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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 58 58
Rank change year-on-year +12 0 +42
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 730 722 911
As % of all permanent jobs in London 4.63% 4.91% 4.29%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.74% 14.70% 15.72%
Number of salaries quoted 498 326 651
10th Percentile £47,500 £44,590 £48,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,495 £55,325
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,820 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.21% -6.46% +11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,281 £88,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £61,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.46% +6.09% +1.68%

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 4,115 4,911 5,794
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 26.12% 33.42% 27.26%
Number of salaries quoted 2,175 1,974 4,140
10th Percentile £31,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £51,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £117,500 £118,750 £110,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 23 February 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 23 February 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 -20 96 £70,000 -6.67% 94
South London -1 22 £61,145 -0.81% 15
West London -28 10 £85,000 +47.39% 16
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 25 (3.42%) SharePoint
2 20 (2.74%) Palantir Foundry
3 19 (2.60%) Confluence
4 10 (1.37%) Apache
4 10 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.23%) Jupyter
6 8 (1.10%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.27%) Camunda
9 1 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.14%) CMS
9 1 (0.14%) IIS
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 22 (3.01%) Adobe XD
2 5 (0.68%) InVision
2 5 (0.68%) Sketch
3 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.27%) Weka
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 8 (1.10%) Maximo
2 7 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.27%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.27%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.27%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 175 (23.97%) AWS
2 165 (22.60%) Azure
3 61 (8.36%) GCP
4 46 (6.30%) Power Platform
5 41 (5.62%) Serverless
6 33 (4.52%) Microsoft 365
7 32 (4.38%) AWS CloudFormation
8 28 (3.84%) Power Automate
8 28 (3.84%) PowerApps
9 26 (3.56%) Dynamics 365
10 25 (3.42%) Entra ID
11 23 (3.15%) Amazon EKS
11 23 (3.15%) Figma
12 20 (2.74%) Amazon ECS
13 19 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
13 19 (2.60%) GitHub
14 14 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
14 14 (1.92%) PaaS
14 14 (1.92%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 13 (1.78%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.56%) Firewall
2 18 (2.47%) DNS
2 18 (2.47%) VPN
3 17 (2.33%) Network Security
4 12 (1.64%) WAN
5 10 (1.37%) SAN
5 10 (1.37%) Structured Cabling
5 10 (1.37%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.23%) Software-Defined Networking
6 9 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (1.10%) Wireless
8 7 (0.96%) LAN
8 7 (0.96%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.82%) DHCP
10 5 (0.68%) Cisco IOS
10 5 (0.68%) SMTP
10 5 (0.68%) WAAS
11 4 (0.55%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.55%) VoIP
11 4 (0.55%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (5.89%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (5.34%) Power BI
3 19 (2.60%) NoSQL
4 18 (2.47%) Relational Database
5 17 (2.33%) MongoDB
6 14 (1.92%) MySQL
7 13 (1.78%) SQL Server
8 11 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (1.23%) RDBMS
10 8 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (1.10%) DB2
10 8 (1.10%) Metadata
11 7 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (0.96%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.96%) Pinecone
12 6 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (0.82%) DTS
13 5 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (0.68%) Neo4j
13 5 (0.68%) Redis
Development Applications
1 47 (6.44%) Jenkins
2 44 (6.03%) Git
3 31 (4.25%) JIRA
4 19 (2.60%) Axure RP
5 17 (2.33%) Balsamiq
6 15 (2.05%) JMeter
7 13 (1.78%) GitLab
8 12 (1.64%) JUnit
9 9 (1.23%) Mockito
10 8 (1.10%) Selenium
11 7 (0.96%) Cypress.io
12 6 (0.82%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.82%) Vite
13 5 (0.68%) Maven
14 4 (0.55%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 4 (0.55%) Subversion
15 3 (0.41%) Cucumber
15 3 (0.41%) Gradle
15 3 (0.41%) Robot Framework
General
1 205 (28.08%) Public Sector
2 164 (22.47%) Social Skills
3 90 (12.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 83 (11.37%) Analytical Skills
5 76 (10.41%) Law
6 67 (9.18%) Finance
7 18 (2.47%) Legal
8 17 (2.33%) Telecoms
9 16 (2.19%) Marketing
10 15 (2.05%) Manufacturing
11 13 (1.78%) Pharmaceutical
12 12 (1.64%) Electronics
13 11 (1.51%) Aerospace
14 10 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (1.23%) Advertising
16 8 (1.10%) Games
17 7 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
18 6 (0.82%) Military
18 6 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
19 2 (0.27%) Banking
Job Titles
1 121 (16.58%) Developer
2 113 (15.48%) Senior
3 83 (11.37%) Consultant
4 69 (9.45%) Architect
5 42 (5.75%) Designer
6 39 (5.34%) Software Engineer
7 38 (5.21%) Full-Stack Developer
8 37 (5.07%) Java Developer
9 36 (4.93%) Analyst
10 33 (4.52%) Data Engineer
11 30 (4.11%) Lead
12 27 (3.70%) Senior Manager
13 25 (3.42%) Business Analyst
