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 17 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 75 62
Rank change year-on-year +44 -13 -3
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,285 515 939
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.77% 4.14% 4.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 28.45% 14.04% 15.12%
Number of salaries quoted 821 342 644
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £41,288
25th Percentile £60,000 £51,563 £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 £87,500 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £62,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +12.90% +7.83% -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 4,517 3,668 6,209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 20.27% 29.47% 27.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,728 1,977 3,676
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,475 £36,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £66,697
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +1.20% -1.19%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £86,063
90th Percentile £104,125 £110,000 £100,000
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 17 July 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 17 July 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 +37 126 £75,000 +15.38% 80
South London -14 29 £55,000 -15.38% 6
West London -13 13 £85,000 +134.48% 29
North London +6 1 £45,000 -35.71% 1
East London -5 1 £110,000 - 20
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 24 (1.87%) SharePoint
2 19 (1.48%) Apache
3 14 (1.09%) Confluence
4 13 (1.01%) Apache Spark
5 12 (0.93%) Palantir Foundry
6 10 (0.78%) Anypoint
6 10 (0.78%) Mule
7 7 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.47%) SAS
9 4 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.23%) Camunda
10 3 (0.23%) IIS
10 3 (0.23%) JBoss
11 2 (0.16%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.078%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.078%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (0.62%) Adobe XD
2 7 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.23%) InVision
3 3 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.23%) Sketch
4 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.16%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.078%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.078%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.078%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.078%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.078%) Houdini
5 1 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.078%) NUKE
5 1 (0.078%) Trello
5 1 (0.078%) Weka
Business Applications
1 10 (0.78%) Maximo
2 6 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.078%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.078%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.078%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 405 (31.52%) AWS
2 252 (19.61%) Azure
3 99 (7.70%) GCP
4 80 (6.23%) Serverless
5 77 (5.99%) AWS CloudFormation
6 71 (5.53%) Cloud Computing
7 49 (3.81%) AWS Lambda
8 46 (3.58%) Power Platform
9 43 (3.35%) Entra ID
10 37 (2.88%) Amazon S3
11 35 (2.72%) Microsoft 365
12 29 (2.26%) Amazon EKS
12 29 (2.26%) GitHub
13 28 (2.18%) Amazon ECS
14 23 (1.79%) Amazon EMR
14 23 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
15 20 (1.56%) OCI
16 19 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
17 17 (1.32%) SaaS
18 16 (1.25%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 49 (3.81%) Network Security
2 31 (2.41%) Firewall
3 19 (1.48%) DNS
4 15 (1.17%) WAN
5 12 (0.93%) DHCP
5 12 (0.93%) SSL
5 12 (0.93%) VPN
6 10 (0.78%) SD-WAN
7 9 (0.70%) SAN
8 8 (0.62%) LAN
8 8 (0.62%) NGN
9 7 (0.54%) Intrusion Detection
9 7 (0.54%) Software-Defined Networking
10 6 (0.47%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.47%) VSAN
11 5 (0.39%) MPLS
