Security Cleared Jobs 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 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 8 6
Rank change year-on-year -44 -2 +49
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 192 886 837
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 5.26% 13.12% 16.37%
As % of the Qualifications category 11.92% 38.72% 39.52%
Number of salaries quoted 126 491 429
10th Percentile £38,500 £33,250 £30,400
25th Percentile £46,250 £39,380 £36,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,550 £46,787
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% +12.32% -6.43%
75th Percentile £73,750 £63,749 £60,025
90th Percentile £84,375 £75,000 £74,250
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -7.26%

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 1,611 2,288 2,118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 44.14% 33.87% 41.43%
Number of salaries quoted 490 1,355 976
10th Percentile £29,500 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,691 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +3.96% -3.81%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £66,563
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £86,250
South East median annual salary £60,000 £51,493 £52,000
% change year-on-year +16.52% -0.98% +2.27%

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 12 July 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 12 July 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 -31 142 £60,750 +15.60% 103
Oxfordshire +13 25 £51,750 -0.02% 30
Buckinghamshire -33 25 £52,500 -4.55% 69
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 12 (6.25%) JBoss
1 12 (6.25%) Red Hat Fuse
2 4 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.08%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.56%) Confluence
4 1 (0.52%) Apache
4 1 (0.52%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (2.08%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.52%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (3.65%) Q-Pulse
2 1 (0.52%) C-CURE
2 1 (0.52%) Maximo
2 1 (0.52%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 54 (28.13%) AWS
2 32 (16.67%) Serverless
3 27 (14.06%) Amazon ECS
4 26 (13.54%) Amazon EKS
5 24 (12.50%) Azure
6 19 (9.90%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (6.25%) Amazon S3
8 9 (4.69%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (4.69%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (3.65%) AWS KMS
9 7 (3.65%) GCP
9 7 (3.65%) SaaS
9 7 (3.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.60%) Power Platform
12 4 (2.08%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 4 (2.08%) Amazon SQS
13 3 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (1.56%) PaaS
13 3 (1.56%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 22 (11.46%) WAN
2 16 (8.33%) DNS
3 15 (7.81%) Firewall
4 11 (5.73%) VPN
5 9 (4.69%) BGP
5 9 (4.69%) IPsec
6 7 (3.65%) Cisco ISE
6 7 (3.65%) Junos
6 7 (3.65%) LAN
6 7 (3.65%) SD-WAN
7 6 (3.13%) DHCP
8 5 (2.60%) MPLS
8 5 (2.60%) VLAN
9 4 (2.08%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (2.08%) Cisco IOS
9 4 (2.08%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (2.08%) HSRP
9 4 (2.08%) OSPF
9 4 (2.08%) Spanning Tree
9 4 (2.08%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (17.71%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (11.98%) Relational Database
3 11 (5.73%) RDBMS
4 8 (4.17%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.65%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.08%) MySQL
7 3 (1.56%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.56%) Power BI
7 3 (1.56%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.04%) Metadata
9 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.52%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 39 (20.31%) Jenkins
2 30 (15.63%) JUnit
3 21 (10.94%) Git
4 18 (9.38%) Mockito
5 11 (5.73%) JMeter
6 7 (3.65%) Bitbucket Server
7 6 (3.13%) JIRA
8 5 (2.60%) SonarQube
9 4 (2.08%) Maven
10 3 (1.56%) DbUnit
10 3 (1.56%) GitLab
10 3 (1.56%) jMock
11 1 (0.52%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.52%) Babel
11 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.52%) Vite
11 1 (0.52%) webpack
General
1 40 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 36 (18.75%) Public Sector
3 16 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (8.33%) Finance
4 9 (4.69%) Aerospace
5 8 (4.17%) Military
6 7 (3.65%) Advertising
6 7 (3.65%) Aviation
6 7 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.13%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.60%) Electronics
8 5 (2.60%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.04%) Legal
10 1 (0.52%) Billing
10 1 (0.52%) Law
10 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 39 (20.31%) Developer
2 30 (15.63%) Architect
2 30 (15.63%) Java Developer
3 21 (10.94%) Network Architect
4 17 (8.85%) Support Engineer
5 15 (7.81%) Lead
6 11 (5.73%) Senior
7 10 (5.21%) Network Engineer
7 10 (5.21%) Software Engineer
8 9 (4.69%) Mechanical Engineer
8 9 (4.69%) Technical Engineer
8 9 (4.69%) Technical Support
8 9 (4.69%) Technical Support Engineer
9 8 (4.17%) Systems Engineer
10 7 (3.65%) WAN Engineer
11 6 (3.13%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 6 (3.13%) Consultant
11 6 (3.13%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (3.13%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 6 (3.13%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (16.67%) Spring Boot
