Security Cleared Job Trends in Central London

Security Clearance
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 36 75
Rank change year-on-year -23 +39 +70
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 87 205 107
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 3.68% 6.29% 3.48%
As % of the Qualifications category 14.38% 19.45% 14.68%
Number of salaries quoted 68 98 84
10th Percentile £35,500 £56,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £75,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.27% +15.77% -3.70%
75th Percentile £71,875 £92,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
London median annual salary £67,500 £69,404 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.74% -0.85% +7.69%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Central London

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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 605 1,054 729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 25.62% 32.35% 23.72%
Number of salaries quoted 447 515 609
10th Percentile £30,950 £42,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £49,875 £55,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £116,750 £121,250 £117,750
London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +2.19%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Security Cleared relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Security Cleared job vacancy trend in Central London

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Security Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Security Cleared

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Central London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in Central London

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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 Security Cleared within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
City of London -28 76 £60,000 -20.53% 78
City of Westminster +15 1 £57,500 -6.26% 2
West End of London +4 1 £57,500 -17.86%
Lambeth -1 1 £55,000 -
Security Cleared
London

Security Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 10 (11.49%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.60%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.30%) Confluence
4 1 (1.15%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (1.15%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (1.15%) IIS
4 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (2.30%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (2.30%) Teamcenter
2 1 (1.15%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 23 (26.44%) Azure
2 14 (16.09%) Power Platform
3 13 (14.94%) AWS
4 11 (12.64%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (10.34%) Dynamics 365
5 9 (10.34%) Power Automate
5 9 (10.34%) PowerApps
6 4 (4.60%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (4.60%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.60%) GCP
7 3 (3.45%) GitHub
8 2 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.30%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.15%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.15%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.15%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (1.15%) Dagster
9 1 (1.15%) dbt
9 1 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.15%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.20%) Network Security
2 4 (4.60%) WAN
2 4 (4.60%) Wireless
3 3 (3.45%) Firewall
3 3 (3.45%) LAN
3 3 (3.45%) Software-Defined Networking
3 3 (3.45%) VoIP
3 3 (3.45%) VPN
3 3 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (3.45%) WLAN
4 1 (1.15%) Cisco Wireless
4 1 (1.15%) NetScaler
4 1 (1.15%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.15%) SSH
4 1 (1.15%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (16.09%) Power BI
2 4 (4.60%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (3.45%) MySQL
3 3 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.45%) Tableau
4 1 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.15%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.15%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.15%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.15%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (5.75%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.60%) MLflow
3 3 (3.45%) Git
4 2 (2.30%) JIRA
5 1 (1.15%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.15%) GitLab
General
1 21 (24.14%) Law
2 14 (16.09%) Public Sector
2 14 (16.09%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.90%) Finance
6 4 (4.60%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.30%) Advertising
8 1 (1.15%) Back Office
8 1 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (19.54%) Developer
2 12 (13.79%) Senior
3 9 (10.34%) Administrator
3 9 (10.34%) Power Platform Developer
3 9 (10.34%) Senior Developer
3 9 (10.34%) Systems Administrator
4 7 (8.05%) Consultant
4 7 (8.05%) User Researcher
5 6 (6.90%) Architect
5 6 (6.90%) Designer
5 6 (6.90%) Lead
6 5 (5.75%) 2nd Line Support
6 5 (5.75%) Applications Developer
6 5 (5.75%) Service Designer
7 4 (4.60%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) Network Support
8 3 (3.45%) DV Cleared Java Developer
8 3 (3.45%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.34%) HTML5 Canvas
2 4 (4.60%) Kafka
3 3 (3.45%) PySpark
4 2 (2.30%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.15%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (1.15%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.15%) CSS
5 1 (1.15%) EDI
5 1 (1.15%) HTML
5 1 (1.15%) Node.js
5 1 (1.15%) React
5 1 (1.15%) Spring
5 1 (1.15%) Vue
5 1 (1.15%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.09%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.30%) PKI
3 2 (2.30%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.15%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.15%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.15%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.60%) Windows
2 2 (2.30%) Unix
3 1 (1.15%) Linux
3 1 (1.15%) Windows 7
3 1 (1.15%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (25.29%) Agile
2 17 (19.54%) DevOps
2 17 (19.54%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (17.24%) Software Engineering
3 15 (17.24%) Visualisation
4 14 (16.09%) Business Intelligence
4 14 (16.09%) Stakeholder Management
5 13 (14.94%) Data Visualisation
5 13 (14.94%) User Research
5 13 (14.94%) Workflow
6 12 (13.79%) CI/CD
6 12 (13.79%) Critical Thinking
6 12 (13.79%) User Experience
6 12 (13.79%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 11 (12.64%) Computer Science
8 9 (10.34%) Analytics
8 9 (10.34%) Community of Practice
8 9 (10.34%) SDLC
8 9 (10.34%) Technology Strategy
8 9 (10.34%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 14 (16.09%) JavaScript
1 14 (16.09%) Python
2 11 (12.64%) Java
3 9 (10.34%) C#
4 4 (4.60%) MATLAB
4 4 (4.60%) R
4 4 (4.60%) SQL
5 3 (3.45%) Kotlin
5 3 (3.45%) Scala
6 2 (2.30%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.15%) C++
7 1 (1.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 47 (54.02%) SC Cleared
2 26 (29.89%) DV Cleared
3 11 (12.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (12.64%) Degree
4 9 (10.34%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (5.75%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.45%) DBS Check
7 2 (2.30%) CISSP
8 1 (1.15%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.75%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.60%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.60%) NIST
3 2 (2.30%) QA
4 1 (1.15%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (8.05%) Docker
2 4 (4.60%) KVM
3 2 (2.30%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.15%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (12.64%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.75%) Terraform
3 3 (3.45%) Ansible
3 3 (3.45%) Grafana
4 2 (2.30%) Argo
4 2 (2.30%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.15%) Ambari
5 1 (1.15%) Puppet
5 1 (1.15%) vRealize
5 1 (1.15%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (19.54%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.05%) Databricks
3 4 (4.60%) Cisco
3 4 (4.60%) VMware
4 3 (3.45%) Oracle
4 3 (3.45%) SAP
4 3 (3.45%) Zscaler
5 2 (2.30%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.30%) Tenable
6 1 (1.15%) Aruba
6 1 (1.15%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.15%) F5
6 1 (1.15%) Gemalto
6 1 (1.15%) Google
6 1 (1.15%) HP
6 1 (1.15%) IBM
6 1 (1.15%) Meraki
6 1 (1.15%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.15%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.15%) Thales