11 5 (0.39%) NAS
11 5 (0.39%) SMTP
12 4 (0.31%) IPv4
12 4 (0.31%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (2.88%) Power BI
2 29 (2.26%) Data Lake
3 27 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (1.95%) Metadata
5 22 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
6 21 (1.63%) Big Data
7 18 (1.40%) DynamoDB
8 17 (1.32%) NoSQL
9 14 (1.09%) MySQL
10 12 (0.93%) Tableau
11 11 (0.86%) MongoDB
12 10 (0.78%) Amazon Aurora
12 10 (0.78%) Db2
12 10 (0.78%) DTS
12 10 (0.78%) Relational Database
12 10 (0.78%) SQL Server
13 7 (0.54%) Amazon Athena
14 6 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
15 5 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 62 (4.82%) Jenkins
2 59 (4.59%) Git
3 43 (3.35%) GitLab
4 32 (2.49%) JIRA
5 9 (0.70%) Maven
6 7 (0.54%) Vite
7 6 (0.47%) Axure RP
7 6 (0.47%) Gradle
8 5 (0.39%) Balsamiq
8 5 (0.39%) Subversion
8 5 (0.39%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.31%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.31%) JMeter
9 4 (0.31%) JUnit
10 3 (0.23%) Burp Suite
10 3 (0.23%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.23%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.23%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 323 (25.14%) Public Sector
2 257 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 163 (12.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 116 (9.03%) Law
5 114 (8.87%) Finance
6 104 (8.09%) Analytical Skills
7 43 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
8 26 (2.02%) Legal
9 25 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
10 18 (1.40%) Aerospace
11 13 (1.01%) Games
11 13 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
12 10 (0.78%) Military
13 8 (0.62%) Advertising
13 8 (0.62%) Manufacturing
14 7 (0.54%) Cyber-Physical System
14 7 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (0.54%) Retail
15 6 (0.47%) Banking
15 6 (0.47%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 268 (20.86%) Senior
2 229 (17.82%) Architect
3 217 (16.89%) Consultant
4 125 (9.73%) Developer
5 99 (7.70%) Lead
5 99 (7.70%) Solutions Architect
6 86 (6.69%) Senior Consultant
7 68 (5.29%) Data Engineer
8 64 (4.98%) Analyst
9 56 (4.36%) DevOps Engineer
10 54 (4.20%) AWS Architect
10 54 (4.20%) Software Engineer
11 49 (3.81%) Senior Manager
12 46 (3.58%) Cloud Engineer
13 43 (3.35%) AWS Solution Architect
14 41 (3.19%) Data Architect
15 39 (3.04%) Security Consultant
16 37 (2.88%) Business Analyst
17 36 (2.80%) Professional Services Consultant
18 35 (2.72%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (3.11%) React
2 28 (2.18%) Spring
3 26 (2.02%) Kafka
4 24 (1.87%) .NET
5 21 (1.63%) Node.js
5 21 (1.63%) REST
6 20 (1.56%) Spring Boot
7 19 (1.48%) AWS CDK
7 19 (1.48%) HTML
8 18 (1.40%) OAuth
9 17 (1.32%) CSS
10 15 (1.17%) JSON
10 15 (1.17%) Web Services
11 14 (1.09%) PySpark
12 13 (1.01%) AngularJS
12 13 (1.01%) SAML
12 13 (1.01%) YAML
13 12 (0.93%) Middleware
13 12 (0.93%) Oracle Fusion
14 11 (0.86%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 115 (8.95%) Cloud Native
2 74 (5.76%) Onboarding
3 55 (4.28%) Data Centre
4 47 (3.66%) Product Ownership
5 46 (3.58%) Enterprise Cloud
6 40 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
7 34 (2.65%) Management Information System
8 26 (2.02%) Distributed Computing
9 24 (1.87%) Operational Technology
10 20 (1.56%) Security Posture
11 18 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
11 18 (1.40%) PKI
12 17 (1.32%) AI Agents
12 17 (1.32%) Blog
12 17 (1.32%) Cyber Defence
13 15 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (1.09%) Public Cloud
15 13 (1.01%) Mainframe
16 9 (0.70%) Algorithms
16 9 (0.70%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 89 (6.93%) Linux
2 75 (5.84%) Windows
3 34 (2.65%) Windows Server
4 20 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (0.47%) CentOS
6 6 (0.47%) VMS
7 5 (0.39%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.31%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.23%) Unix
