Security Cleared Jobs in the South West

Security Clearance
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 5 5
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 +11
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,896 1,378 1,631
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 20.19% 20.50% 19.73%
As % of the Qualifications category 57.73% 48.25% 51.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,242 624 835
10th Percentile £34,000 £34,605 £32,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,556 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,250 £72,763 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £83,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.54% +7.27% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South West

Security Cleared is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,284 2,856 3,198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 34.98% 42.48% 38.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,152 1,265 1,640
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,431 £30,505
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,043 £53,519 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.98% +7.04% +4.17%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,600 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £54,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.17% +9.09% -

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the South West

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in the South West.

Salary trend for Security Cleared in the South West

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the South West over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in the South West

Security Cleared
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Cleared within the South West region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
Gloucestershire 0 653 £55,000 -15.38% 111
Bristol +9 603 £65,000 +13.04% 164
Wiltshire +5 388 £50,000 -9.09% 99
Dorset -1 141 £42,500 -19.05% 27
Somerset +10 70 £32,193 -28.86% 40
Devon -48 25 £49,000 +28.01% 51
Security Cleared
England

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 91 (4.80%) Confluence
2 44 (2.32%) Apache
3 38 (2.00%) Apache Spark
3 38 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 36 (1.90%) SharePoint
5 31 (1.64%) ArcGIS
6 27 (1.42%) GeoServer
7 19 (1.00%) nginx
8 18 (0.95%) Jupyter
9 15 (0.79%) SharePoint 2010
9 15 (0.79%) SharePoint 2013
10 13 (0.69%) IIS
11 4 (0.21%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.11%) JBoss
12 2 (0.11%) MS Project Server
12 2 (0.11%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.11%) WildFly
13 1 (0.053%) Moodle
13 1 (0.053%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 52 (2.74%) Simulink
2 49 (2.58%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.32%) Trello
6 4 (0.21%) Sketch
6 4 (0.21%) Stateflow
6 4 (0.21%) Windchill
7 2 (0.11%) GNU Octave
7 2 (0.11%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.053%) 1Password
8 1 (0.053%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.053%) Revit
Business Applications
1 44 (2.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 19 (1.00%) Maximo
3 4 (0.21%) Primavera
4 3 (0.16%) Q-Pulse
4 3 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.053%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.053%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.053%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 363 (19.15%) AWS
2 339 (17.88%) Azure
3 96 (5.06%) OpenShift
4 80 (4.22%) Microsoft 365
5 52 (2.74%) GCP
6 42 (2.22%) SaaS
7 37 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
8 29 (1.53%) IaaS
8 29 (1.53%) PaaS
9 26 (1.37%) Power Platform
10 25 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
10 25 (1.32%) Serverless
11 23 (1.21%) Amazon S3
12 20 (1.05%) Amazon EKS
12 20 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
13 18 (0.95%) MinIO
14 9 (0.47%) Dynamics 365
15 8 (0.42%) Power Automate
16 7 (0.37%) OCI
17 6 (0.32%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 88 (4.64%) Firewall
2 51 (2.69%) TCP/IP
2 51 (2.69%) WAN
3 44 (2.32%) Network Security
4 40 (2.11%) LAN
5 39 (2.06%) DNS
6 35 (1.85%) DHCP
7 32 (1.69%) HTTP
8 28 (1.48%) VSAN
9 26 (1.37%) Wireless
10 23 (1.21%) Software-Defined Networking
