Security Cleared Job Trends in London

Security Clearance
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 77 73
Rank change year-on-year +46 -4 -12
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,379 495 776
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.84% 4.05% 3.96%
As % of the Qualifications category 29.07% 14.01% 14.35%
Number of salaries quoted 880 333 509
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,750 £41,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% +4.35% -4.17%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,743 3,534 5,406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 20.09% 28.92% 27.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2,831 1,961 2,938
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £49,643
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £68,200
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -1.03% -2.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £101,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Security Cleared relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Security Cleared job vacancy trend in London

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Security Cleared.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Security Cleared

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in London over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in London

Security 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 Security Cleared within the London region over the 6 months to 7 August 2026. 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
Central London +32 130 £76,250 +17.31% 137
South London -14 31 £55,000 -15.38% 17
West London -17 17 £73,750 +103.45% 43
North London -1 1 £45,000 -35.71%
East London -13 1 £110,000 - 22
Security Cleared
England

Security Cleared
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 20 (1.45%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.16%) Apache
3 14 (1.02%) Apache Spark
4 13 (0.94%) Anypoint
4 13 (0.94%) Mule
5 12 (0.87%) Confluence
6 10 (0.73%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.44%) Camunda
8 6 (0.44%) SAS
9 4 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.22%) IIS
10 3 (0.22%) JBoss
11 1 (0.073%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.073%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.073%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.073%) R Markdown
Applications
1 9 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.58%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.15%) InVision
4 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.15%) Sketch
5 1 (0.073%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.073%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.073%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.073%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.073%) Houdini
5 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.073%) NUKE
5 1 (0.073%) Trello
5 1 (0.073%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 8 (0.58%) Maximo
2 6 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.073%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.073%) Primavera
3 1 (0.073%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.073%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 426 (30.89%) AWS
2 262 (19.00%) Azure
3 106 (7.69%) GCP
4 79 (5.73%) Serverless
5 76 (5.51%) AWS CloudFormation
5 76 (5.51%) Cloud Computing
6 49 (3.55%) Power Platform
7 48 (3.48%) AWS Lambda
8 45 (3.26%) Entra ID
9 40 (2.90%) Amazon S3
10 38 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
11 31 (2.25%) GitHub
12 27 (1.96%) Amazon ECS
13 26 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
14 24 (1.74%) Amazon EMR
15 22 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
16 20 (1.45%) OCI
17 18 (1.31%) SaaS
18 16 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
19 15 (1.09%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 51 (3.70%) Network Security
2 32 (2.32%) Firewall
3 17 (1.23%) WAN
4 15 (1.09%) DNS
4 15 (1.09%) SSL
5 11 (0.80%) DHCP
5 11 (0.80%) SD-WAN
6 10 (0.73%) LAN
6 10 (0.73%) TCP/IP
