Security Cleared Jobs in the South West

Security Clearance
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 3 11
Rank change year-on-year +1 +8 0
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,537 1,481 1,508
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 17.48% 23.80% 16.48%
As % of the Qualifications category 54.97% 53.08% 41.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,012 729 780
10th Percentile £37,000 £35,450 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £44,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,250 £75,000 £68,813
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -3.36%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,796 2,790 3,652
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 31.79% 44.83% 39.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,755 1,423 1,721
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £35,343
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +3.31%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £84,500 £85,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the South West

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in the South West.

Salary trend for Security Cleared in the South West

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the South West over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in the South West

Security Cleared
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
Gloucestershire 0 494 £60,000 -4.00% 46
Bristol +3 467 £65,000 +4.00% 59
Wiltshire +2 366 £52,500 - 45
Dorset -13 111 £40,000 -33.33% 21
Somerset +18 59 £30,385 -32.85% 13
Devon -38 23 £43,072 +10.26% 44
Cornwall -29 1 £26,000 - 1
Security Cleared
England

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 44 (2.86%) Apache
2 40 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 36 (2.34%) Apache Spark
3 36 (2.34%) Confluence
3 36 (2.34%) SharePoint
4 27 (1.76%) ArcGIS
5 18 (1.17%) GeoServer
6 17 (1.11%) nginx
7 16 (1.04%) Jupyter
8 12 (0.78%) SharePoint 2010
8 12 (0.78%) SharePoint 2013
9 4 (0.26%) IIS
9 4 (0.26%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.065%) Appian
10 1 (0.065%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.065%) Exchange Server 2013
10 1 (0.065%) JBoss
10 1 (0.065%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 59 (3.84%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (1.76%) Simulink
3 10 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
5 6 (0.39%) Trello
6 4 (0.26%) Sketch
7 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.13%) Stateflow
8 1 (0.065%) 1Password
8 1 (0.065%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.065%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 28 (1.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 18 (1.17%) Maximo
3 5 (0.33%) Primavera
4 4 (0.26%) Q-Pulse
4 4 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.065%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 286 (18.61%) AWS
2 281 (18.28%) Azure
3 76 (4.94%) Microsoft 365
3 76 (4.94%) OpenShift
4 53 (3.45%) GCP
5 32 (2.08%) SaaS
6 29 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
6 29 (1.89%) Serverless
7 27 (1.76%) AWS CloudFormation
8 25 (1.63%) IaaS
9 22 (1.43%) Amazon EKS
10 21 (1.37%) Amazon S3
11 20 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
11 20 (1.30%) PaaS
11 20 (1.30%) Power Platform
12 16 (1.04%) MinIO
13 9 (0.59%) Miro
14 8 (0.52%) Dynamics 365
15 6 (0.39%) Power Automate
15 6 (0.39%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 81 (5.27%) Firewall
2 54 (3.51%) TCP/IP
3 41 (2.67%) Network Security
4 39 (2.54%) WAN
5 36 (2.34%) DNS
6 28 (1.82%) DHCP
7 25 (1.63%) LAN
7 25 (1.63%) VSAN
8 24 (1.56%) AMQP
8 24 (1.56%) HTTP
9 22 (1.43%) Wireless
10 21 (1.37%) Cisco ASA
10 21 (1.37%) SAN
11 18 (1.17%) Software-Defined Networking
12 16 (1.04%) ADSL
12 16 (1.04%) Internet
13 14 (0.91%) SD-WAN
14 13 (0.85%) VLAN
14 13 (0.85%) Wireshark
15 9 (0.59%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (3.84%) Big Data
2 36 (2.34%) Hadoop
3 30 (1.95%) MongoDB
4 27 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (1.50%) GIS
6 20 (1.30%) Power BI