2 31 (16.15%) REST
3 30 (15.63%) Spring
4 26 (13.54%) Web Services
5 23 (11.98%) Apache Camel
6 19 (9.90%) RESTful
6 19 (9.90%) SOAP
7 17 (8.85%) ActiveMQ
7 17 (8.85%) Hibernate
8 12 (6.25%) HTML
8 12 (6.25%) J2EE
8 12 (6.25%) XML
9 11 (5.73%) jQuery
9 11 (5.73%) WireMock
10 10 (5.21%) AngularJS
11 9 (4.69%) Kafka
12 8 (4.17%) React
13 6 (3.13%) JSON
14 5 (2.60%) Bootstrap
14 5 (2.60%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 27 (14.06%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (6.77%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.65%) e-Learning
3 7 (3.65%) Reference Data
4 5 (2.60%) CESG
4 5 (2.60%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.60%) PKI
5 3 (1.56%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.56%) CCTV
5 3 (1.56%) Cyberattack
5 3 (1.56%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (1.56%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.56%) Fibre Optics
5 3 (1.56%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.04%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.04%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (1.04%) Freedom of Information Act
6 2 (1.04%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.04%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (10.94%) Linux
2 20 (10.42%) Windows
3 7 (3.65%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.08%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.08%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.56%) Unix
5 3 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.04%) Android
6 2 (1.04%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (23.44%) Agile
2 33 (17.19%) Microservices
3 29 (15.10%) DevOps
4 28 (14.58%) Scrum
5 27 (14.06%) TDD
6 26 (13.54%) BDD
7 24 (12.50%) Kanban
8 22 (11.46%) CI/CD
9 21 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (9.90%) Software Engineering
11 18 (9.38%) Project Delivery
12 16 (8.33%) Mentoring
13 14 (7.29%) Containerisation
14 13 (6.77%) Collaborative Working
14 13 (6.77%) Customer Requirements
15 11 (5.73%) Asset Management
15 11 (5.73%) Coaching
15 11 (5.73%) Computer Science
15 11 (5.73%) Cybersecurity
15 11 (5.73%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 37 (19.27%) Java
2 30 (15.63%) Python
3 20 (10.42%) JavaScript
4 16 (8.33%) Shell Script
4 16 (8.33%) SQL
5 7 (3.65%) Bash
5 7 (3.65%) PL/SQL
6 6 (3.13%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.08%) C++
8 3 (1.56%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.04%) C
9 2 (1.04%) Fortran
9 2 (1.04%) Go
9 2 (1.04%) Rust
10 1 (0.52%) C#
10 1 (0.52%) Groovy
10 1 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.52%) Perl
10 1 (0.52%) PL/1
10 1 (0.52%) X++
Qualifications
1 144 (75.00%) SC Cleared
2 32 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 22 (11.46%) Degree
4 12 (6.25%) CCNP
4 12 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (4.69%) CCNA
6 8 (4.17%) CISSP
7 6 (3.13%) CESG Certified Professional
7 6 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.13%) JNCIS
8 4 (2.08%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 3 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.56%) CompTIA CySA+
9 3 (1.56%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.56%) PhD
10 2 (1.04%) JNCIA
10 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (1.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.90%) SLA
2 9 (4.69%) COSHH
3 8 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.65%) Data Quality
5 6 (3.13%) QA
6 5 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 4 (2.08%) GDPR
8 3 (1.56%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.56%) SOC 2
9 2 (1.04%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.52%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.52%) ISO 9000
10 1 (0.52%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.52%) NCSC
10 1 (0.52%) PMBOK
10 1 (0.52%) RMADS
System Software
1 41 (21.35%) Docker
2 16 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 16 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.65%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (2.60%) Firmware
4 5 (2.60%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.08%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.56%) vSphere
7 2 (1.04%) NFS
7 2 (1.04%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.52%) vCloud
8 1 (0.52%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 33 (17.19%) Kubernetes
2 26 (13.54%) Ansible
3 15 (7.81%) Terraform
4 11 (5.73%) Kibana
5 4 (2.08%) Grafana
5 4 (2.08%) Nessus
5 4 (2.08%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.08%) Proxmox
6 3 (1.56%) SCOM
7 2 (1.04%) PowerCLI
7 2 (1.04%) SCCM
7 2 (1.04%) SCSM
7 2 (1.04%) vRealize
8 1 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.52%) BMC PATROL
8 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.52%) Packer
8 1 (0.52%) QRadar
8 1 (0.52%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.52%) VxRail
Vendors
1 35 (18.23%) Cisco
1 35 (18.23%) Juniper
2 31 (16.15%) Microsoft
3 21 (10.94%) VMware
4 13 (6.77%) Splunk
5 11 (5.73%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.08%) Atlassian
6 4 (2.08%) BMC
6 4 (2.08%) F5
7 3 (1.56%) ADVA
7 3 (1.56%) AlienVault
7 3 (1.56%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.56%) SevOne
8 2 (1.04%) Meraki
8 2 (1.04%) WSO2
9 1 (0.52%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.52%) Concur
9 1 (0.52%) Databricks
9 1 (0.52%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.52%) IBM