Security Cleared Job Trends in the South East

Security Clearance
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 13 11
Rank change year-on-year -11 -2 +11
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 758 778 1,746
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 5.20% 10.17% 10.66%
As % of the Qualifications category 20.88% 21.06% 31.32%
Number of salaries quoted 546 564 1,349
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% +12.24%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £86,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,630 3,694 5,574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 24.91% 48.29% 34.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,584 1,569 3,651
10th Percentile £31,000 £31,750 £29,625
25th Percentile £41,083 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,614 £55,000 £51,020
Median % change year-on-year +6.57% +7.80% +2.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £67,000
90th Percentile £86,790 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -6.78%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Security Cleared relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Security Cleared job vacancy trend in the South East

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Security Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Security Cleared

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the South East over the 6 months to 8 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in the South East

Security Cleared
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Cleared within the South East region over the 6 months to 8 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hampshire -5 344 £75,000 +30.43% 193
Thames Valley +29 283 £65,000 +12.07% 135
Berkshire +17 182 £67,500 +12.50% 74
Buckinghamshire +30 77 £55,000 -4.35% 38
Surrey -13 72 £55,000 +25.00% 40
Oxfordshire +3 24 £65,000 +30.00% 27
West Sussex -7 23 £35,000 -6.67% 11
Kent -30 19 £45,750 -29.62% 12
Sussex - 11 £85,000 - 4
Home Counties 0 1 - -
East Sussex -21 1 £70,000 - 4
Security Cleared
England

