SC Cleared Jobs in Central London

Security Check (SC) Clearance
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 80 96
Rank change year-on-year -44 +16 +56
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 41 128 167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 1.61% 3.38% 3.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.82% 11.78% 14.07%
Number of salaries quoted 38 38 86
10th Percentile £48,375 £43,227 £47,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £55,400 £52,593
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,500 £63,750 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.02% -7.61% -1.43%
75th Percentile £87,188 £71,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £93,625 £79,125 £90,000
London median annual salary £65,000 £71,750 £67,500
% change year-on-year -9.41% +6.30% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Central London

SC 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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 851 1,087 1,187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 33.50% 28.73% 22.40%
Number of salaries quoted 489 688 851
10th Percentile £40,467 £36,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £49,000 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% - -3.57%
75th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £108,250 £117,500
London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% - +3.85%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Central London

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in Central London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in Central London.

Salary trend for SC Cleared in Central London

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Central London over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in Central London

SC Cleared
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the Central London region over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. 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
City of London -28 41 £69,500 +6.92% 22
SC Cleared
London

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 3 (7.32%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.88%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (2.44%) Alfresco
3 1 (2.44%) Apache
3 1 (2.44%) Camunda
3 1 (2.44%) CMS
3 1 (2.44%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 4 (9.76%) Adobe XD
1 4 (9.76%) InVision
1 4 (9.76%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (7.32%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (4.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (2.44%) SAP CO
3 1 (2.44%) SAP FI
3 1 (2.44%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (2.44%) SAP LE
Cloud Services
1 15 (36.59%) Azure
2 8 (19.51%) GCP
3 6 (14.63%) SaaS
4 5 (12.20%) AWS
4 5 (12.20%) Figma
4 5 (12.20%) IaaS
4 5 (12.20%) PaaS
5 4 (9.76%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (9.76%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (9.76%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (9.76%) OCI
6 3 (7.32%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.44%) Contentful
7 1 (2.44%) GitHub
7 1 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.44%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.44%) Pulumi
7 1 (2.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.20%) Cisco ISE
1 5 (12.20%) Ethernet
1 5 (12.20%) Firewall
1 5 (12.20%) LAN
1 5 (12.20%) SD-WAN
1 5 (12.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.88%) MongoDB
1 2 (4.88%) Oracle ODI
1 2 (4.88%) Relational Database
1 2 (4.88%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.44%) MySQL
2 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (9.76%) Axure RP
2 1 (2.44%) CircleCI
2 1 (2.44%) Git
2 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.44%) JIRA
2 1 (2.44%) Storybook
2 1 (2.44%) Vagrant
General
1 14 (34.15%) Law
2 12 (29.27%) Social Skills
3 6 (14.63%) Public Sector
4 4 (9.76%) Finance
5 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Legal
6 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.44%) Retail
6 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (29.27%) Architect
2 11 (26.83%) Developer
3 8 (19.51%) Analyst
3 8 (19.51%) SOC Analyst
4 7 (17.07%) Consultant
5 5 (12.20%) Network Architect
5 5 (12.20%) Senior
5 5 (12.20%) SOC Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) User Experience Consultant
6 4 (9.76%) UX Developer
7 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Cloud Architect
8 2 (4.88%) Data Architect
8 2 (4.88%) Lead
8 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Oracle Architect
8 2 (4.88%) Oracle Data Architect
8 2 (4.88%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (4.88%) ServiceNow Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (19.51%) HTML
2 7 (17.07%) CSS
3 5 (12.20%) JSON
4 4 (9.76%) AngularJS
5 2 (4.88%) .NET
5 2 (4.88%) Ajax
5 2 (4.88%) Hibernate
5 2 (4.88%) LDAP
5 2 (4.88%) React
5 2 (4.88%) REST
5 2 (4.88%) Spring
5 2 (4.88%) Web Services
6 1 (2.44%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.44%) CSS3
6 1 (2.44%) Entity Framework
6 1 (2.44%) HTML5
6 1 (2.44%) JPA
6 1 (2.44%) Node.js
6 1 (2.44%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.44%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 13 (31.71%) Management Information System
2 10 (24.39%) CSOC
2 10 (24.39%) Onboarding
2 10 (24.39%) Virtual Team
3 6 (14.63%) Public Cloud
4 5 (12.20%) Data Centre
5 3 (7.32%) Cloud Native
6 2 (4.88%) CMDB
7 1 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (2.44%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 1 (2.44%) Mobile App
7 1 (2.44%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.32%) Windows
2 1 (2.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (46.34%) DevOps
2 15 (36.59%) Mentoring
3 13 (31.71%) Agile
4 12 (29.27%) Security Operations
5 11 (26.83%) Incident Response
6 10 (24.39%) Architectural Design
6 10 (24.39%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 10 (24.39%) Cybersecurity
6 10 (24.39%) Open Source
6 10 (24.39%) Penetration Testing
6 10 (24.39%) Performance Management
6 10 (24.39%) Protective Monitoring
6 10 (24.39%) Security Monitoring
6 10 (24.39%) SIEM
6 10 (24.39%) Threat Intelligence
6 10 (24.39%) Trend Analysis
6 10 (24.39%) Use Case
7 5 (12.20%) Due Diligence
7 5 (12.20%) Microservices
7 5 (12.20%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 7 (17.07%) JavaScript
2 6 (14.63%) Python
3 5 (12.20%) Java
4 2 (4.88%) C#
4 2 (4.88%) SQL
4 2 (4.88%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.44%) Bash
5 1 (2.44%) Go
5 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 41 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.32%) Degree
3 1 (2.44%) CIPD
3 1 (2.44%) CISA
3 1 (2.44%) CISM
3 1 (2.44%) CISSP
3 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.44%) CRISC
3 1 (2.44%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.44%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.44%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.76%) Accessibility
1 4 (9.76%) WCAG
2 3 (7.32%) GRC
3 1 (2.44%) GDPR
3 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.44%) NIST
3 1 (2.44%) NIST 800
System Software
1 5 (12.20%) VMware NSX
2 4 (9.76%) Active Directory
3 3 (7.32%) Docker
4 1 (2.44%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 10 (24.39%) QRadar
2 6 (14.63%) Ansible
2 6 (14.63%) Terraform
3 5 (12.20%) FortiGate
4 3 (7.32%) Kubernetes
5 2 (4.88%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.44%) Consul
6 1 (2.44%) Istio
6 1 (2.44%) Packer
6 1 (2.44%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.44%) Puppet
6 1 (2.44%) Salt
Vendors
1 15 (36.59%) Microsoft
2 8 (19.51%) Google
3 5 (12.20%) Blue Coat
3 5 (12.20%) CheckPoint
3 5 (12.20%) Cisco
3 5 (12.20%) F5
3 5 (12.20%) VMware
4 4 (9.76%) Adobe
4 4 (9.76%) Oracle
5 2 (4.88%) SAP
5 2 (4.88%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.44%) Progress