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 16 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 56 8
Rank change year-on-year +30 -48 0
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 328 184 795
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 5.33% 5.10% 12.09%
As % of the Qualifications category 26.01% 11.79% 36.45%
Number of salaries quoted 197 122 489
10th Percentile £40,666 £38,500 £33,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £39,380
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,585 £52,550
Median % change year-on-year +17.22% +9.58% +12.32%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £84,875 £75,000
South East median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% +7.11%

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 1,261 1,560 2,181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 20.47% 43.26% 33.18%
Number of salaries quoted 729 487 1,346
10th Percentile £32,600 £29,650 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £38,603
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% +2.24%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,750 £82,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £51,020
% change year-on-year +14.29% +2.90% -2.82%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 +21 218 £68,750 +10.89% 79
Buckinghamshire +31 89 £52,500 - 43
Oxfordshire -11 21 £82,500 +59.42% 15
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 (1.52%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.61%) Apache
3 2 (0.61%) nginx
4 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.30%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Primavera
1 1 (0.30%) SAP MDG
1 1 (0.30%) SAP MM
1 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 49 (14.94%) Azure
2 36 (10.98%) AWS
3 15 (4.57%) GCP
4 12 (3.66%) Serverless
5 11 (3.35%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (3.35%) Azure Sentinel
6 10 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (2.74%) Entra ID
8 8 (2.44%) OpenShift
9 7 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (1.83%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (1.52%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.52%) Cloudflare
11 5 (1.52%) Power Platform
12 4 (1.22%) GitHub
12 4 (1.22%) Google Analytics
13 3 (0.91%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 3 (0.91%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 57 (17.38%) DNS
2 48 (14.63%) Firewall
3 16 (4.88%) TCP/IP
4 12 (3.66%) VPN
5 11 (3.35%) NetScaler
5 11 (3.35%) Structured Cabling
6 10 (3.05%) HTTP
7 8 (2.44%) NAS
7 8 (2.44%) SAN
7 8 (2.44%) Wireshark
8 7 (2.13%) SSL
9 6 (1.83%) LAN
9 6 (1.83%) Network Security
9 6 (1.83%) Remote Desktop
9 6 (1.83%) WAN
10 4 (1.22%) Cisco Firepower
10 4 (1.22%) Cisco Nexus
10 4 (1.22%) NGFW
10 4 (1.22%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.91%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (3.05%) SQL Server
3 7 (2.13%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.52%) Power BI
5 4 (1.22%) MySQL
5 4 (1.22%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.61%) Metadata
6 2 (0.61%) Oracle Database 11g
6 2 (0.61%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.30%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.30%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.30%) Redis
7 1 (0.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (3.96%) Jenkins
2 11 (3.35%) Git
3 10 (3.05%) JIRA
4 8 (2.44%) GitLab
5 5 (1.52%) JUnit
5 5 (1.52%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.22%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.91%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.61%) JMeter
8 2 (0.61%) Mockito
8 2 (0.61%) Subversion
9 1 (0.30%) Mocha
9 1 (0.30%) Selenium
9 1 (0.30%) Storybook
9 1 (0.30%) TestDirector
General
1 68 (20.73%) Social Skills
2 42 (12.80%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 34 (10.37%) Finance
5 15 (4.57%) Manufacturing
6 12 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (3.35%) Law
8 9 (2.74%) Aerospace
8 9 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.83%) Games
11 5 (1.52%) Banking
11 5 (1.52%) French Language
12 4 (1.22%) Aviation
12 4 (1.22%) Legal
12 4 (1.22%) Retail
13 2 (0.61%) Electronics
13 2 (0.61%) Military
14 1 (0.30%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 72 (21.95%) Architect
2 47 (14.33%) Senior
3 38 (11.59%) Analyst
4 37 (11.28%) Developer
5 33 (10.06%) Applications Architect
6 29 (8.84%) Lead
7 28 (8.54%) Security Architect
8 17 (5.18%) Java Developer
8 17 (5.18%) SOC Analyst
9 13 (3.96%) Senior Developer
10 11 (3.35%) .NET Developer
10 11 (3.35%) DevOps Engineer
10 11 (3.35%) Senior .NET Developer
10 11 (3.35%) Software Engineer
11 10 (3.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (3.05%) Support Specialist
11 10 (3.05%) Technical Leader
12 9 (2.74%) Cyber Threat Analyst
12 9 (2.74%) Security Analyst