11 22 (1.16%) AMQP
12 21 (1.11%) Cisco ASA
13 18 (0.95%) SAN
14 13 (0.69%) Ethernet
15 12 (0.63%) BGP
16 11 (0.58%) SD-WAN
17 9 (0.47%) iSCSI
18 8 (0.42%) Cisco IPT
18 8 (0.42%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (3.22%) Big Data
2 41 (2.16%) GIS
3 39 (2.06%) Hadoop
3 39 (2.06%) MongoDB
4 38 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
5 30 (1.58%) SQL Server
6 27 (1.42%) QGIS
7 21 (1.11%) Power BI
8 18 (0.95%) Presto
8 18 (0.95%) Relational Database
9 16 (0.84%) Cloudera CDH
9 16 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
10 14 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (0.53%) MySQL
11 10 (0.53%) Tableau
12 9 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (0.47%) NoSQL
13 7 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
14 6 (0.32%) Oracle Database
14 6 (0.32%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 137 (7.23%) JIRA
2 110 (5.80%) Git
3 87 (4.59%) Visual Studio
4 84 (4.43%) Bitbucket
5 59 (3.11%) Sourcetree
6 51 (2.69%) Rational DOORS
7 46 (2.43%) Jenkins
8 35 (1.85%) GitLab
9 20 (1.05%) LabVIEW
9 20 (1.05%) Rational Rhapsody
10 18 (0.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 8 (0.42%) Cypress.io
11 8 (0.42%) NetBeans
11 8 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
12 7 (0.37%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.37%) Selenium
12 7 (0.37%) Subversion
13 6 (0.32%) Eclipse
13 6 (0.32%) Rational Team Concert
14 5 (0.26%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 275 (14.50%) Aerospace
2 271 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 164 (8.65%) Finance
4 133 (7.01%) Games
5 113 (5.96%) Military
6 100 (5.27%) Presentation Skills
7 89 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
8 88 (4.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 87 (4.59%) Public Sector
10 48 (2.53%) Telecoms
11 42 (2.22%) Retail
12 38 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
13 33 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
14 23 (1.21%) Manufacturing
15 20 (1.05%) Electronics
16 13 (0.69%) Legal
17 10 (0.53%) Aviation
18 8 (0.42%) French Language
19 7 (0.37%) Publishing
20 5 (0.26%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 323 (17.04%) Senior
2 250 (13.19%) Software Engineer
3 192 (10.13%) Architect
4 165 (8.70%) Developer
5 160 (8.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 145 (7.65%) Systems Engineer
7 143 (7.54%) Consultant
8 139 (7.33%) Lead
9 95 (5.01%) Project Manager
10 87 (4.59%) Security Consultant
11 84 (4.43%) DevOps Engineer
11 84 (4.43%) Support Engineer
12 80 (4.22%) Analyst
13 79 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
14 77 (4.06%) 3D Developer
14 77 (4.06%) Games Developer
14 77 (4.06%) Unity 3D Developer
15 72 (3.80%) Administrator
15 72 (3.80%) Senior Software Engineer
16 65 (3.43%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (5.01%) React
2 83 (4.38%) .NET
3 77 (4.06%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 53 (2.80%) AngularJS
5 43 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
6 36 (1.90%) CSS
6 36 (1.90%) Spring
7 33 (1.74%) Node.js
7 33 (1.74%) REST
8 32 (1.69%) .NET Core
9 31 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
10 28 (1.48%) Spring Boot
11 27 (1.42%) Leaflet
11 27 (1.42%) OpenLayers
11 27 (1.42%) PostGIS
12 26 (1.37%) JSON
12 26 (1.37%) XML
13 25 (1.32%) Apache NiFi
14 21 (1.11%) TensorFlow
15 20 (1.05%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 82 (4.32%) Management Information System
2 77 (4.06%) Virtual Reality
3 68 (3.59%) Driving Licence
4 58 (3.06%) Algorithms
5 55 (2.90%) Cloud Native
6 39 (2.06%) Public Cloud
7 38 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 38 (2.00%) Private Cloud
7 38 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
8 36 (1.90%) Cyber Defence
9 34 (1.79%) Data Centre
10 33 (1.74%) Cyberattack
10 33 (1.74%) PKI
11 32 (1.69%) Security Operations Centre
12 25 (1.32%) Product Ownership
13 20 (1.05%) Robotics
14 18 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
15 15 (0.79%) Cyber Threat
15 15 (0.79%) FPGA
15 15 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 447 (23.58%) Linux
2 273 (14.40%) Windows
3 96 (5.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 73 (3.85%) Windows Server
5 66 (3.48%) CentOS
6 53 (2.80%) Embedded Linux