Security Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 28 (3.69%) SharePoint
2 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.26%) Confluence
4 1 (0.13%) Apache
4 1 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.13%) Apache Qpid
4 1 (0.13%) Camunda
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 22 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (2.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.06%) Simulink
4 5 (0.66%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.26%) Lectora
6 1 (0.13%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Primavera
1 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.13%) SAP MM
1 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 92 (12.14%) Azure
2 58 (7.65%) AWS
3 37 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
4 29 (3.83%) GCP
5 23 (3.03%) Power Platform
6 16 (2.11%) Amazon EKS
6 16 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
8 13 (1.72%) PowerApps
9 12 (1.58%) Serverless
10 11 (1.45%) GitHub
10 11 (1.45%) OpenShift
11 8 (1.06%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (0.92%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (0.92%) Azure AKS
12 7 (0.92%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 7 (0.92%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 6 (0.79%) Amazon S3
13 6 (0.79%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 72 (9.50%) Firewall
2 50 (6.60%) DNS
3 28 (3.69%) WAN
4 22 (2.90%) VPN
5 20 (2.64%) BGP
5 20 (2.64%) Structured Cabling
6 18 (2.37%) LAN
7 14 (1.85%) Network Security
8 13 (1.72%) Cisco Firepower
9 12 (1.58%) DHCP
10 11 (1.45%) HTTP
10 11 (1.45%) NetScaler
10 11 (1.45%) TCP/IP
11 10 (1.32%) Cisco IOS
11 10 (1.32%) Cisco ISE
12 9 (1.19%) MPLS
12 9 (1.19%) Wireshark
13 8 (1.06%) NAS
13 8 (1.06%) OSPF
13 8 (1.06%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (2.51%) Power BI
2 10 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (1.19%) SQL Server
4 7 (0.92%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.26%) Metadata
5 2 (0.26%) MySQL
5 2 (0.26%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.13%) Big Data
6 1 (0.13%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.13%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.13%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.13%) GIS
6 1 (0.13%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.13%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.13%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.13%) Redis
6 1 (0.13%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 1 (0.13%) Tableau
6 1 (0.13%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 46 (6.07%) Git
1 46 (6.07%) GitLab
2 23 (3.03%) Jenkins
3 17 (2.24%) JIRA
4 14 (1.85%) Visual Studio Code
5 8 (1.06%) SonarQube
6 7 (0.92%) Selenium
7 6 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (0.66%) Axure RP
8 5 (0.66%) Balsamiq
8 5 (0.66%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.66%) Subversion
9 4 (0.53%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.53%) Rational DOORS
9 4 (0.53%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.40%) Android Studio
10 3 (0.40%) JUnit
10 3 (0.40%) Snyk
11 2 (0.26%) MSTest
11 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 150 (19.79%) Social Skills
2 76 (10.03%) Finance
3 72 (9.50%) Public Sector
4 60 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (4.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 29 (3.83%) Law
7 23 (3.03%) Manufacturing
8 22 (2.90%) Aerospace
8 22 (2.90%) Electronics
9 18 (2.37%) Military
10 16 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
11 15 (1.98%) Telecoms
12 14 (1.85%) Aviation
13 13 (1.72%) Banking
13 13 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (1.19%) Aeronautics
14 9 (1.19%) Games
15 8 (1.06%) Retail
16 7 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.79%) Legal
Job Titles
1 118 (15.57%) Senior
2 106 (13.98%) Architect
3 66 (8.71%) Developer
4 55 (7.26%) Lead
5 52 (6.86%) Software Engineer
6 44 (5.80%) Analyst
7 37 (4.88%) Network Engineer
8 36 (4.75%) Systems Engineer
9 35 (4.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 32 (4.22%) Consultant
11 31 (4.09%) Applications Architect
12 26 (3.43%) Security Architect
13 24 (3.17%) Java Developer
14 23 (3.03%) DevOps Engineer
15 22 (2.90%) Cloud Engineer
15 22 (2.90%) IT Engineer
15 22 (2.90%) Support Engineer
16 20 (2.64%) Data Engineer
16 20 (2.64%) IT Support
17 19 (2.51%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (3.69%) .NET
2 23 (3.03%) REST
3 16 (2.11%) Regular Expression
4 15 (1.98%) React
5 14 (1.85%) LDAP
5 14 (1.85%) Spring
6 13 (1.72%) SOAP
7 12 (1.58%) XMPP
8 11 (1.45%) JSON
9 10 (1.32%) Elastic Stack
9 10 (1.32%) Middleware
10 8 (1.06%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (0.92%) AngularJS
