Security Cleared Jobs in Bristol

Security Clearance
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Bristol with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 4 9
Rank change year-on-year -27 +5 +1
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 83 638 391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 7.26% 17.90% 16.06%
As % of the Qualifications category 16.80% 56.16% 44.69%
Number of salaries quoted 66 427 161
10th Percentile £44,125 £45,750 £35,218
25th Percentile £54,775 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% +5.83% -4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £70,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,625 £90,000 £81,250
South West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £57,197
% change year-on-year +4.35% +0.53% +3.99%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 494 1,136 875
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 43.22% 31.87% 35.93%
Number of salaries quoted 321 795 450
10th Percentile £31,000 £36,250 £29,975
25th Percentile £47,603 £47,500 £42,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £60,000 £57,810
Median % change year-on-year -12.33% +3.79% +8.85%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,250 £73,700
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £87,419
South West median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Bristol

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Salary Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in Bristol.

Salary trend for Security Cleared in Bristol

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Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Bristol over the 6 months to 16 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in Bristol

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 2 (2.41%) Appian
1 2 (2.41%) Confluence
2 1 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.41%) Windchill
2 1 (1.20%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 20 (24.10%) AWS
1 20 (24.10%) Azure
2 4 (4.82%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (3.61%) Amazon S3
3 3 (3.61%) GCP
3 3 (3.61%) Serverless
4 2 (2.41%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (2.41%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.41%) Pulumi
5 1 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.20%) Dagster
5 1 (1.20%) IaaS
5 1 (1.20%) OCI
5 1 (1.20%) PaaS
5 1 (1.20%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.20%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.20%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.20%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.61%) VPN
2 2 (2.41%) DHCP
2 2 (2.41%) DNS
2 2 (2.41%) Firewall
2 2 (2.41%) LAN
2 2 (2.41%) Network Security
2 2 (2.41%) WAN
3 1 (1.20%) Broadband
3 1 (1.20%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (1.20%) Converged Networks
3 1 (1.20%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.20%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 1 (1.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (1.20%) Intranet
3 1 (1.20%) NX-OS
3 1 (1.20%) SAN
3 1 (1.20%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.20%) VLAN
3 1 (1.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.02%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.61%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.61%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.61%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.41%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.41%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.20%) DB2
4 1 (1.20%) MySQL
4 1 (1.20%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (1.20%) Power BI
4 1 (1.20%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Git
1 3 (3.61%) GitLab
2 2 (2.41%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.41%) JIRA
2 2 (2.41%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (1.20%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 17 (20.48%) Public Sector
2 16 (19.28%) Finance
3 14 (16.87%) Manufacturing
4 12 (14.46%) Electronics
5 11 (13.25%) Marketing
5 11 (13.25%) Social Skills
5 11 (13.25%) Telecoms
6 8 (9.64%) Aerospace
7 7 (8.43%) Military
8 2 (2.41%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.41%) Back Office
8 2 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.20%) Advertising
9 1 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.20%) Law
9 1 (1.20%) Legal
9 1 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (15.66%) Lead
2 12 (14.46%) Software Engineer
3 11 (13.25%) Developer
4 10 (12.05%) Architect
5 8 (9.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 8 (9.64%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 7 (8.43%) Systems Engineer
7 6 (7.23%) Senior
8 5 (6.02%) Analyst
8 5 (6.02%) Consultant
8 5 (6.02%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (4.82%) Business Analyst
9 4 (4.82%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 4 (4.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) Java Developer
9 4 (4.82%) Lead Systems Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) Project Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) Project Leader
9 4 (4.82%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (3.61%) Security Assurance Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (15.66%) React
2 7 (8.43%) AngularJS
2 7 (8.43%) Vue
3 6 (7.23%) Kafka
3 6 (7.23%) Spring
3 6 (7.23%) Spring Boot
4 3 (3.61%) Node.js
4 3 (3.61%) RESTful
5 2 (2.41%) Android Jetpack
5 2 (2.41%) Jetpack Compose
5 2 (2.41%) OkHttp
5 2 (2.41%) Retrofit
6 1 (1.20%) .NET
6 1 (1.20%) CSS
6 1 (1.20%) CSS3
6 1 (1.20%) HTML
6 1 (1.20%) HTML5
6 1 (1.20%) JSON
6 1 (1.20%) REST
6 1 (1.20%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.64%) Cloud Native
1 8 (9.64%) Private Cloud
2 4 (4.82%) e-Learning
3 3 (3.61%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.20%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.20%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.20%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.20%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.20%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.23%) Linux
1 6 (7.23%) Windows
2 2 (2.41%) Android
2 2 (2.41%) Windows 10
2 2 (2.41%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.20%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (37.35%) Agile
2 17 (20.48%) Business Intelligence
2 17 (20.48%) Cybersecurity
2 17 (20.48%) Software Engineering
3 14 (16.87%) Analytics
4 13 (15.66%) Full-Stack Development
5 12 (14.46%) Programme Management
6 11 (13.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (13.25%) Digital Marketing
7 10 (12.05%) Business Case
7 10 (12.05%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (9.64%) Data Analytics
8 8 (9.64%) Scrum
9 7 (8.43%) Coaching
9 7 (8.43%) Kanban
9 7 (8.43%) Waterfall
10 6 (7.23%) Collaborative Culture
10 6 (7.23%) Roadmaps
10 6 (7.23%) Systems Engineering
11 5 (6.02%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 16 (19.28%) Java
2 9 (10.84%) JavaScript
3 8 (9.64%) Python
4 4 (4.82%) SQL
5 2 (2.41%) C++
5 2 (2.41%) Kotlin
5 2 (2.41%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.20%) Ada
6 1 (1.20%) C
6 1 (1.20%) C#
6 1 (1.20%) Go
6 1 (1.20%) MATLAB
6 1 (1.20%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.20%) Rust
6 1 (1.20%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.20%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 60 (72.29%) SC Cleared
2 16 (19.28%) DV Cleared
3 11 (13.25%) Degree
4 8 (9.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (3.61%) PhD
6 2 (2.41%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.41%) CCNA
6 2 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.41%) CISSP
6 2 (2.41%) CTC Cleared
6 2 (2.41%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 1 (1.20%) CESG Certified Professional
7 1 (1.20%) CISM
7 1 (1.20%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.20%) MCSA
7 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.20%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.20%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.64%) Def Stans
2 5 (6.02%) NIST
3 4 (4.82%) SLA
4 3 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.61%) RMADS
5 2 (2.41%) GDPR
6 1 (1.20%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.20%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.20%) JSP 440
6 1 (1.20%) MISRA
6 1 (1.20%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.20%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.20%) Docker
2 1 (1.20%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (4.82%) Terraform
2 3 (3.61%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.41%) Ansible
4 1 (1.20%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.20%) QRadar
Vendors
1 11 (13.25%) SAP
2 7 (8.43%) VMware
3 5 (6.02%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.82%) Cisco
5 3 (3.61%) Oracle
6 2 (2.41%) F5
6 2 (2.41%) PTC
6 2 (2.41%) Samsung
6 2 (2.41%) Sparx
7 1 (1.20%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.20%) Cognos
7 1 (1.20%) Google
7 1 (1.20%) Juniper
7 1 (1.20%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.20%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.20%) Splunk
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