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 17 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 12 4
Rank change year-on-year -24 -8 +22
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 199 483 688
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 5.59% 11.14% 20.21%
As % of the Qualifications category 16.95% 33.40% 45.14%
Number of salaries quoted 107 215 537
10th Percentile £38,500 £39,125 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,263 £38,130
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,252 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% +7.15% +6.82%
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,125 £60,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £74,250
South East median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £52,905
% change year-on-year -3.33% +13.41% +3.03%

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 1,174 1,446 1,524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 33.00% 33.36% 44.77%
Number of salaries quoted 482 559 982
10th Percentile £28,525 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,500 £45,000 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +10.09% +6.86%
75th Percentile £64,625 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £90,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +1.94%

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 17 November 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 17 November 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 -30 119 £55,000 -2.70% 101
Buckinghamshire +25 68 £55,000 -4.35% 33
Oxfordshire -10 12 £82,500 +82.94% 28
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 8 (4.02%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.01%) Confluence
4 3 (1.51%) JBoss
4 3 (1.51%) Red Hat Fuse
5 2 (1.01%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (2.51%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.01%) Windchill
3 3 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.01%) Adobe After Effects
4 2 (1.01%) Adobe Captivate
4 2 (1.01%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (1.01%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (1.01%) Adobe Premiere
4 2 (1.01%) Adobe XD
4 2 (1.01%) Elementor
4 2 (1.01%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.50%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 3 (1.51%) C-CURE
2 2 (1.01%) Q-Pulse
3 1 (0.50%) Maximo
3 1 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.50%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 33 (16.58%) AWS
2 22 (11.06%) Serverless
3 20 (10.05%) Amazon EC2
3 20 (10.05%) Amazon ECS
4 19 (9.55%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (5.53%) Azure
6 8 (4.02%) Entra ID
7 5 (2.51%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.51%) GCP
8 4 (2.01%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.51%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.51%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.51%) Figma
9 3 (1.51%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 3 (1.51%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 2 (1.01%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 2 (1.01%) AWS KMS
10 2 (1.01%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.04%) DNS
2 9 (4.52%) Firewall
3 7 (3.52%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.51%) VPN
5 4 (2.01%) WAN
6 3 (1.51%) DHCP
7 2 (1.01%) Junos
7 2 (1.01%) LAN
7 2 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.50%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.50%) Modbus
8 1 (0.50%) RS-232
8 1 (0.50%) RS-485
8 1 (0.50%) S/MIME
8 1 (0.50%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.50%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.55%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (9.55%) Relational Database
3 16 (8.04%) RDBMS
4 4 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.51%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.01%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.01%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.01%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.50%) Power BI
7 1 (0.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 52 (26.13%) Jenkins
2 35 (17.59%) Git
3 34 (17.09%) JIRA
4 21 (10.55%) JUnit
5 18 (9.05%) Mockito
6 16 (8.04%) JMeter
7 5 (2.51%) Selenium
8 4 (2.01%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.51%) WebDriver
10 2 (1.01%) Axure RP
10 2 (1.01%) Balsamiq
10 2 (1.01%) Bitbucket Server
10 2 (1.01%) DbUnit
10 2 (1.01%) jMock
10 2 (1.01%) Maven
10 2 (1.01%) SonarQube
General
1 74 (37.19%) Social Skills
2 40 (20.10%) Public Sector
3 32 (16.08%) Organisational Skills
4 14 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.04%) Law
5 13 (6.53%) Finance
6 12 (6.03%) Manufacturing
7 11 (5.53%) Electronics
8 9 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (4.52%) Telecoms
9 8 (4.02%) Marketing
10 5 (2.51%) Aerospace
11 4 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.51%) Banking
12 3 (1.51%) Games
13 2 (1.01%) Advertising
13 2 (1.01%) Back Office
13 2 (1.01%) Billing
13 2 (1.01%) Military
13 2 (1.01%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 38 (19.10%) Lead
2 31 (15.58%) Developer
3 21 (10.55%) Java Developer
4 18 (9.05%) Architect
4 18 (9.05%) Senior
5 15 (7.54%) Full-Stack Developer
5 15 (7.54%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 15 (7.54%) Mid-Level Java Developer
5 15 (7.54%) Technical Manager
