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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 6 5
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 +9
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,890 1,338 1,593
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 20.43% 19.73% 19.62%
As % of the Qualifications category 57.60% 47.41% 50.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,235 638 815
10th Percentile £31,750 £33,275 £32,200
25th Percentile £46,000 £41,250 £41,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,250 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,300 £83,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.86% +5.45% -

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 3,281 2,822 3,132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 35.47% 41.62% 38.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,144 1,282 1,616
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £30,246
25th Percentile £39,759 £37,940 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +5.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £79,750 £76,520
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 13 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 13 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 0 664 £55,000 -12.00% 111
Bristol +10 593 £65,000 +13.04% 173
Wiltshire +5 381 £51,000 -7.27% 81
Dorset +1 139 £42,500 -19.05% 25
Somerset +6 69 £34,000 -24.86% 43
Devon -47 28 £49,000 +28.01% 47
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 97 (5.13%) Confluence
2 42 (2.22%) Apache
3 39 (2.06%) SharePoint
4 37 (1.96%) Apache Spark
5 35 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
6 31 (1.64%) ArcGIS
7 27 (1.43%) GeoServer
8 18 (0.95%) Jupyter
8 18 (0.95%) nginx
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%) MS Project Server
12 2 (0.11%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.11%) WildFly
13 1 (0.053%) JBoss
13 1 (0.053%) Moodle
13 1 (0.053%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 52 (2.75%) Simulink
2 43 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.48%) 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 46 (2.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 20 (1.06%) Maximo
3 4 (0.21%) Primavera
4 3 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.11%) Q-Pulse
6 1 (0.053%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.053%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.053%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 371 (19.63%) AWS
2 332 (17.57%) Azure
3 92 (4.87%) OpenShift
4 85 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
5 51 (2.70%) GCP
6 41 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
7 40 (2.12%) SaaS
8 34 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
9 30 (1.59%) IaaS
9 30 (1.59%) PaaS
10 28 (1.48%) Power Platform
11 25 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (1.32%) Serverless
12 24 (1.27%) Amazon S3
13 19 (1.01%) Amazon EKS
14 18 (0.95%) MinIO
15 9 (0.48%) Dynamics 365
16 8 (0.42%) Power Automate
17 7 (0.37%) Amazon EC2
17 7 (0.37%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 89 (4.71%) Firewall
2 64 (3.39%) TCP/IP
3 53 (2.80%) DNS
3 53 (2.80%) WAN
4 48 (2.54%) DHCP
5 46 (2.43%) HTTP
6 44 (2.33%) LAN
7 43 (2.28%) Network Security
8 28 (1.48%) VSAN
9 26 (1.38%) Wireless
10 21 (1.11%) AMQP
11 20 (1.06%) Cisco ASA
11 20 (1.06%) Software-Defined Networking
12 18 (0.95%) SAN
13 14 (0.74%) BGP
14 13 (0.69%) Ethernet
15 9 (0.48%) iSCSI
15 9 (0.48%) SD-WAN
16 8 (0.42%) Cisco IPT
16 8 (0.42%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (3.17%) Big Data
2 43 (2.28%) GIS
3 38 (2.01%) Hadoop
3 38 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
4 36 (1.90%) MongoDB
5 32 (1.69%) SQL Server
6 27 (1.43%) QGIS
7 21 (1.11%) Power BI
