Security Cleared Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Security Clearance
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 27 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 39 9
Rank change year-on-year +14 -30 +9
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 279 161 836
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 5.06% 5.52% 12.78%
As % of the Qualifications category 22.23% 11.38% 34.05%
Number of salaries quoted 170 104 643
10th Percentile £39,280 £40,300 £30,000
25th Percentile £50,331 £47,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £59,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.17% +11.32% +16.23%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £61,350
90th Percentile £82,625 £77,500 £77,500
South East median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% +14.58%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,255 1,415 2,455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 22.74% 48.49% 37.54%
Number of salaries quoted 614 426 1,624
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,188 £41,438 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,609 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.54% +0.21% +9.38%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,375 £85,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +7.84% +2.00%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Security Cleared job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Security Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Security Cleared

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 27 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in the Thames Valley

Security Cleared
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Cleared within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Berkshire +18 181 £67,500 +12.50% 55
Buckinghamshire +15 74 £57,000 -1.02% 33
Oxfordshire -2 24 £65,000 +30.00% 18
Security Cleared
South East

Security Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 11 (3.94%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.36%) Camunda
3 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (4.66%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.79%) Adobe XD
3 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.36%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.36%) Adobe Captivate
4 1 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.36%) Adobe Premiere
4 1 (0.36%) Elementor
4 1 (0.36%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Primavera
1 1 (0.36%) Q-Pulse
1 1 (0.36%) SAP MM
1 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.36%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 34 (12.19%) Azure
2 33 (11.83%) AWS
3 18 (6.45%) GCP
4 11 (3.94%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (3.58%) Serverless
6 8 (2.87%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 8 (2.87%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 7 (2.51%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (2.51%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (2.51%) Power Platform
8 6 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (2.15%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (2.15%) Google Analytics
9 5 (1.79%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (1.79%) Amazon S3
9 5 (1.79%) Figma
10 3 (1.08%) GitHub
10 3 (1.08%) Google Workspace
10 3 (1.08%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 35 (12.54%) DNS
2 33 (11.83%) Firewall
3 14 (5.02%) Structured Cabling
4 10 (3.58%) NetScaler
5 8 (2.87%) TCP/IP
6 7 (2.51%) NAS
6 7 (2.51%) SAN
6 7 (2.51%) Wireshark
7 5 (1.79%) SSL
8 4 (1.43%) HTTP
9 3 (1.08%) Cisco ISE
9 3 (1.08%) DHCP
9 3 (1.08%) Internet
9 3 (1.08%) Network Security
9 3 (1.08%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (1.08%) VPN
10 2 (0.72%) FTP
10 2 (0.72%) LAN
10 2 (0.72%) SMTP
10 2 (0.72%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
1 8 (2.87%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.79%) Power BI
2 5 (1.79%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.72%) MySQL
4 1 (0.36%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.36%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.36%) Metadata
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.36%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (4.30%) Git
2 11 (3.94%) Jenkins
2 11 (3.94%) JIRA
3 9 (3.23%) GitLab
4 5 (1.79%) Axure RP
4 5 (1.79%) Balsamiq
4 5 (1.79%) Cucumber
4 5 (1.79%) SonarQube
5 4 (1.43%) Subversion
6 3 (1.08%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.72%) JUnit
7 2 (0.72%) Mockito
8 1 (0.36%) Ant
8 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.36%) Gradle
8 1 (0.36%) JMeter
8 1 (0.36%) Maven
8 1 (0.36%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.36%) TestDirector
General
1 70 (25.09%) Social Skills
2 50 (17.92%) Public Sector
3 45 (16.13%) Finance
4 33 (11.83%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (10.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 29 (10.39%) Law
7 15 (5.38%) Manufacturing
8 11 (3.94%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.51%) Banking
10 6 (2.15%) Aerospace
10 6 (2.15%) Games
10 6 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.79%) Aviation
11 5 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.79%) Legal
11 5 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.43%) French Language
