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

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 2 4
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 +1
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 384 1,920 1,406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 11.06% 19.87% 20.80%
As % of the Qualifications category 21.98% 57.99% 48.63%
Number of salaries quoted 243 1,252 619
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,000 £34,605
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £41,556
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +3.64% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,250 £73,550
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,125 £81,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +9.09%

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 1,747 3,311 2,891
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 50.32% 34.27% 42.77%
Number of salaries quoted 944 2,168 1,267
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,865 £30,932
25th Percentile £37,574 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £59,063 £67,500 £70,600
90th Percentile £73,750 £81,786 £81,250
England median annual salary £54,793 £54,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.54% -9.17% +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 28 May 2025.

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 28 May 2025. 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 -1 138 £60,000 +9.09% 434
Wiltshire 0 106 £52,000 +1.96% 174
Bristol -35 64 £67,500 +5.47% 353
Dorset -16 30 £50,000 +17.65% 94
Devon +18 17 £51,729 +5.57% 177
Cornwall - 12 £31,000 - 3
Somerset -35 9 £62,250 +104.87% 171
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 20 (5.21%) Jupyter
2 7 (1.82%) Confluence
2 7 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.04%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.52%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.26%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (3.65%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.52%) Simulink
2 2 (0.52%) Windchill
3 1 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.26%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.26%) ProjectWise
3 1 (0.26%) Revit
Business Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.26%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 70 (18.23%) AWS
2 55 (14.32%) Azure
3 23 (5.99%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (3.91%) Serverless
5 11 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (2.60%) Amazon S3
6 10 (2.60%) Entra ID
7 7 (1.82%) GCP
8 5 (1.30%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (1.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (1.04%) GitHub
9 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (1.04%) OCI
9 4 (1.04%) Power Platform
10 3 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (0.78%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.52%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.52%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (0.52%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 33 (8.59%) Firewall
2 31 (8.07%) VPN
3 15 (3.91%) DNS
4 14 (3.65%) LAN
4 14 (3.65%) WAN
5 11 (2.86%) DHCP
5 11 (2.86%) Network Security
6 8 (2.08%) MPLS
6 8 (2.08%) VSAT
7 6 (1.56%) Cisco Firepower
7 6 (1.56%) Reverse Proxy
7 6 (1.56%) VPLS
8 5 (1.30%) Cisco ASA
8 5 (1.30%) OSPF
8 5 (1.30%) PBX
8 5 (1.30%) VLAN
9 4 (1.04%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.78%) BGP
10 3 (0.78%) SAN
10 3 (0.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (10.42%) Big Data
2 13 (3.39%) SQL Server
3 11 (2.86%) MongoDB
4 7 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.30%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.78%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.78%) DynamoDB
7 3 (0.78%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.78%) Power BI
7 3 (0.78%) Redis
8 2 (0.52%) GIS
9 1 (0.26%) MySQL
9 1 (0.26%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 19 (4.95%) GitLab
2 10 (2.60%) Git
3 9 (2.34%) JIRA
4 7 (1.82%) Rational DOORS
5 6 (1.56%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.30%) Rational Rhapsody
7 3 (0.78%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.78%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.52%) JUnit
9 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.26%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.26%) GDB
9 1 (0.26%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.26%) Yeoman
General
1 86 (22.40%) Finance
2 76 (19.79%) Social Skills
3 58 (15.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 27 (7.03%) Public Sector
5 22 (5.73%) Retail
6 20 (5.21%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (4.69%) Manufacturing
8 17 (4.43%) Aerospace
9 15 (3.91%) Telecoms
10 14 (3.65%) Electronics
10 14 (3.65%) Military
11 11 (2.86%) Marketing
12 7 (1.82%) Back Office
13 6 (1.56%) Legal
13 6 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.52%) Law
15 2 (0.52%) Local Government
15 2 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
16 1 (0.26%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 53 (13.80%) Senior
2 50 (13.02%) Administrator
3 46 (11.98%) Systems Administrator
4 41 (10.68%) Data Scientist
5 30 (7.81%) Lead
6 27 (7.03%) Architect
6 27 (7.03%) Developer
6 27 (7.03%) Software Engineer
7 22 (5.73%) Wintel Administrator
7 22 (5.73%) Wintel Systems Administrator
8 20 (5.21%) Network Engineer
8 20 (5.21%) Senior Data Scientist