7 19 (1.24%) Relational Database
8 18 (1.17%) Cloudera CDH
8 18 (1.17%) QGIS
9 17 (1.11%) SQL Server
10 16 (1.04%) Presto
11 11 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
12 10 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
13 9 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
14 7 (0.46%) Oracle Database
15 6 (0.39%) InfluxDB
15 6 (0.39%) RDBMS
15 6 (0.39%) Snowflake Schema
15 6 (0.39%) Star Schema
15 6 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 86 (5.60%) JIRA
2 44 (2.86%) Jenkins
3 42 (2.73%) Git
4 32 (2.08%) Bitbucket
5 31 (2.02%) Visual Studio
6 28 (1.82%) GitLab
7 25 (1.63%) Rational DOORS
8 23 (1.50%) Sourcetree
9 18 (1.17%) LabVIEW
10 16 (1.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 11 (0.72%) IDA Disassembler
12 7 (0.46%) Cypress.io
12 7 (0.46%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.39%) NetBeans
13 6 (0.39%) Rational Rhapsody
14 5 (0.33%) Selenium
15 4 (0.26%) Cucumber
15 4 (0.26%) Rational Team Concert
16 3 (0.20%) Robot Framework
16 3 (0.20%) Subversion
General
1 210 (13.66%) Social Skills
2 208 (13.53%) Aerospace
3 135 (8.78%) Finance
4 77 (5.01%) Public Sector
5 75 (4.88%) Military
6 60 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 57 (3.71%) Analytical Skills
8 51 (3.32%) Games
9 36 (2.34%) Telecoms
10 35 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
11 31 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
12 28 (1.82%) Retail
13 24 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
14 19 (1.24%) Electronics
15 17 (1.11%) Manufacturing
16 16 (1.04%) Back Office
17 13 (0.85%) Marketing
18 11 (0.72%) Legal
19 9 (0.59%) Law
20 7 (0.46%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 211 (13.73%) Senior
2 199 (12.95%) Software Engineer
3 135 (8.78%) Consultant
4 130 (8.46%) Architect
5 121 (7.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 108 (7.03%) Lead
7 102 (6.64%) Systems Engineer
8 100 (6.51%) Developer
9 78 (5.07%) DevOps Engineer
10 77 (5.01%) Administrator
11 74 (4.81%) Security Consultant
12 72 (4.68%) Project Manager
13 70 (4.55%) Analyst
14 68 (4.42%) Support Engineer
15 57 (3.71%) Senior Software Engineer
16 50 (3.25%) Embedded Engineer
17 46 (2.99%) Embedded Software Engineer
18 45 (2.93%) Systems Administrator
19 44 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
20 43 (2.80%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (5.60%) React
2 56 (3.64%) .NET
3 45 (2.93%) Elastic Stack
4 43 (2.80%) RabbitMQ
5 36 (2.34%) AngularJS
6 34 (2.21%) Spring
7 31 (2.02%) Spring Boot
8 30 (1.95%) CSS
8 30 (1.95%) Node.js
8 30 (1.95%) REST
9 28 (1.82%) Apache NiFi
10 24 (1.56%) .NET Core
10 24 (1.56%) XML
11 23 (1.50%) JSON
11 23 (1.50%) Unity (Game Engine)
12 19 (1.24%) Material-UI
12 19 (1.24%) OpenAPI
12 19 (1.24%) Swagger
13 18 (1.17%) gRPC
13 18 (1.17%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 83 (5.40%) Management Information System
2 68 (4.42%) Driving Licence
3 45 (2.93%) PKI
4 39 (2.54%) Cloud Native
5 35 (2.28%) Cyberattack
6 34 (2.21%) Algorithms
7 29 (1.89%) Private Cloud
8 28 (1.82%) Cyber Defence
9 27 (1.76%) Data Centre
10 26 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
11 25 (1.63%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 25 (1.63%) Public Cloud
12 23 (1.50%) Product Ownership
12 23 (1.50%) Virtual Reality
13 21 (1.37%) Security Operations Centre
14 19 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
15 16 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
16 13 (0.85%) Clustering
17 12 (0.78%) Robotics
18 10 (0.65%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 366 (23.81%) Linux
2 251 (16.33%) Windows
3 71 (4.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 59 (3.84%) Windows 10
4 59 (3.84%) Windows Server
5 52 (3.38%) CentOS
6 47 (3.06%) Embedded Linux
7 37 (2.41%) Windows Server 2012
8 34 (2.21%) Windows Server 2019
9 33 (2.15%) Windows Server 2016
10 22 (1.43%) Debian
11 20 (1.30%) Ubuntu
12 16 (1.04%) Unix
13 12 (0.78%) AIX
14 11 (0.72%) Kali Linux
15 10 (0.65%) Android
15 10 (0.65%) Windows 7
16 6 (0.39%) Solaris
17 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
