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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 8 6
Rank change year-on-year -36 -2 +38
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 227 621 635
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 5.88% 12.77% 17.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 13.76% 38.67% 43.08%
Number of salaries quoted 134 300 449
10th Percentile £38,500 £38,880 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,608 £41,263 £38,130
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,818 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.20% +2.51% +5.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,444 £74,250
South East median annual salary £58,000 £57,500 £53,260
% change year-on-year +0.87% +7.96% +1.45%

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 1,650 1,606 1,474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 42.75% 33.02% 39.82%
Number of salaries quoted 496 717 877
10th Percentile £29,500 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,510 £55,000 £52,550
Median % change year-on-year -13.62% +4.66% +0.10%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £83,000
South East median annual salary £51,300 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.73% +4.76% +0.96%

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

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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 -35 147 £55,000 +0.01% 114
Buckinghamshire -17 62 £55,000 +4.76% 53
Oxfordshire -11 18 £86,250 +69.12% 24
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 7 (3.08%) JBoss
1 7 (3.08%) Red Hat Fuse
2 5 (2.20%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.76%) Confluence
3 4 (1.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.44%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (1.76%) Windchill
2 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.44%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (3.08%) Q-Pulse
2 3 (1.32%) C-CURE
3 1 (0.44%) Maximo
3 1 (0.44%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 50 (22.03%) AWS
2 29 (12.78%) Serverless
3 25 (11.01%) Amazon ECS
3 25 (11.01%) Amazon EKS
4 23 (10.13%) Amazon EC2
5 20 (8.81%) Azure
6 9 (3.96%) Amazon S3
6 9 (3.96%) Dynamics 365
6 9 (3.96%) GCP
7 6 (2.64%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (2.64%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (1.76%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (1.76%) AWS KMS
8 4 (1.76%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.76%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (1.32%) GitHub
9 3 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.32%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.93%) DNS
2 14 (6.17%) Firewall
3 10 (4.41%) WAN
4 9 (3.96%) VPN
5 7 (3.08%) SD-WAN
6 6 (2.64%) TCP/IP
7 5 (2.20%) DHCP
8 4 (1.76%) BGP
8 4 (1.76%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (1.76%) Cisco Firepower
8 4 (1.76%) Cisco ISE
8 4 (1.76%) Cisco Nexus
8 4 (1.76%) HSRP
8 4 (1.76%) IPsec
8 4 (1.76%) OSPF
8 4 (1.76%) Spanning Tree
8 4 (1.76%) VLAN
9 2 (0.88%) Junos
9 2 (0.88%) SCCP
9 2 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (14.54%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (10.13%) Relational Database
3 16 (7.05%) RDBMS
4 8 (3.52%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.76%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.32%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.32%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.88%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.88%) MySQL
8 2 (0.88%) Power BI
9 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.44%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.44%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 63 (27.75%) Jenkins
2 41 (18.06%) Git
3 34 (14.98%) JIRA
4 30 (13.22%) JUnit
5 23 (10.13%) Mockito
6 16 (7.05%) JMeter
7 4 (1.76%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (1.76%) Maven
7 4 (1.76%) Selenium
7 4 (1.76%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.32%) DbUnit
8 3 (1.32%) GitLab
8 3 (1.32%) jMock
9 2 (0.88%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.88%) WebDriver
General
1 65 (28.63%) Social Skills
2 41 (18.06%) Public Sector
3 30 (13.22%) Organisational Skills
4 16 (7.05%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (7.05%) Finance
5 12 (5.29%) Aerospace
6 11 (4.85%) Manufacturing
7 10 (4.41%) Electronics
8 9 (3.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.96%) Telecoms
9 8 (3.52%) Military
10 7 (3.08%) Advertising
10 7 (3.08%) Aviation
11 6 (2.64%) Law
12 3 (1.32%) Marketing
12 3 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.88%) Back Office
13 2 (0.88%) Billing
14 1 (0.44%) Games
14 1 (0.44%) Legal
Job Titles
1 41 (18.06%) Developer
2 40 (17.62%) Lead
3 30 (13.22%) Java Developer
4 19 (8.37%) Architect
5 17 (7.49%) Senior
6 16 (7.05%) Technical Manager
7 15 (6.61%) Support Engineer
8 12 (5.29%) Network Engineer
9 11 (4.85%) Systems Engineer
10 10 (4.41%) Full-Stack Developer
10 10 (4.41%) Network Architect
11 9 (3.96%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 9 (3.96%) Mechanical Engineer
11 9 (3.96%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 9 (3.96%) Technical Engineer
11 9 (3.96%) Technical Support
11 9 (3.96%) Technical Support Engineer
12 8 (3.52%) Software Engineer
