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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -11 0 +45
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 68 549 471
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 12.27% 29.11% 30.68%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.98% 68.11% 63.99%
Number of salaries quoted 33 282 189
10th Percentile £46,500 £33,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £41,253 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £54,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +29.63% +16.13% -5.39%
75th Percentile £85,000 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £76,125 £83,750
Berkshire median annual salary £62,000 £52,550 £46,500
% change year-on-year +17.98% +13.01% -7.00%

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 243 806 736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 43.86% 42.74% 47.95%
Number of salaries quoted 117 408 283
10th Percentile £29,200 £30,000 £29,347
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,380 £37,328
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,631 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% +2.15% -4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,063 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £78,512 £84,750
Berkshire median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £51,350
% change year-on-year - +7.11% -3.11%

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 16 July 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 10 (14.71%) JBoss
1 10 (14.71%) Red Hat Fuse
2 3 (4.41%) Confluence
3 1 (1.47%) Apache
3 1 (1.47%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 37 (54.41%) AWS
2 27 (39.71%) Serverless
3 24 (35.29%) Amazon ECS
4 22 (32.35%) Amazon EKS
5 17 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (14.71%) Azure
7 9 (13.24%) Amazon S3
8 8 (11.76%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (8.82%) AWS KMS
9 6 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (4.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (4.41%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 3 (4.41%) Route 53
12 2 (2.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (2.94%) GCP
12 2 (2.94%) Power Platform
13 1 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
13 1 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.76%) DNS
2 6 (8.82%) Firewall
3 5 (7.35%) DHCP
4 3 (4.41%) SSL
5 2 (2.94%) SCCP
6 1 (1.47%) iSCSI
6 1 (1.47%) SMTP
6 1 (1.47%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.47%) VLAN
6 1 (1.47%) VPN
6 1 (1.47%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (38.24%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (30.88%) Relational Database
3 11 (16.18%) RDBMS
4 5 (7.35%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (4.41%) DynamoDB
6 3 (4.41%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.94%) Power BI
8 1 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.47%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.47%) MySQL
8 1 (1.47%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 29 (42.65%) Jenkins
2 25 (36.76%) JUnit
3 15 (22.06%) Git
3 15 (22.06%) Mockito
4 11 (16.18%) JMeter
5 6 (8.82%) Bitbucket Server
6 5 (7.35%) SonarQube
7 4 (5.88%) JIRA
7 4 (5.88%) Maven
8 3 (4.41%) DbUnit
8 3 (4.41%) jMock
9 1 (1.47%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.47%) Cucumber
General
1 26 (38.24%) Public Sector
2 9 (13.24%) Social Skills
3 2 (2.94%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.47%) Finance
4 1 (1.47%) Law
4 1 (1.47%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.47%) Military
4 1 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 32 (47.06%) Developer
2 25 (36.76%) Java Developer
3 8 (11.76%) Lead
4 7 (10.29%) Architect
5 6 (8.82%) Consultant
5 6 (8.82%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 6 (8.82%) Senior
6 5 (7.35%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (7.35%) Microsoft Developer
7 4 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Information Security Specialist
7 4 (5.88%) Information Specialist
7 4 (5.88%) Lead Developer
7 4 (5.88%) Lead Java Developer
7 4 (5.88%) Mid-Level Java Developer
7 4 (5.88%) Security Specialist
7 4 (5.88%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 4 (5.88%) Senior Information Security Specialist
7 4 (5.88%) Senior Security Specialist
7 4 (5.88%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (36.76%) Spring
1 25 (36.76%) Spring Boot
2 24 (35.29%) Web Services
3 23 (33.82%) REST
4 21 (30.88%) Apache Camel
5 15 (22.06%) ActiveMQ
6 14 (20.59%) Hibernate
6 14 (20.59%) SOAP
7 13 (19.12%) RESTful
8 11 (16.18%) HTML
8 11 (16.18%) jQuery
8 11 (16.18%) WireMock
9 10 (14.71%) J2EE
10 5 (7.35%) AngularJS
10 5 (7.35%) JSON
11 4 (5.88%) Bootstrap
11 4 (5.88%) JPA
11 4 (5.88%) XML
12 3 (4.41%) Spring Batch
12 3 (4.41%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 24 (35.29%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (10.29%) Management Information System
3 5 (7.35%) CESG
4 4 (5.88%) PKI
5 3 (4.41%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.94%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.47%) Biopharmaceutical
7 1 (1.47%) CCTV
7 1 (1.47%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.24%) Linux
2 8 (11.76%) Windows
3 6 (8.82%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.41%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (42.65%) Agile
2 27 (39.71%) Microservices
3 25 (36.76%) TDD
4 24 (35.29%) BDD
5 21 (30.88%) Scrum
6 20 (29.41%) Kanban
7 17 (25.00%) DevOps
8 15 (22.06%) CI/CD
9 11 (16.18%) Process Management
9 11 (16.18%) Workflow
10 8 (11.76%) Collaborative Working
10 8 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
11 7 (10.29%) Architectural Design
11 7 (10.29%) Containerisation
12 6 (8.82%) Disaster Recovery
12 6 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
13 5 (7.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 5 (7.35%) Mentoring
13 5 (7.35%) Security Architecture
13 5 (7.35%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 27 (39.71%) Java
2 16 (23.53%) Python
3 15 (22.06%) Shell Script
4 11 (16.18%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.41%) PowerShell
5 3 (4.41%) SQL
6 1 (1.47%) Bash
6 1 (1.47%) C#
6 1 (1.47%) Groovy
6 1 (1.47%) Perl
6 1 (1.47%) X++
Qualifications
1 55 (80.88%) SC Cleared
2 7 (10.29%) CISSP
3 6 (8.82%) Degree
4 5 (7.35%) CESG Certified Professional
4 5 (7.35%) DV Cleared
5 4 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (5.88%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.94%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (2.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.47%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.47%) MCSA
7 1 (1.47%) MCSE
7 1 (1.47%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.71%) SLA
2 7 (10.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.41%) GDPR
3 3 (4.41%) HIPAA
3 3 (4.41%) SOC 2
4 2 (2.94%) Def Stans
4 2 (2.94%) QA
5 1 (1.47%) JSP 440
5 1 (1.47%) RMADS
System Software
1 30 (44.12%) Docker
2 9 (13.24%) Active Directory
3 6 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (7.35%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (5.88%) Hyper-V
5 4 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (4.41%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (2.94%) NFS
7 2 (2.94%) VMware Workstation
7 2 (2.94%) vSphere
8 1 (1.47%) vCloud
8 1 (1.47%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (36.76%) Kubernetes
2 15 (22.06%) Ansible
3 11 (16.18%) Kibana
4 5 (7.35%) Terraform
5 3 (4.41%) Nessus
5 3 (4.41%) Proxmox
6 2 (2.94%) Grafana
6 2 (2.94%) PowerCLI
6 2 (2.94%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.94%) vRealize
7 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.47%) Packer
7 1 (1.47%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.47%) VxRail
Vendors
1 15 (22.06%) Microsoft
2 11 (16.18%) Dynatrace
2 11 (16.18%) Splunk
3 8 (11.76%) VMware
4 4 (5.88%) Atlassian
4 4 (5.88%) BMC
4 4 (5.88%) Juniper
5 1 (1.47%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.47%) Cisco
5 1 (1.47%) Cognos
5 1 (1.47%) Databricks
5 1 (1.47%) Dell
5 1 (1.47%) IBM