7 49 (2.58%) Windows 10
8 42 (2.22%) Windows Server 2012
9 41 (2.16%) Windows Server 2016
10 40 (2.11%) Windows Server 2019
11 24 (1.27%) Ubuntu
12 20 (1.05%) Debian
13 19 (1.00%) Unix
14 17 (0.90%) Windows 7
15 13 (0.69%) AIX
16 10 (0.53%) CoreOS
17 9 (0.47%) Android
18 5 (0.26%) Kali Linux
19 3 (0.16%) Solaris
19 3 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 527 (27.80%) Agile
2 389 (20.52%) Software Engineering
3 350 (18.46%) DevOps
4 346 (18.25%) Actionable Insight
5 283 (14.93%) Cybersecurity
6 215 (11.34%) Scrum
7 192 (10.13%) Problem-Solving
8 184 (9.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 184 (9.70%) Project Management
9 176 (9.28%) Collaborative Working
10 145 (7.65%) ITIL
11 144 (7.59%) UML
12 140 (7.38%) Systems Engineering
13 126 (6.65%) Validation
14 116 (6.12%) Information Assurance
15 115 (6.07%) Mentoring
16 113 (5.96%) Risk Management
17 107 (5.64%) Full Stack Development
18 99 (5.22%) CI/CD
19 97 (5.12%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 428 (22.57%) Python
2 221 (11.66%) Java
3 193 (10.18%) Bash
4 151 (7.96%) JavaScript
5 137 (7.23%) C#
6 136 (7.17%) PowerShell
7 113 (5.96%) C
8 92 (4.85%) SQL
9 69 (3.64%) MATLAB
10 58 (3.06%) C++
11 56 (2.95%) Rust
12 50 (2.64%) Embedded C
13 39 (2.06%) TypeScript
14 31 (1.64%) Shell Script
15 24 (1.27%) Ada
16 14 (0.74%) R
17 13 (0.69%) Go
18 8 (0.42%) Perl
19 6 (0.32%) T-SQL
19 6 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 890 (46.94%) SC Cleared
2 597 (31.49%) DV Cleared
3 362 (19.09%) Degree
4 267 (14.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 55 (2.90%) TOGAF Certification
6 51 (2.69%) CESG Certified Professional
6 51 (2.69%) CISSP
7 49 (2.58%) CISM
8 39 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
9 33 (1.74%) CRISC
10 28 (1.48%) CCNA
11 20 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
12 19 (1.00%) A+ Certification
12 19 (1.00%) CCNP
13 16 (0.84%) HNC
14 15 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
15 14 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
15 14 (0.74%) Master's Degree
16 13 (0.69%) CISMP
16 13 (0.69%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (3.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 56 (2.95%) NCSC
2 56 (2.95%) NIST
3 34 (1.79%) SLA
4 29 (1.53%) NIST 800
5 25 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 23 (1.21%) JSP 440
7 21 (1.11%) RMADS
8 20 (1.05%) QA
9 19 (1.00%) Def Stans
10 17 (0.90%) IEC 61508
11 14 (0.74%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 11 (0.58%) Accessibility
12 11 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
13 10 (0.53%) ISO 9001
14 9 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 9 (0.47%) GRC
15 8 (0.42%) GDPR
16 7 (0.37%) MISRA
16 7 (0.37%) TickIT
System Software
1 191 (10.07%) VMware Infrastructure
2 148 (7.81%) Docker
3 140 (7.38%) Active Directory
4 85 (4.48%) Hyper-V
5 43 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
6 41 (2.16%) vSphere
7 24 (1.27%) VMware NSX
8 23 (1.21%) Firmware
9 8 (0.42%) Microsoft App-V
10 7 (0.37%) XenDesktop
11 4 (0.21%) XenApp
12 3 (0.16%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.16%) Forefront TMG
12 3 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
12 3 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
13 2 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
14 1 (0.053%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 238 (12.55%) Ansible
2 177 (9.34%) Kubernetes
3 117 (6.17%) Terraform
4 114 (6.01%) Puppet
5 62 (3.27%) SCCM
6 38 (2.00%) vCenter Server
7 23 (1.21%) Grafana
7 23 (1.21%) Prometheus
8 18 (0.95%) HAProxy
9 16 (0.84%) Nagios
10 15 (0.79%) Progress Chef
11 14 (0.74%) EMC NetWorker
12 12 (0.63%) Backup Exec
12 12 (0.63%) NetBackup
13 9 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
14 8 (0.42%) ZABBIX
15 7 (0.37%) Kibana
15 7 (0.37%) WSUS
16 6 (0.32%) Failover Clustering
16 6 (0.32%) Icinga
Vendors
1 339 (17.88%) Microsoft
2 223 (11.76%) VMware
3 130 (6.86%) Red Hat
4 98 (5.17%) Cisco
5 64 (3.38%) Oracle
6 46 (2.43%) Google
7 45 (2.37%) IBM
8 44 (2.32%) Sparx
9 33 (1.74%) SolarWinds
10 32 (1.69%) ESRI
11 21 (1.11%) NetApp
12 20 (1.05%) SaltStack
13 18 (0.95%) Citrix
14 17 (0.90%) EMC
14 17 (0.90%) Veeam
15 15 (0.79%) Atlassian
16 13 (0.69%) Hitachi
17 12 (0.63%) McAfee
17 12 (0.63%) Splunk
17 12 (0.63%) Veritas