9 19 (4.95%) Support Engineer
10 15 (3.91%) Systems Engineer
11 13 (3.39%) Consultant
11 13 (3.39%) Support Technician
12 12 (3.13%) Senior Developer
12 12 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
12 12 (3.13%) Technical Support
12 12 (3.13%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (7.03%) React
2 12 (3.13%) Spring Boot
3 10 (2.60%) AngularJS
3 10 (2.60%) Spring
4 9 (2.34%) Kafka
4 9 (2.34%) RESTful
4 9 (2.34%) Vue
5 8 (2.08%) HTML
6 7 (1.82%) .NET
7 5 (1.30%) Node.js
8 4 (1.04%) AWS CDK
8 4 (1.04%) Hibernate
8 4 (1.04%) JSF
8 4 (1.04%) OAuth
9 3 (0.78%) Django
9 3 (0.78%) FastAPI
9 3 (0.78%) GraphQL
9 3 (0.78%) Keycloak
9 3 (0.78%) pytest
9 3 (0.78%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 43 (11.20%) Cyberattack
2 40 (10.42%) Algorithms
3 28 (7.29%) e-Learning
4 14 (3.65%) Private Cloud
5 9 (2.34%) Security Operations Centre
6 8 (2.08%) Cloud Native
6 8 (2.08%) Data Centre
6 8 (2.08%) Security Posture
7 7 (1.82%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.82%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.56%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.30%) Driving Licence
9 5 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.04%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.78%) Acoustics
11 3 (0.78%) CMDB
11 3 (0.78%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.78%) PKI
11 3 (0.78%) Robotics
11 3 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 65 (16.93%) Linux
2 61 (15.89%) Windows
3 41 (10.68%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.34%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.04%) Android
6 3 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.26%) AIX
8 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.26%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.26%) Unix
8 1 (0.26%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.26%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (22.14%) Problem-Solving
2 70 (18.23%) DevOps
3 67 (17.45%) Software Engineering
4 64 (16.67%) Agile
5 55 (14.32%) Mathematics
6 54 (14.06%) Artificial Intelligence
6 54 (14.06%) Machine Learning
6 54 (14.06%) Mentoring
7 49 (12.76%) Cybersecurity
8 47 (12.24%) Computer Science
8 47 (12.24%) Statistics
9 44 (11.46%) Data Science
10 42 (10.94%) Data Analysis
11 41 (10.68%) Analytics
11 41 (10.68%) Visualisation
12 40 (10.42%) CI/CD
12 40 (10.42%) Exploratory Data Analysis
12 40 (10.42%) OpenUP
13 34 (8.85%) Microservices
14 31 (8.07%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 76 (19.79%) Python
2 67 (17.45%) Java
3 55 (14.32%) JavaScript
4 18 (4.69%) PowerShell
4 18 (4.69%) TypeScript
5 13 (3.39%) C++
5 13 (3.39%) SQL
6 9 (2.34%) Bash
7 5 (1.30%) C
7 5 (1.30%) Go
7 5 (1.30%) Perl
7 5 (1.30%) Rust
8 4 (1.04%) MATLAB
8 4 (1.04%) PHP
9 3 (0.78%) R
10 2 (0.52%) Ada
10 2 (0.52%) C#
10 2 (0.52%) VB
11 1 (0.26%) Fortran
11 1 (0.26%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 192 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 175 (45.57%) DV Cleared
3 91 (23.70%) Degree
4 37 (9.64%) Cisco Certification
5 24 (6.25%) CCNP
6 22 (5.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (5.47%) BPSS Clearance
8 20 (5.21%) Numerate Degree
9 18 (4.69%) CCNA
10 15 (3.91%) RHCSA
11 11 (2.86%) AWS Certification
12 10 (2.60%) CISSP
13 8 (2.08%) CTC Cleared
13 8 (2.08%) JNCIA
14 6 (1.56%) CISM
14 6 (1.56%) HNC
15 5 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (1.30%) PhD
16 4 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 4 (1.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.86%) NIST
1 11 (2.86%) SLA
2 10 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (2.34%) Def Stans
4 6 (1.56%) JSP 440
5 5 (1.30%) GDPR
5 5 (1.30%) QA
6 4 (1.04%) ISO 9001
6 4 (1.04%) NIST 800
7 3 (0.78%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.78%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.78%) RMADS
8 2 (0.52%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.52%) NCSC
9 1 (0.26%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.26%) GRC
9 1 (0.26%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.26%) MISRA
9 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 58 (15.10%) Docker
2 23 (5.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (3.13%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.26%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.26%) Snort
6 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 48 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 28 (7.29%) Terraform
3 25 (6.51%) Ansible
4 8 (2.08%) SCCM
5 6 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (1.30%) Kibana
7 3 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.78%) EMC NetWorker
7 3 (0.78%) Grafana
7 3 (0.78%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.78%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.78%) Puppet
8 2 (0.52%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.26%) Backup Exec
9 1 (0.26%) Nagios
9 1 (0.26%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.26%) Packer
9 1 (0.26%) QRadar
9 1 (0.26%) WMI
Vendors
1 45 (11.72%) Cisco
2 41 (10.68%) Microsoft
3 31 (8.07%) VMware
4 16 (4.17%) Red Hat
5 14 (3.65%) Oracle
6 9 (2.34%) SAP
7 8 (2.08%) Fortinet
7 8 (2.08%) HP
7 8 (2.08%) Veeam
8 7 (1.82%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.56%) Citrix
9 6 (1.56%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.30%) SolarWinds
11 4 (1.04%) F5
11 4 (1.04%) Juniper
11 4 (1.04%) Meraki
12 3 (0.78%) CheckPoint
12 3 (0.78%) IBM
12 3 (0.78%) Palo Alto
12 3 (0.78%) Splunk