (7.79%) DevOps
7 11 (7.14%) Agile
7 11 (7.14%) Identity Access Management
8 8 (5.19%) Collaborative Working
8 8 (5.19%) Cyber Assurance
8 8 (5.19%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (5.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 8 (5.19%) Observability
8 8 (5.19%) Vulnerability Management
9 7 (4.55%) Microservices
9 7 (4.55%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 19 (12.34%) Python
2 9 (5.84%) Java
3 6 (3.90%) C++
3 6 (3.90%) MATLAB
4 5 (3.25%) Bash
4 5 (3.25%) Shell Script
4 5 (3.25%) SQL
5 4 (2.60%) C
5 4 (2.60%) C#
5 4 (2.60%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.60%) R
6 2 (1.30%) Rust
7 1 (0.65%) ABAP
7 1 (0.65%) Embedded C
7 1 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.65%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 93 (60.39%) SC Cleared
2 65 (42.21%) DV Cleared
3 11 (7.14%) Degree
4 8 (5.19%) Master's Degree
5 7 (4.55%) PhD
6 4 (2.60%) CISSP
6 4 (2.60%) CTC Cleared
7 3 (1.95%) OSCP
8 2 (1.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.30%) CISA
8 2 (1.30%) CREST Certified
8 2 (1.30%) CRISC
8 2 (1.30%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 1 (0.65%) CHECK Team Leader
9 1 (0.65%) CHECK Team Member
9 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.65%) Cyber Scheme
9 1 (0.65%) GIAC
9 1 (0.65%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.25%) Data Quality
1 5 (3.25%) NEBOSH
2 2 (1.30%) COBIT
2 2 (1.30%) COSO
2 2 (1.30%) GDPR
2 2 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.30%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.30%) PMO
3 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.65%) JSP 440
3 1 (0.65%) MISRA
3 1 (0.65%) NCSC
3 1 (0.65%) QA
System Software
1 14 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.90%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (3.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (3.90%) vSphere
3 4 (2.60%) Docker
4 3 (1.95%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (9.74%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.90%) Grafana
3 5 (3.25%) Argo
3 5 (3.25%) Kustomize
3 5 (3.25%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.60%) Ansible
5 3 (1.95%) Kibana
5 3 (1.95%) SCCM
5 3 (1.95%) vCenter Server
6 2 (1.30%) Istio
6 2 (1.30%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (1.30%) vRealize
7 1 (0.65%) QRadar
Vendors
1 21 (13.64%) Thales
2 12 (7.79%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.79%) VMware
3 5 (3.25%) Oracle
3 5 (3.25%) Red Hat
4 4 (2.60%) CA Agile Central
4 4 (2.60%) EMC
4 4 (2.60%) Mentor Graphics
4 4 (2.60%) Splunk
5 3 (1.95%) Cadence
5 3 (1.95%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.30%) SAP
7 1 (0.65%) ArcSight
7 1 (0.65%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.65%) Foundry
7 1 (0.65%) IBM
7 1 (0.65%) Palantir
7 1 (0.65%) ServiceNow