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 23 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 8 1
Rank change year-on-year 0 -7 0
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 162 74 315
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 9.97% 14.29% 24.21%
As % of the Qualifications category 47.23% 34.10% 63.77%
Number of salaries quoted 68 35 145
10th Percentile £39,000 £47,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £59,688 £52,500 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +23.84% +7.56%
75th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £81,250
Berkshire median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +27.27% - +2.31%

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 343 217 494
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 21.11% 41.89% 37.97%
Number of salaries quoted 186 108 206
10th Percentile £39,000 £29,400 £38,690
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -2.70% +5.14%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £80,625
Berkshire median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +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

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Security Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Security Cleared

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Reading over the 6 months to 23 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in Reading

Security Cleared
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 (1.23%) Apache Spark
1 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.23%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.62%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.47%) Mathematica
3 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.62%) Solid Edge
3 1 (0.62%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) SAP MDG
1 1 (0.62%) SAP MM
1 1 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (12.35%) Azure
2 19 (11.73%) AWS
3 12 (7.41%) Serverless
4 11 (6.79%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (4.32%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (4.32%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (4.32%) Entra ID
6 6 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (3.70%) Amazon S3
6 6 (3.70%) OpenShift
7 3 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.23%) GCP
8 2 (1.23%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.62%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.32%) DNS
2 5 (3.09%) Firewall
3 3 (1.85%) HTTP
3 3 (1.85%) LAN
3 3 (1.85%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.23%) FTP
4 2 (1.23%) Internet
4 2 (1.23%) SMTP
4 2 (1.23%) WAN
5 1 (0.62%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.62%) VPN
5 1 (0.62%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (3.09%) Relational Database
2 4 (2.47%) Oracle Database
3 2 (1.23%) Big Data
3 2 (1.23%) Oracle Database 11g
3 2 (1.23%) Oracle Database 12c
3 2 (1.23%) Power BI
3 2 (1.23%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.62%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.62%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.62%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.62%) MySQL
4 1 (0.62%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.62%) Redis
4 1 (0.62%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (6.79%) Jenkins
2 10 (6.17%) Git
3 8 (4.94%) GitLab
4 6 (3.70%) JIRA
5 5 (3.09%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.47%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.85%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.85%) JMeter
8 2 (1.23%) JUnit
8 2 (1.23%) MLflow
8 2 (1.23%) Mockito
8 2 (1.23%) Selenium
9 1 (0.62%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.62%) Mocha
9 1 (0.62%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.62%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 31 (19.14%) Social Skills
2 28 (17.28%) Finance
3 25 (15.43%) Aerospace
4 23 (14.20%) Public Sector
5 16 (9.88%) Retail
6 15 (9.26%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (6.17%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (4.32%) Electronics
9 6 (3.70%) Banking
10 5 (3.09%) French Language
10 5 (3.09%) Legal
11 4 (2.47%) Games
11 4 (2.47%) Law
12 2 (1.23%) Aviation
12 2 (1.23%) Military
13 1 (0.62%) Automotive
13 1 (0.62%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 25 (15.43%) Support Specialist
2 24 (14.81%) Developer
3 19 (11.73%) Senior
4 17 (10.49%) Java Developer
5 16 (9.88%) Architect
6 13 (8.02%) Infrastructure Support
7 9 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (5.56%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 9 (5.56%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
8 8 (4.94%) Analyst
8 8 (4.94%) Auditor
8 8 (4.94%) Security Auditor
