Security Cleared Jobs in the Thames Valley

Security Clearance
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 14 59
Rank change year-on-year +6 +45 +23
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 954 748 323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.14% 12.11% 4.73%
As % of the Qualifications category 37.12% 28.29% 14.84%
Number of salaries quoted 649 371 159
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,463 £35,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £45,600 £55,075
Median % change year-on-year +16.23% -17.20% -15.27%
75th Percentile £61,750 £60,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £73,963 £84,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £48,125 £57,434
% change year-on-year +14.29% -16.21% +4.19%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

Security Cleared is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,570 2,644 2,177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 38.09% 42.81% 31.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,623 1,096 940
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,125 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.64% -7.27%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £51,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the Thames Valley

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Security Cleared in the Thames Valley

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

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 24 April 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
Berkshire +6 780 £52,550 +15.24% 121
Buckinghamshire -11 117 £55,000 +14.29% 31
Oxfordshire +3 57 £51,020 +20.05% 27
Security Cleared
South East

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 41 (4.30%) WebLogic
2 29 (3.04%) ArcGIS
2 29 (3.04%) GeoServer
3 27 (2.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 24 (2.52%) OpenStack
5 15 (1.57%) IIS
5 15 (1.57%) Oracle Service Bus
6 13 (1.36%) CMS
6 13 (1.36%) Confluence
7 11 (1.15%) JBoss
7 11 (1.15%) Red Hat Fuse
8 10 (1.05%) Exchange Server 2010
9 6 (0.63%) Apache
9 6 (0.63%) nginx
9 6 (0.63%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.10%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 62 (6.50%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (2.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (2.31%) MS Visio
4 10 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.42%) Siemens NX
6 4 (0.42%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 18 (1.89%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.42%) Oracle Applications
3 4 (0.42%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.21%) C-CURE
4 2 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.21%) Primavera
5 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.10%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 186 (19.50%) Azure
2 107 (11.22%) AWS
3 44 (4.61%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (3.46%) Amazon EKS
5 30 (3.14%) Azure Monitor
6 28 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
6 28 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (2.94%) Serverless
7 22 (2.31%) Entra ID
8 16 (1.68%) OCI
9 14 (1.47%) Azure Storage
10 12 (1.26%) SaaS
11 8 (0.84%) GitHub
12 6 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (0.63%) Miro
12 6 (0.63%) PaaS
13 5 (0.52%) Azure Sentinel
13 5 (0.52%) Dynamics 365
14 4 (0.42%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (0.42%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 88 (9.22%) Firewall
2 61 (6.39%) DNS
3 52 (5.45%) DHCP
4 23 (2.41%) VPN
5 20 (2.10%) LAN
6 17 (1.78%) BGP
6 17 (1.78%) OSPF
7 16 (1.68%) WAN
8 15 (1.57%) SNMP
9 13 (1.36%) SAN
9 13 (1.36%) Wireless
10 11 (1.15%) SD-WAN
10 11 (1.15%) SSL
10 11 (1.15%) TCP/IP
11 9 (0.94%) HSRP
12 8 (0.84%) IPsec
13 7 (0.73%) Cisco Firepower
13 7 (0.73%) Network Security
13 7 (0.73%) VLAN
