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 27 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 74 64
Rank change year-on-year +42 -10 +5
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 1,142 488 947
As % of all permanent jobs in London 5.47% 4.12% 4.02%
As % of the Qualifications category 26.33% 12.77% 14.28%
Number of salaries quoted 782 322 683
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,251 £50,875 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £85,813 £80,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +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 4,338 3,822 6,632
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 20.77% 32.29% 28.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2,579 1,766 4,207
10th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £35,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £48,428
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% -
75th Percentile £88,750 £92,375 £87,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £111,875 £103,570
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 27 May 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 27 May 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 +19 118 £80,000 +23.08% 103
South London -15 22 £55,000 -15.38% 8
West London -10 15 £85,000 +47.39% 27
North London +1 1 £45,000 -32.08% 2
East London -12 1 £110,000 - 15
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 26 (2.28%) SharePoint
2 19 (1.66%) Confluence
3 16 (1.40%) Apache
4 12 (1.05%) Palantir Foundry
5 9 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 9 (0.79%) Jupyter
6 7 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.26%) Camunda
8 3 (0.26%) IIS
8 3 (0.26%) JBoss
9 2 (0.18%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.18%) Mule
9 2 (0.18%) SAS
10 1 (0.088%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.088%) OpenStack
Applications
1 18 (1.58%) Adobe XD
2 6 (0.53%) InVision
2 6 (0.53%) Sketch
3 5 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.18%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.18%) Weka
7 1 (0.088%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.088%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.088%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.088%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 11 (0.96%) Maximo
2 7 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.088%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.088%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.088%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.088%) SAP PSCD
4 1 (0.088%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 291 (25.48%) AWS
2 224 (19.61%) Azure
3 85 (7.44%) GCP
4 57 (4.99%) Serverless
5 46 (4.03%) Power Platform
6 41 (3.59%) AWS CloudFormation
7 37 (3.24%) Entra ID
8 36 (3.15%) AWS Lambda
9 35 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
10 32 (2.80%) GitHub
11 23 (2.01%) Amazon S3
12 21 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
13 18 (1.58%) Figma
14 15 (1.31%) Google Analytics
14 15 (1.31%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 14 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
16 13 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
16 13 (1.14%) SaaS
17 12 (1.05%) Power Automate
17 12 (1.05%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.19%) Firewall
2 24 (2.10%) Network Security
3 17 (1.49%) WAN
4 15 (1.31%) DNS
5 13 (1.14%) SD-WAN
5 13 (1.14%) VPN
6 12 (1.05%) SAN
7 11 (0.96%) LAN
8 9 (0.79%) Software-Defined Networking
9 8 (0.70%) DHCP
10 7 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
10 7 (0.61%) VSAN
11 5 (0.44%) Cisco IOS
11 5 (0.44%) MPLS
11 5 (0.44%) SMTP
11 5 (0.44%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.44%) WAAS
11 5 (0.44%) Wireless
12 4 (0.35%) IPv4
13 3 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (3.33%) Power BI