8 18 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
8 18 (0.95%) Presto
8 18 (0.95%) Relational Database
9 15 (0.79%) Cloudera CDH
10 14 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (0.58%) NoSQL
12 10 (0.53%) Tableau
13 9 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
13 9 (0.48%) MySQL
14 7 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
15 6 (0.32%) Snowflake Schema
15 6 (0.32%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 141 (7.46%) JIRA
2 119 (6.30%) Git
3 94 (4.97%) Visual Studio
4 89 (4.71%) Bitbucket
5 59 (3.12%) Sourcetree
6 51 (2.70%) Rational DOORS
7 44 (2.33%) Jenkins
8 34 (1.80%) GitLab
9 20 (1.06%) LabVIEW
9 20 (1.06%) Rational Rhapsody
10 18 (0.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 10 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
12 8 (0.42%) Cypress.io
12 8 (0.42%) NetBeans
13 7 (0.37%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.37%) Selenium
13 7 (0.37%) Subversion
14 6 (0.32%) Rational Team Concert
15 5 (0.26%) Eclipse
16 4 (0.21%) SonarQube
General
1 285 (15.08%) Social Skills
2 266 (14.07%) Aerospace
3 177 (9.37%) Finance
4 140 (7.41%) Games
5 110 (5.82%) Military
6 107 (5.66%) Presentation Skills
7 104 (5.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 87 (4.60%) Public Sector
9 86 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
10 47 (2.49%) Telecoms
11 41 (2.17%) Retail
12 38 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
13 30 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
14 23 (1.22%) Manufacturing
15 20 (1.06%) Electronics
16 13 (0.69%) Legal
17 10 (0.53%) Aviation
18 8 (0.42%) French Language
19 7 (0.37%) Publishing
20 6 (0.32%) Police
Job Titles
1 338 (17.88%) Senior
2 247 (13.07%) Software Engineer
3 199 (10.53%) Architect
4 171 (9.05%) Developer
5 161 (8.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 144 (7.62%) Consultant
7 140 (7.41%) Systems Engineer
8 137 (7.25%) Lead
9 94 (4.97%) Project Manager
10 88 (4.66%) Security Consultant
11 84 (4.44%) 3D Developer
11 84 (4.44%) Games Developer
11 84 (4.44%) Support Engineer
11 84 (4.44%) Unity 3D Developer
12 83 (4.39%) Solutions Architect
13 82 (4.34%) DevOps Engineer
14 80 (4.23%) Analyst
15 71 (3.76%) Senior Software Engineer
16 68 (3.60%) Administrator
16 68 (3.60%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (4.87%) React
2 89 (4.71%) .NET
3 84 (4.44%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 54 (2.86%) AngularJS
5 42 (2.22%) RabbitMQ
6 35 (1.85%) CSS
6 35 (1.85%) Spring
7 34 (1.80%) .NET Core
7 34 (1.80%) REST
8 32 (1.69%) HTML
8 32 (1.69%) Node.js
9 29 (1.53%) Elastic Stack
10 27 (1.43%) Leaflet
10 27 (1.43%) OpenLayers
10 27 (1.43%) PostGIS
10 27 (1.43%) Spring Boot
11 26 (1.38%) JSON
11 26 (1.38%) XML
12 25 (1.32%) Apache NiFi
13 20 (1.06%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 84 (4.44%) Virtual Reality
2 80 (4.23%) Management Information System
3 71 (3.76%) Cloud Native
4 66 (3.49%) Driving Licence
5 57 (3.02%) Algorithms
6 48 (2.54%) Cyberattack
7 40 (2.12%) Public Cloud
8 38 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
8 38 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
9 37 (1.96%) Private Cloud
10 36 (1.90%) Cyber Defence
11 34 (1.80%) Data Centre
12 32 (1.69%) Security Operations Centre
13 28 (1.48%) PKI
14 25 (1.32%) Product Ownership
15 20 (1.06%) Robotics
16 18 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
17 16 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
18 15 (0.79%) Cyber Threat
18 15 (0.79%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 437 (23.12%) Linux
2 262 (13.86%) Windows
3 94 (4.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 74 (3.92%) Windows Server
5 64 (3.39%) CentOS
6 53 (2.80%) Embedded Linux
7 44 (2.33%) Windows 10
8 39 (2.06%) Windows Server 2016
9 38 (2.01%) Windows Server 2019
