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 10 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 53 9
Rank change year-on-year +25 -44 +8
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 280 169 820
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 4.99% 5.03% 12.59%
As % of the Qualifications category 23.05% 10.22% 33.28%
Number of salaries quoted 171 110 610
10th Percentile £39,280 £40,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £50,025 £48,000 £36,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £59,000 £53,409
Median % change year-on-year +10.17% +10.47% +17.13%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,688 £61,738
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £76,375
South East median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% +11.68%

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 1,215 1,653 2,464
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 21.65% 49.20% 37.82%
Number of salaries quoted 627 440 1,581
10th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% - +7.47%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £58,500 £54,975 £51,350
% change year-on-year +6.41% +7.06% +2.70%

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 +17 179 £67,500 +8.00% 59
Buckinghamshire +29 77 £55,000 -2.22% 41
Oxfordshire +1 24 £65,000 +30.00% 27
Security Cleared
South East

Security Cleared
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 9 (3.21%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.36%) Camunda
Applications
1 13 (4.64%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.79%) Adobe XD
3 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Primavera
1 1 (0.36%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 35 (12.50%) Azure
2 33 (11.79%) AWS
3 19 (6.79%) GCP
4 10 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
5 9 (3.21%) Serverless
6 7 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (2.50%) Power Platform
6 7 (2.50%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 7 (2.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 6 (2.14%) Azure Sentinel
7 6 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (2.14%) Google Analytics
8 5 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (1.79%) Amazon S3
8 5 (1.79%) Figma
9 4 (1.43%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.07%) Google Workspace
10 3 (1.07%) Miro
10 3 (1.07%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 39 (13.93%) DNS
2 36 (12.86%) Firewall
3 14 (5.00%) Structured Cabling
4 11 (3.93%) NetScaler
5 10 (3.57%) TCP/IP
6 8 (2.86%) NAS
6 8 (2.86%) SAN
6 8 (2.86%) Wireshark
7 6 (2.14%) HTTP
8 5 (1.79%) SSL
8 5 (1.79%) VPN
9 3 (1.07%) Cisco ISE
9 3 (1.07%) DHCP
9 3 (1.07%) Internet
9 3 (1.07%) Network Security
9 3 (1.07%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (0.71%) FTP
10 2 (0.71%) LAN
10 2 (0.71%) SMTP
10 2 (0.71%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.86%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.79%) Power BI
4 4 (1.43%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.71%) MySQL
6 1 (0.36%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.36%) Metadata
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (4.29%) Git
2 11 (3.93%) JIRA
3 10 (3.57%) Jenkins
4 9 (3.21%) GitLab
5 5 (1.79%) Axure RP
5 5 (1.79%) Balsamiq
5 5 (1.79%) Cucumber
5 5 (1.79%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.43%) Subversion
7 3 (1.07%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.71%) JUnit
9 1 (0.36%) Ant
9 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.36%) Gradle
9 1 (0.36%) Maven
9 1 (0.36%) Mockito
9 1 (0.36%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.36%) TestDirector
General
1 73 (26.07%) Social Skills
2 48 (17.14%) Public Sector
3 41 (14.64%) Finance
4 35 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (10.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 28 (10.00%) Law
7 15 (5.36%) Manufacturing
8 12 (4.29%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.79%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.79%) Banking
10 5 (1.79%) French Language
10 5 (1.79%) Games
10 5 (1.79%) Legal
11 4 (1.43%) Aviation
11 4 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.07%) Military
13 2 (0.71%) Retail
14 1 (0.36%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 56 (20.00%) Architect
2 48 (17.14%) Senior
3 43 (15.36%) Developer
4 29 (10.36%) Applications Architect
5 28 (10.00%) Analyst
6 21 (7.50%) Lead
6 21 (7.50%) Security Architect
7 15 (5.36%) Java Developer
8 14 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
9 13 (4.64%) Senior Developer
10 11 (3.93%) .NET Developer
10 11 (3.93%) Salesforce Developer
10 11 (3.93%) Senior .NET Developer
11 10 (3.57%) SOC Analyst
12 9 (3.21%) Lead Architect
