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 19 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 51 60
Rank change year-on-year -27 +9 +83
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 496 882 848
As % of all permanent jobs in London 3.84% 5.11% 4.50%
As % of the Qualifications category 12.62% 18.11% 17.21%
Number of salaries quoted 340 388 558
10th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £44,925
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £98,000 £96,625 £95,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%

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 3,930 4,870 4,928
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 30.44% 28.19% 26.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,092 2,104 3,601
10th Percentile £33,300 £40,000 £39,085
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £113,550 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,800 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.46% +2.26% +3.44%

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 19 November 2025.

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 19 November 2025. 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 -41 64 £60,000 -19.46% 221
South London +18 43 £65,000 +5.44% 26
West London -21 4 £35,319 -27.92% 17
East London -21 2 - - 12
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 18 (3.63%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.61%) Confluence
3 5 (1.01%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.60%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.60%) JBoss
4 3 (0.60%) Red Hat Fuse
5 2 (0.40%) Apache
5 2 (0.40%) CMS
6 1 (0.20%) Camunda
6 1 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.20%) IIS
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 19 (3.83%) Adobe XD
2 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.60%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 18 (3.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.01%) SAP FI
3 4 (0.81%) Maximo
3 4 (0.81%) SAP CO
3 4 (0.81%) SAP FI/CO
3 4 (0.81%) SAP SCM
4 3 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.60%) Primavera
4 3 (0.60%) SAP PP
4 3 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.40%) SAP APO
5 2 (0.40%) SAP EWM
5 2 (0.40%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.20%) SAP LE
6 1 (0.20%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.20%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.20%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.20%) SAP WM
6 1 (0.20%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 138 (27.82%) AWS
2 127 (25.60%) Azure
3 55 (11.09%) Serverless
4 35 (7.06%) Power Platform
5 34 (6.85%) GCP
6 32 (6.45%) Amazon EKS
7 30 (6.05%) Amazon ECS
8 24 (4.84%) Amazon EC2
9 23 (4.64%) Power Automate
9 23 (4.64%) PowerApps
10 22 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
11 21 (4.23%) Dynamics 365
11 21 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
12 20 (4.03%) Figma
13 18 (3.63%) AWS Lambda
14 17 (3.43%) Azure Monitor
15 14 (2.82%) Azure Functions
15 14 (2.82%) Azure Sentinel
15 14 (2.82%) PaaS
16 13 (2.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.44%) Firewall
2 14 (2.82%) Network Security
3 13 (2.62%) TCP/IP
4 12 (2.42%) VPN
5 9 (1.81%) DNS
6 8 (1.61%) Structured Cabling
7 7 (1.41%) WAN
7 7 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (1.21%) LAN
9 5 (1.01%) Wireless
10 4 (0.81%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (0.60%) Cisco Firepower
11 3 (0.60%) Ethernet
11 3 (0.60%) HTTP
11 3 (0.60%) Modbus
11 3 (0.60%) Profibus
11 3 (0.60%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.60%) SSH
11 3 (0.60%) VoIP
11 3 (0.60%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (10.69%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (6.05%) Relational Database
3 28 (5.65%) Power BI
4 19 (3.83%) MongoDB
5 17 (3.43%) RDBMS
6 13 (2.62%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (2.22%) MySQL
8 10 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (1.61%) NoSQL
10 7 (1.41%) SQL Server
11 6 (1.21%) Metadata
12 5 (1.01%) Redis
13 4 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (0.60%) DB2
14 3 (0.60%) Neo4j
14 3 (0.60%) Power Query
15 2 (0.40%) BigQuery
15 2 (0.40%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 41 (8.27%) Jenkins
2 27 (5.44%) Git
3 20 (4.03%) JUnit
4 19 (3.83%) Axure RP
4 19 (3.83%) Balsamiq
4 19 (3.83%) JMeter
5 18 (3.63%) JIRA
6 16 (3.23%) Mockito
7 12 (2.42%) GitLab
8 8 (1.61%) Cypress.io
8 8 (1.61%) Selenium
9 5 (1.01%) gulp
9 5 (1.01%) MLflow
9 5 (1.01%) webpack
10 4 (0.81%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.81%) Subversion
10 4 (0.81%) WebDriver
11 3 (0.60%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.40%) Gradle
12 2 (0.40%) Robot Framework
General
1 183 (36.90%) Public Sector
2 114 (22.98%) Social Skills
3 81 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (16.13%) Law
5 73 (14.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 54 (10.89%) Finance
7 28 (5.65%) Telecoms
8 25 (5.04%) Manufacturing
9 23 (4.64%) Electronics
9 23 (4.64%) Marketing
10 9 (1.81%) Aerospace
11 8 (1.61%) Legal
11 8 (1.61%) Retail
12 7 (1.41%) Military
12 7 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.21%) Advertising
14 5 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.81%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 85 (17.14%) Developer
2 63 (12.70%) Consultant
3 58 (11.69%) Senior
4 46 (9.27%) Architect
5 38 (7.66%) Designer
6 33 (6.65%) Software Engineer
7 30 (6.05%) Lead
8 29 (5.85%) Analyst
