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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 53 9
Rank change year-on-year +27 -44 -1
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 327 178 735
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 5.21% 4.92% 12.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 25.95% 11.54% 36.95%
Number of salaries quoted 198 119 438
10th Percentile £41,110 £38,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £51,563 £45,608 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £52,550
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% +4.66% +12.32%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,375 £63,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,750 £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 1,260 1,542 1,989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 20.09% 42.63% 33.16%
Number of salaries quoted 736 480 1,181
10th Percentile £33,188 £29,725 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £39,125
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 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,375 £82,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% - -

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 21 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 21 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 +26 212 £70,000 +16.67% 68
Buckinghamshire +40 94 £55,000 +4.76% 42
Oxfordshire -16 21 £82,500 +59.42% 17
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 5 (1.53%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.22%) Apache
2 4 (1.22%) nginx
3 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.31%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (2.45%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Primavera
1 1 (0.31%) SAP MDG
1 1 (0.31%) SAP MM
1 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 55 (16.82%) Azure
2 39 (11.93%) AWS
3 16 (4.89%) GCP
4 12 (3.67%) Azure Sentinel
4 12 (3.67%) Serverless
5 11 (3.36%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (3.06%) Entra ID
7 8 (2.45%) OpenShift
8 7 (2.14%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (1.83%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (1.53%) Amazon S3
10 5 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.53%) Cloudflare
10 5 (1.53%) Power Platform
11 4 (1.22%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (1.22%) GitHub
11 4 (1.22%) Google Analytics
12 3 (0.92%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 60 (18.35%) DNS
2 52 (15.90%) Firewall
3 17 (5.20%) TCP/IP
4 13 (3.98%) VPN
5 11 (3.36%) NetScaler
6 10 (3.06%) HTTP
7 8 (2.45%) NAS
7 8 (2.45%) SAN
7 8 (2.45%) Wireshark
8 7 (2.14%) LAN
8 7 (2.14%) Network Security
8 7 (2.14%) SSL
8 7 (2.14%) Structured Cabling
8 7 (2.14%) WAN
9 6 (1.83%) Remote Desktop
10 5 (1.53%) Cisco Firepower
10 5 (1.53%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (1.53%) NGFW
10 5 (1.53%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.92%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.98%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (3.06%) SQL Server
3 7 (2.14%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.53%) 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 (0.31%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.31%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.31%) Redis
7 1 (0.31%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (3.98%) Jenkins
2 11 (3.36%) Git
3 9 (2.75%) JIRA
4 8 (2.45%) GitLab
5 5 (1.53%) JUnit
5 5 (1.53%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.22%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.92%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.61%) JMeter
8 2 (0.61%) Mockito
9 1 (0.31%) Mocha
9 1 (0.31%) Selenium
9 1 (0.31%) Storybook
9 1 (0.31%) Subversion
9 1 (0.31%) TestDirector
General
1 69 (21.10%) Social Skills
2 43 (13.15%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (12.84%) Public Sector
4 37 (11.31%) Finance
5 16 (4.89%) Manufacturing
6 12 (3.67%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (3.36%) Law
8 9 (2.75%) Aerospace
8 9 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.83%) Games
10 6 (1.83%) Retail
11 5 (1.53%) Banking
11 5 (1.53%) French Language
12 4 (1.22%) Aviation
12 4 (1.22%) Legal
13 2 (0.61%) Electronics
13 2 (0.61%) Military
13 2 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (22.63%) Architect
2 46 (14.07%) Senior
3 38 (11.62%) Analyst
4 36 (11.01%) Developer
5 33 (10.09%) Applications Architect
6 28 (8.56%) Lead
6 28 (8.56%) Security Architect
7 17 (5.20%) Java Developer
7 17 (5.20%) SOC Analyst
8 13 (3.98%) Senior Developer
9 11 (3.36%) .NET Developer
9 11 (3.36%) DevOps Engineer
9 11 (3.36%) Senior .NET Developer
9 11 (3.36%) Software Engineer
10 10 (3.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (3.06%) Support Specialist