14 24 (3.29%) DevOps Engineer
15 23 (3.15%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 23 (3.15%) User Researcher
16 21 (2.88%) UX Designer
17 20 (2.74%) Cloud Engineer
17 20 (2.74%) Data Scientist
17 20 (2.74%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (5.48%) React
2 36 (4.93%) HTML
3 33 (4.52%) Spring
4 30 (4.11%) REST
5 27 (3.70%) CSS
6 23 (3.15%) Spring Boot
6 23 (3.15%) Web Services
7 20 (2.74%) .NET
7 20 (2.74%) AngularJS
8 16 (2.19%) HTML5 Canvas
9 15 (2.05%) Node.js
9 15 (2.05%) XML
10 14 (1.92%) Hibernate
10 14 (1.92%) PyTorch
11 13 (1.78%) SOAP
12 12 (1.64%) FastAPI
12 12 (1.64%) JSON
12 12 (1.64%) Middleware
12 12 (1.64%) SAML
13 11 (1.51%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 52 (7.12%) Cloud Native
2 46 (6.30%) Product Ownership
3 25 (3.42%) Onboarding
4 22 (3.01%) PKI
5 20 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
6 17 (2.33%) Management Information System
7 15 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (1.92%) Data Centre
8 14 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (1.78%) Data Structures
9 13 (1.78%) Driving Licence
9 13 (1.78%) Security Posture
10 12 (1.64%) AI Agents
11 9 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
11 9 (1.23%) CMDB
12 7 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
13 6 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (0.82%) Low-Code
13 6 (0.82%) Private Cloud
13 6 (0.82%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 49 (6.71%) Linux
2 46 (6.30%) Windows
3 14 (1.92%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.51%) Unix
5 10 (1.37%) VMS
6 9 (1.23%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.96%) Android
8 5 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.41%) CentOS
10 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.14%) Debian
11 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.14%) Rocky
11 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (29.18%) Agile
2 115 (15.75%) Problem-Solving
3 110 (15.07%) AI
3 110 (15.07%) DevOps
4 108 (14.79%) CI/CD
5 91 (12.47%) Software Engineering
6 82 (11.23%) Infrastructure as Code
7 81 (11.10%) Continuous Improvement
8 77 (10.55%) Analytics
9 76 (10.41%) Full-Stack Development
10 70 (9.59%) Mentoring
11 67 (9.18%) Community of Practice
12 61 (8.36%) User Experience
12 61 (8.36%) User Research
13 58 (7.95%) Computer Science
14 57 (7.81%) Technology Strategy
15 55 (7.53%) Business Intelligence
15 55 (7.53%) Data Modelling
15 55 (7.53%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
16 53 (7.26%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 160 (21.92%) Python
2 124 (16.99%) Java
3 103 (14.11%) JavaScript
4 80 (10.96%) SQL
5 56 (7.67%) C#
6 46 (6.30%) TypeScript
7 39 (5.34%) PowerShell
8 21 (2.88%) Bash
9 20 (2.74%) C++
10 13 (1.78%) Shell Script
11 10 (1.37%) Apex Code
12 8 (1.10%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.96%) Go
14 6 (0.82%) Bicep
14 6 (0.82%) Scala
15 5 (0.68%) C
15 5 (0.68%) Ruby
15 5 (0.68%) Rust
16 4 (0.55%) Google Apps Script
16 4 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 493 (67.53%) SC Cleared
2 204 (27.95%) DV Cleared
3 138 (18.90%) Degree
4 30 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (3.97%) Microsoft Certification
6 24 (3.29%) PhD
7 20 (2.74%) CISSP
8 19 (2.60%) Azure Certification
9 18 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (1.64%) CISM
11 11 (1.51%) AWS Certification
12 8 (1.10%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (0.82%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.82%) NVQ Level 3
14 5 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
15 4 (0.55%) APMP
15 4 (0.55%) CRISC
15 4 (0.55%) ISACA
15 4 (0.55%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (7.53%) Accessibility
2 27 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (3.29%) WCAG
4 22 (3.01%) NIST
5 15 (2.05%) Data Quality
6 14 (1.92%) QA
7 11 (1.51%) GRC
8 10 (1.37%) SLA
9 8 (1.10%) JSP 440
9 8 (1.10%) NCSC
10 7 (0.96%) GDPR
11 4 (0.55%) Government Security Classifications
11 4 (0.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.41%) ISO 14001
12 3 (0.41%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.41%) NEBOSH
12 3 (0.41%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 2 (0.27%) PMO
System Software
1 80 (10.96%) Docker
2 32 (4.38%) Active Directory
3 23 (3.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.37%) vSphere
5 8 (1.10%) KVM
6 7 (0.96%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.82%) Firmware
8 5 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.27%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.14%) OpenAM
11 1 (0.14%) OpenDJ
11 1 (0.14%) OpenIDM
11 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 94 (12.88%) Kubernetes
2 83 (11.37%) Terraform
3 32 (4.38%) Ansible
4 19 (2.60%) Grafana
5 13 (1.78%) Kibana
6 12 (1.64%) Prometheus
7 9 (1.23%) Argo
8 8 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.82%) SCCM
9 6 (0.82%) SCOM
10 5 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
10 5 (0.68%) Istio
10 5 (0.68%) linkerd
10 5 (0.68%) Mesos
10 5 (0.68%) WSUS
11 4 (0.55%) Puppet
11 4 (0.55%) VxRail
12 3 (0.41%) AWS Copilot
12 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 75 (10.27%) Microsoft
2 38 (5.21%) Google
3 32 (4.38%) Palantir
4 31 (4.25%) VMware
5 23 (3.15%) Cisco
5 23 (3.15%) SAP
6 22 (3.01%) Adobe
7 20 (2.74%) Foundry
7 20 (2.74%) Salesforce
7 20 (2.74%) ServiceNow
8 17 (2.33%) Oracle
9 16 (2.19%) Atlassian
10 15 (2.05%) Splunk
11 13 (1.78%) Dell
12 10 (1.37%) MuleSoft
12 10 (1.37%) Red Hat
13 9 (1.23%) Dynatrace
13 9 (1.23%) IBM
14 8 (1.10%) OpenAI
15 7 (0.96%) Okta