6 11 (5.53%) Support Engineer
7 7 (3.52%) Analyst
8 6 (3.02%) Mechanical Engineer
8 6 (3.02%) Systems Engineer
8 6 (3.02%) Technical Engineer
8 6 (3.02%) Technical Support
8 6 (3.02%) Technical Support Engineer
8 6 (3.02%) Trainer
9 5 (2.51%) Network Architect
9 5 (2.51%) Network Engineer
9 5 (2.51%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (11.06%) REST
1 22 (11.06%) Spring
1 22 (11.06%) Spring Boot
2 21 (10.55%) Web Services
3 19 (9.55%) Apache Camel
3 19 (9.55%) HTML
4 18 (9.05%) ActiveMQ
4 18 (9.05%) Hibernate
5 17 (8.54%) XML
6 16 (8.04%) jQuery
6 16 (8.04%) WireMock
7 15 (7.54%) JSON
8 8 (4.02%) SOAP
9 6 (3.02%) RESTful
10 4 (2.01%) Bootstrap
11 3 (1.51%) .NET
11 3 (1.51%) J2EE
11 3 (1.51%) Lightning Web Components
11 3 (1.51%) Middleware
11 3 (1.51%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.55%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (6.03%) Management Information System
3 9 (4.52%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (3.02%) Driving Licence
4 6 (3.02%) Fibre Optics
5 5 (2.51%) Security Operations Centre
6 4 (2.01%) CCTV
6 4 (2.01%) e-Learning
6 4 (2.01%) PKI
7 3 (1.51%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.51%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (1.01%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.01%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.01%) Graphic Design
8 2 (1.01%) Learning Management System
8 2 (1.01%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.01%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.54%) Windows
2 13 (6.53%) Linux
3 8 (4.02%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.51%) Windows 10
5 4 (2.01%) Android
5 4 (2.01%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.51%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.01%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (24.62%) Continuous Improvement
2 42 (21.11%) Agile
3 38 (19.10%) Configuration Management
3 38 (19.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 34 (17.09%) Technical Leadership
5 31 (15.58%) Change Control
6 30 (15.08%) Change Management
7 26 (13.07%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 26 (13.07%) Programme Management
8 25 (12.56%) CI/CD
8 25 (12.56%) Customer Requirements
8 25 (12.56%) Process Improvement
9 23 (11.56%) BDD
9 23 (11.56%) TDD
10 22 (11.06%) Microservices
10 22 (11.06%) Strategic Thinking
11 20 (10.05%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (8.54%) Full-Stack Development
12 17 (8.54%) Project Delivery
13 16 (8.04%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 34 (17.09%) Java
2 29 (14.57%) Python
3 20 (10.05%) JavaScript
4 16 (8.04%) Shell Script
5 7 (3.52%) PowerShell
5 7 (3.52%) SQL
6 6 (3.02%) Bash
7 3 (1.51%) Apex Code
7 3 (1.51%) C#
8 2 (1.01%) C++
8 2 (1.01%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.50%) Go
9 1 (0.50%) PL/1
Qualifications
1 116 (58.29%) SC Cleared
2 58 (29.15%) Degree
3 27 (13.57%) DV Cleared
4 11 (5.53%) NVQ Level 3
5 8 (4.02%) City & Guilds
6 6 (3.02%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.01%) CCNA
7 4 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.51%) CISSP
8 3 (1.51%) HND
8 3 (1.51%) NVQ Level 5
9 2 (1.01%) CCNP
9 2 (1.01%) CISM
9 2 (1.01%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.01%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 2 (1.01%) JNCIA
9 2 (1.01%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.50%) CRISC
10 1 (0.50%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (15.58%) QA
2 30 (15.08%) Def Stans
3 10 (5.03%) Accessibility
4 7 (3.52%) GDPR
4 7 (3.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.52%) SLA
5 6 (3.02%) COSHH
6 5 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 3 (1.51%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.51%) NIST
7 3 (1.51%) WCAG
8 2 (1.01%) Data Quality
8 2 (1.01%) NIST 800
8 2 (1.01%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.50%) ARP4754
9 1 (0.50%) ARP4761
9 1 (0.50%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.50%) DO-254
9 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (12.06%) Docker
2 11 (5.53%) Active Directory
2 11 (5.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.02%) vSphere
4 5 (2.51%) Firmware
4 5 (2.51%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.51%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.01%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.50%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 23 (11.56%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.04%) Kibana
3 7 (3.52%) Ansible
4 6 (3.02%) Terraform
5 4 (2.01%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (1.51%) SCOM
7 2 (1.01%) Argo
7 2 (1.01%) SCCM
7 2 (1.01%) SCSM
8 1 (0.50%) BMC PATROL
8 1 (0.50%) Grafana
8 1 (0.50%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.50%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.50%) vRealize
Vendors
1 25 (12.56%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.04%) Dynatrace
2 16 (8.04%) Splunk
3 13 (6.53%) Cisco
3 13 (6.53%) VMware
4 11 (5.53%) Juniper
5 6 (3.02%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.01%) Adobe
6 4 (2.01%) Apple
6 4 (2.01%) Google
6 4 (2.01%) Samsung
7 3 (1.51%) MuleSoft
7 3 (1.51%) SAP
7 3 (1.51%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.51%) Trend Micro
7 3 (1.51%) Veeam
8 2 (1.01%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.01%) Oracle
8 2 (1.01%) Workday
9 1 (0.50%) Thales