2 24 (2.10%) NoSQL
3 22 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (1.31%) Metadata
4 15 (1.31%) MongoDB
5 12 (1.05%) Data Lake
6 11 (0.96%) DB2
6 11 (0.96%) DynamoDB
7 10 (0.88%) DTS
8 9 (0.79%) MySQL
8 9 (0.79%) Relational Database
9 8 (0.70%) Pinecone
9 8 (0.70%) SQL Server
9 8 (0.70%) Tableau
10 7 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (0.61%) Big Data
11 6 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (0.44%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 64 (5.60%) Jenkins
2 56 (4.90%) Git
3 32 (2.80%) GitLab
4 29 (2.54%) JIRA
5 14 (1.23%) Axure RP
6 12 (1.05%) Balsamiq
7 10 (0.88%) Maven
8 9 (0.79%) Vite
9 7 (0.61%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.53%) Gradle
10 6 (0.53%) JMeter
11 5 (0.44%) JUnit
12 4 (0.35%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 4 (0.35%) Subversion
12 4 (0.35%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.26%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.26%) Zephyr
14 2 (0.18%) Mockito
14 2 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 288 (25.22%) Public Sector
2 220 (19.26%) Social Skills
3 152 (13.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 100 (8.76%) Law
5 92 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
6 88 (7.71%) Finance
7 36 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
8 23 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
9 20 (1.75%) Legal
10 17 (1.49%) Aerospace
11 16 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
12 11 (0.96%) Games
13 9 (0.79%) Manufacturing
14 8 (0.70%) Military
15 7 (0.61%) Cyber-Physical System
16 6 (0.53%) Advertising
16 6 (0.53%) Electronics
16 6 (0.53%) Marketing
16 6 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
17 5 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 208 (18.21%) Senior
2 194 (16.99%) Architect
3 151 (13.22%) Consultant
4 124 (10.86%) Developer
5 91 (7.97%) Solutions Architect
6 72 (6.30%) Lead
7 59 (5.17%) Analyst
8 57 (4.99%) Data Engineer
9 52 (4.55%) Senior Consultant
10 46 (4.03%) AWS Architect
11 44 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
11 44 (3.85%) Software Engineer
12 42 (3.68%) Designer
13 41 (3.59%) Full-Stack Developer
14 39 (3.42%) Senior Manager
15 37 (3.24%) AWS Solution Architect
16 35 (3.06%) Business Analyst
16 35 (3.06%) Cloud Engineer
17 34 (2.98%) Java Developer
18 33 (2.89%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (3.77%) React
2 31 (2.71%) Spring
3 25 (2.19%) REST
4 24 (2.10%) .NET
4 24 (2.10%) Node.js
5 23 (2.01%) HTML
6 22 (1.93%) Spring Boot
7 21 (1.84%) CSS
8 20 (1.75%) Kafka
9 18 (1.58%) Web Services
10 16 (1.40%) JSON
11 15 (1.31%) AngularJS
12 14 (1.23%) PyTorch
12 14 (1.23%) SOAP
13 13 (1.14%) LangChain
13 13 (1.14%) Middleware
13 13 (1.14%) PySpark
14 12 (1.05%) FastAPI
14 12 (1.05%) LangGraph
14 12 (1.05%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 78 (6.83%) Cloud Native
2 47 (4.12%) Product Ownership
3 34 (2.98%) Management Information System
4 24 (2.10%) Data Centre
4 24 (2.10%) PKI
5 23 (2.01%) Onboarding
6 21 (1.84%) AI Agents
7 19 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
8 18 (1.58%) Operational Technology
9 17 (1.49%) Security Posture
10 16 (1.40%) Blog
11 14 (1.23%) Cyber Defence
11 14 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
11 14 (1.23%) Public Cloud
12 11 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
13 10 (0.88%) CMDB
13 10 (0.88%) Data Structures
13 10 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
14 9 (0.79%) Algorithms
14 9 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 74 (6.48%) Linux
2 60 (5.25%) Windows
3 29 (2.54%) Windows Server
4 15 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (0.70%) VMS
6 7 (0.61%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.53%) Android
8 3 (0.26%) CentOS
8 3 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.18%) Unix