10 2 (0.16%) Android
10 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.078%) Rocky
11 1 (0.078%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (23.50%) Agile
2 193 (15.02%) DevOps
3 178 (13.85%) Mentoring
4 175 (13.62%) AI
5 166 (12.92%) CI/CD
6 135 (10.51%) Problem-Solving
7 132 (10.27%) Cybersecurity
8 131 (10.19%) Infrastructure as Code
9 125 (9.73%) Software Engineering
10 123 (9.57%) Continuous Improvement
11 107 (8.33%) Analytics
12 106 (8.25%) Community of Practice
13 102 (7.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 97 (7.55%) Technology Strategy
15 96 (7.47%) Migration
15 96 (7.47%) Project Delivery
15 96 (7.47%) Roadmaps
16 88 (6.85%) Full-Stack Development
17 83 (6.46%) Scrum
18 81 (6.30%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 211 (16.42%) Python
2 145 (11.28%) Java
3 82 (6.38%) SQL
4 74 (5.76%) JavaScript
5 49 (3.81%) Bash
6 33 (2.57%) TypeScript
7 29 (2.26%) PowerShell
8 27 (2.10%) C#
9 23 (1.79%) C++
10 16 (1.25%) Perl
11 15 (1.17%) Ruby
12 14 (1.09%) PHP
13 12 (0.93%) Rust
14 10 (0.78%) DataWeave
14 10 (0.78%) Go
15 9 (0.70%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.62%) Apex Code
17 7 (0.54%) Scala
18 6 (0.47%) C
18 6 (0.47%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 891 (69.34%) SC Cleared
2 309 (24.05%) DV Cleared
3 167 (13.00%) Degree
4 59 (4.59%) AWS Certification
5 41 (3.19%) CISSP
6 35 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 34 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 30 (2.33%) CISM
9 23 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 16 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (1.17%) DBS Check
12 14 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (1.01%) Azure Certification
13 13 (1.01%) OSCP
14 12 (0.93%) Master's Degree
15 11 (0.86%) CRISC
15 11 (0.86%) PhD
16 7 (0.54%) CREST Certified
16 7 (0.54%) GIAC
16 7 (0.54%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (4.36%) NIST
2 52 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 35 (2.72%) Data Quality
4 31 (2.41%) QA
5 25 (1.95%) NCSC
6 22 (1.71%) Accessibility
7 21 (1.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 20 (1.56%) GDPR
9 12 (0.93%) GRC
10 9 (0.70%) WCAG
11 8 (0.62%) JSP 440
12 7 (0.54%) Government Security Classifications
13 6 (0.47%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
15 4 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27005
15 4 (0.31%) PCI DSS
15 4 (0.31%) PMO
15 4 (0.31%) RMADS
16 3 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 2 (0.16%) Def Stans
System Software
1 76 (5.91%) Docker
2 51 (3.97%) Active Directory
3 33 (2.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.48%) vSphere
5 9 (0.70%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.47%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.47%) KVM
7 5 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.31%) Squid
9 3 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.078%) IAG
11 1 (0.078%) Xen
Systems Management
1 134 (10.43%) Terraform
2 98 (7.63%) Kubernetes
3 49 (3.81%) Ansible
4 24 (1.87%) Puppet
5 23 (1.79%) Grafana
6 22 (1.71%) Progress Chef
7 19 (1.48%) Prometheus
8 11 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
9 10 (0.78%) CloudHub
10 9 (0.70%) Argo
10 9 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.47%) CASB
11 6 (0.47%) Kibana
11 6 (0.47%) WSUS
11 6 (0.47%) ZABBIX
12 5 (0.39%) Packer
12 5 (0.39%) SCOM
13 4 (0.31%) Nagios
14 3 (0.23%) Nessus
14 3 (0.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 117 (9.11%) Microsoft
2 53 (4.12%) Oracle
3 45 (3.50%) Google
4 43 (3.35%) VMware
5 37 (2.88%) Salesforce
6 35 (2.72%) ServiceNow
7 28 (2.18%) Databricks
8 21 (1.63%) SAP
9 18 (1.40%) MuleSoft
10 17 (1.32%) Palantir
10 17 (1.32%) Red Hat
10 17 (1.32%) Splunk
11 16 (1.25%) Dell
12 15 (1.17%) Cisco
12 15 (1.17%) CyberArk
12 15 (1.17%) Okta
13 14 (1.09%) Adobe
13 14 (1.09%) Foundry
13 14 (1.09%) OpenAI
14 10 (0.78%) IBM