13 7 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (6.39%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (5.66%) Relational Database
3 34 (3.56%) GIS
4 29 (3.04%) QGIS
5 28 (2.94%) SQL Server
6 26 (2.73%) Oracle Database
7 23 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
8 20 (2.10%) NoSQL
9 16 (1.68%) Oracle Database 11g
10 15 (1.57%) Oracle Database 10g
10 15 (1.57%) VLDB
11 5 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.52%) MySQL
11 5 (0.52%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.21%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.21%) NonStop SQL
13 1 (0.10%) MongoDB
13 1 (0.10%) Spatial Data
13 1 (0.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 50 (5.24%) Jenkins
2 36 (3.77%) Git
3 24 (2.52%) GitLab
4 23 (2.41%) JIRA
5 14 (1.47%) JUnit
5 14 (1.47%) Visual Studio
6 13 (1.36%) Selenium
7 11 (1.15%) Cucumber
8 9 (0.94%) TestRail
9 7 (0.73%) REST Assured
9 7 (0.73%) WebDriver
10 6 (0.63%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.63%) TestNG
11 5 (0.52%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (0.52%) JMeter
11 5 (0.52%) Oracle APEX
11 5 (0.52%) Rational DOORS
11 5 (0.52%) Serenity BDD
11 5 (0.52%) SoapUI
12 4 (0.42%) Subversion
General
1 210 (22.01%) Social Skills
2 75 (7.86%) Public Sector
3 70 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (5.35%) Organisational Skills
5 25 (2.62%) Police
6 20 (2.10%) Finance
7 15 (1.57%) Back Office
8 9 (0.94%) Manufacturing
8 9 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (0.84%) Aerospace
10 6 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (0.63%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.52%) Law
11 5 (0.52%) Local Government
11 5 (0.52%) Military
11 5 (0.52%) Publishing
12 4 (0.42%) Aeronautics
12 4 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.42%) Legal
12 4 (0.42%) Retail
Job Titles
1 165 (17.30%) Senior
2 136 (14.26%) Analyst
3 103 (10.80%) Developer
4 93 (9.75%) Architect
5 75 (7.86%) Systems Engineer
6 58 (6.08%) Software Engineer
7 51 (5.35%) Support Analyst
8 46 (4.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 45 (4.72%) Applications Support
9 45 (4.72%) Support Specialist
10 42 (4.40%) Lead
11 39 (4.09%) Network Engineer
12 38 (3.98%) Senior Analyst
13 37 (3.88%) Applications Support Analyst
14 35 (3.67%) Senior Software Engineer
14 35 (3.67%) Support Engineer
15 33 (3.46%) Administrator
16 31 (3.25%) Java Developer
17 28 (2.94%) Infrastructure Support
18 26 (2.73%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (6.29%) Spring
2 51 (5.35%) CSS
3 49 (5.14%) .NET
4 47 (4.93%) React
5 43 (4.51%) REST
6 37 (3.88%) Web Services
7 36 (3.77%) AngularJS
8 34 (3.56%) Node.js
8 34 (3.56%) Spring Boot
9 33 (3.46%) HTML
10 32 (3.35%) Leaflet
10 32 (3.35%) OpenLayers
11 31 (3.25%) Elastic Stack
12 29 (3.04%) J2EE
12 29 (3.04%) PostGIS
13 28 (2.94%) XML
14 27 (2.83%) .NET Core
15 26 (2.73%) JSON
16 24 (2.52%) Apache Camel
16 24 (2.52%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 39 (4.09%) Management Information System
2 33 (3.46%) Self-Motivation
3 32 (3.35%) CMDB
4 29 (3.04%) Algorithms
5 28 (2.94%) Data Centre
6 27 (2.83%) PKI
7 23 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
8 21 (2.20%) Product Ownership
9 19 (1.99%) Driving Licence
9 19 (1.99%) Mainframe
10 18 (1.89%) Private Cloud
11 13 (1.36%) Digital Signage
12 9 (0.94%) Cyber Threat
12 9 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
14 7 (0.73%) Client/Server
14 7 (0.73%) Public Cloud
14 7 (0.73%) Virtual Team
15 6 (0.63%) CUDA
15 6 (0.63%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 184 (19.29%) Windows
2 162 (16.98%) Linux
3 97 (10.17%) Windows Server
4 81 (8.49%) Windows 10
5 62 (6.50%) Windows Server 2016
6 61 (6.39%) Windows Server 2019
7 57 (5.97%) Unix
8 47 (4.93%) Windows 7
9 44 (4.61%) Windows Server 2012
10 21 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 16 (1.68%) CentOS
12 15 (1.57%) Solaris
