Security Cleared Job Trends in Surrey

Security Clearance
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Surrey with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 32 19
Rank change year-on-year -5 -13 +7
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 80 67 230
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 4.00% 6.75% 8.69%
As % of the Qualifications category 22.22% 17.59% 23.64%
Number of salaries quoted 66 33 153
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,303 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.34% -18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £88,125 £74,250 £90,000
South East median annual salary £67,500 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.38% +5.45% +10.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 360 381 973
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 18.01% 38.41% 36.76%
Number of salaries quoted 205 222 516
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £37,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,490 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.16% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £99,000 £75,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £51,350
% change year-on-year +14.29% +2.24% -1.25%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Security Cleared job vacancy trend in Surrey

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Security Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Security Cleared

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Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Surrey over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in Surrey

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Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Cleared within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
Guildford -16 25 £52,500 -19.23% 7
Redhill +3 20 £50,000 +25.00% 8
Woking -1 14 £65,000 -7.14% 3
Leatherhead - 10 £70,000 - 1
Chertsey - 2 £80,000 - 2
Epsom - 1 £50,000 - 1
Godalming - 1 £32,500 -
Security Cleared
South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 3 (3.75%) Apache
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 13 (16.25%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (8.75%) Entra ID
3 6 (7.50%) Azure
4 3 (3.75%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (3.75%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (3.75%) Azure AKS
4 3 (3.75%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.25%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 11 (13.75%) Firewall
2 8 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 7 (8.75%) VoIP
4 6 (7.50%) LAN
4 6 (7.50%) WAN
5 5 (6.25%) Structured Cabling
5 5 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (5.00%) BGP
6 4 (5.00%) IPsec
6 4 (5.00%) Network Security
6 4 (5.00%) OSPF
6 4 (5.00%) VLAN
6 4 (5.00%) VPN
7 3 (3.75%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (3.75%) MPLS
7 3 (3.75%) Multicast
8 2 (2.50%) Asterisk PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.50%) MySQL
2 1 (1.25%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.25%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (6.25%) GitLab
1 5 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.75%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.50%) Cypress.io
3 2 (2.50%) JIRA
4 1 (1.25%) Git
4 1 (1.25%) JUnit
4 1 (1.25%) Selenium
4 1 (1.25%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (26.25%) Social Skills
2 15 (18.75%) Telecoms
3 6 (7.50%) Aerospace
3 6 (7.50%) Finance
4 5 (6.25%) Manufacturing
5 4 (5.00%) Aviation
5 4 (5.00%) Electronics
5 4 (5.00%) Military
6 3 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.50%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.25%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Law
8 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (13.75%) Data Engineer
1 11 (13.75%) Developer
2 10 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 7 (8.75%) Security Engineer
3 7 (8.75%) Senior
3 7 (8.75%) Service Desk Engineer
3 7 (8.75%) Systems Engineer
4 6 (7.50%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (7.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (6.25%) Cabling Engineer
5 5 (6.25%) Firewall Engineer
5 5 (6.25%) Java Developer
5 5 (6.25%) Microsoft Engineer
5 5 (6.25%) SIEM Engineer
6 4 (5.00%) Field Engineer
6 4 (5.00%) Field Service Engineer
6 4 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (5.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 4 (5.00%) Network Engineer
6 4 (5.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.50%) React
2 3 (3.75%) 802.1X
2 3 (3.75%) Jest
3 2 (2.50%) LAMP
3 2 (2.50%) Node.js
3 2 (2.50%) pytest
3 2 (2.50%) REST
3 2 (2.50%) Spring
4 1 (1.25%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.25%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.25%) JSON
4 1 (1.25%) Kafka
4 1 (1.25%) OpenAPI
4 1 (1.25%) RESTful
4 1 (1.25%) SOAP
4 1 (1.25%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.25%) Swagger
4 1 (1.25%) Vue
4 1 (1.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.25%) Data Centre
1 5 (6.25%) Fibre Optics
2 4 (5.00%) Driving Licence
3 3 (3.75%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.50%) Acoustics
4 2 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.50%) PMI
4 2 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.25%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 19 (23.75%) Linux
2 14 (17.50%) Windows
3 11 (13.75%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.75%) Debian
5 2 (2.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (16.25%) Software Engineering
2 12 (15.00%) ITIL
3 11 (13.75%) Agile
4 10 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (11.25%) CI/CD
6 8 (10.00%) DevOps
7 7 (8.75%) Customer Service
7 7 (8.75%) Decision-Making
7 7 (8.75%) ITSM
7 7 (8.75%) Project Management
8 6 (7.50%) Collaborative Working
8 6 (7.50%) Mentoring
8 6 (7.50%) SIEM
8 6 (7.50%) SOAR
8 6 (7.50%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (7.50%) Vulnerability Management
9 5 (6.25%) Analytics
9 5 (6.25%) Data Pipeline
9 5 (6.25%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (6.25%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (13.75%) Java
2 7 (8.75%) Python
3 5 (6.25%) C++
4 3 (3.75%) Bash
4 3 (3.75%) C
4 3 (3.75%) PHP
4 3 (3.75%) SQL
5 2 (2.50%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.25%) Groovy
6 1 (1.25%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (68.75%) SC Cleared
2 27 (33.75%) DV Cleared
3 18 (22.50%) Degree
4 8 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (8.75%) CCNA
5 7 (8.75%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (5.00%) CCNP
7 2 (2.50%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.25%) CISA
8 1 (1.25%) CISM
8 1 (1.25%) CISSP
8 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.25%) HNC
8 1 (1.25%) HND
8 1 (1.25%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 1 (1.25%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.50%) SLA
2 1 (1.25%) Def Stans
2 1 (1.25%) GRC
2 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.25%) JSP 440
2 1 (1.25%) NIST
2 1 (1.25%) NIST 800
System Software
1 6 (7.50%) Docker
2 2 (2.50%) Firmware
3 1 (1.25%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (8.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (5.00%) Ansible
2 4 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.00%) Terraform
3 3 (3.75%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 13 (16.25%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.50%) Cisco
3 7 (8.75%) ServiceNow
4 6 (7.50%) CheckPoint
4 6 (7.50%) LogRhythm
4 6 (7.50%) Palo Alto
4 6 (7.50%) Splunk
4 6 (7.50%) Tenable
5 4 (5.00%) Fortinet
5 4 (5.00%) VMware
6 1 (1.25%) Juniper
6 1 (1.25%) Oracle