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

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 125 99
Rank change year-on-year -1 -26 +225
Permanent jobs citing SC Cleared 341 599 1,132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.64% 2.53% 3.36%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.64% 8.87% 12.86%
Number of salaries quoted 238 404 758
10th Percentile £43,227 £41,288 £42,631
25th Percentile £55,688 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% -
75th Percentile £78,125 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,375 £97,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +8.11%

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 4,464 6,751 8,802
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 34.52% 28.54% 26.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,942 4,233 5,534
10th Percentile £41,250 £35,850 £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 £92,500 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £104,750 £112,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £54,700 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.55% -8.83% +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 17 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 17 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 -14 42 £61,644 -25.28% 12
Central London -33 41 £65,000 - 24
West London +27 4 £36,500 -2.67% 19
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 14 (4.11%) JBoss
1 14 (4.11%) Red Hat Fuse
2 12 (3.52%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.35%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.17%) Apache
4 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.88%) CMS
5 3 (0.88%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.88%) WinCC
6 2 (0.59%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.29%) Alfresco
7 1 (0.29%) Camunda
7 1 (0.29%) Drupal
7 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (2.64%) Adobe XD
2 7 (2.05%) InVision
2 7 (2.05%) Sketch
3 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.88%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 2 (0.59%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.47%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.17%) Maximo
3 2 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.59%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (0.59%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.59%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.59%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (0.59%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.29%) Lorenzo
4 1 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.29%) SAP LE
4 1 (0.29%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.29%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.29%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 111 (32.55%) AWS
2 84 (24.63%) Azure
3 46 (13.49%) Serverless
4 39 (11.44%) Azure DevOps
5 32 (9.38%) Power Platform
6 28 (8.21%) Amazon ECS
7 23 (6.74%) Amazon EKS
7 23 (6.74%) GCP
8 22 (6.45%) Azure Data Factory
9 19 (5.57%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (5.28%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (4.99%) AWS KMS
11 17 (4.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 15 (4.40%) Dynamics 365
12 15 (4.40%) OCI
13 13 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
14 12 (3.52%) Figma
15 10 (2.93%) Power Automate
16 9 (2.64%) SaaS
17 7 (2.05%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.28%) Firewall
1 18 (5.28%) Network Security
2 5 (1.47%) Ethernet
3 4 (1.17%) Cisco ISE
3 4 (1.17%) Intranet
3 4 (1.17%) LAN
3 4 (1.17%) SD-WAN
3 4 (1.17%) SSL
3 4 (1.17%) WAN
4 3 (0.88%) BGP
4 3 (0.88%) HSRP
4 3 (0.88%) Internet
4 3 (0.88%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (0.88%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.88%) VLAN
4 3 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.59%) Unified Communications
5 2 (0.59%) VPN
6 1 (0.29%) Modbus
6 1 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (11.73%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (8.80%) Relational Database
3 20 (5.87%) Power BI
4 11 (3.23%) SQL Server
5 9 (2.64%) MySQL
6 8 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (2.05%) Big Data
7 7 (2.05%) Metadata
7 7 (2.05%) NoSQL
7 7 (2.05%) RDBMS
8 6 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.76%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.47%) Delta Lake
9 5 (1.47%) Spark SQL
10 4 (1.17%) DB2
10 4 (1.17%) GIS
10 4 (1.17%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.17%) Tableau
11 3 (0.88%) HBase
Development Applications
1 40 (11.73%) Git
1 40 (11.73%) Jenkins
2 22 (6.45%) JUnit
3 19 (5.57%) JMeter
4 11 (3.23%) Selenium
5 9 (2.64%) JIRA
6 8 (2.35%) Axure RP
6 8 (2.35%) GitLab
6 8 (2.35%) Postman
7 7 (2.05%) Cypress.io
7 7 (2.05%) Mockito
8 6 (1.76%) Gatling
8 6 (1.76%) Locust
9 5 (1.47%) Robot Framework
10 4 (1.17%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.88%) Bitbucket Server
11 3 (0.88%) Liquibase
11 3 (0.88%) Storybook
11 3 (0.88%) TestRail
12 2 (0.59%) WebDriver
General
1 110 (32.26%) Public Sector
2 106 (31.09%) Social Skills
3 50 (14.66%) Finance
4 39 (11.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 31 (9.09%) Law
6 26 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (2.93%) Marketing
8 7 (2.05%) Military
9 6 (1.76%) Manufacturing
9 6 (1.76%) Police
9 6 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.76%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.47%) Electronics
10 5 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.17%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.88%) Legal
13 2 (0.59%) Aviation
13 2 (0.59%) Retail