9 27 (5.44%) Service Designer
10 25 (5.04%) Java Developer
11 20 (4.03%) Data Engineer
11 20 (4.03%) Full-Stack Developer
12 18 (3.63%) DevOps Engineer
13 17 (3.43%) Power Platform Developer
14 15 (3.02%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 15 (3.02%) Mid-Level Java Developer
15 14 (2.82%) Administrator
15 14 (2.82%) Cloud Engineer
16 13 (2.62%) Platform Engineer
16 13 (2.62%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (8.67%) HTML
2 42 (8.47%) React
3 38 (7.66%) Spring
4 32 (6.45%) Spring Boot
5 29 (5.85%) REST
6 27 (5.44%) CSS
6 27 (5.44%) Web Services
7 23 (4.64%) AngularJS
8 21 (4.23%) Hibernate
9 19 (3.83%) Apache Camel
10 17 (3.43%) ActiveMQ
10 17 (3.43%) Node.js
10 17 (3.43%) XML
11 16 (3.23%) jQuery
11 16 (3.23%) WireMock
12 15 (3.02%) HTML5 Canvas
12 15 (3.02%) JSON
13 14 (2.82%) .NET
14 12 (2.42%) Elastic Stack
14 12 (2.42%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 44 (8.87%) Cloud Native
2 37 (7.46%) Product Ownership
3 23 (4.64%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (3.43%) Hybrid Cloud
5 16 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (2.42%) Driving Licence
7 11 (2.22%) Data Centre
7 11 (2.22%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.81%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.81%) PKI
9 8 (1.61%) AI Agents
9 8 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (1.21%) Private Cloud
11 5 (1.01%) SCADA
11 5 (1.01%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.01%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.81%) CMDB
12 4 (0.81%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 36 (7.26%) Linux
2 29 (5.85%) Windows
3 16 (3.23%) Unix
4 10 (2.02%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.41%) CentOS
7 6 (1.21%) VMS
8 5 (1.01%) HPUX
8 5 (1.01%) Solaris
9 4 (0.81%) Oracle Linux
9 4 (0.81%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.20%) Android
11 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.20%) Debian
11 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.20%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (36.90%) Agile
2 105 (21.17%) Problem-Solving
3 93 (18.75%) CI/CD
4 85 (17.14%) DevOps
5 74 (14.92%) Analytics
5 74 (14.92%) Continuous Improvement
6 65 (13.10%) Software Engineering
7 62 (12.50%) AI
8 59 (11.90%) Mentoring
8 59 (11.90%) Workflow
9 57 (11.49%) Community of Practice
10 54 (10.89%) Infrastructure as Code
11 52 (10.48%) Technology Strategy
12 51 (10.28%) Business Intelligence
13 50 (10.08%) User Experience
14 47 (9.48%) Full-Stack Development
15 41 (8.27%) Microservices
16 39 (7.86%) SDLC
17 38 (7.66%) Containerisation
17 38 (7.66%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 129 (26.01%) Python
2 97 (19.56%) JavaScript
3 91 (18.35%) Java
4 53 (10.69%) SQL
5 45 (9.07%) C#
6 39 (7.86%) TypeScript
7 21 (4.23%) Bash
7 21 (4.23%) PowerShell
8 19 (3.83%) Shell Script
9 18 (3.63%) C++
10 10 (2.02%) Go
11 9 (1.81%) R
12 8 (1.61%) Bicep
12 8 (1.61%) Kusto Query Language
12 8 (1.61%) Ruby
13 6 (1.21%) ABAP
13 6 (1.21%) Kotlin
13 6 (1.21%) MATLAB
14 4 (0.81%) Scala
15 3 (0.60%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 328 (66.13%) SC Cleared
2 122 (24.60%) DV Cleared
3 102 (20.56%) Degree
4 32 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 26 (5.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (4.84%) Azure Certification
7 17 (3.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (3.02%) AWS Certification
9 13 (2.62%) SAP Certification
10 10 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (1.21%) CISSP
11 6 (1.21%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.21%) NVQ Level 3
12 5 (1.01%) CCNP
12 5 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.81%) APMG
13 4 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.81%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.60%) CCIE
14 3 (0.60%) City & Guilds
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (11.90%) Accessibility
2 21 (4.23%) WCAG
3 20 (4.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (3.23%) NIST
5 13 (2.62%) QA
6 10 (2.02%) GDPR
7 9 (1.81%) GRC
7 9 (1.81%) SLA
8 8 (1.61%) NCSC
9 5 (1.01%) Data Quality
9 5 (1.01%) PMO
10 4 (0.81%) JSP 440
11 3 (0.60%) ISO 14001
11 3 (0.60%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 3 (0.60%) NEBOSH
11 3 (0.60%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 70 (14.11%) Docker
2 15 (3.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (2.22%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.41%) Hyper-V
4 7 (1.41%) KVM
5 4 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.40%) pfSense
7 1 (0.20%) IAG
Systems Management
1 76 (15.32%) Kubernetes
2 55 (11.09%) Terraform
3 25 (5.04%) Ansible
4 21 (4.23%) Kibana
5 17 (3.43%) Grafana
6 9 (1.81%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.21%) Argo
8 5 (1.01%) Nagios
8 5 (1.01%) SCOM
9 4 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.40%) AWS Copilot
10 2 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.40%) Nessus
10 2 (0.40%) SCCM
11 1 (0.20%) Ambari
11 1 (0.20%) Functional Safety
11 1 (0.20%) Mesos
11 1 (0.20%) Puppet
11 1 (0.20%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 77 (15.52%) Microsoft
2 44 (8.87%) SAP
3 32 (6.45%) Palantir
4 30 (6.05%) Splunk
5 25 (5.04%) Google
6 24 (4.84%) VMware
7 23 (4.64%) Oracle
8 21 (4.23%) Foundry
9 19 (3.83%) Adobe
10 16 (3.23%) Dynatrace
10 16 (3.23%) ServiceNow
11 10 (2.02%) Atlassian
12 9 (1.81%) Cisco
13 8 (1.61%) MuleSoft
13 8 (1.61%) Red Hat
14 7 (1.41%) Databricks
15 6 (1.21%) Salesforce
16 5 (1.01%) Juniper
17 4 (0.81%) IBM
17 4 (0.81%) Zscaler