10 37 (1.96%) Windows Server 2012
11 23 (1.22%) Ubuntu
12 19 (1.01%) Debian
13 17 (0.90%) Unix
14 15 (0.79%) Windows 7
15 13 (0.69%) AIX
16 11 (0.58%) CoreOS
17 7 (0.37%) Android
18 4 (0.21%) Kali Linux
19 3 (0.16%) zOS
20 2 (0.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 520 (27.51%) Agile
2 392 (20.74%) Software Engineering
3 348 (18.41%) DevOps
4 346 (18.31%) Actionable Insight
5 282 (14.92%) Cybersecurity
6 217 (11.48%) Scrum
7 193 (10.21%) Problem-Solving
8 185 (9.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 184 (9.74%) Project Management
10 167 (8.84%) Collaborative Working
11 153 (8.10%) UML
12 147 (7.78%) ITIL
13 134 (7.09%) Systems Engineering
14 123 (6.51%) Validation
15 116 (6.14%) Information Assurance
16 113 (5.98%) Mentoring
17 111 (5.87%) Risk Management
18 110 (5.82%) Full Stack Development
18 110 (5.82%) Infrastructure as Code
19 99 (5.24%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 422 (22.33%) Python
2 216 (11.43%) Java
3 189 (10.00%) Bash
4 148 (7.83%) JavaScript
5 145 (7.67%) C#
6 132 (6.98%) PowerShell
7 111 (5.87%) C
8 87 (4.60%) SQL
9 68 (3.60%) MATLAB
10 56 (2.96%) Rust
11 55 (2.91%) C++
12 50 (2.65%) 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
1 878 (46.46%) SC Cleared
2 597 (31.59%) DV Cleared
3 368 (19.47%) Degree
4 279 (14.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 57 (3.02%) TOGAF Certification
6 51 (2.70%) CESG Certified Professional
6 51 (2.70%) CISSP
7 49 (2.59%) CISM
8 43 (2.28%) Cisco Certification
9 33 (1.75%) CRISC
10 30 (1.59%) CCNA
11 23 (1.22%) AWS Certification
12 21 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 21 (1.11%) CCNP
13 19 (1.01%) A+ Certification
14 16 (0.85%) HNC
14 16 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
15 14 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
15 14 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
15 14 (0.74%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 57 (3.02%) NIST
3 56 (2.96%) NCSC
4 34 (1.80%) SLA
5 32 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 29 (1.53%) NIST 800
7 23 (1.22%) JSP 440
8 21 (1.11%) RMADS
9 20 (1.06%) QA
10 19 (1.01%) Def Stans
11 17 (0.90%) IEC 61508
12 14 (0.74%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 11 (0.58%) Accessibility
13 11 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
14 10 (0.53%) ISO 9001
15 9 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 9 (0.48%) GRC
16 8 (0.42%) GDPR
17 7 (0.37%) MISRA
17 7 (0.37%) TickIT
System Software
1 187 (9.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 142 (7.51%) Docker
3 139 (7.35%) Active Directory
4 84 (4.44%) Hyper-V
5 42 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
6 39 (2.06%) vSphere
7 23 (1.22%) Firmware
8 21 (1.11%) VMware NSX
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
Systems Management
1 233 (12.33%) Ansible
2 169 (8.94%) Kubernetes
3 129 (6.83%) Terraform
4 113 (5.98%) Puppet
5 63 (3.33%) SCCM
6 38 (2.01%) vCenter Server
7 23 (1.22%) Grafana
7 23 (1.22%) Prometheus
8 18 (0.95%) HAProxy
9 15 (0.79%) Nagios
10 14 (0.74%) EMC NetWorker
10 14 (0.74%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.63%) Backup Exec
11 12 (0.63%) NetBackup
12 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
13 8 (0.42%) ZABBIX
14 7 (0.37%) Kibana
15 6 (0.32%) Failover Clustering
15 6 (0.32%) Icinga
16 5 (0.26%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 343 (18.15%) Microsoft
2 218 (11.53%) VMware
3 123 (6.51%) Red Hat
4 103 (5.45%) Cisco
5 61 (3.23%) Oracle
6 46 (2.43%) IBM
6 46 (2.43%) Sparx
7 45 (2.38%) Google
8 32 (1.69%) ESRI
9 31 (1.64%) SolarWinds
10 21 (1.11%) NetApp
11 19 (1.01%) SaltStack
12 18 (0.95%) Citrix
13 17 (0.90%) EMC
13 17 (0.90%) Veeam
14 13 (0.69%) Atlassian
14 13 (0.69%) Hitachi
15 12 (0.63%) ServiceNow
15 12 (0.63%) Snow
15 12 (0.63%) Veritas