SC Cleared Jobs in London

Security Check (SC) Clearance
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 118 96
Rank change year-on-year -11 -22 +229
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 318 605 1,129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.54% 2.54% 3.41%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.45% 8.97% 12.93%
Number of salaries quoted 218 407 754
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,325 £42,631
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% -
75th Percentile £77,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,850 £97,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £62,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -11.29% +12.73%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
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 London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,269 6,741 8,731
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.12% 28.34% 26.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,783 4,198 5,492
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,100 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% - +3.85%
75th Percentile £92,250 £87,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £103,750 £112,500
England median annual salary £54,793 £54,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.54% -9.17% +9.09%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in London

SC Cleared
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for SC Cleared in London

SC Cleared
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SC Cleared in London

SC Cleared
Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 28 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 London -23 38 £65,000 -21.21% 11
Central London -44 30 £65,000 +8.33% 34
West London +18 1 £36,500 -2.67% 120
North London - 1 £62,500 -
SC Cleared
England

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 13 (4.09%) JBoss
1 13 (4.09%) Red Hat Fuse
2 10 (3.14%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.20%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.26%) Apache
4 4 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.94%) CMS
5 3 (0.94%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.94%) WinCC
6 2 (0.63%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.31%) Alfresco
7 1 (0.31%) Camunda
7 1 (0.31%) Drupal
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (2.83%) Adobe XD
2 7 (2.20%) InVision
2 7 (2.20%) Sketch
3 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.94%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 2 (0.63%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.31%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.26%) Maximo
1 4 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.63%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (0.63%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.63%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.63%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (0.63%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.31%) Lorenzo
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.31%) SAP LE
4 1 (0.31%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 108 (33.96%) AWS
2 80 (25.16%) Azure
3 43 (13.52%) Serverless
4 39 (12.26%) Azure DevOps
5 33 (10.38%) Power Platform
6 28 (8.81%) Amazon ECS
7 23 (7.23%) Amazon EKS
7 23 (7.23%) Azure Data Factory
8 20 (6.29%) GCP
9 19 (5.97%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (5.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 17 (5.35%) AWS KMS
12 16 (5.03%) AWS Lambda
13 15 (4.72%) Dynamics 365
14 12 (3.77%) Figma
14 12 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
15 11 (3.46%) OCI
16 10 (3.14%) Power Automate
17 8 (2.52%) Amazon EC2
18 7 (2.20%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.03%) Network Security
2 14 (4.40%) Firewall
3 4 (1.26%) Ethernet
3 4 (1.26%) Intranet
3 4 (1.26%) SSL
4 3 (0.94%) Cisco ISE
4 3 (0.94%) Internet
4 3 (0.94%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (0.94%) LAN
4 3 (0.94%) SD-WAN
4 3 (0.94%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.94%) WAN
5 2 (0.63%) Unified Communications
5 2 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.31%) Modbus
6 1 (0.31%) VPN
6 1 (0.31%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (12.89%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (9.43%) Relational Database
3 21 (6.60%) Power BI
4 11 (3.46%) SQL Server
5 10 (3.14%) MySQL
6 8 (2.52%) RDBMS
7 7 (2.20%) Big Data
7 7 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (2.20%) Metadata
7 7 (2.20%) MongoDB
7 7 (2.20%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.57%) Delta Lake
10 4 (1.26%) DB2
10 4 (1.26%) GIS
10 4 (1.26%) Tableau
11 3 (0.94%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.94%) Redis
11 3 (0.94%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 39 (12.26%) Jenkins
2 35 (11.01%) Git
3 22 (6.92%) JUnit
4 20 (6.29%) JMeter
5 11 (3.46%) Selenium
6 9 (2.83%) GitLab
7 8 (2.52%) Axure RP
7 8 (2.52%) JIRA
7 8 (2.52%) Mockito
7 8 (2.52%) Postman
8 7 (2.20%) Cypress.io
9 6 (1.89%) Gatling
9 6 (1.89%) Locust
10 5 (1.57%) Robot Framework
11 4 (1.26%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.94%) Bitbucket Server
12 3 (0.94%) Storybook
12 3 (0.94%) TestRail
13 2 (0.63%) Liquibase
13 2 (0.63%) WebDriver
General
1 109 (34.28%) Public Sector
2 93 (29.25%) Social Skills
3 49 (15.41%) Finance
4 28 (8.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 28 (8.81%) Law
5 25 (7.86%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.52%) Marketing
6 8 (2.52%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.20%) Electronics
7 7 (2.20%) Manufacturing
7 7 (2.20%) Military
7 7 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (0.94%) Aerospace
