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 12 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 13 1
Rank change year-on-year +6 -12 +3
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 135 71 461
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 10.29% 12.66% 27.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 40.06% 28.40% 65.11%
Number of salaries quoted 61 33 281
10th Percentile £39,000 £46,500 £33,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +29.63% +16.13%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £76,250
Berkshire median annual salary £67,500 £60,750 £52,550
% change year-on-year +11.11% +15.60% +13.01%

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 337 250 708
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 25.69% 44.56% 41.67%
Number of salaries quoted 161 119 407
10th Percentile £39,000 £29,600 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,375 £39,380
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £53,263
Median % change year-on-year - -1.43% +1.45%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £77,864
Berkshire median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +7.11%

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 12 July 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 6 (4.44%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.74%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Primavera
1 1 (0.74%) SAP MDG
1 1 (0.74%) SAP MM
1 1 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (12.59%) AWS
2 15 (11.11%) Azure
3 12 (8.89%) Serverless
4 11 (8.15%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (5.19%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (3.70%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.96%) Entra ID
8 4 (2.96%) OpenShift
9 3 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.22%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.89%) Structured Cabling
2 10 (7.41%) Firewall
3 5 (3.70%) DNS
4 3 (2.22%) HTTP
4 3 (2.22%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.48%) FTP
5 2 (1.48%) Internet
5 2 (1.48%) LAN
5 2 (1.48%) SMTP
5 2 (1.48%) WAN
6 1 (0.74%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.74%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (3.70%) Relational Database
2 4 (2.96%) Oracle Database
3 3 (2.22%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.48%) Oracle Database 11g
4 2 (1.48%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (0.74%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.74%) MySQL
5 1 (0.74%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.74%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (8.15%) Jenkins
2 10 (7.41%) Git
3 9 (6.67%) GitLab
4 6 (4.44%) JIRA
5 5 (3.70%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.96%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.22%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.48%) JMeter
8 2 (1.48%) JUnit
8 2 (1.48%) Mockito
9 1 (0.74%) Mocha
9 1 (0.74%) Selenium
9 1 (0.74%) Subversion
9 1 (0.74%) TestDirector
General
1 35 (25.93%) Finance
1 35 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 19 (14.07%) Public Sector
3 13 (9.63%) Organisational Skills
4 8 (5.93%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.44%) Banking
6 5 (3.70%) French Language
7 4 (2.96%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.96%) Games
8 3 (2.22%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.74%) Law
9 1 (0.74%) Military
Job Titles
1 27 (20.00%) Developer
2 17 (12.59%) Java Developer
3 16 (11.85%) Senior
4 14 (10.37%) Architect
5 10 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (6.67%) Support Specialist
7 8 (5.93%) Auditor
7 8 (5.93%) Security Auditor
8 7 (5.19%) .NET Developer
8 7 (5.19%) Backend Developer
8 7 (5.19%) Senior .NET Developer
8 7 (5.19%) Senior Developer
8 7 (5.19%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (4.44%) Infrastructure Support
9 6 (4.44%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 5 (3.70%) Analyst
10 5 (3.70%) Infrastructure Specialist
10 5 (3.70%) Lead
10 5 (3.70%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 5 (3.70%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.89%) Spring
2 10 (7.41%) .NET
2 10 (7.41%) REST
3 8 (5.93%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (5.93%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (4.44%) Java EE
4 6 (4.44%) JPA
4 6 (4.44%) Spring Boot
5 5 (3.70%) AngularJS
5 5 (3.70%) React
6 4 (2.96%) JMS
6 4 (2.96%) JSON
6 4 (2.96%) RESTful
6 4 (2.96%) Web Services
6 4 (2.96%) YAML
7 3 (2.22%) ASP.NET
7 3 (2.22%) HTML
7 3 (2.22%) Loki
8 2 (1.48%) SOAP
8 2 (1.48%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (5.93%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.19%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.44%) Cyber Defence
5 5 (3.70%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.70%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.22%) Arduino
6 3 (2.22%) Raspberry Pi
6 3 (2.22%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.48%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (1.48%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.48%) Hackathon
7 2 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.48%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.48%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.74%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.74%) PKI
8 1 (0.74%) Satnav
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.89%) Linux
2 10 (7.41%) Windows
3 7 (5.19%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.48%) Unix
5 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (17.78%) Continuous Improvement
2 22 (16.30%) Cybersecurity
3 20 (14.81%) DevOps
4 18 (13.33%) Agile
5 15 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 13 (9.63%) Containerisation
6 13 (9.63%) Microservices
7 11 (8.15%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (7.41%) Mentoring
8 10 (7.41%) Service Delivery
9 9 (6.67%) Asset Management
9 9 (6.67%) Collaborative Working
9 9 (6.67%) Identity Access Management
9 9 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (6.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 9 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (5.93%) BDD
10 8 (5.93%) Cyber Assurance
10 8 (5.93%) Kanban
10 8 (5.93%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 20 (14.81%) Java
2 13 (9.63%) Python
3 6 (4.44%) SQL
4 5 (3.70%) Groovy
5 4 (2.96%) PL/SQL
6 3 (2.22%) C
6 3 (2.22%) C#
6 3 (2.22%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.22%) Pascal
6 3 (2.22%) Perl
6 3 (2.22%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.48%) Bash
8 1 (0.74%) ABAP
8 1 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.74%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 83 (61.48%) SC Cleared
2 65 (48.15%) DV Cleared
3 11 (8.15%) Degree
4 5 (3.70%) CISSP
5 4 (2.96%) CTC Cleared
5 4 (2.96%) OSCP
6 3 (2.22%) CREST Certified
6 3 (2.22%) CRISC
6 3 (2.22%) HNC
7 2 (1.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.48%) CHECK Team Leader
7 2 (1.48%) CHECK Team Member
7 2 (1.48%) CISA
7 2 (1.48%) Cyber Scheme
7 2 (1.48%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 1 (0.74%) CISM
8 1 (0.74%) GCIA
8 1 (0.74%) GCIH
8 1 (0.74%) GIAC
8 1 (0.74%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.93%) GDPR
2 6 (4.44%) PMO
2 6 (4.44%) QA
3 5 (3.70%) NEBOSH
4 4 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.96%) NCSC
5 2 (1.48%) COBIT
5 2 (1.48%) COSO
5 2 (1.48%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.74%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.74%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (6.67%) Docker
2 7 (5.19%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.44%) VMware NSX
4 3 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.74%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.74%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (14.07%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.67%) Ansible
2 9 (6.67%) Terraform
3 7 (5.19%) Kibana
4 6 (4.44%) vRealize
5 4 (2.96%) Packer
6 3 (2.22%) Argo
6 3 (2.22%) Grafana
6 3 (2.22%) Kustomize
6 3 (2.22%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.48%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (1.48%) QRadar
7 2 (1.48%) SCCM
8 1 (0.74%) Istio
8 1 (0.74%) SCOM
8 1 (0.74%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (8.15%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.67%) AppDynamics
2 9 (6.67%) Oracle
2 9 (6.67%) VMware
3 8 (5.93%) IBM
4 5 (3.70%) Splunk
5 4 (2.96%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (2.22%) Motorola
6 3 (2.22%) SAP
7 2 (1.48%) ArcSight
7 2 (1.48%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.48%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.74%) Cisco
8 1 (0.74%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.74%) Juniper
8 1 (0.74%) McAfee