10 10 (3.06%) Technical Leader
11 9 (2.75%) Network Architect
11 9 (2.75%) Security Analyst
11 9 (2.75%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (7.03%) Regular Expression
2 21 (6.42%) LDAP
3 19 (5.81%) XMPP
4 17 (5.20%) .NET
5 13 (3.98%) Spring
6 11 (3.36%) JSON
6 11 (3.36%) REST
7 10 (3.06%) React
8 8 (2.45%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (2.45%) RabbitMQ
8 8 (2.45%) Spring Boot
8 8 (2.45%) Web Services
9 7 (2.14%) JSON Schema
9 7 (2.14%) XML
10 6 (1.83%) Jakarta EE
10 6 (1.83%) JPA
11 5 (1.53%) AngularJS
11 5 (1.53%) HTML
11 5 (1.53%) Loki
12 4 (1.22%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.12%) Cloud Native
2 19 (5.81%) Cyber Threat
3 17 (5.20%) Cyber Defence
4 13 (3.98%) Onboarding
5 12 (3.67%) PKI
5 12 (3.67%) Security Operations Centre
6 10 (3.06%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (2.45%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.14%) Data Centre
9 7 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.83%) CSOC
10 6 (1.83%) Driving Licence
10 6 (1.83%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.83%) Private Cloud
11 5 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.22%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.92%) Hackathon
13 3 (0.92%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 72 (22.02%) Linux
2 66 (20.18%) Windows
3 38 (11.62%) Windows Server
4 27 (8.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.22%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (18.65%) Continuous Improvement
2 60 (18.35%) Cybersecurity
3 48 (14.68%) SIEM
4 36 (11.01%) Validation
5 33 (10.09%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (9.48%) Agile
7 27 (8.26%) DevOps
8 25 (7.65%) Stakeholder Management
9 23 (7.03%) Application Security
9 23 (7.03%) CI/CD
9 23 (7.03%) Platform Engineering
10 22 (6.73%) Mentoring
11 21 (6.42%) ITIL
12 19 (5.81%) Containerisation
12 19 (5.81%) Incident Response
12 19 (5.81%) Service Delivery
13 17 (5.20%) Architectural Design
13 17 (5.20%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
13 17 (5.20%) Security Operations
13 17 (5.20%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 36 (11.01%) Python
2 23 (7.03%) Java
3 16 (4.89%) SQL
4 14 (4.28%) PowerShell
5 11 (3.36%) Shell Script
6 10 (3.06%) Bash
7 7 (2.14%) C
7 7 (2.14%) PL/SQL
7 7 (2.14%) Search Processing Language
8 6 (1.83%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.83%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (1.53%) C#
9 5 (1.53%) Groovy
9 5 (1.53%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.22%) C++
10 4 (1.22%) Ladder Logic
11 3 (0.92%) Pascal
11 3 (0.92%) Perl
11 3 (0.92%) Rust
12 2 (0.61%) Go
Qualifications
1 194 (59.33%) SC Cleared
2 135 (41.28%) DV Cleared
3 33 (10.09%) Degree
4 16 (4.89%) CISSP
5 14 (4.28%) CompTIA Security+
6 13 (3.98%) GIAC
7 12 (3.67%) GCIA
8 10 (3.06%) CREST Certified
8 10 (3.06%) OSCP
9 9 (2.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 8 (2.45%) CRISC
10 8 (2.45%) GCIH
10 8 (2.45%) HNC
10 8 (2.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 7 (2.14%) GCED
11 7 (2.14%) SANS
12 6 (1.83%) CompTIA CySA+
12 6 (1.83%) ISACA
13 5 (1.53%) CCNP
13 5 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.75%) GDPR
1 9 (2.75%) NCSC
2 6 (1.83%) QA
3 5 (1.53%) ISO 9001
3 5 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.53%) NEBOSH
3 5 (1.53%) PMO
4 4 (1.22%) MISRA
5 3 (0.92%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.92%) ISO 22301
5 3 (0.92%) SLA
6 2 (0.61%) COBIT
6 2 (0.61%) COSO
6 2 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 2 (0.61%) NIST
6 2 (0.61%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.31%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 47 (14.37%) Active Directory
2 28 (8.56%) vSphere
3 15 (4.59%) Docker
4 9 (2.75%) VMware NSX
5 6 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (1.53%) Firmware
7 4 (1.22%) Squid
7 4 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (6.73%) Kubernetes
2 14 (4.28%) Kibana
3 10 (3.06%) Terraform
4 9 (2.75%) Ansible
5 6 (1.83%) Graylog
6 5 (1.53%) Argo
6 5 (1.53%) Grafana
6 5 (1.53%) Kustomize
6 5 (1.53%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (1.22%) Packer
7 4 (1.22%) vRealize
8 3 (0.92%) Istio
8 3 (0.92%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.61%) QRadar
10 1 (0.31%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.31%) SCCM
10 1 (0.31%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 75 (22.94%) Microsoft
2 43 (13.15%) VMware
3 24 (7.34%) Red Hat
4 16 (4.89%) Oracle
5 15 (4.59%) McAfee
5 15 (4.59%) Splunk
6 12 (3.67%) Citrix
7 11 (3.36%) Google
8 9 (2.75%) AppDynamics
8 9 (2.75%) Cisco
8 9 (2.75%) ServiceNow
9 8 (2.45%) CrowdStrike
9 8 (2.45%) IBM
9 8 (2.45%) NetApp
10 7 (2.14%) Carbon Black
11 5 (1.53%) Palo Alto
12 4 (1.22%) CA Agile Central
12 4 (1.22%) Fortinet
12 4 (1.22%) SAP
12 4 (1.22%) Veeam