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 9 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 46 7
Rank change year-on-year +26 -39 -1
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 375 228 632
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 5.30% 5.75% 12.96%
As % of the Qualifications category 28.37% 13.50% 39.77%
Number of salaries quoted 210 136 311
10th Percentile £41,125 £38,500 £38,880
25th Percentile £54,750 £45,608 £41,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £54,125
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +1.62% +3.10%
75th Percentile £83,750 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £84,375 £78,410
South East median annual salary £70,000 £58,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +20.69% +0.87% +9.42%

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 1,322 1,689 1,589
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 18.70% 42.63% 32.58%
Number of salaries quoted 782 503 730
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,550 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.21% -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,375 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £81,250 £82,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £51,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -7.27% +4.76%

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 9 September 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 9 September 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 +29 256 £70,000 +27.27% 144
Buckinghamshire +18 106 £55,000 - 47
Oxfordshire -33 13 £100,000 +17.65% 45
Security Cleared
South East

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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 5 (1.33%) Apache
1 5 (1.33%) nginx
2 4 (1.07%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.53%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.27%) Confluence
4 1 (0.27%) Kinematics
Applications
1 5 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.80%) Solid Edge
2 3 (0.80%) SOLIDWORKS
3 2 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.53%) UserZoom
4 1 (0.27%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.27%) CATIA
4 1 (0.27%) Mathematica
4 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) ENOVIA
1 1 (0.27%) SAP MDG
1 1 (0.27%) SAP MM
1 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 59 (15.73%) Azure
2 51 (13.60%) AWS
3 14 (3.73%) Azure Sentinel
4 13 (3.47%) Entra ID
4 13 (3.47%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (3.20%) GCP
5 12 (3.20%) Serverless
6 11 (2.93%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (2.93%) Cloud Computing
6 11 (2.93%) OpenShift
7 7 (1.87%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (1.87%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (1.87%) Google Analytics
7 7 (1.87%) Power Platform
8 6 (1.60%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (1.60%) Amazon S3
8 6 (1.60%) Cloudflare
8 6 (1.60%) GitHub
9 5 (1.33%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (1.07%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 60 (16.00%) DNS
2 50 (13.33%) Firewall
3 18 (4.80%) TCP/IP
4 13 (3.47%) VPN
5 10 (2.67%) HTTP
6 8 (2.13%) NetScaler
6 8 (2.13%) SSL
7 7 (1.87%) LAN
7 7 (1.87%) Network Security
7 7 (1.87%) WAN
8 6 (1.60%) NAS
8 6 (1.60%) SAN
8 6 (1.60%) Wireshark
9 5 (1.33%) Cisco Firepower
9 5 (1.33%) Cisco Nexus
9 5 (1.33%) NGFW
9 5 (1.33%) Remote Desktop
9 5 (1.33%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.80%) Internet
11 2 (0.53%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (2.40%) Relational Database
3 7 (1.87%) Power BI
4 6 (1.60%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.33%) MySQL
6 4 (1.07%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.53%) Big Data
7 2 (0.53%) Metadata
7 2 (0.53%) Oracle Database 11g
7 2 (0.53%) Oracle Database 12c
7 2 (0.53%) Tableau
8 1 (0.27%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.27%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.27%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.27%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.27%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (4.00%) Jenkins
2 10 (2.67%) Git
3 9 (2.40%) GitLab
4 7 (1.87%) JIRA
5 5 (1.33%) JUnit
5 5 (1.33%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.07%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.80%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.53%) JMeter
8 2 (0.53%) Mockito
9 1 (0.27%) Axure RP
9 1 (0.27%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.27%) MLflow
9 1 (0.27%) Mocha
9 1 (0.27%) Selenium
9 1 (0.27%) Storybook
9 1 (0.27%) TestDirector
General
1 65 (17.33%) Social Skills
2 53 (14.13%) Public Sector
3 44 (11.73%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (10.93%) Finance
5 24 (6.40%) Aerospace
5 24 (6.40%) Manufacturing
6 14 (3.73%) Law
7 13 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (3.20%) Retail
9 11 (2.93%) Electronics
10 8 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.60%) Banking
12 5 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.33%) French Language
12 5 (1.33%) Games
13 4 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.07%) Marketing
13 4 (1.07%) Public Speaking
14 3 (0.80%) Automotive
14 3 (0.80%) Legal
Job Titles
1 71 (18.93%) Architect
2 43 (11.47%) Senior
3 39 (10.40%) Analyst