17 3 (0.20%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 455 (29.60%) Agile
2 277 (18.02%) Software Engineering
3 248 (16.14%) DevOps
4 236 (15.35%) Cybersecurity
5 213 (13.86%) Actionable Insight
6 168 (10.93%) Problem-Solving
7 154 (10.02%) Scrum
8 153 (9.95%) Collaborative Working
9 131 (8.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 126 (8.20%) Project Management
11 120 (7.81%) ITIL
12 101 (6.57%) Systems Engineering
13 100 (6.51%) Risk Management
14 95 (6.18%) Information Assurance
15 91 (5.92%) CI/CD
16 86 (5.60%) Stakeholder Management
17 81 (5.27%) Mentoring
18 80 (5.20%) Infrastructure as Code
19 75 (4.88%) Configuration Management
19 75 (4.88%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 324 (21.08%) Python
2 169 (11.00%) Java
3 143 (9.30%) Bash
4 130 (8.46%) JavaScript
5 97 (6.31%) C
6 86 (5.60%) SQL
7 75 (4.88%) PowerShell
8 70 (4.55%) C++
9 63 (4.10%) C#
10 51 (3.32%) Rust
11 46 (2.99%) Embedded C
12 43 (2.80%) TypeScript
13 41 (2.67%) MATLAB
14 24 (1.56%) Shell Script
15 15 (0.98%) Go
16 11 (0.72%) Perl
17 10 (0.65%) R
18 9 (0.59%) Ada
19 7 (0.46%) T-SQL
20 6 (0.39%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 780 (50.75%) SC Cleared
2 535 (34.81%) DV Cleared
3 233 (15.16%) Degree
4 123 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 52 (3.38%) CISSP
6 50 (3.25%) CISM
7 49 (3.19%) CESG Certified Professional
8 34 (2.21%) CRISC
9 27 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
9 27 (1.76%) TOGAF Certification
10 22 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
11 19 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (1.04%) A+ Certification
12 16 (1.04%) CCNA
13 15 (0.98%) CCNP
13 15 (0.98%) DBS Check
13 15 (0.98%) PMI Certification
14 13 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
15 12 (0.78%) Azure Certification
15 12 (0.78%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (4.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 57 (3.71%) NCSC
3 41 (2.67%) NIST
4 30 (1.95%) SLA
5 20 (1.30%) QA
6 13 (0.85%) Accessibility
7 12 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
8 11 (0.72%) Def Stans
9 10 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 10 (0.65%) GDPR
9 10 (0.65%) RMADS
10 9 (0.59%) Data Quality
10 9 (0.59%) NIST 800
11 8 (0.52%) IEC 61508
11 8 (0.52%) JSP 440
12 7 (0.46%) ISO 9001
12 7 (0.46%) TickIT
13 6 (0.39%) GRC
13 6 (0.39%) WCAG
14 5 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 153 (9.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 126 (8.20%) Docker
3 122 (7.94%) Active Directory
4 77 (5.01%) Hyper-V
5 48 (3.12%) vSphere
6 37 (2.41%) VMware ESXi
7 29 (1.89%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.78%) Firmware
9 9 (0.59%) XenDesktop
10 6 (0.39%) XenApp
11 5 (0.33%) Microsoft App-V
12 4 (0.26%) Lustre
12 4 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 4 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.20%) Forefront TMG
13 3 (0.20%) vCloud
13 3 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
14 2 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
15 1 (0.065%) BitLocker
15 1 (0.065%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 198 (12.88%) Ansible
2 161 (10.47%) Kubernetes
3 111 (7.22%) Terraform
4 82 (5.34%) Puppet
5 49 (3.19%) SCCM
6 27 (1.76%) Grafana
6 27 (1.76%) Prometheus
7 25 (1.63%) vCenter Server
8 16 (1.04%) HAProxy
9 14 (0.91%) SCOM
10 12 (0.78%) Backup Exec
10 12 (0.78%) Nagios
10 12 (0.78%) NetBackup
11 11 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
11 11 (0.72%) Progress Chef
12 10 (0.65%) EMC NetWorker
13 8 (0.52%) WSUS
14 7 (0.46%) Kibana
14 7 (0.46%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.39%) Icinga
Vendors
1 233 (15.16%) Microsoft
2 182 (11.84%) VMware
3 93 (6.05%) Red Hat
4 52 (3.38%) Oracle
5 50 (3.25%) Cisco
6 47 (3.06%) Google
7 38 (2.47%) SolarWinds
8 28 (1.82%) Sparx
9 27 (1.76%) IBM
10 25 (1.63%) ESRI
11 21 (1.37%) Tanium
11 21 (1.37%) Tripwire
12 20 (1.30%) NetApp
12 20 (1.30%) SaltStack
13 18 (1.17%) ServiceNow
14 17 (1.11%) HP
15 16 (1.04%) Dell
16 15 (0.98%) Atlassian
16 15 (0.98%) Citrix
17 14 (0.91%) Veeam