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 15 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 9 1
Rank change year-on-year +1 -8 +5
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 116 70 467
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 9.56% 13.51% 26.70%
As % of the Qualifications category 37.91% 27.34% 65.50%
Number of salaries quoted 54 32 327
10th Percentile £39,633 £46,375 £30,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £52,550
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +33.21% +15.24%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,313 £61,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £77,864
Berkshire median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £52,550
% change year-on-year +12.50% +14.18% +13.38%

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 306 256 713
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 25.21% 49.42% 40.77%
Number of salaries quoted 145 118 459
10th Percentile £37,350 £30,875 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.10% +5.10%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,688 £63,748
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,125 £78,750
Berkshire median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +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 15 June 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 7 (6.03%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (7.76%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Primavera
1 1 (0.86%) SAP MDG
1 1 (0.86%) SAP MM
1 1 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (13.79%) AWS
2 13 (11.21%) Azure
3 12 (10.34%) Serverless
4 11 (9.48%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (6.03%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (6.03%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (5.17%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (4.31%) Amazon S3
8 4 (3.45%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.59%) GCP
9 3 (2.59%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.34%) Structured Cabling
2 11 (9.48%) Firewall
3 4 (3.45%) DNS
4 3 (2.59%) HTTP
4 3 (2.59%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.72%) FTP
5 2 (1.72%) Internet
5 2 (1.72%) LAN
5 2 (1.72%) SMTP
5 2 (1.72%) WAN
6 1 (0.86%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.86%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (4.31%) Relational Database
2 4 (3.45%) Oracle Database
3 2 (1.72%) Oracle Database 11g
3 2 (1.72%) Oracle Database 12c
3 2 (1.72%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.86%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.86%) MySQL
4 1 (0.86%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.86%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (9.48%) Jenkins
2 10 (8.62%) Git
3 9 (7.76%) GitLab
4 6 (5.17%) JIRA
5 5 (4.31%) SonarQube
6 4 (3.45%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.59%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.72%) JMeter
8 2 (1.72%) JUnit
8 2 (1.72%) Mockito
9 1 (0.86%) Mocha
9 1 (0.86%) Selenium
9 1 (0.86%) Subversion
9 1 (0.86%) TestDirector
General
1 30 (25.86%) Social Skills
2 28 (24.14%) Finance
3 17 (14.66%) Public Sector
4 11 (9.48%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (4.31%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.31%) Banking
5 5 (4.31%) French Language
6 3 (2.59%) Games
6 3 (2.59%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.86%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.86%) Military
Job Titles
1 27 (23.28%) Developer
2 18 (15.52%) Senior
3 17 (14.66%) Java Developer
4 10 (8.62%) Architect
4 10 (8.62%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (6.03%) .NET Developer
5 7 (6.03%) Auditor
5 7 (6.03%) Backend Developer
5 7 (6.03%) Security Auditor
5 7 (6.03%) Senior .NET Developer
5 7 (6.03%) Senior Developer
6 6 (5.17%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 6 (5.17%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (4.31%) Lead
7 5 (4.31%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 5 (4.31%) Test Specialist
8 4 (3.45%) Active Directory Specialist
8 4 (3.45%) IT Assistant
9 3 (2.59%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
9 3 (2.59%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.34%) Spring
2 10 (8.62%) REST
3 9 (7.76%) .NET
4 8 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (6.90%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (5.17%) Java EE
5 6 (5.17%) JPA
5 6 (5.17%) Spring Boot
6 5 (4.31%) AngularJS
6 5 (4.31%) React
7 4 (3.45%) JMS
7 4 (3.45%) JSON
7 4 (3.45%) RESTful
7 4 (3.45%) Web Services
7 4 (3.45%) YAML
8 3 (2.59%) HTML
8 3 (2.59%) Loki
9 2 (1.72%) Apache Camel
9 2 (1.72%) Mustache
9 2 (1.72%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.76%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (6.90%) Cloud Native
3 7 (6.03%) Onboarding
4 6 (5.17%) Cyber Defence
5 5 (4.31%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.59%) Arduino
6 3 (2.59%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.59%) Raspberry Pi
7 2 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.72%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.72%) Hackathon
7 2 (1.72%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.86%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.86%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.86%) Satnav
8 1 (0.86%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.34%) Linux
2 9 (7.76%) Windows
3 8 (6.90%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.72%) Unix
5 1 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (16.38%) Continuous Improvement
1 19 (16.38%) DevOps
2 18 (15.52%) Agile
3 16 (13.79%) Cybersecurity
4 14 (12.07%) CI/CD
5 12 (10.34%) Containerisation
5 12 (10.34%) Microservices
6 10 (8.62%) Mentoring
7 9 (7.76%) Collaborative Working
7 9 (7.76%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (7.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (6.90%) Asset Management
8 8 (6.90%) BDD
8 8 (6.90%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (6.90%) Kanban
8 8 (6.90%) Scrum
8 8 (6.90%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (6.90%) TDD
9 7 (6.03%) Change Management
9 7 (6.03%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 20 (17.24%) Java
2 13 (11.21%) Python
3 6 (5.17%) SQL
4 5 (4.31%) Groovy
5 4 (3.45%) PL/SQL
6 3 (2.59%) C
6 3 (2.59%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.59%) Pascal
6 3 (2.59%) Perl
6 3 (2.59%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.72%) Bash
7 2 (1.72%) C#
8 1 (0.86%) ABAP
8 1 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.86%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 75 (64.66%) SC Cleared
2 58 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 11 (9.48%) Degree
4 3 (2.59%) CREST Certified
4 3 (2.59%) HNC
5 2 (1.72%) CHECK Team Leader
5 2 (1.72%) CHECK Team Member
5 2 (1.72%) Cyber Scheme
5 2 (1.72%) OSCP
6 1 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.86%) CISM
6 1 (0.86%) CISSP
6 1 (0.86%) CRISC
6 1 (0.86%) GCED
6 1 (0.86%) GCIA
6 1 (0.86%) GCIH
6 1 (0.86%) GIAC
6 1 (0.86%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.86%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.17%) GDPR
1 6 (5.17%) PMO
1 6 (5.17%) QA
2 5 (4.31%) NEBOSH
3 4 (3.45%) NCSC
4 2 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.86%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.86%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.86%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (7.76%) Docker
2 7 (6.03%) VMware NSX
3 5 (4.31%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.86%) Terminal Server
5 1 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (15.52%) Kubernetes
2 9 (7.76%) Ansible
2 9 (7.76%) Terraform
3 7 (6.03%) Kibana
3 7 (6.03%) vRealize
4 4 (3.45%) Packer
5 3 (2.59%) Argo
5 3 (2.59%) Grafana
5 3 (2.59%) Kustomize
5 3 (2.59%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.72%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (1.72%) QRadar
7 1 (0.86%) Istio
7 1 (0.86%) SCCM
7 1 (0.86%) SCOM
Vendors
1 11 (9.48%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.76%) AppDynamics
2 9 (7.76%) Oracle
3 8 (6.90%) IBM
3 8 (6.90%) VMware
4 5 (4.31%) Splunk
5 3 (2.59%) Motorola
5 3 (2.59%) SAP
6 2 (1.72%) ArcSight
6 2 (1.72%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.72%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.86%) Cisco
7 1 (0.86%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.86%) Juniper
7 1 (0.86%) McAfee