12 4 (1.43%) Military
13 2 (0.72%) Retail
14 1 (0.36%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 57 (20.43%) Architect
2 47 (16.85%) Developer
3 46 (16.49%) Senior
4 27 (9.68%) Applications Architect
5 26 (9.32%) Analyst
6 21 (7.53%) Lead
6 21 (7.53%) Security Architect
7 16 (5.73%) Java Developer
8 14 (5.02%) DevOps Engineer
8 14 (5.02%) Salesforce Developer
9 13 (4.66%) Senior Developer
10 10 (3.58%) .NET Developer
10 10 (3.58%) Lead Architect
10 10 (3.58%) Senior .NET Developer
11 9 (3.23%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
11 9 (3.23%) Test Specialist
12 8 (2.87%) Consultant
12 8 (2.87%) SOC Analyst
12 8 (2.87%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (2.87%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (8.24%) .NET
2 18 (6.45%) REST
3 14 (5.02%) Regular Expression
4 13 (4.66%) LDAP
4 13 (4.66%) Spring
5 10 (3.58%) React
5 10 (3.58%) SOAP
5 10 (3.58%) XMPP
6 9 (3.23%) JSON
6 9 (3.23%) Middleware
7 8 (2.87%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (2.87%) Lightning Web Components
7 8 (2.87%) RabbitMQ
7 8 (2.87%) Visualforce
8 7 (2.51%) XML
9 6 (2.15%) AngularJS
9 6 (2.15%) Java EE
9 6 (2.15%) Spring Boot
10 5 (1.79%) HTML
10 5 (1.79%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.38%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.30%) Product Ownership
3 11 (3.94%) Cyber Defence
3 11 (3.94%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (3.23%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.23%) PKI
5 8 (2.87%) Cyber Threat
6 7 (2.51%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.43%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.08%) Arduino
10 3 (1.08%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (1.08%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.08%) Raspberry Pi
10 3 (1.08%) Security Operations Centre
11 2 (0.72%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 47 (16.85%) Windows
2 43 (15.41%) Linux
3 37 (13.26%) Windows Server
4 18 (6.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.36%) Android
6 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.36%) Unix
6 1 (0.36%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (20.07%) Agile
2 47 (16.85%) Continuous Improvement
3 36 (12.90%) DevOps
4 31 (11.11%) Community of Practice
5 29 (10.39%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (10.04%) Cybersecurity
7 27 (9.68%) CI/CD
8 26 (9.32%) Technology Strategy
9 25 (8.96%) SIEM
10 21 (7.53%) ITIL
11 20 (7.17%) Mentoring
12 18 (6.45%) Service Design
12 18 (6.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 17 (6.09%) Validation
14 16 (5.73%) Application Security
14 16 (5.73%) Containerisation
14 16 (5.73%) Platform Engineering
15 15 (5.38%) Analytics
15 15 (5.38%) Service Delivery
16 14 (5.02%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (10.75%) Python
2 29 (10.39%) Java
3 19 (6.81%) SQL
4 10 (3.58%) JavaScript
5 8 (2.87%) Apex Code
5 8 (2.87%) PL/SQL
6 7 (2.51%) PowerShell
6 7 (2.51%) Shell Script
7 6 (2.15%) C#
8 5 (1.79%) Groovy
8 5 (1.79%) Ladder Logic
9 4 (1.43%) C
10 3 (1.08%) C++
10 3 (1.08%) Go
10 3 (1.08%) Pascal
10 3 (1.08%) Perl
10 3 (1.08%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.72%) Bash
12 1 (0.36%) Korn
12 1 (0.36%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 174 (62.37%) SC Cleared
2 109 (39.07%) DV Cleared
3 59 (21.15%) Degree
4 14 (5.02%) HNC
5 7 (2.51%) CISSP
6 6 (2.15%) CHECK Team Member
6 6 (2.15%) CompTIA Security+
6 6 (2.15%) CRISC
6 6 (2.15%) DBS Check
6 6 (2.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 5 (1.79%) ISACA
7 5 (1.79%) OSCP
8 4 (1.43%) CHECK Team Leader
8 4 (1.43%) CREST Certified
9 3 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.08%) GIAC
9 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.72%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.38%) GDPR
2 9 (3.23%) Accessibility
2 9 (3.23%) NCSC
2 9 (3.23%) QA
3 8 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.79%) PMO
4 5 (1.79%) WCAG
5 4 (1.43%) NEBOSH
6 3 (1.08%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.72%) GRC
7 2 (0.72%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 2 (0.72%) NIST
8 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.36%) MISRA
8 1 (0.36%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 35 (12.54%) Active Directory
2 19 (6.81%) vSphere
3 12 (4.30%) Docker
4 10 (3.58%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.72%) Firmware
6 2 (0.72%) Terminal Server
6 2 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (6.81%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.58%) vRealize
3 9 (3.23%) Ansible
3 9 (3.23%) Terraform
4 7 (2.51%) Kibana
5 4 (1.43%) Packer
5 4 (1.43%) SCCM
5 4 (1.43%) SCOM
6 3 (1.08%) Graylog
7 2 (0.72%) Argo
7 2 (0.72%) Grafana
7 2 (0.72%) Istio
7 2 (0.72%) Kustomize
7 2 (0.72%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.72%) QRadar
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.36%) SCSM
Vendors
1 52 (18.64%) Microsoft
2 34 (12.19%) VMware
3 15 (5.38%) Google
4 14 (5.02%) Oracle
4 14 (5.02%) Salesforce
5 13 (4.66%) Red Hat
6 11 (3.94%) Citrix
7 9 (3.23%) AppDynamics
7 9 (3.23%) McAfee
8 8 (2.87%) IBM
9 7 (2.51%) MuleSoft
9 7 (2.51%) NetApp
10 6 (2.15%) Adobe
10 6 (2.15%) ServiceNow
10 6 (2.15%) Splunk
11 4 (1.43%) SAP
12 3 (1.08%) Cisco
12 3 (1.08%) Juniper
12 3 (1.08%) Motorola
13 2 (0.72%) ArcSight