9 3 (0.94%) Legal
10 2 (0.63%) Aviation
10 2 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.63%) Police
11 1 (0.31%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 71 (22.33%) Developer
2 67 (21.07%) Architect
3 39 (12.26%) Senior
4 34 (10.69%) Consultant
5 30 (9.43%) Java Developer
6 28 (8.81%) Data Engineer
7 24 (7.55%) Solutions Architect
8 22 (6.92%) Lead
9 18 (5.66%) Cloud Architect
10 16 (5.03%) Analyst
10 16 (5.03%) DevOps Engineer
11 14 (4.40%) AWS Architect
11 14 (4.40%) Azure Engineer
12 10 (3.14%) Azure Data Engineer
12 10 (3.14%) Senior Developer
12 10 (3.14%) Tester
13 9 (2.83%) Designer
13 9 (2.83%) Systems Engineer
13 9 (2.83%) Test Engineer
14 8 (2.52%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (11.64%) HTML
2 32 (10.06%) REST
2 32 (10.06%) Spring
3 30 (9.43%) CSS
3 30 (9.43%) Web Services
4 27 (8.49%) RESTful
5 25 (7.86%) Spring Boot
6 24 (7.55%) React
7 21 (6.60%) Apache Camel
7 21 (6.60%) Kafka
7 21 (6.60%) PySpark
8 19 (5.97%) AngularJS
9 17 (5.35%) Elastic Stack
10 15 (4.72%) SOAP
11 13 (4.09%) J2EE
12 12 (3.77%) Hibernate
13 10 (3.14%) ActiveMQ
14 8 (2.52%) .NET
14 8 (2.52%) jQuery
14 8 (2.52%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.49%) Distributed Systems
2 25 (7.86%) Management Information System
3 18 (5.66%) Cloud Native
4 9 (2.83%) Data Centre
4 9 (2.83%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.20%) Cyber Threat
5 7 (2.20%) Security Posture
6 6 (1.89%) NHS
7 5 (1.57%) Enterprise Cloud
7 5 (1.57%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.26%) Cyber Defence
8 4 (1.26%) Cyber Security Posture
8 4 (1.26%) Freedom of Information
8 4 (1.26%) Housing Association
8 4 (1.26%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.26%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.26%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.26%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.26%) SCADA
9 3 (0.94%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.60%) Linux
2 9 (2.83%) Windows
3 7 (2.20%) Unix
4 6 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.26%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.94%) Android
6 3 (0.94%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.94%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.63%) CentOS
7 2 (0.63%) HPUX
7 2 (0.63%) Solaris
7 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (43.71%) Agile
2 103 (32.39%) DevOps
3 82 (25.79%) CI/CD
4 62 (19.50%) Problem-Solving
5 56 (17.61%) Scrum
6 53 (16.67%) Mentoring
7 46 (14.47%) Microservices
8 34 (10.69%) Software Engineering
9 31 (9.75%) Computer Science
10 30 (9.43%) TDD
11 29 (9.12%) Architectural Design
11 29 (9.12%) Data Engineering
12 28 (8.81%) Data Pipeline
13 27 (8.49%) Kanban
13 27 (8.49%) Technical Leadership
14 26 (8.18%) BDD
14 26 (8.18%) Design Patterns
15 25 (7.86%) Business Intelligence
15 25 (7.86%) Cybersecurity
15 25 (7.86%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 69 (21.70%) Java
2 68 (21.38%) Python
3 58 (18.24%) JavaScript
4 50 (15.72%) SQL
5 24 (7.55%) C#
6 17 (5.35%) TypeScript
7 14 (4.40%) Shell Script
8 8 (2.52%) Bash
8 8 (2.52%) Ruby
9 7 (2.20%) Scala
10 5 (1.57%) Go
11 4 (1.26%) C++
12 3 (0.94%) SPARQL
12 3 (0.94%) VB
13 2 (0.63%) C
13 2 (0.63%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.63%) R
14 1 (0.31%) ABAP
14 1 (0.31%) PHP
14 1 (0.31%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 318 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 53 (16.67%) Degree
3 29 (9.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 28 (8.81%) AWS Certification
4 28 (8.81%) DV Cleared
5 15 (4.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (3.77%) Azure Certification
7 11 (3.46%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (3.14%) TOGAF Certification
9 8 (2.52%) ISTQB
10 7 (2.20%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (1.57%) CREST Certified
12 5 (1.57%) Oracle Certification
13 4 (1.26%) CISSP
13 4 (1.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 3 (0.94%) OSCP
14 3 (0.94%) OSWP
15 2 (0.63%) APMG
15 2 (0.63%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.66%) GDPR
2 16 (5.03%) Accessibility
3 15 (4.72%) Data Quality
4 14 (4.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (4.40%) NIST
4 14 (4.40%) SLA
5 12 (3.77%) HIPAA
6 11 (3.46%) WCAG
7 9 (2.83%) QA
8 7 (2.20%) NCSC
9 3 (0.94%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.94%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.63%) GRC
10 2 (0.63%) P3O
11 1 (0.31%) DICOM
11 1 (0.31%) HL7
11 1 (0.31%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 68 (21.38%) Docker
2 9 (2.83%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.94%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.31%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 64 (20.13%) Kubernetes
2 48 (15.09%) Terraform
3 26 (8.18%) Ansible
4 15 (4.72%) Prometheus
5 14 (4.40%) Grafana
6 11 (3.46%) Kibana
7 3 (0.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.94%) AWS Copilot
7 3 (0.94%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.94%) Functional Safety
7 3 (0.94%) Nagios
7 3 (0.94%) Nessus
7 3 (0.94%) Proxmox
7 3 (0.94%) QRadar
8 2 (0.63%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.63%) Puppet
9 1 (0.31%) Consul
9 1 (0.31%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.31%) HP UCMDB
9 1 (0.31%) Salt
Vendors
1 36 (11.32%) Microsoft
2 21 (6.60%) Oracle
3 19 (5.97%) Splunk
4 17 (5.35%) Google
5 12 (3.77%) Databricks
6 11 (3.46%) SAP
7 10 (3.14%) VMware
8 9 (2.83%) Adobe
9 8 (2.52%) Dynatrace
10 7 (2.20%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.89%) Palantir
11 6 (1.89%) Salesforce
11 6 (1.89%) Siemens
12 5 (1.57%) Red Hat
13 4 (1.26%) IBM
14 3 (0.94%) Blue Coat
14 3 (0.94%) CheckPoint
14 3 (0.94%) Cisco
14 3 (0.94%) Commvault
14 3 (0.94%) Talend