SC Cleared Jobs in the City of London

Security Check (SC) Clearance
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 75 80
Rank change year-on-year -34 +5 +44
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 30 113 165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 1.53% 3.38% 3.69%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.09% 11.86% 15.91%
Number of salaries quoted 29 27 89
10th Percentile £47,500 £54,240 £47,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,400 £52,873
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £72,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £97,000 £89,250 £98,000
Central London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 589 953 1,037
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 30.11% 28.48% 23.17%
Number of salaries quoted 380 624 739
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,075 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,563 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,750 £93,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £107,125 £120,000
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% - -3.57%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in the City of London

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in the City of London.

Salary trend for SC Cleared in the City of London

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in the City of London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in the City of London

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 2 (6.67%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.33%) Alfresco
2 1 (3.33%) Apache
2 1 (3.33%) Camunda
2 1 (3.33%) CMS
2 1 (3.33%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 6 (20.00%) Adobe XD
1 6 (20.00%) InVision
1 6 (20.00%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.33%) SAP CO
2 1 (3.33%) SAP FI
2 1 (3.33%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (3.33%) SAP LE
Cloud Services
1 11 (36.67%) Azure
2 7 (23.33%) Figma
3 5 (16.67%) AWS
3 5 (16.67%) GCP
4 4 (13.33%) SaaS
5 3 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (10.00%) IaaS
5 3 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (10.00%) PaaS
6 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.33%) Contentful
7 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.33%) GitHub
7 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.33%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.33%) Power Automate
7 1 (3.33%) Pulumi
7 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) Cisco ISE
1 3 (10.00%) Ethernet
1 3 (10.00%) Firewall
1 3 (10.00%) LAN
1 3 (10.00%) SD-WAN
1 3 (10.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) MongoDB
1 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.33%) MySQL
2 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (20.00%) Axure RP
2 1 (3.33%) CircleCI
2 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.33%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) Storybook
2 1 (3.33%) Vagrant
General
1 12 (40.00%) Law
2 8 (26.67%) Public Sector
3 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Finance
5 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Legal
6 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (40.00%) Consultant
2 10 (33.33%) Developer
3 6 (20.00%) Architect
3 6 (20.00%) User Experience Consultant
3 6 (20.00%) UX Developer
4 3 (10.00%) Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Network Architect
4 3 (10.00%) SOC Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) SOC Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Designer
5 2 (6.67%) Lead
5 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior
5 2 (6.67%) Service Designer
5 2 (6.67%) Technical Leader
6 1 (3.33%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) SAP Logistics Consultant
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (26.67%) HTML
2 7 (23.33%) CSS
3 3 (10.00%) JSON
4 2 (6.67%) AngularJS
4 2 (6.67%) React
4 2 (6.67%) REST
5 1 (3.33%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (3.33%) CSS3
5 1 (3.33%) Express.js
5 1 (3.33%) GraphQL
5 1 (3.33%) hapi
5 1 (3.33%) HTML5
5 1 (3.33%) Material-UI
5 1 (3.33%) MEAN Stack
5 1 (3.33%) NestJS
5 1 (3.33%) Node.js
5 1 (3.33%) React Native
5 1 (3.33%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (3.33%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 4 (13.33%) Public Cloud
3 3 (10.00%) CSOC
3 3 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 3 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 3 (10.00%) Virtual Team
4 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (3.33%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (43.33%) Agile
2 9 (30.00%) DevOps
2 9 (30.00%) Workshop Facilitation
3 8 (26.67%) Inclusive Design
3 8 (26.67%) Mentoring
3 8 (26.67%) User Experience
3 8 (26.67%) User Research
3 8 (26.67%) User Stories
3 8 (26.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 6 (20.00%) Prototyping
4 6 (20.00%) Wireframes
5 4 (13.33%) Incident Response
5 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (10.00%) Architectural Design
6 3 (10.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 3 (10.00%) Due Diligence
6 3 (10.00%) Security Monitoring
6 3 (10.00%) Security Operations
6 3 (10.00%) Thought Leadership
6 3 (10.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 7 (23.33%) JavaScript
2 5 (16.67%) Python
3 4 (13.33%) Java
4 2 (6.67%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.33%) Bash
5 1 (3.33%) C#
5 1 (3.33%) C++
5 1 (3.33%) Go
5 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.67%) Degree
3 1 (3.33%) CIPD
3 1 (3.33%) CISA
3 1 (3.33%) CISM
3 1 (3.33%) CISSP
3 1 (3.33%) CRISC
3 1 (3.33%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (26.67%) Accessibility
2 6 (20.00%) WCAG
3 1 (3.33%) GDPR
3 1 (3.33%) GRC
3 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.33%) NIST
3 1 (3.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.00%) VMware NSX
3 2 (6.67%) Docker
4 1 (3.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) Ansible
1 4 (13.33%) Terraform
2 3 (10.00%) FortiGate
2 3 (10.00%) QRadar
3 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.33%) Consul
4 1 (3.33%) Istio
4 1 (3.33%) Packer
4 1 (3.33%) Progress Chef
4 1 (3.33%) Puppet
4 1 (3.33%) Salt
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.00%) Adobe
3 5 (16.67%) Google
4 3 (10.00%) Blue Coat
4 3 (10.00%) CheckPoint
4 3 (10.00%) Cisco
4 3 (10.00%) F5
4 3 (10.00%) VMware
5 2 (6.67%) SAP
6 1 (3.33%) Oracle
6 1 (3.33%) Progress