4 31 (8.27%) Developer
5 27 (7.20%) Applications Architect
5 27 (7.20%) Lead
6 25 (6.67%) Support Specialist
7 24 (6.40%) Security Architect
8 19 (5.07%) SOC Analyst
9 17 (4.53%) Java Developer
10 15 (4.00%) Systems Engineer
11 13 (3.47%) Infrastructure Support
11 13 (3.47%) Software Engineer
12 12 (3.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 12 (3.20%) Technical Leader
13 11 (2.93%) DevOps Engineer
13 11 (2.93%) Senior Developer
14 10 (2.67%) Electrical Engineer
14 10 (2.67%) Mechanical Engineer
14 10 (2.67%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (5.60%) Regular Expression
2 19 (5.07%) LDAP
2 19 (5.07%) XMPP
3 15 (4.00%) Spring
4 13 (3.47%) .NET
5 11 (2.93%) Terraform
6 10 (2.67%) HTML
6 10 (2.67%) REST
6 10 (2.67%) Spring Boot
7 9 (2.40%) JSON
7 9 (2.40%) React
7 9 (2.40%) Web Services
8 8 (2.13%) CSS
8 8 (2.13%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (1.87%) Loki
10 6 (1.60%) Jakarta EE
10 6 (1.60%) JPA
11 5 (1.33%) AngularJS
11 5 (1.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (5.87%) Cloud Native
1 22 (5.87%) Onboarding
2 21 (5.60%) Cyber Threat
3 18 (4.80%) Cyber Defence
4 17 (4.53%) Data Centre
5 14 (3.73%) Security Operations Centre
6 12 (3.20%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (2.67%) Driving Licence
7 10 (2.67%) PKI
8 9 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.87%) CSOC
9 7 (1.87%) Hackathon
10 6 (1.60%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.60%) Private Cloud
11 5 (1.33%) Embedded Systems
11 5 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.07%) Arduino
12 4 (1.07%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 76 (20.27%) Linux
2 67 (17.87%) Windows
3 32 (8.53%) Windows Server
4 25 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.33%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.80%) Unix
7 2 (0.53%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (18.13%) Cybersecurity
2 67 (17.87%) Continuous Improvement
3 55 (14.67%) Validation
4 47 (12.53%) SIEM
5 43 (11.47%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (9.87%) Stakeholder Management
7 33 (8.80%) Agile
8 31 (8.27%) Mentoring
9 29 (7.73%) CI/CD
10 28 (7.47%) DevOps
10 28 (7.47%) Service Delivery
11 24 (6.40%) Decision-Making
11 24 (6.40%) Platform Engineering
11 24 (6.40%) Technical Leadership
12 22 (5.87%) Analytics
12 22 (5.87%) Incident Response
12 22 (5.87%) Software Engineering
13 21 (5.60%) AI
14 20 (5.33%) Containerisation
15 19 (5.07%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 37 (9.87%) Python
2 24 (6.40%) Java
3 17 (4.53%) PowerShell
4 13 (3.47%) Bash
4 13 (3.47%) SQL
5 11 (2.93%) Shell Script
6 10 (2.67%) C#
6 10 (2.67%) JavaScript
7 9 (2.40%) C
8 7 (1.87%) Kusto Query Language
8 7 (1.87%) Search Processing Language
9 6 (1.60%) C++
9 6 (1.60%) TypeScript
10 5 (1.33%) Groovy
10 5 (1.33%) Rust
11 4 (1.07%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.80%) Pascal
12 3 (0.80%) Perl
13 2 (0.53%) Go
14 1 (0.27%) R
Qualifications
1 224 (59.73%) SC Cleared
2 132 (35.20%) DV Cleared
3 45 (12.00%) Degree
4 16 (4.27%) CompTIA Security+
5 15 (4.00%) CISSP
6 14 (3.73%) GIAC
7 13 (3.47%) GCIA
8 10 (2.67%) CREST Certified
8 10 (2.67%) OSCP
8 10 (2.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 8 (2.13%) GCIH
10 7 (1.87%) CompTIA CySA+
10 7 (1.87%) GCED
10 7 (1.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 7 (1.87%) SANS
11 6 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (1.60%) CRISC
12 5 (1.33%) CEH
12 5 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.40%) NCSC
2 7 (1.87%) QA
3 6 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.60%) MISRA
4 5 (1.33%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.33%) GDPR
4 5 (1.33%) ISO 9001
4 5 (1.33%) NEBOSH
5 4 (1.07%) PMO
6 3 (0.80%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.80%) ISO 22301
6 3 (0.80%) WCAG
7 2 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.53%) COBIT
7 2 (0.53%) COSO
7 2 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 2 (0.53%) NIST
7 2 (0.53%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.53%) SLA
8 1 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 46 (12.27%) Active Directory
2 28 (7.47%) vSphere
3 15 (4.00%) Docker
4 10 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (1.87%) Firmware
5 7 (1.87%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (1.87%) VMware NSX
6 5 (1.33%) Squid
6 5 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 25 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.73%) Kibana
3 11 (2.93%) Ansible
4 7 (1.87%) Argo
4 7 (1.87%) Grafana
4 7 (1.87%) Graylog
4 7 (1.87%) Kustomize
4 7 (1.87%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.07%) Istio
6 4 (1.07%) Packer
6 4 (1.07%) SCCM
7 3 (0.80%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (0.80%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.53%) QRadar
8 2 (0.53%) vRealize
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 76 (20.27%) Microsoft
2 44 (11.73%) VMware
3 26 (6.93%) Red Hat
4 15 (4.00%) McAfee
4 15 (4.00%) Splunk
5 11 (2.93%) Oracle
6 10 (2.67%) Cisco
7 9 (2.40%) AppDynamics
7 9 (2.40%) Google
7 9 (2.40%) Thales
8 8 (2.13%) Citrix
8 8 (2.13%) CrowdStrike
8 8 (2.13%) IBM
9 7 (1.87%) Carbon Black
9 7 (1.87%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.60%) NetApp
11 5 (1.33%) Fortinet
11 5 (1.33%) Palo Alto
11 5 (1.33%) Veeam
12 4 (1.07%) CA Agile Central