Security Cleared Jobs 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 1 4
Rank change year-on-year -12 +3 +40
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 55 555 341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 10.83% 32.49% 21.75%
As % of the Qualifications category 22.18% 70.79% 48.37%
Number of salaries quoted 21 341 150
10th Percentile £46,250 £30,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £38,130 £34,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £52,550 £45,600
Median % change year-on-year +33.21% +15.24% -29.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £63,748 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £80,000 £83,750
Berkshire median annual salary £60,000 £52,550 £45,600
% change year-on-year +14.18% +15.24% -29.85%

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 248 784 705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 48.82% 45.90% 44.96%
Number of salaries quoted 104 474 284
10th Percentile £31,750 £30,000 £25,375
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,550 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.66% +5.10% -10.37%
75th Percentile £79,063 £65,188 £72,500
90th Percentile £121,750 £81,250 £86,750
Berkshire median annual salary £56,673 £55,000 £50,675
% change year-on-year +3.04% +8.53% -7.61%

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

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in Reading

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in Reading.

Salary trend for Security Cleared in Reading

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Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Reading over the 6 months to 15 May 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 13 (23.64%) JBoss
1 13 (23.64%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (1.82%) Confluence
2 1 (1.82%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (7.27%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 33 (60.00%) AWS
2 26 (47.27%) Serverless
3 24 (43.64%) Amazon ECS
4 21 (38.18%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (12.73%) Amazon S3
7 6 (10.91%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (10.91%) Azure
7 6 (10.91%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (9.09%) AWS KMS
9 4 (7.27%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 4 (7.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (3.64%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (3.64%) GCP
11 1 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (1.82%) IaaS
11 1 (1.82%) PaaS
11 1 (1.82%) Power Platform
11 1 (1.82%) Route 53
11 1 (1.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.27%) Firewall
1 4 (7.27%) SSL
2 3 (5.45%) DNS
3 2 (3.64%) DHCP
4 1 (1.82%) iSCSI
4 1 (1.82%) SCCP
4 1 (1.82%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.82%) VLAN
4 1 (1.82%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (43.64%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (36.36%) Relational Database
3 7 (12.73%) RDBMS
4 3 (5.45%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.64%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.82%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.82%) MySQL
6 1 (1.82%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.82%) Power BI
6 1 (1.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 27 (49.09%) Jenkins
2 22 (40.00%) JUnit
3 16 (29.09%) Git
4 9 (16.36%) Mockito
5 7 (12.73%) JMeter
6 5 (9.09%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (5.45%) SonarQube
8 2 (3.64%) JIRA
8 2 (3.64%) Maven
9 1 (1.82%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.82%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.82%) DbUnit
9 1 (1.82%) jMock
General
1 23 (41.82%) Public Sector
2 2 (3.64%) Aerospace
2 2 (3.64%) Social Skills
3 1 (1.82%) Finance
3 1 (1.82%) Law
3 1 (1.82%) Military
Job Titles
1 29 (52.73%) Developer
2 22 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 6 (10.91%) Consultant
3 6 (10.91%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 5 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) Microsoft Developer
5 4 (7.27%) Lead
5 4 (7.27%) Support Consultant
6 3 (5.45%) Architect
6 3 (5.45%) Information Security Specialist
6 3 (5.45%) Information Specialist
6 3 (5.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Security Specialist
6 3 (5.45%) Senior
6 3 (5.45%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 3 (5.45%) Senior Information Security Specialist
6 3 (5.45%) Senior Security Specialist
7 2 (3.64%) Lead Java Developer
7 2 (3.64%) Project Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) Project Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (40.00%) REST
1 22 (40.00%) Spring
1 22 (40.00%) Spring Boot
2 21 (38.18%) Web Services
3 20 (36.36%) Apache Camel
4 15 (27.27%) SOAP
5 14 (25.45%) RESTful
6 13 (23.64%) J2EE
7 9 (16.36%) ActiveMQ
8 8 (14.55%) Hibernate
9 7 (12.73%) HTML
9 7 (12.73%) jQuery
9 7 (12.73%) WireMock
10 3 (5.45%) AngularJS
10 3 (5.45%) Kafka
11 2 (3.64%) Bootstrap
11 2 (3.64%) JPA
12 1 (1.82%) .NET
12 1 (1.82%) .NET Framework
12 1 (1.82%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 21 (38.18%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (7.27%) CESG
2 4 (7.27%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.45%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.82%) CCTV
4 1 (1.82%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.82%) PKI
4 1 (1.82%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.73%) Linux
2 4 (7.27%) Ubuntu
3 3 (5.45%) Windows
4 2 (3.64%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (50.91%) Agile
2 24 (43.64%) Microservices
3 23 (41.82%) Scrum
4 22 (40.00%) DevOps
4 22 (40.00%) Kanban
4 22 (40.00%) TDD
5 21 (38.18%) BDD
6 12 (21.82%) CI/CD
6 12 (21.82%) Full-Stack Development
7 8 (14.55%) Collaborative Working
8 7 (12.73%) Architectural Design
8 7 (12.73%) Process Management
8 7 (12.73%) Workflow
9 6 (10.91%) Containerisation
10 5 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 4 (7.27%) Capacity Management
11 4 (7.27%) Key Management
11 4 (7.27%) Patch Management
11 4 (7.27%) Risk Management
11 4 (7.27%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 24 (43.64%) Java
2 12 (21.82%) Python
2 12 (21.82%) Shell Script
3 7 (12.73%) JavaScript
4 3 (5.45%) SQL
5 2 (3.64%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.82%) C#
6 1 (1.82%) Groovy
6 1 (1.82%) Perl
6 1 (1.82%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.82%) X++
Qualifications
1 49 (89.09%) SC Cleared
2 6 (10.91%) CISSP
3 5 (9.09%) DV Cleared
4 4 (7.27%) CESG Certified Professional
4 4 (7.27%) Degree
5 3 (5.45%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 2 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.64%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (3.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.82%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.82%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.82%) MCSA
7 1 (1.82%) MCSE
7 1 (1.82%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (23.64%) SLA
2 4 (7.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.64%) Def Stans
4 1 (1.82%) GDPR
4 1 (1.82%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.82%) JSP 440
4 1 (1.82%) QA
4 1 (1.82%) RMADS
4 1 (1.82%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (50.91%) Docker
2 6 (10.91%) Active Directory
3 5 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (7.27%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (7.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (5.45%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (3.64%) vSphere
7 1 (1.82%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.82%) NFS
7 1 (1.82%) vCloud
7 1 (1.82%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.82%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 24 (43.64%) Kubernetes
2 18 (32.73%) Ansible
3 7 (12.73%) Kibana
4 5 (9.09%) Terraform
5 4 (7.27%) Nessus
5 4 (7.27%) Proxmox
6 2 (3.64%) Grafana
6 2 (3.64%) PowerCLI
6 2 (3.64%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.64%) vCenter Server
6 2 (3.64%) vRealize
7 1 (1.82%) Packer
7 1 (1.82%) VxRail
Vendors
1 8 (14.55%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.73%) Dynatrace
2 7 (12.73%) Splunk
3 6 (10.91%) VMware
4 5 (9.09%) Juniper
5 4 (7.27%) BMC
6 2 (3.64%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.82%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.82%) Cisco
7 1 (1.82%) Cognos
7 1 (1.82%) Dell
7 1 (1.82%) IBM
7 1 (1.82%) Oracle