12 9 (3.21%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
12 9 (3.21%) Test Specialist
13 8 (2.86%) Consultant
13 8 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
13 8 (2.86%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (8.21%) .NET
2 16 (5.71%) Regular Expression
2 16 (5.71%) REST
3 14 (5.00%) LDAP
4 12 (4.29%) Spring
4 12 (4.29%) XMPP
5 10 (3.57%) React
6 9 (3.21%) SOAP
7 8 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (2.86%) JSON
7 8 (2.86%) Middleware
7 8 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
8 7 (2.50%) Lightning Web Components
8 7 (2.50%) Visualforce
9 6 (2.14%) AngularJS
9 6 (2.14%) Java EE
10 5 (1.79%) Spring Boot
10 5 (1.79%) XML
11 4 (1.43%) JSON Schema
11 4 (1.43%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.36%) Cloud Native
2 13 (4.64%) Cyber Defence
2 13 (4.64%) Product Ownership
3 10 (3.57%) Cyber Threat
3 10 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (3.57%) Onboarding
3 10 (3.57%) PKI
4 7 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (2.14%) Security Posture
5 6 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.43%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.07%) Arduino
7 3 (1.07%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.07%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.07%) Raspberry Pi
7 3 (1.07%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (0.71%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.71%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 49 (17.50%) Windows
2 46 (16.43%) Linux
3 37 (13.21%) Windows Server
4 20 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.07%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.36%) Android
6 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (18.93%) Agile
2 48 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 35 (12.50%) DevOps
4 30 (10.71%) Community of Practice
5 29 (10.36%) Cybersecurity
6 28 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (10.00%) SIEM
7 25 (8.93%) CI/CD
7 25 (8.93%) Technology Strategy
8 21 (7.50%) ITIL
8 21 (7.50%) Mentoring
9 20 (7.14%) Validation
10 19 (6.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 18 (6.43%) Platform Engineering
11 18 (6.43%) Service Design
12 17 (6.07%) Application Security
13 16 (5.71%) Analytics
13 16 (5.71%) Containerisation
13 16 (5.71%) Service Delivery
14 15 (5.36%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (10.00%) Python
2 25 (8.93%) Java
3 18 (6.43%) SQL
4 8 (2.86%) JavaScript
5 7 (2.50%) Apex Code
5 7 (2.50%) PL/SQL
6 6 (2.14%) C#
6 6 (2.14%) PowerShell
6 6 (2.14%) Shell Script
7 5 (1.79%) Groovy
7 5 (1.79%) Ladder Logic
8 4 (1.43%) C
9 3 (1.07%) Go
9 3 (1.07%) Pascal
9 3 (1.07%) Perl
9 3 (1.07%) Search Processing Language
9 3 (1.07%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.71%) Bash
11 1 (0.36%) C++
11 1 (0.36%) Korn
Qualifications
1 179 (63.93%) SC Cleared
2 107 (38.21%) DV Cleared
3 56 (20.00%) Degree
4 14 (5.00%) HNC
5 7 (2.50%) CISSP
6 6 (2.14%) CompTIA Security+
6 6 (2.14%) CREST Certified
6 6 (2.14%) CRISC
6 6 (2.14%) DBS Check
6 6 (2.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 6 (2.14%) OSCP
7 5 (1.79%) CHECK Team Member
7 5 (1.79%) GIAC
7 5 (1.79%) ISACA
8 4 (1.43%) GCIA
8 4 (1.43%) GCIH
9 3 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.07%) GCED
9 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.07%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.00%) GDPR
2 9 (3.21%) NCSC
3 8 (2.86%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.86%) QA
4 6 (2.14%) PMO
5 5 (1.79%) NEBOSH
5 5 (1.79%) WCAG
6 3 (1.07%) ISO 9001
6 3 (1.07%) NIST
7 2 (0.71%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.36%) MISRA
8 1 (0.36%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (12.86%) Active Directory
2 20 (7.14%) vSphere
3 11 (3.93%) Docker
4 9 (3.21%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.71%) Firmware
6 2 (0.71%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (6.43%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.21%) Ansible
2 9 (3.21%) Terraform
2 9 (3.21%) vRealize
3 8 (2.86%) Kibana
4 4 (1.43%) Packer
5 3 (1.07%) Graylog
5 3 (1.07%) SCCM
5 3 (1.07%) SCOM
6 2 (0.71%) Argo
6 2 (0.71%) Grafana
6 2 (0.71%) Istio
6 2 (0.71%) Kustomize
6 2 (0.71%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.71%) QRadar
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 56 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 34 (12.14%) VMware
3 15 (5.36%) Google
3 15 (5.36%) Red Hat
4 13 (4.64%) Oracle
5 12 (4.29%) Citrix
6 11 (3.93%) Salesforce
7 10 (3.57%) McAfee
8 9 (3.21%) AppDynamics
9 8 (2.86%) IBM
9 8 (2.86%) NetApp
10 7 (2.50%) ServiceNow
10 7 (2.50%) Splunk
11 6 (2.14%) MuleSoft
12 5 (1.79%) Adobe
13 4 (1.43%) Carbon Black
13 4 (1.43%) CrowdStrike
14 3 (1.07%) Cisco
14 3 (1.07%) Juniper
14 3 (1.07%) Motorola