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 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 74 92
Rank change year-on-year -33 +18 +50
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 41 115 143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 1.98% 3.44% 3.09%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.56% 12.26% 13.87%
Number of salaries quoted 39 28 82
10th Percentile £47,500 £54,530 £46,375
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,188 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,000 £66,250 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.15% -2.57% -2.86%
75th Percentile £86,875 £72,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £93,250 £89,125 £83,087
Central London median annual salary £69,000 £66,250 £68,000
% change year-on-year +4.15% -2.57% -2.86%

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 625 938 1,031
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 30.21% 28.03% 22.26%
Number of salaries quoted 412 626 753
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,625 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - -3.57%
75th Percentile £92,000 £92,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £108,750 £119,750
Central London median annual salary £69,500 £67,500 £67,000
% change year-on-year +2.96% +0.75% -4.29%

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 10 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 3 (7.32%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.88%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Exchange
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
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (12.20%) Adobe XD
1 5 (12.20%) InVision
1 5 (12.20%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (4.88%) 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%) Figma
4 5 (12.20%) AWS
4 5 (12.20%) SaaS
5 4 (9.76%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (9.76%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (9.76%) IaaS
5 4 (9.76%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (9.76%) PaaS
6 3 (7.32%) OCI
6 3 (7.32%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.44%) Contentful
7 1 (2.44%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.44%) OpenShift
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%) Relational Database
1 2 (4.88%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.44%) MySQL
2 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.44%) Oracle ODI
2 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (12.20%) 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 15 (36.59%) Law
2 11 (26.83%) Social Skills
3 7 (17.07%) 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%) Developer
2 11 (26.83%) Architect
3 9 (21.95%) Consultant
4 7 (17.07%) Analyst
4 7 (17.07%) SOC Analyst
5 5 (12.20%) Network Architect
5 5 (12.20%) SOC Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) User Experience Consultant
5 5 (12.20%) UX Developer
6 4 (9.76%) Senior
7 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Lead
8 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Developer
8 2 (4.88%) ServiceNow Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Technical Leader
9 1 (2.44%) IT Security Administrator
9 1 (2.44%) JavaScript Developer
9 1 (2.44%) Oracle Architect
9 1 (2.44%) SAP Architect
9 1 (2.44%) SAP Logistics Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (21.95%) HTML
2 8 (19.51%) 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%) Entity Framework
6 1 (2.44%) hapi
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 12 (29.27%) Management Information System
2 9 (21.95%) CSOC
2 9 (21.95%) Onboarding
2 9 (21.95%) Virtual Team
3 6 (14.63%) Public Cloud
4 5 (12.20%) Data Centre
5 2 (4.88%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.88%) CMDB
6 1 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.44%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (2.44%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.44%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.32%) Windows
2 1 (2.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (41.46%) DevOps
2 15 (36.59%) Agile
3 14 (34.15%) Mentoring
4 11 (26.83%) Security Operations
5 10 (24.39%) Incident Response
6 9 (21.95%) Architectural Design
6 9 (21.95%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 9 (21.95%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (21.95%) Open Source
6 9 (21.95%) Penetration Testing
6 9 (21.95%) Performance Management
6 9 (21.95%) Protective Monitoring
6 9 (21.95%) Security Monitoring
6 9 (21.95%) SIEM
6 9 (21.95%) Threat Intelligence
6 9 (21.95%) Trend Analysis
6 9 (21.95%) Use Case
7 7 (17.07%) Workshop Facilitation
8 6 (14.63%) User Experience
8 6 (14.63%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 8 (19.51%) 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 6 (14.63%) Accessibility
2 5 (12.20%) WCAG
3 3 (7.32%) GRC
4 1 (2.44%) GDPR
4 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.44%) NIST
4 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 9 (21.95%) 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 14 (34.15%) Microsoft
2 8 (19.51%) Google
3 5 (12.20%) Adobe
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 3 (7.32%) Oracle
5 2 (4.88%) SAP
5 2 (4.88%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.44%) Progress