13 8 (2.44%) Cybersecurity Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (7.01%) Regular Expression
2 21 (6.40%) LDAP
3 19 (5.79%) XMPP
4 18 (5.49%) .NET
5 13 (3.96%) Spring
6 12 (3.66%) REST
7 11 (3.35%) JSON
8 10 (3.05%) React
9 8 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
9 8 (2.44%) Spring Boot
10 7 (2.13%) JSON Schema
10 7 (2.13%) XML
11 6 (1.83%) Java EE
11 6 (1.83%) JPA
11 6 (1.83%) Web Services
12 5 (1.52%) AngularJS
12 5 (1.52%) HTML
12 5 (1.52%) Loki
13 4 (1.22%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (5.79%) Cloud Native
2 18 (5.49%) Cyber Threat
3 17 (5.18%) Cyber Defence
4 13 (3.96%) Onboarding
5 12 (3.66%) PKI
6 11 (3.35%) Security Operations Centre
7 10 (3.05%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (2.44%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.83%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.83%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.52%) CSOC
11 5 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.52%) Private Cloud
11 5 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.22%) Driving Licence
12 4 (1.22%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.91%) Arduino
13 3 (0.91%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 69 (21.04%) Linux
2 64 (19.51%) Windows
3 37 (11.28%) Windows Server
4 27 (8.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.91%) Unix
6 2 (0.61%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (17.68%) Continuous Improvement
1 58 (17.68%) Cybersecurity
2 47 (14.33%) SIEM
3 36 (10.98%) Validation
4 32 (9.76%) Agile
5 31 (9.45%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (8.54%) DevOps
7 24 (7.32%) CI/CD
8 23 (7.01%) Application Security
8 23 (7.01%) Platform Engineering
9 22 (6.71%) Stakeholder Management
10 21 (6.40%) ITIL
10 21 (6.40%) Mentoring
11 19 (5.79%) Containerisation
11 19 (5.79%) Incident Response
11 19 (5.79%) Service Delivery
12 17 (5.18%) Architectural Design
12 17 (5.18%) Incident Management
12 17 (5.18%) Service Management
13 16 (4.88%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 36 (10.98%) Python
2 24 (7.32%) Java
3 17 (5.18%) SQL
4 13 (3.96%) PowerShell
5 11 (3.35%) Shell Script
6 9 (2.74%) Bash
7 7 (2.13%) C
7 7 (2.13%) JavaScript
7 7 (2.13%) PL/SQL
7 7 (2.13%) Search Processing Language
8 5 (1.52%) C#
8 5 (1.52%) Groovy
8 5 (1.52%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (1.52%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.22%) C++
9 4 (1.22%) Ladder Logic
10 3 (0.91%) Apex Code
10 3 (0.91%) Pascal
10 3 (0.91%) Perl
10 3 (0.91%) Rust
Qualifications
1 194 (59.15%) SC Cleared
2 140 (42.68%) DV Cleared
3 34 (10.37%) Degree
4 15 (4.57%) CISSP
5 13 (3.96%) CompTIA Security+
6 12 (3.66%) GIAC
7 11 (3.35%) GCIA
8 10 (3.05%) CREST Certified
8 10 (3.05%) OSCP
9 9 (2.74%) HNC
10 8 (2.44%) CRISC
10 8 (2.44%) GCIH
10 8 (2.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 7 (2.13%) GCED
11 7 (2.13%) SANS
12 6 (1.83%) ISACA
12 6 (1.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 5 (1.52%) CompTIA CySA+
14 4 (1.22%) CCNP
14 4 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.05%) GDPR
2 8 (2.44%) NCSC
3 6 (1.83%) QA
4 5 (1.52%) ISO 9001
4 5 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.52%) NEBOSH
4 5 (1.52%) PMO
5 4 (1.22%) MISRA
6 3 (0.91%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.91%) ISO 22301
6 3 (0.91%) SLA
7 2 (0.61%) COBIT
7 2 (0.61%) COSO
7 2 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 2 (0.61%) NIST
7 2 (0.61%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.30%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 47 (14.33%) Active Directory
2 28 (8.54%) vSphere
3 15 (4.57%) Docker
4 8 (2.44%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.52%) Firmware
5 5 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.61%) Squid
7 2 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.30%) Terminal Server
8 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (6.71%) Kubernetes
2 14 (4.27%) Kibana
3 10 (3.05%) Terraform
4 9 (2.74%) Ansible
5 6 (1.83%) Graylog
6 5 (1.52%) Argo
6 5 (1.52%) Grafana
6 5 (1.52%) Kustomize
6 5 (1.52%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.22%) Packer
7 4 (1.22%) vRealize
8 3 (0.91%) Istio
8 3 (0.91%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.61%) QRadar
9 2 (0.61%) SCCM
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.30%) SCOM
10 1 (0.30%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 71 (21.65%) Microsoft
2 41 (12.50%) VMware
3 24 (7.32%) Red Hat
4 16 (4.88%) McAfee
4 16 (4.88%) Oracle
5 15 (4.57%) Splunk
6 12 (3.66%) Citrix
7 11 (3.35%) Google
8 9 (2.74%) AppDynamics
8 9 (2.74%) ServiceNow
9 8 (2.44%) Cisco
9 8 (2.44%) CrowdStrike
9 8 (2.44%) IBM
9 8 (2.44%) NetApp
10 7 (2.13%) Carbon Black
11 4 (1.22%) CA Agile Central
11 4 (1.22%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.22%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.22%) SAP
12 3 (0.91%) Motorola