8 8 (4.94%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (4.32%) .NET Developer
9 7 (4.32%) Active Directory Specialist
9 7 (4.32%) Backend Developer
9 7 (4.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (4.32%) Senior .NET Developer
9 7 (4.32%) Senior Developer
10 6 (3.70%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.41%) Spring
2 10 (6.17%) REST
2 10 (6.17%) Terraform
3 9 (5.56%) .NET
4 8 (4.94%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (4.94%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (3.70%) Jakarta EE
5 6 (3.70%) JPA
5 6 (3.70%) Spring Boot
6 5 (3.09%) AngularJS
6 5 (3.09%) React
7 4 (2.47%) JMS
7 4 (2.47%) JSON
7 4 (2.47%) Loki
7 4 (2.47%) RESTful
7 4 (2.47%) Web Services
7 4 (2.47%) YAML
8 3 (1.85%) HTML
9 2 (1.23%) ASP.NET
9 2 (1.23%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (4.94%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.94%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.70%) Algorithms
3 6 (3.70%) Synthetic Data
4 5 (3.09%) Cyber Defence
4 5 (3.09%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.47%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.23%) CUDA
6 2 (1.23%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.23%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.23%) Hackathon
6 2 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.23%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.23%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.23%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.79%) Linux
1 11 (6.79%) Windows
2 3 (1.85%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.23%) Rocky
3 2 (1.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (14.81%) Cybersecurity
2 21 (12.96%) Continuous Improvement
3 20 (12.35%) DevOps
3 20 (12.35%) Mentoring
4 19 (11.73%) Agile
4 19 (11.73%) CI/CD
4 19 (11.73%) Service Delivery
5 17 (10.49%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (9.88%) Containerisation
7 15 (9.26%) Microservices
8 14 (8.64%) Stakeholder Management
9 13 (8.02%) Validation
10 11 (6.79%) Identity Access Management
10 11 (6.79%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (5.56%) Collaborative Working
12 8 (4.94%) BDD
12 8 (4.94%) Cyber Assurance
12 8 (4.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 8 (4.94%) Scrum
12 8 (4.94%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 21 (12.96%) Java
2 20 (12.35%) Python
3 8 (4.94%) SQL
4 5 (3.09%) C++
4 5 (3.09%) Groovy
4 5 (3.09%) MATLAB
4 5 (3.09%) Shell Script
5 4 (2.47%) Bash
5 4 (2.47%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.47%) PL/SQL
6 3 (1.85%) C#
6 3 (1.85%) Perl
7 2 (1.23%) C
7 2 (1.23%) R
8 1 (0.62%) ABAP
8 1 (0.62%) Embedded C
8 1 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.62%) Rust
8 1 (0.62%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 102 (62.96%) SC Cleared
2 61 (37.65%) DV Cleared
3 12 (7.41%) Degree
4 8 (4.94%) Master's Degree
5 7 (4.32%) PhD
6 4 (2.47%) CISSP
6 4 (2.47%) CTC Cleared
6 4 (2.47%) OSCP
7 3 (1.85%) CREST Certified
8 2 (1.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.23%) CHECK Team Leader
8 2 (1.23%) CHECK Team Member
8 2 (1.23%) CISA
8 2 (1.23%) CRISC
8 2 (1.23%) Cyber Scheme
8 2 (1.23%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 1 (0.62%) GCIA
9 1 (0.62%) GCIH
9 1 (0.62%) GIAC
9 1 (0.62%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.70%) QA
2 5 (3.09%) NEBOSH
3 4 (2.47%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.85%) PMO
5 2 (1.23%) COBIT
5 2 (1.23%) COSO
5 2 (1.23%) GDPR
5 2 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.23%) NCSC
5 2 (1.23%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.62%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.62%) MISRA
System Software
1 14 (8.64%) Active Directory
2 9 (5.56%) Docker
3 5 (3.09%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (3.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.09%) vSphere
4 2 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 21 (12.96%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.79%) Ansible
3 7 (4.32%) Kibana
4 4 (2.47%) Argo
4 4 (2.47%) Grafana
4 4 (2.47%) Kustomize
4 4 (2.47%) Packer
4 4 (2.47%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.85%) SCCM
5 3 (1.85%) vCenter Server
6 2 (1.23%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (1.23%) QRadar
6 2 (1.23%) vRealize
7 1 (0.62%) Istio
Vendors
1 19 (11.73%) Thales
2 12 (7.41%) Microsoft
3 11 (6.79%) VMware
4 9 (5.56%) AppDynamics
4 9 (5.56%) IBM
4 9 (5.56%) Oracle
5 5 (3.09%) Splunk
6 4 (2.47%) CA Agile Central
6 4 (2.47%) EMC
6 4 (2.47%) Mentor Graphics
7 3 (1.85%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.85%) SAP
8 2 (1.23%) ArcSight
8 2 (1.23%) Cadence
8 2 (1.23%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.62%) CrowdStrike