10 1 (0.088%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.088%) Rocky
10 1 (0.088%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (22.24%) Agile
2 165 (14.45%) DevOps
3 159 (13.92%) AI
4 140 (12.26%) CI/CD
5 122 (10.68%) Infrastructure as Code
6 119 (10.42%) Software Engineering
7 117 (10.25%) Problem-Solving
8 116 (10.16%) Mentoring
9 106 (9.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 99 (8.67%) Cybersecurity
11 98 (8.58%) Community of Practice
12 92 (8.06%) Full-Stack Development
12 92 (8.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 88 (7.71%) Analytics
14 84 (7.36%) Technology Strategy
15 79 (6.92%) Roadmaps
16 78 (6.83%) Collaborative Culture
17 77 (6.74%) Computer Science
18 75 (6.57%) Microservices
19 73 (6.39%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 207 (18.13%) Python
2 138 (12.08%) Java
3 89 (7.79%) SQL
4 86 (7.53%) JavaScript
5 43 (3.77%) TypeScript
6 40 (3.50%) PowerShell
7 35 (3.06%) C#
8 29 (2.54%) Bash
9 20 (1.75%) C++
10 11 (0.96%) Apex Code
10 11 (0.96%) Rust
11 8 (0.70%) C
11 8 (0.70%) Go
12 7 (0.61%) Google Apps Script
12 7 (0.61%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.53%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.44%) Bicep
14 5 (0.44%) Groovy
14 5 (0.44%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 816 (71.45%) SC Cleared
2 297 (26.01%) DV Cleared
3 181 (15.85%) Degree
4 34 (2.98%) CISSP
5 33 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
6 30 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (2.36%) PhD
8 24 (2.10%) CISM
9 23 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
10 19 (1.66%) AWS Certification
11 16 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (1.40%) DBS Check
12 13 (1.14%) Master's Degree
13 12 (1.05%) Azure Certification
14 9 (0.79%) CRISC
14 9 (0.79%) OSCP
15 7 (0.61%) GIAC
15 7 (0.61%) GSEC
16 6 (0.53%) CCIE
16 6 (0.53%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (3.50%) NIST
2 39 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 33 (2.89%) Accessibility
4 24 (2.10%) Data Quality
5 18 (1.58%) NCSC
5 18 (1.58%) QA
6 17 (1.49%) WCAG
7 14 (1.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 10 (0.88%) GDPR
9 9 (0.79%) GRC
9 9 (0.79%) SLA
10 8 (0.70%) JSP 440
11 7 (0.61%) Government Security Classifications
12 5 (0.44%) PMO
13 3 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.26%) PCI DSS
14 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 2 (0.18%) RMADS
15 1 (0.088%) Def Stans
System Software
1 73 (6.39%) Docker
2 42 (3.68%) Active Directory
3 30 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.58%) vSphere
5 8 (0.70%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.53%) Firmware
6 6 (0.53%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.44%) KVM
8 4 (0.35%) Squid
9 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.088%) OpenAM
10 1 (0.088%) OpenDJ
10 1 (0.088%) OpenIDM
10 1 (0.088%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.088%) Xen
Systems Management
1 116 (10.16%) Terraform
2 89 (7.79%) Kubernetes
3 40 (3.50%) Ansible
4 21 (1.84%) Grafana
5 17 (1.49%) Prometheus
6 14 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.70%) Argo
8 8 (0.70%) SCCM
9 7 (0.61%) ZABBIX
10 6 (0.53%) WSUS
11 5 (0.44%) CASB
11 5 (0.44%) Kibana
11 5 (0.44%) Puppet
11 5 (0.44%) VxRail
12 4 (0.35%) Istio
12 4 (0.35%) linkerd
12 4 (0.35%) Mesos
12 4 (0.35%) Packer
12 4 (0.35%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 108 (9.46%) Microsoft
2 44 (3.85%) Google
3 41 (3.59%) VMware
4 34 (2.98%) Oracle
5 28 (2.45%) Cisco
6 27 (2.36%) ServiceNow
7 23 (2.01%) Databricks
7 23 (2.01%) Salesforce
8 22 (1.93%) Adobe
9 20 (1.75%) Dell
10 19 (1.66%) Red Hat
11 18 (1.58%) OpenAI
11 18 (1.58%) Palantir
12 14 (1.23%) Splunk
13 13 (1.14%) Foundry
13 13 (1.14%) SAP
14 12 (1.05%) MuleSoft
15 11 (0.96%) CyberArk
15 11 (0.96%) IBM
15 11 (0.96%) Okta