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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 61 60
Rank change year-on-year +21 -1 +24
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 840 582 932
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.76% 4.53% 4.19%
As % of the Qualifications category 19.23% 13.35% 15.30%
Number of salaries quoted 568 339 669
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £72,150
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -9.91% +11.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.88% +4.78% +1.50%

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 4,369 4,359 6,093
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 24.78% 33.91% 27.41%
Number of salaries quoted 2,343 1,996 4,203
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,688 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £118,750 £105,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £59,415 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.22% +8.03% -4.35%

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 March 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 March 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 -16 89 £75,000 - 111
South London -10 18 £69,445 +12.65% 10
West London -30 15 £85,000 +47.39% 21
North London +1 1 £45,000 -32.08%
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 27 (3.21%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.26%) Confluence
3 17 (2.02%) Palantir Foundry
4 13 (1.55%) Apache
5 12 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (1.07%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.95%) Apache Spark
8 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.36%) Camunda
10 1 (0.12%) CMS
10 1 (0.12%) IIS
10 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 26 (3.10%) Adobe XD
2 7 (0.83%) InVision
2 7 (0.83%) Sketch
3 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.24%) Weka
6 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 11 (1.31%) Maximo
2 7 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.24%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.24%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.24%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.12%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 195 (23.21%) AWS
2 181 (21.55%) Azure
3 69 (8.21%) GCP
4 48 (5.71%) Power Platform
5 43 (5.12%) Serverless
6 33 (3.93%) AWS CloudFormation
6 33 (3.93%) Microsoft 365
7 27 (3.21%) Dynamics 365
8 26 (3.10%) Figma
8 26 (3.10%) Power Automate
8 26 (3.10%) PowerApps
9 25 (2.98%) Entra ID
10 23 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
10 23 (2.74%) GitHub
11 18 (2.14%) Amazon EKS
12 16 (1.90%) Amazon ECS
13 15 (1.79%) Amazon S3
13 15 (1.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 13 (1.55%) Amazon EC2
14 13 (1.55%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.45%) Firewall
2 18 (2.14%) Network Security
3 17 (2.02%) DNS
3 17 (2.02%) WAN
4 16 (1.90%) VPN
5 12 (1.43%) LAN
5 12 (1.43%) SAN
5 12 (1.43%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.31%) SD-WAN
7 9 (1.07%) Software-Defined Networking
7 9 (1.07%) Structured Cabling
7 9 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (1.07%) Wireless
8 8 (0.95%) DHCP
9 7 (0.83%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (0.60%) Cisco IOS
10 5 (0.60%) VoIP
10 5 (0.60%) VSAN
10 5 (0.60%) WAAS
10 5 (0.60%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (4.88%) Power BI
3 21 (2.50%) NoSQL
4 19 (2.26%) MongoDB
5 15 (1.79%) Relational Database
6 14 (1.67%) MySQL
7 13 (1.55%) SQL Server
8 11 (1.31%) DB2
8 11 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (1.31%) Metadata
9 10 (1.19%) DTS
10 9 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (0.95%) Pinecone
12 6 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (0.71%) DynamoDB
12 6 (0.71%) Tableau
13 5 (0.60%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 49 (5.83%) Git
2 46 (5.48%) Jenkins
3 30 (3.57%) JIRA
4 22 (2.62%) Axure RP
5 19 (2.26%) Balsamiq
6 18 (2.14%) GitLab
7 12 (1.43%) JMeter
8 8 (0.95%) JUnit
9 7 (0.83%) Vite
10 6 (0.71%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.71%) Maven
11 5 (0.60%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.60%) Mockito
12 4 (0.48%) Selenium
12 4 (0.48%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 4 (0.48%) Subversion
13 3 (0.36%) Gradle
13 3 (0.36%) Robot Framework
13 3 (0.36%) Zephyr
General
1 244 (29.05%) Public Sector
2 187 (22.26%) Social Skills
3 106 (12.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 89 (10.60%) Analytical Skills
5 82 (9.76%) Law
6 73 (8.69%) Finance
7 21 (2.50%) Legal
8 18 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
9 16 (1.90%) Pharmaceutical
10 14 (1.67%) Aerospace
10 14 (1.67%) Marketing
11 13 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (1.55%) Manufacturing
11 13 (1.55%) Telecoms
12 11 (1.31%) Games
13 10 (1.19%) Electronics
14 9 (1.07%) Advertising
15 6 (0.71%) Military
16 5 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
17 4 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 148 (17.62%) Senior
2 115 (13.69%) Developer
3 97 (11.55%) Consultant
4 92 (10.95%) Architect
5 47 (5.60%) Analyst
5 47 (5.60%) Designer
6 46 (5.48%) Data Engineer
7 45 (5.36%) Software Engineer
8 37 (4.40%) Lead
9 35 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
9 35 (4.17%) Java Developer
10 33 (3.93%) Senior Manager
11 32 (3.81%) Business Analyst
11 32 (3.81%) Solutions Architect
11 32 (3.81%) UX Designer
