Security Cleared Jobs in Croydon

Security Clearance
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Croydon with a requirement for Security 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 15 9 18
Rank change year-on-year -6 +9 +33
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 38 50 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Croydon 19.10% 23.47% 9.79%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.34% 61.73% 25.00%
Number of salaries quoted 8 37 13
10th Percentile - £68,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £58,016 £72,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,072 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.76% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £66,142 £83,750 £88,750
90th Percentile £68,750 £86,000 -
South London median annual salary £63,750 £77,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -17.74% +19.23% +38.23%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 139 81 76
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Croydon 69.85% 38.03% 39.18%
Number of salaries quoted 12 58 35
10th Percentile £55,302 £39,000 £30,800
25th Percentile £58,016 £67,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,072 £81,250 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year -23.60% +33.42% +16.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £83,750 £75,300
90th Percentile £68,625 £96,925 £88,750
South London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +19.05% +16.67%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Croydon

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in Croydon

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

Salary trend for Security Cleared in Croydon

Security Cleared
Job Locations in Croydon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Cleared within the Croydon region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
South Croydon - 1 - - 4
Thornton Heath - 1 - -
Security Cleared
South London

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon 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 13 (34.21%) JBoss
1 13 (34.21%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (2.63%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 35 (92.11%) AWS
2 30 (78.95%) Amazon ECS
2 30 (78.95%) Serverless
3 26 (68.42%) Amazon EKS
4 14 (36.84%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (13.16%) AWS KMS
6 4 (10.53%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 4 (10.53%) Amazon S3
6 4 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (10.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (7.89%) Azure
8 1 (2.63%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (21.05%) Firewall
2 5 (13.16%) SSL
3 4 (10.53%) VLAN
4 3 (7.89%) BGP
4 3 (7.89%) HSRP
5 1 (2.63%) DHCP
5 1 (2.63%) DNS
5 1 (2.63%) HTTP
5 1 (2.63%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (2.63%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (71.05%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (68.42%) Relational Database
3 13 (34.21%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 32 (84.21%) Jenkins
2 27 (71.05%) JUnit
3 15 (39.47%) Git
4 14 (36.84%) Mockito
5 13 (34.21%) JMeter
6 4 (10.53%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (5.26%) Maven
8 1 (2.63%) DbUnit
8 1 (2.63%) JIRA
8 1 (2.63%) jMock
8 1 (2.63%) SonarQube
8 1 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 28 (73.68%) Public Sector
2 3 (7.89%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.26%) Finance
3 2 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (71.05%) Developer
1 27 (71.05%) Java Developer
2 5 (13.16%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (7.89%) Network Engineer
3 3 (7.89%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (7.89%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 3 (7.89%) Senior
4 2 (5.26%) Project Manager
4 2 (5.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (5.26%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) Business Analyst
5 1 (2.63%) Junior
5 1 (2.63%) Junior Developer
5 1 (2.63%) Junior Java Developer
5 1 (2.63%) Lead Network Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (2.63%) Senior Business Analyst
5 1 (2.63%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (71.05%) REST
1 27 (71.05%) Spring
1 27 (71.05%) Web Services
2 26 (68.42%) Apache Camel
2 26 (68.42%) Spring Boot
3 14 (36.84%) ActiveMQ
3 14 (36.84%) Hibernate
3 14 (36.84%) RESTful
3 14 (36.84%) SOAP
4 13 (34.21%) HTML
4 13 (34.21%) J2EE
4 13 (34.21%) jQuery
4 13 (34.21%) WireMock
5 3 (7.89%) Mustache
6 1 (2.63%) JPA
6 1 (2.63%) LDAP
6 1 (2.63%) PowerMock
6 1 (2.63%) Spring Cloud
6 1 (2.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (71.05%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (7.89%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.26%) Cyberattack
4 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.16%) Linux
1 5 (13.16%) Ubuntu
2 1 (2.63%) CentOS
2 1 (2.63%) Debian
2 1 (2.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (92.11%) Agile
2 28 (73.68%) Scrum
3 27 (71.05%) BDD
3 27 (71.05%) Kanban
3 27 (71.05%) Microservices
3 27 (71.05%) TDD
4 18 (47.37%) DevOps
5 14 (36.84%) Workflow
6 13 (34.21%) Architectural Design
6 13 (34.21%) CI/CD
6 13 (34.21%) Collaborative Working
6 13 (34.21%) Process Management
7 11 (28.95%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (18.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (15.79%) SDLC
10 5 (13.16%) Capacity Management
10 5 (13.16%) Patch Management
11 4 (10.53%) Decision-Making
11 4 (10.53%) Key Management
12 3 (7.89%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 27 (71.05%) Java
2 18 (47.37%) Python
2 18 (47.37%) Shell Script
3 13 (34.21%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (86.84%) SC Cleared
2 3 (7.89%) CCNP
2 3 (7.89%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (5.26%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (34.21%) SLA
2 3 (7.89%) QA
3 2 (5.26%) PMBOK
System Software
1 31 (81.58%) Docker
2 4 (10.53%) Active Directory
2 4 (10.53%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (68.42%) Kubernetes
2 17 (44.74%) Ansible
3 13 (34.21%) Kibana
4 5 (13.16%) Nessus
5 4 (10.53%) Proxmox
5 4 (10.53%) Terraform
6 1 (2.63%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (34.21%) Dynatrace
1 13 (34.21%) Splunk
2 4 (10.53%) Juniper
3 1 (2.63%) Sophos
3 1 (2.63%) VMware