13 14 (1.47%) Windows NT
14 12 (1.26%) Windows XP
15 5 (0.52%) Ubuntu
16 3 (0.31%) Rocky
17 1 (0.10%) Debian
17 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
17 1 (0.10%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (25.68%) Agile
2 213 (22.33%) ITIL
3 207 (21.70%) Problem-Solving
4 156 (16.35%) DevOps
5 154 (16.14%) Actionable Insight
6 111 (11.64%) Customer Service
7 103 (10.80%) Service Management
8 72 (7.55%) Service Delivery
9 71 (7.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 69 (7.23%) Software Engineering
11 67 (7.02%) Scrum
12 65 (6.81%) Project Management
13 63 (6.60%) CI/CD
14 60 (6.29%) Cybersecurity
15 58 (6.08%) Decision-Making
15 58 (6.08%) Software Testing
16 56 (5.87%) Incident Management
17 55 (5.77%) ITSM
17 55 (5.77%) Release Management
18 50 (5.24%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 126 (13.21%) JavaScript
2 119 (12.47%) Python
3 100 (10.48%) Java
4 76 (7.97%) PowerShell
5 74 (7.76%) SQL
6 71 (7.44%) C#
7 40 (4.19%) C++
8 33 (3.46%) Fortran
9 29 (3.04%) Shell Script
10 25 (2.62%) VBScript
11 24 (2.52%) VB
12 22 (2.31%) Bash
12 22 (2.31%) PL/SQL
13 19 (1.99%) C
13 19 (1.99%) COBOL
14 14 (1.47%) Bicep
15 13 (1.36%) TypeScript
16 12 (1.26%) MATLAB
17 9 (0.94%) Groovy
18 8 (0.84%) Perl
Qualifications
1 568 (59.54%) SC Cleared
2 310 (32.49%) DV Cleared
3 173 (18.13%) Degree
4 51 (5.35%) Cisco Certification
5 42 (4.40%) CCNA
5 42 (4.40%) CTC Cleared
6 31 (3.25%) CCNP
7 29 (3.04%) NVQ Level 3
8 22 (2.31%) PhD
9 21 (2.20%) HNC
10 20 (2.10%) AWS Certification
11 19 (1.99%) A+ Certification
11 19 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
12 18 (1.89%) Master's Degree
13 16 (1.68%) Azure Certification
14 15 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
15 14 (1.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 14 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
16 13 (1.36%) MCP
17 10 (1.05%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (6.71%) SLA
2 20 (2.10%) QA
3 16 (1.68%) NIST
4 15 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.15%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.05%) PMO
7 8 (0.84%) JSP 440
7 8 (0.84%) RMADS
8 7 (0.73%) NCSC
9 6 (0.63%) GRC
9 6 (0.63%) NIST 800
10 5 (0.52%) WCAG
11 4 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 3 (0.31%) COBIT
13 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 15288
14 1 (0.10%) Data Quality
14 1 (0.10%) Government Security Classifications
14 1 (0.10%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 1 (0.10%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 143 (14.99%) Active Directory
2 53 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 52 (5.45%) Docker
4 41 (4.30%) Firmware
5 39 (4.09%) Hyper-V
6 27 (2.83%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (1.57%) KVM
7 15 (1.57%) Oracle RAC
8 14 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.42%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 4 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 108 (11.32%) SCCM
2 72 (7.55%) Kubernetes
3 67 (7.02%) SCOM
4 62 (6.50%) Ansible
5 48 (5.03%) WSUS
6 41 (4.30%) Terraform
7 28 (2.94%) vCenter Server
8 24 (2.52%) Microsoft Intune
9 22 (2.31%) OpenSSO
9 22 (2.31%) Single Sign-On
10 20 (2.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 19 (1.99%) NetBackup
12 16 (1.68%) EMC NetWorker
13 15 (1.57%) Data Guard
13 15 (1.57%) Oracle RMAN
13 15 (1.57%) Rancher
14 14 (1.47%) Sysprep
15 6 (0.63%) Kibana
16 3 (0.31%) Nessus
16 3 (0.31%) OpenView
Vendors
1 267 (27.99%) Microsoft
2 86 (9.01%) Oracle
3 85 (8.91%) Cisco
4 71 (7.44%) VMware
5 59 (6.18%) Juniper
6 52 (5.45%) ServiceNow
7 45 (4.72%) HP
8 40 (4.19%) Remedy
9 29 (3.04%) ESRI
10 28 (2.94%) Dynatrace
11 24 (2.52%) WSO2
12 19 (1.99%) Unisys
13 17 (1.78%) EMC
14 16 (1.68%) Extreme Networks
14 16 (1.68%) Veeam
15 15 (1.57%) Sun
16 13 (1.36%) Dell
16 13 (1.36%) Palo Alto
16 13 (1.36%) Riverbed
17 12 (1.26%) Fortinet