11 7 (0.92%) Kafka
11 7 (0.92%) Lightning Web Components
11 7 (0.92%) Visualforce
11 7 (0.92%) XML
12 6 (0.79%) Java EE
12 6 (0.79%) Spring Boot
12 6 (0.79%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 33 (4.35%) Product Ownership
2 24 (3.17%) PKI
3 22 (2.90%) Algorithms
4 19 (2.51%) Data Centre
5 17 (2.24%) Onboarding
6 16 (2.11%) Cloud Native
7 14 (1.85%) Cyber Defence
7 14 (1.85%) Security Posture
8 13 (1.72%) Embedded Systems
9 12 (1.58%) FPGA
10 11 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
11 10 (1.32%) Robotics
12 9 (1.19%) Driving Licence
12 9 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (1.06%) Management Information System
14 6 (0.79%) Fibre Optics
15 5 (0.66%) Hybrid Cloud
15 5 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 102 (13.46%) Linux
2 93 (12.27%) Windows
3 64 (8.44%) Windows Server
4 24 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (1.06%) CentOS
6 8 (1.06%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.79%) Android
8 5 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.26%) AIX
10 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.13%) Unix
10 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (18.21%) Agile
2 88 (11.61%) DevOps
3 83 (10.95%) CI/CD
4 80 (10.55%) Software Engineering
5 79 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
6 74 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
7 60 (7.92%) Cybersecurity
8 47 (6.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 44 (5.80%) Decision-Making
10 43 (5.67%) Mentoring
11 41 (5.41%) Scrum
12 39 (5.15%) SIEM
13 38 (5.01%) Infrastructure as Code
13 38 (5.01%) Service Management
13 38 (5.01%) Technical Leadership
14 36 (4.75%) AI
14 36 (4.75%) Containerisation
15 35 (4.62%) Stakeholder Management
16 33 (4.35%) Analytics
17 32 (4.22%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 95 (12.53%) Python
2 48 (6.33%) Java
3 35 (4.62%) C++
4 33 (4.35%) SQL
5 28 (3.69%) C#
6 22 (2.90%) C
7 21 (2.77%) JavaScript
8 20 (2.64%) PowerShell
9 15 (1.98%) Rust
10 13 (1.72%) VBA
11 10 (1.32%) Bash
11 10 (1.32%) MATLAB
12 9 (1.19%) PL/SQL
12 9 (1.19%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.92%) Apex Code
13 7 (0.92%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.79%) Groovy
15 5 (0.66%) Go
15 5 (0.66%) Ladder Logic
16 4 (0.53%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 460 (60.69%) SC Cleared
2 287 (37.86%) DV Cleared
3 118 (15.57%) Degree
4 22 (2.90%) Master's Degree
5 19 (2.51%) HNC
6 11 (1.45%) CISSP
7 10 (1.32%) APMP
7 10 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.32%) MBA
8 8 (1.06%) CCNP
8 8 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (1.06%) DBS Check
9 7 (0.92%) CRISC
9 7 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (0.92%) OSCP
10 6 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.79%) CHECK Team Member
10 6 (0.79%) CompTIA Security+
10 6 (0.79%) CREST Certified
10 6 (0.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (2.51%) GDPR
2 18 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (2.11%) QA
4 15 (1.98%) NCSC
5 14 (1.85%) NIST
6 13 (1.72%) SLA
7 11 (1.45%) PMO
8 10 (1.32%) Accessibility
9 8 (1.06%) GRC
10 7 (0.92%) WCAG
11 6 (0.79%) Def Stans
11 6 (0.79%) ISO 9001
12 5 (0.66%) NEBOSH
13 3 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 15288
13 3 (0.40%) JSP 440
13 3 (0.40%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.40%) PCI DSS
14 2 (0.26%) ISO 22301
14 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 54 (7.12%) Active Directory
2 47 (6.20%) Docker
3 24 (3.17%) vSphere
4 23 (3.03%) VMware NSX
5 18 (2.37%) Firmware
6 16 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
7 5 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.26%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.26%) Terminal Server
8 2 (0.26%) UAG
8 2 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 53 (6.99%) Kubernetes
2 43 (5.67%) Terraform
3 38 (5.01%) Ansible
4 16 (2.11%) vCenter Server
5 11 (1.45%) Grafana
5 11 (1.45%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.32%) vRealize
7 9 (1.19%) Nessus
8 8 (1.06%) Kibana
9 7 (0.92%) SCCM
9 7 (0.92%) SCOM
10 6 (0.79%) Endace
11 5 (0.66%) Packer
12 4 (0.53%) Nagios
12 4 (0.53%) Puppet
12 4 (0.53%) WSUS
13 3 (0.40%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.40%) Graylog
13 3 (0.40%) Podman
13 3 (0.40%) QRadar
Vendors
1 92 (12.14%) Microsoft
2 55 (7.26%) VMware
3 39 (5.15%) Cisco
4 24 (3.17%) Oracle
5 20 (2.64%) Juniper
6 19 (2.51%) Red Hat
6 19 (2.51%) Splunk
7 16 (2.11%) Google
8 14 (1.85%) McAfee
9 13 (1.72%) SolarWinds
10 12 (1.58%) Citrix
11 11 (1.45%) CheckPoint
11 11 (1.45%) Salesforce
11 11 (1.45%) ServiceNow
12 9 (1.19%) AppDynamics
12 9 (1.19%) IBM
12 9 (1.19%) Tenable
13 8 (1.06%) NetApp
13 8 (1.06%) Palo Alto
14 7 (0.92%) Broadcom