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

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 1 1
Rank change year-on-year -6 0 +32
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 66 247 351
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 13.31% 20.79% 33.08%
As % of the Qualifications category 33.17% 59.23% 64.64%
Number of salaries quoted 35 103 243
10th Percentile £46,750 £38,880 £34,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £38,790
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £56,525 £53,760
Median % change year-on-year +10.57% +5.14% +9.38%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £60,025
90th Percentile £92,500 £81,250 £74,250
Berkshire median annual salary £55,000 £56,252 £53,760
% change year-on-year -2.23% +4.64% +7.52%

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 199 417 543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 40.12% 35.10% 51.18%
Number of salaries quoted 95 149 326
10th Percentile £28,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,125 £45,000 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,525 £53,760
Median % change year-on-year +1.72% +5.14% -1.99%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £63,748
90th Percentile £92,500 £81,250 £78,125
Berkshire median annual salary £52,500 £61,500 £53,825
% change year-on-year -14.63% +14.26% -

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

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Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Reading over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

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 5 (7.58%) JBoss
1 5 (7.58%) Red Hat Fuse
2 3 (4.55%) Confluence
3 1 (1.52%) Apache
3 1 (1.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.52%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 34 (51.52%) AWS
2 25 (37.88%) Serverless
3 23 (34.85%) Amazon ECS
4 22 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
4 22 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (12.12%) Azure
6 6 (9.09%) Amazon S3
6 6 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (6.06%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (4.55%) AWS KMS
8 3 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (4.55%) Route 53
9 1 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.52%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.52%) GCP
9 1 (1.52%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.52%) Smartsheet
9 1 (1.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.09%) DNS
2 4 (6.06%) DHCP
3 3 (4.55%) Firewall
4 2 (3.03%) SCCP
5 1 (1.52%) SMTP
5 1 (1.52%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (1.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (39.39%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 17 (25.76%) RDBMS
4 5 (7.58%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (6.06%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (4.55%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.52%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.52%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 26 (39.39%) Jenkins
1 26 (39.39%) JUnit
2 21 (31.82%) Mockito
3 17 (25.76%) JMeter
4 9 (13.64%) Git
5 4 (6.06%) Maven
5 4 (6.06%) SonarQube
6 3 (4.55%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (4.55%) DbUnit
6 3 (4.55%) JIRA
6 3 (4.55%) jMock
7 2 (3.03%) Selenium
General
1 29 (43.94%) Public Sector
2 9 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 4 (6.06%) Finance
4 3 (4.55%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.03%) Aerospace
5 2 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.03%) Back Office
5 2 (3.03%) Electronics
5 2 (3.03%) Marketing
5 2 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.03%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.52%) Billing
6 1 (1.52%) Games
6 1 (1.52%) Law
6 1 (1.52%) Legal
6 1 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 30 (45.45%) Developer
2 26 (39.39%) Java Developer
3 13 (19.70%) Full-Stack Developer
3 13 (19.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 13 (19.70%) Mid-Level Java Developer
4 8 (12.12%) Senior
5 6 (9.09%) Architect
5 6 (9.09%) Lead
6 4 (6.06%) Coordinator
6 4 (6.06%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 4 (6.06%) Integration Manager
6 4 (6.06%) Lead Developer
6 4 (6.06%) Lead Java Developer
7 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Developer
7 3 (4.55%) Project Coordinator
7 3 (4.55%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 3 (4.55%) Technical Architect
8 2 (3.03%) Analyst
8 2 (3.03%) Integration Architect
8 2 (3.03%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (40.91%) Spring
1 27 (40.91%) Spring Boot
2 25 (37.88%) Web Services
3 23 (34.85%) REST
4 22 (33.33%) Apache Camel
5 21 (31.82%) ActiveMQ
6 20 (30.30%) Hibernate
7 17 (25.76%) HTML
7 17 (25.76%) jQuery
7 17 (25.76%) WireMock
8 13 (19.70%) JSON
8 13 (19.70%) XML
9 9 (13.64%) SOAP
10 8 (12.12%) RESTful
11 5 (7.58%) J2EE
12 4 (6.06%) AngularJS
12 4 (6.06%) Bootstrap
12 4 (6.06%) JPA
13 3 (4.55%) Spring Batch
13 3 (4.55%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 24 (36.36%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (15.15%) Management Information System
3 4 (6.06%) PKI
4 3 (4.55%) CESG
4 3 (4.55%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.55%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (3.03%) Driving Licence
5 2 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.52%) Biopharmaceutical
6 1 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.09%) Windows
2 5 (7.58%) Windows Server
3 4 (6.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (46.97%) Agile
2 28 (42.42%) Microservices
2 28 (42.42%) TDD
3 27 (40.91%) BDD
4 23 (34.85%) CI/CD
5 17 (25.76%) Process Management
5 17 (25.76%) Workflow
6 14 (21.21%) Full-Stack Development
7 13 (19.70%) Scrum
7 13 (19.70%) SDLC
8 12 (18.18%) Kanban
9 9 (13.64%) DevOps
10 8 (12.12%) Project Delivery
11 7 (10.61%) Software Engineering
11 7 (10.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 6 (9.09%) Mentoring
12 6 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
13 5 (7.58%) Continuous Improvement
13 5 (7.58%) Open Source
13 5 (7.58%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 32 (48.48%) Java
2 18 (27.27%) Python
3 17 (25.76%) JavaScript
3 17 (25.76%) Shell Script
4 3 (4.55%) SQL
5 1 (1.52%) Bash
5 1 (1.52%) C#
5 1 (1.52%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.52%) X++
Qualifications
1 40 (60.61%) SC Cleared
2 4 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (6.06%) Degree
3 3 (4.55%) CESG Certified Professional
3 3 (4.55%) CISSP
3 3 (4.55%) DV Cleared
3 3 (4.55%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (1.52%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (7.58%) SLA
3 3 (4.55%) GDPR
3 3 (4.55%) HIPAA
3 3 (4.55%) QA
3 3 (4.55%) SOC 2
4 2 (3.03%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.52%) JSP 440
5 1 (1.52%) RMADS
System Software
1 28 (42.42%) Docker
2 5 (7.58%) Active Directory
3 4 (6.06%) Hyper-V
3 4 (6.06%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.03%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (1.52%) NFS
Systems Management
1 25 (37.88%) Kubernetes
2 17 (25.76%) Kibana
3 6 (9.09%) Ansible
4 3 (4.55%) Grafana
5 2 (3.03%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.03%) Terraform
6 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 17 (25.76%) Dynatrace
1 17 (25.76%) Splunk
2 15 (22.73%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.06%) VMware
4 3 (4.55%) Atlassian
5 2 (3.03%) SAP
6 1 (1.52%) Databricks