12 30 (3.57%) Senior Consultant
13 28 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
14 26 (3.10%) User Researcher
15 20 (2.38%) Data Scientist
15 20 (2.38%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (5.00%) React
2 38 (4.52%) HTML
3 35 (4.17%) Spring
4 33 (3.93%) CSS
5 26 (3.10%) REST
6 23 (2.74%) AngularJS
7 22 (2.62%) Spring Boot
8 21 (2.50%) .NET
8 21 (2.50%) Web Services
9 17 (2.02%) Node.js
10 15 (1.79%) HTML5 Canvas
11 14 (1.67%) PyTorch
12 13 (1.55%) FastAPI
13 12 (1.43%) Middleware
13 12 (1.43%) SAML
13 12 (1.43%) SOAP
14 11 (1.31%) .NET Core
14 11 (1.31%) LangChain
14 11 (1.31%) Lightning Web Components
14 11 (1.31%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 60 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 50 (5.95%) Product Ownership
3 24 (2.86%) Data Centre
4 23 (2.74%) Management Information System
4 23 (2.74%) PKI
5 20 (2.38%) Onboarding
6 17 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (1.79%) Security Posture
8 14 (1.67%) AI Agents
9 12 (1.43%) Data Structures
9 12 (1.43%) Driving Licence
10 11 (1.31%) Cyber Defence
11 10 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
12 9 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
14 7 (0.83%) Blog
14 7 (0.83%) CMDB
14 7 (0.83%) Public Cloud
15 6 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 58 (6.90%) Linux
2 48 (5.71%) Windows
3 14 (1.67%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.19%) Ubuntu
4 10 (1.19%) VMS
5 9 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (1.07%) Unix
6 7 (0.83%) Android
7 4 (0.48%) CentOS
8 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.12%) Debian
10 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.12%) Rocky
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (27.02%) Agile
2 125 (14.88%) AI
3 124 (14.76%) DevOps
4 115 (13.69%) Problem-Solving
5 107 (12.74%) CI/CD
6 102 (12.14%) Software Engineering
7 92 (10.95%) Continuous Improvement
8 91 (10.83%) Infrastructure as Code
9 83 (9.88%) Community of Practice
10 82 (9.76%) Full-Stack Development
11 79 (9.40%) Analytics
11 79 (9.40%) Mentoring
12 70 (8.33%) Computer Science
13 69 (8.21%) Technology Strategy
14 68 (8.10%) User Experience
15 64 (7.62%) User Research
16 59 (7.02%) Data Modelling
17 57 (6.79%) Containerisation
18 55 (6.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 54 (6.43%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 166 (19.76%) Python
2 132 (15.71%) Java
3 105 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 88 (10.48%) SQL
5 54 (6.43%) C#
6 48 (5.71%) TypeScript
7 39 (4.64%) PowerShell
8 23 (2.74%) Bash
9 19 (2.26%) C++
10 11 (1.31%) Apex Code
11 10 (1.19%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.07%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.71%) Go
13 6 (0.71%) Google Apps Script
14 5 (0.60%) C
14 5 (0.60%) Scala
15 4 (0.48%) ABAP
15 4 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (0.48%) Ruby
15 4 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 582 (69.29%) SC Cleared
2 239 (28.45%) DV Cleared
3 163 (19.40%) Degree
4 36 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (2.98%) Microsoft Certification
6 24 (2.86%) PhD
7 21 (2.50%) CISSP
8 17 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.55%) AWS Certification
9 13 (1.55%) Azure Certification
9 13 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.55%) CISM
10 9 (1.07%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.95%) DBS Check
12 7 (0.83%) CRISC
12 7 (0.83%) GSEC
13 6 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.71%) CCIE
13 6 (0.71%) CCNP
13 6 (0.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (5.95%) Accessibility
2 26 (3.10%) WCAG
3 25 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (2.74%) NIST
5 19 (2.26%) Data Quality
6 13 (1.55%) QA
7 11 (1.31%) GRC
8 9 (1.07%) JSP 440
9 8 (0.95%) SLA
10 7 (0.83%) Government Security Classifications
10 7 (0.83%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 6 (0.71%) GDPR
11 6 (0.71%) NCSC
12 3 (0.36%) ISO 14001
12 3 (0.36%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.36%) NEBOSH
12 3 (0.36%) PMO
13 2 (0.24%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 84 (10.00%) Docker
2 29 (3.45%) Active Directory
3 21 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.43%) vSphere
5 9 (1.07%) KVM
6 6 (0.71%) Firmware
7 2 (0.24%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.24%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.12%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.12%) OpenDJ
8 1 (0.12%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.12%) Xen
Systems Management
1 95 (11.31%) Kubernetes
2 89 (10.60%) Terraform
3 31 (3.69%) Ansible
4 16 (1.90%) Grafana
5 11 (1.31%) Prometheus
6 9 (1.07%) Argo
6 9 (1.07%) Kibana
6 9 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.71%) SCCM
7 6 (0.71%) WSUS
8 5 (0.60%) CASB
8 5 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
8 5 (0.60%) Istio
8 5 (0.60%) linkerd
8 5 (0.60%) Mesos
8 5 (0.60%) Puppet
8 5 (0.60%) VxRail
9 4 (0.48%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.36%) Nagios
Vendors
1 79 (9.40%) Microsoft
2 46 (5.48%) Google
3 33 (3.93%) VMware
4 30 (3.57%) Cisco
4 30 (3.57%) Palantir
5 26 (3.10%) Adobe
6 22 (2.62%) Salesforce
7 21 (2.50%) SAP
8 20 (2.38%) Dell
8 20 (2.38%) Oracle
9 18 (2.14%) Foundry
10 16 (1.90%) Atlassian
11 15 (1.79%) Red Hat
11 15 (1.79%) ServiceNow
12 12 (1.43%) IBM
13 11 (1.31%) OpenAI
13 11 (1.31%) Splunk
14 10 (1.19%) Databricks
14 10 (1.19%) MuleSoft
15 9 (1.07%) Zscaler