14 1 (0.29%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 76 (22.29%) Architect
2 74 (21.70%) Developer
3 42 (12.32%) Senior
4 32 (9.38%) Consultant
5 28 (8.21%) Java Developer
6 27 (7.92%) Solutions Architect
7 25 (7.33%) Data Engineer
7 25 (7.33%) Lead
8 21 (6.16%) Cloud Architect
9 19 (5.57%) Analyst
10 16 (4.69%) DevOps Engineer
11 15 (4.40%) AWS Architect
12 13 (3.81%) Azure Engineer
13 11 (3.23%) Tester
14 10 (2.93%) Senior Developer
15 9 (2.64%) Azure Data Engineer
15 9 (2.64%) JavaScript Developer
15 9 (2.64%) Systems Engineer
15 9 (2.64%) Test Engineer
16 8 (2.35%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (10.85%) HTML
2 32 (9.38%) REST
2 32 (9.38%) Spring
3 31 (9.09%) CSS
4 30 (8.80%) Web Services
5 28 (8.21%) RESTful
6 25 (7.33%) Spring Boot
7 24 (7.04%) Kafka
8 21 (6.16%) Apache Camel
8 21 (6.16%) PySpark
8 21 (6.16%) React
9 19 (5.57%) AngularJS
10 18 (5.28%) Elastic Stack
11 16 (4.69%) SOAP
12 14 (4.11%) J2EE
13 11 (3.23%) Hibernate
14 10 (2.93%) .NET
15 9 (2.64%) ActiveMQ
16 8 (2.35%) YAML
17 7 (2.05%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.38%) Management Information System
2 27 (7.92%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (6.16%) Cloud Native
4 11 (3.23%) Data Centre
4 11 (3.23%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.93%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.64%) Virtual Team
7 8 (2.35%) CSOC
8 7 (2.05%) Cyber Threat
8 7 (2.05%) Security Posture
9 6 (1.76%) NHS
10 5 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.47%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.17%) Cyber Defence
11 4 (1.17%) Cyber Security Posture
11 4 (1.17%) Freedom of Information
11 4 (1.17%) Housing Association
11 4 (1.17%) Low-Code
11 4 (1.17%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.17%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.28%) Linux
2 8 (2.35%) Windows
3 5 (1.47%) Unix
4 4 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.17%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.88%) Android
5 3 (0.88%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.88%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (43.40%) Agile
2 117 (34.31%) DevOps
3 88 (25.81%) CI/CD
4 60 (17.60%) Problem-Solving
5 59 (17.30%) Mentoring
6 56 (16.42%) Scrum
7 52 (15.25%) Microservices
8 36 (10.56%) Software Engineering
9 35 (10.26%) Architectural Design
10 31 (9.09%) Computer Science
10 31 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
11 30 (8.80%) Cybersecurity
11 30 (8.80%) TDD
12 29 (8.50%) Data Engineering
12 29 (8.50%) Incident Response
13 28 (8.21%) Continuous Improvement
14 27 (7.92%) Business Intelligence
14 27 (7.92%) Design Patterns
14 27 (7.92%) Kanban
15 26 (7.62%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 71 (20.82%) Java
2 66 (19.35%) Python
3 59 (17.30%) JavaScript
4 50 (14.66%) SQL
5 26 (7.62%) C#
6 15 (4.40%) TypeScript
7 13 (3.81%) Shell Script
8 8 (2.35%) Ruby
9 7 (2.05%) Bash
9 7 (2.05%) Scala
10 4 (1.17%) C++
10 4 (1.17%) Go
10 4 (1.17%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.88%) R
11 3 (0.88%) SPARQL
11 3 (0.88%) VB
12 2 (0.59%) C
13 1 (0.29%) ABAP
13 1 (0.29%) PHP
13 1 (0.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 341 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 54 (15.84%) Degree
3 31 (9.09%) DV Cleared
4 29 (8.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (8.21%) AWS Certification
6 15 (4.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (3.23%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.93%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (2.93%) TOGAF Certification
9 9 (2.64%) Master's Degree
10 8 (2.35%) ISTQB
11 6 (1.76%) CREST Certified
12 5 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (1.47%) Oracle Certification
13 4 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (1.17%) CISSP
13 4 (1.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 3 (0.88%) CHECK Team Leader
14 3 (0.88%) CHECK Team Member
14 3 (0.88%) Cyber Scheme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.57%) GDPR
2 16 (4.69%) Accessibility
3 15 (4.40%) Data Quality
3 15 (4.40%) SLA
4 14 (4.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (4.11%) NIST
5 13 (3.81%) HIPAA
6 12 (3.52%) QA
7 11 (3.23%) WCAG
8 7 (2.05%) NCSC
9 3 (0.88%) GRC
9 3 (0.88%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.88%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.59%) P3O
11 1 (0.29%) DICOM
11 1 (0.29%) HL7
11 1 (0.29%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 71 (20.82%) Docker
2 9 (2.64%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.17%) VMware NSX
4 3 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 70 (20.53%) Kubernetes
2 49 (14.37%) Terraform
3 29 (8.50%) Ansible
4 16 (4.69%) Prometheus
5 14 (4.11%) Grafana
6 9 (2.64%) Kibana
7 8 (2.35%) QRadar
8 5 (1.47%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.88%) AWS Copilot
9 3 (0.88%) Functional Safety
9 3 (0.88%) Nessus
9 3 (0.88%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.59%) Nagios
10 2 (0.59%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.59%) Puppet
11 1 (0.29%) HP Quality Center
11 1 (0.29%) HP UCMDB
11 1 (0.29%) Istio
11 1 (0.29%) Salt
Vendors
1 40 (11.73%) Microsoft
2 23 (6.74%) Oracle
3 19 (5.57%) Google
4 15 (4.40%) Splunk
5 12 (3.52%) Databricks
6 10 (2.93%) SAP
7 9 (2.64%) Adobe
8 8 (2.35%) Dynatrace
8 8 (2.35%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.35%) VMware
9 6 (1.76%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.76%) Siemens
10 5 (1.47%) Cisco
10 5 (1.47%) Palantir
10 5 (1.47%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.17%) Blue Coat
11 4 (1.17%) CheckPoint
11 4 (1.17%) F5
11 4 (1.17%) Foundry
11 4 (1.17%) IBM