13 7 (3.08%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 7 (3.08%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (14.54%) Spring Boot
2 31 (13.66%) Spring
3 26 (11.45%) REST
3 26 (11.45%) Web Services
4 23 (10.13%) Apache Camel
5 22 (9.69%) ActiveMQ
5 22 (9.69%) Hibernate
6 16 (7.05%) HTML
6 16 (7.05%) jQuery
6 16 (7.05%) WireMock
6 16 (7.05%) XML
7 14 (6.17%) RESTful
8 11 (4.85%) SOAP
9 9 (3.96%) JSON
10 8 (3.52%) AngularJS
10 8 (3.52%) Kafka
11 7 (3.08%) J2EE
11 7 (3.08%) React
12 4 (1.76%) 802.1X
12 4 (1.76%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.01%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (6.61%) Management Information System
3 8 (3.52%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (3.08%) e-Learning
4 7 (3.08%) Reference Data
5 5 (2.20%) CCTV
5 5 (2.20%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.20%) Driving Licence
5 5 (2.20%) Fibre Optics
5 5 (2.20%) PKI
6 4 (1.76%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.76%) Cyberattack
6 4 (1.76%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (1.32%) CESG
7 3 (1.32%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.32%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.44%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.44%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.44%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.93%) Windows
2 16 (7.05%) Linux
3 6 (2.64%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.76%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.32%) Android
5 3 (1.32%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.88%) Unix
7 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (19.82%) Continuous Improvement
2 44 (19.38%) Agile
3 35 (15.42%) Configuration Management
3 35 (15.42%) Customer Requirements
3 35 (15.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 34 (14.98%) Technical Leadership
5 32 (14.10%) Microservices
6 30 (13.22%) Change Control
7 29 (12.78%) Change Management
7 29 (12.78%) CI/CD
7 29 (12.78%) TDD
8 28 (12.33%) BDD
9 26 (11.45%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 26 (11.45%) Programme Management
10 23 (10.13%) Strategic Thinking
11 22 (9.69%) Process Improvement
12 21 (9.25%) Problem-Solving
12 21 (9.25%) Project Delivery
13 20 (8.81%) Kanban
14 19 (8.37%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 42 (18.50%) Java
2 30 (13.22%) Python
3 20 (8.81%) JavaScript
4 18 (7.93%) SQL
5 17 (7.49%) Shell Script
6 7 (3.08%) Bash
6 7 (3.08%) PL/SQL
7 5 (2.20%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.32%) C#
8 3 (1.32%) Go
9 2 (0.88%) C++
9 2 (0.88%) Rust
9 2 (0.88%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.44%) PL/1
10 1 (0.44%) X++
Qualifications
1 149 (65.64%) SC Cleared
2 54 (23.79%) Degree
3 25 (11.01%) DV Cleared
4 14 (6.17%) NVQ Level 3
5 8 (3.52%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (3.52%) City & Guilds
6 7 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.64%) CCNP
7 6 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.20%) CCNA
8 5 (2.20%) CISSP
9 3 (1.32%) CESG Certified Professional
9 3 (1.32%) HND
9 3 (1.32%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 3 (1.32%) NVQ Level 5
10 2 (0.88%) CompTIA CySA+
10 2 (0.88%) JNCIA
10 2 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.44%) Chartered Engineer
11 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (14.10%) Def Stans
2 28 (12.33%) QA
3 10 (4.41%) SLA
4 9 (3.96%) COSHH
5 7 (3.08%) Data Quality
5 7 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (2.64%) GDPR
7 5 (2.20%) Accessibility
7 5 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 3 (1.32%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.32%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.44%) ARP4754
9 1 (0.44%) ARP4761
9 1 (0.44%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.44%) DO-254
9 1 (0.44%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.44%) ISO 9000
9 1 (0.44%) NCSC
9 1 (0.44%) PMBOK
9 1 (0.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 39 (17.18%) Docker
2 14 (6.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (5.29%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.64%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (2.20%) Firmware
5 5 (2.20%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.88%) VMware Workstation
7 1 (0.44%) NFS
7 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (14.54%) Kubernetes
2 16 (7.05%) Ansible
2 16 (7.05%) Kibana
3 10 (4.41%) Terraform
4 3 (1.32%) Grafana
4 3 (1.32%) SCOM
5 2 (0.88%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.88%) SCCM
5 2 (0.88%) SCSM
6 1 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.44%) Argo
6 1 (0.44%) BMC PATROL
6 1 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.44%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.44%) Nessus
6 1 (0.44%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 35 (15.42%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.69%) Cisco
3 19 (8.37%) Juniper
4 18 (7.93%) Splunk
5 16 (7.05%) Dynatrace
5 16 (7.05%) VMware
6 4 (1.76%) BMC
6 4 (1.76%) F5
7 3 (1.32%) ADVA
7 3 (1.32%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.88%) AlienVault
8 2 (0.88%) Google
8 2 (0.88%) Meraki
8 2 (0.88%) SAP
8 2 (0.88%) WSO2
9 1 (0.44%) Apple
9 1 (0.44%) Concur
9 1 (0.44%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.44%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.44%) Sage