6 10 (0.73%) VPN
7 9 (0.65%) NGN
8 7 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
9 6 (0.44%) SAN
9 6 (0.44%) Software-Defined Networking
9 6 (0.44%) VSAN
10 5 (0.36%) MPLS
10 5 (0.36%) NAS
11 4 (0.29%) BGP
11 4 (0.29%) IPv4
11 4 (0.29%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (2.90%) Power BI
2 32 (2.32%) Data Lake
3 29 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (2.03%) Metadata
5 27 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
6 25 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
7 24 (1.74%) Big Data
8 19 (1.38%) NoSQL
9 18 (1.31%) DynamoDB
10 14 (1.02%) MySQL
11 13 (0.94%) Tableau
12 12 (0.87%) Relational Database
13 11 (0.80%) MongoDB
13 11 (0.80%) SQL Server
14 10 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
14 10 (0.73%) DTS
15 9 (0.65%) Amazon Aurora
16 8 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
16 8 (0.58%) Db2
17 6 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 62 (4.50%) Jenkins
2 60 (4.35%) Git
3 43 (3.12%) GitLab
4 31 (2.25%) JIRA
5 7 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 7 (0.51%) Axure RP
5 7 (0.51%) TeamCity
5 7 (0.51%) Vite
6 6 (0.44%) Balsamiq
6 6 (0.44%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.44%) Maven
7 4 (0.29%) Gradle
7 4 (0.29%) JMeter
7 4 (0.29%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.22%) Burp Suite
8 3 (0.22%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.22%) Metasploit
8 3 (0.22%) Subversion
8 3 (0.22%) Taiga
8 3 (0.22%) VersionOne
General
1 342 (24.80%) Public Sector
2 271 (19.65%) Social Skills
3 177 (12.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 134 (9.72%) Law
5 122 (8.85%) Finance
6 117 (8.48%) Analytical Skills
7 45 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
8 26 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
9 25 (1.81%) Legal
10 19 (1.38%) Aerospace
11 13 (0.94%) Military
12 12 (0.87%) Games
13 11 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
14 10 (0.73%) Manufacturing
15 9 (0.65%) Retail
15 9 (0.65%) Telecoms
16 8 (0.58%) Advertising
16 8 (0.58%) Electronics
16 8 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
17 7 (0.51%) Cyber-Physical System
Job Titles
1 286 (20.74%) Senior
2 252 (18.27%) Architect
3 229 (16.61%) Consultant
4 120 (8.70%) Developer
5 111 (8.05%) Lead
6 107 (7.76%) Solutions Architect
7 85 (6.16%) Senior Consultant
8 75 (5.44%) Analyst
9 71 (5.15%) Data Engineer
10 62 (4.50%) AWS Architect
11 57 (4.13%) DevOps Engineer
11 57 (4.13%) Software Engineer
12 48 (3.48%) AWS Solution Architect
12 48 (3.48%) Cloud Engineer
12 48 (3.48%) Data Architect
12 48 (3.48%) Senior Manager
13 46 (3.34%) Business Analyst
14 45 (3.26%) Security Consultant
15 39 (2.83%) IAM Consultant
15 39 (2.83%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (2.76%) React
2 30 (2.18%) Kafka
3 28 (2.03%) Spring
4 26 (1.89%) .NET
5 21 (1.52%) HTML
5 21 (1.52%) OAuth
6 20 (1.45%) Node.js
7 19 (1.38%) AWS CDK
7 19 (1.38%) CSS
7 19 (1.38%) Spring Boot
8 17 (1.23%) REST
9 16 (1.16%) PySpark
10 13 (0.94%) AngularJS
10 13 (0.94%) JSON
10 13 (0.94%) JWT
10 13 (0.94%) MUnit
10 13 (0.94%) OAuth2
10 13 (0.94%) Oracle Fusion
10 13 (0.94%) RAML
10 13 (0.94%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 126 (9.14%) Cloud Native
2 76 (5.51%) Onboarding
3 56 (4.06%) Data Centre
4 52 (3.77%) Product Ownership
5 46 (3.34%) Enterprise Cloud
6 43 (3.12%) Legacy Systems
7 35 (2.54%) Management Information System
8 26 (1.89%) Distributed Computing
9 25 (1.81%) Operational Technology
10 24 (1.74%) Cyber Defence
11 23 (1.67%) AI Agents
12 21 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
13 18 (1.31%) Security Posture
14 17 (1.23%) Blog
15 16 (1.16%) Public Cloud
16 15 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
17 14 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
18 13 (0.94%) Mainframe
18 13 (0.94%) PKI
18 13 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 87 (6.31%) Linux
2 72 (5.22%) Windows
3 31 (2.25%) Windows Server
4 20 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (0.65%) CentOS
