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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 2 1
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 +26
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 62 236 374
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 12.47% 20.21% 37.03%
As % of the Qualifications category 37.80% 58.27% 67.03%
Number of salaries quoted 30 91 264
10th Percentile £47,125 £41,263 £34,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,188 £38,790
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £53,760
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +6.96% +9.38%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £61,300
90th Percentile £92,500 £81,250 £75,000
Berkshire median annual salary £55,000 £56,525 £53,760
% change year-on-year -2.70% +5.14% +8.66%

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 164 405 558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 33.00% 34.67% 55.25%
Number of salaries quoted 77 137 354
10th Percentile £28,000 £40,013 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,925 £38,295
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,125 £53,760
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% +9.98% +4.69%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £64,313
90th Percentile £89,250 £86,250 £82,500
Berkshire median annual salary £53,065 £65,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -18.36% +19.27% +5.67%

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 November 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 4 (6.45%) JBoss
1 4 (6.45%) Red Hat Fuse
2 2 (3.23%) Confluence
2 2 (3.23%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.61%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.61%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 28 (45.16%) AWS
2 22 (35.48%) Serverless
3 21 (33.87%) Amazon ECS
4 20 (32.26%) Amazon EKS
5 19 (30.65%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (8.06%) Azure
7 4 (6.45%) Amazon S3
8 3 (4.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (3.23%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (3.23%) AWS KMS
9 2 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (3.23%) Route 53
10 1 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (1.61%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.61%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.61%) Smartsheet
10 1 (1.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.06%) DNS
2 4 (6.45%) Firewall
3 3 (4.84%) DHCP
4 1 (1.61%) SCCP
4 1 (1.61%) SMTP
4 1 (1.61%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (1.61%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (35.48%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (32.26%) Relational Database
3 16 (25.81%) RDBMS
4 3 (4.84%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (3.23%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.61%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.61%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 22 (35.48%) Jenkins
1 22 (35.48%) JUnit
2 18 (29.03%) Mockito
3 16 (25.81%) JMeter
4 6 (9.68%) Git
5 2 (3.23%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (3.23%) DbUnit
5 2 (3.23%) JIRA
5 2 (3.23%) jMock
5 2 (3.23%) Maven
5 2 (3.23%) Selenium
5 2 (3.23%) SonarQube
General
1 27 (43.55%) Public Sector
2 12 (19.35%) Social Skills
3 8 (12.90%) Finance
4 3 (4.84%) Banking
4 3 (4.84%) Games
4 3 (4.84%) Manufacturing
4 3 (4.84%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.23%) Aerospace
5 2 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.23%) Back Office
5 2 (3.23%) Electronics
5 2 (3.23%) Marketing
5 2 (3.23%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.61%) Billing
6 1 (1.61%) Legal
6 1 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 22 (35.48%) Developer
1 22 (35.48%) Java Developer
2 15 (24.19%) Full-Stack Developer
2 15 (24.19%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 15 (24.19%) Mid-Level Java Developer
3 8 (12.90%) Architect
4 7 (11.29%) Senior
5 5 (8.06%) Lead
6 4 (6.45%) Integration Manager
7 3 (4.84%) Coordinator
7 3 (4.84%) Lead Architect
7 3 (4.84%) Project Coordinator
7 3 (4.84%) Software Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) Analyst
8 2 (3.23%) Business Analyst
8 2 (3.23%) Integration Architect
8 2 (3.23%) Lead Developer
8 2 (3.23%) Systems Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) Technical Architect
8 2 (3.23%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (37.10%) Spring
1 23 (37.10%) Spring Boot
2 22 (35.48%) Web Services
3 20 (32.26%) Apache Camel
3 20 (32.26%) REST
4 18 (29.03%) ActiveMQ
4 18 (29.03%) Hibernate
5 16 (25.81%) HTML
5 16 (25.81%) jQuery
5 16 (25.81%) WireMock
6 15 (24.19%) JSON
6 15 (24.19%) XML
7 6 (9.68%) RESTful
7 6 (9.68%) SOAP
8 4 (6.45%) J2EE
9 2 (3.23%) AngularJS
9 2 (3.23%) Bootstrap
9 2 (3.23%) JPA
9 2 (3.23%) PowerMock
9 2 (3.23%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 22 (35.48%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (12.90%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.84%) PKI
4 2 (3.23%) CESG
4 2 (3.23%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.23%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (3.23%) Driving Licence
4 2 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.61%) Biopharmaceutical
5 1 (1.61%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.61%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.68%) Windows
2 5 (8.06%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.84%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (45.16%) Agile
2 24 (38.71%) BDD
2 24 (38.71%) TDD
3 23 (37.10%) Microservices
4 20 (32.26%) CI/CD
5 16 (25.81%) Full-Stack Development
5 16 (25.81%) Process Management
5 16 (25.81%) Workflow
6 15 (24.19%) SDLC
7 8 (12.90%) Software Engineering
8 7 (11.29%) Kanban
8 7 (11.29%) Project Delivery
8 7 (11.29%) Scrum
9 6 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (9.68%) DevOps
9 6 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (9.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 5 (8.06%) Mentoring
11 4 (6.45%) Coaching
11 4 (6.45%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 29 (46.77%) Java
2 17 (27.42%) Python
3 16 (25.81%) JavaScript
3 16 (25.81%) Shell Script
4 3 (4.84%) SQL
5 2 (3.23%) C++
6 1 (1.61%) Bash
6 1 (1.61%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 30 (48.39%) SC Cleared
2 8 (12.90%) DV Cleared
3 4 (6.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.84%) Degree
5 2 (3.23%) CESG Certified Professional
5 2 (3.23%) CISSP
5 2 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.23%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (1.61%) CHECK Team Leader
6 1 (1.61%) CHECK Team Member
6 1 (1.61%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (6.45%) SLA
3 3 (4.84%) GDPR
3 3 (4.84%) QA
4 2 (3.23%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.23%) HIPAA
4 2 (3.23%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.61%) GRC
System Software
1 23 (37.10%) Docker
2 4 (6.45%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.84%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.84%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (4.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.61%) NFS
5 1 (1.61%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.61%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 22 (35.48%) Kubernetes
2 16 (25.81%) Kibana
3 5 (8.06%) Ansible
4 2 (3.23%) Terraform
5 1 (1.61%) Grafana
5 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.61%) vRealize
Vendors
1 16 (25.81%) Dynatrace
1 16 (25.81%) Splunk
2 10 (16.13%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.45%) VMware
4 3 (4.84%) SAP
5 2 (3.23%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.61%) Databricks
6 1 (1.61%) Oracle