6 8 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.36%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.36%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.36%) Unix
8 4 (0.29%) VMS
9 3 (0.22%) Android
9 3 (0.22%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.22%) Rocky
10 2 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.073%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (22.34%) Agile
2 203 (14.72%) DevOps
3 201 (14.58%) AI
4 187 (13.56%) Mentoring
5 175 (12.69%) CI/CD
6 153 (11.09%) Cybersecurity
7 149 (10.80%) Problem-Solving
8 139 (10.08%) Software Engineering
9 135 (9.79%) Infrastructure as Code
10 126 (9.14%) Continuous Improvement
11 120 (8.70%) Analytics
12 109 (7.90%) Community of Practice
13 105 (7.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 102 (7.40%) Technology Strategy
15 101 (7.32%) Project Delivery
16 100 (7.25%) Migration
16 100 (7.25%) Roadmaps
17 88 (6.38%) Scrum
18 87 (6.31%) Stakeholder Management
19 86 (6.24%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 205 (14.87%) Python
2 141 (10.22%) Java
3 78 (5.66%) SQL
4 72 (5.22%) JavaScript
5 49 (3.55%) Bash
6 32 (2.32%) TypeScript
7 30 (2.18%) PowerShell
8 28 (2.03%) C#
9 23 (1.67%) C++
10 15 (1.09%) Perl
10 15 (1.09%) Ruby
11 14 (1.02%) PHP
11 14 (1.02%) Scala
12 13 (0.94%) DataWeave
13 11 (0.80%) Go
14 10 (0.73%) Rust
15 8 (0.58%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.51%) C
17 6 (0.44%) Bicep
17 6 (0.44%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 964 (69.91%) SC Cleared
2 303 (21.97%) DV Cleared
3 174 (12.62%) Degree
4 61 (4.42%) AWS Certification
5 47 (3.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 41 (2.97%) CISSP
7 36 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 31 (2.25%) CISM
9 23 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 18 (1.31%) DBS Check
11 15 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
12 14 (1.02%) Azure Certification
12 14 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (0.94%) CRISC
13 13 (0.94%) OSCP
14 12 (0.87%) Master's Degree
15 8 (0.58%) CREST Certified
15 8 (0.58%) PhD
16 7 (0.51%) CCNA
16 7 (0.51%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (4.28%) NIST
2 56 (4.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 42 (3.05%) Data Quality
4 36 (2.61%) QA
5 30 (2.18%) NCSC
6 25 (1.81%) Accessibility
7 21 (1.52%) GDPR
7 21 (1.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 13 (0.94%) GRC
9 9 (0.65%) WCAG
10 8 (0.58%) SOC 2
11 7 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 7 (0.51%) JSP 440
12 6 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.44%) Government Security Classifications
12 6 (0.44%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.29%) PMO
13 4 (0.29%) RMADS
14 3 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 2 (0.15%) Def Stans
System Software
1 83 (6.02%) Docker
2 47 (3.41%) Active Directory
3 31 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.16%) vSphere
5 9 (0.65%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.51%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.44%) KVM
7 6 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.29%) Squid
9 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.073%) Firmware
10 1 (0.073%) IAG
Systems Management
1 136 (9.86%) Terraform
2 105 (7.61%) Kubernetes
3 51 (3.70%) Ansible
4 24 (1.74%) Puppet
5 21 (1.52%) Progress Chef
6 20 (1.45%) Grafana
7 17 (1.23%) Prometheus
8 13 (0.94%) CloudHub
9 11 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (0.58%) Argo
12 6 (0.44%) CASB
13 5 (0.36%) Kibana
13 5 (0.36%) Packer
13 5 (0.36%) SCOM
13 5 (0.36%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.22%) Nessus
14 3 (0.22%) Nmap
14 3 (0.22%) SCCM
14 3 (0.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 130 (9.43%) Microsoft
2 55 (3.99%) Google
3 52 (3.77%) Oracle
4 43 (3.12%) Salesforce
5 40 (2.90%) ServiceNow
5 40 (2.90%) VMware
6 38 (2.76%) Databricks
7 28 (2.03%) SAP
8 18 (1.31%) MuleSoft
8 18 (1.31%) Red Hat
9 17 (1.23%) Cisco
10 16 (1.16%) Okta
10 16 (1.16%) Splunk
11 15 (1.09%) CyberArk
11 15 (1.09%) Dell
11 15 (1.09%) OpenAI
11 15 (1.09%) Palantir
12 14 (1.02%) Adobe
13 12 (0.87%) Foundry
14 9 (0.65%) Remedy